Vanessa Williams Part 2: Saving The Best For Last
You're Wrong About
Sarah Marshall
4.6 • 23K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Special guest Cassie da Costa tells Mike and Sarah how Vanessa fell from grace and picked herself back up. Digressions include Stephen Sondheim, Rush Limbaugh and Joan Rivers. The tyranny of abs is discussed at length.
Here's Cassie's episode of You Must Remember This and her website!
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| 0:00.0 | The point of shaming someone partly is to make them understand why they're being shamed, |
| 0:04.0 | which is part of why people hate cats so much because you can't discipline them at all. |
| 0:21.8 | Welcome to your wrong about where we learn about the life history of that lady who you |
| 0:26.1 | saw in commercials in the 90s and you always thought she was a nice lady, but the adults acted |
| 0:31.4 | like she had a complicated backstory for some reason. The nice saved the best for last lady. |
| 0:37.9 | Well, I know that that's your memory of her, but I remember Vanessa Williams from a bunch of |
| 0:42.2 | radio shack ads that she did. I am Michael Hobbs. I'm Sarah Marshall. And if you want to support |
| 0:49.2 | the show, we're on Patreon at patreon.com slash your wrong about and you can find Sarah on why |
| 0:54.7 | are dads and you can find me on maintenance phase. And today we are talking about Vanessa Williams |
| 1:01.0 | again with a special guest, Cassie DeCosta. Hello. Hi Cassie. Hi Cassie. Cassie is a reporter for |
| 1:08.8 | Vanity Fair and she also did an excellent podcast episode of one of our favorite shows. You must |
| 1:15.5 | remember this about the rise and fall and rise again of Vanessa Williams. So we thought that we |
| 1:21.8 | would have her on to tell us the rest of the story. Yes, that's right. So Cassie, last time we talked |
| 1:27.6 | about sort of the initial rise of Vanessa Williams and how she grew up and how she won the Miss |
| 1:32.4 | America pageant. But could you just sort of bring us up to speed on like where she is when we're |
| 1:37.7 | picking up her story in this episode? Yeah. So Vanessa Williams, she grew up in kind of small town |
| 1:43.5 | went to Berba New York. She, you know, she always had a love of music and of musical theater. Her |
| 1:49.8 | family's musical, her parents, her music teachers. Do you know about what musicals she liked or like |
| 1:56.0 | what kind of like the kind of performer that she did want to be? I know that she talked a lot about |
| 2:01.8 | when she finally got to work with Sondheim. That was a huge influence for her. And I think probably |
| 2:07.1 | most people, both with that classical music training background and a love of musical theater, |
| 2:12.4 | that would be who you would look up to. She went to college sort of in the midst of very |
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