[chill hip-hop music]
- I hope we have fun!
I hope we, ideally, you know, we click.
- I mean, ideally you guys have matched me with someone
that I will marry and then I can invite you all
to the wedding, that would be great.
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- There really wasn't an awkward moment the whole night.
We just started talking and then just like, like,
kept talking for the next, like, three and a half hours.
- I was super awkward and I didn't know
whether to go in for handshake or a hug,
so I did one of those?
Eventually we settled on a hug, and it was fine,
but I was awkward.
I'm Daniela, and I'm 23.
- My name is Nick, and I'm 29 years old.
- So I'm a chemical engineer and I work in the research
and development of improving batteries.
- I work in production.
- I am originally from Miami, Florida, 305!
- I'm originally from Massachusetts,
I'm from a tiny town on the north shore called Groveland.
- I have been single for a couple of months now.
- I've been single for about five years now.
I think I'm still single because I haven't been, like,
actively pursuing a relationship.
- My last relationship just didn't work out,
we dated for almost two years but it ended
and here I am.
Down to earth, kind, humble, but with a bit of an edge!
- I'm looking for someone who is smart, funny,
spontaneous, and someone that shares at least some of
my interests so we have something to talk about.
- When I get nervous, I try to be funny
so I would definitely maybe try and crack some jokes
on the first date, but definitely, totally nervous, so,
shy, also. - On a first date,
I guess I try to be like, Mr. Personality.
I try to show all of my best personality traits
and I kind of want people to get like,
the full picture of what I'm like.
- Maybe some Doja Cat, some Lizzo,
something to get me in the mood,
definitely the music when I'm putting my makeup on
and getting ready, that is what gets me in the zone.
- I like to, sometimes I like to listen to a little bit
of music, you know, a few choice tracks that help
put me in a good mood and you know,
kinda get me ready.
- I'm wearing this, so I have a black velvet top
black high-waisted jeans, black booties,
which is a pretty accurate representation
of what's in my closet.
- I'm gonna wear this.
This outfit was carefully curated.
Specifically for tonight.
- I've gone on the pretty kind of basic date,
dinner and a movie, but I'd like to do something
a little more exciting in the city, you know,
maybe we could see a show
or go to a really nice restaurant, maybe go to a jazz bar.
- I'm planning to take her out to dinner
and have a few drinks, maybe we'll wanna get dinner at eight
and meet up for a drink somewhere beforehand,
we'll see how it goes.
- I could not tell you the last time I went on a first date.
- I will put pressure on myself
'cause it's gotta be great and it's gotta be perfect
and then I need to like, take a step back
and realize, like, it's just a first date,
it's fine, like you don't have to be Mr. Perfect.
Chill out, it's all gonna be fine.
- A connection with someone would be great, you know?
Even if it doesn't work out romantically,
we could just be friends, it's a new face that I know
in the city, and that would be awesome.
- Just a good evening and hopefully, you know,
a second date or a third date after that.
It would be great if she was someone
that I really get along with
and could start to build a relationship with.
But outside of that, you know,
I'm just always down to go have a good time with new people.
- Ariel Winter, I've gotten that
since I was like 12 years old.
- So when "Baby Driver" came out I was getting a lot
of "you look like Ansel Elgort", which was fantastic.
I bought the jacket that he wears in that movie
so I could go as him for Halloween.
- My number one celebrity crush is Ian Somerhalder.
But I also really love Joseph Gordon-Levitt
and Andrew Garfield.
- It comes and goes, depending on who's popular
at the moment, but I've always been a big fan
of Scarlet Johansson.
- I don't have any tattoos, but I like tattoos,
especially when there's a cool story behind them.
- I have three tattoos myself,
I'm planning on getting another couple sometime soon.
And yeah, a girl with ink is great.
- I'm a Scorpio.
They can be kind of very dark, very passionate,
totally passionate, the bad, they can be jealous.
- I am a Taurus, but I have to say I don't put
much stock in astrology.
- I have been in three long-term relationships
and they've all evolved from friendships.
- I had a long-term girlfriend in high school
for like two or three years
and then I started dating another girl
at the very end of high school.
We stayed together through college, a little bit
of on-and-off, moved to New York together,
we were together for about a year
and then we broke up, went our separate ways,
and I've been on my own ever since.
- They would say I'm funny, I think I made them laugh a lot.
They all thought I was really smart
and they would probably say I'm high-maintenance.
- I think it depends on who you ask.
I think that they would all try to say nice things.
- No. - No.
I think if you wanna get with somebody else,
you should break up first.
- No, I don't think I've ever been cheated on.
- I have been cheated on.
- Definitely yes, I'm a bad texter.
- I have ghosted.
- I don't think so, probably not.
- I have, I think that ghosting is, has just become
part of the dating culture.
