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Nancy

Poor Unfortunate Souls

Nancy

WNYC Studios

Gay, Documentary, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Lgtbq, Lesbian, Relationships, Asian, Politics, Conversations, Storytelling, Health & Fitness, Homosexuality

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Everybody loves a hero. But villains can be much more interesting.

Meredith Talusan is the Executive Editor at Them. She wrote an essay about trans villains in film for BuzzFeed.

Dan Kois and Isaac Butler are co-authors of The World Only Spins Forward, an oral history of Angels in America. Andrea Bernstein is the co-host of Trump, Inc., a podcast about the Trump family business from WNYC Studios and Pro Publica. Stephen Spinella plays Roy Cohn in the Berkeley Rep production of Angels in America.

Episode scoring by Jeremy Bloom with additional music by Lee Rosevere ("I Was Waiting for Him" and "Featherlight"). Theme by Alexander Overington.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Kathy, did you ever watch the home alone movies?

0:03.0

Of course.

0:04.0

So...

0:05.0

I am human.

0:06.0

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

0:11.0

I think we're of the right age where...

0:14.0

If you watch those movies as a kid,

0:16.0

you became very convinced that at any moment,

0:18.0

Joe Pesci was gonna break into your house and try and kill you.

0:22.0

Like murder you.

0:24.0

It was supposed to be lighthearted though.

0:26.0

Okay, go back and watch those films though.

0:28.0

Those guys were out for blood.

0:30.0

Young Tobin had a real paranoia about being home alone,

0:36.0

if you will, the titular problem.

0:38.0

Okay, okay.

0:39.0

So the first time my parents left me alone at home.

0:43.0

I was like, I'm cool, I'm cool, I got this.

0:46.0

And then just like little sounds around the house,

0:49.0

I convinced myself that someone had broken in.

0:52.0

And then I was about to get killed.

0:54.0

And so I went and I grabbed a lamp.

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