Latest / To All the Men I've Tolerated Before / The Tortured Poets Department (Part 2)
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- 0:22Speaker 1: Well, so, Elizabeth, you asked us another question and was
- 0:25Speaker 1: supposed to be the first question, what's the song that
- 0:27Speaker 1: you almost skip? And for me, it's always so long
- 0:31Speaker 1: London because I can't fuck with Joe Allwin at all.
- 0:34Speaker 1: I'm like, I want to fuck with Joe all In.
- 0:36Speaker 1: I go just like some boring white dude without a
- 0:39Speaker 1: job who was embarrassed to go to Chili's with you,
- 0:43Speaker 1: Like I cannot fuck with him.
- 0:46Speaker 2: Oh, so long London is like I just want to feel,
- 0:49Speaker 2: I just want to hurt more. So I just listened
- 0:51Speaker 2: to it again.
- 0:51Speaker 1: But then she got me with that huck because I
- 0:54Speaker 1: love that, like I was going down with it and
- 0:57Speaker 1: like that, who oh.
- 1:00Speaker 3: When I'm driving, I gripe.
- 1:02Speaker 2: I yes, I gripped my driving, my sharing me when
- 1:06Speaker 2: I'm driving on it, just because I feel it.
- 1:09Speaker 1: I just hunch back myself like I'm sinking, like yes,
- 1:13Speaker 1: because we've also been taught as women to endure. So
- 1:16Speaker 1: sure Joe was boring, and sure Joe was embarrassed of her,
- 1:21Speaker 1: and so and he kept her captive in a in
- 1:24Speaker 1: a cabin or a studio apartment in England.
- 1:27Speaker 4: Like she was like, but he's all I think he's
- 1:30Speaker 4: a really good example in her work anyway, like the
- 1:34Speaker 4: way that he's represented as like a muse and sort
- 1:36Speaker 4: of being throughout some of her songs as this like
- 1:40Speaker 4: seemingly not in the same way that's like aggressively gaslighting
- 1:44Speaker 4: like I'm everything you've ever needed, but he's just this
- 1:46Speaker 4: like sort of worn city as silent sort of like
- 1:51Speaker 4: toxicity where it's like someone can be so mediocre that
- 1:55Speaker 4: they sort of like slowly like drag you to that level.
- 1:58Speaker 4: And it doesn't always have to be passion or fiery.
- 2:01Speaker 4: Sometimes it can just be like in a quiet moment
- 2:03Speaker 4: of like like I've I've had we all have had
- 2:06Speaker 4: those relationships too, where it's like there's not like a
- 2:09Speaker 4: thing that's like a burning like so you think it's
- 2:13Speaker 4: healthy because like every magazine is like sometimes you just
- 2:16Speaker 4: need like by it, like it doesn't always have to
- 2:18Speaker 4: be like screaming, Oh, I'm reminded of. Another tale is
- 2:22Speaker 4: with the.
- 2:23Speaker 3: Like better safety stereoid.
- 2:26Speaker 4: Like that that passion can be toxic sometimes that you
- 2:30Speaker 4: look for these sort of like marshallow guys where it's like,
- 2:32Speaker 4: well then this will be safe, like I'm giving him
- 2:35Speaker 4: what he wants. This is the way society says it
- 2:37Speaker 4: should be. But like it's like it doesn't have to
- 2:39Speaker 4: be wrapped up in the explosive package. It could still
- 2:42Speaker 4: in the same.
- 2:43Speaker 1: Well because and I've said this till I was blue
- 2:46Speaker 1: in the face, it's never the angry in cells who
- 2:50Speaker 1: are gonna catch you unawares because they've already punched up
- 2:53Speaker 1: your entire house and they've already screamed at you in
- 2:57Speaker 1: front of your mom, and like people aren't like people
- 2:59Speaker 1: are aware. It's those quiet, sad sack ones. There's nothing
- 3:04Speaker 1: more dangerous than be There's nothing more dangerous to a
- 3:08Speaker 1: woman than being in a relationship with an ordinary man
- 3:11Speaker 1: when you are extraordinary. That's so good because they will
- 3:15Speaker 1: not they won't let you live.
- 3:18Speaker 4: They will of the like, uh, she's a lady in
- 3:23Speaker 4: the streets, but a freaking the bag, because that's not true.
- 3:25Speaker 5: We all know this, but like it's it is true
- 3:28Speaker 5: that like what you're.
- 3:28Speaker 4: Saying, like sometimes the like quiet like inoffensive, nonviolent, like
- 3:36Speaker 4: presenting in this very beta male type of way, like
- 3:40Speaker 4: end up being Harry Harry styles and don't worry, darling,
- 3:44Speaker 4: like it's you know, sad like, which.
- 3:46Speaker 1: Is why I will go down in history saying that
- 3:49Speaker 1: Don't Worry Darling is a fucking great movie. It's a
- 3:52Speaker 1: fucking great movie, and y'all love that movie and you'll
- 3:55Speaker 1: all hate it because you gotta see it. It's unlike
- 3:59Speaker 1: Hulu or so thing.
- 4:01Speaker 3: Okay, do you have Lulu right now?
- 4:03Speaker 1: That's why I'll go down in history and be like,
- 4:05Speaker 1: y'all miss the mark when it came to don't Worry.
- 4:07Speaker 5: Save me room on that hill, because I will die
- 4:09Speaker 5: on it with you.
- 4:11Speaker 1: It's because you all realize that your boyfriends and your
- 4:13Speaker 1: husbands were fucking in.
- 4:14Speaker 4: Cells and you Really funny to me is how many
- 4:17Speaker 4: people love Midsummer and hate Don't Worry Darling.
- 4:19Speaker 5: And I'm like, that's funny because one was directed and
- 4:22Speaker 5: written by a woman.
- 4:23Speaker 1: For me, it's like because no one wants to look
- 4:26Speaker 1: at their husband and be like, all it will take
- 4:28Speaker 1: is five podcast episodes and you will decide that I'm
- 4:32Speaker 1: not worth having rights and I should not have credit
- 4:35Speaker 1: cards because like, it's not like Chris Pine showed up
- 4:39Speaker 1: to Harry styles basement.
- 4:41Speaker 4: This was a pretty cuel to Handmaid's Tale in a
- 4:43Speaker 4: way that like is like Twilight and Luis Twilight Zone.
- 4:47Speaker 1: You have it it's so good. I love I love
- 4:50Speaker 1: the theater because I went by myself on opening day
- 4:53Speaker 1: and I was like this pumping like the other two
- 4:56Speaker 1: women who were in the movie theater heard me taking notes,
- 4:58Speaker 1: just muttering to myself, Yeah, this is what I'm telling
- 5:01Speaker 1: bitches all the time that this is this is how easy,
- 5:04Speaker 1: this is, how how easy it is for them to
- 5:06Speaker 1: dehumanize us. When Taylor finally became public about dumping Joe Alwyn,
- 5:11Speaker 1: and women tried to flock to my message app to
- 5:14Speaker 1: be like this is so sad. He was the one.
- 5:17Speaker 1: I was like, number one, if you listen to Lover,
- 5:19Speaker 1: it's a toxic.
- 5:20Speaker 4: Song, Like hey, there's a reason when she made playlists
- 5:25Speaker 4: about delusion.
- 5:26Speaker 1: Wait, I was like, this is what happened with fucking
- 5:29Speaker 1: Joe Alwin. She got out of his studio apartment on
- 5:33Speaker 1: Cornelius Street where he held her captive like a caged bird,
- 5:39Speaker 1: and she got onto the aerostur and she went, wait,
- 5:42Speaker 1: hold on, am I interesting? And is Joe boring? And
- 5:48Speaker 1: she didn't want to text him good night after the
- 5:50Speaker 1: aerostour and she didn't want to be like baby, I
- 5:51Speaker 1: did this and this and this, and he didn't want
- 5:54Speaker 1: to show up and watch it.
- 5:55Speaker 3: I go.
- 5:55Speaker 1: So she dumped him because she was like, I'm sorry,
- 5:58Speaker 1: is he inferior?
- 6:01Speaker 5: I mean I truly like that.
- 6:04Speaker 4: I hope that is what happened in her mind because
- 6:06Speaker 4: like it is the truth, and like to have the
- 6:10Speaker 4: most extravagant like she deserves exactly what's happening to her
- 6:16Speaker 4: right now, and like if it took that to be
- 6:19Speaker 4: like what a fucking master, Like I'm a queen. This
- 6:23Speaker 4: is like I have worked hard my entire fucking life
- 6:27Speaker 4: and given so much of myself to men, the men
- 6:29Speaker 4: who try to run my career, the men who try
- 6:32Speaker 4: to control my money, the men who date me leave me,
- 6:36Speaker 4: all the things, like I've given so much time and
- 6:38Speaker 4: energy to them. But look at what the fuck like
- 6:41Speaker 4: because she has talked about what happened to her in
- 6:45Speaker 4: a way that has made so many mostly men, really
- 6:48Speaker 4: upset about like she lures what bragrance were bigrants? When
- 6:52Speaker 4: did she have to call anybody out about it? Like okay, really,
- 6:57Speaker 4: like look at her now, why don't we all if
- 6:59Speaker 4: she is the blueprint, give me my clipboord and a microphone,
- 7:03Speaker 4: let me call him out.
- 7:05Speaker 1: I hate Joe Alwin, and I would tell Joe all
- 7:07Speaker 1: into his fucking face that I hate him and I
- 7:09Speaker 1: know he's boring and he probably well slander, but I can.
- 7:15Speaker 1: There is nothing more dangerous than to be an extraordinary
- 7:18Speaker 1: woman with an untalented, boring fuck of a man, and
- 7:21Speaker 1: especially when that man has decided that he should be
- 7:25Speaker 1: talented and a big deal.
- 7:26Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you're gonna be a frog boiling to death.
- 7:28Speaker 5: You won't even realize the water is getting hotter.
- 7:30Speaker 1: They will. They will fucking ruin your life and be
- 7:34Speaker 1: a fake producer on your song so that they don't
- 7:37Speaker 1: have to get a real job. Dar say, what's your skip?
- 7:41Speaker 1: Because for me it's so long London?
- 7:42Speaker 3: Because I hate Joe, So I think my skip, honestly
- 7:47Speaker 3: is I can fix him. I really, no, really I can.
- 7:51Speaker 1: Oh I don't know what it is. Well, I know
- 7:53Speaker 1: what it is for you?
- 7:54Speaker 5: Well right right right?
- 7:56Speaker 2: I know?
- 7:57Speaker 1: Yes, yes, maybe I can't right well, Because again I
- 8:03Speaker 1: am the biggest advocate of reminding women at all times
- 8:08Speaker 1: that whenever we uh be are be fallen with cancer
- 8:14Speaker 1: or a mental illness that will affect someone's every day
- 8:17Speaker 1: or whatever, men flee like they didn't like they didn't
- 8:21Speaker 1: have three kids with you and they never knew your
- 8:23Speaker 1: middle name.
- 8:25Speaker 5: I'm actually like I've seen that happen, yes, and like
- 8:28Speaker 5: actually in real time.
- 8:29Speaker 1: We all know, yeah, they will they ghost in the
- 8:34Speaker 1: middle like they've had a bad pack all along. And nurses, hospitals,
- 8:39Speaker 1: therapists will back this up with numbers if you want
- 8:42Speaker 1: to call them and ask them. But women have been
- 8:49Speaker 1: taught that they that men have flaws. It's our job
- 8:53Speaker 1: to endure those flaws. And in fact, if we don't
- 8:57Speaker 1: try to fix those.
- 8:58Speaker 4: Flaws, they have to influence it by your goodness.
- 9:01Speaker 1: Right and help him while he's down, then you didn't
- 9:04Speaker 1: love him enough, right, And.
- 9:07Speaker 3: That's insane, Like God forbid. Women take care of themselves first.
- 9:15Speaker 1: Love them.
- 9:16Speaker 5: It's not a value in our culture, truly.
