March 2, 2022 • 59 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey Yosa, Hey mama, Can you believe we've been podcasting
for five whole years? Um? I truly cannot believe it.
It's absolutely mind blowing. It's like out of this world.
And I know that we're still in a deadly global pandemic,
get your vaccines. But I feel like we need to
celebrate this milestone. I agree, and you know what, Let's
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bring back look at That a live a podcast party. Yes,
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Commies a myth and Bullshit a radiophonic novella Look Radio
hosted by Malaca Morres. Welcome back to season six of
Local Radios next Door. Look At Radio is a radiophonic
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a pod podcast fast. I'm fiosa and I'm mala. Thanks
for tuning into one twenty. We are so excited to
be here, to be recording and to have you are
local morres tuning in for the sixth season. And this
episode is actually our season six launch and the very
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We do have some teasers, some new work. We've got
(03:48):
stuff coming up in the look audio verse. Um. We're
we've been busy and we have a lot of things
that we have yet to unveil to you all. But
before we get to those updates, welcome to season six.
We are your podcast at us next Door. And when
thinking about this year's theme, as you know, each season
(04:10):
has a theme and it's always over the top. It's
always the best, there's always beautiful visuals to accompany it,
and so each year we tried to top last year's.
So this year podcast as next Door. We were inspired
by some reality TV from the early two thousand's. We
(04:30):
were inspired by you know, the Playmates, Yes, Girls next Door,
Girls next Door, and so we are your next Door
just your friendly neighborhood podcasts. Trying to make a podcast
while living at home. And you know, it is season
three of The Pandemic and as we were basically writing
our script for this episode, we came to the realization
(04:54):
that essentially half of our podcast life has now been
indoors and in a pandemic and we didn't even realize it.
Season three of The Pandemic and season six of Look
at Our Radio? When did that happen? How did where
did the time go? It's season three of the Pandemic
and we are still recording from home, and with that
comes a lot of pros and cons. So let's get
(05:16):
into some of them today. We're gonna get into a
lot of them today. We were laughing, dying because there
are some cons that we cannot share on air. Basically,
we we are not at liberty to say, um, just
know that when you you live where you work, and
you work where you live, and everybody is at home
(05:39):
in this horrible situation, I feel like tempers are high,
you know what I mean, Like people get into little
spats and disputes over all kinds of things. We were
just cracking up sharing parking horror stories where in l
A like people will go to great lengths over parking spaces,
like don't underestimate what a desperate person will do when
(06:03):
they need a parking spot in the city of Los Angeles. Yes,
there's also lots of entitlement when it comes to parking. Personally,
where I live there's ample parking, but people get very
very um comfy with their parking and they don't want
you to park in front of their house even though
it's a public right away. Maybe there was a fight,
(06:26):
maybe not, I don't know, but it did not involve me.
It's all I'm gonna say, And I think that that's
that's perfect. We're gonna keep it that vague. Um. Sometimes
older Mexican people think that they can put an orange
traffic cone on a public street and claim it as
their own personal parking spot and then like get mad
(06:49):
and yell at people and start fights when they try
and move said cone and parking said public parking spot.
Someone that I know that works for the city will
remove those because it's not legal to do that. And
maybe sometimes when you try and explain things like that
to set older Mexican person, they're like, why are you
(07:14):
Why are you criticizing me? Like why are you judging me?
Where are you? Who are you being a hater. Basically
I'm not being a hater. I'm just saying it's a
public street, right right, good times. Let's talk about some
pros of recording from home now, aside from the barking,
which is a nightmare. Um, we're comfy, comfy, there's no
(07:41):
commuting or traffic involved. Beautiful. I think that's it. I mean,
it is a blessing that, you know, we're able to
continue podcasting in spite of everything that's going on. Um,
luckily mikes are affordable enough and we have our computers.
(08:02):
That's really it. I mean, that's what we what we use,
and that we have a pretty basic set up y'all.
Like we don't have a handheld recorder. Those are expensive,
you know. The mic that we have, it's a good
quality mike, but it connects to our computer, we get
it done. You know, we're not to go out and
(08:22):
spend a ton of money on equipment. That's that's what
you like to do. Cool. We never advocate for people
to spend more than they more than they can afford.
So this is what works for us UM. But there's
also a lot of like scheduling that goes around working
from recording from home and like today, you know, early January,
(08:45):
we had a voiceover gig and we had to like
there was a lot of prep work in order to
make sure that our space was ready for one. I
had to ask my parents to leave by nine am.
My parents are very loud when they leave. It's a
whole production. It's a show to get them out the door.
So I was like, I really need you all to
(09:05):
leave by nine am, Like you have to because they're
going to hear everything and it's really important that I'm professional.
I need you to be gone by nine And they respected.
If they didn't, they were all got both My parents
were gone ten minutes to nine. It was nice. Thank god,
that's good. See when you have the cooperation, that's lovely.
(09:25):
Like my grandpa likes to saw things, you know, and
like I live above the garage, my little apartment, and
the garage is his like workshop where his drills and
his saws. I'm directly above it. So we have like
an understanding. And I'm like, Grandpa, I'm recording today, can
(09:46):
you not saw anything in half? Just for like forty
five minutes? And He's like, got it, I'll go hammer
this thing over here instead, you know. So it's all
about teamwork. But yeah, the thing is like there's a
lot of ambient sounds. There's just a lot of environmental
noise when you're at home and you have neighbors and
(10:07):
you have family and you have tons of dogs like
we have, or if you have like a shitty white
fridge like I have. Like during today's very same voice
over gig, their sound engineer was like, what's that humming noise?
And we were at the USA and I at the
same time, We're like my fridge, So I had to
unplug it. It's unplugged again right now, son? Yes, yes,
(10:30):
do you remember early on o G listeners know when
the smoke detector beeping and we unplugged it and it
was still beeping and we changed the batteries. It just
kept beeping. It was insane and people were listeners are
mad about it, and we're like, we know, okay, we know,
we we hear it too, We really do hear it.
(10:50):
Tried fixing it, We changed the batteries, okay, we did
everything we could do. And then like, for a while,
I could not figure out how to at the message
the messages notification on my laptop. I couldn't for the
life of me. And then I would I would Google
and I would look at the instructions and then I
would try it, and they still kept coming through. Listeners
(11:11):
got mad about that too. Sorry guys. Um, yeah, good stuff.
My dog he likes to come bother me the second
we start recording. It's true, it's true. There's a lot
of external noise, the dogs barking. Sometimes my cat is mewing. Um,
you know. And it's really funny to me when podcasters
(11:34):
more like the the like studio network podcasters, probably some
indie two, But when they talk about recording in their closets,
I'm like, how like I don't have a walk in closet,
I don't fit in my closet, Like I cannot record
in a closet, So that that joke about podcasters recording
in their closet. Can't relate, doesn't apply to me, can't relate.
(11:57):
I guess if you live in a mansion, if you're
podcasting in a wing of Oprah Winfreeze house, you can
record in a closet. There's no where to sit, it's
filled with stuff. It's filled with stuff, and don't even
have like I have the type of closet like like
like an old closet where like sliding doors, like there's
they don't open up outwards. That sounds very rich and
(12:20):
lovely to me. The extravaganza of it all. One day
we aspire to record in our closets. One day, I
think that's when we'll know we've really made it, if
we have closets big enough to record our indie podcasting,
or we have an actual studio. I mean, I think
that would be the real measure. Whatever, it's fine. We
(12:41):
persevere through it all. We persevere through it all, all
while recording from home. And so I want to ask you, Mala,
what kind of neighbor are you? Yes? Yes, so we
are the you know podcast at us next door, and um,
the type of neighbor I am? I think that I'm
very aloof. I am a hermit. I am definitely the
(13:05):
neighborhood mariwanea. Um. I do smoke at home and in
and around like well, I mean in my space with
like the doors and window shots like my grandparents you know,
are not necessarily so cognizant that I'm getting high. But um,
when I walk my dog, I smoke. And so I
think people like know that, like I'm like the neighborhood,
(13:27):
you know, pothead, and I have earned that title, Okay,
I've worked very diligently, um at that that place in
the neighborhood. So I'm kind of also the Grinch, Like
I stay up here in my space and I do
my writing, and I do my podcasting, and I do
my TV watching, and I do my my research unless
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I'm like, you know, not here, unless I'm like outskating
or I'm like meeting up with people. So I think
I'm very like Aloof, and I come down when I'm
like summoned or with like an invitation lots of coaxing.
I'm like the Grinch, and I only come down to
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Huville on very rare occasions. Definitely like a curmudged le
hottie because there's a lot of like street harassment in
my neighborhood. And so like I don't say hi to anybody,
I don't say how to anyone. I don't address anyone
unless you're you're my grandma's friend and you're like another
Senora or like you're like a Senora walking her dog
and I'm walking my dog. Like I will talk to you,
but like literally no one else. Um, I'm also like
(14:33):
the naked window neighbor because I will forget that I
don't have any clothes on and that my window is open,
you know, Like I'm also that person, but I'm trying
to work on that because I'm like, you know what,
this is a very highly populated area and like my
windows are not tinted, like people can see me. So
that's the type of neighbor I am. How about you,
We need to get you some curtains, and so I'm here.
(14:56):
I do I have very heavy um the Roman lines
that you pull down, yes, and they're always down, but
then except when they're not, and then I forget, you
know what I mean, that happens. It happens, happens, it happens.
What kind of neighbor are you? Um? I think that
I am a toss between. Well, first, I feel like
I'm the dog walker, Like I have lots of dogs
(15:18):
and I walk them all at once. So there are
a good times where people do ask me if I
walk dogs, like are you a dog walker? And I'm like, yes,
you can't afford me, you cannot afford my services. You
cannot afford my services. Um, I am the dog walker.
So there's that. I also feel like I like I'm
(15:38):
a toss between like friendly hottie next door and like
unfriendly hottie next door, Like catch me on the wrong day.
