The Online Dating Scene
Nerdette Recaps With Peter Sagal
WBEZ
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In the middle of a pandemic, dating might be the last thing on your mind. But some singles are feeling more isolated now than ever, and some of them want to do something about it. We talk with two dating experts — Bela Gandhi of Smart Dating Academy in Chicago and San Francisco-based dating coach Logan Ury — about the kinds of advice they’re giving their clients right now.
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| 0:36.9 | Good morning. |
| 0:40.0 | It is Tuesday, April 28th, and I had hocakes for breakfast, which means this must be another edition of Nerdette's introverts guide to |
| 0:46.3 | the good life. So today, we're going to talk all about dating in this new, very weird time that we're living in. |
| 1:00.1 | As a single person myself, I know I am not the only person out there who's feeling more isolated than usual these days. |
| 1:08.4 | A lot of people are doubling down on the dating apps and plenty of people |
| 1:12.4 | feel like now is not at all the right time to meet a new person. I feel like I'm kind of somewhere |
| 1:17.9 | in between. But I was really curious and I bet you are too. What do the experts say? Are they seeing |
| 1:23.4 | trends in people's dating habits during a global pandemic. Do they have advice for people who may |
| 1:28.9 | want to invest more time in online dating? Turns out they sure do. Our first guest is Bella Gandhi. |
| 1:37.1 | She's a dating expert with the Smart Dating Academy here in Chicago. And I will admit, |
| 1:43.0 | full disclosure, my first question was totally for my own benefit. |
| 1:47.6 | So what's your advice for someone who has tried online dating in the past and just isn't into it? |
| 1:56.3 | Listen, nobody's into online dating. I had been a human being, not one human that's 21 to 71 years old that I've worked with. |
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