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Apologies, Layer Cake and Camping: A Conversation with E. Jean Carroll

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Journalist and former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll joins this week’s episode and we dig straight into all the important issues, while also trying to recreate her favorite birthday cake from childhood. E. Jean, who brought a defamation lawsuit against former (!) President Donald Trump after accusing him of sexual assault, explains how Trump continues to get away with this behavior, and offers her life-affirming insights into the secret of advice columns, why you should stop apologizing and what it’s like to camp in the wilderness with the ultimate urbanite, Fran Lebowitz. Plus: Did we mention layer cake? Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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radio feed for the next several weeks. Thank you and enjoy the show. Welcome to the secret life of cookies, where we try to solve the world's problems through the miracle of

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carbohydrates, one recipe at a time.

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With host, Marissa Rothkof and her dog, Bosco.

0:51.2

I'm Marissa Roadcop the host of the Secret Life of cookies. Welcome to our third episode.

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For those of you who haven't yet met me, I'm a professional food writer who has done everything from

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restaurant reviews for the New York Times to writing a column on kitchen gadgets for Newsweek.

1:10.3

I also teach journalism at Monclare State College here in New Jersey. I'm researching a book on the history of the American kitchen because I think that there's no better place to tell the story of this country than in the place where, let's face it, everything happens.

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Remember in the olden days when you had parties in your house?

1:28.9

Where did your guests all end up?

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Yep. The kitchen. At the secret life of cookies we want to bring you into the

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kitchen for conversation and of course baked goods. This week I was joined by the

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exuberant, a bullion and all around incredible E. Jean Carroll.

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I tried to recreate her favorite childhood birthday cake and we talked and we shouted

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about her lawsuit against the former,

1:52.8

love that word former president,

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the secret of advice columns

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