Looking For Marriage In All The Wrong Places

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Online matchmaking sites are making it easier than ever for couples seeking an arranged marriage to meet. Well...not all couples.

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0:00.0	Just a heads up, there's some foul language in this episode.
0:03.2	You're listening to Coast Switch, I'm Gene Demby.
0:04.9	And I'm Shrine Marisol Maraji.
0:07.7	Today on the show, we've got a story for you that's about trying to find the one
0:12.4	in an old school way with a new school twist.
0:16.4	There's unrequited love, fear of disappointing immigrant parents, the internet,
0:22.3	and 90s piano ballads.
0:24.9	Bratta is by Parth Shah, he's a producer on Hidden Brain.
0:28.0	Hey Shrine Hagen.
0:29.0	It's Koname.
0:29.8	Not much, I'm excited to be here.
0:31.2	So you got a love story for us.
0:33.4	Yeah, kind of.
0:37.4	I took a trip to Michigan recently and I ran to this little baby blue cabin.
0:42.8	I got it off Airbnb in this town called Ferndale.
0:45.9	Ferndale, Michigan.
0:46.8	Ferndale, Michigan.
0:47.3	It's a summer movie of Detroit.
0:48.3	So I get this cabin and I call over two people who haven't seen each other since 2014.
0:55.2	Okay.
0:55.6	Rohin and Jenny.
0:57.0	Rohin and Jenny.
	...

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