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Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus

EXTRA: A Peek Behind the Scenes

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Lemonada Media

Comedy

4.710.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Julia surprises the one-and-only Judith Bowles (aka her mom) with some very exciting news! And did you know her mom isn't the only one of Julia’s relatives who's part of Wiser Than Me? Julia shares some behind-the-scenes info about how the show is actually a family affair and how she is so grateful to all of you out there who have been listening to Wiser Than Me. Finally, stay tuned for season 2, which returns this spring!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Lemonnotta.

0:15.0

I'm Julia Louis Dreyfus from all those shows on what we used to call television. Oh, remember television?

0:18.0

I'm also a fancy podcaster now and I wanted to let you know that season two of my show

0:24.3

wiser than me is coming soon. I gotta tell you we are really onto something here. It turns out that hearing from

0:38.8

older women is an entirely new thing which is crazy because older women are the real deal, man.

0:48.2

They are the great untapped natural resource.

0:52.4

Did you listen to season one? If not, Jesus Christ, what

0:55.0

the hell is the matter with you? You'll miss 10 of the most fabulous conversations

0:59.6

with women like Jane Fonda. I mean you have not lived until Jane Fonda has read

1:05.1

T.S. Elliot to you and Carol Burnett the freaking queen of the variety show

1:09.9

who I now play Wordle with every day and she is so good at that game it just

1:15.0

pisses me off she gets it in two like every time and I got to talk to

1:19.1

Isabel Ianday and Darley in love and Fran Leibowitz and so many more unusually interesting and

1:27.2

captivating and insightful women.

1:29.7

Yeah, I think that the reason the show seems to resonate with so many listeners is that when these

1:37.4

women reach a certain age, there's just less bullshit and more authenticity, you know, and that certainly allows the

1:45.6

conversations on this show to be genuinely revealing like a discovery. I mean it can

1:51.6

be really funny and actually it can be really moving too.

1:55.1

And it sure has opened up my heart and my mind in a way that I never expected.

2:00.9

And I'm totally shocked. Well, I'm astonished, in fact, at how many people are stopping me in the street, like in the airport at the TSA thing or the grocery store to talk about this show and they want to tell me about

2:16.2

certain little nuggets and things that these 70, 80, 85, even 90 year old women have said that have really stuck with them in a most meaningful

2:26.8

way.

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