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Speaker 1: Dancing at a strip club is a job.

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Speaker 2: Men don't want to feel like they're giving us money

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Speaker 2: to do what we're doing. They want to feel like

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Speaker 2: we're doing it on our own. Guys have to realize

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Speaker 2: that the money they're giving a stripper is paying rent

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Speaker 3: Jenna Jamison, Welcome to General World. Welcome back to General World.

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Speaker 3: I'm your host, Molly Lambert. This is episode two, Learning

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Speaker 3: from Las Vegas Showgirls. After the death of her mother

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Speaker 3: in a difficult childhood marked by constant sudden relocations, Jenna

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Speaker 3: Jamison is now a young teenage girl re entering high

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Speaker 3: school in Las Vegas. After an awkward teen phase where

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Speaker 3: she felt like an ugly duckling, she has suddenly hit

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Speaker 3: puberty hard.

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Speaker 1: When she was around fifteen years old, boys started to

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Speaker 1: notice her. Larry Mizzoli, Jenna's father.

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Speaker 4: It really pissed me off because I didn't like the

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Speaker 4: idea of other people looking at my little sister sexually.

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Speaker 4: Tony Massoli, Jenna's brother brother.

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Speaker 2: The minute I turned into a woman, everything changed. My

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Speaker 2: hormones are rushing so hard. I wanted to have sex

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Speaker 2: so bad it was uncontrollable.

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Speaker 3: Teenage Jenna starts dressing provocatively, wearing a new wardrobe of

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Speaker 3: boxer shore. She rolls up at the thigh, white T

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Speaker 3: shirts with flower prints, acid washed jeans, red nail polish,

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Speaker 3: and black eyeliner. She teases out her blonde hair. While

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Speaker 3: she starts dressing more maturely to suit her new body,

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Speaker 3: she's still a socially and sexually inexperienced virgin. When grown

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Speaker 3: men approach her and try to hit on or flirt

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Speaker 3: with her, she instantly reverts back to being the shy

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Speaker 3: fifteen year old she really is.

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Speaker 2: When I walk down the Vegas Strip, I loved watching

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Speaker 1: When they were walking arm in arm with their wives.

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Speaker 2: I loved the attention, but whenever anyone tried to talk

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Speaker 2: to me, I freaked out. I didn't know how to interact.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't even look them in the eye.

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Speaker 3: Jenna is not consciously trying to dress like a hooker,

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Speaker 3: although she's seen them around Las Vegas. She's mulating her

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Speaker 3: personal role models of beauty and sex appeal the hair

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Speaker 3: metal vixens from music videos, girls like Tawny Katane, a busty,

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Speaker 3: jewish redhead from San Diego who rolls around hornily on

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Speaker 3: cars in White Snakes Here I Go Again video and

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Speaker 3: Bobby Brown, a bleach blonde from Baton Rouge Who's in

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Speaker 3: Warrant Cherry Pie video. The hair metal girl style comes

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Speaker 3: from the looks favored by Hollywood street walking sex workers

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Speaker 3: and strippers at clubs like the Body Shop, Aspiring rock

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Speaker 3: star girlfriends trawl clubs like the Roxy, the Whiskey, and

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Speaker 3: into casinos to gamble, music videos use sexy young models

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Speaker 3: to trick you into listening to the music. The use

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Speaker 3: of video girls to accessorize legacy acts was innovated by

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Speaker 3: director Tim Newman in the eighties for a trilogy of

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Speaker 3: zz Top videos. He used Playboy models as the protagonists

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Speaker 3: while the bearded Texas blues bar rockers acted like a

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Speaker 3: Greek chorus, spinning guitars and creating a formula for unphotogenic

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Speaker 3: bands trying to cross over into image saturated MTV. Tim

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Speaker 3: Newman also directed his cousin, Randy Newman's music video for

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Speaker 3: ilave Vla, which means he influenced my own psychosexual development,

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Speaker 3: where I grew up to be both Randy Newman and

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Speaker 3: and wear makeup too, a lingering after effect of glam rock.

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Speaker 3: Tight pants have been in vogue ever since Mick Jagger

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Speaker 3: People used to claim straight women aren't turned on visually,

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Speaker 2: I would sneak and look at my dad's playboys, and

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Speaker 3: Jenna continues cosplaying as an adult woman, but she's sixteen

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Speaker 3: mean to her that he cares, but she can't express

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Speaker 3: this to him. At school, Jenna joins the cheerleading squad

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Speaker 3: giving her the big sister treatment she's always craved. Finally,

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Speaker 3: When Jenna and her brother Tony aretines, they start cruising

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Speaker 3: around Las Vegas together, getting into mischief again. They egg

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Speaker 3: people and do a thing Jenna invents where they fog

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Speaker 4: We would go down to Cracktown and see the crack

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Speaker 3: They drive around, fogging strangers up with whatever chemicals are

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Speaker 3: fires and film their pranks with Tony's camcorder, often while

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Speaker 2: It was just jacking and burning stuff and fogging them up.

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Speaker 2: We would laugh to the point where we were half dead.

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Speaker 4: One of my favorite activities was taking four or five

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Speaker 3: Jenna develops crushes on various boys. One day, she's laying

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Speaker 3: out at their apartment complexes swimming pool when a new

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Speaker 1: He struck me.

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Speaker 2: As the wild type, someone who could release my secret

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Speaker 1: Be wanted in a seductive manner.

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Speaker 2: And to be treated and looked at as an attractive woman.

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Speaker 3: Victor pursues Jenna by throwing pebbles at her window. He

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Speaker 3: Whenever Jenna's dad is napping before his night shift. Jenna

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Speaker 2: His room was the ultimate teenage pad. It was plastered

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Speaker 3: Victor's fuck pad smells like weed and incense. It's Jenna's

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Speaker 3: some local guys who are in college. College guys who

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Speaker 3: date high schoolers are obviously huge losers, but to young Jenna,

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Speaker 3: The college guys invite her to a campus party, and

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Speaker 3: Jenna and her high school friends take a party limo

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Speaker 2: The target of my lust was the leader of the pack, Cliff,

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Speaker 2: a rich pretty boy who had recently wrapped his dad's.

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Speaker 2: I was only fifteen and a half, but I was

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Speaker 3: Cliff is a big man on campus with a trust

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Speaker 2: All night long, Cliff worked me, teasing me, feeding me shots,

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Speaker 3: Cliff probably looks like Jake Ryan from sixteen Candles and

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Speaker 1: And I had sex with him. I couldn't believe it.

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Speaker 2: Well, now I'm going with Cliff, and I'm so happy.

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Speaker 2: It's spring break and I've never partied so hard in

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Speaker 1: I'm really happy. Right later, Love Jenna.

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Speaker 3: Jenna says she would have consented to sex with Cliff

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Speaker 3: she knows it's fucked up that she was blacked out

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Speaker 3: she thinks she and Cliff are in love. Now. Cliff

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Speaker 3: that Jenna fixates on as they continue to date and

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Speaker 3: but she's over it. She dumps him instantly. A lot

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Speaker 3: sadness quickly metabolizes into anger, becoming a vengeful horniness.

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Speaker 2: Sexuality became a tool for so much more than just

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Speaker 3: She gets her revenge by hooking up with Cliff's best

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Speaker 3: When Jenna World returns, Jenna goes to a biker rally.

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Speaker 3: Oh my God, Welcome back to Jena World. One of

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Speaker 3: world history is boiled down into castles, pyramids, and opulent

433
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 3: Roman palaces. In the nineteen nineties, Las Vegas became as

434
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 3: popular a destination for families as Disney theme parks, which

435
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 3: led to more theming before a two thousands bust took

436
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 3: casino developers back to original rat pack lux themes emphasizing hedonism.

437
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 3: The promise of any oasis is that it's an escape

438
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 3: from the desert of the real. Customers enter with a

439
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 3: fantasy of fun, winning and getting fucked up with beautiful people.

440
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 3: By the time reality. Sets in the marked pockets are empty,

441
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 3: returning them back to reality. Hungover, broke, and hot. On

442
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 3: the Las Vegas Strip, the absurdism of creating a tourist

443
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 3: city in a remote place is taken to its farthest extent.

444
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 3: Developers build lavish resorts and then blow them up. Blowing

445
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 3: up a casino is a publicity stunt to promote the

446
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 3: resort that will be built in its place. The latest

447
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 3: casino to do this is The Tropicana, which has exploded

448
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 3: via controlled detonation and a drone show in late twenty

449
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 3: twenty four. Desert detonations are a tradition started when the

450
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 3: US government held atomic bomb tests in the Nevada Desert.

451
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 3: Vegas entrepreneurs even cashed in on the bomb with a

452
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 3: misatomic bomb beauty pageant.

453
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 7: What I'm trying to do for Las Vegas is what

454
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 7: the Eiffel Tower did for Paris, what the Empire State

455
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 7: Building did for New York, what the Seattle Space Needle

456
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 7: did for Seattle. Bob Steppek.

457
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 3: Bob Stupak gets obsessed with getting the world's largest knee

458
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 3: on sign for Vegas World as a publicity sun in

459
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety he achieves his dream. Then the sign topples

460
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 3: over in a windstorm. It's back up the next day,

461
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 3: then loose wires on it spark a fire that evacuates

462
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 3: the hotel. The sign comes down, but his dream of

463
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 3: constructing something stupidly big continues. Stupac then wants to build

464
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 3: a modern tower of Babel, the world's tallest, with an

465
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 3: observation deck called the Stratosphere. Construction starts in nineteen ninety two.

466
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 3: In nineteen ninety three, the half built Stratosphere catches on

467
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 3: fire and the hotel is evacuated again. One hotel guest

468
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 3: runs through the casino screaming, Bob Stupak did this for

469
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 3: the insurance money. In the parking lot, hotel guests are

470
00:31:56,680 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 3: subjected to the comedy of Marty Hello Dare Allen, a

471
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 3: nineteen fifties borsch Belt mainstay who now works in Vegas.

472
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 3: Marty Allen drives in from his suburban home to entertain

473
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 3: the fire exiled guests until they're let back into their

474
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 3: Vegas World rooms.

475
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 6: Helloair, when something like this happens, youmer can play an

476
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 6: important part.

