Million Dollar Burgers

[00:00:01] Joey, eh? Got that $10 as you owe me? Oh no, I don't care, you know, it's too dangerous. Never mind, go ahead with the music. You'll never find, Gary D to show you all the mighty by time.

[00:00:37] Here at the Two Cat Kitchen, time for a new edition of the culinary two cat show. The two culinary two cat show. Welcome to the Two Cat Kitchen, and show that mix's musical mayhem with culinary calamity.

[00:01:00] Rico is here to help with the mix and, hey everybody, thanks for joining us in the kitchen. Each episode of Two Cat Kitchen features brand new songs, a brand new recipe, and a special musical guest. Who's our musical guest today?

[00:01:15] Today we have our good friend Maria Milishnag, Maria is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire. That's great. Each episode also includes an informative segment. What do we have for people today, Rico? Today we have a new segment on the kitchen.

[00:01:33] It's conversations with cats who know where it's at. Our first guest on the conversations is, Marame Mew. Hey Rico, is that the coconut? Gee, I don't know, let me go check it out. Yeah, it is the coconuts, they're back. Hey, ask them about their waffle house tour.

[00:02:07] Okay, we'll do. I guess it didn't go too well. They broke down on the New Jersey Turnpike. Oh, you're kidding. What eggs it? Oh, I didn't know they had eggs that sounded New Jersey turnpike. Yeah, I guess you're not from New Jersey. Oh, well, whatever.

[00:02:37] Hey, it's time for the first song with Maria on vocals, accompanied by the coconuts. Doing a Judy Miller song, too many troubles. Sounds great. Let's check it out.

[00:03:39] Hey, trouble. Follow me to a void. I've got to take it all to the Lord. To the Lord. To the Lord. Call in my name. To the Lord. To the Lord. Fall in like rain. To the Lord. To many trouble. Fall in like rain. To the Lord.

[00:04:12] I've got to take it all to the Lord. I've got troubles all the lives. And troubles all the right. Troubles all day. And troubles all night. And no place. Troubles all night. And no place. The troubles all night. To the Lord. To the Lord. To the Lord.

[00:05:17] I've got to travel safe. And troubles all the lives. And troubles all the right. Troubles all day. And troubles all night. And no place. Troll, walk, go, ain't no face. Troll, pull, don't know, Troll, pull. Do many trouble in my neighborhood, Troll, pull. Do many trouble.

[00:05:58] Oh, you know that ain't no good, Troll, pull. Do many trouble for me, Troll, pull. I've got to take it all to the Lord. I've got to take it all to the Lord. I've got to take it all to the Lord. Welcome back to the Two Cat Kitchen.

[00:06:47] And it's time to introduce our special musical guest for tonight. Tonight we have Maria Maleshnik. Hi Maria, thanks for joining us. Thank you, thank you. Maria is a singer, guitar player, songwriter, mandolin. Please couple different instruments and some different bands and music.

[00:07:10] Wow, it's great to have you here. Thanks for coming in. So tell us Maria, what have you been up to recently and music comes to mind? I play with Two Cat Tango, which is a great band that started... I've heard of them, yeah.

[00:07:32] And I have just started doing a little bit of playing with two other women that I met through a bluegrass. What do you call that? Not a pickup or a round table kind of thing. Oh, cool. Yeah, open jam, open mic kind of thing. Yeah, great.

[00:07:50] And she actually sought me out and I went there looking for to meet other people and come to find out there are a lot of other women musicians. And I didn't know that. Good!

[00:08:02] So we played a couple times and we're still, you know, how it is when you first play with people, who you haven't played with before, your shaken out all the different personalities and what time of music we're finding that we're playing...

[00:08:20] Yes, you have some similarities you can fill on. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's not fun to be able to say, oh, okay, I played that one too. Oh, okay, I played that one too. Yeah, yeah. It doesn't happen a lot because I find when you...

[00:08:34] It's hard to find musicians when I find people you connect with and people who have the same... the same music that you like. The same interests, yeah. Yeah, the same interests and music is so broad and but then so specific. Right. So it's been fun. Yeah, that's great.

[00:08:58] It's fun. Yeah, music... I mean, the music you listen to is kind of more towards the acoustic music, Railmur. Yeah, lots of tours. I know you've introduced me about to a lot of great songs I never knew before, so... Yeah, it's good.

