Welcome to Nobody Told Me.

I'm Laura Owens and I'm Jan Black.

Our very special guest on this episode is Lucy Arnaz, who was born into show business

as the daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.

As a youngster, Lucy began her long career on television in the Lucy show back in the 1960s.

Now, of course, since then, she's performed not only on television, but in movies, nightclubs, and on Broadway.

In fact, up until the pandemic hit, Lucy had been performing on stage every week of

her life since she was 15. She sings, she dances, acts, directs, and produces. And we are

absolutely delighted to have her with us on Nobody Told Me. Lucy, we thank you so much for joining

us. Well, that's very sweet. Thanks for that introduction. It's been a crazy last couple

of years, hasn't it? Well, yeah, it has. And I'm wondering about this desire to perform. I mean,

you had to have been born with that, weren't you? Or did it kind of come about as you saw your

parents working so hard? I haven't done a full- on body scan gene exploration. So I'm not really sure if I was born with it or not. No way to know that. Because, you know, there are a lot of people. If you go into the same business as your folks, people say, oh, we were meant to go into that business. That's, you know, it's because of those people, your mom, your dad, whatever, whatever business is, shoe business. You know, it doesn't have to be show business. It could be, you know, pharmaceuticals could be whatever. And yet, like if there's a strangeness in your family, you know, your father is Al Capone or something, it doesn't mean you're automatically going to become,

you know, maybe that's a bad example. Maybe that's a bad example. But you know what I'm saying?

I don't think it was a foregone conclusion that I would be in show business. I was just talking to

somebody about this yesterday. And I said, you know, what it is, it's osmosis.

And watching something that feels joyous to you and looks like fun,

that's what we gravitate to when we're young,

whether it's, you know, going into the rodeo and joining the circus,

you know, being a producer or working in science,

somebody gets us excited about it. Somebody makes us feel like, hey, that could be a great thing to do

with my life. A lot of people don't even have that opportunity. They just have to get a job doing

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