- 9:19Speaker 4: That is not a thing that we or anybody that
- 9:25Speaker 4: has been taught, Like what do you say, like traditionally
- 9:28Speaker 4: the word mother, Like I read a statistic recently that
- 9:31Speaker 4: was like the number one word associated with the word
- 9:34Speaker 4: mother when asked by every age like gender, everything was selfless.
- 9:41Speaker 5: Think about that. You what you give your life to another? Yourself?
- 9:46Speaker 5: How do you take care of someone you can't? But
- 9:49Speaker 5: then it's your fault you were or not again, spouse.
- 9:53Speaker 1: Have you ever ended up on the side of TikTok
- 9:54Speaker 1: where a mom has like done something for herself like
- 9:56Speaker 1: that and a munichure or something, and someone's gone, where's
- 9:59Speaker 1: your kid? How much did that babysitter cost?
- 10:02Speaker 4: I've definitely been in this conversation, not the like the
- 10:05Speaker 4: kind of like you gotta be careful because like people
- 10:10Speaker 4: assume what you make for a living and see things
- 10:14Speaker 4: like even Neil's done, and then like maybe to a
- 10:17Speaker 4: client are like, oh my god, the price of childcare
- 10:20Speaker 4: or like how am I supposed to X y Z?
- 10:22Speaker 4: And like I have tattoos, Like I know, I can
- 10:24Speaker 4: see people doing math where it's like.
- 10:26Speaker 5: Okay, So.
- 10:28Speaker 4: Like I feel really uncomfortable now because like I just
- 10:31Speaker 4: it's it's easier to just not talk about right right right.
- 10:35Speaker 1: Because I'm a poor, broke bitch. Like I am broke.
- 10:38Speaker 4: I think we all are here and like mostly everywhere,
- 10:42Speaker 4: like right now, it's just kind of a weak but
- 10:45Speaker 4: like I can, I.
- 10:46Speaker 1: Can still turn up in Nashville with a themed out
- 10:49Speaker 1: fit for every fucking day.
- 10:51Speaker 5: Yeah, people were resourceful and like.
- 10:54Speaker 1: People are Natalie struggling and win and I'm.
- 10:57Speaker 4: Like okay, but also that's our job is to like
- 10:59Speaker 4: high the like the reality if it's a darker thing.
- 11:03Speaker 5: So like we're very good at that at going out
- 11:06Speaker 5: into society.
- 11:07Speaker 2: Because we've we've been conditioned to do it with a
- 11:12Speaker 2: broken heart, broken heart, keep you know.
- 11:15Speaker 1: Deep smiling, going fake it till you make it well.
- 11:19Speaker 1: And a big theme of this past year for me
- 11:23Speaker 1: is for me to call my mother scream crying because
- 11:27Speaker 1: a woman in my life has made me feel like
- 11:30Speaker 1: I either think that I'm better than myself than I am,
- 11:34Speaker 1: or that like I'm doing better than them somehow, And
- 11:37Speaker 1: I'm literally just like cry screaming to my mom, like
- 11:40Speaker 1: what about my life, screams that I'm winning. I don't
- 11:44Speaker 1: have plentiful stable employment. It's me and this cat at
- 11:49Speaker 1: my house, Like no one wants to go out anymore.
- 11:53Speaker 4: We all because you're not crying in the street. It's
- 11:55Speaker 4: because you're not literally like begging for assistance or pity
- 11:58Speaker 4: or help from.
- 11:59Speaker 1: I'm dancing like my feathers and my world is on fire.
- 12:06Speaker 4: And like I feel like most women have adopted this
- 12:08Speaker 4: attitude of like what the fucking you do? What are
- 12:11Speaker 4: we not going to talk to each other? What are
- 12:12Speaker 4: we not going to like post memes. We're not going
- 12:14Speaker 4: to get her fucking nails polished. Would we give the
- 12:17Speaker 4: fuck up completely?
- 12:18Speaker 1: Hey, just in case no one's you're listening at home
- 12:21Speaker 1: and you're not paying for the patron. The entire theme
- 12:23Speaker 1: of the Patreon is and I'm miserable and no one
- 12:28Speaker 1: even knows, try to come for my job.
- 12:34Speaker 4: Eddy, and I like Chanted in the car. That's like
- 12:35Speaker 4: always the one she wants to listen to on the
- 12:37Speaker 4: way to school, and she's like like she's so goot,
- 12:41Speaker 4: so good, like I like, and no one even knows.
- 12:45Speaker 4: And it's like the try to come for my job
- 12:49Speaker 4: because you can't. I'm out dancing, I'm out hustling. No
- 12:52Speaker 4: no one to like put that in a song, like
- 12:58Speaker 4: literally not even it's not metaphorical. It's not dressed up
- 13:03Speaker 4: in any kind of like nothing, like there's no allequory.
- 13:07Speaker 4: It's like, fuck you because I'm still doing it. You
- 13:11Speaker 4: still want more. Then I get criticized for doing more.
- 13:14Speaker 4: So that's a whole other topic, but like watch how
- 13:17Speaker 4: well I do it.
- 13:18Speaker 1: It's that it's outline. I'm so depressed. I act like
- 13:23Speaker 1: it's my birthday every day, and it's like that's because
- 13:26Speaker 1: Dadi has never been It's like she wrote the song
- 13:28Speaker 1: based on my own life. I'm like, I'm not.
- 13:30Speaker 4: Allowed to have to Like it's amazing that universal like, yes.
- 13:34Speaker 1: Yeah, my birthday is on Christmas. I've never had a
- 13:36Speaker 1: birthday a day in my life. I have to pretend
- 13:39Speaker 1: like Wednesday is my birthday. I have to get myself
- 13:42Speaker 1: a little treat so I don't launch myself into the sea.
- 13:46Speaker 4: Well I love that line too, though, because it's like
- 13:49Speaker 4: I feel like it's very meta and almost like very layered,
- 13:52Speaker 4: because like, okay, so it's like I'm so depressed. I
- 13:56Speaker 4: act like it's my birthday every day, like you're so
- 14:00Speaker 4: it's performative on your birthday.
- 14:02Speaker 5: So often birthdays are fraught with like have you lost
- 14:04Speaker 5: a parent?
- 14:04Speaker 4: Have you like are there things people are missing in
- 14:07Speaker 4: your life because it's a loss or great like are
- 14:09Speaker 4: you grieving something?
- 14:10Speaker 2: Like?
- 14:10Speaker 5: So birthday these like markers or holidays can be obviously
- 14:14Speaker 5: like really difficult.
- 14:16Speaker 4: So almost I read that like immediately that line is
- 14:19Speaker 4: like I'm so depressed that I'm not even like showing
- 14:24Speaker 4: up like half trying on a Wednesday. I actually it's
- 14:27Speaker 4: my birthday and like someone's wearing me a supprise party
- 14:29Speaker 4: or like people are showing up, and I'd expected to
- 14:31Speaker 4: perform in this way that everyone can access, because even
- 14:34Speaker 4: when you're like twenty five and you're having a fucking
- 14:37Speaker 4: shit time because your boyfriend is an asshole, it's your
- 14:39Speaker 4: fucking birthday and you got to go to this place
- 14:41Speaker 4: and everyone's there and oh my god, Like that doesn't
- 14:44Speaker 4: like hit me so long where it's like.
- 14:46Speaker 6: Oh my god, it's so yes, everything is so performative,
- 14:49Speaker 6: because girlhood is bursting into tears the moment that you're
- 14:54Speaker 6: alone on your birthday before you even know why you're crying,
- 14:58Speaker 6: as you know, like.
- 15:00Speaker 1: Because my birthday is on Christmas, So Stephanie and I
- 15:03Speaker 1: will text, like this year I had to give like
- 15:06Speaker 1: bad news on Christmas because I myself received bad news
- 15:09Speaker 1: about my mother's help. So this is how I chose
- 15:12Speaker 1: to do that with my very best friend. Hey, have
- 15:15Speaker 1: the Christmas sad kicked in? And are we crying yet?
- 15:20Speaker 1: Or are we still pretending to have Christmas joy for
- 15:23Speaker 1: your kids? And then she went, I didn't even bother
- 15:27Speaker 1: to pretend to have Christmas joy for my kids this year.
- 15:32Speaker 4: Hit me with whatever you have to tell me That's
- 15:35Speaker 4: exactly what Taylor Swift is saying. It's like she's still
- 15:38Speaker 4: giving that level of like she is pretending because it's
- 15:41Speaker 4: for us.
- 15:42Speaker 1: It's for us, be right, because some people really do
- 15:44Speaker 1: have a mirror Christmas every year, and I don't want
- 15:47Speaker 1: to act like that.
- 15:49Speaker 4: We know that because of TV movies and like those
- 15:51Speaker 4: freaks that we know that we see actually enjoy it.
- 15:54Speaker 4: And like that's not to say there are not moments
- 15:56Speaker 4: you can be president that like are good memories are
- 15:58Speaker 4: like that?
- 15:58Speaker 3: I do.
- 15:59Speaker 4: You enjoy in kids a new sort of thing to it,
- 16:01Speaker 4: but it does not erase. It does a melancholy and
- 16:04Speaker 4: straight up like like depression that like important events can
- 16:10Speaker 4: bring or trigger.
- 16:12Speaker 1: There's nothing that I hate more about the performative nature
- 16:15Speaker 1: of a birthday. I've been watching a kid open presence
- 16:18Speaker 1: in front of a group of fifteen adults and like
- 16:22Speaker 1: they just want to play with that first fucking barbie
- 16:24Speaker 1: that they opened, but you're shoving.
- 16:26Speaker 4: Listen, the purity of childhood and you have to chastise it.
- 16:30Speaker 4: I remember, like the minute my daughter, I think it
- 16:33Speaker 4: was her third birthday, that she really was like time
- 16:36Speaker 4: for present, Like I had to because yeah, to like
- 16:40Speaker 4: be like, well, do presents?
- 16:41Speaker 5: What else there? Like, I know that's why I said it.
- 16:43Speaker 5: I know that's what we're here. But then she'd open
- 16:45Speaker 5: something and be like.
- 16:48Speaker 4: I don't care who it's from, and I'm like that's
- 16:49Speaker 4: for me, and she's like whatever, and then like sees
- 16:52Speaker 4: it and I was like I already have this and
- 16:53Speaker 4: throws it away.
- 16:54Speaker 5: I'm like, you'll never experience this again. Enjoy your two
- 16:59Speaker 5: or three.
- 17:00Speaker 3: This is it.
- 17:00Speaker 5: It's over.
- 17:01Speaker 4: After this, you're gonna have to smile and go give
- 17:04Speaker 4: them a hut and be like I don't have four
- 17:06Speaker 4: of these and that's the rest of your life.
- 17:09Speaker 3: I love this.
- 17:10Speaker 1: I don't. I used to have to choke down angel
- 17:13Speaker 1: food cake for my birthday every year because I don't
- 17:16Speaker 1: like angel food cake. But someone yep, and my family
- 17:21Speaker 1: did like angel food cake and made it for my
- 17:23Speaker 1: birthday every year, because surely I wouldn't have my own
- 17:27Speaker 1: tastes and desires, just.
- 17:29Speaker 5: These things that just like accidentally happened.
- 17:31Speaker 4: And then it's like you love pigs and you get
- 17:33Speaker 4: like eighty five figurines, You're like, I don't, No, I don't,
- 17:35Speaker 4: I don't.
- 17:36Speaker 1: I do I do love pigs.
- 17:38Speaker 5: I mean I do I do too, Yeah, Elizabeth, what's
- 17:41Speaker 5: your skip? Okay? So it was the manuscript.
- 17:46Speaker 1: Oh, I love the manuscript because I write a manuscript
- 17:50Speaker 1: every and then it.
- 17:52Speaker 5: Wasn't like it was like well, you know, like you
- 17:55Speaker 5: go through the phases of.
