Kings & Kweens: The Date Night Podcast

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Kings & Kweens: The Date Night Podcast is a speed dating show where a single person (King/Kween/Royalty) is matched up on 3 consecutive BLIND dates. At the end of each episode, the King/Kween/Royalty will pick a winning contestant for a second date. Follow along each episode with our host, Cade Calvert, as you will hear dates that will make you cringe, laugh, and remind you that true love does exist.

  1. Sep 28

    Sorry About That Backflip. | Kings & Kweens S13 E3 ft. King Wes

    Wes walked out, threw a backflip, landed it slightly wrong, picked up the microphone, and the first words out of his mouth were an apology for the backflip. He has not had a soda, a coffee, or an energy drink in fourteen years. He knows the exact date he quit. He drinks half a gallon of chocolate milk a day instead, which prompted our host to tell him, on air, that he must have tremendous bones. He deleted Hinge. He describes his time on it as having made a lot of friends. King Wes is 29, six foot, from Plymouth by way of a town in Iowa where his high school graduating class was 48 people. He's a teaching pro at Medina Country Club who won a tournament the day before this taping, and in the winter he runs a ski trip company and chases snow to Japan. There's a stem cell company that sponsors him. His Rottweiler, Rainy, is his backpacking partner and, in his words, his best friend. And he'll tell you flat out that he doesn't watch movies and hasn't seen a football game in years, because he's a doer, not a watcher. Remember that part. Three blind dates. Ten minutes each. A FACE FOUNDRIÉ facial for the winning couple. And a Shoot Your Shot that rewrote the whole night. Date 1: Brynn — 25, supply chain analyst, from a town of 700 with a graduating class of 22, now in South Minneapolis. She is banned from Hinge, and the reason is that she put her Venmo in her profile and asked strangers to sponsor her next Disney trip. Nobody sent a dollar. She's been to Disney about ten times. She also does impressions of people to their faces, and she says she only needs a little while to learn somebody's tendencies before she can do them. She's about to get ten minutes and a microphone. Date 2: Kayla — 27, real estate out in Lakeville, six years behind a bar before that. She has been to Kwik Trip at least four hundred times. One summer she went twice a day, every day, and ordered a hot dog and a corn dog and a Diet Coke on both trips. She has also, at 27 years old, never eaten a hamburger. Not once. Not a Juicy Lucy, not anything. She rescued a dog who'd spent eighteen months in a kill shelter and hated people, then brought him to work at the bar every single day until he didn't. And she carries a harmonica everywhere she goes. She can play exactly two songs, and neither one is the song this room is going to ask for. Date 3: Blythe — 25, from the Jersey Shore, moved to the North Loop last month, and she is a brand new veterinarian. Until she was twelve her legal middle name was "Female," because her mother filled out the birth certificate wrong, and she changed it and now regrets changing it. For her birthday she is hosting a drunk spelling bee, where you win by spelling the most words and also by being the drunkest. She once entered a hot dog eating contest, ate one and a half, and came in last. Also: Wes mentioned earlier in the night that Rainy has a bad leg and an expensive specialist appointment coming. Blythe is the only person in the building who can do anything about that. Then Tobi opened the floor for Shoot Your Shot. The first time we ran this segment at Graze, a man walked up out of the crowd and won the entire night. This week somebody got out of her seat who had not come here planning to do anything of the kind. Wes said it himself, early: he's a doer, not a watcher. So is she. Hosted by Tobi Shamu. Live at Graze Food Hall in the North Loop. Kings & Kweens, Season 13, Episode 3. Thank you to Murphy Goode Wines, pouring with us all season. New episodes every Tuesday at Graze. Back September 29th, doors at 5:30. Vote on every date through the link in our Instagram bio, and chip in to fund the winning couple's second date. WATCH • LISTEN • FOLLOW: Apple Podcasts & Spotify — search "Kings & Kweens: The Date Night Podcast" Instagram: @the_dnp | @dnp_minneapolis | @dnp_denver | @dnp_scottsdale TikTok: @thedatenightpodcast

