In an episode, the hosts referenced the title while describing a Catholic school scenario, likening the environment to the dystopian setting of the novel. They used the phrase “literally Handmaid’s Tale” to emphasize the oppressive atmosphere. The mention was brief and served as a metaphor rather than a recommendation.
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They referenced the novel when describing a Catholic school scenario, calling it "literally Handmaid's Tale."
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Time-- It was literally Handmaid's Tale.
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They compared Britney Spears' life to the novel, using it as a metaphor for her conservatorship situation.
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Britney Spears' makeup artist was on this podcast and she basically compared Britney Spears' life to Handmaid's Tale and that she if it was up to her, she would have been married to her boyfriend by now and had a baby.
In one episode the host highlighted the title as a seminal banned work that has personally inspired her, placing it alongside other classic literary milestones. In another episode a storyteller made a brief reference, noting a visual similarity to a character from the book. Across both mentions the book was presented positively, emphasizing its cultural significance and impact.
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The host referenced it as a seminal banned work that has inspired her.
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Here, I'm speaking about Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Toni Morrison's The Song of Solomon, and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.
The book was brought up in a discussion about an advanced women's writing class, where it was listed alongside another notable title. No specific host recommendation was noted, but its inclusion highlighted its relevance to feminist literature. The mention was brief and informational.
The book was brought up when the host referenced Margaret Atwood's recent 60 Minutes interview, noting her role as the author of the well‑known dystopian novel and its cultural significance. In a later episode, the host argued that some listeners mistakenly treated the book as a prophetic masterpiece, suggesting that view was misguided.
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The show discussed Atwood's interview on 60 Minutes, noting she wrote the dystopian novel and referenced its cultural impact.
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This week on 60 Minutes, we sit down with Canada's bestknown author, Margaret Atwood, who wrote The Handmaid's Tale.
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He claimed that some people regard The Handmaid's Tale as a great prophetic work of literature, implying that this view was misguided.
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We give the vote to people who think The Handmaid's Tale is a great prophetic work of literature.
Episode: Ep. 1575 - Matt Walsh Breaks Down The Deceptive Pr...
The book was cited by feminists as a warning about a political administration, but the host argued it was a desperate and ineffective analogy.
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When feminists began citing The Handmaid's Tale as a warning of what Donald Trump's administration would look like, serious people understood that it was not a clever analogy or a useful metaphor. It was desperation.
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The host mentioned it as the one book that liberals are ever capable of referencing, comparing white women to roaches and saying they want to live in it.
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she compared white women to roaches and said they want to live in The Handmaid's Tale, which is by law the one book that liberals are ever capable of referencing.
Episode: Ep. 1059 - How The Red Wave Became The Red Ripple
Matt Walsh mentioned the novel while arguing that leftwing commentators often cite literary works like The Handmaid's Tale to illustrate their points.
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She references the handmaid's tale writing quote The idea of taking a husband's last name always made me uncomfortable reminding me of the handmaid's tale and Margaret Atwood's Gilead the ant the handmaids who exist to carry the babies of the elites are Stripped of anything that identifies them as individuals including their names
As we know if not for Harry Potter and the handmaid's tale leftists would not be able to make any literary references at all
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Walsh warned that the upcoming societal changes would make The Handmaid's Tale more than just a television show.
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If we don't stand up now ... the Handmaid's Tale is going to be more than just a show.
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The hosts noted that Handmaid's Tale cosplayers attended Amy Coney Barrett's home and embarrassed themselves.
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Plus, Handmaid's Tale cosplayers show up at Amy Coney Barrett's house and proceed to embarrass themselves because what else could they possibly do?
the Handmaid's Tale protesters showed up at Amy Coney Barrett's house yesterday. And Fox News was there and they interviewed one of the protesters.
Episode: Ep. 943 - Leftist Death Cult Panics Over End Of Ro...
The host warned that overturning Roe would push the country into a society resembling the novel, repeatedly invoking its title as a cautionary reference.
