Everyone is talking about romance, and hosts Sanjana Basker and Tyler McCall are here to delve into why. Each week on Radio 831, they dig into the books, tropes, adaptations, drama, and discourse shaping the conversation, exploring what our obsession with love stories says about how we actually live. Expect genre deep-dives, expert discussions with authors and superfans, and strong opinions on everything from dark romance and age gaps to Wuthering Heights and certain Russian hockey players. Come back May 7 to tune in.
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Episode Transcript
Why is everyone obsessed with romance right now? Like everyone
your coworker who quote unquote doesn't read is reading romance.
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Your mom, book talk, the entire internet.
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Something is happening and.
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We are not going to let it go unexplored.
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That's kind of the whole show. I'm SINJOHNA. Basker, I'm
Tyler McCall, and this is Radio eight three to one,
a romance podcast. The books, the tropes, the adaptations, the drama,
the discourse.
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And what all of it says about how we actually
love yearn and obsess. We're talking about what even makes
a romance a romance?
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Like, what are the rules?
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There are opinions, so many opinions.
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We're going to Weathering Heights.
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Which, for the record, is not a romance novel, and
yet it has haunted the romance genre for two hundred years.
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We're going to get into.
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Why we're getting into dark romance age gaps, certain Russian hockey.
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Players, oh, the Russians, you know, the ones.
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And sentient objects in love, which is a thing.
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That's the kind of conversation we're having every episode.
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With authors, super fans, people who have very strong takes
about their favorite.
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Tropes, and also us. We have feelings too, so many feelings.
Here's what we really think is going on. Romance gets dismissed,
it always has.
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We come to this with genre fluency, all kinds of context.
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And a deep love of a good love story.
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Because these books are doing something. The tropes mean something,
The fantasies tell us something about what we want broadly, and.
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When the whole Internet is losing its mind over a
book to screen adaptation or a celebrity couple or a
Morley Gray hero, there's a reason for that.
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We're here to dig in. But that's the work.
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With new episodes every Thursday, we are going deep on
the genre, the culture, the chaos.
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And we want you there for it. Ready, so ready.
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Listen to the Radio eight three to one podcast on iHeartRadio, app,
Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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See you there,
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