Speaker 1: Hey, it's Chris Fairbanks, host of the podcast you're currently
Speaker 1: listening to. I have just a weekend of shows i'd
Speaker 1: like to announce at the end of the month here
Speaker 1: in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, January twenty fourth and twenty fifth, I'll
Speaker 1: be at the Laughing Tap Comedy specific comedy Club. Get
Speaker 1: tickets at Chris Fairbanks dot com. Thank you and you're welcome.
Speaker 2: Are you leaving?
Speaker 3: I you wanna way back home?
Speaker 4: Either way, we want to be there.
Speaker 3: Doesn't matter how much baggage you claim and give us
Speaker 3: time and they turn and on engage.
Speaker 4: We want to send you up in star.
Speaker 3: We wanna welcome you back home. Tell us all about it.
Speaker 3: We scared or was it fine?
Speaker 2: Melbourne?
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Speaker 5: With Karen and Chris welcome to Do you need to ride?
Speaker 5: This is Chris.
Speaker 3: Fairbanks and this is Karen Kilgarriff.
Speaker 5: Hello, my friend, Karen. I've not seen you in over
Speaker 5: a month.
Speaker 3: I know how are you?
Speaker 5: I'm terrific. I am.
Speaker 1: Like many episodes, I'd like to start this one with
Speaker 1: a personal apology.
Speaker 5: I uh really dismissed.
Speaker 1: According to the audio clip that was posted to our Instagram,
Speaker 1: I very much dismissed your call for help when you
Speaker 1: were smelling toast.
Speaker 5: I was trying to make jokes the whole time.
Speaker 3: I would only expect you to do that.
Speaker 1: But I immediately after hearing it the other day, I
Speaker 1: did a little research, and indeed, there are several things
Speaker 1: that it could mean, but one of them is related
Speaker 1: to a minor your body avoiding an epileptic seizure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't have to convince me that it's not
Speaker 3: good news to smell toast randomly. I did not have
Speaker 3: to convince you.
Speaker 1: See it's funny because with the backstory, I immediately thought
Speaker 1: it was like when the oh if your hand smells
Speaker 1: like peanut butter dut and then someone slaps your hand
Speaker 1: and it hits your face.
Speaker 2: Oh, I thought you were about.
Speaker 5: To hit me in the face.
Speaker 1: I know when I'm being set up, But no, you
Speaker 1: were actually concerned about your health, and I just you
Speaker 1: know my defense mechanism.
Speaker 3: But here's the thing. The interaction expectation between you and
Speaker 3: I being stand up comedians is not the same as
Speaker 3: the audience, or even just the general listener that you
Speaker 3: embody when you listen to clips of our show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, armchair general listener, you know what I would have done.
Speaker 1: I love everyone live. I would love that everyone who's
Speaker 1: listening right now. This is not a personal.
Speaker 5: Attack, not in the least, but it is.
Speaker 1: Yes, It's it's hard to understand how like if there
Speaker 1: was an accident and a car flip, you'd start maniacally laughing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's hard for you to relate to that when you're
Speaker 1: just listening.
Speaker 5: It seems like we're self I share something.
Speaker 3: Well, unless you have the same weird disease coping mechanisms
Speaker 3: that we do, which I think a lot more people.
Speaker 2: You don't have to be.
Speaker 3: A stand up comedian to relate to our weird personalities.
Speaker 1: I don't think absolutely not. I think it's more common
Speaker 1: that that is your outlet. Now that I healthily have
Speaker 1: a stage place to do these things in a controlled environment,
Speaker 1: I think I act more appropriately out in the streets.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Good, I'm worried about you in the streets.
Speaker 1: I have been in these streets. You know what I
Speaker 1: saw the other day on my street. You're actually this
Speaker 1: is a good one.
Speaker 2: Oh, cold on.
Speaker 3: Is there an animal involved, yes? Is the animal hurt no?
Speaker 3: Does it have cancer?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: Then go tell me this story.
Speaker 5: I do have some tragic news about the turtles.
Speaker 3: See it.
Speaker 1: No, it's the it's there is a cat in my
Speaker 1: neighborhood that I've seen twice, now what color black with
Speaker 1: white areas as well.
