Latest / Stuff Mom Never Told You / SMNTY Classics: Sex and the City
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- 0:05Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anny and welcome to Stefan Never told
- 0:07Speaker 1: you a production of iHeartRadio. And yesterday, I am still
- 0:20Speaker 1: flying solo because Samantha is still not feeling well and
- 0:25Speaker 1: I am actually recording quite a bit today by myself,
- 0:30Speaker 1: and that's because you know, it's never a great time
- 0:34Speaker 1: to get COVID, but of Samantha's birthday is coming up
- 0:38Speaker 1: and there's gonna be some travel there, and then I'm
- 0:40Speaker 1: going to Las Vegas for a work thing, and then
- 0:45Speaker 1: I'm going on vacation, so it's just trying to not
- 0:51Speaker 1: make it miserable for all of us. I guess I
- 0:54Speaker 1: will have a happy hour about some of my thoughts
- 0:58Speaker 1: around that when it comes to work. But in the meantime,
- 1:02Speaker 1: I did want to bring back this classic happy hour,
- 1:05Speaker 1: which was the first episode we did of our Sex
- 1:10Speaker 1: and the City watch podcast. Because we are getting ready
- 1:14Speaker 1: to start the next season, we aren't going to have
- 1:17Speaker 1: some guests. For everyone who entered to be our listener guest,
- 1:23Speaker 1: we want to have you all, so hopefully we'll do
- 1:25Speaker 1: that again as well. But I thought it would be
- 1:27Speaker 1: fun while we're getting prepped for that, to go back
- 1:32Speaker 1: to the beginning and see how it's changed. See how
- 1:35Speaker 1: I've improved or not improved when it comes to guessing
- 1:38Speaker 1: what they're about. So please enjoy this classic episode. Hey,
- 1:47Speaker 1: this is Annie and Smitha. I'm welcome to Steph. I've
- 1:49Speaker 1: never told you production of iHeartRadio.
- 2:00Speaker 2: Okay, y'all, we are going to try something a little
- 2:03Speaker 2: bit different, and I think we've been talking about doing
- 2:05Speaker 2: this for a very long time, but we're starting a
- 2:09Speaker 2: new sub sub series.
- 2:11Speaker 3: Is this what it is? Or it is like a
- 2:12Speaker 3: sub sub sub sub sub sub series.
- 2:14Speaker 1: I like adding in as many subs as possible, but
- 2:16Speaker 1: I think it's just a double sub.
- 2:18Speaker 3: Oh okay, that's what I was thinking.
- 2:20Speaker 2: And again, like we said, we've been talking about doing
- 2:22Speaker 2: this for a while and it's a dream come true.
- 2:24Speaker 2: And honestly, I think I've been doing this and as
- 2:27Speaker 2: a way to make Annie watch this entire series that
- 2:30Speaker 2: she's been able to go without her entire life.
- 2:32Speaker 3: Which is fine.
- 2:34Speaker 2: I'm okay with it. I'm seriously fine. Sounds like yeah,
- 2:37Speaker 2: I'm fine, everything's fine. But we're doing a viewing of
- 2:41Speaker 2: hopefully all this is an adventure of sex and the City. Yes,
- 2:47Speaker 2: we're going to do a whole mini series based on
- 2:52Speaker 2: me making Annie and possibly guests, yeah, watch and get
- 2:57Speaker 2: their reactions about sex and the city.
- 3:01Speaker 3: So excited, y'all, Oh so excited.
- 3:03Speaker 1: I am too. I mean, you keep framing it as
- 3:05Speaker 1: if you're forcing me. I am excited. I think this
- 3:08Speaker 1: will be fun. Also, you know what could be fun
- 3:11Speaker 1: if we got listeners involved, Like maybe we get some
- 3:14Speaker 1: really active fans, you want to join us for these
- 3:17Speaker 1: yeah parties, your reactions on here, that'd be great.
- 3:21Speaker 3: This might really have to happen, y'all.
