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Dating in LA: The Red Flags You’re Ignoring | Katie Thurston DSH #869
Fri, 08 Nov
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🎉 Ever wondered what it's really like dating in LA? Tune in now for an episode packed with valuable insights and laughs! Sean Kelly dives into the wild world of dating with comedian and poker champion Katie Thirst on Digital Social Hour. From reality TV revelations to poker tournament triumphs, Katie shares her unique experiences, including the red flags you're ignoring in the LA dating scene. 🌟 Don't miss out on this engaging conversation where Katie spills the tea on everything from feet rankings to the challenges of balancing comedy and love. Join the conversation and explore her journey from reality TV to comedy stages across the nation. 📺 Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets on Sean Kelly’s Digital Social Hour! 🚀 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories and exclusive insights from the heart of LA! #datinginlosangeles #obviousredflagsinguyswhenyouredatingthem #narcissisticabuse #datingadvice #datinginyour30s CHAPTERS: 00:00 - How Katie Found Out She Had A WikiFeet Page 00:28 - Katie’s Poker Win 02:40 - Katie’s Comedy Tour 03:08 - Katie’s Career Change 04:19 - Katie’s Reality TV Experience 07:54 - Katie’s Dating Life 09:32 - Your Boyfriend 11:02 - Your Comedy Shows 12:51 - Your Money 14:29 - Would You Get Roasted for $1M 15:04 - WikiFeet Insights 19:30 - Being Cancelled in Comedy 22:00 - Fboy Island Experience 23:20 - Moving to LA for Comedy 25:00 - Do You Have Trust Issues? 25:20 - Pressure in Your 30s 25:55 - What’s Next for You? APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Katie Thurston https://www.instagram.com/thekatiethurston/ https://www.youtube.com/c/KatieThurstonShow LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: How did Katie discover her WikiFeet page?
Okay, so here's the thing with the feet pics. I didn't know that was like a thing until I went on reality TV and there's a website. I don't know if you ever heard of it. Feet Finder, right?
Well, no, but you know that one. No, Wiki Feet. It's a ranking for feet. You can search any celebrity, reality star, whatever, and it'll show the ranking and all these random feet photos. Literally, it could be a foot photo that was from a story and someone will screenshot it and put it on this website. What? That is crazy. All right, guys. Comedian and poker champion. Yeah.
Katie Thurston here. Winning the celebrity tournament. 82 players.
Chapter 2: What was Katie's poker win experience like?
It was 82? I couldn't remember. There were so many. There was nine tables of nine. Oh, so 81. Yeah, yeah. That's impressive. Thank you. You must have done a lot of practicing before that. I downloaded a poker app and I played a lot on my phone. But like when I was 18, I was dating a guy who really loved poker. So much so that we went to prom and then to a card room afterwards. Wow.
Because we were too young for like a casino, but card rooms you could do at 18. Damn. So we played some poker, and I really hadn't played in a while. But the skill's there. It's like riding a bike. You always kind of know it. And so I just kind of played on my phone a little bit. You were dominating. The background on my phone during the tournament was literally the hand rankings. I saw that.
Just in case I forgot. But, you know. You were knocking out champs. You were knocking out pros. I mean, I don't think a lot of people saw that coming. Did anyone bet on you? Yeah. I mean, I told my people to bet on me because the odds were 75 to 1. I was like, put your money on me. I promise you're going to get paid. Damn. And they did.
So if someone bet $100, they won, what is that, $7,500? Is that how that works with sports betting? I don't know. 75 to 1. Holy crap. Yeah. Well, I'll bet on you on the next one. Well, now the odds are definitely going to change because now everyone knows I know how to play. Yeah.
Your table probably thought you were just like... Oh, Bryce Hall talks so much shit. He was such a little dick. And then even afterwards, I like DM'd him and I was like, nice playing with you, loser. Yeah. He never responded. Damn. He's pretty butthurt. I saw his interview and I was like, oh, he's pissed. He's actually decent at poker, but... Well, I know.
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Chapter 3: How did Katie transition from finance to comedy?
That's why he's mad. Yeah. Because it is hard to play in a tournament with like people who know how to play and then people have no idea what they're doing because you can't read that. Right. So I get it. But like he also was giving me shit. I'm like, let me take my 20K and talk to you later. Did you knock him out? I don't think I did. I don't think it was me, no.
Okay. And you guys had that girl that was halfway on the table or something? Oh, God, I forget her name. But, yeah, I think from, like, America's Got Talent. Yeah, that was insane. Flexible. Yeah, her head was on the table, and her body was a V. Sophie.
