The Audacity of Aging Well — with Jessica Bennett!
Everything is Fine
Jennifer Romolini and Kim France
4.8 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Our guest this week is journalist and author Jessica Bennett. Jessica writes on gender, sexuality and culture for The New York Times and is the co-host of the podcast In Retrospect which delves into cultural moments of the past that look different to us today. We're talking all about Jessica's most recent op-ed "The Audacity of E.Jean Carroll," evolving our feminism, staying relevant and engaged past 40, whether or not the kids are alright (spoiler: they are) and a whole lot more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to Everything Is Fine a Podcast for Women Over 40. |
| 0:08.8 | We are your hosts. I'm Kim France and I'm Jen Ramoliniini and by the time this episode airs we will have seen |
| 0:16.3 | each other yes you will be in Los Angeles this weekend I will be in Los Angeles |
| 0:21.4 | for president's Day weekend. |
| 0:23.2 | It's very exciting. |
| 0:24.8 | It is very exciting. |
| 0:26.4 | It's very exciting. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm sorry that LA's gonna be shit weather |
| 0:30.7 | while you're here. |
| 0:31.7 | It's gonna be shit weather, but you know what it's not going to be |
| 0:34.8 | cold and it'll be nice to get away from the cold. It'll be nice to get away from the cold. It'll be nice to get away from the cold. |
| 0:39.2 | It'll be nice to stay in a hotel. It'll be it'll be nice to do all of the all of the just the it's a vacation |
| 0:45.8 | got to dinner it'll be nice yeah I think it will be what are you what are you besides |
| 0:51.0 | seeing me what are you gonna do while you're what are you besides seeing me what are you going to do while you're out here? |
| 0:54.4 | Well I have two cousins I'm very close to who live there they're both they both |
| 0:58.7 | grew up in New York and moved out there later my cousins John Ben, so I will see them. Ben has two kids. |
| 1:06.0 | John has two smaller kids, one who is recently born, who I'm looking forward to meeting. |
| 1:12.4 | I will see my friends Heather and Jessica who do the website go fog yourself oh yeah yeah |
| 1:20.8 | who I you know who I befriended during the lucky days and I haven't seen them in a few years and we're going to have a lunch date so I'm excited about that |
| 1:28.8 | Think I'm gonna see another friend I have named Jen |
| 1:35.0 | Oh, and I want to go, another friend, yeah. |
| 1:37.0 | And then I want to go to this place called Luna Luna. Oh you should do that you need to book tickets for that you should do that it's really cool. |
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