S20E20: Zelda Sayre and F. Scott Fitzgerald
Trashy Divorces
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4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
2023 has been a monster year for breakups, with celebrities (Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas, anyone?), politicians (Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau!), musicians (almost too many to choose: Cardi B and Offset are done; Kacey Musgraves broke up with her longtime boyfriend), all hitting the escape hatch. Breakups are hard, but we are here to say: We're for it! If your relationship isn't giving you what you need, there's no shame in deciding to leave and go live your best life. That's exactly what Alicia wishes that Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, wife of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, had done in their doomed marriage a century ago. This is a reprise of a Season One episode, rewritten and re-recorded.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to trashy divorces, everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships. |
| 0:07.3 | And this week, we're taking that quite literally. |
| 0:10.1 | My name is Stacey. |
| 0:11.3 | Alicia, tell the people what we got. |
| 0:13.2 | In honor of all the 2023 trashy divorces where couples have split in droves. |
| 0:21.0 | Today's tale of marital misadventure, we're going to be strolling through a meadow filled |
| 0:25.2 | with red flags, exploring the bad relationship of the never divorced, but really should have |
| 0:31.2 | been Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald. |
| 0:34.8 | Zelda and Scott icons of the roaring 20s, the Queen and King of the Jazz Age, |
| 0:41.4 | with really all told in their marriage about three good years, if even. It was a long marriage, |
| 0:48.2 | but a short period of happiness. They maybe should have split after that. We really do celebrate the endings and relationships around here. |
| 0:57.8 | And I wish that these two would have left, |
| 1:00.9 | because I think it would have been healthier for both of these partners, |
| 1:04.6 | not in that relationship. |
| 1:06.4 | And this is not the first time we have discussed, Scott and Zelda, is it? |
| 1:10.7 | It is not. We covered this story all the way back in season one. This is not that episode. |
| 1:16.3 | This is a brand new episode for me today in season 20. But to be fair, yes, I am and will always be Team Zelda. |
| 1:25.3 | Sure. No reflection on that at all in the last four years or whatever. |
| 1:30.7 | No changes. No lies detected. Hey, before we begin today's episode, we do have a magic mirror here |
| 1:38.1 | filled with names for thanks, praise, and shoutouts. Thank you so much to our newest supporters over at patreon.com slash trashy divorces. |
| 1:47.6 | Thanks to Emily G., Nancy C., Mary T, Stephanie C., Bunny Mom, Shona C. |
| 1:54.9 | Jessica B, Kisha M., Tarna, Dion H, Lauren F, Caitlin R, and Carly N. |
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