- 3:22Speaker 2: Yeah, And so today we're going to start with episode one,
- 3:25Speaker 2: and yeah, like we said, this is kind of as
- 3:28Speaker 2: being a new thing, being a concept thing, We're probably
- 3:32Speaker 2: going to switch around on how we're going to record
- 3:34Speaker 2: it and what we're going to do to record it
- 3:36Speaker 2: and what you're going to hear and what you might
- 3:38Speaker 2: not hear. And yeah, maybe doing a little watch party
- 3:40Speaker 2: with everyone because we love that. There may be even
- 3:44Speaker 2: some additional things where I don't know, having guests that
- 3:48Speaker 2: might know a lot more about the show than we do.
- 3:49Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 3:50Speaker 2: We're hoping for that, like we'll send that vibe out
- 3:54Speaker 2: And honestly, and I'm a little sad, as actor Willie
- 3:57Speaker 2: Garson just passed away, and of course he was a
- 4:01Speaker 2: huge part of the show, playing Stanford Blatch and I
- 4:05Speaker 2: think it was actually confirmed that he passed away from
- 4:09Speaker 2: pancreatic cancer, cancer and all of that.
- 4:13Speaker 3: But you know, my heart hurts a little bit.
- 4:16Speaker 2: For sure, because he's just a great staple and a
- 4:18Speaker 2: great actor and from what I can tell from everybody's
- 4:22Speaker 2: testaments of him, he was just a good guy. So
- 4:25Speaker 2: very sad about that, but we also want to celebrate
- 4:27Speaker 2: how amazing he did in this series, including the fact
- 4:30Speaker 2: that yes, he is there at the forefront of the
- 4:32Speaker 2: episode one. He has been there, He will be there
- 4:35Speaker 2: throughout our conversations about Sex and the City, and I
- 4:38Speaker 2: believe he will be in a couple of the new
- 4:41Speaker 2: series that's coming out.
- 4:42Speaker 3: I'm not sure.
- 4:43Speaker 2: I think there's discussion about how they were going to
- 4:45Speaker 2: address his death, but you know, he's still going to
- 4:48Speaker 2: be there, and I'm glad to see it because he
- 4:51Speaker 2: was a staple.
- 4:54Speaker 3: Of the show.
- 4:55Speaker 2: But yeah, so we're going to start out every beginning
- 4:57Speaker 2: of the show because since you have not really seen
- 5:00Speaker 2: any of them, we are going to test your knowledge
- 5:03Speaker 2: because a lot of people talk about Sex and the
- 5:06Speaker 2: City and they have pretty. They have great titles, So
- 5:10Speaker 2: I'm going to give you the title of the episode
- 5:11Speaker 2: at the beginning. You're going to take a guess on
- 5:14Speaker 2: what this specific episode is about, and then we'll come
- 5:17Speaker 2: back and see how right or wrong you were.
- 5:21Speaker 1: Are so competitive?
- 5:22Speaker 3: Okay, this is gonna be good.
- 5:24Speaker 2: And just as a reminder, we do have an episode
- 5:26Speaker 2: on Sex and the City already, So if you want
- 5:29Speaker 2: to hear a lot more details about the show specifically
- 5:32Speaker 2: and the behind the scenes and just kind of the
- 5:34Speaker 2: impact it had in our society, you should go.
- 5:38Speaker 3: Take a listen.
- 5:39Speaker 2: But for now, we're just going to keep it lighthearted.
- 5:42Speaker 2: Just go down this memory lane. It was created by
- 5:45Speaker 2: Darren Starr. You have Sarah Tiska, Parker, Kim Katrell, Kristen Davis,
- 5:49Speaker 2: and Cynthia Nixon as the forefronts, and we have all
- 5:53Speaker 2: the men that come in and out of their lives.
- 5:56Speaker 3: They have won.
- 5:57Speaker 2: Many Emmys obviously, and I have gotten tons of accolades
- 6:02Speaker 2: for their show. We know all about fashion. This little
- 6:05Speaker 2: bit I know about fashion, it is probably from them.
- 6:07Speaker 2: The little I knew about sex came from them first.
- 6:10Speaker 2: And then also just my love of brunch is only
- 6:14Speaker 2: enhance that thank you. Yes, and it did begin in
- 6:18Speaker 2: nineteen ninety eight, so yes, all of the nineties glory,
- 6:21Speaker 2: and I'm so excited to visit this.
