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Babs Gray

Jul 23, 2026

4:37
Why don't you tell me a little bit about that?
4:39
Yeah, you started telling me about it and I knew it like sounded familiar.
4:42
And then when you mentioned her restaurant, I was like, oh, my God.
4:45
Yes.
4:45
So I was at a friend's place who was she was dog sitting and it was just like old house in the Hollywood Hills.
4:52
and obviously had been around forever and they had this back like, carriage house that had a bar in it and the bar had signatures carved into it from people you know and all these old headshots and stuff and I was looking up the names of some of the people who'd written their names into the bar and one was Thelma Todd and I looked her up and then saw you know we're gonna talk about her crazy story and I was like oh my god I can't believe this woman was here so I looked at yeah it was a really cool experience this bar had just you know obviously been this like hot spot for people at some point must have been a And then I looked up her story, which just turned out to be this insane fucking like

1 HR 14 MINS LATER

79:00
Do you have anything you can recommend to folks?
79:02
Well, this is a very old one, but I just saw it in the theater again.
53:26
[laughs]
53:26
... she would think that.
53:29
But she's all very, it's all very marketing, like, the, it, the whole thing is, you know, it's, like, very Canva-like marketing situation, too.
53:35
So I don't know.
53:37
I mean, I think, like, four Zooms to plan a picnic that's planning something else, I, I would immedi- I would know by then, I'm out.

10 MINS LATER

64:08
Bye.
64:08
Bye.
64:09
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