50: Purls of Wisdom: Molly Learns a Lesson

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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In the second Molly book, we learn 7x8 and who we can appreciate. Molly’s plucky scheming streak continues when she refuses to take part in a group knitting project. Eventually, she surrenders and learns a lesson about allies and how to befriend an Alison. In our coverage, we continue to grapple with the great existential question of what it means to be a Molly, and much more. Tune in for our discussion of education in the 1940s, nationalism, and lessons not learned on this season of Bachelorette.

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0:16.0	So Mary sometimes I like to rattle a series of things off in our opening and have you find the common denominator. Okay, this is stressful, but I'm going to do it. Let's do it.
0:20.0	So knit your brow and get ready. What do Betty Davis, Eleanor Roosevelt,
0:26.3	Queen Elizabeth, and Molly McIntyre all have in common?
0:32.2	Queer icons?
0:34.0	Am I wrong?
0:36.0	You are not wrong, but they also all chose to knit for the war effort in the 1940s.
0:42.0	Wow. that's quite a yarn.
0:46.0	Thank you. Welcome everyone to American Girls the podcast. This is the show or reliving the American Girl series book by book. I'm Mary.
1:06.0	I'm still Allison.
1:07.0	I can't believe you hit me with those knitting facts. You know that's such a gap in my knowledge,
1:11.0	but I had no idea about Betty Davis that blew my mind.
1:14.9	So that also blew my mind and you know I was just casually looking on the internet getting
1:20.1	ready for our discussion of Molly learns a lesson, which involves quite a bit about
1:25.2	yarn and knitting, and I stumble across a propaganda poster that says, remember Pearl Harbor,
1:31.7	Pearl Harder.
1:33.7	And it's like, if you think we haven't won wars
1:36.3	with puns before, you just haven't read
1:38.5	deep posters.
1:39.9	Or this book in which Molly tries to weaponize upon to a very unclear end.
1:44.6	Truly.
1:46.6	Molly has yet to meet upon that she didn't want to use and use and overkill, but Molly is a delight in this book as always.
1:55.6	Molly is like so much in this book it's beyond my comprehension.
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