WEBVTT - Test Results 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:06.160 All right, hey there everybody, Hey, me and TJ. Here, 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:08.840 we are into the new year. We hope your new 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:11.400 year and your resolutions are still on track. We are 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:15.000 well into now roads Dry January. So tell everybody how 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:15.680 you doing. All right? 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:19.560 Well, I have been waking up feeling refreshed and energetic 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:22.920 in a way that I haven't before, so that is awesome. 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:27.800 And I definitely feel the effects of the toxins leaving 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:28.319 my body. 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:29.160 But all positive. 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:33.560 Well, the only thing is I still feel a little 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:36.560 angry when I can't have a glass of wine at night, 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:40.279 like when I sit down on the couch and have 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:43.839 a movie going. It's just maybe it's just a pattern, 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:47.760 or it's just I don't know, if it's just the 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:49.320 experience of holding the glass. 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:51.640 It's it's been a little tough. 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:54.440 I'm still not there yet where this feels perfectly free 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:54.880 and fine. 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:59.720 Okay, but physically it feels amazing. Okay, Yeah, I love it. 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:01.800 This is a lot of people know that I've done 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.600 this for ten fifteen plus years and now always do 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:07.119 it Dry January. This is Rob's first time to fully 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:10.240 be on board with it, and on a matter of days, 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:14.399 you almost forget that you're not drinking, and it just 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:17.399 we drink so much water, you're so hydrated, and you 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:18.959 have some mocktails. 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:22.280 Is so I've been drinking club soda. I have a 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:25.120 little lemon or a line in it. And you actually 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:27.920 got me this idea. So we got some rosemary. 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:30.760 Yes it's a Cranberry spritzer that I learned from eight 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:36.480 years ago, but Cranberry's juice, sparkling water and a little rosemary. 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.440 I'm not doing the juice, but I've got the rosemary, 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:41.080 which actually was a nice little touch. 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:44.440 Maybe I'll try some mint. But I'm not there yet. 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:47.360 Where you forget that you're not drinking. I am not there. 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:49.800 Are you there? Yeah, it's not even that. I don't 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:51.480 even think about it being a part of the day anymore. 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:53.840 It's and I'm telling you, on January thirty one, you 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:55.840 will not be planning what you're going to drink on 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:56.480 February one. 0:01:56.600 --> 0:02:01.040 You will not totally disagree with you this conversation. Last 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.480 night we were walking back and you said you're not 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:05.320 gonna want to have a drink on February one, and 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:06.120 I started laughing. 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:08.800 Tell me, yeah, all right, one hundred percent, I'm going 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:10.200 to want to drink up there. We're putting it out 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:12.760 there right now, and folks watch when you get there. 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:15.320 It's just not you're not going to plan something around it. 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:17.160 So we will get to that. I was actually already 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:19.880 talking about making reservations at this really cool bar. Nope, 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:24.240 not interested. Oh my gosh, Okay, we'll see. Well that's uh, 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.600 we're starting the we're starting the new year again. Hope 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:28.720 you're good with your resolutions. We also had a big 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:32.000 birthday since the since the new year came around, that 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:35.840 big birthday belonged to wrote a little one bean, my 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:39.359 little one. She turned eleven on January sixth. We had 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:41.480 a really good She wanted to go right, She didn't 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:43.679 want to party, didn't want friends around. I want a 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.600 big trip? Do want anything? What does she want to do? Shop? 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.520 Take me shopping? That means she's officially a tween? Is 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:51.320 that what that is? Yes? 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:55.560 So it's funny. My daughter turned twenty one eight days 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:58.360 before your daughter turned eleven. Right, so, and my daughter 0:02:58.400 --> 0:02:59.080 wanted a party. 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:02.480 That's shocking, But that's twenty one. Oh that's different. But 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.079 that was a big It was a big thing for Sabine, 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.280 and you were a big part of the birthday, and 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:09.400 you have been in and look, everybody's familiar with our 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:11.520 story over the past year if you're listening here, But 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.280 it's when you have a new relationship where they are divorces, 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.560 they're kids involved, you're always trying to find the right 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:21.040 balance between your kids and your partner and bringing everybody together. 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:22.960 And you have said it to you privately, I'll say 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.280 it here publicly. You've been great and it's been one 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:28.000 of the great, great, great joys over the past several 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:31.320 months six months plus. Is how Sabine has really taken it. 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.360 She's known you since she was one, but known you 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:36.240 in a different capacity now. Has been really cool to 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:40.440 watch and see her elect too. And even sometimes when 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:43.160 I pick her from school, I say, yeah, no, Robot's 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.680 not at the house and then she's like, okay, then 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:48.880 I don't want to come because she's disappointed you're not 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:51.560 there's and again, it is very sweet and it has 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:53.720 been a really cool thing. It's been really cool to watch. 