Panoply.

The following podcast contains explicit language. Skyler and Tom live in different cities. She's in Brooklyn, he's in Seattle and

back in 2014 their mutual friend Isabel thought it would be a good idea

for them to follow each other on Spotify. He always popped up as someone who was

listening to either something that I really liked at the time

or who was listening to something that I wanted that looked interesting that I wanted to listen to.

And he, I think, was doing the same thing.

And then Tom wanted to find out what Skyler looks like.

And I just took the bold step and followed her on like Instagram. And she followed him back and when I thought that she had followed me it was

like kind of a rush because I was like oh wow like in my mind she was this

really you know like like a really respected voice on current

music which is something that I don't necessarily keep my thumb on the pulse of and

so I was like really excited that it felt like I had like made it. This is YAWI. I'm Andre Selenzi and on today's show a story about how any app can be a dating app if you use it enough.

Like this year, Skyler logged 84,000 minutes on Spotify.

That's like 60 days of music, 16% of her year.

So over the years, Skyler and Tom

were just kind of lurking in each other's internet lives, mostly over Spotify, but they'd

never met.

And I think we all of these people, right?

You just know from the internet?

But then, the summer,

scholars start working on a playlist of songs,

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