477
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 1: They kept saying, it's a hot act. You're a hot act.

478
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 1: Marty Allen, comedian.

479
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 3: By the time Jenna gets to Vegas World, the casino

480
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 3: is like Showgirl Reviews on its last legs. She shows

481
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 3: up to audition with a fake ID and her brace

482
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 3: is concealed. While other Showgirl auditions involved rigorous dance tests,

483
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 3: Vegas World just asks for a few eight counts of ballet,

484
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 3: and Jenna aces it easily.

485
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 2: Though I was painfully shy and antisocial in real life,

486
00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 2: when I got on stage, I transformed the personality and

487
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 2: attitude I repress. With everyone exploded out of me on stage,

488
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 2: something inside of me just turned on.

489
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 1: She is hired.

490
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 3: They tell her that her height problem can be camouflaged

491
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 3: with ostrich feathers and extra high heels. Jenna's showgirl regalia

492
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 3: is a rhinestone bra in tassels, a G string, high

493
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 3: heeled damp shoes, and a heavy, hard to balance headpiece

494
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 3: with huge yellow big bird feathers. But working as a

495
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 3: showgirl isn't fun or glamorous like Jenna assumed it would be.

496
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 3: The other dancers tell her to go back to high

497
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 3: school where she belongs, and they have a point. Rehearsals

498
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 3: are grueling, and there's two shows every night. Vegas World

499
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 3: and its customers are depressing and the money is terrible,

500
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 3: so after two months Jenna quits Vegas world. All her

501
00:33:56,640 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 3: boyfriend Jack's friend's girlfriends are strippers and they make good money,

502
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 3: so Jenna decides to strip. In the nineteen sixties, go

503
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 3: go dancing is invented at a French club called the

504
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 3: Whiskey a Go Go in a small beach town near

505
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 3: cann The Whisky is one of the first clubs to

506
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 3: dispense with live musicians in favor of a DJ who

507
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 3: plays records. The club hires hot girls to do hot

508
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 3: dances like the Chicken, the frug, and the swim in

509
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,839
Speaker 3: chic outfits. The go go dancers make the scenes seem

510
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:32,319
Speaker 3: swinging and encourage the club's patrons to dance too. The

511
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 3: French Whiskey licenses itself to an American club, also called

512
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 3: the Whiskey a Go Go, which opens in nineteen sixty

513
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 3: four in La on the Sunset Strip, with go go

514
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 3: dancers in a cage jutting out over the crowd. The

515
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:48,360
Speaker 3: go go dancing uniform is a mini skirt dress, often

516
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:53,399
Speaker 3: with fringe and high vinyl boots. In San Francisco's North

517
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 3: Beach neighborhood, a dancer named Carol Doda becomes the first

518
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 3: Go Go dancer to go go topless.

519
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 8: I was the first to go topless in nineteen sixty

520
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 8: four and started a sexual revolution that's spun as fast

521
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:14,879
Speaker 8: as twirling tassels. Carol Doda Dancerancy.

522
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:19,800
Speaker 3: Carol Doda is from Vallejo, California. A child of divorce,

523
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 3: she leaves home and starts cocktail waitressing at fourteen. She

524
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,359
Speaker 3: attends art school while working at the Condor Club, where

525
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:30,319
Speaker 3: she develops her lounge act. While go go dancing and

526
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 3: doing the swim, Doda is lowered from the ceiling on

527
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 3: top of a white Baby Grand piano that comes down

528
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 3: with hydraulic motors. In a freak accident, the Condor Club's manager,

529
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 3: Jimmy the Beard Ferozzo, and his girlfriend Teresa Hill, were

530
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 3: crushed to death by the hydraulic piano while having sex

531
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:50,280
Speaker 3: at the club after hours.

532
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:55,279
Speaker 8: In the eighties, the minute I knew I existed in

533
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:58,839
Speaker 8: life was the night I started the Condor thing. The

534
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:02,440
Speaker 8: only thing that mattered to me was entertaining people.

535
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 3: The Condor Club's publicist, a guy named Big Davey Rosenberg,

536
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 3: suggests that Carol Doda try out her act in a

537
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 3: brand new mono kini designed by Rudy Genrich a topless

538
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 3: bikini follow up. Carol Doda goes topless on stage for

539
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 3: the first time on June nineteenth, nineteen sixty four, and

540
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 3: other clubs quickly follow suit. Doda starts dancing bottomless two

541
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 3: until the California Alcoholic Beverages Commission passes a law that

542
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:35,799
Speaker 3: if drinks are served, dancers can't be fully nude. She's

543
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 3: arrested for indecent exposure in nineteen sixty five and cleared.

544
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,759
Speaker 8: The owner and I ended up in the Slammer. I

545
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 8: was back slamming on stage in two shakes of a

546
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:48,919
Speaker 8: stripper's tail.

547
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 3: For her role freeing the nipple, Carol Doda becomes an

548
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 3: icon of California's blossoming counterculture. She appears in The Monkey's

549
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 3: movie Head as a character named Sally Silicone. Carol Doda

550
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,760
Speaker 3: also gets media coverage for being one of the first

551
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 3: women to publicly enhance her breasts. She gets injections of

552
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 3: a mulcified silicone to become forty four double D. She

553
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:18,560
Speaker 3: becomes so famous in California that a granite dome in

554
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 3: Yosemite is nicknamed Doda dome because it looks like a

555
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:24,320
Speaker 3: big titty.

556
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,839
Speaker 8: I began my chili dancing career as a nineteen year

557
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:33,839
Speaker 8: old with modest but perky thirty four bees. My horizons expanded.

558
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 8: I have no secrets. The procedure involved direct silicone injections,

559
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:43,880
Speaker 8: which are now banned because the plastic tends to migrate,

560
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,880
Speaker 8: but I never experienced any problems.

561
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 3: There is a profile of Carol Doda by the writer

562
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 3: Tom Wolfe called The Put Together Girl, where he can't

563
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:59,239
Speaker 3: contain his disdain for her postmodern body. He finds her

564
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 3: body grotesque and concern trolls her for getting cosmetic plastic surgery,

565
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 3: whose risks she's well aware of. He calls her breasts them.

566
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Speaker 9: Them.

567
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:14,839
Speaker 10: Carol Doda has had injections of a silicone emulsion put

568
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 10: into her breasts at regular installments over the past three years.

569
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 10: They have grown grown, grown, enlarging like dirigibles, almost as

570
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 10: if right in front of the eyes of the crowds.

571
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 10: They line up out there, those who come every night

572
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 10: of the week to see Carol Doda's topless act. Tom

573
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:35,400
Speaker 10: wolf right.

574
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:41,520
Speaker 3: But the point of Carol Doda's enhanced body isn't function

575
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 3: If femininity is artifice. Doda takes that to its logical

576
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 3: ridiculous conclusion. The novelty of Doda's topless act and her

577
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:55,280
Speaker 3: cartoonishly large fake breasts cause a sensation. At her peak,

578
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 3: she makes four thousand dollars a week doing her act.

579
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 3: San Francisco So is also where another new form of

580
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 3: erotic dancing is pioneered that will change strip clubs forever.

581
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 3: When Jenna World returns, will tell you about the invention

582
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 3: of lap dances. Oh my, welcome back to Jenna World.

583
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:36,000
Speaker 3: The Mitchell Brothers are two prolific adult industry entrepreneurs from

584
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:38,919
Speaker 3: nineteen sixty nine until the nineties, when Jim Mitchell kills

585
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 3: his brother Artie Mitchell. The sons of a pro gambler,

586
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:47,360
Speaker 3: the Mitchell's run adult cinemas and strip clubs. They produce

587
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 3: Behind the Green Door, which costs sixty thousand dollars to make,

588
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 3: and Net's fifty million dollars, becoming one of pornographic film's

589
00:39:55,000 --> 00:40:00,080
Speaker 3: first blockbusters. The Mitchell brothers are among the first filmmakers

590
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 3: to transfer their films onto videotape and market those tapes

591
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:04,400
Speaker 3: with ads in magazines.

592
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 6: I have been the night manager of the famous O'Farrell

593
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 6: Theater in San Francisco. The Carnegie Hall of Sex in

594
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 6: America honor S. Thompson writer.

595
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 3: The Mitchell Brothers own the o'farrall Theater in San Francisco's

596
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:27,000
Speaker 3: Tenderloin area, which gets rated numerous times for showing obscene films.

597
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 3: The Mitchells make so much money in the early days

598
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 3: of porn that they're able to fight over two hundred

599
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:37,719
Speaker 3: obscenity charge cases. Winning those cases sets a national precedent

600
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 3: to legally show porn. When the o'farrall Theatre is raided

601
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:45,319
Speaker 3: in nineteen eighty by the San Francisco Police Department at

602
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 3: the behest of local politician Dianne Feinstein, the Mitchells retaliate

603
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 3: by posting Diane Feinstein's phone number on the Marquee with

604
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:57,920
Speaker 3: for a good time call. When the videotape boom kills

605
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 3: the theatrical screening model. In the eighties, the o'pheral Theater

606
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:05,360
Speaker 3: pivots from films to peep shows and exotic dancers. The

607
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 3: Mitchell brothers send an employee on an odyssey through North

608
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 3: American strip clubs and sex shows to report back to

609
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 3: them on what are called customer contact shows. Customer contact

610
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 3: generally means that the strippers are allowed to touch the

611
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 3: customers and not the other way around. At the o'

612
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 3: feral Theater, they start testing the legal limits of customer

613
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 3: contact during a show called New York Live. The dancers

614
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 3: who aren't on stage sit in the laps of customers

615
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 3: and personally collect tips, tips for the dancers lap sitting Skyrocket.

616
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 3: The Mitchell Brothers market this new innovation as lap dancing.

617
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 3: Just like toplessness, lap dances sweep the San Francisco strip

618
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 3: clubs and then spread nationally. While there are laws against

619
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 3: prostitution and selling sex, there's no law explicitly against making

620
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 3: a guidges in his pants by grinding on him. By

621
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:07,279
Speaker 3: the time Jenna is growing up there, strip clubs are

622
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 3: as much a staple of the Las Vegas economy as

623
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 3: casinos with all you can eat buffets. Billy Joe's is

624
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 3: a seventy strip mal disco located on an industrial road

625
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 3: off the Vegas Strip. When the club's original owner dies,

626
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 3: a mob guy named Tony Albanez takes over. Albanese already

627
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 3: owns one Vegas strip club called the Crazy Horse Saloon.

