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Why Oh Why
Named a best new podcast of 2016 by The New York Times, NPR, Huffington Post and iTunes. Andrea Silenzi speaks with friends, experts, and guys in bars about where love, dating and sex meets technology. The show tells the stories about relationships often blurring the lines between memoir, documentar...
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Loose Ends
We have news. Starting in 2018, we're taking a break from making Why Oh Why. While we can't predict the future, let's call it a break not a breakup.
Just Another Sad Love Song
This summer, Schuyler shared a playlist of songs that have helped her cope with depression and anxiety. It moved a lot of people in her life to reach...
Casual
After you've developed an allergy to casual sex, is there a cure? We talk with comedy writer and performer Matteson Perry about keeping things casual....
Stage a Fight with Esther Perel
Esther Perel has ideas for how to humor yourself on your first dates using a bit of role play. She's the host of the Audible original podcast "Where S...
Find Your Single Ladies (Live in Chicago)
Live from Chicago Theater Works, our show begins with the love story. Hear how a first date turned into a meaningful relationship for six single women...
End of the World Sex
On election night last November, the world shifted beneath our feet... but what was going on our bedrooms? Nona Willis Aronowitz is a features editor...
Dating While Brian
Brian has Muscular Dystrophy and gets around in a wheelchair, but that doesn't mean he won't make out with your girlfriend when you're not looking. On...
Ghosting Stories
Ghosting has been called the millennial way of breaking up, but that doesn't make the phenomenon any less haunting for its victims. Just in time for H...
Stop Dating Older Guys
The age gap between men and women in heterosexual dating has become a fact of life in the 21st century. The Guardian’s Mona Chalabi suggests it’s time...
Birth Control by Stapler
The arm implant, known as Nexplanon, is a birth control option that's slightly more effective than the IUD, and less painful to insert. Why aren't we...
The Perfect Storm
While Hurricane Irma sped towards Miami, Emily decided to ask a guy from Bumble if he wanted to evacuate with her as a 3rd date. Her family has a home...
Puppies or Ice Cream?
Helen Zaltzman has a way with words, which is why we're putting her to work solving one of the trickiest parts of online dating—composing your opening...
Leagues Over the Sea
This week, with Bumble Mike in tow, we set sail on a singles mixer, organized by The League. Is finding a date while stuck on a boat easier than swipi...
My Friend the Human Shield
In this episode, we talk to a human shield and a human billboard. First, Al Letson was just trying to cover a demonstration—an anti-hate rally in Berk...
A Man and a Woman Walk into a Bar
Today on the show, we’re finally tackling THE QUESTION we're asked the most frequently as a podcast about dating: "Who should pay for the drink on a f...
One Short Episode
When determining your criteria for a date, how much should height matter? We'll talk to one woman who has always known exactly what she's looking for...
Can You Fall in Love with Anyone?
If you can fall in love with anyone, how do you choose well? Mandy Len Catron offers an answer. She's the author of the book How to Fall in Love with...
Game of Groans
Many fans of the HBO show Game of Thrones use photos of themselves sitting proudly atop an Iron Throne replica for their online dating profile picture...
Live at Bonobos - Making Out in LA
What's the biggest difference between dating in LA and dating in NYC? Our running theory: there's more making out, usually in or near cars. We'll offe...
Dressing Room Confessionals
This summer, we went on the road to tape live shows at Bonobos Guideshops in NYC, Chicago, and LA. And in true Why Oh Why fashion, we asked our audien...
Live at Bonobos - Branching Out in Chicago
Sometimes in order to find love, you have to figure out what you love to do. We begin by exploring our Chicago roots, and a story of how Andrea's mom...
Like a Virgin
Are millennials spending too much time behind their screens and not enough time in the back seats of cars? Recent studies show that the generational c...
Data-ing
The persona we create online or on apps isn't very representative of what's going in our lives. So we brought in Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, author of "...
Live at Bonobos - The Rules for Dating in NYC
We begin with a story: The tale of your host's earliest ancestor’s dating life, and the love life of a more recent relative, Grandma Phyllis. Then com...
Why So Forlorn, OK Cupid?
Does OK Cupid's app icon tell a larger narrative of chaos and distress? Let's use the logo design of popular dating apps to explore the state of the c...
Deep in the Woods
Over at Why Oh Why HQ, we're planning quite the event for our first live show with Bonobos. And it got us thinking about the joy of crafting a live sh...
Don't Listen If You're My Ex-Boyfriend
How do you even begin to deal with heart break? Your host weighs the advice.
We'll speak with Olga Pronin, the marketing manager at Wham-O.
Hotter on Bumble, Part 2
If our potential matches on Bumble feel hotter than other apps, who's making that decision? What does this mean for us normals?
Reynald Adolphe...
Hotter on Bumble, Part 1
Bumble is held up as Silicon Valley's gift to single women. Finally, a dating app made with us in mind. But after you download the app and start swipi...
Muscle Thrasher
In June 2013, your host and friends independently piloted a podcast idea called "Like Like." The concept involved setting up blind dates and recording...
Aspiring Dads Focus Group
In which six single guys split between D.C. and Brooklyn studios share their plans for the future—down to the baby names. For listeners who aren't acc...
Your Best Foot
What do you do when you meet someone who doesn't meet your most essential criteria? Why Oh Why explores how turning thirty can change your dating life...
Tips from a Gentleman
Jim's a 40-something guy who lives in Florida and exclusively dates strippers. What can he teach your host about improving her dating life in NYC?
As Seen on TV
In a time when dating feels so broken, could The Bachelor be a reasonable last resort? What does a reality show get right?
To discuss this week'...
Going There
Today's episode is basically StoryCorps, but between total strangers in the back of a bar with the potential of sex later.
Have you ever had a m...
One Date at a Time
Think about it: The de facto first date invitation tends to be "let's get a drink." What's a single person to do when they don't imbibe?
Did you...
Do I Hate Men?
Before listening to this week's show, we recommend starting out with our "Dudes in Bars" episode from last week.
For this week's show, we go bac...
Dudes in Bars on January 21, 2017
How do we date men in a time when our rights are under attack? We sent 10 ladies into bars across the country on the day of the historic Women's March...
What Ifs and Butts
Is Uber the new Tinder? A lesson in how to shoot your shot when life sends you a cute driver. You can find Kelli on Twitter @KelliAmirah, and see her...
Alone Forever
What's going on with you romantically? Nothing? Our guest Aimée Lutkin says that's okay.
You can read her Jezebel piece here, follow her on Twit...