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Episode 40: The One Where We're Talking Dating in Your 30s with Christiana
Being single in your thirties offers unexpected freedoms including financial independence, spontaneous travel opportunities, and the ability to design your life exactly as you want it. We chat with Christiana, VP of Marketing at Blade, about embracing singlehood while navigating the challenging dating landscape.
• The positive aspects of being single in your thirties including freedom and not settling
• Dating in NYC versus Boston and the challenges of dating apps
• "Sit at the Bar September" as an alternative to dating apps
• Creative ideas for meeting people in real life, including handing out business cards
• Hilarious bad date stories including being catfished and receiving strange gifts
• How Blade is revolutionizing private aviation with helicopter services
• Upcoming innovations in electric aircraft that will transform transportation
• Celebrity sightings while working at SoulCycle, including an encounter with Jay-Z
• Taylor Swift's engagement news and predictions about her upcoming album "Life of a Showgirl"
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Ready, ready. Hey, everyone, welcome back to the latest episode of Snitchin' it's your host, kristen and Brittany. Get ready for the best part of your day and we are very excited because we have another special guest episode and we're coming to you with our guest from well, we're in Boston, but our special guest Christiana, she's coming to us from New York. Britt, if you want to introduce her NYC.
Speaker 2:Yeah, christiana is my friend from college. I feel like you're I don't know the best way to describe you You're like the closest thing to an influencer. I feel like that, I know Amazing, thank you. So yeah, we're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about dating in your thirties. You guys will have a lot to talk about there and, yeah, christiana also has a very cool job. What are you VP of?
Speaker 3:marketing right, yeah, yeah, private jets, yeah Private jets, helicopters, all things aviation.
Speaker 2:So cool. And then, finally, we're going to talk Taylor. I feel like it's been there's been a lot of Taylor rumors going on that we have not talked about yet, so we'll get into that at the end.
Speaker 1:Thank you both for having me. Oh, we're so excited to have you. I'm so excited about this episode because we have talked a little bit of like dating. I've talked a little bit about my dating. You know life over the summer and I'm so excited to have another single lady on to hear how it's going for you, because you know it's the wild, wild West out here. It sure is. It sure is Well. To start off, I was actually thinking that we could maybe like take a little bit of a positive note. I don't know about you, but I feel like sometimes one of my least favorite things about being single, you know, in my thirties, is that I feel like people assume that I might be like I don't know. They always look to like the bad about it or they think it's a negative thing. So let's start with the positive. What is your favorite thing about being a single girl in her 30s?
Speaker 3:in your mid-30s being single and I think it comes in waves, obviously, like some days are really hard being single, but for the most part, you know, I really am grateful for this time by myself and, even though it hasn't always been the case where I'm really happy being single, I can say like right now, like I have so much freedom to myself, freedom to travel, freedom to book spontaneous trips, definitely more financially free than I was in my early twenties, but, you know, being able to make choices, big and small, that are entirely on my own, and it's something that I'm really grateful for right now.
Speaker 3:And I think the gratitude piece is, like really huge because it helps put a lot of things in perspective and helps, you know, realize that everybody's on their own path and their own time and it's not that being single is wrong, even though society likes to tell us that it is it.
Speaker 3:It's just the path that that I'm currently on and I'm so appreciative for this time where I can, like, set a higher standard for myself, whereas, you know, in the past, I think I'm I'm happy I didn't settle when, when those totalizations were were there for me, and I think that's where the gratitude piece comes in, because everything happens for a reason and as long as you have faith that this is going to work out, I think you're in good hands. But yeah, there's a lot of negativity around being single and for the most part, the last few years have been really amazing. I don't want someone to come in Like I, a few weeks ago I did end something like a little situationship with someone, but like it it hurt. But what did I do? I booked Backstreet Boys tickets at the Sphere and just went to Vegas for the weekend.
Speaker 2:Oh my God.
Speaker 1:I'm so jealous of that. Oh my God, I mean we could tangent on that all day, we. That was amazing. Wait, I love it, literally. Christiana, I feel like verbatim.