628
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 3: He renames this club Billy Joe's Crazy Horse two too.

629
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 3: In nineteen eighty one, a severed head is found in

630
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:42,319
Speaker 3: the Mohave Desert outside Needles, California that is identified as

631
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 3: Tony Albanese's. Another good fella named Henry Rapuano takes over

632
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:52,359
Speaker 3: and shortens the club's name to Crazy Horse two. Rapuano

633
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:56,799
Speaker 3: then drops dead of a heart attack. Henry Rapuano's son,

634
00:42:56,960 --> 00:43:00,840
Speaker 3: al Rapuano, has a friend named Rick Rizzolo, who assumes

635
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:04,520
Speaker 3: control of the Crazy Horse two when Rapuano Senior dies.

636
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 3: Rick Rizsolo purchases the club with his father. Crazy Horse

637
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 3: two has an ancient Roman themed facade with fake classical

638
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:29,360
Speaker 3: statues and gold paneling across halfway between the Caesars Palace

639
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:34,280
Speaker 3: casino and a Little Caesar's Pizza. Crazy Horse two is topless,

640
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 3: only employs twelve dancers, and becomes a popular late night

641
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 3: destination for inebriated pleasure seekers. In nineteen eighty five, owner

642
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:45,840
Speaker 3: Rick Rizsolo beats a customer with a baseball bat outside

643
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 3: the club so badly that the guy suffers brain damage.

644
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:53,720
Speaker 3: Rissolo claims self defense, pleads no contest to a misdemeanor charge,

645
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:57,839
Speaker 3: and gets no jail time. While Rick Rizsolo is running

646
00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:00,320
Speaker 3: Crazy Horse two, he gets into a few with the

647
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:04,879
Speaker 3: club's neighbor, a guy named James Buffalo Jim Barrier, who

648
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 3: runs an auto repair shop down the block on a

649
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 3: property he runs from Rissolo, a local wrestling promoter for

650
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:15,839
Speaker 3: the National Wrestling Conference. Buffalo Jim Barrier also hosts a

651
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 3: local public access TV show about wrestling called Jim Wars.

652
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 3: Rick Rissolo wants to drive Buffalo Jim out so that

653
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:25,760
Speaker 3: he can expand the strip club.

654
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:31,800
Speaker 5: She looked like a baby, so she showed me id

655
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:37,040
Speaker 5: Bennie Ferracci Crazy Horse Do night shift manager.

656
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:42,719
Speaker 3: In nineteen ninety one, Jenna Mizzoli, now seventeen years old,

657
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:44,680
Speaker 3: applies for a job as a stripper.

658
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:45,319
Speaker 1: At Crazy Horse Too.

659
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 3: The manager, a guy named Vinnie Ferracci, accepts her fake ID,

660
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:52,719
Speaker 3: but clocks her braces and tells her to come back

661
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 3: when she gets them off. She is tired of being

662
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 3: told to come back when she's older or taller, so

663
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 3: she goes home and asks her brother if he'll help

664
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:05,400
Speaker 3: her snip her braces off. Tony Massoli comes over with

665
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:08,319
Speaker 3: needlenosed pliers and helps Jenna twist the wires of her

666
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 3: braces loose. It hurts like fuck, but she gets them

667
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 3: mostly off. She goes back to the club in short

668
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 3: shorts in a tube top to flash her new smile

669
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:23,840
Speaker 3: to Vinnie Varacci. Jenna is determined to start that night.

670
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 5: She came back without the braces, which I never expected.

671
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:32,800
Speaker 5: I asked her if she was interested in working my shift.

672
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:37,640
Speaker 3: Jenna has done lots of dancing, but this is her

673
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 3: first time stripping. Vinnie asks for her stage name, and

674
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:45,360
Speaker 3: she says it's Genesis j E n Na s ys.

675
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:48,879
Speaker 3: She gets set up with a locker, but the other

676
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 3: strippers are not stoked to see Jenna, whose presence means

677
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:57,319
Speaker 3: more competition for tips. Her shyness also flares back up.

678
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 3: She finds one girl who willing to loan her a

679
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:05,120
Speaker 3: stage outfit, a baby blue bikini and black high heels,

680
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 3: which she self consciously changes into in a bathroom stall.

681
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:11,840
Speaker 3: The DJ asks Jenna what song she wants to dance to.

682
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:19,359
Speaker 3: She picks Fire by Jimmy Hendrix, a solid choice.

683
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: I'm like, you want me to go on stage now? Yeah?

684
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 2: I walked back in the dressing room all by myself,

685
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:32,440
Speaker 2: seventeen years old, and I.

686
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 5: Was so scared, just got a little frazzled by it,

687
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 5: ran to the DJ booth, she got a music, put

688
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:43,319
Speaker 5: something on, and she went out.

689
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 3: Genesis is called up. She stumbles going on stage in

690
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:53,360
Speaker 3: her tottering heels. She gets through her first song and

691
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:57,800
Speaker 3: into her second, Black by Pearl Jam, an insane choice,

692
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 3: even though she barely moves on stage her first time.

693
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,480
Speaker 3: She makes a lot of money anyway, because the strip

694
00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:10,000
Speaker 3: club's regulars are excited for fresh blood. Jenna gains confidence

695
00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:12,759
Speaker 3: on stage hearing the applause and seeing the rain of

696
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 3: dollar bills. She cashes out on her first night with

697
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 3: one thousand dollars in ones.

698
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 2: I remember hanging on to that poll so hard, not

699
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:28,880
Speaker 2: letting go. And when those songs ended, I remember opening

700
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:32,279
Speaker 2: my eyes and looking around thinking that they were gonna boo,

701
00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:38,720
Speaker 2: and all the guys were sitting there, and I was like, yes, power.

702
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 4: She would use her intelligence and the fact that she

703
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 4: had no top on to clean out whoever she wanted

704
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:49,279
Speaker 4: to their money, and at seventeen years old, she was

705
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 4: like an old pro.

706
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:54,440
Speaker 3: Most answers call it a good night if they make

707
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:58,920
Speaker 3: a few hundred bucks, but Jenna is wildly ambitious. She

708
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 3: gets obsessed with becoming a top earner. She doesn't just

709
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 3: want to be the best stripper at the club, she

710
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:09,640
Speaker 3: wants to be the best stripper in the world. However,

711
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 3: she is still too shy to hustle customers for lap dances.

712
00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:16,400
Speaker 3: Guys have to approach her to ask for a private dance,

713
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 3: but they always do, and she gains more confidence in

714
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:21,640
Speaker 3: cash each night.

715
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:27,000
Speaker 2: Within weeks of working at the club, I began to

716
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:33,719
Speaker 2: transform from a geeky teenage girl into a money crazed psycho.

717
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 5: Jenna was a natural, just fit right in. Jenna was

718
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:43,239
Speaker 5: loved by everybody. They could have been a guy in

719
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:45,120
Speaker 5: sneakers or a guy in a suit.

720
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:51,440
Speaker 3: Jenna relaxes into socializing with patrons. She learns the first

721
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:55,680
Speaker 3: rule of hustling. She can just lie. She doesn't have

722
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:58,520
Speaker 3: to talk much, just pretend to be interested in customers

723
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 3: while they talk about themselves. When she does talk, she

724
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:05,840
Speaker 3: tailors her fabrications to clients, telling them what she thinks

725
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:10,120
Speaker 3: they want to hear. She dresses Lolita style with pigtails

726
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:13,319
Speaker 3: and carries a pink plastic barbie purse like a raver girl.

727
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:17,400
Speaker 3: Although nobody but the club's staff knows she's real jailbait.

728
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:21,880
Speaker 3: She lands a big fish, a Vegas hotel president who

729
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:30,240
Speaker 3: gives her two grand just to talk to him.

730
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 2: After six months, I looked around and I realized, Wow,

731
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:39,080
Speaker 2: I'm doing really well. I'm making two thousand dollars a

732
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 2: night and I haven't even graduated.

733
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:47,720
Speaker 1: High school yet. I was living the high life.

734
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 3: After a month and a half of stripping, reality comes

735
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:53,040
Speaker 3: for Jenna Massoli in the form of her approaching senior

736
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:56,040
Speaker 3: year of high school, and she decides to drop out.

737
00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:59,839
Speaker 3: But night after night at the Crazy Horse Too, she's

738
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:04,120
Speaker 3: tetrified someone will connect the dots between Genesis and Jenna Massoli.

739
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:07,800
Speaker 3: Her fears are realized one night when her high school's

740
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:10,680
Speaker 3: varsity basketball team shows up and seems to recognize her,

741
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:15,280
Speaker 3: so she lies. She tells them she's not that Jenna,

742
00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:19,040
Speaker 3: and in a way, it's true. She's not the Jena

743
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:22,840
Speaker 3: Masoli they know from school. The quiet girl who only

744
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:26,840
Speaker 3: opens up on stage is now Genesis, a top earning

745
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:31,239
Speaker 3: exotic dancer at Crazy Horse two. No varsity team or

746
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:34,799
Speaker 3: Nazi biker creep can take that away from her. She

747
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:40,440
Speaker 3: is becoming her fantasy dream self, beautiful, seductive, rich from

748
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:49,839
Speaker 3: her own labor and above all in control. A hot

749
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 3: party girl like Jenna needs a new hot party girl.

750
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 3: Best friend Jack, who she is still dating, introduces Jenna

751
00:50:57,120 --> 00:50:59,600
Speaker 3: to a twenty year old named Vanessa. He calls his cousin,

752
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:04,080
Speaker 3: who's a stripper too. She looks like Jenna, skinny and blonde,

753
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:07,560
Speaker 3: and they have a lot in common. Jenna looks up

754
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:11,920
Speaker 3: to Vanessa figuratively because Vanessa has the natural self confidence

755
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:16,360
Speaker 3: Jenna wishes she had, and also literally because she is tall.

