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00:01This is Radio Free Boston with an update.
00:04Iliad, of course.
00:09We're fighting for you.
00:13For everyone still inside, keep your head down and stay safe.
00:16For our main eight heroes behind the lines, tonight's message is arrived.
00:20Turn your dial to 101.6.
00:2399.2.
00:26This is Radio Free America, forever the sound of freedom.
00:30There is a possibility of recent sanctions against the Gilead State.
01:16You want to know what it was like for me, growing up in Gilead?
01:22I'm ashamed to say that I believed in Gilead once.
01:25I guess it's easier to accept a story, even a childish one, rather than believe that the people around you
01:33are monsters.
01:39Blessed morning, Agnes.
01:42In this story I'm telling, I'm not really sure what year it was.
01:46Sorry.
01:47It's hard to remember actual dates because girls were forbidden to have calendars.
01:52Just reading one could cost you a finger.
01:56Manila, it's going to be doing your hair now.
02:04You learn to mark time in other ways.
02:08I know I still had my dollhouse.
02:10It looked just like our real house.
02:14It had my bedroom and the dining room.
02:17A wife's parlor.
02:18Even an attic where the Martha slept.
02:20They're in the badlands with me.
02:23They're in the city getting out of the breeze.
02:27But the truth falls back from me.
02:30I'm afraid.
02:35I was a plum.
02:38I didn't have my period yet.
02:40In my world then, I made all the difference.
02:45It was all we wanted.
02:47And it also terrified us.
03:10I know what to do.
03:12Now that I've got a man like you.
03:15So I'm a guy.
03:18It can be so cool.
03:19Baby, don't be cool.
03:27The Commander doll was always doing very important work.
03:31Just like my father.
03:33Keeping us safe from heretics and May Day terrorists.
03:51The Martha dolls were always busy.
03:54But at night they would let the little girl doll sit in the kitchen with them.
03:59They would make her cinnamon toast and they would all talk.
04:09There is a wife doll.
04:11In blue, of course.
04:13That would be Paula.
04:15Who was my new stepmother then.
04:18Blessed morning, Agnes dear.
04:20Rosa, how's your leg?
04:21Please tell me it's better.
04:23Yes, ma'am.
04:25It's kind of you to ask.
04:26Praise be his mercy.
04:29The high dusting is catching up with us, I'm afraid.
04:32Yes, ma'am.
04:33I'll do that after the Commander's meeting.
04:40Thank you, Zilla.
04:42Zilla was new.
04:44Her tongue was removed as punishment before she was posted with us.
04:48Probably for blasphemy.
04:50That was a big one for some wives.
04:53Well, she's certainly an improvement.
04:55That last one we had was Chatty Cathy.
04:58Sometimes, when I was playing with the dollhouse, I would lock the Paula doll in the attic.
05:04Which was not nice.
05:06The Paula doll would pound on the door and scream, but the little girl doll would pay no attention.
05:11And sometimes she would laugh.
05:13Is that the new skirt?
05:17Up then.
05:21Well, don't you look pretty as a picture.
05:28Mother.
05:31I was worried to make you look gawky, but no.
05:40Praise be his mercy for not making me look too gawky.
05:46I'm an irritant to Paula.
05:50She wants me married and gone.
05:53I was born in the sinful before world.
05:57Please keep the counter clean.
05:59We don't want to get hands again.
06:01Yes, ma'am.
06:05Don't slouch, dear.
06:07Slouching girls get fat husbands.
06:25What's the morning, Miss Agnes?
06:30Under his eyes, sweetie, bye.
06:32Bye, Rosa.
06:49Once when we were pinks, I smiled at a boy on the playground.
06:53The aunts taped my mouth shut and made me stand in the dining hall for two days,
06:57holding the sign for a slut.
06:59That was for smiling.
07:00I wonder what would happen if I kissed one.
07:40When we became plums, we started going on the field trips.
07:45They were fun.
07:47Some parts more than others.
08:11Some parts more than others.
08:24Come along, girls.
08:27Come on, girls.
08:28Come quickly.
08:35Quiet, quiet, quiet.
08:38Dream in, dream in, dream in, dream.
08:43I don't want to live on charity.
08:49Let you see, or is it fantasy?
08:59Gross.
09:01Hold it enough.
09:02God's justice is beautiful.
09:05I'm sorry, Aunt Vidala.
09:07Friends.
09:08These men.
09:11Do you know what crime they committed?
09:15Yes, Shinamite.
09:17Rape.
09:18Avidala, that's what the red X is for.
09:20It's for rape.
