This is a Headgum podcast.

Sometimes when the world feels insane, you can take a little peek inside of Rachel's little brain.

All these thoughts are swirling round and round inside to join us on this journey as we take a little ride.

We'll talk about dogs and kids and things. We'll talk about chicks and tampon strings.

We'll talk about boys that'll make you cry. We'll talk about chicks and tampon strings. We'll talk about boys that'll make you cry.

We'll talk about death because people die.

Yeah.

It's my favorite thing.

But anyway, we're so happy to have you here.

Yeah.

Thanks for happy me.

I know.

You're just, it's so funny because I was, you know, sweet bitter we were reading

in the book club. And then I decided to like watch the series again too, accompanying it. So like,

I'm just surrounded by you. I love it. My whole, my whole brain. 10 years of my life. Oh my my God. But, like, all I want to do is be, like, 20 and move to New York.

That's all I want to do right now.

I'm like, can I just rewind and maybe do that?

Yeah.

You know.

When I wrote it in graduate school, the first draft of Sweetbitter, and like one of the teachers was like, you know this is like, it was very weird in that first draft.

It was like very poetic and like elliptical and like not quite a novel yet.

He was like, you know, this isn't going to be like a bestseller or anything.

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