I'm not going to be the friendly hottie. I'm not
gonna I'm just gonna get in my car and not
say hi and like zoom off. Other times, sure, I'll
have the convo with you. We'll talk about what's happening
on your roses and of changes that you're doing to
(16:01):
your house and blah blah blah um. You know. And also,
since I've been living in my house for close to
twenty years, with the exception of you know, moving to
Zenna Barbara for undergrad my neighbors have really seen me
grow up and have seen like, you know, the evolving
partners that have come by. I love that. So evolving partners,
(16:30):
you know, that's a journey. I don't want to say
it's a rotation because it's not more of like in evolved.
You know, as I have grown up, so have the partners.
Partners have changed. You know. I'm also like, you know,
snack sneaking my boyfriend in or why don't really sneak
fitting on the wind? But more so like you know,
(16:52):
he's over. I'm that, I'm that neighbor. Yes, I love that.
I love that, and I love that. It's like, Okay,
there's probably just like the associate a different phase of
your life, probably with like your hair cut in color.
And then also who were you dating? That's so true.
You're right, You're right. You're right. And and and and
(17:19):
and and and and and and and and and and
and and and and and um um um um um
(17:47):
um um um um um um of it and ship. Alright, y'all.
So today we want to talk about one of our
favorite topics and something that has kind of had a
(18:08):
renaissance via TikTok via gen z and also an inspo
for the season's theme. Yeah, we're talking about bimbos, and
this episode is in defense of bimbos, some iconic bimbos
throughout history, bimbos who have been inspirations to us, and
too many out there it seems. And yeah, we're pocas
(18:31):
at us next door. That definitely is a callback and
a throwback to the girls next door. Um, there's actually
a new documentary out about like Surviving Playboy and like
the drama and the disaster and how it was kind
of an abusive environment. So I think that there's a
lot more to being a bimbo than we previously recognize
(18:54):
as a culture. Yeah, you know, we at Local Tora
are all about the count narratives about looking at popular
culture from a different lens, which is why we developed
look up hisstemologies. So I think anything that is said
here is through that lens, it's through that viewpoint. So
just to get started, let's define what a bimbo is.
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So there are a lot of definitions now, especially visa
v TikTok. A lot of folks who are like bimbo
content creators, Like they're dressing up in a particular way,
you know, lots of cleavage, tiny skirts, full face hair
and makeup. The ship that we love, the ship that
we're all about we love it, we love it. The
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other day, Mala was like, so are mini skirts back
micro skirts? And I was like did they ever leave?
You know? So like they're having a resurgence, resurgence truly, truly,
And some of these bimbo content creators have like put
out definitions for what a bimbo is and some of
them like make sure to include like bimbos are pro sects, work,
(20:04):
anti capitalists, anti prison, Like bimbos are social justice minded, Yes,
yes they are. And but just to like before we
get into like the new definitions that folks are creating,
I just want to read like a standard probably written
by a white person, a white man. A bimbo, according
to dictionary dot com is an attractive, but unintelligent or
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frivolous young woman. Sounds like a fem to me, sounds
like a fucking fem. And again, the ship we love,
you know, we've been talking about for years, like the
things that women like that fams like makeup, dressing up, nails.
You know, we call it all kinds of things. Goddess worship,
we call it firm defense, even fem technology. And we're
(20:50):
just all about reclaiming these things that we get made
fun of. For yes, the things that are seen as frivolous,
And it's like the question is frivolous to who do
and in what context? I mean? And there are so
many famous bimbos throughout history, we like went and did
like a little deep dive into some of our favorite bimbos,
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so of course, so who like how can we forget
Elwoods of Legally Blonde? We love el Woods, brought to
life by Reese Witherspoon, one of the most iconic bimbos
of all time. But it's hard. Oh my god, such
a good movie, such good acting, such good writings, such
an amazing wardrobe. Yes, yes, and um el is just
(21:33):
that girl and we love her and I feel like
legally Blonde. And also el Woods is having their own
like redefining that it's actually a feminist movie. Hell yeah,
you know. And at the time I didn't receive that
kind of accolade. But now, like looking back, we're looking
back at early two thousand films. Obviously in pulp culture,
(21:53):
it's having a resurgence and folks are giving giving it
the claim and the accolades that it deserves because it
is a feminist film. It is and not only that,
but I think folks are also like recognizing some really
incredible performances from that film, like um, Jennifer Coolidge in
and of herself as having a moment, and I think
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she is like considered maybe in this spectrum of bimbo
hood and has played many a bimbo and like to
a t and I mean like Paultte bonafante, like stop it.
She's the original dog mom, the original dog mom. We
love Paulette. She brought us the bendon snap. I mean,
it's just good time. So we've got bimbos upon bimbos
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um and then of course, like we said, our namesake
for this season, the Girl's next door? Who are some
of the girls next door? Like the really popular ones
that really took off? Who would you say? I don't
remember any of their kee. She's the only one I
can really think of Wilkinson right, Yes, yes, she's a
(22:58):
real estate agent. Now, good for her. She has a
TV show now with her kids. Yes she's in real estate,
good for her. Um. Dolly Parton is obviously an o
G bimbo, iconic bimbo, and like a huge philanthropist, she
does a ton of work, like donates a ton of money,
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gives like books to children. Children she's paying for like
if her employees at Dolly would want to go to school,
like she's paying for their education. A bimbo of the people, Yes,
the people's bimbo. The people's bimbo very much. Though we
love Dolly and Dolly has always had such an amazing
sense of humor, Like I love looking at old interview
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clips of Dolly Parton on like whatever fucking talk show,
because she has outlived all of them, basically, and you know,
they want to come for her fake tips, and they
want to come for her nails and her wigs. But
she she has her one liner is just ready in
the cliff, ready to go. She has them cute up, yes,
and she could always make fun of herself, very self aware.
I love Dolly And then, of course, okay, have you
(24:01):
been watching Pam and Tommy? I haven't because I've been
hearing like we're not supposed to, like, because she doesn't
want to say she didn't actually consent to it, So
I've had some feelings about it, like should I watch it? Right?
That's fair, that's fair. I would also venture to say
that's probably true of like any like unauthorized biography autobiography
(24:26):
docu series. Yes, yes, you know, and not to be
like just watch it anyways, it's so good. So I
just say I've had like an internal dilemma. I feel you.
I hear obviously, folks, you know, watch what you want,
you know, and no shame or anything. I'm just me personally,
I'm like, do I watch this? But I also want to,
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you know, like anything, like I want to keep up
with the online chatter, like I want to know what,
folks we're talking about. Yes, now here's what's fascinating about
the show. So Pamela Anderson, of course, iconic bimbo of
like film, television, Hollywood, famous for Baywatch, killing it in Baywatch,
famous for her relationship, famous for her boobs, you know,
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like quite specifically, and the time period of like Pam
and Tommy. I remember being a kid and like just
seeing things like on TV because you know, in l a,
Hollywood news and celebrity news is on the same channel
as the news. News intertwined, and I realized that other
(25:29):
people in other places don't have celebrity news as part
of the regular news. Are you feeling I'm serious. I
was talking to somebody who grew up in the Midwest. Yes,
I was. He was like, I was talking to this
guy who, like um, grew up in the Midwest, and
he was saying like, yeah, you know, for us, like
(25:52):
just chatting about celebs and the things that they do
is not we don't keep up with that info. And
he's like, you guys seem to know so much about it,
And I'm like, well, yeah, because you could literally be
watching Channel four local news and in between k t
l A or whatever the traffic report, it's access Hollywood
celebrity reports. We consider that to be news, but other
(26:14):
people are not getting that as their news. I'm dying.
I had no idea. It was just standard w It's
like not a thing. It's our local ship. That's like okay,
so all of our like out of state. Look, I'm
what is Please let me know. I need you to
confirm with me. Do you not get celebrity news as
(26:37):
a part of your daytime news, your evening news. Let
us know the local local news. Tell us you know,
like not fancy cable or whatever, your local Well that
would make sense because it's not local to them, right,
So it's not a part of local news like it
is US. Yes, our local news is sex Tapes Hollywood.
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Mario Lopez, right, Mario Lopez is a correspondent basically delivers
are celebrity news. Wow, doesn't that put so many things
into contact? It really does? It really does. I've always wondered, like,
you know, it's just so like ingrained in US, you know,
(27:19):
like we know, even if you're not you have to
try really hard to not know what's happening in like
celebrity culture. You know, even when I was like going
through like my I'm an intellectual phase, you know, you know,
like when I was in high school, it was like
I don't I don't want to keep up with that.
You can't, It's impossible. You live here in l A
like exactly. So today you know, now people have their
(27:39):
row coup, people have every streaming package. I'm sure the
access to celebrity news is greater now. But when we
were just kids and like there was celebt news, that
was us. That was just our unique experience. Well, like
when like TMZ was founded, like we were in probably
middle school, right, maybe high school, and that was like
(28:02):
its inception. So for us, we've always known like a
TMZ paparazzi world exactly, so specifically to our date, our
age demographic, to our age demographic as being like, oh,
this is just local news updates. So now people have
the Internet, people have Twitter, people have TikTok, everybody has
access to news now. But yeah, so back in the
day when Pam and Tommy was the thing, we were
(28:23):
seeing Pam and Tommy on our local news, right, you know.
So it's kind of unlocking these interesting memories for me
and like getting the behind the scenes in the background.
