Brittany Luce

And it sounds like that's like the attitude that you have adopted as a result of doing this.

I think that's really cool.

Manuela, thank you so much for coming on and talking with us about dating offline and the terror, but also the beauty of chatting people up.

This has been so much fun for me.

I've been living vicariously through you, just so you know.

That was Manuela Lopez Restrepo, writer and producer for All Things Considered.

Also, this episode was inspired by Katherine Jaser Morton's fabulous piece in The Cut called In 2026, We Are Friction Maxing.

I highly recommend checking it out at thecut.com.

This episode of It's Been a Minute was produced by Liam McBain.

This episode was edited by Nina Potok.

Our supervising producer is... Barton Girdwood.

Our VP of programming is... Yolanda Sanguini.

All right.

That's all for this episode of It's Been a Minute from NPR.

I'm Brittany Luce.

Talk soon.

Allow me to take you back for a second to the daytime TV of yesteryear.

The year is 2004.

I remember sitting in my living room, well, my parents' living room, watching Oprah with my mom.

And there was this conversation about DL men.