Thank You for Being a Friend
Nancy
WNYC Studios
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Traveled down the road and back again. Your heart is true, you’re a pal and a confidante. Join us for a trip to Florida, with special guests Rufus Wainwright, Saeed Jones and the ghost of Bea Arthur.
— Rufus Wainwright is a musician.
— Saeed Jones is a poet and the executive editor, culture for BuzzFeed.
— Samara Breger and Kelsey Padgett are producers.
Episode scoring by Jeremy Bloom, Revolution Void ("Tree Tenants"), Kevin MacLoyd ("Monkeys Spinning Monkeys"), and Fabian Measures ("Calm the Fuck Down"). Theme by Alexander Overington.
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| 0:00.0 | Dorothy, I never understood why your brother liked to wear women's clothes, unless he was queer. |
| 0:04.4 | So for your people don't say queer anymore, they say gay. |
| 0:07.9 | They say gay if a guy can sing the entire score of Gigi. |
| 0:11.3 | But a 6'3'200' married man with kids who likes to dress up like Dorothy or more, I think you have to go with queer. |
| 0:17.1 | From WNYC Studios, this is Nancy. |
| 0:23.5 | With your hosts, Tobin Low and Kathy too. |
| 0:30.8 | Tobin, Kathy. |
| 0:33.6 | There are two things that I love in the world. |
| 0:37.5 | What are the two things? |
| 0:38.4 | One, soup. |
| 0:39.6 | Okay. |
| 0:40.6 | And two, the golden girls. |
| 0:44.1 | Thank you for being a friend. |
| 0:48.9 | This is one of my favorite things about you. |
| 0:51.7 | You are low-key 100 years old. |
| 0:54.1 | Whatever you also love the golden girls. |
| 0:56.2 | I do love the golden girls. |
| 0:58.0 | I used to watch it as a kid. |
| 0:59.9 | And maybe even though I didn't have the word queer yet, I was like, this is a queer show. |
| 1:05.6 | I love the show. |
| 1:07.2 | I'm so glad that we are going to make up for lost time today so that I can talk about it openly and proudly. |
| 1:13.5 | Let's make up for lost time, Tobin. |
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