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An Extremely Anniversary Tour Details and Jamie’s New Book Minisode! · The Bechdel Cast

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  Speaker 1: On the Bechdelcast, the questions asked if movies have women
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  Speaker 1: in them. Are all their discussions just boyfriends and husbands
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  Speaker 1: or do they have individualism? The patriarchy's effing vast. Start
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  Speaker 1: changing it with the Bechdelcast.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Bechtelcast listeners. Hello.
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  Speaker 1: Here we are doing a bit of a mini-sode this week.
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  Speaker 3: Don't turn it off.
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  Speaker 1: Leave it on.
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  Speaker 2: Keep it on.
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  Speaker 3: Leave it on.
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  Speaker 1: Because this isn't strictly an ad. We're going to do
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  Speaker 1: a quick chat about The reason we're taking this week
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  Speaker 1: soft off is because we're getting ready for our upcoming tour,
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  Speaker 1: which we'll be talking about in a little bit. And
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  Speaker 1: there's just a lot going on in the expanded Bechtelkast universe. And, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so we're going to chat about it.
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  Speaker 2: First off, we're going to talk about Jamie's. forthcoming a
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  Speaker 2: novel yay tell us about it jamie yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very excited for it and i don't i mean
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  Speaker 1: i don't think i've really talked about it very much
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  Speaker 1: on the pod but i've been working on this novel
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  Speaker 1: for almost four years now i think actually technically four
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  Speaker 1: years in terms of like idea to completion it'll be
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  Speaker 1: almost five by the time it comes out But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it just went on presale.
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  Speaker 3: I think maybe by the time.
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  Speaker 1: You hear this, the cover will have also come out.
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  Speaker 1: But it's called The Tower. It's been a story I've
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  Speaker 1: had on my mind for a really, really, really long time.
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  Speaker 1: And it is about a woman who is an architect
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  Speaker 1: who falls in love with and starts a relationship with
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  Speaker 1: with a blueprint that she designs to get into college
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  Speaker 1: and then spends the book takes place when she's in
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  Speaker 1: her mid 30s so she basically spends the better part
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  Speaker 1: of 20 years trying to get this building into existence
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  Speaker 1: while you know kind of maintaining the fact that you're
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  Speaker 1: not letting anyone know that she is in love with
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  Speaker 1: a blueprint and just generally has relationships with objects so
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  Speaker 1: she's married to another architect.
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  Speaker 3: There's a bunch of stuff going on there. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So it just sort of follows that relationship and her
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  Speaker 1: kind of difficult path as she navigates that.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And we haven't even really talked about it very much.
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  Speaker 1: I've been pretty quiet about it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I know you're writing a novel. I think you first
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  Speaker 2: mentioned it to me maybe two years ago or so ish,
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  Speaker 2: maybe a year ago.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It was some time in the, it's been 84 years.
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  Speaker 2: It was some time in the recent slash distant past
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  Speaker 2: who can say, and then I didn't really hear anything
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  Speaker 2: about it since from you. So I was like, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if, I wonder if Jamie's still working on that.
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  Speaker 2: Cause famously I start a writing project and then work
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  Speaker 2: on it for approximately three days and then quit it.
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  Speaker 2: That's my MO when it comes to writing. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't really sure. And then you were like, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, it's getting published. And I was like, wowie wow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like working on it kind of in
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  Speaker 1: chunks over the years, like when I had time or
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  Speaker 1: just energy depending to get it done. But yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: feel very lucky that It's with the same publisher and
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  Speaker 1: editor as my previous book. Raw Dog, ever heard of it? I,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm so thrilled that people have and I...
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  Speaker 1: I would love if people stopped asking me questions about
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  Speaker 1: hot dogs in my day-to-day life. But that is not,
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  Speaker 1: you know, whatever. I truly only have myself to blame.
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  Speaker 1: But I really loved writing that book. I loved getting
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  Speaker 1: to tour it and getting to, you know, just hear
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  Speaker 1: what people thought about it. And it was cool because
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  Speaker 1: it was kind of this very, very long road to
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  Speaker 1: get to write fiction, which I don't think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: would have been quite as possible if.