Speaker 1:Some of the things that you were saying are exactly how I feel. It's going to have to take someone special or falling truly in love for me to want to change anything right now, because the freedom is so nice, just being able to choose how I'm spending my time, my money, all my choices. I feel like it's like that quote, kind of like design your life. I feel like there's a lot of opportunity to really be intentional about what you want to do with your time and just who you want to spend it with. And I feel like it's also just not lost on me and I bring this up a lot, but it's like it's not lost on me that 50 years ago, like we wouldn't have had this option at all. So it's like you know, I'm just happy that I'm able to be independent and like support myself and I know that that wasn't the case for like people in our own family, you know, back in the day. So I love all that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that, yeah, yeah. And like feeling really proud of the life that you've built for yourself and like, yeah, there should be celebration and the fact that we did it all by ourselves, and like it's not that it's any harder or any easier to do it on yourself, it's just that you did it by yourself. Obviously, like it's very helpful to have a partner it's also sometimes not helpful to have a partner the grass is not always greener but I think celebrating and feeling proud that you've accomplished this career, this life, this apartment, everything on your own, is something that should be celebrated, where normally in society people look at it and be like oh, like, oh, she's single. Why hasn't she found someone yet? What's wrong with her? It's because no one's good enough to fit into the life that I've built for myself. So I love flipping the script on that, because it really is so prevalent in media how negative it is being single and it really should be talked about more and should be celebrated.
Speaker 1:I'm just saying. I've seen some articles about how single women live the longest and report the highest levels of happiness. So I'm just saying you know, we don't compromise.
Speaker 2:I love what you said, though, about like you didn't settle, Like I feel like that is a good point. I've never thought of Like I feel like probably half the people that are married that are our age settled, so I feel like that is like that's definitely a positive, and I hope neither of you guys settle at this point.
Speaker 1:You know, we won't no plans to do so. But speaking of dating, now we are dating. You just said you ended a situationship how I'm so curious about, like the dating scene in New York. How are you meeting people Like, are you doing the apps, Are we doing meetups? So I feel like the whole the days of like a setup are few and far between at least that's how it's been for me, but I'm curious, like what it's been like for you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's definitely a struggle. I think a lot of people when they hear New York city, they're like oh, that's the worst city to date. In Like, I think that dating is just bad in every city. I am a big user of the apps. I've seen a decline in quality of matches, how responsive men are on apps, and I'm still doing it because I like to put effort into dating and I'm not out here just thinking that, like my Prince Charming is going to show up at my door, even though that would be really convenient, but the apps just aren't really working for me at the moment. So, like, I have been meeting a few people through friends and I recently saw an article that is very inspiring. This month, september, is not for dating apps. There's like a call to actually like get off of them, for the, for the, and it's called sit at the bar September.
Speaker 1:Oh I already love that.
Speaker 3:So it's like get dressed up, put makeup on, feel good about yourself, maybe buy a new outfit, go sit at a bar, sit by yourself, maybe like bring your Kindle, bring your book, bring your phone, or or just like sit there and enjoy your drink and like people watch and I've never done this, by the way, I've never really like sat at the bar by myself in hopes of meeting someone. I've done it like the past time. I've never done it where, like you know, I'll be like sipping a drink and then I'll try to make eye contact with someone, like very like movie cinematic. So I think that there's something I'm going to try this month. It's just taking myself out on a date Sit at the bar September, I love it.
Speaker 2:I love the in real life things.
Speaker 1:Sit at the bar September I think the thing is. I feel like if I see a guy that I think is cute at the bar, I have like a natural instinct to avert my eyes. I am not one who will like intentionally like make eyes to like show interest. I don't know what it is. I've noticed it about myself where I'm like, why do I like shy away? It's just like a reflex. I feel like that's a good challenge to be like go out and try to like, like smile at someone. You know it can make a difference. It's. I smiled at a guy yesterday and I was like wow, he's, that's crazy. You smiled like oh my god, you're in love with me, even just the smile is so it's so nice.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I love. I've even thought about like making business cards saying about to like hot guys on the subway too, because there's that, there's that account, that's like hot guys reading and it's all these guys like reading books, like real books. Oh my god, you follow that amazing. That is basically like like I don't know you, you would think I'm a marketer, so like I would think of some cute saying to like get their attention. Then it would be my phone number on the back. Just be like hey, like this is for you, but like, but it's like. What do you say when you hand out the business cards? Like hey, like I think you're cute, here's, here you go and then run away like, but I mean, it happens, people meet that way, that's.
