Does tech encourage ghosting?

Ashley: The Why’d You Push That Button team has landed in Austin. We made it. Our producer Andru and I ate chocolate chip cookies on the plane, and Kaitlyn ate pretzels. Suspicious. We’re here because we’re doing the show live, in Austin, at SXSW. Andru won’t be able to edit anything out, so if you’ve ever wondered what Kaitlyn and I sound like in the studio with no one to rein us in, you should probably come check out this episode. We’ll be trying to figure out why people ghost their dates and whether technology is to blame for this phenomenon. Kaitlyn and I will probably fight about it. We’ll also probably tell some embarrassing stories and maybe you’ll lose a little respect for us. Or you’ll see us as more human. Kaitlyn: And as usual, there’ll be some high-stakes drama followed by a descent into misery that may or may not be reversed by the end of the hour. We’ll be joined by OkCupid engineering manager Jordan Guggenheim, who’s going to answer all our questions about how dating app designers think about human behavior. Can they con us into treating each other kindly? Should they throw up their hands and let us break each other’s hearts? Dr. Jess Carbino, the in-house sociologist at Bumble, will weigh in from the human nature side of things, and I sure hope it gets messy.