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PTFO - Just Danced: How the Young Lady Gaga Dominated My High-School Cafeteria

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.9 β€’ 8.3K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

We all have that person from our childhood we just knew was gonna be a star. And more than 20 years before she was a 13-time Grammy winner and a star of the new Joker movie, there was a girl visiting Pablo's all-boys high school named Stefani Germanotta, playing third-wave grunge songs in the corner. His classmate Patrick Wolf β€” from the band Goodnight, Texas β€” even asked her to sophomore semi-formal. And while Pablo was preparing for a debate tournament instead, Lady Gaga (and the Plastic Gaga Band) was born. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what this sound is.

0:06.0

And he said, hey Pat, said hey John, he said, you should ask Stephanie to the semi-formal.

0:16.0

And I said, what?

0:17.0

Right after this ad.

0:22.0

You're listening to Draft Kings Network. I'm like the like the

0:35.0

Dude, I thank you for coming in.

0:40.0

I send lots of texts these days.

0:42.0

I'm like the Booker of the show as well as a host of it.

0:45.0

But this one in specific, I actually didn't know how you would respond when I asked you to do this.

0:51.7

Really?

0:53.0

Hey, do you want to relive high school together

0:55.2

in a way that may just embarrass, not just you,

0:58.0

but like one of the biggest musicians, celebrities

1:01.7

in American history.

1:03.5

Listen, I had a little bit of trouble going to sleep last night,

1:05.8

but if we if we go through this together, I think it could be great.

1:19.6

Okay, so that is the sleepless voice of Patrick Wolf, was a protagonist in a pretty bad shit core memory that I've had lodged in my brain,

1:24.4

and is a non-exaggeration, for more than 20 years now.

1:28.4

Ever since Pat and I were classmates at Regis High School,

1:31.9

an all-boys school, crucially, here in New York City.

1:35.0

Now, I haven't seen Pat in person more than a couple times.

1:40.0

Over the last couple decades, typically always at Regis reunions.

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