The End Of Small Talk | With Paul Rust
Modern Love
The New York Times
4.4 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2017
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Modern Love The Podcast is supported by... |
| 0:11.0 | From the New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love. |
| 0:20.0 | Stories of Love, Laws, and Redemption. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm your host, Megna Chakrabardi. |
| 0:31.0 | The perfect first date... |
| 0:35.0 | It usually lives only in our dreams... |
| 0:37.0 | ...candolite, delicious food, an instant connection. |
| 0:41.0 | But in reality, first dates can be an awkward mess. |
| 0:45.0 | And the conversation... |
| 0:47.0 | ...shallow, at best... |
| 0:48.0 | ...which is the worst thing about first dates for Tim Boomer. |
| 0:52.0 | He's the author of this week's essay. |
| 0:54.0 | Paul Rust, star of the Netflix comedy Love, reads us Tim's essay... |
| 0:58.0 | ...the end of Small Talk. |
| 1:01.0 | When my relationship unraveled nearly two years ago... |
| 1:04.0 | ...I decided to suspend my career as an actuary in Boston... |
| 1:08.0 | ...and take a long vacation in Costa Rica... |
| 1:11.0 | ...where I plan to learn how to surf and do yoga. |
| 1:18.0 | Yes, it was the most cliched response possible... |
| 1:21.0 | ...for a heartbroken, 32-year-old man. |
| 1:24.0 | After four weeks there, I was traveling by car... |
| 1:27.0 | ...with several friends I had met at surf school... |
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