FINDING THE (HOLIDAY) JOY

The Bad Broadcast

Dear Media, Madison Murphy

Society & Culture, Comedy, Relationships

5 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

It’s that magical time of year when everyone pretends to love Michael Buble and we secretly judge each other’s Christmas lights. This week we’re talking everything holidays, hot takes, decorations, meals, treats, Thanksgiving chaos, and the annual emotional unraveling that starts somewhere between the stuffing and the string lights. I’m also giving some life updates because apparently I can’t keep anything to myself. So grab a cookie, light a candle, and let’s get festive (and mildly unhinged with a side of crying).

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:04.6	Welcome to the bad broadcast. I'm your host.
0:33.1	Oh, boy. I've been excited about parts of this episode and dreading parts of this episode.
0:41.1	Over the last, you know, six years, I'm just, the podcast is, I'm not quitting. Okay, this isn't a
0:46.9	farewell. Just saying that up top. And I'm not getting divorced. But over the last, you know,
0:52.4	six years, I have shared so much of my life. There's been very, very few
0:58.0	things that I have not shared. And, you know, I went back and forth on when this was going to feel
1:04.6	like, you know, appropriate to share when I was going to be ready, I guess is probably more
1:08.9	accurate to when I was going to talk about it.
1:11.3	But I feel like I'm ready to share that in early October, I lost a pregnancy.
1:18.9	And it's still really, really, really sad to talk about.
1:23.2	You guys know that we had been trying for a few months.
1:26.8	And I got a positive test, obviously.
1:30.2	And if, you know, you've experienced having a pregnancy, being pregnant, having a child,
1:35.6	whatever, you know that like that positive pregnancy test is just like the most life-changing
1:39.5	feeling in the world.
1:41.2	And, you know, because we had been trying, we were so excited. And, you know,
1:46.9	you just start making plans and you get your due date in mind and you start thinking about how
1:51.5	you're going to tell your friends and you buy the big sister t-shirt for Coco. Like, you know,
1:55.9	we were really, really excited. And about a week after that, after I got the positive test, I started bleeding a
2:04.3	little bit. And I texted my friends and I told them and everybody said, don't worry about it.
2:11.2	It's, you know, early in your pregnancy. It's probably normal. I called OB emergency services.
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