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What Had Happened Was feat. Heavy R. Cream · philly has heART

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Hey, Lucinda. How was your weekend? How was your
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Labor Day weekend? Labor Day Monday Scaries are
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the worst Sunday Scaries if you get Sunday Scaries,
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but I have not, not for a solid decade now. I've
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been very intentional about the jobs that I take
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in Becker and Frondorf. Whatever they serve to
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me cannot scare me. Love that. Love it. What'd
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you do this last weekend? It was a first Friday,
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babes. Where did I go? Yeah. Fucking everywhere,
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including Elmo. And we got the purple sweet potato
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fries on advice from Jessica at Paradigm. Nice.
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It's like a French fry. And it really soaked
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up all the alcohol that I had been drinking throughout
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the evening. That's perfect. Absolutely amazing.
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How was your gallery to gallery bar crawl? We
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went everywhere. Well, not everywhere, but you
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know, most places. Then the next morning, the
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boys, all of them, including my husband, went
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to the kids collage workshop with Tim McFarlane
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at Bridget Meyer's gallery. Amazing. I met up
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with them there after the post first Friday reformer
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Pilates class. And I saw the new talent show
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and holy shit. Watch out budget. I might be back
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on the payment plan. What'd you get up to? What'd
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you do? I had a beautiful weekend down the shore.
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Popped into some galleries myself in Cape Cod.
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Did you buy anything? No. You know, coastal art
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needs, like, coastal real estate to put it in.
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Oh, yeah. Oh, I get that. For sure. I'm not there
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yet. Not there yet. So as of right now, we're
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just looking. We're putting some, you know, some
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feelers out there. We're seeing the coastal artists
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and what they're up to. But it was really nice.
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It was beautiful weather this weekend. And yeah,
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it was a good time to kind of relax. Lovely.
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Yes. I edited all four conversations. Stop. That
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we did two weeks ago. Five conversations. Oh
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my, did you labor on Labor Day? I labored on
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Labor Day, but here's the thing. Robert, I realized
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how fucking busy our September was going to be.
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I realized not only in terms of the podcast,
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but at my proper work that pays me. Two members
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of the team that I am on are going out of town,
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and I want to make sure that you cover for them.
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Because they cover for you. Also, have you like
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looked at our calendar? We have a massive month
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coming up, which I mean, I don't regret. It's
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Fringe Fest month. I'm really excited about it.
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But also I realized that our vacation is really
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going to start in October. Oh, great. It'll be
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great. Pack it in over the next three weeks.
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Get it all out of me. For sure. And I know you
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have some major stuff coming up with the ballet
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as well. Yes. So much. Have we broken that news
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on our podcast yet? I don't know. Do you want
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to share with us? Well, I haven't started officially
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yet. Is it official? I know there's some things
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that I cannot say. But is there anything that
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you can say? Well, I mean, I highly encourage
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everyone to come out and support the ballet as
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they open their brand new building next week.
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We're really super excited to share with the
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public as well as patrons of the arts. great
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work that has happened with this $50 million
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investment into the Philadelphia Ballet and North
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Broad. We're so, so excited to be able to expand
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and give a proper home to the ballet dancers
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and artists at Philadelphia Ballet with this
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new building open. So even prior to our season
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coming out and about, I encourage everyone, if
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you cannot make the Thursday fundraising event
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that you make it out on Saturday and get the
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first public looks into the ballet building,
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which will be open to all families encouraged.
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And don't wear heels. You'll fuck up the floors.
