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Dating Game: Making a Love Connection

Aired November 26, 2002 - 05:49   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR: Now to dating. Any -- ask any single person and they'll tell you that finding a date isn't so easy.
But CNN's Bruce Burkhardt checked out a method that just may be the ticket for those of you who are single and looking.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BRUCE BURKHARDT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): To be single and in search of a partner, what does that mean?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That means a date, not like just going around with the crowd.

BURKHARDT: But finding a date that's the hard part.

CHRIS ISANTI, SINGLE: A difficult thing about dating today is we're also very busy. So what's hard is going out there to a bar and looking around and asking a lot of questions.

BURKHARDT: Sounds tricky. Be nice if there were some kind instructional manual.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How do you choose a date? Who's company would you enjoy?

BURKHARDT: Tough question. Maybe an answer can be found on the Internet.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hey, it's fun, it's flirty, it's Match.com.

BURKHARDT: Match.com is one of many online dating services. Fill out a personal profile and see who you match up with, but eventually you've got to get out from behind the computer.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are you all right? You got it?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don't feel very graceful.

BURKHARDT (on camera): If you've ever tried to ask somebody out on a date and they told you to take a hike, that might not be a bad thing.

CATHY GRIES, SINGLE: I don't think it was so much that I was looking to, you know, come here and meet the man of my dreams as much as I knew that the people coming on the trip would be like myself. BURKHARDT (voice-over): Cathy Gries and 10 other single men and women spent $1,295 apiece to join up with this weeklong trip to Zion National Park in Utah.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is fun, isn't it?

BURKHARDT: This trip, and others like it, are put together by Match.com which teamed up with REI, the outdoors company. During the day, hiking. Late afternoon and evening, everyone gathers in the ranch house.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Load me up.

WAYNE RHODES, SINGLE: It's a good way to meet because of that. You know there's no pressure, there's no -- you know you stay in the same house with somebody for a week you get to know things about people you wouldn't otherwise know, you know, that quickly.

BURKHARDT (on camera): Well in the back of your head when you do something like this are you thinking maybe a relationship could come out of it?

LESLIE NOORDYK, SINGLE: No, I have no expectations because then if something does, then you're surprised -- pleasantly surprised and not disappointed. So no, I have no expectations.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Very well.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I know.

BURKHARDT (voice-over): It's a new approach to an old problem. Well, maybe not that new.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A group doing things together, pretty good idea for a first date.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is Meagan (ph).

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hi, Meagan.

MEAGAN: Hi.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Good to see you.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is Chris (ph) and this is Eric (ph).

BURKHARDT: Here's another group doing things together, it's called Eight at Eight.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Here.

BURKHARDT: Sarah Catherine Smith (ph) named her company Eight at Eight because she matches four women and four men for dinner at eight. They pay her 40 bucks apiece and they pick up their own tab at this Atlanta restaurant. They also supply their own pick-up line. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is the most interesting, stimulating conversation I've had all night. And thank you for having that with me.

BURKHARDT (on camera): Do they buy that?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They love it.

BURKHARDT (voice-over): But would that line work if your conversation was only eight minutes long? It's called Turbo Dating. Equal number of men and women gather and are paired off for eight minutes of conversation.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are you still a California girl or you consider yourself a Southern girl now?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm a Georgia Peach.

BURKHARDT: When the bell rings, switch to a new partner for another eight minutes.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK, ladies, you've got to move. Please move to your table No. 2.

BURKHARDT: At the end of the evening, everyone marks their cards indicating who they're interested in. When the cards match up, phone numbers are exchanged.

And so, take a hike, click a mouse, meet for dinner or talk real fast.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If you do these things, you'll know what to do on your date.

BURKHARDT: Bruce Burkhardt, CNN, Atlanta.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

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Aired November 26, 2002 - 05:49   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR: Now to dating. Any -- ask any single person and they'll tell you that finding a date isn't so easy.
But CNN's Bruce Burkhardt checked out a method that just may be the ticket for those of you who are single and looking.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BRUCE BURKHARDT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): To be single and in search of a partner, what does that mean?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That means a date, not like just going around with the crowd.

BURKHARDT: But finding a date that's the hard part.

CHRIS ISANTI, SINGLE: A difficult thing about dating today is we're also very busy. So what's hard is going out there to a bar and looking around and asking a lot of questions.

BURKHARDT: Sounds tricky. Be nice if there were some kind instructional manual.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How do you choose a date? Who's company would you enjoy?

BURKHARDT: Tough question. Maybe an answer can be found on the Internet.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hey, it's fun, it's flirty, it's Match.com.

BURKHARDT: Match.com is one of many online dating services. Fill out a personal profile and see who you match up with, but eventually you've got to get out from behind the computer.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are you all right? You got it?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don't feel very graceful.

BURKHARDT (on camera): If you've ever tried to ask somebody out on a date and they told you to take a hike, that might not be a bad thing.

CATHY GRIES, SINGLE: I don't think it was so much that I was looking to, you know, come here and meet the man of my dreams as much as I knew that the people coming on the trip would be like myself. BURKHARDT (voice-over): Cathy Gries and 10 other single men and women spent $1,295 apiece to join up with this weeklong trip to Zion National Park in Utah.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is fun, isn't it?

BURKHARDT: This trip, and others like it, are put together by Match.com which teamed up with REI, the outdoors company. During the day, hiking. Late afternoon and evening, everyone gathers in the ranch house.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Load me up.

WAYNE RHODES, SINGLE: It's a good way to meet because of that. You know there's no pressure, there's no -- you know you stay in the same house with somebody for a week you get to know things about people you wouldn't otherwise know, you know, that quickly.

BURKHARDT (on camera): Well in the back of your head when you do something like this are you thinking maybe a relationship could come out of it?

LESLIE NOORDYK, SINGLE: No, I have no expectations because then if something does, then you're surprised -- pleasantly surprised and not disappointed. So no, I have no expectations.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Very well.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I know.

BURKHARDT (voice-over): It's a new approach to an old problem. Well, maybe not that new.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A group doing things together, pretty good idea for a first date.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is Meagan (ph).

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hi, Meagan.

MEAGAN: Hi.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Good to see you.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is Chris (ph) and this is Eric (ph).

BURKHARDT: Here's another group doing things together, it's called Eight at Eight.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Here.

BURKHARDT: Sarah Catherine Smith (ph) named her company Eight at Eight because she matches four women and four men for dinner at eight. They pay her 40 bucks apiece and they pick up their own tab at this Atlanta restaurant. They also supply their own pick-up line. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is the most interesting, stimulating conversation I've had all night. And thank you for having that with me.

BURKHARDT (on camera): Do they buy that?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They love it.

BURKHARDT (voice-over): But would that line work if your conversation was only eight minutes long? It's called Turbo Dating. Equal number of men and women gather and are paired off for eight minutes of conversation.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are you still a California girl or you consider yourself a Southern girl now?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm a Georgia Peach.

BURKHARDT: When the bell rings, switch to a new partner for another eight minutes.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK, ladies, you've got to move. Please move to your table No. 2.

BURKHARDT: At the end of the evening, everyone marks their cards indicating who they're interested in. When the cards match up, phone numbers are exchanged.

And so, take a hike, click a mouse, meet for dinner or talk real fast.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If you do these things, you'll know what to do on your date.

BURKHARDT: Bruce Burkhardt, CNN, Atlanta.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com