Speaker 1:That's honestly so bad-ass, Like I feel like if someone handed me a business card with their number on it and was like call me, this is like my dating business card, or something I'd be like damn, you are a confident, you're. You're like bad-ass.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I feel like I would be more likely to like call that person, because I'd be like wow, look at them putting themselves out there. They're brave. They're bold, they're confident.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I want to date someone like that I've done the apps too.
Speaker 1:I mean Hinge is the one that I use the most. I tried Match. Match was just I don't want to pay for it when I feel like I could not. There was just no one even on there that I felt like I was like really into. Like I literally didn't even meet one person on match and I was on there for like two months, so I just got rid of that. I will say I was seeing a guy over the summer that I met on hinge. That was a really nice guy and I felt like that, you know, gave me some coffee date man.
Speaker 1:Coffee date man.
Speaker 3:Oh well, so also. I love the nicknames. Got to have nicknames for the roster.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, totally. Well, actually there's this guy that I was just talking to today, also on hinge, and because I have been I've always been kind of a skeptic of the coffee date, I feel like I always want to get like a cocktail or something. It just like you know, liquid courage, whatever. But you know, now my tune has changed. So I was like, do you want to meet for coffee sometime? And he was like, totally so, you know, we'll see if the coffee date is like a good, you know intro. That seems to be working. But overall, I will agree, I feel like the apps aren't as great. I feel like a lot of people feel that way, that they're not as great as like you'd hoped they would be. But there's some gold in that or needles in those haystacks.
Speaker 3:I don't know if you know this Hinge hack.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 3:My therapist told me that actually, oh boy, you know, you know how like you get the roses. You get one free one a week. And then all the quality guys on Hinge, they have the roses, they're the rose people. They're like behind a paid gateway. If you go through the rose people and you X out of them, they do go into your normal flow. So I did an experiment one time where I went through the rose people and I wrote down all their names and like something about them that I would remember and then I literally this is crazy, but I spent an hour going through my regular like algorithm on Hinge with the ex out rose people. Oh, my.
Speaker 3:God and like three of them appeared for free. Wait, wow.
Speaker 1:Single ladies, take note, this is a huge hack.
Speaker 3:Don't don't pay for extra roses. Just X them out and they will reappear for you.
Speaker 1:You know that whoever thought of that was like a huge Bachelor fan. Yeah, totally yeah. I think one of the things that's kind of like stops me sometimes on Hinge is like, do you see, sometimes, well, maybe not, maybe this is one of those differences between, like, a Boston and New York, because Boston is kind of a small city, you know, like it's very homogenous. I feel like a lot of people who you meet are like from the area, or they come here for school and then they leave a little different than New York.
Speaker 1:I sometimes see a lot of the same people show up on my hinge Like I'll notice them, and then like they'll come up six months later, and I don't know if it's like an internal thing, but there's something in my mind that makes me think like, oh, don't go for them because I've already seen them before and I don't know, I don't know if I'm like limiting myself with that, you know.
Speaker 3:You know, because I think it's important to say like flip again, flip the script, like they're seeing you again, probably too right, you know, like, if I'm seeing like honestly, like I haven't been in a serious relationship for a long time now but I've had little one-offs, like mini, like situationships and like more short-term relationships, but I like I do know I know the guys that are on that were recurring for me too and like, well, aren't I recurring as well for them? I have matched with people like multiple times where, like I, almost there's like two guys that I like have made a joke about it, with them being like we have to stop meeting like this, like that's my bumble opening line, and then like, obviously it doesn't, it doesn't, it fizzles out again, cause I think girls are on the apps to get off of them and I'm not quite sure where the guys are sometimes in terms of like the emotional maturity and readiness to settle down.
Speaker 3:So yeah, I agree, there's definitely the recurring group here in New York City too. It's not a one city issue.
Speaker 2:Interesting. That's good to know. Wow, I wonder if your algorithm is like oh, I wonder if it does this. It's like you click on these people, you talk to these people and then it finds more people like the people you engage with on the app, Like it probably does.
Speaker 3:Probably that's what they say. That's what it says. You know, when you get either Hinge like most compatible, it's like how do you know? Like yeah, Hinge, and I have beef, though, Like we really do not get along. I think Bumble is where I've had the most success, but I do try.
Speaker 1:I try. With Hinge I could get on Bumble again. I was on it and then like I just it was like too much for me to manage two. Two apps were too much for me to manage, but I think I could handle it.
