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Nancy

RuPaul Wants Naked People and Big, Fat Asses

Nancy

WNYC Studios

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

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

RuPaul navigates performance art with Broad City's Abbi Jacobson in the new WNYC Studios and MoMA podcast A Piece of Work.

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0:00.0

What do you think my least favorite class was in high school?

0:12.9

It was PE.

0:14.8

I hated PE.

0:17.0

My body is not built for sports.

0:19.6

I hated PE.

0:20.8

So I wanted to tell you a story about how in PE in high school I signed up for weight

0:26.8

lifting which was notoriously the easiest PE class you could take.

0:33.8

Basically, in weight lifting we would just sit around and the teacher would randomly

0:39.5

walk around and make sure you were like doing what you were supposed to be doing.

0:43.3

So my friend and I, we devised this thing called the Give Me an A-face.

0:47.4

Oh God, which meant we basically chose weights that were super light and super easy to lift.

0:52.8

And if the teacher came around, we would make a face as if it was super hard and we were

0:57.9

working super hard.

0:59.9

Tobin, who do you think you were fooling though?

1:02.8

When you do like two pound weights?

1:04.8

Okay.

1:05.8

But I'm telling you the story because I feel like where I do my Give Me an A-face now is

1:13.1

anytime I'm standing in front of a piece of modern art that I do not get.

1:17.1

Oh, oh, same.

1:18.9

Absolutely.

1:19.9

You do like the countdown in your head of like, okay, I've been staring at this for 10 seconds.

1:24.3

Yep.

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