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🗓️ 31 December 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Martha Stewart always knew she was going to build a better life for herself. Money and stability were the only things she craved, and she had the ambition to get them. But when a stockbroker job goes belly up, Martha’s forced to become the housewife she always disdained. But… maybe there’s money to be made in that too.
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0:00.0 | Wonderry Plus subscribers can binge the newest season of Even the Rich before anyone else. |
0:04.4 | Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. |
0:08.1 | Like Martha Stewart, the one and only time she messed up a recipe. |
0:12.5 | We're going to swear. Please be advised. |
0:15.0 | Also a quick note about our scenes. |
0:16.8 | Some fictionalized scripted dialogue has also been added for dramatic and narrative cohesiveness. |
0:29.4 | This old album makes me remember so many things in the past. |
0:35.6 | San Francisco and the house on Steiner Street where I was born. |
0:39.3 | It's 1950, and 9-year-old Martha Stewart is laying on her stomach in front of a 12-inch black-and-white TV. |
0:46.3 | A huge smile spreads across her face as the opening credits for her new favorite show, Mama, start to roll. |
0:53.3 | Martha watches with excitement as a big Victorian house |
0:56.7 | comes on screen. |
0:58.2 | The house is regal and grand, |
1:00.4 | and located somewhere in the far off city of San Francisco. |
1:04.7 | It's nothing like Martha's working class house in New Jersey. |
1:08.4 | She shouts at one of her youngest brothers to be quiet. She's the second child of |
1:12.3 | six, and there never seems to be a minute of quiet in their house. To be fair, there wasn't a minute |
1:17.3 | of silence in my house of three kids, so I can only imagine poor Martha's. While having met two of the |
1:23.2 | three of you, I understand that. Martha scoots across the rug and turns up the volume on the TV. |
1:30.2 | The white glow lights up her face, and for a minute, she forgets where she is. Martha loves |
1:35.9 | escaping into this TV family, where everything feels happy and secure. Whatever obstacles they |
1:41.6 | face, they always come together at the end of each episode. |
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