I think it's fine if like, two people just kind of
stop texting and stop talking,
that's kinda like a mutual, you know,
neither person is following up.
- This has never happened, but maybe if he orders for me
or suggests I get the salad, red flag.
- If it was very clear to me
that we had completely different values.
- Oh, god, immediately I don't like him.
Or immediately he doesn't like me, and then it's just
two strangers playing 21 Questions for three hours.
- The worst thing that could happen is that
it's somebody I've already gone on a date with before
and I don't know it yet.
- Oh, god, I'm not sexy, but I think eye contact.
I think eye contact is sexy, so, if I'm interested in them
I'll just maintain really deep eye contact with them.
- When I wanna be sexy, so I have a hard time
being like, serious-sexy, like if I'm gonna do it
there's gotta be like some humor involved,
which I think is always fun,
so you know, like, if I'm getting intimate with somebody
like I'll do like a silly, like, little strip tease
kind of thing and like, just be fun and playful.
But as far as like, serious-sexy?
Like, I can't do it without an undercurrent of humor.
- Smile. - I would say the lips.
- Yes, I also speak Spanish.
[Daniela speaking Spanish]
- I speak German.
[Nick speaking German]
- Time, definitely devoting time
to the other person and gifts.
- I guess my love language would just be like,
listening and paying attention.
I want people to know that I'm interested in them,
I'm listening to them, and that I like, give a [beep].
- Beach! - Beach.
- Time. - Time.
- Night owl. - Night owl.
- Dinner date. - Dinner date.
- Lace. - Lace.
- iPhone. - iPhone.
- I'm fine with it. - It's not the best, but, yes?
- Chocolate. - Vanilla's highly underrated.
- Over easy.
- Scrambled, with a little bit of cheese.
- Marvel. - DC, all the way.
Superman, do or die.
- Hi, Nick, I'm super excited to meet you.
And I really hope you have something fun planned for us
because I don't.
- Hi, this is an interesting situation
we've found ourselves in, isn't it?
I hope that we have a good time, let's go get some food.
- I'm ready. - Wish me luck.
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- I am headed towards my first date with Nick now.
Really nervous, nervous level's like if I'm going in
for a job interview, so.
Really anxious, but I'm excited.
Hopefully it goes well.
We'll see!
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- So I got there pretty early, like, almost 30 minutes early
because I was just anxious and I didn't know what else
to do with myself.
So I just got there early, I sat at the bar,
and I waited and so everybody that was coming in
for the next 30 minutes, and then he showed up
and he texted me that he was the tall guy in black.
- I got to the restaurant, texted her, let her know
I was there, she was already inside, she came out,
she kinda like, maybe was gonna go for a handshake
and then was like, ah what the hell and went in for a hug
and then we went in and sat down.
- Tall, he was really tall, he had really nice eyes
and he was really well-dressed.
- She had a cool haircut, cool hair color, cool clothes,
black jacket, like a nice lace top.
And she was like, small and petite which is, you know,
right up my alley, so it was really cool right away.
We went to a semi-fancy Mexican restaurant
in the West Village.
- We went to a little Mexican restaurant in the West Village
it was called Ofrenda, it was very nice,
it had a nice ambiance, it was pretty packed actually,
but good place, good food.
- There really wasn't an awkward moment the whole night,
we just started talking and then just kept talking
for the next like, three and a half hours.
- I didn't even know where to start, I had so many questions
for him, I knew nothing about him, so it's,
I didn't know what even the first thing to ask him
could be!
- I don't think she was exactly what I expected
but I don't really know what I was expecting, either.
- I don't know what I expected
but even with that, no, he was not what I expected.
- I think she looks kinda like Mary Elizabeth Winstead,
we were talking about cosplay and she said that she had done
a Ramona Flowers from "Scott Pilgrim" cosplay
and I could totally see it.
- I got a little bit of Colin Jost vibes?
Face, blue eyes, it's the first thing that comes to mind.
I thought he was attractive.
- I was.
So we sat down in the crowded New York restaurant
with like, you know, neighbors right on top of us
and then we just started talking
and it was like, one of those things
where we were just kind of absorbed by each other
and we had a lot in common.
She shared a lot of my same interests
I thought her job was really cool, it was really interesting
asking her questions about that,
and we just kinda clicked, conversation-wise,
and had a lot to talk about.
- So I got there first, I waited at the bar for him
a little bit and then he texted me that he was there,
then we just sat at our table
and talked and talked and talked,
we had so much to catch up on
'cause we didn't know each other to the point where
the waiter kept coming to take our order
but we hadn't even looked at the menu yet a couple of times.
So, eventually we ordered, and still was even hard for me
to finish my food because we were talking so much.
We had a few drinks, we both had two at the restaurant
and then once we wrapped up there we went to
another little bar down the street
that Nick found and just kept the night going there.
