6: Lucille Ball’s No Good Very Bad Childhood (Part 1)

An Old Timey Podcast

True Crime, History, Comedy

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Lucille Ball was a legendary comedian. She was a studio executive. Together with her real-life husband, Lucy created the modern sitcom.

…but let’s not get ahead of ourselves. In this episode, we’ll focus on Lucy’s tumultuous childhood and the years she spent struggling to get into showbusiness.

Remember, kids, history hoes always cite their sources! For this episode, Kristin pulled from:
The book, “Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball” by Kathleen Brady
“The Plot Thickens” podcast from turner classic movies
American Masters episode, “Finding Lucy”

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0:00.0	Hear ye, hear ye. You are listening to an old-timey podcast. I'm Kristen Caruso.
0:08.0	And I'm local John Brown expert, Norman Caruso.
0:12.0	John Brown, I've never heard of her.
0:14.0	On this week's episode, I'll be talking about Lucille Ball.
0:19.0	Oh, this is such a surprise to me. I had no idea you were going to talk about Lucille Ball.
0:27.0	It's not like you've been...
0:28.0	It's not like you've been...
0:31.0	Hinting at it or talking to me about it for weeks. I've been telling. You've been
0:35.7	full-on disrobin. What? I, well you know I do disrobe now and then, but not when I talk about
0:43.1	Lucille Ball, I'm always fully clothed when I talk about her. I love her, I'm
0:47.4	obsessed with her. But Norman, you're jumping the gun, my friend.
0:52.6	Oh, right now.
0:54.2	Yeah, right now what we need to do is we need to talk about our Patreon.
0:57.8	Oh, this is how we live.
0:59.8	That's how we live. Everyone, if you want to hear a really good story from Norman Caruso,
1:08.0	join our Patreon at the $5 level or higher he's doing this month's bonus episode.
1:13.4	Yes, I'm very excited about it.
1:15.6	He's been really giggly and weird about it.
1:17.2	I have a theory about what he's covering.
1:19.6	Don't say anything?
1:21.2	I'm not allowed to say anything. Nope. Nope. Okay. Don't say your suspicions. I want
1:27.6	to be a complete surprise for everybody, but I guarantee you'll have a ball of a time.
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