00:00You've got to get rid of that stigma of like, you know, you're not going to meet your soulmate at a bar.
00:04Why not?
00:04There's just no way that anyone can find out who you truly are on a dating app.
00:08Because I know like personally myself, I translate better in person, right?
00:12So like when you meet me and when we talk and you know, you see like me, the actual human, Dimitri,
00:18it's different to like say being on a dating app.
00:21There's nothing you can see or read on a dating app that's going to say really anything about me.
00:26It's going to tell you who I really am.
00:28And I'm saying for you, like, I've known Tony for some time now.
00:31And like when you meet the guy in person and you're hanging around, it's a personality.
00:34That's why they wanted my match.
00:36It's just a personality.
00:37Like there is no personality on these dating apps.
00:40You know what I mean?
00:41It's a photo.
00:41You like the photo or not?
00:42That's it.
00:43That's exactly right.
00:44That's why it's an addictive.
00:45Like people get addicted to it.
00:46And let's be honest, sometimes these photos aren't the real people that you can meet in real life.
00:51We saw that happen on the show.
00:54We're running this singles night so we can give the over 25 population in Wollongong a chance to meet real people in real life.
01:08And, you know, moving away from these dating apps that, you know, are starting to become a little bit unpopular.
01:14And also, I think people are getting disillusioned with them, right?
01:17People's experience with the dating apps are not what they used to be.
01:21So let's go back to, you know, 1998 where you used to go out to a bar to meet a girl.
01:26You know what I mean?
01:26Like that was actually...
01:27Back in the days.
01:28Yeah.
01:29You find your partner, I think, or connection, like meeting somebody instantly on these online apps.
01:35It's not the same.
01:36It's not.
01:37Absolutely not.
01:38I don't know what connection you can make with someone looking at a photo.
01:41I know I haven't had much luck with that ever.
01:44But, you know, look over there and we might work for some people, but maybe like us in our older demographic, you know, being in over 40s, what we were used to growing up is, you know, like I said, meeting in real life.
01:56Like it wasn't swiping.
01:58It was like you had to go somewhere and meet them.
02:00And, you know, and back then there was, you know, traditional relationships.
02:04I don't think there's that many, I don't have traditional relationships these days, you know.
02:08Things have really changed.
02:09I'm saying, I'd come to, I want to come, I'm excited to come to it, even though I'm part of the thing, make sure you're excited to meet someone.
02:16Yeah.
02:16You know, and then I was thinking about going to another one.
02:18I mean, I'll go there, maybe there's someone there my age.
02:20You know, when you get older, it gets harder.
02:21You know, when you get older, it gets harder.
