Introducing: Go Ask Ali

Ali Wentworth has become a comedic authority on dissecting life and all of its mess. This season Ali speaks with moms and experts as she tackles not only how to grow a teenager...but how to do so in the middle of a pandemic.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi. I'm Ali Wentworth, best selling author, actor, host, mother
and Zoloft consumer. In my new podcast, Go Ask Ali,
I'm really taking a look at life. Look. I wasn't
around for the Spanish flu, but it seems that since
this pandemic there's a new normal. So I'm asking the
question in two parts, how do you grow a teenager

(00:22):
in a pandemic? And how do you grow a relationship
in the pandemic. We'll be tackling such subjects as the
sexualization of girls in the Internet. From movie star model Brookshields.
I had a very strange, strange relationship with sexuality as
a child. This is only a half hour podcast, Brooke
and listen. How are we dealing with teenagers? And they're

(00:44):
overwhelming anxiety and uncertainty about the future. Actually teenage years now.
By the way, the National Academy of Science says it
goes all the way up to age Wait a second,
teenagers go to twenty five now? Got up, my man,
it's for this. Let me be honest. I'm not a truthsayer,
therapist or advice columnists. I'm not even particularly sage, but

(01:07):
I do know a thing or two about a thing
or two. This is not the image of you that
should be out there. I say, when it comes to
social media, what is the story that you're telling? Is
your story that you care about social justice? Or is
your story that you're sexy and you can bend your
legs like that, which I think are probably better ways

(01:30):
than I'm following you. I know what you're putting on
your social because they're teenagers and they'll find ways around it.
For whatever reason, people come to me for advice, probably
because I act like I know what I'm talking about,
or I'm married to a Rhodes scholar, and sometimes it
falls on deaf ears and sometimes I get the response,
stop you're annoying, but that's usually my children. So join

(01:55):
me as I really dissect life in this new normal
and try to figure out how to grow everything in
a pandemic. All new episodes of Go Ask Gali release
every Thursday. Listen to Go Ask Gali on the I
Heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.