Hey podcast listeners, as you may know, Freakinomics Radio is a public radio project, which means

it is supported by you, our listeners.

In other words, we need you to send us some money.

So just go to Freakinomics.com and click on the donate button.

Now you may be thinking, hang on a minute, sure I like this podcast fine, but it doesn't

really accomplish anything.

I could see sending them some money if it accomplished something, but it doesn't, does it?

Alright, I want to tell you a story about two people, Mandy, Griselik and Tim Barnhart.

Hello.

Hey, Mandy is a nursing student in Cincinnati.

Tim is an engineer, also in Cincinnati.

When the story begins, the two of them don't know each other.

Mandy, however, is a big fan of Freakinomics Radio.

I listened to the podcast on a Thursday morning on my way to work and it was titled, what

you don't know about online dating or something along those lines.

This was around Valentine's Day.

And I had been single for a while and thought, hey, maybe I'll be able to date an MPR employee

because that's whose profiles they were looking at on the show.

The very day she hears the episode, Mandy Griselik decides to sign up for online dating.

The next day, she comes across Tim's online dating profile.

They get in touch.

The following Monday, they go on a date to a burger joint.

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