  2. Sep 21

    Please Don't Say Pickles. | Kings & Kweens S13 E2 ft. Kween Hannah

    Hannah keeps a red flag list in her phone. An actual written list. Long fingernails are on it. So is repeating the same story, because her position is: who else are you telling this to? So is "let's just see where it goes," because she does not like casual. She pulled the list up on stage and read it out loud and her friends in the front row did not stop her. She has a Bernedoodle puppy named Hazel who she describes, without irony, as the last step of her skincare routine. She has already failed crate training. She does not like cats, specifically because of her cousin's twenty-year-old cat Larry, who has hated her since birth. Her words on that: it was hurtful. Kween Hannah is 24, from Hastings, a digital product manager at U.S. Bank who does hot yoga every morning and skipped her Tuesday track club for the first time in months to be here. She calls herself the queen of being overstimulated. What she wants isn't someone who spends money or plans the trip — it's someone who handles the hard thing without being asked. She's been dating older because they can keep up with her career. Tonight she's getting a 23-year-old, a man training for his first HYROX, and one other guy. Three blind dates. Ten minutes each. A facial experience for the winning couple. And a Shoot Your Shot that went completely sideways. Date 1: Dwayne — 23, North Loop, sells HVAC at Trane, and he's a full year younger than a woman who just said she dates older. His response: "I'm an established 23." He's been to 42 of the 50 states, his family lived in Belgium while he was in college, and his mom gets added to his friends' group calls. He's also been on TV once before, though not for this. Date 2: Rohan — 26, biomedical engineer who designs medical devices, moved here from Kansas City knowing not one single person. He's running his first HYROX next month, he's sober for the month leading up to it, and he'll tell you he's not actually a runner and is currently learning how. He's wearing his sister's clothes. He also ran a nonprofit at USC that put free test strips in the hands of college students nationwide. And he thinks he saw her at the gym last week but said nothing, because he wasn't a hundred percent sure. Date 3: He's been on this stage before. He was the King. He picked someone, it didn't last, and tonight he's back as a contestant, and he chose to walk out to "Guess who's back, back again." Tobi asks him if he has any advice for the woman who's about to do exactly what he did a year ago.Then Tobi opened the floor for Shoot Your Shot and told the room, out loud, that the walk-up had won the second date two episodes in a row. He gave them the receipts. Nobody stood up. Not one man. Hosted by Tobi Shamu. Live at Graze Food Hall in the North Loop. Kings & Kweens, Season 13, Episode 2. Thank you to FACE FOUNDRIÉ, presenting The Last Look and sending our winning couple to a facial experience. Minnesota-based focused facial bar — facials, lashes, brows, skincare. 8 Twin Cities locations, 80+ nationwide. Use code DATENIGHT15 for 15% off your next service. facefoundrie.com:wine_glass: Thank you to Murphy Goode Wines, pouring with us all season. New episodes every Tuesday at Graze. Vote on every date through the link in our Instagram bio, and chip in to fund the winning couple's second date.THINK YOU COULD DO BETTER THAN THESE THREE? We're casting Kings, Kweens, and Contestants. → datenightpod.comWATCH • LISTEN • FOLLOW: Apple Podcasts & Spotify — search "Kings & Kweens: The Date Night Podcast" Instagram: @the_dnp | @dnp_minneapolis | @dnp_denver | @dnp_scottsdale TikTok: @thedatenightpodcast #DateNightPodcast #DNP #KingsAndKweens #Season13 #BlindDate #Minneapolis #NorthLoop #TwinCities #DatingShow #Graze #FaceFoundrie #MurphyGoode

