In this week’s episode, we get a look behind the showroom curtain in our interview with Tommy Zoppa, better known as the drag queen Tammy Kay Queen. In our interview, we hear about how Tommy took a break from working in international aid and tech to create the popular and hilarious "Monologues" drag show at the Trade Bar in DC. ----more---- Resources mentioned in the episode: Trade DC (1410 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20005) RuPaul’s Drag Race “The Night the Lights Went out in Georgia” monologue from Designing Women (1986) “The Defense is Wrong” monologue from My Cousin Vinny (1992) “Cerulean Top” monologue from The Devil Wears Prada (2006) Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1996) Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) The Birdcage (1996) Let the Record Show by Sara Schulman You can learn more about our guest at: IG @TammyKayQueen

This week, we interview Jenny Nam, a data analyst and hobbyist potter in Philadelphia, about her basement home studio and her mother’s 10-year rule when trying out new things. Resources mentioned in the episode: The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA  Small Favors show at the Clay Studio, Philadelphia The Ceramic Shop, Norristown, Philadelphia Bird Seed Florals, Philadelphia  You can learn more about our guest at: https://www.sjnampottery.com @sjnampottery (Instagram)  

This week, we continue learning about gardens and major career pivots with Sharad Wertheimer, a former labor organizer and current medical student in Washington, D.C. In our conversation, Sharad talks about discovering his passion for urban agriculture…and how 10,000 worms helped him find his purpose. ----more---- Resources mentioned in the episode: Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer Farmacology, Daphne Miller Sharad’s syllabus on Intro to Vermiculture You can learn more about our guest at:  GroW for Health at George Washington School of Medicine 

In this episode, we talk with Honor Hawkins, a landscape designer and horticulturalist in New York City, about her serendipitous career pivot from media and technical writing to professionally designing urban gardens. ----more---- Resources mentioned in the episode: Gardener’s World (BBC) (https://www.gardenersworld.com/) Dan Pearson’s online magazine, Dig Delve (digdelve.com) Stonecrop Garden’s Seminum/Rarium (https://www.stonecrop.org/seminum-rarium/) Gardens Illustrated (https://www.gardensillustrated.com/) One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka You can learn more about our guest at: https://www.honorhawkins.net/

In our first conversation, we interview family physician Dr. Claudia Ma about Claudia’s Confections, her new licensed home baking venture in Boston, MA, and how she cares for others through medicine and baking. ----more---- Resources mentioned in the episode: Cambridge Culinary Institute You can learn more about our guest at: @drclaudias_confections

Welcome to 2 Trick Pony! In this premiere episode, co-hosts Claire Ma and Melissa Betters introduce the 2 Trick Pony podcast and explain the motivations behind the show.