- Can you hear me okay?
- Yes!
- Okay.
Is there any way that you can go horizontal?
- Let me see, change the orientation here.
- Yeah, that's good.
There we go! - Hi
- We're set, we're ready.
- I remember you were like a little nervous
to be on this show, right?
- Yeah, so I was nervous to, you know,
the fact that I didn't have a clue
who might be sittin' in front of me.
It could be anybody.
- And I was like, "I'm just gonna have fun with it,
however it turns out."
So that allowed me to go in with no anxiety whatsoever.
- That was like, my first encounter of meeting
a complete stranger and just lettin' them,
allowing them to get to know me.
I'm a car salesman, I do a lot of stuff.
I think you was right about that.
I grew up in New Orleans and yes I'm black.
- Figured that was safe.
Once the camera's stopped rolling
and we were able to finally coordinate schedules,
we went on our date and that was fun.
- Well maybe we would never talk to each other again
but at least let's, you know,
sit down with each other beyond the cameras
and see how it goes so, but since it was a Sunday,
we went to the second line.
- Can you tell me what a second line is?
- Think of it as a marching band precessional
that your whole town can come join in and march in with you.
- The second line social club was from my neighborhood,
it was, you know, more personal.
So it's like, oh so wait, you know everybody out here.
- People just walking around, having a good time,
listening to music, following behind the brass band.
Yeah, it's a key component to having
an authentic New Orleans experience.
- That was Geronimo's first encounter of the second line
and you know, he said that it was just so amazingly fun.
- With me being new to New Orleans and her being a native,
you know, she's showing me a lot of
the native experience, the local experience.
- Do you think there's any chance at
some romantic something there?
- No, no, no, I don't think it's any chance for romance
but we are definitely friends.
- It was really easy to connect with one another,
and not even going into like,
okay we're supposed to start dating or anything.
It was just like, you know, meet a new person, meet a new,
cool person and just go from there and like I said,
you know, we are developing a great friendship.
You know, she even thinks of me as family at this point,
she's introduced me to quite a number of her relatives
and long time friends.
- He even have like other phone numbers, you know,
like my friends that was over there yesterday,
they exchanged numbers and it's been awesome.
- And they have received me well so it's been good,
it's been real good.
- We have a group message like,
"Hey, is Geronimo off today?
Because we wanna go and do this."
But yes.
- You know, and it's great if you have friends you've been,
people you've been friends with for like 20 plus years,
you know, I have a few of those people in my life but
you know, because I'm somebody who moves around a lot,
I need allies where ever I go
so I'm open to anybody that's just a good person
and means well by me and you know,
I can return that same energy.
- It's really awesome to come from that show
and develop such an amazing friendship with someone
that you would've never even looked twice at.
- You just never know what meeting one person can lead to.
You know, it's not always necessarily about
oh this person isn't the one, you know,
it's about building a good network.
You know, in this day in age,
you need all the good people in your life you can get.
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