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Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Kristin Davis, and I want to know are

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Speaker 1: you a Charlotte. So, you, guys, this is exciting. I

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Speaker 1: have my very first expert on. She is doctor Hillary Goldscher.

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Speaker 1: She's a clinical psychologist based in Beverly Hills. She has

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Speaker 1: over ten years of experience of being a therapist and

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Speaker 1: she is incredibly smart. So we're going to talk to

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Speaker 1: her about some general issues and topics of Sex and

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Speaker 1: the City, but also we're going to talk to her

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Speaker 1: about they have Married Pigs and the sex tape storyline. Okay, hi,

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Speaker 1: doctor Goldscher, thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 2: It's so nice to be here.

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Speaker 1: So wow, wow, I'm so excited. You're my first expert.

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Speaker 2: I'm happy to train you on.

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Speaker 1: Ya ya, I love it, love it. But part of

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Speaker 1: the reason that I'm excited to have you on is

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Speaker 1: that one of the things that I want to talk

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Speaker 1: beginning of Sex and the City. I don't know if

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Speaker 2: I saw it as a fan a long time ago. Now,

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Speaker 2: in preparation for this podcast, I watched I think episode one,

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Speaker 2: no no, season one, episode two and three.

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Speaker 1: Oh great, Okay, so you missed the pilot, which is

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Speaker 1: the beginning, we really didn't know what we were doing.

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Speaker 1: We filmed the whole first season without it being on

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Speaker 1: some ways that makes sense because a there weren't really

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Speaker 1: first episode when we got picked up, which is models

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Speaker 1: and mortals, there's this crazy sex tape storyline and I

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Speaker 1: didn't remember it at all, Okay, Like I I was

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Speaker 1: just like, what is happening?

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Speaker 2: Like no apology for filming with no consent.

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Speaker 1: Right, no apology whatsoever. And so I want to talk

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Speaker 1: And I think that's a really good exams And I'm

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Speaker 2: What is that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I mean it's so interesting because it so

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Speaker 2: the like bothered witness, right right, that isn't supposed to

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Speaker 2: To be like absolutely and relative to men's sexual journey,

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Speaker 2: Still, I think men are bestowed with a right to

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Speaker 2: So this presentation in that episode offered an alternative, Well,

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Speaker 1: Yes, and it still just needs to be repeated, like

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Speaker 2: I think there's more dialogue around it. There's more table

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Speaker 2: I mean, the show embodied it, but there's such a

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Speaker 1: Right, absolutely, I really hope we were talking about this

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Speaker 1: our own journey, you know, we're here in New York,

435
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:00,840
Speaker 1: We're you know, doing this, we're doing that. We're on

436
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 1: our own journey. But they were definitely looking for love, right.

437
00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:05,959
Speaker 1: And then there's some of them who have friends who

438
00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:08,639
Speaker 1: got married in their twenties, which is super interesting to

439
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 1: me in a kind of bohemian way, right where they're

440
00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:13,600
Speaker 1: still hanging out with all their single friends. There's not

441
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,879
Speaker 1: the separation so much that we used to have in

442
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:20,440
Speaker 1: like Mary Bay of Pigs. It's very clearly demarked, right,

443
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:24,440
Speaker 1: And I certainly experienced this in terms of my own life,

444
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:27,640
Speaker 1: Like when someone got married, they shifted into this other

445
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,879
Speaker 1: kind of world where you know they've moved, they're going

446
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,960
Speaker 1: to have a baby soon, you know they're on it's tracked.

447
00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,400
Speaker 1: It's like a certain tract that you get on when

448
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,760
Speaker 1: you get married. And that was your goal and you

449
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,480
Speaker 1: were doing it whatever, or it wasn't your goal, and

450
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:43,720
Speaker 1: you did it. You know what I'm saying, Not myself

451
00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:47,679
Speaker 1: but my friends. Yeah, but I mean I, as the

452
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:50,480
Speaker 1: single person, would make all kinds of efforts to still

453
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 1: be in their lives. And you know, my best girlfriends,

454
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:54,520
Speaker 1: I'm still in their lives, thank god, and you know

455
00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:56,760
Speaker 1: they're all still married, which is kind of amazing. But

456
00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:58,239
Speaker 1: you might be in their life and then they might

457
00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:00,159
Speaker 1: get divorced and whatever, they'd have kids and you go

458
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 1: through that with them. But as a single person, I

459
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:05,600
Speaker 1: felt like I had to make an effort to be there,

460
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:09,040
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like like I'm Auntie Kristen

461
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:12,000
Speaker 1: and I'm here. You know, I'm available, I'm babysitting, I'm

462
00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 1: doing this, I'm doing that, so that I'm part of

463
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:16,480
Speaker 1: that whole existence. But now I feel like it's a

464
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:21,520
Speaker 1: little looser in terms of the demarcation. You know, but

465
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:26,800
Speaker 1: I don't feel like society as a whole is necessarily

466
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:29,399
Speaker 1: caught up. Like, for instance, when you go to a wedding.