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we're back in a Handmaid's Tale society here. All of you women who sat home... I'm with you. My heart is just broken. I don't understand why this country hates women so much.
they've only read one book, Handmaid's Tale, which I'm not even sure that they've read that book.
It used to be Harry Potter, but we got to get rid of Harry Potter because JK Rowling is transphobic apparently. And so now it's Handmaid's Tale.
Episode: Ep. 789 - Leftism Is A Death Cult
The host invoked the title to illustrate the oppressive nature of recent abortion legislation, likening it to the dystopian scenario of the novel.
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And this is a handmaid's tale. I mean, these are misogynists and sexists who are supporting this law because they want to control women.
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The host suggested the prolife movement was "nothing but a Handmaid's Tale plot to enslave women."
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It would seem that we prolifers just really do oppose the murder of defenseless and innocent human beings. Who would have thought? Who could have imagined? Well, Cuomo didn't think. And he doesn't think in general. But unfortunately, that doesn't stop him from talking. And for that reason today, he is canceled. And we'll leave it there. ... It would seem that the prolife movement is nothing but a Handmaid's Tale plot to enslave women.
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He said Joy Reid invoked the novel, calling it a terrifying prospect and noting it was eerily reminiscent of the story.
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Joy Reid, for example, on MSNBC, she invoked the Handmaid's Tale, which makes me wonder, by the way, what the country might look like if leftists would read some other book besides that and Harry Potter.
Terrifying prospect, eerily reminiscent of the Handmaid's Tale, where far right wing religious extremists took up arms against America to carve out their own country out of ours.
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The show referenced the novel as a dystopian benchmark, saying that the Equality Act would create a reality far beyond what Atwood imagined.
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The people who were worried that Mike Pence would bring Handmaid's Tale to life were, the whole time, working to establish their own dystopia that goes far beyond anything that Margaret Atwood conceived.
Episode: Ep. 570 - Ban Critical Race Theory In Our Schools
The book was referenced as the dystopian novel that supposedly inspired a Catholic group, and later the host noted the Handmaid's Tale was "very real."
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served as the basis for Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel about a future where women are subjugated and enslaved by men.
In the episode, the host referenced the novel to illustrate the hypocrisy of a political figure, likening the situation to a scene where a commander visits a brothel. The comparison was used as a brief analogy rather than a recommendation. The overall tone was neutral, simply noting the similarity.
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The book was mentioned as a point of comparison regarding the hypocrisy of a political figure, suggesting a situation similar to Commander Waterford visiting a brothel in the story.
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And it reminds me of a handmade tale where like commander Waterford is going to the brothel and it's girls like this dancing everywhere.
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The hosts claimed the political plan would literally create a scenario like the novel, stripping America of power and forcing isolation.
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they are halfway through. And their plan is to completely strip America of all of its power and for us to live in isolation and literally make the handmaid's tale.
Episode: Scared White House Lying Nonstop at Horrible Press...
The hosts referred to Caroline Levitt as "the Handmaid's Tale" for a cabinet full of people wanting to do evil, using the novel as a metaphor for the administration's behavior.
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She's the messenger. She's the handmaid tale for a cabinet full of people that want to do really evil, diabolical shit all in the name of Jesus.
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The hosts expressed concern that current events felt like a descent into the dystopian world depicted in Handmaid's Tale.
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We have the Ten Commandments now on the public classrooms, superintendents buying all these Trump Bibles. And it's just I just feel like we're slipping into Handmaid's Tale.
Episode: Trump vs. Women's Rights
They claimed the current situation was beyond The Handmaid's Tale.
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beyond handmaid tale what these people are trying to do with their Trojan horse, Donald Trump,
The speaker compares a dissenting Justice's comparison of the majority opinion to a Trojan horse to someone who quotes from books they haven't read. The speaker then points out that the justice isn't actually reading the book she mentions, and instead seems to be just quoting it.
