It's the Brian Laira Show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. I'm going to introduce our next guest,

Dara Jones, by saying she's a Tony Award-winning performer, writer, and comedian who

came back home from L.A. to perform an hour reimagining of WNYC's first ever broadcast on our 100th

birthday earlier this week, did it in the green space. So before we talk about her new work,

just for the fun of it, let's take a listen to about a

minute of her interpretation at that event of the then, meaning 1924, Queens Borough President

Maurice E. Connolly. Queens Boulevard, which we have widened and extended from Long Island City all the way to Jamaica.

It's now wider and longer than that great Marvel of Paris, the Chans-Elysay.

Future generations will walk its serene, tree-lined path

and revel in a boulevard that's more glamorous and prosperous than the chanselises or anything anything to be found in all of the old world

yeah 1924 thought and we know that happened right so you can watch the entirety of that performance at w nYC.org slash 100 if you'd like to.

And while Marisi Connolly may have been first for her, Sarah is known to play a lot of characters local to the New York City area at the same time in the same show.

She's a one-woman act, a hilariously complex, multicultural cast within one person on stage

and in film, if you've seen her stuff, as I've been lucky to do on several occasions live.

But now she's taken to a new medium, and she joins us to preview her new podcast titled

America Who Hurt You?

And in this, Sarah and guest stars like W. Camel Bell and Krista Tippett explore how our personal

anxiety and pain are interacting with our shared experience of our country's political crisis.

Sarah, always great to have you on. Welcome back to WNYC.

Brian, this is a homecoming, what can I tell you? A Queens girl, I'm a proud Queen's girl.

Sean's Elize has got nothing on us. That's right. And as a Queens boy, I say welcome home.

And did you, I mean, I know that was framed as a

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