756
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:21,240
Speaker 3: Vanessa is a soft hearted person whose friendship with Jenna

757
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:25,480
Speaker 3: nurtures them both. She's a mentor too, teaching Jenna pro

758
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:28,440
Speaker 3: tricks to make money, like taking fake shots of water

759
00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:32,080
Speaker 3: while patrons get liquored up. She tells Jenna to make

760
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 3: sure her nails are done and her heels aren't worn

761
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:39,600
Speaker 3: down to maintain a fantasy look. Being taken under Vanessa's

762
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 3: wing changes Jenna's life for the better. Finally she has

763
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 3: someone to fly alongside and share her victories with.

764
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:51,319
Speaker 2: Get him as drunk as possible, and rack those songs up.

765
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:54,320
Speaker 1: Vanessa, Jenna's best friend.

766
00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 3: Jenna and Vanessa start working together on stage two and

767
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:02,480
Speaker 3: the alone her of two big breasted blondes teaming up

768
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:05,279
Speaker 3: is too powerful for the other strippers to compete with.

769
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:10,800
Speaker 3: Vanessa is the coolest, most beautiful, and awesome woman Jenna

770
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:14,440
Speaker 3: has ever met in her life. She is also the

771
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:18,400
Speaker 3: daughter of Preacher, the Nazi biker creep who assaulted Jenna

772
00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 3: on his boats, although it's not clear if Vanessa is

773
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:27,320
Speaker 3: his biological child or an adopted daughter. Despite Neo Nazi's

774
00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:31,200
Speaker 3: obsession with bloodlines, there's also a found family thing going

775
00:52:31,239 --> 00:52:35,319
Speaker 3: on in the white power biker gangs. Jenna starts to

776
00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:38,239
Speaker 3: see the whole world as a place where men routinely

777
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 3: take advantage of women, and her only recourse is to

778
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:46,480
Speaker 3: take advantage of men. Jenna develops pure contempt for her customers,

779
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:49,279
Speaker 3: who are so desperate to see a beautiful young woman

780
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:50,719
Speaker 3: naked that they'll pay for it.

781
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:56,000
Speaker 2: The mentality is that if these guys are going to

782
00:52:56,160 --> 00:53:00,480
Speaker 2: victimize us, we're going to totally victimize them right back.

783
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:04,920
Speaker 2: It seemed like a fair exchange, and it was character building.

784
00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:09,200
Speaker 2: I was finally learning to take control of people instead

785
00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:11,560
Speaker 2: of being so passive in social situations.

786
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 3: Jenna and Vanessa are addicted to the adrenaline rush of

787
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:21,560
Speaker 3: making cash. The other dancers use their brakes, but not Vigenna,

788
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:25,080
Speaker 3: which is what I'm calling them. The other dancers top

789
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 3: out at a few hundred bucks in tips, but Vagena

790
00:53:28,160 --> 00:53:31,240
Speaker 3: are taking in between two and four thousand dollars every

791
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 3: night each. Jenna finds it easy to tease men, and

792
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:39,080
Speaker 3: they want to pay her for the privilege. She spends

793
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:42,320
Speaker 3: her new fun money on frivolous things like trendy clothes,

794
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:47,319
Speaker 3: new shoes, and crystal champagne. Jenna has one rival at

795
00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:52,800
Speaker 3: the club, another blonde with ridiculously large fake breasts. Tits

796
00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:56,880
Speaker 3: like height are where Jenna comes up short. There's no

797
00:53:57,040 --> 00:53:59,839
Speaker 3: real word for when you are emasculated as a woman,

798
00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:02,840
Speaker 3: but boobs and height are what do it for Jenna.

799
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:06,960
Speaker 3: Really big boobs, the kind you can only get from

800
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:10,839
Speaker 3: a surgeon, still best even the biggest real naturals as

801
00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:14,760
Speaker 3: far as the club's customers are concerned. So Jenna finds

802
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:20,960
Speaker 3: her own superpower as a dancer withholding. Jenna finds that

803
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:24,000
Speaker 3: the less hard she tries to please men, the more

804
00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:28,879
Speaker 3: interested they become. There's a lesson in there. During her

805
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:32,879
Speaker 3: private dances, she barely touches the guys, which inversely makes

806
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:36,719
Speaker 3: them get even more aroused. With this technique, she is

807
00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:38,359
Speaker 3: able to get them on the line for as many

808
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:42,319
Speaker 3: as a dozen consecutive private dances, edging them to the

809
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:46,880
Speaker 3: point of insanity. She claims she can get guys to

810
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:50,520
Speaker 3: come in their pants just by making eye contact, which

811
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:53,720
Speaker 3: is crazy if true.

812
00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:56,719
Speaker 2: For me, it was all about succeeding and being my

813
00:54:56,800 --> 00:54:59,760
Speaker 2: own person and making my own money.

814
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:05,360
Speaker 3: Jenna starts making more money than ever with minimal touching.

815
00:55:06,320 --> 00:55:10,360
Speaker 3: Men love prostrating themselves and admitting they don't deserve her attention.

816
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:14,799
Speaker 3: The more contempt she openly shows them, the more they

817
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:18,920
Speaker 3: want her. Instead of five dollars for a private dance,

818
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:22,080
Speaker 3: she can charge up to one hundred, and guys will

819
00:55:22,120 --> 00:55:27,040
Speaker 3: pay even if she never sits on their lap. By

820
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:30,239
Speaker 3: the time she turns eighteen, Jenna has made herself such

821
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 3: a valuable commodity at Crazy Horse two, she can set

822
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:43,120
Speaker 3: her own rate. A modeling agent comes to the club

823
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:46,799
Speaker 3: to scout as dancers for adult magazines. They take a

824
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:50,560
Speaker 3: snapshot of Vanessa and Jenna and label it the Barbie Twins.

825
00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:56,919
Speaker 3: This gives Jenna a new idea selling her own image.

826
00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:00,560
Speaker 3: She's motivated by money, but also looking for the validation

827
00:56:00,760 --> 00:56:04,160
Speaker 3: her boyfriend Jack won't give her. Even though they live

828
00:56:04,239 --> 00:56:07,960
Speaker 3: together now, he never opens up or makes any promises

829
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:10,280
Speaker 3: about their future.

830
00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:15,279
Speaker 2: I want something more and he refuses to give it.

831
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:21,440
Speaker 2: He hurts me so bad, but he doesn't realize why.

832
00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:25,000
Speaker 2: He says he loves me, but not in the way

833
00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:28,439
Speaker 2: I want him to.

834
00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:31,960
Speaker 3: When she tries to communicate with Jack, he just shuts down.

835
00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:35,759
Speaker 3: They have a lot of sex, but no emotional intimacy,

836
00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:39,799
Speaker 3: so Jenna never feels safe. But she thinks they're in love,

837
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:42,960
Speaker 3: so she'll put up with almost anything, and her older

838
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:52,280
Speaker 3: boyfriend uses this to his advantage. Jenna climbs the ranks

839
00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:55,440
Speaker 3: at Crazy Horse to to become the club's top earner.

840
00:56:56,360 --> 00:56:58,600
Speaker 3: This excites Jack because it makes him look like a

841
00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:02,520
Speaker 3: stud to his friends. It reignites his desire to show

842
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:07,120
Speaker 3: her off, which she misinterprets as affection. He takes her

843
00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:09,560
Speaker 3: out on the town to celebrate at the Venetian Casino

844
00:57:09,640 --> 00:57:15,480
Speaker 3: and hotel. This simple gesture sets Jenna's heart and crotch aflame.

845
00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:20,439
Speaker 2: He placed my hand on his pants and I felt

846
00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:24,640
Speaker 2: him growing hard. I unzipped it and began to play

847
00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:28,840
Speaker 2: with it, and then, by some sort of mad genius inspiration,

848
00:57:29,560 --> 00:57:32,120
Speaker 2: I scooped a handful of whip butter off a plate

849
00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:35,200
Speaker 2: on the table. It stopped and quickly as I stroked

850
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:38,600
Speaker 2: him with it, until minutes later we had made such

851
00:57:38,640 --> 00:57:40,720
Speaker 2: a mess of his pants that we had to clean

852
00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:43,400
Speaker 2: the butter and come off with San Pellegrino water.

853
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:48,560
Speaker 3: But their butter lubed public hand jobs that the Venetian

854
00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:52,280
Speaker 3: phase winds down fast. In the biker crowd, Jack and

855
00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:56,120
Speaker 3: Jenna hang out in Women are second class citizens, and

856
00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:59,960
Speaker 3: Jenna no longer quite so shy, feels like she's invisible

857
00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:03,320
Speaker 3: when she hangs out with Jack and his boys. Nobody

858
00:58:03,320 --> 00:58:05,960
Speaker 3: talks to her, asks her what she thinks about anything.

859
00:58:06,680 --> 00:58:10,400
Speaker 3: She's just a living accessory for her boyfriend. She might

860
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:15,200
Speaker 3: as well be a pink plastic Barbie lunchbox. Jenna starts

861
00:58:15,240 --> 00:58:18,480
Speaker 3: to feel isolated living with Jack. She wishes her family

862
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:20,760
Speaker 3: would ask her to come home, but her widow or

863
00:58:20,880 --> 00:58:24,840
Speaker 3: cop dad is too emotionally repressed to reach out. Jenna

864
00:58:24,920 --> 00:58:28,520
Speaker 3: doesn't understand why she feels so bad. She's living with

865
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:32,080
Speaker 3: a man she ostensibly loves, making more money than she's

866
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:34,800
Speaker 3: ever known by staring guys in the eye till they come,

867
00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:39,280
Speaker 3: but something is missing. She asks Jack to show up

868
00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:42,439
Speaker 3: for her more, and he responds by being even more

869
00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:46,400
Speaker 3: emotionally avoidant, abandoning her for weeks to take trips to

870
00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:48,800
Speaker 3: California with his easy riding buddies.

871
00:58:50,680 --> 00:58:54,120
Speaker 2: His behavior just made me more obsessed with him, as

872
00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:57,080
Speaker 2: I kept trying to find the sensitivity that I believed

873
00:58:57,120 --> 00:59:02,400
Speaker 2: he had. I was like a religious There was no evidence.