- 6:23Speaker 1: Oh yeah. Also, there's you know, just FYI if we
- 6:27Speaker 1: continue this out to the end, which I intend to do.
- 6:30Speaker 1: There were ninety four episodes, yes, so, and that's not
- 6:34Speaker 1: counting the movies and then the new HBO show, So
- 6:39Speaker 1: this is gonna be great.
- 6:40Speaker 3: We will be visiting all of the movies as well.
- 6:44Speaker 2: Confession, though I've only seen one of the movie, the
- 6:47Speaker 2: second one. I don't think I made it all the
- 6:49Speaker 2: way through, So that'll be interesting.
- 6:51Speaker 1: So we'll be in it, yeah together, that'll be fun.
- 6:54Speaker 2: So and this is kind of a cheat, but the
- 6:57Speaker 2: first episode Annie is titled Sex in the.
- 7:00Speaker 4: City Blossomous Okay, okay, blossoming Young journalist Carrie Bradshaw goes
- 7:13Speaker 4: out into the city and discusses sex with her friends
- 7:17Speaker 4: and mishaps.
- 7:19Speaker 1: This is very vague. Let me get something specific. Samantha
- 7:23Speaker 1: makes a crude comment while they're at a club, and
- 7:27Speaker 1: they discuss some kind of like how guys are weird
- 7:36Speaker 1: in some way.
- 7:37Speaker 3: There you go. So for this episode, he quid being introduced.
- 7:41Speaker 1: Do you know.
- 7:44Speaker 2: There is a staple guy in here who makes that
- 7:47Speaker 2: appearance in the first episode.
- 7:49Speaker 1: Well, I know big is the big guy in him, So.
- 7:55Speaker 3: Is that that's your guess? Yeah, there's three big loves.
- 7:59Speaker 2: I think like she has many boyfriends, and I'm so
- 8:02Speaker 2: excited to touch on all of them because they're so fantastic.
- 8:05Speaker 2: Each one of them have several boyfriends, but she's the
- 8:08Speaker 2: one that has at least three. I want to say
- 8:11Speaker 2: that Charlotte has at least two, Miranda has one big
- 8:16Speaker 2: one that we know of, and Samantha actually has kind
- 8:19Speaker 2: of two in my opinion.
- 8:20Speaker 3: So this is going to be fun.
- 8:22Speaker 1: Interest.
- 8:23Speaker 3: This is fun. All right, let's begin this.
- 8:26Speaker 1: Okay, let's do it. By the time you're an eligible
- 8:34Speaker 1: man in your thirties, you feel like you're being devoured.
- 8:38Speaker 1: Suddenly the guys are holding all the chips.
- 8:42Speaker 3: I call it a mid thirties power flip.
- 8:45Speaker 2: Oh, I don't like that guy is the epitome of
- 8:49Speaker 2: the toxic bachelor.
- 8:53Speaker 5: I mean, sex was incredible, but then he wanted to
- 8:57Speaker 5: read me his poetry, and and I'm like, I don't.
- 9:01Speaker 2: Know if I've ever had anybody try to read me poetry.
- 9:04Speaker 1: I have, and I shut it down so hard that
- 9:06Speaker 1: I still feel guilty about it. So maybe he was
- 9:11Speaker 1: going to be barely hard. I cannot do this, at
- 9:16Speaker 1: least to this day. I don't know what he thought
- 9:17Speaker 1: about my elegant calves. I no longer felt the thing
- 9:24Speaker 1: for Kurt after all these years. I finally saw him
- 9:28Speaker 1: for what he was, a self centered with holding creep
- 9:32Speaker 1: who was still the best sex.
- 9:33Speaker 3: I ever had in my life.
- 9:35Speaker 1: So I was wrong.
- 9:36Speaker 3: You'd have a little experimental mind. I will tell you later.
