I'm comfortable airing my laundry, you know. I don't think any, I don't think one thing's dirty or, or clean. It's just what I wear.

This is death, sex, and money.

Russ, didn't want to have sex with me. Gasped. The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

Sounds like this family either has no money or way too much.

And need to talk about more.

My mother's dead. She's dead.

I'm Anna Sale.

Titus Burgess is from the South, just like the character that bears his name on The Unbreakable

Kimmy Schmidt. I came here in 1998 on a damn bus from Chickasaw County, Mississippi. You know who

lives Chickasaw County? Nobody. Have you remembered? On the show, Titus's character was born Ronald,

a gay man who snuck out the back door of his wedding reception to start a life as Titus in New York City.

I changed my name to Titus Andromedon, and I marched myself into audition for the Lion King.

You were in the Lion King on Broadway?

Yes, except I was not.

In real life, Titus Burgess has always been Titus, even in the small town of Lexington, Georgia, where he spent a lot of his childhood.

He says it wasn't always easy growing up there, but it was home with its quiet comforts, deep connection to family, and slow pace.

In fact, when Titus talked with me about Georgia, he slowed down too. He spoke with

considered deliberateness, often peering off to the side instead of at me, as of conjuring up

the memories in real time. My granddad, who is still with us, and my grandmother, who is no longer

with us, had a farm several acres.

And the house sat off of the main highway, Highway 78.

It was pretty quiet, rural, like the whole, you know, one traffic light kind of thing.

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