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And somebody obviously got a book in the month club membership last year because not only is she not reading the Iliad she might also not be reading the handmaid's tale she's just like ordering these...
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The speaker compares a dissenting Justice's comparison of the majority opinion to a Trojan horse to someone who quotes from books they haven't read. The speaker then points out that the justice isn't actually reading the book she mentions, and instead seems to be just quoting it.
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And somebody obviously got a book in the month club membership last year because not only is she not reading the Iliad she might also not be reading the handmaid's tale she's just like ordering these books and they're on her shelf and she just occasionally quotes them but I just want to explain to Justice Bradley that the political party that is actually associated with forced childbirth and the denigration of women is not the party of the majority in this decision like wrong party wrong book wrong horse
Saagar compared DeSantis's statement to Trump's remarks about him as a 'RINO' and said that the Florida governor's statement about being attacked by the media was a weak response because he should have just let the election results speak for themselves.
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I thought it was a bit of a weak response because I think he should have just led with that. I think it would have been had some gravitas to it.
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Saagar compared DeSantis's statement to Trump's remarks about him as a 'RINO' and said that the Florida governor's statement about being attacked by the media was a weak response because he should have just let the election results speak for themselves.
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I thought it was a bit of a weak response because I think he should have just led with that. I think it would have been had some gravitas to it.
Bill Burr's mother-in-law was watching it and he described it as 'Little House on the Prairie meets an S&M video'.
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the handmaid's tale on Hulu is anybody watching that I came home the other day and my mother-in-law she always she watches all these shows that I would never see she started to watch one about it was...
— Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 5-22-17
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 5-22-17
Bill Burr's mother-in-law was watching it and he described it as 'Little House on the Prairie meets an S&M video'.
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the handmaid's tale on Hulu is anybody watching that I came home the other day and my mother-in-law she always she watches all these shows that I would never see she started to watch one about it was about this girl who committed suicide and left like a tape
now it's like little house in the prairie meets like an S&M video it's really weird I don't know what was going on like they would they were like these nuns and they were trying to escape this thing and one of them makes it on the subway and the other one doesn't and then next thing you know they got her tied down and they're beating her feet
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 5-22-17
Bill Burr's mother-in-law was watching it and described it as a strange mix of 'Little House on the Prairie' and an S&M video, specifically referencing a scene where a woman's feet are beaten.
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the handmaid's tale on Hulu is anybody watching that I came home the other day and my mother-in-law she always she watches all these shows that I would never see she started to watch one about it was about this girl who committed suicide and left like a tape and she was watching that one now it's like little house in the prairie meets like an S&M video it's really weird I don't know what was going on like they would they were like these nuns and they were trying to escape this thing and one of them makes it on the subway and the other one doesn't and then next thing you know they got her tied down and they're beating her feet how do you get that job the official like feet beater
The Handmaid's Tale was briefly referenced in the conversation about the value of family and the declining birth rate, comparing its dystopian world to a potential return to basics in America.
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I just think we've got to get back to the basics and restore America to look like The Handmaid's Tale.
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The Handmaid's Tale was briefly referenced in the conversation about the value of family and the declining birth rate, comparing its dystopian world to a potential return to basics in America.
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I just think we've got to get back to the basics and restore America to look like The Handmaid's Tale.
I always thought those robes were really cool in the TV show. They look kind of glamorous to me.
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The Handmaid's Tale was mentioned, but no details about the book were mentioned. The speaker was referring to the book and TV series of the same name.
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You know, he's going to bring in Handmaid's Tale dystopia and all this kind of stuff.
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The speaker mentions "The Handmaid's Tale" in the context of discussing the dangers of government overreach and how it can lead to a totalitarian regime.
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because they have skull face tattoos we know who the criminals are and then it turns out once you crack down on the criminal element your country improves
The Handmaid's Tale was mentioned in relation to the potential impact of restrictive abortion policies on IVF.
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Other than some outtake from The Handmaid's Tale, I mean, if you actually want families, you know, IVF is something you want to encourage, not not punish.
