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We Met At Acme

Dating Sober, Holding Grudges, and What Girls Ask ft. Isaac Hindin-Miller

We Met At Acme

Dear Media, Lindsey Metselaar

Education, Society & Culture, Relationships, Self-improvement

4.22.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We Met At Acme Episode 13 features Isaac Hindin-Miller, an esteemed writer and relationship expert from New Zealand. Isaac has written for The New York Times, Man Repeller, GQ, Esquire, and others. In this episode we discuss dating when you're sober, girls most common questions, holding grudges, and more!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome back to We Met It Acme. This is episode 13 and we are so excited to be here with Isaac from Isaac likes

0:07.6

Who is a DJ and relationship expert? Welcome Isaac. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me

0:15.0

So tell us about yourself where you from how old are you?

0:20.0

I'm 33 years old. I'm from New Zealand. I moved to New York in 2011

0:25.5

I started this blog Isaac likes.com in 2008. I was a

0:32.1

Fashion journalist who became like a fashion writer on on a website a blog and

0:38.0

It started out as like

0:40.2

Breaking news and stuff like that and I was the first person in New Zealand history to ever get fired from a traditional media company for a blog post

0:47.0

That I wrote on my personal blog and it became this like

0:49.3

What did you write that was so offensive? I basically broke the story that New Zealand's largest media company had shut down a huge

0:56.5

Website division and fired all the stuff and the CEO of that company was like quoted in the newspapers saying that the things that I'd said were

1:03.2

Defamatory and incorrect and I got fired from the magazine I was working for and then the next day came out that I was correct that everything I said was true

1:10.8

So I sued

1:12.8

and

1:15.2

Then I started traveling all around the world on the fashion week circuit like so going from New Zealand to Paris and Milan and New York and London and stuff like that and in

1:24.0

2011 I moved here

1:25.6

I started writing for like the New York Times and GQ and S square and stuff like that and then very quickly discovered that

1:31.0

You cannot pay rent in New York City writing for the world's best publications

1:35.2

It's true and so I got this agency who were like well your blog is already quite popular

1:40.9

So you need to start taking photos of yourself and outfits and become a personal style blogger

1:45.6

And I was like never and then I started doing it

1:48.3

And then I started DJing around the same time so like 2012

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