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Death, Sex & Money - Finding Love, And A Kidney, On Tinder

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4.2 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

When "It's a match!" takes on a whole new meaning. 

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0:00.0

I mean, it definitely was there that, like, this is obviously going to affect our relationship romantically.

0:05.5

But I also remember, like, if this entire relationship, like, goes to crap because of this, then, like, whatever, a person has a kidney.

0:15.4

This is death, sex, and money.

0:18.5

I failed in life.

0:20.3

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

0:23.3

So now I'm crazy because I don't look. Right? Is that the point? And need to talk about more. A dollar. I've never seen a dollar. Nobody's got a dollar. Let us see the dollar. I mean a sale. Lori Interlicio had just finished college and moved home when she tried tender for the first time.

0:41.3

I mainly just wanted to find some more queer women friends on Long Island.

0:47.3

You know, it's not always easy to go out and meet people or, you know, sometimes you're just looking for people to surround yourself with

0:55.0

who are kind of like yourself. And it's, you know, it's kind of like a fun toy. It's like shopping

1:00.3

for people online.

1:02.8

Laughing along with her there is Alana Duran, whom Lori first noticed during those early days on Tinder.

1:09.0

Well, I do remember scrolling through Alana's pictures and being like, this girl's really

1:14.5

cute.

1:14.8

I'm not going to swipe yet because I want to look at her.

1:18.6

And she seemed funny.

1:19.8

She had a cute bio.

1:22.2

And I remember just thinking that I hope she swabs back on me.

1:26.5

And she did. Wait, can you tell them what was on my bio, though? Oh, my goodness. Yeah, she swaved back on me. And she did.

1:27.9

Wait, can you tell him what was on my bio, though?

1:29.8

Oh, my goodness.

1:30.5

Yeah, she had this joke, and it was a Mexican magician.

1:34.6

A Mexican magician said, I'm going to disappear on the count of three.

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