874
00:59:03,080 --> 00:59:05,880
Speaker 2: My belief was based on faith alone.

875
00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:08,000
Speaker 1: No man at the club could get the better of me,

876
00:59:08,200 --> 00:59:10,160
Speaker 1: but Jack still could.

877
00:59:13,560 --> 00:59:16,680
Speaker 3: Jenna has never had any interest in doing face drugs,

878
00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:20,280
Speaker 3: which Jack and all his friends do. She thinks snorting

879
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:24,600
Speaker 3: stuff seems nasty because it is, but her boyfriend keeps

880
00:59:24,640 --> 00:59:27,880
Speaker 3: pressuring her to try crystal meth, telling her it's like

881
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:32,280
Speaker 3: soda or coffee, which you know what. Caffeine is an

882
00:59:32,320 --> 00:59:35,520
Speaker 3: insane drug. Too much cold brew makes me feel like

883
00:59:35,560 --> 00:59:38,560
Speaker 3: I can rob a bank. It doesn't actually make any

884
00:59:38,560 --> 00:59:40,760
Speaker 3: sense that some forms of speed or legal but not

885
00:59:40,960 --> 00:59:48,920
Speaker 3: others legalize meth or band caffeine. Jenna keeps saying no,

886
00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:51,600
Speaker 3: but Jack wears her down and she agrees to try it.

887
00:59:52,320 --> 00:59:54,080
Speaker 3: He chops the line of meth for her on a

888
00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:58,040
Speaker 3: CD case for Metallica's Black album. She tries to only

889
00:59:58,120 --> 01:00:02,560
Speaker 3: snort a little bit. At first, Jenna is disgusted by

890
01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:06,080
Speaker 3: the stuff and with herself for doing it. Her head

891
01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:10,479
Speaker 3: starts hurting, then it stops, and another feeling sweeps over

892
01:00:10,520 --> 01:00:17,440
Speaker 3: her euphoria, a freedom from all her life's pain. She

893
01:00:17,560 --> 01:00:20,680
Speaker 3: does another line. Hours later, she has to go to

894
01:00:20,720 --> 01:00:24,760
Speaker 3: sleep and can't after being awake nearly forty eight hours.

895
01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:27,040
Speaker 3: She promises herself this will be the last time she

896
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:30,360
Speaker 3: ever does upfers, but a week later she breaks her

897
01:00:30,360 --> 01:00:33,040
Speaker 3: own promise and does a couple of bumps before work.

898
01:00:33,840 --> 01:00:36,480
Speaker 3: She puts on her stage makeup with the elaborate care

899
01:00:36,560 --> 01:00:39,320
Speaker 3: of a person on speed, and grips the stripper pole

900
01:00:39,440 --> 01:00:41,560
Speaker 3: for dear life.

901
01:00:42,640 --> 01:00:45,600
Speaker 2: I started off doing speed one line a day, just

902
01:00:45,640 --> 01:00:49,360
Speaker 2: a little pigmy up, no big deal. Then it got

903
01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:54,000
Speaker 2: to be okay, ive rs six lines. Then it became NonStop,

904
01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:58,240
Speaker 2: to the point where my nose hurts.

905
01:00:59,200 --> 01:01:03,240
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, her friend Vanessa is having a breakdown, toggling between

906
01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:07,680
Speaker 3: self isolating and wanting Jenna around all the time. One night,

907
01:01:07,720 --> 01:01:10,640
Speaker 3: Preacher sees Jenna and Vanessa together and freaks out that

908
01:01:10,680 --> 01:01:14,960
Speaker 3: they're friends. Vanessa accuses Jenna of fucking her dad, which

909
01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:19,120
Speaker 3: spurs Jenna to admit that Preacher assaulted her. Vanessa says

910
01:01:19,120 --> 01:01:23,520
Speaker 3: he's been assaulting her too, since her childhood. Jenna promises

911
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:25,800
Speaker 3: she'll go with Vanessa to report him to the cops,

912
01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:29,760
Speaker 3: who they are both naively hopeful will do something. But

913
01:01:30,040 --> 01:01:32,920
Speaker 3: when Jenna arrives at Vanessa's place to go file the

914
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:36,920
Speaker 3: police report, she finds her friend hanging from the shower

915
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:42,040
Speaker 3: door in a noose. The cops arrive and confirm Vanessa's death,

916
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:45,920
Speaker 3: calling it a suicide. Preacher appears on the scene with

917
01:01:46,040 --> 01:01:49,920
Speaker 3: Jack and rules out doing an autopsy. Jenna knows that

918
01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:53,440
Speaker 3: Preacher really killed Vanessa, and that Jack knows it too.

919
01:01:54,240 --> 01:01:57,520
Speaker 3: She feels all the bad stuff burbling up inside her.

920
01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:03,840
Speaker 3: Her best friend's senseless, her cowardly boyfriend, her mother's sickness,

921
01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:08,080
Speaker 3: and how it bankrupted their family. It's all so unfair,

922
01:02:09,760 --> 01:02:12,760
Speaker 3: but letting her feelings out is scary, so she stuffs

923
01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:17,280
Speaker 3: them back down. Despite her crash course in adulthood, eighteen

924
01:02:17,360 --> 01:02:20,480
Speaker 3: year old Jenna Massoli still feels like a helpless child.

925
01:02:22,680 --> 01:02:25,960
Speaker 2: She had suffered for so many years and no one

926
01:02:25,960 --> 01:02:29,840
Speaker 2: had ever cared or helped in any way, and now

927
01:02:29,920 --> 01:02:32,440
Speaker 2: when it was too late to do anything, they were

928
01:02:32,440 --> 01:02:35,760
Speaker 2: putting on this great show of love and remorse.

929
01:02:36,880 --> 01:02:38,840
Speaker 1: It seems so hypocritical.

930
01:02:42,480 --> 01:02:46,640
Speaker 3: When Jenna World returned, Jenna makes a new friend at

931
01:02:46,680 --> 01:02:58,520
Speaker 3: the club. Oh my God, welcome back to Jenna World.

932
01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:07,200
Speaker 3: After Vanessa's death, Jack cuts ties with Preacher and his gang.

933
01:03:07,840 --> 01:03:09,760
Speaker 3: He leaves the tattoo shop in order to start a

934
01:03:09,840 --> 01:03:15,400
Speaker 3: new one with a rival biker gang and one major investor. Jenna.

935
01:03:16,120 --> 01:03:18,760
Speaker 3: Not only is she helping to fund her boyfriend's new shop,

936
01:03:19,280 --> 01:03:23,160
Speaker 3: she builds it. Jenna pushes her pesky feelings all the

937
01:03:23,160 --> 01:03:26,400
Speaker 3: way down, fires up a soldering iron, and makes like

938
01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:31,400
Speaker 3: a productive tweaker installing drywall. She loves the feeling that

939
01:03:31,440 --> 01:03:52,000
Speaker 3: she and Jack are building something together. On the day

940
01:03:52,040 --> 01:03:54,960
Speaker 3: that the new tattoo shop is set to open, Jenna

941
01:03:55,040 --> 01:03:57,760
Speaker 3: and Jack arrive to find that it's been blown up

942
01:03:57,800 --> 01:04:01,560
Speaker 3: by a bomb. Oh it's a warning to stay away

943
01:04:01,600 --> 01:04:05,200
Speaker 3: from the white power biker scene, its network of tattoo shops,

944
01:04:05,440 --> 01:04:10,480
Speaker 3: and its tentacles into Nevada's three branches of government, local bureaucracy,

945
01:04:11,080 --> 01:04:16,200
Speaker 3: law enforcement, and the mob. Jenna retreats back to the

946
01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:23,120
Speaker 3: strip club. While most strippers wear tube tops or bikinis,

947
01:04:23,560 --> 01:04:25,160
Speaker 3: one night, there's a new girl at the club who

948
01:04:25,240 --> 01:04:28,360
Speaker 3: dresses like a nineteen forties pin up girl. She has

949
01:04:28,440 --> 01:04:31,760
Speaker 3: jet black hair with Betty Page bangs and wears vintage

950
01:04:31,760 --> 01:04:36,000
Speaker 3: black lingerie. Her name is Jennifer and she's very quiet.

951
01:04:37,080 --> 01:04:40,880
Speaker 3: Jenna sees her own slightly younger self in Jennifer's shyness.

952
01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:44,960
Speaker 3: Rather than closing ranks like the more experienced dancers did

953
01:04:44,960 --> 01:04:49,000
Speaker 3: to her, she decides to mentor Jennifer. She gives her

954
01:04:49,040 --> 01:04:51,000
Speaker 3: a whole spiel on how she can be making a

955
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:53,800
Speaker 3: lot more money stripping, but in the middle of Jenna's

956
01:04:53,800 --> 01:04:59,120
Speaker 3: always be closing speech, Jennifer kisses her. While Jenna has

957
01:04:59,160 --> 01:05:01,600
Speaker 3: known she was a track to women since she first

958
01:05:01,640 --> 01:05:05,040
Speaker 3: saw Sigourney Weaver as Ripley an alien, this is the

959
01:05:05,040 --> 01:05:08,800
Speaker 3: first time she's ever actually been with one. They go

960
01:05:08,920 --> 01:05:12,440
Speaker 3: back to Jennifer's place to have sex. Jenna decides not

961
01:05:12,480 --> 01:05:14,920
Speaker 3: to feel guilty about cheating because it's with a woman.

962
01:05:15,720 --> 01:05:18,960
Speaker 3: She's been with women before to turn on Jack, but

963
01:05:19,080 --> 01:05:23,800
Speaker 3: this is different. No one is watching them. When Jennifer

964
01:05:23,880 --> 01:05:28,040
Speaker 3: fucks Jenna, she makes her feel truly desired. It's nothing

965
01:05:28,120 --> 01:05:30,880
Speaker 3: like the superficial lust the customers at the club have

966
01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:34,920
Speaker 3: for Jenna and the fantasy she represents, Jennifer wants her

967
01:05:34,960 --> 01:05:37,600
Speaker 3: for more than just her body, and also wants to

968
01:05:37,640 --> 01:05:42,520
Speaker 3: make her body feel really good. Then Jennifer does something

969
01:05:42,560 --> 01:05:47,280
Speaker 3: else Jenna has never experienced before, sexual aftercare.

