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A Special Place in Hell

Meghan Daum & Sarah Haider

Two girls, one podcast. aspecialplace.substack.com

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80:14

Martha Stewart’s Stunning And Brave Turn

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2023/05/25

Sexy grandma Martha Stewart bravely goes where no self-respecting woman really should: The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition Cover. What can we say, other than: “yas Queen, get it”. Next, a social club for the losers of the intellectual discourse--or is getting cancelled kind of sexy now? (We say: yes).SUBSCRIBE TO HEAR THE BONUS: https://aspecialplace.substack.com/subscribeLINKS:At 81, Martha Stewart Is the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Cover StarA Club for the CancelledHow Therapists Became

86:33

Checking Our Sanity Privilege

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2023/05/16

Are the criminally insane suffering from mental marginalization? Or is New York City just terrible? Is it ageist of Sarah to force Meghan to use Trello?Watch the episode on YouTube:Listen to the podcast on:Apple: https://apple.co/3jnEkALSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3l3WLLeSubstack: https://bit.ly/3XYHFoWAmazon & Audible: https://amzn.to/3JANQehi-Heart Radio: https://bit.ly/3jtpskoRSS: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/aspecialpl...Tune In: http://bit.ly/3lhLwixStitcher :http://bit.ly/3x1P9eYGoogle:

67:02

An Unholy Alliance Of Pathologies: Kathleen Stock on...

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2023/05/09

Titan of (so-called) TERFdom, philosopher-turned-activist, columnist, lesbian resurrectionist Kathleen Stock joins our hellscape oasis for a wide ranging conversation about academic freedom, professional cowardice, and how trans ideology took over the gay rights movement.Also: Sarah, Meghan and Kathleen compare notes on who apologizes the most. (Spoiler: it’s not Sarah.)Watch the episode on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3jrxz0AListen to the podcast on:Apple: https://apple.co/3jnEkALSpotify:

87:29

Are Intellectuals Going Extinct?

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2023/04/30

Is “public intellectual” a white supremacist concept? Is the MacArthur Genius Grant a Woke prize? Is Judy Blume a TERF?Watch the video episode on YouTube: : https://bit.ly/3jrxz0AFollow us on:Twitter: https://bit.ly/40heL4ZInstagram: https://bit.ly/3X3fHXEFacebook: https://bit.ly/3l2OW8GWebsite: https://aspecialplaceinhell.org/ This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aspecialplace.substack.com/subscribe

53:32

Saira Rao and Regina Jackson DESTROY Our Inner Karens

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2023/04/21

To kick off the new season of A Special Place In Hell, Sarah and Meghan welcome Saira Rao and Regina Jackson, founders of the anti-racism enterprise, Race To Dinner. Is Meghan holding back white woman tears? Is Sarah Nazi-adjacent? Or merely Meghan’s sidekick?Watch the video episode on YouTube: : https://bit.ly/3jrxz0A Listen to the podcast on: Apple: https://apple.co/3jnEkAL Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3l3WLLe Amazon & Audible: https://amzn.to/3JANQehi-Heart Radio: https://bit.ly/3jtpsko Tune In:

113:25

Coleman Hughes on Dating While Heterodox

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2023/04/14

This week (actually it was a few weeks ago), the girls/women find themselves in NYC! In the bustling, dystopia-adjacent metropolis, Meghan reclaims OWNS the streets of her youth/recent middle age while Sarah is disoriented by the assault on her tender suburban senses and feels as if she is suffocating on the miasma of mold and garbage juice. And guess what? This was the first time Sarah and Meghan ever met person! Sarah still cannot believe Meghan is merely average in height. Meghan cannot believe

127:55

Hate Crimes Good! Delayed Childbearing Bad!

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2023/02/10

This episode includes the bonus content normally only for paying subscribers: You are all welcome. The girls/women take on so many meaty topics that they might as well be glowing from Jordan Peterson’s carnivore diet. After a quick plug for Meghan’s new (and soon-to-be-HUGE) Substack feature Dreams of Heterodox Podcasters, they begin with a discussion of Sarah’s recent Substack post about “how hate crime hoaxes are good.” (Never blame writers for headlines. Except on Substack.) They move on to a

79:00

The New York Times Tiptoes Toward Gender

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2023/01/26

The New York Times has been tiptoeing up to the gender youth story. Does that mean the subject will soon be safe to talk about in polite company? The ladies discuss a recent Times article about the effects of school policies that compel teachers to hide kids’ new gender identities from parents. In the interests of balance, they also talk about an article in The Federalist (which Sarah reads religiously despite being an atheist) bout how government overreach and agenda-driven advocacy caused a

89:21

Betsy Ross: Token Hire?