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This is Robert Marsh, and you're listening to
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Philly Has Heart Podcast. In this podcast, we
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sit down with artists, gallerists, educators,
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curators, and other creatives who comprise the
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Philadelphia art world to discuss upcoming performances,
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exhibits, and other events and initiatives that
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are not to be missed. The art scene in Philadelphia
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is so rich that it can seem daunting. Consider
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this your weekend cultural recommendation. With
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me always is my producer, Lucinda Degeler. Hey,
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hey, hey! And today we have Heavy R. Queen and
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Colin Saldry. Thank you so much for joining us
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today. Robert, Lou, it's such a thrill to be
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with you. I must say, my booking people decided
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to put me on a podcast today. I was ready for
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a group of large males with controversial views,
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so I must say, a bit surprised by this turn of
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events. You know, I think perhaps... Please take
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this in the spirit in which it's offered, but
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the most controversial view I think we're going
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to get today is perhaps you could wear white
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after Labor Day. Yes. We'll see. We're still
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going to see how this goes. I love it. Thrilled
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to be here with you. Very thrilled. Oh, yes.
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A synopsis. Heavy R. Cream stars as Hillary Rodham
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Clinton, circa 2026, trapped in a fever dream.
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She is locked in a strange room alone, surrounded
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by everyday Americans. And her only way out is
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to get loose and dish with these, quote, everydays,
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unquote, about what really happened in 2016.
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Relive the chaos of that era and hopefully find
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catharsis in campy one -woman caper. Would you
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add anything to that synopsis? I'd be very succinct.
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We ripped it from the website, that's why. I
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was going to say, my respect to whomever put
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that. It's a fabulous synopsis together. I guess
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you could say, imagine it's been 10 years since
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the election. Every day that goes by, we get
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one day closer to that fateful day in November.
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But yeah, we're just trying to process what happened.
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The idea is that Hillary's gotten over it on
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paper, and she's under anesthesia in the current
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day, 2026, for an unspecified medical procedure.
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Her mind is wandering in this twilight space
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between life. In death, she finds herself confronted
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by these everydays. She's got to relive these
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traumas with a room full of strangers, her absolute
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worst nightmare. So I figured what better way
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to do that than with a live band and sort of
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a cabaret -style musical. Because the last thing
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I'm sure that this deeply, deeply private woman
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wants to do is sort of talk about how she feels
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in a room full of strangers. What a fun concept.
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What or who came first, the seed that became
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what had happened was, or yourself, Heavy Art
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Cream? Or are they intrinsically interwoven?
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That's a great question. I think they really
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are interwoven. I don't know where you were in
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November of 2016, but... Upset. Spiraling. Before.
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Yeah. And then there was the day, I think it
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was November 9th and beyond. I said, this isn't
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supposed to work like this. So there was like
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a psychotic break, like nationally, I think it
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occurred. And I had come to this idea, it would
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be so fun if there was like a drag show version
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of what happened in the memoir called What Had
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Happened Was. I myself had had a psychotic break
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at that time. And we'd gone through a number
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of drag names, the original of which was Plump
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Fruit. Picked that up at a wine course. That
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didn't quite stick. And then there was the younger
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half of a duo, Euthanasia, that didn't quite
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stick either. And then we eventually settled
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on Heavy Cream. So Heavy Cream sort of has been,
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the two have sort of been working in tandem.
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And then, you know, 10 years in, here we go.
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We remember clearly where we were in 2008 when
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Barack Obama was elected. Maybe we voted for
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him. Maybe we voted for John McCain. And I'm
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outing Lucinda's previously registered Republican
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ass. Nothing but respect for my favorite guest
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of the Hanoi Hilton. And I kept the elephant
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registration to vote in the primaries before
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like things really went off the rails. But I
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can confirm that neither of us felt the cloud
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of existential dread that we did in 2016 and
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2024. The 2024 election results is what inspired
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this podcast and we understand that what had
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happened was is a decade in the making. Can you
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share with us the inspiration and the evolution
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and has it been percolating throughout the years?
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Yeah, it's such an interesting concept because
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There's so many different influences that have
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sort of touched this over the years. I'd say
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that the two biggest, without question, sort
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of as a production, O'Mary. Yeah. What Cole Scholar's
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done with O'Mary is just, it's like my brain
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exploded. And then, of course, as a, I guess,
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an icon to give life to Heavy Art Cream herself,
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the late Dito von Ragersberg. R .I .P. Who was,
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first of all, what a... Performer seems too small
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a word. Icon. Just fabulous, spectacular individual.
