Swiping Right Into Hell

In this installment of Bad Book Club, Julia and Eliza read the sacred word of Lori Alexander, aka The Transformed Wife, who walked so all trad wife influencers could run. The girlies unpack Lori's memoir, in which she preaches biblical womanhood and reveals the brain tumor that m ...  Show more

Julia is joined by bestie of the pod Ellie Schnitt to dissect the organ transplant industrial complex (figuratively)! Ellie lends her expertise as the proud owner of a gently used kidney to help unpack the wild history of transplantation, the misconceptions and ethics surrounding ...  Show more

Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz and Lakshmi Rengarajan, hosts of the newest season of The Cut’s Land of the Giants, join Offline to talk about how apps like Tinder, Hinge, and Bumble have redefined romance. They’ve named the season “Dating Games” and ask whether the goals of dating app comp ...  Show more

Is finding your soulmate as simple as entering some info into an app? Can romantic chemistry be broken down into 1's and 0's? You've got a date with Nikki Boyer as she talks to dating expert and fellow Wondery podcaster Sydnee Paige (Sydnee in the Sheets) who uses multiple dating ...  Show more

When Tinder launched in 2012, it changed dating culture and our expectations around dating forever by leveraging the iPhone and gamifying the dating experience. But did the rise of dating apps make finding romance easier or harder, and what are the consequences of playing a game ...  Show more

…We’re about to go off. Since what feels like the beginning of time (the 60s) dating companies have promised us that our soulmates are out there waiting for us, and they know just who it is. But in this current late stage hellscape, it’s safe to say these companies aren’t as altr ...  Show more