Tegan and Sara - CRUSH Book Tour + Q&A #9 w/ Sonia Clement (their mom!) @ Wordfest, Calgary 10/20/24

0:00 Sonia Clement intro
3:20 About Tegan and Sara
6:29 Tegan and Sara (behind the door): “You’re doing great, Mom.” “But don’t forget we’re here.” 😂
7:47 Tegan and Sara’s entrance
8:31 Sara: “Tegan looked at me, I was around the corner so she had see you and she goes, “She’s already put the cards away” and I said, “Oh no, she’s doing a Trump.” 😂
9:07 Aged exponentially 😂
12:44 (Q) Sonia: “Why has telling these stories been important to you guys?”
17:51 (Q) Why they lose Garage Warz in CRUSH
24:43 Tegan: “You guys barely even used seatbelts, it’s crazy. Your generation is fucking nuts.” 😂
24:48 Sonia: “It was fucking nuts.” 😂
25:06 90s slide
T: “Yeah. Good job, Mom.” 😄
25:22 Sonia: “My partner, Nora…”
25:26 Sara: “Not a gay partner.” 😂
25:35 Sonia: “I mean, she could have been.” 😂
30:24 Sonia 8th grade
31:28 Sonia: “I always got chosen to be a very popular grade 12 girl’s grad assistance because I was really good at sneaking out and coming back with hickies on my neck.” 😂
32:15 Tillie Walden
33:24 Tegan: “… they’re like, this is terrifying. We don’t want any of this in here. This is a book for children.” 😂
34:34 Tegan: “You know, the nuns kept you in line.” 😂
34:57 What Sonia remembers
36:59 Tegan: “She was going to say terrible and I’m like my god. Who picked this moderator?” 😂
39:00 Tegan: “Fucking NBC fact checker here.” 😂
40:36 PowerPoint freezes/Sara narrates 😄
41:13 Video (after they win Garage Warz)
42:44 1st manager
43:41 Press
43:49 Tegan: “I was all like, I’m going to be famous. Go fuck yourself. I will not be working at this piece of shit place anymore.” 😂
44:08 Sara’s Robin’s Donuts resignation/management potential 😂
47:28 Tegan’s resignation 😂
47:43 Tegan: “This is what’s up, lady. I’m out and she like looked up and was like just take your name off the schedule.” 😂
49:37 DJ Kukumber
50:11 1st music video ‘The First’
52:31 Sonia: “Look who’s moderating” 😂
52:33 Sara: “She can’t help it, Mom. I don’t know. It’s just… welcome to my life.” 😂
52:36 Tegan: “Do you even know how much time we have left? Exactly.” 😂
56:24 Tegan: “We also learned that we… I should not wear turtlenecks. Turtlenecks aren’t great for us.” 😂
56:35 Tegan: Thoughts? 1 minute time limit 😄
58:12 1st crushes
1:05:25 Sonia: “I do have picture of him as a teen, me and him… he and I, when we were dating. You must have missed it when you were cruising my photo album.” 😂

Q&As
1:06:26 (Q) (Cassie): I love how you mentioned earlier songs in CRUSH like ‘Rainbow’ otherwise known as ‘This Is Everything.’ Are the other songs mentioned based on real songs and if so, will you be releasing them?
1:07:23 (Q) What’s a dream you wished you could have pursued instead of music literature?
1:07:44 Sonia:” You said MacaDonald’s.” 😂
1:08:59 Sara: “But one of the jobs that I think I… don’t know if it exists but I think I want to do it is I just go to your business or your place where you work and I tell you what’s wrong with it.” 😂
1:09:31 Additional timestamps in the comments.

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Tegan and Sara Live @ Wordfest, Patricia A. Whelan Performance Hall, Calgary Public Library, AB 10/20/24

Conversation 9 of 10.

Moderator: Sonia Clement (their mom!)

CRUSH Book Tour - Fall 2024
In conversation on writing, music, first crushes, first songs, first loves and all things Junior High.
https://teganandsara.com/crush-book-t...
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Book Tour dates:

1️⃣ 10/01/24 Washington Hall, Seattle, WA
M: Jessixa Bagley
2️⃣ 10/03/24 Elevate, Toronto, ON
(Day Event 1) Mod: Elamin Abdelmahmoud
(Day Event 2) Mod: Sam Naylor
3️⃣ 10/03/24 OCAD, Toronto, ON (Night Event)
M: Jillian Tamaki
4️⃣ 10/04/24 WPGUC, Vancouver, BC
M: Sonia Clement
5️⃣ 10/08/24 Masonic Lodge, Hollywood, CA
M: Jen Wang
6️⃣ 10/09/24 Swedish Amer Hall, SF, CA
M: Nina Lacour
7️⃣ 10/17/24 Brooklyn Hts Public Lib, Brooklyn, NY
M: Tillie Walden
8️⃣ 10/18/24 NY ComicCon, Javits Center, NY, NY
M: Tillie Walden
9️⃣ 10/20/24 Wordfest, Central Lib, Calgary, AB
M: Sonia Clement
🔟 11/02/24 Athenaeum Ctr for T&C, Chicago, IL 8:00-9:30pm CT
M: Blair Imani

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