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Nancy

This Awful Side of Me

Nancy

WNYC Studios

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

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

You don't accept it or you don't understand it?

Lewis Wallace is a magazine editor and radio producer in North Carolina.

Liza Yeager is a senior at Brown University, where she co-founded Now Here This.

Episode scoring by Jeremy Bloom with additional music by Anamorphic Orchestra ("Signs of Life"). Theme by Alexander Overington.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tobin.

0:01.0

I'm going to tell you about my grandfather, my father's father.

0:04.8

I didn't know him that well because he was fairly old when I became a sentient being.

0:13.4

By the time he retired, he was a general in the army, but this is back when he was a soldier.

0:18.2

And he was with his horse, they were sign horses, and he got lost in a snowstorm.

0:24.9

And it got so bad and so dire that he had to kill his horse and live off his horse and

0:30.6

basically hide in the carcass of the horse.

0:33.9

Wait.

0:34.9

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

0:37.6

This is the storyline to Empire Strikes Back.

0:41.2

You do realize.

0:43.3

So I learned about Empire Strikes Back way later in life by that I mean like a few years.

0:50.6

And I thought to myself, man, that story definitely came from

0:54.8

my grandfather.

0:55.8

They stole something from him.

0:59.0

Somebody's grandfather out there is a professor of archaeology who's really good with a web

1:03.2

and is devastatingly handsome and they're like, God damn it, George Lucas.

1:07.3

You just take and you take and you take.

1:12.7

From NYC Studios, this is Nancy.

1:15.7

With your host Tobin Low and Kathy Tune.

1:25.8

So there's this thing that drives me a little crazy about my family sometimes.

1:31.0

Okay.

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