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I actually saw Martha perform for the first time
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the day in 2024 that Donald Trump was almost
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assassinated at Butler. So it was a really sort
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of odd sort of election confluence of events.
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And I just remember looking at Martha on stage.
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She just survived cancer. It was a big sort of
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return to the stage. And standing in this little...
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35 -year -old gay boy thinking to himself, ah,
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I want to do that when I grow up. Yes! It would
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sort of be like a snowball effect of the two
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together. So there's Martha, there's O'Mary,
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there's a little bit of Auntie Mame in there,
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every fabulous woman over 70 that I've ever met.
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This idea of what had happened was, I guess,
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was sort of planted after Hillary's memoir, what
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happened. I remember being in a therapy appointment
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in like 2017, 18, 19, and talking to my therapist
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at the time about it, and him saying, if you
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ever do this, My wife and I will come. We'll
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go. So, of course, I emailed him. And he's going
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to come. Excellent. So excited. Proud therapy.
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Believe it or not, the proud therapy graduate
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here. So just really excited to just see it sort
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of all come together, probably in the last seven
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to eight months from. Please stop talking about
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this, which is all my friends would say, and
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talking about the research and where you're going
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to get the wigs and what does she sound like?
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What does she look like? How does she move to?
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Okay, now you have a band and you have a venue
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and there's dates and people are actually buying
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tickets and you're on a podcast talking about
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it. It's really coming together. It's happening.
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The promo with you in the kitchen is absolutely
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incredible. Absolutely incredible. One of her
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greatest moments. And it was so funny, but she
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was there, she was touring, I think it was New
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York City Public Housing, to talk about the conditions
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of like what, like why HUD funding was so important
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that we fund the Department of Housing and Urban
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Development. And it just becomes this intergalactic
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meme of her completely out of place. Like this,
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talk about a photo that says a thousand words.
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My God. That one and the sunglasses on the plane.
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Oh, yes. Scrunchie. It works for any instance.
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Absolutely. I wish I could use it, but it would
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require me to actually work for a living. Certainly
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not my bag. No, no, no. But it's so fabulous.
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But let's back up. What has been your onstage
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experience? Did you ever study playwriting or
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theater on any level? Hey, guys, it's Colin.
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This is going to be a Colin answer. Oh, yes,
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understood. No, well, not exactly. So I was in
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plays in high school, middle school, musicals.
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I was a wedding singer for many years. I used
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to sing, like, Cocktail Hour at weddings. So
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I would do, like, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett.
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And it was so fun because it was really, it was
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like glorified karaoke because I just did tracks
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that I would put on. And all of these, again,
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women over 70, my number one demo, would. I would
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stand there with like a martini and be like,
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he's lip syncing. And then I would not be, and
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they would just be completely floored. So I would
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sing in high school and college every summer,
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every weekend. Eventually I got paired with this
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Bruce Springsteen cover band for a few years,
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which was great, called the B Street Band. They
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were excellent. This guy Willie was sort of the
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band leader, and there were four guys named Glenn,
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which was insane that you could find four men
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all named Glenn who wanted to be in a Bruce Springsteen
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cover band. It was awesome. So they would sell
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me as like a package deal. And they would do
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the main event. I would do cocktail hour. And
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when we were in high school, the wedding industrial
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complex is insane. So you'd be, they'd be like,
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what's fair? And I'd be like, oh, don't, you
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know, like 500 for the hour? Like, oh, yeah,
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sure. 500 hours for a high school student is
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like the budget for the summer. It would be insane.
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It would be every, it would be two weddings a
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weekend. It would be nuts. Wow. So it was great.
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So I had a great time doing that. But then I
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went to law school. And law school is a way of
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sort of ruining your social life. So that was
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sort of the end of that. I've seen a number of
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plays over the years, you could say. I've seen
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a lot of stinkers. I've seen a couple of hits.