Speaker 5: Some my call them spots.
Speaker 1: Hangs out on the sidewalk and waits or or just
Speaker 1: looks around until it finds a car with an open window. Yes,
Speaker 1: will get climb into that car, any person's car, yep,
Speaker 1: and sit in the front seat. It loves getting into
Speaker 1: cars and sitting in the front street with good posture
Speaker 1: like it's driving. And I'm maybe imagining that part. It's
Speaker 1: not pretending to drive, but loves hanging out in cars.
Speaker 5: I love it, and I.
Speaker 1: Hope it's paying a little because why you're leaving your
Speaker 1: window down?
Speaker 3: Why are you in a city like this?
Speaker 1: I yes, And I'm a little worried that I'm just
Speaker 1: thinking of this now, but this sounds like bad news.
Speaker 1: I just hopefully that window isn't down because there's a
Speaker 1: dog in the car and then it'll attack the cat.
Speaker 5: But that's just something I know.
Speaker 3: You're looking for problems on that line's hypothetical that almost
Speaker 3: would never happen.
Speaker 1: Yes, I cannot talk about animals without the possibility of
Speaker 1: them being injured.
Speaker 5: I went right back.
Speaker 3: That's an opportunity to describe a hurt animal. You will
Speaker 3: jump on.
Speaker 1: This is a cat that feels empowered, great, and it
Speaker 1: is finding shelter and is also just having fun. It's
Speaker 1: the best version of a cat prank I've ever seen.
Speaker 3: One of my saddest I'll do the sad cat think
Speaker 3: if you're not going to that makes me think. When
Speaker 3: I lived in Silver Like, I had this cat, Rudy,
Speaker 3: and this was Rudy was the best cat. He was
Speaker 3: super fluffy, like his cat hair was dense. He was
Speaker 3: a black and white dense hair like a like an
Speaker 3: otter and really short, and so he was always really
Speaker 3: shiny and beautiful, and he wanted you to pick him
Speaker 3: up and hold him so like he was like kind
Speaker 3: of a rag doll in your hands. But he wasn't
Speaker 3: the rag doll.
Speaker 5: Type, that's right.
Speaker 3: He just was weirdly like, yay, someone's holding me. And
Speaker 3: when I lived in Silver Lake, he got attacked by
Speaker 3: codes and basically went off to die by himself.
Speaker 5: This is more tragic than any story I've ever told.
Speaker 1: Please continue, do you see?
Speaker 3: And so I like he was gone and I didn't know.
Speaker 3: It was like he's just gone, and I have to
Speaker 3: face that. But anytime I see a black and white
Speaker 3: cat when I'm on the east side or hear about it,
Speaker 3: I'm like, be Rudy. I don't think it could at
Speaker 3: this point because it would mean he was thirty nine
Speaker 3: years old or whatever. But I just I miss Rudy.
Speaker 3: He was rip Rudy. You were a great one.
Speaker 5: A message to you, Rudy.
Speaker 3: This truly is a message to you, Rudy.
Speaker 1: Yes, if for those second wave SKA fans get in here,
Speaker 1: maybe it's first.
Speaker 5: Who knows. There were so many waves with that SKA.
Speaker 3: I feel like that was second.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe they shouldn't have just announced every wave wave.
Speaker 2: Same with feminism, Yes exactly.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't feminism just stay popular if people weren't skanking to
Speaker 1: it every twenty years?
Speaker 3: His STA and feminism go hand in hand. Yeah, this
Speaker 3: podcast episode, we're going to explain to you how feminism.
Speaker 5: Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up.
Speaker 3: I'm racking my brain for like I never listened to
Speaker 3: ska really, but we did go to some skankin Pickle
Speaker 3: shows in the late nineties.
Speaker 5: I love skankin Pickle, love them, love them.
Speaker 1: I didn't know it was a movement when it started again,
Speaker 1: and I accidentally saw the most terribly named band ever
Speaker 1: Cherry Pop and Daddy's and this is before Zoot Suit, Ryot.
Speaker 5: And all that.
Speaker 1: But I just saw them at a show and I
Speaker 1: was like, I like rock or punk with horn section.
