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🗓️ 10 August 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Lights! Camera! Scandal! Iconic downtown comedienne Ruby McCollister travels back in time with us to the halcyon days of the studio system, for infamous screen siren Barbara Payton, and her no-holds-barred memoir “I Am Not Ashamed.” From her five marriages to making $10k a week, the invention of e-girls, proto-butch theory, roach-infested apartments on Sunset and the world we leave behind, this is no cautionary tale—this is real life, baby!
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0:00.0 | In 1995, Detective Tony Richardson was trying to figure out who killed a fellow officer. |
0:11.5 | The case comes down to who is believed and who is ignored. |
0:15.8 | Oh my goodness, we did connect to Innocent Man. |
0:19.1 | I'm Beth Shelburn from Lava for Good Podcasts. |
0:22.6 | This is Ear Witness. |
0:24.9 | Come to Ear Witness on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your |
0:29.9 | podcasts. |
0:54.9 | Sometimes the pop culture we love just teens hits differently in retrospect. |
1:06.6 | Maybe it's a tabloid story we couldn't get enough of or an illicit student teacher relationship |
1:11.2 | on our favorite show. |
1:12.8 | We're Suzy Bannakerum and Jessica Bennett, posts of the new podcast in retrospect, where |
1:17.5 | each week we'll revisit a cultural moment from the past that shaped us and probably you, |
1:22.1 | to try to understand what it taught us about the world and our place in it. |
1:28.2 | Listen to In Retrospect on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you find your |
1:32.8 | favorite shows. |
1:51.4 | I guess not for your regular order of what is it rosé wine, I'll be right back. |
1:59.4 | You know, the first time I had rosé was with Cagney Lacey, pulled me beside in this trail |
2:08.4 | and he said, I'm going to let you try a little something else, don't you take that tone |
2:13.0 | with me and he put me in the picture anyway. |
2:15.4 | Yeah, Barbara I've heard this one too many times, a few catch my drift. |
2:20.0 | Cagney wasn't a big man if you know what I mean, but he knew exactly how they used |
2:27.4 | Barbara, Barbara darling, pull up your shirt, you're revealing yourself. |
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