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Hi Jinkx! with Jinkx Monsoon

Charles Busch

Hi Jinkx! with Jinkx Monsoon

Moguls of Media

Tv & Film, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Film Interviews

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

"Hi Jinkx!" is back with brand new episodes. Today, Jinkx chats with drag legend, director, actor, and writer Charles Busch. They chat Charles' iconic work in "Psycho Beach Party", his new memoir "Leading Lady: A Memoir of a Most Unusual Boy", growing up in theatre, and so much more. So hit play on this brand new episode of "Hi Jinkx!"


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0:00.0

Searching for a romantic summer getaway. Escape with Rich Girl Summer, the new Audible original

0:05.2

from Lily Chew. The exquisitely talented Philippa Sue, returning to narrate her fifth

0:10.2

Lily Chew title. This time, Philippa is joined by her real-life husband, Stephen Pasquale,

0:15.5

set in Toronto's wealthy cottage country, aka the Hamptons of Canada, rich girl Summer follows the story of Valerie,

0:22.1

a down-on-her-luck event planner posing as a socialite's long-lost daughter, while piecing

0:26.5

together the secrets surrounding a mysterious family and falling deeper and deeper in love with the

0:31.7

impossibly hard to read and infuriatingly handsome family assistant, Nico. Caught between pretending to belong

0:38.2

and unexpectedly finding where she truly fits in,

0:41.3

Valerie learns her summer is about to get far more complicated

0:44.0

than she ever planned.

0:45.8

She's in over her head and head over heels.

0:48.5

Listen to Rich Girl Summer, now on Audible.

0:51.2

Go to audible.com slash rich girl summer.

0:53.7

Hello, everyone. I'm Jinks Monsoon and welcome to Hi Jinks with me, Jinks Monsoon. Today, my guest is my friend Charles Bush.

1:06.2

And when I say my friend Charles Bush, I'm taking liberty here because yes, yes, Charles is my friend,

1:13.9

but Charles is also a huge inspiration to me. One of the early inspirations to me in my work

1:22.5

as a drag queen, Charles Bush took drag into the theatrical world and into the film world in a way that few people had done before Charles Bush did it.

1:36.4

And today we're going to talk all about that.

1:39.8

Plus lots of other things because it's hijinks, you know, and I ramble.

1:50.5

So buckle up, hunker down, and sink your teeth into some brand new hijinks.

2:26.0

M. Oh, M. I'm Jinks Monsoon and welcome to Hi Jinks, a podcast where I, an internationally tolerated drag superstar, get to interview compelling and fascinating people about how they

2:33.9

became who they are and why they do what they do.

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