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The Handmaid's Tale was mentioned in relation to the potential impact of restrictive abortion policies on IVF.
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Other than some outtake from The Handmaid's Tale, I mean, if you actually want families, you know, IVF is something you want to encourage, not not punish.
The book was referenced across several episodes as a cultural touchstone for discussing real‑world abortion and surrogacy controversies, with John Lovett noting its historical inspiration and other hosts using it to draw parallels to political figures. Jason Concepcion, Carly, and Jon Lovett mentioned it in passing while debating current events and media adaptations. The commentary was observational and did not constitute a strong endorsement, reflecting a casual mention of the title.
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It was mentioned as being inspired by the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauescu's outlawing of birth control and abortion, which had devastating consequences for women and children.
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And it was one of the inspirations for Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, which was based on things that had already happened.
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The Handmaid's Tale was mentioned in passing, and one of the podcast hosts expressed a preference for watching shows with happier endings or less punishment.
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It's also I feel when a very kind of like morose still from the new season of Had Mane's Tale pops up and it's like, I don't know, I kind of can I can I watch something where I don't know, like the good guys win like relatively quickly.
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The podcast hosts discussed the book during the game 'Brett Kavanaugh 4D', where the book's premise of a dystopian future where women are forced into servitude was linked to the discussion about abortion.
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I honestly think reading the clue about the abortion detention got me into a Handmaid's Tale mindset, and I went to Janine.
Episode: Handmaid’s Fail
It was mentioned in relation to Trent Franks's actions, suggesting that he wanted to engage in surrogacy with his staff, similar to the practices depicted in the book.
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he was going to various members of his staff and saying hey can i put a baby in you via via sex uh because you'll be my surrogate and his statement was remarkable it said i just got so comfortable with the topic of surrogacy that i forgot that it might make some women uncomfortable to basically do handmaid's tale in my congressional office
Episode: Where There's Smoke There's Fire Comey
It was mentioned briefly as a topic that was on the host's mind, possibly referencing the current events or the Hulu series based on the book.
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We have the Handmaid's Tale It's on my mind
Episode: The Faust and the Furious
Bradley Whitford mentioned that the show is in its sixth and final season and the hosts said they had read Margaret Atwood's original novel before working on the series, recalling a memorable passage about the danger of humanizing terrible people.
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Hey, you're in the sixth and final season of Handmaid's Tale. Yes.
I read the novel before the show. The passage that has stuck with me the longest since I read it years ago is about the danger of humanizing terrible people.
The book was mentioned in contrast to Octavia Butler's work, criticized for its inaccuracies regarding climate change and for being overemphasized in discussions of current events.
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But Handmaid's Tale somehow is the book that people come to. I ain't seen no bitches and no red cloaks running around nowhere. Also, Handmaid's Tale completely fucks up on climate change.
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The book was mentioned in contrast to Octavia Butler's work, criticized for its inaccuracies regarding climate change and for being overemphasized in discussions of current events.
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But Handmaid's Tale somehow is the book that people come to. I ain't seen no bitches and no red cloaks running around nowhere. Also, Handmaid's Tale completely fucks up on climate change.
A Korean film adaptation of a British novel that the host highly recommended, particularly for its erotic Japanese books plotline and intense same-sex scene.
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I have been revisiting and also visiting for the first time the films of Park Chan-wook who is an excellent Korean director who did Old Boy directed the film Old Boy, which is a favorite and you know...
— Episode: Speak to Us: Voicemail Edition
Episode: Speak to Us: Voicemail Edition
A Korean film adaptation of a British novel that the host highly recommended, particularly for its erotic Japanese books plotline and intense same-sex scene.
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I have been revisiting and also visiting for the first time the films of Park Chan-wook who is an excellent Korean director who did Old Boy directed the film Old Boy, which is a favorite and you know did the Vengeance trilogy old boy was the third one. He did Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance then Lady Vengeance and then Old Boy.