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  Speaker 3: I hadn't written Raw Dog first. whatever, that's more like
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  Speaker 3: technical stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, the story itself, I know that there's been...
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  Speaker 1: I think a fair amount like written and talked about
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  Speaker 1: it over the years, but it's an objective sexual relationship,
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  Speaker 1: which I think we, I mean, we will talk about
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  Speaker 1: it has been featured in pop culture has been featured in,
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  Speaker 1: you know, movies and television over the years, I think
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  Speaker 1: with varying results.
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: We were, we're going to eventually talk about Lars and
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  Speaker 1: the real girl, which is like about a Ryan Gosling
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  Speaker 1: character having a relationship with a doll and There is
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  Speaker 1: another like more obscure French movie that's closer to the
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  Speaker 1: kind of thing that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm talking about called Jumbo.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: And it stars the brunette from Portrait of a Lady
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  Speaker 3: on Fire.
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  Speaker 1: The painter, not the lady on fire. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Got it.
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  Speaker 3: Got it. Got it.
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  Speaker 1: As a woman who is in love with a carnival ride.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a really, I would recommend it, but. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's been talked about kind of sporadically through the years.
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  Speaker 1: But I think the thing that like really stuck with
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  Speaker 1: me about it was that I learned about it in college.
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  Speaker 1: Like I remember seeing like a documentary about it in
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  Speaker 1: like 2011 about a woman named Erica Eiffel who had
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  Speaker 1: married the Eiffel Tower.
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  Speaker 3: Have you ever heard about this?
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  Speaker 2: That sounds vaguely familiar, but I don't really know anything
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  Speaker 2: about it.
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  Speaker 1: I think like a lot of stories I tend to
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  Speaker 1: hyper fix it on. It's like a little obscure, but
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  Speaker 1: also goes viral.
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  Speaker 3: Every six months for like years.
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  Speaker 1: It's the same thing to me as like every six
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  Speaker 1: months without fail, people realize that Kathy Geisweit who drew
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  Speaker 1: the Kathy comics is hot.
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  Speaker 3: People rediscover this.
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  Speaker 1: People rediscover that Keanu Reeves is nice every six months.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like into fucking everything.
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  Speaker 3: For whatever reason.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why, but like, I think that this
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  Speaker 1: story is kind of similar where, you know, I've rewatched
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  Speaker 1: the documentary many times. I haven't seen it in about
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  Speaker 1: a year, but it's a, I believe a British documentary
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  Speaker 1: about objective sexuals that is both very insightful and I
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  Speaker 1: feel like very judgmental. Yeah. Where, you know, while I
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  Speaker 1: myself have not Objective sexual.
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  Speaker 3: I think that just like.
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  Speaker 1: Any non-hetero kind of relationship, there is an intense judgment
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  Speaker 1: made toward sex.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Huge stigma.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think that Erica Eiffel, who has a
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  Speaker 1: very fascinating life story, I've never spoken to her personally,
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  Speaker 1: but I think has been pretty heavily kind of through
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  Speaker 1: the years made a joke of in pop culture. And
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of the media around objective sexuals
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  Speaker 1: sort of seek to make it a punchline or like
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  Speaker 1: it's a character detail that's made to make someone seem
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  Speaker 1: a scale of quirky to unwell, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: I remember there being an episode slash maybe a handful
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  Speaker 2: of episodes on 30 Rock where... a james franco character
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  Speaker 2: boo but he played someone who was in love with
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  Speaker 2: a body pillow and that was that whole thing was
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  Speaker 2: framed as a like what a ridiculous person he.
