S7E10: A Woman Walks Into a Burger Joint

Love Letters

The Boston Globe

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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After years of being told she wasn’t enough – good enough, smart enough, pretty enough – Tooky Kavanagh discovered that, yeah, actually, she was enough. This revelation came in the unlikeliest of places: the basement of a burger place, at a comedy open mic night. For the first time, Tooky could see who she was supposed to be. Email us at loveletters@boston.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Around 2014, one of Toki Kavanaugh's work friends got an idea.
0:12.4	He told her, me and my buddies are going to go to this comedy open mic night.
0:17.0	You should come along.
0:18.8	Toki said, sure, why not?
0:22.1	This simple outing turned out to be transformative for Toki, who was a pretty introverted person.
0:29.7	So I go with him at this now defunct open mic that was at the basement of Tasty Burger
0:34.4	in Harvard Square.
0:36.7	And we are watching these people go up to the microphone, say their things, and just absolutely
0:42.8	eat shit.
0:44.0	Like every...
0:45.0	Oh my god.
0:46.0	Like it was terrible.
0:47.0	And I...
0:48.0	In the back of my mind, I switched flips and I was like, oh, I could eat shit too.
0:52.6	This isn't so bad.
0:54.2	These people are just sharing their insights.
0:57.0	They're telling their story.
0:58.6	I can do that too.
1:01.3	It might sound strange, but sometimes you have to see somebody bomb on stage to realize
1:06.6	this might be a place where you can feel very good about who you really are.
1:13.9	From the Boston Globe and PRX, this is Love Letters.
1:17.4	I'm Meredith Goldstein.
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