Interstates & Heartbreak
Latest Episodes
60. Will You Accept This Hinge Rose?
Alex and I dive into persistent dating app woes - is there any way to send a Rose or a Super Like without coming across as desperate? How do you deal with the ego hit of getting rejected by someone yo
59. Unhappily Ever After
I interview the host of Meet Cute Actually, Kassandra Pollard, about a genre we both love and love to hate - rom coms. We discuss the overly romanticized "meet cute" and its indirect role in stigmatiz
58. QUICKIE EPISODE – Gotta Get With My Friends (Pt. 2)
Karen returns for a quickie episode! She shares a story about the unexpected ramifications of inviting your Tinder date on vacation in Mexico, including (but not limited to) the continuous peer pressu
57. Gotta Get With My Friends
This week Karen and I dive into the intersection of the platonic and the romantic relationships in our lives, and explore the widespread impact of friendship dynamics on dating. We enter the dreaded f
56. Date Like a Matchmaker
On this week's episode I interview Ariel Rosen about her experience in a career field she was seemingly destined for - personal coaching and matchmaking. She reveals some of the most valuable dating p
55. Miss/Mister Independent
This week I'm independently recording for Independence Day to discuss involuntary independence - aka how to cope with a break-up. We're skipping past the cliches and diving into the lessons I learned
54. The Life Erotic with Monica Jayne
This week dives deep into eroticism with Monica Jayne- but begins with a backstory that is anything but erotic. Monica Jayne opens up about a conservative, religious upbringing in a town that literally inspired the movie Napoleon Dynamite,
53. BDE (Big Dateable Energy)
This week I'm joined by the extremely dateable ladies of The Undateable Podcast, Jasmine and Lauren. We dive into what it means to be fuckable but not dateable, as well as the standards society expects you to meet in order to be classified as "wifey ma...
52. Dating Post Ghost
Interstates & Heartbreak takes a turn into the horror genre with scary ghost stories of the dating variety. Mia Piatrafesa opens up about her experience dating in Denver as a New York transplant, concluding in a particularly harrowing tale of being gho...
51. Heartbreak Hot Seat
Interstates & Heartbreak has its most surprising guest yet, as I relinquish hosting duties and become the interview subject. High school friends Will Rippetoe and David Zeff unabashedly probe into my dating past, present, and preferences,