Julia Longoria
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130 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Julia Longoria’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And in our case, that woman warrior, she didn't even know she was going to go into battle.
So I got in the car and I drove a long time. Tiny little gravel road leading up to narrow street of houses to Sparta, North Carolina. It's called Sparta? I know. Cows and horses and Trump signs. Tractor up front. No trespassing sign. And so I walk up to this house. It's this beautiful cream-colored cottage perched on top of a mountain. Wow.
And I can hear Whitney Houston's Saving All My Love For You blasting. You having trouble? Hi. No, I didn't. Are you Carolyn? Uh-huh. Hi. Very nice to meet you.
immediately offers me a course.
Reddish blonde hair, green eyes. She's wearing golden hoops. She has like this air about her that she could have been a beauty queen, you know? But she also could have been a car mechanic.
So we get to talking. I tell her a little bit about who I am, about the story.
I'm so proud of you. Your generation, they're finishing the fight I started. And I was essentially like, no, no, no, no. This stuff, like, your story has, like, a huge impact on, like, women like me, you know? I can't imagine.
She told me she grew up bouncing around different oil fields.
That meant Carolyn and her brother and sister split the school year between two or three schools a year. We moved a lot. She says school didn't come easily to her.
She was very independent. And when she was about 13, they moved to Chickasha, Oklahoma.
And that... is where she met Dwayne. That was the first boy I went with. They met in high school, and they were roughly the same age, but he was three years ahead of her in school.
What do you think attracted him to you? Like, what do you think he saw in you?
Talking to Carolyn, I got the sense she did not have any shortage of suitors.
She says she was really comfortable with him. He was a quiet man with this brilliant mind.
OK, so here's what happens. It's 1962. Carolyn and Dwayne are about 20 years old at this point. And they move to a town called Stillwater, Oklahoma, to open a business. And Stillwater... is a college town. It's that college town, okay? You got Oklahoma State University right there, tons of fraternities, including Lambda with the wrestlers, huge homecoming drawing over 40,000 alumni.
Here's how it would work. Customers pull up to the side of the convenience store and they drive through, hunk their horn, holler their order.
They're like thrilled because they've never run a business by themselves before. And all these college kids are coming in and buying Coors beer. Including, of course, a steady stream of girls buying beer, presumably for their boyfriends.
Fast forward a few years, it's 1972, back at the university.
...is in a political science class. And the professor starts talking about the whole fight for the ERA, which is happening right at that moment. And at this point, Oklahoma hasn't ratified the ERA. And somehow the conversation turns to this beer law. Mark's like, talk about discrimination. This beer law is discrimination against us.
Because actually, my husband lost his license after he sold beer to a young man. So he put him in my name.
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