Speaker 3:Now there's also a new app, a new app in New York City that has launched called Circa. That's really been making a lot of waves and it only matches you with people who you have mutual contacts with, like in your phone.
Speaker 2:Oh, in your phone. Oh, I thought that's how Hinge was, but for Facebook.
Speaker 1:I heard that too. I think that was the beginning, but it's not like that anymore.
Speaker 2:It doesn't make so much sense.
Speaker 1:No, it's so true, like if someone vouches for another person. I'm totally in. I feel like the perfect place to meet a person truly is like a wedding. My cousin met her boyfriend at a wedding and I. That's great, because you already have the mutual people. You have someone to vouch for them. Love is in the air, you're looking good, like it's. That's kind of ideal. If I could have like a meet. Cute.
Speaker 2:It would be that, or maybe we should like get dressed up and like go to like a wedding venue and just kind of like pretend we're going to a wedding and like just see what happens.
Speaker 3:Like a wedding crasher. I've always wanted to crash a wedding.
Speaker 2:Same same Say less, Say less. I have a question Do you guys have any like bad dating stories? I've never had.
Speaker 1:I've been lucky. I've been scared like anything atrocious that would be like really funny. But I have had there's one that comes to mind where it was like a two and a half hour date and I just couldn't find a way to get out of it. The man did not stop talking I swear to God two questions lobbed my way, the rest of it just going off about himself, and I was just like, oh my God, like are you at all interested in me? Like do you want to know anything? I mean, you clearly don't want to get out of here. We've been sitting here for two hours but like nothing.
Speaker 2:So self-absorbed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was crazy. That was the worst. Thankfully the rest of them it's either just been like whatever, but nothing like too bad.
Speaker 3:Christiana what about you? Yeah, I have some bad ones. There's two that come to mind. One I was catfished.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 3:Yeah, this was when I was living in.
Speaker 2:Boston.
Speaker 3:I think I knew this yeah, yeah, this is a Boston date where I matched with this guy and we were chatting and we meet up and I get there, I'm looking for him at the bar and I like message him. I'm like I'm here, like I can't see you, and some totally different guy comes up to me and I was like hey, I'm so-and-so, I forget his name. And I was like you're not what your picture looks like. And he was like I know, I'm a cop. He wasn't a cop, he was like a ranger or something like that. I obviously did a background check Like a security guard. Yeah, he was like a park ranger or something. And he was like I just don't like using my face because I'm a cop. And I'm like okay, well, we're here, so let's sit down and get a drink, because he actually wasn't.
Speaker 3:he wasn't a bad looking guy Like he could have used his real photo. I just was expecting something different. And then we got a drink and he was like you seem upset. I'm like well, it's like a little unsafe for women sometimes. Like you know, like this is a safety concern and like a little thrown off at, like the fact that you were presenting as someone else, and he was like well, clearly you only care about looks. And as soon as he said that, I was like we met on a date. What?
Speaker 2:do you?
Speaker 3:expect.
Speaker 1:Like let's not gaslight me, sir, you're the one who did not come. Like you're the one who is misleading me, and totally like. It's like throw the flag, red flags everywhere. Like if you're not who you say you are, then I'm automatically not going to really trust you.
Speaker 2:I don't think that's a thing too Like I'm a cop so I can't be on dating apps.
Speaker 3:I see lots of cops. What?
Speaker 2:are you in CIA? Like yeah, so was he actually like worse looking than the picture?
Speaker 3:Yeah, looking back on it, I'm like, okay, well, the guy that I matched with like really was. He was like a stunner I don't know who that picture was, but it wasn't who I thought I was talking to. So that, yeah, that was the. It was an in real life catfish moment. And the second time was actually like probably I don't know a year ago, we were getting pizza.
Speaker 3:He was sober, which is a whole nother subject. Like dating sober guys. I'm not sober and I do like having an occasional cocktail. So we got, we got a pizza and before he was 10 minutes late, which is fine, like whatever, but like you're late, dude. Before he sat down at our table for the reservation that I made, he hands me a tote bag and in the tote bag it has foot patches in it and Chinese herbal said love tea on it and he hands it to me. He's like this is a gift for you. He's like I went to my Chinese herbalist today and I want you to wear these foot patches after our date and then give them back to me so I can take it back to my herbalist and find out, like if there's anything wrong with you, like through your feet, yeah, through your feet, like the mark your feet leave behind on a patch.
