Romantic Underpinnings: Recent Episodes
Romantic Underpinnings
Welcome to Romantic Underpinnings! This podcast brings writing, comedy and historical romance together. Each week, Andrew and Ashton read a new chapter in a collaborative novel that we are co-writing through a gender swapped lens.
Season 1, Episode 32
Wherein Agatha sees a man about a bathhouse, and then sees another man about a bathhouse, and then a third man walks in to see Agatha about a bathhouse
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Season 1, Episode 31
Wherein our hero and heroine refine their plan over pastries, and our intrepid hosts live vicariously through our hero and heroine. Come for the adventure on the high seas, and stay for the Kylie Minogue riffs
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Wherein a plan emerges from a crucible of incompetence and chaos, sending our heroes hurtling toward a final confrontation
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Wherein our hero gets rescued, our heroine proves her capacity for self-sacrifice, and the side characters are approximately as useless as ever
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Wherein our heroine sneaks around a palace, furtively scrambling toward a heartening reunion
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Season 1, Episode 27
Wherein our hero makes a slight strategic blunder in a bathhouse, leading to perhaps his most compromised position yet
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Season 1, Episode 26
Wherein our hero fails to make an appearance, our heroine relies on her wits, and the reader will cling to faith in the power of “amour”
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Wherein our hero goes to a bathhouse in Paris, and the juicy narrative possibilities opened up by this move make up for its arguable anachronism
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Wherein our hero’s naivete is as monumental and overwhelming as the city of Paris, where our characters have coincidentally just arrived
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Wherein our merry band gets a new member, and we do some more fantasy casting for the myriad multimedia adaptations in this show’s future
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Wherein our hero and heroine choose a slightly dubious time to go for a walk in the woods, but it’s all worth it when they sit down
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(Our apologies if this episode appears in your feed out of order; please listen to this after Chapter 20, and before Chapters 21+. Our hosts are incredible prose stylists, but less handy with an RSS feed.)
Wherein our hero and heroine sneak across the countryside on mules before getting accosted by a mysterious interloper
p.s. the character Andrew was trying to reference at the 30:50 mark was Lady Bracknell
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Wherein our heroes ditch their ship, stumble across a farm, and find yet more excuses for protracted physical proximity
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In which the hosts extol the virtues of French breakfasts, and our hero and heroine make an Irish exit from Rouen due to a panoply of perils
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Wherein our hero and heroine leap down a fresh abyss of hijinks, including (but not limited to) a man dressed in silk getting conked on the head
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Wherein our hero and heroine put some cards on the table, keep some cards in their hand, and discover the true conflict in the novel: an unappealing name choice by one of our intrepid hosts
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Wherein our heroine sits on a boat and reminisces about the previous days events, while the next days events begin to gather like ominous clouds
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Wherein our hero's tantrum finally ends—in such a delectable way that the cats got jealous and tried to ruin the podcast recording
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In which secret identities are revealed, secret missions get underway, and our hero throws a tantrum of heroic proportions
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Wherein our hero and heroine take a pause from their courtship to get mad, rescue the crew, and prod the plot forward.
Note: Romantic Underpinnings apologizes for the audio quality in this recording. Next week we will return to the sterling audio quality for which we’ve become renowned in recent episodes.
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Season 1, Episode 12
Wherein our hero and heroine discuss shipboard discipline, fail to eat a meal together, and finally stop prowling in circles around one another
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Season 1, Episode 11
In which our heroes speak to French customs officials, share a gangplank, and get stuck in a moment they can’t get out of
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Season 1, Episode 10
In which our redoubtable heroes find themselves consumed by a towering inferno of exposition, just as their mission reaches a critical juncture
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In which our hero bellows orders, everyone falls over, and lightning isn’t the only thing causing sparks
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Wherein our hero and heroine bludgeon the innocent listener with double entendres
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Wherein our hero rounds up a gang of side characters for the turbulent story ahead, and also watches our heroine acquire some rope burns.
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Note: Romantic Underpinnings offers its sincerest apologies for accidentally attributing a Wayne’s World reference to Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
Wherein our heroes discover that they each have much to hide, and even more to reveal
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Wherein he was a boy
She was a girl posing as a sailor boy in search of his maiden voyage
Can I make it any more obvious?
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Wherein our heroine socializes with new acquaintances, and learns about some important facets of a sailor’s life.
Wherein we meet our heroine, sip some chocolate, and try to fit ten pounds of backstory in a five-pound bag.
Apologies for the audio issues — they mostly dissipate after the first 5 minutes
Wherein we meet our hero, Anthony, and go with him through one of the worst days of his life.