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:56.640 And as we've mentioned, our daughters have known each other. 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.480 My daughter's baby sat your daughter when she was little, 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:02.360 and I know they communicated on her birthday as well, 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:05.200 which was very sweet and it's just nice to see 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:10.840 everything becoming normal and getting easier and effortless, actually because 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:13.600 it was effort before and maybe that was just us 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:16.240 putting the effort on the situation. But it's been great. 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.600 And I love I mean, I love boys, and I 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:21.440 love all of that. But I'm a girl mom, I 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:24.520 always have been, so it comes very easily to me. 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:26.960 And yeah, you kind of let. 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:28.640 Girls lead the way. 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:32.520 You can't tell a girl who to like, who to 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:34.760 hang out with, what. 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:36.960 To think, what to do. That just doesn't end well. 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:41.440 So I at least have had that experience growing up 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:45.680 with my daughters, so it's served me well on navigating 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:46.200 all of this. 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:49.120 So that's been great. She was actually with us, she 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:50.920 was with us last night. Yeah, we're talking about movies, 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.719 watching a horror movie of course with her conjuring too. 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.520 It's so good. She loved it, right, she loved it. 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:59.080 But I think everybody knows at this point we are 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:02.159 big horror movie. We have not seen I cannot remember 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:04.600 the last movie we saw at a theater that was 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:07.280 not a horror movie, but now we have one. We 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:09.520 actually saw a movie in the theater a couple of 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:11.200 days ago that was not a horror movie. 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:15.400 Yes, and we took on some heavy themes, but with 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:17.839 some levity, right, some social satire. 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.920 American it was American fiction. I was told to watch 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:22.880 this by one of my boys. His his message. A 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:26.080 brother came to me and sent a message, Happy New Year, 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.280 and see American fiction is what he told us to do. 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:32.719 He followed up by saying, see it with a theater 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.839 full of white people. It makes it better. He was 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:37.839 not kidding. I get it now, I didn't know it. 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:41.960 So we went to the Angelica Film Festival. Film House 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:42.520 is what it's called. 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:44.760 I believe it's in Soho and sure enough it was 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:46.479 about eighty five percent white. 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:48.840 Would you say, maybe even higher, maybe ninety percent white 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:50.840 for sure. But if you don't know what the movie 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:54.039 is about, it essentially takes on these themes that we 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:56.920 have in our society, a lot of racial themes. But 0:05:57.040 --> 0:06:00.680 this idea that so often in media or and business, 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:05.360 that black voices and black stories aren't told unless they 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:10.400 are greenlit by a white person executive. Those stories have 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:13.559 to fit into what that white person thinks the black 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:17.240 experience is. So oftentimes it's not an accurate depiction. It's 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:20.240 some stereotypical depiction of what black life is supposed to be. 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:22.479 And there were some subtle nots to that, and some 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:26.200 overt ones and some very funny ones throughout and what 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:30.520 was notable, And you and I both realized at one 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.279 point that some very funny scenes we were the only 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:34.320 people laughing. 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:37.480 Because truly, if I weren't sitting. 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:39.080 Next to you, and you weren't my boyfriend, I might 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.839 have been afraid to laugh at them too, And I 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:45.200 think that's what was happening. The white folks in the 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:48.160 theater were like, can I laugh at that? Because it 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:51.760 was so outrageous but true at the same time. And 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:54.880 it was uncomfortable, which is what the whole point was. 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.000 But it's specifically what, yes, what the movie is meant 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.400 to be and to do. And there were times, I 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.039 don't say uncomfortable, but I always felt like I was 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:06.320 being rude because I was falling onto my chair laughing 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:10.080 at some of the jokes in that movie. And it's 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:11.560 dead silence in the theater. 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:13.960 And your laughter gave me pervision to laugh because clearly 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.080 it was funny, and so I decided to laugh with you. 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:19.600 And there were I would say multiple times, were were 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.560 the only two people laughing at very funny scenes in 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:22.960 the theater. 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:27.280 This was for a lot of and for black folks 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:29.640 who cheer this movie and it's funny and it's again, 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:31.960 it's brilliant. It will be in the Oscars race, for sure. 