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Make Some Noise with Andrea Owen

Episode 167: Life Lessons from Cha Cha DiGregorio

Make Some Noise with Andrea Owen

Andrea Owen

How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.7517 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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http://yourkickasslife.com/167   “They call me Cha Cha...because I’ m the best dancer at St. Bernadette’s” Everyone has their favorite character from the movie Grease. Maybe you relate to Sandy and her quest for true love, or goofball Frenchie. For me, my absolute love affair has always been with the character Cha Cha DiGregorio. Of course she’s a fictional character, played in the movie version by the late Annette Charles, but even as a child I’ve loved her. She played a smaller role in the movie, but it didn’t matter to me. Everything she was about, I loved. However, the attributes of her character that I adored about her, are also the things we, as women, are not particularly celebrated for. In other words, even in the movie, Cha Cha was not well liked. First, we are introduced to Cha Cha by Kenickie, where she says, “They call me Cha Cha...because I’m the best dancer at St. Bernadette’s” This woman actually does what we are told not to do: brags about herself. She knows she’s the best damn dancer and she tells people SHE JUST MET. HELL YES. And holy crap, she IS a great dancer. Then, she sees Danny on the dance floor, grabs him and they start dancing, Sandy storms off in a huff. Sandy could have stood up to Cha Cha, she could have said, “Hey Danny, WTF, you came to the dance with me so why are you dancing her her?” But noooo, since we all love Sandy so much, we all feel sorry for her and hate Cha Cha for being such a bitch. Here she is leaving all “WAHHH, someone stole my date and I won’t fight to get him back.” But, the way I looked at it was WOW. Cha Cha sees what she wants and goes after it. And no, I don’t condone snatching other people’s dates, but if we look at this strictly as symbolism, Cha Cha is a woman who doesn’t give a shit if she hurts someone’s feelings. She’s not concerned about “playing nice” So, she and Danny and killing it on the dance floor, and then this happens Holy shit. Read the rest of the article HERE   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is Your Kickass Life podcast, episode number 167.

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This is the Your Kickass Life podcast with Andrea Owen.

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A no BS guide to self-help and bad assery.

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Because ladies, let's face it, life's too short for it to not kick ass.

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And here's your host, the girl who serves it up straight with a side of crazy.

0:54.9

Andrea Owen.

0:56.7

Hey, Askikers, welcome to another episode of the podcast.

1:00.8

As always, I am so glad that you are here.

1:04.7

So this particular episode, I am recording from my new computer.

1:09.2

The audio might sound a little bit different, and that is because, quite frankly, I am too lazy my new computer. The audio might sound a little bit different, and that is

1:11.8

because, quite frankly, I am too lazy to figure out how to actually do it right. I recorded 100,

1:20.3

so I recorded 166 episodes on my laptop. And it served me well. I knew that software backwards and forwards. And when I got a new

1:31.3

computer, I got an IMac, which same software, I record solo episodes in GarageBand, not that anyone

1:37.5

cares, I record interviews on Skype and then move them over to GarageBan to edit. Actually, someone else edits them,

1:46.0

but anyway, you don't need to know all the details about that. At any rate, there's GarageBand

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on this new desktop computer. So I'm like, oh, it's going to be the exact same thing. So I open

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it up. It's not the same thing. It's all new and improved because my laptop was like the 2012

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version, which as you know in technology

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was like archaic at this point. So it's this new version of garage bound. I have no idea how this

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