You know, once we have the internet and our social medias, and now my kid, of course, isn't on Facebook.

They're on Instagram, right, on TikTok.

But once everybody became their own media personality, living in their own world and their own brand,

I get why they feel they have to

just tell the world who they are as much as I find it completely annoying and like way over,

I mean, oversharing and information I don't want to have and why do you need to do that? I know why,

because we created an economy and a world where everyone has to broadcast what they had for

dinner and their sexuality.

And this is how they establish themselves in the world.

I feel like, you know, we're just living with the world we gave them.

Welcome. living with the world we gave them. Welcome to the Unspeakable podcast.

I'm your host, Megan Down.

My guest is writer and performer Annabelle Gerwitch.

Annabelle has a decades-long career in both film and television and in print media.

She never got rich, but she managed to carve out a decent life as a work-long career in both film and television and in print media. She never got rich,

but she managed to carve out a decent life as a working actor and a published author.

Over the last several years, her fortunes have changed, alongside changes in the industry she's relied on, and in her 50s she found herself divorced, renting out a room in her house for extra money,

and like millions of other Americans, wondering how a middle-class existence can slip away

after a lifetime of hard work. She chronicles these struggles, often hilariously, in her fifth

book, You're Leaving When? Adventures in Downward Mobility. In this conversation,

Annabel spoke with me about how she thinks she got to this place, which she's learned about

homelessness and access to health care, and how a recent medical crisis has raised her stakes

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