Sophie: Here's our fake ad. April: Today's show is brought to you by our belief in consistency over quality and our mom's hugs. Thank you Margaret and Garmet for being the most important people in our lives. See, we're so good at this. Sophie: If you're an advertiser and you want to work with us, contact us at [email protected]. Thanks. April: This is a journey. We are not here to shame anyone who's not like "on our level" because, what level? I have moments all the time where I'm like, "Girl, you look like Ruben Studdard," like constantly. Speaker 1: Calling Body Posi Sisters, hush those diet culture whispers. We like your body big or small. Rolls and ripples, all for all. Sit on down, it's time to chat. She's all fat. Sophie: I'm Sophie. April: I'm April and this is She's all Fat. Sophie: The podcast for body positivity, radical self love, and chill vibes only. This week, we'll discuss politicized hair, self love mantras, and penis graffiti. Okay, April, what are you obsessed with this week? April: This week, while we're in the middle of doing crazy party planning stuff, my sister came in town and we binge watched a whole series called American Vandal. Have you heard about this at all? Sophie: Uh uh. April: It's on Netflix. It's basically like a parody of Serial. Remember the Serial podcast? Sophie: Yeah. April: Like season one, but as a mockumentary, basically. Sophie: Oh. April: It's so funny. What it is, is this kid is accused of spray painting 27 dicks on 27 teacher's cars and he gets expelled. It's a whole conspiracy and it looks really bad for him because he's one of those kids that was already drawing dicks on stuff. Did you have this kid in your high school because I certainly did. Sophie: Yeah. April: Where he's just constantly ... he has like a popular tagline he always says, which is like, "Another day, another dick." She's All Fat A Body Positive Podcast - Episode ... (Completed 09/11/18) Page 1 of 24 Transcript by Rev.com Sophie: Ew. April: It's like all this evidence against him. Sophie: Is he a little shit? April: He's a stoner, but he has a good heart. Sophie: Well, our kid who did that was not sweet. April: No, not ours either, but this character is like a sweet guy. He's misunderstood. Sophie: Okay. April: Anyway, all these dicks get drawn on the car and there's this kid who's like a filmmaker at the school and he's like, "I'm going to get to the bottom of this." He's a Sarah Koenig. It's just so ridiculous and over the top where's like, "I mean, it couldn't have happened in eight minutes. 27 dicks? There had to be more people." There's so much, but then there's an episode about eight of the different characters, like the other students, and they're all a suspect in who did this. Sophie: Oh my gosh. April: It's good where's it's like Serial where every episode you're like, "Oh for sure he did, for sure she did it," but you never know. Sophie: You never know. April: Then it just ends up being this really deep exploration of the human psyche in the end. Sophie: Whoa. April: It's really good. This week, even though we're super busy with party planning stuff, we somehow got all the way through American Vandal, which is like eight hilarious episodes. It just reminded me of my high school. It reminded me of people I grew up with. There's parts about a vendetta against a teacher and so it reminded me of stuff like that where you always thought one teacher was out to get you, but were they really or was that in your head? It just really [crosstalk 00:03:07] Sophie: Did they give a shit about you at all? April: Yeah, like did they even know who you are? Meanwhile, you're home like, "Really? I got half a point off? They're jealous of me." Sophie: I mean, as a teacher's kid, I heard teachers talk all the time and, yes, they do shit talk the kids. All the teachers do. She's All Fat A Body Positive Podcast - Episode ... (Completed 09/11/18) Page 2 of 24 Transcript by Rev.com April: It's not in your head. Sophie: At my school they did, but there were only 60 kids in a grade so everyone knew each other. I think everyone shit talked each other. I don't think it was just the teachers, but for sure, they would be like, "This kid, blah, blah," and I'd be in the other room like, "Hee hee." April: I see. Sophie: I can hear everything. April: Oh my gosh, that's exactly what I thought was happening, but wasn't sure. Sophie: I mean, maybe not at public school. I bet teachers are more like, "I have too much to do. Leave me alone." I mean, not that ... At my school, they were busy all the time also, but it was such a small community. What channel is this on? April: It's a Netflix show. Brand new. Sophie: What's it called again? April: It's called American Vandal. Sophie: Cool. April: I think it just came out this weekend? If you guys like parody, if you like mockumentaries, and large ensemble casts, because there's 60 characters, I think. Sophie: Whoa. April: I would check out American Vandal. It really made me laugh. Sophie: Cool. April: What are you obsessed with this week? Sophie: I'm obsessed, well, I don't know that I'm obsessed with this, but I'm currently writing with my best friend and running partner, Lindsey. We're writing a scary movie. We went to go see It and I read the book when I was 14 or 15 and it really scared me. I had a lot of nightmares. I had to skip through it and kind of read with one eye open, you know? April: Is it a Stephen King? Sophie: It's a Stephen King novel. It's like the most famous Stephen King one, the one with the clown is how people know it. We went to see the movie last night and I did think that the pacing was good. For me, I think I prefer a movie like The Witch that has more cerebral/tension scares or it follows, which is just like you're just really tense the whole She's All Fat A Body Positive Podcast - Episode ... (Completed 09/11/18) Page 3 of 24 Transcript by Rev.com time, but it's not as many jump scares or scary images because I get those scary images in my head and then I have trouble sleeping because I see them. That's always been true. I've always had a very overactive imagination. I used to have night terrors. April: Then, why are doing this to yourself? Sophie: I like scary things, I just don't like disturbing things, if that makes sense. April: Mm-hmm (affirmative) Sophie: But, it was interesting to me, I'm always interested in how they adapt books to movies and so this one, the original book and the original adaption with Tim Curry, he's just an amazing character actor. Do you know who he is? Tim Curry? April: I think I've seen the first It. Sophie: Have you seen this movie, Clue? It's like old movie about ... April: Oh, the mystery night thing? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sophie: Okay, so he's the butler guy. April: Okay. Sophie: He's also most probably well known for being in the cult horror classic "Rocky Horror Picture Show". April: Mm-hmm (affirmative) Sophie: Tim Curry's in the original and also in the original they do both plots. In the book, they have them as kids and then them 25 years later as adults and they have to come back and do more monster conquering. They don't do that in this one. They simplified it down to just the kids plot, I assume, so they could do a sequel, which is good. It's, I think, probably a good narrative choice so it wouldn't get too bogged down. Also, there's this really weird scene in the book, I don't know how they deal with it in the first movie, but in the book there's a weird scene where all the kids have sex together in the sewer. They kill It who lives in the sewer so they defeat him for the time being and then they can't find their way out and they all take turns having sex with the one girl. April: What? Sophie: Yeah, it's so bizarre. I was telling Lindsey about it last night. I was like, "Did I dream that this happened?" I looked it up. I was like, no, sure enough, there it is. All the comments on these articles, like the one we'll put in the show notes are people being like, "It was a beautiful scene. It's not sexual." It's like, they actually just had group sex." It's like f***ing weird, dude.