You got told a lot of lies about achievement.

They called you when they got you to believe it.

Thumb and finger held to their foreheads in an L shirt trapped in a capital of salescape.

Let's fight back in half some talks about class and the massive costs of the disasters brought to fascists and nonsense.

Fat cats and Fox.

It's a thousand natural shocks. A Bad with Money podcast. Hello and welcome to A Thousand Natural Shocks, A Bad With Money Podcast. I'm your host, Gabe Dunn. And with me today, we have someone who's Substack I'm very into. Do you want to tell my audience who you are and what you do? Yes. Hi, everyone. My name is Madison. I am the writer behind Cafe Hysteria on Substack, all about pop culture, internet communities, being a woman on the internet. And yeah, I'm so excited to be here. How has that been for you being a woman on the internet? You know, it's been complicated. I've been, I started as a girl on the internet.

Sure, of course. That was one thing. Now I'm a woman on the internet. There's similarities, but, you know, also a lot of differences. A lot to be grateful for, a lot to rejoice about. But also, you know, a lot of grievances, which I air out on my substack. Yeah. I was a woman on the internet, at all of my 20s. And I gotta say don't recommend.

Yeah. I was a woman on the internet all of my 20s, and I got to say don't recommend.

Yeah.

If you, like, it's not, it's not the best, you know, place to be a woman.

But then again, there's not like many great places in America.

Very true.

I like the sort of like niche culture readings that I can do on Substack.

Like I really enjoy the mix of the pop culture with everything because I think sometimes people brush pop culture off as existing in a vacuum or not having to do with anything.

And something I'm writing right now actually is a little bit about copaganda.

And the idea that that kind of stuff that we

see isn't political kind of drives me nuts. So can you talk a little bit about that and why that

interests you? Yeah, absolutely. I think that the reason why I was interested in starting my substack

is because I've been on the internet for a long time since I was 12 years old, essentially.

And a lot of my kind of

coming of age moments, I remember in time through what was like happening on the internet at the

time or how I was, you know, posting about it online. And I think that like you mentioned,

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