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Welcome to Radio 831: A Romance Podcast · Radio 831: A Romance Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Why is everyone obsessed with romance right now? Like everyone
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  Speaker 1: your coworker who quote unquote doesn't read is reading romance.
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  Speaker 2: Your mom, book talk, the entire internet.
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  Speaker 3: Something is happening and.
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  Speaker 2: We are not going to let it go unexplored.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of the whole show. I'm SINJOHNA. Basker, I'm
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  Speaker 1: Tyler McCall, and this is Radio eight three to one,
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  Speaker 1: a romance podcast. The books, the tropes, the adaptations, the drama,
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  Speaker 1: the discourse.
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  Speaker 4: And what all of it says about how we actually
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  Speaker 4: love yearn and obsess. We're talking about what even makes
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  Speaker 4: a romance a romance?
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  Speaker 3: Like, what are the rules?
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  Speaker 2: There are opinions, so many opinions.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to Weathering Heights.
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  Speaker 4: Which, for the record, is not a romance novel, and
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  Speaker 4: yet it has haunted the romance genre for two hundred years.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to get into.
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  Speaker 4: Why we're getting into dark romance age gaps, certain Russian hockey.
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  Speaker 2: Players, oh, the Russians, you know, the ones.
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  Speaker 3: And sentient objects in love, which is a thing.
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  Speaker 4: That's the kind of conversation we're having every episode.
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  Speaker 1: With authors, super fans, people who have very strong takes
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  Speaker 1: about their favorite.
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  Speaker 4: Tropes, and also us. We have feelings too, so many feelings.
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  Speaker 4: Here's what we really think is going on. Romance gets dismissed,
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  Speaker 4: it always has.
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  Speaker 3: We come to this with genre fluency, all kinds of context.
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  Speaker 2: And a deep love of a good love story.
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  Speaker 1: Because these books are doing something. The tropes mean something,
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  Speaker 1: The fantasies tell us something about what we want broadly, and.
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  Speaker 4: When the whole Internet is losing its mind over a
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  Speaker 4: book to screen adaptation or a celebrity couple or a
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  Speaker 4: Morley Gray hero, there's a reason for that.
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  Speaker 3: We're here to dig in. But that's the work.
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  Speaker 4: With new episodes every Thursday, we are going deep on
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  Speaker 4: the genre, the culture, the chaos.
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  Speaker 3: And we want you there for it. Ready, so ready.
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  Speaker 4: Listen to the Radio eight three to one podcast on iHeartRadio, app,
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  Speaker 4: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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  Speaker 2: See you there,