Speaker 3:It was the most bizarre thing I've ever experienced. What did you do? You know, I'm not like. I am an empath, like I don't like confronting people. I don't like to make other people feel awkward. So I took the bag, put it on the back of my thing. Don't like confronting people, I don't like to make other people feel awkward. So I took the bag, put it on the back of my thing. We had our pizza and then he asked to split the bill and we were done after that it wasn't a fit.
Speaker 1:I feel like I would immediately assume he has a foot fetish. I would be like this herbal shit is like a joke and like you are just a weird foot fetish guy and like you ain't getting these feet, like that's so bizarre.
Speaker 3:It was so uncomfortable, not a good opener.
Speaker 1:You know what, though, that man will find a woman who is into the herbal whatever, and they're they. You know there's someone for everyone. I truly believe that. Good luck, buddy. Yeah, good luck. We wish him the best. Do you know there's someone for everyone? I truly believe that. Good luck, buddy. Yeah, good luck. We wish him the best. Do you have a preference on like? Do you care if someone asks to split the bill with you? We've talked about this on the pod before. I feel like I always offer and.
Speaker 1:I don't mind if I offer and they take me up on it. It doesn't bother me. But I know that a lot of people feel that it's the opposite. So how do you? What's your take?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I also always offer. I think it's always like a respectful thing to do to like I, you know, I'll like grab my wallet as like the bill's coming and I'll say, you know, oh, do you want to split it? And either it's like no, are you kidding, like, and they're like almost like offended, or it's like actually, yeah, like would love to split it, and I try not to look too into it, but I I do think that if a guy is really interested in you and wants a second date, taking care of the bill is like a really important gesture. It's not a deal breaker, but it it, the gesture, is really important for me.
Speaker 1:That's a good way to phrase it, not a deal breaker, but yeah, the gesture is really important for me. That's a good way to phrase it, not a deal breaker, but yeah, the gesture. You take note for sure I get that what about like your ideal date scenarios?
Speaker 3:like any, like good fun dating events well, I did go speed dating last fall which was really fun, kristen didn't you?
Speaker 1:I did a long, long time ago, like mid-20s, but yes, I have done it before.
Speaker 3:That's obviously not my ideal dating scenario, but it was really fun. I went on 18 dates in two hours and it was a good confidence builder, so that was definitely a fun experience. I've also been on a figure skating date my first date in Central Park which was really cute. How cute is that hallmark? Yeah, I think central park is honestly my ideal date I live four blocks from it and I would die without central park.
Speaker 3:I think it's like essential for new yorkers and you know you can. There's coffee trucks, there's ice cream trucks, there's like. It's just like no pressure and I love walking because I'm a New Yorker obviously, like we. Oh my God, brittany's going to kill me for saying that.
Speaker 2:I mean you have been there for a while but I feel like that's the same in Boston. I think that's a Northeast mentality to walk in.
Speaker 3:I mean a little more New York, but yeah, so I I just think Central Park is a really good date idea.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's nothing. There's so much you can do there, like you can just stumble upon things, like you said, like a coffee truck or what Like, just like a pretty garden, great people watching, I'm sure.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, there's some live music sometimes, like during the summer. Yeah, so it's just, it's it's nice to explore and just like honestly walk around and not be like surrounded by concrete buildings.
Speaker 1:That's totally fair. I think, like I used to be into like the activity dates a lot and I I mean, obviously, like I said, I'm kind of getting into this coffee date thing. I think the only thing that I don't like it's not really like ideal, but I did go on a date once with someone and we watched a football game and that was not ideal because I was locked in for three hours. I want to be able to get out if the date's not going so hot.
Speaker 1:So that's such a good point. You know like you want to have an escape route if you need to, and, like Central Park's, perfect for that too, cause you can just easily be like, oh you know, got to go, whatever it's, you're not locked in, just run away, you just run away. Totally.
Speaker 3:Just run you just run away, totally just run. Lots of people are around too, so you know you have the backup of the public arena too yeah, safer.
Speaker 1:I kind of just think, though, anything that where you just talk is like ideal, like not a movie. That's why I did an axe throwing thing once and like it was fun, but there was so much of like having to go up and throw that you couldn't really have like a continuous conversation. It was just very like disjointed and that really wasn't ideal.
