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On this episode of My Problematic Past, Lucy and Elise chat with their friend Maura and talk about her transformation from being a young republican to a progressive social worker. Maura discusses her Catholic upbringing, attending Evangelical summer camp, experiencing 9/11 (and supporting the Iraq War + Bush) and writing bills on privatizing social security for her high school DC Model Congress. Follow her path as she wakes up to supporting feminism in college, and understanding classism, colonialism and all of those important “isms”!

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Miles “Halloween-Freak” French joins Elise and Lucy for the 4th annual Halloween episode! They discuss Elise’s vampire sighting, vintage Halloween décor, spooky events, gay Halloween, inflatables, bald awareness, trunk-or-treat, classic movie monsters, Sinners, Kim K’s merkins, Oktoberfest, costume predictions, casting spells around Halloween, and more!

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On this episode of My Problematic Past, Lucy and Elise dive into the alternative medicine movement, discussing homeopathy, pseudoscience, EMF anxiety, red dye 40, and more.

Lucy’s childhood friend, Dr. Val, joins this episode to talk about attending Waldorf school and growing up surrounded by granola and fringe beliefs. Val went from believing in pseudoscience to becoming a Western medicine doctor, so listen to learn about her journey!

Also discussed: the racist history of Rudolf Steiner, the organic food movement, supplements, health fads, how to do your own research, growing up unvaccinated, acupuncture, and more. Listen to the full episode to hear Dr. Val’s hot take on Ozempic!

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In this SOTU so true episode, Lucy and Elise rehash 10 year old beef, fight their excecutive functioning issues, talk short kings and tall queens, do some Hinge analysis, have 2016 college party nostalgia, and take things personally. They also discuss getting art grants, yoni eggs, yoni cafes, overly personal instagram ads, virgo season/school year, elise's stand up class, zyn, voter suppression, and more. 

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In this SOTU episode, Lucy & Elise discuss Lucy's visit to Canada, public pools, spirit guides, Bach fan fiction, Too Much (Lena Dunham's new show), Let Them Theory, Elise's improv show, and much more!

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On this episode of My Problematic Past, Lucy & Elise dive into the anti-vax movement. 

In the first half of the episode (00:00-27:00), your hosts explore the history of vaccines in the U.S. and the rise of the anti-vax movement. They talk polio, the Cutter incident, “DPT: Vaccine Roulette,” Dissatisfied Parents Together, Andrew Wakefield and The Lancet paper, thimerosal, anti-vax celebs, and RFK Jr.’s infamous Rolling Stone article, “Deadly Immunity.”

In the second half (27:00–1:29:00), your hosts interview pod favorite Ari and her mom, Julie. Julie shares what it was like raising Ari in a widely anti-vax town, choosing not to vaccinate her, and later being in the news for that decision. They talk about Ari getting vaccinated as an adult, how Julie’s views shifted during COVID, and RFK, Trump, and Plandemic.

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Elise & Lucy are back with a long-awaited June State of the Union. And a lot has changed.

In this episode, your hosts talk breakups, grief, and friendship. They also discuss curses, Addison Rae, Lorde’s marketing for her new album, And Just Like That, Elise's improv troupe, Billie Eilish, JoJo Siwa and Fletcher dating men, World Pride, poison ivy, self-tanning and more.

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Elkiss and Spike, now going by their incredible legal names Elise and Lucy discuss all of the hot topic ins and outs in this April State of the Union episode: They predict who will become pope, Conclave, co-working spaces. They chat new TV shows - Handmaid's Tale last season, Black Mirror, Last of Us. They bash RFK's eugenicist ways and how it ties to the amazing people on Love on the Spectrum. Canadian nationalism is explored as Elise witnesses the tariff trade war from Canada. It's a juicy episode and a return to form! Vocally Friend 5 ever! 

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Lucy and Elise are back with another MAHA episode of My Problematic Past — this time featuring Lizard, a former patient of a problematic naturopath.

In this episode, your hosts talk naturopathy, the wellness-to-alt-right pipeline, Nazi doctors, far-right websites, free speech, and much more.

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Lucy & Elise tackle raw milk in the first episode of My Problematic Past. They dive into Lucy’s past as a raw milk farmer and their time selling raw milk together at the Seattle Farmers Market. The episode unpacks RFK and MAHA (Make America Healthy Again), having crunchy 90s moms, the growing popularity of raw milk, the Trump administration’s firing of USDA bird flu experts, and the connections between bird flu and raw milk.

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