Ep 9: Matrimony Myths with Stephanie Coontz

Adam Ruins Everything

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Comedy

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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You've seen it from rom-coms to Hallmark cards - our society is obsessed with everyone finding their soulmate. But did you know the idea of 'the one' is a relatively new concept in our culture? In fact, marriage and love were completely separate entitiesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Anim Ruins Everything podcast. I am your host, Adam Conover.
0:13.5	You may know I host a TV show called Thats Ruins Everything on True TV,
0:17.1	every Tuesday at 10.
0:18.4	If you don't know that and you're just randomly tapping on this
0:20.9	because you wanted to hear this interview, you're going to enjoy it anyway.
0:24.4	Don't worry, you can be a fan, you can be not a fan.
0:27.4	What we hope to happen is that people who are fans, the one thing, become fans, the other
0:30.2	thing, but hey, this is the only one you ever listen to you're going to have a
0:33.0	good time too here's the premise of the show on my TV show I talked to incredible
0:37.3	experts from academia from activism from I don't know from the mall no they're not
0:42.0	from the mall they're more important than that.
0:44.4	Not that the people at the mall aren't important, but we'd shoot a little bit higher.
0:47.6	I'm not trying to talk down on the mall, all right? Malls are great.
0:50.8	Actually, they're not. I mals in an episode of the show
0:53.9	it's upcoming okay you'll hear another time
0:56.2	my point is we talked to the experts for like thirty forty five seconds a minute on the
1:00.8	t-v show on this podcast i bring him back in and we talk about
1:03.8	their incredible fascinating work and field of expertise for the length of a
1:08.1	full podcast and really get into it. It's a lot of fun. I think you guys are
1:11.4	going to enjoy it and our guest this week is fucking fantastic
1:15.6	And I'll tell you about her in just a second before that though. Please I would like to remind you
1:20.4	Adam Ruins Everything is back every Tuesday at 10 p.m. on True TV and you can
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