Speaker 3:So I think, just like dinner, or something it's like a good, a good second date yes, a bowling or an axe throwing yeah, 100% yeah, people should take a note from Bill Belichick's girlfriend and get on the same flight as someone and sit next to them.
Speaker 2:That's a perfect way to talk.
Speaker 1:Okay, I was going to say that earlier when we were talking about meet-cutes. When I was younger, my very ideal meet-cute was to meet on a plane.
Speaker 2:Yes, there's something romantic about the airport.
Speaker 1:There really is. There really is. You never know who you're going to meet.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's also a great, a great place for the business card idea. Oh.
Speaker 2:I know we could do that with the pod.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we could oh yeah, I was thinking something like that. The only thing about the airport idea, though, is like what if they? What have you handed out?
Speaker 3:And then they're like boarding a flight to like Denver and you know they're not local, Just throwing a wrench.
Speaker 1:You take a risk. You take a risk, taking a risk, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that still works for the pod, though you don't have to be local to listen. I was going to say, speaking of airports, can we talk about Blade? Oh yes, my like life's goal is to go on a private jet. I want to just follow on a private jet and drink champagne and be like a celebrity.
Speaker 3:But what's it like working there? It's so much fun, obviously, like I came from SoulCycle, so a little bit of like a similar audience, but this is definitely another level in terms of people. Yeah, wealth in terms of people. Yeah, wealth flying to the Hamptons every weekend. We were just acquired by a company called Joby, which is an electrical aircraft manufacturer that's really going to help speed up our ability to fly people in EVTOL's electrical aircraft, which is going to change the way that people travel across the world. So it feels amazing to be part of a company that is a part of that. And even today we also announced blade. You're going to be able to book a blade helicopter on uber. So, oh, yeah, yeah, so it's really exciting.
Speaker 3:There's always something to do. We've done a ton of events with with live events like taylor swift, airs tour, met life anywhere that there is traffic more like short distance routes. We've done a ton of events with live events like Taylor Swift, airs Tour, metlife Anywhere that there is traffic more like short distance routes. We try to simplify that for people and get them to places quicker. So it's really about finding the highest traffic routes in the US and bridging them with helicopters. So cool it is. It's really awesome helicopters so cool it is, it's really awesome. I we also have a airport service so you can get from Manhattan to JFK or Newark in five minutes on a helicopter. And I timed it one time from my office, which is in Hudson Yards, and I got to my gate gate, like through security, in 27 minutes Dang At JFK. So yeah, it's, it's all about saving time, and time is really the only thing that you can't buy that Blade gives back to you so worth it.
Speaker 1:I hate spending time at the airport like unnecessary time, specifically the worst. Yeah, what's your favorite thing about working there? It really like.
Speaker 3:Obviously I will say this the people I love, everybody that works here, we're like such a family and everyone is really smart. I will also say that it's given me a new appreciation for travel and also, like, fear of flying too, just because I'm involved with, like you know, so many different people on the operation side and see our safety team, just seeing how much really goes into the whole aviation industry in terms of safety. So it's also given me a little bit more of a travel bug, which I do appreciate.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I feel like the travel industry is one that is in serious need of like a revamp, Like there haven't been any big like travel inventions or anything at least in our lifetime. Really, you know, there's white space, there's opportunity there in our lifetime.
Speaker 3:Really, you know there's white space, there's opportunity there. Yeah, it took a while for like the travel industry to also bounce back from COVID and get people traveling again, but we've seen a lot of that like in the last two summers that people like the summer before this most recent one was a big European summer and then this summer people were like were returning to the Hamptons and kind of having a little bit more of an East Coast summer. And obviously, on the invention front, the next big travel thing is going to be electrical aircraft. We have electrical cars. We're burning fuel emissions all day, every day, and making sustainable aircraft and emission-free, quiet aircraft is going to be in the next wave, which I think like we're probably like three, maybe two to three years, hopefully. That's like being optimistic away from that being a reality.
Speaker 1:That's wild, that's like such a huge deal. Because, like that's one of the things that you hear is, you know people get criticized about like especially if you know, like the Leos of the world who are environmentalists, but then you know fly private or whatever it's because of the emission. So if it's, you know, turning towards that, I'm all for that. That's awesome.
Speaker 2:It's hopefully there can be like just more flights and they're start to get cheaper.