[00:09:14] So more of an acoustic approach to that. Yeah, yeah. Also, we were kind of interested at how... actually how you've first got into playing music. And I mean, have you always played guitar? Have you always played... and if you always sung?

[00:09:32] Because you have such a beautiful voice and it's... I mean, did that just come naturally when you want to... I know you've been working. Yeah, well, greatly, I've been working out because I have the opportunity in the last several years to play with a band.

[00:09:46] And then you... then once you play with a band and you're like, okay, I... I could be singing in the shower singing with the radio when you're in the car. Yeah. But yeah, I grew up with music. I mean, it was all over my house.

[00:10:00] Everyone played an instrument or song or sang in the family. So we... you know, was church. Mostly related. And they used to initially. And then my sisters, one sister actually made you an voice. And... Oh. So... in college.

[00:10:21] And I think that, you know, my brother and I both were... My younger brother and I both, I think, thought about going towards music but ended up doing art instead. You know? So he ended up going in fashion design photography. And then I ended up doing illustration.

[00:10:39] But we both went towards the art set of music thinking we didn't want to be a poor musician. And said, well, we're the important ones. Yeah, that's a great career. That's a great career. That's a great career. So...

[00:10:54] But we grew up... it was basically the church and music. Yeah. You know? That's what we lived before. Oh, because your father was... He's a Lutheran minister. Yeah. He was a musician, right? I remember talking about him playing piano. Yeah. My dad's a very good musician.

[00:11:13] He's very talented. And actually, I'm thinking maybe he thought about that too. Maybe when he was 18 years old or... However, you are when you think about where your career is. But he went to seminary school. Mm-hmm. He did do a lot of piano stuff when he was young.

[00:11:28] Mm-hmm. You know, a lot of serious stuff. And he still plays in 92. And I have to put in a plug from... It's Frank, right? Yep. Yeah. Because I know... I won't go into the details. But I have a recording of Frank playing. I guess how it... Yeah.

[00:11:48] Sacred music, how it... Yeah. For 20 minutes straight. Wow. Well, that's time. Great. Well, that's time. Great. We won't go in segue from one song to the next. Yeah. Fantastic. Without a mistake. Yeah. Wow. And he only cleared his throat once. It was like unbelievable.

[00:12:06] He was like, I could not concentrate that well. Yeah. So he's a fantastic musician. Yeah. But again, that's interesting because not all... Like ministers or whatever priests are... Are musical, right? I mean, that's... Yeah. I've seen a couple that can't carry a tune. Yeah.

[00:12:28] And you're just like a naughty and it's going... Oh, you know. But yeah. My dad... He has a good voice. My mother had a beautiful, soprano voice in my father's lovely tenor voice. Yeah. And they sing together and they sing a lot of the old 1940s music together.

[00:12:46] Yeah. You know, barbershop stuff. Oh, cool. You know, he was even in a barbershop quartet with the church for a while. But so yeah, very, very musical like memories. Wonderful memories of my mother sitting around the piano. And the two of them singing music together. Yeah.

[00:13:04] You know, like the beautiful music that they grew up with... Sure. ...and fell in love with in the 1940s. Yeah. Yeah. And then you have some other family members you mentioned that... Yeah. ...our musical. I think your brother... You said it's... He... He is a musician.

[00:13:21] You know, Paul... He... Both... actually both my brothers are my brother Pete. He played the cello. And... and my... all my two sisters and my brother... ...all played the piano. Okay. And they all... my brother Paul took it for this, so he did...

[00:13:38] You know, he... but then he went into art instead of music. But my sister Priscilla... she... She... she... definitely... She was in voice shoes and a lot of choruses. A lot of... you know, doing a lot of the... You know, local choruses. It's like that mostly sacred music.

[00:13:56] Mm-hmm. Type stuff in Lydia to my oldest sister. Mm-hmm. So she's still doing... doing that. They have these concerts every year and... Oh, cool. You know, Christmas concerts. Yep. And I do know that. Hey, you mentioned a little bit about playing with... The... the women. Yeah.

[00:14:12] And playing in bands with the guys. Yeah. And you talk a little bit earlier about, you know, ...kind of the cultural differences in playing with different kinds of groups. And I thought that was interesting what you had to say. Do you mind sharing a little bit about that?