Chapter 4: What challenges did Katie face on reality TV?
Sophie was her name. Sophie Dosey, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that was crazy. Well done. Are you playing in games out here, too? No, like, that was it. Like, a one and done, you know? Like, I don't really play poker. Like, I just got invited, and I was like, eh. Why not? So back to comedy then. Back to comedy. And you just did Oklahoma and a couple other states. Boston, Washington. Yeah. Yeah.
What was the favorite out of those three? Oh, honestly, I think Spokane, Washington was fun. Yeah. Yeah. It's a small little city and I think they just really love to come out for comedy. And so it was a sold out show and my hometown is Washington. So like it was just a lot of like progressive Pacific Northwest vibes, you know? So it was just fun time.
Yeah. Were you a bank marketing manager in Washington?
Yeah. I was in finance, like all of my working life. So it was just, I was not expecting to ever take the direction that my life is now. You know, I was very settled in my career. I just bought a condo, you know, COVID was hitting, like everything was just very like traditional nine to five life. And then one day I sign up for reality TV and then it just never slowed down.
Dang. What a big change. That's like a 180 almost. Oh, a thousand percent. Like it's crazy. Like how much can change in such a short time?
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Chapter 5: What red flags should you watch out for in dating?
Yeah. So you literally just applied online and it worked. Yeah. At the time I was 29 and I remember thinking like, oh, I'm going to be too old. Like for reality TV, that's considered like elderly. Really? Yeah.
I was like, this is the last year. Like at this, they will never pick me up once I hit 30. And then I got the first call and I was like, oh shit. And then I got another call because there's so many like rounds of interviews. And every time I got a call, I was like, oh, I think this is happening. Holy crap. Yeah. How many rounds were there?
I couldn't even remember. There's medical, there's psych eval, background checks, interviews with producers, pre-screeners, executive producers. It's a lot. So every time you're like, no way do I make it to the next round. And then you get the call and it's like, okay, you're on the show. We leave in two weeks. That's nuts. And that was The Bachelor, right?
That was The Bachelor first. And that was during COVID. So I was like, what else am I going to do? So did you have to wear masks on the show? No. We did not, but we had to have COVID tests every three days. Jeez.
And then we could only film in a bubble, like on a resort, which was unfortunate because normally with the show, you travel the world. You get to go everywhere. Right. But no, it was very rigorous testing. And everyone working who wasn't in front of a camera all had masks on. If you got COVID, you'd have to... Did that happen to anyone?
Not on my season, but COVID was around for a couple of years during filming. So I think it happened on at least one or two other seasons though. Wow. Did you make it farther than you thought you would?
I actually went home sooner than I thought I would. But I don't know if that's just part of the manipulation. I don't know if that's part of the brain fuck that happened there. Because everyone thinks that he's in love with you. He's falling for me. I'm going to go far. And then I had this, I don't know if you watch the show, but they're called one-on-one dates.
And so I'm all like, and he picks up this asshole, Matt. He picks up the rose as if he's about to give it to me. And then he sets it down, which is like, I'm going to go home. Dang.
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Chapter 6: How does dating differ in LA compared to other places?
And I know the camera was like waiting for like that face drop or something. I just remember smiling and then holding my breath. I was like, I'm not giving you any reaction right now. Damn. So yeah, I actually was 11th place before then being offered The Bachelorette, which at the time was like the lowest ranking person to then be offered a lead role. Oh, really?
Normally it's someone from like the top four. Oh, I didn't know that's how it worked. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Which show did you like better? Um, I mean, you get paid to be the bachelorette. So at least pay me for my trauma. Okay.
You know, but I will say it was a lot harder to like people think it's very fun. Like you're dating all these men. It's not fun. Like you don't get a lot of sleep. You don't eat a lot of food. Like you're just like delirious. So busy. Six weeks. Yeah. Six weeks. Yeah. Holy crap. I didn't know it was that long.
Yeah. And it's nonstop. Like you literally like you get four hours of sleep because they're on like a, I forget what it's called, but with the camera crew, like they have strict hours of when they can and cannot work. And so we have to kind of like go with them and we can't, we don't have room to just like sleep in a day.
Only four hours of sleep, geez. So you don't even know if you're picking the right dude at that point. You're just delirious. If you're crying, you're just tired. People are like, why is everyone crying? I'm like, they're tired and they're hungry. We're turning into babies. That's crazy. Has anyone actually married or stayed long-term from this show?