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And I thought, you know, the French Festival,
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this is the best way to put it together. Let's
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see if we can springboard. People do this professionally
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in a terrible way. So why not me? I could do
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it as an amateur and be terrible. Or, in my own
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mind, this is already a gigantic success. 100%.
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One person who was not a family member bought
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a ticket to see this. I've made it. I'm like,
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this is happening. So my parents are very proud.
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I can't wait to see you dressed up as the former
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secretary. Really, wow, quite something. What
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we imagined for our only child. A running thread
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of the most impactful performing arts pieces
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that have touched both Lucinda and I has been
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catharsis. We suspect... working through our
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childhood dramas via Girl Dolls, an American
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musical, is the primer for working through trauma
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of the last decade when we experience what had
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happened was. We ask this... with our last guest,
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Tess, who very publicly laments about modern
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dating another kind of trauma. But what would
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you think it is about these traumatic experiences
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that makes for compelling art, specifically on
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stage? You know, catharsis. Catharsis! When you've
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had one. They're hard to describe. When you've
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had one, and hopefully you've had more than one
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in your life, it's just such a profound experience.
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It summons up from this depth of your person,
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and it's like an explosion. I don't know. It's
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like a supernova feeling. I don't know how else
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to describe it. Permission to share? Please.
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I had catharsis yesterday. I was in front of
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Sofitel. All of the cars get clogged right there
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at 17th and Sandstone. I was pushing a stroller.
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My husband and my big kid were walking. I said,
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walk ahead of us. I'll get the stroller around
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this van. This van started backing up, and there
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were people walking. It was a whole thing. And
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I was like, what if that were me walking behind
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this van? These people were able to dodge. So
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I was like, there are people walking behind you.
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Slamming on the van. It didn't stop there. And
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he came back and was very dismissive. So I was
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like, you didn't see shit. I have a stroller
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here. He was like, everything will be okay. It's
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not okay! She's panicking. Well, I wasn't panicking.
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He should have been panicking because I assessed
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the situation. This guy did not have a gun. He
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had nothing against an angry mom. I move on.
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Okay. He stops. I'm like, is he going to back
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us up? Cowboy moment. Yes. I pass the van and
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my husband is turning around. Clearly heard me
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from down the block. I was like, yeah, he wasn't
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very far away. They were supposed to just go
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ahead to Barnes and Noble. And I was like, I'm
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sorry you had to hear that. That guy needed to
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hear that. It felt amazing. Did you just feel
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the release of it? It felt like everything I've
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been holding in, all the frustrations, I just
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let it out on that man. I mean, I'm so sorry
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that it had to be one person that had to bear
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the brunt of it, but someone had to do it. It
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wasn't like you said bystander. No. Anyway. It
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seems like it was her. Yeah. So let's move on.
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Catharsis! It is. It's a profound, and I think
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we've all felt it. I hope at this point in our
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lives we've all felt it. I remember the first
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that I had as a young man. And it's a feeling
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that stayed with me forever. But this was just
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such a traumatic moment, I think, in the national
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psyche. I can't keep coming back to this word.
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That just to be able to process this. I mean,
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think of Hillary's perspective on this night,
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right? Every poll, every data point on Earth
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is pointing to this moment that you've sought
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now. Correct. You're out of your husband's shadow.
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You've accomplished so much on your own. You're
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going to be the first woman president ever. And
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you lose, in spectacular fashion, to the worst
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man who's ever lived. Correct. Your antithesis,
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right? And you have to process this as it's happening.
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There's no period for grief. And then you have
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to be strutted out. the next morning, I think
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it was in the afternoon by the time they got
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her ready, to give this concession speech to
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sort of release the pressure valve and the national
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mood, and then you have to go fade into obscurity.
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She never had an opportunity for national catharsis,
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so I'm hopeful that, I mean, to be clear, most
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of the show is an absolute farce. This is part
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memoir, part farce, but I'm hopeful that as you
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sort of get comfortable with talking to these
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every days. and you kind of get into the groove
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of like, okay, I see what's happening here, and
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you get closer and closer to the big day, we
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all kind of start to feel the same, what she
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was feeling as it was happening. And I hope that
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it gives voice to, I imagine what her frustrations
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must have been, the profound sense of loss. And
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she talks about it in her concession speech.
