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Tune in on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. So what happened at Chappaquiddick? Well, it really depends on who you talk to. There are many versions of what happened in 1969 when a young Ted Kennedy drove a car into a pond. And left a woman behind to drown. Chappaquiddick is a story of a tragic death

and how the Kennedy machine took control. Every week we go behind the headlines and beyond the drama of America's royal family. Listen to United States of Kennedy on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Over the years of making my true crime podcast, Hell and Gone, I've learned no town is too small for murder.

I'm Katherine Townsend. I've heard from hundreds of people across the country with an unsolved murder in their community. I was calling about the murder of my husband. The murderer is still out there. Each week, I investigate a new case. If there's a case we should hear about, call 678-744-6145.

Listen to Hell and Gone Murder Line on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Jeff Perlman. And I'm Rick Jervis. We're journalists and hosts of the podcast, Finding Sexy Sweat. At an internship in 1993, we roomed with Reggie Payne,

aspiring reporter and rapper who went by Sexy Sweat. A couple of years ago, we set out to find him. But in 2020, Reggie fell into a coma after police pinned him down and he never woke up. But then I see, my son's not moving. So we started digging and uncovered city officials bent on protecting their own. Listen to Finding Sexy Sweat on the iHeartRadio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Kristin Davis and I wanna know, are you a Charlotte? Hi everybody, welcome to are you a Charlotte? Hi everybody. Welcome to Are You a Charlotte? We are going to do something a little bit different. You know, I've been doing this podcast now for about six months. It's been incredible. I can't believe it's only six months because I feel like we've gone so deep already.

We've had such incredible guests. So what we're going to do is recap some of our favorite moments from the last six months and just let you enjoy them. For those of you who've just joined us, this might be some things you haven't heard, and for those of you who've been along for the ride, I hope you enjoy just short little takes of our favorite moments, our favorite guests, and here we go. My story that I told myself and other people about the first season was I didn't even know what the show was until the finale, which is Oh Come All Ye Faithful.

And then when I looked at Bay and Mary Pigs, I was like, I'm not going to say that again. It's so true because you knew. The thesis. Yes, it's there. The thesis of the entire series. The thesis is clear as a bell, which is married people think single people are lepers. Which is what we built.

Definitely, but also then at the end, how she comes back together with us. Think about how many times over the years we have filmed that scene. Yeah, I know, it's amazing. It's amazing. And as far as you saying, oh, I didn't know what I was doing.

And me saying, oh, I didn't know who Charlotte was. She's pretty clear in that episode. It's true when you think about that and thank God, because I was like, oh my God, is the whole episode, the whole first season gonna be me flailing. Now I knew that the episode you've referenced, which I hate to even say it still, 20 years later, 30 years later,

Up the Butt, Up the Butt, obviously, is a very specific set of memories of joy of performing as well as humiliation. Well, that is the joy. Definitely, definitely, they go together. Especially for Charlotte. Yeah. And what you grew to embrace as an actor was the absolute joy of being in a moment that

could be considered embarrassing. Totally. And just going with it. It's true, it's true. Well, at some point, one of you, either Darren or you, I can't remember which, said, you're going to have to get the pie in the face. Now I know if you talk to each of us,

each of us really feels like we had to get the pie in the face, and probably that's true. I always say it's gonna be a cream pie. Yeah. You're gonna get hit. You're gonna get hit, and I mean, that was really, I remember going like, oh, okay, that, I need to embrace that.

That is what we're doing. I think the reason the show was tolerable was because the heroes were also the fools. Definitely. Soon as somebody stood on a soap box, which Charlotte did a lot. Oh, so often. We always broke the soap box, so she fell at the end.

Thank God, right. You can't make a speech on the show without getting a cream pie. Totally. There was this backlash where people were sort of, some people were like horrified. Right. And said, these aren't women.

