A Gaggle for Me
Nancy
WNYC Studios
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In our season three premiere, Nancy stages a friend-tervention for Joe Rodriguez. Plus, we launch our new How to Get a Gaggle project!
Special thanks to Fran Tirado of the podcast Food 4 Thot, Eric Sosa at C'mon Everybody, and Bill Clark and Libby Willis at MeMe's Diner. Our friendship project is coordinated by Charlotte Cooper with help from Ashley Lusk, Caroline English, Sahar Baharloo, Sarah Sandbach, Fiona Carswell, and many more of our colleagues at WNYC Studios.
Original music by Jeremy Bloom with additional music by Mystery Mammal ("You're Up There"), Podington Bear ("Gizmo"), and Creo ("Memory"). Theme by Alex Overington.
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| 0:00.0 | Kathy. Yes, Tobin. I want to start off season three with a question for you. What would |
| 0:07.0 | you say is the most important thing to you in the world? Are we talking about like basic |
| 0:11.5 | necessities? I don't know, just like what comes to mind. Like what's top of the mind most |
| 0:15.8 | important to you? Having a place to live. Okay, beyond that. Having food. Deeper. Let's |
| 0:24.3 | get deeper. Love, icing love. Kathy, these are all the wrong answers. The answer is supposed |
| 0:31.5 | to be me. The answer is supposed to be our friendship. This was going to be like a |
| 0:35.6 | sweet moment to kick off the episode. I asked you in what specific context are we talking |
| 0:41.5 | about? It's fine. You've ruined it. It's okay. Let's just jump in. You know what? You |
| 0:44.9 | fall under love. Yeah. Whatever. Too late. Show music, please. From WNYC Studios. |
| 0:54.2 | This is Nancy with your host Tobin Low and Kathy too. So what I was trying to say before |
| 1:07.4 | you messed it all up is that friendship is very important. Like from the time we're little, |
| 1:18.8 | we're told how important it is to find our people. Friends are special. So important to |
| 1:24.4 | prioritize finding friends. You are my friend. You are special. You are my friend. You're |
| 1:32.8 | special to me. Tobin, I don't want any of these shows. Your time to contribute has passed. |
| 1:39.6 | Okay. Okay. But I would argue that for queer people, our friendships with other queer people |
| 1:47.2 | are different. Like the role that our queer friends play in our lives can be so much more |
| 1:51.7 | intense. They sometimes take the place of family. We can talk about things like sexuality, |
| 1:57.5 | gender, and identity with familiarity. Our queer friends sometimes become lovers or ones |
| 2:02.8 | who are lovers. No, no, don't do this to me, Tobin. All right. Leaving it alone. The reason |
| 2:07.3 | I'm bringing all of this up is because of this guy I recently met named Joe Rodriguez. Joe |
| 2:12.0 | is 25 years old. He lives in New Jersey. He's a writer. He also does a truly terrible |
| 2:17.6 | Owen Wilson impression. I like your shirt. Look at the sky. Wow, that drag race competition. |
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