Karen Carpenter Part 1 with Carolyn Kendrick
You're Wrong About
Sarah Marshall
4.6 • 23K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Long ago and oh so far away, Carolyn and Sarah fell in love with Karen Carpenter when they saw her drum. We examine her meteoric rise.
CONTENT WARNING: Karen Carpenter died in 1983 of complications from an eating disorder. Most of our eating disorder discussion will take place in Part II, but we never quite get away from the topic here either. Please listen with care.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Karen Carpenter had no access to TikTok. You know you can think about it. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to Irrung about. I'm Sarah Marchellan and today we are talking about |
| 0:20.0 | Karen Carpenter with Carolyn Kendrick, my producer who you don't really get to hear from very much. |
| 0:27.0 | Carolyn was last hosting on Irrung about for our November bonus episode last year about |
| 0:34.0 | Fleetwood Max Rumors and the Rumors about Rumors and this episode and the one that will come after it |
| 0:41.0 | are a continuation of that conversation about pop music, what it is and what it means to us. |
| 0:49.0 | This is part one of a two-parter on the life of Karen Carpenter. |
| 0:54.0 | Both of these episodes have big trigger warnings for eating disorders and everything that goes with them and the problems of fame. |
| 1:05.0 | In this episode we are taking an outside and approach and looking at Karen Carpenter's |
| 1:10.0 | meteoric rise as a pop star along with her brother Richard in the band Carpenter's or the Carpenter's |
| 1:18.0 | as they are called by basically everyone and we will end our story in 1974 during the period of the height of their |
| 1:28.0 | fame and then in part two we're going to come back and try and get the best look that we can at Karen Carpenter's |
| 1:34.0 | life from the inside, from the beginning and until her death. |
| 1:39.0 | If you need more things to listen to this week and I'm pretty sure you do, our great friend of the show |
| 1:45.0 | Josie Duffy Rice has a new podcast premiering January 18th this Wednesday called Unreformed. |
| 1:53.0 | Please check it out. It's more great work by someone whose work we always need more of. |
| 1:59.0 | Thank you for listening. Happy New Year. |
| 2:03.0 | Welcome to Your Wrong About. I'm Sarah Marshall and with me is Carolyn Kendrick who is also Your Wrong About. |
| 2:11.0 | Hello, my other half. Hello, Your Wrong About part one. |
| 2:18.0 | I am so happy to be doing this episode with you and this is also the first episode we're doing in 2023. |
| 2:26.0 | Hello, hello baby New Year. |
| 2:29.0 | Hello baby New Year. |
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