09:21Praise be.
09:23Friends, these men.
09:25These horrible men.
09:28These...
09:29Rapists.
09:30You say rapists.
09:32Rapists, yes.
09:34Thank you, Shinamite.
09:36I'm not rapists.
09:38I didn't know that.
09:39Friends, it's a ghastly story.
09:41These men stole a young girl.
09:44Much like yourselves.
09:45This young girl was a kind who liked being the center of attention.
09:49A spirited girl.
09:50That kind of girl often earns a violent end for herself.
09:55Praise be his judgment.
09:57Praise be his judgment.
09:58Praise be his judgment.
09:58These men saw this girl.
10:00And they were overcome by their urges.
10:04They came in the night and took her from her own bed.
10:09What about her guardians?
10:11Some of them were her guardians.
10:14The urges of men are terrible things.
10:16And those urges must be curbed.
10:19That is the burden that God has personally laid upon each of you.
10:22Just by existing, we were mortally dangerous to otherwise perfectly good men.
10:28They were helpless to resist us.
10:31Even us.
10:32The daughters of commanders.
10:35The most godly of girls.
10:57I was a precious flower.
11:01Then why did I sometimes feel like a prized pig?
11:36At the Aunt Lydia's school, pink dresses were for little girls.
11:40Plum dresses were for older girls like us.
11:44Predestined to marry high Gilead commanders once we became eligible.
11:47Which only happened if God blessed us with a period.
11:51Then we became greens.
11:52And got pins.
11:56Will this be the fruit?
11:59You're insane.
12:00The skirt looks fine.
12:01May the Lord open.
12:02Don't bother.
12:03Even God knows Paula has no taste.
12:05Come along, friend.
12:07You're dead.
12:09You're dead.
12:09Becca was the first person I met when we moved here from Colorado.
12:12She was my best friend.
12:14Except we weren't allowed to have best friends.
12:16The aunt said that best friends led to keeping secrets.
12:19And secrets led to disobedience.
12:21And disobedient girls became women who were immoral.
12:24Obviously.
12:25We've been sent good weather.
12:27His blessing.
12:29You have your dress fitting?
12:30You're moving girls.
12:32Let's go.
12:32After lunch.
12:33Becca was already green.
12:35She was getting ready to be matched.
12:37She was moving on without me.
12:39But we didn't talk about that.
12:41This will be our third seamstress.
12:43My mother thinks if she gets the bodice just right,
12:46everyone will forget my dad's a dentist.
12:48Maybe you should dress as you too.
12:50Blessed day.
12:51Blessed day.
12:52We've been sent good weather.
12:53Thought I'd receive what's wrong.
12:55Very, very cute hair.
12:57Yeah, I definitely agree.
12:58Thanks.
12:59You're Martha.
13:00Blessed be yours too.
13:01Seriously.
13:01My Martha sucks.
13:02I look like I have a fat head.
13:04Shunammite.
13:05Chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter.
13:06Flap your tongue around and you're likely to lose it.
13:09Yes, Aunt Padala.
13:10Have a graceful day, girls.
13:12More haste.
13:14Blessed be.
13:17Aunt Lydia was a legend.
13:19Blessed day, Aunt Lydia.
13:20She had been worshipped, then vilified.
13:22Thank you, Aunt Lydia.
13:23Then worshipped again.
13:25Blessed day, Aunt Lydia.
13:26In the four years since the War of Massachusetts,
13:29the purges had happened.
13:31As always, those remaining were able to shape history as they liked.
13:35Some people were hung.
13:37And some had schools named after them.
13:43At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived, and enslaved by all kinds of passions and envy.
13:50We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
13:54But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us.
14:01Not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy.
14:07White was for the pearl girls.
14:09They were new arrivals from outside of Gilead.
14:12Converts for a godly struggle.
14:14We might become gayers having the hope of eternal life.
14:17Aunt Lydia and her missionaries gathered them from all over the world.
14:20They were mostly runaways.
14:22Of course they had to be young.
14:24And possibly fertile.
14:27Weirdos.
14:34The aunts said the pearl girls came eager for a new start.
14:38They were even more eager to prove their godliness by telling on you to the aunts.
14:42We all knew someone who had been ratted up by a pearl girl.
14:45Amen.
14:47The passion of the converted.
14:49What a pain in the ass.
15:14Nice work, Constance.
15:30Pretty daisy, Shilda.
15:33Really?
15:34Thank you, Aunt Este.
15:35They're actually Black Eyed Susan.
15:37Should you be thanking me?
15:39No.
