- Truth or dare.
- I'm afraid. Dare.
- I dare you to kiss me. If you want.
Just one time. Just one time.
- Just one time? - Just one time.
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Oh, gosh. It's not as soft as I wanted this to be.
- [Interviewer] How long does a date normally last you?
- Probably four hours, on average.
- I've had some good first dates,
where it ends up being half a day.
But I've also had really terrible first dates,
where it's like, once the check comes, I'm out.
I don't know how I should sit in here. I'm like...
- [Interviewer] You're gonna be in a box with a blind date
for 12 hours.
So is this kind of like three dates in one?
- Yeah, bro. It's weird as fuck. (laughs)
- [Interviewer] Do you think maybe you'll fall in love?
- Maybe. Maybe. I hope so.
We're gonna have to get cozy.
- Yeah, it's gonna be a while, apparently.
If we actually click, and I find the love
of my life today, that's a really tight ass story.
I got trapped in a box with you for 12 hours.
- So what's your name?
- Tre. - Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you. Kristina?
- Yes. With a K. - With a K.
- What do you do?
- Well, I work as a facilities coordinator.
I also do art and things. Mostly theater.
- That's dope.
I love music. You always catch me at a concert.
- Oh, we love to hear it.
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- How tall are you?
- I'm 6'1".
- Oh, dope, okay. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I'm 5'7", but I feel like I would've been taller.
I have scoliosis, so I have an S-curve to my spine.
- Do you typically go for taller people in terms of dating?
Or like... - Yeah.
I don't think I've ever dated anyone shorter than me.
- Would you?
Probably not? Probably not?
- I like my heels.
- Sorry, short kings.
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- But no, for real, what are you looking?
Like what kind of relationship, or?
- This point in my life,
I've been pretty non-monogamous for a couple years now.
In terms of right now,
I think I've been the most ready I've been
in terms of a relationship and all those things.
- That's awesome.
- What are you looking for right now?
- I would love to have a partner, you know?
I've really felt
that life brings me the people I need when I need them,
so if I could fall in love, let's let it happen, you know?
You never know who you're gonna meet.
- That's a fact.
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- How many major relationships have you had?
- Oh, four. Four relationships.
- It's a good number.
I've been in really three major relationships, I guess.
And the first one was actually my childhood crush.
- What? - I know. I know, right?
He kind of sucked, though.
Cheated on me with a stripper,
and then married a girl two months after we broke up.
- This n*gga wylin. That sound like a midlife crisis.
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- Mnh-mnh.
My head's out of the box.
(both laugh)
Try to get your elbow to the ground.
- To the ground?
(Tre groans)
- That's the goal. That's where you should pull.
Don't pull anything, though.
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- [Interviewer] It's been three hours.
- Wow. - Yay!
- [Interviewer] Tre, close your eyes. No peeking.
One out of ten, how's the date going so far?
How are you feeling?
Nice. Can you close your eyes? And then Tre will...
Go ahead. How you feeling?
All right, I'm gonna leave you guys to it.
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- Would you say you're a sexual person?
- I'd say, yeah. Definitely.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, I used to be dancer, so.
- What kind of dancer were you?
- I was a stripper.
- You were the stripper. (laughs)
- Yeah.
- Quit Nordstrom, quit Starbucks.
And then I came back and I became a bikini barista,
so what about a mix of coffee and stripping, you know?
- You're like, "I can do both of these things."
- At the same time.
But that job, oh, woof.
- Why was it woof?
- That was a dangerous job, dude.
You don't have security when you're a bikini barista.
Just you alone.
- Word?
- Anybody can pull up
and do whatever the fuck they wanna do,
you know what I mean?
I know some things that people probably never know
or won't find out for a long time.
I've seen some shit. (laughs)
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- I've never had sex with my socks off.
- Ooh. I don't know.
- I just think one,
it was never a conscious decision to take them off.
Like, that's just how I progressed
throughout my sexual history.
