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Magical Overthinkers

Amanda and the Nonstop Narrator

Magical Overthinkers

Amanda Montell & Studio71

Education, Science, Society & Culture

4.3 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The case of Amanda, a writer whose internal monologue won't stop narrating her life, instead of just letting her live it. Listen to Proxy with Yowei Shaw Follow Yowei on Instagram @yoweishaw Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello?

0:06.3

Hey, babe.

0:07.6

Hey.

0:08.3

How's the recording session going?

0:10.2

Oh, it's good. It's great. It's, uh, studio's beautiful. It sounds awesome.

0:16.1

Uh, it's a lot of work. It's, you know, but it's fun.

0:19.5

Oh, that's great. But actually, I'm calling you about

0:22.7

proxy. Okay. Okay, so you know that ad that you mastered? I forgot one line and I need you to do it

0:30.0

again. I'm sorry. I know you're so busy. Okay. People need to hear about weed in just the right way. So I'm really doing just a public service for, you know, the world, really.

0:44.9

Yeah, this is my first ad, and I am learning you have to say some things verbatim.

0:51.3

Does it say, like, optional? You can say, like, I love weed.

0:55.1

Well, they welcome improvising.

0:56.9

Well, wait, I think we have an experienced voiceover guy right here who loves weed.

1:01.2

Who's that?

1:02.1

Joe, you'd say, I love weed gummies.

1:04.7

I love weed gummies.

1:07.1

All right.

1:07.5

See, we could have just done that.

1:09.4

We're going to take no time at all.

1:19.9

Hey, everybody. It's YoA, your emotional investigative journalist. Welcome to Praxie.

1:26.7

On deck today, we have the case of the writer addicted to

1:31.0

telling stories about her life instead of just living it. That's after some ads. The other month I heard about this writer who'd written a book about cultishness.

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