I Hear You, Babe — Comedy & Relationship Advice

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there's someone in your life who heard what they said about you… and passed the bread and butter. girl. we need to talk about her.

this week: the switzerland friend — she's not neutral, she's comfortable — and her cousin the double agent, who trashes everyone to you and posts them with a heart. plus: i accidentally texted my ex-friend asking for a hat back (during switzerland week, the universe is fully employed), the masters degree came OUT (you can't venmo your way out of being wrong), the whole city ran past my studio...

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there's a version of you that already knows. and you've been avoiding her for a year, babe.

ep 55 is the one about hiding from yourself. a woman buying groceries every sunday for a version of her who cooks — the rice cooker has never been opened (babe, i own the same unopened rice cooker, darius bought it, it lives under the sink). a girlie in auckland who organized her whole life so she's never alone in a room with the version who knows the relationship is over — that's not busy, that's witness prot...

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ever opened his story again… in case it changed? babe. it had not changed.

ep 54 is caught in 4K — by MYSELF. not caught by him, not by your bestie. caught by the only witness that matters: you, at 1am, fully perceiving yourself. this week: 84 weeks deep in his cousin's wedding album, airplane mode on as a safety measure (that's bomb defusal, babe). forty-one voice memos of one woman rehearsing "oh hey! no worries at all!" the invented errand that drove past his apartment (innocent people check their mirrors). the outfit story post...

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ever opened his story again… in case it changed? babe. it had not changed.

ep 54 is caught in 4K — by MYSELF. not caught by him, not by your bestie. caught by the only witness that matters: you, at 1am, fully perceiving yourself. this week: 84 weeks deep in his cousin's wedding album, airplane mode on as a safety measure (that's bomb defusal, babe). forty-one voice memos of one woman rehearsing "oh hey! no worries at all!" the invented errand that drove past his apartment (innocent people check their mirrors). the outfit story post...

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ever had a fight start about a rotisserie chicken and end at his entire family since 2023? babe. the chicken opened a portal.

ep 53 is kitchen sink fights — the argument that starts about one thing and somehow contains seventeen. the mental filing cabinet (babe, it's coming from the cabinet). the man who floods the room the second you raise ONE feeling. a listener married 41 years still fighting about a boat that sank two decades ago. and a dishwasher loaded like a raccoon did it — until one sentence told the whole real story.

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ever found out you weren't in your best friend's wedding the same way her dentist found out? from the grid? and then LIKED the post?? babe.

ep 52 is bestie breakups vol. 3 — the language edition. lose a boyfriend and everyone shows up: the wine, the playlist, somebody covers your shift. lose a best friend of fifteen years and… nothing. not even a word for what she is now. so we wrote the dictionary ourselves: the group chat graveyard (a gif from october, sitting there like a tombstone). the gift-shop friendship (two women exch...

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ep 51 is the mental gymnastics episode — the full olympic floor routine your brain runs to make his behavior make sense. this week: a situationship texts "happy birthday" and she convenes a four-person panel about it (the committee was compromised. the committee wanted to believe). a man who's "just bad at texting" posts his lunch AND an introvert meme mid-ignore (the irony). a girlie builds her boyfriend an alibi — in heels, at her own award night — and nearly loses it at the cheese table. a 1am google doc with sections, built to prove the red fl...

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fifty. FIFTY episodes. who let me. (nobody. that's the problem.)

so for the milestone i did the one thing you should never do — i listened to episode one on the bus. it sounds like i recorded it in a tin can at the bottom of a pool during a thunderstorm and at one point i call a situationship "a journey." i had to pause it. a man looked at me.

but it cracked something open, so episode 50 is a REUNION. no new emails. i tracked down the legends and as...

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okay so i found out the knicks won the championship because my whole neighborhood erupted at midnight and i genuinely thought it was gunfire. that's the episode. that's also the prompt.

because this week is about your GUT — the times you JUST knew. no logic, no proof, your body just stood up and called it. the first date who bragged "i don't really read" (her soul left the restaurant before she did). the friend who opened with "no offense but" (the trailer for the whole movie). the apartment you knew in fo...

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okay so i lost my shoe to the rain on the way to the train and had to crawl back for it in front of god and everyone. that's just the open. that's not even the episode.

it's summer, it's a sweaty 95, the girlies are out here with our coochies out, and you sent me everything that should be illegal about a nyc summer. the backpack man who clears a whole train car with one turn. the rooftop dj with a fog machine and FOUR songs who thinks he's headlining coachella...

