- [Anthony] I'm kinda tired of just
going out and the meaningless hookups.
I really am just looking to get to know someone 100 percent.
Sometimes I am quiet, but I really
am just a kindhearted dude.
- [Donna] Physically, I've been
attracted to just about anything.
In the case of intelligence, I think
with a partner, would more be a curiosity for life.
That is more what draws me to someone else,
more than whatever paper you have
hanging up in your living room.
Your name is Robert.
And this is your story.
You are 26 years old.
For work, you are an architect.
You grew up in New Jersey.
And you cultural/ethnic background is Italian.
- So my name is Anthony.
I am 21 years old.
I'm a construction worker.
I'm from New York.
And my cultural background is Italian.
- Woo, I got something right.
- You got that one right.
Your name is Ashley.
You are 23 years old.
You are a nurse.
You grew up in New York,
and your cultural background is Irish.
- My name is Donna.
I am 24 years old.
You were close with nurse for work.
I used to work in finance,
but now I'm going back to medical school, to be a doctor.
I grew up in Indiana.
And my cultural/ethnic background is Russian.
Yeah, 21, wow.
- Yeah.
- You don't look that young.
- Yeah, I know, I get that a lot.
- I kinda like the older scruffy look.
- What kinda doctor are you gonna be?
- I wanna be a surgeon.
- That's a lot of school.
- Yeah, I go to Columbia.
- That's a great school, so you must be a smart girl.
- I like to think so, thanks.
I left my job in the corporate world.
I just came home one day, turned on Gray's Anatomy,
and I started just crying.
There was something about it
that brought me back to that mindset
of when I wanted to be a doctor.
But for whatever reason, I thought I wasn't smart enough.
So that was the thing that really made me say,
okay, this is fate that I need to switch
and do what I've always wanted to do,
even if it means I go from
six figure salary to six figure student loans.
- [Anthony] I have a dream of being
a professional mixed martial arts fighter,
but not only that, to one day be a world champion.
I started off in karate when I was six,
and then I started wrestling in high school.
And I'm currently still pursuing it,
training every day.
It's about being able to control your emotions,
being calm in certain situations
that most people wouldn't be calm in.
I'm at one of the best gyms in the world,
so one day I plan on making my dream a reality.
You call your mom three times a day.
If you could pick a new name, you would pick Victoria.
Your favorite sport is baseball.
- I call my mom once a day.
She's always at work, so I maybe call her after work,
mostly to Skype and see my dog.
Not that I don't love my mom.
If I could pick a new name, you said Victoria?
I always say like, if I could pick a new name.
I hate that my name is Donna,
because it sounds like an old lady.
But then, also, you would have no idea I was Russian.
- Your mom and dad are Russian?
- Yeah, so I was born in Ukraine.
- Oh wow.
- Yeah.
I think Victoria's definitely more Russian, so that works.
My favorite sport is football.
- Oh okay, what's your favorite team?
- The Indianapolis Colts.
We are terrible, but I still,
I also said that you call your mom three times a day.
If you could pick a new name, you would pick Chris.
Your favorite sport is football.
- I call my mom once a day, if I do.
Because I usually see her a lot at home.
- You live close to your family?
- Yeah, I still live with my mom.
- Oh, okay.
- If I could pick a new name, what name did you say?
- Chris.
- That would be good, but I put Vinny.
- Very Italian.
- Yeah, yeah.
My favorite sport is, even though I like football,
it is not football, it's actually mixed martial arts.
That's fighting.
- Do you fight?
- Yeah I do fight.
I started off with karate when I was real young.
Ever since my first fight, just fell in love with it.
I didn't think you were a football person.
- I'm like a tomboy, I love football.
If I was a dude, I'd go like,
- You'd play football?
You'd go on the football team?
- I'd be like defense and just go like
shove some people down, like get out my anger.
- Yeah yeah, that's a good outlet.
