99: Hard Times: Kit Learns a Lesson

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever wondered why you even tried? In book two, Kit takes on new chores at home and fights about the first Thanksgiving at school. She also somehow finds time to hatch an interior design plan with Ruthie. Despite this hustle, hard times start to really hit home. During Kit’s forced Tripp to a soup kitchen, the truth about dad’s business lunches comes out. We discuss underlying assumptions about poverty in the books and reflect on the pop culture scene of 2000.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, and welcome to Dolls of Our Lives. That's right, if you've not seen our social
0:05.7	media, we've decided to rebrand as we approach our 100th episode. This is Lucky Episode 99,
0:13.6	we're so excited to get to 100 and thanks to every single listener who helped us get here.
0:19.3	We're so excited to take you with us into this new era. We're also so thankful to listeners
0:24.7	who suggested this name, which is also the name of our book coming out in fall 2023. The book
0:31.5	will be called Dolls of Our Lives, why we can't quit American Girl. At the end of the show,
0:37.7	I'll share our new social handles, but we'd appreciate your help and support in spreading the word.
0:43.3	Thanks to everyone who continues to support our show and this community. We've got a new name
0:48.6	and logo, but we're the same show. We're really excited about this change and the parts of our show
0:54.2	that don't change, like the fact that we're reliving the American Girl series book by book.
0:59.6	So even though this is a happy announcement, you know, I will be throwing it to a long dead singer
1:06.0	who is about to bomb us all out with a historically appropriate hit song thing. Take it away.
1:24.6	Once I built a rail road, I made it run, made it race against time.
1:35.0	Once I built a rail road, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
1:55.2	Hello, everyone. Welcome to Dolls of Our Lives. This is the show where we're reliving the American
2:00.8	Girl series book by book. I'm Mary. I'm Bing Crosby. Wait, no, I'm still Allison. Wow, and we just
2:08.9	heard some of Bing Crosby's brother. Can I spare a dime? It's actually a relief you're not
2:15.3	Bing Crosby because I got weirdly invested ones into like learning about his life. Have you ever
2:21.0	gone on that journey? I have not, but this just brought back a visceral memory of one of our
2:26.5	beloved professors who would refer to searching the internet as using the Bing because he was not
2:32.6	an adopter of Google. He was brave. You know what? This was the same guy who turned off John Adams
2:39.2	when he saw the belt buckles were wrong for the period. And I respect that in his wife,
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