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All Each Other Has
by Carrie Monahan, Ellie Monahan
Two sisters Ellie and Carrie Monahan (the former a millennial, the latter on the Gen Z cusp) analyze topics like fame by proxy, sleep-away camp in the American imagination, their adolescence of Carnegie Hill etiology, Sontag's portents of the influencer economy, dialectical thinking, cyberbullies, the enduring power of Madame Alexander dolls, and more. Done through a sometimes academic, often solipsistic lens. They love each other, and love you for listening.
Episodes
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Memento Mori: On Discounting, Discarding & Displaying Remains
The sisters conclude their death and spectacle series with further thoughts on the dead deprived of commemoration. From the repository of graves on New York City’s Hart Island to the erasure of historic Black cemeteries in the American South, they explore the ways in which human remains are...
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The Baddest Mormon: A Conversation with Heather Gay
In this VERY special episode, Ellie and Carrie speak with The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’s Heather Gay about her brave and beautiful new memoir “Bad Mormon.” The book chronicles Heather’s journey from a devout Mormon to a disillusioned apostate to an ass-kicking mother, businesswoman and...
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The Unmarked: Castes of Remembrance and the American Deathscape
In part three of their Death and Spectacle series, Carrie and Ellie explore the inequity of American commemoration and how it deprives the marginalized, even in death. They discuss the corrupt dealings behind public works projects such as Lake Eufaula, which led to the forcible removal of native...
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The Politics of Victimhood: Two Sisters on 9/11, National Memory, and Tragedy as a Spectacle
In Part Two of their series on spectacular death, Ellie and Carrie speak with sisters Jessica and Leila Murphy, who lost their father Brian in the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He was 41 years old, Jessica 5 and Leila almost 4. Since that terrible day, Jessica and...
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The Memory Museum: Death and Spectacle, Part 1
CW: Sensitive content regarding 9/11, terrorism, genocide, racial violence, spectacular death, dark tourism. The sisters return from winter hiatus with an episode about atrocity, human suffering, spectacular death and how we choose to memorialize and regard the pain of others. Focusing primarily…
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TS 10: 3 AM
In the third and final episode in their Taylor Swift retrospective, Ellie and Carrie examine the seven songs that comprise the 3am Version of the Midnights album. They discuss the artistic differences between songs produced by Swift collaborators Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner and the merits of...
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We Knew She Was a Mastermind: The "Midnights" Breakdown
This week, Ellie and Carrie continue their exploration of the Taylor metaverse by dissecting tracks 1-13 of the Midnights album. They discuss Taylor’s favorite images and leitmotifs — cages, towns, rain, the color gold, etc. — that recur throughout her discography and contextualize this album as...
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You Grew Up With Me: A Swiftie Bildungsroman
After a monthlong reprieve, Ellie and Carrie return to discuss their all time favorite artist, Taylor Swift, and her lasting hold over American music and popular culture. The sisters discuss their relationship with Taylor over the past twelve years, from the release of her eponymous album in 2006...
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Hauntings & Historiography
In this special spooky episode, Ellie and Carrie discuss the cultural logic of hauntings in both American history and their own lives. They grapple with childhood notions of their late father's ghost, something Carrie feared and Ellie denied. Understanding hauntings as living loss, they bring in...
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Labore et Virtute et Dolore: Trinity School NYC
Last month, a faculty member at Trinity School NYC (Ellie and Carrie's alma mater) left the school after being secretly filmed by Project Veritas during what she thought was a date. In the widely disseminated video that was catnip for CRT-fearing conservatives, she reveals that she takes her full...
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Unscalable: from Prep for Prep to Andover
For the second-to-last episode in our private school series, our guest Kayla narrates her journey from a New Jersey public school to the total environment of Phillips Academy — Andover. Growing up middle class in the suburbs, Kayla’s entry into Prep for Prep’s “Prep 9” program meant a 90-minute...
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Table Stakes: Krittika on Prep for Prep
This episode in our NYC private school series features a very special guest, Krittika, who was Carrie's classmate at Spence. Her pragmatic parents, who met at university in India and raised Krittika and her brother Josh in Queens, always knew they'd have to do the most to circumvent the failings…
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Fractured Identity: A Black Spence Alumna Looks Back
In the third episode of our NYC private school series, Ellie and Carrie speak with Alyssa, a Black Spence alumna whose experience of growing up in uneasy proximity to whiteness was lonely and damaging. Alyssa, whose family represented what Caitlin Flanagan describes as "the bread and butter of...
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NYC Prep: The Middle School Years
In the second episode of their New York City private school series, Ellie and Carrie move on from the dreamland of Spence lower school to the hell scape of middle school materialism and accelerated adolescence. We start with the joys and horrors of Knicker Bocker, where we, white-gloved, danced...
