Ep.125 – News From the Hive: Surviving the Bumble Swarm

Posted on July 20, 2021 by Kelley

David Finehammer returns to liven things up with Roger and I for an extra-long episode about scientific sexual attraction and how Bumble has turned me into a superficial jerk.

https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250151

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Ep. 123 – You Know Better Than That: Toxic Relationships and How To Avoid Them

Posted on June 14, 2021 by Kelley

Roger returns from vacation to help Kelley discuss why we stay in toxic relationships/friendships and why it’s obviously not good.

There are new developments in Roger’s 7-Date Plan, and a new segment is born: Word on The Street, where you send in small-town news and Kelley and Roger wager a delicious lunch!

Tables get flipped and Hygge is found to restore the balance.

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Ep. 121 – Accusations and Predictions: Winging It with Roger

Posted on May 9, 2021 by Kelley

Roger returns to convince Kelley that Sam and Bucky are the bad guys in Falcon/Winter Soldier (Spoilers Abound) and we talk about if the pandemic has made folks too lazy to date (additional spoiler alert: maybe).

Tables get flipped over IKEA Click and Collect and the Rick and Morty-esque Transition Portal from college basketball.

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Ep. 118 – Deal-Breakers, Rejection, and Cancel Culture: Can We Still Love Lovecraft?

Posted on March 28, 2021 by Kelley

Kelley and Roger discuss Justice League: The Snyder Cut as well as what to do when your heroes aren’t perfect and great artists turn out to me monsters. Can dealbreakers evolve over time?

Tables get flipped over litter and imaginary addictions, and we find hygge in tornado warnings and cheap pizza.

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Ep. 116 – Two’s Company, COVID’s a Crowd: Non-Monogamy During a Pandemic

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Kelley

Roger helps me with my unhealthy relationship with Alexa and then lays out his plans for the Love Pyramid, a supplement to his 7-Day Date System.

We do an in-depth review of HBO Max’s There’s No I in Threesome and we get to the actual show topic at the 57-minute mark and then go right back off topic seven minutes later – Success!Tables get flipped over commercials on DVDs (because it’s the ’90s) and we find Hygge in the Space Program.

Links:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/open-relationship-during-coronavirus_l_5ef4e408c5b615e5cd3ac9af

Navigating Consensual Non-Monogamy During COVID-19

https://www.vice.com/en/article/935vkd/safely-practice-non-monogamy-polyamory-during-covid-19-pandemic

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Ep. 114 – The Friendzone Debate: You’re Incorrect, But I Still Like You…as a friend.

Posted on February 1, 2021 by Kelley

Don’t yell at us — we know it was the Phantom Zone!

Roger is back to debate whether or not the Friend Zone exists. We talk about meeting one of the stars from Aliens, playing an Aliens RPG, and realizing that taking a second to Google the Phantom Zone shouldn’t be an alien concept.

Tables get flipped, Hygge is found, and we get one step closer to turning Roger’s 7-Date Program for Success into a book or something.

Links!

https://www.buzzfeed.com/gracespelman/the-friend-zone-is-not-real-sorry-dude

https://pricelindy.medium.com/the-friendzone-doesnt-exist-33ce35d4f0cb

https://www.mensxp.com/relationships/friendship/38143-sorry-to-burst-your-bubble-but-the-friendzone-doesn-t-exist.html

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Ep. 112 – Dating in 2021: New Year, Same Pandemic

Posted on January 4, 2021 by Kelley

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Roger returns to help me leaf through stacks of articles about how dating has changed since the pandemic started.

We tell you what we really think about Wonder Woman 1984 – spoiler alert, we hated it and rail against it from minute mark 12:30 – 46:40. That’s over a half hour of disdain!

Tables are flipped over the vaccine roll-out, and we get warm feelings from Flash Gordon and the local Starbucks Baristas.

Articles from the show:

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20201022/dating-during-the-pandemic-online-and-restless

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/09/what-dating-during-pandemic-like/616533/

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/21550996/dating-love-coronavirus-covid-19-singles-relationships

https://thebolditalic.com/i-got-engaged-to-the-person-i-started-dating-during-the-pandemic-62dbfa48a83e

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/09/11/911991077/coronavirus-faqs-what-are-the-new-dating-rules-and-what-about-hooking-up

Ep. 111 – Mating Habits Holiday Extravaganza – We’re Back!

Posted on December 24, 2020 by Kelley

WE’RE BACK! Roger returns to help me say F-Off to 2020 and get Mating Habits started again for 2021.

We celebrate the Holiday Season talking about awkward gift giving during the holidays with a brand new relationships, renting out movie theaters in the age of pandemic, and a new RPG podcast featuring me! where I play in a GURPS space opera across all times zones.

We talk about The Mandalorian Season 2 Finale [SPOILERS FROM MINUTE MARKER 16:05 – 21.58].

Aphrodisiacs aren’t really a thing, and in 2021, we’re still going to flip tables, but we’re going to right them again with reflections of Hygge to end things on a positive note.

LINKS!

Long article about something that doesn’t exist: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/expedition-ecstasy-sniffing-out-the-truth-about-hawaiis-orgasm-inducing-mushroom

Article from WebMD: https://www.webmd.com/sex/features/aphrodisiacs-fact-or-fiction

Article re Cyberpunk 2077 Genital Customizer:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/kotaku.com/cyberpunk-2077s-genital-customization-options-leave-a-l-1845863407/amp

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Ep.102 – Do Online-Only Interactions Sabotage the Dating Experience?

Posted on January 15, 2018 by Kelley

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Roger is back to talk about the New Year’s Eves of our past, his exciting adventures into the world of board game development, and we discuss why some people think it’s so damn cool to hate holidays.

We give a small fan review of The Last Jedi (spoilers abound), The Punisher, and we talk about our love for The Crown.

Also, the Black Mirror episode the USS Callister bothered me so much I couldn’t sleep!

Are online-only interactions killing the excitement and romance of a potential new
date? Do we give ourselves too much of an opportunity to mess things up because we don’t have to follow normal time constraints? Are we missing out on the other biological signals and cues because we’re not occupying the same physical space? Are we being too logical in the absence of the magic of attraction? I don’t know; do you? I’m genuinely asking.

Tables are flipped over too many promotional emails and filthy articles with such foul language!

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Ep.67 – Dating Stories from the Past: Great Scott! Let’s Take This Baby to 88.

Posted on June 8, 2015 by Kelley

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An entire bottle of Exotic Fruits Arbor Mist is poured into the Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor on the back of the Delorean.

Two of my oldest and dearest friends, Roger and David Finehammer, actually travel back in time and discuss vintage haps: David finally reads The Odd Thomas series and mourns the loss of Tron 3, Roger reviews Edge of Tomorrow, and talk about my very first Dungeons and Dragons game, Dungeon Mastered by David himself.

Dating has changed a lot in the past 20 years with the destigmatization of online dating; apps like Tinder, Grindr, OKC; and the loss of actual phone conversations. We discuss the early stages of the internet and how folks connected and dated via snail-mailed photos back in the early days.

David shares stories of shame during road trips to the midwest to meet women who sent you photos of themselves in cheap lingerie swinging from a tree, and we are grateful to him for it.

Conference tables are flipped over the jerk who scared people at the Georgia Airport, Roger wants to know where his DC/Marvel fighting game is, and David can’t understand why the mainstream media is so obsessed with Caitlyn Jenner.