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I think she even starts to cry a little bit when
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she says it, about how she feels like she let
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everybody down. And just starting to process
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this idea of he's actually going to be president
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now. This is unthinkable. I am responsible for
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this, even though she won three or many more
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votes. Maybe the electoral college. And then
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having to sort of come to grips with that. So
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hopefully, but why do we connect with that? I
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think it's everyone in the world. Love stories,
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dime a dozen. But the catharsis is just... powerful.
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And I think we're all always constantly searching
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for that release. It's like we've got this tension
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built up and I need to channel it into something
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that is not destruction. And hopefully that's
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what we all experience together. So excited.
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So excited. Miss Cree? Certainly. What can the
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audience expect from you? I'd say this is a 21
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and up crowd. Nice. We'll be upstairs at Frankie
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Bradley's, 1320 Chancellor Street, Philadelphia,
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PIP 19107. There'll be a full -service bar, restaurant.
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You'll be able to come up, eat, have some food.
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There'll be a, as I mentioned, there'll be a
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live four -piece band. There'll be some singing.
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Not a whole lot of dancing. No? No. There'll
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be a mix. Kitten heels? No, she's got a full
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three, four -inch stiletto. She'll be bringing
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it. Nice. Two looks. Okay. So one you're familiar
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with and another you're not. A mix of sort of,
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I think of it as like a live reading of her own
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memoir from the recesses of a big woman's psyche.
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She'll be talking about, she'll be settling scores.
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She will be talking about how she feels. She'll
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be casting aspersions at others. And then there'll
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be sort of a multimedia sort of. taking you all
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down memory lane. It really set the scene for
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what it must have been like when you saw this
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thing on the news. And what was she thinking
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at the time you saw it? I'll give you a quick
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example, if I may. Oh, okay. And then I'll give
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you some previews of what some of the numbers
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are. Her announcement video in 2015 was this
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sort of smorgasbord of a who's who Democratic
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coalition, right? So they had two gay men who
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were trying to have a baby. And they were getting
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ready to have a baby. And they had this young
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Latina mother who was trying to open a business.
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And they had this bald white guy who was trying
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to engage in manufacturing. And then they had
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like a black family that was doing something
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together. They were sending their child to school
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and they were getting them ready to go off to
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school. And then all of a sudden here comes HRC
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and she goes, I'm getting ready to do something
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too. I'm going to run for president. And it was
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so... re -watching it now, you're like, this
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isn't real. It feels like a parallel timeline.
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Right. People are like, this is a committee of
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people got together and put this together and
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watched it and said, this is it. We're going
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to say this. It's horrific. And it doesn't say
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anything. And that was like a constant theme
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throughout the campaign. Why do you want to be
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president? Well, she did say it. She was like,
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well, I think I'd be good at it. And I'm prepared.
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Everyone else sort of always said, but like,
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why did Barack Obama want to be president? Hope.
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Right? Ted Cruz. Why does Ted Cruz want to be
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president? There was never this secondary, what's
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the elder motivation? So she'll talk a little
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bit about that. But she'll get into some of her,
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you know, her tried and true controversies. The
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private speeches should be one of her numbers
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is a little, little ditty inspired by Tina Turner
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called Private Speaker. The title track from
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the show, What Had Happened Was, you may recognize.
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She'll be singing a little song about her experience
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in the primary called Stuck Between Barack and
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a Hard Place. And when she wins the nomination,
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a little song called Sympathy for the She -Devil.
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So she's going to really get into it and I think,
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hopefully, speak to a lot of the frustrations
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that maybe we all share with, if we could go
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back and run this, dare I say, if I could turn
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back time, what... Maybe we would have done things
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a little bit differently. Yes. Yes. I don't want
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you to take an album off of the possibilities.