And there's this one episode where sorry this is a spoiler,
when the sex tape is getting distributed. It's getting distributed online,
but no one knows what the internet is yet, and
(28:43):
Pam and Tommy go to the library to use a
computer to like go on the internet to try and
see what is the internet? And what do you mean
the tape is on the internet. I don't have in
we don't have internet. Stress. Oh my god, that's terrible. Also,
fun fact about Pamela Anderson. Years ago, there was this
(29:04):
gymnast I don't remember her full name, but the nickname
that everyone gave her was Mo and she was like
an older gymnast for gm USA, and Pamela Anderson was
like her primary benefactor and supporter and paid for her
training and her transportation and went to the Olympics to
see her perform. If you google Pamela Anderson mo gymnastics,
(29:26):
you'll see Pam Anderson with her son like cheering on
this gymnast with these signs at say go mo. So anyways,
I want a big Pam Anderson kick right now, you
chaman one of our favor bimbo Yeah. And you know
when obviously, when compiling this list, we were like, Okay,
there are a lot of white bimbos, clearly like in
pop culture. And so that of course led us to ask,
(29:49):
like who is allowed to be a bimbo ran society? Right,
Like even if it's looked down upon, Like, do women
of color ever get labeled bimbo os or are they
just like sex like sex goddesses or sex symbols. Do
they fall into these tropes of like spicy latinos, right,
(30:11):
And so we started to like think about some of
our some of the bimbos of color if you will,
in pop culture and media. And so one of them
is actually like a cartoon, which would be Betty Boop.
One of the origin stories of Betty Boop is actually
um that she was a black singer from the nineteen
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twenties and she you know, singing clubs and saying specifically
in Harlem. And her name is Esther Jones or was
Esther Jones, And she has been attributed as the inspiration
and I would say also probably the forgotten inspiration of
Betty Boop. And so the character that we know and love,
um is inspired by a black woman, and um, I
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would say that she was probably a bimbo of that era. Yeah,
I think like there's maybe. And of course, like these
names and categories like probably mean many different things like
now when we're talking about them on a podcast versus
at the time. But I'm thinking about like show girls
and chorus girls and you know, um women who are
(31:20):
like doing strip teases and exotic dancers. I feel like
they're probably all sort of existing somewhere in this bimbo
spectrum for sure. For sure, like the show girl, Yes,
and I think she was like a dancer, a show
girl type of vibe singer performer, singer performer exactly exactly,
(31:43):
So Betty Boop. There's a lot more we were thinking
about the cast of Clueless, because obviously share is like
a little bit of a bimbo in her own way,
but so is her friend Dion, as portrayed by Stacy Dash. Yes,
I would say she was a bimbo at the time,
very much so. I couldn't drive, Yeah, I couldn't drive.
(32:04):
Love to shop. I have no further comments on Stacy Stacy. Dad,
We're not talking about Stacy Dash. We're talking about the
character Dione. We love die Deanna hilarious. Yeah. I mean
also that they were both named in the film, right,
Their characters are both named after famous singers, like that's
That's something named after Diva's very much so love it.
(32:27):
I think also another like loved beloved bimbo would be
like Hillary Banks of Fresh Prince of bel Air. Love
Hillary Bank, you know, I feel like she was treating
like her family treated her as like a frivolous, very
pretty girl and that was it. They didn't give her
the depth she probably deserved. But she was stylish, she
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was fashionable for super Yeah. Hillary was very funny. Hillary
had some really good one liners. She did. She did.
She had always a quippy thing to say about men,
men with money, men without money. Love. Hillary Banks also
best dressed on TV who else. I used to watch
Girlfriends a lot growing up. Girlfriends was that show, and
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I think Lynn was maybe considered the bimbo of the group.
Even though Lynn is always in like a PhD program,
she was always getting some type of degree, like not finishing,
and that was the joke, right, She's always in school
and never done no degree. Yes, love Lynn, love girlfriends,
and then of course we have friends. We have Phoebe. Phoebe.
(33:37):
I would say she was given like the ditzy, the bimbo,
hippy hippie. She's like, that's and that's its own category
that we were talking about. There's like the hippie, dizzy granola.
She's a granola, a granola hippie bimbo for sure. Yeah,
I love that. And I think one of my favorites too,
(33:58):
would be Evan Glodia's character and Desperate Housewives, So good,
Gabby Sull, so good, Carlos. She also had one liners.
My favorite is when she says, I love going to therapy.
I just talked about myself the entire same girl exactly.
(34:19):
So she, you know, Gabby Sellis is her own sort
of blueprint. You know, she got the guy, she got
the house, she got the neighborhood was the model. She
was the model. So we love her, we love and
we also love the character. Yes, Gabby Sullies. I think
Desperate Housewives also gave us a little inspo for our photoship.
(34:42):
It did like literally next door down the street with
Steria Lane Podcaster Lane exactly. They definitely made it to
our pinterest board. We'll say that the mood board. Who else, Okay,
ugly Betty, the sister, the sister, that's at least, no,
(35:02):
that's that's the politician. Yeah, I'm thinking of yes, no,
not the politician, don't hope me. Um, that's what is
of ugly Betty. Um. She was like the teen mom
trying to figure out her like creative career right with
the gay side, yes, yes, but very supportive, very amazing.
(35:27):
She was very involved with her family. But they also
put her in like the little outfits with the with
the the plunging necklines and cleaving. Yes, yes, absolutely it's her.
And then it's Modern Family's Gloria. Yeah, so do you like?
Obviously what is the character came first and then it
was Gloria for modern family, correlation must be there, must
(35:52):
be right, like the blueprint, and I know that, like,
for example, one of our friends, um Celestian, has done
like um in our article, like an academic article about
Gloria and her accent. Love it. And so we're not
going to deep dive into like the trope and the
caricature of Gloria herself. But I think that she at
(36:16):
least the character maybe the writers like I, I really
appreciated this line that she has in the show where
she's like, do you know how hard it is to
like be funny in another language and be smart in
another language and are always making fun of me? And
I really appreciated that because I feel like it gives
that depth to that character of like not just being
sexy in a pretty face like I'm just worry, Like
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she knew how to work it, you know. I love
that they give her um, They give her a lot
of really good dialogue, Like, they give her a lot
of really funny jokes, and they allow her character, I think,
to be like very quick, and I think that like
with her in Jay, like she always wins, she always wins,
She always wins, because that that's like also its own
(37:02):
dynamic right of like the young hot wife and like
the older man, the older husband, and she's just like
always going to get what she wants. Yes, why else
a bimbo? Why else? Um? And then finally, you know,
this is this is not an extensive list, but finally
(37:23):
we had to talk about the O G Many Santhos.
We love Many Santhos and in the age of e
Fouria Darling, like we just say Many Santhos walk. Yes,
so those bitches couldn't run. Yes, Yes, without Mannie Santos,
there is no Maddie Perez. It's true. There's no like
(37:44):
song as an accessory without Many Santos. It's true. It's
true our Canadian queen. Yes. Obsessed with her, obsessed with her.
She was, Yeah, I just loved her character, Like I
don't think in De Grassi she plays Latina, like I
(38:05):
think she's actually Filipino and her characters, but I remember
like reading her as Latina and I was like, this
is my girl, you know, like it felt like the
representation as like a little kid, even even even you know,
loving that she was a Filipino character and being like
so down for that, you know, absolutely, like I didn't
feel like, oh but that's not me, Like no, that
(38:26):
was me, Like even if it wasn't necessarily the same culture. Yes,
she killed it. I mean from being very daring with
the wardrobe, that character, having the self awareness of like
there's some slut shaming going on in high school, but
she's like, you know what, I'm going to own it.
Fuck you guys, you're boring. You're boring, and you're going
to see my chain thomb. You're gonna see it. Yes,
(38:50):
I love it. And then her opposite, what was the
opposite character, Emma? Was it Emma? She was like the prudisha. Yeah,
that like is doing some of the slush shaming too,
you see. And this is interesting because in Euphoria they
have a very interesting similar dynamic with Maddie and Cassie. Interesting.
I'm not up on the Euphoria, but yeah, but there's
(39:14):
a similar There's two friends in their opposites and one
is like the blonde, innocent one, and then one is
Maddie Alexa Demi's character. Yeah, but the blonde one is
sleeping with Alexa Demi's boyfriend, So how innocent is she really? Right? Right?
But they're all like, oh, Maddie press fights with everybody,
(39:35):
She gets into fights, so she's like the dangerous one
she'll suck you up. But then this girl's like Cassie's
the innocent angel, but she's sleeping with your boyfriends. To
start watching Euphoria, it's good, it's good, it's good. That's stressful.
That's like another show like the chatter I need to keep.
(39:57):
I need I want to know what people are talking
about mine. People are talking about it. There's the thing
pieces either you love it, you hate it. Is what
I've gathered. Oh yeah, there's like no in between. I
think you would watch it and that you would appreciate
it for what it is, but I think part of
you would be like, this is what everybody's There's some
stuff in there that's a little questionable, the stuff with Cal,
(40:20):
with Nate's dad, with Nate, and there's just a lot
of there's just there's you have to see it. That's
my homework. Okay, I'll do it. I'll watch it. So
what else we also wanted to? Of course, we have
this conversation without shouting out like Sama hyak Now, I
wouldn't consider Samahaya a bimbo, more like a sex symbol. Right, agreed?
(40:43):
I agree completely, But I think that she like could
be under this category because I think that she like
it's also someone that I think she like. This is
just my assessment. I have no I have no way
to back this up, Okay, but I'm just saying my
my assessment of Salma Hike is that when her when
she firstarted her career, she very much like played by
(41:04):
the roles and did what she had to do because
she knew, like, I'm Latina getting into the scene, right
into the industry, so I'm gonna like be nice, right.
And now I feel like, obviously she has like this
decade long career, and I see her like more vocal
about like her career in the past and like, you know,
the sexual inappropriate things that would happen to her on
set and like all that, and so I feel like
(41:27):
maybe then even if we wouldn't classify her as a bimbo,
there was still like some bimbo practices if you will,
just to survive yesty. Yes, yeah, I think that this
is a thing right when sometimes women we talk about
like playing dumb or playing like we don't know. Oh help,
(41:48):
I'm I don't know. I I tell her onto my
partner all the time. He's like, aren't you a strong
independent woman? And I literally tell him, no, I'm not.
