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>> when you have the rotation of, say, maybe 100 different videos being rotated over and over on mtv, they do a great job of exposing new acts. ♪ here in my car ♪ >> britain was ahead of the curve. they hay ton of videos in their inventory. and that was what paved the way for this accidental second british invasion. >> if you look at some of the groups on the popular music charts in america today you can't help asking, where on earth did they come from? well, the answer is the same today as it was two decades ago. they come from britain. >> the music isn't anything like the famous group that came from there, the beatles. >> you've got to understand, they were 20 years ago. we're a new generation. a new wave. ♪ you were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar ♪ ♪ when i met you ♪ >> by the early 1980s, new wave is used to describe these sleek, dressy, cool bands that are coming out of england. ♪ don't you want me baby don't
surprise for something that was supposed to to be a two-week theater thing. >> it turned into a broadway run and tony nomination performance which is meaningful. as a theater kid, waitress was an extraordinary adventure for me but i never imagined myself as a broadway composer, imagined myself to be on stage in this way. this community means more to me than anything in the world. >> you can listen to the audible original breakthrough next wednesday june 1st streaming where you get your podcast. sara bareilles, thank you very much. that does it for us. have a great rest of your memorial day weekend.
supposed to be two weeks at city center for the encores series, and it turned into a broadway run, and then tony nomination, which is really meaningful. as i see it her kid, waitress was an extraordinary adventure for me, but i never advantage myself as a broadway composer. i imagine myself on stage in this way, so to get acknowledged by this community of people that -- just meant more to me than anything in the world. it's unbelievable. i'm so grateful. >> you can listen to the audible original, breakthrough, starting next thursday, june 1st, streaming anywhere that you get your podcasts. sara bareilles, thank you very much. >> that does it for us, have a great rest of your memorial day weekend. ial da weekend. this is the katie phang show, live from miami, florida. we've got lots of news to cover,
exactly am i tipping? not to sound too ex toe next ale, tip to supplement an income? i don't know, it's popping up more and more and as we have the screens toward us, offering us a chance to tip, is a reward for those who deliver excellence or expected even when we do all the work ourselves. it's over my head, i don't spend a ton of time thinking about it. welcome, i am guilty as charged, where have i gone wrong. >> well you are a good person, i'm not, i'm here, to teach you to look into the server's eyes when you have served yourself and to look and hit no tip and stare them down and stare the be jesus out of them. i used to tip generously, i was a waitress, i
i was a waitress. i was a cocktail w server.as a i was a cashier and a restau rich people skiing restaurant. aspen mountain. n mountain i was the booth clerk, brought on a ritzy golf course. urse, i and i was there. i was cheery. let meattentive. oh, let me top your sweet tea i up with a low bar. but i was quick with a compliment. you don't look a day over seventy three gouty. but that's service.walk that's what you tip for. but if you walk into an establishment and you grabnd yourself a coca-cola and a muffin and walk up and alld ex they do is hit some numbers and then flip that tablet 20% o and expect you to tip them twenty or 30%, the answer is noi tud i'm not going to be held up in this hostage situation, giv which is what it's turned into. >> can i give you the otherd i side of the argument? twoi sit there and i think i he
>> when i look at the email, i just could not even believe it. i looked at it for about three times. am i really seeing this? >> it was a woman, claiming to be the biological mother of both pepper and rene, claiming to be the woman who, according to shirley and barbara, was a child abandoning, drug adult prostitute, probably dead. could this woman really be their mother? hardly a claim she could take on simple faith. >> i asked her to come in to see me the very next day, which she was very anxious and happy to do. i asked her to bring whatever evidence she had. >> and in that meeting, the woman presented her evidence. >> she brought some photos that she had. photos of pepper and rene, when they were very little. >> she told her she had been a waitress when the girls were little, had a photo of that as well, and a picture of shirley,
giving up. but by then, she was living with her daughter in south lake tahoe, working as a waitress. and what do you know? hometown girl j c dugard, kidnapped years and years earlier was found. >> the community was just buzzing, all over the place with joy. and i was happy for her, but it triggered a lot of my own personal memories, like how come i did not get found? and i felt still missing. >> so once again, charged up with determination, she launched a fresh attempt. turned out, there is such a thing as adult adoption. find someone to adopt her, and even if she could not find her parents, at least she could get an official identity and a birth certificate, and thus, a passport. her friend offered to adopt her, so pepper and her friend applied, and waited. and something quite amazing happened. someone in that great
with what she could make as a waitress. then shirley made a change, a positive one it seemed, at least financially. >> she got this job, at the motel. she got it managing, which was further from where i worked, so i arranged with her to watch the kids while i worked. >> it was a godsend, really, sense jeri had to be hospitalized for weeks after raymond was born, and then get back to work, and then find a new home to take the kids to. >> i will come out there on my days off, stay with the kids, spend some time with them. so then, i called her and told her i was going to get the kids. the next day, i went out there, and -- gone. >> not a sign of them. no kids, no shirley. frantic, she went to the police. >> what did you tell them, your children have been kidnapped? >> yes, they took the report, that was the last i heard. >> did you go back, talk to them again? >> i went down the two or three
times, they said the same thing, they have not found anything. >> jeri says she did not know who else to talk to, so she looked on her own, and found a year after year, nothing. she had no idea, she said, that shirley had left pepper with barbara, who had persuaded the court that she had been abandoned, and thus, could be adopted. or that shirley stole her back again. and then, there they were, telling their story on dateline. telling how shirley and barbara had described her. >> yes, i heard with a said about me. i was not a street walker, i was a waitress, all of my life. >> they also said that you did not really watch your children, you were happy to abandon them. >> i never abandoned my children, never. never ever. i would never, ever do that. >> and she was not a drug addict either, she says. she has not had a smooth or