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Rebecca (1940)

Published: Sept. 8, 2019, 4 p.m.

WHO was Rebecca? WHAT was her deal? WHY is everyone so obsessed with her and her underwear? We watch the first mystery that is brand new to all of us, Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s Rebecca (1940), and (wo)man, do we have some opinions. As modern \u201cwoke\u201d* people, we give the main character an actual name and talk about feminism, lesbianism, and the control of women and power dynamics of 1940\u2019s Hollywood. Maddy wants to become a dick-punching time traveler, Katy gives some very unresearched and ultimately incorrect facts about Hitchcock and lesbians, Carrie does some live book research, and Mack talks great mustaches. Listen carefully for terrible horse impressions and Maddy\u2019s constant anger noises! Originally recorded July 2017.

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*We like to think we\u2019re some level of \u201cwoke\u201d but understand it\u2019s a process and ultimately will make mistakes and hopefully learn and grow with each one

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TW: Cancer, suicide

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Correction Section:

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Katy would like everyone to know that she knows she said Lawrence Olivier was in Lawrence of Arabia but she was thinking of Spartacus and it was just the double \u201cLawrence\u201d that made her brain go \u201c......\u201d.

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Also Hitchcock probably didn\u2019t hate lesbians that way Katy insinuated; as stated in the episode she truly knows nothing really about him and was just making a generalized assumption based on Hollywood rules and the fact that she saw The Celluloid Closet one time