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Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast

Diane Guerrero's In the Country We Love (with Claudia Restrepo)

Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast

Chelsea Devantez

Society & Culture, Arts, Books

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Chelsea and Claudia Restrepo (Your Daily Horoscope, Pero Like, Vida) unearth the threads of loneliness, heartbreak, and resilience common to the teenage and immigrant experience with Diane Guerrero's eye-opening memoir, In the Country We Love.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Celebrity Book Club.

0:07.9

This is a podcast that recaps and celebrates the memoirs of badass female celebrities who

0:12.5

have been torn down by tabloids, dissected by social media, and faced heartaches and triumphs

0:17.0

and come out of it all even stronger.

0:19.2

I'm your host, Chelsea Devantes, I am a writer, comedian, and filmmaker, and this week

0:23.9

we are book clubbing Diane Guerrero's memoir, published in 2016 titled In the Country We Love.

0:30.8

This book will absolutely break your hearts, but it will also make you laugh and it tells

0:35.6

a story that you might think you have an idea of.

0:39.5

But it will surprise you just how much it surprises you.

0:45.0

If you want more pizza, vote for Maddie's.

0:48.3

I like pizza, everyone likes pizza.

0:52.5

But it's American is shit.

0:54.5

It's Italian you fucking idiot.

0:56.5

What, you got something better?

0:57.9

Yeah, I'm going to one.

1:00.0

Oh shit, you know what I ain't got.

1:02.6

What?

1:03.7

Both for Blacka, food that's full of Gaka.

1:06.4

All right, guys, have a nice day.

1:10.2

That was one of Diane's first standout scenes on Orange's The New Black, where she plays

1:14.6

a character named Mariza, and she talks about that pizza moment in the book.

1:19.0

It was actually the scene she auditioned with.

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