Summary
You wanna be on top? Well then girl, go do some exploitation! Hannah and Maia discuss the once revered, now maligned figure of the Girlboss™. Where did she come from? How did she get here? And why does she keep telling us to wash our face? We think sometimes you have to stop and consider, maybe becoming the #1 event planner in your state doesn't make you Malala. Join us for an unpacking of the She-EO, the world's fastest crash course on women in the workplace, Hannah's arduous journey towards building her bed, and whether or not we should put the "C" word on a t-shirt (we should).
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SOURCES:
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | my head loves grabbing her boobs |
| 0:02.3 | and what about it |
| 0:05.9 | I love it's like a comfort position |
| 0:07.8 | Freudian |
| 0:10.5 | huh I don't know |
| 0:12.8 | Freudian against yourself like I have my own |
| 0:15.0 | electro complex but with myself |
| 0:17.3 | I don't know I feel like comfort and boobs is Freudian |
| 0:20.2 | like for men it's reverse Freudism Freudism I don't know. I feel like comfort and boobs is Freudian. Like for men. It's reverse |
| 0:22.7 | Freudism. Freudism? How are you? I'm good. Just thinking about those mommy milkers. |
| 0:31.6 | Apparently. I'm fine. It's like nice and sunny out today. So my seasonal depression has been |
| 0:36.8 | temporarily lifted. Oh, yeah. and sunny out today. So my seasonal depression has been temporarily lifted. |
| 0:39.2 | Oh, yeah. The sun is like shining into Maya's bedroom and the cat, Mooney, she's making an |
| 0:47.1 | appearance. We usually kick her out while we record. I always feel like a mean older sister when I |
| 0:51.4 | kick her out of my room because my cousin used to do that and I used to sit at her door and scratch the door while she used to do that to my brother and I'd put furniture against the door so he could not come in. My cousin used to, she'd have her friends come over. And I swear the friend would just sit on the bed and watch my cousin like scrunch her hair for four hours at a time. Remember scratching? No. Really? Oh, it's like when you would get, |
| 1:12.1 | this is like 2006 to 8, I think. You get like a bunch of gel and you crunch your hair in your |
| 1:16.9 | hands so that it looks like all scrunched up. And it looked really wet. No, it was a horrible look. |
| 1:22.1 | I didn't have any older teenage girl influences at that time in my life. |
| 1:29.4 | My cousin was hell of it. |
| 1:45.9 | She was so mean to me. I would like sit. She'd be like, when you get the fuck out of my room? And I'd sit outside of her door and her friend would be like, aw, Priya let her in. And Priya would be like, no. She's nice now. We have a good relationship now. But yeah, Mooney gets to lie in the sun on my ear's bed And she's so happy about it |
| 1:48.0 | Yeah now. We have a good relationship now. But yeah, Mooney gets to lie in the sun on my Ea's bed and she's so happy about it. |
| 1:48.2 | Yeah, she's so happy to be here. |
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