Excuse My Grandma While We Dive Into Love and Matchmaking Ft. Aleeza Ben Shalom
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What is the main topic of this episode?
Welcome back to another episode of Excuse My Grandma. It's Kim and my co-host.
Grandma Gail.
So this week we are going to have an interview with Aliza Ben Shalom from the Jewish Matchmaker. We'll get to that in just a little bit. We recorded it in New York, so we'll toss to that. But in the meantime, grandma, how are you?
I'm good. Everything is good. Busy, busy. A lot of bridge when you weren't here. So I caught on some bridge lessons. Got a little sharper on the game. You know, when you don't play for a month or so, you get rusty.
You weren't playing even when I was here, though.
Yeah, but not as much. Now I took like two lessons a week. And all of a sudden, like any game, you really have to do it or you lose it. So then, of course, I had a trauma this week. Wi-Fi went out in the apartment. Oh, my God. It shows you how incompetent I really am with all these tech stuff. So at 8.30 at night, we had no phones. We had no TV, which was a catastrophe.
I don't know why. the TV is even connected to Wi-Fi.
Well, I think that's the only way in this apartment you get it. So at 9 o'clock, I went to sleep because I was so frustrated. I couldn't even use my iPad to play a game on, to play Bridge or Canasta. So the next day, the nice gentleman from our building came up and he opens up the closet. First, we didn't know where the main. That was the problem.
How do Kim and Grandma Gail catch up?
Like I could have unplugged the router and replugged it in. We did it. But we didn't know where it was.
The main center was. We kept unplugging the TV, putting it back. Nothing happened. So the next day he came up at 830. I think I called with an emergency call.
I don't know why you had to do it that early because it woke me up.
I don't care. I couldn't do without my television. I had to have it on. So, I mean, a day without Squawk Box in the morning, it just upsets me. So the man came in, he opened up the hall closet, he said, The plug went out of the Wi-Fi receptacle.
What is the Grandma Report about?
That's what I thought. I just didn't know where to look. It was just out. So we found out when you took out the umbrella to go, because the weather has been so dreadful.
I don't actually know, but I figured when I took the umbrella out of the closet, it touched it or something. He plugged it in. We were back alive at 8.35. I know. It is so frustrating when things don't work. I think I hacked into some other Wi-Fi and was able to watch on my laptop, so it wasn't that bad. Say, oh, yeah. You're happy. Yeah. But I would have been happier on the bigger TV, but it'll do. Okay. But yeah, I feel like the... The apartment, yeah, with the Wi-Fi to the air conditioning, none of us are on the same page.
We have a very old apartment, for those who don't know. So we have an old apartment that has one air conditioning zone. So no matter what bedroom you're in, you can't control it. It comes off a central unit.
Well, we just, like, Poppy likes it much hotter than I do. Yes, than everybody. And you like it hot, too, honestly. Yes, so...
What shows is Grandma Gail currently watching?
And you can't regulate it. So it's a very, it's a frustration. And it's something that I realized that this is the only place that I live that has that. Because every other place I have have zones that you can put it on the bedroom or the living room and you can put it, because sometimes, you know, some people like it at 70, some like it at 74.
Well, also, that's even not even that old because a lot of my friends in the city in New York who live in like pre-war, they can't control their own temperature. It's like whatever the building sets it up is what it is. And it gets so hot.
Well, that's what I have.
What insights does Aleeza Ben Shalom provide on matchmaking?
But you can put the ones in the window that then you choose it. Right, exactly. Which is why my building's a little newer in New York, and it's nice because my bedroom and my living room have it right there. Separate zones. Separate zones. So when I was in New York, I mean, I had a cold, so I was like in my house every day. I didn't do much, but I... I was so excited to control my own thermostat.
You definitely have to stay in New York. You can't live with Papi and I anymore because he's getting colder and colder. But it was unusual this week. First of all, the weather's been really dreadful. It was dreadful in New York because everyone said it's been really sub-zero. We had snow in parts of Florida. There was snow in New Orleans. It's been zero degrees and in the teens in New York.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic of this episode?
0:00–1:48
2
How do Kim and Grandma Gail catch up?
1:48–2:22
3
What is the Grandma Report about?
2:22–3:25
4
What shows is Grandma Gail currently watching?
3:25–3:55
5
What insights does Aleeza Ben Shalom provide on matchmaking?
3:55–31:09
6
How can dating apps be used effectively?
31:09–31:30
7
What advice does Aleeza give for dating in 2025?
31:30–37:31
8
What listener questions are answered at the end?
37:31–1:01:52