One Date at a Time

Why Oh Why

Andrea Silenzi

Personal Journals, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Think about it: The de facto first date invitation tends to be "let's get a drink." What's a single person to do when they don't imbibe? Did you hear we have a weekly newsletter? You can sign up on our website: whyohwhypodcast.com, and every week we send 10 new subscribers our latest Why Oh Why swag. To discuss this week's episode, head to facebook.com/whyohwhyradio or tweet with #whyohwhy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Panaply.
0:03.0	The following.
0:10.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:16.0	Hannah is 35 years old.
0:18.0	She lives in LA and she works in television.
0:20.6	Her dating profile describes her as a nerdy indoor kid, a passionate Liz Lemonesque pop culture
0:26.4	aficionado.
0:28.1	And then it says that she's a friend of Bills.
0:31.3	Which is like our sort of insider code.
0:34.2	She's not just bragging about having a friend named Bill.
0:37.4	That's a way to sort of maintain the anonymity,
0:40.4	but also sort of try to suss out, did I meet you in an AA meeting are you a
0:44.8	friend of Bill? Bill Wilson started Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935 and since anonymity
0:52.2	is at the core of the organization saying your friend of
0:55.4	bill means you're in recovery. This can be helpful code in a dating profile, but
1:00.7	not every guy reads with that level of detail.
1:04.0	So if someone asks me out for a drink and I'm feeling snarky, I will often say, like,
1:09.0	might I suggest you Google the term friend of Bill.
1:13.3	And he does Google it.
1:15.0	That's some bonus points.
1:16.3	You made the extra effort to like Google something for two seconds.
1:20.3	Swoon.
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