[00:14:26] About what you observed? Yeah, I think... It's hard... it's hard to kind of... Well, obviously we all know men and women are different. Mm-hmm. And when you get a group of guys together, Mm-hmm. They're different when there's no women there. Mm-hmm.

[00:14:43] And when you get a group of women together, they're different when there's no men there. Sure. And so I think that's kind of inherent to... What... ...society is taught us all, you know. I never feel like I'm out of place in any group. Yeah.

[00:14:59] I'm playing with a bunch because I always... I've always... the two bands that I've been in... Mm-hmm. I've been the only woman. Oh, okay. So I've never gotten a chance to even be in a band with...

[00:15:11] ...yet another woman that I could harmonize and then have all the metas musicians or whatever. Mm-hmm. And it's... it's just I've always had a dream. Like I told one of my friends the other days, I've always been like looking for my other indigo girl. Oh, yeah. Yep.

[00:15:33] Like I just want, you know, an Amy Ray or, you know, an Emily Adam and older last name is. Mm-hmm. And, you know, to be able to connect with somebody the way they do through all those years. Right.

[00:15:47] And being able to hold people in and do that, and it's... That's a lot to ask for somebody. It's like finding a life partner. Sure. Yeah. Which is hard to do in itself. Right. Mind add music to it. Right.

[00:16:00] You know, so I like what I like about playing with women are completely different than what I like about playing with men. Yeah. You know, so it's kind of... it's nice to be able to have the choice to do both. Yeah.

[00:16:15] And they have the opportunity to do both. Yeah. And women are more nurturing, I think, in this natural and so they're like, you know, great job. Yeah. Yeah. They're like, do all this. You know, when they interact and all stuff. And the guys are like, ha ha.

[00:16:36] That was great. You know, or they just sort of laugh and they sit back and then they go to the next one or somebody doesn't even say anything. And they just go on to the next two. Yeah, right.

[00:16:46] And you're just doing this communication like we just talked about earlier with each other that is the communication Different, just like in life with your wife or with your friends, your guy friends, it's different. Yeah.

[00:17:03] And when you're, you know, so I don't know if I'm explaining it to anybody. Well, you made a good point. I think you, what you've observed as some of the cultural differences that carry over into a musical experience. And I thought that was interesting.

[00:17:18] That was an interesting observation. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of funny if you think about it. So yeah. Well, to change the subject a little bit, I know. You mentioned that both you and your brother went into study art for a while. But I know you're not.

[00:17:35] Your day job is not an artist. How did you get into what you do during the day? And what do you do? I know what you do. I know what you do. I know that's going to be digging an hour to explain. Yeah.

[00:17:49] I started an illustration thinking I wanted to be, first I wanted to be a fine artist. So I took all these fine art, you know, painting classes and all this stuff when I was first going to college.

[00:18:00] And then I was like, okay, this is not going to work. And then I started with illustration and then I got, and then I decided that I wanted to do so. I wanted to actually make money and I wasn't going to make money as an illustrator.

[00:18:16] So I said, well, I'm going to be a technical illustrator. So I changed my tune to start. So I actually work for a Corskey and Pratt Whitney and did illustrations. Very technical transferring two-dimensional plans that the engineers would design and I would transfer them into three-dimensional drawings.

[00:18:39] So that when the people who were putting aircraft engines together knew what that part looked like. Right. So they had this whole thing. So you're the person from the IQ, who gives me this. Right. You're just going to do that. Yeah.

[00:18:57] I actually worked with Woodworkers Journal for a while and he did stuff like exploding toys. So how do you put the, you know, the doll in here and the whole thing. And that's cool. That's cool.

[00:19:07] And then I decided I wanted to go back and get my degree and I wanted to get it in our history. So I wanted to be like a curator. Mm-hmm.

[00:19:18] And then I started taking a few of those classes and then I, at that time, I started rock climbing. And I wasn't loved with rocks. I just loved them. Mm-hmm. And wanted to understand a lot about them.

[00:19:33] So then I decided that I was, I decided, well, let me take a geology class and there was, There was no 100 level left. Mm-hmm. And I, because I had to take a certain science requirement. Sure. I ended up getting thrown into a 200 level geology class.

