137: Cyndi Lauper | Part 1
Homo Sapiens
Christopher Sweeney
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This week’s guest, Cyndi Lauper really is one in a million. In 2008 she found the LGBTQ+ homeless charity, True Colours United, with a mission statement to ‘implement innovative solutions to LGBTQ youth homelessness’. She tells Chris and Alan about the charity, being an iconic queer ally and calling out Donald Trump’s homophobia on The Apprentice.
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| 0:00.0 | Cindy Lurper intro, so when we do these records listeners, we say a little line about what the name of the file is for the people who are editing it, and Alan says it in the most beautiful, dulcet way, it's got like this lovely warmth about it. |
| 0:15.5 | Cindy Lurper intro, it was very seductive would be the word. |
| 0:20.6 | Well, you know, I am a siren. |
| 0:25.2 | Should we say hello to the listeners? Oh, hello everybody. Guess what? |
| 0:28.4 | What? Same old fucking story, same old fucking story, same old fucking story, same old fucking story. |
| 0:35.6 | Now you may think I'm being rude. Yes. |
| 0:37.4 | Listen, Alan, if you want to switch up the episodes a little, I'm happy. |
| 0:41.2 | No, why don't you do a singing one of my favorite songs of this week's guest? |
| 0:45.3 | It's a song that was on her album in the late 2000s. |
| 0:50.0 | It was a dance like an, not LED. What do you call it? EDM. EDM. |
| 0:55.6 | Like a dance album. LSD. LSD, STD, which was called Take Yeah to the Brink. |
| 1:01.9 | And that song was called, say, well, they had to call it same old story, because they wouldn't have to say fucking, but it was such a great song. |
| 1:07.3 | I was obsessed with it. And the person who sang it, it's my dear friend, and I'm sure yours too. |
| 1:12.0 | Cindy fucking Lopper, ladies and gentlemen, and those who don't define us either. |
| 1:16.1 | Wow. Yeah. And Cindy is a proper trailblazer, because a lot of people say, for example, even with her look and stuff that, you know, she really influenced people like Madonna. |
| 1:27.0 | And many, many other people beyond that, but it's not just her, her pop career. |
| 1:31.6 | It's the amount of incredible philanthropy that she's done. |
| 1:35.2 | Amazing stuff with her foundation, which is called True Colors United, which is basically tackling LGBTQ plus homelessness. |
| 1:44.3 | Yeah. And has been doing it for a while, like a long time before, I mean, really, but, you know, a good 10, 15 years ago, I did a campaign with her. |
| 1:52.7 | And it's, and it was the first time I'd actually heard anyone doing a campaign about that issue, which is such a huge issue in the LGBTQ plus community, |
| 2:00.8 | such a problem. And she was really, you know, highlighting it long for others were. |
| 2:06.5 | Yeah. And she's a trailblazer. And, you know, there's so many little specific bits of Cindy Lopper's history that is very, very well known, but not everybody knows, you know, for example, True Colors that that song of hers is actually written about her friend Gregory, who died of HIV and AIDS. |
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