- 9:42Speaker 2: However, I do find so she only ends up doing
- 9:45Speaker 2: the breaking the fourth wall the first too, I think
- 9:48Speaker 2: like one or two episodes, and then they finally stops
- 9:50Speaker 2: and it becomes more like realistic. I don't know if
- 9:54Speaker 2: they did this, because, like I know, there are some
- 9:56Speaker 2: other series like Malcolm in the Middle of the and
- 9:58Speaker 2: all that that did all up. But she only did
- 10:01Speaker 2: it for a couple of more episodes, like I said,
- 10:03Speaker 2: and it was like, finally, thank you stop.
- 10:07Speaker 1: I was going to ask, because I was like, oh,
- 10:09Speaker 1: this is interesting breaking the fourth wall.
- 10:11Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't understand that.
- 10:15Speaker 3: You're such a nice guy.
- 10:17Speaker 1: That's the problem.
- 10:18Speaker 4: You know, you know you can't get laid.
- 10:25Speaker 3: Are you sure you're not gay. No, so he must be.
- 10:27Speaker 2: Gay, they said, because he doesn't objectify women.
- 10:33Speaker 3: That means he's either too nice or gay, right exactly.
- 10:40Speaker 1: Don't you have any friends that you can hook.
- 10:42Speaker 3: Me up with?
- 10:43Speaker 2: Oh?
- 10:43Speaker 3: No, too old for you. I like older women.
- 10:48Speaker 1: This is a terrible thing. I think we've talked about
- 10:50Speaker 1: this before. Not pressures people within your friend group to date.
- 10:55Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Like I said, my friends know.
- 10:57Speaker 2: If you want to say friends with me, don't set
- 10:59Speaker 2: me up with what heybody that you like?
- 11:01Speaker 1: Mm hmmmm hmm.
- 11:03Speaker 2: If you try to set me up with someone you
- 11:04Speaker 2: don't like, we're gonna have issues on our own.
- 11:10Speaker 3: Listen, have a good time and promise to tell me everything.
- 11:12Speaker 3: Oh you're lucky. Bye, great bye. I mean, would you
- 11:18Speaker 3: want I guess me.
- 11:19Speaker 2: I guess it's the same thing with you and I
- 11:21Speaker 2: being podcasters and being as open as we are. Would
- 11:24Speaker 2: you want to be friends with a sex columnists that
- 11:27Speaker 2: writes about you?
- 11:27Speaker 1: Oh, I'm just saying I think it would be tough.
- 11:33Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not outright opposed, but I think it'd
- 11:35Speaker 1: be hard if she like and in this I'm imagining
- 11:38Speaker 1: if she analyzed me and didn't tell me, and then
- 11:41Speaker 1: I reade a column and it was like she's clear
- 11:44Speaker 1: and her disturbed, and then we go out for brunch.
- 11:49Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about what you wrote about me.
- 11:51Speaker 3: Yeah, we need to have sit down, right.
- 11:58Speaker 5: The men secretly hate pretty Girl because they feel that
- 12:00Speaker 5: they're the ones who rejected them in high school. I
- 12:03Speaker 5: don't know they For the first episode, they really wanted
- 12:05Speaker 5: to drive home what each character's persona was supposed to be,
- 12:10Speaker 5: so they.
- 12:11Speaker 3: Went overboard for creating those types.
- 12:15Speaker 2: So like, you have the angry feminist trope right here
- 12:18Speaker 2: with Miranda arguing with everything Skipper does.
- 12:23Speaker 3: Excuse me? Is this your hand on my name? Hand
- 12:26Speaker 3: online knee?
- 12:32Speaker 5: Samantha had the kind of deluted self confidence that caused
- 12:35Speaker 5: men like Ross p run for president, and it usually
- 12:38Speaker 5: got her what she wanted.
- 12:40Speaker 2: I love that that's the line they have for her,
- 12:42Speaker 2: the deluded self confidence that made Ross Parot run for president.
- 12:47Speaker 2: I wonder, Okay, listeners, I need to know. Do y'all
- 12:49Speaker 2: know who Ross Parot is? I'm interested, Yes.
- 12:54Speaker 1: Let us know.
- 13:02Speaker 5: Miranda told me later that she thought he was too nice,
- 13:04Speaker 5: but that she was willing to overlook one flaw.
