The Online Dating Scene
Nerdette
WBEZ
4.7 • 1.4K 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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| 0:15.6 | From W be easy Chicago this is Nurdett I'm Greta Johnson good morning it is |
| 0:22.0 | Tuesday April 28th and I had |
| 0:24.5 | hoke eggs for breakfast which means this must be another edition of Nurdets |
| 0:29.0 | introverts guide to the good life. So today we're going to talk all about |
| 0:36.5 | dating in this new very weird time that we're living in. As a single person myself I know I am not the only person out there |
| 0:49.3 | who's feeling more isolated than usual these days. A lot of people are doubling down on the |
| 0:55.1 | dating apps and plenty of people feel like now is not at all the right time to |
| 0:59.7 | meet a new person. I feel like I'm kind of somewhere in between, but I was really curious and I bet you are to what do the |
| 1:06.4 | experts say? Are they seeing trends in people's dating habits during a global pandemic? Do they have |
| 1:11.9 | advice for people who may want to invest more time in online |
| 1:15.7 | dating? Turns out, they sure do. Our first guest is Bella Gandhi. She is the dating expert with the Smart Dating Academy here in Chicago and I will |
| 1:26.4 | admit full disclosure my first question was totally for my own benefit. |
| 1:32.6 | So what's your advice for someone who has tried online dating in the past |
| 1:37.8 | and just isn't into it? |
| 1:41.0 | Listen, nobody's into online dating. |
| 1:43.4 | I have a human being. |
| 1:45.4 | Not one human that's 21 to 71 years old that I've worked with. |
| 1:51.3 | Gaye, right, straight does not matter. |
| 1:53.6 | Nobody is excited about it. |
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