970
01:05:49,200 --> 01:05:52,520
Speaker 2: When I left her house the next afternoon, I felt

971
01:05:52,560 --> 01:05:55,640
Speaker 2: an emotion I'd forgotten ever having experienced.

972
01:05:56,360 --> 01:05:57,200
Speaker 1: I felt loved.

973
01:05:58,440 --> 01:06:01,120
Speaker 2: I was smitten with this woman, and I wanted to

974
01:06:01,120 --> 01:06:04,240
Speaker 2: be with her again. She gave me a sense of

975
01:06:04,280 --> 01:06:08,360
Speaker 2: security that I never had with Jack. I was confused,

976
01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:13,240
Speaker 2: was I gay, was I straight? Or was this aw

977
01:06:13,320 --> 01:06:18,400
Speaker 2: some kind of afterglow from this sexual release? But overall

978
01:06:18,760 --> 01:06:23,360
Speaker 2: I was happy. I felt safe, and in my life,

979
01:06:24,360 --> 01:06:26,520
Speaker 2: that was a rare thing.

980
01:06:28,600 --> 01:06:31,840
Speaker 3: Jenna and Jennifer start hanging out all the time, having

981
01:06:31,840 --> 01:06:34,640
Speaker 3: an affair that is easily disguised as just a couple

982
01:06:34,760 --> 01:06:39,480
Speaker 3: gal pals Palin and Gallon around. Jenna is also impressed

983
01:06:39,520 --> 01:06:43,920
Speaker 3: by Jennifer's print modeling credentials. She was a Penthouse pet

984
01:06:43,960 --> 01:06:47,200
Speaker 3: in Penthouse Magazine, one of the biggest brass rings for

985
01:06:47,240 --> 01:06:50,360
Speaker 3: an adult model, along with the centerfold spread, and Playboy,

986
01:06:50,760 --> 01:06:55,400
Speaker 3: which runs gauzy softcore shops in comparison to Penthouse's hardcore ones.

987
01:06:56,680 --> 01:07:00,120
Speaker 3: Playboy Penthouse, and Hustler make up the big three of

988
01:07:00,200 --> 01:07:04,800
Speaker 3: twentieth century nudy magazines. Jennifer says she can help Jenna

989
01:07:04,920 --> 01:07:08,320
Speaker 3: hustle her way into print. They carry on their very

990
01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:11,720
Speaker 3: obvious affair around town in bathroom stalls, cabs, and a

991
01:07:11,760 --> 01:07:16,800
Speaker 3: poolside cabana at the Mirage Hotel and Casino rip. Jack

992
01:07:16,840 --> 01:07:19,560
Speaker 3: doesn't catch on, but she's pretty sure Jack isn't being

993
01:07:19,640 --> 01:07:25,760
Speaker 3: faithful either. Now you might think an emotionally communicative, sexually

994
01:07:25,840 --> 01:07:28,760
Speaker 3: pleasurable connection with a woman might be just with the

995
01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:32,680
Speaker 3: love doctor ordered for Jenna, but Jack retains a firm

996
01:07:32,760 --> 01:07:36,200
Speaker 3: hold on her by continually pulling away then suddenly showing

997
01:07:36,240 --> 01:07:39,920
Speaker 3: back up. He doesn't come home for days without warning.

998
01:07:40,800 --> 01:07:44,320
Speaker 3: Jenna knows she's being disrespected, but she keeps holding out hope.

999
01:07:45,320 --> 01:07:48,880
Speaker 3: Jack sucks, but Jenna is still racked with cheeters guilt

1000
01:07:48,920 --> 01:07:51,640
Speaker 3: because all she wants is to feel loved by Jack.

1001
01:07:52,880 --> 01:07:57,360
Speaker 3: To cope, she starts snorting crystal meth regularly. It works

1002
01:07:57,360 --> 01:07:59,600
Speaker 3: to blot out her bad feelings and replace them with

1003
01:07:59,600 --> 01:08:03,520
Speaker 3: an extra dream high, but it's temporary and there's always

1004
01:08:03,560 --> 01:08:04,600
Speaker 3: a huge come down.

1005
01:08:06,560 --> 01:08:06,720
Speaker 2: Now.

1006
01:08:06,760 --> 01:08:10,080
Speaker 3: I'm no brain doctor, but if I were Jenna's unlicensed

1007
01:08:10,120 --> 01:08:13,920
Speaker 3: Internet ketamine therapist. I'd say she's seeking the comfort and

1008
01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:18,240
Speaker 3: safety she can't get from her family. Larry Massoli was

1009
01:08:18,240 --> 01:08:21,559
Speaker 3: incentivized to kill mercilessly by the US government and then

1010
01:08:21,640 --> 01:08:25,400
Speaker 3: returned back to civilian life all fucked up. He cannot

1011
01:08:25,400 --> 01:08:30,400
Speaker 3: feel true comfort or safety and therefore can't provide any. Jenna,

1012
01:08:30,960 --> 01:08:33,920
Speaker 3: like many nice American girls and protagonists of Lonna del

1013
01:08:33,960 --> 01:08:36,559
Speaker 3: Rey songs, just wants a man to take care of

1014
01:08:36,600 --> 01:08:39,919
Speaker 3: her the same way she takes care of him. Instead,

1015
01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:44,200
Speaker 3: she has Jack, an emotionally unavailable tattoo shop fuck boy.

1016
01:08:45,080 --> 01:08:49,680
Speaker 3: I'm picturing the Matt Dillon character from Cameron Crow singles.

1017
01:08:51,120 --> 01:08:54,200
Speaker 3: When people romanticize the nineties, they always leave out how

1018
01:08:54,280 --> 01:08:57,719
Speaker 3: bad everyone's facial hair was. There were so many guys

1019
01:08:57,720 --> 01:09:02,280
Speaker 3: with chin straps and little circular goatee. Jenna has had

1020
01:09:02,320 --> 01:09:04,719
Speaker 3: one man in her life that she could always depend on,

1021
01:09:05,080 --> 01:09:09,679
Speaker 3: her older brother Tony. Tony is a classic Nevada bro

1022
01:09:09,960 --> 01:09:13,760
Speaker 3: with backwards baseball caps, tattoos, and a rotating wardrobe of

1023
01:09:13,800 --> 01:09:16,960
Speaker 3: loose tank tops. He looks like a boy version of

1024
01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:21,040
Speaker 3: his sister, with the same hooded eyelids and cute chipmunk smile.

1025
01:09:22,360 --> 01:09:25,519
Speaker 3: Jenna resents that her brother has a closer relationship with

1026
01:09:25,600 --> 01:09:29,360
Speaker 3: their dad by virtue of being male. In his teens,

1027
01:09:29,479 --> 01:09:32,280
Speaker 3: Tony starts drinking and drugging and gets into street fights.

1028
01:09:33,120 --> 01:09:36,280
Speaker 3: After high school, he moves up to robberies and gets

1029
01:09:36,320 --> 01:09:40,320
Speaker 3: deeper into drugs. He gets a girlfriend named Selena, whose

1030
01:09:40,320 --> 01:09:45,040
Speaker 3: friends are all meth head hells angels. Tony starts snorting meth,

1031
01:09:45,439 --> 01:09:49,280
Speaker 3: then smoking it, then shooting it up. He comes over

1032
01:09:49,360 --> 01:09:51,719
Speaker 3: with a doctor's bag full of his gear and asks

1033
01:09:51,720 --> 01:09:54,800
Speaker 3: his sister to help him shoot up. This is where

1034
01:09:54,800 --> 01:09:59,599
Speaker 3: she draws the line. Jenna is totally freaked out by

1035
01:09:59,600 --> 01:10:02,599
Speaker 3: her brother. There's spiral into meth addiction, even though she

1036
01:10:02,800 --> 01:10:07,519
Speaker 3: is also addicted now too. She convinces herself that snorting

1037
01:10:07,560 --> 01:10:11,479
Speaker 3: it is less bad somehow, but she notices the effects

1038
01:10:11,479 --> 01:10:15,080
Speaker 3: prolonged speed use is having on everyone around her. They're

1039
01:10:15,120 --> 01:10:19,639
Speaker 3: all becoming more crazed and unpredictable. Her brother has wild

1040
01:10:19,680 --> 01:10:23,519
Speaker 3: mood swings. He develops the classic speed user's paranoia that

1041
01:10:23,560 --> 01:10:27,240
Speaker 3: he's being followed, specifically by the cops, and stays up

1042
01:10:27,240 --> 01:10:29,799
Speaker 3: every night at his window with his gun drawn, waiting

1043
01:10:29,840 --> 01:10:34,360
Speaker 3: for a big shootout that never comes. One time, Jack

1044
01:10:34,400 --> 01:10:38,559
Speaker 3: comes home and says Tony stole their whole stash. Jenna

1045
01:10:38,680 --> 01:10:41,639
Speaker 3: is horrified that her brother, one of the only people

1046
01:10:41,720 --> 01:10:45,280
Speaker 3: she trusts, would lie to her and rob them. She

1047
01:10:45,400 --> 01:10:48,519
Speaker 3: calls Selena, who reveals that he's also been stealing from

1048
01:10:48,520 --> 01:10:53,759
Speaker 3: her and is now shooting up coke and heroin. Drug

1049
01:10:53,760 --> 01:10:58,000
Speaker 3: addiction has turned him into a stranger. Jenna is so

1050
01:10:58,200 --> 01:11:01,280
Speaker 3: distraught she calls her dad. I'm sure if he will

1051
01:11:01,320 --> 01:11:04,439
Speaker 3: help or make her feel worse. She tells her father

1052
01:11:04,520 --> 01:11:07,360
Speaker 3: what's going on, afraid that Tony will end up dead

1053
01:11:07,400 --> 01:11:10,360
Speaker 3: or in jail, and Larry promises he'll try to get

1054
01:11:10,360 --> 01:11:14,360
Speaker 3: Tony help. Without her brother in her life, Jenna is

1055
01:11:14,439 --> 01:11:18,559
Speaker 3: more isolated than ever now her whole world is limited

1056
01:11:18,600 --> 01:11:19,799
Speaker 3: to Jack and her.

