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Andrea Silenzi speaks with friends, experts, guys in bars, and her own Grandma Phyllis about where love and sex meets technology.

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Favoriting February 19, 2014: #11 - Planet Money Honey

Today on the show, how NPR's Planet Money taught me a trick for being better at dating. With advice from Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist Strikes Back, I start asking guys to go on dates with me over Skype. Find out what it takes to woo your host.

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    Today on the show, how NPR's Planet Money taught me a trick for being better at dating. With advice from Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist Strikes Back, I start asking guys to go on dates with me over Skype. Find out what it takes to woo your host. 
Beex  Beat, Beat   Favoriting Free Music Archive 
johnny_ripper  House   Favoriting Free Music Archive 
My Interview on Planet Money    Tim Harford on Planet Money 
Tim Harford    The Undercover Economist Strikes Back 
Custodian Of Records  Game Girl (Interlude)   Favoriting Bandcamp 
Laura and Danny    Sizing up guy #1 
Date #1    C-Section Baby 
Date #2    Bad news, but I can't stop flirting 
Date #3    "so tinder's weird, huh?"
"...what's that?"
 
Sad Rant    What dating means to me 
johnny_ripper  cat soup   Favoriting Free Music Archive 


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Listener comments!

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Matt from Springfield:

Beat Beat!
Hi there Andrea and Money/Honey fans!
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BadGuyZero:

Hiya!
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Slim Pickins:

good stuff so far - this is "cringe-worthy" radio, thats why i love it. cant get this anywhere else but WFMU
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
Matt from Springfield:

How to be *economical* on dates..
  7:10pm
JakeGould:

Have to admit. I am not genuinely charmed by this show. Although Tim Harford comes off like a snit.
  7:11pm
P-90:

(taking notes) ..."nobody wants to waste a Thursday", mm-hm
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:11pm
Matt from Springfield:

That could be problem of mine, trying to look for "perfection" right off--really I'd like to go with any girl who enjoys my company and I hers, but even that can be a tall order.
  7:11pm
JakeGould:

ACK! No! NO! I meant to say: Have to admit. I am NOW (now!) genuinely charmed by this show. Although Tim Harford comes off like a snit.
  7:12pm
P-90:

@Jake: he's an economist, it's his job
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Ange:

The secret title for this episode is "How Planet Money Got Me Laid" .... this show feels incredibly personal. Like, more of a diary than a radio show. I'm probably going to lose a lot of you by the end of this...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:13pm
Matt from Springfield:

@P-90: Thursdays are *meant* to be enjoyed.

@Jake: "Snits, Creeps and Psychos...and Ange!" :)
  7:14pm
P-90:

"Race to the bottom" now we're getting somewhere
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Matt from Springfield:

@Ange: Hey, WFMU is one long dare to the listeners--and fans are glad to accept the challenge! :)
  7:14pm
Please:

get a date . your voice is grating.
  7:15pm
P-90:

screen me Baby, screen me
  7:15pm
JakeGould:

“I'm probably going to lose a lot of you by the end of this...” No. Not. Can’t. You’re good.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:15pm
Matt from Springfield:

Please: don't listen then to shows that are grating you.
  7:17pm
JakeGould:

“He's an economist, it's his job.” Who cares. Snit. But interesting discussion.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:17pm
Matt from Springfield:

"YES! YES! YES! I WILL date you! Make me the happiest woman, at Red Lobster!"..
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Ike:

I always enjoy this show, and yet it also makes me a little uncomfortable, because *every* episode seems very personal. But that's also why it's good.
  7:17pm
P-90:

(still taking notes) "dating like the Toyota supply system....hmmm"
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BadGuyZero:

My experience with dating sites/apps is that the people who appear to be good matches to me are on the other side of the U.S. I'm undateable in Dallas. :rollseyes:
  7:20pm
P-90:

@Ike: re: "every episode 'seems' very personal"; that's showbiz, that's what's bringing listeners back week to week
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Ange:

This one feels the worst of all of them to me, because there are real people and feelings involved in the second half of the show.
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BadGuyZero:

So I've taken inspiration from Liz Lemon and now I'm dating Astronaut Michelle Dexter.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:22pm
Matt from Springfield:

"As a Lean Six Sigma certified dating specialist, I can overhaul and make efficient the dating system for YOUR behalf! Call 212..."
  7:22pm
JakeGould:

“Find out what it takes to woo your host.” Woo.
  7:23pm
chuck:

this show has been vectoring toward NPR stuff for weeks now, and the two worlds have converged. it is a bit worrisome for those of us who seek In WFMU an escape from NPRism. Sorry but i keep concluding that this weekly show's premise is narcissistic!! listening to anyone go on and on week after week obsessing over their potential love life, etc., gets TIRESOME
  7:24pm
JakeGould:

Chuck, just wait until 8:00pm. Dave Emory comes on. You can have your fun then!
  7:24pm
P-90:

BGZ: What? My Michelle is seeing other guys?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:26pm
Skirkie:

Immediately admitting something as weird will only make it more weird.
  7:27pm
JakeGould:

Boerum Hill? Ewww. I lived there for a while. Screw anyone still in that neighborhood.
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BadGuyZero:

Skype makes my computer freeze up. So this introduction method would be a disaster for me.
  7:28pm
JakeGould:

As a C-section baby, my only concern in the world is stuff in this study. www.thedailybeast.com...
  7:29pm
P-90:

@Chuck: how can you not see that this is a total DEconstruction of an NPR-istic show? It's a reductio-ad-absurdum SATIRE of NPR style narcissism, so you should be loving it. Loosen up maybe?
  7:29pm
JakeGould:

