How to Find Love, With Matchmaker Dr. Frankie Bashan
How can we even find true love in the hectic world of online dating, ghosts and the bench? Matchmaker Dr. Frankie Bashan tells us why people use real middlemen like her for dating. Etiquette expert Daniel Post Senning understands the intricacies of Tinder etiquette. And Lifehacker food editor Claire Lower mixes a sexy three-ingredient cocktail.
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In this episode
Introduction (0:00 – 4:53)
In which Alice and Melissa discuss the concepts of “bench” and “crumbs of bread” and whether dating is really worse now than when Alice was a bachelor.
Interview with Dr. Frankie Bashan (5:01 – 30:20)
Frankie and I talk about how to set expectations in your dating life, what should and shouldn’t be a bar to a deal, and how to survive online dating – or ditch the internet meat market and find people in real life.
Three Ingredient Cocktail: Martini (32:30 – 35:05)
Claire believes there is nothing more seductive than the perfect martini, and who are we to argue?
Tech etiquette: how to behave on Tinder? (35:15 – 51:42)
In this segment, managing editor Virginia K. Smith talks to Daniel Post Senning, great-great-grandson of Emily Post and co-host of the podcast Awesome Etiquette , about how to behave on Tinder. Listen, Tinder ghost enthusiasts! (Ghosts? Ghosts?)
Update of the week (51:49 – 55:20)
Every week we discuss one tiny thing that matters a lot in our lives. This Week: Where to Buy Great Plants on Etsy , Cut Down on Alcohol, and Embrace the Ballet Flats Lifestyle Inspired by this Fashion Blogger .