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Podcrushed

Mona Chalabi

Podcrushed

Penn Badgley, Nava Kavelin, Sophie Ansari

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

The extraordinary journalist Mona Chalabi wins everyone over with her deep intellect and even deeper compassion. Mona is a catalyst for the group's most open and vulnerable conversation yet, touching on mental health, long-term illness, and the death of beloved family members.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Lemonada.

0:06.7

The moment that I got home, I went immediately straight upstairs to the bathroom cabinet,

0:11.9

took out my mom's razor and like I'd never shaved my legs before, right?

0:15.6

So just kind of like took out this dry razor and was like dragging the dry razor on my dry skin.

0:21.5

But then cleaning off the razor with my thumb.

0:25.0

No no no no no no no no.

0:27.0

Right open and my mom just came home to like find me on the couch with like my thumb hanging

0:32.0

open and like one clean strip of the is podcrushed. The podcast that takes the sting out of rejection one

0:43.8

crushing middle school story at a time. And where guests share their teenage

0:47.2

memories both meaningful and mortifying. And we're your hosts. I'm

0:50.7

I'm Nava, a former middle school director. I'm Sophie, a

0:53.5

former fifth grade teacher. And I'm Penn, a middle school dropout.

0:56.5

We're just three behies who were living in Brooklyn.

0:58.8

Wanting to make stuff together with a particular fondness for awkward

1:02.2

nostalgia. Well,ness for awkward nostalgia.

1:03.0

Well, I struggle with nostalgia.

1:05.0

I'm here for the therapy.

1:06.0

Guys, my dad called me one day and he was like,

1:10.0

you haven't talked about me on the phone.

1:12.0

But you know what happened this week?

1:14.7

I was like, you know what?

1:15.4

I'm doing this podcast.

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