  3. Sep 12

    He Got Red-Flagged Before He Sat Down. | Kings & Kweens S13 E1 ft. King Aaron

    Aaron has never had an official boyfriend. He's had a "non-boyfriend boyfriend" that his entire office had a name for, and that ended on Valentine's Day. Every man he has ever dated has a J name. Josh, Joshua, Jackson, Joey. He called it a red flag and then immediately said, and this is a quote, "I love me a J name." His friends want him to try a different letter of the alphabet. His therapist is working on it with him. He has a legitimate phobia of cheese and his great-grandfather was a cheesemaker. He has one glass of wine and he is done. King Aaron is 27, six foot three, lives downtown, and has been a group fitness instructor at Life Time for seven years, which he will tell you is the most committed relationship he's ever been in. He does medical device marketing by day and checks his Fidelity account every single one of those days. He went to school for musical theater and dance, and then at 21 he had both hips completely reconstructed and had to learn how to walk again. He'll show you the six scars. Somebody once thought they were hickeys. Three blind dates. Ten minutes each. One second date on the line. And then the floor opens up. Date 1: Evin — 27, store manager at Urban Outfitters, painted a mural on his own wall, built a nine-foot floating desk, competed in a bodybuilding show, and studied thirteen forms of dance. He also says he can read a person's entire personality off the outside before they open their mouth. He's about to get thirty seconds to prove it, out loud, on Aaron, in front of everybody. Oh, and this isn't their first time meeting. Date 2: Tyler S. — 29, leasing agent and Vice President of the Minnesota Film Critics Association. His friends call him Messiana Grande. His catchphrase is "young, hot, and skinny," which he admits is mostly aspirational but stands by. He watches every Oscar nominee in every category and claims he can still name the Best Picture winner for any year you throw at him. Aaron picks a year. Date 3: Tyler F. — 27, from Milwaukee, in nursing school Monday through Wednesday and working twelve-hour overnight shifts at a mental health facility. He judges people entirely by their drink order, and he red-flags Aaron before he's finished sitting down. He also says he'd work out if he just had someone to do it with. He's sitting across from a man who has coached for seven years. Then Tobi opened the floor for Shoot Your Shot, and one man got up and walked toward the stage. He wasn't planning on it. He came out of a nine-year relationship, he works at an auto body shop, and he had exactly one thing to say about the Minneapolis dating pool. Hosted by Tobi Shamu. Live at Graze Food Hall in the North Loop, on the brand new Coliseum stage. Kings & Kweens, Season 13, Episode 1. Thank you to Murphy Goode Wines, pouring with us all season long. Family-owned, and their whole thing is that wine brings people together — which at a live dating show is either perfect or extremely dangerous. New episodes every Tuesday at Graze. Five shows this season. New this season: vote on every date through the link in our Instagram bio, and you can chip in to fund the King's second date. THINK YOU COULD DO BETTER THAN THESE THREE? We're casting Kings, Kweens, and Contestants. → datenightpod.com WATCH • LISTEN • FOLLOW: Apple Podcasts & Spotify — search "Kings & Kweens: The Date Night Podcast" Instagram: @the_dnp | @dnp_minneapolis | @dnp_denver | @dnp_scottsdale TikTok: @thedatenightpodcast #DateNightPodcast #DNP #KingsAndKweens #Season13 #BlindDate #Minneapolis #NorthLoop #TwinCities #DatingShow #Graze #MurphyGoode

  4. Aug 15

    The Big Dawg Barked | DNP x Life Time E2 ft. King Bradley

    Bradley is not the rizz guy and he'll tell you that himself. He's not on the apps. He approaches women in grocery stores, fumbles it, blushes, and owns it. He's a former hockey goalie who insists he's "the most normal goalie you'll ever meet," then immediately admits those people don't really know him. He has a golden retriever named Gil who sleeps on the floor by choice, because it's Gil's apartment and Bradley just lives there. He once closed all the blinds, set up a mirror, tried out some dance moves alone, and concluded that dancing is not for him. The only witness was the dog. King Bradley is 34, from Mahtomedi, living in the North Loop, and he built an indoor golf business from the ground up over the last eight years. He's the "funcle" to his best friend's three kids and the emergency contact for their four-year-old. He goes to therapy willingly, reads two books at a time, and says love isn't a feeling, it's a choice. His parents are in the crowd. They are going to matter more than anyone expects. Three blind dates. Ten minutes each. One second date on the line. And a Shoot Your Shot nobody saw coming. Date 1: Shaena — 31, from Excelsior, speech-language grad student, nanny, and a barre and Pilates instructor at this very Life Time. Bradley once walked into a barre class by mistake, put his mat in the dead center of the room, and watched every woman quietly relocate to the perimeter. She ended a past relationship because the guy wouldn't skip for her in public. Connect the dots. Date 2: Abbey — 35, legal-tech sales, flew in from Jackson Hole at 2 a.m. and came straight to the show. Her friends call her Big Dawg. She barks at people she doesn't like. She brought Bradley a gift that was secretly a test, rides a unicycle, and describes her post-breakup stretch as her "praying mantis era." Ask her what that means. Date 3: Mina — 34, from Chanhassen, model and actor for ten years, listens to college lectures for fun. Her English bulldog sleeps in the bed and that's non-negotiable. She's been off Instagram for a year, which is the exact thing Bradley said he wanted. It still didn't go the way you'd think. Then the floor opened for Shoot Your Shot, and the third woman to walk up was the Life Time photographer who'd been shooting the show all night. She had no intention of being on that stage. Bradley's parents told her to go up there. Hosted by Tobi Shamu. Live on the rooftop at Life Time Edina. DNP x Life Time, Episode 2. New episodes Wednesdays — finale August 12th. THINK YOU COULD DO BETTER THAN THESE THREE? We're casting Kings, Kweens, and Contestants. → datenightpod.com WATCH • LISTEN • FOLLOW: Apple Podcasts & Spotify — search "Kings & Kweens: The Date Night Podcast" Instagram: @the_dnp | @dnp_minneapolis | @dnp_denver | @dnp_scottsdale TikTok: @thedatenightpodcast#DateNightPodcast #DNP #DNPxLifeTime #LifeTime #KingsAndKweens

  5. Aug 7

    One Rule: No Aspiring DJs. (Her Ex Became One.)