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  Speaker 1: Is right and it's like james franco is a ridiculous
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  Speaker 1: person but not for that reason yeah i think that
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  Speaker 1: there is like and again i don't i don't again
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  Speaker 1: this is like not a community i am an active
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  Speaker 1: part of and it's not a community i've done like deep, deep,
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  Speaker 1: deep research into the way I normally would if I
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  Speaker 1: was doing nonfiction. But I feel like, yeah, it's very
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  Speaker 1: often made to seem to be a punchline, including, you know,
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  Speaker 1: some media that I have enjoyed that it's like made
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  Speaker 1: to be clear, like this relationship is not real. This
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  Speaker 1: relationship is symptomatic of something else going on in this
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  Speaker 1: person's life. And so in The Tower, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not trying to, or I don't tell you, like, if
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  Speaker 1: the relationship, like you can make what you will of
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  Speaker 1: the relationship. Our protagonist is very real to her. And
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  Speaker 1: so it's real to me. So it, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I like, I'm already kind of in my head about like,
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  Speaker 1: how do you talk about it? Cause I barely talked
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  Speaker 1: about it. Like even like, you're like one of my
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  Speaker 1: closest friends in the world. I've barely spoken to you
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  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow. Keeping your secrets, Jamie.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of true.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, up until like, a year ago until I
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  Speaker 1: was like shopping it around really only Grant had read
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing. But yeah, I mean, I think to
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  Speaker 1: me it is very much a love story and it is, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's just like, it's a relationship that I feel it
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  Speaker 1: feels real to me at this point. And so I
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  Speaker 1: hope that readers enjoy it. I hope that readers have,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, like relating to the Bechdel cast. We've
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  Speaker 1: spent an actual decade at this point thinking about how
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  Speaker 1: women are portrayed in media and how they are judged,
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  Speaker 1: how they're not judged, all this different stuff. And also
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  Speaker 1: feeling aware of, you know, like Mary Sue stuff. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's been very. challenging and like enlightening to
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  Speaker 1: work on a character who you really like want to
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  Speaker 1: present as a like this is who this person is
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  Speaker 1: and you can judge her however you want but I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to judge her. And that's hard because our
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  Speaker 1: job is judging stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Famously, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But also in a way that I think is cool
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  Speaker 1: because it's like a time capsule of how two people
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  Speaker 1: interpreted this character in this moment with their respective experiences.
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  Speaker 1: So anyways, I don't mean to go on too long
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  Speaker 1: about it, but yeah, I'm really excited about it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm still... I'm still tweaking.
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  Speaker 1: The last parts of it, but it goes on sale now.
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  Speaker 3: You can get it right now.
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  Speaker 2: You can and you should.
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  Speaker 1: You can and you should. I've made this plea before.
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  Speaker 1: I aspire to make it again. I'm sure that all
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  Speaker 1: of our listeners followed. Writers, it's very helpful.
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  Speaker 3: If you pre-order it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And so if you are like, maybe I'll read it,
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  Speaker 1: just order it, forget about it, and then something will
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  Speaker 1: happen in June and a mysterious package will come.
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  Speaker 3: I love doing that.
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  Speaker 1: I love pre-ordering something like a year in advance and
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  Speaker 1: then getting a mysterious package.
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  Speaker 3: It's thrilling.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, what could this be? What? So.
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  Speaker 1: Thrill your future self by pre-ordering it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I think if you've enjoyed anything I've ever done, this
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  Speaker 1: is weirdly of a part in the way to all
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  Speaker 1: of it. It's new, but you're not going to be like, wait,
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  Speaker 1: she's a Republican? I'm very excited about it.
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  Speaker 3: I really hope you enjoy it.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean, I'll be annoying about it throughout
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  Speaker 1: the the year as, as this comes up. But, um,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, that's, that's more information than I've shared about
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  Speaker 1: the tower anywhere else to this point.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you for sharing with me and our listeners.
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited to spoil the book for you specifically.
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  Speaker 1: Um, and also give you kind of, cause yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: started writing it in 2022 and now it's 2026 and
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  Speaker 1: I feel like.
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  Speaker 3: You as someone who knows.
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  Speaker 1: Me very well may be able to discern certain things
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  Speaker 1: inside the book that our.
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  Speaker 3: Listeners may not. And that's a mystery for the rest
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  Speaker 3: of you.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Unless Grant's listening to this thing, he might pick
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  Speaker 2: it up. And he should be. He should be listening
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  Speaker 2: to all of our episodes.
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  Speaker 3: He should. And he should.
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  Speaker 1: And anytime, this is like kind of true, with all
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  Speaker 1: love to my husband-to-be, Yeah. Sometimes I hear if he's
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: like listening to a podcast and it's three male voices
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  Speaker 1: in the kitchen.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, what the fuck?
