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Rodriguez/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Your first band was called Time And Other Things. Was it a joke band or was it sincere?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Totally sincere. We thought we were Morrissey meets Robert Smith meets Lennon and McCartney. It wasn’t emo, because that wasn’t around when I was in high school, but we were very emotive, emotional teenagers. [Laughs]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Did you wear makeup when on stage?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, nothing like that. But we wrote Doors-y kinds of songs about darkness and Pink Floyd-style “I’m losing my mind” types of songs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Shaggy’s Belt Buckle was the next band?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, Shaggy’s Belt Buckle was another group made up of my good friend Phil and my cousin Joel. That was a little more of a comedy group. The songs were sillier, and we were a little influenced by Ween and Spinal Tap. Humor started percolating in the songwriting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Was this your first comedic project?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, though in terms of professional standards this was along the lines of hosting puppet shows in my basement — it wasn’t more advanced than that. We were in high school so we didn’t have the facilities or the outreach — we certainly didn’t have the Internet. We were just making Tascam 4-track tape demos, which I don’t think I even have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Do you remember any of the songs or their themes?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I do recall a lyric about Ed Meese. And that’s about it. [Laughs]\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11633855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11633855\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Tim-Eric-Red-800x450.jpg\" alt='Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim of Tim & Eric perform during \"The Big Live Comedy Show\" in 2013. ' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Tim-Eric-Red-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Tim-Eric-Red-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Tim-Eric-Red-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Tim-Eric-Red.jpg 883w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim of Tim & Eric perform during “The Big Live Comedy Show” in 2013. \u003ccite>(Photo: Mark Davis/Getty Images for YouTube)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>For this solo record, what was your process like? Did you have a bigger concept in mind?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most things I end up putting out, I try to have be a little more than a random collection of songs. There’s usually an overall theme or concept behind it. So this one started when I was writing songs that were a little more informed by my real life. A few of them I had been building up on my computer, which is how I usually make rough demos of stuff. But those songs fueled the idea that I could write more in this style, where it’s more about what I’m observing or experiencing. It thought it would be cool to write something that wasn’t a goof or a parody of anything, just a straight reporting of things. Then I filled it out songs that were in the same vein that I had been working on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an album that’s sort of about me and L.A. and California. Having lived here for a while and being a fan of certain records that are indicative of a place, I thought I’d have something to say about it. Then I was encouraged by some people in the music business — Jonathan Rado, who is in a band called Foxygen, and Chris Swanson of Jagjaguwar Records. They told me I should just put out the record under my own name and have it be somewhat straight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Do you wish you could play music all the time?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think the appeal of life in a touring band would fade quickly when doing 150 dates a year. There’s certain economic realities to it, too: I have a ten-piece band, so if you start doing the math on how that breaks down to what everyone is making a night, it gets a little tricky after a while. And I love my full-time job probably just as much or even more so. 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Do you have a character for your live shows?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve been playing around with the idea but I don’t have it figured out yet. I hoping by doing it a few nights in a row, I will get into a groove. I feel like if you’re coming to this show, you’re a little more open to me being relaxed and not hiding behind a persona. There’s an uncomfortability that exists at these music shows, at least for the first few minutes, because people are confused and don’t know how to behave — if they’re supposed to laugh or not. But that eventually thaws out and they relax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We just play these songs. I’m not in a costume or anything; [laughs] I’m just myself. But I’m still gonna make fun of somebody in the band and I’m going to yell at somebody in the front row for talking. If I’m losing the audience, I’ll probably turn on my “entertainer skills” and make something happen out of nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Tim Heidecker and His Ten Piece Band play the Independent in San Francisco on June 2 at 8pm. For tickets and more information, go \u003ca href=\"https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1080749?q=ecf08bf6-4a91-434a-b874-9424f589a996&p=45f91669-929a-4393-b979-069f3691f454&ts=1464743004&c=ticketfly&e=0010a&rt=Safetynet&h=10b7bed9c992b3539be912ede9ac17c6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to ticketfly.com\u003c/a>. \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When you’re Tim Heidecker, and you’re responsible for some of the strangest comedic television to ever air, releasing a sincere rock record must be an uphill battle. Who would take it seriously? Especially when your previous musical projects include an album dedicated to 2012 presidential candidate Hermann Cain and a country group who only sings about drinking urine?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heidecker, who has been playing music longer than he’s been making funny videos, is in the thick of the fight at the moment. Rado Records has just released his solo record, \u003cem>In Glendale\u003c/em> — an album of “somewhat earnest” songs, according to his press release. There are few silly tracks on it (one is called “Cleaning up the Dog Sh*t”), but it’s mostly about his normal life in Glendale with his wife and daughter. Inspired by Ray Davies’ work with the Kinks, Heidecker thought he’d create his own musical documentaries on American life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I generally don’t have much to say about stuff in a non-comedic way, so when I do have something to say, I take advantage of it,” Heidecker explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Thursday, Heidecker and his 10-piece band come to the Independent in San Francisco to play tracks from his new record, along with some old favorites from his other groups (let’s all hope they play the \u003ca href=\"http://www.avclub.com/article/heres-tim-heideckers-new-song-about-drinking-his-o-99622\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yellow River Boys “Hot Piss.” \u003c/a>(NSFW)). Before he came town, I spoke with Heidecker over the phone about his long love affair with music and why he finally made an honest record (that still manages to be funny).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This interview was edited for length and clarity.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/-tPX06wJh4g'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/-tPX06wJh4g'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cb>You grew up in Allentown, Penn. Was it a music town?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not really. There was a club in nearby Bethlehem called Scarlet’s, which was all-ages. There were two guys who ran this club who let 16-year-olds come and they didn’t have alcohol or anything, but they’d let everyone dance to Nirvana or the Cure or whatever was popular. And they’d have band nights, so we’d play there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was actually a lot of hardcore and punk music that I was never really into, and there was some serious white power-skinhead sh*t going on there that was really dicey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>So there must’ve been some pretty intense situations?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah. In fact my friends and I wrote a letter about the skinhead problem that — I believe — was published in the local newspaper that was about how upset we were about the problems they were causing at shows. So we were little Social Justice Warriors back then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11633856\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 405px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11633856\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Tim-Heidecker-405x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Heidecker arrives to 'Tim And Eric'$ Billion Dollar Movie' in 2012. \" width=\"405\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Tim-Heidecker-405x600.jpg 405w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Tim-Heidecker-400x592.