Speaker 1:And you can book through Uber. What, yeah, what, where you know? Do you guys remember the non Uber days we used to walk to? A taxi stand Like what Crazy crazy.
Speaker 3:Brittany and I would be coming home from our college bar, like sometimes we would have to walk because like we couldn't get a taxi. We missed the bus, we couldn't get a taxi because, like we really did not benefit from the Uber age in college at all, no, definitely didn't.
Speaker 2:Probably would have made me spend way more money, though. So there's that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a good point and before you were working there, you were a soul cycle instructor. Any like what? Yeah, I wasn't an instructor, oh sorry I was in marketing.
Speaker 3:Being a soul cycle instructor is actually like my dream job oh really really. Yeah, I think I was inspired by Brittany's like cycling instruction in college. They teach spinning college. I just think it would be so fun. But I have gotten the chance to like ride podium for a bunch of instructors, which is always like it's such a fun experience. But yeah, I I was helping run their marketing team and like got them through COVID. I was there for about six years, so definitely it was almost like I got a master's in marketing at SoulCycle.
Speaker 3:It was such a great experience.
Speaker 2:That's amazing. Did you meet any celebrities there? Or Blade, I'm all about the celebs.
Speaker 3:Yes, at SoulCycle. I met more celebrities at SoulCycle than Blade.
Speaker 3:I think, blade, we really value people's privacy when traveling as well, but I met Michelle Obama oh Live DJ ride in Santa Monica, which was awesome. I've seen a lot of celebrities at SoulCycle West Hollywood. That's kind of like the place where a lot of like that's where Jay-Z and Beyonce ride, and I worked a check-in one time when I was out there and in one class there was Olivia Wilde, james Franco, Janelle Monae. It was the class that normally Jay-Z and Beyonce go to.
Speaker 3:I didn't know if one or both of them were showing up, but there was one rider who wanted to buy a new pair of shoes. So I went back into the closet, like way back in the studio, to grab a new pair for them. And as I I went into the closet, I grabbed the shoes and as I turned around and I was like running because I was trying to get these shoes to her in time, I had the box of shoes and I just went right into Jay-Z's chest oh my god because he was like right behind me, so I turned around and then I was like whoa, oh my god, sorry.
Speaker 3:And then I was like oh my god, sorry, did they? Just like come in like a normal person no, he was hiding in the closet, because they, because. And Beyonce, beyonce would have been with him, but she was sick that day that's unreal damn, I would love to have seen her in person.
Speaker 3:But they hide, they kind of hide behind, and then they, they go into the class like as as soon as it starts. So you know, they get a little bit more privacy that way. But James Franco and Olivia and Janelle, they all checked in at the desk.
Speaker 1:I would tell so many people that yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was a fun, fun place to work, for sure.
Speaker 1:Speaking of celebs, should we wrap up with some Taylor talk?
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Obviously you're a big Swifty. What do you think of the engagement news?
Speaker 3:Yes, I am so excited. I think I found out at work. My coworker, laurel, was like Christiana, did you check your phone? And I was like, no, what I always know it's something Taylor related when, when they, when they get excited and I was like, oh, did you drop a single for from life as a show girl? And she was like no, it's better. And I was like what, what could be better than that? What could be better than that? And I was like, oh my God, is she engaged? And then I'm like shaking, looking at my phone and then I see it obviously and I literally freaked out. I fell on the floor.
Speaker 3:You can ask my coworkers. I was just like oh, oh my God, like this is so exciting, like she's engaged I think Kristen you'll appreciate this also Like she obviously obviously has so many songs about, like finding love and to see it happening for her at the same age as us, like it just so heartwarming, it's so reaffirming and, like you know, one of my favorite songs is the prophecy and I think it's like it's all that coming to life and like rewriting the prophecy and it is very, it has been very reaffirming for me, as you know, as a single person and seeing it happen for her and like knowing that it's possible for any age really well, and what we were talking about earlier about not settling.
Speaker 1:Like I feel like all of us swifties were on board, but like we loved joe and you know past relationships. But like seeing how happy she is now, it's so clear that like that wasn't her person, like Travis is totally on her same wavelength, like wants the same life that she wants. So yeah, like the fact that she did find like the right person and didn't settle and like we're seeing it, yeah, at 35 for her is awesome, so I totally agree with that.