1057
01:11:19,720 --> 01:11:21,160
Speaker 1: Job at the club.

1058
01:11:23,320 --> 01:11:27,480
Speaker 3: Crazy Horse two attracts celebrity clients of a certain type

1059
01:11:27,800 --> 01:11:32,720
Speaker 3: bad boys. Jack Nicholson comes in, but Jenna can't tell

1060
01:11:32,800 --> 01:11:36,439
Speaker 3: him apart from any other dirty old man who comes in. Also,

1061
01:11:36,720 --> 01:11:43,040
Speaker 3: motherfucking Pantera come in, and motherfucking White Snake, and motherfucking

1062
01:11:43,240 --> 01:11:46,240
Speaker 3: David Lee Roth, formerly of Van Halen, now in the

1063
01:11:46,280 --> 01:11:50,320
Speaker 3: midst of his solo career. Jenna is super excited about

1064
01:11:50,400 --> 01:11:52,799
Speaker 3: David Lee Roth because he was one of her fantasy

1065
01:11:52,880 --> 01:11:56,760
Speaker 3: rock star crushes from MTV, but in real life she

1066
01:11:56,840 --> 01:12:00,759
Speaker 3: finds David Lee Roth to be super annoying not follow

1067
01:12:00,800 --> 01:12:05,400
Speaker 3: his endless rambling stories. It's Jenna's first peek behind the

1068
01:12:05,439 --> 01:12:08,559
Speaker 3: flammable curtain of show business, where she finds out that

1069
01:12:08,600 --> 01:12:11,960
Speaker 3: the fantasies other people are peddling in Hollywood are just

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01:12:12,000 --> 01:12:14,000
Speaker 3: as fake as the one she's selling clients at the

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01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:17,880
Speaker 3: strip club. Jenna is shilling the image of herself as

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01:12:17,920 --> 01:12:21,280
Speaker 3: a nympho Lolita, but is really just a young, vulnerable

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01:12:21,280 --> 01:12:25,400
Speaker 3: girl looking for true love. David Lee Roth sells sexual

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01:12:25,439 --> 01:12:29,160
Speaker 3: seduction in his music videos, but in reality, he too

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01:12:29,520 --> 01:12:33,000
Speaker 3: is just some guy. And keep in mind that this

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01:12:33,120 --> 01:12:36,360
Speaker 3: is nineteen ninety just a jiggleo David Lee Roth, not

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01:12:36,600 --> 01:12:40,240
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty three peak van Halen Jump era David Lee Roth.

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01:12:41,720 --> 01:12:47,600
Speaker 3: He goes home with another dancer instead. In addition to bikers,

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01:12:47,960 --> 01:12:51,080
Speaker 3: Jenna and Jack hang out with another subculture that runs

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01:12:51,200 --> 01:12:57,080
Speaker 3: very strong and deep in Nevada, Rockabillies. The rockabilly subculture

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01:12:57,160 --> 01:12:59,559
Speaker 3: is about being into early American rock and roll, flash

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01:12:59,600 --> 01:13:03,080
Speaker 3: tattoo use, vintage muscle cars, and pin up girls. Even

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01:13:03,080 --> 01:13:06,320
Speaker 3: though rockabilly music is the product of radio stations playing

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01:13:06,439 --> 01:13:09,559
Speaker 3: music by both black and white artists, rock and roll,

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01:13:09,840 --> 01:13:13,519
Speaker 3: R and B, bluegrass, and country. Most subsets of the

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01:13:13,600 --> 01:13:16,960
Speaker 3: rockabilly subculture tend to attract a certain type of person.

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01:13:17,800 --> 01:13:22,760
Speaker 3: Maybe you see where this is going, Racists. These rockabillities

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01:13:22,760 --> 01:13:27,120
Speaker 3: are nostalgic for a white, suburban nineteen fifties American pass

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01:13:27,200 --> 01:13:31,840
Speaker 3: that only exists in their fantasies. One night, Jack comes

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01:13:31,840 --> 01:13:35,080
Speaker 3: into the club with his friend Lester. Lester is a

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01:13:35,200 --> 01:13:39,160
Speaker 3: leather tanned rockabilly greaser biker dude in a red bandana.

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01:13:40,080 --> 01:13:43,360
Speaker 3: Even though she's still with Jack, Jenna is jealous that

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01:13:43,400 --> 01:13:47,479
Speaker 3: her side piece Jennifer, is flirting with Lester. She takes

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01:13:47,479 --> 01:13:52,040
Speaker 3: this all in while working another celebrity customer, fellow rockabilly

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01:13:52,040 --> 01:13:56,240
Speaker 3: Italian American Nicholas Coppola Cage, who doesn't notice because he's

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01:13:56,280 --> 01:14:00,360
Speaker 3: so checked out. Nick Cage is a regular customer, and

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01:14:00,439 --> 01:14:03,160
Speaker 3: Jenna's notes on Cage are that he's a great listener

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01:14:03,240 --> 01:14:07,000
Speaker 3: and allegedly smells very bad. She doesn't understand why he

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01:14:07,080 --> 01:14:09,439
Speaker 3: comes to the strip club and then barely even looks

1100
01:14:09,439 --> 01:14:12,439
Speaker 3: at her while she's dancing, But it's because he grew

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01:14:12,520 --> 01:14:17,439
Speaker 3: up Catholic. The next week, Jennifer admits to Jenna that

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01:14:17,560 --> 01:14:22,280
Speaker 3: she and Lester are now a romantic item. Jenna is destroyed,

1103
01:14:22,320 --> 01:14:24,120
Speaker 3: even though she knows she has no right to be.

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01:14:25,240 --> 01:14:27,920
Speaker 3: They keep fucking on the side of both of their boyfriends,

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01:14:28,200 --> 01:14:31,080
Speaker 3: but their primary emotional connection is no longer with each

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01:14:31,120 --> 01:14:35,160
Speaker 3: other and at home, the more attention Jenna seeks from Jack,

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01:14:35,280 --> 01:14:38,559
Speaker 3: the less he gives her. This grinds her down and

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01:14:38,600 --> 01:14:41,519
Speaker 3: makes her insecure, setting up a toxic loop where he

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01:14:41,560 --> 01:14:43,800
Speaker 3: gives her just enough crumbs of attention to keep the

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01:14:43,880 --> 01:14:53,960
Speaker 3: loop cycling. Her moods follow his, and he is very moody.

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01:14:54,960 --> 01:14:56,519
Speaker 1: There are side effects of the job.

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01:14:57,439 --> 01:15:02,320
Speaker 2: It spoils your relationship with both men and money. You

1113
01:15:02,360 --> 01:15:05,639
Speaker 2: see too much of both, and you lose respect for both.

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01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:10,759
Speaker 3: Jenna is burning out on working at the strip club.

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01:15:11,479 --> 01:15:15,280
Speaker 3: She's reached the uppermost echelon of Crazy Horse two, making

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01:15:15,320 --> 01:15:18,360
Speaker 3: as much money there as any dancer possibly could, and

1117
01:15:18,400 --> 01:15:22,240
Speaker 3: she started to check out mentally. She's phoning it in

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01:15:22,280 --> 01:15:24,720
Speaker 3: on stage one night in a black cowboy hat while

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01:15:24,720 --> 01:15:28,400
Speaker 3: an eagle song plays. When Jennifer arrives with a busty

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Speaker 3: brunette named Julia, Parton.

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Speaker 9: Dolly's made millions out of the size of her boobs.

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01:15:37,200 --> 01:15:38,640
Speaker 9: I'm just trying to make a career out of my

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01:15:38,720 --> 01:15:42,760
Speaker 9: body too. Julia Parton performer.

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01:15:45,560 --> 01:15:48,559
Speaker 3: Julia Parton is born in Kentucky on the fourth of July.

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Speaker 3: She grows up in the San Fernando Valley in Granada Hills.

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01:15:53,520 --> 01:15:55,720
Speaker 3: In the eighties, she starts doing pin up modeling for

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01:15:55,800 --> 01:16:00,719
Speaker 3: men's magazines with stage names like Nina Alexander. Nineteen ninety,

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01:16:00,840 --> 01:16:03,559
Speaker 3: she learns from a family member that her distant cousin

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01:16:03,640 --> 01:16:06,960
Speaker 3: is the singer Dolly Parton, and she starts working under

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01:16:07,000 --> 01:16:11,960
Speaker 3: her real name, Julia Parton. As Julia Parton, she appears

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01:16:12,000 --> 01:16:16,240
Speaker 3: in pornographic films like club Head, Night Trips to and

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01:16:16,320 --> 01:16:18,880
Speaker 3: Trick Tracy, which is of course a porn parody of

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01:16:18,920 --> 01:16:24,760
Speaker 3: Dick Tracy. Julia Parton becomes editor of High Society. She

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01:16:24,920 --> 01:16:28,440
Speaker 3: also starts working behind the scenes in the adult business

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01:16:29,040 --> 01:16:31,960
Speaker 3: when she meets Jenna. Julia Parton is working as a

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01:16:32,000 --> 01:16:35,559
Speaker 3: talent scout, recruiting girls from strip clubs into pictorials and

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01:16:35,640 --> 01:16:39,599
Speaker 3: movies for a kickback. She scouts new girls and sends

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01:16:39,640 --> 01:16:43,800
Speaker 3: their test photos to magazines like Playboy and Penthouse. If

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01:16:43,880 --> 01:16:46,679
Speaker 3: a photographer books a girl off a test shot, Julia

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01:16:46,760 --> 01:16:51,600
Speaker 3: Parton gets a kickback. High Society is a nude magazine

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01:16:51,640 --> 01:16:54,800
Speaker 3: known for hiring a pornographic actress named Gloria Leonard in

1142
01:16:54,840 --> 01:16:57,920
Speaker 3: nineteen seventy seven to be the first female editor of

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01:16:57,920 --> 01:17:01,280
Speaker 3: an erotic magazine for men, in order to demonstrate that

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01:17:01,320 --> 01:17:03,280
Speaker 3: sex and the selling of it can be a women's

1145
01:17:03,320 --> 01:17:07,920
Speaker 3: game too. Gloria Leonard also founded the first support group

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01:17:08,000 --> 01:17:11,960
Speaker 3: for porn performers, which includes other Golden age seventies feminist

1147
01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:16,400
Speaker 3: porn stars like Veronica Hart, Annie Sprinkle, and Candido Royal.