Speaker 1: This is amazing because it's like, Okay, here's a bunch
Speaker 1: of jazz guys. They got together with some punk rock guys.
Speaker 1: That's what I liked. But then when I had a
Speaker 1: name and all this history, I'm like, well, now I
Speaker 1: can't jump aboard some pandwagon and start wearing thin suspenders.
Speaker 3: You just can't. Like, you can't in terms of you
Speaker 3: don't want to be seen that way, you know.
Speaker 1: I like to revolt against popularity or groups. Yes, I
Speaker 1: thought it was my music. It was the only one
Speaker 1: in the audience. But yeah, I still there is the
Speaker 1: occasional ska song that just brings me back to me
Speaker 1: in a Brandy posey way.
Speaker 3: I mean, Brandy's holding out for ska. She'll keep it alive,
Speaker 3: and I'm positive that she's the one that can do it.
Speaker 1: She Brandy our friend painted her carb as a real
Speaker 1: big fish.
Speaker 5: It said real big fish on it.
Speaker 3: Yep, she was a huge fan.
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 3: Uh, you know Brandy Posey from the Great two part
Speaker 3: episode where we go to the Krispy Kreme drive through
Speaker 3: for the first time. Oh, we've done it since, but
Speaker 3: we did it first with Brandy.
Speaker 5: You're right, that was a ground breaking what's I smell
Speaker 5: to I see?
Speaker 3: And now what if I just didn't answer you when
Speaker 3: you said you smell toast? And then I'm just like,
Speaker 3: I'm like, keep changing the subject.
Speaker 1: I do want to say that in this article it
Speaker 1: everything that could ever possibly happen to where it's like, well,
Speaker 1: I think now, it's just it takes away validity when
Speaker 1: it's thirty nine things it could be.
Speaker 5: So I think you're fine, but I do, well, it's
Speaker 5: too late. Now if I did maybe go.
Speaker 1: To a doctor so you know that toast thing, and
Speaker 1: they'll laugh, they'll laugh. They'll be like, oh, someone's been
Speaker 1: on the internet.
Speaker 3: What if the last thing on that list of possible
Speaker 3: problems is that you could get electrocuted by a toaster? Oh?
Speaker 2: My God, that's great. Stupid, I swell toast.
Speaker 5: It's probably just my friend alone.
Speaker 2: And tell it's me. I'm murdering you.
Speaker 3: I'm holding a toaster. How is Montana?
Speaker 5: It was great.
Speaker 1: Actually, I did a little sketch for one of my
Speaker 1: shows recorded on my watch, where I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: I got this used Apple watch. I'm trying to figure
Speaker 1: it out. Oh, it looks like there's a recorded track
Speaker 1: on it. And there's an argument that I did with
Speaker 1: my Pelt Brooks, and we yeah, it's a guy in
Speaker 1: a bathtub. And the landlord comes over and he's like,
Speaker 1: you haven't paid rent. I see you've been going to
Speaker 1: best Buy. I'm gonna sell all that stuff and get
Speaker 1: your rent. He's like, you can't sell my stuff. What
Speaker 1: are you holding a toaster? And then I throw the
Speaker 1: toaster in the bathtub and all we did is turn
Speaker 1: on the water and the hair dryer and it sounds like.
Speaker 5: Brooks is being electrocuted.
Speaker 1: And I was just gonna play that on stage and like,
Speaker 1: here's a used watch. Hopefully there's no backstory without nothing nefarious.
Speaker 1: I only paid five dollars. There's a crack and it
Speaker 1: just bottle of blood. Anyway, I didn't work it out
Speaker 1: because even holding a microphone up to it, it really
Speaker 1: didn't register it.
Speaker 5: Oh, so it but it was a good idea.
Speaker 3: Did the audience get you?
Speaker 1: They kind of were trying to listen, but it was
Speaker 1: really hard until we started screaming and we made it
Speaker 1: way too long. It was like a two minute sketch. Oh,
Speaker 1: it needs to be fifteen seconds. But if you see
Speaker 1: me in the future, maybe I'll have ironed out the
Speaker 1: used watch sketch.
Speaker 3: I like the concept is really good, though, thank you.
