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Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Julia Gets Wise with Patti LaBelle

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Lemonada Media

Comedy

4.710.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Today on Wiser Than Me, Julia welcomes 80-year-old singer, actress, and entrepreneur Patti LaBelle. The two discuss Patti’s legendary Grammy Award-winning music career and what the “Godmother of Soul” has cooked for friends like Nina Simone, Elton John, and Prince. Plus, Patti tells Julia why she was convinced she wouldn't live to see 50. Also, Julia asks her 90-year-old mom, Judith, if she can remember any racy song lyrics from her youth.   Follow Wiser Than Me on Instagram and TikTok @wiserthanme and on Facebook at facebook.com/wiserthanmepodcast.   Keep up with Patti LaBelle @mspattilabelle on Instagram.   Find out more about other shows on our network at @lemonadamedia on all social platforms.   Joining Lemonada Premium is a great way to support our show and get bonus content. Subscribe today at bit.ly/lemonadapremium.    Wiser Than Me is sponsored by ZOE. Visit ZOE.com to find out what ZOE Membership could do for you and use the exclusive code WISER10 to get 10% off membership.   For exclusive discount codes and more information about our sponsors, visit https://lemonadamedia.com/sponsors/.    For additional resources, information, and a transcript of the episode, visit lemonadamedia.com. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Well, hi there. It's me, Julia Louis Dreyfus. We're back for season three of Wiser Than Me. We've got so much more wisdom to share from the magnificent old ladies featured this season. To celebrate the start of season three, we've added some groovy new items to our Wiser than Me merchandise collection. Head over to our merch shop to check out all of our great stuff, like a classic

0:21.9

Wiser Than Me Bagu tote bag, a kitchen tea towel with my Grandma Deity's delicious peanut butter cookie

0:28.8

recipe featured on it. And a brand new, gorgeous, hardcover Wiser Than Me notebook to capture

0:35.5

all of this season's bits of wisdom. Start shopping today by visiting Wiser Than Me Notebook to capture all of this season's bits of wisdom. Start shopping today by

0:39.6

visiting wiser than me shop.com. Lemmonada. So I'm not good at technical things. If it's digital,

0:53.7

I can't do it. Or really, I won't do it. I mean, I'm

0:58.2

sure I'm missing out on a lot of stuff, but in the end, who really gives a shit? I get by just

1:02.9

fine, thanks, except for one thing, music. I love to listen to music. It's one of the three or four

1:09.1

things I enjoy most in life.

1:11.7

When I was in high school and college, we had a record player.

1:18.1

A record player, remember those?

1:20.1

Oh, my God, the hours and hours that I would listen to music.

1:23.8

Slap Stevie Wonder's talking book on the turntable, place the needle on the record, music comes out of the speakers. Nothing to it. And then records died. Fine. Whatever. Stick the Stevie Wonder CD in the thing. Press play. I could do that. And look, I certainly don't want to be the, well, back in my day kind of person, especially on a show about how older women make such valuable contributions right now.

1:51.3

But now it's all Spotify and Apple Music, and that's great when I've got my phone in my pocket and my ear things in.

1:57.9

But what about when I want to dance around my kitchen?

2:00.7

What is washing dishes,

2:02.2

you know, without Ray Charles blaring or Parliament Funkadelic when you're making the bed?

2:07.6

Okay. I can't make that happen. And we have what the rest of my family claims is a very

2:13.8

straightforward system that is utter and complete bullshit. But here I am, they say,

2:20.0

with every song ever recorded. And I think they're like a hundred million songs on Spotify or

2:24.8

something all right there at my fingertips. And how often do I listen to music in my own home?

2:30.3

If I'm alone, never. Seriously, I'm not kidding you. Never. And what a giant loss that is. Our house used to be filled with music. I remember making cassette tapes of playlists when our kids were born. Oh my God, music for nap time, music for waking up. Just music. Our house was full of music. And it made such an imprint on our boys. For example, our son Henry, he started

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