MSCL TV Club: Adjectives! WOO! (Episodes 5 and 6)
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Greta Johnsen and Kristen Meinzerdiscuss My So-Called Life episodes 5 and 6 --”The Zit” and “The Substitute” -- with Anna Sale!
They talk about the messiness of teenage desire and objectification, self-esteem and insecurity, and whether Anna Sale is Patty-ing her children.
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Creator and host: Greta Johnsen
Co-host: Kristen Meinzer
Senior Producer: Ben Goldberg
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| 0:00.0 | Look, stop screwing around and just pop it, okay? |
| 0:02.0 | So you can get on with your life. |
| 0:04.0 | But won't popping it cause a scar? |
| 0:06.0 | Anything causes a scar. |
| 0:08.0 | Living causes a scar. |
| 0:10.0 | My mother has a humongous scar from having me. |
| 0:12.0 | Does that mean I should have never been born? |
| 0:14.0 | Just pop it! |
| 0:20.0 | Hello, I am Greta Johnson, host of Happy to Be Here. |
| 0:23.2 | And I'm Kristen Mineser, host of podcasts like the Nightly and Movie Therapy, among others. |
| 0:29.2 | And for the next couple of weeks, we are rewatching every episode of the 1994 teen drama, my so-called life. |
| 0:36.6 | We are watching one episode at a time and we're going to be |
| 0:39.9 | keeping spoilers to a minimum. So if you're a first time watcher, we welcome you to watch |
| 0:45.0 | along with us. Yes, today we are talking about episodes five and six of this show. They are |
| 0:51.5 | titled The Zit and the Substitute. And we are thrilled to have a very |
| 0:56.6 | special guest with us, the incredible writer and podcast host Anna Sale. Anna is the host of one of my |
| 1:03.3 | favorite podcast, Death, Sex, and Money, which you can now find at Slate. Anna is also the writer |
| 1:09.4 | of the wonderful book. Let's Talk About Hard |
| 1:11.4 | Things, which makes her the perfect guest to talk about my so-called life. Anna, thank you for |
| 1:17.0 | being here. I am so happy to be here. I have to tell you, I have been preparing for this conversation |
| 1:23.6 | since I was 14 years old and watching my so-called life. So this has been 30 years in coming. |
| 1:31.3 | Oh my God. Oh, my God. It's beautiful. |
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