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Non Scholae Sed Vitae: A Brief Introduction
In part one of what will be sizable series, Ellie and Carrie introduce the obscene world of Manhattan private schools, using Caitlin Flanagan's 2021 Atlantic article to guide their discussion. Recalling their educational experience, namely at Spence in this episode, is not so simple: these...
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Boneless Girl
In another quasi-episode (sorry, we are preparing for a 23-person family reunion at Mom's house), Carrie reads a piece she wrote called "Boneless Girl," named for a disturbing miniclip.com game she played as a child in the aughts. Exploring the scourge of 2000s "bubblegum misogyny" (see Constance...
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Doll Play, Part 3: Packaging the Past with American Girl
In the final installment of Ellie and Carrie's "doll play" trilogy, the sisters discuss the American Girl doll line, from its Pleasant Company origins in the pages of mail-order catalogues to its transformation, with the help of Mattel, into a consumerist behemoth of popcorn machines, solipsistic...
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Doll Play, Part 2: Bratz and the New Millennium
Using Lisa Guerrero's 2009 article “Can the Subaltern Shop? The Commodification of Difference in the Bratz Dolls” as a framework, Carrie and Ellie discuss MGA Entertainment's introduction of the Bratz line in 2001 and the alternative vision of femininity and style it offered young girls in the…
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Doll Play, Part 1: The Cultural Logic of Barbie
Ellie and Carrie recall their time spent world building with Barbie, Ken, Midge, Skipper, Christie, et al. Using Molly Rosner’s “Playing With History: American Identities and Children’s Consumer Culture” (Rutgers University Press, 2021) as a framework, they introduce Barbie dolls as "didactic...
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Ellie Getting Married: A Retrospective
In this quasi-episode, which takes a break from the show's usual history and theory, the sisters recall Ellie's wedding to Mark last summer, with Carrie reading her maid of honor speech once again. Ellie reacts and answers some questions about marriage.
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Emotional Camping at Blue Stone Manor: RHUGT Through a Postfeminist Lens
Ellie and Carrie explore the first five episodes of season 2 of "The Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip" (Ex-Wives Club) through a postfeminist framework that emphasizes neoliberal values like individualism, self-reinvention, femininity as a bodily property, conspicuous consumption, and...
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Camp (Not Sontag's), Part 2
In part two of “Camp,” Ellie and Carrie apologize for being “pick me” girls in their previous discussion of Camp Vega, recall socials (the Cedar Bowl) and the horror of grinding culture, and explain outlets for hormonal urges (the Bunk 7 casino, the removal of the tetherball pole). They explore...
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Camp (Not Sontag's), Part 1
Ellie and Carrie introduce their own formative experience at an all-girls' sleep-away camp in Maine by discussing the cultural history of camp and its role in the American imagination. Works cited include "'The Ego Ideal of the Good Camper' and the Nature of Summer Camp" by Michael B. Smith…
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Fan Behavior
In this episode, Carrie recounts to Ellie a learning experience in which a parasocial relationship morphed into an unnatural in-person one. Enabled by Carrie's loneliness and lack of boundaries, "Meredith's" visit to Mom's house in East Hampton during the second major COVID surge left Carrie...
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Proximity to Fame & Fame by Proxy (Part 2)
Ellie and Carrie discuss the darker side to matrilineal fame, including some of Mommy's cancellations. Also explored are Carrie's desire for fame in her own right versus Ellie's need for privacy, and how an extended period of isolation and an altercation with a neighbor in East Hampton prompted...
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Proximity to Fame & Fame by Proxy (Part 1)
In the premiere episode of All Each Other Has, sisters Ellie and Carrie delve into what it was like being raised by their famous mother Katie Couric during her time at the Today Show (when everyone loved Mom) and at the CBS Evening News (when everyone hated Mom). Citing C. Kurzman et al.'s 2007...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Two sisters Ellie and Carrie Monahan (the former a millennial, the latter on the Gen Z cusp) analyze topics like fame by proxy, sleep-away camp in the American imagination, their adolescence of Carnegie Hill etiology, Sontag's portents of the influencer economy, dialectical thinking, cyberbullies, the enduring power of Madame Alexander dolls, and more. Done through a sometimes academic, often solipsistic lens. They love each other, and love you for listening.
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Carrie Monahan, Ellie Monahan
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Two sisters Ellie and Carrie Monahan (the former a millennial, the latter on the Gen Z cusp) analyze topics like fame by proxy, sleep-away camp in the American imagination, their adolescence of Carnegie Hill etiology, Sontag's portents of the influencer economy, dialectical thinking, cyberbullies,...
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