Speaker 1: Oh, where did the month go? September was here with
Speaker 1: lots of birthdays, lots of big birthdays in my family,
Speaker 1: and then wish the month was gone. I did find
Speaker 1: myself saying that often I'm in a perpetual state of
Speaker 1: surprise with every passing month, every passing season, every passing year.
Speaker 1: Now when they say it all goes by so fast,
Speaker 1: they aren't kidding. You know what happened in a nanosecond.
Speaker 1: My babies grew up. My first born son, Isaiah, turned
Speaker 1: forty forty forty this month, and my second born, Sheila,
Speaker 1: will have her thirtieth birthday before the month is over.
Speaker 1: Remember being in awe when they were five and fifteen,
Speaker 1: but nothing prepared me for this. I am, however, happy
Speaker 1: and grateful that they are happy and well and living
Speaker 1: their best lives or raising their own children, beautiful children.
Speaker 1: I'm even hearing more than a few heavy size from
Speaker 1: them that time is moving too swiftly and their babies
Speaker 1: are growing up too fast. But you know what the
Speaker 1: best balm is to everything, humor. If you can laugh,
Speaker 1: If you can have a good laugh once or twice
Speaker 1: a day, ah, it makes all the other things survivable.
Speaker 1: Today's podcast guest offers dose upon healing, dose of humor.
Speaker 1: Angela Johnson Rays is one of the most successful stand
Speaker 1: up comedians today, with six comedy specials streaming on various
Speaker 1: platforms and selling out theaters around the world. Her most
Speaker 1: recent special, Say I Won't, debut on YouTube in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three with over four point two million views in counting.
Speaker 1: She might be best known for her nail salon sketch
Speaker 1: that was memorized line by line by all my daughters
Speaker 1: and nieces and maybe one or two myself, and has
Speaker 1: been quoted at family gatherings. Angela, who was born and
Speaker 1: raised in San Jose, California, is of Mexican and Native
Speaker 1: American descent. Her life and her family feature prominently in
Speaker 1: her comedy sketches. She published her first memoir titled Who
Speaker 1: Do I Think I Am in twenty twenty two. She's
Speaker 1: guest starred on shows such as Life and Beth, Superstore,
Speaker 1: The Shield, Ugly Betty, and Curbear Enthusiasm. Her film roles
Speaker 1: in clin Lude Enough Said, Our Family Wedding, and My
Speaker 1: Favorite Alvin and the Chipmunks, The Squeak Quell. Angela also
Speaker 1: joined Eddie Murphy and Tracy Ellis Ross in the Amazon
Speaker 1: Prime feature Candy Cane Lane. In February, she returned for
Speaker 1: the second season of the Hulu original series Life and
Speaker 1: Beth and hosted the to be original series My Crazy Quins,
Speaker 1: which dropped in me. Most recently, she launched a podcast
Speaker 1: about mental health called Fungela that focuses on gratitude because,
Speaker 1: in Angela's words, when you remind yourself of what you're
Speaker 1: grateful for and say it out loud, you're not only
Speaker 1: speaking good into the world, but good into yourself. Can't
Speaker 1: wait to get into our conversation with Angela and share
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Speaker 1: Someone is Angela Johnson rays You're so pretty.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I put makeup on for you.
Speaker 1: I put makeup on for you. I put my lips on.
Speaker 2: Look at that like it's a good Yeah. Here's the thing.
Speaker 3: I growing up, like teenage twenties, I would rarely wear
Speaker 3: lipstick because my lips were like already vibrant, like I
Speaker 3: didn't need it. And I remember my thea Mary, who
Speaker 3: lived to be one hundred and two years old. She
Speaker 3: wore lipstick till the day she died. She loved putting
Speaker 3: on her lipstick. And I would be I'd be like,
Speaker 3: why is she still putting lipstick on? I don't care.
Speaker 3: And then now that I'm aging a little bit more,
Speaker 3: I notice, I'm like, oh, I need to put.
Speaker 2: Some lipstick on. Like now I care about putting lipstick on.
