PERVERTS Episode 3: Dating Apps feat Jamie Loftus (Sample)
Dating! In an app! What could go wrong? We check in with listeners, Liv, and Jake to answer that question. Our guest is comedian and author Jamie Loftus!
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Jamie Loftus: https://twitter.com/jamieloftusHELP
The Bechdel Cast: https://linktr.ee/bechdelcast
Raw Dog (The Book): https://read.macmillan.com/lp/raw-dog-by-jamie-loftus/
Liv Agar: https://linktr.ee/livagar
Theme by Nick Sena, additional music by NAP. Editing by Corey Clotz.
And this is the Perverts Podcast, where we venture into horny online subcultures and take you along for the ride.
Life is the act of perusing a catalog for the best products the market has to offer.
All people are interchangeable, and it's your job to leaf through them, always seeking something new, different, and better.
Simultaneously, you're also a commodity for everybody else to consider, responsible for writing your own pitch and taking your own product photography.
If you do this correctly, you'll create an effective sales funnel guiding potential partners from awareness to consideration before the sale is closed and you can shift to engendering brand loyalty.
Now, if this feels overwhelming, hollow even, do not worry.
Technology's here to help you with every step of the process through a set of holistic solutions known as dating apps.
They're increasingly both the way people meet romantic partners and find out that beneath the surface of every stranger runs a turbulent river of horniness and aggression.
So strap on your scuba gear and pinch your nose, fellow pervert, as we tumble backwards into these dark waters together.
Just don't forget to breathe.
Joining us in the swipe den is Jamie Loftus, comedian and author of Raw Dog, The Truth About Hot Dogs.
Welcome, Jamie.
Hi, thank you so much for inviting me to your horneous space.
It's truly an honor.
Of course.
And yeah, you'll serve a bit as our analog correspondent.
Someone who, after a short attempt to use dating apps about five years ago, you told us, went completely analog and have had awful results, just like the rest of us.
So just to find out that the grass is always greener in the past thing.
We're not doing one of those fascist, like, things used to be better.
There was a nice pastoral, you know, trad past.
I think that my conclusion is things were never good and never will be.
There's no good approach and there's mostly bad results.
Fantastic.
Yeah.
In this episode, we'll be hearing stories from our perverts listeners, listening to a voicemail from our beloved Jake Rakotansky about one of his awful experiences, and Liv has prepared a rundown of some of her own experiences in the magical world of dating apps.
Yes.
Very, very pleasant stuff.
Lots of fun.
Yes.
Yes.
I mean, if you follow Liv on Twitter, you know she gets only positive attention from sane people.
Yeah.
No, I mean, getting a lot of male attention online is just really fun and pleasant.
Yeah.
No nuts.
Dating app stories.
We will start with one dubbed Care Bear Girl.
This was written in from Radocity1.
Up front, this woman was 30 years old.
That's never good.
That's never good that you have to say that up front.
So, about five years ago, I had a date with someone I met on Coffee Meet Bagel, some twee dating app.
She seemed normal enough when we were chatting, so we agreed to go to some breakfast plate for a date with me picking her up.
Right off the bat, she came out to my car in Care Bear pajamas.
Okay, I'm seeing why the upfront was included.
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