- 13:07Speaker 1: Why is too nice?
- 13:10Speaker 2: Because it's the nineties and that's what they wanted to
- 13:13Speaker 2: drill in. Be forceful, exactly, be a man.
- 13:19Speaker 1: You know this, No, I don't like it.
- 13:23Speaker 2: It was in the height of toxic masculinity in every
- 13:26Speaker 2: way the nineties, like we had to combat feminism.
- 13:30Speaker 3: Be a man. So this is the iconic line from
- 13:36Speaker 3: this show.
- 13:40Speaker 1: Have you ever been in love?
- 13:41Speaker 3: Have you ever been in love?
- 13:44Speaker 2: Asolutely drives off, You're like, wait, why he just drives off?
- 13:49Speaker 3: Why did the driver do that? I would be so
- 13:51Speaker 3: mad at the driver.
- 13:52Speaker 1: The driver is like, I know a dramatic moment when
- 13:55Speaker 1: I see one.
- 13:58Speaker 2: We got this just right, So you do get points.
- 14:18Speaker 2: Because yes, they ended up going to a club. Samantha
- 14:21Speaker 2: ended up saying something inappropriate. It doesn't really happened. Yes,
- 14:24Speaker 2: Chris sna mister big who we don't know. We never
- 14:28Speaker 2: know his name until the final episode, by the way,
- 14:30Speaker 2: really yeah, so.
- 14:34Speaker 1: That's gonna be a running I should have a guess
- 14:35Speaker 1: every episode.
- 14:37Speaker 2: Yeah, who's going to enter?
- 14:39Speaker 3: Who's kay? What you don't know?
- 14:43Speaker 2: You're trying to figure out his name because you don't know? Yeah,
- 14:45Speaker 2: I guess, so you never really I don't. I didn't
- 14:47Speaker 2: know again until the very final episode. It doesn't really
- 14:50Speaker 2: don't really say it either. Oh yeah, anyway, so yes,
- 14:56Speaker 2: those things did happen, So good job. Mm HM does
- 15:00Speaker 2: talk to her friends about sex, So good job.
- 15:03Speaker 1: I was very that's pretty easy to guess, I have
- 15:07Speaker 1: to admit.
- 15:09Speaker 2: But as the pilot and the first episode for them,
- 15:14Speaker 2: what do you think about the show so far?
- 15:16Speaker 1: I really enjoyed it. I think there was a part
- 15:18Speaker 1: of me that kept trying to imagine, like if I
- 15:20Speaker 1: had been watching it when it was on TV, and
- 15:24Speaker 1: I would have been much younger, but just even in college,
- 15:27Speaker 1: like I hadn't seen anything like that for me. I
- 15:31Speaker 1: remember the first time I watched True Blood, which is
- 15:34Speaker 1: very very different, but but it was an HBO show
- 15:37Speaker 1: and it had a lot of like sex and nudity.
- 15:39Speaker 1: I was like, and so I was trying to imagine,
- 15:43Speaker 1: like what it would have meant to me to have
- 15:44Speaker 1: seen this. I did really like the friendship aspect. Like
- 15:48Speaker 1: I said, I do agree with you that it was
- 15:51Speaker 1: very like Samantha's the you know, free sexual, like very
- 15:57Speaker 1: on the nose. But it's also interesting just to to
- 16:00Speaker 1: revisit it now and be like, oh, yeah, that was
- 16:02Speaker 1: pretty you know, toxic, which we still have a lot
- 16:07Speaker 1: of those opinions and ideas around dating and women and men,
- 16:12Speaker 1: and we're still discussing them on this very show. So
- 16:16Speaker 1: it's just interesting. And of course I did love the fashion.
- 16:19Speaker 1: I did, Yeah, how.
- 16:20Speaker 3: Could you not? And I know you love looking at
- 16:23Speaker 3: the technologies.
- 16:23Speaker 2: Oh, it's a lot going to get better as it continues,
- 16:28Speaker 2: because we will get to see all of the phones
- 16:30Speaker 2: in play, all the cell phones in play, Blackberries, Palm,
- 16:34Speaker 2: Pilot's fantastic, it's all in there.
