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🗓️ 11 October 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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0:00.0 | A warning, this episode contains explicit language. |
0:04.0 | Dix the musical is an extremely apt title for the frantic absurdist new movie. |
0:14.0 | It's about a pair of misogynistic narcissists who discover their long lost twins. |
0:18.0 | It's got cheeky song and dance numbers, plus the crude humor and distinctly queer sensibility of John Waters in his divine era. |
0:26.0 | Maybe, okay definitely, leave the kiddos at home for this one and your more narrow-minded relatives. |
0:31.5 | I'm Glen Weldon. And I'm Aisha Harris and today on |
0:34.4 | NPR's pop-poacher Happy Hour we're talking about Dick's The Musical. |
0:47.2 | Joining me in Glenn today is Jeffrey Masters. He's the host of the podcast LGBT Q&A and senior producer at the New Yorker radio hour. |
0:52.8 | Hey Jeffrey, welcome back. |
0:54.3 | Hey y'all, thank you. |
0:55.6 | Are you ready? |
0:56.6 | Are you ready to talk about this? |
0:57.6 | Maybe. |
0:58.6 | I think so. |
0:59.6 | To make it safer in PR, there's going to be some gymnastics, I think. |
1:03.4 | Yes, a lot of gymnastics. |
1:05.8 | So, first of all, Dix the Musical stars Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson as obnoxious salesman, Craig and Trevor. |
1:13.2 | When their company merges, they meet for the first time and discover their twins who were |
1:17.0 | separated at birth, each raised by one of their parents. |
1:20.3 | They decide to conduct their own parent trap to get the whole family back together. |
1:24.4 | It doesn't go exactly as planned. Now they're extremely eccentric mom and dad are played by |
1:29.8 | Megan Malale and Nathan Lane. There's also Megan The Stallion, who plays |
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