We Have History with Francesca Beauman
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
We're traveling back in time with Francesca Beauman, writer, historian, and the world’s leading expert in Personal Ads, to learn about how people “dated” throughout history. We discuss how we got to where we are in dating culture, and how society transitioned from arranged marriages and courting to the casual hookup culture of today’s modern dating world. We learn how advancements like transportation and technology impacted the way people date, and finally we chat about what dating might look like 100 years from now (and what people then think of how we dated in 2021.)
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:05.1 | Hey guys, it's Alana and Jonah. |
| 0:07.8 | And welcome back for another episode of seeing other people. |
| 0:11.8 | Jonah, how are you? |
| 0:13.4 | I am doing excellent in Brooklyn, the usual. |
| 0:17.7 | Let's see, I wanted to share something about my personal life with you. |
| 0:26.2 | Whoa, chill. Let's see. I wanted to share something about my personal life with you. I'm trying to think. Oh, chill. Let's have drinks first. Get to know each other a little bit. |
| 0:33.0 | Trying to think what that is. Oh, God. Something in my personal life. Well, on work life, |
| 0:58.5 | I'm still waiting to hear back from a certain film festival about the movie. We might hear back this week or next week. But you're also going to hear back like a month ago and three weeks ago and two weeks ago. Yeah, we didn't get into the one that I wanted to hear back from a month ago. And then there is one that we're, that we still are waiting on that we might get, you know, hopefully knock on what we get into. It'd be really nice. That's my professional life, just been writing, turned in a new draft of a script, which I'm excited about. |
| 1:03.4 | It's kind of loosely based on our lives, actually, what you know about that. |
| 1:13.1 | And then dating lifewise, I sent you a couple interesting screenshots last night where I like canceled a date and then I was like, |
| 1:14.9 | am I being stupid or mean? |
| 1:17.0 | Do you remember what I'm talking about? |
| 1:18.1 | I didn't know exactly. I was just waiting for you to say more before cutting in. |
| 1:22.4 | No, I basically sent you a message where I had to cancel on somebody twice. |
| 1:29.6 | You guys don't ask me for advice for once. I did. |
| 1:30.6 | And there was a little bit of pushback, a little bit of attitude from this person. |
| 1:35.5 | Because rightfully so though, because it was rightfully so and not rightfully so. |
| 1:40.8 | My mom needed help moving. |
| 1:43.0 | She just moved to New York City during a pandemic. And then there was a fucking snowstorm. Yes. So here's the scoop is that. Jonah canceled a date twice in a row. So, however, with good reason both times. But as someone who that's happened to, you do get a little like, is he making up excuses? |
| 2:01.8 | Like, you guys haven't met yet. |
| 2:03.1 | You don't know each other. |
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