Chuck is a schmuck. Duck!
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Slim Pickins:

@Chuck, I agree somewhat, definitely a little cynical and narcissistic . but a lot of people can agree with some of the subject matter, i still enjoy it.
  7:35pm
like:

like like like
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:39pm
Skirkie:

I say date, but I'm also in my 30s.
  7:41pm
mike east:

It's funny, both planet money and freakonomics podcasts had episodes about dating websites from an economic perspective recently
  7:42pm
P-90:

"Mandarin collar": you mean a Nehru jacket?
  7:42pm
dear Chuck:

I hear you dude. Just three minutes of the guy and Andrea had me cracking up over the staccato. Telegraphic. Speaking. Style. Has Valley Speak taken over an entire generation?
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Ange:

Have any of you read "The Game" any of those seduction books?
  7:42pm
P-90:

creep alert!
  7:43pm
mike east:

...was just listening to one and remembered I can stream fmu on the bus now
  7:45pm
JakeGould:

Never read, “The Game” because d-bags like this guy are 1,000% obvious. What a horrible con artist this guy is.
  7:45pm
dear Chuck:

As for the fanboys comments. Whatever floats your boat. This show ain't all that to the rest of us.
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Ange:

Can you guys tell I know nothing about drugs? I was like "how often do you trip on acid?"
  7:45pm
P-90:

Happens every time, the more flesh-crawlingly creepy the guy reveals himself to be, the more giggly and flirtatious Andrea becomes
  7:46pm
P-90:

"tripping acid" do people say it that way?
  7:47pm
mike east:

Ange, you are the Carrie Bradshaw of radio
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BadGuyZero:

I haven't read "The Game." When it came out a lot of talks shows had "pickup artists" on their show. They reminded me of the creepy trenchcoat/ponytail guys trying to pickup girls at comic book conventions [I did work for a convention organizer in the early 90s].
  7:48pm
JakeGould:

He lives in the flight path of LaGuardia. And was raised by olde fashioned lesbians? Wow. What a catch!
  7:48pm
P-90:

The old "raised by feminist lesbians on a peacock farm" line, old as the hills
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Slim Pickins:

@ange, i know people that have, and Ive got to say... they fit the mold of someone who would read that book. some peopel are just hopeless.
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Andrea:

I think I want to edit out my Carrie Bradshaw joke. It totally flopped!
  7:51pm
P-90:

No, it didn't, it was a propos. Aren't you going for a Carrie Bradshaw kind of thing here?
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BadGuyZero:

@ange: In hindsight, do you question if this guy was from Kansas City? I ask because he seems like the type to read-up on a few places to use them as a "I'm from _______" tool of connecting.
Avatar 7:53pm
Ange:

Minus the heels
  7:53pm
Cliff:

"It's all the microphones, guys" Ha!
  7:53pm
Robert:

So that's what does it--the microphone! Ms. Silenzi sounds so great on it, it figures she couldn't sound that good in real life.
  7:54pm
Robert:

Laura Cantrell's mic should be kept in a safe!
  7:55pm
P-90:

Why would any of these guys not be curious to go and check out the show as soon as you engage them, and let them know that you have a radio show? ABOUT DATING?
Obviously it's going to be a factor every time, right? No?
  7:55pm
P-90:

@Robert: Hahaha!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
Matt from Springfield:

Typical female .. just wants guys to "put out", intentions...
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BadGuyZero:

Everybody I've met from FMU sounds pretty much the same in-person as they do on-mic.
  7:57pm
JakeGould:

BadGuyZero, maybe that’s because you walk through life with a windscreen on your ears.
  7:57pm
P-90:

BGZ: that's an interesting point
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
dale:

"It's a reductio-ad-absurdum SATIRE of NPR style narcissism" - THIS IS NARCISSIM. npr is intelligent, but if you don't get the subject matter, then it's just seems pretentious.
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BadGuyZero:

@Jake: It might be the tinnitus.
  7:58pm
j-No:

This show should be retitled "Me Oh My!"
  7:59pm
Robert:

Mood music -- Michael Giacchino minus strings?
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BadGuyZero:

MENTAL NOTE: If I ever go on a date with Andrea, bring stickers.
  8:01pm
P-90:

Thanks, Ms. Silenzi! You'll have fun with Faye!
  8:01pm
JakeGould:

Now comes Dave Emory. Fun city ahead!
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Matt from Springfield:

All right! Thanks for "putting out" your intentions, Andrea!
Hope you have great Marathon shows!

Have a good night, everyone!
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BadGuyZero:

We used to hear Faye on Thursday mornings.
  8:02pm
Robert:

It's funny going from Ms. Silenzi's highly produced segments to her oopsies ending the show. Cute, though.
  8:02pm
P-90:

@Matt: Alf Weinersame!
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Ange:

I am good on protools, but less good at hitting the right buttons on time!
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Slim Pickins:

Good stuff andrea. lets date
  8:03pm
Robert:

Jake, I used to take Dave Emory seriously. Recently, however, he talked about people I know, and realized it's BS.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
Matt from Springfield:

:) P-90
  8:05pm
Robert:

His voice on his installments is getting better, though, so I guess in real time by now he sounds pretty good.
  8:06pm
Angele Merkel:

Vatch for my new progrem aboud vat is MY datink life like!
Later, Kiddiez!
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Greg from Bloomfield:

That was like The Dating Game. Glad you went with Bachelor #1– he was clearly the winner.
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