And I'm like, obviously I know that I am and
I can do whatever, blah blah blah, but like, please
just open this jar for me, you know what I mean, Like,
please just move this item for me, Like just do it. Like, no,
(42:12):
I'm not help me, help, Yeah, exactly, I need a
lot of help and I'm very incapable. I don't want
anyone to think that I'm more than a pretty face
because they want you to do things well. And so
this is the layer that we wanted to discuss for
this episode in particular, is like our women actually bimbos
(42:36):
or do we just want you to think that we're
dumb and not know what we're doing because we don't
want to do free work for you, like free labor
on like and however you wanted to find that like
free labor emotionally, free labor, like physically, like we don't
want to do ship for you. And so now like
(42:57):
and part of what inspired this episode two is like
the girl Boss is dead, like the girl Boss Like
that's like the conversation that's happening now and we're in
the era of resting and what does resting mean? Like
we're going to do what we want and lounge and
not do free work. The free work is done, Yeah,
(43:18):
because we're too busy doing our own free work for ourselves.
We're not doing free work for you. We don't have time.
We're already doing a lot of unveaid labor. There's just
no room on the schedule. I'm with that and with that,
and I'm also look, I've been watching Love is Blind, right,
(43:39):
and there's this one couple on there where every time
the man gets asked, what do you like about her?
This is Jared. I I know where this is going,
and I have no I'm not even watching the show, right.
Everybody that asks him when he meets her family, what
do you like about Ayana? And he says her resilience.
She's so resilient. She's so resilient. She's just so strong.
(44:02):
She's just you know, bad things have happened to her
and she just picks herself up. But that is the
only answer he has given in every episode so far
this season, we're what five episodes out. They keep asking
him what they like about her. The only thing he
will say is resilient. Sometimes it's like, Okay, no, I
want you to think that I'm fragile and weak because
(44:22):
you're not going to put me through anything. I don't
want you to think that I'm resilient. I don't want
you to think that I can overcome any I cannot overcome.
Don't put me through anything. I am done over because
I can't. I can't do it. I saw this. I
saw this meme that was like it was like a
text post, and it was like, if I go through
any more character development, I'm going to develop into a villain.
(44:42):
I was like when I saw that, I was like,
literally fucking same. Not put me through any more growth
because I'm gonna snap, like I will become the villain.
Enough is enough, I hear you, I hear you. Yes,
It's like I just want to be treated gently and
kindly and that is all. Yes, my sister says, like
(45:02):
to be treated like glass. Yes, and that's the one.
I'm a bimbo made of glass. So so let's talk
about that because I'm sure that this topic could probably
make like some folks uncomfortable. Right because one of the
articles that I was reading, which is this Vice article
that we will link in the show notes and the
title is bimbification is taking over What does that mean
(45:26):
for you and so and so the one of the
folks that they talked to. Um, she says that people
tell her that she's putting feminism back by fifty years,
like she's she's like ruining it. Women have worked so hard,
they've broken allegedly the glass ceiling, blah blah blah, all
(45:47):
that stuff. And so what she says, and I'm going
to read the starct quote, I'm saying, maybe, instead of
dedicating our time to people who want to misunderstand us
no matter what we say or how we explain it,
why don't we just let them and let the results
at the end prove everything. Bimboism says, you don't have
to be unintelligent to choose happiness. You just need to
(46:09):
focus on thinking about things that actually matter, like community,
setting an example, and building others up, which can only
be achieved by building yourself up to the point where
you aren't plagued by anxieties, whether you are liked or loved,
whether you said the wrong thing, whether you are enough.
Bimbos say, who cares? I I mean that sounds like
an ideology. We can all get behind this, and Satanism
(46:35):
church that we loved every point we were like, yes,
are we Satanists. I think we're Satanists and bimbo we
are Satanist bimbos. That's it. Oh my god, our poor fathers,
our mothers, mothers, so and then I want this article
(46:56):
is so great, y'all. And I feel like, if you
want to learn more about like what folks are saying abo, bimboism,
and mainly like the children, like the gen z er is,
there are young adults, the young adults, what they're saying, Yes, um, well,
girl bust. Feminism says I may be a girl, but
I can climb the status quos ladder and succeed in
capitalism just like any other man. Meanwhile, bimboism says I'm
(47:17):
literally just here to vibe. Either vibe with me or
leave me alone. That's so real, and I feel like
that's an alignment with our lives. We're very much grinding
but also vibing. Yes, But the pod casting with everything
else that we do, it's like if you don't get it,
you gotta get out of the way. You don't get it.
(47:38):
It's like that other viral, like the girls they get
it get it, and the girls that don't don't yeah,
that's just what it is. That's just what it is.
And mind you, like, I am also just blown away
by how much TikTok has in from this episode, because
like we're like barely on tikto not on TikTok, but
it's already influencing so much of our lives. Okay, well
let me just share. Let me just share that the
(48:01):
reason I found this was because it was through Instagram
because Vice posted the article which led me to the Tigdong.
So I'm still very much on i G you know,
you know, but that, but this article was very much
informed by TikTok and what what the girls are saying,
what the bimbos are saying on TikTok. And something to
add to is like what I've seen in this conversation
(48:23):
is that bimbos are also like can be of any gender.
And when I was talking to our our makeup artist, Robert,
I was telling Robert about this episode and Robert was like, well,
I'm a bimbo, like I self identify as a bimbo,
and what we'll bring him on eventually to like talk
about his own bimboisms, but he's very much like I
want to look hot and I do my makeup and
(48:44):
I'm very smart, but I'm just not going to give
you access to that. No. And Robert, You're gonna see
a lot more of Robert this season season six. I mean,
starting with our pro amount, you're going to see more
of Robert. So look out, look up. Um. And then
you know, there's just been a lot of great like
(49:05):
think pieces about like bimbos um and there's like another
one by Refinery twenty nine. Um. And I want to
read this because I think this really informs like what
we believe at lok Um. Bimbification made its Internet debut
in the early adds as a controversial kink that eroticized
(49:25):
the transition from smart and modest to air headed and hot.
Then misogynists took a piece of erotic bimbo fan art
and flipped it to mourn the loss of the so
called smart, modest woman. It's a familiar in cell cry.
Society is spiraling out of control now that hot women
have the power to reject them. When bemification is no
(49:45):
longer anchored in the fetish scene, people are once again
craving bemification, only this time for themselves. Fascinating, There's something
here y'all there really is. Okay, you remember that mean
where it's like it's like that evolution of man. Is
that what they're talking about? Describe it? So that meme
(50:06):
that's like a plan the evolution of man where you
have like a girl in a hoodie and a backpack
and she's very dressed down reading a book, has glasses,
and then they draw different iterations of that girl and
slowly she becomes visually like sluttier bot. She loses the book,
loses the glasses, loses the hoodie, loses the jeans. She's
(50:28):
wearing like a tight pink you know, like micro dress,
and like what would be called stripper heels, blonde hair, notebook,
huge tits, nips showing basically, And so a bunch of
people online I remember that meme has become like okay,
(50:49):
no goals, Yes, that meme has become this was what
happened to me after college. Thank god, I've reached my
final form. Yes, yeah, So I guess this piece, like
a originated in the King community. And let me just say,
the King community is constantly informing like what we see
in like queer culture, feminist practices, like all of that,
(51:10):
and so this print or this piece of art um
that was taken and turned into like a meme by
like in cells, originated in the king community, and then
a lot of us like took power, like you're saying
like from it, like yeah goals, like yeah, that doesn't
happen to me, like when I got my relationship, you know,
all those things. So we're here for the bimbos, And
(51:33):
I think a lot of it has to do with access,
like who are you giving access to, like your full
self and who are you just like letting see like
I'm a pretty face? True, also very true, I think
to like in the age of the Internet, where you're
like constantly there's pressure to be super vulnerable to strangers
(51:56):
all the time every day, you know, when it's like actually,
I don't know you and don't know me, and you
don't need to know anything about my live facts. But
you could see the pretty stuff. Yeah, you could see
the bimbo ification and that's it, and that's it, and
that's it. I love it. In defensive bimbos, we're here
for them, We're here for bimbo culture. Hell yeah, we're
(52:17):
here for bimbos that are pro sex worker, pro black
lives Matter, pro everything, pro choice, pro choice. And here's
the thing that the idea that one today with something
like this bimbo ifaication can be setting us back fifty years.
It's like, okay, but we're still fighting some of the
same battles we were fighting fifty years ago, like book
(52:39):
bannings Um, the right to choose like is being argued
like at the federal level again again. So yeah, exactly,
we're having the same conversation, the same conversation battling the
same second battles, so we might as well still be
doing this. Basically, it's we're tired of thinking. It's true
(53:02):
that No. I think there's just a lot of there's
a lot of pressure to like always say something profound
and thoughtful and like contribute to the discourse when actually,
like we can just pass the mic and like uplift
what people are saying already and like we ourselves don't
(53:23):
have to say everything. And I think that's partly like
we've made our dues, y'all, Like weren't season six, like
you like, if you want to go back to the
really nitty gritty heavy discourse, they go to the earlier seasons.
That doesn't mean you're not going to get anything like
super deep and profound now. But it's like we can
talk about bimbos and we don't also don't have to
talk about every single thing that's important because it's literally impossible.
(53:47):
We also were having this conversation. We weren't using the
term bimbo, but in early episodes we were talking about
just this, you know, about the the fem as valid
and femininity is valid, and the science behind it, the
technology behind it, the performance, the ritual, all of it.
(54:08):
You know, I mean, I would argue that like our
what is it three like core episodes fem Tech, Multidimensional
Home and Goddess Worship. Our combination of bembification and what
folks are calling bemification, we've already defined it in our
own terms under the look audio verse. We predate TikTok.
