A Love Bites Radio Special Monday, November 20th at 4pm ET In this season of love, thanks, giving, and reflection, we wonder: Will impending holiday eats help or hinder our health and happiness? How does what we eat affect our brain’s relaying of joys and frustrations? How does food best support our brain health, so…
Category: Shows
What’s Up with Love Bites Radio?!?
Hello lovely humans! The short of it is — we’re taking a bit of a season break! We love being on the air every single week! But 40+ shows a year is a lotta shows! We need a little time to rework our format and style, Jax has illness stuff to sort, and Ben is…
What 82 Episodes Have Taught Us About Love
August 7th As we wrap our Summer Season and take a station vacation, we’re reflecting on two years (!) of Love Bites Radio and the conversations that have stuck with us. We’ve played with taglines — shifting from Where Dining and Dating Collide to Exploring Why and How We Love — and format, and theme….
For the Love of Food (Media): Me & You with Jax and Max!
July 31st “Two food perspectives, both alike in dignity, in fair New York City where we lay our scene…*” On today’s show, Saveur Senior Digital Editor Max Falkowitz and freelance food writer and your co-host Jacqueline dig into their varying experiences. How does Max’s analytical curiosity contrast Jaqueline’s emotional? How does his experience as an…
To Date Or Not To Date (Other Actors): Me & You with Ben and Deanna!
July 24th “I don’t date other actors.” That’s the hard-and-fast rule of many thespians, who find their careers, artistic, and personal lives so difficult to manage that the idea of merging with someone else with the same struggles sounds like a terrible nightmare. Today, co-host Ben Rosenblatt invites his girlfriend, actress Deanna McGovern, onto the…
Me & You: 69 Years of Marriage with Pat and Hansine
July 10th Very few couples will ever get to say they’ve made it to sixty-nine years of marriage. As we explore how to find and maintain loving relationships of all sorts here on Love Bites, it seems only fitting that when we have one of those couples at hand, we ask them how they did…
Single Lady Writers in Trump’s America: Me & You with Jax and Jen Doll!
We ask each other questions to see how we’re dealing in some Me & You single lady writer love.
Me and You: Ben and Jax!
June 19th Love Bites Radio explores “why and how we love.” So why do we love the way we love right now? In what ways does that love physically manifest? How are those manifestations different than what they’ve been in the past, and what do we hope to get from love in the future? In the first…
From Kosher to a Ham, with Eli Rosen (New Beginnings #5)
June 5th A career change can be a difficult thing, especially when leaving behind the financial security of life as an attorney for the uncertainty and instability of life as an artist. But what if you were also leaving behind your marriage, family, and the community you were indoctrinated into all at the same time,…
From Health to Happiness, with Cynthia Cherish Malaran (New Beginnings #4)
May 29th Cynthia Cherish Malaran was making mad money as a freelance graphic designer. She was married. She was “successful.” But she was miserable. Then she got in an accident that left her body shattered and her mind with amnesia. Over a year into her recovery, music started to trigger her memories and she began…
Georgia or New York? We Play New Beginnings with Julia Bainbridge!
Where did this recent food news happen? Julia and Ben guess away!
Is This Home? with Julia Bainbridge (New Beginnings #3)
Starting over in new job in a new city sounds romantic. How does reality measure up?
Losing My Religion, with Aimee DeLong (New Beginnings #2)
May 15th What happens after you realize you were born into a system that you don’t believe in? How do you discover what you really think? How do you escape from all you’ve ever known? How do you find the confidence to express the new person you want to become? Where do you find a…
Talking Empty Nests with Our Moms for Mother’s Day! (New Beginnings #1)
May 8th How does the relationship between mother and child change when the child moves out of the house? What does mom get to reclaim for herself, or what new things may she welcome? In celebration of Mother’s Day (!), we’ve lured our moms onto the show to talk us through this unique kind of…
True or False: Extreme You Edition
On today’s show, we’re playing Extreme You True or False with Brian Kateman, the author of The Reducetarian Solution: How the Surprisingly Simple Act of Reducing the Amount of Meat in Your Diet Can Transform Your Health and the Planet, which goes on sale April 18th. Our subject? Sarah Robb O’Hagan, our guest from last week…
Moderating Meat, with the Reducetarian’s Brian Kateman!
Can moderation really help save the planet and ourselves? Brian Katemen of the Reducetarian Solution thinks so.
