Welcome to the Not Old Better Show Smithsonian Associates Art of Living Interview Series on Radio and Podcast.

I'm Paul Vogelsang, and as part of our Art of Living Interview Series here, we have an excellent program about the all-daring, all-voice, magnificent, and maddening, improbable, and irreplaceable Barbara Streisen.

Our guest today is Smithsonian Associate Sarah Luconson. Sarah Luconson will be appearing at Smithsonian Associates coming up, and the title of Sarah Luconson's presentation is Barbara Streisen. She is all that.

Thank you so much for listening today. We have got a great guest for our Art of Living Interview Series with Smithsonian Associate Sarah Luconson.

Sarah Luconson is a popular returning guest on the program who I always look forward to speaking with.

I'll introduce her in just a moment, but quickly, if you missed any episodes last week, was our 700th and 3rd episode when I spoke to Smithsonian Associate Scientist journalist and author, Kelly Beatty.

For the past 35 years, Kelly Beatty has kept his readers on the edge of their front row seats too much of the exploration of our solar system as Senior Editor of Sky and Telescope Magazine.

Two weeks ago, as part of our Smithsonian Women's History Month series, I spoke with journalist activist, historian, and author Elizabeth Griffith, who has written the new book, Formatable.

American, Women, and the Fight for Equality 1920 to 2020. Excellent subjects for our Not Old Better Show audience especially during Women's History Month if you missed those shows along with any others.

You can go back and check them out along with my entire back catalog of shows all free for you there on our website, Not Old-Better.com.

Yes, she's all daring, and all voice-magnificent, and maddening, improbable, and irreplaceable.

We might sometimes poke fun at her, she pokes fun at herself often, or say she's so last year, but when Barbara Streisand starts to sing, she can still your heart or lift you over the moon.

Barbara Streisand is a sorceress of notes. She can sing showtunes like nobody else, she covers pop tunes, she covers movie tunes, she sings Sondheim with ease.

And then there are her movies, Funny, Tender, even over the top. Join me today with documentary filmmaker, writer and Smithsonian associate Sarah Lookinson for a wide-ranging, fun conversation about the magnificent woman we know as Lustreisand.

Let's just jump right into our conversation today. Sarah Lookinson, welcome back to the program. Of course, I know you always prepare so much. What have you done this time for us?

I did prepare the class, and I watched out on hundreds of hours of clips, and I think I've come up with a fairly interesting way to proceed with the class.

So actually, I'm quite excited about it. I'm very happy to be doing it. And I'm really looking forward to it. So I prepared some remarks and answer to what you've asked about.

And also, I have a list of songs. So if you want me to, I can kind of go through my notes with you, which I think answer what you asked me, but you should feel free to stop me and say, well, would you talk more about this or talk more about that? Would that be an okay way to proceed?

That's an okay way to proceed. Absolutely.

Okay. And you should, you know, you should stop me or ask anything if you want in the middle. Now, I do because I think you and I did a wonderful back and forth together.

Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. Good. All right. So what I'm going to say first off is about the songs. If I know you can play a few sort of answers, I'm not going to tell you all the songs I'm going to play because something has to be a surprise.

And if I give everything away in this podcast, why would anybody come to the class? So I'm not going to give away all the secrets.

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