15:40No, thank him.
15:42Aunt Este.
15:43For making me able and for the flowers he made and the thread.
15:48Pray forgive me.
15:50You are forgiven.
15:52Just be mindful around Alphidala.
15:57Aunt Gabbana.
15:59Blessed morning.
16:04Agnes.
16:06Aunt Lydia would like to speak with you.
16:13Come along.
16:16Agnes.
16:17Get up, please.
16:18I'm sure it's good news.
16:20Back to work.
16:21Timmy's!
16:21Look!
16:28Boom!
16:34I dunno.
16:38Yes!
16:40Yeah!
16:41Ah…
16:42Ahhhh …
16:55By tradition, only dead people are allowed to have statues.
17:00I have been given one while still alive.
17:04Praise be your works, Aunt Lydia.
17:07I have been prematurely petrified.
17:15Agnes Mackenzie, how the time goes by.
17:20I have been watching you for quite a while now.
17:24Why, Aunt Lydia?
17:26Soon to be eligible.
17:28May God make me truly worthy.
17:31Ah, you will be rewarded.
17:33If you are free of sin, of course.
17:36Do you know why this statue was erected?
17:41So you can always be watching over us.
17:44Yes.
17:45We inspire the world with our good works, Agnes.
17:48Do you agree?
17:49Yes, Aunt Lydia.
17:51Excellent.
17:52I have good work that needs doing.
17:54Helping a new friend feel welcome.
18:03Agnes, this is Daisy, one of my precious, precious pearls, recently arrived.
18:10Daisy may be joining your class.
18:13She's going to be a plum?
18:16Perhaps.
18:17I'd like you to show her around, make her feel comfortable, be her shepherdess.
18:23It's an honor for you, Agnes.
18:26Thank you, Aunt Lydia.
18:28Daisy, be a good girl and stay with Agnes.
18:30Lambs, don't stray.
18:33Yes, Aunt Lydia.
18:35Thank you, Aunt Lydia.
18:38Wonderful.
18:39Go in grace.
18:41Grace.
18:51Blessed fruit.
18:52May the Lord open.
19:03Painting and sketching.
19:11Music classroom.
19:18Comportment's this way.
19:20Domestic management is upstairs with Aunt L'Oreal.
19:23Hospitality, decorating, culinary arts, fiber arts, like embroidery, lace making.
19:31You can make a tablecloth, if you dare, and scripture class.
19:36Praise be his word.
19:39Weirdo.
19:42Aunt Lydia didn't tell me much about you.
19:46Did she tell you anything about me?
19:50Nothing.
19:51Miss Agnes.
19:55Miss Agnes.
20:02Did she ask you to watch me?
20:06Of course.
20:08Miss Agnes.
20:10To learn how to behave properly.
20:15Discipline and corrections are in the on-swing.
20:17You only go there when you earn it.
20:24And lunch.
20:25Blessed be his bounty.
20:31This is the dining room.
20:33Pretty obviously.
20:36Let's eat.
20:40You cannot be mistress of a house unless you are the mistress of yourself.
20:46Do you understand me, girls?
20:48Yes, Ambedala.
20:51It is an offense to God to waste food with poor preparation.
20:56If your meal is unacceptable, speak firmly to your Martha.
21:00Do you understand me, girls?
21:03Yes, Ambedala.
21:05Friends, let us give thanks to him.
21:12And?
21:13God is great.
21:15God is good.
21:16Thank you, God, for our food.
21:18Highest blessings we are fed.
21:20Give us, Lord, our daily bread.
21:22Amen.
21:27Girls, you may socialize.
21:45What is all this, then?
21:47This is Daisy.
21:49Aunt Lydia asked me to make her feel welcome.
21:51Hey.
21:53It's a blessing to meet you all.
21:57Get out.
22:07We're enjoying very fine weather.
22:10By God's blessing.
22:15It's a high-pressure system, I think.
22:18Daisy, pray.
22:20Where do you hail from?
22:22Toronto.
22:24Canada.
22:25Miss.
22:26Shunami.
22:28That's a beautiful name.
22:30It is.
22:33I imagine Canada is very different from Gilead.
22:37Toronto has been forsaken by God and defiled by Satan.
22:43It is suffocating in sin.
22:48So, do you miss it?
22:52I pray it won't be swallowed whole by the earth.
23:00May he hear your prayer.
23:10Daisy, do you like soft serve ice cream?
23:15Food is one of his miracles.
23:17They have it here.
23:18Strawberry and vanilla.
23:20Hold up, we'll take you.
