123: Little Miss Watergate: Julie Tells Her Story

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

What do paranoid presidents and curious children have in common? Both find tape recording devices to be life-changing. In Julie’s second book, she learns a lesson about the power of surveillance and gets dubbed Little Miss Watergate. We follow along as she struggles to write a report on the best and worst things to ever happen in her life. We discuss what Julie does and does not know about current events, her parents’ relationship, and the Peek into the Past on schooling in the 1970s.

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0:00.0	So as you know, obviously right, we are recording our own audio book.
0:05.0	Yeah, we're getting ready to do that really soon.
0:07.0	So I've been watching all kinds of content to try to get like voice exercises,
0:13.0	like trying to figure out where I'm going to get inspiration.
0:16.0	Started watching and just like that, Carrie Bradshaw records her own audio books.
0:22.0	Oh, okay.
0:24.0	Spoiler, she also pretends to get COVID midway through to get out of set assignment.
0:31.0	What? Why does she want to get out of it?
0:34.0	So that's a huge spoiler.
0:36.0	However, I feel like we need new audio book inspo ASAP because that is not working.
0:42.0	Damn. And just like that, our inspiration is gone.
0:55.0	Welcome everyone to Dolls More Lives.
0:58.0	This is the podcast where we're reliving the American Girl series book by book.
1:02.0	I'm Mary.
1:03.0	I'm Carrie. No, I'm still Allison. I had to check.
1:07.0	That's so sad.
1:08.0	Like I thought you were about to hit me with some real inspo because I'm like,
1:11.0	I really was searching myself like, okay, what are great audio books I've heard.
1:14.0	And honestly, and this is not like a feminist answer, but they were all like British man who read Hillary Mantell's books.
1:21.0	And like, I can't like go to the director and be like, I would like to appear as a British man.
1:25.0	Like, it's not a good look for an American Girl project.
1:28.0	Like I just, I don't feel like people want to hear that.
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