Le Show For The Week Of August 25, 2024
Le Show
Harry Shearer
4.6 • 972 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here it is. From deep inside your audio device of choice. Ladies and |
| 0:08.3 | gentlemen, this week, Beyonce, the superstar singer, |
| 0:16.9 | entered the world of celebrity booze. |
| 0:25.0 | owners. |
| 0:30.0 | She unveiled her latest business endeavor this week a luxury whiskey. |
| 0:34.7 | Inspired, we're told, by her prohibition busting great-grandfather promising an unexpected take quotes on American |
| 0:50.8 | whiskey the drink is named Sir Davis in honor of the singer's |
| 0:54.2 | paternal great-grandfather. He was a prohibition era moonshiner. Quote, when I discovered that my great-grandfather had been a moonshine man, it felt like my |
| 1:08.6 | love for whiskey was fated, unquote, Beyonce. |
| 1:15.0 | The website for the whiskey features a handwritten letter from Beyonce to her great-grandfather saying his quote |
| 1:27.2 | legacy is a force that drives me unquote. |
| 1:38.0 | Beyonce was involved in designing the bottle, |
| 1:48.0 | which features a bronze horse logo representing the Houston-born Stars, Texas Roots, according to CNN. |
| 1:51.2 | It was described as years in the making, although she's come out with a couple of country-flavored |
| 1:56.7 | albums in recent years. And it's the latest development in a story that really first caught my attention a few years ago when Madonna signed a deal to endorse either a whiskey or a vodka and one of the |
| 2:21.2 | Hollywood trade papers announced the deal as Madonna joining the ranks of |
| 2:28.6 | Celebrity booze endorsers. Hence what follows. Hello, welcome to the show. |
| 2:36.0 | You've been selling some kind of glamour since 1986. |
| 2:47.0 | Ruffed up clothes, a copped up nose, |
| 2:53.4 | all were in the mix. |
| 2:56.5 | But now that you've got children, |
| 2:59.9 | that don't seem so cool, that you've got to pull some Jackson's |
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