My Mom Dated in 1970s Analog-Era Manhattan and Here's What She Thinks We're Doing Wrong

In the 1970s, My mom was a 20-something single, living her best life Manhattan... $400-a-month Upper West Side apartment, Studio 54, house parties instead of dating apps, and a whole lot of waiting by the phone.

This week she comes on the show to walk me through what dating looked like before you could swipe, why she treated husband-hunting like a job search, and the one behavior from her era she thinks we've completely lost the plot on. We also run every modern dating term — ghosting, breadcrumbing, roaching, zombieing, love bombing — past a woman who did all of it decades before there were words for it. Plus: the wingman coach who engineered my parents' meet cute, the dating advice she wishes someone had given her at 25, and a car conversation with my dad I'm still not over...