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Modern Love

Researching Jenna, Discovering Myself | With Hasan Minhaj

Modern Love

The New York Times

Love, New York Times, Nytimes, Essay, Loss, Storytelling, Society & Culture, Redemption, Nyt

4.39K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Hasan Minhaj ("Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj") reads Brian Goedde's essay about a man investigating his own breakup.

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Modern Love, the podcast is supported by...

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Produced by the I-Lab at WBUR Boston.

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Just a quick note before we begin.

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This is a great moment of fear and unrest in the United States.

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This episode was recorded several weeks ago

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and we hope it offers you at least a small space to find respite.

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From the New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.

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Stories of love, loss and redemption.

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I'm your host, Megna Chacrabardi.

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The story of love.

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Sometimes when you go through a bad breakup,

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the only thing you want is answers.

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Why didn't things work out?

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When did it go from good to bad?

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What went wrong?

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Well, Brian Getty took an unusual approach to getting those answers.

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He writes about the experience in his essay,

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Researching Jenna, Discovering Myself.

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It's read by Hus and Minhaj.

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Hus and Netflix show is Patriot Act with Hus and Minhaj

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and it's releasing new episodes now.

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Why do you think Jenna left me?

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