[00:19:50] And I've never had any science. I had math like 99. Yeah. It's like, I am terrible at math. And so the head of the department was like, do you should just, you should just do it.

[00:20:06] I said, I really find this fascinating because I love that you're interested in it. He encouraged me, kind of encouraging me. So I went back to school and I changed my career to be geology and environmental science. And I started at, at 99. It worked my wallet.

[00:20:24] We up to Calth II and physics wanted to chemistry and all that stuff. And it was hard. Yeah. But thinking now how closely art and science is really related. Mm-hmm. And it is very related in my brain. Mm-hmm. And it's related to a lot of people's brains. Sure.

[00:20:43] A lot of people's brains were going to be. Well, okay. And I think, at this point, in what we did like to do, I was going to ask you a question just to wrap things up a little bit.

[00:20:53] And one of the things that we asked all our guests here on the two-cat kitchen is what was one of your earliest musical memories that stands out. Okay. Been thinking about this one? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because it's hard to remember the time and sometimes.

[00:21:15] But it's hard to remember whether you're remembering or you're remembering from a photograph or you're remembering from what somebody has told you. Mm-hmm. So I kind of have three different levels of memory. Um, my mother.

[00:21:30] Wonderful woman has completely always been supportive of all of our musical and my father too. But she got me a harmonica. And when I was like probably four, three.

[00:21:43] And I, she just would always say to me, oh, I remember when you were so little and gave the harmonica and you would sit on the steps and you would just go, Oh, my God.

[00:21:55] It's blowing in and blowing out and I wouldn't stop and be driving her crazy. But she still had a wonderful memory of it. Mm-hmm. I don't remember that. All right. I do remember they gave me a plastic guitar with kind, you know, that has plastic strings.

[00:22:12] And it's probably, you know, this long. Yeah. And I remember playing that under sitting under the maple tree and playing that. I remember crying when I broke a string. I remember that. You still do that by the way. You cry like that. I can't cry. I don't know.

[00:22:30] I don't know. But the thing that I actually really do remember is my mother would have us all help her with house cleaning. And she would put on first of all the only thing in our house for music was either sacred, showtunes or classical. Yeah. So three things.

[00:22:56] Yep. This was not her bellbird and a tea one of brass. For cleaning house. Clean in the house. I get it. Yeah. And that's what it was. And we just loved it. Yeah. We all danced around. My mom danced with us and we would dust.

[00:23:15] You know, because that's all kids could really brush my teeth. So that was I think my real core musical memory. Just her bellbird and a tea one brass. Yeah. That's great. That's a pretty good musical memory. It is really. Really. It's a good one.

[00:23:32] You're mom picked a good one. Great. Alright. Well, that's great. Thanks for sharing. That was good. And I think we're going to take a quick break and it will be right back. Hey, welcome back to the kitchen. Maria. Thank you for being with us today.

[00:24:23] Hey, you have a recipe that you brought with us. Yep. I did. What's it called? It's well third. Maria's turkey burgers. I guess I'm talking burgers. Turkey burgers. Right. Good staple. Yeah. It's great. We'll look forward to that.

[00:24:39] But before we do, we're going to do a song and can you tell us the name of the song and a little bit about it? So wait in water, which is a classic spiritual song. Actually, I don't even know who there's anybody. We know anybody who's written it.

[00:24:55] Right. It's just those spiritual songs that have just come through the years and everybody has done it. I know there's a lot of versions of that. A lot of versions. And the version that sort of inspired me was Eve Cassidy, which is more of a jazz-y version.

[00:25:14] Kind of a call it a stray cat-struck version. Yep. You know, it's got the feel of the stray cat-struck, but it's got a little more jazz to it. So that's it. Great. Okay. So we're going to segue over to the studio and here that song.

[00:25:30] We'll be back in the kitchen in a moment to try some Maria's turkey burgers. We're waiting in the water. We're waiting in the water children. We're waiting in the water. God's gonna trouble water. We're waiting in the water. We're waiting in the water children.

[00:26:26] We're waiting in the water. God's gonna trouble water. Who's a girl who'll all dressed in red? We're waiting in the water. My spirit of children that most in the snow. God's gonna trouble water. We're waiting in the water. We're waiting in the water children.