- 17:58Speaker 4: Listening to the album with as many tracks as there are,
- 18:01Speaker 4: where it's like I listened to all of it. Eventually
- 18:04Speaker 4: it was over a few days and then like was like, okay,
- 18:07Speaker 4: immediately returning to like the first five, and then like
- 18:10Speaker 4: I'd be like mmm mmmmm, okay, go to these like
- 18:13Speaker 4: other ones. I'd always like end up coming back around
- 18:15Speaker 4: to the like B sides in my mind. But the
- 18:17Speaker 4: manuscript I skipped, like for the first like probably twenty lessons,
- 18:21Speaker 4: I would skip it at the line.
- 18:24Speaker 5: About halfway into the.
- 18:25Speaker 4: First verset, like I was so like it was very
- 18:28Speaker 4: awkward to me at first, the one about like the
- 18:31Speaker 4: license and the organ donor and the hard and the like,
- 18:34Speaker 4: I was just like, what is that is this? Like
- 18:35Speaker 4: the foremanths are I don't know what's happening, but like
- 18:38Speaker 4: next because I want to go back to like the
- 18:39Speaker 4: Black Dog or whatever. And then I finally like when
- 18:43Speaker 4: it was like doing housework something and like it was playing,
- 18:46Speaker 4: I didn't have my phone bay, and I was like fine, whatever,
- 18:49Speaker 4: and it kept going and I was just like, oh, okay, yeah,
- 18:54Speaker 4: that totally like hits and like it's it's still one,
- 18:58Speaker 4: I think because it is very like on a nose
- 19:02Speaker 4: about like something we've all felt about dead relationships, that like,
- 19:08Speaker 4: that's not an easy listen for me, so I don't.
- 19:11Speaker 4: I still do kind of like I come to it,
- 19:14Speaker 4: you know, when I'm like in a very like introspective
- 19:18Speaker 4: mood and want to be very honest that things.
- 19:23Speaker 1: It's like she was like, hey, do you guys remember
- 19:25Speaker 1: when I thought I was when you thought I was
- 19:28Speaker 1: so sad during the ten minute all too well version?
- 19:31Speaker 1: May I introduce you to the man uscript?
- 19:34Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 19:35Speaker 4: Super seriously though, it is the kind of grown up
- 19:38Speaker 4: version and sentiment of that, like.
- 19:40Speaker 1: Well, do you guys go back and reread your journals? Yes? Oh,
- 19:45Speaker 1: every time I sit down to write in my journal,
- 19:47Speaker 1: I flip to a random page and reread something in
- 19:49Speaker 1: my journal.
- 19:51Speaker 5: I move a lot. Every time I've moved.
- 19:53Speaker 4: I like will grab random ones out of the boxes
- 19:55Speaker 4: and just do the same way to slip to a page.
- 19:56Speaker 5: And I'm like, god, damn, god.
- 19:58Speaker 1: Damn, and I think it's so important, and it was.
- 20:05Speaker 1: This was a lot of All Too Well for me too,
- 20:07Speaker 1: where she's like, hey, there was good and there was bad,
- 20:11Speaker 1: and sometimes you're just gonna get caught up in that.
- 20:14Speaker 1: I had someone who was in the midst of their
- 20:18Speaker 1: second marriage and their first partner had died, and they
- 20:23Speaker 1: were telling me, like, I it feels so bad to
- 20:29Speaker 1: be grieving the good parts when there were so many
- 20:32Speaker 1: bad parts and now I'm in a good spot, and
- 20:34Speaker 1: I'm like, but there were good parts, and maybe you
- 20:37Speaker 1: should listen to the ten minute version of All Too Well.
- 20:39Speaker 1: Like I'm always like, maybe do you have ten minutes?
- 20:43Speaker 5: When that does that to me?
- 20:43Speaker 4: That I like the this album came out right after
- 20:47Speaker 4: my second divorce and ended up being like super important
- 20:52Speaker 4: to me because of that sort of time in my life.
- 20:56Speaker 4: Are you trying to read Oh no, no, no, sorry,
- 21:00Speaker 4: I'm talking about uh is that Great American Last Free
- 21:05Speaker 4: American Dynasty? And yeah, well yeah folk wre man them dude, Okay,
- 21:09Speaker 4: so uh my tears Ricochet, that was all okay.
- 21:13Speaker 5: That song was the one that I was like, fuck,
- 21:17Speaker 5: like that is exactly how I feel.
- 21:20Speaker 4: And I used to get social angry, like the part
- 21:23Speaker 4: where she was like crossing out the good years because
- 21:27Speaker 4: like you want so badly when you're like burning something
- 21:30Speaker 4: down to your mind because you know it's not right
- 21:32Speaker 4: for you to reject every fucking good memory. It feels
- 21:38Speaker 4: not real. It feels like you were gaslighting yourself. It
- 21:41Speaker 4: feels like something you bought into that was a fucking lie.
- 21:43Speaker 4: But you know what, and my therapist is said this
- 21:45Speaker 4: a million times. Even if an entire relationship was a lie,
- 21:51Speaker 4: because they were a lie, you experienced that those moments
- 21:57Speaker 4: of happiness, even if it was a figment of your imagination,
- 21:59Speaker 4: that is a real feeling, and to pretend it didn't
- 22:02Speaker 4: exist is a you cannot process what happened to you.
- 22:06Speaker 4: You cannot just be great. The mind fuck, yeah, it
- 22:09Speaker 4: is the most intense mindfuck. But like for her to
- 22:13Speaker 4: just so like she's like laying things out, so just
- 22:16Speaker 4: like what what okay? Like but it's so pretty and
- 22:19Speaker 4: it's so like oh, and she just slips that line
- 22:21Speaker 4: in kind of at the end where I'm like, oh,
- 22:24Speaker 4: there weren't good years, what are you talking about?
- 22:26Speaker 5: We're mad, We're very mad, and ours.
- 22:28Speaker 4: Rigochet and like what the fuck are she'll do that
- 22:30Speaker 4: where she touches on this like it is very nuanced
- 22:33Speaker 4: and you need to have grace for yourself. And like
- 22:36Speaker 4: they experienced good times too, even if they are a lie,
- 22:39Speaker 4: even if the whole thing was fucking fake, every moment
- 22:42Speaker 4: they were comfortable or happy and Freendy was not a lie.
- 22:45Speaker 4: It was not because of you. It may have just
- 22:47Speaker 4: been a nice day outside or other things happen. And
- 22:50Speaker 4: now like y'all experienced joy parallel to one another, and
- 22:53Speaker 4: to like try to be like it was all poisoned
- 22:56Speaker 4: because it was to you for real is too discount.
- 23:00Speaker 4: Like you can't make yourself crazy by feeling like you
- 23:03Speaker 4: did make it all up like the like were you
- 23:06Speaker 4: sent by someone? No, they weren't. This is just a
- 23:08Speaker 4: shitty person.
- 23:10Speaker 1: Well number one. Now I kind of want to on
- 23:11Speaker 1: the Patreon read I wish I had my sad poem Turtle,
- 23:16Speaker 1: but I think I want to like do a whole
- 23:17Speaker 1: solo episode where I read the poem and then be like,
- 23:20Speaker 1: this is why, this.
- 23:21Speaker 4: Is why you should have a panel with your favorite
- 23:23Speaker 4: guests co hosts, Like there were we all bring like
- 23:28Speaker 4: something we wrote in middle school, Yes, some type of
- 23:31Speaker 4: like it could be a journal untry or like a poem.
- 23:33Speaker 5: I have so many, it'll be fun.
- 23:35Speaker 1: So many. But to me, it's always like I love
- 23:39Speaker 1: my tears for a cliche because to me, like she's
- 23:44Speaker 1: flipping it and she's like, what are you doing here, motherfucker?
- 23:47Speaker 1: To more me after you treated me like I almost
- 23:51Speaker 1: I almost went to Eras to our drag brunch, but
- 23:55Speaker 1: I ended up not feeling well, so I just wore
- 23:57Speaker 1: my era's T shirt. But I almost went in that
- 24:02Speaker 1: year for Halloween when I went as a black widow,
- 24:04Speaker 1: a woman who kills her husband's and is just in
- 24:07Speaker 1: permanent funeral garb So I almost got out all of
- 24:10Speaker 1: my like sexy funeral garb out and I was just
- 24:12Speaker 1: going to be the random mourner who's watching, like the
- 24:16Speaker 1: toxic boyfriend more and his wife at my tears Ricochet
- 24:20Speaker 1: like got me like whispering to people like why.
- 24:23Speaker 3: Is he here?
- 24:23Speaker 1: Like who called him? But I yeah, the manuscript man
- 24:30Speaker 1: it because again, like I'm kind of going through that
- 24:37Speaker 1: right now, just knowing that, like I'm gonna have to
- 24:40Speaker 1: make a big change in location soon, so I'm like,
- 24:43Speaker 1: why do I need to leave the house. I no
- 24:45Speaker 1: longer have to invest into this and uh yeah, grief
- 24:52Speaker 1: is a bitch, man. I love that somma mean uscript though,
- 24:54Speaker 1: because I am a ruminator and I will just like
- 24:56Speaker 1: read my old journals and be like I remember when
- 24:58Speaker 1: I felt like that, let's do it all again, baby,
- 25:01Speaker 1: Like it's.
- 25:02Speaker 4: A drag on a cigarette you do sort of exactly
- 25:04Speaker 4: I was wout to say. It's like you don't smoke anything.
- 25:06Speaker 4: I don't know this life because I sole very muchoke,
- 25:08Speaker 4: but like it's like I have quit before, and it's
- 25:10Speaker 4: like truly when you find an old back of cigarettes
- 25:12Speaker 4: and you're like, oh, dumb sake, even though it hurts
- 25:15Speaker 4: so good, Like it's almost as like a reminder. It's
- 25:19Speaker 4: like you're pricking your finger to see if you's so bleed,
- 25:22Speaker 4: like you are so human.
- 25:23Speaker 3: I don't know if this is like if what this
- 25:27Speaker 3: says about me.
- 25:27Speaker 2: I did talk about it and in therapy before, but
- 25:31Speaker 2: like I would destroy everything that I wrote, and I
- 25:36Speaker 2: don't have anything like I I.
- 25:39Speaker 3: Have stuff now, you know now I wouldn't but maybe
- 25:42Speaker 3: burn something.
- 25:43Speaker 2: I would do that you know, a whole, like some
- 25:47Speaker 2: type of sentance with that would be wonderful. But I
- 25:51Speaker 2: hate that I don't have it was like some type
- 25:53Speaker 2: of like sense.
- 25:54Speaker 4: Of like embarrassment too, Like it was almost like you
- 25:58Speaker 4: wanted to protect yourself from like the memory.
- 26:01Speaker 3: Nobody can read this. Yes, yes, secretly.
- 26:04Speaker 1: Do you know why I never destroy anything that I
- 26:06Speaker 1: write about my talk when you're dead you want? Yes,
- 26:10Speaker 1: I want my nephew to have to go through my
- 26:12Speaker 1: stuff after I'm dead and be like, Wow, aunt Namley
- 26:15Speaker 1: was deep.
- 26:17Speaker 3: I love it.
- 26:18Speaker 1: She was so fucking talented.
- 26:22Speaker 5: Absolutely, I.
- 26:25Speaker 1: Want them to simponian.
- 26:28Speaker 4: I want them to embarrassing or is it going to
- 26:30Speaker 4: prove to every fucking hater like how hard I suffered
- 26:35Speaker 4: and how amazing it was that I did show up
- 26:36Speaker 4: the sixth grade looking as cute as I did.
- 26:38Speaker 5: I'm like so on top of my shirt because like
- 26:40Speaker 5: shit happened to me.
- 26:41Speaker 1: God damn. Aunt Nadley really went through it.
- 26:47Speaker 4: Like people are like, girl, I'll go to your house
- 26:50Speaker 4: and like, get all your ship out of your closet.
- 26:52Speaker 3: If you don't leave it, leave it.