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It could be amazing. Oh, you want a soundtrack?
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Yes. Is that what you're saying? Yes. Well, we
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love copyright infringement. I was going to say,
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I think there's a little thing with rights, babe.
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We do not respect copyright protections. True.
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True. I'd like to thank the good people at, I
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think it was TAMU, for a certain knockoff award
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that Ms. Crane will be presented with during
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the course of the production. Yes. Do you know
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that Hillary won three of the EGOT awards? Yeah,
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I think I... I read recently that she had won
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a Tony, right? She's got a tech, yes. A tech
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Tony or something? Yes. Or for producing. For
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producing, yes. Yes. Stuff's had won a Tony.
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It won several Tonys. She's a producer of stuff,
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so I'm counting that as a Tony for her. She won
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a Grammy for her reading audio book of her children's
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book, It Takes a Village. And she won an Emmy
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for a documentary, like a TV documentary that
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she and Chelsea did. So she's just missing the
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Oscar. It eludes her. There's still time. First
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presidential spouse to win a Grammy Award. What
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can't she do? Yes. Yes. Win an election for president.
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I was waiting for someone to answer that. Two
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strikes on that one. She's still got time. She's
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still outside. 28, right around the corner. Yes.
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That's what we think is we need more geriatrics
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in office. Yeah. This country is filled with
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assisted living facilities. Yes. And any one
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of those residents could be present. Get in there,
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boomer. How about three words to describe what
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had happened was? I'm going to use a big one
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that I'm creating a one word where it should
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be two. Compound. We're compounding. Fun. Fever
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dream. Fantasia. I love Fever Dream. Love this.
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Love this. Take that as you will. Heavy Art Cream,
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where can we and our audience find you online?
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Thank you for specifying the geographic location.
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I had a much different answer prepared. You can
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find her at itsheavycream .com and all of her
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ats. Or It's Heavy Cream. So she's really active
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on Instagram. She hasn't really figured out TikTok
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as yet. It's a young person's game. She's got
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a Twitter account. She hasn't tweeted anything
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yet. It's at X now. It's X now. Got a lot of
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X's lined up. You're telling me. It's probably
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have things to say, but at X .com, the everything
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app, it's heavy at It's Heavy Cream. But come
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on down. It's a real hoot. She posts some. unfiltered
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thoughts. She does a bad job of linking to things.
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It's really just seeing a big, uncultured lady
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just trying her best. You know? She's trying
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her best. I relate. It's not easy. So much to
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do, and I have no children. Take care of one.
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You should go down to the entry to the Sofitel
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and let it out. You know what? I think if there's
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a van there, I was sort of hooked on my way over
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to get down here today. You have all the afternoons
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to live it up. Well, I mean. Make new experiences
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for people. Oh, we're ready to. We're ready to.
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We're going to drink at Park. She's going to
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have a stiff cocktail. Yes. And then we're looking
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for an alliterative sentence there, but we'll
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leave it on the table for everyone to take a
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guess. We'll link all of those handles and the
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website in the show notes. Beautiful. We'll be
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right back with Heavy R Cream and some rapid
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fire questions. And we're back with rapid fire
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questions with Heavy R Cream. Mr. Cream, what
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is the slept -on, Philadelphia -based, performance
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-based artist that the city needs to know about?
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Well, I am personally a big fan of the Philadelphia
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Ballet. Perhaps you've heard of it. I haven't
28:38
tuned into an episode in some time, but they
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have a spectacular season coming up. Really can't
28:43
wait for the Stars and Stripes forever. Oh, yeah.
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Who knew you could dance to John Philip Sousa?
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Highly recommend. Favorite place to score a cheesesteak?