23:22Yeah, I can make you a swirl cone.
23:24I'm sort of an expert.
23:26Aunt Lydia urged me to stay with Miss Agnes.
23:28Ice cream is definitely one of his miracles.
23:31And you wouldn't want to insult God.
23:37You should get some.
23:39Come on.
23:56They stuck you with the pearl girl.
23:58What did you do wrong?
23:59She didn't do anything.
24:01This is unprecedented.
24:03So, what did it Lydia said?
24:05She said she's new here.
24:08I'm just supposed to be a shepherdess.
24:09I don't like her.
24:10She didn't seem very nice.
24:11Well, you can't trust her.
24:13She'll tell Aunt Lydia everything.
24:14She's a pearl girl.
24:17Becca?
24:18Your Martha is here to collect you.
24:21Yes, on this day.
24:25Am I fitting?
24:27Pray for me.
24:28I wish I was green this season.
24:30I wish we all were together.
24:34It's starting to move very, very fast.
24:38It's a dress.
24:39Not a husband.
24:42Not yet.
24:43Well, I can't wait to have a husband.
24:45Becca, pray.
24:46Come along.
24:46Shake a leg.
24:48Go with Grace.
24:51And Grace, I go.
25:10You should tell Aunt her.
25:12You're a pearl girl.
25:14For what?
25:15Just say that she gossips or has a foul tongue.
25:18Or that she ran off to go get ice cream.
25:20That could be plausible.
25:21She'd be punished.
25:23You're an awful person.
25:24Stop.
25:25I didn't say to make her a gender traitor or anything.
25:28Just something small.
25:33Agnes, I know that you are very, very nice.
25:36But it's time to plumb up and get her before she can see you.
25:59Cinnamon Toast.
26:01Praise be his bounty.
26:02Mm-hmm.
26:08Is it awful?
26:10God never sends us more than we can bear.
26:13Sometimes he does get close, though.
26:18Becca had her final fitting.
26:20She must be happy to be getting a new dress.
26:24I'm sure she looks perfect.
26:26She's a beautiful girl.
26:29She could get an offer from a commander at the dance.
26:33Her dad could.
26:36She could marry one who lives in Wyoming.
26:39Or anywhere.
26:42Not Maryland.
26:44She won't move far if she marries a high commander.
26:47They need to live near the capital.
26:50She could marry one who...
26:52doesn't let his wife have any friends.
26:55I try not to think about it.
26:59Rosa, how did you meet your husband?
27:03Before, I mean.
27:08Oh, we met in a bookstore.
27:12Almost everyone we knew then was meeting online on Tinder.
27:16Bumble.
27:18We met in the cookbook section.
27:21That's Tinder.
27:24It's not something you're ever going to need to know, Pumpkin.
27:28Blessed evening, ma'am.
27:34The commander will be home Thursday.
27:35Has some things for the Marthas to do.
27:39You said your leg was better.
27:41It is, ma'am.
27:44Good.
27:46Head up to the third floor.
27:47We'll start there.
27:51Yes, ma'am.
28:01I grew up riding.
28:04When a horse would come up late, my father would shoot it.
28:09It was hard.
28:12But it was the merciful thing to do.
28:15Haven't I told you that story?
28:18No, mother.
28:24I learned that sometimes you have to be hard.
28:29Sometimes you have to cut off weak branches and bothersome ones.
28:34You'll understand when you're running your own household.
28:39Blessed evening.
28:52Long, I'm sorry.
28:59Let's go.
29:07You're listening.
29:39Assembly time, my plums. Two lines, two lines.
29:44Posture, Agnes.
29:45I'm sorry, Apodala.
29:53Plums, please assemble in the dining hall.
29:55Hurry along.
29:56Thanks, to your classes. Cha-cha.
30:25Let's take this out, Agnes.
30:26Let's take this out.
30:32Let's take this out.
30:49Let's take this out.
30:50Blessed day.
30:51How was it?
30:53May the Lord open. Fine.
30:56Shut up.
30:57It was fine.
30:59I feel like Buffy's leaves.
31:08Blessed day, graceful friends.
31:11We need your energy because we have some difficult work to do today.
31:17For him.
31:23Are you ready?
31:24Yes, Mother's Day.
31:26Yes, Mother's Day.
31:27Yes, Mother's Day.
31:47Abusing himself, abusing himself, on school grounds.
31:52Gilead trusted him to protect you, God's most precious girls.
31:57Instead, he chose wickedness.
32:01We do not play with the power of creation.
32:05What are they going to do to him?
32:08Quiet.
32:08He deserves our judgment.