Speaker 1: I don't. If I'm going to go out, I have
Speaker 1: to have my lipstick on. And I have a granddaughter
Speaker 1: who lives on my property. She's five. She's so cute
Speaker 1: and every day but she's just starting kindergarten. Before kindergarten start,
Speaker 1: she comes her. They have an apartment that's on my property,
Speaker 1: and she runs over to the farmhouse where I am
Speaker 1: says Gramma, NA, I need my lipsticks, and it's flural.
Speaker 1: I need my lipsticks.
Speaker 3: Special that she gets to run to Grandma's house before
Speaker 3: school and get her lipsticks.
Speaker 2: Also, your properties sounds amazing. Can I move in?
Speaker 1: You can? There's plenty of room there is there's fifty
Speaker 1: five acres and so you're you are more than welcome
Speaker 1: and your husband. I have a music room above my
Speaker 1: carport for my kids because I'm old and cranky. So
Speaker 1: when they want to like jam, because they're not professional
Speaker 1: musicians and it's really loud and noisy, they can go
Speaker 1: above the carport and jam. So he could probably put
Speaker 1: his equipment up there and something incredible. Yeah, yeah, we
Speaker 1: have a fire pit in the backyard so he can
Speaker 1: like play under the stars and oh magical.
Speaker 2: This is so dreamy what you're describing right now. I
Speaker 2: love this. I love this for us. Since I now
Speaker 2: live there.
Speaker 1: You and I can just tell stupid jokes all day long.
Speaker 2: Do it like?
Speaker 1: You make me laugh Angela so hard I pee myself
Speaker 1: thanks to lan well sneezing makes me pee myself. So
Speaker 1: that's a compliment, but take it with a grain of Yeah.
Speaker 1: My girls had memorized your whole pretty nails routine years ago,
Speaker 1: and every time I would say, because I don't do
Speaker 1: my nails. You can see here. I'm a farm girl.
Speaker 1: I have animals and I've been canning. But my toes.
Speaker 1: I gotta do my toes. I just I cannot have coffee.
Speaker 1: I can't.
Speaker 2: No, no, I can't.
Speaker 3: I'll cut my own ankles with my one foot and
Speaker 3: I'll be like, oh, no, I gotta go get a petty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's time to get a petty when you're cutting
Speaker 1: yourself with your on toenails. And I would say, I'm
Speaker 1: you know, don't bother me. I'm going to be gone
Speaker 1: for an hour or two. I'm gonna go get a pedicure.
Speaker 1: They're like, ah, you got a boyfriend. They would do
Speaker 1: your whole routine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's wild how that joke is seventeen years old.
Speaker 2: It's very old, and yet it's open.
Speaker 1: It's part of our vernacular now. Yes, it's become like
Speaker 1: I cannot say anything about a petticure and to make
Speaker 1: my husband go with me without one of my girls saying, ah,
Speaker 1: you got a boyfriend.
Speaker 2: It's wild.
Speaker 3: I was just having this conversation with somebody about how
Speaker 3: my joke has become a part of people's everyday life,
Speaker 3: like they quote it on a regular even just like, hey, yeah,
Speaker 3: the grocery story, give me an apple?
Speaker 2: How many? Just one?
Speaker 3: And they throw that in there in any part of
Speaker 3: their daily life. And I think about like the movies
Speaker 3: that I quote, Dumb and Dummer, Wayne's World, like from
Speaker 3: my era that still are in my everyday life. I
Speaker 3: quote these movies and I'm like, that's wild to me
Speaker 3: to think that my joke is a part of somebody
Speaker 3: else's life that they quote when they do every time
Speaker 3: they do this one thing.
Speaker 1: I love that. What's your favorite favorite all time movie
Speaker 1: to quote?
Speaker 3: Oh, those two that I just said, but probably Dumb
Speaker 3: and Dumber, I would Yeah, it has to be Dumb
Speaker 3: and Dummer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so for me, stop it now, I mean it.
Speaker 2: What's that from?
Speaker 1: You were supposed to say? Does anyone a benut? You've
Speaker 1: never seen Princess Bride? You've not watched Princess Bride? Angela
Speaker 1: that one you?
Speaker 2: Everyone hates me right now?