And also, I think feet are weird.
- Yeah, feet are kinda fucking weird.
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- [Interviewer] Do you guys wanna do a little experiment?
- Ooh. - Can I pee first?
- [Interviewer] Yeah, if you gotta go pee.
- Actually, I need to pee too, so that would be great.
- Pee break!
- Yay!
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- [Interviewer] She can't hear you right now.
How are things going?
Is this someone you would be interested in?
- I definitely think as right now, platonically, yes.
I'm romantically still in the air.
But it's been interesting so far. I've learned a lot.
She's an interesting person.
- [Interviewer] Just imagine how much you're gonna learn
by the 11th hour.
- I don't know. We might be annoyed as shit with each other.
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- [Interviewer] How's this going?
- I think it's going well. I like him.
He's really nice.
- [Interviewer] Could you see yourself
being romantic with him?
- Yeah. Yeah, I could.
- [Interviewer] Could you see the potential
of a lifelong partner?
- I don't know about that yet,
but I mean, you know,
I'd have to see how he's around other people.
That's kind of my thing, but off the bat, it's been good.
- [Interviewer] Would you sleep with him?
- Yeah. Yeah. (Interviewer laughs)
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- Oh, fuck.
- I know, right?
(both laugh)
I sat back down. I was like, "Thump."
- [Interviewer] All right, you will face each other,
stare to each other's eyes
and not say anything for five minutes.
- Five minutes is nuts.
- [Interviewer] Okay, I'll start timing it in just a sec.
- Oh my gosh, yeah. Just complete silence.
- [Interviewer] So stare into each other's eyes,
and I'm starting now.
(chest gargles)
- Excuse me. (laughs)
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(bell dings) - [Interviewer] All right,
it's been five minutes.
- That did not seem like five minutes.
- That wasn't too bad.
I was trying not to hiccup.
- You said, (gargles). - I was like, (hiccups).
(both laugh)
I was like, "Oh my God."
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Tell me about your family.
Are you close to your parents, or?
- Very close to my mother.
Not at all close to my father.
He's around somewhere doing fuck shit.
- From my first impression, you turned out okay.
- Think that's all my mother and my grandma.
- There you go. I like that.
But yeah, I'm really close with my dad.
- So I'm sure he knows much more about the life
and your past and things than your mom does?
- Yeah, not a ton, but way more than my mom does.
And, like, I just know my mom couldn't handle it.
It would break her heart.
Even though I'm a better person because of it now,
it'd still snap her in half.
And I don't know if there's ever going
to be the right time to tell her.
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- Can I pee again?
- Literally just read my mind. That's perfect.
I was looking at the wall and was like...
- [Interviewer] Yes, you can.
- You can go first this time.
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- [Interviewer] He's gone. He's gone.
How are things going?
- Good. - What's happening?
Are you guys in love?
- I don't know if I'm in love yet, but I do like him.
It's good vibes, good energy,
and I feel like this could go somewhere.
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- [Interviewer] Are things improving? Getting worse?
- Yeah, I feel like things are getting more comfortable.
I mean, definitely proximity, in terms of touch.
I don't know.
This might have something to do
with me being a taller Black person
and also being a male, in terms of consent.
Touch has always been very weird.
So it takes me a little longer to get there,
but I'm comfortable with her touching and things like that
'cause it shows that things are going, you know, okay.
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- What's your biggest regret?
Bring me down to a specific. I want the tea.
- One of my biggest regrets is being unfaithful.
I do very much regret that
because I was just being very selfish at the time.
- I like the introspection. I can appreciate it.
- I'm just mad that it happened with that person
'cause I have a lot of love for them.
- Mm. - Yeah.
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What is the weirdest thing you've ever been asked
to do in bed?
- Oh my God.
Pee on someone and I was-
- Me too!
- I was like, "No! I'm not doing that. I'm sorry."
This is my bed. Ew, no.