Yeah, yeah. The earlier ones, though. That's the thing. Because as social media becomes more popular... More people go on the show, the famous phrase is, for the wrong reasons. And so that's the unfortunate part is, you know, the exposure that these people get and the opportunities they get kind of outweighs a lot of the love, the potential love, you know.
So a lot of the early ones definitely worked out. They have kids. They're married. They're happy. And then the more recent ones have been like six months at the most for their engagements back to back to back and then – Dang. Oh, so you get engaged. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't know that.
I was engaged to a Canadian at the time. Yeah. During COVID. So that was just like everything stacked against us because traveling to Canada during COVID was like impossible. You couldn't do it. Yeah. I think they banned it. Yeah. Oh, so that's why. So that ended. That ended. Yes. Damn.
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Chapter 7: What are the realities of being a comedian?
I know. Gave the ring back. You have to. It's not it's never really your ring. Yeah. OK. See, some girls keep it, though. Well, there's a lot of rules around how you can keep it. And even then when it's yours, if you go to sell it, they get the first rights to buy it back. Oh. For the price they want. I didn't know that. So it's never really your thing. Oh, so you just buy it back for a dollar.
Literally, yeah. Wow. I don't think that anyone's ever taken it as far as being able to actually try and sell it because what's the point? Dang, good to know. You recently moved to L.A. You start dating around here yet? I did try to date a little bit in L.A., but I did just start dating a guy from New York. Whoa. Yeah. That's a long.
It's long distance, but he's also a comic. So we kind of have the flexibility of being able to travel and see each other. And our lifestyles are obviously very similar. So it's been going very well so far. Props to you. Distance is tough.
Yeah, yeah. Well, it's great because we actually met. This isn't even public yet, but I know this podcast will come out later. But we met because we had plans to get drinks when he was in town. And I'd never met him before, but we weren't obviously in the same circles. And then he had to bail last minute because he ended up in the hospital. Whoa.
Yeah, he injured his hand, whatever. And then we ended up chatting that night. He's like, hey, sorry I had to bail. We chat all night. And then for the next month, we never see each other. We just chat. And I think that's, like, the difference of, like, L.A. dating and, like, being really intentional with dating. Yeah.
If you talk to someone for a whole month without alcohol, sex, you know, seeing each other and you can still, like, vibe, then, like, it's probably a good way to, like, start.
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Chapter 8: How does Katie manage her finances as a comedian?
That's a good sign, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it doesn't happen often in L.A.
L.A. was the worst. I did – I hated it so much. I dated, like – but on dates. I shouldn't even say dated. Most of the guys were great, but there was one guy who, like – Made a TikTok about our date. Just like such a clout chaser. Just like this privileged 6'6 guy. I'm 6'6. Look, this is what happens with you guys that are tall. We ignore red flags. We're like, oh, he's tall.
The red flags don't see him because they're like way up there, you know? So there's a lot of things I ignored. And then like the next day I was like, no, I think this guy's literally walking red flag. Damn. Okay. So a comic in New York. Is it Akash? No. All right. That was my one guess. No, no, no. Because I know Schultz is married, and I don't know any other comic. Well. I tried, but.
Good guess. Are you ever going to publicize it? Because public relationships are tough, too, right? Oh, I mean, we're out in public together. Oh, cool. And he'll talk about me, like, on stage and stuff. So it's not that we're hiding it. It's just at this point, on this date, we aren't, like, on social media about it. Got it. That's where it gets dicey. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Especially, like, Bachelor Nation. They can be intense. Oh, yeah? Yeah. But he's a great comic, so he's not problematic. That's where you dip into bad territories. If you date someone with a history, they'll find it. They'll dissect that. Damn. So this guy, squeaky clean background. Holy crap. So the fans of the show are running background checks on your boyfriend?
Yeah, yeah. I very short-term dated a guy, a comic. I must have a type. You like comics.
Well, the thing is, it's kind of like being coworkers. You know, it's like we get each other's industry, our work. Like, we work late. We work with, like, men and women. It's just a weird world, you know? And a lot of people don't understand it unless you're in it. And so it's just, like, I guess the easier person to, like, relate to.
But, yeah, he had a little bit of a past with who he hung out with. And I never even posted about him. They sleuthed it out based on, I'm not even kidding, based on tags and stories. And, like, that's his TV stand on her story. It's crazy. Yeah. that is nuts. It's crazy. And then, and then they start dissecting things that are like five plus years old. And I'm like, Oh my God, this poor guy.
Yeah. That's rough. Yeah. So what is your style of comedy? Cause I've never seen someone on the bachelor. I'd be a comedian. That's pretty unique.
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