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Speaker 1: Welcome to stuff Mom never told you. From House to

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Speaker 1: Folks not Colored. Hello, and welcome to the podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: Kristen and I'm Caroline and Caroline. We've talked a lot

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Speaker 1: before about women in Hollywood. We did an episode not

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Speaker 1: too long ago on the Bechdel Test, for instance, and

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Speaker 1: today we're going to talk about women in Hollywood and

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Speaker 1: probably women that a lot of listeners have seen in

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Speaker 1: we're talking about stunt women, the tough ladies who perform

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Speaker 1: all those crazy gags, you know, like jumping off buildings

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Speaker 1: or moving vehicles or whatever. No biggie, Yeah, no big

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Speaker 1: deal there. And thanks to the listener who suggested this topic.

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Speaker 1: We've been getting so many great listener requests, by the way, lately,

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Speaker 1: and this is one of them, stunt women. So to

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Speaker 1: kick things off, let's just go over the occupational outlook

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Speaker 1: for a stunt performer. Obviously they have to at some

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Speaker 1: point do things like jump off of buildings and catch

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Speaker 1: on fire, et cetera. But what about the nuts and

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Speaker 1: bolts of how the actual stunt industry works. Well, to

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Speaker 1: start it off, I guess we should mention the fact

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Speaker 1: that there are fewer stunt opportunities for women than for men.

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Speaker 1: But that's that's kind of a basic given considering if

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Speaker 1: you look at your average action movie, there's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a lot more male people jumping off of things and

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Speaker 1: getting set on fire than female people. That's true, very true. Um,

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Speaker 1: in Hollywood. To the the I didn't know this, the

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Speaker 1: stunt performers are actually considered on par with actors, are

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Speaker 1: all considered principal performers, and they are unionized. If you

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Speaker 1: want to be a stunt person, you need to get

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Speaker 1: your SAG card for the Screen Actors Guild. That's right.

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Speaker 1: Stunt performers are overseen by SAG AFTRA, which merged the

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Speaker 1: Screen Actors Guild in the American Federation of Television and

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Speaker 1: Radio Artists together. And the pay is not too shabby. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I I don't know. I don't jump off

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Speaker 1: of anything for a living, so maybe it is shabby.

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Speaker 1: Someone tell me I would probably need to get paid

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Speaker 1: a lot um so that. The Bureau of Labor Statistics

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Speaker 1: reports that the starting daily pay for a stunt performer

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Speaker 1: is eight hundred and fifty nine dollars, with a weekly

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Speaker 1: starting rate of thirty two hundred dollars, which ladies and

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Speaker 1: gentlemen is slightly more than the starting weekly rate of

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Speaker 1: about two thousand, nine hundred seventy nine for actors. And

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Speaker 1: all of that is more than podcasters make. No, not

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Speaker 1: our podcast. Maybe we should get SAG cards. Do you

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Speaker 1: think I could get us more money? Well, let's make

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Speaker 1: a commercial or get into podcast stunts. I don't know

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Speaker 1: how it works. What awfully small studio for that. It's true. Um,

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Speaker 1: and even though these stunt performers are doing all of

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Speaker 1: these incredible feats, there is no oscar for stunt work

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Speaker 1: that I learned, although the tauruss World Stunt Awards are

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Speaker 1: referred to as the Oscars of stunt work. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: I found out that the Taurusts Stunt Awards also offers

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Speaker 1: financial support to injured stunt people. So it's kind of

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Speaker 1: a really nice, all around supportive organization. Yeah. And from

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Speaker 1: what we've read, the actual stunt community is a pretty

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Speaker 1: close knit one because obviously they have shared interest of uh,

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Speaker 1: aren't that many of them, especially, like we said, if

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Speaker 1: off of buildings and diving into waterfalls, etcetera that stunt

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Speaker 1: performers are paid for. They're also paid to meticulously research

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Speaker 1: how to mimic actors appearances and body languages while in character,

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Speaker 1: which was something that I really didn't think about beforehand. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they just have to make sure to get it all

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Speaker 1: to see somebody who doesn't even look at all like

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Speaker 1: want to have the face recognition. But it's the complete

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Speaker 1: opposite with stunt performers, where they're trying to blend in

