The Perfect Algorithm for Finding Love? with Christian Rudder [VIDEO]

What Now? with Trevor Noah

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News, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Trevor and Christiana are joined by Christian Rudder (co-founder of OkCupid and author of Dataclysm) to try and determine: Is a healthy dating app possible? They talk through how online dating has shifted since the “hope and change” moment of the early 2010s, and how data and technology can help and hurt our attempts at finding love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:49.1	I'll ask you as a woman.
0:51.9	So when you look, just like, let's say I put pictures of men up.
0:52.2	Yeah.
0:58.9	Do you think that like 40-something yearyear-old men are more attractive than 20-something-year-old men?
1:01.9	I was going to say something.
1:02.8	I don't want to say what I'm going to say. No, say what you're going to say?
1:05.7	How tall is he when he stands on his wallet?
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