- 26:55Speaker 1: Post it online and tag those motherfuckers who are who
- 26:59Speaker 1: are named exactly right you post it on. In fact,
- 27:03Speaker 1: my entire eulogy will be you reading tea from my
- 27:08Speaker 1: journals when kicking people out of the funeral, so you
- 27:14Speaker 1: can go, you can go. I love those like videos
- 27:18Speaker 1: of that, like for this tape I'm my friend's funeral.
- 27:21Speaker 3: She didn't even like you.
- 27:22Speaker 1: She don't even like you. She don't even like you.
- 27:27Speaker 1: I had a very meta question to ask people. Okay,
- 27:30Speaker 1: so in loss on the prophecy, here's my very meta question,
- 27:33Speaker 1: very deep. So when my nephew finds this on iTunes,
- 27:36Speaker 1: he can be like, damn aunt Nelly got it. She's
- 27:41Speaker 1: it's a woman, and she's like, please, can it once
- 27:45Speaker 1: be me? And can we rewrite the prophecy? And like,
- 27:49Speaker 1: because I'm Cassandra, like those songs to me are sisters,
- 27:54Speaker 1: And because I'm Cassandra, I'm like, oh my god, yes,
- 27:58Speaker 1: all the time, there's always some identity or some prophecy
- 28:01Speaker 1: or some fate put on me that's not my choice
- 28:05Speaker 1: and is not my invention. And I'm always trying to
- 28:09Speaker 1: like outrun it and scream at people, this is not
- 28:11Speaker 1: who I am, this is this isn't what I want.
- 28:16Speaker 1: Can we can we try again?
- 28:18Speaker 3: God?
- 28:19Speaker 1: Or Taro or the devil, like, can we try it again?
- 28:24Speaker 4: The prophecy I would change would be being generally hot
- 28:30Speaker 4: to white men.
- 28:31Speaker 1: Yeah, hell yeah. I don't want white men to look
- 28:34Speaker 1: at me anymore.
- 28:35Speaker 5: But I have blond hair and blue eyes and like that.
- 28:38Speaker 4: It's been a I used to be like it's a
- 28:41Speaker 4: blessing and curse to be celebrating.
- 28:43Speaker 5: So it's just a fucking curse. It kind of really is.
- 28:46Speaker 4: And I hate to be like one of those like
- 28:48Speaker 4: you're allowed to be hot, that just happens. I can't
- 28:51Speaker 4: even like what, I'm not gonna curl my hair, I'm
- 28:54Speaker 4: not gonna put a bag on my head. I'm still
- 28:55Speaker 4: gonna like get my nails done, but like for that
- 28:58Speaker 4: to be the default that like, it does not mean
- 29:02Speaker 4: a person is like I see something interesting in you,
- 29:04Speaker 4: I come up and be like I would like to
- 29:06Speaker 4: talk to you.
- 29:07Speaker 5: It is just do you have a wiener?
- 29:09Speaker 4: Then that is going to happen, and then you git
- 29:12Speaker 4: to pretend to be whatever you want to me And
- 29:14Speaker 4: depending on my mood or situationship or what's in my system,
- 29:19Speaker 4: I might entertain it.
- 29:20Speaker 1: And because I was telling Darcy that, like, is really
- 29:24Speaker 1: big of you to admit that you didn't like you
- 29:27Speaker 1: actively didn't speak to me for four months, where I
- 29:29Speaker 1: was like, Darcy, I knew that I knew what was happening,
- 29:32Speaker 1: but of course I knew, but I knew you did,
- 29:37Speaker 1: ye right, And that's why our friendship can still sustain
- 29:41Speaker 1: because that it's what ends up happening.
- 29:44Speaker 2: You know what it is?
- 29:45Speaker 5: It is we know those men are going to fucking
- 29:48Speaker 5: destroy and leave us.
- 29:49Speaker 4: Yeah, and as shitty as it is, we're correct and
- 29:52Speaker 4: assuming that we can go through this bullshit in Delululand
- 29:56Speaker 4: and like the real ones like you are going.
- 29:59Speaker 5: To be there on the other side of it.
- 30:01Speaker 1: Well, and I refuse to let you guys feel like
- 30:03Speaker 1: it's your fault. Like I'm like, it's not their fault, like,
- 30:06Speaker 1: and we're going to get to it when we talk
- 30:08Speaker 1: about the criticism of the album or whatever. But it's
- 30:10Speaker 1: like it's never our fault, Like we didn't build this system,
- 30:15Speaker 1: we didn't perpetuate it. And I was telling you, like
- 30:18Speaker 1: I was trying to be brave about it, and I
- 30:19Speaker 1: was like, and you know, it doesn't hurt my feelings,
- 30:21Speaker 1: And then I'm like, that's a lie. I've screamed about
- 30:23Speaker 1: it before and like cried and be like and like
- 30:26Speaker 1: done the whole Katie Maloney thing where I like, wake
- 30:29Speaker 1: up and I have no friends and I'm like, really,
- 30:30Speaker 1: just because I was honest, Like yeah, And the thing
- 30:35Speaker 1: of it is is now all of the tailor now,
- 30:38Speaker 1: all of the Taylor Swift songs aren't even about an
- 30:41Speaker 1: ex boyfriend to me about anymore. They're about misogyny and
- 30:45Speaker 1: patriarchy and all of it. So when I'm singing them,
- 30:49Speaker 1: I'm doing my own Broadway like twisted contorted body motions.
- 30:53Speaker 1: My face doesn't even look like my face anymore because
- 30:56Speaker 1: I'm so angry that we're still in the system and
- 31:03Speaker 1: even me doing all of the work that removed me
- 31:06Speaker 1: from it because I love you guys, it still gets
- 31:11Speaker 1: like it still hits and it still hurts, and like
- 31:15Speaker 1: it's the same with my mom and my aunt and
- 31:16Speaker 1: older woman in my life, where I'm like, it sucks
- 31:19Speaker 1: so much that like I can do all of the
- 31:22Speaker 1: I can never meet another new man again.
- 31:26Speaker 4: It's the reason that like I literally stayed up till
- 31:28Speaker 4: four am in the aftermath of some woman named Patty
- 31:32Speaker 4: calling me me God bless her. I guess like it
- 31:36Speaker 4: was like I'm putting the daughter down and I just
- 31:39Speaker 4: get a freaking Facebook call and like my entire world
- 31:45Speaker 4: was over, Like it was like that's it, that's how
- 31:48Speaker 4: you see this. But like y'all like you doing this,
- 31:53Speaker 4: those are whistleblowers. Just the people that end up like
- 31:56Speaker 4: talked to her and made a human out of this
- 32:00Speaker 4: that like was the harb and like literally was the
- 32:02Speaker 4: messenger of like everything you thought was real, it's not,
- 32:07Speaker 4: and like it will happen in three seconds like there,
- 32:09Speaker 4: I don't know how to sugarcoat it, like this is
- 32:11Speaker 4: what's going on, and like that happening, and the people
- 32:14Speaker 4: who are those truth tellers like that actual fucking whistleblowers,
- 32:18Speaker 4: not the like when it's cute or convenient or you're
- 32:21Speaker 4: gonna get airtime about it, but like the like it's
- 32:23Speaker 4: very inconvenient and it's going to brand you as like
- 32:27Speaker 4: a thing that like you're choosing to be for the
- 32:30Speaker 4: greater goods.
- 32:31Speaker 5: Like that's like.
- 32:33Speaker 4: It's fucking important, and I like, I think there's a
- 32:36Speaker 4: real fucking reason that, Like every guy I've ever been
- 32:40Speaker 4: involved with is more than happy to listen to the
- 32:43Speaker 4: Zombie Girls when I'm on it or like I'll send
- 32:45Speaker 4: them like the Birds unplug it up, like holler to
- 32:48Speaker 4: both those podcasts like Friends and Awesome, you know, like
- 32:53Speaker 4: they're doing great stuff like every woman speaking out in
- 32:56Speaker 4: a space where it's not somewhere we're necessary welcome, necessarily
- 33:00Speaker 4: like doing the good work. But like there is a
- 33:04Speaker 4: reason that when I send the episode that I'm on
- 33:08Speaker 4: your show, like I've never got I don't think a
- 33:11Speaker 4: man besides Eric newall of bloody Good Horror, because it
- 33:17Speaker 4: was a dynamic and a relationship to support each other creatively,
- 33:19Speaker 4: and like I really appreciate people who show up that
- 33:21Speaker 4: way that like on the whole men pretend I didn't
- 33:27Speaker 4: send it to them and say nothing about it, or
- 33:31Speaker 4: they are like Rob the recent ax that I recorded
- 33:35Speaker 4: an episode at his at our house, it was the
- 33:39Speaker 4: one about raising girls himself, and every moment of preparation
- 33:45Speaker 4: for that was underscored by him in the background being like, white,
- 33:52Speaker 4: who's this now. I'm like, you kind of met her
- 33:54Speaker 4: like on way back, but like here's what I'm doing.
- 33:58Speaker 4: This is what we're talking about, and he was like, sweet, okay,
- 34:01Speaker 4: so this is like a fuck you white man, especially
- 34:05Speaker 4: the South kind of thing, and I was like, yeah, yeah,
- 34:09Speaker 4: it's like do you have a problem with that, because
- 34:11Speaker 4: then I have a problem with you because you all
- 34:12Speaker 4: deserve this.
- 34:14Speaker 1: I do want to, like talk about it as an
- 34:15Speaker 1: official point of the episode where it's like women like
- 34:18Speaker 1: me and Taylor Swift hurt the feelings of men will
- 34:21Speaker 1: never meet.
- 34:22Speaker 4: Yeah, like and thank you, because like, you've hurt the
- 34:27Speaker 4: feeling of men that, like I've known that won't even
- 34:30Speaker 4: fucking engage with it. It hurts their feelings that this
- 34:34Speaker 4: even exists exactly.
- 34:36Speaker 1: I think that's why. I mean, if only I could
- 34:39Speaker 1: be ridiculed in the press like Taylor Swift, because then
- 34:42Speaker 1: I knew I was like hurting their feelings on a
- 34:44Speaker 1: mass scale, like on a on an earth shattering level.
- 34:49Speaker 1: But like, yeah, we hurt the feelings of.
- 34:51Speaker 4: Men who will never meet because do I meaning that
- 34:54Speaker 4: your feelings don't get hurt in the process of the mission?
- 34:57Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know I and I and I think
- 35:01Speaker 1: that's like something new that I've been processing, Like there
- 35:04Speaker 1: is a cost to me doing what's best for me
- 35:08Speaker 1: by not allowing men in my home.
- 35:11Speaker 5: But not just what's best for you.
- 35:12Speaker 4: Because you have a microphone in front of your face
- 35:14Speaker 4: right now, anybody can cut off men like you're the
- 35:19Speaker 4: rallying cry.
- 35:20Speaker 5: Of like why you should?
- 35:22Speaker 3: Yeah, dude, Natalie, I just want to say, oh God,
- 35:25Speaker 3: you know it's good.
- 35:27Speaker 2: Like I just want to like thank you because you
- 35:31Speaker 2: said to me when I told you guys that I
- 35:34Speaker 2: was scared about this album like eighteen years, like doesn't
- 35:37Speaker 2: have to be the rest of your life.
- 35:38Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm going to start to cry. I know, yeah, yeah,
- 35:42Speaker 3: I like no one said that to me, you know,
- 35:45Speaker 3: and like.
- 35:46Speaker 2: Without me, they like until I said that I wanted
- 35:50Speaker 2: to leave, you know what I mean, And like, I
- 35:52Speaker 2: just I'm really glad you said that right now.
- 35:55Speaker 1: Well, because like I was telling Darcy, I was like,
- 35:58Speaker 1: the reason why it hurts my feelings is the most
- 36:00Speaker 1: because I don't want to go to your guys's funerals,
- 36:03Speaker 1: and like I know that men kill, like and that's
- 36:06Speaker 1: what it always boils down in my mind too, that
- 36:08Speaker 1: I'm like, weaker women who didn't speak up got killed
- 36:11Speaker 1: over shit like this, and like you guys will slip
- 36:15Speaker 1: up and say something or be listening to my show
- 36:17Speaker 1: on the rawn due or repeat something that I said
- 36:20Speaker 1: or whatever, and like at the end of the day,
- 36:23Speaker 1: I'm like, it's unsafe for us to be this ingrained
- 36:27Speaker 1: in the lives of them.