467
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:30,879
Speaker 1: You know, if you go to a wedding as a

468
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,479
Speaker 1: single person, you are still over there at this wacky

469
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:40,040
Speaker 1: table that has like kids and possibly some grandparents and yourself,

470
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:43,439
Speaker 1: which is a nightmare. You know, it's really rough, and

471
00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,840
Speaker 1: it hasn't changed. It's coming in the show when we

472
00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:50,360
Speaker 1: have weddings, and it's highly entertaining, I think, But like,

473
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:52,679
Speaker 1: I can't believe that it hasn't changed.

474
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're raising so many important issues. The first I

475
00:25:56,760 --> 00:26:00,960
Speaker 2: want to acknowledge and validate. You are right that not

476
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:05,520
Speaker 2: just young young women, but relationship with marriage has shifted

477
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:08,200
Speaker 2: and has evolved. There are plenty of people that feel

478
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 2: less pressure, feel like they can avail themselves of other

479
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 2: options outside of marriage, whether it's long term partnership or

480
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 2: just dating. Right, women feel much less pressure to get married,

481
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 2: to have a family earlier. There has been absolutely some evolution. God, yeah,

482
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:26,280
Speaker 2: one of the things that was in my mind. And

483
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 2: this is anecdotal rather than empirical, but in my practice

484
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:34,960
Speaker 2: I see adults, so a lot of adult women who

485
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 2: are either single or have gone through divorce, who discuss,

486
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:42,480
Speaker 2: amongst other notions, but who discuss this still like internal

487
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 2: kind of deep rooted shame around singlehood. So it's not

488
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 2: as if the dialogue and conversation and even behavior hasn't changed.

489
00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:52,800
Speaker 2: And what I'm saying might not be true for everyone,

490
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:56,159
Speaker 2: but anecdotal a still work with many women who still

491
00:26:56,200 --> 00:27:00,440
Speaker 2: have that like internalized notion that there's a less than quality,

492
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 2: if not or at least in a relationship. So I

493
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 2: want to acknowledge that there's a shift, and yet some

494
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 2: of that narrative still exists for some women. Definitely, Yeah,

495
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:13,400
Speaker 2: but what you were saying, I think is it remains

496
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 2: a truth. I mean in some of it is just

497
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 2: the is like a systemic issue being in Western culture.

498
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 2: When you get married, generally speaking, you are going to

499
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 2: spend more of your time with your husband, You're going

500
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 2: to have a family, and it is going to mean

501
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:31,960
Speaker 2: that you have less flexibility to be in community right

502
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 2: right through in Western culture, and obviously there's many many exceptions.

503
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 2: People of course exist with a lot of intention differently,

504
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 2: which is lovely, but it often happens that our married

505
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 2: friend or are assumed to be mama a friend is

506
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:51,119
Speaker 2: not as available, leaving the pursuit of connection to the

507
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:54,920
Speaker 2: single person who has more flexibility based on this system.

508
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 2: We're talking about that.

509
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,120
Speaker 1: Most definitely, most definitely, and in the particular show Bay

510
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,480
Speaker 1: of Married Pigs, which we love so much because when

511
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 1: I looked back on it, the show is so much

512
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,640
Speaker 1: better than I realized, and all of the building blocks

513
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 1: that were to kind of get fleshed out later are

514
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 1: there in Bay of Married Pigs, which is really was

515
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:14,920
Speaker 1: kind of amazing to me, and in some ways they're

516
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 1: there even earlier, but it really kind of gels and

517
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 1: Bay of Married Pigs. But you know, Carrie's begins with

518
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 1: Carrie visiting her married friends in the Hamptons and then this,

519
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 1: you know, the husband is standing they're naked in front

