HeyJaredPancake Brain
Award-winning and -losing writer Lauren Duca tries to change her brain by practicing an instrument
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Lost Cave Finds Broken Machine (opens the original)
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The strangest thing happened in Paris. Aimlessly eating a massive almond meringue one afternoon with Becca, I looked up the best thrift stores. We found one that looked like a cave. Entering the door was like walking into a hobbit hole, rock gray walls holding space for hot twenty-somethings. Hiding my exuberance out of respect for their culture, I combed through a rack of wire hangers (sorry Joan Crawford). Becca held up a wool fleece. I held up the arm that hurt from how much stuff I was ca
An interview with award-winning performance artist Becca Blackwell (opens the original)
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Hi friends, Does a month count as an anniversary? The fourth episode of the 3rd City podcast, and our guest was Becca Blackwell, the award-winning performance artist, who you may also recognize as social worker Dylan Easton on The Pitt.3rd City podcast is hosted by Max Adler and Lauren Duca (hi) about comedy, spirituality, and oth
How’s eclipse season treating you? (opens the original)
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Hi friends, As the more woo among you must know, on Friday, August 27th, there was a full moon and lunar eclipse at the same time. My Qi Gong teacher always encourages us to practice more around the full moon, so I got up before 6 a.m. Paris time to practice into the peak of it. Not only did I stand there for an hour, arms wide open, I prayed for transformation, surrendering totally to the power of this cosmic event… and, holy shit, have I been getting my ass handed to me.It’s still not over, th
My Gay Twin Fantasy :P (opens the original)
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Hi friends, Last week, it was thrilling, embarrassing, vulnerable and almost too obvious to share with you my new podcast! Wow, truly humiliating to even type these words into such an oversaturated market, but what a sweet reaction we’ve had so far. If you’re just tuning in, 3rd City is weekly pod with my best friend Max Adler — a Buddhist, drag queen, and the <a href="https://laurenduca.substack.com/p/welco
Welcome to 3rd City! (opens the original)
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Hi friends, Thank you so much for your song(s) of summer. I just performed mildly invasive surgery on my Spotify algorithm, and now I’m writing to you with something almost as exciting is it is embarrassing: a new podcast!!!3rd City is a comedy/spirituality podcast featuring Tucson BFFs — Lauren Duca (me lol) and Max Adler — shooting the shit in and around NY, LA, and our beloved 3rd city. W
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