RuPaul: Born Naked | You Better Work | 172
Even the Rich
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4.4 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
RuPaul is born feeling like an outsider. Rejection by his father and peers makes him doubt whether he’ll ever fit in. But instead of conforming, he doubles down and becomes a gender-bending punk musician.
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| 0:00.0 | Wundery Plus subscribers can |
| 0:01.7 | convince the newest season of even the rich |
| 0:03.3 | before anyone else. |
| 0:04.4 | Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery app |
| 0:05.9 | or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:07.8 | This episode contains strong language, adult situations, |
| 0:11.9 | drug use, and occasional shade. |
| 0:14.0 | Listener discretion advised. It's the summer of 1960, and Ernestine Charles is walking down the sidewalk in San Diego, California. |
| 0:33.8 | She cuts a striking figure in a flowy beige dress |
| 0:37.0 | with black geometric patterns, and a seven-month pregnancy bump. Her fellow San Diegans don't get her Jackie O' style, but she |
| 0:46.2 | doesn't care. As she'll later tell her children, if they ain't paying your bills, pay them |
| 0:51.8 | no mind. |
| 0:53.7 | Ernestine likes to be called Tony. |
| 0:55.8 | She was named after her mother, |
| 0:57.4 | but ditched her birth name years ago |
| 0:59.6 | after she and her mom had a blowout fight. |
| 1:02.4 | And she's never looked back. Today, Tony's on edge, because she |
| 1:06.9 | suspects her husband Irving may be cheating on her. That man is her whole life. The father of her two daughters and the unborn son she's |
| 1:18.1 | carrying inside her. Tony's come downtown to do some retail therapy, but it's not a clothing store that catches her eye. |
| 1:26.0 | It's a glittering purple sign that says, |
| 1:29.0 | psychic readings, half off Wednesdays. |
| 1:32.0 | Tony enters the incense scented shop |
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