How To Ditch the Apps & Actually Find a Date
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Daniel seems to be the whole package. He's smart, social, and has lots of friends. He even organizes a beach volleyball league in Berlin. But he can't seem to land a date despite his best efforts. On this episode of How To!, we bring on Andrea Silenzi, dating aficionado and host of the acclaimed dating podcast Why Oh Why. She knows what it's like to put a ton of effort into dating and not land the relationship she wants. Now married, she shares how she broke through a decade of bad dates and has some hard-earned wisdom to help Daniel, and all of us, make a move that actually works.
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| 0:00.0 | In my experience, they're gonna text her some photos of you. |
| 0:04.8 | They're gonna say, this is my friend, Daniel. |
| 0:07.4 | He is the organizer of my beach volleyball team. |
| 0:10.5 | He does software engineering. |
| 0:12.3 | He's so cool, so fun to hang out. |
| 0:14.7 | Like, your friend's gonna give you a recommendation. |
| 0:17.1 | Now, here's the thing that sucks about a front set up. |
| 0:19.9 | It's you're gonna have to both tell the friend how it went after. |
| 0:26.0 | Welcome to How To. I'm Amanda Ripley. |
| 0:29.3 | Back when I met my husband at a party in DC, |
| 0:32.2 | he had a pager. |
| 0:33.8 | Yes, for real. |
| 0:35.4 | If you don't know what that is, ask your parents. |
| 0:38.1 | And I had a landline and an answering machine. |
| 0:42.0 | I actually can remember calling him |
| 0:43.5 | when I was out reporting for work from a pay phone. |
| 0:47.1 | Even then, dating didn't feel easy. |
| 0:49.0 | I mean, I had to find a lot of quarters, |
| 0:50.7 | but in retrospect, it was definitely simpler. |
| 0:53.9 | These days, there are more ways than ever to meet someone, |
| 0:57.9 | but it's still brutally hard to move |
| 1:00.5 | from pictures on a phone to an actual date, |
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