True or False: The Reducetarian Edition
On today’s show, we’re playing Reducetarian True or False with Sarah Robb O’Hagan, the author of Extreme You: Step Up. Stand Out. Kick Ass. Repeat. Our subject? Brian Kateman’s The Reducetarian Solution: How the Surprisingly Simple Act of Reducing the Amount of Meat in Your Diet Can Transform Your Health and the Planet, which goes on the market…
Be Your Most Extreme You… in Moderation! With Sarah Robb O’Hagan!
Sometimes being the most Extreme You means saying “no”, pulling towards the middle, and chilling out a bit.
Endings #6: When Your Restaurant Closes, with Chef Chris Jaeckle
April 3rd So much time and attention are given to a restaurant’s opening: Who’s the chef? How will the menu be different than everything that’s come before it? Who’s designing the space? Will there be craft beer or craft cocktails? We fill reservations books. We rush in to review. We Instagram furiously. But when a…
“A Leader Defines Reality”: Katrina Blank Shares Her Chronic Illness Breakup Story
On our most recent double-episode, we covered breakups because of chronic illness. Here, writer Katrina Blank shares a bit more of the story she tells us in Part II about living with Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease. This has been slightly edited for length and clarity. Why did you like Joey to begin with? The day…
Endings #5: I Got Broken Up With Because of My Chronic Illness, Part II
March 27th “It wasn’t just losing him with the breakup, but a lot of the dreams and hopes I had for the future. It was coming to terms with the idea that this illness might be chronic. That there was no fix.” – Katrina On Part II of our episode on breakups because of chronic…
Endings #4: Breakups About Chronic Illness (…and sex and babies)
March 20th On today’s show — the first of a two-part episode during our series on Endings — Jacqueline speaks with two women who recently underwent breakups they attribute to their chronic illnesses: Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) and Interstitial Cystitis. They both reached out to J after reading her Cosmopolitan essay, How I Learned…
The Art of Breaking Up
March 13th On today’s show, we discussed the fine art of breaking up with writer and fellow Heritage host Sari Kamin. And as is our new break-the-tension tactic, we split the midde of the show with a game: Breakup Mad Libs. Combing the internet for a source so that I didn’t have to expend precious creativity…
Endings #3: Breaking Up is Hard To Do, with Sari Kamin
March 13th “When at the age of 31-yrs old my boyfriend of five years broke up with me I was deeply heartbroken but also stunned that I was no longer on the path of getting engaged, getting married, and having children by the age of 35. That was the course that I had seen so…
Canapes, Cake, and Cocktails. It’s WEDDING True or False!
When you’re sick in a bed with a cold/maybe flu, and your brain is so full of junk that writing real things for your words-job is impossible, there’s no more fun way to pass time than to browse the web in search of fodder for a fun online game in which to spring upon your radio guest…
Endings #2: Curtains Up and Books Out, with Jen Glantz!
March 6th Making it look easy is the point, right? Writers, actors, and artists of all sorts tell stories about real life experiences, defending their choices, owning their truth, and leaving a trail of wisdom in their creatively-tuned path. We see them at the climax, the triumph, the TED talk — the ENDING. But what…
Endings #1: Friendship Through Divorce, with Suzanne Riss and Jill Sockwell
February 27th What’s a life experience you’re holding onto that you wish you could emotionally shut the door on? What’s holding you back? Who has helped guide you through growth the most? What positive new tactics or tools did you pick up to battle the tough stuff along the way? And do you wish the…
Love and Hospitality on a Political Day
February 20th We’re not a political show. But we’re political people. And so for President’s Day, with Ben returning from Portland and Jacqueline holed up at home writing away, we’re sharing two clips from past episodes, with a bit more of J’s mooning. First, Floyd and Barkha Cardoz of Paowalla restaurant and our recent Power…
Relationship Goals for Valentine’s Day!
February 13th We just wrapped our series on Power Couples — five couples in hospitality who work alongside each other by day and someone manage to still love each other enough to share a bed together at night. The series came about for deliciously selfish reasons: we both need a little inspiration in the healthy marriage…
Power Couples! Barkha and Floyd Cardoz!
February 6th Barkha and Floyd Cardoz met at hospitality school in India and became close friends. Eight years later, after emigrating separately to New Jersey and New York, they met once again and started to explore romance. Twenty-five years later, they’re the owners of the New York restaurant Paowalla, where their Indian heritage is cooked up through…
lovebitesradio.com 