[00:27:00] We're waiting in the water. God's gonna trouble water. Who's a girl who'll dressed in white? We're waiting in the water. My spirit of children that most in the snow. God's gonna trouble water. We're waiting in the water. We're waiting in the water children. We're waiting in the water.

[00:27:39] God's gonna trouble water. Who's a girl who'll all dressed in blue? We're waiting in the water. We're waiting in the water. My spirit of children that are coming through. God's gonna trouble water. We're waiting in the water. We're waiting in the water children. We're waiting in the water.

[00:28:47] God's gonna trouble water. We're waiting in the water. Just in the hole it goes looking at me. God's gonna trouble water. We're waiting in the water. We're waiting in the water children. We're waiting in the water. God's gonna trouble water. God's gonna trouble water.

[00:29:30] God's gonna trouble for water. We're back at the 2K kitchen. It's time for our recipe. Maria tells us a little bit about what we've got for today's recipe. Well, we have Maria's Turkey Burgers, which are a simple three ingredients. Three ingredients. Three ingredients. I got it three. Three.

[00:30:20] One. I'm smart, dry. We have Manchego cheese. Manchego cheese. Manchego. What is Manchego cheese? Manchego is a Spanish sheep's milk cheese. She's sheep. Matt. Yeah, tomato. Tomato. What is she called? Yeah, tomato. She's milk cheese. She's a chicken. She says that I've said sheep's healthy.

[00:30:46] And caramelized onions and turkey, of course. And then I usually do, I don't do the low fat turkey. So again, this is, you know, you start with 93% fat chicken, you know, turkey, you know, ground turkey. I use you shady brook farms. This was a different one.

[00:31:03] They didn't have shady brook farms, but then Manchego and caramelized. You make sure you get them nice and caramelized. And press them all together. You know, I can't eat dairy or wheat. So the dairy that I can't eat is sheep's milk. So it's more digestible for me.

[00:31:22] So that's why I tend to do that. But you can put any cheese, you want? It's really good with feta. So it's got that kind of a Greek. Yeah, that's cheese to it. I'm intrigued by this Manchego cheese. What do you say now?

[00:31:35] Is this something, what do you obtain as cheese? Anywhere. It's got a nutty kind of a flavor to it. Very mild nutty flavor. Cool. I imagine a lot of folks who have food, you know, like a lactose kind of thing would probably You can get a taste.

[00:31:56] Yeah, to go and sheep or because you're a dead digest for people who have issues, you know, digestive issues with dairy. That's interesting. So that's great. And you just fold that right into the meat. Yep. And you just mix it all in.

[00:32:13] You just press them, I think you compress them good with your, you know, getting compressed because they don't have bread crumbs. I don't have eggs and I've anything. So it's just three simple ingredients. Right.

[00:32:23] They a little salt pepper on them and then a grilled bun and you put your favorite toppings on them. Me, it's usually catch up relish and mustard and pickle on the side. You look like you get some knuckles here. Oh, not called flavor.

[00:32:40] It says it's a look like they're high powered, deli pickles here. Yeah, brought with you. Yep. I'm looking forward to one of those babies. All right. So we've already we've got the burgers together and the next step is to grill them. We've got to grill them.

[00:32:56] We've got to grill them in a two-catch kitchen. All right. We're going to head out to the grill and we'll see you there. All right. We're out at the grill and are you ready, Maria? I'm ready. Put them on a nice hot grill. Oh, yeah. Hot grill.

[00:33:12] So how long have you been making turkey burgers? I've been making them a while. They're basically the only thing in a hot and make so I'm the grill person of the family. Okay. I tend to be a lot more comfortable with grilling because I've had Friendly's background.

[00:33:36] Oh, nice. Oh yeah. I was a grill master at Friendly's. Friendly's. Real master. Yeah. Ice cream shop. Yeah. So I specialize in breakfasts and lunches. Wow. So I'm very, very comfortable with grills and breakfasts. It's great. That's about it. What questions have you had, though?

[00:33:57] Do you do like employees at a place like Friendly's get like free frivols or whatever they have, you know, like free milkshake, free. I don't know about a nose day as you read it a lot of free stuff because We did a lot of stuff. Yeah.

