S05.24: Technology in Romance Interstitial

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

It feels like you can’t turn around these days without stumbling into a story that’s a little unsettling about technology and how we’re all living our lives in this post (sort of) pandemic world. Between Twitter dramz, TikTok explosions and the rise of AI, it’s a lot. So, it’s probably to be expected that we are talking about how technology is impacting romance novels. We’re talking about texting, about FaceTime, about podcasting, and yes…even about robots. If you can use it to fall in love, there’s a romance using it…and we’re recommending a few we really enjoyed.

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0:00.0	It's weird.
0:02.7	weird.
0:03.7	February is like the worst month but it's so short.
0:06.7	Short and cold.
0:09.1	I went to Disney World last week.
0:12.1	Yeah, well, which is a whole ride.
0:15.0	And I posted a couple times on on Instagram and
0:18.0	because it was funny because at one point, V said to me,
0:22.0	do you think, how many people do you think are here?
0:24.8	And I was like, oh, like,
0:26.6	sure, tens of thousands of people.
0:29.6	And I said, and you know what?
0:32.0	I bet, because she goes to public school in New York City.
0:35.2	And I said, I bet we know someone here.
0:39.8	I bet there's somebody who goes to your school or like somebody I know in your
0:43.8	neighborhood yeah who's here because it for those of you who live outside of New
0:48.3	England and New York and New Jersey there is something that we have here called
0:52.1	February Vacation on the west coast they used to call it's New Jersey there is something that we have here called February vacation.
0:53.2	Well on the west coast they used to call it ski week Sarah so fine.
0:56.0	Oh really? Because Eric's from California and she he did not ever
1:00.4	yeah not a thing he knew when I was in Northern California closer to Tahoe maybe.
1:05.0	Ski Week.
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