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Oh my God! Let's go! 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

after ten days some even fall in love and get engaged. That's the premise of

Love is Blind. It's one of Netflix's most watched television shows of all time.

It's addictive and it's fascinating and there are people who go on the show who did get happily married.

I talked to one of them for the piece, Alexa, who was in

season three and you know it's catnip to see people fall in love on screen like

people saying I love you to one another and there are many contrived and fake

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