Why Oh Why

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 Twitter @alutkin, and read more about her #onTinderatTinder project here. To discuss this week's episode, head to facebook.com/whyohwhyradio or tweet with #whyohwhy. You can find Andrea on Twitter as @andreasilenzi. Did you hear we have a weekly newsletter? You can sign up on our website: whyohwhy.sexy.Today’s sponsors:What happens to our digital lives when we’re gone? LifeAfter, a new series from GE Podcast Theater and Panoply, the creators of last year’s award-winning The Message, explores these very questions. Listen and download LifeAfter wherever you find your podcasts.Why Oh Why is brought to you by HelloFresh. The meal kit delivery service sends pre-measured ingredients right to your door, so you don’t waste time, or food! For $35 off your first week of deliveries, visit hellofresh.com and enter WHY35 when you subscribe!

This week on the show, our regular guest Randy finally goes off the deep end. Will your host dive in after him? Yes, it's a real website: ragineffininsanity.com To discuss this week's episode, head to facebook.com/whyohwhyradio or tweet with #whyohwhy. You can find Randy on Twitter as @randyisdaman and Andrea is @andreasilenzi.If you're single and in NYC: We're hosting a Valentine's Day get-together/commiseration session. For more details, go to whyohwhyradio.com and sign up for our newsletter! Get Your Next Favorite Bra From ThirdLove:Why Oh Why is brought to you by ThirdLove, the lingerie brand using real women’s measurements to design better-fitting bras. Try one of their best-selling bras for free for 30 days by visiting thirdlove.com/WHYStart Bingeing GE Podcast Theater's New Thriller:What happens to our digital lives when we’re gone? LifeAfter, a new series from GE Podcast Theater and Panoply, the creators of last year’s award-winning The Message, explores these very questions. Listen and download LifeAfter wherever you find your podcasts.

When your host first met Randy, it was the opposite of a meet-cute. We'll revisit the phone call that kicked off years of quasi-friendship.To discuss this week's episode, head to facebook.com/whyohwhyradio or tweet with #whyohwhy. You can find Randy on Twitter as @randyisdaman and Andrea is @andreasilenzi.Get Your Next Favorite Bra From ThirdLove:Why Oh Why is brought to you by ThirdLove, the lingerie brand using real women’s measurements to design better-fitting bras. Try one of their best-selling bras for free for 30 days by visiting thirdlove.com/WHYStart Bingeing GE Podcast Theater's New Thriller:What happens to our digital lives when we’re gone? LifeAfter, a new series from GE Podcast Theater and Panoply, the creators of last year’s award-winning The Message, explores these very questions. Listen and download LifeAfter wherever you find your podcasts.

The inexpensive reproductive healthcare coverage offered by the Affordable Care Act may soon be a distant memory. On today's show, we speak with a woman fresh off her own IUD insertion procedure to see how she's adjusting. Then, we revisit a classic episode from Why Oh Why's years as a baby podcast. Travel back with us to January 2014, as your host prepares for her own IUD insertion. Listen and Subscribe to LifeAfter:Why Oh Why is brought to you by LifeAfter, from GE Podcast Theater and Panoply, the creators of the award-winning series The Message. LifeAfter explores the question: What happens to our digital lives after we're gone? Listen and download LifeAfter wherever you get your podcasts. 

Back in episode #1, we welcomed 10 dudes into the studio to shout about their dating lives. This week, our latest focus group invites 14 single ladies in New York and D.C. to chat about the many thrills and face palms that come with dating men. Is finding a partner essential to our longterm happiness? Join our next focus group:We’re are now casting another focus group – this time for guys who want KIDS. If you’re in NYC or DC. send us a note. Whether you’re cis or trans, straight or queer – if you want to be someone’s Dad someday, we want to hear from you. Send a note to whyohwhy@panoply.fm.Today’s sponsor:StoryWorth is a unique gift way to connect with someone you love next year. Every week, StoryWorth sends prompts to your family and loved ones, and compiles the stories into a keepsake book at the end of the year. Get $20 off when you subscribe at storyworth.com/whyohwhy.

Single? Chances are, someone who is decidedly not single has given you advice lately. This week, Andrea asks economist and journalist Tim Harford to vet the various dating advice she's heard from friends and fellow podcasters. Tim has a new book out called "Messy" about the value of bringing intentional disorder into your world.One of the many podcasters offering advice in this episode is Mike Pesca from Slate's The Gist. You can hear their full conversation on episode #606, "Mike Debates His Former Producer About Dating." Plus, Helen Zaltzman, of The Allusionist podcast, concocts a weird way to attract dates, and Mallory Ortberg, from Slate's Dear Prudence podcast, might have the best advice of all. Listen and Subscribe to LifeAfterThis week's episode of Why Oh Why was brought to you by LifeAfter, a new series from GE Podcast Theater and Panoply (the creators of last year's The Message). What happens to our digital lives when we’re gone? Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

When your host became newly single, she was shocked to discover that Tinder had made a drastic change as well. Like when silent films turned into talkies, though way less culturally significant, there is now a distinct sound when two people match on Tinder. Here to explain the art of sonic branding is Steve Milton, a founding partner at Listen, who helped craft the app's new signature sound.Plus, in Trump's new America, our Facebook friends keep talking about getting an IUD. Why? We'll discuss the outlook for women's reproductive healthcare in the coming years with Slate's Christina Cauterucci. Today’s sponsor:Eloquii, an online retailer that focuses on a sophisticated and figure conscious fit for sizes 14-28. To get 50% off your first item and 40% off any additional item, visit eloquii.com/whyohwhy and enter promo code WhyOhWhy at checkout.Get Slate Plus:Andrea was recently interviewed by Slate's Leon Neyfakh about her decision to bring her personal life back into this show. To read this interview, sign up for a free trial: slate.com/whyohwhyplus