Speaker 3: I wonder if you do it way way shorter where
Speaker 3: you're like, I hope there's nothing nefarious. And then it's
Speaker 3: like a series of ways things that people could be
Speaker 3: yelling while they're being robbed or whatever. Short, so it's
Speaker 3: literally people like get away from.
Speaker 2: My watch, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: And it's different, like this watch has bounced around from
Speaker 1: tragedy to tragedy and I'm next.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 5: Oh, that's a great idea.
Speaker 3: It can't be. It has to be like a sentence
Speaker 3: of each moment, so the people don't have to like
Speaker 3: buy into a whole concept.
Speaker 1: Yes, oh, and then each one it's a different era.
Speaker 1: Maybe there's twenties music in the background. This is a
Speaker 1: time traveling watch that has been around for so many deaths.
Speaker 3: This watch has always existed.
Speaker 1: The Writer's Room, a podcast where Karen and I discuss
Speaker 1: sketches that will never come.
Speaker 3: To fruition, sketches that Chris is going to do during
Speaker 3: stand up sets. The hardest place to do a sketch. Yes,
Speaker 3: you're alone, there's no hats.
Speaker 1: And the people got to make it happen. After you
Speaker 1: do it, someone's going to call it a skit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's going to be your dad.
Speaker 5: I don't like your skits.
Speaker 3: Oh, your skitch and your little sketches and your skits.
Speaker 1: But yes, to answer your question, Montana was beautiful. There's
Speaker 1: baby deer in my dad's front yard. I videoed them
Speaker 1: and then I just watched them Bambi level cute cartoon
Speaker 1: animated deer that lay right by the window in the shade,
Speaker 1: and I opened the shades and there's baby deer. I'm like,
Speaker 1: how did I want to get away from this my
Speaker 1: whole childhood? Why did I want to go live at
Speaker 1: the beach, a place I then lived and immediately missed
Speaker 1: these baby deer?
Speaker 3: Well, you could find baby deer if you looks hard
Speaker 3: enough in Santa Monica.
Speaker 1: I yes, I just I don't know that I've ever
Speaker 1: lived somewhere where they'll be right outside my window.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I had a great I had a great time
Speaker 1: and relaxing.
Speaker 5: How was your tread?
Speaker 3: It was really nice. I went to see Bradford in Milwaukee.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, and well I also my.
Speaker 5: Badford is very sweet.
Speaker 1: I met Bradford at a show in was it Milwaukee?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yes, this is all lining up?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you get it now? Uh wait, okay, we're coming
Speaker 3: off the freeway and then what am I doing?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: Uh? So it was we have been talking about it
Speaker 3: for a long time because he's lived there for whatever
Speaker 3: three years since COVID. They moved out of LA and
Speaker 3: to Milwaukee during COVID, and I was so scared, Like
Speaker 3: they were going to drive across the country and this
Speaker 3: was when like people were getting into fistfights because of
Speaker 3: masks and stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you and I were hand washing or lettice
Speaker 1: with hands sand title yeah.
Speaker 3: And wiping down the cereal boxes and they're like, yeah,
Speaker 3: we're gonna go ahead and move across. And I was
Speaker 3: just like, you please be careful. I was so scared.
Speaker 3: I was just like all the threat in the world,
Speaker 3: and of course it was perfectly timed. They bought a
Speaker 3: house for one sixteenth of what you pay in Los Angeles,
Speaker 3: like wild and it's it's great.
Speaker 1: So yeah, a lot of people did that, I think,
Speaker 1: and it happened to be most of the people that
Speaker 1: book I independently produced comedy shows down because I've noticed.
Speaker 5: Where is this and what's this person used to do
Speaker 5: a show?
Speaker 1: And I'll look and they are happy with a picket
Speaker 1: fence somewhere in Illinois.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think like the next five years, everyone's going to
Speaker 3: be processing what actually happened to them during the COVID experience.
Speaker 5: We're all traumatized.
Speaker 3: We're all traumatized. I'm still getting over my absolutely, like
Speaker 3: I have a monologuing problem that I have to literally
Speaker 3: in meetings just shut my lips so I stopped talking.
Speaker 2: They're talking, won't end.
