124: Homes for the Holidays: Happy New Year, Julie!

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Surprise! It's the winter of 1975 and time for Julie's third story. After a family fight breaks out on Christmas, Julie starts dreaming of a happier new year. With the support of her friend Ivy and the Ling family, Julie gets excited about new traditions. We discuss 1970s Christmas celebrations, the Ford White House, and what in the world is going on with the Albright family's finances.

Episode Resources:

Ford White House Christmas
https://www.mlive.com/news/2017/12/gerald_and_betty_ford_christma.html

Ping Pong Diplomacy
https://diplomacy.state.gov/ping-pong-diplomacy-historic-1971-u-s-table-tennis-trip-to-china/#:~:text=Their%20trip%20was%20the%20start,people%20understanding%20and%20cultural%20exchange

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, this is Mary and before we get into the episode, I just wanted to take a quick
0:04.2	minute and remind you that you can pre-order our book, Dolls of Our Lives, why we can't quit
0:09.1	American Girl. At any bookseller of your choice, you can go to bookshop.org where you'll find
0:15.1	our own store with a link to buy it from any independent bookseller. You can also go to our
0:20.0	website, DollsOfOurLivesPod.com, with another link, to again, buy it anywhere you want to
0:25.2	buy your favorite books. We so appreciate all of you supporting our show and we're so excited
0:29.9	to share our book with you. We'll also be recording and releasing an audiobook version of the
0:35.2	book and we look forward to sharing that information with you soon. Thanks again everyone, we really
0:40.2	so so appreciate all of you. So as we're recording, it is barely autumn, which I think is actually a
0:48.7	great time to ask you which of Betty Ford's ornament patterns you would like to pursue first.
0:56.0	Absolutely, you know I love a Betty Ford moment. Okay, I'm going to do this kind of as like
1:00.8	run-offs. Would you rather make a paper silhouette? Looks to be teddy bear shaped or a clothespin
1:07.0	cardinal. A teddy bear silhouette. Okay, so teddy bear silhouette is advancing. How about a cookie
1:13.5	cutter tree toy or a soap snowflake? Cookie cutter tree toy every time. Okay, so cookie cutter is moving
1:20.8	ahead. The you know creme de la creme is the nut person which I think is kind of a
1:26.4	vocative of Julie's choice to make seed jewelry like which of these is going to advance to like
1:32.6	the top of your Christmas list. So the nut person isn't Nixon? The nut person is not Nixon and you
1:39.3	do need a drill. What? Okay, well I'm probably not well actually I do want to drill now so I'll
1:45.9	I just want to flex on that so I'll pick that even though I have actually no idea what that is.
1:49.9	Do you think that ultimately we're going to go with the cookie cutter tree toy? That feels
1:54.0	right to me. It's both functional and fashionable so I think that's where we have to go. I like it.
1:59.3	Thank you Betty Ford. This is thank you Betty Ford contribution. RIP thank you like pro ERA
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