(54:29):
Just remember that. Remember that, And I think that because
there's evolution to things, right, like even like that's why
folks go and get their PhDs and like continue on
discourse and to write and they have their dissertations. Like
for example, before us like kim Alan had fem science right,
(54:50):
and then Loba has I would lead the knowledge. You know,
we're all like creating these different terms for our own
communities and our own definition of them as well. So
much to say. I mean, we were talking about a
lot of this stuff also when we were being invited
to universities. Um, we're this more kind of discursive conversations, Yes,
(55:14):
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We do have some teasers, some new work. We've got
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we've been busy and we have a lot of things
that we have yet to unveil to you all. But
before we get to those updates, welcome to season six.
We are your podcast at us next Door. And when
thinking about this year's theme, as you know, each season
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has a theme and it's always over the top. It's
always the best, there's always beautiful visuals to accompany it,
and so each year we tried to top last year's.
So this year podcast as next Door. We were inspired
by some reality TV from the early two thousand's. We
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were inspired by you know, the Playmates, Yes, Girls next Door,
Girls next Door, and so we are your next Door
just your friendly neighborhood podcasts. Trying to make a podcast
while living at home. And you know, it is season
three of The Pandemic and as we were basically writing
our script for this episode, we came to the realization
(04:54):
that essentially half of our podcast life has now been
indoors and in a pandemic and we didn't even realize it.
Season three of The Pandemic and season six of Look
at Our Radio? When did that happen? How did where
did the time go? It's season three of the Pandemic
and we are still recording from home, and with that
comes a lot of pros and cons. So let's get
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into some of them today. We're gonna get into a
lot of them today. We were laughing, dying because there
are some cons that we cannot share on air. Basically,
we we are not at liberty to say, um, just
know that when you you live where you work, and
you work where you live, and everybody is at home
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in this horrible situation, I feel like tempers are high,
you know what I mean, Like people get into little
spats and disputes over all kinds of things. We were
just cracking up sharing parking horror stories where in l
A like people will go to great lengths over parking spaces,
like don't underestimate what a desperate person will do when
(06:03):
they need a parking spot in the city of Los Angeles. Yes,
there's also lots of entitlement when it comes to parking. Personally,
where I live there's ample parking, but people get very
very um comfy with their parking and they don't want
you to park in front of their house even though
it's a public right away. Maybe there was a fight,
(06:26):
maybe not, I don't know, but it did not involve me.
It's all I'm gonna say, And I think that that's
that's perfect. We're gonna keep it that vague. Um. Sometimes
older Mexican people think that they can put an orange
traffic cone on a public street and claim it as
their own personal parking spot and then like get mad
(06:49):
and yell at people and start fights when they try
and move said cone and parking said public parking spot.
Someone that I know that works for the city will
remove those because it's not legal to do that. And
maybe sometimes when you try and explain things like that
to set older Mexican person, they're like, why are you
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Why are you criticizing me? Like why are you judging me?
Where are you? Who are you being a hater. Basically
I'm not being a hater. I'm just saying it's a
public street, right right, good times. Let's talk about some
pros of recording from home now, aside from the barking,
which is a nightmare. Um, we're comfy, comfy, there's no
(07:41):
commuting or traffic involved. Beautiful. I think that's it. I mean,
it is a blessing that, you know, we're able to
continue podcasting in spite of everything that's going on. Um,
luckily mikes are affordable enough and we have our computers.
(08:02):
That's really it. I mean, that's what we what we use,
and that we have a pretty basic set up y'all.
Like we don't have a handheld recorder. Those are expensive,
you know. The mic that we have, it's a good
quality mike, but it connects to our computer, we get
it done. You know, we're not to go out and
(08:22):
spend a ton of money on equipment. That's that's what
you like to do. Cool. We never advocate for people
to spend more than they more than they can afford.
So this is what works for us UM. But there's
also a lot of like scheduling that goes around working
from recording from home and like today, you know, early January,
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we had a voiceover gig and we had to like
there was a lot of prep work in order to
make sure that our space was ready for one. I
had to ask my parents to leave by nine am.
My parents are very loud when they leave. It's a
whole production. It's a show to get them out the door.
So I was like, I really need you all to
(09:05):
leave by nine am, Like you have to because they're
going to hear everything and it's really important that I'm professional.
I need you to be gone by nine And they respected.
If they didn't, they were all got both My parents
were gone ten minutes to nine. It was nice. Thank god,
that's good. See when you have the cooperation, that's lovely.
(09:25):
Like my grandpa likes to saw things, you know, and
like I live above the garage, my little apartment, and
the garage is his like workshop where his drills and
his saws. I'm directly above it. So we have like
an understanding. And I'm like, Grandpa, I'm recording today, can
(09:46):
you not saw anything in half? Just for like forty
five minutes? And He's like, got it, I'll go hammer
this thing over here instead, you know. So it's all
about teamwork. But yeah, the thing is like there's a
lot of ambient sounds. There's just a lot of environmental
noise when you're at home and you have neighbors and
(10:07):
you have family and you have tons of dogs like
we have, or if you have like a shitty white
fridge like I have. Like during today's very same voice
over gig, their sound engineer was like, what's that humming noise?
And we were at the USA and I at the
same time, We're like my fridge, So I had to
unplug it. It's unplugged again right now, son? Yes, yes,
(10:30):
do you remember early on o G listeners know when
the smoke detector beeping and we unplugged it and it
was still beeping and we changed the batteries. It just
kept beeping. It was insane and people were listeners are
mad about it, and we're like, we know, okay, we know,
we we hear it too, We really do hear it.
(10:50):
Tried fixing it, We changed the batteries, okay, we did
everything we could do. And then like, for a while,
I could not figure out how to at the message
the messages notification on my laptop. I couldn't for the
life of me. And then I would I would Google
and I would look at the instructions and then I
would try it, and they still kept coming through. Listeners
(11:11):
got mad about that too. Sorry guys. Um, yeah, good stuff.
My dog he likes to come bother me the second
we start recording. It's true, it's true. There's a lot
of external noise, the dogs barking. Sometimes my cat is mewing. Um,
you know. And it's really funny to me when podcasters
(11:34):
more like the the like studio network podcasters, probably some
indie two, But when they talk about recording in their closets,
I'm like, how like I don't have a walk in closet,
I don't fit in my closet, Like I cannot record
in a closet, So that that joke about podcasters recording
in their closet. Can't relate, doesn't apply to me, can't relate.
(11:57):
I guess if you live in a mansion, if you're
podcasting in a wing of Oprah Winfreeze house, you can
record in a closet. There's no where to sit, it's
filled with stuff. It's filled with stuff, and don't even
have like I have the type of closet like like
like an old closet where like sliding doors, like there's
they don't open up outwards. That sounds very rich and
(12:20):
lovely to me. The extravaganza of it all. One day
we aspire to record in our closets. One day, I
think that's when we'll know we've really made it, if
we have closets big enough to record our indie podcasting,
or we have an actual studio. I mean, I think
that would be the real measure. Whatever, it's fine. We
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persevere through it all. We persevere through it all, all
while recording from home. And so I want to ask you, Mala,
what kind of neighbor are you? Yes? Yes, so we
are the you know podcast at us next door, and um,
the type of neighbor I am? I think that I'm
very aloof. I am a hermit. I am definitely the
(13:05):
neighborhood mariwanea. Um. I do smoke at home and in
and around like well, I mean in my space with
like the doors and window shots like my grandparents you know,
are not necessarily so cognizant that I'm getting high. But um,
when I walk my dog, I smoke. And so I
think people like know that, like I'm like the neighborhood,
(13:27):
you know, pothead, and I have earned that title, Okay,
I've worked very diligently, um at that that place in
the neighborhood. So I'm kind of also the Grinch, Like
I stay up here in my space and I do
my writing, and I do my podcasting, and I do
my TV watching, and I do my my research unless
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I'm like, you know, not here, unless I'm like outskating
or I'm like meeting up with people. So I think
I'm very like Aloof, and I come down when I'm
like summoned or with like an invitation lots of coaxing.
I'm like the Grinch, and I only come down to
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Huville on very rare occasions. Definitely like a curmudged le
hottie because there's a lot of like street harassment in
my neighborhood. And so like I don't say hi to anybody,
I don't say how to anyone. I don't address anyone
unless you're you're my grandma's friend and you're like another
Senora or like you're like a Senora walking her dog
and I'm walking my dog. Like I will talk to you,
but like literally no one else. Um, I'm also like
(14:33):
the naked window neighbor because I will forget that I
don't have any clothes on and that my window is open,
you know, Like I'm also that person, but I'm trying
to work on that because I'm like, you know what,
this is a very highly populated area and like my
windows are not tinted, like people can see me. So
that's the type of neighbor I am. How about you,
We need to get you some curtains, and so I'm here.
(14:56):
I do I have very heavy um the Roman lines
that you pull down, yes, and they're always down, but
then except when they're not, and then I forget, you
know what I mean, that happens. It happens, happens, it happens.
What kind of neighbor are you? Um? I think that
I am a toss between. Well, first, I feel like
I'm the dog walker, Like I have lots of dogs
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and I walk them all at once. So there are
a good times where people do ask me if I
walk dogs, like are you a dog walker? And I'm like, yes,
you can't afford me, you cannot afford my services. You
cannot afford my services. Um, I am the dog walker.
So there's that. I also feel like I like I'm
(15:38):
a toss between like friendly hottie next door and like
unfriendly hottie next door, Like catch me on the wrong day.
I'm not going to be the friendly hottie. I'm not
gonna I'm just gonna get in my car and not
say hi and like zoom off. Other times, sure, I'll
have the convo with you. We'll talk about what's happening
on your roses and of changes that you're doing to
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your house and blah blah blah um. You know. And also,
since I've been living in my house for close to
twenty years, with the exception of you know, moving to
Zenna Barbara for undergrad my neighbors have really seen me
grow up and have seen like, you know, the evolving
partners that have come by. I love that. So evolving partners,
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you know, that's a journey. I don't want to say
it's a rotation because it's not more of like in evolved.