Speaker 1: I know, no, No, As one of my favorite comedians,
Speaker 1: I have to tell you before the day is over,
Speaker 1: you have to watch Princess Bride at least once, if
Speaker 1: not five times. Okay, this is one of those things
Speaker 1: that I knew I was going to marry my husband
Speaker 1: when we became friends and he started quoting Princess Bride,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh my.
Speaker 2: God, he's the one.
Speaker 1: He's the one. He's the man with six fingers. You know.
Speaker 1: You have to watch it.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll do it just for you, and I think
Speaker 2: about you the whole time.
Speaker 1: Do do There are so many great characters in it,
Speaker 1: and there's so many great lines in it. You're gonna
Speaker 1: you're gonna call me back and you're gonna just like.
Speaker 2: They just quote again. I can finish it.
Speaker 1: Now, Yeah, I can do it. I can do it.
Speaker 1: I'm not a witch. I'm your wife, all right. Okay.
Speaker 1: So something that you helped me understand in your comedy,
Speaker 1: not even knowing you helped me understand it. I didn't
Speaker 1: know the what ifs were anxiety. Yeah, I didn't know
Speaker 1: the what ifs were anxiety.
Speaker 2: Yep mm hmm. Here you were just thinking you were
Speaker 2: a healthy, old, thriving.
Speaker 1: Thriving mama bear uh, and that the what ifs are
Speaker 1: actually like maybe anxiety. Yeah, this is how bad my
Speaker 1: what ifs are. They're as bad as yours.
Speaker 2: Tell me, tell me.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: I have a best friend and I didn't hear from
Speaker 1: her one day and like we talk every day, it's
Speaker 1: a sad I hadn't heard from her, and so I
Speaker 1: called her, and then I called her and left jerky comments,
Speaker 1: you know, on her flassage. And then I texted her
Speaker 1: and she didn't text me back. And after like you know,
Speaker 1: the second text, I was sure she's got some very
Speaker 1: steep stairs in her house that I said, my daughter,
Speaker 1: you did she lives a mile away, I said, my daughter,
Speaker 1: because I was sure tripped on the stairs, dog ran
Speaker 1: underneath her, lost her balance and what happened. She was
Speaker 1: not happy when midnight my daughter is waking her up.
Speaker 2: Wait, you were calling.
Speaker 3: You were trying to get a hold of her at midnight, well,
Speaker 3: because I hadn't heard from her during the day, and
Speaker 3: by because it was all day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I see, And by the time I got to
Speaker 2: the end of the day, you're like, I can't, I
Speaker 2: can't go by. You know, we could have avoided.
Speaker 1: We could have avoided this, thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you let the whole day go by. That's
Speaker 2: good on you.
Speaker 3: I recently had my brother here visiting and he's up early,
Speaker 3: like seven am. He's already gone for a rind and
Speaker 3: come back and it was like almost eight am, and
Speaker 3: he still hadn't come downstairs yet.
Speaker 2: My first thought he died.
Speaker 1: He died.
Speaker 2: He's right upstair.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh my god, somebody poisoned him. Somebody broke
Speaker 3: in last night, he tripped and fell.
Speaker 2: I didn't hear it. He's for sure dead.
Speaker 3: And then I text him you good good morning, and
Speaker 3: he didn't reply.
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh my god, this is the day.
Speaker 2: This is the day. And then like ten minutes later
Speaker 2: he comes downstairs. But it was just the day. He
Speaker 2: was flying out, so he was busy packing up.
Speaker 1: His suitcase whatever, whatever.
Speaker 2: But back, how dare you pack up.
Speaker 1: Your suitcase and make me think that you're dead. So
Speaker 1: in one of your specials, you were talking about how
Speaker 1: you how you signed your husband up for the find
Speaker 1: Me app find a Friend app on your phone? You
Speaker 1: signed him up on.
Speaker 2: Sure, I did.
Speaker 1: I gotta steal my friend's phone so I can sign
Speaker 1: her up on my phone.
Speaker 3: Okay, there's a better one I'll tell you about. Okay,
Speaker 3: So Find my Friends comes on Apple phones, Like everybody
Speaker 3: gets that one. But there's another one Life three sixty.
