Welcome back to hot takes and deep dives, and you might have seen my next guest on tour with the Scissor Sisters

or recreating Bet Midler at the Continental Baths. Her live shows are pure Janice Joplin.

I mean, we could go on and on. Let's get to it. Amber Martin. What are you doing?

What are you doing? How are you? Looking at your puppy dog over there

looking all cute. How are you? I'm so good and you're doing good. I'm doing good. No, I just

asked you because I know you fly a lot, you travel a lot for performing, you do concerts,

you perform all over the place. I know you just got off a plane.

So my question is, this is some very topical news.

How was it getting through the airports with TSA?

Well, I was fortunate that I came from Beaumont, Texas airport.

It's a regional, you know, as I said, pissant little airport.

It's teeny tiny.

Theirs was just like walk right through, 10 people, you know. as I said, pissant little airport. It's teeny tiny. Theirs was just like walk right through 10 people, you know. And you're originally from Beaumont. Well, I'm from, I was born in Port

Arthur where Janice is from and grew up in Niederland, which where Tex Ridders from, and like,

no one really in the world at large knows about nederland as much as

they know about beaumont because it's a bigger town and that's where george jones is from when did

you first move to new york 2006 so i'm having in june my 20th anniversary you're having a party

hell yeah i'm gonna see and i haven't booked it yet but but I'm going to talk to Gavin at the park side on Houston

and try to get a little crazy fun party, but I want it to start at 1 a.m.

Okay.

Because that's how I started in New York, was doing shows that started at 1 a.m.

What were those shows?

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