88: Dream Job Special Episode: American Girl Magazine
Dolls of Our Lives
Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
What happened to all those letters people wrote to AG? How do you plan the best bowling birthday party ever? During our chat with Aubre, we get answers to these questions and more. If you've ever wondered about the people behind the pages--or whether American Girl's advice still holds up, don't miss this one.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, this is American Girls The Podcast, the show where we're reliving the American |
| 0:15.7 | Girl series book by book. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Mary. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Allison. |
| 0:20.0 | On our episode today, we are so so excited to bring you a conversation with writer Aubrey |
| 0:25.5 | Andress. |
| 0:26.5 | I don't know if you can sense the excitement in my voice. |
| 0:29.9 | I just have to pause for a moment and let 10-year-old Mary just scream. |
| 0:34.9 | But Aubrey was an associate editor at American Girl magazine, which apart from the historic |
| 0:40.3 | books was my favorite favorite thing American Girl produced. |
| 0:44.0 | So we are so excited to bring you a conversation with Aubrey and not waste any time and getting |
| 0:48.2 | there and hear about her experience both growing up loving American Girl and then working |
| 0:52.1 | for the magazine. |
| 0:53.5 | And stay tuned for the second half of our episode. |
| 0:55.5 | We're going to be playing a new game where we offer advice in response to real letters |
| 1:00.3 | to the help column of the American Girl magazine, if you know you know. |
| 1:05.3 | And from historic advice columns in newspapers. |
| 1:09.0 | So stay tuned. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah, so we often ask people, you know, if we could do an episode on anything, what would |
| 1:17.0 | you want to be covered? |
| 1:18.6 | And we actually asked that just pretty recently. |
| 1:21.6 | And someone said you have to talk more about the magazine. |
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