- [Donna] The way that I grew up was very
conservative and traditionally-minded,
because that's the way that it was back in Soviet
Communist Russia, where my parents grew up.
Almost everyone within our family
and family friends was married.
Like, divorce was never really a thing for me,
until I started making American friends.
And then I learned that that was common.
So I think when it comes to relationships,
what I know is happily married family.
So that's kind of what I'm looking for for myself.
- [Anthony] So my parents got
divorced when I was eight years old.
They showed me the wrong way to do relationships,
and that helped me with my own relationships,
to deal with it the right way, to be patient,
to try to always put yourself in your partner's shows
and not to always get angry right away.
- I said that you think religion
is too serious to joke about.
When you get angry, it comes out as sadness.
Which probably now isn't true, now that I know you fight,
it probably comes out as you fighting.
When you feel fear, you react by confronting it.
- I think cancer is too serious to joke about.
- Did you have someone in your family?
- Yeah, my mom, my mom had cancer.
- Oh, what type? Do you mind?
- Lung cancer, no I don't mind.
She had it, I wanna say four years ago.
They caught it early and she's doing great.
- Good.
- When I get angry it comes out as anger.
But you said because of the fighting,
I don't think it's because of the fighting.
You do so much fighting in the gym
that, like, you don't, like you kinda shy away
from it in other aspects of life.
So, yeah, I am an emotional person.
I do have a big heart.
When I feel fear, I tend to rise up and confront it.
I also said you think cancer is too serious to joke about.
When you get angry, it comes out as sadness.
When you feel fear, I said you react by shutting down.
I feel like you're the kind of person
that doesn't like conflict.
- I said at the time that like,
nothing's too serious to joke about,
as long as it's in a tasteful manner.
- Yeah, I get that.
- But I can understand, like,
if I know a certain person, like you said,
like cancer, and that's something you've dealt with,
I would never in your presence joke about that.
So I think you can feel like, what's off limits.
- It depends on the situation, yup.
- When I get angry, you got that right,
it does come out as sadness.
- Yeah.
- When I feel fear, I actually react by confronting it.
I'm very, you know, straightforward.
And I like attacking things that scare me.
'Cause I don't like the emotion of fear.
- Neither do I.
Why did you decide to leave your good job
to go back to school?
- I was working in business
and I was making good money for my age,
and I was like, traveling the world and all of this.
And I just was really unhappy.
The things that do make me really happy
are when I'm helping others.
Medicine was just something I always
thought was interesting, since I was a little girl.
One day I decided I was over it
and switched, and people think I'm crazy.
- I get it 100 percent.
My dad owns a big construction company,
and I'm the only son, so who's that gonna go to?
That's gonna go to me.
It wasn't really 'til recent that
I stopped working in the company,
and I'm just gonna do something that I enjoy.
I'm gonna go back to school, 'cause I feel like
you kinda need that at least two year degree.
I think I'm gonna be a cop,
but also, my main dream and goal,
to be a professional fighter
and one day, you'll click on the TV and you'll see.
- Pay-per-view.
- Yeah, exactly, my name on it.
So, originally I said I would not date you.
I kinda just have a certain type that I go for,
and you weren't exactly, you know, the type,
just by eye, before getting to know someone.
But, after getting to know you, I said I would date you.
I think you're a cool girl and we
have a lot of similar interests.
And we kinda have the same background,
leaving something we don't like
to follow something we enjoy in life.
- When I first saw you, I said that I would date you,
because I think that unlike what you think of me,
that you are my type and you are
a very attractive young man.
- Thank you.
- So I said I would.
And after getting to know you,
I still said that I would date you.
I think you're a very kindhearted person
and you're easy to talk to.
- Have you seen a lot of the city?
- Most of it, yes.
Haven't seen Long Island.
- Well the city, you could probably show me.
- I'll give you a tour.
- And then I could give you a tour of Long Island.
- Let's go on a tour.
- Let's get outta here.