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, earbuds at best. Earbuds at best.
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  Speaker 1: Not in this house. Are we listening to three men
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  Speaker 1: who claim to have different opinions but ultimately don't? So, again,
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: you can go to the link in the description to
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  Speaker 1: pre-order The Tower. It officially comes out in June 2027.
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  Speaker 1: And at that link specifically, I would recommend you go
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: to bookshop.org, which... many of you probably already know is
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: a website that will directly order my book from your
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  Speaker 1: closest independent bookstore and support a local business, maybe even
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: introduce you to a local business and all of the
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  Speaker 1: other links that also technically exist. But that's where I
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  Speaker 1: would recommend that you go. And yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very excited for you to meet this character. She's
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  Speaker 1: A mess. She's a very complicated woman.
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  Speaker 2: We love to see it.
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  Speaker 3: We love to see it. I love to see her
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  Speaker 3: stomping around on these pages. And I will also be
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  Speaker 3: yapping my ass off.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, actually, this is actually perfect. If you have already
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  Speaker 1: pre-ordered the tower and you happen to be attending our
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  Speaker 1: upcoming tour today, Do not forget to come to the
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  Speaker 1: merch table because I have some exclusive free buttons and
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  Speaker 1: other stuff related to the tower to give to people
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  Speaker 1: who have pre-ordered it.
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  Speaker 3: So if you have your pre-order.
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  Speaker 1: Receipt, come to the merch table and there'll be some
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  Speaker 1: goodies for you. And speaking of the tower.
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  Speaker 3: So interesting. And incredible merch available.
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  Speaker 2: At the tour. Yeah, there are shows coming up. And
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  Speaker 2: not only are we selling merch at them, we're also doing.
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  Speaker 3: A show before.
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  Speaker 2: A whole show.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if you insist. We'll do a whole show.
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  Speaker 3: I guess.
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  Speaker 2: I guess we'll do it. So as you may already know,
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  Speaker 2: we have entered our 10th... year anniversary of hosting this show.
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  Speaker 2: Can you believe it?
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  Speaker 1: It's been 24 years. I can't believe we haven't said
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  Speaker 1: that yet. I, it doesn't really make sense, but I
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  Speaker 1: like it.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. Um, so yes, we are celebrating by
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  Speaker 2: doing a big anniversary tour. We are doing it region
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  Speaker 2: by region and we're starting with the Northeast of the
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  Speaker 2: U S uh, That is coming up in October. Tickets
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  Speaker 2: are on sale now. We are kicking off the tour
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  Speaker 2: in New York City. Ever heard of it? We are
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  Speaker 2: returning to the Bell House where we have done shows before,
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  Speaker 2: but not for many, many years. So we're very excited
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  Speaker 2: to return. And tickets are already going fast for that.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're in the New York area, get yours
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  Speaker 1: now for crying out loud.
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  Speaker 2: Seriously. That's on October 12th. Then we are scooting down
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  Speaker 2: to Baltimore. We have a show at Creative Alliance on
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  Speaker 2: October 15th. Very excited to be doing our first ever
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  Speaker 2: Baltimore show. And I've never been there at all. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited to go there for the first time.
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  Speaker 3: My cousins will be there. I love my Baltimore area cousins.
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  Speaker 1: We will be then going to Philadelphia at Philomoka. On
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  Speaker 1: October 17th. We love Philly and that's a venue I've
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  Speaker 1: never been to and I've always really, really, really wanted
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  Speaker 1: to go to. Much less perform at.
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  Speaker 3: I can't wait.
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  Speaker 1: Then we are doing a homecoming of sorts for you, Caitlin,
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  Speaker 1: in State College at Manny's.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: On October 18th, the next day.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Yeah, we've got a stretch in Pennsylvania. Three days,
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  Speaker 2: three shows.
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  Speaker 1: It's a big state.
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  Speaker 3: It's a big state. It really is.
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  Speaker 2: People underestimate how big Pennsylvania is.
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  Speaker 3: It's true.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, after Philadelphia, we are going to State College.
