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Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.20,0:00:13.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What’s happenin’ yall? This week we\Nbendin’ over for da man with The Handmaid’s
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.34,0:00:20.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tale by Margaret Atwood.\NThe sh**’s gone HAM up in da USA,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.38,0:00:25.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where a crew of bible-thumpin honkies brought\Ndown da government, took a sh** on the constitution,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.50,0:00:30.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now they runnnin da game wit a new society\Ncalled Gilead. And up in G-town, da man always
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.84,0:00:35.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hatin on women: they can't own property,\Nwork, learn- nothin. They jus’ get
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.31,0:00:39.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tossed in a house and gotta do what they told.\NAnd since mutha Earth been fu**ed
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.22,0:00:44.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by pollution, syphillis, and all kinda otha\Nmess, most women can’t pop out babies no
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.06,0:00:48.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mo. To keep da human race alive, some women\Nare captured and turned in to Handmaids- which
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.78,0:00:53.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are basically baby-makin sex slaves.\NDis story followin da life of Offred. Girl
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.78,0:00:57.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tried to bail to\NCanada wit her fam, but she got GOT by da
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.02,0:01:01.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fuzz and brought to da Re- education Center\Nwhere they gonna brainwash her in to a true
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.89,0:01:06.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,blue Handmaid. Offred eventually becomes da\NHandmaid for some brutha name Commander Fred
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.46,0:01:12.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who she gotta get buck nasty wit’ while\Nlayin’ on his wife Serena. And ain’t nobody
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.13,0:01:14.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ejoyin themselves.\NWhat Serena don’t know tho, is dat
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.68,0:01:18.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,da Commander and Offred been chillin like\Nshe mo’ than jus’ his booty call.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.52,0:01:22.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They doin da kinkiest things you\Ncan think of: scrabble and magazine readin.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.89,0:01:27.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MMMM MMMMM! Offred ain’t really feelin’\Ntheir lil’ date nights, but she go along
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.35,0:01:29.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with it anyway.\NOne day Offred out shopping with a
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.83,0:01:35.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sistah named Ofglen when she like “Say girl.\NKeep this on the DL but I’m a member of
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.55,0:01:39.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,da resistance called “Mayday” dat tryna\Nstick to dem Gilead haters.”
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.36,0:01:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pissed dat a bitch ain’t gotten\Npreggers yet, Serena say she’ll, give Offred
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.00,0:01:48.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,info on her long lost daughter if she bangs\Nthe gardner Nick. Serena wanna get rid of
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.05,0:01:53.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Offred REAL BAD. Turns out, diddling Nick’s\Ndangle is pretty sweet, and they start bangin
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.82,0:01:56.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on da reg.\NLater, Offred get word dat Ofglen
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.54,0:02:01.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,offed herself cuz she was afraid da secret\Npo-lice were comin’ to git her. When Serena
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.09,0:02:06.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,find out bout Offred hittin da club wit her\Nhubby, girl gets MAD crunk. Not long after,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.07,0:02:11.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two bustas roll up in a van to take Offred\Naway. But Nick say “don’t trip, girl.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.48,0:02:16.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They actually Mayday members comin’ to save\Nyo ass.” So Offred get tossed in dat van,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.01,0:02:18.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not knowin’ whether she bout to be freed\Nor get wrecked.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.82,0:02:22.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Da book end wit a section called\N“Historical Notes.” Bout two centuries
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.56,0:02:27.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,later, some stuffy-ass professor talkin bout\NGilead and da fact dat The Handmaid’s Tale
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.59,0:02:31.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,might be a buncha bullsh**. Da hell?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.20,0:02:36.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now if you dun peeped dis text, you might
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.21,0:02:41.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be askin yo’self: Why da hell\Nis da story so janky and out of order? Da
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.14,0:02:44.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,main character Offred- even tho dat ain’t\Nher real name, tellin this story like she
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.17,0:02:46.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,time trippin o’ somethin.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.19,0:02:49.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well there’s a good reason for dat\Nhomeboy. Like Offred herself tellin’ us:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.47,0:02:59.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Da structure of dis novel is all jacked up\Ncuz that’s exactly how
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.80,0:03:05.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Offred feelin: broken, to’ up, and confused\Nas hell as to how errything in da world went
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.60,0:03:07.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to sh**.\NSho, Atwood givin us explicit
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.67,0:03:12.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reasons errything so twisted- like pollution\Nand syphillis, but there’s mo’ to it than
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.39,0:03:16.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that, padna. Think of dis book like a thought\Nexperiment, where Atwood takin common ignant
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.54,0:03:19.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thoughts bout women like: “women should\Nbe stay in their place” and show us where
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.80,0:03:23.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dat kinda hateful thinkin can lead us.\NWhen you got a whole society tryna
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.82,0:03:28.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to put women in a box like dat, it gonna make\Nem in to empty, choiceless drones dat don’t
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.34,0:03:33.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,serve no purpose otha’ than poppin’ out\Nbabies. Sheeit, you can peep dat dehumanizing
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.07,0:03:37.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,effect by the fact that Offred ain’t even\Ngot a real name. Girl feelin like she already
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.81,0:03:41.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dead.\NIn the end, it looks like things
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.07,0:03:51.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have turned out a’ight. Or do it? We get\Nsome uppidy professor yappin bout Offred’s
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.23,0:03:55.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,story like it’s da distant past. But on\Nda real, he usin da same kinda woman-hatin
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.77,0:04:00.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,logic sayin dat her story prolly ain’t even\Nlegit. And dat’s da same whack-ass jive
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.26,0:04:05.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dat turned the USA in to Gilead. So truth\Nis, dis book just straight up depressing as
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.31,0:04:07.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hell.\NBut chin up, homeboy, cuz dat
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.59,0:04:12.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,subscribe button is still there to cheer yo\Nass up. So hit it and catch me next week,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.75,0:04:14.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,playas. Peace.