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we’ve all watched someone disappear into a relationship. the quieter laugh. the new opinions. the boots that mysteriously vanished.

this week’s prompt: tell me about someone you watched change. or tell me if that person was you.
a broken coffee table. a man who weighed his cereal with airpods in. a friend in a peach dress watching the smartest weirdest person she knows marry someone who finds her “a little much.” a husband who’s been “bullish” at brunch since 2021.

also: i fear you, babe deep dive is out this Thursday — a missing italian volleyball player, a medium, animal bones in a river. Be sure to follow and listen.

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the red flag support group is now in session.

hi my name is dino, i saw the red flag, and i waved back. some of us waved enthusiastically. some of us decorated the flag. some of us asked the red flag to move in and then acted surprised when it was still a red flag inside our apartment.

this week: seven dates with a man who loved his ex more than her. the waiter who knew before she did. the woman who thought she was the exception to "women are too dramatic." a friendship that ended not with a fight but with enough cancelled plans that there was nothing left to cancel. a hiring manager who presented someone else's idea as her own while making eye contact. a man who called therapy a crutch — she did not tell him he was the reason she needed it. and a closer from a woman who didn't ignore her red flags. she decorated them. and lost both the relationship and the story she'd built around it.

also: april in new york and it is FREEZING. jay shetty's wedding officiant era. shots at the white house correspondents' dinner. carly aquilino forever.

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it's thursday. the episode was supposed to drop monday. dino has the flu, darius had a fever, and they watched twenty-two hours of lord of the rings extended edition on the couch together which may or may not be romantic depending on how you look at it.

this week's prompt: what are you pretending is fine right now?

the inbox delivered. we've got a woman who's been saying "no worries at all" so many times she whispered it during a nightmare. a listener pretending her marriage is fine who went to a bathroom mirror at a wedding and stayed there a little too long. someone who bought a SaltDrop membership in january and has found seventeen reasons not to go. a woman who got passed over for a promotion that went to a guy named derek who has been there fourteen months. a retired hospital administrator who ran a library fundraiser like a quarterly business review and scared the other volunteers. grief for a dog who was a witness to a whole chapter of someone's life. an airbnb review for a situationship. forty-five minutes of crying in a car followed immediately by "I AM SO HAPPY FOR YOU." and a closer from a listener in queens who has been performing grateful for six years and is finally done.

also: rush rush by paula abdul, the violin solo specifically, the italian studio lemon situation, and a cold sweat at 3am.

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Dino is recording with a stye today. He showed up anyway.

This week: a sidewalk tarot reader rolling a booger mid-reading, thoughts on Melania, and why the number of unsolved murders in this country is actually unhinged. Dino is on the case. He does not have a badge.

Then the inbox. Seven months of "same." A spreadsheet with a vibe rating column. Kind of my person, in a general sense. And the woman who's still in it and knows exactly why she's staying.

Three more emails drop on Patreon tomorrow.

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Hello and welcome back to I Hear You, Babe. This week we're talking about the friendship breakup — not the dramatic kind with a fight and a moment you can point to, but the slow kind. The one where you look up one day and realize the person you used to call about everything has become someone you see four times a year and call it fine.

Before the emails, Dino talks about Canyon Ranch (and how the other half lives), a feature in Athleisure Magazine, the SaltDrop rebrand that's coming, and a big idea he's been sitting on — the Babe Network. If you have a podcast idea you've been holding onto, this is your sign to send it in.

Then we get into the inbox. A group chat that fires twice a year and is held together entirely by heart emojis. A best friend who keeps referencing the earlier draft of you like she wants you to go back. A ghost — the slow-motion kind, and the guilt that has nowhere to go. A twenty-two year history that feels like a debt you don't know how to stop paying. A friendship that wasn't built for who you both became. The friend who needs more than you have. The one who peaked in 2017 and has been living off the Portugal story ever since. And a closer that will make you think about someone you haven't called in four months.

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Dino's been sober for seven days, just made a hard business decision, and is somehow still at the studio on a Sunday morning with a 7-Eleven coffee. That's the vibe.

This week we're talking about ambition — specifically whose dream you've actually been chasing. Dino gets into the SaltDrop origin story, what it really costs to build something from scratch versus directing someone else's vision, and why losing Dude a few months ago has a way of making you ask what any of it is actually for.

Then we get into the inbox. And babe — you all delivered.

A consultant who's been standing outside a bookshop every Saturday morning for years and finally said it out loud. A wellness entrepreneur with a sage green color palette and 47 views on her best day who is now a therapist. A Filipino mom who let go of her version of her daughter in four seconds. A florist who got the promotion, sat in her car, felt nothing, and left eight months later. A first-gen kid performing success for an audience that already went home. And a dancer who stopped at 24 and just got back on the barre on Tuesday nights — not to be good at it, just to be in the room.

One more email is coming to Patreon. You'll want to hear it.

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A little founder therapy and a lot of listener emails.

Dino talks about the messy reality of running a startup, making hard financial decisions, and what nobody tells you about building a business with real people inside it.

Then we get into the inbox: dating chaos, recurring couple fights, weaponized incompetence, location tracking moms, and the man who somehow managed to run two completely different personalities with two different girlfriends.

Modern dating is weird. Life is weird. Let’s talk about it.

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Mercury retrograde is retrograding, it’s raining in New York, and I have started this episode eleven times, so if the vibe is a little feral, that is why. We talk influencer discourse and why some people stay quiet about big things, why Instagram is not the United Nations, and why Substack is where nuance belongs.

Then we pivot to joy, nostalgia, and the hunt for a real Pac Man or Ms Pac Man machine like the ones from my childhood pizza shop days. And yes, I am still side eyeing Dateline and 20 20 because where is the new content babe.

After that, we go full Dating Court.

Soft launch relationships where you are basically dating but nobody will say the words. Ghosting and then liking your story like you do not have a memory. The “I’m not ready for a relationship” man who acts like your boyfriend anyway. The 11 47 pm “wanna hang” text that is not a hang, it is a booty call with plausible deniability. Dating app pen pals who will trauma dump for weeks but will not meet you in real life. And future faking, aka selling someone a whole fantasy life just to keep them invested.

We close with the truth that rejection is survivable, but ambiguity will eat your brain alive. Clarity is kindness. Actions and words should match. And you do not need to decode the right person.

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