Pam and Tommy's Sex Tape
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4.5 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Before Paris or Kim, there was Pamela. Original martyrs of the sex tape leak, Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee are only now receiving their apology (via Hulu miniseries). But who knew that this “voyeuristic dive into the guileless intimacy of two tabloid darlings” would change the way we consume p*rn forever? In this episode, Hannah and Maia track the decline of p*rn, from its high culture “p*rno chic” days, to its low culture era on VHS, and the way Pamela’s sex tape kicked off two decades of peeping Tom culture on the internet. With the rise of vlogging today, the question arises: can a life be p*rnographic? Or better yet, without Pamela, would we have Emma Chamberlain? Special tangent includes: Maia getting excited about “Bob Marley: One Love”.
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Pamela, a love story (2023), Netflix
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Season four, baby. That's a lot less annoying, true. We just recorded an intro and I said, |
| 0:07.3 | okay, let's try something way less annoying. And my email's like, what I can think about the |
| 0:11.9 | top of my head, season four, baby. And she's right. It is season four, baby. It's been a |
| 0:19.0 | freaking while. I think the last time we recorded was August |
| 0:22.5 | 23. Is that six months? No. That's actually fucked up. Yes. Yes. It is. And the thing is, |
| 0:31.0 | the reason we haven't recorded is that we got into this huge falling out and we didn't talk for |
| 0:35.2 | six months. Yeah. We decided to reconcile for you guys. |
| 0:39.1 | Last week. Yeah. And so just if you sense a bit of tension, it's because we still have some |
| 0:44.1 | things to work through. The falling out was that Hannah tried to kill me in my sleep. |
| 0:47.8 | Yeah, but in my defense, Maya kept walking around the house saying, if you don't kill me in my sleep, it's going to be you. |
| 0:58.8 | And I am dressed like a Chuckie doll today. |
| 1:01.8 | Yeah, Hannah came into the bathroom about 10 minutes ago, and she walked at me with like her arms completely stiff. |
| 1:07.2 | And she was like looking, you know, when people look down and then look up, like their heads are turned down, but they're looking up with their eyes. That's what she did. And she was not looking you know when people look down and then look up like their heads are |
| 1:10.9 | turned down but they're looking up with their eyes that's what she did and she was not thinking |
| 1:14.4 | about doing it she just did it like inherently in a way that in a way that was extremely |
| 1:19.3 | discompanning you look like a child killer and then I thought she meant like someone who kills |
| 1:24.7 | children but she meant the other kind yeah like, like a child. A child who kills. |
| 1:28.4 | Kills people. Yeah, that is your general aura. A murderous child. Yeah. Awesome. Just kidding. |
| 1:36.9 | That's why I'm still single. And that's why she's still now. I'm kidding. So what have we been up to these past few months? |
| 1:43.8 | We've been here, there, and everywhere. |
| 1:45.9 | Maya was living in New York. |
| 1:47.6 | I went and lived in New York for two and a half months. |
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