Coming Summer 2027: This American Love Life

Does anybody out there speak my love language?

I've spent most of my life analyzing and predicting people’s behavior.

Personally. Professionally. Romantically. Sometimes against my better judgment.

Along the way, I've collected an extraordinary assortment of stories involving love, language, cultural misunderstandings, questionable decisions, and people who turned out to be considerably more complicated than advertised.

Naturally, I decided to make a podcast.

Well, technically, Yaping decided I should make a podcast. I made her beg me to do it for over a year before I acquiesced.

Then I spent another year writing it.

If you decide it wasn't worth the wait, I'll happily refund every penny you pay to listen*.

This American Love Life is a nine-episode storytelling series about the curious business of being human: what we say, what we mean, what other people hear, and what happens when those things bear absolutely no resemblance to one another.

There will be romance. There will be research. There will be footnotes.

There may be an octopus**.

Part memoir, part cultural anthropology, and part ongoing investigation into the question of whether anybody on this planet actually understands anybody else.

Coming Summer 2027.

I have some stories to tell.

And I suspect you do, too.

*Listening is free. Hopefully there will be advertising.

**Just kidding. There will not be an octopus.

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