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2023/01/13

Is Sarah too-light skinned, or not light-skinned enough? What sort of impact will this have on A Special Place’s imminent move to video? Unrelatedly, how does one pronounce the Brothers Karamazov? Or the name of its author, for that matter? Plus, Sarah hears the pronunciation of Solzhenitsyn for the first and it’s like a blind person who can suddenly see. Speaking of great authors, in this episode, the girls/women discuss Lex Fridman’s reading list (because everyone else already has, and they are

74:22

H*ppy H*lid*ys You K*rens

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2022/12/28

Is Christmas the Master Holiday? Or is it the Joe Rogan of holidays? Have young men OD’d on video games? Are so many words actually that harmful, or is it just Stanford? Plus: More Penelope Trunk backbiting. In this episode, the girls/women discuss their holiday plans, which are very unexciting. Was Sarah a trans-child, or was she just neglected? Has Meghan always hated babies? Should Sarah (who has large cheeks) gift her fat to Meghan (who needs padding), thus bonding them forever in the vain

84:28

Are We Autistic? Penelope Trunk Advises

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2022/12/19

In this episode, Sarah and Meghan welcome business coach, blogger and all-around opinion-ista, Penelope Trunk. Should women get plastic surgery? Are video games the key to a future as a business tycoon? Can women run businesses anyway?? Penelope is a professional career coach, so she tells Sarah and Meghan what they are doing wrong (spoiler: almost everything) and why they will never make it in this business (or perhaps, any other). She also administers some tests to determine whether they’re

79:44

The Grift That Keeps On Giving

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2022/12/09

This week, Meghan and Sarah revisit their conversation from the previous episode about hormonal birth control. Is Sarah an anti-birth control zealot secretly advocating for legislation to ban all contraception? Is Meghan too forgiving of men who hate condoms? They then move onto late breaking Twitter news (now known as “old news”). As they recorded, Matt Taibbi’s bombshell thread about political bias and content suppression at Twitter was unspooling in real time. Can they make sense of it? (Mostly.)

76:39

Jagged Little Birth Control Pill

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2022/11/27

In this episode of A Special Place in Hell, recorded on Thanksgiving eve, Sarah and Meghan discuss their plans, including why it’s taken Sarah awhile to get the hang of this holiday, especially the cranberry sauce and eating at 2pm part. (You can read Meghan’s take on Thanksgiving in her latest Substack essay.) After touching on a few breaking news stories that everyone’s forgotten by now, they turn to the subject of birth control. Sarah read a book about it and Meghan watched a documentary and they

75:37

Katie Herzog Visits Hell

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2022/11/21

This week, superstar podcaster Katie Herzog visits A Special Place In Hell to talk about what it’s like to dwell in that sordid sphincter of public discourse known as Twitter. Her podcast, Blocked and Reported, which she co-hosts with Jesse Signal, may live in indentured servitude to some of the the worst the Internet has to offer, but Katie herself knows how to live off the land — or at least touch grass. Here, she talks with Sarah and Meghan about how her wife keeps her grounded, how she fears

82:42

Musk Derangement Syndrome

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2022/11/14

This week (or was it last week?) the girls/women monitor the midterm election returns as they re-record the episode (#BecauseStandards). Along the way they discuss the latest object of mass cultural derangement: Elon Musk. Is Musk the new Trump? Is Twitter really any different than it was a few weeks ago? It’s difficult to say, but as it happens Meghan spent several days hanging out with Musk several years ago when she profiled him for Vogue (in 2015; not in 2014 like she kept saying). She describes

71:22

We're Quitting Twitter! (And Moving To Canada!)

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2022/11/02

In this edition of the podcast, the girls/women kick off the discussion with reports on their respective special events; Sarah’s Rights and Religions Forum conference in Washington, DC and Meghan’s latest Unspeakeasy retreat in New York. Lamenting their ongoing habit of saying “I’m a liberal, but . . .” before talking about anything that might be construed as right wing, Sarah says the noticed the same tic in a book she’s reading about the unintended consequences of the birth control pill

68:58

Life Is Cringe

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2022/10/27

On this episode of A Special Place in Hell, the girls/women tackle it all; marriage, sexism, racism, jock smells. This is despite physical and emotional exhaustion from their very special projects; Sarah’s conference and Meghan’s Unspeakeasy retreat. Sarah begins by wondering whether “self-hating millennial” is misleading and, god forbid, cringe. Meghan wonders whether all of childhood is cringe. They then move onto the topic of marriage and expectations and whether mothers should move into “Lady

95:19

LIT-eral Violence

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2022/10/20

In this episode of A Special Place in Hell, the girls/women wade through the sorry details of last week’s scandale littéraire involving Hobart, a literary magazine no one had ever heard of until last Wednesday. Meghan is a veteran of the literary world and it turns out it’s her job to educate Sarah about how things work. They discuss the phenomenon of “white Brooklyn ladies of the publishing business,” as coined by the writer Alex Perez, a Cuban American writer and Iowa Writers Workshop alum who is

101:59

Jon Stewart's Gender Derangement

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2022/10/10

In this episode of A Special Place In Hell, the girls/women lose their sh*t over Jon Stewart’s latest virtue signal flare from the ideological bunker in which he appears to be held captive. It’s especially egregious considering a new Reuters story that, for the first time, lays out actual numbers about how many kids are being medicalized for gender dysphoria, including getting invasive surgeries. But before that, they discuss Meghan’s New York Times interview with a “conservative therapist” that

76:14

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen By Proxy

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2022/10/04

This week on A Special Place in Hell, the girls/women spend way too much time on names. Are you a racist for mispronouncing Nimrata Nikki Randhawa? (Yes). Is the aforementioned a white supremacist for changing her name to Nikki Haley? (Yes). Should Meghan become Meghan X Daum? (Definitely). Why did George W. Bush call his wife “Bushie”? (Unclear). The girls/women then move on to a lighter topic: the new guidelines announced at the recent World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)

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