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Phillipson will join us in the studio tomorrow where she'll argue her case, after Powell appeared last week.

“When you’re talking to her, she’ll test you on what you’re thinking both on the business side and the technology side,” he said.

Sometimes she’ll bring a friend—“It’s something good to do instead of going out to eat, or grabbing a drink, or even grabbing coffee”—but often she’ll join solo.

Lauper’s wearing a black mesh top, her silver-blue hair in a spiky ‘do; she’s got a boxy handbag with a ’50s-throwback design by her side and a giant pink hat she says she’ll put on if it gets too sunny.

But she had to attend high school in New York City under an alias, and even though she graduated valedictorian from a fancy private school, she has no idea how she’ll pay for college, given her undocumented status.