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Lemonada. Hi there, listeners. Julia Louis Dreyfus here. And guess what? Wiser Than Me, the podcast where I talk to women who are way wiser than me, has new episodes coming in May. You want a little teaser? Guess who Pam Grier met in an elevator back in the day.
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The door is open, and in the middle is a guy with a black hat. And it was Jimi Hendrix.
A (0:32)
The fuck out. Can you imagine? And here's what happened when Steven Spielberg tried to direct Cyndi Lauper in a Goonies music video.
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He wanted to do a green screen. And instead of saying, I came all the way here to work with you, I said, I was hoping we could do something a little more creative.
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You want to know how Joan Baez developed her astonishing vibrato?
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I went home and stood in front of the mirror and I wobbled my Adam's apple up and down with my finger till it started developing vibrato. And I did that long enough, it began happening on its own. How did it go for
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Jean Smart when she first started to see a therapist? He was terrific. I really admired him.
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He asked me something. I said, I'm not going to tell you that. He said, what do you mean? I said, that's private. And he was just like. I was like, you're in therapy. Why would I tell you that?
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These wise women deliver the wisdom and other
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stuff. When you're young, you can have 3, 4, 5 orgasms in an hour. But when you get my age, you have one orgasm. It'll last three days.
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There is nothing natural about me, and I have no problem with that.
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I enjoyed my stay in jail. It was very minimum security. I married the first man I slept with.
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Oh, things we didn't know about Jean Smart. And of course, with Mother's Day around the corner, you're gonna get a big dose of wisdom from my mom. Judy.
E (2:05)
I do believe that there are lines between us that not always have language, but especially when our need is great. I think that we oftentimes have a sense of that.