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okay so who owes you an apology? because i made a list and it's basically every man i've ever dated.

this is the apology episode. and yet — no apology. the sorry you're still waiting for. the one that came five years too late and fixed nothing. "i'm sorry you feel that way," which is not an apology, it's a knife in the shape of one. the boss who apologized to the whole team except the one person he actually wronged (her. it's always her). and the apology you owe yourself for st...

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the back half of the inbox. a husband who became a running stat, a Carly-coded shit crappens (the lamb, IYKYK), a 62-year-old still waiting to hear "i love you" from her brother, and a closer that lands on actual hope — the woman who finally met a man who answers questions.

plus: 50 and rainy, and the Aunt Diane documentary that colonized my brain.

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why are men…

i did not raise these men but here i am, full-time translator. a man wore patti smith's face to a date and didn't know her name. another wore cargo shorts to a french bistro. one mid-act in murray hill said "ravishing" — with vibrato.

also: the pentagon is now the "department of war." the white house emailed a reporter an alien emoji. a family in vegas filed a 911 report on a 10-foot non-human entity in their backyard.

we close on the hardest version of the ques...

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all rise. situationship court is officially in session. dino is the judge, the jury, and occasionally the defense attorney depending on the case.

this week's prompt: bring me your most confusing almost-relationship. define the charges. who's on trial — them or you?

the inbox showed up. a man with a toothbrush at her apartment who "wasn't sure where they were on the meeting friends thing." a two-year secret long-distance situationship with a best friend's brother. the relapse situationship four cycles deep. and a guy who canceled their Portugal trip and th...

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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, ba...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 in...

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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 Da...

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This is I Hear You, Babe.

Today we’re legislating.

From men leaning on subway poles and blocking three handholds, to $19 smoothies with 25 percent tip screens, to finance bros walking shoulder to shoulder like they own Manhattan — this is Things That Should Be Illegal: NYC Edition, Vol. 2.

We get into subway etiquette, dating app emotional hedging, coffee shop laptop squatters, public couple fights, group texts that never die, and the unhinged behavior of people who stop at the top of subway stairs.

But underneath the chao...

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This is I Hear You, Babe.

I just got back from Pittsburgh, got humbled by family reality, and came home to the blizzard of 2026 where I fully became your conspiracy aunt. Lucy Letby. Epstein again on Netflix with new context. 25 episodes of Killer Cases. Half a pan of brownies. Not well. But weirdly clear.

Because every story I watched had the same quiet theme: staying. Staying when your gut is screaming. Staying when it is not love anymore, it is familiarity. Staying because leaving feels like detonating your life.<...

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Honest conversations about relationships, self awareness, and emotional growth.

This week on I Hear You, Babe, listeners share the quiet moments they realized a relationship wasn’t right — not the breakup, not the explosion, but the knowing that came before.

From feeling lonely while sitting next to someone, to realizing you’d stopped sharing parts of yourself, to recognizing your body felt relief when plans were canceled, these stories capture the subtle signs we try to ignore when we want something to work.

Dino reflects on why knowin...

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Honest conversations about relationships, self awareness, and emotional growth.

In this mega episode of I Hear You, Babe, Dino reads listener stories about their best and worst dating experiences and reflects on what actually makes a date meaningful or damaging. From calm, honest one night connections to relationships that slowly eroded self trust, this episode explores dating patterns, emotional honesty, attachment, and the quiet moments when your body knows something your mind hasn’t caught up to yet.

Listeners share stories about clarity without cruelty, consistency without curiosity, staying to...

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This is I Hear You, Babe. Today we are talking about the comment that was small but stayed with you forever.

It starts with a very New York moment. I asked a guy for a lighter while he was literally smoking a cigarette and he said he didn’t have one. And somehow that spirals into everything.

Because this episode is not about the big blowups. It’s about the tiny comments. The offhand one liners. The weird little moments that technically should not matter, but quietly rear...

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This week on I Hear You, Babe, we’re easing into it.

I start by talking about losing Dude and how grateful I am that we were able to say goodbye at home. It was quiet. It was sad. It was peaceful. And yes, I cried like a child.

From there, we settle into a very real, very human mega episode about what actually helps when you’re not okay — not in an Instagram way, not in a fix-it way, but in the way people actually survive hard s...

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This week, it is the fake limbo between Christmas and New Year’s where nobody knows what day it is, time feels optional, and I refuse to spend a single second doing a countdown with anyone I don’t deeply trust. We’re talking gray New York days, castor oil everywhere, vision boards on the living room floor, and the specific chaos that only shows up when the year is about to end.

We’re reading your weirdest nights out. The carpet night. The lost phone spiral that ends with someone answerin...