Speaker 3: I think it's called girl. This one is nosy. This
Speaker 3: one I get alerts on my phone. Manuel just finished
Speaker 3: a thirty mile drive. His mac speed was seventy six
Speaker 3: miles per hour. Yes, it'll tell me. I think it'll
Speaker 3: even tell if he used his phone while he was driving,
Speaker 3: Like it's no sock. Oh yeah, it gives me all
Speaker 3: the goods.
Speaker 1: And so do you have to download the app on
Speaker 1: the other person's phone in order for you to follow them?
Speaker 1: So how am I gonna find? How am I going
Speaker 1: to get hold of my adult children's phones and download
Speaker 1: a party?
Speaker 2: Everybody, come over.
Speaker 3: We're having dinner at the farm, the ranch, whatever you said,
Speaker 3: you had right to come over. We're doing a little dinner.
Speaker 3: But this one. Listen, you guys, no phones. You guys
Speaker 3: are always on your phones. Everybody put your phones right
Speaker 3: here on the counter.
Speaker 1: And leave your password on.
Speaker 2: Your password right there next to it.
Speaker 1: Because I have adult children, I would do that with
Speaker 1: what's your worst? What if? I mean the one of
Speaker 1: your husband, which is in your routine, dying on the
Speaker 1: freeway outside of your house.
Speaker 2: That was I thought he was dead. I looked it was.
Speaker 3: The story is he went to the movies with friends
Speaker 3: and he called me when he was on his way back.
Speaker 2: I fell asleep. Okay, Well it was too hot in
Speaker 2: the room, so.
Speaker 3: He just slept on the couch, is what it was.
Speaker 3: But I woke up at two in the morning and
Speaker 3: he was not there, and I was like, no. I
Speaker 3: talked to him at eleven pm. He was on his
Speaker 3: way home, and he's still not home. And his bed
Speaker 3: hadn't even been lived in, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: Like it was still flat. He had not even It's
Speaker 3: not that he came in for a little bit and
Speaker 3: he got up, it was still flat. I said, oh,
Speaker 3: he's dead. Immediately he died. I call him, he's not answering.
Speaker 2: Oh damn. And then I checked the friend finder. It
Speaker 2: shows his phone on the side of the freeway, like
Speaker 2: it lied to me. I would have been okay, but.
Speaker 3: It showed he was in the house somewhere and they'd
Speaker 3: be like, okay, I'll let me just go.
Speaker 1: I wonder if there's like somebody that can control that,
Speaker 1: or going, let's mess with her, let's really mess with her.
Speaker 2: How did this happen? Like, how was that even possible?
Speaker 3: It was literally a mile away on the side of
Speaker 3: the freeway, like it was a lag of some I
Speaker 3: don't know what, but I really thought he was dead
Speaker 3: until I came downstairs and I saw him on the couch.
Speaker 2: I really was like, how do I But you.
Speaker 1: Hadn't called the cops or or an adult daughter to
Speaker 1: go check on him like I did.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, I started playing in the funeral in my brain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and what were you wearing? What were you gonna
Speaker 1: wear to the funeral?
Speaker 2: Something very modest? Something.
Speaker 3: But I don't want people to think I'm already back
Speaker 3: on the market, you know what I mean? Like it's
Speaker 3: just something cover up because if I so much to
Speaker 3: cleave and then be like, ooh, she trying to get
Speaker 3: wiped up again?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Just no, just so.
Speaker 1: Covered dress, slack suit, jumpsuit, like.
Speaker 3: Not a dress, No, it would be pants, definitely can
Speaker 3: mm hmmm yep, he.
Speaker 2: Are you flat flies? But my husband always loved it,
Speaker 2: loved it like he's already died.
Speaker 3: He uh, okay, dress up the best.
Speaker 2: Maybe I do that for him the best.
Speaker 1: The best part of that was when you said I
Speaker 1: didn't even think about that he might be cheating, that
Speaker 1: he might be out with somebody else. I thought he
Speaker 1: was dead, because if he was cheating, it'd be.
Speaker 2: Dead, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1: Please ah, you kill me. So many of your routines
Speaker 1: just like speak to my heart in such a sweet way.
Speaker 1: And now you're doing a podcast Fungela.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I am. I.
Speaker 2: I started this podcast because it was one of my
Speaker 2: tools that I use in my mental health and on
Speaker 2: the road touring.
