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Hey guys, it's Alana and welcome back to another episode of Seeing Other People.

Together, we're navigating modern dating alongside experts and real-life daters who are sharing

their stories. Don't have a date for tonight? No problem. Come learn, laugh, and maybe even

cry along with us as we navigate the dating scene together.

You guys, I am so excited today. We have Carly Weinstein here right now. Carly, I have been looking

forward to having you on for so long. Oh my God. I just feel like you're one of the most like

authentic people out there who does what you do and in the sense of like putting yourself out there. Thank you. I've been following you for a while. Like I've always known about your podcast. So I'm hype. And I feel like we have similar fan base kind of. We have similar audiences. I feel like there are so many times where I'll record with people and like, oh my God, Alana, like I feel like I know you. Yeah, yeah you yeah yeah and that's how i feel about you or i feel like i know you but i don't know if it's from

like your content or just because i feel like we're the same no it's probably both honestly and we

have mutuals and i feel like we are similar yeah for sure there's going to be a lot of like oh me too

is this conversation 100% okay carly let's set the stage what is going on in Yeah, for sure. There's going to be a lot of like, oh, me too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 100%.

Okay, Carly, let's set the stage.

What is going on in your dating life right now? Oh my God, it's such a shit show. I'm so excited to hear about it. Selfishly, I'm so glad. I'm the best person to have on this because it's every day. It's a new shit show. but I've honestly been, I've been on hinge and it's been so dry.

That's what I'm hearing from everyone. And I come, I say this all the time, but there have really been times where I've been on Hinge or I've been on Lox Club and it's been like pretty good. Like there's a good selection and I've gone on some dates. Right now, there is nobody. And if they're then they're not they're not starting the conversation or saying anything i wish i had this picture to pull up for you but one of

my friends literally got matched with somebody whose pictures were elephants like actual elephants

like that's who hind was giving her or someone will give me they'll select a prompt and instead of answering it they'll just write

period yeah i've seen that are you kidding like like tell me you're not interested in just say you're

not interested in them i need to know the stats of if those people have ever gone on dates from that's

what i want to know like are there people who are actually okay with that and do they think they're

that attractive that they can do that and and here's the thing. They never are. No. They never are. Not that it would like make it better, but never. Yeah. So that's been my struggle with hinge. I've had like a sneaky link for a while. Like I literally just refer to him as my sneaky link. How did that start? He, I've known him for like a long time. Like I like grew up with him. And he like recently got out of a relationship and we just like reconnected as like kind of friends. But then I had always wanted to like have sex with him. So I was like, okay, this is like a good opportunity. So I did. And then we just like our friend groups kind of meshed.

That's awesome.

Yeah.

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