I think I was definitely a lot more comfortable
once we were at the bar,
I feel like I was just rambling to him,
but he took it pretty well.
And then I had to take a train home
'cause it was getting late
and he walked me to the station, which was really nice.
And then we said good night.
Yes, absolutely, I could tell he was really smart.
- I thought she was super smart.
She's an engineer, so clearly you gotta be pretty smart
to be able to do that job,
but yeah, she very much held my interest, I really liked
hearing about her job and what she does,
she also had like interests that were different from mine.
Like, she's really into Star Trek,
that's like one nerd thing that I don't really get into
but she was telling me about that, which was cool to hear
and like, it could be fine if we keep hanging out,
maybe she'll get me more into Star Trek.
- He knew this bar that was right down the street
that he wanted to go to, so we just walked there,
and then ordered a round of drinks.
- We walked a couple blocks away to a little dive bar
that I know and got a couple more drinks
and kept talking.
- There was no kiss, I don't kiss on the first date!
- No, unfortunately there was not a kiss.
- So we got to the station and I thanked him
for walking me there because it was pretty cold out
and then we gave each other a hug
and we said goodbye and we thanked each other
for a really fun night.
- We left the bar, I walked her to the train stop
that she needed to get to,
she's from Florida and didn't have on the proper coat
and so she was very cold, I put my arm around her,
tried to keep her warm, and then we got to the train.
I asked as many questions as I could,
I really wanted to get to know who she was.
- Yeah, I definitely think I was asking him
a lot of questions during dinner.
- Successful. - Delightful.
- Yes, he has three tattoos, and actually one of 'em
is from "the Legend of Zelda", and my cat
is named after a character from "the Legend of Zelda".
- She does not have any tattoos.
- Talk fast, ask too many questions,
just being awkward in general.
- No, it was a very positive experience.
I guess I'm just kind of like, embarrassed that maybe
I should've gone in for the kiss?
I dunno, that's been on my mind, that's the only thing.
Just telling me about her YouTube channel,
but again, I found that adorable.
- No, I don't think so.
Not that I remember.
I did, I laughed a lot.
- We both laughed a lot, I think it was pretty even,
but she might've laughed a little bit more than I did.
- You could tell he was really passionate
about what he does, about his work and his experience
and I really love that, that's really important to me,
having you know, a passion for your career
and doing what you love
and that was so tangible with him.
- Her personality, for sure, she was just really cool,
really smart, confident, and she was also really cute.
Just I liked her style, her outfit, she's very pretty,
she had the cool red nail paint job, I love the color red
and yeah, just everything about her, she was really great.
- No, I thought he just seemed like a really nice guy,
he was pretty genuine, he never did anything
that kind of made me go, whoa.
- Just that she lives outside the city.
- Yeah, I think they would really enjoy him, actually.
- I think my family would love her, she's cool.
- I haven't texted her yet, but I'll probably shoot her
a little message sometime today
saying it was great to meet you
and I hope to see you again.
- Yes, we texted a little bit this morning.
I had a really good time.
- I'm very glad I went on this date,
it's been a great experience.
- Five. - Five.
- I'd say five. - Five.
- Three. - Four and a half.
Four, just 'cause of the living situation.
- Three.
- Five. - Five.
- Four. - Four.
A nice maroon jacket and a black shirt.
- Black jacket, black lacy top, black pants.
That's a good question. [buzzer blares]
- Blue. [bell dinging]
- Massachusetts. - Miami.
- I didn't ask him that one.
More than one? [buzzer blares]
- We didn't get into that. [buzzer blares]
- It didn't come up, he didn't strike me
as the astrology type. [buzzer blares]
- I don't know. [buzzer blares]
Emo music, and we had that in common, which was cool.
- We both had emo phases, so I know he likes emo music.
- She is a chemical engineer!
- He works in production.
He lives in Williamsburg.
- She lives in Connecticut, man!
She went to Cornell, really cool, very prestigious.
- Boston University.
- I know she mentioned an older sister,
I'm not sure if she has any others,
I think she might have mentioned another sibling,
like a brother, but we didn't talk a lot about that.
- One 20-year-old sister, I think
there's another younger sister, maybe there's a brother?
- I did not ask her about her allergies.
- I don't think so.
I ate steak tacos.
- I ate some chips and guac and then some chicken mole dish.
- Chicken and mole sauce. - Chips and guac,
and a couple of tacos.
- Stimulating. - Amazing.
I think that we clicked.
- Platonic, our love for comics.
- Our nerdy interests.
- I think so, I think we could do something fun,
maybe as friends.
- I would love to go on a second date with Daniela.
I think we'd have a lot of fun.
Daniela, I had a great time, let's please go out again.
- Hi, Nick, I had a really fun time with you last night,
I hope you have a great trip to South America,
and maybe when you get back we can hit up
that comic book store.
Bye! - See ya!
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