July 23, 2002
DCGreeks.com
on The Dating Scene Radio
On January 27, 2002, The Guys @
DCGreeks.com made our radio debut on The
Dating Scene, a local show on WRC-AM 1260 to pitch our then upcoming
Magkes & Koukles Bachelor/Bachelorette Auction Fundraiser. The host of
the show, Stacey, overheard one of our bachelorettes talking about the auction
at a party and asked her for more information. The bachelorette's
admission that this auction was targeted at Greek-Americans didn't faze Stacey--
if it had anything to do with dating in the DC area, she wanted to talk about
it. A couple of e-mails later, she invited us on the show to
not only plug our fundraiser, but to explore the topic of dating in and out of
your own culture. Little did we know that a quaint Sunday night radio show
on a local business radio station would provide us with some of the best
memories of our early DCGreeks.com
careers. Turns out that Stacey was
friends with the band, Barenaked Ladies,
and one of the members, drummer Tyler Stewart, was a regular
call-in guest. To get ragged on by a member of Canada's most successful
bands in front of an international radio audience was truly classic.
Here are some photos taken in studio with Stacey and Glen.
Here
are some audio clips from that show, featuring Stacey, a 31 year-old Divorced Jewish
single-mom, Glen, the Greek-Syrian American producer, Tyler Stewart from BNL,
and us.
| Clip |
Description |
Time
(mm:ss) |
MP3 |
WAV |
| ALL |
Download all
of the following clips in a single ZIP file. |
10:24 |
2.31 MB |
4.21 MB |
| 1 |
Themistocles'
thoughts on why Greeks are reluctant to date Greeks when they're young. |
00:51 |
200 K |
550 K |
| 2 |
Glen talks
about getting set up by your Thea. Stacey talks about how
ethnicity is often a deciding factor in who other people want you to
date. |
01:35 |
370 K |
990 K |
| 3 |
Stacey questions
the power of ethnicity to overcome basic human shallowness. |
00:26 |
102 K |
280 K |
| 4 |
Glen asks about
how to meet people on DCGreeks.com. |
00:30 |
118 K |
326 K |
| 5 |
Glen and
Aristotelis speak on how it's hard to casually date in Greek community. |
00:53 |
208 K |
574 K |
| 6 |
Stacey inquires
on when the "When are you going to settle down?" speech
starts. |
00:48 |
186
K |
514 K |
| 7 |
Stacey wonders
why she can't find 31 year-old Greek men to date. |
00:44 |
172 K |
475 K |
| 8 |
Glen talks
about the trash-talking he got from priests for not going to church
enough. |
00:30 |
118 K |
327 K |
| 9 |
Barenaked
Ladies' drummer, Tyler
Stewart, talks about Greek wine, and other things the culture has to
offer. |
00:58 |
225 K |
621 K |
| 10 |
Tyler talks
about how you limit yourself by only dating within one culture. |
00:29 |
112 K |
309 K |
| 11 |
Glen, Tyler,
Stacey and The Guys discuss on how ethnicity can weed out possible bad
relationships. |
00:49 |
190 K |
523 K |
| 12 |
Tyler professes
that he wouldn't mind only dating Greek women and goes off on how good
Greek food is. |
00:59 |
228 K |
630 K |
| 13 |
Stacey complains
that she's getting no love from the Greeks. Tyler insults an
entire culture. |
00:52 |
203 K |
560 K |
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