The C-Word: Casey Johnson

Women Of The Hour

Society & Culture

4 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Lena is back with Alissa Bennet to share the first episode of their new podcast, The C-Word! It’s a chat show about women history loves to call “crazy.” In this episode: Heiress to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, Casey was a 2000s tabloid staple known for her wild partying, badly-behaved pets, and tumultuous relationships, before her untimely death at age 30. Lena & Alissa discuss wealth, fame, and growing up in the public eye. The C-Word is available only on Luminary, a new podcast app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey women of the Hour listeners, my faithful friends.
0:06.4	I'm just popping in to say that I, that's me, Lena Dunham, in case you forgot, which I'm
0:11.0	hoping you didn't, because I really have only been off TV for like 13 months.
0:16.0	Have a new podcast with my genius, closest, dearest, special friend, Elizabeth.
0:20.4	Hi.
0:21.4	It's called The Seaward, and it's all about women who society has deemed crazy, and it's
0:25.6	available exclusively on Luminary, a new podcast app, which you can download right now if
0:29.2	you want.
0:30.2	And it's not free, but I would dare to say it's worth it.
0:32.2	And because we love you all, we wanted to give you a special preview of a very first episode.
0:36.8	Alyssa, what do you think is the thesis of our show, if you could distill it?
0:40.0	I mean, I think our show is about instances where women have public ruptures, and everyone
0:47.7	talks about it for a little while, and then everyone forgets it.
0:50.7	We're here to revisit the ways in which women have been shamed by culture and sort of give
0:55.6	new context and light to those experiences, and have a little fun in the process.
1:00.8	And also, I think something that comes up again and again in these episodes is, you know,
1:06.0	there are always these moments where either one or the both of us will deeply relate to
1:10.3	these moments that have been called crazy or psycho or...
1:13.2	Well, we're both former drug addicts, current psychotics.
1:23.0	This is the only episode you can hear like this because the show's actually a preliminary,
1:26.4	which is a podcast app you can download right now.
1:28.2	We can get a lot of very exclusive podcasts.
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