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Tim-Heidecker-768x1137.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Tim-Heidecker-797x1180.jpg 797w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Tim-Heidecker.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Heidecker arrives to ‘Tim And Eric’$ Billion Dollar Movie’ in 2012. \u003ccite>(Photo: Alberto E. 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Humor started percolating in the songwriting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Was this your first comedic project?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, though in terms of professional standards this was along the lines of hosting puppet shows in my basement — it wasn’t more advanced than that. We were in high school so we didn’t have the facilities or the outreach — we certainly didn’t have the Internet. We were just making Tascam 4-track tape demos, which I don’t think I even have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Do you remember any of the songs or their themes?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I do recall a lyric about Ed Meese. And that’s about it. [Laughs]\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11633855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11633855\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Tim-Eric-Red-800x450.jpg\" alt='Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim of Tim & Eric perform during \"The Big Live Comedy Show\" in 2013. 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"content": "\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"iBaXq5UiPBm83yfAgvj2qTDMheFHRKtt\"]Hey, can I borrow $4.15 million? I left my trust fund in a past lifetime. You see, I need the cash because \u003ca href=\"http://vanguardproperties.com/RESI-446051.php\">the 1883 Victorian \u003c/a>that served as the exterior for the \u003cem>Full House \u003c/em>home is up for sale. It's a piece of television history (and my childhood) and I kind of need to live in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm going to take your silence as a hard pass on lending me millions so I'll settle for taking a photo tour:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 362px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25375\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"362\" height=\"500\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There she is! A fresh new coat of paint and a tree that's really grown since the first season of \u003cem>Full House\u003c/em>. Way to reach for the stars, tree!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 397px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25374\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_2.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"397\" height=\"499\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SFGate \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Famous-Full-House-home-hits-the-market-for-7947743.php\">says\u003c/a>, \"The home's off-white exterior that appeared in 'Full House' has been painted a dark purple and the famous red door is gone, but anyone would probably agree the richer paint color looks far more elegant.\" Nope. Anyone would probably \u003cem>not\u003c/em> agree. #JusticefortheRedDoor!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25373\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 372px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25373\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_3.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"372\" height=\"499\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Okay, fine, the doors are \"elegant.\" Nostalgia has a tendency to get me riled up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25372\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25372\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_4.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_4.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_4-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wow. This is definitely...a look. Potato sack chic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_6.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25370\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_6.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_6.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_6-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A little stuffy for Netflix and Chill, but it'll do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25368\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_8.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25368\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_8.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_8.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_8-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No butt shall be left chairless! Also, what exactly is going on in that painting? Umbilical cord drama?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25366\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_10.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25366\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_10.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_10.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_10-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ohhh, okay, \u003cem>this\u003c/em> is where the Netflix and Chill goes down. Got it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25364\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_12.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25364\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_12.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_12.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_12-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hanging framed paintings in front of books is an interesting choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_15.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25361\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_15.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_15.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_15-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huge sink means you can wait even longer to wash your dishes. Oh, who am I kidding, that's what the dishwasher or maid is for. And I spy with my little eye a fully-stocked wine cellar. Let the generous pours wash over us all!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25360\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_16.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25360\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_16.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_16.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_16-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Put your shoes on while sitting on this love seat at the foot of the bed...\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25359\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_17.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25359\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_17.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_17.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_17-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>...or put your shoes on while sitting in front of the bedroom fireplace. Up to you. Being filthy rich is all about meaningless, endless options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25356\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_20.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25356\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_20.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_20.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_20-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Woah! Mallard-obsessed Bunny from \u003cem>Sex and the City\u003c/em> strikes again!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_23.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25353\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_23.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_23.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_23-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If I'm handing over $4.15 million, the least the former owner could do is leave the tension rod behind for my dirty shower curtain. Geez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25351\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_25.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25351\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_25.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_25.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_25-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Every mansion needs a useless room no one wants to hang out in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25349\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_27.