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01:17:17,920 --> 01:17:21,160
Speaker 3: Gloria Leonard appears in art film porn crossover hit the

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01:17:21,240 --> 01:17:23,800
Speaker 3: Opening of Misty Beethoven, and is one of the first

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01:17:23,800 --> 01:17:27,759
Speaker 3: porn stars to become a free speech figurehead. Leonard also

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01:17:27,840 --> 01:17:31,559
Speaker 3: invented the exploitative practice of publishing stolen nudes of female

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01:17:31,600 --> 01:17:36,679
Speaker 3: celebrities Okay, girl Boss. She's one of the first porn

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01:17:36,680 --> 01:17:40,120
Speaker 3: stars to use mass media like magazines to promote her

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01:17:40,160 --> 01:17:45,200
Speaker 3: own career. In the nineteen eighties, Gloria Leonard debated anti

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01:17:45,280 --> 01:17:49,519
Speaker 3: porn activists from a group called Women Against Pornography aka WOP.

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01:17:50,520 --> 01:17:55,520
Speaker 3: WOP included members like writer Andrea Dworkin, activist Gloria Steinem,

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01:17:55,840 --> 01:17:59,160
Speaker 3: and actress Linda Lovelace, the star of Deep Throat, who

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01:17:59,200 --> 01:18:01,320
Speaker 3: says she was co first into shooting the movie by

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01:18:01,400 --> 01:18:03,880
Speaker 3: her abusive ex boyfriend who held a gun to her head.

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01:18:05,320 --> 01:18:09,080
Speaker 3: Porn caused an ideological split in the nineteen seventies second

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01:18:09,120 --> 01:18:12,559
Speaker 3: wave feminist movement. There were debates about whether sex work

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01:18:12,600 --> 01:18:15,759
Speaker 3: should be banned or legalized, as well as where exactly

1163
01:18:15,840 --> 01:18:20,480
Speaker 3: lesbian separatism fit into all of this. Women Against Pornography

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01:18:20,520 --> 01:18:23,360
Speaker 3: held clean Up Times Square rallies that made them popular

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01:18:23,400 --> 01:18:26,160
Speaker 3: with the New York politicians who also wanted to clean

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01:18:26,240 --> 01:18:31,760
Speaker 3: up aka gentrified Times Square. For profit Women against Pornography

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01:18:31,960 --> 01:18:35,120
Speaker 3: raised funds by charging for tours of Times Square, where

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01:18:35,160 --> 01:18:37,679
Speaker 3: they charged into strip clubs and peep shows to force

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01:18:37,720 --> 01:18:42,839
Speaker 3: confrontational encounters with the sex workers and clients. In reaction

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01:18:42,920 --> 01:18:46,240
Speaker 3: to this, pro porn feminist groups formed whose members included

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01:18:46,320 --> 01:18:50,120
Speaker 3: sex workers. The writer Ellen Willis and the San Francisco

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01:18:50,200 --> 01:18:55,400
Speaker 3: lesbian feminist b Das collective Sam Waw. Ellen Willis coined

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01:18:55,439 --> 01:18:59,800
Speaker 3: the term pro sex feminism. The anti porn contingency said

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01:18:59,800 --> 01:19:03,400
Speaker 3: these pro sex feminists were not real feminists they had

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01:19:03,479 --> 01:19:06,920
Speaker 3: just internalized misogyny to be turned on by their own subjugation.

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01:19:08,120 --> 01:19:11,479
Speaker 3: But the bondage play loving lesbians of sam Wois were

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01:19:11,520 --> 01:19:16,000
Speaker 3: living proof that sexual power play preferences weren't automatically determined

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01:19:16,040 --> 01:19:20,960
Speaker 3: by gender or sexuroles. The pro porn feminists think fantasy

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01:19:21,000 --> 01:19:24,519
Speaker 3: images of power play can be arousing and cathartic rather

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01:19:24,560 --> 01:19:28,080
Speaker 3: than simply degrading, and that women can affect who makes

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01:19:28,120 --> 01:19:32,280
Speaker 3: pornography and what kind gets made. They also believe in

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01:19:32,320 --> 01:19:36,679
Speaker 3: the ability of media consumers to differentiate between fantasy images

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01:19:36,720 --> 01:19:40,680
Speaker 3: on screen and real life, which takes us back to

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01:19:40,800 --> 01:19:45,000
Speaker 3: Julia Parton and Jenna. Now, look, when a stranger says

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01:19:45,040 --> 01:19:46,479
Speaker 3: they want to do a test shoot of you for

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01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:49,639
Speaker 3: a magazine, ninety nine times out of one hundred, there's

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01:19:49,680 --> 01:19:53,920
Speaker 3: no magazine. But Julia Parton is legit. It is a real,

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01:19:54,080 --> 01:19:57,160
Speaker 3: genuine opportunity for Jenna to break into adult modeling and

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01:19:57,240 --> 01:20:02,120
Speaker 3: make more money. So it's brainstorming a new alias to

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01:20:02,240 --> 01:20:06,400
Speaker 3: use for work. Her real name, Jenna Massoli, sounds too

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01:20:06,479 --> 01:20:10,519
Speaker 3: mundane an Italian American to her genesis, sounds too made

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01:20:10,560 --> 01:20:14,760
Speaker 3: up and silly. She wants a solid, dependable stage name

1193
01:20:14,840 --> 01:20:20,000
Speaker 3: that sounds cool, not sleazy or corny. She lands on

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01:20:20,080 --> 01:20:22,920
Speaker 3: an Irish last name, Jamison.

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01:20:25,880 --> 01:20:28,680
Speaker 2: I had to come up with a good name. I

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01:20:28,680 --> 01:20:32,120
Speaker 2: didn't want a porno name. So I sat down, opened

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01:20:32,200 --> 01:20:34,360
Speaker 2: up the phone book and thumbed to the j's because

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01:20:34,400 --> 01:20:37,120
Speaker 2: I wanted it to match my first name. I came

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Speaker 2: across James. I'm like, Jenna, James sounds too porno. Right

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01:20:43,479 --> 01:20:47,680
Speaker 2: under that was Jamison, and I was like, Jamison whiskey.

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01:20:47,560 --> 01:20:49,040
Speaker 1: Okay, that's perfect.

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01:20:49,320 --> 01:20:51,880
Speaker 2: So that night I went to work, I saw my brother.

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01:20:52,439 --> 01:20:54,760
Speaker 2: I was like, Tony, what do you think, Well, what

1204
01:20:54,760 --> 01:20:57,040
Speaker 2: do you think about Jenna Jamison.

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01:20:58,240 --> 01:21:03,200
Speaker 1: He's like, I'm drinking Jamie right now. And it just stuck.

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01:21:02,920 --> 01:21:09,240
Speaker 3: After that, and thus Jenna Jamison is born in Las Vegas.

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01:21:09,320 --> 01:21:13,519
Speaker 3: Out of Jenna Massoli's wildest fantasies. It's a way for

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01:21:13,600 --> 01:21:18,440
Speaker 3: her to neatly compartmentalize Jenna Jamison glamorous idea and image

1209
01:21:18,720 --> 01:21:23,360
Speaker 3: from Jenna Massoli The regular Person. Now, look, I was

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01:21:23,360 --> 01:21:26,479
Speaker 3: born in Hollywood, California. I don't think any less of

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01:21:26,520 --> 01:21:29,320
Speaker 3: a stage name. It is just a way to designate

1212
01:21:29,360 --> 01:21:33,519
Speaker 3: the product Tom Cruise from the civilian person Thomas Mappither.

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01:21:34,479 --> 01:21:37,640
Speaker 3: It's like an Internet screen name, acknowledging that this is

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01:21:37,680 --> 01:21:41,240
Speaker 3: a persona not a person promoting an image that's bigger

1215
01:21:41,320 --> 01:21:44,960
Speaker 3: than life. Jenna has been thinking about how she wants

1216
01:21:45,040 --> 01:21:49,160
Speaker 3: to look on camera forever, like a beautiful, sexy pin

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01:21:49,240 --> 01:21:54,880
Speaker 3: up model. Soon, the San Fernando Valley and then the

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01:21:54,960 --> 01:22:10,599
Speaker 3: whole entire world will belong to Jenna Jamison. Next time

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01:22:10,760 --> 01:22:17,439
Speaker 3: on Jena World. Episode three, Djay Before Jenna, Stephen Hirsch's

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01:22:17,520 --> 01:22:20,919
Speaker 3: Vivid video transforms the porn business in the nineteen eighties

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01:22:21,320 --> 01:22:25,360
Speaker 3: and creates the contract girl model for performers with starlet's

1222
01:22:25,400 --> 01:22:29,759
Speaker 3: like Ginger Lenn Allen. All this and more next time

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Speaker 3: on jenal World. Jenna World is an iHeartRadio production executive

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Speaker 3: produced by Anna Hosnier and Becca Ramos, supervising, produced by

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01:22:43,640 --> 01:22:48,759
Speaker 3: Bei Wang, produced by Victor Wright, script editing by Jonathan Mills,

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01:22:49,280 --> 01:22:54,960
Speaker 3: engineered by Graham Gibson, and edited by Rory Gagan. Today's

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Speaker 3: episode of Jenna World featured laurencer Video as Jenna Jamison,

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01:22:59,160 --> 01:23:03,040
Speaker 3: Pull Sheer as Larry Miss, oly Wyatt Fair as Tony Miss,

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01:23:03,800 --> 01:23:08,080
Speaker 3: Larry Karazuski as Bob Stupak, Glenn Lambert as Marty Allen

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01:23:08,560 --> 01:23:12,479
Speaker 3: Sirie Doll as Carol Doda, Jonathan Mills as Tom Wolfe,

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01:23:12,840 --> 01:23:16,400
Speaker 3: James Kim as Hunter as Thompson, Peter c Cellini as

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Speaker 3: Vinnie Ferracci, and Alex Bloom as Julia parton O