We ask a group of Christian ministers about what it's like to date when your other big relationship in life is with God. Our panel includes Amy Norton, a recent graduate from Harvard Divinity School, Cara Rockhill, an ordained Transitional Deacon in the Episcopal Church, and Nick Chiurazzi, a Pastor of Youth at Lower Manhattan Community Church.GE Podcast Theater and Panoply have a new series!This episode of Why Oh Why is brought to you by LifeAfter, from the team that created last year's The Message. What happens to our digital lives when we're gone? Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Get Slate Plus:Andrea was recently interviewed by Slate's Leon Neyfakh about her decision to bring her personal life back into this show. To read this interview, sign up for Slate Plus: slate.com/whyohwhyplus

This week, we're heading into the past, to a simpler time. When Why Oh Why re-launched on Panoply in the fall, we celebrated with our own special live show at the Kraine Theater in New York City. Andrea helped her friend Joanna find love the old-fashioned way: with a game show. Our staff swiped through Tinder to find contestants, and then Joanna put them to the test, asking many of the real questions from the 1960s show The Dating Game. We also hear briefly from the folks at IMTOY about their new line of inspired vibrators. More info: http://imtoy.com/ProductZooHow has our national nightmare changed your love life?We're looking for your relationship stories from the election. Did political differences make you end things with your partner? Did exes come out of the woodwork in the wake of America's decision? Let us know.GE Podcast Theater and Panoply have a new series!This episode of Why Oh Why is brought to you by LifeAfter, from the team that created last year's The Message. What happens to our digital lives when we're gone? Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. 

This week on Why Oh Why, a look back at the role this show has played in your host's personal life. Travel through the past three years as Andrea talks to her editor, Hillary Frank, about what’s going on in her relationship. Hillary Frank is the host and creator of the podcast The Longest Shortest Time. Newsletter:Want to hear the full archive episodes that Andrea mentions? We’re sharing those links in our newsletter this week. Sign up now by visiting our website, whyohwhyradio.com.

This week on Why Oh Why, Andrea’s friend Joanna tells the story of a truly horrible first date. It’s one of those dates that makes the other people at the bar uncomfortable—or grateful they’re not in her shoes. Joanna learns an important lesson that some things just don't mix, and that maybe this dip into the dating pool wasn't worth her time. To make matters worse, one of the bar’s regulars (who happens to be frustratingly handsome) is watching it all unfold—and she’d much rather be on a date with him.This episode of Why Oh Why is brought to you by Salvation. Don’t waste money on expensive lotions, powders, or pastes. Get products recommended by experts who know your body. Visit joinsalvation.com to start your profile today. Enter WHYOHWHY at checkout for a free month trial.

This week on Why Oh Why, we attempt to plant one lucky listener inside a private dating app for celebrities, Founded by a PR executive in 2015, Raya targets "users in creative industries," which is a coded way of saying, "famous people." Plus, two anonymous Raya members teach us what it's like to swipe amongst John Mayer, Kelly Osbourne, Moby, Raven Symoné, Fred Durst and Sharon Stone. Is this the best place ever to find a boyfriend, or the absolute worst? More info about today's show available on our website: badhombres.usGet the newsletter: Once a week, the Why Oh Why team will send you episode extras, updates from favorite guests (like David #1), and our own personal recommendations. It’s also the best way to stay up-to-date on events and opportunities to participate in future episodes of the show. To sign up, click here. 

At the end of Episode #3, a surprise ending left us all cringing from head to toe. As an antidote, this week we welcome David back into the studio to share his side of the story. Plus, we head back to Bushwick to get a drink with that sexy Irish guy. You won't believe his trick for mellowing out on a first date.Why Oh Why is brought to you by HelloFresh. HelloFresh delivers healthy, delicious meal kits right to your door. To get $35 off your first order, go to HelloFresh.com and enter offer code WHY when you subscribe.

This week, a love story that takes place in the mind of a mathematician-turned-artist. Sarah Sole began her unique obsession with Hillary Clinton in 2007, after a vivid sexual dream. It was the beginning of an imaginary, sexual relationship that played out through Sarah's art. Her portraits bring Hillary into a new light, showing us nude Hillary, butch Hillary, and even Hillary as James Buchanan. You can browse her portraits of Hillary on our website, whyohwhyradio.com, and follow her on Instagram as @hillaryporm_official.

This week on Why Oh Why, Kate and David go on a first date at a bar in Brooklyn. You might remember these two from the focus group episode--David is the guy who asked Kate out at the end. And just for you, dear listeners, Andrea recorded every single moment.Why Oh Why is brought to you by HelloFresh. To get $35 off your first order, go to HelloFresh.com and enter offer code WHYOHWHY when you subscribe. HelloFresh delivers healthy, delicious meal kits right to your door. Panoply Survey:Here at Panoply, we want to get to know you (and your podcast listening habits) a little better. To take the next step, we created created a survey that takes just a couple of minutes to complete. If you fill it out, you'll help Panoply to make great podcasts about the things you love. And things you didn’t even know you loved. To fill out the survey, just go to panoply.fm/survey