S31E14 Aretha Franklin
Trashy Divorces
Hemlock Creatives
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:49.7 | everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships. I'm Alicia. |
| 0:54.6 | And I'm Stacey. Thank you for joining us for today's marital misadventure and so much more. |
| 1:00.3 | Alicia, what are you going on about today? Should we give this week's story a little respect? |
| 1:05.6 | Yes. Why, yes, we should. On today's episode, it is the story of Aretha Franklin, queen of soul. |
| 1:14.9 | This story has a little bit of everything. |
| 1:17.3 | What a life. |
| 1:18.0 | What a lady. |
| 1:19.1 | What a voice. |
| 1:20.0 | What a diva. |
| 1:21.3 | Never before heard on the main feed. |
| 1:23.5 | This is one from our American women series. |
| 1:26.8 | Oh, right, right. |
| 1:27.4 | Yeah. Aretha Franklin was our archetype of the diva. |
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