Right. Women don't act like this. Women don't talk like this. Women don't have this kind of lack of inhibition and lack of sentimental, romantic necessity. Right? These are gay men disguised as women. I do remember this. It was very troubling. Right. It was very annoying. And I also remember, and I don't remember what season it was, where we had a reporter, like we all four of us were talking to this person

at the same time, and the reporter said, do you think this is a feminist show? And all four of us basically almost took that person's head off. We were like, well, of course it's a feminist show. What's wrong with you? Yeah, totally, yes. We're all feminists, It's a feminist show.

What would it be if it wasn't a feminist show? Right. Because we're wearing lipstick and high heels? It's not a feminist show? What's wrong with you? Absolutely, but I do think that that also reminds me of the different times, you know, and the fact that we were not, there was no blueprint for us. You know, and that in some ways is, I think, like this kind of magic about us coming together and HBO allowing us to find ourselves

and then also being able to do the movies and then also being able to do and just like that. I mean, like there is no blueprint, there is nothing else. But you know what, it's really funny for me because as I said, I started acting when I was like 11, 12. And one of the very first things that I did was this movie called Little Darlings, which is starring Tatum O'Neil and Christy McNichol.

And then there are six of us who aren't those two people. So there are eight young women. Amazing. And we're all like, we're all supposed to be like mid teens, I would say. And some of us like me are 12 because I'm tall. And other're all like, we're all supposed to be like mid teens, I would say. And some of us like me, her 12th, because I'm tall. And other people are like 18, but they're playing 15, whatever. We're all playing like, yeah. And it's about two girls who don't like each other at summer camp.

And somebody starts a bet to see which one of them can lose their virginity first. Wow. And all the rest of us line up with one or the other, and there's lots of betting on it, and the whole camp gets involved. And this was a very popular, successful movie that is very dear to a lot of people's hearts. But when it came out, I remember one review that started, now here's a disgusting idea for a movie.

Critics were horrified. I remember one review that started, now here's a disgusting idea for a movie, right? Critics were horrified. And this was like literally 20 years later. And it was, I was like, it was deja vu for me. It was like, here are women who are talking about sex and the possibilities of sex with their female friends, and then going out and assertively pursuing it right and Audiences are like wow right and critics are like oh To me it's like you know what back then you would have had to work really really really hard

Not to have sex for four years, which is super interesting. I mean, it would have been kind of impossible, but people had a lot more sex back then than they do now. I mean, now there actually is a sex drought. Wow. This is for real. Whoa. But back then, you know, people had sex a lot. You know, people had sex a lot. So I do think like in 1998, three months, that would have been a long time.

Okay. Because it was so easy to have sex back then. Why? Because there was a lot of interaction. people out in person in the wild and it also feels like it feels like the population was younger then and it actually was there were more young people there were more people in their 30s got it and there also wasn't as much to do. Uh huh. Like now we have the phones and there's gaming and there's streaming and everybody is in

their own bubble. You know, bubble of like, this is, this is, you know, my entertainment. But back then, it was other people. Yes, it was other people. Yes, it was other people. You went out and did stuff. You did stuff and people wanted to have sex. Amazing to think about. It was very easy.

I mean, now I have women come up to me and, you know, I mean, attractive women in their 50s and they'll say like, I've been trying to have sex for the last year and I haven't found anyone to have sex with me. Wow. Which is like, this is a really a different time. Do you remember shooting that day because all of the background workers, they didn't want anybody to know that Big had died.

So when they were speaking, when the background workers were in the art studio, which is where we filmed that day, right, in Chelsea, they would use her, she. And then when all the background workers were released and they turned around and we were seeing all of the cast speaking about Mr. Big, it was at that point that the script changed

and everybody was referencing Mr. Big. But they didn't want anybody to know. So the whole day we had to keep it a secret because the background workers, I mean, not background workers, the background artists were all under the impression that the person that they were there to memorialize was a woman. I had a line, my line was,

am I the only one that remembers what a fucking asshole he was? And the girl that I had to say it to was sitting next to me at the funeral. And I remember after we finished shooting, she said, why did you ask me if he was an asshole, if the person that died was a woman? Wow.

