meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Rough Translation

When We Talk About Love

Rough Translation

NPR

Society & Culture, Social Sciences, News, News Commentary, Science

4.87.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

We visit a storytelling podcast from China that slips under the radar of China's government censors, and other international podcast stories about the search for love.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

You're listening to Rough Translation from NPR.

0:03.5

A few years ago, when GoGo was 24, and living in her own apartment in Beijing, she got

0:08.5

a phone call from her mom with a log in and a password to an online dating site.

0:14.2

And there, GoGo found a profile that her mom had set up for her.

0:18.6

It had her photo, her bio, and an inbox full of conversations with guys that she had never

0:24.2

met.

0:25.2

She was shocked because she's using my name.

0:29.5

She's misusing my name.

0:32.6

This had been going on in secret for months.

0:35.4

Her mom set up the account and messaged with guys pretending to be her daughter.

0:39.3

One guy sent a photo of himself playing basketball.

0:42.0

Her mom had written back, why do those shorts look like a skirt?

0:47.2

Another time a guy said he was going to Turkey, her mom said, don't be foolish.

0:50.9

My mom said Turkey is very, very dangerous right now.

0:54.6

How did these guys not realize this was a mom?

0:57.4

I mean, I will never say something blacked out.

1:00.3

This is like, pretending what I will say, but it's totally not me.

1:07.4

Did you tell your mom, hey, take this down?

1:10.8

Several times.

1:11.8

That doesn't work.

1:13.3

Sometimes she even promised me that I will not do this again.

1:16.5

But maybe one or two weeks later, she said, hey, I found another guy.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NPR, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of NPR and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.