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Even the Rich
Wondery
4.3 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Geri Halliwell always wanted to be famous. She dreamed of escaping her life of poverty and being as well-known and loved as her favorite entertainers. So when she finds an ad for an all-new girl group, she's convinced it's her one shot at fame.
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| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can |
| 0:01.7 | convince the newest season of even the rich |
| 0:03.3 | before anyone else. |
| 0:04.4 | Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app |
| 0:05.9 | or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:07.9 | This episode contains references to disordered eating. |
| 0:11.1 | There's also some strong language, so please be advised. |
| 0:14.0 | And a quick note about our scenes, some fictionalized dialogue has been added for dramatic and narrative cohesiveness. It's a Sunday afternoon in 1981. 9 year old. |
| 0:23.0 | It's a Sunday afternoon in 1981. |
| 0:29.0 | 9 year old Jerry Hallowell is scrubbing furiously at a dingy |
| 0:36.1 | worn tablecloth helping her mom clean up from lunch. Jerry has a friendly round |
| 0:41.6 | face and these big bright eyes, but right now they're narrowed into slits as she tries to get a stain out. |
| 0:49.0 | A chair scrapes at the worn linoleum floor, and Jerry's whole body tenses at the sound. |
| 0:55.0 | A few strands of her hair fall into her eyes as she looks up at her dad. |
| 1:00.0 | He's easing out of his chair, his receding hairline glistening with sweat. |
| 1:05.3 | He grins down at Jerry and says, |
| 1:07.8 | Sing for us. |
| 1:09.4 | Jerry lights up. |
| 1:10.5 | She's been practicing for this all week. |
| 1:13.0 | Jerry abandons the tablecloth and floats after her dad into their dark cramped living room. |
| 1:18.0 | Butterfly start tap dancing in her belly. |
| 1:21.0 | It doesn't matter how many times she does her one woman Sunday matinee |
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