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25349\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_27.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_27.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_27-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ahh, a little slice of Versailles, minus all the riff raff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_28.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25348\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_28.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_28.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_28-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A perfect place to erect a statue of yourself or your accountant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this ends our journey through this pop culture landmark. Again, lend me some money or buy this pad yourself and let me be your Kato Kaelin. Either way.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Hey, can I borrow $4.15 million? I left my trust fund in a past lifetime. You see, I need the cash because \u003ca href=\"http://vanguardproperties.com/RESI-446051.php\">the 1883 Victorian \u003c/a>that served as the exterior for the \u003cem>Full House \u003c/em>home is up for sale. It's a piece of television history (and my childhood) and I kind of need to live in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm going to take your silence as a hard pass on lending me millions so I'll settle for taking a photo tour:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 362px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25375\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"362\" height=\"500\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There she is! A fresh new coat of paint and a tree that's really grown since the first season of \u003cem>Full House\u003c/em>. Way to reach for the stars, tree!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 397px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25374\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_2.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"397\" height=\"499\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SFGate \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Famous-Full-House-home-hits-the-market-for-7947743.php\">says\u003c/a>, \"The home's off-white exterior that appeared in 'Full House' has been painted a dark purple and the famous red door is gone, but anyone would probably agree the richer paint color looks far more elegant.\" Nope. Anyone would probably \u003cem>not\u003c/em> agree. #JusticefortheRedDoor!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25373\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 372px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25373\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_3.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"372\" height=\"499\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Okay, fine, the doors are \"elegant.\" Nostalgia has a tendency to get me riled up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25372\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25372\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_4.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_4.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_4-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wow. This is definitely...a look. Potato sack chic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_6.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25370\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_6.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_6.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_6-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A little stuffy for Netflix and Chill, but it'll do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25368\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_8.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25368\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_8.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_8.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_8-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No butt shall be left chairless! Also, what exactly is going on in that painting? Umbilical cord drama?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25366\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_10.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25366\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_10.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_10.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_10-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ohhh, okay, \u003cem>this\u003c/em> is where the Netflix and Chill goes down. Got it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25364\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_12.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25364\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_12.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_12.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_12-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hanging framed paintings in front of books is an interesting choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_15.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25361\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_15.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_15.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_15-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huge sink means you can wait even longer to wash your dishes. Oh, who am I kidding, that's what the dishwasher or maid is for. And I spy with my little eye a fully-stocked wine cellar. Let the generous pours wash over us all!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25360\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_16.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25360\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_16.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_16.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_16-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Put your shoes on while sitting on this love seat at the foot of the bed...\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25359\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_17.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25359\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_17.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_17.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_17-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>...or put your shoes on while sitting in front of the bedroom fireplace. Up to you. Being filthy rich is all about meaningless, endless options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25356\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_20.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25356\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_20.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_20.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_20-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Woah! Mallard-obsessed Bunny from \u003cem>Sex and the City\u003c/em> strikes again!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_23.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25353\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_23.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_23.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_23-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If I'm handing over $4.15 million, the least the former owner could do is leave the tension rod behind for my dirty shower curtain. Geez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25351\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_25.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25351\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_25.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_25.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_25-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Every mansion needs a useless room no one wants to hang out in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25349\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_27.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25349\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_27.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_27.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_27-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ahh, a little slice of Versailles, minus all the riff raff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_28.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-25348\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_28.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vanguard Properties\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_28.