520
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 1: of her in the hallway and she's just like, oh,

521
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,159
Speaker 1: you know, what do I do? And then she tells

522
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,439
Speaker 1: the wife and then she has to leave, which they

523
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 1: don't show that part right, So it's unclear how difficult

524
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 1: that was or uncomfortable or whatever, but clearly it was

525
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 1: uncomfortable enough to the married friend that she that sent

526
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 1: carry back to the city. And then we see them

527
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: later and Carrie's not mad at her, which is also interesting,

528
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 1: Like Carrie really puts up with so much. You know,

529
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 1: she's like very easy going about everybody's feelings about everything

530
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 1: she's doing. But she didn't actually do this thing. The

531
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 1: man did it. So let's just discuss that for a

532
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 1: second and the wife's reaction, because it is super interesting

533
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:12,719
Speaker 1: in terms of do you feel still that there is

534
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:16,480
Speaker 1: a thing about married women feeling that single women are

535
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 1: a threat?

536
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, Anecdotally, I think women in long term partnerships that

537
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 2: have kids, with the stressors of like raising kiddos and

538
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 2: mortgage and all the like not so cute things about life,

539
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 2: start to feel that loss of intimate and romantic connection.

540
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 2: I mean, it's an old narrative because it exists often

541
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,440
Speaker 2: it's hard to be married and raise kids and stay

542
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 2: yeah in a way that feels dynamic and sustainable. So

543
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 2: I think it's an outgrowth of that. Yeah, anything that

544
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 2: like there's this like disaffiliation in long term marriages sometimes

545
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 2: and it's less about the married person specifically, or even

546
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 2: the entity of less about the single person specifically, or

547
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 2: even single hood or single women, and more about the

548
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 2: difficulty of like long term marriages.

549
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:08,040
Speaker 1: That is often, Yeah, that's so smart, that's so smart.

550
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 1: It makes so much sense. I hadn't thought about it

551
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 1: like that, having never been married, but that makes a

552
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 1: lot of sense. Is that it's like a projection almost

553
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 1: in terms of you're just struggling through it, and you

554
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:21,240
Speaker 1: might not have the strength of the connection that you

555
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,200
Speaker 1: had when you first fall in love, and so then

556
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 1: that other person who's not in that same situation seems

557
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 1: threatening just because you don't have all of the things

558
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: that you wish you had from your spouse.

559
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:40,760
Speaker 2: There's like a like a disorientation destabilization that marges as

560
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 2: you just try to get through raising kids and staying

561
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 2: connected and the logistics, and it also can be lovely

562
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 2: and amazing and beautiful. It ebbs and flows for most people.

563
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 2: So of course it's a representation of like the wish

564
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 2: for connection, maybe the wish to have that kind of freedom,

565
00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:03,240
Speaker 2: and the potential threat of someone else catching your partner's attention.

566
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 2: Because it's hard to facilitate a way sometimes to feel

567
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 2: connected or catch your partner's attention when you're just dealing

568
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 2: with the days goings on, right, I think that's that

569
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 2: remain that piece remains present, and in a way maybe

570
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 2: more so because it's even harder to be a parent

571
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 2: and be in marriage these days. There's more pressure to

572
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 2: have your kid show up in the world a certain.

573
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 1: Way, and it isn't there gosh.

574
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 2: So I imagine that still exists in different forms in ways.

575
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 2: I think in the in the episode it felt more

576
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 2: of a more dichotomous in the sense that the issue

577
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 2: at hand was like, oh, is my husband going to

578
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 2: want another woman? You know sure sexually be drawn to

579
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 2: another woman? And what kind of threat am I under

580
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 2: when it is around? You know?

581
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 1: So even though she had done anything like that, that's

582
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 1: the part as a single person, I'm like, but she

583
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 1: was just standing there like it's so hard, and it's

584
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 1: like Samantha at the party and the different of the

585
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: financial guy. She's trying to talk to this guy about

586
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 1: investing and then his wife comes up and it is

587
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 1: like you got to come in here, and she's just

588
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 1: standing there, the poor woman trying to get some advice

589
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 1: on you know, investment. Do you know what I mean? Like,

590
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 1: I've felt that myself.

