Different in Two Ways
Nancy
WNYC Studios
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2017
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Haddad is a writer and actor with a one-man show about hooking up, dating, and intimacy. He also has cerebral palsy. Please don't call him inspirational.
— Ryan Haddad is a New York-based writer and performer. His one-man show is called "Hi, Are You Single?"
This week's episode was recorded live at the Now Hear This podcast festival. Special thanks to Chris Bannon, John DeLore, Chris Hartnett, and the entire Now Hear This team.
Episode scoring by Jeremy Bloom with additional engineering by Matt Boynton. Additional music by Kevin MacLeod ("Slow Burn") and Anamorphic Orchestra ("Radiant Flux"). Theme by Alexander Overington.
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| 0:00.0 | I would say in my dating days, I was very anxious. |
| 0:04.4 | Like, so anxious, I couldn't go on a date unless all details were planned out ahead of time. |
| 0:10.8 | Like, what time am I going to show up? What time will this be over? |
| 0:14.0 | Okay. |
| 0:14.5 | What will I say to this person? |
| 0:16.1 | Here are three things that I can keep in my backpack at to say to them. |
| 0:19.6 | You sound like me. |
| 0:20.6 | A plan really helped me out. |
| 0:24.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:24.9 | But I would always have this kind of sadness that I couldn't just sort of stumble into one of those great dates that just kind of happens and it unfolds and you're loose and you're free. |
| 0:34.9 | The romantic comedy date, so you're saying? |
| 0:37.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:37.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:38.1 | But one time, I felt like I had it. |
| 0:41.1 | There was this guy. |
| 0:43.1 | It was sort of unclear whether we were interested in each other or not. |
| 0:46.3 | But we agreed to meet up in a park that was by the water. |
| 0:50.1 | So we meet up. |
| 0:51.1 | It's the middle of the day. |
| 0:52.5 | And we're like, let's just walk around. |
| 0:54.0 | So we walk around. |
| 0:55.2 | And then he's like, let's go to a bar. |
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