Me in Search of You with Jenna Langbaum
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Jenna Langbaum, author of “Me in Search of You,” joins us on this episode of Seeing Other People. Jenna’s writing beautifully dissects the nuances of modern dating, ghosting, and dating apps and helps to remind us that we’re not alone in what we’re facing, as we’re all connected by shared dating struggles. We discuss how the concept of ghosting is actually insane and how painful and confusing getting ghosted can really be. We explore how dating apps have led us to consider potential partners based on their basic credentials. We debate if dating is really just a numbers game. Finally, Jenna helps us answer listener questions about whether or not to text a guy after meeting at a party and spending the night, what to do when your friend’s SO is toxic, and how to navigate simply not liking your friend’s partner.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:05.9 | Hey guys, it's Alana. |
| 0:07.8 | And Jonah. |
| 0:09.0 | And welcome to seeing other people. |
| 0:11.4 | Okay. |
| 0:12.6 | Getting right in. |
| 0:14.0 | Shit. |
| 0:15.0 | I never hit it on time. |
| 0:16.5 | And it never, |
| 0:17.3 | because there's always a little bit of a lag. |
| 0:19.0 | So I'm just like this time around, I also feel like sometimes I either like try and |
| 0:24.0 | and make it not fit, you know? |
| 0:27.1 | Like I'm always like holding for an extra half a second before I say it because I'm not sure. |
| 0:33.1 | Right. |
| 0:33.6 | Okay. |
| 0:33.7 | I see you're saying because it perhaps by delaying it intentionally it actually does sync up perfectly. Yeah, but then I guess it doesn't, and I shouldn't have done that, and I should just talk like a normal human. That would help. Maybe. Anyway. I don't know how to be a normal human. You know, that's the beautiful thing about humanities that I don't think anyone does. What does it mean to be normal? |
| 0:59.9 | Normal is just a setting on a washing machine. As I've said before, from my health teacher in high school that was on the curtains. All right, everybody, welcome into the episode. We are here with |
| 1:05.2 | the lovely Jenna Langbaum, her new book, Me in Search of You. I'm doing my Jimmy Fallon thing |
| 1:10.5 | where he introduces like the band. |
| 1:13.8 | We are very, is it? I kept reading it as we pooped. It's not we pooped. It's we popped. |
| 1:20.6 | We texted. We swirled. It's an unreal book. Jenna, thanks for coming to seeing other people and |
| 1:26.4 | hang out with us. I am so excited to be here, extremely honored, and I am so excited to meet you guys and chat with you. |
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