591
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 2: For a projection, and I think that's that's really a

592
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 2: spot on. It's it's a don't even mean it to

593
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 2: be critical. We all engage in projections. It's like a

594
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 2: bunch of projections going on, right, Yeah, listen, conversation and

595
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 2: innocent meeting in the hallway. Right projection is like, oh gosh,

596
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 2: I'm under threat. Something's going on here and right, As

597
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 2: I said, I think part of it might be the

598
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 2: situation and the women themselves, but most of it, I

599
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 2: think is just the entity and complication of long term partnership.

600
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 1: It's f right, No, that's beautifully put, so well put.

601
00:32:56,240 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. And obviously the show's perspective is not

602
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 1: that perspective, right. The show was importantly trying to be

603
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 1: on the single person's perspective because that is kind of

604
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 1: unrepresented at that point and underrepresented still. I would say,

605
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 1: that's right.

606
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 2: Well, I think it's not an unimportant POV how it

607
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 2: feels to be on the receiving end of that energy,

608
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 2: because if you're Harrie in that scenario, you might feel

609
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,960
Speaker 2: rejected or disaffiliated or misunderstood and not a part of

610
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 2: there is that scene where she arrived and she was

611
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 2: sort of the only single person in trying to find

612
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 2: right place and space. So the energy, the dual energy

613
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 2: is interesting and paradoxical right coming at her maybe is

614
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 2: some sense of threat or envy and coming back as

615
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 2: some sense of life. We're exactly do I belong right?

616
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 1: And that's where I mean. Carrie is so interestingly just

617
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 1: investigating it all, you know. She's like, I'm trying to

618
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 1: figure out who I am in this and maybe I

619
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 1: don't want to get married. When she's with the the

620
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 1: marrying guy, she's like, I don't think I want this.

621
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,959
Speaker 1: Here's Charlotte, you see if you want it, and we

622
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 1: were going to talk about this. I don't know if

623
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,280
Speaker 1: we have time. But like for me, I didn't feel

624
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,239
Speaker 1: like that was weird at all that she's like, no,

625
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 1: this is not for me. Charlotte tried out, and then

626
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 1: Charlotte tries it out, but she has a very strong

627
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 1: picture of what she wants and that dude's not it.

628
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 1: So he doesn't like the china she likes. She's like out,

629
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,959
Speaker 1: you know, which I think is so hysterical for a girl.

630
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 1: Who talks about like I just want to get married.

631
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 1: I just want to get married. I just want to

632
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 1: get married. She's like, oh bad China pattern. No, like

633
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 1: she's got her own her own criteria. Right, that's right, right,

634
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 1: super interesting. But Carrie too, right, Like Carrie's like, well,

635
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:41,280
Speaker 1: I tried this out and he brought the mobile out

636
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:43,880
Speaker 1: for the baby, and that just turned me right off.

637
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: I am not that girl.

638
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 2: Well, we're talking about the intersection of macro and micro,

639
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:53,880
Speaker 2: these macro under the surface dynamics and then these micro

640
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 2: idiosyncrasies like I want someone to like be in community

641
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 2: with me about my China pattern. You know, it's like

642
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 2: this mystery, magical thing that has to come together for

643
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,239
Speaker 2: people to choose each other and it to work. You know.

644
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:10,799
Speaker 2: So it really highlights all those complexities you know, that

645
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:14,240
Speaker 2: are in many ways totally intangible. What makes it happen

646
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 2: and be sustainable.

647
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:19,319
Speaker 1: Definitely, and why we still get to, you know, talk

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Speaker 1: about the show and make a different version of the

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Speaker 1: show and I mean they're so it's kind of like

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Speaker 1: a never ending investigation into all of those things.

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Speaker 2: It really just hits on so many topics that are

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Speaker 2: interesting to explore in terms of how they evolved and

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Speaker 2: some that have like remained steady and the relevant. It's

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Speaker 2: a really interesting way.

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Speaker 1: Yes, thank you for joining us. You're so smart and wonderful.

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Speaker 2: Oh it's so fun to come. I could talk forever.

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Speaker 2: I wish I didn't me too.

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Speaker 1: I know we'll have you back and we'll talk about

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Speaker 1: the next the next couple themes.

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Speaker 2: Ye, well doctor, your first expert.

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Speaker 1: Oh thank you, it was really fun. I mean, as

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Speaker 1: you can see, I could just keep talking all day.

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Speaker 1: So thank you for your time, and have a eat

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Speaker 1: day and we'll have you back. I can't wait. So

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Speaker 1: thank you, Thank you, doctor Culcher. Bye,