Carmen: Everything Was A Lie

Last Day

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Carmen Rita Wong always had a big family, but she never thought it was the kind to have big secrets. Yet by adulthood, multiple bombshells would drop and transform her entire understanding of her parents, her origins, and her identity. Carmen takes Stephanie on this wild ride of genealogy, earth-shattering discoveries, and what it ultimately means to her now, as a parent, to know just how much her own endured.

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0:00.0	Meet Jeanette McCurdy. She's an author, a writer, and a big feeler. So much so that
0:06.4	she's making a podcast all about her feelings. Jeanette's memoir, I'm glad my mom died,
0:11.2	welcomed the world into the story of Jeanette and all of the intense life experiences
0:14.9	that molded her into the person she is today. But how does she manage all of the messy
0:18.9	hard feelings she's feeling right now? In each episode of Hard Feelings, her new podcast
0:23.7	with Lemonada Media, she'll tell you all about it. Jealousy, shame, social anxiety, she
0:28.8	wants to laugh about it, cry about it, and work through it with you by her side. Why?
0:33.6	These hard feelings are a big part of the human condition. They unite us all, but only once
0:38.6	we're willing to face them. Hard feelings is out on October 24th wherever you get your
0:42.6	podcasts.
0:45.6	What do weddings, Instagram, and toxic relationships all have in common? They take your money
0:51.6	and you can't get it back. 16 grams somewhere in there. Gone. There's no legal solution
0:58.6	for the fact that you married an asshole. Welcome to The Do. I'm X Maya. We're diving
1:04.0	into the stories surrounding the Mula baby, the good, the bad, and the unexpected. Yeah,
1:09.5	we're talking about it all. The Doe is out now wherever you get your podcasts.
1:13.9	Lemonada We don't want to feel or know that our parents are
1:30.8	liars. We don't want our worlds to be rocked. We don't want someone to tell us, oh, your
1:37.7	whole life up until this day, giant lie. Oh, you know, we don't want to lose our parents
1:45.0	as awful as they can be. I didn't want to lose my parents. I didn't want to lose my
1:51.3	heritage. I didn't want to lose the whole story. I was right. It's who I am. Like, it's
1:55.3	how could I? No one wants that.
2:00.1	We all have a story. We tell ourselves about who we are, like our ancestry, our race,
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