He has a film called The Handmaiden that is it's like he's really big into adapting like British kind of period novels and making them Korean and like kind of I don't know folding it into Korean culture and he does it so seamlessly. It's kind of incredible. You'd never know that it was adapted but it's sort of almost this Oliver twist type story where there's like a Fagin type character like a den of thieves that you know, this guy's the leader and he has this really elaborate grift and I'm not going to spoil anything because it has more twists than a than a prancel but there is a plot line in it involving erotic Japanese books, which is a thing.
It's a very very cool empowering, you know, kind of queer positive type message but also a rollicking adventure with baddies galore and absolutely stunning cinematography.
The book was used as an example of a dystopian world and a comparison to how the Democrats are trying to scare women into voting for them.
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And it's going to be like Handmaid's Tale.
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The book was used as an example of a dystopian world and a comparison to how the Democrats are trying to scare women into voting for them.
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And it's going to be like Handmaid's Tale.
You're going to be in a lot of trouble.
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Dave Rubin mentioned the book during a segment about immigration and women's rights. He said that if Donald Trump were to become president again, women would not be forced to stay at home like in the Handmaid's Tale, but at least they would only have one wife. He made this point to highlight the idea that some immigrants entering the country have multiple wives, which he believes is problematic.
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Before you tell me that Donald Trump is going to put me in the Handmaid's Tale and I'm going to be at home making sandwiches, at least I'll be the only wife.
The book was mentioned in the context of a documentary about book banning, where it was said that it had been pulled from some library shelves along with four other books.
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Sunday on MSNBC One night, two documentaries at 9pm Eastern to be destroyed. The story of one community's fight against book banning. My book along with four others was pulled from the shelves.
— Episode: Morning Joe 10/17/22
Episode: Morning Joe 10/17/22
The book was mentioned in the context of a documentary about book banning, where it was said that it had been pulled from some library shelves along with four other books.
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Sunday on MSNBC One night, two documentaries at 9pm Eastern to be destroyed. The story of one community's fight against book banning. My book along with four others was pulled from the shelves.
It was mentioned in relation to the Oscars, and the topic of Olivia Colman winning, and Glenn Close losing.
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Glenn Close Lost. Was anyone waiting to go home and watch it live?
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It was mentioned in relation to the Oscars, and the topic of Olivia Colman winning, and Glenn Close losing.
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Glenn Close Lost. Was anyone waiting to go home and watch it live?
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It was mentioned that the podcast hosts found the book terrifying and it was the reason they had not watched the show.
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but you, I couldn't deny my body you couldn't deny your body you guys this is our first episode since our backlog of LA episodes that was so fun we loved all of our guests for that love Lesandro surprised myself with how much we loved it sure I you know what this was the trip or is like I can move here I could do it no stranger to LA who our guest our guest honey because he's been there
two years ago I started reading the book and it terrified me it's very scary and mostly not a fap worthy show
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It was the basis for a musical that Marsha Belsky created and toured with Melissa Stikowski; the musical is a parody of musical theatre in general and the plot of the book, but also includes new plot elements, like Offred becoming a barista.
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So we were I read the book Handmaid's Tale and we were watching the show together and we have been joking about how everything becomes a musical and how that.
And but yeah like these other shows that you see like I mean first of all how many people had to die just so they could make Spider-Man.
Offred is June and she like moves to New York to become a barista and is pursuing her dreams and all this stuff and then just winds up a handmade and as you do.
Honestly though like the the Hamids tell the musical, okay so did this come from being a huge fan of the show?
And we still put on this like full show. It's so cool right now. It feels big and also it will get bigger which is what's cool to think about.
Episode: "Drag Mother" (w/ Guy Branum)
A movie adaptation of this book was discussed as being terrible, while the TV adaptation was considered to be much better, highlighting the value of internal character perspectives.
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when they made a movie version of The Handmaid's Tale, it was terrible and when they made the TV version, it's great.