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Speaker 1: as much as possible. And we've mentioned before diving off

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Speaker 1: of buildings and into waterfalls, et cetera. Caring what are

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Speaker 1: the major stunt categories? Okay, we have fighting, falling, riding

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Speaker 1: and driving, agility and strength and water. None of those

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Speaker 1: So let's go back and let's look at the beginning

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Speaker 1: of stunt work with actors like Buster Keaton Keystone Cops,

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Speaker 1: who were kind of considered the first stuntman. Buster Keaton

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Speaker 1: that was that was some serious measuring and some serious

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Speaker 1: But it didn't take too long though, for women to

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Speaker 1: nineteen ten, we have audiences developing a taste for serial

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Speaker 1: action movies in the rise of Westerns. And really it's

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Speaker 1: with Westerns that we see the first use of dedicated

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Speaker 1: first female stunt performers started out as cowgirls. That's right.

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Speaker 1: This is coming from the PBS film Stunt Women Then

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Speaker 1: and Now, and they talk about that in the silent era,

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Speaker 1: But yeah, like Kristen said, a lot of these stunt

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventeen Rose Helen Winger, who became Helen Gibson. She

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Speaker 1: then finally we have Martha Crawford Cantorini, who was yet

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Speaker 1: Western Stunt Double. Yeah. She this. This lady is super

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Speaker 1: And talking about occupational hazards, not only are you going

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Speaker 1: But I think two more important things to note about

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Speaker 1: women formed SWAMP, which is the Stunt Women's Association of

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Speaker 1: big one in peace, out of harm's way. What do

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Speaker 1: you think, Caroline, what if it was a mistake, No,

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Speaker 1: not a mistake, because she admitted to him and apparently

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Speaker 1: these were multiple toots. I agree, I kind of think that.

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Speaker 1: I think it's because, especially because she was farting on him,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to get farted on in the second day, No,

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Speaker 1: I mean, and I would want to own up to it,

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Speaker 1: you know. So I don't know. Or she could just

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Speaker 1: be really cool and laid back maybe and Gassie moving

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Speaker 1: on laid back and Gassie it's my nickname, that's my

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Speaker 1: vanity plate um. I have a letter here from Haley. Haley,

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Speaker 1: I just really love how you set this email up

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Speaker 1: though anyway, she says. First, a fart story. Once I

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Speaker 1: was in the car with a few friends as we

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Speaker 1: arrived at our destination. One of my guy friends farted

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Speaker 1: and it was awful. We all immediately jumped out of

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Speaker 1: our car. We went on our way, laughing, but mostly

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Speaker 1: forgot about it. Two hours later we arrived back at

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Speaker 1: the car and the fart was trapped in the car

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Speaker 1: and it's still smelled. Secondly, some fart history. My mother,

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Speaker 1: much like Caroline's father, hated the word fart, and instead

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Speaker 1: we used the term wind to use it in a sentence.

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Speaker 1: Did somebody do win? It was a term that if

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Speaker 1: I ever used it outside the home, I was teased

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Speaker 1: for it because it sounds so lame. It kind of does,

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Speaker 1: but that's okay um. As such, Now in my twenties,

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Speaker 1: I use the word fart like a swear word. I

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Speaker 1: never used it around my mother, although to be honest,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't come up that often, and I often used

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Speaker 1: fart like the effort if I dropped something or stub

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Speaker 1: my toe. You know, actually, Haley, that's a really good tip.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna start saying a fart because f bombs. Yeah

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Speaker 1: at work. Thirdly, she says farting and marriage. I have

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Speaker 1: been with my husband for seven and a half years

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Speaker 1: and married for eighteen months. We have never farted in

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Speaker 1: front of each other. If we're talking about gendering farts,

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Speaker 1: I assumed at some point in the relationship he would

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Speaker 1: be the one to break the fart silence, but never did.

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Speaker 1: I always leave the room or whatever if I must.

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Speaker 1: But we are still very much in the stage one,

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Speaker 1: but still happily married. I might add, that's amazing, Haley.

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Speaker 1: I love your stories. I love your three party email.

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Speaker 1: I think it's hilarious that you and your husband have

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Speaker 1: not farted in front of each other, and I think

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Speaker 1: that must be some sort of world record. Yeah, that's incredible.

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