First date at a T-shirt shop? In Des Moines, Raygun's a dating destination
Updated: 6:41 PM CST Dec 29, 2023
It's time for Hunter to see what Des Moines has to offer by going on three blind dates with local bachelors. Is he willing to branch out? And can he find someone that he is fond of? Here? Grows? Nothing. Let's meet Ilya. My name is Ilya. I'm 29 years old. I live right now in Des Moines, originally from Ukraine. I am *** dancing singer. This area is small but I feel like it's really nice and cute to me and everybody just so kind and I love that. I think I'm looking for someone who can make me laugh, someone who can support me and just, I'm looking for *** kind person just because I believe that I'm kind person. So I need another kind person. I pick ringing just because it's *** really fun place. If there's gonna be *** chemistry, I'm, I'm ready for *** dive, but I'm just here to have *** good time. Hi, my name is K Correa. I am the director of Retail for Reagan and I am Seth OSH director of production for Reagan. Reagan is the greatest store in the universe. It's *** very amazing shared collective of individuals that have come together to support *** lot of different causes. Hi. Hi, Hunter, I'm Ilya. Nice to meet you. Do you like Reagan? Absolutely. How do you not like Reagan? Exactly. I think so too. Hey, guys, welcome to the greatest store in the universe. Are you excited? Yeah. Why don't we go on upstairs and get started? Sounds good. Let's go after you. I just have *** lot of hope for him. Giant smile, which you know, teeth are kind of *** big thing for me. He's cute. He's cute. All right. Today you guys will have 30 minutes to come up with your very own t-shirt design. It can be *** slogan. It can be *** image, whatever you guys want. Sounds good. Awesome. Thank you so much. What do you want to get into? I have no ideas. Do you have any ideas you picked this place? Come on. Ok. How do you feel about like *** sun? Rainbow clouds? You could do that. How do you want to start it? Um I just with *** dot And we're gonna go somewhere. I have no ideas what to do. How do you feel so far? I like it. So let's add some flowers into it. Not *** big flower guy but Philodendrons. You can't go wrong with them. I don't know. What is that? So you can draw it for me. I was like, oh God, I like your shirt, by the way, it's very frilly. Thank you. He clearly went *** little bit more exciting for his wardrobe choice of wardrobe than I did. I think that's ***, that's *** wrap on. That's *** wrap. Yeah. Amazing. Looks like you guys are done. We'll get this design over to our design team and meanwhile you guys can kind of go downstairs. Yeah, let's do that. It's been *** while since I've been in here. Yeah, I'm, I'm here pretty often. Are you? So, yeah, you're like, yeah, I know where all the good stuff is at. Yeah. And I really like this area. It's all about my Ukraine. I'm so happy that in Iowa they support Ukraine and Ukrainians. Slava. Ukrainian. That means glory to Ukraine. Do you still have family over there or? Yes. Then my whole family is in Ukraine. Oh, my gosh. When we were talking together, he seems like he was really interested with everything that I was talking about. Well, hello. Hi, welcome. We do have your design. Are you ready for the reveal? Yeah. Ta Oh my God. Happy with it. Yes. Ready to put it on *** shirt. Yes. All right. It turned out so much better than I thought he was going to. I didn't know that they were gonna clean it up. Who wants to go first? He was, I was like, I'll go first. All right. There you go. He's very spontaneous. He's very charismatic, which I found very attractive to reveal. We have to reveal. Wow. Ok. Good job. Yeah. Yeah. He made it up really easy. Yeah. Yeah, he did. I just trying to think about him and like, honestly, what do I really think? It seems like Andre is *** nice guy. So, you guys looking for *** job? I think it turned out really great just because the T shirt is kind of like, tell about us. I'm happy with the final product. Well, I had *** really good time. What do you think? Same? Absolutely. I love the T shirts. I was like, it was an amazing design again. Thank you for carrying the team on that. I was trying my best. So, what are you looking for? What kind of relationship probably looking for more of like *** long term relationship? But I don't have *** whole lot of free time on my hands, isn't it? You gonna be busy all the time with your work and everything? How are you gonna have some time for relationship and everything? Definitely gonna work on that. There's the whole work life balance, but we're figuring it out. Yeah. What about you? I do not know exactly. I just go with the flow and whatever happened, whatever happened, happened just here for like the connection. You kind of see where he goes. Yes. I think I'll be interested in the second date just to know him better. There could definitely be *** chance for *** second date. Boom. Kinda coming up. Hunter's first blind date with Elia was terrific. Will he pot it like it's hot on his next blind date or will things get prickly?
First date at a T-shirt shop? In Des Moines, Raygun's a dating destination
Updated: 6:41 PM CST Dec 29, 2023
Dating can be tough. Blind dating can be even tougher. But for Hunter Frescoln, of Norwalk, a familiar location helped ease the anxiety of a blind date on Very Local’s dating show, "Local Love."For his episode, Frescoln, 30, went on three blind dates — the first of which was at Raygun, the popular and trendy T-shirt shop in Des Moines' East Village. The casual environment of Raygun's flagship store, 505 E. Grand Ave., was the perfect setting for Frescoln, who founded The Trendy Gardener, and his show's first eligible bachelor. And with eight other locations — Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, Cedar Falls, Davenport, Ames, Chicago, Kansas City and Omaha — Raygun's not just a date destination for central Iowans. If you want to find out which lucky bachelor wins over Hunter, the trendy gardener — and gets a second date — head on over to the Very Local app.Very Local is your best source for shows about local communities, bringing you 24/7 access to news from your trusted local news source, weather updates, and more. Very Local also brings you new, untold stories from your city and communities like yours, with exclusive original shows and local stories specific to where you live. Get the channel to stream Very Local FREE on Roku or Amazon Fire TV.Watch: Des Moines blogger looks for "local love"
DES MOINES, Iowa — Dating can be tough. Blind dating can be even tougher.
But for Hunter Frescoln, of Norwalk, a familiar location helped ease the anxiety of a blind date on Very Local’s dating show, "Local Love."
For his episode, Frescoln, 30, went on three blind dates — the first of which was at Raygun, the popular and trendy T-shirt shop in Des Moines' East Village.
The casual environment of Raygun's flagship store, 505 E. Grand Ave., was the perfect setting for Frescoln, who founded , and his show's first eligible bachelor. And with — Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, Cedar Falls, Davenport, Ames, Chicago, Kansas City and Omaha — Raygun's not just a date destination for central Iowans.
If you want to find out which lucky bachelor wins over Hunter, the trendy gardener — and gets a second date — head on over to the .
is your best source for shows about local communities, bringing you 24/7 access to news from your trusted local news source, weather updates, and more. Very Local also brings you new, untold stories from your city and communities like yours, with exclusive original shows and local stories specific to where you live. Get the channel to stream Very Local FREE on or .
Watch: Des Moines blogger looks for "local love"