Peter, Michael, what do you know about online dating?

I'm a big fan because getting brutally judged by 100 people every single day is my love language.

So as Peter mentioned a couple bonus episodes ago, we still don't really know what the format of

the bonus episode is going to be. So while we're in this interregnum period, we basically have

like a bunch of leftover research that Peter did for the game and I did for the rules.

We didn't really get a chance because these books are fairly old to talk about the paradigm shift

from traditional or you know since the 1950s style dinner and a movie dating to online dating.

Right. I read an entire extra book for the rules podcast that I didn't get a chance to mention

and we just thought it would be fun to have a kind of freewheeling conversation about this shift

and what it means and what we've been reading and our deranged stories of online dating.

And by extra research, what Michael means is that he read countless studies about the impact

of online dating on our collective psychology and I went on the most toxic subreddit so I could find

for weeks on end and I'm ready to talk about it now.

I can tell this is happening because every time I've texted you in the last two weeks,

you've waited four hours to get back to me. Damn, I'm really into Peter. What's happening with my feelings?

The longer I wait to text Michael back, the stronger my position on the podcast.

When when you double text, that's when I know that I'm the main host.

So since we so often talk about bad graphs and charts on the show, I wanted to start by sending you

a good chart that is actually genuinely pretty interesting. So I'm going to send this to you and I will

let you describe the story that it tells. Okay. The title of this chart is How Heterosexual

Couples Have Met Data from 2009 and 2017. And it's a graph that maps actually from 1940 to roughly

presence. And you can see starting a little before the year 2000 and then skyrocketing. Met online.

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