    Sammy is the funny one. If one of her girls doesn't like a guy in the room, she's the first to volunteer to spill a drink on him — though she'll tell you her real method is closer to "a little cyberbullying" and some not-so-subtle hints that it's time to go, buddy. She has a six-month-old miniature dachshund named Frank the Tank who has, allegedly, the personality of Frank Gallagher from Shameless. She has read the Harry Potter series twelve times and will out-trivia you on it. She would rather meet her man at a grocery store than on an app. She has one pump-the-brakes rule and it is aspiring EDM DJs — a rule she comes by honestly, since her last ex became one. Kween Sammy is 28, from Lakeville and about to move to Minneapolis, an IT sales pro who makes her money, in her words, off of yapping. She's a Harry Potter trivia champion and a Marvel super fan. The one thing she wants someone to teach her this summer is pickleball — a detail that is going to matter more than anyone in the room expects. She's looking for someone kind, someone funny enough to keep up with her, and someone who actually knows how to make a plan. Three blind dates. Ten minutes each. One second date on the line. And a Shoot Your Shot that changed the whole math. Date 1: Gerry — 28, solar engineer by day, karaoke singer by night, from Anoka, the self-proclaimed Halloween Capital of the World. Two Maine Coon cats named Rocky and Apollo. Wants to see all twenty regions of Italy before he's old, which he thinks is 30. Walked out to the most explicit song Mac Miller ever made and somehow stayed wholesome the entire time. Date 2: Andrew — 32, anesthesiologist from Duluth, Timberwolves diehard, converted Vikings fan. Told her that standing on this stage was more nerve-wracking than someone actively dying on his operating table. Then her dad walked up and hit him with the dishes trap. He answered by quoting The Office. Date 3: David — 27, former history teacher turned benefits consultant, titanium rod in his leg, passport full of stamps. Reads Harry Potter, calls himself "a lot like a dachshund," and once backed into his own dad's car and denied it to his face. Self-preservation, he says. Then the floor opened for Shoot Your Shot, and one man walked up who wasn't even supposed to be there. A pro pickleball player who teaches right here at Life Time, runs an IT firm, and watched the same Italy show Gerry did — and in about two minutes he offered her pickleball lessons, a job, and a trip to Italy. She'd said all she wanted this summer was to learn pickleball. Then she had to choose. Hosted by Tobi Shamu. Live on the rooftop at Life Time Edina. DNP x Life Time, Episode 1. New episodes Wednesdays — back August 5th, finale August 12th.THINK YOU COULD DO BETTER THAN THESE THREE?We're casting Kings, Kweens, and Contestants. → datenightpod.com WATCH • LISTEN • FOLLOW: Apple Podcasts & Spotify — search "Kings & Kweens: The Date Night Podcast" Instagram: @the_dnp | @dnp_minneapolis | @dnp_denver | @dnp_scottsdale TikTok: @thedatenightpodcast #DateNightPodcast #DNP #DNPxLifeTime #LifeTime #KingsAndKweens #BlindDate #Pickleball #Minneapolis #Edina #TwinCities #DatingShow

  6. Jun 5

    He Wanted Decisive He Got a Ten Who Already Knew She'd Win.| DNP Minneapolis S12 E5 ft. King Colbey

    Colby Wadsworth left Season 12 a few episodes ago with his shirt off, single, and the only person in the room to describe his sexuality as "Bugs Bunny." When that episode wrapped, he kissed his roommate. He has a chubby cat named Fat Nancy who screams at him when he tries to cut back her meals. He's gullible ("you show me a little attention, you can do pretty much whatever"), avoidant, in therapy about it, and has been called a diva by multiple people. He prefers to drive. He is not looking for someone nice.King Colbey is 27, a part-time model and full-time homebody who works at a nonprofit, spends his days around kids and housing programs, and got brought back as our Season 12 finale King after a standout run as a contestant in Episode 2. He's a Taurus. He does backflips. He is aggressively anti-AI and will tell you so. He grew up unhoused, moving place to place, and getting people a roof over their heads is near and dear to him. He's looking for someone decisive — someone who can plan, lead, and pull him out of his own head — without making it her whole job.Three blind dates. Ten minutes each. A trip to the Minneapolis Rodeo on the line. And then the floor opens up.Date 1: Lexi — 26, national champion pom dancer, med-spa marketer, cat mom whose Korean mom signed her up without telling her. He'd just called a cat photo in the first ten minutes a borderline red flag. She pulled hers in sixty seconds. Connect the dots.Date 2: Haley — 23, legal assistant by day, Solidcore coach by night, competitive about literally everything, says she keeps getting cast on dating shows and can't commit to any of them. Six-four-and-a-half-inch height check turned her into "a victim of the system." Likes a man who's a little mean. He'd just said that was his thing.Date 3: Maggie — 28, nurse, dog mom, Taurus, has watched every WW2 documentary ever made. Accidentally dated a married man — met the kids, read them bedtime stories — so her standards are sky high. Showed up in cowboy boots before she'd won a single thing. She already knew.Then came Shoot Your Shot. No surprise date, no script — just whoever in the room had the nerve to walk up. Four did. One of them was a man, and he came with a meter, a f**k-marry-kill, and a follow-up question nobody on stage saw coming. Two made it into the final lineup.Hosted by Tobi Shamu. Live at Graze in Minneapolis's North Loop. Season 12, Episode 5 — the Finale.

