Just For Tonight, Pretend You Don't Know Me | With Nick Kroll
Modern Love
The New York Times
4.3 • 9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Modern Love The Podcast is supported by... |
| 0:05.0 | Produced by the Island at WBUR Boston. |
| 0:18.0 | From The New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love. |
| 0:23.0 | The New York Times and WBUR Boston. |
| 0:27.0 | Stories of Love, Laws, and Redemption. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm your host, Magna Chakrabardi. |
| 0:42.0 | What if you had to pretend your partner was a stranger for a day? |
| 0:46.0 | If today were day one of your relationship, how would you act? |
| 0:50.0 | How would they respond? |
| 0:52.0 | Would you fall in love again? |
| 0:54.0 | Tim Crider and his girlfriend tried to find out. |
| 0:57.0 | He writes about their experiment in his essay, |
| 0:59.0 | Just for Tonight, Pretend You Don't Know Me. |
| 1:02.0 | His essay is read by actor and comedian Nick Croll. |
| 1:05.0 | He stars in the film Olympic Dreams in select theaters now. |
| 1:13.0 | Like many couples, my girlfriend and I agree that Valentine's Day is a commercial holiday. |
| 1:19.0 | Last year, neither of us wanted to do anything traditionally romantic, |
| 1:22.0 | Let Go Out for a fancy dinner. |
| 1:24.0 | We wanted instead to do something scandalous. |
| 1:29.0 | We had a wish list of activities we'd been gradually checking off, |
| 1:32.0 | And talked over a few possibilities. |
| 1:35.0 | We settled on one of my suggestions. |
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