You know, as I have grown up, so have the partners.
Partners have changed. You know. I'm also like, you know,
snack sneaking my boyfriend in or why don't really sneak
fitting on the wind? But more so like you know,
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he's over. I'm that, I'm that neighbor. Yes, I love that.
I love that, and I love that. It's like, Okay,
there's probably just like the associate a different phase of
your life, probably with like your hair cut in color.
And then also who were you dating? That's so true.
You're right, You're right. You're right. And and and and
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and and and and and and and and and and
and and and and and um um um um um
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um um um um um um of it and ship. Alright, y'all.
So today we want to talk about one of our
favorite topics and something that has kind of had a
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renaissance via TikTok via gen z and also an inspo
for the season's theme. Yeah, we're talking about bimbos, and
this episode is in defense of bimbos, some iconic bimbos
throughout history, bimbos who have been inspirations to us, and
too many out there it seems. And yeah, we're pocas
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at us next door. That definitely is a callback and
a throwback to the girls next door. Um, there's actually
a new documentary out about like Surviving Playboy and like
the drama and the disaster and how it was kind
of an abusive environment. So I think that there's a
lot more to being a bimbo than we previously recognize
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as a culture. Yeah, you know, we at Local Tora
are all about the count narratives about looking at popular
culture from a different lens, which is why we developed
look up hisstemologies. So I think anything that is said
here is through that lens, it's through that viewpoint. So
just to get started, let's define what a bimbo is.
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So there are a lot of definitions now, especially visa
v TikTok. A lot of folks who are like bimbo
content creators, Like they're dressing up in a particular way,
you know, lots of cleavage, tiny skirts, full face hair
and makeup. The ship that we love, the ship that
we're all about we love it, we love it. The
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other day, Mala was like, so are mini skirts back
micro skirts? And I was like did they ever leave?
You know? So like they're having a resurgence, resurgence truly, truly,
And some of these bimbo content creators have like put
out definitions for what a bimbo is and some of
them like make sure to include like bimbos are pro sects, work,
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anti capitalists, anti prison, Like bimbos are social justice minded, Yes,
yes they are. And but just to like before we
get into like the new definitions that folks are creating,
I just want to read like a standard probably written
by a white person, a white man. A bimbo, according
to dictionary dot com is an attractive, but unintelligent or
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frivolous young woman. Sounds like a fem to me, sounds
like a fucking fem. And again, the ship we love,
you know, we've been talking about for years, like the
things that women like that fams like makeup, dressing up, nails.
You know, we call it all kinds of things. Goddess worship,
we call it firm defense, even fem technology. And we're
(20:50):
just all about reclaiming these things that we get made
fun of. For yes, the things that are seen as frivolous,
And it's like the question is frivolous to who do
and in what context? I mean? And there are so
many famous bimbos throughout history, we like went and did
like a little deep dive into some of our favorite bimbos,
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so of course, so who like how can we forget
Elwoods of Legally Blonde? We love el Woods, brought to
life by Reese Witherspoon, one of the most iconic bimbos
of all time. But it's hard. Oh my god, such
a good movie, such good acting, such good writings, such
an amazing wardrobe. Yes, yes, and um el is just
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that girl and we love her and I feel like
legally Blonde. And also el Woods is having their own
like redefining that it's actually a feminist movie. Hell yeah,
you know. And at the time I didn't receive that
kind of accolade. But now, like looking back, we're looking
back at early two thousand films. Obviously in pulp culture,
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it's having a resurgence and folks are giving giving it
the claim and the accolades that it deserves because it
is a feminist film. It is and not only that,
but I think folks are also like recognizing some really
incredible performances from that film, like um, Jennifer Coolidge in
and of herself as having a moment, and I think
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she is like considered maybe in this spectrum of bimbo
hood and has played many a bimbo and like to
a t and I mean like Paultte bonafante, like stop it.
She's the original dog mom, the original dog mom. We
love Paulette. She brought us the bendon snap. I mean,
it's just good time. So we've got bimbos upon bimbos
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um and then of course, like we said, our namesake
for this season, the Girl's next door? Who are some
of the girls next door? Like the really popular ones
that really took off? Who would you say? I don't
remember any of their kee. She's the only one I
can really think of Wilkinson right, Yes, yes, she's a
(22:58):
real estate agent. Now, good for her. She has a
TV show now with her kids. Yes she's in real estate,
good for her. Um. Dolly Parton is obviously an o
G bimbo, iconic bimbo, and like a huge philanthropist, she
does a ton of work, like donates a ton of money,
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gives like books to children. Children she's paying for like
if her employees at Dolly would want to go to school,
like she's paying for their education. A bimbo of the people, Yes,
the people's bimbo. The people's bimbo very much. Though we
love Dolly and Dolly has always had such an amazing
sense of humor, Like I love looking at old interview
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clips of Dolly Parton on like whatever fucking talk show,
because she has outlived all of them, basically, and you know,
they want to come for her fake tips, and they
want to come for her nails and her wigs. But
she she has her one liner is just ready in
the cliff, ready to go. She has them cute up, yes,
and she could always make fun of herself, very self aware.
I love Dolly And then, of course, okay, have you
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been watching Pam and Tommy? I haven't because I've been
hearing like we're not supposed to, like, because she doesn't
want to say she didn't actually consent to it, So
I've had some feelings about it, like should I watch it? Right?
That's fair, that's fair. I would also venture to say
that's probably true of like any like unauthorized biography autobiography
(24:26):
docu series. Yes, yes, you know, and not to be
like just watch it anyways, it's so good. So I
just say I've had like an internal dilemma. I feel you.
I hear obviously, folks, you know, watch what you want,
you know, and no shame or anything. I'm just me personally,
I'm like, do I watch this? But I also want to,
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you know, like anything, like I want to keep up
with the online chatter, like I want to know what,
folks we're talking about. Yes, now here's what's fascinating about
the show. So Pamela Anderson, of course, iconic bimbo of
like film, television, Hollywood, famous for Baywatch, killing it in Baywatch,
famous for her relationship, famous for her boobs, you know,
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like quite specifically, and the time period of like Pam
and Tommy. I remember being a kid and like just
seeing things like on TV because you know, in l a,
Hollywood news and celebrity news is on the same channel
as the news. News intertwined, and I realized that other
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people in other places don't have celebrity news as part
of the regular news. Are you feeling I'm serious. I
was talking to somebody who grew up in the Midwest. Yes,
I was. He was like, I was talking to this
guy who, like um, grew up in the Midwest, and
he was saying like, yeah, you know, for us, like
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just chatting about celebs and the things that they do
is not we don't keep up with that info. And
he's like, you guys seem to know so much about it,
And I'm like, well, yeah, because you could literally be
watching Channel four local news and in between k t
l A or whatever the traffic report, it's access Hollywood
celebrity reports. We consider that to be news, but other
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people are not getting that as their news. I'm dying.
I had no idea. It was just standard w It's
like not a thing. It's our local ship. That's like okay,
so all of our like out of state. Look, I'm
what is Please let me know. I need you to
confirm with me. Do you not get celebrity news as
(26:37):
a part of your daytime news, your evening news. Let
us know the local local news. Tell us you know,
like not fancy cable or whatever, your local Well that
would make sense because it's not local to them, right,
So it's not a part of local news like it
is US. Yes, our local news is sex Tapes Hollywood.
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Mario Lopez, right, Mario Lopez is a correspondent basically delivers
are celebrity news. Wow, doesn't that put so many things
into contact? It really does? It really does. I've always wondered, like,
you know, it's just so like ingrained in US, you know,
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like we know, even if you're not you have to
try really hard to not know what's happening in like
celebrity culture. You know, even when I was like going
through like my I'm an intellectual phase, you know, you know,
like when I was in high school, it was like
I don't I don't want to keep up with that.
You can't, It's impossible. You live here in l A
like exactly. So today you know, now people have their
(27:39):
row coup, people have every streaming package. I'm sure the
access to celebrity news is greater now. But when we
were just kids and like there was celebt news, that
was us. That was just our unique experience. Well, like
when like TMZ was founded, like we were in probably
middle school, right, maybe high school, and that was like
(28:02):
its inception. So for us, we've always known like a
TMZ paparazzi world exactly, so specifically to our date, our
age demographic, to our age demographic as being like, oh,
this is just local news updates. So now people have
the Internet, people have Twitter, people have TikTok, everybody has
access to news now. But yeah, so back in the
day when Pam and Tommy was the thing, we were
(28:23):
seeing Pam and Tommy on our local news, right, you know.
So it's kind of unlocking these interesting memories for me
and like getting the behind the scenes in the background.
And there's this one episode where sorry this is a spoiler,
when the sex tape is getting distributed. It's getting distributed online,
but no one knows what the internet is yet, and
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Pam and Tommy go to the library to use a
computer to like go on the internet to try and
see what is the internet? And what do you mean
the tape is on the internet. I don't have in
we don't have internet. Stress. Oh my god, that's terrible. Also,
fun fact about Pamela Anderson. Years ago, there was this
(29:04):
gymnast I don't remember her full name, but the nickname
that everyone gave her was Mo and she was like
an older gymnast for gm USA, and Pamela Anderson was
like her primary benefactor and supporter and paid for her
training and her transportation and went to the Olympics to
see her perform. If you google Pamela Anderson mo gymnastics,
(29:26):
you'll see Pam Anderson with her son like cheering on
this gymnast with these signs at say go mo. So anyways,
I want a big Pam Anderson kick right now, you
chaman one of our favor bimbo Yeah. And you know
when obviously, when compiling this list, we were like, Okay,
there are a lot of white bimbos, clearly like in
pop culture. And so that of course led us to ask,
(29:49):
like who is allowed to be a bimbo ran society? Right,
Like even if it's looked down upon, Like, do women
of color ever get labeled bimbo os or are they
just like sex like sex goddesses or sex symbols. Do
they fall into these tropes of like spicy latinos, right,
(30:11):
And so we started to like think about some of
our some of the bimbos of color if you will,
in pop culture and media. And so one of them
is actually like a cartoon, which would be Betty Boop.
