Mickey McElya
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374 appearances
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1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
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Because there are differences.
I've always thought of them differently.
Yeah.
Oh, they're absolutely different.
And the Miss USA pageant is the product of Miss America challenging both the pageant and the general culture.
In 1950, Yolanda Betbese said she was an opera singer.
That was her talent.
And she said she would not appear in public in a swimsuit.
after the pageant, that there was no reason why she should be in a swimsuit talking to reporters and that she wasn't a body.
She was an opera singer and a talented person.
The pageant stood by this because it fit the vision of respectability and the kind of woman they wanted to represent the Miss America crown, this investment in she's a college student, she's
She's a number of things, and she's also beautiful, but she's not only beautiful.
And Catalina Swimsuits, which was one of the original sponsors of the pageant, pulled out because if they weren't going to appear in swimsuits, if they weren't going to appear in Catalina Swimsuits, then it wasn't a good investment for them.
They started their own pageant, which was the Miss USA pageant.
So it is – it spins out of that moment.
And then the Miss USA pageant generally was more about body looks, that there was a different aesthetic that was more – even more overtly – that overtly walked the line of sort of more eroticized than the Miss America pageant.
One contestant's story became infamous.
It was talked about during the 2016 election, and that is Alicia Machado.
She was Miss Universe 1996, and that was his first year as the owner.
And remind us what he did to her.
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