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Nov 2015
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Episode 9: Aziz Ansari on Modern Love

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
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Hidden Brain host Shankar Vedantam talks to comedian Aziz Ansari — star of a new Netflix show and coauthor of Modern Romance — about Tinder, texting and how dating is a bit like... buying jam. 
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