One of the origin stories of Betty Boop is actually
um that she was a black singer from the nineteen
(30:35):
twenties and she you know, singing clubs and saying specifically
in Harlem. And her name is Esther Jones or was
Esther Jones, And she has been attributed as the inspiration
and I would say also probably the forgotten inspiration of
Betty Boop. And so the character that we know and love,
um is inspired by a black woman, and um, I
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would say that she was probably a bimbo of that era. Yeah,
I think like there's maybe. And of course, like these
names and categories like probably mean many different things like
now when we're talking about them on a podcast versus
at the time. But I'm thinking about like show girls
and chorus girls and you know, um women who are
(31:20):
like doing strip teases and exotic dancers. I feel like
they're probably all sort of existing somewhere in this bimbo
spectrum for sure. For sure, like the show girl, Yes,
and I think she was like a dancer, a show
girl type of vibe singer performer, singer performer exactly exactly,
(31:43):
So Betty Boop. There's a lot more we were thinking
about the cast of Clueless, because obviously share is like
a little bit of a bimbo in her own way,
but so is her friend Dion, as portrayed by Stacy Dash. Yes,
I would say she was a bimbo at the time,
very much so. I couldn't drive, Yeah, I couldn't drive.
(32:04):
Love to shop. I have no further comments on Stacy Stacy. Dad,
We're not talking about Stacy Dash. We're talking about the
character Dione. We love die Deanna hilarious. Yeah. I mean
also that they were both named in the film, right,
Their characters are both named after famous singers, like that's
That's something named after Diva's very much so love it.
(32:27):
I think also another like loved beloved bimbo would be
like Hillary Banks of Fresh Prince of bel Air. Love
Hillary Bank, you know, I feel like she was treating
like her family treated her as like a frivolous, very
pretty girl and that was it. They didn't give her
the depth she probably deserved. But she was stylish, she
(32:48):
was fashionable for super Yeah. Hillary was very funny. Hillary
had some really good one liners. She did. She did.
She had always a quippy thing to say about men,
men with money, men without money. Love. Hillary Banks also
best dressed on TV who else. I used to watch
Girlfriends a lot growing up. Girlfriends was that show, and
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I think Lynn was maybe considered the bimbo of the group.
Even though Lynn is always in like a PhD program,
she was always getting some type of degree, like not finishing,
and that was the joke, right, She's always in school
and never done no degree. Yes, love Lynn, love girlfriends,
and then of course we have friends. We have Phoebe. Phoebe.
(33:37):
I would say she was given like the ditzy, the bimbo,
hippy hippie. She's like, that's and that's its own category
that we were talking about. There's like the hippie, dizzy granola.
She's a granola, a granola hippie bimbo for sure. Yeah,
I love that. And I think one of my favorites too,
(33:58):
would be Evan Glodia's character and Desperate Housewives, So good,
Gabby Sull, so good, Carlos. She also had one liners.
My favorite is when she says, I love going to therapy.
I just talked about myself the entire same girl exactly.
(34:19):
So she, you know, Gabby Sellis is her own sort
of blueprint. You know, she got the guy, she got
the house, she got the neighborhood was the model. She
was the model. So we love her, we love and
we also love the character. Yes, Gabby Sullies. I think
Desperate Housewives also gave us a little inspo for our photoship.
(34:42):
It did like literally next door down the street with
Steria Lane Podcaster Lane exactly. They definitely made it to
our pinterest board. We'll say that the mood board. Who else, Okay,
ugly Betty, the sister, the sister, that's at least, no,
(35:02):
that's that's the politician. Yeah, I'm thinking of yes, no,
not the politician, don't hope me. Um, that's what is
of ugly Betty. Um. She was like the teen mom
trying to figure out her like creative career right with
the gay side, yes, yes, but very supportive, very amazing.
(35:27):
She was very involved with her family. But they also
put her in like the little outfits with the with
the the plunging necklines and cleaving. Yes, yes, absolutely it's her.
And then it's Modern Family's Gloria. Yeah, so do you like?
Obviously what is the character came first and then it
was Gloria for modern family, correlation must be there, must
(35:52):
be right, like the blueprint, and I know that, like,
for example, one of our friends, um Celestian, has done
like um in our article, like an academic article about
Gloria and her accent. Love it. And so we're not
going to deep dive into like the trope and the
caricature of Gloria herself. But I think that she at
(36:16):
least the character maybe the writers like I, I really
appreciated this line that she has in the show where
she's like, do you know how hard it is to
like be funny in another language and be smart in
another language and are always making fun of me? And
I really appreciated that because I feel like it gives
that depth to that character of like not just being
sexy in a pretty face like I'm just worry, Like
(36:39):
she knew how to work it, you know. I love
that they give her um, They give her a lot
of really good dialogue, Like, they give her a lot
of really funny jokes, and they allow her character, I think,
to be like very quick, and I think that like
with her in Jay, like she always wins, she always wins,
She always wins, because that that's like also its own
(37:02):
dynamic right of like the young hot wife and like
the older man, the older husband, and she's just like
always going to get what she wants. Yes, why else
a bimbo? Why else? Um? And then finally, you know,
this is this is not an extensive list, but finally
(37:23):
we had to talk about the O G Many Santhos.
We love Many Santhos and in the age of e
Fouria Darling, like we just say Many Santhos walk. Yes,
so those bitches couldn't run. Yes, Yes, without Mannie Santos,
there is no Maddie Perez. It's true. There's no like
(37:44):
song as an accessory without Many Santos. It's true. It's
true our Canadian queen. Yes. Obsessed with her, obsessed with her.
She was, Yeah, I just loved her character, Like I
don't think in De Grassi she plays Latina, like I
(38:05):
think she's actually Filipino and her characters, but I remember
like reading her as Latina and I was like, this
is my girl, you know, like it felt like the
representation as like a little kid, even even even you know,
loving that she was a Filipino character and being like
so down for that, you know, absolutely, like I didn't
feel like, oh but that's not me, Like no, that
(38:26):
was me, Like even if it wasn't necessarily the same culture. Yes,
she killed it. I mean from being very daring with
the wardrobe, that character, having the self awareness of like
there's some slut shaming going on in high school, but
she's like, you know what, I'm going to own it.
Fuck you guys, you're boring. You're boring, and you're going
to see my chain thomb. You're gonna see it. Yes,
(38:50):
I love it. And then her opposite, what was the
opposite character, Emma? Was it Emma? She was like the prudisha. Yeah,
that like is doing some of the slush shaming too,
you see. And this is interesting because in Euphoria they
have a very interesting similar dynamic with Maddie and Cassie. Interesting.
I'm not up on the Euphoria, but yeah, but there's
(39:14):
a similar There's two friends in their opposites and one
is like the blonde, innocent one, and then one is
Maddie Alexa Demi's character. Yeah, but the blonde one is
sleeping with Alexa Demi's boyfriend, So how innocent is she really? Right? Right?
But they're all like, oh, Maddie press fights with everybody,
(39:35):
She gets into fights, so she's like the dangerous one
she'll suck you up. But then this girl's like Cassie's
the innocent angel, but she's sleeping with your boyfriends. To
start watching Euphoria, it's good, it's good, it's good. That's stressful.
That's like another show like the chatter I need to keep.
(39:57):
I need I want to know what people are talking
about mine. People are talking about it. There's the thing
pieces either you love it, you hate it. Is what
I've gathered. Oh yeah, there's like no in between. I
think you would watch it and that you would appreciate
it for what it is, but I think part of
you would be like, this is what everybody's There's some
stuff in there that's a little questionable, the stuff with Cal,
(40:20):
with Nate's dad, with Nate, and there's just a lot
of there's just there's you have to see it. That's
my homework. Okay, I'll do it. I'll watch it. So
what else we also wanted to? Of course, we have
this conversation without shouting out like Sama hyak Now, I
wouldn't consider Samahaya a bimbo, more like a sex symbol. Right, agreed?
(40:43):
I agree completely, But I think that she like could
be under this category because I think that she like
it's also someone that I think she like. This is
just my assessment. I have no I have no way
to back this up, Okay, but I'm just saying my
my assessment of Salma Hike is that when her when
she firstarted her career, she very much like played by
(41:04):
the roles and did what she had to do because
she knew, like, I'm Latina getting into the scene, right
into the industry, so I'm gonna like be nice, right.
And now I feel like, obviously she has like this
decade long career, and I see her like more vocal
about like her career in the past and like, you know,
the sexual inappropriate things that would happen to her on
set and like all that, and so I feel like
(41:27):
maybe then even if we wouldn't classify her as a bimbo,
there was still like some bimbo practices if you will,
just to survive yesty. Yes, yeah, I think that this
is a thing right when sometimes women we talk about
like playing dumb or playing like we don't know. Oh help,
(41:48):
I'm I don't know. I I tell her onto my
partner all the time. He's like, aren't you a strong
independent woman? And I literally tell him, no, I'm not.
And I'm like, obviously I know that I am and
I can do whatever, blah blah blah, but like, please
just open this jar for me, you know what I mean, Like,
please just move this item for me, Like just do it. Like, no,
(42:12):
I'm not help me, help, Yeah, exactly, I need a
lot of help and I'm very incapable. I don't want
anyone to think that I'm more than a pretty face
because they want you to do things well. And so
this is the layer that we wanted to discuss for
this episode in particular, is like our women actually bimbos
(42:36):
or do we just want you to think that we're
dumb and not know what we're doing because we don't
want to do free work for you, like free labor
on like and however you wanted to find that like
free labor emotionally, free labor, like physically, like we don't
want to do ship for you. And so now like
(42:57):
and part of what inspired this episode two is like
the girl Boss is dead, like the girl Boss Like
that's like the conversation that's happening now and we're in
the era of resting and what does resting mean? Like
we're going to do what we want and lounge and
not do free work. The free work is done, Yeah,
(43:18):
because we're too busy doing our own free work for ourselves.
