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Dolls of Our Lives

139: It Takes Two: Isabel and Nicki

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

For our final episode, we took some twinspiration from the newest historical AGs: Isabel and Nicki Hoffman. When we meet Isabel, she is trying to perfect her Spice Girls choreography in time for a performance on New Year's Eve. Nicki, on the other hand, is learning how to make zines and skateboarding around Seattle. Both girls are struggling with sharing a bedroom, defining Girl Power, and the threat of a Y2K meltdown. We talk about twin tropes, our own pop culture memories from 1999, and the portrayal of Seattle in the book Finally, we wrap up by answering listener questions (Does Mary still miss Nan? What are our favorite house museums? Best part of doing the podcast?) and sign off one last time.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome everyone to dolls of our lives. This is the podcast we're reliving the American

0:15.7

girls series book by book. I'm Mary. I'm so Allison. And welcome to our last episode and it feels weird to say that out loud.

0:25.0

I know five plus years. We made it past the five year mark

0:30.0

covering all of the people all the way right down to the wire. I mean it's crazy I don't know why I still

0:36.7

measure things and like wow this was longer than I was in high school or college but I was, you know, it's crazy.

0:44.0

I happened to wear a sweatshirt from one of our alma mater today and my boss who attended our

0:50.0

other alma mater where apparently there was a big basketball game,

0:53.7

said why would you wear the one of the school where they didn't just win

0:57.8

the NCAA championship and I said this is the first I'm hearing of this.

1:01.7

This was the first.'m hearing of this this was the first yes

1:03.3

um yeah that's funny uh yeah well you know you've always been kind of an

1:09.5

icon of class you do your own thing so that feels like on brand for you I guess. Yeah

1:14.5

congratulations to the Huskies including the women's team what a year for

1:18.4

women's basketball better look next year but yeah congrats to everyone who cares about that

1:25.0

Congrats to us for making it through five years to the last episode

1:30.1

We're gonna be talking about Isabel and Nicki today.

1:33.3

We're going to spend the first half of the episode

1:35.0

talking about this book, which weirdly is set

1:38.4

during most of the years when I was coming of age.

1:40.5

This is the year.

1:41.3

This is the book I related to the most that we've ever read in terms of pop culture,

1:46.1

language, sayings, music, everything. And we'll get into that. But we're going to spend the last half of the episode,

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