32:10Do not relish in it.
32:11You are not blameless, girls.
32:15Shame upon any of you that tempt a man.
32:19Now, this is your decision.
32:22You will have to make many difficult decisions when you are wives.
32:27So, what do you say, girls?
32:30Should this man go unpunished?
32:33Please.
32:35Please.
32:36Or should we pay?
32:38Quiet!
32:40Quiet, man!
32:43Quiet, man!
32:45Quiet, man!
33:16Quiet, man!
33:29Quiet, man!
33:31Quiet, man!
33:32Quiet, man!
33:35Quiet, man!
33:36Quiet, man!
33:38Quiet, man!
33:39Quiet, man!
33:40Quiet, man!
33:41Quiet, man!
33:44Quiet, man!
33:47Quiet, man!
33:49Quiet, man!
33:51Quiet, man!
33:52Quiet, man!
33:54Quiet, man!
33:55Quiet, man!
33:55Quiet, man!
33:55Quiet, man!
33:55Quiet, man!
34:09Daisy? Daisy?
34:15Fuck. What the fuck was that?
34:17They broke the rules.
34:19They cut it off. I saw his arm.
34:22Jesus Christ, he was fucking wide awake.
34:24For fuck's sake.
34:25Jesus, what the fuck?
34:31I'm sorry.
34:33Agnes.
34:35Agnes.
34:36Don't. Don't tell.
34:39Oh, sweetie.
34:41Agnes, help Daisy get cleaned up.
35:01How do you feel?
35:07They told us about assemblies.
35:12But I didn't think it'd be like that.
35:15Like what?
35:26Thank you for taking care of me.
35:32When Aunt Lydia gives you an assignment, you do it.
35:37Miss Agnes, I am so sorry.
35:40I committed blasphemy.
35:43You were unwell.
35:45I took his name in vain.
35:47Agnes, there's no excuse.
35:51I know I must confess.
35:52I know I have to say yes.
35:54Okay.
35:57Aunt Lydia is in charge of punishing pro girls.
36:02Okay.
36:06Prairies be her discipline.
36:09I need to learn.
36:17Do you think she'll cut out my tongue?
36:21There are stories.
36:24Right now.
36:25Not for this.
36:26Probably not.
36:30Okay.
36:33If it's God's will.
36:35If it's God's will.
36:37If it's God's will.
36:38If it's God's will.
36:40I can't.
36:40Agnes, I can't.
36:41It's okay.
36:43You don't have to.
36:46You don't have to.
36:48It was just us.
37:06God sees our sins.
37:14We'll pray together.
37:16We'll show contrition.
37:20God is merciful.
37:24Beyond's, not so much sometimes.
37:29Are you sure?
37:33Our secret.
37:43Shunemite said Daisy was dangerous.
37:45She was right, of course.
37:48She said you should never, ever trust a pro girl.
37:52But that was exactly what I did.
38:05Blessed night, my pearls.
38:08May God protect you.
38:13Amen.
38:15Amen.
38:22Amen.
39:24And the lines, tonight's messages are on channel 99.2.
39:27And remember, folks, don't let the bastards cry.
39:33Red Dog, Green House, White Barn, you have packages waiting.
39:37If you're in the paperclip club, sit tight.
39:41That's it for tonight.
39:44Bye.
39:56Bye.
39:59Bye.
40:02Bye.
40:03Bye.
40:14Bye.
40:15Bye.
40:18Bye.
40:19Bye.
40:19Bye.
40:22Bye.
40:27Bye.
40:29Bye.
40:29Bye.
40:33It was never quite as a thing, never quite as a thing.
40:43I know I've had tightness before, but now I've had it even more, because it came from me.
40:58When I open up and see the person falling here in me, it's a different way to be.
41:33It was still cold, but I remember the nights were getting shorter.
41:38The shorebirds were back. You could hear them really high up.
41:42A sure sign of spring.
41:45I didn't know who my mom was yet.
41:48My real mom.
41:51That would come soon.
41:54I had no idea how much that would change things.
41:59Without calendars, you learn to mark time in other ways.
42:02It was when I became eligible.
42:05And when I met Daisy, it was when it all started.
42:12To the amazing mind.
42:17Understanding at the right.
42:21With everything to me.
42:28Oh, my mind.
42:32I'm changing every day.
42:36In every possible way.
42:44I'm changing.
42:47I'm changing every day.
42:51Yeah.
42:52I was changing to me.
42:54I'm changing my dólar in my mind.
43:08I'm changing my days.
43:09And I've trained at the right.
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