The hosts referenced the book when describing a character as a traditional wife who behaved like a sociopath, using it to illustrate a dystopian scenario where women are forced into sexual servitude. In a later episode they quoted a phrase from the story, though it was unclear whether they had read the book or knew its details. Overall, the title was mentioned more as a cultural touchstone than as a recommended read.
Episode: Trad Wife Bad Life
Serena Waterford, a character from the book, was described as a traditional wife who is also a sociopath. The show and the book explore a dystopian future where women are forced into sexual servitude.
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You know who else is the traditional wife? Serena Waterford on The Handmaid's Tale.
Yeah, she's also a sociopath.
And I'm going to tell you, you do kind of get these sociopathic vibes from these videos. They're like, it's like a Stepford slash sociopath vibe.
Episode: Blasphemous Naughty Nuns
The phrase "Blessed be the fruit" was mentioned and referenced in relation to "The Handmaid's Tale" but it wasn't clear that the podcast hosts had read the book or knew much about it.
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What did they say on The Handmaid's Tale? Blessed be the fruit.
Oh, blessed be the fruit. Under his eye. Under his eye, yes. Under his eye. Under his eye.
The book was invoked in three episodes as a cautionary analogy, with the hosts and guests using its dystopian imagery to warn that current political actions resembled the novel's oppressive themes. They cited potential deportations and the erosion of freedoms as akin to the story's concentration camps and handmaid scenario. The discussion focused on critiquing the political climate rather than recommending the title.
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The speaker used the book to illustrate the danger of Donald Trump potentially deporting 15 million people, saying they might end up in concentration camps before deportation.
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I don't want the handmaid's tale streamed in America for real life when he tries to deport 15 million people.
You got to put them in concentration camps before you can figure out where to deport them.
Episode: Trump EXPOSED Before Special Master, Ginni Thomas...
The hosts referenced the GOP Handmaid's Tale video they released, explaining it depicted a young woman crossing the border and being pulled over, noting the ad had originally aired in 2021.
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We talk about the GOP Handmaid's Tale video that we had released about the young lady crossing the border with her mother and then getting pulled over by the police. When we released that ad, we initially released that ad back in 2021.
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The hosts compared the current political climate to the novel, calling it horrific and likening the loss of freedoms to the story.
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I mean, it's horrific to it's horrific. It's sick. It's handmaid's tale. But that is who the Republican parties are taking away our freedoms.
Episode: Time to FIGHT BACK against a perjuring SCOTUS and...
The hosts noted that the series could no longer be watched because it was no longer considered parody, implying the book's themes were too real to be treated as satire.
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Well, here's the thing. Like, and this is kind of the progression of like, first it was like, wait a minute. You can't even watch Handmaid's Tale anymore because that's not parody.
Episode: Stopping the GOP from Destroying The Economy with...
The hosts noted that Ben mistakenly referred to the novel as the "handmaiden's tale" and also confused the title of the related TV series, highlighting his mixup of cultural references.
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It's because Ben has apparently entered his phase of life where he gets the names of TV shows wrong. And so Ben called it the handmaiden's tale. It's the handmaid's tale. It's like when Ben also now starts to call it Games of Thrones instead of Game of Thrones.
Episode: Winning with Women in Charge with Ukrainian Leader...
The hosts mentioned the book as something they stopped watching because it felt exaggerated compared to real radical right actions.
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It's not an exaggeration. The Handmaid's Tale. I had to stop watching it because in many ways, the radical right here goes further than, you know, goes further than him.
Episode: Don’t Let the Bastards Grind You Down with Adam Ep...
The hosts referenced the novel to illustrate a dystopian scenario, urging listeners not to let oppressive forces defeat them.
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We made a reference to Handmaid's Tale earlier in this episode, right? ... The Handmaid's Tale was mentioned to highlight how the current political climate feels like a dystopia.
Well, there is a translated phrase from that show that I want you to leave the show with. And that's, don't let the bastards get you down.
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