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.040 Jeffrey Wright is amazing as well in the lead. He's 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:36.960 a wonderful actor that you all know. But for me, 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.720 so many things I saw in the movie are things 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:43.720 that I dealt with, certainly in newsrooms across the country 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:46.920 over the past all of my career. But the one 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:51.080 in particular has to do with, right, this is what 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:54.360 I think of black people, and if you don't tell 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.040 the story from that angle, then I'm not going to 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.120 get your story on. And I've had that issue in 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.480 newsrooms plenty of time, talk to you about this plenty. 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.119 But being in a morning meeting where there's forty people 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:07.280 in the meeting, thirty eight of them are white, I'm 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:09.560 the one black male, And for so many times the 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.840 story gets pitched and we hear the person pitching the 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:16.240 story about a black person will put a caveat this 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.400 person out of da no, no, no no. But it's okay. 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.640 We can interview. They are so well spoken, they really 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.120 they speak so well. So what they were doing in 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.560 all those times, all those meetings was explaining to every 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:28.760 all the white people that it's okay to put this 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.280 black person on because I know what you're thinking. When 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.520 I say black person, you think they are this. They 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:35.679 talk like this, they look like this, say no, no, no, no, 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:39.200 this white. I heard that so many times. And this 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:41.280 movie brings up those themes and they do it in 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:44.240 a comedic way that it should spark a better conversation. 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:49.160 Yeah, it validates your experience and it hopefully educates people 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:51.720 who couldn't possibly have had that experience. 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:56.880 So please go again. We highly endorse that movie American fiction. 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:00.880 We rarely endorse something that's not a horror movie, but 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:02.760 this one's great. Yeah, there've been a couple of them too. 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:06.720 We watched You People Streaming and The Blackening also those 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:09.800 All three of those movies take on similar themes in 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:12.760 different ways of storytelling. That is very entertaining, and I 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:14.880 really do think you learn something from it when you're 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:16.040 watching it as a white person. 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.840 Yes, and you learn that. We can never admit that 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:23.080 we ever watch Friends, which I haven't, by the way, 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:26.400 and of course I have, but we talk about drive 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:28.439 Junior here at the top. But we're into this new year, 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:30.079 and something that's on a lot of people's minds right now, 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:33.640 of course is relationships. Either you are starting anew and 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:38.040 you want to maybe get out of one, or you're 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:40.560 looking to get into one. But the beginning of the 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.200 year has two days in particular, they got something for everybody. 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.280 I was gonna say, both could be true. Yeah what 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.719 you just said, so, yes, we found this out. 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:51.640 I didn't know this beforehand, but there's a thing called 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:55.800 divorce Day in this country, and lawyers have now kind 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.360 of said, hey, this is the day. It's the Monday 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:02.960 after January one each year where they say this is 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:07.160 the biggest day for couples to file for divorce or 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:11.000 contact a divorce lawyer to say, hey, I want to 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.640 end this relationship. And January, I think has also been 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:17.120 just divorce month because people finally say, okay, we made 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:20.120 it through the holidays and I'm very now certain I 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:22.400 don't want to be with this person for the rest 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:27.240 of the year. And coincidentally, it was yesterday, actually Monday, 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:32.320 January seventh of this year, or actually it was Sunday, Sunday, 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:35.960 the second sorry Sunday to seventh is called Dating Sunday 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.160 or Dating Day, and that is an actual day that 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:42.640 has been recorded that apps dating apps across the board 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:46.560 around the world see the biggest increase in volume and 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.920 likes and response times all of that because people on 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:53.080 that Sunday after New Year say hey, I want to 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:55.840 be in or at least find some sort of relationship. 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.360 So chances are if you're hearing our voice, you are 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.760 in one of those categories that maybe trying to get 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:04.200 out of a relationship with sounds like a down or a 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.280 bad thing, but it can be a very positive thing 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:08.400 for a lot of people but looking for something new. 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:10.560 So we were curious about divorce Day and in particular 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:14.000 dating Day as we turn the page on another year. 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:17.080 So Michael k the global head of communications for Okay 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:19.520 cup it is in studio here with us and let 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:21.839 me start with that. How big of an uptick are 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:24.959 we talking about? You all see in dating apps? See 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:28.680 Michael on Dating Sunday. 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:31.800 So, first of all, thank you for having me. It's 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:35.160 an honor to be here as a listener and as 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:35.600 a fan. 