He’s Gay. She’s Straight. They’re Newlyweds. (Encore)
Modern Love
The New York Times
4.3 • 9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Love now and more. |
| 0:03.0 | Love was stronger than anything. |
| 0:06.0 | For the love, love you more than anything. |
| 0:10.0 | There's to love. |
| 0:11.0 | Love. |
| 0:12.0 | From the New York Times, I'm Anna Martin. This is Modern Love. |
| 0:19.0 | This week, we wanted to bring you one of our favorite episodes from last year, |
| 0:22.5 | because we have a wonderful little update to share with you. |
| 0:25.1 | It's a conversation I had with a pair of newlyweds, Jacob Hoff and Samantha Greenstone. |
| 0:30.6 | Now, a lot of the times, conversations on our show come from the Modern Love column, |
| 0:34.8 | but we actually first heard about Jacob and Samantha |
| 0:37.5 | in the Vow section of the paper. |
| 0:40.8 | Right away, the details of their wedding stood out. |
| 0:44.6 | Like, for example, the song Jacob chose to walk down the aisle to. |
| 0:49.2 | I wanted to come down to the Phantom of the Opera. |
| 0:53.4 | There's this moment, this woman just screams and it's like, |
| 0:57.0 | dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, and I was like, |
| 1:00.0 | that's what needs to happen as I appear in a mask. |
| 1:05.0 | And then Samantha also wanted to put her own spin on the wedding. |
| 1:09.0 | I love Titanic. |
| 1:10.0 | There was a point where I wanted to have a sinking Titanic on top of our wedding cake, but my mother |
| 1:15.5 | and the wedding planner said, no, you ought to have an event where thousands of people died |
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