And I said something like, I didn't write the episode, I don't know. You'd have to ask the writers. Good Molly. I'm going to craft service, see you later, bye. Wow, wow, I had forgotten all this drama in that day. Yeah, it was a big day. What I do remember is they hadn't gotten the montage

together yet of Big that we were supposed to be watching on the wall. So we had puppies and stuff. Do you remember this? Were you there for this part? Yes, yes. There was like puppies and kitties and pandas. And at one point Sarah Jessica never breaks

Like never never like not from laughing not from and anything journey me and she's sitting next to me in the scene and at one point there, you know, they're doing close-up after close-up and we're watching the puppies and trying to have our feelings and I think it was just one more angle. And Sarah was just like, ah, just like fell on her knees and put her head in my lap and just started just like hysterically laughing, which I have never experienced before in my life. So what happened at Chappaquiddick? Well, it really depends on who you talk to. There are many versions of what happened in 1969

when a young Ted Kennedy drove a car into a pond. And left a woman behind to drown. There's a famous headline, I think, in the New York Daily News. It's, Teddy escapes, blonde drowns. And in a strange way, right, that sort of tells you. The story really became about Ted's political future, Ted's political hopes. Will Ted become president? Chappaquiddick is a story of a tragic death

and how the Kennedy machine took control. And he's not the only Kennedy to survive a scandal. The Kennedys have lived through disgrace, affairs, violence, you name it. So is there a curse? Every week we go behind the headlines and beyond the drama of America's royal family. Listen to United States of Kennedy

on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Pretty Private with Ebene, the podcast where silence is broken and stories are set free. I'm Ebeneene and every Tuesday, I'll be sharing all new anonymous stories that will challenge your perceptions

and give you new insight on the people around you. On Pretty Private, we'll explore the untold experiences of women of color who faced it all, childhood trauma, addiction, abuse, incarceration, grief, mental health struggles, and more, and found the shrimp to make it to the other side. My dad was shot and killed in his house. Yes, he was a drug dealer. Yes, he was a confidential informant, but he wasn't shot on the street corner.

He wasn't shot in the middle of a drug deal. He was shot in his house, unarmed. Pretty Private isn't just a podcast. It's your personal guide for turning storylines into lifelines. Every Tuesday, make sure you listen to Pretty Private from the Black Effect Podcast Network. Tune in on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast,

or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Over the past six years of making my true crime podcast, Hell and Gone, I've learned one thing. No town is too small for murder. I'm Catherine Townsend. I've received hundreds of messages from people across the country begging for help with unsolved murders.

I was calling about the murder of my husband. It's a cold case. I've never found her and it haunts me to this day. The murderer is still out there. Every week on Hell and Gone Murder Line, I dig into a new case, bringing the skills I've learned as a journalist and private investigator to ask the questions no one else is asking.

Police really didn't care to even try. She was still somebody's mother. She was still somebody's daughter. She was still somebody's sister. There's so many questions that we've never gotten any kind of answers for. If you have a case you'd like me to look into, call the Hell and Gone Murder Line at 678-744-6145. Listen to Hell and Gone Murder Line on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever

you get your podcasts. The summer of 1993 was one of the best of my life. I'm journalist Jeff Perlman, and this is Rick Jervis. Rick Jervis We were interns at the Nashville Tennessean, but the most unforgettable part? Our roommate, Reggie Payne, from Oakley, sports editor and aspiring rapper. Jeff Perlman And his stage name? Sexy Sweat. In 2020, I had a simple idea. Let's find Reggie.

