Armchair Anonymous: Meet Cute III
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Anonymous. I'm Dan Shepard and I'm joined by Monica Padman.
Hi.
Your favorite prompt.
I love this prompt. It's a very sweet prompt.
This one was extra sweet. It has one, and I had to immediately tell my children at the dinner table.
How do Dax and Monica introduce the concept of a meet cute?
Yeah. Yeah, there's a very sweet one.
We're not going to spoil it, but you guys, you can listen to this one.
You can listen to it and prepare to have a lot of sweetness. Yeah, these are sweet, and they're life-affirming and positive. Hellenic Studies. Please enjoy Meet Cute.
All times come and go Good times take them slow
Hi. Hello.
Hi. How's it going?
Wonderful. Where are you?
I'm in Philadelphia.
Ah, the great city of Philadelphia.
Yeah, we have a snowstorm right now. Oh. Yeah. Do you have enough supplies? Oh, yeah. We're all set.
You got power, clearly.
Got power. Thank goodness. And the kids had a snow day today, so that was very exciting for everyone.
Oh, there's nothing better.
I know.
Okay, so tell me, where did this meet queue take place?
All right, so it took place in Philadelphia. And first, just a little backstory, a little information about me as a kid and a teenager. I was a baton twirler. and a juggler and just an all around musical theater nerd. So those are my big hobbies.
Maybe your high school was different than mine, but I don't remember the baton twirler and the juggler being like the bell of the ball necessarily.
You're right. Musical theater was kind of separate, a little cooler. And the baton twirler and juggler was really my own thing that my friends didn't really understand. Were you in pageants? I wasn't. I just enjoyed the fun of it. I didn't want to compete.
Now, I could see that hobby bringing you into other cultures, like because the Grateful Dead people were so into different hand toys. I could be like, well, fuck, maybe that's my home.
Object manipulation, they call it. Oh, object manipulation. So if there was like a school talent show, that was my jam. So my story begins in 2011 in Philadelphia. I was 24 and I was fresh out of college, figuring out what I wanted to do with my life. I wasn't sure what direction I wanted to go in. And I thought maybe I wanted to be a teacher, work with kids. I had all these part-time seasonal jobs.
What degree had you picked up?
I had a degree in music and English, so neither one super useful. And I was thinking about going back to school to get my teaching degree. But at this point, I was about to leave for an outdoor education job that was going to be in Massachusetts for three months. And before I left, I got this call from an old high school friend And she told me that she had extra tickets to the Philadelphia Folk Festival the next day. Her parents weren't going to use their tickets and wanted to know if I wanted to join. And I said, sure, that sounds like fun. So I go to this folk festival. And the Philly Folk Festival is really fun. It's folk music, banjos, guitars, lots of hippies wearing tie-dye.
There's no overlap with a Renaissance festival, right? You're not eating turkey drumsticks and throwing axes or anything.
No, none of that. It's more about the music and camping. It's still kind of dirty and hot and people get into it, but it's a little different than the Renaissance Fair vibe. So at the Folk Festival, there's also this family-friendly area where there's like kids' activities and kids' music, and it's in this nice, shady, grassy area. And every year at the Philadelphia Folk Festival, this circus troupe called the Give and Take Jugglers perform, and I had seen them throughout my childhood.
What personal experiences do the guests share about their meet cute stories?
Over the years, they were kind of like a staple in Philadelphia. They would perform at school assemblies and camps and my Girl Scout troop. And they were this really good-natured, family-friendly, rotating cast of jugglers. And they put on this vaudevillian classic. circus show. They had this calliope they would crank and that would play music and they'd bring kids up on stage and juggle around them. So they just had this timeless, magical quality that was really fascinating to me.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:17
2
How do Dax and Monica introduce the concept of a meet cute?
0:17–3:57
3
What personal experiences do the guests share about their meet cute stories?
3:57–7:14
4
How did a spontaneous decision lead to a memorable connection?
7:14–11:50
5
What challenges did the guests face while navigating their relationships?
11:50–21:38
6
How do the guests reflect on their relationship journey and its impact on their lives?
21:38–25:00
7
What insights do the guests share about parenting and their family dynamics?
25:00–29:12
8
How do the guests conclude their heartwarming stories of love and connection?
29:12–45:35