Slow Love Podcast Lisa Portolan Co-host Met At Film Event [new] Jun 2026

"It was one of those moments where the conversation just flows," Portolan recalls. "We weren't talking about box office numbers or cinematography; we were talking about how people connect, or fail to connect, in the digital age."

The film was called Echoes in Static . It was pretentious, glacially paced, and featured a seven-minute close-up of a kettle boiling. By minute twenty, half the audience had checked their phones. By minute forty, a man two rows back began to snore. slow love podcast lisa portolan co-host met at film event