Speaker 3: It's like I talk about my anxiety and that one
Speaker 3: special and the wood ifs and all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 3: just struggling with anxiety sometimes depression sometimes just like the
Speaker 3: intrusive thoughts, like all the stuff that I'd be dealing with.
Speaker 3: And I had different tools over the years, different supplements
Speaker 3: that I would use, different breathing techniques that I would use,
Speaker 3: my gratitude journal, prayer, whatever it may be. And the
Speaker 3: one that I would go to the most because it
Speaker 3: worked quickly, it was efficient, it was free, and it
Speaker 3: was right there within you is gratitude. And when we
Speaker 3: start practicing gratitude, you say the thing that you're grateful
Speaker 3: for out loud, and then you hear yourself saying the
Speaker 3: thing that you're grateful for. So it's one thing to
Speaker 3: think about what are you grateful for? And you're already
Speaker 3: changing your mood just thinking about these things. Think about
Speaker 3: something positive instead.
Speaker 2: Of something negative. You already did a step in changing it.
Speaker 3: But then when you say it out loud, now you
Speaker 3: actually hear yourself. So you're using different senses too, now
Speaker 3: your mind, now your ears, you're saying it out loud.
Speaker 3: So it's this big gratitude circle that goes in and out,
Speaker 3: in and out of your body. You just start raising
Speaker 3: your vibration, raising it to like this level where you
Speaker 3: start attracting like beautiful things in your life. And so
Speaker 3: I said, I'm going to do a podcast based on
Speaker 3: gratitude and just practice gratitude with people. So I bring
Speaker 3: guests on and we talk about five things that they're
Speaker 3: grateful for in their life, and it leads to amazing
Speaker 3: stories that they have. And we also do one mattitude
Speaker 3: and the one mattitude is the thing that's making you
Speaker 3: mad these days, giving you a bad attitude.
Speaker 2: Or as I like to call it, a matitude.
Speaker 3: And so we start with the one, we get it
Speaker 3: out of our body, we let it go, and then
Speaker 3: we move into gratitude and we just talk about stuff
Speaker 3: that we're grateful for, put out the good vibes.
Speaker 1: What a wonderful tool.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: What is your matitude today?
Speaker 2: Ooh, my matitude today. Let's see you know, today's been
Speaker 2: a really good day.
Speaker 3: Okay, you put your makeup on, so I put my
Speaker 3: magamon on for you. I had to, although I almost
Speaker 3: I'll be honest. I started walking up to the office
Speaker 3: to come beyond here. But I was a half hour
Speaker 3: early and I had no makeup on. I was like, ooh,
Speaker 3: I'm be late.
Speaker 2: I was like, wait, I have a half hour, so
Speaker 2: I put makeabon.
Speaker 3: My mattitude these days is these little gnats and I
Speaker 3: don't know if they're coming from the sink.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Fruit flies, but are they gnats or fruitflies?
Speaker 2: I think they're nuts because sometimes I'll see them.
Speaker 1: Nats are lighter colored, but fruitflies, fruit flies can go
Speaker 1: in the bathroom. How scary? Did I know this?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean you live out on some acreage, so
Speaker 3: I'm sure you have a lot of knowledge of critters
Speaker 3: and insects and stuff.
Speaker 1: And I'm canning. It's canning season.
Speaker 2: What's that mean?
Speaker 1: It means I garden all spring in summer stupidly hundreds
Speaker 1: of acres or dozens of acres, and then fall hits
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I am five hundred bushels of corn
Speaker 1: that I have to blanch and freeze and can and
Speaker 1: dry and dehydrated.
Speaker 3: Oh, I see what you're saying, actual canning of food
Speaker 3: to eat and use and store.
Speaker 2: Oh. During twenty twenty, I started a garden and.
Speaker 3: I absolutely loved it. And I ended up pickling my
Speaker 3: own cucumbers. Oh my gosh, it was so fun and
Speaker 3: they were so No, I've never tasted a pickle as
Speaker 3: good as my pickle, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Like, it was so fun.
Speaker 3: And then we moved and then now I split time
Speaker 3: and I'm not in one place long enough to actually
Speaker 3: have a garden and take care of it.
