Welcome to Episode 13 - Guilty Pleasures! This episode, Liz and Heather talk about their favorite guilty pleasures and what makes them guilty. Could it be social acceptability of age-related interests? Am I too old to do these things?
What makes it guilty?
Why do people try to make us feel guilty? Or are they trying to make us guilty or is that our own internal dialog? Heather thinks that people don't give a shit (too busy with their own stuff) and Liz thinks they do, because it gives them the ability to feel better about their own stuff.
Monster Truck Shows, Bouncy Castles
Our Guilty Pleasures:
Food is a huge pleasure - guilty or not. Wavy Lays, a whole box of Twinkies, Little Debbie snack cakes. Easy Cheese (spray cheese) - delicious. Ranch dressing - it is the universal condiment...it goes on anything!! 2,000 calorie salads? Yes, please. Miracle Whip vs. Mayo.
TV - Glee; MASH; Cosby Show; Frasier - Now we can get sucked in to binge watching our favorite guilty pleasure shows, thanks to Netflix.
Books - Crappy romance novels (Twilight), kids books (Ramona the Pest), chick-lit/girl porn, Sookie Stackhouse books, Shopaholic series, Young Adult (YA) novels - And WE LOVE E-READERS!! They are the best thing in the world for hiding the fact that you are reading something trashy.
Movies - Shawshank Redemption (is it guilty or just good??); Bad network tv movies - Cobra; Eraser, Commando, Predator, The Running Man (These are basically the exact same movie - trust me). FYI - Rae Dawn Chong is actually the daughter of Tommy Chong.
Food Porn - Pinterest, Instagram, Food Network
Stalking People You Hate on the Internet - Former flames, people we hated forever, etc. It's addicting to see how people are crashing and burning on social media.
Bitch of the Week: Schizophrenic Social Media - That super religious person on Sunday, but back to being a psychotic bitch on Monday. We also feel that God would be upset with making assumptions on his behalf (telling other people that God hates them for whatever).
Recommendations:
Out of Context Internet Comment
Twilight - A girl's choice between necrophilia and bestiality.
Reminder about our next book club choice - The Divergent Series by Veronica Roth (Episode 16). Be sure to read all three books, as there WILL be spoilers! Big ones!!
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Welcome to the Nerdy Bitches podcast!
In this introduction episode, Liz and Heather discuss all manner of nerdy topics, including Star Wars, Doctor Who, Harry Potter, and more! Liz is the owner and blogger at Self Saving Princess, and Heather, in her words, is just your average Nerdy Bitch. The bitches recall their indoctrinations into nerd culture, and discuss some of their favorite things.
When searching for female-hosted nerdy podcasts, we found the genre was a "sausage fest", and any podcasts run by chicks were either solely dedicated to one nerd topic, or were the kinds of female-related issues you don't really want to listen to--A podcast with wings!
We are also taking back the word "Bitch," so deal with it. We discuss what that means in regards to women who are willing to speak their minds versus terms given to their male counterparts.
This episode introduces the kinds of topics we enjoy, our weekly Bitch of the Week, random internet comments taken out of context, and each bitch's recommendations.
Our first Bitch of the Week - Fucking Hipsters! (Adjective, not verb - we never condone sleeping with hipsters!) Stupid nerd-posers who wear their geeky glasses (with or without lenses) and beanie hats, and ruin Geekdom for the rest of us.
Recommendations:
Explicit language is to be expected - but it is all in good fun!
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