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Mae Martin

You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes

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Iron John: A Myth About Masculinity

Publicists were like, how do we get ahead of this? How do we make it hot? This diagnosis and make you look like a badass. And guess who wasn't in that meeting? Catherine Zeta Jones. She was not consulted. I mean, it's insane. Iron John is a story is a myth about masculinity. William Blake wrote a book called Iron John. Sufficeive to say Iron John represents wildness. He gets caged, this wild beast man, but he's a wise beast. So he's read and hairy. Just like Esau,. his brother was wild and hairy. So the king locks him in a cage. That's very Iron John.

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