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Arthur Allan Seidelman's Kate's Secret (1986)

03/18/22 S04.144

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Thomas Edwards

Thank you for this episode. Wishing you the best.

Ryan

Jack is on a roll this season

Nathan Molloy

solo episode, a pleasant surprise

Nathan Molloy

The ambiance of the lit cigarette with drag 👌

Adrian

Love eating disorder movies!

Kylie White

This podcast really is the best value of any and all podcasts.

Cremastercycle

Love the intimacy of a solo episode, hope there’s more of them!

Sash

The binge and purge urge is alive in all of us!

Lauren

So lovely. Thank you, dear.

Kelsey

TPN x Lifetime is the crossover we've all been waiting for

Sarah King

You are such a slice of heaven.

Kae de

❤️

Frederic Fox

I really enjoyed this Jack only format. Hope there's more solo episodes like this in the future.

Matt Burgess

Omg this is one of my fav TV movies of all time! So glad you’re covering it, it’s out of print but it would have been good to pair with sweet death by Claude tardat it’s about a woman who commits suicide by eating herself to death on sweets, cakes etc track down a copy if you can

Blue Moon Doll Studio

This was beautiful. Your struggle is very, uncannily similar to my own and probably very many others can totally relate. You said as much in the silence as you did when you spoke. Very intimate.

Lauren

I was overweight nearly my entire life. I lost almost half my body weight during the pandemic. I also got fully sober during this time. What I came to realize is that it’s almost effortless to stick to a healthy diet when I’m not disinhibited by alcohol or prescription drugs. There’s just this moment or a flash in time when you realize you’re ready to make that commitment, and only you and you alone will be able to pinpoint that exact occasion. And, not to sound schmaltzy but, it’s a change in lifestyle, not so much a diet. I know it’s different for everyone and no one thing works for the multitude. You will get there when you get there. You’re strong as absolute fuck, Jack. We all know that to be the case. My boyfriend lost a ton of weight, too. He did so with, like, zero exercise. He’s your Twitter mutual (@electionlegal). Yes, I’m sure he’s annoying with all the seed oil bullshit, but he’s a sweetheart. You got this, though. Either way, you are hot as fuck. We all love you, immensely. Take care of yourself.

Tuesday Wolf

Je t'aime, Jack. 🖤

James Jenneman

I loved the ambient sounds, the raw personal-ness, the depth of sound from the car, everything. But I especially liked that this caused me to remember Kate’s Secret and how, either because my four-year-old brain made it up or because my mom told me this lie to shut me up, I spent a few years as a very small child thinking Victoria’s Secret was that she had an eating disorder. That memory was lost forever until Jack reminded me this traumatizing movie existed once. So thanks!

George's wife Martha

Great episode! This movie is a classic and I remember watching it in the 90’s while exercising on my NordicTrak:)!

Huck

I'm in the same place with the booze tbh. never would have had jack down as a bad drinker but everything he says sounds familiar. the covid years have not been kind

Wack Chops

Loved this solo episode so much. Eating and smoking alone in the car... nothing better.

Miles

Thank you Jack

JMo

Talking of horror, that final scene in Safe with Carol staring at herself in the mirror with black eyes and a expression of absolute hatred and total self satisfaction while saying "I love you" is terrifying

JMo

In terms of stopping self destructive behaviours, it's easier said than done. I had a drinking problem during lockdown because I couldn't bear spending all waking hours 100% conscious. I could only stop by rebelling - I wouldn't allow the government to ruin my health as well as controlling my life. I had to value myself but it's hard to hold onto that feeling. Hope it gets better soon for you, Jack

Sarah Stewart

This ep resurfaced an old memory- we had to watch Kates Secret in my high school health class in our unit on eating disorders... this would have been in the late 90's. You think they could have found a movie about a teen with an ED at that point?

carly

Loved this ep!

Bryan

this is one of the most beautiful things you have ever created. i cried throughout as i too, like many of us, have had a lifelong struggle with weight and body image. one of my most haunting memories that has stuck with me since childhood was when i was in second grade, and my class was preparing for the Presidential physical fitness test, so we had to be measured and weighed… the horror and embarrassment that came over me as i looked at the scale and it read ‘100lbs.’ i was an active child, too, i was involved in little league and rec basketball and youth soccer, so my justification for as ‘it was all muscle. i struggled and struggled with my relationship with food all through high school and it got to the point to where i was so depressed that i basically ‘slept away’ and starved a year of my life in my early 20s, staying up all hours of the night, and sleeping til noon, 1, 2pm. and did nothing but consume coffee and chain smoked cigarettes until one day i woke up and looked in the mirror and realized i had basically lost 80-90 pounds. i’ve since become more healthy and have fixed my relationships with food, however ‘once a day kid, always a fat kid’ and still get that voice in my head that tells me i’m fat or makes me feel self-conscious when i indulge in a big meal or binge of snack foods. like with everyone else, dealing with covid/lockdowns and being an ‘EsSeNtIaL wOrKeR’ exacerbated my drinking weight i sought a way to cope and deal and ultimately forget the hell i was living in for 2 years, to the point where i am currently dealing with a similar situation as you, Jack. going to work hungover, frivolously spending money, blacking out in weeknights, embarrassing myself in horrifying ways, i knew it needed to stop. jack, you once again have me finding comfort and solace in your podcast, in you, in the little world that you have helped to create and it means a lot because i originally discovered your show two years ago when i was in a dark place dealing with the loss of a 4 year relationship that ended in a bad way… knnowing that you are here, The Perfume Nationalist is here, the fans of the show are here, and that you can relate and find the strength and courage and frankness to discuss these types of issues is such a sigh of relief, a huge weight lifted… thank you beautiful Jack, my life is infinitely more beautiful, and has more meaning and knowing that you are a part of it. thank you for everything you do, King ❤️ LLL.