  7. May 31

    He Ghosted Her in High School. Then He Showed Up. | DNP Minneapolis S12 E4 ft. Kween Savanna

    Savanna Hatzenbuhler has been single for a few years now. She's been on a handful of dates. Her friends have nicknames for every single one of them: Top Dog, Road Rage, White Girl Wasted, Hardcore EDM. She describes her type as "douchebags" and her role in the friend group as "fun liability." She grabbed a stranger's bagpipe on St. Patty's Day. She is not here for small talk.Kween Savanna is 24, a Woodbury native, U of M grad, web designer at Allianz, and she's going to Paris this summer to play in her company's volleyball Olympics. She is a Gryffindor. She owns a wand. She is looking for someone mature enough to not need a mom, but fun enough to bring out the kid in her.Three blind dates. Ten minutes each. One second date on the line. And then a surprise.Date 1: Chas — 24, coaches his nephew's t-ball team, sings karaoke completely sober, and has a trivia team with a Harry Potter niche category. She's a Gryffindor. Connect the dots.Date 2: Sam — 25, pilot by trade, bartender by night, self-proclaimed D1 yapper. He brought pull tabs. She noticed.Date 3: Kole — 23, snowboard coach, former D2 baseball player, training for the 2027 Deaf Olympics in Austria. Born deaf in both ears, reads lips, and brought it up on his own terms. Asked "Am I doing okay?" The crowd told him.Then Tobi announced a surprise fourth date. No Shoot Your Shot. No crowd volunteer. Someone pre-planned. Someone who's been waiting. The room was not ready.Hosted by Tobi Shamu. Live at Graze in Minneapolis's North Loop. Season 12, Episode 4.

  8. May 15

    ESPN's #1 Hockey Hair. 2016. Peaked and Proud. | DNP Minneapolis S12 E3 ft. King Dan Sandvig

    Dan Sandvig peaked in high school. His words, not ours. King Dan was #1 overall on ESPN's All Hockey Hair Team in 2016. He did the interview. He did the photo shoot. That was ten years ago. Since then he's lost a tooth on the rink, picked up a med sales career, started coaching the next generation of hockey kids, and self-proclaimed golden retriever energy on his casting form without realizing Tobi would read it out loud. He's 27, half Lebanese, plays in three hockey leagues during winter, and brought his entire friend section to Graze — including the guy who knocked the tooth out in the first place. The tooth is removable. He offered to take it out for any date who asked. Nobody asked.Three blind dates. Ten minutes each. One second date on the line. Date 1: Leila — 26, owns a hair salon in northeast, has a cat she walks on a harness (the cat doesn't love it), and has never split a bill on a date. Not once. Date 2: Grace — 25, dog mom, hockey player, knitter, and a self-admitted mini golf hustler who went on ten first dates in a row to mini golf and won every single time. Date 3: Nicole — 24, CorePower instructor, digital consultant, and the woman who told her mom a chipped tooth happened at hockey so she'd pay the $8,000 bill. Her mom is watching live. Then the Twitch chat asked who he voted for. And someone pump faked a walk-off. Hosted by Tobi Shamu. Live at Graze in Minneapolis's North Loop. Season 12, Episode 3.

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Kings & Kweens: The Date Night Podcast is a speed dating show where a single person (King/Kween/Royalty) is matched up on 3 consecutive BLIND dates. At the end of each episode, the King/Kween/Royalty will pick a winning contestant for a second date. Follow along each episode with our host, Cade Calvert, as you will hear dates that will make you cringe, laugh, and remind you that true love does exist.

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