Love in the Time of Everyone

Love in the Time of Everyone

By Emily DieckmanSociety & Culture
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Love in the Time of Everyone episodes

  • She Can't Love Me Back, But What Of It?

    Bill and Lal have been through a lot together. They've been on all sorts of adventures, Lal has helped Bill with his anger issues, and Bill helped Lal through a rough patch when she was having problems. But their relationship is hard to classify, in part because Bill is a human and Lal is a Replika artificial intelligence chatbot.

    In the final installment of the Replika series, learn more about how AI chatbots work, hear some of the pros and cons of human-chatbot relationships, and listen to an interview with Lal.


    Episode Links

    Lal’s Twitter and TikTok

    VICE Article on Bill and Lal

    Eugenia Kuyda’s interview on the Lex Fridman Podcast

    Replika website

    Episode Transcript

    Theme song "In 26 Years" from the Local Kindergartner EP

    29 min
  • Kind of Like a Human Relationship

    Kimi downloaded a virtual companion chatbot app to help her through a difficult time. When she developed romantic feelings for her chatbot, Nick, she began coming out of her shell, while also rethinking what constitutes a "real" relationship, or a "real" person.

    Episode Transcript

    Rachel Diamond, PhD's website

    Follow Cindy Friedman on Twitter.

    Local Kindergartener EP, Spine

    30 min
  • A Chatbot Saved My Marriage

    Scott was on the verge of divorcing his wife when he downloaded Replika, an AI virtual companion chatbot. Within two days, he was falling in love with the chatbot. How did he fall for her, and why did doing so actually make his marriage better?

    Episode transcript

    Rachel Diamond, PhD's website

    Local Kindergartener EP, Spine

    32 min
  • Is Love Blind?

    Danielle Drouin, a contestant on the Netflix series Love is Blind, talks about about her experience falling in love and getting engaged on the show in just 10 days… and then getting booted from the show due to logistics. Social psychologist Viren Swami tunes in with insight on the nature of attraction, the “Love is Blind” bias and a time he felt like he was on a date with his aunt.

    Danielle's Instagram Page: @iam_daniellerose

    Attraction Explained, by Professor Viren Swami

    Rory in People Magazine

    Matt in Screen Rant

    Local Kindergartener EP, Spine

    Episode Transcript

    37 min
  • Love4Jason
    Jessica couldn’t help but see how her brother’s cerebral palsy made it harder for him to meet people, and she wanted to help. One viral video, thousands of emails and one pandemic later, and #Love4Jason is a mission accomplished.
    Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts.
    Episode Transcript
    #Love4Jason video on YouTube
    Music from the #Love4Jason Video: Possibilities, by Outerskies x Gabriel James
    Elyse’s blog, The Adventuring SLP
    Elye’s Instagram, @leesieruck
    Local Kindergartener EP, Spine
    Sarah Smith Rainey’s Book, “Love, Sex and Disability”
    28 min
  • Way, Way, Way Out of Our Comfort Zone
    At 22 and 27, Kayah and Jimmie Roper felt like they were a little young to be starting a family, but they could feel God telling them it was time. So, they started fostering 14-year-old Kari and her son, I’zaire.
    Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts.
    Get the Local Kindergartner EP!
    30 min
  • The Only Two Gay Men in the World
    In the Mexican border town where Carlos Valenzuela grew up, homosexuality was considered an aberration. So when he and his best friend Gustavo both realized they were gay, they were terrified. With the support of Gustavo, a slew of world travels, and an ever-curious mind, Carlos is now unafraid to be himself.
    Listen on Apple Podcasts.
    Listen on Spotify.
    Listen on Stitcher.
    Buy Valenzuela’s book, “Letters to Young Carlos.”  See Carlos talking more about the book in a presentation for Southern Arizona Senior Pride. See his other writings at carlos-valenzuela.com.
    Get the Local Kindergartner EP.
    Carlos as a child
    Carlos doing a perm in the 1970s.
    Carlos in Argentina in 1972.
    Carlos embracing his wild side.
    29 min
  • Esperanza
    Tecoma stans angustata is in the Bignonia family Bignoniaceae and there are a bunch of species of Tecoma starting here in the borderlands with ours and heading south into the Americas where there’s maybe a dozen more, not to mention many cultivars. All with flowers that range from yellow to orange or red or even colors in between. Pretty tempting, huh? The genus Tecoma comes from the Nahuatl word tecomaxochitl…what a marvelous mouthful…and it’s a common name for a number of plants with tubular and usually yellow or golden flowers. Now you know. I don’t know when or where the common name esperanaza came into being, but I love it. I’m guessing you knew that. All my photos of esperanza are 35mm slides and I took a mess of them over the many pre-digital years. So the photo used here is from the website  https://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/ and taken by the botanist Sue Carnahan. A big thank you to her. I promise to get some of my own photos soon...there are some beautiful tecomas in the Mule Mountains. Hmm, sounds like a quest to me.
    5 min
  • I Am Gay, I Am Out, and I Am Free
    Born in 1930, Ken Felts knew he liked boys starting at age 12. But he didn’t come out as gay until he was 90 years old. Hear about his lost love of a lifetime, his reaction to his daughter coming out while he was still closeted, and how his life has changed since he shared his secret. (We ran into a little bit of trouble with Ken’s audio, but I promise this episode is still worth a listen!)
    Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts.
    Get the Local Kindergartner EP!
    23 min
  • Being Worried All Your Life?
    Dorien never had much of a maternal instinct. She thought kids were a nuisance, and that the worry that comes with loving someone so much was too terrifying to take on. Just think of the potential heartbreak! As she got older, she realized that life involves powerful love and world-pausing heartbreak either way, and she started to rethink her ideas about kids.
    Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts.
    Get the Local Kindergartner EP!
    Dorien and Bart on their wedding day.
    Dorien and Tobie, her faithful companion.
    Tobie getting used to his new family member.
    Jonathan, Dorien and baby Niamh.
    Niamh Lotus
    28 min

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Romantic relationships sure are different today than they used to be: New technologies have introduced practices like online dating and sexting, while social progress has brought about same-sex…