CMS CLASSIC: IS ROMANCE DEAD? Chris Akin’s Online Dating Disaster Revealed! 2012

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CMS CLASSIC: IS ROMANCE DEAD? Chris Akin’s Online Dating Disaster Revealed! 2012

This episode originally aired on 9/29/12.

Think you know the truth about what happens when the cameras go off and the rock stars head home? Mainstream media wants you to believe the life of a shock jock is all groupies and glamour, but is the reality a desperate cycle of digital lies and profile fraud? Chris Akin and guest host Jon Drake are tearing the lid off the absolute chaos of the modern dating scene, and let’s just say—the truth is uglier than a Motley Crue morning-after. Does Akin have the balls to admit his biggest dating blunders, or is there a massive secret about his “game” that the industry has been hiding for years?

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- The Spank Line vs. The Truth
- Why Every Online Dating Profile Is A Lie
- Drake’s No-Homo Man Crush On Trent Richardson
- The “Guy Rule” Violation: Taking A Fist To The Mouth?
- The Dokken Credits Scandal Exposed

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