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It is almost Christmas and I am in that weird in between time where the city feels half asleep and everything feels a little softer. Last night I went to Jan and Jackie’s Christmas show at Red Eye. Tonight Darius and I are doing a candlelight concert with traditional Christmas songs. Tomorrow I head to Pittsburgh for a few days and I am already thinking about my mom’s food and also missing my man.

Then we get into the emails. What I know now that I wish I’d known...

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This week on I Hear You, Babe, Dino gets into Hot Takes — the quiet thoughts you have at the kitchen counter, the texts you never sent, the opinions you immediately judge yourself for having.

These aren’t podcast bro hot takes or engagement bait. They’re honest. Messy. Lived in.

Listener emails and DMs roll in on love, friendship, self respect, silence, closure, being “chill,” outgrowing people, and the moment you realize staying loyal to the past can mean abandoning yourself in the present. Dino riffs on what it actually m...

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This week we’re talking about the moments when the version of ourselves we thought we’d outgrown comes bursting through the door like, “Hey girl, remember me?”

From jealousy to teenage spirals to emotional regression to accidentally telling your therapist you love him — today’s episode is a gentle drag, a group confession, and a reminder that the “real you” isn’t the problem. The shame is.

We read your long, emotional, chaotic, complicated listener emails and talk about why your honest self isn’t something to hide… even when she’s deeply...

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Welcome to Episode 25, babe — the “I swear I didn’t forget you” episode.

This week is The Lost Emails — all the stories you’ve sent over the last few months that didn’t quite fit a theme or missed the timing but lived in my brain anyway.

Some are funny.

Some are tender.

Some are unhinged in the best way.

And all of them are so real.

This is one big love letter to you — the listeners — and everything you’ve trusted me with.

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This week’s episode is my version of a gratitude episode… which means it is not polished, not Pinterest, and definitely not “10 things I’m thankful for” energy.

We’re talking about the things you’re actually grateful you survived.
The friendships that got weird.
The jobs that tried to age you.
The relationships that looked fine from the outside but were quietly draining the life out of you.
The eras where you were everyone’s emergency contact, everyone’s therapist, everyone’s “strong one.”

I talk a little about th...

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This week we are talking about pedestals. Not the Greek kind. The emotional kind.

The “I met you three times and decided you are flawless and spiritually elevated” kind. The kind we build out of vibes, fantasy, loneliness and pure delulu energy.

I get into some of what has been happening in my own world with pedestaling inside friendships and what it does to you when people turn you into a symbol instead of a person. We talk about why pedestals are not love, they are projection, and why I wo...

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This week, Dino is in his comeback season—tech troubles, retrogrades, and all. From broken mics to old friendships revisited, he opens up about what it really means to return to yourself. Then, listener emails pour in with stories of resilience: the dancer rediscovering her rhythm, the mom reclaiming her body, the breakup glow-up, the friend group exit, and the apartment key that symbolized choosing peace over passion. It’s an episode about growth, grace, and the quiet power of coming back—on your own terms.

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Today we unpack your walk of shame and walk of no shame stories and start with something real. I talk about friendships shifting in adulthood, how love can be true and still feel out of sync, and the choice to stay kind while you figure it out. Then we dive into your emails: Barbie in Tribeca and the elevator ride from hell, a barefoot croissant on Marathon Sunday, the Thanksgiving kitchen in Pennsylvania, the woman who left her husband at 4 a.m. and found a new morning on Lafayette, the wrong apartment with...

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Babe, let’s be honest — we’ve all had a delulu era.
The one where they were “just busy.”
Where one date became a whole fantasy.
Where you swore the universe was sending signs… and maybe it was.

In this episode of I Hear You, Babe, Dino reads six listener letters that prove we’re all a little delusional — and that’s okay. From a SaltDrop class crush to the “guy who hated cats,” these stories are funny, raw, and painfully relatable. Dino shares his own thoughts on hope, projection, and...

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Some friends give advice like it’s gospel. Others just pour the wine and let you spiral.

This week, we’re talking about that voice — the bestie who’s always sure she knows what’s best for you, the group chat that turns into a courtroom, the quiet friend who just says one sentence that changes everything.

From tequila-fueled bad ideas that somehow worked to the kind of hard truths that broke friendships and built new ones, these stories remind us that the loudest voice in the room isn’t always the...

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This week, we’re talking about hauntings of the heart — the people who disappeared mid-text, mid-date, mid-sentence — and left you wondering if you hallucinated the whole thing.

From the one who vanished after introducing you to their mom, to the ex who reappeared like a cursed Instagram ad, we’re diving into the ghosting stories that still linger.

Also: I spiral about Secret Keepers Club, bowling bets, and why posting a Notes-app apology about lice might be the most honest act of our time.

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