Brittany Luce

That was writer and content creator Josh Flora.

You can find him on TikTok and Substack at Tell the Bees.

This episode of It's Been a Minute was produced by Alexis Williams.

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.

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?