Speaker 2: But I miss it. That was so fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if I had, if I had to do that,
Speaker 1: I would figure out how to do a portable garden.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I it's my happy place.
Speaker 2: It is. And do you feel more? This is what
Speaker 2: I only did it for that one year. But do
Speaker 2: you feel like connected.
Speaker 3: To God or source or whatever you call it? Like,
Speaker 3: do you feel I feel connected to God when I garden?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm in the garden of Eden house. My farm
Speaker 1: is the garden of Eton. It really truly is. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm obsessed with my plants, not like I know the
Speaker 1: names of them. I just know them, like, oh, I
Speaker 1: love that. I have a girlfriend who knows the names
Speaker 1: the scientific you know, genus, species, blah blah blah. She goes, oh,
Speaker 1: that's you know, miraculous, slovaculous. I'm like, okay, I just
Speaker 1: you know, but I know them, and I know there's seasons,
Speaker 1: and I know what they like and what they don't like.
Speaker 1: And it's like I have relationships with my plants. That
Speaker 1: sounds right.
Speaker 2: I fully know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: That's why I say I love that, because that I
Speaker 3: feel like that's how I was for that year that
Speaker 3: I did my garden, and it was almost like they
Speaker 3: were characters in my life. And so anytime I would
Speaker 3: go in tend to the garden, it was I was
Speaker 3: talking to my garden. I was communicating. I was like
Speaker 3: speaking life over my garden. I would just be like, tomatoes,
Speaker 3: y'all look good.
Speaker 2: Like it was just a whole thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, I have sassy ones. They talk back, They're
Speaker 1: like I know I do. Yeah, don't you wish you
Speaker 1: look this good? Ah?
Speaker 2: Then I look at how ripe I am.
Speaker 3: Uh huh uh yeah. And they were just my garden
Speaker 3: became like characters. And then every time I would leave
Speaker 3: to go back because my garden was up on a hill,
Speaker 3: and then I might have to go back down the
Speaker 3: steps to my house. So every time I would leave,
Speaker 3: I would say bye to my garden. I would thank
Speaker 3: my garden. I'd be like, okay, guys, see you tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Like it was a whole No. Granted was twenty twenty COVID.
Speaker 3: We were all home, so they were my company, but
Speaker 3: it was it was very special time.
Speaker 2: I really really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: I enjoy talking to my garden more than I enjoyed
Speaker 1: talking to a lot of people. I know that sounds terrible,
Speaker 1: but I love being out in my gardens.
Speaker 2: I you have a favorite part of your garden.
Speaker 1: It's all, you know. It's all different in like different
Speaker 1: moods and different plants have different personalities.
Speaker 2: And what fruit trees do you have?
Speaker 1: I have over one hundred fruit trees.
Speaker 2: I mean you have all those acres. Of course you do.
Speaker 2: But what okay, just.
Speaker 1: So we don't do any it's not warm up here,
Speaker 1: so we can't do like citrus. There's no oranges? Oh
Speaker 1: really okay, yeah, it's all like apples plums, pears, peaches, nice.
Speaker 1: My plum trees were so loaded this year they broke.
Speaker 1: The limbs broke. Oh, I had so many plums.
Speaker 3: So I grew up with a plum tree in our backyard.
Speaker 3: It was a mess. It was because we never like
Speaker 3: harvested them or anything.
Speaker 1: You just let them drop on the ground and attract
Speaker 1: the bees.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was too young. I didn't know anything about it.
Speaker 1: Did you ever step on a bee while you were
Speaker 1: out in the backyard with a squishy po isn't that
Speaker 1: the worst?
Speaker 2: My?
Speaker 3: Okay, so this was a sad part. Right before we
Speaker 3: sold our house, we didn't know we were going to
Speaker 3: be leaving. I thought we're going there for years and years.
Speaker 2: And I had just.
Speaker 3: Planted orange tree, apple, lemons and limes, avocado, which I
Speaker 3: know is like a five year investment, but I was
Speaker 3: super excited about it.
Speaker 2: And I had just planted my trees. Maybe I had
Speaker 2: them for like five months.
Speaker 1: And then you moved and then we moved.
Speaker 2: It was so sad.
