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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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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 chaos and comedy, we talk about something real: claiming space, holding your line, boundaries, and why pretending not to care is the most dangerous New York habit of all.

If you’ve ever felt overstimulated, under caffeinated, and deeply aware on a Manhattan sidewalk — this one’s for you.

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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.

Then we get into your emails: the relationship that already ended emotionally, the wedding day whisper you ignored, and the job that is slowly draining you.

If you are in that place where you know it is over but you are still there, this one is a mirror, not a lecture.

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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 knowing and leaving are two different things, why we stay longer than we should, and how learning to tell yourself the truth is sometimes the first step toward something better.

If you’ve ever felt something shift before you were ready to admit it, this episode will probably hit close to home.

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