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:36.959 Thank you, Thank. 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:42.240 You honor to be here. Dating Sunday is pretty much 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:45.440 the super Bowl for all dating apps, that's all the 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:48.719 sports terminology you're going to be able to get out of. 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:55.560 But every single first Sunday of the year we see 0:11:55.600 --> 0:12:00.760 double digit growth in terms of matches and likes and messages, 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:06.559 and it sometimes it could hover between ten to twenty percent, 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:09.720 and sometimes people think that feels so low, but you 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:12.640 have to remember there are millions and millions of people 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:15.800 on these dating apps, So this is happening really across 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.840 the board. If you are into online dating or if 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:23.120 you're trying it for the first time, dating Sunday and onward, 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:25.120 especially in the first month or so of the year, 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:28.920 is the time for you to be on OkCupid, hinge Hinder, 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.160 whatever your app of choice really is. 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:35.880 And with okay Cupid, a large part of going onto 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:39.360 this app is to be matched, and there's science behind it. 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:39.800 Correct. 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:44.400 Yeah, So for anyone who's unfamiliar, Okacubid was actually founded 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:50.280 by four math majors at Heartard and it comes as 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:52.319 no surprise for anyone who's been on it. We are 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:57.800 extremely data driven. Our algorithm is really complex, but we 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.360 at our core match people on what matters to them 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.839 through in app questions. It's really as simple as that 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:10.240 We use our questions to serve as conversation starters. They 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.720 also allow you to figure out what's important to you 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:18.480 and really helps you define who you are, what you're 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:21.600 looking for, and makes you think about what you're looking 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:25.199 for in a partner as well. So there's everything related 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:28.439 to dating, relationships, and sex, but also really anything that's 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:31.559 top of mind for our gen Z millennial gen X daters. 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:36.120 We have questions about black lives matter, and education reform 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:39.800 and gun reform, and basically if you're talking about a 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.359 topic with your friend, your family members, or your coworkers, 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.120 we also want to ask about it on our platform 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.520 because we are an app that foster's connection and conversation. 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:50.120 Well, ok, ellen that point. So many folks will go 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:53.920 into you meet somebody, You go into a bar, there's 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:57.160 a friend, there's a We're used to meeting people in 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:00.679 that organic way. Of course, apps have changed that. Is 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:03.640 this a better system? You all have found in that 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:06.800 when they do take the questionnaires, people have a better 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:10.400 chance when they do answer these questions, when they do 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:12.920 get their match percentage. Maybe you can figure that out 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:14.960 if you met somebody at the bar, but it might 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.640 take you longer. What are the results you all have 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:19.840 seen over the years in terms of matching people. 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:22.880 Yeah, I think it's a better system, but it's also 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:26.360 a more convenient system. You know, when you look at 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:31.720 people daters today, they're dating very different than our parents. 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:34.920 My parents went on a first date, they were a 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:39.440 blind first date. They're together over sixty years. And for 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:43.920 their generation, people were meeting in these gathering places. They 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:46.360 were meeting at temple, they were meeting at church, they 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:49.840 were meeting through family. But that's not how people are 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:54.240 connecting today anymore. So it makes dating apps make it 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:59.120 a lot more convenient for the person who's extremely busy 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.640 and can't take time out of their days, nights, and 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:05.400 weekends to go on fifty first dates, and it allows 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:08.720 them to kind of comb through that list and really 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:12.160 easily on a dating app, find people that they're really 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.479 compatible with, that they have views that aligned with them, 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.880 and really narrowed that list down and say, I know 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.600 you're someone that there may be a connection with because 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:23.080 we agree on XYZ. 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:25.160 Yeah, and I did say this. 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:27.160 I believe last week that one of the things I 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:32.560 learned in twenty twenty three was that, yes, chemistry is important, 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:36.760 but compatibility. I feel like is the most important part 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:40.960 of a relationship. And so to that point, TJ and I, 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:43.280 I mean, we know we have chemistry and I think 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:45.840 we're compatible. We are, Okay, I do, I think so too, 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:48.480 But does the science back that up? 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:52.480 We don't need it too, baby, So we're gonna find out. 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:56.280 So we actually asked Michael to give us some of 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:59.760 the questions that they ask anyone who goes onto their 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:03.320 apps to fill out and then they're then matched with someone. 