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Hosted by Uptown Dale & Rachel Sobel · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 137 episodes
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One woman. One man. Thirty plus years of strictly platonic friendship with ZERO romantic history between them.This is Friends Without Benefits.Rachel Sobel is the face behind the popular blog and Instagram account, Whine and Cheez-its. She is the mother of two, a do-over wife, and award-winning writer, author and speaker.Dale McLean is a South Florida entertainment staple affectionately known as Uptown Dale. He is a bachelor, owner of a successful entertainment company, television personality and in-arena host for the Miami Heat.Together they tackle a range of topics around relationships, dating and current events, all with a banter that has been brewed to perfection for decades.Follow Rachel at www.instagram.com/whineandcheezitsFollow Dale at www.instagram.com/uptowndale
Uptown Dale & Rachel Sobel hosts Friends Without Benefits, a society show with 137 episodes published.
Then the headlines come in hot: TSA officers at Miami International got caught stealing wallets mid-screening in a coordinated distraction scheme, a nurse wins $300K from Carnival for being over-served tequila over nine
Things kick off with a full breakdown of the e-bike drama taking over Boca. A middle-aged man threw water bottles at a kid, grabbed his phone, and somehow rallied a crowd of neighbors like he put out a bat signal. Rachel
Dale has been sitting on a $500 loan for almost a year, has seen the guy in person, and still hasn't said a word. Rachel and Amy Lundy — creator of MOABs, the Mother of All Baby Showers, and today's in-studio guest — tal
Rachel's youngest crashes the pod on Bring Your Child to Work Day, and the nine-year-old wastes zero time fact-checking adults, interrupting tangents, and quietly stealing the episode. The trio covers Justin Bieber's Coa
Rachel posted what she thought was a hilarious reel of her daughter breaking every rule at a dog adoption event — finger in every single cage — and one pointed comment was enough to put a pit in her stomach and make her
Dale and Rachel kick things off with some truly questionable food trends, including a $100 hot dog covered in caviar and gold, fair food debates, and a passionate takedown of white chocolate. Somewhere between Biscoff fu
Dale and Rachel kick things off with a full in-studio moment featuring their sponsor finally showing up in person, complete with a custom jingle and a little champagne energy to match. What starts as catching up with an
Dale and Rachel get right into the chaos around The Bachelorette getting pulled just days before it was supposed to air, and they have a lot of thoughts. From messy casting decisions to whether the network knew more than
Dale and Rachel start off with a debate that quickly spirals into a full germaphobe confession session. From hotel carpets to shared bathtubs and those mystery shampoo bottles mounted in the shower, they compare their pe
Dale starts things off with a story about a friendship that abruptly ended after he gave some blunt advice about dating patterns. What he thought was an honest moment between friends quickly escalated into someone decidi
Dale and Rachel start out talking Olympics drama, curling controversy, and the fact that 10,000 condoms disappeared in three days at the Village. But as usual, the jokes lead somewhere deeper. Rachel also shares her firs
Rachel and Dale are not buying the hype when it comes to Valentine’s Day. The whole thing feels like a setup, the pressure is weird, the restaurants are overpriced, and somehow you are still expected to post a perfect li
A viral video about wives leaving their husbands a checklist for watching their own kids turns into a real conversation about parenting, partnership, and what it actually means to split the load. Rachel is clear. A husba
Rachel and Dale start from a simple question they have lived out for years. They have never crossed the platonic line. That somehow opens the door to everything else. Boundaries that feel blurry. Oversharing that turns p
Rachel and Dale are basically walking proof that a long friendship can stay truly platonic, but we still have to ask the obvious question. Is that rare for a reason, or are people just messy with boundaries. We start wit
Rachel and Dale start with a very serious debate about air conditioning etiquette and what counts as “acceptable” when it comes to temperature, then spiral into snow angels, South Florida winters, and whether TikTok is r
Rachel and Dale kick off the holiday stretch the way they do best, by spiraling through the strange headlines and the everyday moments that somehow say a lot about people. They start with the story of a woman who faked a
In this episode of Friends Without Benefits, Dale and Rachel lean all the way into their favorite end of year ritual. A full social media purge, strong opinions about lurkers, and a reminder that social media is meant to
In this episode of Friends Without Benefits, we dig into one big question we get asked all the time. Can men and women really stay just friends? As two longtime friends who have never crossed the platonic line, we share
Dale and Rachel catch up on life, travel, and the strange conversations that only long-term platonic friends can have. They debate manicures, dating standards, and whether asking for a feet picture is ever acceptable. Ra
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Friends Without Benefits is hosted by Uptown Dale & Rachel Sobel. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 137 episodes.
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