#368 - Rita Wilson on Her Dad’s Amazing Journey from Bulgaria to America + Duets with Keith Urban, Willie Nelson and More on New Album + Getting Her Acting Start on the Brady Bunch

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4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Rita Wilson has an amazing story as a first generation American. She opens up about her parent’s and her dad’s struggle making it to America from Bulgaria and the values it instilled in her. Rita just released her new album called, Rita Wilson Now & Forever: Duets. She tells the stories behind her duets with Keith Urban, Tim McGraw, Willie Nelson, Jimmie Allen and more! Rita has starred in some of the most beloved ’80s, ’90s and 2000’s movies. She shares her stories of her first job as a ticket taker, how she got started acting, her role on the Brady Bunch and what clicked for her to start songwriting in Nashville and how she was so nervous to play the Opry for the first time.

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0:00.0	I'm Mooraka and I'm back with season three of my podcast, Mo Bituaries.
0:05.9	I've dug up even more stories about the people and things that fascinate me.
0:10.6	From the fruit that once scandalized...
0:13.3	The shape of the banana made it taboo.
0:15.8	...to the band that played second banana to the Beatles.
0:19.3	They were lucky to come in second and the truth is they only came in second for about two months.
0:23.3	Listen to Mo Bituaries on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:29.9	I'm Dana Schwartz, host of Stealing Superman, a new iHeart original podcast about the most
0:37.6	unlikely art heist of all time.
0:40.6	It was Nick Cage's own personal, national treasure.
0:44.8	At a 1999 New Year's Eve party, someone snatched Cage's priceless comics.
0:52.5	But who?
0:53.5	Listen to Stealing Superman on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you find
0:59.1	your favorite shows.
1:00.1	Hi, I'm Ophira Eisenberg.
1:03.7	I'm a comedian and a parent.
1:06.9	The absurdity of telling jokes late at night and then waking up early with a small child
1:13.2	in the morning.
1:14.2	I have a new podcast called Parenting is a joke.
1:17.4	I'll talk to other funny people who are also parents.
1:20.9	Will we be laughing?
1:22.2	Will we be crying?
	...

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