- 16:35Speaker 3: I'm so excited because you know, we hoop up.
- 16:37Speaker 2: Not that any of them are technical, like, none of
- 16:39Speaker 2: them are very technical in any way, but for some reason,
- 16:42Speaker 2: of course, it pops up as it comes through. But
- 16:45Speaker 2: I'm very glad that we're going to go on this
- 16:47Speaker 2: journey together because obviously my excitement for the entirety of
- 16:51Speaker 2: the thing.
- 16:52Speaker 3: And it's been a minute. I'm make sure not to
- 16:53Speaker 3: rewatch it.
- 16:54Speaker 2: I think it's been a few years, because I will
- 16:57Speaker 2: get the notion to do so every few years, are
- 16:59Speaker 2: like to it again, And I will of course go
- 17:02Speaker 2: and pick and choose which episodes I like and don't like,
- 17:04Speaker 2: because some of these things get a little too real
- 17:07Speaker 2: when it comes to breakups and hurt feelings and hurt hearts,
- 17:11Speaker 2: so it doesn't have a moment. Yeah, you're like, oh no,
- 17:15Speaker 2: so I would because I want to be like I
- 17:17Speaker 2: can't take this right now, or if I'm going through
- 17:18Speaker 2: a bad breakup and I just want to be like
- 17:20Speaker 2: I just want something that makes me feel good about girlfriends.
- 17:23Speaker 2: I just want my girlfriends. Then I might bypass some
- 17:26Speaker 2: of the things. But being able to watch it with
- 17:28Speaker 2: you is going to be quite a delight, especially again
- 17:32Speaker 2: as where we're visiting things from over twenty years ago,
- 17:35Speaker 2: which blows my mind to this point, Like we talk
- 17:38Speaker 2: about Ross Perot and I'm like, I wonder if any
- 17:41Speaker 2: of like I know we have a lot of thirty
- 17:43Speaker 2: something listeners, if they know who we're talking about and
- 17:46Speaker 2: young even younger and why he was relevant at that
- 17:49Speaker 2: point in time. But yeah, and also just the changing
- 17:52Speaker 2: of the attitudes and what we see and yeah, some
- 17:55Speaker 2: of the bad things that were of the nineties and
- 17:58Speaker 2: early two thousands to to day and hopefully we'll be
- 18:01Speaker 2: able to all kind of join together and watch just
- 18:06Speaker 2: like that and just like that and see how they've
- 18:09Speaker 2: changed and hopefully improved in their commentary and what and
- 18:14Speaker 2: then just still at the same time, I have that
- 18:16Speaker 2: spirit of girl love.
- 18:19Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm excited about this and we're we have
- 18:23Speaker 1: a like we said, we have a couple of things planned,
- 18:25Speaker 1: maybe some guests, maybe some watch parties, gonna do some
- 18:28Speaker 1: video reactions maybe because yes, I have never seen any
- 18:32Speaker 1: of these, So what's going to be really fun? And
- 18:34Speaker 1: we would love to interact and hear from you listeners
- 18:37Speaker 1: about this because I do think that that's going to
- 18:40Speaker 1: make it all the better.
- 18:43Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 18:43Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm very excited because I think it's gonna be
- 18:45Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun for both of us. Excited to
- 18:52Speaker 1: see where it goes. Yeah, yes, and hopefully you know,
- 18:55Speaker 1: if you have the the chance to watch along with us.
- 18:59Speaker 1: It is on HBO MA now and it might be
- 19:01Speaker 1: on other places, but definitely you know, if you want
- 19:04Speaker 1: come along on this journey with us, please yes, please,
- 19:10Speaker 1: And of course we always love hearing from you. If
- 19:13Speaker 1: you would like to email as you can or emails
- 19:15Speaker 1: Stuff Media Momstuff at iHeartMedia dot com. You can find
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- 19:22Speaker 1: our super producer Christina.
- 19:24Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we're gonna have Christina too, y'all like, oh,
- 19:28Speaker 3: come on to this, Yes.
- 19:30Speaker 1: For sure, and thanks to you for listening stuff I've
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