Grindr: Destroying Confidence or Building Community?

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Science, Biology, Comedy, Youtuber, Life Sciences

4.9 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

What has science discovered about the gay hook up app Grindr? Is it damaging peoples confidence or fostering consensual sex?

This week, Greg and guest host Matt Rogers (comedian / host of Las Culturistas) tell stories about their experience with Grindr, open relationships and STIs.

The final debate between Greg and Matt is about whether Grindr has a positive or negative influence on the queer community.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Mitch and I'm Greg and this is SideNote.
0:03.6	A podcast where every episode we tell stories about and then debate a controversial topic.
0:08.1	And then we research and splicing all the science and mind-blowing information throughout
0:12.5	so you are entertained while simultaneously learning.
0:14.9	The SideNote's today will be presented by Rachel.
0:17.4	Hey friends, let's get into it.
0:19.7	Today we are doing things a little bit differently with me and the Booth is a guest host named Matt Rogers
0:25.1	who is one half of the amazing podcast called Last Called Trees Des.
0:28.5	He does it with his friend Boan Yang.
0:30.2	It's a hilarious podcast.
0:32.0	In fact, sometimes it's even insightful and you bring it to your eye.
0:34.6	Okay, they talk about pop culture.
0:36.5	They have celebrity guests, comedian guests.
0:38.8	We are obsessed with this podcast.
0:40.4	So make sure you check it out.
0:41.3	Subscribe to it.
0:42.1	It's called Last Called Trees Des.
0:43.5	That's LAS, like last called Trees Des.
0:46.7	They also are really good at talking about queer culture, which is why we thought it was important to have Matt Rogers
0:51.9	on today's episode as we speak about the gay hook up app grinder.
0:56.0	Matt and I are going to talk about what we learned this week.
0:58.1	We're then going to tell stories about our experiences with grinder and then we're going to get into a debate about whether or not we think this type of social media is good or bad for society.
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