Are We All Too Anxious To Date? ft. Brooke Averick
We Met At Acme
Dear Media, Lindsey Metselaar
4.2 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Brooke Averick co-hosts the hit podcast, Brooke and Connor Make a Podcast, where she speaks candidly and humorously about her struggles with OCD, anxiety, and depression. We are talking about what it’s like to date in LA, how to calm anxiety before going out with someone, her own dating flaws, things that would surprise her fans, and so much more.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:18.0 | Hey guys, welcome back to We met at Acme. |
| 0:20.6 | Brooke Averick is on the podcast today. |
| 0:23.1 | You might know her from her own podcast, Brooke and Connor make a podcast, her TikToks, |
| 0:28.5 | or maybe because you pre-ordered her new book, Phoebe Berman's going to lose it, which is available |
| 0:33.9 | on Tuesday. |
| 0:35.3 | I really hope that you enjoy the episode. |
| 0:40.5 | I'm excited for you to share your thoughts with me as always. The episode is on YouTube and also we have a substack. We met at Acme and |
| 0:47.6 | we met at Baby. I share all of the tips and tricks for how to meet someone in person this summer or just in general |
| 0:56.7 | and what to say to them when you do meet on my Wii Medadacmi substack this past week. So check |
| 1:02.6 | it out. And if you haven't written a review yet, please do. You know what makes me happy |
| 1:07.9 | and just makes me feel so loved by you. And it also helps the podcast |
| 1:14.5 | keep going. So really appreciate that. And I hope you enjoy today's episode with Brooke. |
| 1:21.6 | Hey guys. Welcome back to Weamadatakmi. I'm so excited to be here with Brooke Averick. Hi. |
| 1:26.4 | Hi. Thanks so much for having me. I'm so happy to meet you in person. I'm so excited to be here with Brooke Averick. Hi. Hi. Thanks so much for having me. |
| 1:28.5 | I'm so happy to meet you in person. I'm so happy to meet you. I loved your podcast for so long. |
| 1:34.3 | Thank you. And we always start every episode with the same question, which is what is your favorite |
| 1:39.1 | romantic gesture for someone to do for you? Ooh, that's a good one. I haven't really been on the receiving end of too many, |
| 1:46.8 | but I think it's like the little things that I really appreciate. |
| 1:51.3 | Just like if I make like a very subtle comment about like something that I'm doing or something that I like. |
| 1:58.0 | And then that's brought back up. |
| 2:00.5 | Like I think like once I said like something about liking apple juice. Yeah. That I didn't even, like, clock. And then a guy brought me, like, a thing of apple juice. That's really cute. And I was, like, why are you bringing me this? Because I didn't remember saying anything. So that is sweet to me. That's really sweet. Yeah. That goes a long way. It goes a long way. Whatever happened with that person? It just wasn't a match. |
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