We're not doing free work for you. We don't have time.
We're already doing a lot of unveaid labor. There's just
no room on the schedule. I'm with that and with that,
and I'm also look, I've been watching Love is Blind, right,
(43:39):
and there's this one couple on there where every time
the man gets asked, what do you like about her?
This is Jared. I I know where this is going,
and I have no I'm not even watching the show, right.
Everybody that asks him when he meets her family, what
do you like about Ayana? And he says her resilience.
She's so resilient. She's so resilient. She's just so strong.
(44:02):
She's just you know, bad things have happened to her
and she just picks herself up. But that is the
only answer he has given in every episode so far
this season, we're what five episodes out. They keep asking
him what they like about her. The only thing he
will say is resilient. Sometimes it's like, Okay, no, I
want you to think that I'm fragile and weak because
(44:22):
you're not going to put me through anything. I don't
want you to think that I'm resilient. I don't want
you to think that I can overcome any I cannot overcome.
Don't put me through anything. I am done over because
I can't. I can't do it. I saw this. I
saw this meme that was like it was like a
text post, and it was like, if I go through
any more character development, I'm going to develop into a villain.
(44:42):
I was like when I saw that, I was like,
literally fucking same. Not put me through any more growth
because I'm gonna snap, like I will become the villain.
Enough is enough, I hear you, I hear you. Yes,
It's like I just want to be treated gently and
kindly and that is all. Yes, my sister says, like
(45:02):
to be treated like glass. Yes, and that's the one.
I'm a bimbo made of glass. So so let's talk
about that because I'm sure that this topic could probably
make like some folks uncomfortable. Right because one of the
articles that I was reading, which is this Vice article
that we will link in the show notes and the
title is bimbification is taking over What does that mean
(45:26):
for you and so and so the one of the
folks that they talked to. Um, she says that people
tell her that she's putting feminism back by fifty years,
like she's she's like ruining it. Women have worked so hard,
they've broken allegedly the glass ceiling, blah blah blah, all
(45:47):
that stuff. And so what she says, and I'm going
to read the starct quote, I'm saying, maybe, instead of
dedicating our time to people who want to misunderstand us
no matter what we say or how we explain it,
why don't we just let them and let the results
at the end prove everything. Bimboism says, you don't have
to be unintelligent to choose happiness. You just need to
(46:09):
focus on thinking about things that actually matter, like community,
setting an example, and building others up, which can only
be achieved by building yourself up to the point where
you aren't plagued by anxieties, whether you are liked or loved,
whether you said the wrong thing, whether you are enough.
Bimbos say, who cares? I I mean that sounds like
an ideology. We can all get behind this, and Satanism
(46:35):
church that we loved every point we were like, yes,
are we Satanists. I think we're Satanists and bimbo we
are Satanist bimbos. That's it. Oh my god, our poor fathers,
our mothers, mothers, so and then I want this article
(46:56):
is so great, y'all. And I feel like, if you
want to learn more about like what folks are saying abo, bimboism,
and mainly like the children, like the gen z er is,
there are young adults, the young adults, what they're saying, Yes, um, well,
girl bust. Feminism says I may be a girl, but
I can climb the status quos ladder and succeed in
capitalism just like any other man. Meanwhile, bimboism says I'm
(47:17):
literally just here to vibe. Either vibe with me or
leave me alone. That's so real, and I feel like
that's an alignment with our lives. We're very much grinding
but also vibing. Yes, But the pod casting with everything
else that we do, it's like if you don't get it,
you gotta get out of the way. You don't get it.
(47:38):
It's like that other viral, like the girls they get
it get it, and the girls that don't don't yeah,
that's just what it is. That's just what it is.
And mind you, like, I am also just blown away
by how much TikTok has in from this episode, because
like we're like barely on tikto not on TikTok, but
it's already influencing so much of our lives. Okay, well
let me just share. Let me just share that the
(48:01):
reason I found this was because it was through Instagram
because Vice posted the article which led me to the Tigdong.
So I'm still very much on i G you know,
you know, but that, but this article was very much
informed by TikTok and what what the girls are saying,
what the bimbos are saying on TikTok. And something to
add to is like what I've seen in this conversation
(48:23):
is that bimbos are also like can be of any gender.
And when I was talking to our our makeup artist, Robert,
I was telling Robert about this episode and Robert was like, well,
I'm a bimbo, like I self identify as a bimbo,
and what we'll bring him on eventually to like talk
about his own bimboisms, but he's very much like I
want to look hot and I do my makeup and
(48:44):
I'm very smart, but I'm just not going to give
you access to that. No. And Robert, You're gonna see
a lot more of Robert this season season six. I mean,
starting with our pro amount, you're going to see more
of Robert. So look out, look up. Um. And then
you know, there's just been a lot of great like
(49:05):
think pieces about like bimbos um and there's like another
one by Refinery twenty nine. Um. And I want to
read this because I think this really informs like what
we believe at lok Um. Bimbification made its Internet debut
in the early adds as a controversial kink that eroticized
(49:25):
the transition from smart and modest to air headed and hot.
Then misogynists took a piece of erotic bimbo fan art
and flipped it to mourn the loss of the so
called smart, modest woman. It's a familiar in cell cry.
Society is spiraling out of control now that hot women
have the power to reject them. When bemification is no
(49:45):
longer anchored in the fetish scene, people are once again
craving bemification, only this time for themselves. Fascinating, There's something
here y'all there really is. Okay, you remember that mean
where it's like it's like that evolution of man. Is
that what they're talking about? Describe it? So that meme
(50:06):
that's like a plan the evolution of man where you
have like a girl in a hoodie and a backpack
and she's very dressed down reading a book, has glasses,
and then they draw different iterations of that girl and
slowly she becomes visually like sluttier bot. She loses the book,
loses the glasses, loses the hoodie, loses the jeans. She's
(50:28):
wearing like a tight pink you know, like micro dress,
and like what would be called stripper heels, blonde hair, notebook,
huge tits, nips showing basically, And so a bunch of
people online I remember that meme has become like okay,
(50:49):
no goals, Yes, that meme has become this was what
happened to me after college. Thank god, I've reached my
final form. Yes, yeah, So I guess this piece, like
a originated in the King community. And let me just say,
the King community is constantly informing like what we see
in like queer culture, feminist practices, like all of that,
(51:10):
and so this print or this piece of art um
that was taken and turned into like a meme by
like in cells, originated in the king community, and then
a lot of us like took power, like you're saying
like from it, like yeah goals, like yeah, that doesn't
happen to me, like when I got my relationship, you know,
all those things. So we're here for the bimbos, And
(51:33):
I think a lot of it has to do with access,
like who are you giving access to, like your full
self and who are you just like letting see like
I'm a pretty face? True, also very true, I think
to like in the age of the Internet, where you're
like constantly there's pressure to be super vulnerable to strangers
(51:56):
all the time every day, you know, when it's like actually,
I don't know you and don't know me, and you
don't need to know anything about my live facts. But
you could see the pretty stuff. Yeah, you could see
the bimbo ification and that's it, and that's it, and
that's it. I love it. In defensive bimbos, we're here
for them, We're here for bimbo culture. Hell yeah, we're
(52:17):
here for bimbos that are pro sex worker, pro black
lives Matter, pro everything, pro choice, pro choice. And here's
the thing that the idea that one today with something
like this bimbo ifaication can be setting us back fifty years.
It's like, okay, but we're still fighting some of the
same battles we were fighting fifty years ago, like book
(52:39):
bannings Um, the right to choose like is being argued
like at the federal level again again. So yeah, exactly,
we're having the same conversation, the same conversation battling the
same second battles, so we might as well still be
doing this. Basically, it's we're tired of thinking. It's true
(53:02):
that No. I think there's just a lot of there's
a lot of pressure to like always say something profound
and thoughtful and like contribute to the discourse when actually,
like we can just pass the mic and like uplift
what people are saying already and like we ourselves don't
(53:23):
have to say everything. And I think that's partly like
we've made our dues, y'all, Like weren't season six, like
you like, if you want to go back to the
really nitty gritty heavy discourse, they go to the earlier seasons.
That doesn't mean you're not going to get anything like
super deep and profound now. But it's like we can
talk about bimbos and we don't also don't have to
talk about every single thing that's important because it's literally impossible.
(53:47):
We also were having this conversation. We weren't using the
term bimbo, but in early episodes we were talking about
just this, you know, about the the fem as valid
and femininity is valid, and the science behind it, the
technology behind it, the performance, the ritual, all of it.
(54:08):
You know, I mean, I would argue that like our
what is it three like core episodes fem Tech, Multidimensional
Home and Goddess Worship. Our combination of bembification and what
folks are calling bemification, we've already defined it in our
own terms under the look audio verse. We predate TikTok.
(54:29):
Just remember that. Remember that, And I think that because
there's evolution to things, right, like even like that's why
folks go and get their PhDs and like continue on
discourse and to write and they have their dissertations. Like
for example, before us like kim Alan had fem science right,
(54:50):
and then Loba has I would lead the knowledge. You know,
we're all like creating these different terms for our own
communities and our own definition of them as well. So
much to say. I mean, we were talking about a
lot of this stuff also when we were being invited
to universities. Um, we're this more kind of discursive conversations, Yes,
(55:14):
if you will. But you know, these days we're making content.
You know, we're podcasting, we're trying to feed the algorithm.
We're trying to keep keep things up and get content
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just so much going on in the world. There's pop culture,
there's current events, and we want to be able to
(55:34):
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