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  Speaker 2: That is not where I'm from originally, but that is
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  Speaker 2: where my family lives now.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where you got one of two degrees that
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  Speaker 1: you never talk about.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for bringing that up for me so that
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  Speaker 2: I didn't have to.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's after 10 years, you get the hang
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  Speaker 1: of it.
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  Speaker 3: Then we're going to one of my.
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  Speaker 1: Favorite cities on the entire planet. No disrespect to every
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  Speaker 1: other city, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at one of my favorite comedy
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  Speaker 1: clubs on the planet, Bottle Rocket.
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  Speaker 3: On October 19th. So excited. The Pennsylvania trifecta.
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  Speaker 1: Indeed.
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  Speaker 2: And this is our first time doing a Bechtelcast show
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  Speaker 2: in Pittsburgh. So I'm very excited about that.
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  Speaker 3: Cannot wait.
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  Speaker 1: They have a hot dog cart for crying out loud.
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  Speaker 1: Come on.
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  Speaker 2: Gasp.
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  Speaker 3: It's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: And then we are closing out this leg of the
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  Speaker 2: tour with a show in Boston at Brattle Theater on
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  Speaker 2: October 21st. So it's a homecoming for both of us.
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  Speaker 1: So if you've ever wanted to meet my mom... You
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  Speaker 1: aggressively can do so and she would love it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's again on October 21st at the Brattle Theatre in
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  Speaker 1: beautiful Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 3: There are more dates coming up.
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  Speaker 2: If you're like, wait a minute, I don't live in
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  Speaker 2: any of those cities. I don't live near those cities.
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  Speaker 2: I live in a different place. Well, guess what? We
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  Speaker 2: are coming to other regions of the U.S. and maybe Canada.
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  Speaker 2: We're trying to figure that out.
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  Speaker 3: We're working on it.
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  Speaker 2: So throughout the next year, we will be visiting different
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  Speaker 2: regions of the country that we hail from.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: As well as places we've never been. We're going to
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: be doing a southern leg of the tour, including cities
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: we've never been to before. We're going to be returning
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: to the Midwest.
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  Speaker 3: And we can.
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  Speaker 1: Officially tease that we'll be returning to the Northwest.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. In January. So.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: We have not officially announced that yet. And tickets are
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: not on sale yet. But. Keep your eyes peeled. Mark
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: your calendars in mid-January.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: And if you've seen us in the Pacific Northwest before,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: keep an eye on your email lists. There'll be stuff
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: for you soon. And I guess just a little bit
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: of like insight into how our touring situation works, because
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: I feel like podcasting in the 10 years we've been
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: doing it has changed so much. It is like, at
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: least even as a listener of podcasts, it's like hard
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: to understand how stuff operates, who's doing what. I think
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: that sometimes podcasts have a vested interest in looking perhaps
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: more lo-fi than they actually are. So I think it's
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: worth mentioning that even though we've been on iHeart for
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: many years and our beloved Sophie has been our producer
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: for many years, the Bechtelcast.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Has remained a very lo-fi operation.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: So if you haven't been to our shows before, because
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: I've been surprised before to go to live shows and
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: this isn't a judgment but like you know you go
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: and it's like you're like oh this is like this
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: is a business they have a whole team we're we're
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: simply not that savvy and we kind of don't want
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: that at all we're real heads which is why we're
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: not actually famous and so all of these shows that
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: that we hope you'll attend we plan them ourselves we
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: book them ourselves often Caitlin will even handle the ticketing
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: We're bringing the merch on our own. I'm designing the merch.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Caitlin manages a lot of the orders. When you buy
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: merch at the show, you're ordering from literally the two
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: of us. Often, sometimes a matron will bravely assist and
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: we're very grateful for that. But for the most part,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: I think it's something I'm very proud of. through the
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: years of the Bechtel cast is it's like even when
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: the show itself has grown it's like it kind of
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: really just does at the end of the day we're
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: punk rock we used to we used to have an
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: editor and now it's like.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: And now it's me. It was me for many years.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: And then for a couple of years, we outsourced it
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: to someone else. And now it's me again. So we really,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: we truly do most of the labor that is required
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: to make a podcast ourselves.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't think anyone else has ever done our