We searched everywhere, but Reggie was gone. In February 2020, Reggie was having a diabetic episode. His mom called 911. Police cuffed him face down. He slipped into a coma and died. I'm like thanking you, but then I see my son's not moving. No headlines, no outrage, just silence. So we started digging and uncovered city officials bent on protecting their own. Listen to Finding Sexy Sweat on the iHeart Radio app,

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Binge episodes one, two, and three on May 21st and episodes four, five, and six on June 4th. Add free at Lava for Good Plus on Apple podcasts. I initially got, was asked about the show by my agent, Kevin Uvain, sent me, either it was a phone call, I'm certain it wasn't an email, cause this was 1997 or 96, 97. This is the plug-in situation.

That's right. And he, so he sent me the script with a cover letter, very traditional. For those of you who don't know what that is, there's a script and there's typically it's accompanied by a cover letter from your agent or whoever is submitting it and they'll explain, you know, this is a project, it's shooting in New York. You have been offered the role of blank. The producer is blank.

The director is blank or they have no director set yet. This is HBO. This is the studio. This is the network. And you were like, what? Who? This is HBO. This is the studio. This is the network. And you were like, what? And so Kevin called me and said, Darren has asked about meeting you to discuss this and and

he said he wrote this like I was in his head in some way, which I found really interesting, was perfectly happy to meet with him. And I did say, I knew Darren Starr's name from Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place, and I was pretty familiar with Candice's work as a reader of The Observer, which was a fairly well-known New York paper that a lot of us reached for. which was a fairly well-known New York paper that a

lot of us reached for. Its distinction was that it was pink, which was kind of unusual. And coincidentally or not, I had been sent a copy of her book that Darren had then bought the rights to. And that book was a compilation of all of her columns for The Observer. And so I did know that. And I don't know why I was sent a copy of the book, but I was and I enjoyed it.

And there were some in particular, no. There were some in particular columns that I love. So I read the script and loved it. And I was doing a musical on Broadway at that time. Princess and the Pea? I was doing Once Upon a Mattress, yes. Once Upon a Mattress? I saw it, I saw it.

And, oh thanks. And I was going to get married. Oh right. But in secret. It was secret, yes. And I had a wedding date and I didn't really want to mess with that date. Of course. Because I kind of, I had understood that maybe it was shooting around the exact same time.

Got it. And we had cleared that date primarily because all of our friends who worked in the theater only have Mondays off. So our wedding was on a Monday. And yeah, and so I met with Darren and I, you know, I told him I loved it and that I thought it was especially compelling. And that I, you know, my only objections, and I feel like objections is almost too strong a word. I I

Alerted him to the fact that I Didn't do scenes nude that I just for whatever reason Right or wrong. I just never felt comfortable doing that When you went on Fallon the thing that I love so much many things obviously because you are number one so inspiring and amazing and fabulous and powerful and really just the epitome in so many ways of what we wanted to create when we started the show that kind of wasn't really out there you know especially in television so from that perspective I love you anyway and then just to hear you with your incredibly well thought out well researched points on all of us.

Cause I wanna talk about it babe. Listen, I wanna hear about it, okay? And I wanna hear if there are any updates. So let's just rehash in case anyone missed that. Okay, so you just discovered the show when? Probably like, well I've always known what the show was. But like as a child, like you watch it and it's going over your head.

You don't know what. Of course. I'm a little thing, I don't know what. I'm a little thing. I don't know what y'all are talking about. But I rewatched it turning 29. And I'm looking at the show and I'm like, wait a minute. Nobody told me Sex and the City was this damn good. So I'm watching and I needed to rewatch it a few times

so I could really get into everybody. I feel like everybody already has their favorite characters. Like, and I'm late to the party. So I'm like, okay, everybody's favorite character is Carrie. Okay. Well, no. Like Charlotte and Samantha are my favorite characters. Okay. I love it. And no shade to Carrie. I definitely love Carrie. We love you, Ciara. Of course. But Carrie, she just makes bad decisions all the time. I mean, I know what you're saying.

When I'm rewatching it myself, I am kind of shocked. Like you are literally running into the same wall thinking you're going to turn into a ghost and walk through it. I don't understand. That's a good point. That's the definition of insanity. That is a good point. That's the definition of insanity. That is a good point. But I loved how well dressed this insane person was. Yes.

