Hello and welcome to Why'd You Push That Button, a show where Caitlin Tiffany

Hello.

And Ashley Carmen, that's me, examine all the choices technology forces us to make.

We are back, sort of. Just for now. Just for today. Yeah, a little

one-off for all of you who have stuck with us for this almost year since we last released an episode.

I have absolutely no sense of whether that's accurate because I no longer have any idea of the use of

calendars. Yeah. So it's a pandemic. Kate, how have you been doing? Let's give the listeners

a little bit of a sense of our mental state these days. Yeah. I think I'm getting into the swing

of it. When a couple of months ago when we started talking about doing this episode,

it was chaos here in the Tiffany home. I had recently broken a mirror, a window, two wine

glasses. It was basically like I was just kind of crunching around like a floor covered in

glass being like, I wonder if I'll ever see my friends or family again.

So that was a dark time. But, you know, things are picking up in New York a little bit.

We're allowed to go to the beach.

Crucial.

Yeah. We're allowed to look at each other outside, if not touch each other. So things are on the on the up. Yeah, we've,

we've seen each other, which is really great. I think I've sort of settled into a routine of sorts.

I've done pandemic bingo. I've done Peloton workouts. I've made various foods and baked. I've done a puzzle.

I hate to admit out loud. Yeah. I've learned TikTok puzzle. I hate to admit out loud. I've learned TikTok dances.

And I've had jello shots from my birthday that you made me. Yes. Anyway, so we wanted to do this

episode where, you know, of course, why'd you push that button? We are always curious about how

dating is affected. What's changing and dating these days? And so we wanted to do an episode about

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