Speaker 2:I saw there were rumors that they're going to have the wedding in Rhode Island.
Speaker 3:I saw that too, that they're going to have the wedding in Rhode Island. I saw that too Could be total fake news. It feels right. Rhode Island feels right for the wedding. Do you guys agree?
Speaker 1:Yeah, she loves that house. I mean we'll take one for New England.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And Massachusetts with that.
Speaker 2:I mean it's much better than like Cleveland or Ohio. Yeah, and I feel like she's not a big West Coast person. I, yeah and I feel like she's not a big west coast person.
Speaker 1:I mean, maybe they would do New York but I could totally see being Rhode Island, me too. Maybe we should just drive and drive down and just be in that area. I mean, say less, I'm there, yeah, just to see her. Do you think she'll be on the Super Bowl?
Speaker 3:like, obviously I would love a Taylor Swift Super Bowl. I just, I don't know how I feel about it. Like she's coming off of the era store where she played for playing for these size stadiums by herself and I think you know, one day we will get a Taylor Swift Super Bowl. I don't, I don't know if it's right now. Like she's got so much going on with the new album, maybe she'll use it as promotion for the new album, but I do part of me is like she's still in her like brand new wag era, so like, let her have that on with the new album. Maybe she'll use it as promotion for the new album, but don't I. I do part of me is like she's still in her like brand new wag era, so like, let her have that. You know, like she's.
Speaker 3:She's slowly and with the new heights podcast too like she's slowly winning over the brads and the chads from the nfl yeah let her get a little bit more settled, but I won't say no to the super bowl it means I'm to have to go to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2:Yeah, get Blade to take us there, exactly, exactly, full circle. The only reason I could see her doing this, like the main reason I think it could happen, is because, like I don't think that she's going to do a full tour for Life of a Showgirl, so I could see that being her performance of it and that's like what we get for performing. I guess you must be so excited for life of a showgirl because you love pop taylor, I do.
Speaker 3:I am so excited. I'm loving all the visuals so far. I love an upbeat album. I feel like life of a showgirl is going to be a great theme for like bachelorette parties, so I think that's going to be fun. Hopefully, you know like I'll be able. You know whenever, whenever I get married, it'll still be relevant. Life, life of a life of a bride, life of a showgirl yeah, you'll start to see that more often too that's a great take.
Speaker 1:Haven't heard that one yet. Yeah, totally, I can't wait. I'm so excited for it. I agree, I think the visuals are sick. I'm already thinking that actually romantic is going to be the standout for me. That's just the one we said. Which one do we think from the titles is going to be the single? And I said actually romantic. I think, brett, you said the show girl one of Sabrina. Sabrina Carpenter.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, that could be true, like how Fortnite kind of was the front runner for tortured poets.
Speaker 2:Taylor nation posted yesterday. It was like claim your song on show girl and like put this sticker on it and whatever. And I was like, hmm, what song would be claim? And I was like I feel like we should do actually romantic. Her first release is not usually not the best song.
Speaker 1:Totally. But I mean the fact that she's like we we talked about this when we were when. I mean the fact that she's like we we talked about this when we were when we talked about her announcement the fact that she's like saying that there's like this is the best album she's ever done. Every song's perfect. Zoe Kravitz saying no skips Like she's really calling her shot here. So I'm hoping that, even if the sing I'm hoping the single like still slaps and that it doesn't really follow the normal pattern of her singles, kind of being like the worst ones on her album. I have faith TS12. Can't wait for it.
Speaker 3:I think it definitely has no skip potential.
Speaker 1:Definitely has no skip potential. October 3rd we will be set October 3rd. We're ready. We're ready. Christiana, this was so much fun. Thank you so much for coming on. We had a blast talking to you. We hope you liked it. Yeah, it's so much fun. Thank you so much for coming on. We had a blast talking to you. We hope you liked it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I had so much fun. Thank you both so much. Does this mean that I'm officially a snitch? Am I snitching now?
Speaker 1:Oh my God, you're snitching Girl, you're totally snitching, yay, Awesome. Well, we will be back on Friday with another episode.
Speaker 2:We'll be back on Friday with another episode and make sure to like us, follow us, comment at us on social media, leave us reviews and tell everyone you know about us. Thanks, Christiana, Thanks, Christiana.
Speaker 3:Thanks guys, bye, bye, bye.