[00:34:13] It was, yeah. I don't know how I could work in a place that's sort of a size cream and not keep my hands off the ice cream. Oh, no. There's a lot of ice cream eating this and whipped cream and. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, great. Yeah.

[00:34:25] But you do have to close the grill because it's never going to cook like this. Okay. So we've got to fill those teeth. All right. All right. Here we go. And this is a great take like watch that 20, 15, 20 minutes. So. Come on down. All right. All right.

[00:35:09] All right. Looks like we're ready. Yeah. The burgers are done. They look great. Wow. That's pretty amazing. The grill can do miracles. Yes. And how do you know when they're ready? Well, it's experience and you know how hot the grill is.

[00:35:25] And then you can also do the finger test where you kind of touch it. And if you with experience, you could tell how much give there is. But the turkey burger, you don't want to overcook them. Okay. Because they can get dry. I see.

[00:35:42] So that came from all those years of. And then you mean it. Yes. Right. Right. That's great. All right. Let's serve them up. All right. Can't wait. How do you serve them up? Oh, anyway, you want it.

[00:35:55] You put ketchup mustard, relish or none of that if you don't want. Pickles and classic dinner. Play and says these pickles are snappy. Go for it. You go. You go. All right. You should just want to do. All right. So. Okay. I usually fork a knife.

[00:36:16] I don't have forks and knives. I don't have any. That works. A little mustard. Excellent. Little grapewpong. Great. Excuse me. Oh, the lovely. Your power. You're great. You're good. You have. I like to have it on both sides. Oh, God. You too. Cider. Like to be spicy.

[00:36:39] It's a too cider for sure. You put burglon. Mm-hmm. Nice. Well, uh, we're going. Bam. Uh, little, uh, sweet relish. Sweet relish. Such nice touch. And ketchup with these squeeze bottles. Maybe you get somebody to get me open the pickles? Yeah. How is this? Who's like?

[00:37:02] Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Ah. This is secret to this type of leaf. They got a squishet. So you get the handprint in there. Cheers. All right. This is the Maria Turkey burger. Mm-hmm. With caramelized onions and... What's the cheese again? My cheldo. I want to go.

[00:37:24] But chelgo. I like it. Don't know. This is better than any turkey burger I have in that. You're right. Oh, yeah. I have tried to make Turkey burgers because this must be better for you, right? Oh, no. Uh-huh. They come out home. Look.

[00:37:38] Yeah. This is these are great. You have a- What are you doing? Oh, what are you doing? You put the fat back in. Mm-hmm. Uh-huh. This is probably just as fatty as a leaf burger. Really? Mm-hmm. Okay. But who cares? You're eating turkey. I know. I know.

[00:37:55] I know. I know. I feel better. But it is a turkey fat as opposed to... Beef fat. That's better for you. Turkey fat. You messed up that? And you got some cheese. Really good. All right. Maria. Well thanks again for sharing that recipe with us.

[00:38:08] We're going to have to be a good. We're going to have to be a good. Yeah. Thanks for feeding the cats in the kitchen. Big hit. Big hit. Now it's time for a new segment here in the two-car kitchen. It's conversations with cats who know where it's at.

[00:38:41] Today we talk with Madame Lemue, noted star of stage and screen. This should be interesting. Conversation. We're having a chat. Conversation. Put on the welcome mat. Conversation. Has a marathon. Conversations with cats who know where it's at. Beef. Welcome to conversations with cats who know where it's at.

[00:39:39] Today we're joined by the inimitable Madame Lemue. Madame Lemue, thank you for joining us today. Always a pleasure. Yes, I am a pleasure on time. Thank you for having me. Well, I must say you're no stranger to the two-car kitchen.

[00:39:54] I believe you hosted a two-car meal bag for us a while back. But today we'd like to focus on your illustrious career on stage and screen. Can you tell us how did you get interested in acting? Oh, I think I had the calling from a young age.

[00:40:09] I remember walking down the street of my desolate neighborhood and some of the cats would watch me walk by and they'd say do a dance for a smidam, even back then they called me Madame.

[00:40:23] And I would and they would clap and I just suck out more attention after that. That's fascinating. Well, you know, we know you started your professional acting career on the stage. But tell us, how did you get your first role?