- 36:28Speaker 4: But do you know what is safe and what is
- 36:30Speaker 4: the total safe space is this happening right now, and
- 36:35Speaker 4: I think it's worth any listeners knowing that, like because
- 36:40Speaker 4: of things like this podcast, like we talk every day,
- 36:43Speaker 4: the three of us, and like, honest to God, like
- 36:48Speaker 4: there have been more than a few times that like
- 36:52Speaker 4: that threat is the first time I verbalize a thing
- 36:55Speaker 4: that like I definitely know is true, but that like
- 37:00Speaker 4: I don't know, like I need some.
- 37:01Speaker 5: Type of emotional encouragement I guess to like really act
- 37:08Speaker 5: on in my real life.
- 37:10Speaker 1: Well, And I'm also coming to terms with the fact that,
- 37:14Speaker 1: like breakups with men never affected me very hard, Like
- 37:18Speaker 1: they would just leave and I'd be like fine, And
- 37:20Speaker 1: that was probably the strongest indicator that I was queer,
- 37:23Speaker 1: because I let them fuck me when I wanted them to,
- 37:26Speaker 1: when they wanted to fuck me, and then when they
- 37:27Speaker 1: were done fucking me, I was like, fine, Okay, I
- 37:30Speaker 1: guess this is over, and I'd have like little to
- 37:33Speaker 1: know feelings about it, and so like I realized that
- 37:39Speaker 1: I have very little skin in the game compared to
- 37:43Speaker 1: a woman who's in a marriage or a woman who
- 37:45Speaker 1: co signed on something with a man and tighter money
- 37:49Speaker 1: to it. Like there's a safety to my life because
- 37:54Speaker 1: I never put my name on paper with a man
- 37:57Speaker 1: and so yeah, I can say on my high hers
- 38:00Speaker 1: all day longer and be like, I can't believe that
- 38:02Speaker 1: you guys are still have husbands.
- 38:03Speaker 3: But I also know.
- 38:06Speaker 5: It's unfair as one of like your closest friends.
- 38:09Speaker 4: I mean, if it's mutual, like you're one of my
- 38:11Speaker 4: closest friends, Like, it's unfair to not give you the
- 38:13Speaker 4: chance to have grace for it and all being your fault.
- 38:18Speaker 4: And I think that speaks to the absolute like how
- 38:22Speaker 4: deep just the shame that they instill in you.
- 38:26Speaker 5: Yeah, from go is like I didn't.
- 38:31Speaker 4: I knew how like internally, I knew how fucked the
- 38:34Speaker 4: whole situation was, but I didn't know how to like
- 38:37Speaker 4: undo that conditioning. And I knew that like sharing that
- 38:40Speaker 4: with somebody who there are no smoke and mirrors, like
- 38:47Speaker 4: it's a shattering of an illusion. But it also is
- 38:50Speaker 4: very unfair to not trust you, especially you to understand
- 38:56Speaker 4: that it is that and not treat that kindly and
- 38:58Speaker 4: with grace too. Like, so I think that like a
- 39:01Speaker 4: big part of your show that we don't necessarily underlining
- 39:04Speaker 4: often is like that, it's like showing truly behind the scenes,
- 39:10Speaker 4: like what those relationships look like where it's not just
- 39:14Speaker 4: about holding people accountable, it's not just about like whistle blowing,
- 39:16Speaker 4: it's about having empathy for the process of everyone getting
- 39:22Speaker 4: to the point where we're all fucking like actually fucking
- 39:25Speaker 4: done with it, because that is not something that happens overnight.
- 39:28Speaker 4: It's not like an eight is like you have to
- 39:30Speaker 4: go through every lever of alphabet and like it's hard
- 39:32Speaker 4: as fuck. But it's people like you that stand by
- 39:35Speaker 4: every phase of that and like show what it looks
- 39:38Speaker 4: like to be on the other side of it. That
- 39:39Speaker 4: like it's like motivational in a way that like I
- 39:42Speaker 4: don't know you'll ever understand as someone who's already where
- 39:44Speaker 4: you are.
- 39:45Speaker 1: Okay, well, that's really fucking sweet. It's mostly because guys
- 39:48Speaker 1: didn't want to fuck me for very long, Like I've
- 39:50Speaker 1: had it very easy.
- 39:53Speaker 4: Honestly, they couldn't handle it, and we benefit from that.
- 39:57Speaker 4: So but no, it's like, and that's what it always
- 40:01Speaker 4: boils down to, like if I could be the one
- 40:04Speaker 4: person just screaming at you all day, he sucks until
- 40:07Speaker 4: you hate me. But it also means that you get
- 40:10Speaker 4: to live to seventy five unless the water wars come like, yeah,
- 40:15Speaker 4: then you get to live till seventy five and hopefully
- 40:17Speaker 4: I'm there too. But yeah, I think that's been It's
- 40:21Speaker 4: been a.
- 40:21Speaker 1: Really big shift for me, like understanding that, like the
- 40:26Speaker 1: reason why I'm so lonely, the reason why Katie Maloney
- 40:29Speaker 1: is so lonely is because we won't endure anymore. And
- 40:34Speaker 1: the I shouldn't just say that Katie Maloney's lonely. I
- 40:37Speaker 1: don't know her actual fucking life, but to me it
- 40:40Speaker 1: felt like a very lonely season for her. I saw
- 40:43Speaker 1: so much of myself and her this season. But yeah,
- 40:47Speaker 1: the reason why we burned which we burned women and
- 40:52Speaker 1: called them witches, is because they knew that if we
- 40:54Speaker 1: stood in groups of three and got to talking, they
- 40:57Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to beat us anymore.
- 41:00Speaker 4: And I think because of the nature of what it
- 41:01Speaker 4: was to be a woman, it was scary to even
- 41:03Speaker 4: consider that because then what we've been taught nothing, What
- 41:07Speaker 4: would we do then what happens the day after the
- 41:10Speaker 4: final girl survives and our whole fucking world is gone
- 41:12Speaker 4: where It's.
- 41:13Speaker 1: Like, misogyny is bad for female friendships on on purpose,
- 41:19Speaker 1: on purpose.
- 41:20Speaker 5: Mad style style, it's not good to let us gather
- 41:23Speaker 5: and discuss.
- 41:24Speaker 1: They they do not want us to be friends. It's
- 41:26Speaker 1: why they demonized gossip and demonized anything that women would
- 41:31Speaker 1: enjoy doing together in.
- 41:32Speaker 4: A large group, Like and gossip is just telling the truth.
- 41:36Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Like I've realized this recently. It's just adults
- 41:39Speaker 4: in a group being like this happened, this happened, but
- 41:43Speaker 4: women saying the truth is it's a game. It's just
- 41:46Speaker 4: like stupid, it's gossip, Like these words that get assigned
- 41:48Speaker 4: to it where it's like, what are men in a
- 41:50Speaker 4: corner talking about Joe got fired and like Maddie's an
- 41:54Speaker 4: asshole and a racist?
- 41:56Speaker 5: What's that called.
- 41:58Speaker 3: The truth?
- 42:00Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's this whole idea of like I I
- 42:06Speaker 1: don't want it to be my fault that misogyny made
- 42:10Speaker 1: it really hard for me to have friends, Like I
- 42:12Speaker 1: don't want to just get tired and be like, well
- 42:14Speaker 1: fuck it, you all sucking your stupid and I try,
- 42:17Speaker 1: Like I don't want to be God telling Moses he
- 42:20Speaker 1: can't go to the Promised Land because he had a
- 42:22Speaker 1: rock one time, that old Testament. God and I not friends,
- 42:28Speaker 1: Like I mean, I don't think he has anyone right honestly,
- 42:32Speaker 1: Like I like, that's not who I want to be
- 42:34Speaker 1: because then that it like everyone thought that like men
- 42:37Speaker 1: were winning, when I was like, I'm not fucking men anymore.
- 42:39Speaker 1: I only want to say women. And they were like,
- 42:41Speaker 1: is it that letting the bad boyfriends win? I go, No, Actually,
- 42:45Speaker 1: not getting to fuck me means that all men lose,
- 42:49Speaker 1: and like, but to me, the patriarchy winning is me
- 42:55Speaker 1: not being understanding when you ghost me for four months,
- 42:58Speaker 1: but it's because you're not ready to shore wait, so.
- 43:02Speaker 4: Is at the flip side of that is like being
- 43:04Speaker 4: a woman who does still entertain the idea of fucking
- 43:06Speaker 4: men if you dare just wait and if it's more
- 43:10Speaker 4: than one, or if they know each other, like if
- 43:12Speaker 4: anything happens where it's like you're having fun infringes on
- 43:18Speaker 4: their situation or plans, you are fun. I mean it's
- 43:25Speaker 4: your whole. I mean there's no equivalent for males in
- 43:28Speaker 4: the same situation, but it's fuck like you lose your winner,
- 43:32Speaker 4: Like there's no way to win because you either avoid
- 43:34Speaker 4: men altogether and like exactly what you're talking about happens
- 43:39Speaker 4: where you could be a pariah on both sides of
- 43:41Speaker 4: the gender wars, or you just are like, I'm gonna
- 43:44Speaker 4: do what I want to do, and sometimes that includes
- 43:46Speaker 4: fucking men, and maybe it doesn't include marrating them. Yeah,
- 43:50Speaker 4: then that's a whole nother fucking fight you're going to
- 43:53Speaker 4: have to engage in.
- 43:55Speaker 3: Well.
- 43:55Speaker 1: And I think the prophecy that I'm always trying to
- 43:59Speaker 1: outrun and be like, no, it doesn't have to is
- 44:02Speaker 1: a girlhood is suffering. Being a woman is innately suffering,
- 44:07Speaker 1: and that our suffering is okay, And it's okay if
- 44:10Speaker 1: we're suffering and the doctor goes, I don't know, women
- 44:13Speaker 1: get crampy, or it's okay that they're you know, they're
- 44:18Speaker 1: mean to us, but they're not hitting us. So therefore
- 44:20Speaker 1: that's something like I think I'll know that my work
- 44:24Speaker 1: is done when I don't see where I get to
- 44:28Speaker 1: watch women be happy and that be the norm instead
- 44:32Speaker 1: of just like, yeah, make less money, who cares? Yeah,
- 44:35Speaker 1: he guess let you and love bombed you. Whatever you
- 44:37Speaker 1: got free dinners out of it.
- 44:39Speaker 4: If I am told one more time, truly by women,
- 44:43Speaker 4: that everyone gets cheated on after what happened to me,
- 44:47Speaker 4: I'm gonna fucking lose it. No one should get cheated on.
- 44:52Speaker 4: How about that's noting, yeah, that you know, it's just
- 44:56Speaker 4: excusing the behavior and women to me encompasses everything.
- 45:00Speaker 1: It's trans women, it's non binaris, it's anyone who isn't
- 45:03Speaker 1: a white guy. Honestly, at this point, late and I
- 45:10Speaker 1: know that we're on the brink of Handmaid's tail because
- 45:13Speaker 1: they're getting scared because we have TikTok and women are
- 45:18Speaker 1: now putting the nest footage of their man beating the
- 45:23Speaker 1: shit out of them on TikTok Andy.
- 45:25Speaker 3: It's like a whole TikTok murders. Yeah, that's it's wild.
- 45:30Speaker 1: That's just wild. Well, what's wild is when you when
- 45:34Speaker 1: when you call or a neighbor calls a domestic dispute
- 45:38Speaker 1: on your house, and the nest is recording the cops
- 45:42Speaker 1: berating the woman. Meanwhile Homie's just still punching walls or
- 45:46Speaker 1: locked in the bathroom or something, and she's like, yeah,
- 45:50Speaker 1: he was literally choking me against the wall, and they're like,
- 45:53Speaker 1: they hurt you screaming though I think he'd like.
