This is the On the Media Midweek podcast.

I'm Michael Lohanger.

Every now and then, we hear a segment on a show made by our colleagues here at

WNYC that we like so much that we feel like we just have to share it with you.

This one is from the New Yorker radio hour.

Host David Remnick spoke to New Yorker writer Emily Nussbaum

about a recent piece she reported about the lawsuits

surrounding the reality TV show Love is Blind. Enjoy.

Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour, I'm David Ramnik.

Oh my God!

Let's go!

I feel optimistic that my person is here.

I don't really give the nice guy a try,

but I really want something real.

You've probably heard about the show Love is Blind.

Here's how it goes.

A group of people enter tiny individual rooms and they're called pods on the show.

Each person goes in alone.

There's a comfy couch, no windows, and on the other side of the wall in another pod sits someone else.

Same situation.

Through the wall they compare hometowns, astrology signs, and their future goals.

And then they do it all again with another person and

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