- They asked in your bed?
- [Kristina] Yeah. I was like, "No."
- That's nuts.
- Absolutely not.
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- Mm, okay, truth or dare?
- Dare.
- All right, I dare you to give me a massage.
Rub my shoulders. There you go.
If you are okay with that.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Come here, come here, come on, come on.
- Just face the wall.
That actually feels really nice. Oh my gosh.
And also, with scoliosis, you know, it's a nice time, right?
I'm like, "Ah, nice."
- I'm looking for that S. (laughs)
- I'm like, "Nice."
No, you can go hard, man.
- Say, "Get it out of me, bro."
- I'm like, "Please."
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- Pause. Can I pee again?
- [Interviewer] Perfect timing 'cause your lunch is here.
- Yay!
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- Oh my gosh. It's the worst.
I broke a tooth so I have to take a tooth out to eat.
- [Interviewer] Oh, does he know about that?
- Fuck! No, that's gonna be a little surprise for him.
- [Interviewer] Nice.
- Yeah, right?
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Okay, so this is embarrassing,
but my tooth is attached to a flipper, so I have to take
out my fucking tooth. - So you gotta take out your-
- Yeah, on camera, of course.
The one fucking time in my life-
The one fucking time.
It's gonna be rough. - It's cool.
I took out my grill.
It's kind of the same thing.
- Yeah. Can't lose this bad boy.
This is like part of my face I'm taking off.
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- [Interviewer] Halfway there.
- Woo! - Woohoo.
- (burps) Ooh. Excuse me.
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What's your favorite position?
- Sexually? - Mm-hmm.
- Missionary with legs up in the air.
It's some of my best work.
- Okay. All right.
- It's all depending too, though.
'Cause if I'm on a slippery floor and I got my socks on...
- Oh my God. You and your fucking socks during sex.
- (laughs) I'm fucking with you. I'm fucking with you.
- I'm never gonna let that one-
That one will never leave.
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Have you thought about kissing me?
- Yeah.
- You're allowed to say no. It's okay if you're not there.
- No, no, no. I have. I was interested. (laughs)
And then- - But when I had my tooth
out of my mouth. - And then I was like...
And then I was like, "What would it be like kissing her
without her tooth?"
(both laugh)
- I haven't actually tried that yet, so.
It's this tooth, too, so it just goes straight through.
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- [Interviewer] Do you wanna try a new game?
It would be swap clothes!
- We could.
- Why not? This will kill an hour.
- [Interviewer] I mean, don't do anything you don't want.
- I don't really care.
I mean, I was a fucking stripper.
All right, here we go.
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Better not stretch it out too much.
- It smells nice, though.
- Oh, thanks!
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You look good in that. What the heck.
Tell me that looks better on you than it does on me.
- Nah, nah, nah.
- What do you think?
- Yeah, she good. She good.
- Yeah? Wait, let me have your hat, though.
- All right, go for it.
- Let's see here.
(both laugh)
- Better. You completed the look. (laughs)
- Okay. Now we're good.
- Yeah. Hold on. So Tre...
- So Kristina...
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- What do you feel like is the biggest misconception of you?
- I mean, when people know, like,
you know, I used to be a dancer or,
you know, a bikini barista,
they just think I'm out here to hustle them or something.
Or that's how I am gonna be forever or something, you know?
I'm a tough cookie.
I've been through some shit,
but yes, you can still hurt my feelings,
you know what I mean?
Okay, what about you, though?
- Fears? - Emotional fears, I guess.
- I have the fear of making the wrong choice.
I also have a fear of failing,
of not reaching my full potential.
But I'm like, sometimes it's detrimental
to feel like the weight of your environment
or where you grew up or something is
on your shoulders, you know?
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- [Interviewer] Seven hours.
- Look at us!
- [Interviewer] Yeah.
Do we wanna share how the date is going?
- I feel like we're rocking with a 8.5.
