Bertha Russell

If that's not a pitch that's going to get you on board, I don't know what will.

And earlier today, you, Rob Mahoney, compared Carrie Coon's character, Bertha Russell, to Elsewhere Engine.

Yes.

So you're saying she's Tywin Lannister meets Elsewhere Engine.

I mean, shout out.

They're doing good work.

But I think we have to blame Bertha Russell of Gilded Age and her ilk for just sort of saying you have to look sharp to be taken seriously.

I will not blame Mrs. Russell for anything.

shipped across the pond.

One daughter of Bertha and Train Daddy? Daddy...

Train Daddy, yeah.

Railroad Daddy? Railroad Daddy? Daddy Railroad? I think it's one of those.

That's

right.

You know, maybe Bertha was right all along.

But unfortunately, George Russell's so upset by Bertha's handling of everything.

We've got, it opens up with Oscar talking to Mrs. Turnington, basically, and saying, "Hey, the Russells' climb to the top may have damaged their marriage." And then we see some scenes about the Russells.

We've got Bertha and, um, George basically saying, "Everything is wrong.

Everything is wrong." George is saying, "Rockefeller," new, new ca- guy on the scene here, um, "Rockefeller is gonna bring me to my knees." So things are not, we are not in golden Russell land at, for parts of this, for sure.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

And, uh, maybe s- see a, kind of effect, affect George a little bit here.

And then we see a scene where Bertha is like, "George, please come home." So first of all, she, e- they are not together.

Like, they are not sleeping together.

Thank you for listening.

Pity Me by Bertha Russell, age 15.

From Weird Tales, November 1925.

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Pity Me by Bertha Russell How I love to handle corpses, cold, stiff bodies.

That is why I had become an undertaker.