Brittany Luce

Would you say you've been scared away from the apps by weirdos in general?

Today, I have a special guest here with me, Manuela Lopez-Rescrepo.

Welcome to It's Been a Minute.

Manuela is actually a former It's Been a Minute intern, but she's now a producer and writer for NPR's All Things Considered.

Manuela, you're here because we're going to talk about my favorite topic, dating.

There's the rub.

At the end of the day, all people want is some human connection.

And that's, you know, it's such an elemental and such a natural thing.

That connection in general these days, it's really mediated by technology.

But what has that done to this millennia old need?

And what does it look like to try to find romance offline?

Well, Manuela and I are getting into it.

Let's do it.

Hello, hello.

I'm Brittany Luce, and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident.

I'm sorry.

That is just so wild to me as a person who really didn't start dating on the apps until I was like 25.

I'm sorry.

Not to sound like Cynthia Erivo.

I didn't know that was happening.