[00:40:38] Oh, I remember I accompanied a friend to an audition for an off-Broadway comedy Woman Bites cat. It was in the mid 1940s. My friend wasn't successful, but I caught the eye of the director and long story short

[00:40:52] was cast in the role of the cat alongside leading lady Elaine Stritch. Wow, that's quite an accomplishment early on in your career to appear beside such an accomplished actress. Yes. Well, it would have been, but the director, I believe it was Ella Kazan,

[00:41:09] decided to change the premise of the play. It was written as Woman Bites Dog, and I was out. Oh, well, that's sorry to hear that, Madame. I'm new. But what were some of the other productions you appeared in early in your career?

[00:41:24] Oh, well, of course I was the titular cat in Kat and a hot-ton roof and then came cat people and the black cat and who could forget that darn cat. Oh, yes, a classic, I must say. Well, with appearing in all those great productions,

[00:41:42] you must have hung around with some of the stars of the day. Oh, yes. I was always mixing it up with the hoi-poloi and of course who could forget my best friend, Celeste Holmes. You know her, of course, from starring in Oklahoma as A.D.O. Annie.

[00:41:59] These Celeste Holmes? Oh, yes, she was a darling. She would scratch me behind the ear and just the right place. Well, that's fascinating. Tell me, what around this time you began to have a relationship with the noted producer and boulevardier, misceo du clav.

[00:42:16] Can you tell us a little bit more about that? Oh, if I must. Misceo du clav was, well, what can I say? At first he swept me off my feet because I was only a cat. All four feet? All four feet? Well, you know how those things go.

[00:42:33] People lose interest. And someone else caught his eye. She was a scientist. You're the worst. And her twin, he just wanted more than one. So I had to hit him up style as it were. Hit him up style. Hit him up style. Hit him up style.

[00:42:59] While he was scheming, I was beaming in the beam of just demon. Can't believe that I come up and cheating. So I've got another way to make him pay for it all. So I went to give him a mark on a shop in spree up.

[00:43:17] And I'm a wig, raps all in me up. And as the cash box rang, I thought everything away. Oops, let go of the dreams we used to say. Let goes the time we spent away. Let goes the love I had put you in on me.

[00:43:37] And that's for that now. Let goes the house we made of those. Let goes your neveline of those. For all the lies you've told, this is what you're all. Hey ladies, when you met wanna get back wild. Just go back and hit him up style.

[00:43:59] Get your hands on his cash. And spend it to the last time for all the hard times. So when you go there and everything goes From the crib to the right and the clothes So we better let him know that if he mess up

[00:44:16] You got to hear him up While he was bragging I was coming down the hill just dragging All his pictures and his clothes in the bagging So everything else till there was just nothing left And I paid all the bills about a month to late

[00:44:45] It's a shame we have to play these games The love we had just paid away Oops, that goes, the dreams we used to say That goes, the time we spent away That goes, the love I had put you cheated on me And that's all that now

[00:45:06] Oops, that goes, the house we made of That goes, you'll never leave me a most For the lies you told this is what you bought The hate ladies, when you're men want to get by Just go back and hit them outside Get your hands on his cash

[00:45:29] And spend it to the last time for all the odd times Oh, when you go there and everything goes From the crib to the right and the clothes So you better let him know that if he mess up You got to hear him up

[00:45:45] Of the dreams you sold Left me out in the cold What happened to the days when we used to trust each other All of the things I sold We'll take you into you, get all To get him back without me Cause revenge is better than what you see

[00:46:47] Hey ladies, hey ladies, hey ladies Just go back and hit them outside Get your hands on his cash and spend it to the last time for all the odd times When you go there and everything Every bump crib to the right and the clothes

[00:47:08] So you better let him know that if he mess up You got to hear him up Hey ladies, when you're men want to get by Just go back and hit them outside

[00:47:21] Get your hands on his cash and spend it to the last time for all the odd times When you go there and everything goes From the crib to the right and the clothes So you better let him know that if he mess up

[00:47:37] You got to hear him up Well, that's all we have time for on this episode of the Two Cat Kitchen We'd like to thank our musical guest for being a Malaysian Also, we'd like to thank Sarah Grady and LeCoco notes And Sophie Appirisant

[00:48:12] I'm Dave and I'm Rick McKinney Join us again next time Right here in the Two Cat Kitchen The Two Letters To Cat Show