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: promotional materials. Definitely no one else has ever planned our touring.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: And we take pride in that. We're like, I don't know.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: I'm very proud to be A part of, you know,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: kind of just like.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: A lo-fi fun operation.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: We want it to feel like you're hanging out with friends.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: And if you're on the fence about getting a ticket, well,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: there's people who have met at Bechtelkast shows who are
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: now married.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: So think about that.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: If that's something you want, you could maybe meet, I mean, certainly.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: A very hot audience, but also... sometimes hot and looking
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: to commit, looking to smash.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Or, yeah, or, or even looking to fuck. I mean, you,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: we're not going to judge whatever you do it about.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: You want to do.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Friends, lovers, permanent lovers.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Now we've been around for long enough that we can,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: we can attest that all of the above and more. Yes.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: And so this is going to be like a big celebration.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: I'm basically a variety show about both like the last
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: 10 years of movies and, you know, representation and, therein,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: but also just like the last 10 years of the show.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: So if you're a fan of the show, new or old,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: baby or 100, come to the show.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: It'll be a blast. And we're very excited to hang
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: and to celebrate with you. Absolutely.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: You can grab tickets for all of the shows that
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: currently have tickets on sale for on our Linktree, Linktree
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: slash Bechtelcast. The link for that's also in the description
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: of this episode. Matrons get access to a promo code
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: that gets you a discount on tickets. So if you
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: would like a discount on tickets, if you are already
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: a matron, make sure to find that post about the
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: promo code for the discount. If you're not a matron,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: all you have to do is shell out $ 5 to us.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: $ 5 a month on the Patreon. As always, the Matron
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: brings you two new episodes a month. on a theme
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: of our choosing, meaning us and also you, as well
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: as a backlog of over 200 episodes at this point.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: That price has never changed. That money goes directly back
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: into the show is the best way to support the show.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: As you know.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: And we also have tried our best on these tour
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: dates to keep prices to tickets affordable during a recession.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: So if you're able to swing it, we would love
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: to see you. And also, if you're a matron, Come
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: to the merch table because we have some free swag
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: for you too. So in a world where you're a
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: matron and the tower pre-orderer, the.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Sky's the limit for you. You're getting two buttons. Incredible.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Hope you bring a big tote bag for these two
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: buttons you're going to get.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Our listeners come prepared. So yeah, all of the links
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: for everything, pre-ordering Jamie's books, tickets for these upcoming shows.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: They always live on our link tree. So scoot over
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: there and check that out. We would love to see
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: you at these shows. I'm so excited about the show
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: that we're building.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: We're like, I mean, we've had fun shows in the past,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: but like we've really thought this one out in a
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: way that like.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: I'm excited.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: It's my favorite kind of show where it's like, it's
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: going to be super fun.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: It's going to be different in every city.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: And like, we're going to, I think, surprise each other
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: with what we've like put together.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: I can't wait. Oh, I can't wait. Yeah.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Is there anything else we need to, anything else you
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: want to plug? Anything else you want to say?
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Not at the moment.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: No.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I think, you know, if you haven't checked out the
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: tower or you haven't heard about it, I will be
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: continuing to bug you about it. But yeah, I highly
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: encourage you to check it out. And I'm so excited
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: to be able to share it with you.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: And I hope you enjoy it.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: And I'm so excited for you. Thank you, listeners, for
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: tuning in. We hope to see you at live shows soon.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: And we'll be back next week with a regularly scheduled episode.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Bye.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Bye.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: The Bechdelcast is a production of iHeartMedia, hosted and produced
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: by me, Jamie Loftus.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: And me, Caitlin Durante. The podcast is also produced by
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Sophie Lichterman.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: And edited by Caitlin Durante. Ever heard of them?
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: That's me. And our logo and merch and all of
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: our artwork, in fact, are designed by Jamie Loftus. Ever
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: heard of her?
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. And our theme song, by the way,
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: was composed by Mike Kaplan.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: With vocals by Katherine Voskrasinski.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: Iconic.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: And a special thanks to the one and only Aristotle Acevedo.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: For more information about the podcast, please visit linktree.com.