Episode 15: The Joker/A Clockwork Orange/Roald Dahl

AJ and AJ compare the wildly different ways they were raised.“J” talks about growing up extremely sheltered—so sheltered that when she had to choose a song for a rally in high school, she picked one without realizing what the phrase “midnight toker” meant. Her innocent mistake unexpectedly gave her a kind of credibility at school she’d never had before.“A”, on the other hand, had the opposite experience. Raised by hippie parents who believed in never shielding their child from the truth, she was exposed to things far earlier than most kids—including watching A Clockwork Orange at just five years old. She shares how overwhelming that experience was, and how she escaped into Roald Dahl books to cope with the fear it left behind.Two AJs, two completely different childhood philosophies—one episode about how those early experiences shaped who they became.