Speaker 5: It's so uh.
Speaker 1: Nick Vadorat, who's a comedian that I makes me laugh
Speaker 1: like no other, has a very funny joke about trying
Speaker 1: to different differentiate between you know, is this the trauma
Speaker 1: of COVID or am I just regular regular all not
Speaker 1: popular anymore?
Speaker 5: Like the uh oh, this is a are we Is
Speaker 5: this going to work?
Speaker 3: Well, it's I think across the street.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, OK, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is this gonna work? The most not helpful comment
Speaker 1: I could have ever made?
Speaker 3: Could you stop doing this?
Speaker 2: Is here?
Speaker 3: Let me let me try it again and I'll pull
Speaker 3: over on the other side. I was kind of confused,
Speaker 3: what's this creepy alley?
Speaker 1: Ooh, this is let's challenge someone to a dance off?
Speaker 3: How much kind alley? We're then a ball tonight?
Speaker 1: But I, uh, yes, it's we're all going We're still
Speaker 1: going through it.
Speaker 3: Still going through Wait, will you resay what you said?
Speaker 3: Nick Vatter outside? Because I wasn't well.
Speaker 1: I had trouble saying what I said because of the
Speaker 1: problem we're talking about. I still am having communication breakdowns.
Speaker 2: I see.
Speaker 1: But his joke was what, Yes, it's that thing where
Speaker 1: you start telling someone's joke.
Speaker 5: And then I realized I kind of don't know.
Speaker 2: How it goes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I set myself up for that. I see, it's
Speaker 5: just in the joke. He's looking out the window.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't see anyone with masks on, Like in
Speaker 1: his mind it's still COVID. He's experiencing or quarantine. But
Speaker 1: it's just regular not being popular.
Speaker 2: Oh got it? Okay?
Speaker 5: And I butchered it both times. I hope he doesn't listen.
Speaker 3: I can guarantee he doesn't.
Speaker 5: Yeah. No, no, he's a fan of us both.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have heard of Nick Vadaroth for a long time.
Speaker 3: Let's see if I get in front of somebody and
Speaker 3: make them honk at me. But he was one of
Speaker 3: those people. I always love it when there's somebody from
Speaker 3: a different town that people like, hey, have you seen
Speaker 3: this guy? It's like that is the most exciting thing
Speaker 3: about stand up, when someone is the new guy and
Speaker 3: then everyone's like excited about them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially when it was the actual word of mouth.
Speaker 1: Days now, it's like there are many people that I
Speaker 1: follow and I don't know their names, and I like
Speaker 1: their videos and I'm like, well, that's my new favorite joke, right,
Speaker 1: this person with eight hundred followers. But I have noticed
Speaker 1: that everyone I start to like, I see them grow
Speaker 1: in popularity, and I feel like an old timey producer
Speaker 1: that wants his cut.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Knew this person back when they had four videos, And
Speaker 1: where's my ten percent? I want to ask them I
Speaker 1: own the studio and I want a cut of all
Speaker 1: of all your acting.
Speaker 5: Pay on the movie. I pay the old classic double
Speaker 5: dip scene and thank you.
Speaker 1: That was my nineteen twenties movie producer. No change in voice.
Speaker 1: I'm one of the best.
Speaker 3: It was all vibe and I have to tell you,
Speaker 3: listener might not have gone all the way through your earbuds,
Speaker 3: but in this car it was the twenty Yeah.
Speaker 5: A lot of people would have to do a voice
Speaker 5: like this. I want twenty percent of all of it.
Speaker 1: See but no, No, that's not how you do it. No,
Speaker 1: people talk normal like them once the camera wasn't.
Speaker 3: Rolling, once, they weren't showing off.
Speaker 5: It's just a style of acting.
Speaker 1: And then one day a man named Marlon Brando was like,
Speaker 1: what if I just talk like a normal person while
Speaker 1: the camera rolls?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: What if I were a tank top and act casual?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And the new style of acting was born.
Speaker 1: Yes, hopefully someone doesn't emulate it to a T in
Speaker 1: the future named Tom Hardy.
Speaker 5: He's very Brandow.
Speaker 2: That's right, that's true.
