Bravo fixture, and now host of the reboot of the 80s-era dating game show Love Connection, Andy Cohen, is speaking out about dating on the world of Tinder and other technological matchmakers. The 49-year-old personality was at a press event in New York City to promote the Galaxy S8 and told PEOPLE Magazine that he felt “people judge each other too quickly.”

Andy’s incarnation of Love Connection has caught up to the times, for better or worse. With the show’s new structure, “We have them score each other’s looks based on their first impressions, which is sometimes painfully awkward and sometimes amazing and sometimes both.” We all know what this is supposed to replicate, right? Andy goes on to say that “But, what invariably happens is people say, ‘Oh, wow. I got to know the person.’ And then — because we force them to spend several hours getting to know each other — it turns out they’re good people and there’s reasons that people go on dates.”

After hosting the show for a bit, and apparently putting his love life on hold while doing so, Andy learned that first impressions may not be the best way to determine if a relationship is meant to be, stating, “That’s the biggest lesson: Get to know someone. We’re all swiping way too quickly and not thinking, ‘Wait. This person maybe has things in common with me.’”

Preach, Andy. I have to provide full disclosure here, Kevin and I just celebrated the one-year anniversary of our first date (on Saturday…happy date-aversary, sweetie!) and, yes, we met on Tinder. I have been dating, on and off, since the days of the telephone personals and I am not a big fan of online dating. Andy’s 100% correct, first impressions matter more then they should. Another full disclosure, Kevin is very attractive and it did influence my decision to meet him offline, but if he was a dud, personality-wise, I would have moved on. Oh, and the new Love Connection is awful. I love Andy, but the show itself is brutal, and not in a good way.

On a lighter note, Andy is making positive connections between shelter dogs and loving homes, working with Purina One’s Mutt-i-grees program, where shelter dogs are taken to schools to help students learn “emotional competence and social awareness.” He was inspired to help out after adopting his own shelter dog, whom he named Wacha. The dog was a godsend for Andy, who confessed that prior to being a pet parent, “started to get really sick of thinking of myself, and I started to feel beyond the scope of self-centered. I needed something else to focus on and care for, or I was going to drive myself crazy.” He says that making the choice to adopt Wahca “completely changed my world.” Andy said, “There were the regular things you’d expect to change when you first get a dog, but I wasn’t expecting Wacha to open up my heart.” Awww. I lost my dog a few months ago, and I really want another one – and if you’ll excuse me, I have to finish chopping these onions.

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