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I'm Pretty with Writer Penelope Lombard

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4.1529 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2012

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Writer/Comedian Penelope Lombard thinks to herself, "I'm Pretty" but then she doubts it because her friends post pictures of her on Facebook with crazy eyes.  Also, she has two cats, but that doesn't mean she wants your cat shit. 

Each week Hollywood’s most talented people in the entertainment industry share true, personal stories on the Story Worthy Podcast. Story Worthy celebrated 13 years of podcasting in July 2023 and has over 800 episodes recorded. Christine Blackburn is the creator, host and producer of Story Worthy, Story Smash the Storytelling Game Show, and My Life in 3 Songs exclusively on Spotify. 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the story-worthy podcast. Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn, and Hannah Spinning.

0:32.7

Welcome to Storyworthy. I am Christine Blackburn, and I'm here with Hannah Spinning.

0:37.6

We're coming to you from the Pretty Prairie Steakhouse in Pretty Prairie, Kansas.

0:39.9

Population 615.

0:41.1

Wow.

0:43.8

I bet that's on the sign like going through like I-70.

0:45.4

You would see that sign, wouldn't you?

0:46.4

You would, yes. The Pretty Prairie Steakhouse is right next to the town post office.

0:52.9

And I'm in Google Street View i mean no i'm here i'm

0:56.3

looking out the window right and uh there's about five cars all american made i would say

1:01.4

there's about three blocks worth of uh of uh buildings all one story and then there's just

1:08.4

farmland yeah what do you think the uh the competition is for the steakhouse? Do you think they have any competition? It does not appear that there is another restaurant in the, but apparently... What if there's a sizzler? Then they're screwed. I don't think a town of 615 can support a sizzler. Well, I can't believe they... Oh, Earl. Earl is signaling to me. He's holding up a sign that says that

1:29.2

sizzler came and they told them to go fuck themselves.

1:31.8

So, um, there's no sizzler allowed in Pretty Prairie.

1:35.2

What if there was like a dairy queen brazier?

1:37.2

Because that's when they sell the sandwiches and that's crazy talk.

1:40.5

Oh, I just, I just had a minor stroke.

1:43.3

Listen, what's it called the Pretty Prairie Cafe? Pretty Prairie Steakhouse. Okay. Where they have a spectacular, by the way, I will have the chicken fried steak extra country gravy. Okay, I'm sorry, go ahead. Honest is bringing up the topic pretty. He's trying to get to the point that we have a storyteller tonight she brings the topic

2:01.2

i'm pretty that's the topic she brings i'm pretty in other words it's like yo so benita i mean

2:07.0

it's very clear i'm pretty it's one sentence it's demonstrative her name is penelope lombard have you

2:12.5

heard of this girl i've i've heard of her i've known her for years and oh did i not know that she was

2:17.4

very midwestern and andern and not egotistical? I would think, wow, I'm pretty. That's kind of a self-serving topic to be bringing in here. But we know that she's funny. She's sarcastic. And she's pretty. And she's pretty. So she gets away on this topic. She gets away with it on many levels. Yeah, yeah.

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