Speaker 1: I'm always picking Hollywood fights in this podcast.
Speaker 3: Did you ever see the t the FX series Taboo
Speaker 3: that Tom Hardy stars in and Tom Hardy's dad wrote, no,
Speaker 3: it's so good. Really, you see some brando level. His
Speaker 3: dad's a playwright. Oh wow, it's really good.
Speaker 5: That's ringing bells taboo, taboo, I believe. Let us watch it.
Speaker 5: We can see it.
Speaker 1: Today's guest thinks of it because today's guest is a
Speaker 1: TV critic.
Speaker 5: I like to eat into very much.
Speaker 1: Yes, podcast based on TV shows and also a lot
Speaker 1: of articles for uh, you know.
Speaker 5: Old rags that I've heard of.
Speaker 1: I see Ashley coming. Hopefully we didn't make kur walk
Speaker 1: too far? And should I give some indication that we
Speaker 1: are the people?
Speaker 5: Yes, okay, Hi, just letting you know we aren't strangers.
Speaker 5: Why there, come.
Speaker 3: On, sorry, we made you walk.
Speaker 5: We're you right now.
Speaker 1: We're already mad recording. So I've just now you know,
Speaker 1: today's guests from clubs and colleges across the country put
Speaker 1: your ears together for Ashley Ray. Hello, Hello, Yes, that
Speaker 1: I warned us about the curb?
Speaker 3: Was that the curb?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, we curbed up a little.
Speaker 2: It is a tricky curb here it is.
Speaker 6: Yes, it's like they made it fancy so people can
Speaker 6: turn into those new condos.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's oh, they immediately flip a U turn
Speaker 1: when they read the sign.
Speaker 5: If you lived here, you'd be home right now.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah yes, And people just then they get mad
Speaker 6: because lots of uh people who don't live over here
Speaker 6: park there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh do you live where we were just at?
Speaker 2: Of course, yeah, you're like two houses down.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to make sure we didn't make you
Speaker 1: walk many many before.
Speaker 3: Five degree heat.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I can handle it. I'm strong girl. All right.
Speaker 5: Good?
Speaker 2: Yeah, how's it going to Texas? Good? How are you?
Speaker 2: You're from Texas? Yeah, Dallas.
Speaker 6: I was born where my family is, so I'm used
Speaker 6: to the like heat where you can't breathe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it can get I started in Austin and would
Speaker 1: drive to Dallas to do the Addison improv, and I
Speaker 1: remember it being.
Speaker 5: A special level of heat. Yeah, Like Houston's more muggy
Speaker 5: and there's bug in you're sweaty. Yeah, Dallas was like
Speaker 5: super hot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, just dry, can't breathe, like your car needs ac Oh.
Speaker 1: It's I can't believe the number of people I knew,
Speaker 1: Like my friend Matt was a comic.
Speaker 5: He had a Honda Dell Soul that with no roof.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people it's just more popularly
Speaker 1: call it a convertible, but it had no air conditioning,
Speaker 1: and I didn't understand how he lived.
Speaker 5: His life that way.
Speaker 6: Yeah, my aunt has had a BMW in Dallas for
Speaker 6: seven years with no ac oh, and she just thinks
Speaker 6: it's so cool to have a BMW. She like won't
Speaker 6: up read it or get it, and she like, I guess,
Speaker 6: can't afford to get it fixed because it's a lot
Speaker 6: for a BMWUS.
Speaker 3: That's really funny. And that's I wonder if that's building
Speaker 3: like some sort of a tenacity or like a level
Speaker 3: where she can handle more stuff because she's like forcing
Speaker 3: herself to suffer.
Speaker 6: I mean, it definitely seems like it's impacting her negatively
Speaker 6: mental health, Livin.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's good for her.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not good to slowly cook your brain, although they.
Speaker 3: Say saunas are really good for your true. Yeah, so
Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe she's killing two birds, yeah, very true.
Speaker 1: It would be therapeutic if a Texas day was only
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes long.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's would be perfect.
