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Liz Plank discusses her new boyfriend and shares advice on being pickier in dating.

This week on Boy Problems, Liz is hard launching her new boyfriend (yes, really) and she has THOUGHTS on how she found him. Counterintuitive advice, green flags, and a manifesto on why you should be pickier and whimsier this summer. Also: the great allulose incident of 2026. Do NOT Google sugar free Haribo candy on Reddit unless you want to feel seen in the worst way possible. Drop your toilet event stories in the comments. This is a safe space. Leave a review, drop a comment, and keep sending in your boy problems — the more specific, the better — we want all the tea!! Subscribe so you never miss an episode, and we'll see you next week! 💛 ⁠⁠⁠Join the Patreon here! ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Submit your boy problems ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ! Check out⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Airplane Mode with Liz Plank⁠⁠⁠⁠ on Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ! Liz Plank is an award-winning journalist, filmmaker, international bestselling author, and producer of several critically acclaimed digital series at Vox Media and NBC News. She currently hosts⁠⁠⁠⁠ Boy Problems⁠⁠⁠⁠, a podcast that tackles love, masculinity, dating disasters, and life’s biggest questions.

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