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On the look back at a podcast. The next seminar is Big Mama for Me, 84's Big To Me. I'm Sam Jack and I'm Alex E. Grish.
Each episode we pick a year, unpack what went down and try to make sense of how we survived it.
With our friends, fellow comedians and favorite authors, like Mark Lamont Hill on the 80s. If it was a wild, I mean, it was a wild, wild year.
“I don't think there's a more important year for black people.”
Listen to look back at it on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Imagine an Olympics where doping is not only legal, but encouraged. It's the enhanced games. Some call it grotesque. Others say it's unleashing human potential.
Either way, the podcast's superhuman documented it all, embedded in the games,
and with the athletes for a full year.
Within probably 10 days, I put on 10 pounds. I was having troubles stopping the muscle growth. Listen to superhuman on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. campsite media.
“In front of me, there's a group of acting students.”
The youngest ones are in their 20s. The oldest is over 70, and they're intently focused on their teacher. She's a woman with wiery, salt and pepper hair, and she's leading them through an exercise. She calls out to conflicting emotions. Suddenly, these actors are circling the room.
Signantly pantomiming feelings of love and fear. They're warming up to rehearse the final act of a fellow. A play about jealousy and deception. I'm here in California on assignment for the Washington Post. I'm reporting a piece about Shakespeare as therapy.
How these stories about our deepest humanity can help people heal from their trauma. Because Shakespeare's plays at a core level, they're about what human beings do to each other. What we're capable of. At our best and our worst. I start talking to one of the actors.
Trong is friendly and soft-spoken. Literally, I have to lean in close in order to hear him. He's mid-20s, clean-shaven, with impeccably pommated hair. He tells me he's a substance of use counselor, and that tracks the way he looks at me. I can tell he's really listening.
And when I ask him, Trong says there's a lot of reasons he wanted to join the Shakespeare group. He loves to perform, and he likes these plays. How their universal themes of sacrifice, loss, and love have helped him access his emotions, to see himself more clearly. He says these plays have allowed him to confront the pain he's caused.
I ask him what he means by that, and to my surprise, he doesn't hesitate. He launches into a story that I cannot believe is real. A story that feels like Shakespeare himself could have written it. A story that starts with Trong's identical twin brother. Shakespeare was fascinated by siblings.
There's a philia and lyritees, Edmund, and Edgar, Sebastian, and Viola. In both his comedies and his tragedies, he makes them compete for the attention and approval of their parents. He tests the limits of their love for one another, and he pushes them apart. Sometimes, violently. Shakespeare himself was the father of twins, Judith and Hamlet.
And when Hamlet died at the age of 11, Shakespeare began to process this very particular grief in
His plays.
The action of the play is built around mistaken identities, but it's really about the unique bond
these siblings share, and what happens when that tie is broken. Trong knows all about this, and it's a tale he's now pouring out to me. Six years earlier, Trong tells me, his twin, on, got into a fight at a birthday party. By the time it was over, the twins had embarked on a journey that would forever change both of them. Not just to, they were as individuals, but who they were to each other.
As Trong and I talk, his fellow fest beings are rehearsing right there beside us,
“and I hear a fellow mourn. You must speak of one that loved not wisely, but too well.”
I can see how Trong and I are guilty of having loved each other too well, if not always wisely.
Twins bonded through DNA and also hardship, brothers who are best friends who trusted each other completely, who would have followed each other anywhere. Even if it meant losing absolutely everything. From Wundry and Campside Media, I'm Jen Miller, and this is Blood Will Tells. This is episode one, Shakespeare in San Jose. It's a Saturday evening in January, when 18-year-old Trong knocks on the door of his brother's bedroom.
They live in the same home, but they haven't seen each other much lately. Trong's been swamped, juggling a sales job at T-Mobile, a full-course load at college, and finishing his Eagle Scout certification, and Trong is missing his best friend. But, there's a party tonight.
We were adulting pretty much for the first time like that, so these parties, like,
if they're like a drag, but at the same time, like, "Oh, this is going to have fun. These sounds like a good way to relax." On looks up from his bed, which is littered with textbooks. I didn't want to go, my head home work. Trong is surprised. He's the one typically concerned about how today's choice will impact tomorrow's
“outcome. That's how he's two semesters ahead in college. But more recently, on his felt the”
pressure to keep up with Trong. On bags, let me study, Trong's not having any of it. You know what? We deserve this. Let's just go and have fun. Maybe this party will be a good way to blow off steam for both of them. So, on relance. All right, let's do it as hyped up. Pick our outfits. The party is a 21st birthday, thrown by a friend of Trong's girlfriend. There's a black and white
theme. The twins pull on their true religion genes and long-sleeve black shirts. When they were little kids, their parents often dress them the same. So this, it's like a fun throwback. And tonight, it makes it almost impossible to tell them apart. They're both five nine, around 160 pounds. They have a few physical differences, though. Trong's face is clean-shaven and more narrow, and on has a sparse mustache and the shadow of a
“mole over his lip. These minor physical differences are going to be crucial for what's”
to come for the both of them. After a final fit check in the mirror, they're ready to head out. Trong drives his brother and their girlfriends. We're calling them Monica and Carly to a well-appointed split-level home in the foothills of San Jose, California. It's a short trip and a world away from the affordable housing complex where the twins grew up. They walked past a rock garden and flower beds following the thump of music. Trong enters the party and takes a quick scan.
He's impressed. It was like pretty bougie, pin, padded DJ, and everything. He goes to pour himself a drink. They opened like a cooler and I saw shot glasses made out of ice.
Trong makes his way through the house.
college kids, but he doesn't recognize them. They're at four-year schools, not community college,
“like him and on. Trong is relieved. In recent months, he has been trying and largely failing to avoid”
situations and people he knows are trouble. When we would go out with specific individuals, shoot us pop off. I would also feel the need to jump in and participate. But the vibes here are good. The booze is flowing. Pop brownies are being passed around and the music is pumping.
It was turned down for a while. The genre that song just came out. Trong and on make a bee line to
the beer pong table. Where they proceed to completely bite it. We played horribly because then we
“sat on that table. Yeah, we had some in the table, man. We told like we didn't make any shots.”
It was embarrassing. Trong is so happy to have his brother here. It's been so long since they've simply hung out like this as brothers. Around them, everyone is getting drunk or high or both.
Trong is fully in the moment. He's making the rounds, a beer in his hand. For a while,
he loses track of his girlfriend, Monica. That is, until she heads toward him, clearly upset. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guide, not quite on humor me with Robert Smigo and friends. Me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier this week. My guests, SNL's Mikey Day and Headwriters, Streeter Side L helped an
Occupella band with their between songs Banner. Where does your group perform? We do some retirement homes. Those people are starving for Banner. Listen to humor me with Robert's Michael and friends on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. On the look back at it podcast. The next SNL that was big moment for me. 84's big to me. I'm Sam Jack and I'm Alex English. Each episode we pick a here,
unpack what went down and try to make sense of how we survived it. With our friends, federal comedians and favorite authors like Mark Lamont Hill on the 80's.
“If it was a while, it was a while. I don't think there's a more important year for black people.”
Listen to look back at it on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Imagine an Olympics where doping is not only legal but encouraged. It's the enhanced games. Some call it grotesque. Others say it's unleashing human potential. Either way, the podcast superhuman documented it all, embedded in the games and with the athletes for a full year. Within probably 10 days I'd put on 10 pounds. I was having trouble stopping the muscle growth.
Listen to superhuman on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
