Gina Gold

The Heart

Kaitlin Prest

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2015

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

At 5 years old, Gina was parading around the stage with a number pinned to her chest. But as the host of The Little Miss America Competition sang the national anthem, she felt he might have as well been singing,“You’re so whiiiiite, you’re so bloooooonde.” Even still, Gina, the toothless, black Shirley Temple, made it to the final round. When she didn’t hear her number called she looked out into the sea of eager parents and found her parents. Her mother, sullen and disappointed. Next to her mother, sat her father with tears streaming down his face. From that point on all Gina wanted to was to be seen, to fit in and to be beautiful.

By the time Gina was 24, she didn’t feel too different from that little pageant girl. She got into theater school but her optimism didn’t last. Soon after getting accepted she was drinking beer for breakfast, failing her classes, and fantasizing about skipping town. That’s in addition to the issues she was having with her boyfriend…

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0:00.0	My name is Maddie Kelly. I'm a writer and comedian and along with my co-host, Mark
0:04.6	Chavez, and Ryan Biel. We are setting out to write a romantic comedy movie script that
0:09.5	is genuinely romantic and actually funny.
0:12.9	Give me something that's both sexy and romantic.
0:15.6	LaCrosse. The sport.
0:18.2	And when we run into trouble, we'll get help from some serious rom-com experts. People
0:22.3	who have worked on everything from 10 things I hate about you to Mamma Mia.
0:25.5	This is all gold.
0:27.7	It's Let's Bake a Rom-com.
0:29.4	Available now on CBC Listen and everywhere you get your podcasts.
0:33.7	From PRX's radio topia, welcome to the heart. I'm Caitlin Prest.
0:42.1	Hi, this is China Blue who's out there.
0:45.7	This is Derek.
0:48.2	The scene.
0:49.2	Oh, baby. Oh, baby. Yes.
0:53.1	I'm going to come to you.
0:55.9	A rubepristus named Toby is pretending to be calling in to the number 947 W-E-T. T.
1:04.4	How are you ready?
1:06.7	I am in my penthouse suite.
1:10.6	Her best friend, Gina Gold, the protagonist of this episode, is trying as hard as she can
1:16.0	to re-enact something she did more than 20 years ago.
1:19.5	It's putting her acting skills to the test.
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