Kings & Kweens: The Date Night Podcast

About Kings & Kweens: The Date Night Podcast

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.

Publisher

Backpocket Productions

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

19 May 2021

Latest episode

15 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

126 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 Oct 2026

   I Don't Watch Garbage Reality TV. | Kings & Kweens S13 E5 ft. King Edward

   When we asked Edward what his type was, he said "toxic — the more red flags the better." On stage he admitted that was an impulsive decision he made drunk a year ago, and that he's kept it since because it still fits. He also hasn't had a drink since December 30th. He started dry January with a few friends, pointed at them in the crowd, and said "they didn't make it." He has run every single day since January 1st, one mile in January, two in February, and ten a day right now, because in his words, October is for tens. He ran the Twin Cities Marathon in under four hours the Sunday before this taping. He is missing six toenails. King Edward is 30, five foot ten, lives in Ramsey, grew up in Northeast, and he's on the road most of the year for work. He's been Eddie, Edward and Ed to three different groups of people for a decade and the groups have started colliding. He has nine siblings, three animals, no alcohol, and an apartment that is color coded, and his hard line on a partner is laundry that sits on the bed for three days. He used to plan every trip in a spreadsheet and now he books a flight and a hotel and nothing else. He has run in six countries in three weeks, and he once ran a six-mile loop around a bar in the middle of a bachelor party and made it back for the rest of the night. Tobi asked him what he's running from, and he had the answer ready: nobody ever asks what you're running towards. Three blind dates. Ten minutes each. A FACE FOUNDRIÉ facial for the winning couple, and a second date paid for entirely by the room. Date 1: Tzarina — 34, in Plymouth by way of Bristol, England, a chef and TV personality who has cooked her way around the world on superyachts. She calls herself a professional adventurer. She refuses to use dating apps, which is why she's here, and she told our team that doing this would make a great story for her future grand cats. Not grandkids. Grand cats. Her cat flies first class and eats caviar. Also worth knowing, before you watch: Tobi asks Edward early whether a woman having been on reality TV is a red flag, and Edward answers that question honestly without knowing who he's about to sit across from. Date 2: Katie — 32, Apple Valley, an AI project manager who applied for this episode by name. Her words, in her own application: "Since Eduard is apparently looking for a funny, independent, adventurous, slightly stubborn woman who can keep him on his toes, I fear I may have been summoned." Nobody all season has done that. She fosters dogs, she'll fly anywhere in the country for a country concert, she describes herself as a bad winner and a worse loser, and roughly four minutes into her ten she offers to teach him cribbage and then destroy him at it. She also came in with a proposal involving 111 miles of the Alps. Date 3: Belle — 26, St. Michael, HR operations, fully remote, CorePower every single morning, and a certified Pilates instructor. She calls herself a personality hire. She hasn't been on a first date in four years. She leaves for five weeks in Tulum in November. Her stated position on men is that one with a hobby is less likely to murder you, and she wrote her own ten-question rapid-fire round before she arrived and brought it with her. One of the questions involves ten million dollars. She had also already run a background check on him, because she has access to that. Then Tobi opened the floor. Three episodes in a row at Graze have been won by somebody who got out of their chair during Shoot Your Shot, and he says so into the microphone right before he asks. Two women got up. One of them had been quietly liking his Strava posts for a month. Hosted by Tobi Shamu. Live at Graze Food Hall in the North Loop. Kings & Kweens, Season 13, Episode 5. The season finale.

2. 

   8 Oct 2026

   I Know Ball. | Kings & Kweens S13 E4 ft. Kween Ellie

   Ellie's friends told her she has the best rizz in the group and that she owed it to the world to prove it on a dating show. Here is the method, in her words: she spots someone at a bar, her best friend counts down five, four, three, two, one, and then physically shoves her. She walks up and says she thought he was cute. She reports a 100% success rate. To prepare for tonight she watched hours of Love Island and announced that she was born ready. She walked out to "Maneater" and confirmed, unprompted, that it was a warning. Kween Ellie is 22, from Minnetrista, a project coordinator during the week who's training to bartend on the weekends. She writes movie reviews on Letterboxd, she has the streaming services memorized, and comedies are her least favorite genre because they're not funny enough for her. She dresses in bright colors, sparkles and platform boots, and she'd rather date a man who doesn't, because you can't both be the baddie. Pick a character. And the thing she keeps running into with men is the one she says out loud before any of them sit down: they take her out, it goes well, and then they tell her they're not ready. Three blind dates. Ten minutes each. A second date funded entirely by the room. And a Shoot Your Shot that put a stranger in the final selection. Date 1: Karsten — 26, six foot, a wheat trader from Idaho. Wheat with a T, which he has to clarify every time. He walked out to a song from Mamma Mia, so she immediately made him choose between Harry, Bill and Sam, and he went with the one who has a boat. He owns no television and no streaming subscriptions, and when a date comes over he reads to her out loud from an actual book. He also arrived carrying two coats, and only one of them was his. Date 2: Max — 26, six foot three, downtown Minneapolis, program management coordinator. He walked out to "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" and started it three minutes and thirteen seconds in, which he was asked to explain. He is a type 1 diabetic who was on the floor of Congress at twelve years old lobbying to make insulin cheaper, and his go-to fun fact is that he played against three NBA draft picks in high school. He has also, at 26, never been in a relationship. Not a bad one. Not a short one. None. Which puts him directly in the path of the one complaint she led the night with. Date 3: Elijah — 22, six foot four, Northeast Minneapolis by way of St. Cloud, lab tech in medical devices. He took himself to Greece alone at eighteen and skipped the islands on purpose because he wanted the real thing. He did agricultural research in Ethiopia and volunteers at a community garden in North Minneapolis teaching kids to grow food. He's not on any apps, because real life is the dating app. He's also the only man on that stage her age, and roughly four minutes in he asks her what she wants to be known for when she's gone. Then Tobi opened the floor. He'd already told the room, at the top of the show, that two of the first three episodes this season were won by somebody who got out of their chair during this exact segment. Two men got up. One of them got a single question in before time ran out, and she put him through to the final selection anyway. Hosted by Tobi Shamu. Live at Graze Food Hall in the North Loop. Kings & Kweens, Season 13, Episode 4. :round_drawing_pin: Back at Graze Friday, October 9th. That's the Season 13 finale. Doors at 5:30.THINK YOU COULD DO BETTER THAN THESE THREE?We're casting Kings, Kweens, and Contestants. → datenightpod.comWATCH • LISTEN • FOLLOW::headphones: Apple Podcasts & Spotify — search "Kings & Kweens: The Date Night Podcast":camera_with_flash: Instagram: @the_dnp | @dnp_minneapolis | @dnp_denver | @dnp_scottsdale:musical_note: TikTok: @thedatenightpodcast #DateNightPodcast #DNP #KingsAndKweens #Season13 #BlindDate #Minneapolis #NorthLoop #TwinCities #DatingShow #Graze #MurphyGoode

3. 

   28 Sept 2026

   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

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

671,839

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.3 / 5

15 ratings

Spotify

4.0 / 5

24 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 66 / 100

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Quality

68

Social presence

0

YouTube

82

Engagement

75

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