So I'll give Carrie, like, my favorite character, dressing-wise. Right. Well, I can't, well, yeah. She was very well dressed, a very well dressed, crazy person. Sarah has incredible style. Yes, she does. And Carrie does also.

And it's eclectic and fun. But. I like that part. At first, I thought I didn't like Samantha. Right. Like, in the first couple of episodes, I thought I didn't like Samantha. Right. In the first couple of episodes, I was like, why are they making it seem like sex is her whole life? But as I kept watching, I'm like, wait a minute, baby, she is sex.

She puts her foot down. I feel like that's me. She owns her body. She knows what she wants. She's very confident. She's unapologetic. She's unapologetically her, and she wasn't letting these men stomp all over her. I feel like that's right. That's me

So I was like damn am I Samantha, but then you was kind of crazy too. I know I have my crazy element don't I? I know it was like It was logical crazy. Thank you. Thank you. She's very emotional. Yes, that's me. Is it that's me? I'll get emotional Yeah, like it's okay to be irrational sometimes I'm completely wowed every time I look back at these episodes. And partly I'm wowed because like Mr. Big is not worth this effort.

Like I've said this a few times, but I'm like, I agree. Okay, thank you. Because with the lens of now. But I've always felt this way. Did you? Okay, explain. I've never been a fan.

Got it. But I wasn't a super fan of Aiden either. I just wasn't. I felt things settling. Do you think no one's good enough for her? No, I definitely don't. I know, I don't think that at all. I just think that-

Oh my God, I'm gonna say something that's so controversial. Do it, do it. I think she has oh my God, I'm gonna say something that's so controversial. Do it, do it. I think she has bad taste in men. Ah! Ah! Carrie Bradshaw, don't hurt me! It's okay, it's okay.

I do, I don't get it. Listen, some of us have bad taste in men, okay? Listen. Truth. Listen, I don't get big. Okay. We'll get into it, because I have a lot of opinions about this episode. Help me, help me because I mean,

through the lens of now looking back, I also have a lot of opinions. And I didn't at the time, I just accepted it as normal because I think that I also experienced many of these things, do you know? Well, yeah, I mean, there was definitely, I mean, isn't there a time where we all have bad taste in men? I think what bothers me about Carrie is that like she hung on to a man that was like, obviously

just I don't understand what the appeal was. Me neither when I look back. At the time, I completely did. Right? And even when I'm watching this episode, which we're out of order now, but I'm just gonna say, because it's on my mind. Okay, sure. You know, okay, so this is the episode where Carrie is doing some research about religion.

And so she goes and she's standing on this very picturesque summer New York City street corner and she happens to see, she's looking at a church, she happens to see Big Walkout with his very beautiful mother, almost like wife, good Lord. Yeah, Marion Seldes, an incredible actress. And she's like, oh my God, Big and his mother. It's almost like she didn't realize that he had a mother. You know, it's so interesting. And then she walks over, they chat,

they have a weird conversation. Like, that's also part of what is amazing to me is like, like their dynamic is very fascinating. And I think a lot of it is cause they're really good actors also, right? So like there's so many layers. Yes. Like her face and all the things that she's doing.

I know, but like I need, okay, I'm gonna get canceled for this whole thing. Go, go, no, no, no, you're not. I'm just gonna go in you guys. You're not gonna get canceled. Carrie has no poker face and it drives me crazy. Sarah, are you kidding? I love you, Sarah.

First off to the camera. I love you so much. Carrie doesn't have a poker face. That's true. That's and you're talking to someone who also doesn't. So I totally know what you're saying. And I also think that was indeed. Listen, that's why also to her credit, we loved the show because I could tell.

I can tell in every moment what she's thinking. I know, right? I feel like viewers felt like they were girlfriends with you, right? Yeah. So I'm like, no, no, her feelings are hurt. But as a girlfriend, I'm also like, don't show him that face.

