Hey, oddcast listeners, Sherry here with something special that we're dropping into the

oddcast feed today. It's an episode of the true weird stuff podcast that Max and I do. This

one's called the Glass Closet, and it takes you into the life of Liberace, who you may think

is some, you know, pompadour joke that your meemaw liked. But the truth is,

is that Liberace was a musical prodigy and one of the most successful entertainers of his time.

But there was something else going on with Liberacee, too. And that's why we're dropping

glass closet into this feed in honor of Pride Month.

Liberace spent most of his career in and out of courtrooms defending himself against the crime of being gay.

Because in Liberace's day, it was a crime.

It was the kind of crime that could ruin your career and your life.

And we tell his story in a way that we don't

think you've ever heard in this episode of the Glass Closet from the True Weird Stuff podcast.

If you like it, check out more of what we do over at True Weird Stuff. We'd love to have you

subscribe and join us every week for stories for the weirdly curious and the curiously weird.

Here goes the glass closet.

The joke goes like this.

Liberace arrives at the pearly gates and St. Peter says, I think we might have a little problem here.

Our records indicate Liberace that you once bit the head off a live parakeet at one of your concerts.

And Liberace says, no, no, no, St. Peter.

Now, you're thinking of Ozzy Osbourne.

Now, I might have had a cockatoo.

Ha ha.

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