Sylvia Plath with Julia Meltzer

Lizard People: Comedy and Conspiracy Theories

Lizard People

Paranormal, Religion & Spirituality, Conspiracytheory, Conspiracy, Comedy

4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2016

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Sylvia Plath was a poet, essayist, novelist, and very interesting person. Her work was luminous, and her suicide was notorious. But some people think that her husband (notorious asshole) Ted Hughes had more to do with her death than he ever admitted. People including our guest Julia Meltzer, comedian and podcast host and extremely thoughtful person! We talk about how to deal with sadness, what makes a genius, and how we should think about our heroes. It's not easy stuff to discuss, but if anyone can do it it's a couple of literature nerds who've had a lot of therapy. Shoutouts in this episode include Ariana Lenarsky, feminism, grandmas, formerly fat boys, curses, literary theorists, and teenage girls. This is a bleak one but a good one!

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0:00.0	The Hi, welcome to Lizard People. This is a show where we talk all about conspiracy theories,
0:22.2	crazy people, and kooky ideas. all about what's going on behind the scenes.
0:25.0	I'm your host Caitlin Hampstead.
0:29.7	Let's get to the show. Yeah, that would have been insane, but that's not how the money machine works for
0:56.4	S&L. Right, oh my God. And for all comedy. Yeah, but I but and I think you can have like
1:02.3	a satire you if you're going to expose if you're going to show people how to look at something in a new way
1:07.7	Yeah, good satire like Ariana Lenarski had this tweet that went viral.
1:13.3	Did you see it?
1:13.9	It was like, people wonder why Americans are so friendly.
1:16.7	It's because if we get sick and have no one to crowd fund for us,
1:19.7	we die.
1:20.4	Oh my God, that's the funniest thing I've ever heard I know yeah and it was like
1:24.8	that's just a like fresh take yeah yeah I've never heard that and it makes you think
1:31.7	about how sad the system is and it doesn't make you be
1:35.4	like oh I'm comfortable laughing at this it makes you go like oh my God yeah like
1:40.0	yep that's true if I got cancer I would have no resources.
1:43.6	Jesus.
1:45.6	Oh everything's garbage for it.
1:49.6	Well you know America destroys women and that's the thing that I want to talk to you about today.
1:57.0	America destroys women.
1:59.0	England destroys women.
2:00.0	Oh, sure. Men destroy women. The literary establishment destroy women. Oh my God we just can't catch a freaking break.
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