- 45:55Speaker 2: You were loud, right, It's like, you need the evidence
- 46:01Speaker 2: for them to believe you, but even then video.
- 46:05Speaker 1: But then when you present the nest as an evidence,
- 46:07Speaker 1: they're like.
- 46:11Speaker 3: Is that really what happened before you hit record?
- 46:13Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, that's literally the prophecy that I'm out running.
- 46:18Speaker 1: Is that, like, oh, to be a woman is to
- 46:19Speaker 1: be in pain? Is that stupid biblical eve Aiden apple? Shit,
- 46:24Speaker 1: a bitch took a bite out of one macatosh apple
- 46:28Speaker 1: and I gotta have period pramps every month. That doesn't
- 46:30Speaker 1: make sense. I don't like it. I don't believe it.
- 46:35Speaker 1: I would like to change the prophecy.
- 46:37Speaker 5: And I would like to change that prophecy.
- 46:38Speaker 4: I would like to.
- 46:39Speaker 1: Change that prophecy. I would like I would like for
- 46:42Speaker 1: every woman and it was written and as above, so
- 46:48Speaker 1: below the power of three will set us free?
- 46:51Speaker 5: Uh under?
- 46:55Speaker 1: But yeah, like that. I wish that more women were taught.
- 46:59Speaker 1: Like I was just a weirdo kid who like drewk
- 47:02Speaker 1: mythology and stumbled upon the myth of Cassandra. I think
- 47:05Speaker 1: every woman should be taught.
- 47:07Speaker 4: What's funny is like the islands we lived on were
- 47:09Speaker 4: not so far from one another, because like I watched
- 47:12Speaker 4: door movies obsessively from the time as a child, and
- 47:16Speaker 4: like it's very similar where like anytime like a man
- 47:20Speaker 4: seems sketch or we were in a situation where it
- 47:21Speaker 4: was like, I don't know, this seems like not safe
- 47:24Speaker 4: or weird, like in my mind, main characters syndrome again,
- 47:27Speaker 4: I was the final girl and like, yeah, people don't
- 47:31Speaker 4: want to hear like this might not be right.
- 47:34Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah. The entire horror genre is built on
- 47:38Speaker 1: a woman's mythology. It's like great, yeah, Like it truly
- 47:41Speaker 1: is like strip it all down. It's very like the
- 47:43Speaker 1: morality tales of like Freeze Shakespeare. Yeah, it's a woman
- 47:48Speaker 1: being like I don't think we should go in that barn,
- 47:50Speaker 1: and then some guy being like I don't want to
- 47:52Speaker 1: be in the rain.
- 47:53Speaker 4: Then they get murdered in that barn until they started
- 47:56Speaker 4: like inverting tropes. Yeah, that truly is like there's a
- 47:58Speaker 4: reason there's a floods story in every culture. There's a
- 48:01Speaker 4: reason so many movies. It's like the woman being like
- 48:04Speaker 4: I think this is weird, and literally everyone no, it's
- 48:10Speaker 4: fine because we're we need to keep the parade on
- 48:12Speaker 4: because we're going to make money or whatever. Jaws like
- 48:17Speaker 4: the Fourth of July is too important. It's always like
- 48:21Speaker 4: comes doAnd to like patriarchal corporate bullshit.
- 48:24Speaker 1: Jersey, what was the prophecy that I changed mine because
- 48:28Speaker 1: of what you all said, and I was like, oh,
- 48:32Speaker 1: my old prophecy was that, Like, for since I could speak,
- 48:36Speaker 1: the label that has been put on me is that
- 48:39Speaker 1: I am dramatic and I am selfish, and I only
- 48:42Speaker 1: use my talents to get my way and when I
- 48:45Speaker 1: don't get my way, I can't even remember the last
- 48:49Speaker 1: time I threw a tantrum, and yet everyone acts like
- 48:51Speaker 1: I throw a diva opera level tantrum every time I
- 48:58Speaker 1: near them. But like that happened from when I was
- 49:01Speaker 1: very small. Anytime I had a feeling, why are you
- 49:04Speaker 1: trying to ruin today? Any like again, I had to
- 49:09Speaker 1: do it with a broken heart or else I was
- 49:12Speaker 1: like not going to be able to eat that day. Well,
- 49:14Speaker 1: no one wants to go to lunch with someone.
- 49:16Speaker 4: Who's pouting, and girls like me, like I think very
- 49:19Speaker 4: early I was like, I have a feeling I'm going
- 49:22Speaker 4: to be very mentally ill, and I don't have the
- 49:24Speaker 4: bandwidth to like keep speaking out that every best friend
- 49:28Speaker 4: I ever had was you. I always gravitated to these
- 49:32Speaker 4: like truth telling sixth graders that like I would cower
- 49:35Speaker 4: behind it, like truly would just be like I'm.
- 49:36Speaker 5: Gonna ride the protails of your emotional maturity. I don't
- 49:38Speaker 5: know what to do, but like you're telling men off
- 49:40Speaker 5: and you're seven, so like, yeah, oh, I was.
- 49:45Speaker 1: Not totally men off. When I was seven. I was
- 49:48Speaker 1: laying in bed screaming that saw nobody likes me, everybody
- 49:53Speaker 1: hates me. I guess I'll go eat worse. Yeah, at
- 49:58Speaker 1: any inconvenience.
- 50:00Speaker 5: I wasn't screaming anything, so like I was like mystified.
- 50:03Speaker 1: No, I didn't start Why didn't start sticking up to
- 50:07Speaker 1: them until I hit like probably thirty? This is a
- 50:11Speaker 1: very When did I start this?
- 50:13Speaker 3: Really?
- 50:13Speaker 5: The fact that you were a loud child speaks otherwise.
- 50:16Speaker 1: Mercy, what's the prophecy that you're trying to run from?
- 50:19Speaker 3: My prophecy that I'm trying to run from. I feel
- 50:23Speaker 3: like very literally lived that song, you know, and it
- 50:31Speaker 3: kind of I left a situation that I was in
- 50:36Speaker 3: for a very long time and because I was actually
- 50:41Speaker 3: I'm going to quote vaccine from the ex trilogy that I.
- 50:47Speaker 1: Will not hoping. I am saying it too.
- 50:50Speaker 2: Loved it, loved it, loved it so much, but I
- 50:54Speaker 2: will not accept a life I don't deserve. And I
- 50:59Speaker 2: honestly like left the movie thinking I'm gonna get that
- 51:03Speaker 2: tattooed on me because I feel like that's like the
- 51:08Speaker 2: only other words I have.
- 51:09Speaker 3: I lived deliciously from the Witch and yeah, and I
- 51:14Speaker 3: just I was, like, I feel like I.
- 51:16Speaker 2: Need that because I feel like I've grown a lot
- 51:20Speaker 2: in my decent dissentering men and misogyny for my life
- 51:24Speaker 2: and like I just want I've known, I've come to
- 51:32Speaker 2: terms with what I deserve and what I don't deserve,
- 51:36Speaker 2: and I also need to find like some like fulfilling
- 51:40Speaker 2: within myself without like I think I've always dependent on
- 51:43Speaker 2: another I'm like my partner, another person to make me happy,
- 51:48Speaker 2: or that I like was dependent on their happiness, Like
- 51:53Speaker 2: it's that codependency, Like I really don't want to ever
- 51:58Speaker 2: be in a situation like that, but also like acknowledging
- 52:01Speaker 2: that that comes from abandonment and like always being let
- 52:04Speaker 2: down honestly, like always being let out by men. I've
- 52:07Speaker 2: been let down by every man that's in my life
- 52:08Speaker 2: pretty much, and like I'm at a point now how
- 52:11Speaker 2: that in one of my friends brought up her her
- 52:15Speaker 2: boyfriend that I am not, you know, a fan of
- 52:18Speaker 2: and bringing him back into my life and and.
- 52:20Speaker 1: I said, I'm not.
- 52:21Speaker 2: Honestly, I have too much more bring, like anybody new
- 52:25Speaker 2: into my life, but especially a man, I'm not comfortable.
- 52:30Speaker 3: I don't trust them. I don't want any men that
- 52:35Speaker 3: I don't already know.
- 52:36Speaker 2: I mean, obviously I've hung out with I'm a big
- 52:38Speaker 2: wrestling fan, you know, so like I hate watch wrestling
- 52:40Speaker 2: with dudes and like that, like the people I know
- 52:43Speaker 2: and that can enjoy I can enjoy time with without
- 52:46Speaker 2: like remembering that they're men or I mean.
- 52:49Speaker 3: Actually probably you do experience that too with wrestling, but
- 52:52Speaker 3: it's not the same the same ship.
- 52:54Speaker 2: But yeah, I just I think I'm like ready to
- 52:59Speaker 2: leave in my past, I full on, I came out
- 53:05Speaker 2: as by a few years ago, and I don't know
- 53:08Speaker 2: that that's even really gonna be the case in the
- 53:11Speaker 2: long term. I mean, I don't really know. Once I
- 53:13Speaker 2: start dating, I'm sure maybe things will will change. But yeah,
- 53:18Speaker 2: I just don't like them. They can just go away
- 53:20Speaker 2: and leave me alone. That's my prophecy, men, leave me alone.
- 53:25Speaker 1: You are more than welcome to come and grey gardens
- 53:29Speaker 1: up with Annie and I when we finally take it
- 53:32Speaker 1: to the woods. Yeah, to the woods, and no one
- 53:36Speaker 1: hears from us ever again.
- 53:38Speaker 3: Right I'm out.
- 53:41Speaker 2: I will say, really, my cousin did say to me before,
- 53:46Speaker 2: and it kind of makes me feel like I'm at
- 53:48Speaker 2: least on some type of track with Natalie on the
- 53:50Speaker 2: same track, because just like a couple of months ago,
- 53:54Speaker 2: it was actually.
- 53:56Speaker 3: Four tortrip poets, so and my question had said that
- 54:00Speaker 3: some guy was some guy.
- 54:02Speaker 2: Was just so nasty to me at like the grocery
- 54:05Speaker 2: store or something. And she goes and I immediately thought
- 54:07Speaker 2: to myself, this is why Darcy hates men. And I
- 54:10Speaker 2: was like, and I said to her, I was like, oh, yeah, yeah,
- 54:15Speaker 2: I mean that's it is. It's the gym is a
- 54:18Speaker 2: place to really hate men.
- 54:20Speaker 3: The gym and that's where I was.
- 54:21Speaker 2: Spending niklaut of my coping time. I just pretending they're
- 54:25Speaker 2: not there, and I just literally look like they're in,
- 54:27Speaker 2: just like I look like I'm.
- 54:28Speaker 3: Disgusted by them. So I don't get hit on often.
- 54:31Speaker 2: That's also been That's been a thing with me is
- 54:34Speaker 2: I've always given the energy of like I'm not interested.
- 54:38Speaker 3: In you, like you're gross.
- 54:40Speaker 2: So I've i haven't really been hit on much in
- 54:43Speaker 2: my in my life, which I'm okay, with Honestly now,
- 54:48Speaker 2: I used to be self conscious about it, but now I'm.
- 54:51Speaker 3: Like, good, I'm not.
- 54:53Speaker 5: I definitely am like like, I don't want to be rude.
- 54:55Speaker 5: I'm just going like ha ha ha, and like lately
- 54:59Speaker 5: I haven't and it's very funny.
- 55:02Speaker 3: It feels good.
- 55:02Speaker 1: Right. One of the other prophecies I would like to outrun,
- 55:06Speaker 1: and this will get us into the criticism of the
- 55:08Speaker 1: album is whenever Taylor Swift or myself or any of
- 55:13Speaker 1: us have a slew of bad boyfriends, it's not the
- 55:16Speaker 1: prophecy of why are you such a dumb slut that
- 55:19Speaker 1: keeps getting had by matt men? And why is it? Instead?
- 55:23Speaker 1: Why are there so many bad men that you only
- 55:26Speaker 1: dated bad ones? You have yet to trip onto a
- 55:29Speaker 1: good one? Mm hm, you have yet to meet one
- 55:33Speaker 1: good man?
