Control freaks & big mouths

Thick & Thin

Katy Bellotte

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In this episode of Thick & Thin, we talk about the anxieties surrounding having control of your life (or the lack there of) and later, I’ll tell the story of *Josephine Baker,* a French-American dancer, entertainer, spy, activist + the first black woman to star in a major motion picture, among many other things. // Follow me on IG: instagram.com/katybellotte // STORY SOURCES: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/josephine-baker-1906-1975/ ( https://womenshistorynetwork.org/josephine-baker-1906-1975/ ) https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/josephine-baker ( https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/josephine-baker ) https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/new-african-american-identity-harlem-renaissance ( https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/new-african-american-identity-harlem-renaissance ) *BOOK MENTIONED: Creative Blindness & How To Cure It" by Dave Trott Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/thick-and-thin/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome back to Thick and Thin with me Katie Bilotti and I must say
0:18.4	it is the spookiest scene in my room right now. There is this really eerie yellow glow coming into my room through the windows and
0:29.3	You know it's been like orange in some parts of California like a reddish hue because of the fires and things like that, but this is the first day that I've noticed a change in the lighting due to the fires and it's very, very a yellow hue so yeah it's very it's very
0:45.8	interesting I was out for a run this morning and I even just found it challenging
0:49.7	to breathe the air here and I'm you know I'm not going to tell you exactly where I am of course but I am nowhere near the fires and yet I still feel
0:59.7	reverberations from it or just reactions from it even here where I am in LA and it's just crazy.
1:06.4	I've been doing a lot of reading about it, a lot of reading about the climate change elements
1:10.4	and you know what's been really causing these fires not only the gender
1:15.5	reveal stuff like you know I don't know if you've heard of that but people doing like the
1:18.6	gender reveals with the smoke bombs and things have been causing fires, which I'm just beyond, like I don't even know what to say about that,
1:26.2	considering fireworks are extremely illegal here, like just any sort of smoke bomb things that can cause fire are extremely legal and I just don't even
1:35.7	know why people would risk it for that sort of thing.
1:38.2	Like just go to the freaking doctor and get a piece of paper and cut open a cake or something
1:42.3	and have it be pink or blue. I don't know.
1:44.0	That's just me. But some people have dimmed me asking if I have experienced any,
1:49.6	you know, fallout from the wildfires or any sort of effects?
1:53.3	And the answer is no, they've taken place far away from me
1:56.7	where I am here in Los Angeles.
1:58.2	I'm not going to tell you exactly where I am.
1:59.9	I'm trying to preserve where I am and all because I was really bad at that in New York and
2:05.0	people like full on found my apartment so I'm trying to be careful this time around.
2:09.1	But anyway this was like the first day where I kind of noticed a clear effect here I am which is so far from
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