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🗓️ 21 April 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Katie Holmes at Pilates? Oprah Winfrey riding in a John Deere tractor for charity? Chris Evans glazing pottery at a Color Me Mine? If they're a celebrity in public, you better believe they're wearing a wig. At least, according to our illustrious guest Erin Byrne. Erin makes the argument that all famous folks (pretty much) are follicularly deficient from years of tress abuse, and therefore have to toupee up. And along the way we talk about culture, gender, boring ass basic celebs, wig structuring, internalizes misogyny, and our hella awkward teen years. It's heartfelt and it's silly as shit.
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0:00.0 | The Hi, welcome to Lizard People. This is a show where we talk all about conspiracy theories, crazy people, and cookey ideas about what's going on |
0:26.4 | behind the scenes. I'm your host, Caitlin Hampstead. Let's get to the show. I took an entire class where it was focused on books whose protagonist or like more than two of the |
0:58.4 | main characters or animals. It was a full class that I took. |
1:03.6 | Would you read like Watership Down? |
1:05.6 | We did not read Watership Down. |
1:07.1 | We read Mowie Dick in that class, |
1:11.4 | which I guess is like that's like, a cheap thing. We read metamorphosis, we read |
1:17.0 | the Kafka, not the not the oven there, the dumb one. Yeah yeah I can't wait to never read Moby Dick I never |
1:26.5 | haven't I never will you did I loved it I super loved it for real for real yeah |
1:31.0 | because I was also like I was so ready to hate it for my whole life. |
1:36.4 | And then he, I mean it's so long and he kind of like in the super like encyclopedic scientific chapters like dares you to fucking quit. |
1:44.0 | Yeah. But mostly it's really fun and there's like chapters that are like plays like |
1:49.6 | written in dialogue. It just genuinely reads like a book that the author doesn't want you to read. |
1:55.0 | But I like that. I like a challenge. I love it when a white man challenges me to push myself. |
2:01.0 | Because they know what's best for us? You and honestly even when I say no they know it's |
2:06.1 | best Jesus all right let's set the tone for this one right up top we're about to bash the patriarchy. |
2:15.0 | Well, you ready to pop this pauper off? |
2:20.0 | Pop, like a champagne? |
2:22.0 | Yes, would you like to pop the champagne cork of this delicious luxurious |
2:26.0 | episode I would love to cool our guest today is Aaron Byrne very very funny comedian, very talented broad, very smart |
2:36.4 | person and Aaron do you want to tell the nice people what you're here to talk |
2:40.5 | about? I would love to. This is a theory and philosophy that is |
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