Re-Introducing The C-Word

Women Of The Hour

Society & Culture

4 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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After years behind a paywall, Lena Dunham and historian of bad behavior Alissa Bennett are breaking The C-Word out of the vault and into your hearts. With every episode, Lena and Alissa take you on a historical deep dive into the life of a woman society dismissed by calling her mad, sad, or just plain bad: Lindsay Lohan, Judy Garland, Winona Ryder, Mariah Carey, Lil Kim and many more. Join them for a rich, hilarious, and heartbreaking look into exactly what it means when we call a woman “crazy.” The first three episodes drop on July 31st and then weekly after that. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Lena.
0:02.4	A few years ago, I was busy hosting a podcast called The Sea Word with my dearest friend and historian of bad behavior, Alyssa Bennett.
0:10.2	What is up?
0:11.7	We loved making this show so much, but at the time, it was only available behind a paywall.
0:18.5	Now, we're breaking her free baby, much like all of the greatest women in history who have dug themselves out of jail, we are bringing her out of the vault and into your hearts.
0:28.3	It will be as though we are all returning to high school together after decades away to open up a time capsule. But instead of finding cigarette butts, old mixtapes, and security
0:40.1	footage of me eating lunch alone in the stairway, we're going to be rediscovering the stories
0:45.3	of women's society dismissed by calling them mad, sad, or just plain bad.
0:51.7	These stories feel as relevant now as they did when we first recorded them, because I have a secret.
0:57.3	Nothing changes for women.
0:58.6	But if you're new to the Seaward, it's a chat show about women whose society is called Crazy.
1:02.9	It's a tale as old as time, and maybe as recent as yesterday for some of you, Lena.
1:08.7	Oh, I would know nothing about that.
1:10.9	Some of the women whose stories we explore include, but are not limited to.
1:14.8	Robin Givens.
1:15.8	Lindsay Lohan.
1:16.8	Mariah Carey.
1:17.8	China.
1:18.6	Journalist Janet Cook, the only person to ever return a Pulitzer Prize.
1:22.7	Winona Ryder, the only person ever to steal a Mark Jacobs cardigan.
1:26.8	Just kidding, we've all done it.
1:28.2	Then so, so, so many more.
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