179 - The Past Times with Queen Coke Francis

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Gareth Reynolds· Host0:30

[upbeat music] Welcome to The Past Times. It's a podcast. [laughs] Someone's finally doing it. [laughs] Uh, you know what we do here. Each week we go through a newspaper from a random date in history picked out by none other than Dave Anthony. I, Gareth Reynolds, have never seen it, and neither has this week's guest, the great Queen Coke Francis.

Queen Coke Francis· Guest0:50

I am.

Gareth Reynolds· Host0:50

Hello, Queen.

Queen Coke Francis· Guest0:52

[laughs] Respectfully, Gareth, uh, this is one of the greatest days of my life, up there with the day I met John Waters and when I got to dance with my crush- Oh, wow ... at my friend's bat mitzvah back in 2008. Um, it's up there, so.

Gareth Reynolds· Host1:06

Who... Shout out the, uh, bat mitzvah dancer. Who was that suitor?

Queen Coke Francis· Guest1:09

I... [laughs] Who knows? He's probably a hardcore Zionist at this point. [laughs] I have no idea.

Gareth Reynolds· Host1:14

Wow. I mean, that's what we gotta... Yeah, we- It's been almost two decades.

Queen Coke Francis· Guest1:17

Lots has changed ...

Gareth Reynolds· Host1:18

we just gotta assume they all are now. Yeah. Well, I, I, I, uh, by the way, uh, they're, they're, uh, much like Scientology, certain parts of Zionism I find very appealing, and I'm open to talking about it. Um- [laughs] Where'd you meet