Speaker 1: And then you went right into a cryo chamber. Did
Speaker 1: you start stand up in Dallas?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 6: I started in Chicago when I was a kid, we
Speaker 6: moved to northern Illinois, so I mostly grew up in Rockford,
Speaker 6: Illinois in Chicago. After college, went back there, and that's
Speaker 6: when I was like, you know, spoken word is embarrassing.
Speaker 6: I don't want to do this anymore. I want to
Speaker 6: do something less embarrassing, so I'll try stand up comedy.
Speaker 5: Did you start in slam poetry?
Speaker 2: It was I did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was huge.
Speaker 6: Okay, this was like two thousand and nine, right, Like
Speaker 6: I in high school was super into Audio DeFranco. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and I would like perform her songs like spoken word
Speaker 6: poems at like our talent shows.
Speaker 5: I think it's more perfect than that. I love it.
Speaker 6: And like in college I joined speak for our spoken
Speaker 6: word team. I would like compete at the Bowery. I
Speaker 6: was in like national slam competitions and in Chicago, obviously
Speaker 6: the scene is huge there, like the Moth, That's what
Speaker 6: I was doing, And like after every show, all these
Speaker 6: white people would come up to me like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 6: that was so moving, You're teaching us so much, and
Speaker 6: I would just kind of be like, I just want
Speaker 6: to make jokes. I just like the funny parts. I'm
Speaker 6: not here to like teach you. Oh my gosh, that's
Speaker 6: the situation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that person is a lunatic and that is going on'
Speaker 1: such a normal haircut. It's always amazing to see a
Speaker 1: perfectly normal looking face act like Ted Bundy of the Road.
Speaker 3: They're literally listener weaving in and out of traffic, like
Speaker 3: trying to catch each other and get in front of
Speaker 3: each other and slam on the brakes.
Speaker 5: And now they're taking it into a residentia. Well enjoyed
Speaker 5: short life you have.
Speaker 3: Sorry you were competing at a national level.
Speaker 6: Yeah, uh for spoken word in Chicago.
Speaker 2: I would like compete in the moth and stuff. Oh
Speaker 2: my god. Now he's given people the jerk off symbol.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that guy is getting giving maybe gang signs to.
Speaker 1: Say, yeah, I was just showcasing his many fingertaps.
Speaker 5: I do you think I got these?
Speaker 2: You know from I'm not Gonna fight someone a far He's.
Speaker 3: Like, well, this one is a little mustache on the
Speaker 3: side of my finger.
Speaker 2: Actually very hip in two thousand.
Speaker 5: They're all old poems he used to read, I always
Speaker 5: bring it back.
Speaker 3: So what was the moment where you were like, aside
Speaker 3: from the embarrassment, where you're like, I'm going to do comedy.
Speaker 6: It was like, so I would do these like spoken
Speaker 6: word things like short like you know, storytelling, and I
Speaker 6: always just like telling the funny parts of the stories.
Speaker 2: I like when people would laugh.
Speaker 6: And I hated when like these like you know, well
Speaker 6: meaning liberals would come up to me after like that
Speaker 6: was so moving, thank you for teaching us about the
Speaker 6: blacks femail experience.
Speaker 2: Oh wow. And I would just be like, but just
Speaker 2: like laugh though, right, we're trying to have fun here.
Speaker 6: And I was in Chicago and Sarah Sherman who's now
Speaker 6: you know on S and l Huge and Beck O'Neill,
Speaker 6: who's another comedian I love. They were hosting the Cole's
Speaker 6: open Mic, which is like the best, biggest open mic
Speaker 6: in Chicago, and they were trying to just get more
Speaker 6: women to do it. And they were like, look, you
Speaker 6: already do spoken word, you may as well try stand up.
Speaker 6: It's also embarrassing. Just come to this open mic. We'll
Speaker 6: put you up and give it a shot. And the
Speaker 6: first time I did it, I fell in love. I
Speaker 6: was just like, I love doing this. I think I
Speaker 6: did five minutes on Gypsy Rose. Actually I'm very ahead.
Speaker 2: Of my time. This was like twenty seventeen.
Speaker 6: That's right, Mommy, Dad and DearS had just come out,
Speaker 6: and I had like a five minute set of jokes
Speaker 6: on her.
