Trailing the Meet Cutes NYC team looking for love stories on the streets of New York

Описание: (14 Oct 2025)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York – 1 October 2025
1. Street sign
2. Victor Lee, Jeremy Bernstein, and Aaron Feinberg on street
3. UPSOUND (English) Jeremy Bernstein
“Excuse me, are you a couple?
4. Couple on street stops to talk
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeremy Bernstein, Victor Lee, and Aaron Feinberg - Co-Founders of Meet Cutes:
Bernstein: "Yeah, I think usually it's about 50-50. People will walk by and not want to talk to us, but about 50% of people will usually be willing to talk to us."
6. Couple on street stops to talk
7. UPSOUND (English) Luis
“We were at a casting call"
8. UPSOUND (English) Sallie "Very direct and straightforward."
9. Victor Lee, Jeremy Bernstein, and Aaron Feinberg shooting couple on street
10. Lusi shaking hands
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeremy Bernstein, Victor Lee, and Aaron Feinberg - Co-Founders of Meet Cutes:
(Reporter: I just have to ask about what did trying to sell renewable energy on the street, which sounds like it's pretty difficult to begin with, teach you about going up to people who you've never met and hearing their meet cute story?)
Bernstein: "I think, well, I think it just taught me about rejection, to be honest, because when you're selling something with a clipboard on the street, it's like a 99% rejection rate, so then when I did this, when I'm asking nice questions about love, and it's more like 50%, it makes it a lot easier, so it just taught me to deal with rejection.”
12. Victor Lee, Jeremy Bernstein, and Aaron Feinberg talking to a couple on street
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeremy Bernstein, Victor Lee, and Aaron Feinberg - Co-Founders of Meet Cutes:
Lee: "Yeah, behind the scenes, a lot of our time is on the street, obviously filming, gathering content. At home, we all work from our separate homes. We - it's a lot a FaceTime actually, a lot of arguing on FaceTime. I do most of the editing. Jeremy does all the filming, filming slash interviewing. And then we'll take turns filming and then Aaron handles a lot of the other stuff as well."
14. Victor Lee, Jeremy Bernstein, and Aaron Feinberg talking to a couple on street
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeremy Bernstein, Victor Lee, and Aaron Feinberg - Co-Founders of Meet Cutes:
Feinberg: "Yeah, so we just get, as you saw, we stop couples one after the other. Some days we'll get 50, 60 interviews in a day. So the process is going through all this content, finding those moments that offer a new perspective to our audience. What will our audience find interesting? What is unique about each story that we find? Then we edit all these videos and kind of get together and, hey, what should we put up there? What will make a difference? That's what we do."
16. Victor Lee, Jeremy Bernstein, and Aaron Feinberg talking to a couple on street
17. SOUNDBITE (English) ) Jeremy Bernstein, Victor Lee, and Aaron Feinberg - Co-Founders of Meet Cutes:
(Reporter: So when it comes to love, actually doing this, what did you learn about it from actually talking to people?)
Bernstein: “Big question, what have I learned? I think that there's no right way to do it or wrong way to do it necessarily. Like there's a million different ways to meet people. There's a million different ways to be in a relationship and to be a love. So I think, that's the main takeaway I get personally is just like there's so many different approaches to relationships and being in love, that you gotta find what works for you and not overthink what you should be doing, I suppose."
18. People walking on the street
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeremy Bernstein, Victor Lee, and Aaron Feinberg - Co-Founders of Meet Cutes:
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