The following podcast contains explicit language.

I spend a lot of time swiping left on Tinder.

I do it on Bumble, I do it on Coffee Meets Bagel.

And at this point, I think I've said no to all the guys in New York City.

I say no to smoking, to taking your shirt off, to unruly beards, photos and bathrooms,

holding a guitar, holding a gun, holding a fish.

Any evidence that you have ever used a selfie stick in your life.

I'll turn you down if your hands are in your pockets.

I don't know what's in there.

Maybe I've forgotten how to do this, how to close my eyes and start hoping for a future

with a stranger.

Or really anyone who isn't my ex-boyfriend.

I feel like I have a new anthropology.

And here's the guy I love to blame.

It's the English economist and journalist Tim Hartford.

He gave me a piece of advice three years ago that changed the course of my life.

You recommended that I try going on Skype dates.

And that led to me meeting my ex-boyfriend.

We just broke up a few months ago.

It's a story you heard all about an episode A to the Show, an episode called How Will I

Know?

Listening to your last podcast was kind of surreal.

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