A date in every state! Matt Wurnig, aka the 'TikTok Bachelor,' joins Cheddar News to discuss his series '50 Dates 50 States.' 

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'TikTok Bachelor' Talks Season Two of Popular Series '50 Dates 50 States'

Welcome back everyone leveraging the full power Tiktok and offering up a fresh take on the hit series. The Bachelor Tiktok streaming series, 50 dates in 50 states follows Tiktoker Matthew Warning as he travels across the country all to go on a date with a girl in every state. I'm traveling to all 50 states, going on a date with a different girl in every single state and I need a date for tomorrow asap. How it'll work is me and you will go on a date. Everything we do will be paid for will be followed by my cameraman John who will document the entire date so we can put that across. Social media will be miked up. We're gonna have a good time. You're gonna be part of the 50 states 50 states experience. It's gonna be awesome. And joining us now is the Tiktok Bachelor himself, matt warning matt. Good to have you here. Congratulations on this series. Hey, thank you so much. I appreciate you guys having me on. Okay, so these Tiktok's of your dates get millions and millions of likes and views. You're right now on your second season of this series and you actually went on your 14th date last night right here in New York City. So I'm dying to know. How did it go? How was your date? It was awesome. It was awesome. New york is, is such a different, uh, different kind of a city that I'm used to growing up in Montana small town and everything. So coming to new york, it's always cool and it's always unique to have that experience. But we had a lot of fun. We went and we had some pizza. We went and checked out the statue of Liberty and Ellis Island rode the ferry over there. We went to a little different thing. I had no idea how this is gonna go, but we, we decided to go to the Museum of Sex, which was pretty funny and something I wasn't used to, but that was pretty interesting. And yeah, it was walked around Times Square in new york and it was a really good time. Okay, so I'm, I'm curious, do you struggle when you end the relationship with each one of these dates? So how does it sort of end, you say, look after I'm done with the rest of the States, I'll call you back. Like what happens. Okay. You know, I think they have a pretty good idea of what they're getting into. They know I'm, you know, as soon as we have our data the next day, I'm hoping to go go to a new state to meet a new girl and so they're pretty aware of that whole situation and I've, I've kind of trained my brain to not get too caught up in the fields or anything like that with these girls. And so when I go on the date, you know, we have a good time and at the end it's like, hey, thank you so much for being part of the 50th city States experience for being my date in season one or two. And uh, you know, hopefully we stay in touch with everything in this season. Obviously there's a little bit more weight to it because there will be a winner and everything at the end. So there, you know, will pay attention and see if they're chosen for that. Okay. So there's a reason obviously that they're into this, you mentioned that they have an idea of what's happening that's because at the end of this, depending on who you choose, you guys would go on an all expense paid vacation to Puerto Rico and the top 10 of the women that you choose to go to Miami. So is that sort of in addition to going on a date with you, which I know I'm sure is a really important thing here is the vacation sort of the carrot to get them to stay into this thing. Yeah, yeah. You know, it's, it's, it's interesting, you know, some girls, they might be going on a date with me solely for the reason because they want a nice little tropical vacation at the end. I don't know, but, but you know, we enjoy ourselves and I think that as a formal twist because in season one, I didn't pick any winners. I didn't pick a favorite. I didn't do anything like that. I just kind of left it open ended and this season, you know, after getting some feedback from followers and things like that, asking who my favorite was all the time or who was the winner, I was like oh we should do that for season for season two here. And so I think having that Puerto rico trip in the Miami trip keeps all the girls invested and keeps the followers invested in just people across the U. S. Uh interested because then they're like, oh I hope my state wins and I hope my state makes it into the top 10 or I really like her, you know, things like that, by the way, this is one of the most popular shows and and things on Tiktok right now when it comes to content, does it kind of feels like the bachelor almost in a way, was that sort of the goal here when you created this franchise, was to make a Bachelor sort of spin off here. Yeah. You know, I think as the wheels kept turning and it snowballed into what it is now, a big goal of mine is to really compete with the Bachelor on this whole thing. I want this to be the next bachelor. I think that uh this really brings together kind of that gen z millennial type and it goes through social media where the Bachelor, you know, it's been around for 25 plus years and it's kind of follow the same old, same old and it's very popular show, but I think this is something that brings everybody together state to state that it goes through social media, which is obviously such a huge thing in the world we live in today, and I just really want to get it to that next level where it is, it's competing with the Bachelor uh when when you meet these girls, do you do research or background checks on these girls? Are you going into this completely blind? Like, how do you know, you're not getting cat fished by these women? That's a that's a great question. And, you know, all girls, all the girls who I go on a date with the apply, and so in the application they put down their information, some of their social media, and then they talk a little bit about themselves, and then they also say what they would do for the date idea, and so reading each application, I can get a feel for how each girl is. You know, some girls, right, just a little bit while other girls will write a whole novel and so it kind of shows how interested they are, how bought in they are to wanting to be part of this experience, So, that's a huge thing. I'll check out their profiles and, you know, if I can tell by their profile, they seem fun or energetic or outgoing or they're involved in a lot of different activities, things like that, then obviously that helps me narrowing down the process on who I picked for dates? Okay, so you've gone on 14 dates in 14 different states so far. Has any of the 14 stood out to you? Do you maybe think maybe potentially one of these 14 could be the one? Yeah. You know, I'm not gonna lie. There's, there's a couple that really stick out in my head that, you know, they, they left their mark pretty good. And when we had our, we had an amazing time. I had an amazing time with all my dates so far. But there's, I'd say two in in mind that uh, that really resonated with me and I felt like we really connected. And so I guess we'll see um, if that, if that connection last throughout the whole season. Well, we'll see them in Miami and Puerto rico, which is all the more exciting and all of this. All right, matt, while you're here, we do want to play a little game with you. It's called this or that date edition. Of course we got matt worrying. The Tiktok Bachelor joining us. Matt, basically, I'll say something, you tell me this or that. Which one of the two you like? Just be quick in Your response is all right. Here we go. Would you rather take a date to a speakeasy or to a sports bar, what would you rather do? I'm gonna go sports bar? Sports bar. Okay, next one, comedy show or a jazz club, going comedy show, comedy show. Good choice. I'm into that one also. Alright, next one run into your ex on a date or your date shows up an hour late. What do you like? I'm gonna I don't yeah right. I don't think I could deal with the X until I'm gonna say I'm gonna say running running an hour later. Yeah you can go on instagram, do something else for that hour while you're waiting. Alright, your date catfish or you get stood up man, you're putting me on the spot here. I feel like I feel like right I think I'm gonna go with, I think I'm gonna go with stood up because if you get catfish then I mean what? You might not even want to be on the date in the first place. So I'm going I'm going and stood up. Good. That's actually a good point. I didn't think about that. All right. Next one. Would you rather be a part of bachelor in paradise or too hot to handle? I don't think I can handle too hot to handle. So I would probably say bachelor in paradise. Okay. Okay. I get you. Alright. Final one. Take your date on a beach vacation or a ski vacation but I'm guessing with Miami and Puerto rico you're not interested in the ski vacations. Yeah. You know I feel like I've got enough skiing and all in the, in the mountainous side of dating and things like that done in my life. I grew up in Montana. So I'm going to go to the beach and the more paradise. I'm in the same boat with you, matt. Warning A. K. A. The Tiktok Bachelor joining us here in between bells. Thank you so much Matt for joining us. Congratulations on the success of that show.