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/315034_28-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Vanguard Properties\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A perfect place to erect a statue of yourself or your accountant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Cosby, 78, could get 10 years in prison if convicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unless he can convince the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that a previous district attorney made a binding promise that Cosby would never be prosecuted, the comic and his cadre of high-priced litigators will be back in court Tuesday for his long-delayed preliminary hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cosby also is contending with two sexual assault lawsuits, two disputes over whether his homeowner policies should cover his legal expenses, and a dozen defamation claims brought by women who came forward too late to sue over sexual assault but say they were smeared by Cosby or his representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The criminal and civil cases have generated countless spinoff battles over such things as whether Cosby’s wife can be questioned at a deposition and whether Constand’s recent cooperation with police violated the confidentiality agreement surrounding the financial settlement she reached with Cosby in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits stretch from Los Angeles to Pittsburgh to Worcester, Massachusetts, not too far from where Cosby and his wife, Camille, have a home. In the past two years alone, some two dozen Cosby lawyers have done his bidding in a variety of courts, arguing in front of local magistrates, a state supreme court and federal appeals court judges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His attorneys have flown from California to Philadelphia, for example, for a brief hearing over who can see the file from Constand’s original 2005 police complaint. And they have gathered from Los Angeles, Washington and Philadelphia to pack the defense table for the so-far unsuccessful bid to get the criminal charges thrown out over the purported non-prosecution agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sure he’s angry that he thought he made a deal with someone … and then all of a sudden the whole thing blows up on him and his whole reputation is ruined,” said celebrity lawyer Larry R. Feldman of Los Angeles, who is not involved in the Cosby case but represented a 13-year-old who sued Michael Jackson. “I’m not worried about him financially, but nobody at this stage of his life and his career, I’m sure, wants to be defending these types of claims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joseph Cammarata, a lawyer for seven women suing Cosby in Massachusetts, said he isn’t concerned about the size of Cosby’s legal team, which he jokingly called an “economic recovery plan for lawyers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Only one person can speak at a time. In no way, shape or form do I think I am at a disadvantage,” Cammarata said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the legal team, Andrew Wyatt, told The Associated Press that none of the lawyers could comment on the scope of Cosby’s legal battles. However, Cammarata said in court that he was told that Cosby’s insurance company shelled out $2 million in one 15-month period for Cosby’s legal bills in his case alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cosby’s insurer, AIG, is fighting Cosby’s efforts to have two $1 million homeowner policies, along with $35 million in excess liability coverage, kick in. AIG argues that its policies exclude coverage for sexual assault cases; Cosby’s lawyers say these are defamation cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The litigation filed around the country is almost dizzying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, for example, Cosby faces a lawsuit filed by Judy Huth, who says she was sexually assaulted at the Playboy Mansion around 1974 when she was 15. In a defamation case, model Janice Dickinson claims Cosby drugged and raped her in Lake Tahoe in 1982. Cosby has denied any wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Massachusetts, Cosby faces three defamation lawsuits by nine women who say they were branded liars. 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"content": "\u003cp>On Monday, the San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"http://womenscommunityclinic.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women’s Community Clinic\u003c/a> called and told me the news: Lizz Winstead is bringing us pizza tomorrow. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A co-creator of \u003cem>the Daily Show\u003c/em>, co-founder of Air America radio, and an unstoppable feminist joke machine, Winstead often drops by reproductive healthcare clinics with treats. She brings them, she says, because everyone she knows has been to a clinic at some point in their lives, and because the people who work in reproductive healthcare can get lonely. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s just one part of her latest project, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ladypartsjustice.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lady Parts Justice,\u003c/a> which uses comedy and information to battle anti-choice legislation. Willing to support clinics however she can, sometimes Winstead brings the workers a comedy show, but she can also bring breakfast, “or take them out for drinks, or we’re going to Fort Worth Texas, to build a fence in August,” she told me over the phone last week. “We’re part Amy Schumer show, part USO, part Habitat for Humanity.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wasn’t kidding. When we talked, Winstead was calling from Louisville, where she had done a show the night before with the Lady Parts Justice team, a rotating group of pro-choice feminist comics that perform across the U.S. It’s just \u003ca href=\"http://www.ladypartsjustice.com/events/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one of many ways \u003c/a>Winstead and crew draw attention to potential threats to reproductive rights. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, I wasn’t able to go to the clinic and eat any of Winstead’s pizza. But as we talked on the phone, I realized I was treated to a feminist stand-up show for one. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11588340\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/LizzWinstead3.jpg\" alt='(L-R) Jim Colucci, Lizz Winstead and Frank DeCaro at the wedding of Frank DeCaro and Jim Colucci live on air of \"The Frank DeCaro Show\" ' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11588340\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/LizzWinstead3.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/LizzWinstead3-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/LizzWinstead3-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Jim Colucci, Lizz Winstead and Frank DeCaro at the wedding of Frank DeCaro and Jim Colucci live on air of “The Frank DeCaro Show” \u003ccite>(Photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>With \u003cem>the Daily Show,\u003c/em> and since 2012, with Lady Parts Justice, you’ve made a habit of taking on subject matter usually addressed by activists. Can you explain how you write about issues you yourself are passionately opinionated about, but at the same time maintain a level head so you can figure out where the funny is? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve always poked my little stick at the seamy underbelly of things that I’ve found either hypocritical or oppressive. You can really find humor when you figure out where your targets are, and then figure out the lies, manipulation, and hypocrisy. When you stark poking around, you’ll always see that the purpose of what they’re doing is so that the power structure that exists can remain the power structure, whether that is banking, whether that is undocumented workers, whether that is Black Lives Matter, whether that’s reproductive rights issues. It’s always the case: “How can we make sure that people remain vulnerable?” So our job is to blow the lid off of that, and laugh at their ridiculous reasoning. For example, when you tell women that to have less clinics is better healthcare, that’s just a laughable base of operations to start from. People will become homicidal if their app doesn’t download fast enough, yet you make a woman wait for a health care decision anywhere between 24 and 72 hours because you’re just sure she hasn’t thought about it enough? There are so many things I could say, but I’ll start with that. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reproductive rights is a complicated area for comedy. How do you come at it ethically? What do you worry about? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Complicated.” “Ethically.” I feel like those are words the right has engrained into us to say. I follow the science and the necessity of what abortion means: There’s simply nothing unethical about needing to terminate a pregnancy, but the language has been highjacked by right-wing extremists for the last 40 years. Allowing them to talk about babies, allowing them to say the word mother, when the person just simply doesn’t want to be pregnant anymore. I have no moral or ethical problem with talking about abortion or having abortion be part of a comedy routine, because I don’t buy into, nor will I promote, any kind of untrue facts about why people need abortion, what abortion actually is, or what pregnancy actually is. When you have someone saying you can’t have an abortion in the first 72 hours of a sperm hitting an egg, when it’s not even a pregnancy? There is no moral or ethical reason I shouldn’t make as much fun of that person as possible. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11591660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Lizz-Winstead-4.jpg\" alt=\"Lizz Winstead speaks to a guest during the PFLAG National Straight For Equality Awards \" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11591660\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Lizz-Winstead-4.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Lizz-Winstead-4-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Lizz-Winstead-4-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lizz Winstead speaks to a guest during the PFLAG National Straight For Equality Awards \u003ccite>(Photo: D Dipasupil/Getty Images for PFLAG)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some people see what they’re calling a “new wave” of comedy that talks about reproductive rights. They point to comics like Samantha Bee and John Oliver. Do you see yourself as part of a new wave, or more as part of a longer tradition? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve been doing this a really long time. I just did a show recently and someone brought a flyer from 1992 of a fundraiser that I did for an abortion-rights advocacy group in Minnesota. So I’m glad that people are understanding what’s at stake, and Samantha Bee and John Oliver and Amy Schumer and Sarah Sliverman are paving the way, because they’re being smart about exposing a lot of the things people don’t know about when it comes to this issue. Like in 1992, there was Casey v. Planned Parenthood — the criteria was that you can curb abortion access if you don’t cause an “undue burden,” but nobody defined what that burden was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In a recent BBC online article about abortion rates worldwide, which suggests that rate is a steady 25 percent of all pregnancies regardless of the legal status of termination, Dr. Bela Ganatra of the World Health Organization said “The high rates of abortion seen in our study provide further evidence of the need to improve and expand access to effective contraceptive services.” \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, and the problem is, we live in a country where they’re telling us they want to reduce the number of abortions and the way they want to do that is to remove access to the places that provide affordable contraception. I don’t know why people like that are even listened to and not laughed off the planet. We don’t live in some world where there’s abstinence and unicorns. People have sex, unintended pregnancies happen, people don’t want to be parents or can’t have more kids. And some people would be shitty at it and know that about themselves. I’m one of those people. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/LizzWinstead2.jpg\" alt=\"Frank DeCaro Gets Married On SiriusXM's "The Frank DeCaro Show"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11588341\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/LizzWinstead2.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/LizzWinstead2-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/LizzWinstead2-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is the thing with people who oppose contraceptives? I’m from San Francisco so I’m baffled by that. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s really where this story always goes. It gets out of abortion very quickly, and goes to the whole: “Sex is for procreation, contraception encourages sex not for procreation, it goes against God’s plan, I believe in God’s plan, and America was based on God’s plan.” It’s like “Whoa, whoa, and WHOA.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You told \u003cem>Time\u003c/em> magazine you plan “to encourage people to incorporate a little bit of activism into their social lives, and so it becomes something that you do like your yoga practice” Do you think we could maybe just get people to totally replace their yoga practice with activism? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I just think that — first of all, that’s really funny. But our philosophy is to bring the information into places where people are already gathered; I don’t try to lure people into my world. There are buzzwords, like the word activist, people hate that word. But we live in a world where our art, everything, our conversations, our films, evolved around thinking about sex, trying to have sex, having sex, thinking about when you’re going to have sex again, and then eating. Right? We live in a sexual society, and you might not have anything in common with me, but we all like sex. And we know that. And if you make someone laugh, they like you. And if they like you, more often than not they’re willing to listen to what you have to say. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There must be a lot of competition from all the pro-life comedy out there. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know what, that’s the hardest thing. They’re everywhere. Everywhere you turn, there’s another person on the anti-choice comedy tour. But no, there’s no one out there doing what we’re doing from the other side. I don’t think. Pass them along to me, I’d love to know. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where can people find your work if they can’t catch you at the Women’s Community Clinic benefit?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Look at our videos on \u003ca href=\"http://www.ladypartsjustice.com/videos/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lady Parts Justice\u003c/a>, and sign up to find out about \u003ca href=\"http://www.ladypartsjustice.com/v-to-shining-v/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">V to Shining V\u003c/a>. This year it’s going to be a big awards show called the Golden Probes; we’re doing a livestream out of New York honoring outstanding achievements in sexism. We’re going to get somebody from every state, we have dance numbers, we have comedians, it’s going to be really fun.\u003cbr>\n____\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nLizz Winstead performs May 19 at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. Tickets are $125 (though they are currently sold out.) For tickets, time, and more information, visit the \u003ca href=\"http://womenscommunityclinic.org/2016/02/hysteria2016/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clinic’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Monday, the San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"http://womenscommunityclinic.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women’s Community Clinic\u003c/a> called and told me the news: Lizz Winstead is bringing us pizza tomorrow. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A co-creator of \u003cem>the Daily Show\u003c/em>, co-founder of Air America radio, and an unstoppable feminist joke machine, Winstead often drops by reproductive healthcare clinics with treats. She brings them, she says, because everyone she knows has been to a clinic at some point in their lives, and because the people who work in reproductive healthcare can get lonely. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s just one part of her latest project, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ladypartsjustice.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lady Parts Justice,\u003c/a> which uses comedy and information to battle anti-choice legislation. Willing to support clinics however she can, sometimes Winstead brings the workers a comedy show, but she can also bring breakfast, “or take them out for drinks, or we’re going to Fort Worth Texas, to build a fence in August,” she told me over the phone last week. “We’re part Amy Schumer show, part USO, part Habitat for Humanity.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wasn’t kidding. When we talked, Winstead was calling from Louisville, where she had done a show the night before with the Lady Parts Justice team, a rotating group of pro-choice feminist comics that perform across the U.S. It’s just \u003ca href=\"http://www.ladypartsjustice.com/events/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one of many ways \u003c/a>Winstead and crew draw attention to potential threats to reproductive rights. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, I wasn’t able to go to the clinic and eat any of Winstead’s pizza. But as we talked on the phone, I realized I was treated to a feminist stand-up show for one. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11588340\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/LizzWinstead3.jpg\" alt='(L-R) Jim Colucci, Lizz Winstead and Frank DeCaro at the wedding of Frank DeCaro and Jim Colucci live on air of \"The Frank DeCaro Show\" ' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11588340\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/LizzWinstead3.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/LizzWinstead3-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/LizzWinstead3-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Jim Colucci, Lizz Winstead and Frank DeCaro at the wedding of Frank DeCaro and Jim Colucci live on air of “The Frank DeCaro Show” \u003ccite>(Photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>With \u003cem>the Daily Show,\u003c/em> and since 2012, with Lady Parts Justice, you’ve made a habit of taking on subject matter usually addressed by activists. Can you explain how you write about issues you yourself are passionately opinionated about, but at the same time maintain a level head so you can figure out where the funny is? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve always poked my little stick at the seamy underbelly of things that I’ve found either hypocritical or oppressive. You can really find humor when you figure out where your targets are, and then figure out the lies, manipulation, and hypocrisy. When you stark poking around, you’ll always see that the purpose of what they’re doing is so that the power structure that exists can remain the power structure, whether that is banking, whether that is undocumented workers, whether that is Black Lives Matter, whether that’s reproductive rights issues. It’s always the case: “How can we make sure that people remain vulnerable?” So our job is to blow the lid off of that, and laugh at their ridiculous reasoning. For example, when you tell women that to have less clinics is better healthcare, that’s just a laughable base of operations to start from. People will become homicidal if their app doesn’t download fast enough, yet you make a woman wait for a health care decision anywhere between 24 and 72 hours because you’re just sure she hasn’t thought about it enough? There are so many things I could say, but I’ll start with that. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reproductive rights is a complicated area for comedy. How do you come at it ethically? What do you worry about? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Complicated.” “Ethically.” I feel like those are words the right has engrained into us to say. I follow the science and the necessity of what abortion means: There’s simply nothing unethical about needing to terminate a pregnancy, but the language has been highjacked by right-wing extremists for the last 40 years. Allowing them to talk about babies, allowing them to say the word mother, when the person just simply doesn’t want to be pregnant anymore. I have no moral or ethical problem with talking about abortion or having abortion be part of a comedy routine, because I don’t buy into, nor will I promote, any kind of untrue facts about why people need abortion, what abortion actually is, or what pregnancy actually is. When you have someone saying you can’t have an abortion in the first 72 hours of a sperm hitting an egg, when it’s not even a pregnancy? There is no moral or ethical reason I shouldn’t make as much fun of that person as possible. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11591660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Lizz-Winstead-4.jpg\" alt=\"Lizz Winstead speaks to a guest during the PFLAG National Straight For Equality Awards \" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11591660\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Lizz-Winstead-4.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Lizz-Winstead-4-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Lizz-Winstead-4-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lizz Winstead speaks to a guest during the PFLAG National Straight For Equality Awards \u003ccite>(Photo: D Dipasupil/Getty Images for PFLAG)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some people see what they’re calling a “new wave” of comedy that talks about reproductive rights. They point to comics like Samantha Bee and John Oliver. Do you see yourself as part of a new wave, or more as part of a longer tradition? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve been doing this a really long time. I just did a show recently and someone brought a flyer from 1992 of a fundraiser that I did for an abortion-rights advocacy group in Minnesota. So I’m glad that people are understanding what’s at stake, and Samantha Bee and John Oliver and Amy Schumer and Sarah Sliverman are paving the way, because they’re being smart about exposing a lot of the things people don’t know about when it comes to this issue. Like in 1992, there was Casey v. Planned Parenthood — the criteria was that you can curb abortion access if you don’t cause an “undue burden,” but nobody defined what that burden was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In a recent BBC online article about abortion rates worldwide, which suggests that rate is a steady 25 percent of all pregnancies regardless of the legal status of termination, Dr. Bela Ganatra of the World Health Organization said “The high rates of abortion seen in our study provide further evidence of the need to improve and expand access to effective contraceptive services.” \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, and the problem is, we live in a country where they’re telling us they want to reduce the number of abortions and the way they want to do that is to remove access to the places that provide affordable contraception. I don’t know why people like that are even listened to and not laughed off the planet. We don’t live in some world where there’s abstinence and unicorns. People have sex, unintended pregnancies happen, people don’t want to be parents or can’t have more kids. And some people would be shitty at it and know that about themselves. I’m one of those people. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/LizzWinstead2.jpg\" alt=\"Frank DeCaro Gets Married On SiriusXM's "The Frank DeCaro Show"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11588341\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/LizzWinstead2.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/LizzWinstead2-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/LizzWinstead2-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is the thing with people who oppose contraceptives? I’m from San Francisco so I’m baffled by that. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s really where this story always goes. It gets out of abortion very quickly, and goes to the whole: “Sex is for procreation, contraception encourages sex not for procreation, it goes against God’s plan, I believe in God’s plan, and America was based on God’s plan.” It’s like “Whoa, whoa, and WHOA.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You told \u003cem>Time\u003c/em> magazine you plan “to encourage people to incorporate a little bit of activism into their social lives, and so it becomes something that you do like your yoga practice” Do you think we could maybe just get people to totally replace their yoga practice with activism? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I just think that — first of all, that’s really funny. But our philosophy is to bring the information into places where people are already gathered; I don’t try to lure people into my world. There are buzzwords, like the word activist, people hate that word. But we live in a world where our art, everything, our conversations, our films, evolved around thinking about sex, trying to have sex, having sex, thinking about when you’re going to have sex again, and then eating. Right? We live in a sexual society, and you might not have anything in common with me, but we all like sex. And we know that. And if you make someone laugh, they like you. And if they like you, more often than not they’re willing to listen to what you have to say. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There must be a lot of competition from all the pro-life comedy out there. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know what, that’s the hardest thing. They’re everywhere. Everywhere you turn, there’s another person on the anti-choice comedy tour. But no, there’s no one out there doing what we’re doing from the other side. I don’t think. Pass them along to me, I’d love to know. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where can people find your work if they can’t catch you at the Women’s Community Clinic benefit?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Look at our videos on \u003ca href=\"http://www.ladypartsjustice.com/videos/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lady Parts Justice\u003c/a>, and sign up to find out about \u003ca href=\"http://www.ladypartsjustice.com/v-to-shining-v/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">V to Shining V\u003c/a>. This year it’s going to be a big awards show called the Golden Probes; we’re doing a livestream out of New York honoring outstanding achievements in sexism. We’re going to get somebody from every state, we have dance numbers, we have comedians, it’s going to be really fun.\u003cbr>\n____\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nLizz Winstead performs May 19 at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. Tickets are $125 (though they are currently sold out.) For tickets, time, and more information, visit the \u003ca href=\"http://womenscommunityclinic.org/2016/02/hysteria2016/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clinic’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a recent March morning at his home in a New Jersey suburb, Anthony Mendez was on his living room couch with his 9-year-old daughter. He was watching the previous night’s episode of \u003cem>Jane the Virgin\u003c/em>, studying his own performance as the show’s unseen narrator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m like, ‘That’s Daddy,’ and she’s on her computer, not even looking up. She says, ‘I know.’ And I’m like, ‘That’s Daddy — you’re not even impressed?’ And she’s like, ‘I’m on YouTube,’ ” Mendez says. His daughter — one of three kids — runs a YouTube channel where she vlogs about makeup with her sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the sort of thing Mendez says helps keep him grounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Mendez’s ability to turn an omniscient narrator into one of \u003cem>Jane\u003c/em>‘s funniest characters has gotten him plenty of attention. He’s been described by people as \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/05/11/jane_the_virgin_s_narrator_is_the_best_thing_about_the_cw_show.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“the best thing about the show\u003c/a>” and “\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/20/arts/television/jane-the-virgin-narrator-on-his-role-and-his-emmy-nomination.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one of the show’s most entertaining characters\u003c/a>,” and is \u003ca href=\"http://forums.previously.tv/topic/20930-latin-lover-narrator-dramatic-pause-typed-sounds-almost-certainly-not-a-virgin-bang-hashtag-hotness/\">growing a small cult following\u003c/a> on the Internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His voice-overs recap the show’s dramatic, telenovela-style plots: Jane, a 23-year-old virgin, was accidentally artificially inseminated; the father just happens to be a playboy hotel owner she once kissed; the doctor who accidentally inseminated her is the father’s \u003cem>sister\u003c/em>; and so on and so on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JPNVHRNCrY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mendez’s performance is unique from other narrator roles because of its comedic timing and punch. In an episode in which Jane goes to her high school reunion, Mendez’s voice swoops in to introduce us to Stephanie Kovakovich, a mean girl who Jane used to beef with. A string of text — as if the narrator is typing it — appears on screen: \u003cem>Stephanie Kovakobitch\u003c/em>. “Oops,” the narrator apologizes, correcting his typing. “No, I meant it,” he says, changing it back to \u003cem>Kovakobitch\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Real-life Mendez is just as playful as his character. Before I arrive at his apartment, he posts a humble-braggy video to Snapchat and Instagram, in which he announces he has to clean his apartment before his NPR interview. The video pans to him nudging a plastic container under his bed.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BDV4Un5otHd/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his journey in finding this voice — one that encourages him to play with an accent instead of dampen it — came after years of career change and trying to fit himself to a mold.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Finding His Voice\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>A typical kid, Mendez loved comics. They fed his imagination and were a break from a more serious, less typical childhood: He sold headstones at the family business — and even designed a six-crypt mausoleum as he got older. Mendez’s dad, who immigrated to the states from the Dominican Republic, worked in a tombstone factory before opening his own business, and hoped Mendez would take it over with his three other brothers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mendez had other ideas. He studied architecture — the most creative major he thought he could get away with — for a short while at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. After that, he tried pursuing a career in producing reggae, struggling so much in the early 2000s he thought he’d be homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In your mind, you’re like, ‘No, I’m gonna show them, I’m gonna show them,’ ” Mendez recalls feeling about his parents, who hadn’t wanted him to leave their business. “But, you know, it takes eight to 10 years to show them, so at the beginning when I was struggling, they said, ‘Come back to the family business,’ and I actually agreed to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mendez said he had a nightmare that stopped him from returning. He dreamed he was trapped and anxious, working at a headstone factory forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11587904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/anthony-mendez-0358_custom-f98798f24ed4a7a842af7ca906ee58a4dd33a3da-1180x786.jpg\" alt=\"Mendez stands in his bedroom recording studio.\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11587904\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/anthony-mendez-0358_custom-f98798f24ed4a7a842af7ca906ee58a4dd33a3da-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/anthony-mendez-0358_custom-f98798f24ed4a7a842af7ca906ee58a4dd33a3da-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/anthony-mendez-0358_custom-f98798f24ed4a7a842af7ca906ee58a4dd33a3da-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/anthony-mendez-0358_custom-f98798f24ed4a7a842af7ca906ee58a4dd33a3da-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/anthony-mendez-0358_custom-f98798f24ed4a7a842af7ca906ee58a4dd33a3da-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/anthony-mendez-0358_custom-f98798f24ed4a7a842af7ca906ee58a4dd33a3da-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mendez stands in his bedroom recording studio. \u003ccite>(Photo: Emily Bogle/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So he fell back on something he had all along: his voice. People always said there was a Mendez voice — his grandfather, his father, his brothers all had it — that was deep and booming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In high school when I would read in Spanish, especially, some of the girls would ask me to do it again … and that kind of took me back, like, ‘Huh, there’s something there,’ ” Mendez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He signed up for voice-over classes and learned his Dominican-New York-New Jersey upbringing made things complicated. During one class, he’d just finished recording a track in the studio and his classmates were on the other side of the glass, observing. They thought he couldn’t hear their reaction to his voice-over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You heard everyone in the room talking about, ‘What accent is that?’ where they had never heard someone in voice-over who had an urban, Latino, New York, New Jersey mixture. So they were like, ‘That’s urban. That’s urban,’ ” Mendez says. This insistence on labeling him one thing — which \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anthony-mendez/any-voiceover-actor-american-latino-need-follow_b_8281352.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he’s written about before\u003c/a> — was an issue he ran into with talent managers, too. He was sent African-American voice-over roles and Spanish-speaking ones, but rarely received ones meant for the general market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Managers] were like, ‘Oh, you’ve got an accent. You’re not gonna do it,’ ” Mendez says. His goal was to learn to talk without his accent but not lose it entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So in his makeshift studio, in the bedroom he shares with his wife, recording out of a small closet that’s lined with board games and books to absorb the sound, he created a workout he calls VO 90 X — like boot camp for your voice — with which he spent 30 minutes daily for 90 days, intensely working on sounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His L’s, N’s, M’s and R’s, he says, are weaker than standard American English. He studied how people’s inflections and tongue placements change depending on what accents they’re taking on. “Grandmother” in standard American English has different syllable emphasis — “GRAND-mother” — than the word spoken with, say, English with a Dominican accent — “Grand-MO-ther.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://www.npr.org/player/embed/477737210/478209804\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it worked. Mendez began booking gigs with brands like \u003ca href=\"http://www.bustle.com/articles/47235-who-is-the-jane-the-virgin-narrator-youve-definitely-heard-anthony-mendezs-voice-before\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN, Miller Lite and Target\u003c/a>, lending his voice to ads in both Spanish and English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years ago, he got an email invitation to audition for a TV show — \u003cem>Jane the Virgin\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11587906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/anthony-mendez-0395_custom-16bb71b61bea4f4b12ea43c0a15edb74f84a07d8-1180x786.jpg\" alt=\"Mendez reads from a 'Jane the Virgin' script in his bedroom recording studio. 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He records his voice-overs mostly from his home. \u003ccite>(Photo: Emily Bogle/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It said telenovela announcer with a Hispanic accent. The role literally said ‘Latin Lover Narrator.’ And I was like, I don’t wanna do this. This sounds like a joke. Stereotypical stuff. So I put it away,” he says. At first glance, Mendez thought it was yet another role poking fun at Latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, later that day — before he had to pick his kids up from school — he pulled up the email again, and decided to give the audition a shot. Not knowing much about the narrator — \u003ca href=\"http://www.tvguide.com/news/jane-the-virgin-narrator/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who he was\u003c/a>, even — Mendez debated how the voice would sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Initially I was going to do a standard telenovela announcer, which is what I call the Spanish Dracula, the ‘Telemundo guy,’ ” Mendez says. “I said an hour show with that guy is going to get really super annoying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He didn’t want the narrator to sound stereotypical, but he wanted people to hear a real connection to the Spanish language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about how his own father feels about his career, Mendez is equivocal. He says his parents, who returned to the Dominican Republic, don’t really watch \u003cem>Jane the Virgin\u003c/em>, but they understand he’s made a mark in a difficult industry. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>But his journey in finding this voice — one that encourages him to play with an accent instead of dampen it — came after years of career change and trying to fit himself to a mold.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Finding His Voice\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>A typical kid, Mendez loved comics. They fed his imagination and were a break from a more serious, less typical childhood: He sold headstones at the family business — and even designed a six-crypt mausoleum as he got older. Mendez’s dad, who immigrated to the states from the Dominican Republic, worked in a tombstone factory before opening his own business, and hoped Mendez would take it over with his three other brothers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mendez had other ideas. He studied architecture — the most creative major he thought he could get away with — for a short while at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. After that, he tried pursuing a career in producing reggae, struggling so much in the early 2000s he thought he’d be homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In your mind, you’re like, ‘No, I’m gonna show them, I’m gonna show them,’ ” Mendez recalls feeling about his parents, who hadn’t wanted him to leave their business. “But, you know, it takes eight to 10 years to show them, so at the beginning when I was struggling, they said, ‘Come back to the family business,’ and I actually agreed to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mendez said he had a nightmare that stopped him from returning. 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People always said there was a Mendez voice — his grandfather, his father, his brothers all had it — that was deep and booming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In high school when I would read in Spanish, especially, some of the girls would ask me to do it again … and that kind of took me back, like, ‘Huh, there’s something there,’ ” Mendez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He signed up for voice-over classes and learned his Dominican-New York-New Jersey upbringing made things complicated. During one class, he’d just finished recording a track in the studio and his classmates were on the other side of the glass, observing. They thought he couldn’t hear their reaction to his voice-over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You heard everyone in the room talking about, ‘What accent is that?’ where they had never heard someone in voice-over who had an urban, Latino, New York, New Jersey mixture. So they were like, ‘That’s urban. That’s urban,’ ” Mendez says. This insistence on labeling him one thing — which \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anthony-mendez/any-voiceover-actor-american-latino-need-follow_b_8281352.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he’s written about before\u003c/a> — was an issue he ran into with talent managers, too. He was sent African-American voice-over roles and Spanish-speaking ones, but rarely received ones meant for the general market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Managers] were like, ‘Oh, you’ve got an accent. You’re not gonna do it,’ ” Mendez says. 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He studied how people’s inflections and tongue placements change depending on what accents they’re taking on. “Grandmother” in standard American English has different syllable emphasis — “GRAND-mother” — than the word spoken with, say, English with a Dominican accent — “Grand-MO-ther.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://www.npr.org/player/embed/477737210/478209804\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it worked. 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In the 1960s, he began performing at local clubs and concerts, doing impressions that had a political bent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would ask me, ‘Do you want to do this Spiro Agnew resignation night … with Rick and Ruby and the Firesign Theatre?'” Giovanni told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.recordnet.com/article/20020118/a_life/301189985\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Stockton Record\u003c/em> back in 2002\u003c/a>. “I opened for Country Joe McDonald in 1968, up there doing Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson as the Smothers Brothers.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11575421\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Cast-of-Laugh-In-1180x821.jpg\" alt=\"The cast of the New Laugh-In\" width=\"640\" height=\"445\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11575421\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Cast-of-Laugh-In-1180x821.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Cast-of-Laugh-In-400x278.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Cast-of-Laugh-In-800x557.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Cast-of-Laugh-In-768x534.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Cast-of-Laugh-In-960x668.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Cast-of-Laugh-In.jpg 1472w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cast of the New Laugh-In \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Buckbutane.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the early ’70s, Giovanni began performing at a San Francisco folk club called the Holy City Zoo, and is credited as being the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_City_Zoo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first comedian to perform\u003c/a> at what would become a legendary comedy venue. He would later make his TV appearance on the \u003ci>Merv Griffin Show.\u003c/i> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1977, Giovanni, Williams and Bill Rafferty, another San Francisco comedian who performed at the Holy City Zoo, were featured in one-hour special that aired on NBC called \u003ci>The Great American Laugh-Off\u003c/i>. Filmed at the Great American Music Hall, it was Williams’ first television appearance, and it would lead to both he and Giovanni joining the cast of the \u003ci>New Laugh-In\u003c/i> that same year. A revival of Rowan and Martin’s hit sketch show from the early ’70s, the \u003cem>New Laugh-In\u003c/em> only lasted a season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11575423\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 517px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Giovanni-Head-Shot.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Giovanni\" width=\"517\" height=\"648\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11575423\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Giovanni-Head-Shot.jpg 517w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Giovanni-Head-Shot-400x501.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Giovanni-Head-Shot-479x600.jpg 479w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Giovanni \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Buckbutane.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was on there for six episodes,” Giovanni told the \u003cem>Record\u003c/em>. “I did impressions of General Patton, Columbo, the Godfather, and nobody recognized me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Williams, Giovanni wasn’t able to parlay his TV work into bigger and better things, though he did end up in a few movies, including 1988’s \u003ci>Tucker: A Man and His Dream.\u003c/i> But he continued to work as a club headliner and also, as Butane, opening for country stars such as Nelson, Merle Haggard and Earl Scruggs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Kelly of \u003ca href=\"http://www.kellypro.com/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kelly Productions\u003c/a>, a talent agency that represented Giovanni, said he was in contact with the comedian up until last year, finding him gigs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was a great, old school guy,” Kelly said. “Just a real sweetheart. 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