- Yay!
- [Interviewer] Do you agree? 8.5?
- Well, no, I'm saying nine, yeah.
Like I was saying, we're staying right where we are.
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- Oh, my butt. - I know, right?
You can lay your head in my lap if you want. I can move.
- But how do I- - Here, we can-
Here. Flip. Flip that way.
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Do you want a head rub?
- Yeah, let's see how good you are at head rubs.
- There you go.
What are you insecure about?
- I was a fat kid,
so my relationship to my body varies so much in flux.
- In what way?
- I walk through a lot of life feeling very undesirable.
So I think that's transferred
into just how I move through life in general.
Would you consider yourself a very touchy person?
- You know, honestly, I've kind of had
to make myself be, in a sense,
because my parents weren't very touchy-feely
of me at all growing up.
And so when I started dating in high school and stuff,
didn't feel like I was very good
at being affectionate to people.
- Which is also something that I had to learn
'cause my family is not a touchy family at all.
- Yes, so you see what I'm saying.
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- [Interviewer] You guys just wanna take a nap?
- I mean, at the point we could. (laughs)
- Oh, we're snuggling.
- Yeah, we're snuggling. It's happening.
- Intimate first date.
- Getting real cozy.
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Oh, God.
- Drooling?
- Yup, definitely. My hand's asleep, too.
- My hand's, like, weird.
- [Interviewer] We're basically there at the nine hour mark.
- Oh, shit. - Oh, okay.
- [Interviewer] So good job. Three more hours.
And if you want a drink, we can do drinks.
- Okay, sure.
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You should have gotten double.
- Nah, I can't get two drunk.
I might have one more in me, but we gotta pace it out.
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We're not that drunk, but... (laughs)
Oh, shit.
(both laugh)
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Truth or dare? - A dare.
- Give me a little bit of your routine.
- Oh my God.
I'll just pretend that I'm not wearing pants.
I can't even see.
- Woo!
- And, you know?
That's about as good as that's gonna get,
between these pants and this box, so.
- We respect that.
- Truth or dare?
- I'm afraid. Dare.
- I dare you to kiss me, if you want.
- Yeah, I'll kiss you.
- You gotta do it, though.
You gotta actually kiss me.
That wasn't half bad.
You're a good kisser. - I know. We aight.
We do our thing.
You feel me? - Ooh!
- God's like, "Hey!"
- This is exactly what God wants.
- Yeah.
- [Interviewer] Tell him to wipe his nose.
- What do you mean? - What's wrong with my nose?
Oh, it's the White makeup.
- (laughs) That was my fault.
- 'Cause you're a white woman. (laughs)
- I'm sorry. I didn't even see that.
I was like, "What are you looking at?" (laughs)
- Stop fucking laughing. (laughs)
- Why are you laughing at us, God?
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- [Interviewer] All right, final hour.
What do you wanna do with the final hour?
- I don't know. (laughs)
- I don't know.
- My brain is in like every-
- Hitting a wall.
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So I don't know what your week looks like next.
What do you do Wednesday?
- I don't think anything.
- All right. - All right.
Let's add that to the calendar.
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- [Interviewer] It's 12 hours.
- Oh, okay.
- [Interviewer] How was this experience?
- Dude, better than I fucking expected.
- I thought it was gonna be awful,
but overall, I think good experience.
- [Interviewer] Do you think this experiment worked?
- Yeah, I feel like it gives you liberty
to build levels quicker.
- [Interviewer] That's awesome, so congrats
on becoming boyfriend and girlfriend.
- (laughs) I hate you.
- He's trying to matchmake so hard right now.
- [Interviewer] Any last thing you wanna say
to each other before you leave the box?
- Nice meeting you.
I had a great day. Thank you for that.
- [Interviewer] Good job, you two.
All right. - All right.
Yay! We made it!
- And I gotta pee.
- Oh, I gotta pee, too. So go fast. Go quick.
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