Vicki Morgan Part 1 with Eve Lindley + Hello from tour! (Patreon)

First: here is your April bonus, only two days late. "So this is maybe not an uplifting episode of the podcast," Eve says, and she's right. This is part 1 of the story of Vicki Morgan, whose story exploded into tabloids in the early '80s and who is largely forgotten today. It's a story that implicates the millionaires who helped usher Ronald Reagan into the White House, and helps us see--in Eve's words--"the price that some people are willing to pay for what they feel is security." Plus palimony, fur coats, and Lee Marvin.

This is a difficult episode in many ways, and we hope that you listen with care. We touch on mental, physical, and sexual abuse, on abuse perpetrated against sex workers, and on sexual relationships between minors and adults and all the abuses that come with them. (And Nancy Reagan is in the sidelines, which can't really help.) I tried to give appropriate trigger warnings within the episode, but the whole picture is one of abuse from all sides, and it may not be the right listen for you at this moment. If that's true, we see you and we support you, and we recommend this fabulous video that we had nothing to do with as an alternative entertainment this month.

(Photos below are from VICKI by Joyce Milton and Ann Louise Bardach)

Plus: We are on tour!! I'm writing this post from a train that is taking me and the fabulous Jamie Loftus, my co-host and co-conspirator in these shows, from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, where we are performing tomorrow night, before our final dates in Washington, DC, Boston, Burlington, and Montreal. Already in the 'burgh are Carolyn Kendrick, You're Wrong About's producer, my sometime co-host, and the musical genius whose love songs hold our live shows together, and Alex Steed, my You Are Good co-host and our tour manager for this adventure. Some of you have already seen us perform, some of you will soon, and it's hard for me to put into words what doing these shows has meant to me, except that every time we go out onstage, I feel like we are all sharing a bubble of safety and security and compassion that I hope you feel as you head out of the theater, back home, and into the rest of your life. And someday, I hope to share that space with each and every one of you.

Some snaps from the road:

I was on Channel 11! (This dress is actually a beach cover-up and I'm crossing my legs like this to hid a stain on my leggings!)

I saw mini New York at the Queens Museum!

And I saw the mini World's Fair!! (I don't know, there's something very funny to me about the order these flags are in. MINNESOTA LOUISIANA VATICAN)

I saw this sticker in a bathroom in West Philly and found it very aspirational!

We took Polaroids!!!

...and those are all the pictures that this train--or maybe Mifflin County, PA--wants to let me upload for now. So let me just tell you one last thing: at one show, a wonderful listener gave me a fortune cookie that they said made them think of the podcast. It said:

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

And we can.

Love,

Sarah