Episode 114: The Let Down Reflex

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Laura McKowen & Holly Whitaker

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2017

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, the girls respond to two letters. The first, from a new mom who's worried about how much she's been drinking in the first months of her baby's life while breastfeeding, and the second from a girl grieving the loss of two long friends that don't support her new sobriety. This episode is about the let downs: things we think we "should" be able to do, like choose people we love over alcohol, and the ways our relationships change despite us wishing they wouldn't.

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0:00.0	There is hope for us yet.
0:05.0	We are young, we are away.
0:07.0	I am Holly Waker.
0:09.0	And I am Laura McCowan and this is Home Podcast.
0:17.0	And so it would begin.
0:20.0	Good morning.
0:22.0	Hi, how are you? Good. I'm so glad we didn't decide to record yesterday. You want to know why?
0:27.0	I'm so glad we didn't decide to record yesterday.
0:30.0	You want to know why?
0:32.0	Because I woke up 7.30 in the morning
0:35.3	to a Christmas festival outside the door.
0:41.3	Santa was riding it on a boat. No way. At 730 in the morning. Oh my God you live in the best place. I still get so excited about that shit. I'm like, Santa! And a cave? What? There was like a thousand people,
1:00.8	okay, pay, maybe not that many, but a lot of people outside.
1:04.6	I live in front of like a dock and they were all standing around playing really loud Christmas music like like you know
1:15.2	Mariah Carey All I went for Christmas I'm sorry but I love that.
1:20.4	Oh my god who doesn't love that song?
1:22.4	A lot of people have been posting on
1:24.4	Facebook about how they want that song to die. I'm like no. And I and know and I hate
1:30.3	this music like after this week I'll be ready to have it be done but I don't know
1:36.2	there's something I thought that was so cool yesterday I mean I woke up and I was like okay this is a little much for 730 but you know I'll go with it don't
1:46.4	know why it had to be so early but hey Santa is ready he's here I feel like
1:50.9	decorating I've never felt like decorating in my life but I feel like decorating I've never had a tree in my adult life
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