Broad Ideas with Rachel Bilson & Olivia Allen - Introducing Broad Ideas

Episode Date: May 23, 2022

On Broad Ideas, Rachel Bilson is joined by long-time best friend Olivia Allen to talk about sex, mental health, their belief (or lack of) in ghosts, and so much more. They’ll be joined by old friends, young friends, and some friends they haven’t met yet to have fun, casual conversations about the same kind of broad topics you'd find yourself discussing with your girlfriends. New episodes dropping every Monday!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hax is back for its fifth and final season, and so is The Hacks podcast. Join the Hacks creators and showrunners, Lucia and Yellow, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky as they unpack the Emmy-winning comedy series. On each episode, hear stories from the set, what goes on in the writer's room, and how these beloved characters close out their final season. Watch Hax streaming exclusively on HBO Max and listen to The Hacks podcast on HBO Max, or, wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Broad Ideas. This is a show where I myself, Rachel Bilsson, and one of my oldest, bestest friends.

Olivia Allen, I'm not that old. Jeez. We talk all the time, all day long, but now you get to listen. And we have a lot of conversations about things that I personally don't hear as much as I would like. No. We are going to cover a lot. I'm actually really excited because there's things that I've personally never talked about before,

but also having a very open dialogue with things that we talk about all the time and what women, even men, whoever, speak with your closest friends about that you don't always, you know, air your dirty laundry, so to speak. No topic is off limits. We cover things from underwear to divorce. Did your underwear cause your divorce? Right. There's porn.

Infidelity. Oof. Yes. We just want broad ideas to feel like. a safe space for everyone to feel like they can discuss any topic. And we also have our little Wob. Hi. I'm Rob.

He's here for us to harass, really, because it brings us great joy. It really does. It's Rob's favorite part of his day. We have some amazing guests. Disney Princesses, plural. More than one, everybody.

I may have shipped my pants. We have a top show. We have a Virgin, we have a witch. We have an elf partner. What's an elf partner? We have so many. We're going to release the show on Mondays, and once a month, Rachel and I will get our periods. Once a month on Wednesdays, we have our topic episodes where we really go there. I mean, I'm really excited about those ones. Those are awesome. There's so many topics to explore. And then after every episode, We have a little section we like to call postpartum, where Olivia and I and Rob, in postpartum with us, we catch up, sometimes we recap, but mostly we harass Rob. So check it out wherever you listen to your podcasts, Apple, Spotify, whatever floats your boat,

and we hope you like our broad ideas. around inside to join us on this journey as we take a little ride. We'll talk about dogs and kids and things. We'll talk about chicks and tampon strings. We'll talk about boys that'll make you cry. Because people die. My vagina. Yeah, so I said.

Yeah. He's like, did you know that I have sperm inside of me? And I was like, I did. I knew this. I knew this. information. We tell kids about sex and we say everybody gets nude and then someone goes inside someone else. They're like, what the fuck are you talking about right now? I lost my virginity at 14 and I think for me, I grew up in a household with a mom who was very open, sexually too much. I have a clear

cut memory of my first orgasm. Wow. I do. His hand like touched my thigh and something happened. And I was like, no one warned me. No one told me like, this is what an orgasm is going to feel like. First time mom, I've joined the mom's club. It's so much fun. I love it. I mean, it's challenging. It's exhausting.

It's joy filled. It's all the colors. It's all the emotions. But it's something I've always wanted. Don't you feel like when you're ovulating, though, like you need to have sex like way more than any other time in the month? Or is that just me? No, that's 100% true. And it's written in our body, isn't it?

Yeah. It like literally. It's our body being like, you need to reproduce. I asked him to put my fucking hand me my goddamn overhead luggage and he wouldn't do it. And the plane was packed. And I know he was doing a bit. But the plane was packed, man. And I'm pretty sure Billy Crystal was on the flight and a bunch of other high profile people that were watching this go down.

It was very humiliating. Who are the squirters? I cannot say. Well, you're going to tell me. I'm going to tell you later. Okay. Interesting. And I know a lot of guys like get off.

on some in my experience like I've heard conversations or whatever where they like that well I think it makes them feel accomplished sure right fucking old faithful right they're like I did that I did that yeah I feel like that's what I would do that's why I'm saying I'm afraid of motherhood I feel like I would roll up to a kid were you bullying my kid do you want get your fucking ass beat to like an eight year old because you couldn't figure out how to use any of your equipment or upload any of the and so that's when you saw a future podcast star in me Zip those pants up, ladies. That was a headgum podcast.