- 55:34Speaker 4: Right?
- 55:34Speaker 5: Is it our picker or or is it then?
- 55:39Speaker 1: Is it the ratio the race? Because right now I'm
- 55:42Speaker 1: sitting on one couple that makes me believe in heterosexual love. Yeah,
- 55:49Speaker 1: and they know, like they know who they because I've
- 55:52Speaker 1: screamed it at them while we're dancing somewhere. I'm like you,
- 55:56Speaker 1: You're the only You're the only straight couple I believe
- 55:59Speaker 1: should exist. It's just you. But yeah, like this this
- 56:06Speaker 1: whole idea that when Taylor Swift is writing an album
- 56:11Speaker 1: and she mentions these things that happened to her and
- 56:15Speaker 1: it is heartache and heartbreak and not getting what I
- 56:19Speaker 1: was supposed to be getting and what I was promised
- 56:22Speaker 1: and all of it, that we think that that's stupid
- 56:24Speaker 1: fluff and not like meaningful life events, like when did
- 56:30Speaker 1: we decide that, like heartache had a quota, like I'm
- 56:34Speaker 1: supposed to get past twenty two years old and nope,
- 56:38Speaker 1: and heartache should just be done. I'll never be broken
- 56:41Speaker 1: up with again. I'll like five boyfriends and I should
- 56:46Speaker 1: be smarter and finally the six's one works and no
- 56:50Speaker 1: one hurts me ever again. And I think, like it's
- 56:53Speaker 1: really easy to call Taylor like the Tortured Poet's Department,
- 56:57Speaker 1: like the most massive breakup album that ever exists. But
- 57:00Speaker 1: I really do think that, like to me when I
- 57:03Speaker 1: listen to it. Taylor is also not even pissed at
- 57:07Speaker 1: Jake Dylan Hall anymore. She's pissed at so many Jake
- 57:11Speaker 1: Jollen Halls exist, Like she's pissed at us for gossiping
- 57:16Speaker 1: about her instead of going like girl you good like girl,
- 57:20Speaker 1: don't like girl like?
- 57:24Speaker 5: Well, that's what I mean.
- 57:25Speaker 4: That like each new one that comes your representative of
- 57:27Speaker 4: them all. Yeah, and you're just the next one, just
- 57:32Speaker 4: like yeah. I love those memes that are like, oh
- 57:36Speaker 4: my god, are you crying over submittally piece of shit
- 57:39Speaker 4: that like didn't even treat you all. Don't worry another
- 57:42Speaker 4: one that's a little bit different. It's right behind us.
- 57:45Speaker 4: It's gonna triak you.
- 57:47Speaker 1: It's really male centric and misogynistic centric. To believe that
- 57:51Speaker 1: I can do it with a broken heart is only
- 57:54Speaker 1: about her doing her job while she's said because Joe
- 57:59Speaker 1: Alwin was boring for one more dinner, right, because like
- 58:04Speaker 1: I get heartbroken if they get my soda ron at McDonald's.
- 58:07Speaker 1: And honestly, that's hurt me more than any other man.
- 58:10Speaker 1: Like when I just want to really crisp McDonald's soda
- 58:15Speaker 1: and I take a sip of it and it's not
- 58:17Speaker 1: it's not a regular coke, it's diet coke. I'm switching
- 58:21Speaker 1: into the lane of traffic where SMI's gonna hit me
- 58:24Speaker 1: like I'm done, Like I'm done. Have I ever felt
- 58:28Speaker 1: that way because a man was like I don't want
- 58:30Speaker 1: to go anywhere. No, but like literally, like, sometimes heartache
- 58:35Speaker 1: is your mom saying the one weird thing that when
- 58:40Speaker 1: she says it, it hurts your feelings, but you don't
- 58:42Speaker 1: know how to express to her that it hurts your feelings.
- 58:45Speaker 1: Sometimes like heartache is putting your entire soul into an
- 58:48Speaker 1: album just to be told she's sad about her boyfriend's
- 58:52Speaker 1: one more time. And sometimes the heartache is being like,
- 58:57Speaker 1: but I was promised this, and sometimes that promise Like currently,
- 59:01Speaker 1: my heartache is I technically did everything right that millennials
- 59:04Speaker 1: were supposed to do, and my life is still fucking.
- 59:07Speaker 5: Broke, Sames same.
- 59:10Speaker 1: I went to college, I got a job, I get everything,
- 59:13Speaker 1: but Mary.
- 59:14Speaker 5: Some use got married. Where the am I right now?
- 59:20Speaker 1: Yeah? So sometimes it's like, well, the government lied to me,
- 59:24Speaker 1: and now I have to do all of this with
- 59:26Speaker 1: a broken heart, knowing that they're not even going to
- 59:29Speaker 1: give us stimulus checks to get through the next disaster.
- 59:33Speaker 2: Like yeah, I mean I get a broken heart every
- 59:36Speaker 2: time you hear another fucking bill packs.
- 59:39Speaker 5: Yes you know anything.
- 59:44Speaker 2: Yes, it's terrible. There's not much to be happy about.
- 59:49Speaker 2: I'm gonna need to be dramatic.
- 59:50Speaker 5: That's true.
- 59:51Speaker 1: Out there like it is so true. I I need
- 59:56Speaker 1: to do a deeper dive onto the song, Clara bo
- 59:59Speaker 1: but I think that but like her ending the song
- 1:00:02Speaker 1: with like you look like Taylor Swift, is her like
- 1:00:06Speaker 1: acknowledging that this is all cilical and we're all going
- 1:00:10Speaker 1: through it, so we have to start talking about it,
- 1:00:13Speaker 1: like there ain't nothing that Taylor Swift went through that
- 1:00:16Speaker 1: Stevie Nicks didn't go through three times.
- 1:00:19Speaker 3: Like I love Clara Bow.
- 1:00:22Speaker 1: Oh the fact that in my copy of The Tortured
- 1:00:27Speaker 1: Poet's Department, I can open it up and read the
- 1:00:29Speaker 1: breakup poem that Stevie Nicks wrote her about one ratty heally,
- 1:00:33Speaker 1: I go, could you imagine fucking a guy for two
- 1:00:36Speaker 1: weeks and it ruining your entire life? And you just
- 1:00:39Speaker 1: call up Stevie Nicks to be like Stevie, I'm sad,
- 1:00:43Speaker 1: and she writes you.
- 1:00:44Speaker 3: A poem like it's very incredible, insane. I know.
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: It's like how Miley Cyris gets to have Dolly Parton
- 1:00:51Speaker 1: as a godmother, And I was like, my whole life
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: would be different, My whole life would be different if
- 1:00:56Speaker 1: Dolly Parton had a hand in it.
- 1:01:00Speaker 2: Right.
- 1:01:00Speaker 1: Let me imagine I've seen Stevie Nicks exactly once in
- 1:01:03Speaker 1: concert and it was within the last two years, and
- 1:01:07Speaker 1: it truly was healing and it was religious, and she
- 1:01:13Speaker 1: did go, I need you to watch sixty minutes so
- 1:01:16Speaker 1: you understand more about the Ukraine. And I almost did it,
- 1:01:19Speaker 1: but I don't know how to stream sixty minutes, So
- 1:01:22Speaker 1: sorry about it, Stevie Nicks, Like I couldn't figure out
- 1:01:25Speaker 1: which streaming service sixteen minutes was on, and I have ADHD,
- 1:01:31Speaker 1: but like you know, but even that, like Clara Boson is,
- 1:01:36Speaker 1: like she was the hottest Hollywood actress in the world
- 1:01:39Speaker 1: and they still dogged her. Stevie Nix was the hottest
- 1:01:42Speaker 1: musician in the entire world, and she still fucking got
- 1:01:44Speaker 1: cheated on and dumped by Fleetwood Mac and had to
- 1:01:48Speaker 1: make her own fucking career out of it. Anyways, my
- 1:01:51Speaker 1: motherfucking Taylor Swift, and they print some bullshit article every
- 1:01:56Speaker 1: week that I'm fighting with Billie Eilish, he.
- 1:02:00Speaker 3: Said, which I don't know. I can't remember if like
- 1:02:02Speaker 3: I read it or some friend said it.
- 1:02:05Speaker 2: But the theory that that last line you look like
- 1:02:08Speaker 2: Taylor Schieff is actually about Olivia Rodrigo.
- 1:02:10Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, for sure, and it totally makes I haven't
- 1:02:13Speaker 4: even seen that, but like I always read it as
- 1:02:15Speaker 4: like it's like the next one.
- 1:02:17Speaker 5: It's very much like.
- 1:02:21Speaker 4: She has other song that's like oh with Phoebe Phoebe Bridges,
- 1:02:29Speaker 4: Oh nothing new where that's like obviously the thing that's
- 1:02:32Speaker 4: on her mind about like this is temporary and like
- 1:02:36Speaker 4: I'm gonna do it as hard as I can because
- 1:02:38Speaker 4: like somebody will be telling somebody very soon.
- 1:02:40Speaker 5: You look like Taylor Shifts. She looked like Steve x.
- 1:02:45Speaker 1: I, Okay, we go, let's wrap it up. We're gonna
- 1:02:49Speaker 1: wrap it up. Where I was really gonna be an adult.
- 1:02:51Speaker 1: Elizabeth is actively peeing herself and starving.
- 1:02:54Speaker 5: I didn't eat very much today, and I will be
- 1:02:56Speaker 5: honest like I hate it too.
- 1:02:59Speaker 1: She's a right to send me sos is in the
- 1:03:01Speaker 1: chat that I just keep ignoring. I'm like, why is
- 1:03:04Speaker 1: that naking a notification?
- 1:03:06Speaker 4: I was gonna say something if this one went a while, So,
- 1:03:09Speaker 4: I mean, honestly, like you no, like I'm in the
- 1:03:11Speaker 4: time zone though. That's like you guys, we have to
- 1:03:13Speaker 4: do it super late because I have to put my
- 1:03:15Speaker 4: daughter down and then like then I'm like I have
- 1:03:18Speaker 4: to eat talk about like that.
- 1:03:19Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So we have talked at nauseum about Tortured
- 1:03:24Speaker 1: Poet's Apartment and all of the feelings that it brought
- 1:03:27Speaker 1: up and how we wish better for ourselves and Taylor
- 1:03:30Speaker 1: Swift and our daughters and our daughters and our mothers
- 1:03:33Speaker 1: and all of it. If you had to wrap up
- 1:03:36Speaker 1: the biggest lesson that Tortured Poet's Department handed you, what
- 1:03:40Speaker 1: was the best thing it taught you?
- 1:03:43Speaker 4: Okay, So I think it's that it's not your father
- 1:03:47Speaker 4: hurt so hard, even if it wasn't real. And it's
- 1:03:49Speaker 4: also okay to revisit the feelings of anger and sadness.
- 1:03:57Speaker 1: In a.
- 1:04:00Speaker 5: Almost like way, to remember you're still human before it
- 1:04:05Speaker 5: happens again.
- 1:04:07Speaker 1: I love that ursy with yours.
- 1:04:13Speaker 2: M So I would say, I know there's a lot
- 1:04:16Speaker 2: so unpacked, but I would say probably my biggest lesson,
- 1:04:20Speaker 2: like the biggest thing that I took from the Tortured
- 1:04:23Speaker 2: Post's Department was like stepping back and acknowledging and recognizing
- 1:04:35Speaker 2: things for what they are and feeling that and sometimes
- 1:04:41Speaker 2: that's not.
- 1:04:43Speaker 3: Pleasant or you know, it's it's it's tough, but also that.
- 1:04:52Speaker 2: You can do it with a broken heart and we
- 1:04:54Speaker 2: cannot like you know what I mean, I feel like
- 1:04:57Speaker 2: I I can feel all this stuff and I can.
- 1:05:00Speaker 4: Still be me and keep growing and well, the fact
- 1:05:07Speaker 4: that this happens to us does not define us, and
- 1:05:09Speaker 4: the fact that it might hopefully not happen again isn't
- 1:05:13Speaker 4: the story is either.
