S31E14: Aretha Franklin

Trashy Divorces

Hemlock Creatives

Comedy, History

4.5 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This week, Alicia shines the spotlight on The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. From her turbulent childhood to her career trajectory, with a few divorces and spiderwebs thrown in too, Aretha's story really does contain multitudes. Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Trashy Divorces, everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships.
0:05.8	I'm Alicia.
0:06.6	And I'm Stacey.
0:07.8	Thank you for joining us for today's marital misadventure and so much more.
0:12.3	Alicia, what are you going on about today?
0:14.3	Should we give this week's story a little respect?
0:17.6	Yes. Why, yes, we should.
0:19.6	On today's episode, it is the story of Aretha Franklin,
0:25.0	Queen of Soul. This story has a little bit of everything. What a life, what a lady. What a voice.
0:32.1	What a diva. Never before heard on the main feed, this is one from our American women series. Oh, right,
0:39.3	right. Yeah, Aretha Franklin was our archetype of the diva. And boy, does that lady deliver.
0:46.4	Before we kick this one off, I do just want to give a little bit of warning with some content.
0:52.4	We have some heavy themes in this one. There is a little bit of language. There's a
0:56.9	little bit of murder. Please take care when listening to this episode because Aretha's daddy,
1:03.0	kind of a monster. Yeah, I recall her not being well used as a child. He does sort of get it in
1:08.8	the end. Again, this one really does have a little bit of
1:12.6	everything. Today, it's time to do right, trash pandas. It doesn't take too long to think about this one.
1:19.8	Stacy, what do we have to do? Going to have to go, go, go.
1:26.8	So, Alicia, you have a wreath made of $100 bills?
1:35.1	What do you call a wreath made of $100 bills?
1:38.1	Aretha Franklin's!
1:40.0	Oh, God, it's so good.
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