Cassandra Barry, whom you may remember as the throughly charming wife of Joel Stein from a past episode, sits down with Lynette & Stefanie for an extended interview covering a wide range of subjects. After beginning with some Real Housewives of NY talk & getting an update from Stefanie on the progress of her upcoming show, the conversation moves towards the TV show ‘Intervention’ & a real life intervention Lynette recently took part in. As the first part of this interview draws to a close Stefanie discusses a music video that her girls really like & Producer Gary reveals his ignorance when it comes to Montessori education.
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Show Credits
Producer: Gary Smith
Hi guys! LOVE THE SHOW!!! On the Real Housewives mic situation…. Alex McCord says that in normal filming in NYC they are only miked and filmed for their scenes but when they go on these vacations it is 24/7. But Alex also noted that LuAnn could have text messaged someone and kept that convo away from the producers and she might have let it be overheard because she wanted/needed storyline. I can not wait for your Real Housewives commentary!
Great show today~Just an FYI: For some reason the download didn’t show in my iTunes -
Pleaseeee do an extra Episode talking about NY Housewives-
I’m a huge fan of all The Housewives!!
Stefanie can’t wait to watch your new show!! Congrat’s btw!
Thxs
Kelly Ann
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Best podcast out there. You ladies are hilarious and engaging! Great show, as usual!
It feels like a twilight ep eveytime I hear people from US discuss foreskin
Its so foreign to me that my foreskin is viewed as something gross and need to be cut off. Don’t think peoples life get any different with or without dick skin, but I must say the argument to do it for preventing any future diseases is not doing it for me. I feel like that would be the same as cutting of one of my toes to prevent any future toe cancer. Which it technically would, so I guess good job. I think it really just boils down to what your dads dickhole looked like and that is your preference.
Get your son’s circumcised you don’t want them to have a sharpei down there…..
Yeah MrDick! The whole foreskin dilemma is a very US problem – you guys have the highest circumcision rate of any developed country. It’s not the norm to circumcise in Australia and Western Europe.
Great, this story really touching, beautiful new beginning the end of impressive. Thank you!
Can you guys do me a favor? Please tell Cassandra to ease up with the “LIKE TALK”, it’s driving me crazy! like like like like like like all show long. I love the show, you guys are great, but all that like talk drives me insane. Please… for the love of god…STOP THE LIKE TALK!! You’re a grown ass woman, not a 13 year old child. Tha’s all I wanted to say. I bid you a do.
Oh my gosh, I felt the same way! It really got on my nerves hearing “like” five times per sentence! I enjoyed her otherwise as a guest, and perhaps she was just nervous, but she needs to be aware that it makes her sound very immature. I don’t know what she does for a living, but if she wants to be taken seriously as a career woman she should pay attention to her speech.
You guys are pretty blowhardy and judgemental yourselves.
Circumcision Topic:
Would the ladies be open to having a little skin snipped off their daughter’s clitoral hood just for a ceremonial religious belief? I don’t think so.
The reason for a religious circumcision was to identify people “in the Hebrew tribe”. I would have preferred tattoos.
It does reduce sensitivity – and that is why I would not choose it for my son.
My Mother and Father chose to have me circumcised because it was the “norm”.
The ladies logic seems self serving and based on the “US norm”.
Keep up the good work!
Circumsized penises look like they are in a carrying case – or a travel case. Not a bad thing. : ) I agree it seems horrible to cut off a part of the body.
The medical evidence points toward circumcising, though. To prevent spread of HIV, HPV, etc. Also, on Loveline, Dr.Drew constantly gets calls from uncircumcised guys, who as adults, get tears on their foreskin which scar and cause more tears = viscious cycle of stenosis (or phimosis) and end up having to get circumcised anyway.
Why do only American men have these issues?
I positively view the circumcision discussion as an education of how cultural experience results in normative acceptance of behavior or actions which are extreme; particularly when observed objectively amongst similarly advanced cultures (Western Europe and North America).
The most obvious illustration of the perception of unnecessary alteration is achieved via juxtaposition of genders regarding the potential attractiveness of the currently infantile sex organs. I’m sure many are imagining the reaction were it a panel of male hosts offering detailed discussion regarding revulsion toward extended labia – after all, there’s already a lot going on down there ladies.
That’s fairly easy though and a biased in the way all analogies can be picked apart – there is rarely one-to-one correlation for anything if you enter into the minutia. But, viewed as a broad spectrum, if you asked men or women if they thought infants should have their genitals altered for aesthetic reasons, the trend seems to be no – I suspect pedophiles may ruin some of the sample responses.
Eschewing the obvious recalcitrance to make baby genitals prettier there are factors which I feel mitigate any sort of reactionary attitude when women discuss penis chopping.
Tongue-in-cheek and retracted foreskin aside, I think we can dismiss the idea of aesthetic altering of a sexual organ for either sex as being valid for argument if we’re going to try to win a high school debate regarding the logical impetus in comparatively similar society.
For that reason I don’t need, nor want, to hear any of the hosts capitulate or reverse to a mutual agreeable position. If anything it would be interesting if they all reconsidered their positions, internally, beginning with the acceptance that it is an image conscious evaluation that makes up the bulk of the motivation for action.
I don’t dismiss the tug of commonly held medicinal belief either, but even more so, I have a sympathetic reaction to that which the hosts might also base their views: there really is a lot going on down there for women. Far more than men have to contend with, on balance, so it’s a forgivable impulse that at least a bit of transference occurs when the general medical messages advocating are combined with a dominant cultural practice.
To that end, however, what seems to be lost in the advocational media reports is that lot of medical research is sourced in some of the poorest and least aware portions of the world. I’d imagine a lot of disease is prevalent and transmitted in areas that lack even the most basic concept of the latrine, let alone a penis guillotine
All of this said, I will make a humble request to take the above into consideration prior to unsheathing the knife on a baby penis. And then, regardless of decision, to support my cause: In for a Penis, in for a Pound.
I propose that for every circumcision performed in the US based primarily on aesthetic or normative, cultural reasons, a Trust Fund, nay, a Breast Fund, be created for girls with mandatory provisions that for trim ladies anything less than a C cup is grounds for breast enhancement. The chubby girls can use the proceeds for liposuction or lap band, depending.