We need to talk about sexual harassment
Close Friends: The Podcast
Lucy Mountain, Tara Margulies & Sarah Barrington
4.9 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
(Trigger warning: Sexual harassment)
What a week it’s been. In today’s episode it only felt right that we address what’s been happening in the UK the past 2 weeks involving the tragic murder of Sarah Everard as well as the conversations being had around daily sexual harassment. We talk on our own experiences and dissect how we can create change yo make the world a safer place for women. It’s a heavy one but an important one.
We went into this episode hoping to record something that you could share with anyone you know who is struggling to understand the severity of the situation. We know how emotionally exhausting it is to have to keep explaining how you feel, so we hoped we'd be able to help.
Best served with wine + an open mind.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone. Pull up a chair, grab your wine. You are listening to the Close Friends podcast. |
| 0:14.9 | This is where we record our IRL conversations as friends about surviving, thriving and diving headfirst into life |
| 0:21.9 | whilst trying to be adults, but also having a fucking good time. |
| 0:26.4 | This week, I'm your host, Lucy. |
| 0:28.2 | And as ever, I'm joined by Sarah. |
| 0:31.3 | Hello. |
| 0:32.2 | And Tara. |
| 0:33.5 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:34.6 | I've also got Shirley this week. |
| 0:36.6 | So, big hello from Shirley. Yes. Hi Shirley. Hello. She travels first class. She's that bit. She also doesn't smell like chicken this time. And if we remember correctly, Lucy, when you received Shirley, she smelt like chicken. Yeah, she did. Which wasn my fault she arrived she arrived at my flat in an Uber by herself nothing else in the Uber I'd |
| 1:02.8 | explain to the guy that I knew what was about did he open the bag no but she's just in |
| 1:10.5 | the back I had to pull out and be like, oh, okay, thank you. Oh my God, I definitely got you're like smuggling something. Anyway. Yeah. She's a boogie snake. Okay, guys. She travels well. Sarah, you have our close friend of the week. No, it's me. That is incorrect information. Oh, if you, sorry. |
| 1:28.3 | That is the fake news. |
| 1:30.4 | It's Tara's turn. |
| 1:32.7 | Go, Tara. |
| 1:34.4 | Our close friend of the week is Efa, who wrote us some lovely, lovely words and also told |
| 1:39.3 | us how to pronounce her Irish name, which was great because I wouldn't have known otherwise. |
| 1:43.1 | And she says, I'm obsessed with this podcast. Look forward to it every Friday. Love you girls a lot. |
| 1:47.1 | And keep the chats going. Oh, thank you, Ifa. Thank you. That's lovely. |
| 1:51.9 | That's lovely. |
| 1:55.3 | A little disclaimer before we start this. So we're going to talk about some pretty serious stuff in here |
| 2:02.6 | and I'd like to add a trigger warning to this because we are going to touch on sexual assaults. |
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