- 1:05:15Speaker 1: Because I think I'm actually really surprised. It always surprises
- 1:05:19Speaker 1: me what actually happens when I get on the mic,
- 1:05:22Speaker 1: despite what I thought I would say when I got
- 1:05:24Speaker 1: on the mic, I I don't think it hit me
- 1:05:28Speaker 1: until right now as we were talking about it, that
- 1:05:31Speaker 1: the whole album isn't a breakup album. It's a liberation
- 1:05:35Speaker 1: album of liberating yourself from the guilt that comes from
- 1:05:41Speaker 1: being had.
- 1:05:42Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, that's so. That's like the perfect way to
- 1:05:46Speaker 3: put it.
- 1:05:46Speaker 5: It is because that shame is so heavy.
- 1:05:48Speaker 1: The shame is so heavy, and so I think, like
- 1:05:51Speaker 1: I will listen to this album when I need to remember,
- 1:05:55Speaker 1: just like I listened to all too well, when I
- 1:05:57Speaker 1: need to remember, like Gaslighting is, they'll tell you fucking whatever,
- 1:06:02Speaker 1: like you were there, your memories are true. I will
- 1:06:05Speaker 1: listen to this album every time I need to remember.
- 1:06:08Speaker 1: It is not actually my fault that they treated me
- 1:06:10Speaker 1: that way. It's not a prophecy that's been put on
- 1:06:13Speaker 1: my head. It's not something I'm asking for.
- 1:06:15Speaker 4: It's not so because it's not vague, it's specific, it's targeted.
- 1:06:20Speaker 4: It is designed to make you forget what you even
- 1:06:25Speaker 4: want or believe. Right, So tell me everything is not
- 1:06:28Speaker 4: about me, But what if it is exactly? And say
- 1:06:31Speaker 4: they didn't do it.
- 1:06:32Speaker 3: To hurt me? But what if they did?
- 1:06:34Speaker 1: Because I've had that conversation with my therapist years ago
- 1:06:38Speaker 1: when she's like, you know, you're talking about it, like
- 1:06:40Speaker 1: he had this like plot and scheme and plan, and
- 1:06:43Speaker 1: so many people will tell you me, but did any
- 1:06:46Speaker 1: he because so many people are still stuck in this mindset.
- 1:06:49Speaker 1: They're like, oh, man, ares.
- 1:06:50Speaker 5: Too stupid to be to do it. They're too stupid
- 1:06:53Speaker 5: toulate you.
- 1:06:54Speaker 1: They don't have.
- 1:06:56Speaker 3: They want you to say it.
- 1:06:58Speaker 5: Yeah, well yeah, they wait for you to say it
- 1:07:00Speaker 5: so that yeah.
- 1:07:02Speaker 1: Yeah, they weaponize incompetence their way into gas lighting bockers.
- 1:07:07Speaker 1: So yeah, it's not actually my fault. Taylor Swift said so,
- 1:07:10Speaker 1: and Stevie Nick's Oh signed it, that's all I need.
- 1:07:14Speaker 5: It's the president and vice president of female every age.
- 1:07:20Speaker 1: Do you think that'll imparton ever? Let that silent man
- 1:07:24Speaker 1: that's her husband. She was wrang a day in her life.
- 1:07:27Speaker 1: That man's never spoken.
- 1:07:30Speaker 5: We have lots of examples.
- 1:07:34Speaker 1: What are we what kind of energy are we adding
- 1:07:37Speaker 1: back into the collective energy with our manifestations?
- 1:07:42Speaker 4: Okay, I'm going to manifest that. Any woman whoever sits
- 1:07:45Speaker 4: down to a date, if it's no any date where
- 1:07:49Speaker 4: the man says where did you come from? Or I
- 1:07:54Speaker 4: could see myself X y Z anything with you, just go.
- 1:07:59Speaker 5: Away, Just don't do it, just the worm away. Those
- 1:08:02Speaker 5: are pretend.
- 1:08:05Speaker 4: Statements that no one ever has to cash a check
- 1:08:09Speaker 4: in for, like when it's projection, when it's the future
- 1:08:13Speaker 4: that is not a real thing, and that person gets
- 1:08:17Speaker 4: to pretend they are whoever they want to be, whoever
- 1:08:20Speaker 4: you want them to be in this like non existent future.
- 1:08:24Speaker 4: So those are red flag statements for me, and I
- 1:08:27Speaker 4: urge any woman going on dates. If somebody is like, where.
- 1:08:29Speaker 5: Did you come from? I don't like that, Like I
- 1:08:32Speaker 5: came from two.
- 1:08:34Speaker 4: Blocks away in the city that you grew up in,
- 1:08:36Speaker 4: because I'm a full fucking human and like I feel
- 1:08:38Speaker 4: like you're bringing some weird energy that's supposed to woo
- 1:08:41Speaker 4: me and probably will work some way.
- 1:08:42Speaker 1: Stop well, because what Love Island, USA has taught me
- 1:08:47Speaker 1: is that men have to view us people to feel
- 1:08:51Speaker 1: bad when they hurt you. So if they only view
- 1:08:54Speaker 1: you as a figment or as an idea or as
- 1:08:57Speaker 1: like a myth and that starts.
- 1:09:01Speaker 4: That like yeah, yeah, and it comes from Greek mythology.
- 1:09:05Speaker 4: I came from my mama, and like, yeah, Midtown.
- 1:09:09Speaker 1: I'm not just like an idea of a future for you,
- 1:09:13Speaker 1: Like I am actually a person whose heartbeats, and very
- 1:09:16Speaker 1: often they don't. Actually, like watch Love Island, not one
- 1:09:19Speaker 1: of those boys ever looks at one of those girls
- 1:09:21Speaker 1: and it is like, that's a human, a human I
- 1:09:24Speaker 1: should care about kissing another girl in front of mm
- 1:09:28Speaker 1: hmm Gracy, what's here me innifestation.
- 1:09:32Speaker 7: So my manifestation is that all women will recognize their
- 1:09:41Speaker 7: worth and hold on to that and know that they
- 1:09:48Speaker 7: don't that they deserve the world. We deserve the fucking
- 1:09:53Speaker 7: world and men can't give it to us. Yeah, that's
- 1:09:57Speaker 7: I'm just getting that into me.
- 1:09:58Speaker 3: Let's know. That's yeah, So That's where I'm at.
- 1:10:05Speaker 1: We deserve it. We also birthed it, like we birthed
- 1:10:10Speaker 1: the entire world they used to let us be in
- 1:10:13Speaker 1: charge of village life and religious ceremonies and all of
- 1:10:18Speaker 1: it into white dudes that fragile, and we're like, why
- 1:10:24Speaker 1: are you letting these women just like crush up berries
- 1:10:27Speaker 1: and call that a ceremony? Have you ever heard of
- 1:10:29Speaker 1: like incense? Like, we don't even let men touch women
- 1:10:34Speaker 1: for our God because women be icky. Anyways, My manifestation
- 1:10:41Speaker 1: is that for all of the cassandras to start to
- 1:10:43Speaker 1: be believed, and when whistles are blown, they are listened to,
- 1:10:47Speaker 1: and that every time a woman takes the very essence
- 1:10:53Speaker 1: of who she is and her experiences and the hurt
- 1:10:55Speaker 1: and the joy or the pain and the agony that
- 1:10:58Speaker 1: it caused, that instead of going I can't believe she
- 1:11:02Speaker 1: let that happen to her, we start asking why does
- 1:11:06Speaker 1: Jake Jillen Hall have the gall to do that to
- 1:11:08Speaker 1: Taylor Swift? How did Joe Alwin walk the earth embarrassed
- 1:11:13Speaker 1: to be fucking Taylor Swift a day in his life?
- 1:11:16Speaker 1: Do you know how Travis Kelsey finally got me on
- 1:11:18Speaker 1: his goddamn side. He's the only man I've ever watched
- 1:11:22Speaker 1: date her who realizes that it's fucking cool to be
- 1:11:26Speaker 1: fucking Taylor Swift.
- 1:11:27Speaker 5: I'm changing my manifestation.
- 1:11:29Speaker 4: And is that all the Cassandras, even if they are
- 1:11:32Speaker 4: never believed, don't stop telling the truth.
- 1:11:35Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well there's that one too, truly, because like
- 1:11:38Speaker 1: we're two living proof ladies sitting right here, but like
- 1:11:42Speaker 1: it still matters, right because I'll believe you. So just
- 1:11:46Speaker 1: screaming in my DMS and all caps, I guess thank
- 1:11:51Speaker 1: you for being here for our two to three part
- 1:11:53Speaker 1: series on the Tortured Poets Department. We'll be back here
- 1:11:58Speaker 1: for debut.
- 1:11:59Speaker 5: Taylor's absolutely thank you so much for having us.
- 1:12:03Speaker 3: This is so fun.
- 1:12:04Speaker 1: We'll do an entire episode on all of the bonus tracks.
- 1:12:07Speaker 1: Once all of the bonus tracks, well then you're never
- 1:12:10Speaker 1: getting rid of us.
- 1:12:11Speaker 4: If we're just gonna say, just keep coming back, sed go,
- 1:12:15Speaker 4: We've got about like four hundred and seventy five more
- 1:12:17Speaker 4: songs to come.
- 1:12:17Speaker 1: Oh my god, I know, in another life I did
- 1:12:20Speaker 1: a movie podcast, But in another life I did a
- 1:12:22Speaker 1: Taylor Swift say the word nice?
- 1:12:26Speaker 3: Does it?
- 1:12:27Speaker 1: Does anyone have anything to plug?
- 1:12:29Speaker 4: I'm not very active right now, and that's activities, So
- 1:12:33Speaker 4: meet me back here. Whenever Natalie is like, hey, bitch,
- 1:12:35Speaker 4: come home, right.
- 1:12:37Speaker 1: You can send all of your compliments for Darcy and
- 1:12:39Speaker 1: Elizabeth in the comment section, so the algorithm will stop
- 1:12:43Speaker 1: ignoring me. How about that?
- 1:12:45Speaker 4: Uh?
- 1:12:45Speaker 1: But also in my dms and I will screenshot them
- 1:12:48Speaker 1: and pass them along, And those dms can be found
- 1:12:51Speaker 1: at men I've Tolerated pod on Instagram, Natalie K one
- 1:12:55Speaker 1: two four on Instagram, and TikTok follow us on YouTube.
- 1:12:58Speaker 1: That's where all of the men who's feelings I've hurt
- 1:13:01Speaker 1: have yelled at me. So if you want to yell
- 1:13:02Speaker 1: at them, I'll laugh. That would be fun for me.
- 1:13:06Speaker 1: And make sure to check out the Patreon because this
- 1:13:09Speaker 1: episode was edited, but I bet you the one on
- 1:13:11Speaker 1: Patreon is just the fucking entire mother load where you
- 1:13:15Speaker 1: get this, including probably just what Darcy and I talked
- 1:13:19Speaker 1: about while Elizabeth took a pee.
- 1:13:24Speaker 7: It's just.
- 1:13:27Speaker 1: Right.
- 1:13:27Speaker 4: You want to hear my sad poetry. Good news as
- 1:13:29Speaker 4: well for everyone who lists. And it's five minutes. I
- 1:13:31Speaker 4: just smoke a cigarette. Oh, I had a feeling I
- 1:13:36Speaker 4: was feeling. I did peeking on my daughter too. There
- 1:13:40Speaker 4: were a couple there were they were.
- 1:13:44Speaker 1: Moving and shaking. But remember tolerators. You don't have to
- 1:13:47Speaker 1: smile through anything you're tolerating, including a listening to thirty
- 1:13:52Speaker 1: two songs written by your favorite artist, just for some
- 1:13:56Speaker 1: dude to weigh in on your good time to be like, oh,
- 1:14:01Speaker 1: is she writing about her ex boyfriend again? Smiles her
- 1:14:04Speaker 1: for joy