I know. Don't, he's so unavailable. Right. Like, don't look so hurt. Right. No. I know, she's so vulnerable. I wound up kind of being the first person to have sex on Sex and the City I know and this this is what I

remember of that right so when we so we we did the show obviously we were all very excited and I really really desperately wanted my part but we were nervous because do you remember the show dream on that had been on HBO oh yeah and like every week some girl would just for some reason take her job off like We were nervous because do you remember the show Dream On that had been on HBO? Oh yeah. And like every week some girl would just for some reason take her job off. Just randomly kind of like. We were like is this what we're supposed to do? Like please no.

Like even though we were scared, right? We didn't really know. I was telling everyone before too, we didn't know how people would respond to kind of the very upfront way that we were talking about sexuality. Because at that point it hadn't really been done on TV, right? Yeah. And cable was a weird thing. It was all very unknown.

And so I remember being really nervous. And we didn't have clauses in our contract at that point that we had to be neutered, that we did whatever. Because we were all panicked, like we're scared. And the day that you had to do that nude scene, I was in the hair and makeup trailer, getting ready for whatever, like talking on the phone or something boring. And they came in, one of the makeup artists came running in like, we need cups of ice for Sarah Winters' nipples! Oh my God! Oh my God!

Right? And that was our response. Yes! That was our response. I needed ice for my nipples! Like, I, who knew that that was a thing? I did not know either. I was trying to be so cool and calm and collected. You did. But they needed ice.

I know, we were really impressed. We were panicked, but also impressed. Maybe that's why they look so good too. They look fantastic. Hey, bring on the ice. I know, it worked, it worked. Top of ice here. It worked.

But all of a sudden, and then they ran back out and we were like, what is going on? Oh my gosh. Is this like a thing? Yes. It's like, how good? No one's ever offered me ice since. And no one offers me ice. I don't do those kinds of scenes anymore.

But yeah. Well, you did it well. Well, thank you. And you really seemed like you were fine. Thank you so much for joining me to recap all these little moments, everyone. If you haven't heard those episodes, they are there. You can go back and re-listen if you would like or listen for the first time.

And I hope you all have a wonderful 4th of July and I'll see you back here soon. I know a lot of cops and they get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes. But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. This is Absolute Season One, Taser Incorporated. I get right back there and it's bad. Listen to Absolute Season One, Taser Incorporated on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Pretty Private with Ebene, the podcast where silence is broken and stories are set free. I'm Ebene and every Tuesday, I'll be sharing all new anonymous stories that will challenge your perceptions and give you new insight on the people around you.

Every Tuesday, make sure you listen to Pretty Private from the Black Effect Podcast Network. Tune in on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. So, what happened at Chappaquiddick? Well, it really depends on who you talk to. There are many versions of what happened in 1969 when a young Ted Kennedy drove a car into a pond and left a woman behind to

drown. Chappaquiddick is a story of a tragic death and how the Kennedy machine took control. Every week we go behind the headlines and beyond the drama of America's royal family. Listen to United States of Kennedy on on the I heart radio app Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast Over the years of making my true crime podcast hell and gone. I've learned no town is too small for murder I'm Katherine Townsend. I've heard from hundreds of people across the country with an unsolved murder in their

community. I was calling about the murder of my husband. The murderer is still out there. Each week I investigate a new case. If there's a case we should hear about, call 678-744-6145. Listen to Hell and Gone Murder Line on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Jeff Perlman.

And I'm Rick Jervis. We're journalists and hosts of the podcast, Finding Sexy Sweat. At an internship in 1993, we roomed with Reggie Payne, aspiring reporter and rapper who went by Sexy Sweat. A couple of years ago, we set out to find him. But in 2020, Reggie fell into a coma after police pinned him down and he never woke up. But then I see my son's not moving. So we started digging and uncovered city officials bent on protecting their own.

Listen to Finding Sexy Sweat on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an iHeart Podcast.