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Hot and Bothered
Not Sorry Productions
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🗓️ 5 November 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Jen wants to write a romance with her daughter as the main character. Vanessa just doesn’t understand why it has to be so...creepy.
This week on Hot & Bothered, Jen uses the trope “Fake Relationship to True Love” to explore what her daughter’s future relationship might look like as a powerful, self-actualized woman in the modern world. When it takes a creepy turn, Vanessa wonders what sort of message Jen is hoping her daughter will hear. With the help of The New York Times’ romance columnist Jamie Green, they explore the line between pretending and lying in the dating world, and how growing up under society’s gaze affects our quest for a happy ending.
We also get our next writing assignment from #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Bridgerton series, Julia Quinn.
Next week: More love advice and a conversation with Jen Prokop, @JenReadsRomance on Twitter and cohost of the Fated Mates podcast.
This episode uses Good Bones with permission from Tupelo Press.
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| 0:00.0 | Spoke Media. Not sorry Productions. |
| 0:07.0 | Picture this. I arrive in the Bronx after a long drive from Boston. I text my friend Jen who I'm here to visit from her FOIA saying I'm here. She doesn't reply, but that's okay. I've been to her place a hundred times. |
| 0:25.9 | But she does have a door person. He asks my name and I give it, but I'm not on the list. |
| 0:32.3 | So I call her no answer. |
| 0:35.0 | I call her again. |
| 0:36.4 | Still no answer. |
| 0:38.8 | So I try to convince the doormand that I really know this family. |
| 0:43.0 | Please, just let me up. |
| 0:45.0 | I really have to pee. |
| 0:47.0 | I describe the kid, Lulu, four years old, |
| 0:51.0 | adorable, lots of attitude, often to be found in sunglasses in a tutu. |
| 0:56.7 | Her mom, Jen, tall, long almost black hair, chunky glasses, often wearing knitted items. |
| 1:04.6 | I avoid using racial language because I'm a white lady who feels weird about it. |
| 1:10.1 | And I don't want to describe people I love by their skin color. But he cuts right to the chase. |
| 1:16.0 | Oh, the Chinese lady with the Mexican kid. |
| 1:19.0 | Sure. He lets me in. I get in the elevator and head straight to the eighth floor. |
| 1:26.0 | As soon as I get off the elevator, it becomes clear to me why they weren't answering the phone. |
| 1:31.0 | Destiny's child is blaring from their door and |
| 1:35.4 | giggles abound. I knock loudly. Two sweaty faces emerge, happy to see me. |
| 1:42.4 | Hugs and kisses happen but What he faces emerge, happy to see me. |
| 1:43.2 | Hugs and kisses happen, but the dancing doesn't stop. |
| 1:47.0 | After I pee, I jump right in and dance too. |
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