Speaker 3: And then I kept in touch with the people who
Speaker 3: bought her house, and did you say.
Speaker 1: Send me the avocados when they start coming on? Okay,
Speaker 1: because those are mine?
Speaker 2: Well, here's the sad part.
Speaker 3: I had asked them one time how the garden was doing,
Speaker 3: and she's like, oh, I don't even go up there. No,
Speaker 3: did I just think about like my tomatoes.
Speaker 2: Just be like what happened?
Speaker 1: Where did you go?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: I had to say goodbye to my girl.
Speaker 1: I cried.
Speaker 3: I cried when I said goodbye to my garden. And
Speaker 3: like now I'm gonna sound like crazy garden lady. I
Speaker 3: bawled my eyes out saying goodbye to my garden.
Speaker 1: I get it, my friends.
Speaker 2: I have one plant and it's just a little spider plant.
Speaker 2: Started in my grandma's garden and it was in her
Speaker 2: garden and all of us got a piece of it.
Speaker 2: And so I got my piece and I planted it
Speaker 2: in my garden at my house. And then when we
Speaker 2: sold the house, and you may believe, I was out
Speaker 2: there with a shovel. Ohay, my grandma plant with me,
Speaker 2: believe it.
Speaker 3: And now it's in a little pot in the front
Speaker 3: of our California house that we have, and so it
Speaker 3: just stays on the porch and a little.
Speaker 1: So you go back and forth between Nashville, we do
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Speaker 1: are you touring now?
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 3: I'm not on a tour, like a specific name tour,
Speaker 3: but I am on the road because this year was
Speaker 3: my writing year where I write my new Hour.
Speaker 2: So I go to a lot of different.
Speaker 3: Comedy clubs, casinos, and I just get that repetition in
Speaker 3: show after show, off to show, so I can try
Speaker 3: different jokes, try it a different way, play with it
Speaker 3: a little bit, mold it, get.
Speaker 2: My hour to where it is.
Speaker 3: And then next year I'm about to announce, actually I
Speaker 3: think coming up soon, I'm about to announce my next
Speaker 3: big tour that's going to start next year, and that's
Speaker 3: going to be a huge, big theater performance run.
Speaker 1: We got to come up with a traveling garden for you,
Speaker 1: like are you on a van? Are you on a bus?
Speaker 2: Are you to be on a bus?
Speaker 1: You'll be on a bus. Maybe maybe a little spider
Speaker 1: plant that you can give some window access to on
Speaker 1: the bus.
Speaker 3: That's actually a good idea because then because my daughter's
Speaker 3: coming with us, my first time doing a bus tour
Speaker 3: with uh a child being old. She's fifteen months now,
Speaker 3: she'll be two. Your bus tour fun, so.
Speaker 2: That'll be some fun. We can, you know, feed our
Speaker 2: plant every day and you know something.
Speaker 1: That's the most fun age though for me, like two
Speaker 1: to four. Oh my gosh, the things they say every day,
Speaker 1: their little expressions. Does she speak Spanish? I know you
Speaker 1: never have you learned yet?
Speaker 2: I'm working on it.
Speaker 3: Our nanny speaks Spanish to her, So now I for
Speaker 3: sure have to learn Spanish.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, because I got make sure
Speaker 2: they're not talking about me.
Speaker 1: But I'm a back uh.
Speaker 3: But yeah, So she's learning Spanish, and there's sometimes she'll
Speaker 3: point to something and say something and I was like, what.
Speaker 2: Are you saying? And I'm like, oh my god, I
Speaker 2: about you. She's saying it in Spanish and I just
Speaker 2: don't know the word.
Speaker 1: Except in one of your specials you said that you
Speaker 1: were going to learn that. That was like a few.
Speaker 2: Years ago, since I was a teenager.
Speaker 1: A Mexican American who doesn't.
Speaker 3: I can order real well and sing some of the
Speaker 3: lyrics of the songs.
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, Gadora, Now now sing the next line.
Speaker 2: Yeah, marinbo.
Speaker 1: Angela. Where can folks find you? Where can they find
Speaker 1: your podcast? Where can they find when you make your
Speaker 1: big announcement that you're going on tour. I can tell
Speaker 1: people you're on at least four different platforms because I
Speaker 1: had to go to one. I had to go to
Speaker 1: YouTube to find some stuff to watch, and then I
Speaker 1: had to go to Netflix to find other stuff to watch.