28:53
What would Hillary do to answer this one? I feel
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like to triangulate the answer, we're going to
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talk about the team first, and she'd say to herself,
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well, personally, I always loved John's roast
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pork, but it's only available during working
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hours, so it's tough if you work a full -time
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job that does not involve driving around. Your
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dream venue to perform in? Oh, the Academy of
29:19
Music, please! We'd love to take high art down
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into the gutter where it belongs. My God. If
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you could have seen any theater production in
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its original iteration, what would it be? I'm
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trying to describe the face I just made. Well,
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we were just discussing one off air. The American
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Girl Dolls musical. Oh, yes. Oh, my God. The
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trauma of my life that I missed it. Yes. I would
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say worse than the outcome of the 2016 election
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that I missed it. Wow. Wow. Yeah. It was like
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waking up the day after and being like, oh, God,
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I forgot to vote. Right? Terrible. Oh, my goodness.
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And it's like your vote would have been the deciding
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factor. Right. Yeah. You know? Like, she could
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have won, but you slept through it. Oh, God.
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It was the pills. I knew I shouldn't have had
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that second martini. The Xanax was too good.
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I would say the original Mame. Would have loved
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to see Mame. A friend of mine was telling me
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a story. Her grandmother used to take her kids.
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to see Mame in lieu of the Christmas spectacular
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with the Rockettes. And I was like, did she realize
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she was recruiting a generation of gay people?
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Did she have any idea what she was up to? And
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then, of course, Ethel Merman and Gypsy. Just
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to have my eardrums bleed every performance.
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I would love to have enjoyed that. That would
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have been really spectacular. Do you answer the
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fat rapid fire questions? No, it's just you.
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Wow, this is the best thing that's ever happened
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to me. We're going to do a round of this or that
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real quick. Okay, great. Make it an hour. Let's
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go. Madonna or Gaga? Oh, Madonna. Comedies or
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tragedies? Comedies. Golden Girls or Designing
30:55
Women? Golden Girls. Priscilla, Queen of the
30:58
Desert, or Tu Wong Fu? Tu Wong Fu. Let's land
31:01
the plane, babe. Absolutely amazing. Everyone,
31:04
please check out Heavy R Cream. in what had happened
31:10
was coming to you at FringeFest. September 16th,
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26th, and 27th at 8pm at Frankie Blatley's. We'll
31:16
see you there. Tickets are $25. Woo! LinkedIn
31:19
shut -ups! When you ended up doing the cuts for
31:38
this how many times were you like robert's laughing
31:41
way too much robert's laughing a lot i had an
31:46
incredible time with evy our cream i cannot wait
31:50
for this show everyone needs to find their way
31:54
to fill frankie and bradley's not the night that
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we're going because i want to sit at a front
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row table so don't take my front row table Fair,
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fair. It's also showing the subsequent Saturday
32:07
and Sunday at 8 p .m. each. I got you. It's going
32:11
to be so incredible. Go and check it out, along
32:14
with the amazing other Fringe Fest artists. What
32:18
is going on this weekend, Lou? Consider yourself
32:23
booked, baby, for the rest of September. Waves
32:26
become wings. Eric Spence's show at Pentimenti
32:30
is properly being feted this Thursday, September
32:32
10th from 6 p .m. to 8 p .m. We stopped in Friday
32:37
night and half the show was installed. Robert,
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you are not ready for this. City Arts Salon presents
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its fall season opener, Memory Made Visible.
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Featuring the mixed media art, Gloria Gamage
32:51
Davis and Balloon. And yes, that is a mononymous
32:56
name like Madonna. The reception is this Saturday,
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September 12th from 2 to 6 p .m. We are going
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to the opening of Tess's Single Woman, Work in
33:06
Progress, this Saturday, September 12th at 4
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p .m. at Yellow Bicycle Theater. Finally, our
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friends at Philadelphia Sketch Club are celebrating
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their Small Oils exhibition. Sunday, September
33:19
13th from 1 to 3 p .m. Robert, I know I've already
33:23
told you this, but September is going to be mage.
33:26
Are you ready to mainline some art or what? Shoot
33:30
a Picasso into my veins. Signing off, Philly
33:34
has heart. And art. into Philly has heart. Don't
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forget to follow, share, and spread the love.