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:07.360 So we did the questions this weekend. Over the weekend, 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:09.840 we don't know what each other answered, and Michael has 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:14.240 the results of what our questionnaire. 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:15.520 Shows whether or not we're a match or not. There's 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:17.960 a percentage right, yes, yes, okay. 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:19.520 As a match percentage on every user. 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.880 Scenes Okay, I'm definitely a little nervous, But when we 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:24.560 come back, we're going to get the results and talk 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:31.320 about what it all means. 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:36.480 All right, We're back here with a moment of truth, folks. 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:38.920 We got Michael k the global head of communications for 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:40.640 our kay cup It here in studio with us. We've 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:45.360 been talking about nash Well, divorce Day and Dating app Day, 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:48.360 and everybody has relationships on their mind. Around to possibly 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:50.880 get out of one or get into a new one. 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:54.400 And dating apps are a big part of that. And okay, 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:56.520 cupe it is one that gives you a questionnaire, you 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:59.520 fill it out, other people fill it out, and then okay, 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.120 keep it two you whether or not you are a match. 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:02.560 Yeah. 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:06.640 I wonder how many already established couples like ourselves go 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.960 on to then take this quiz and find out after 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:13.760 the fact we're doing it backward they're actually comfatible or 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:16.879 what their match percentage is. Okay, So Michael helped us 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.800 out with this, so they sent us a list of questions. 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:22.360 Robot and I filled them out over the weekend. We 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:25.680 didn't see the other's answers, so we have no idea. 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:27.960 But it's about to be revealed, all right, Michael. He's 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:32.400 gonna tell us if we had done this as two 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:34.680 singles on the app, would we have been matched, or 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.439 what our match percentage is? So let's start there. What 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:41.880 is our match percentI is, Michael, So I'm gonna. 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:46.160 Unvolve that later. We're really gonna make you wait for this, 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:50.720 but I will say, Okay, we're definitely doing it backwards. 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:52.639 But I've done this a lot with people who are 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:56.040 already dating, engaged, married, Okay, and I have to say, 0:17:56.600 --> 0:18:02.320 y'all agreed on a lot, okay, overwhelmingly. Okay, so we're 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:05.640 starting off on a strong place. Okay, so let's kick 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.960 it off there. You're both and no one yell at me. 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:13.640 They call themselves this. You're both extroverts, you're both intense people. 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:18.119 You're mourning people. You enjoy relaxing at home. You're closer 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:21.960 with your family, you're open to cooking together. But I 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:24.399 don't want anyone to get bored. We definitely asked saucy 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:28.120 questions too, and you're all really aligned there as well. 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:32.160 So you so we're boring, is what you're saying. 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:38.439 Not for much longer. You both enjoy sex more than 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:42.959 for play. You're both super into post workout sex and 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:48.920 shower sex, and people they prefer cuffs over ropes. So 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:54.879 there was literally no question off limits in this test, 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:56.360 which made it so. 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:56.920 Much more fun. 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.320 I feel like I've known you guys for years as well, 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:02.000 so there was a lot in the bedroom out of 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:04.720 the bedroom that you aligned on, solid, solid star. 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:06.560 I now know us better than my parents do. 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:10.040 Yeah, don't listen to this one. You're going to edit 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:14.399 that out, So is there anything there that shocked you? 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.320 No? No, Actually, the thing is we know each other. 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:21.200 Really really, we've been friends now for nine years, and 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:24.560 so when we it's an interesting thing when you're when 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:27.119 you don't have romantic designs on someone, you're more willing 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:32.160 to be telling all and vulnerable. And I let him 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:34.359 see Mike works. He let me see his in a 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:36.040 way that I don't think you would do if you 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:39.800 just started out dating. So we actually know, maybe even 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:40.520 too much about it. 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:43.840 Do you have things in there that we didn't agree 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:44.320 on as well? 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:48.160 Yes, so let's talk about where you disagree it. And 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:52.040 there were questions like, keep in mind sometimes there's multiple options, 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:56.040 four options, so some questions you technically disagreed, but it's 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:59.600 barely a disagreement. So there are a couple of things 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:03.560 where you answer differently. We also asked what you value 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:07.560 most in a partner. You disagreed on this, but I 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:12.919 loved your responses. So Amy said, communication, TJ. You said trust. 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:17.240 What neither of you said was physical attraction and romance, 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:21.320 And while both of those are absolutely important, it really 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:24.840 showed me that you both were looking for that deep, 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:29.240 meaningful relationship with a really strong foundation. So I didn't 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:31.560 even want to consider that a disagreement. 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:34.560