Love In The Digital Age
Dear Sugars
WBUR
4.5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2015
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Love is complicated in the digital age. Many of us go online in search of connection, but those interactions often leave us feeling profoundly disconnected. The Sugars take on two questions that explore different ways in which we try to connect online - one from a married woman who finds herself caught up in an illicit relationship on Facebook, the other from a young woman who is obsessed with tracking her boyfriend's ex on Instagram.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, it's Steve Alman. |
| 0:01.6 | And Cheryl Strait, we have just celebrated the second anniversary of Dear Sugar Radio. |
| 0:06.5 | We hope to keep making the show for many years to come. |
| 0:09.1 | Ah, but here's the thing. You, our listeners, are a huge part of that, |
| 0:12.8 | and that's only going to happen if you can show your support in any amount at WBUR.org. |
| 0:19.6 | Slash Give Sugar. |
| 0:21.2 | That's WBUR.org. Slash Give Sugar. |
| 0:24.4 | And thank you. |
| 0:25.5 | So much. |
| 0:27.4 | Dear Sugar is supported by |
| 0:30.0 | The Universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick. |
| 0:39.6 | Sugar is here, the both of us, speaking straight into your ears. |
| 0:44.8 | I'm Cheryl Strait. |
| 0:46.2 | I'm Steve Alman, this is Dear Sugar Radio. |
| 1:00.0 | I check my bill by every day. |
| 1:11.0 | Oh, In Dear Sugar, you sing my way. |
| 1:19.5 | Hi Steve, how are you? |
| 1:21.1 | I'm great. I'm good. |
| 1:22.5 | You know what? I just want to say what is so fantastic about doing the show with you, |
| 1:27.6 | one of like a long list of things, is that we wanted to be in the same room when we recorded |
| 1:33.2 | this program. And I think that partly our impulse, our feeling was that when you're not in the same |
| 1:39.2 | room with somebody, it's different. And it's just something that you can't replace the intimacy |
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