Speaker 1: And then there's some things that aren't even have subscriptions
Speaker 1: to that you're.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm just all over the place where you
Speaker 2: can find things. Look for me. I might be there,
Speaker 2: but you could try my website angela dot com. It's
Speaker 2: spelled a n j E l a h dot com.
Speaker 3: And I'm most active on Instagram for social media, but
Speaker 3: I am on all the platforms. I'm on TikTok, I'm
Speaker 3: on Facebook, I'm on all the platforms, and I'll be
Speaker 3: announcing my tour on all of the platforms. My podcast
Speaker 3: is called Fungula.
Speaker 2: We just put out.
Speaker 3: Gratitude and Good Vibes and right now where every every
Speaker 3: other Tuesday, but we'll be moving into weekly soon. And yeah,
Speaker 3: so Fungela and my tour is coming up. You can
Speaker 3: check out my newest special. It came out last year
Speaker 3: and it's called Say I Won't and it's on YouTube
Speaker 3: and that's My special life filmed at the Ryman Auditorium
Speaker 3: in Nashville, Tennessee, and it was amazing and I had
Speaker 3: a great time and I'm so proud of it.
Speaker 2: So if you want to check that out, it's on YouTube.
Speaker 1: And it's funny. It's hysterical, it is. It is so funny.
Speaker 1: I want all of my listeners to go because when
Speaker 1: I laugh out loud, I laugh out loud, it's it
Speaker 1: means I'm happy. It's the best. And I laughed out
Speaker 1: loud the entire special when I watched it.
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you so much, thanks for having me on,
Speaker 3: Like what a treat break, gidding me. Look at just
Speaker 3: me and Talila talking about gardening, like living our best lives.
Speaker 1: I thought we were talking about you moving out here
Speaker 1: and helping me garden. That's what I got out of this.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to call you when I start doing
Speaker 1: the what ifs. Please, I'm going to call you because
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, Corn, Please, yeah, Corn, and help me
Speaker 1: because I can't get hold of my oldest son, who's
Speaker 1: this sergeant on the police department.
Speaker 2: I got you?
Speaker 1: Do you know the what ifs that come with being
Speaker 1: the mother of a sergeant of a police department who's
Speaker 1: also a leader on the swat team. Do you know
Speaker 1: what Iff's.
Speaker 2: Come with that couldn't even imagine?
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, you don't wanna. You don't wanna, so I
Speaker 1: will call you. Fungela is the name of her podcast.
Speaker 1: Check it out and look up Angela a n J
Speaker 1: e l ah dot com. Thank you have a great day, honey.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me. This was a
Speaker 2: lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Sometimes life feels heavy. Sometimes it feels too fast, too fleeting,
Speaker 1: too frantic. I also get caught up in the dizzying
Speaker 1: craziness of it all. But then I'm reminded by caring, grateful,
Speaker 1: hilarious people like Angela that life is also an absolute hoot,
Speaker 1: that humor is a salve and elixir, And if you
Speaker 1: can find a mustard seed of faith and a tiny
Speaker 1: grain of funny, that's enough to get you through anything
Speaker 1: the universe is capable of throwing at you. Seasons come
Speaker 1: to a close, children grow, h life chugs along. If
Speaker 1: you're weathering your own personal storm, even before the impetus
Speaker 1: nature of fallen winter are upon us, know that this
Speaker 1: too shall pass. Angela can help you find some humor
Speaker 1: and a Little Chuckle does an amazing job of letting
Speaker 1: the light in catch up with her and everything she's
Speaker 1: got going on at Angela dot com. That's a n J. E.
Speaker 1: Lah dot com. You can also find her on all
Speaker 1: the major social media platforms, on YouTube, on her many
Speaker 1: and varied TV shows. She's on Netflix and Hulu, and
Speaker 1: you can subscribe to her podcast Fungula for a healthy
Speaker 1: dose of hilarity and gratitude. Whenever you feel the need,
Speaker 1: be kind to yourself and to each other, my friend,
Speaker 1: go out there and love someone