Summary: In the first episode of DDP after the holiday break we've got lots of great listener email to talk about. We have an important message to share about meeting new people online, an email from Jenn O. about her overseas speed dating experience (A primer for our next show.) and a great question from Adam F. about the seemingly psychic connection that can sometimes happen between two people in an intimate relationship. We also field a few pending questions about ourselves and the experiences that we bring to the podcast as well as set the primer for upcoming episodes on speed dating and Valentines Day! Keep those great emails coming! - Direct MP3 Download - iTunes Subscription - RSS Feed Show Notes for episode 11 below… DDP Ep. 011 Show Notes On DDP episode numero once we talk about… Our recording space, our holidays, and taking it easy over the break. Plus fun holiday parties and actually meeting a few listeners in person! NEWS Be safe when meeting someone you met online! From local police this week Lara read a story about two incidents recently where a man who met someone online and planned to meet in person for the first time was robbed after picking up the date and driving to a secluded area. The date had friends waiting who robbed the driver of the vehicle - scary! Point is, be really careful when you’re meeting someone you’ve met online, meet in a public place, don’t pick them up or let them pick you up... yikes. And in less frightening news, a story from Newsweek, “The Curse of Cute”, about a survey of male OK Cupid users that shows that being beautiful isn’t always an advantage - women often get more attention and more time is spent on their profiles when they’re not conventionally pretty. Having a big nose or unusual chin might actually make you stand out. Interesting! Joel mentions that whenever he sees a really gorgeous picture of a woman online, warning bells go off and he suspects they might not be a real person. MESSAGES Craig T writes from Raleigh, North Carolina, to ask us a bit about ourselves - how old we are, whether we’re married, and whether we’ve ever dated each other. You’ll have to listen to hear our answers! Craig also wonders about the way we talk about meeting tons of people online and then ignoring some of them - we really don’t mean to sound like we have the luxury of being too pick - and both of us have been ignored online plenty of times. We’re planning to post more info and pics of ourselves on the site, so stay tuned for a bit more information here as well. ------------------------------- We’re planning to talk about speed dating in the next episode. Before the holidays, we got a message from Jenn O. who tried speed dating while she was living in England a few years ago. She went with a group of twenty something girlfriends who thought it would be a blast - and it was a good time. In the scenario that Jenn was part of, the girls were sitting around tables at a pub and the guys moved between tables. There were 5 minutes per person and a buzzer would signal time to move on. Everyone kept track of anyone they were interested in on a sheet of paper. Jenn was looking for someone who could laugh easily and had some interesting things to talk about. She was turned off by guys with a set script or speech. If at the end of the evening you had checked someone on your list and they had checked you, the next day you got a text message from the organizers so you could follow up. Jenn ended up meeting up with two of the guys she met that night, and though they ended up not being long term romantic relationships, one turned into a very good friend. Jenn points out that this kind of event requires an open mind and an outgoing personality, plus you shouldn’t take it all too seriously! Let us know what you think about speed dating! ------------------- We had a message from Scott P. for episode 10,