Speaker 1: Nice soft I noticed, though, there was a comedy scene
Speaker 1: in Boise, Idaho that's kind of changed since this woman,
Speaker 1: Lisa Young, she used to run the Funny Bone there.
Speaker 1: She was so passionate about the poetry scene. They had
Speaker 1: like three nights and she was trying to get a
Speaker 1: lot of them to do stand up. She had like
Speaker 1: a master plan for all these comics, and in a
Speaker 1: lot of comics were really good as a result. I
Speaker 1: think it makes for a good stand up, it does.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: It's like spoken word storytelling.
Speaker 6: You have to kind of be willing to like take
Speaker 6: your sad thoughts in sad life and turn it into entertainment. Yeah,
Speaker 6: so it's just one more step to be like, okay,
Speaker 6: well let me make it funny.
Speaker 5: Right right.
Speaker 1: I think for me it would have helped because it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: the actual words.
Speaker 5: Don't just go up there and riff on a topic.
Speaker 5: You should write.
Speaker 1: Because it took me a long time, I still don't
Speaker 1: necessarily write things out and then memorize them and go
Speaker 1: out there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the comics who are like, no, I write my
Speaker 6: jokes down and I like, you know, write them again
Speaker 6: and again.
Speaker 2: Like that's crazy.
Speaker 3: So what are you doing?
Speaker 2: You don't just like.
Speaker 6: Write a premise and get on stage on an open
Speaker 6: mic and just kind of feel it out.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: It makes so much sense though, the like that pipeline
Speaker 3: because you you're up there and you are being so
Speaker 3: vulnerable spoken word it is like you you are gutting
Speaker 3: it out in a way where it's like, is comedy
Speaker 3: any harder? I think it might be slightly easier. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean I wouldn't know. You have to tell me.
Speaker 2: I mean I guess with spoken word, it's you all.
Speaker 6: You're trying to also get people to feel that emotional
Speaker 6: pull or like you have to use that cadence like
Speaker 6: what I'm saying is the most important thing that could
Speaker 6: ever be said.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right. And like my freshman year, my.
Speaker 6: Biggest poem that like one in the like Northeast Slam
Speaker 6: poetry contesting was called I don't hook Up, I Fuck
Speaker 6: And it was like this treaties against like hookup culture.
Speaker 6: That was like I'm an adult, Okay, I don't need
Speaker 6: hookup culture.
Speaker 3: Did the people were they on their feet at the end. Yes.
Speaker 6: Oh, all these like seventeen and eighteen year olds are
Speaker 6: just like, oh my gosh, this is revolutionary. And I
Speaker 6: read it and like saw a clip of it a
Speaker 6: few years ago, it was like, this is the most
Speaker 6: embarrassing thing.
Speaker 2: Please, I can never have this on the internet.
Speaker 1: Was it just because there wasn't enough jokes in it
Speaker 1: and you wanted to tell The.
Speaker 6: Sad thing is that I tried to get a lot
Speaker 6: of jokes in it right, and they were not good.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I have a come from a similar just coming from improv,
Speaker 1: and I'd always go for the joke and disappoint everyone
Speaker 1: else on stage. And then I like heard comics that
Speaker 1: tell joke like Mitchadberg and people that told one liners,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, I think I should do this
Speaker 1: because it's a lot less pressure, oh than going through
Speaker 1: all these building scenes and.
Speaker 5: Then ruining other people's scenes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: Mitch Edburg definitely was someone who inspired my stand up
Speaker 6: and just my desire to want to perform. Like in
Speaker 6: high school, before I even knew I wanted to be
Speaker 6: a comedian, I would dress up is Mitch Heedburg and
Speaker 6: do his jokes at like talent shows, and I would
Speaker 6: just be like, yeah, I'm just doing a Mitch Hedburg
Speaker 6: set as well.
Speaker 5: I'm glad that I brought him up.
Speaker 6: Then yeah, that's amazing, very funny when you're like fourteen.
Speaker 3: Sure, so absolutely, also so satisfying because they really it
Speaker 3: is the all those little self contained moments where it's
Speaker 3: like you with his material, you get to kill the
Speaker 3: entire time. Yeah, like they're gonna laugh whether you say it.
Speaker 2: Or oh yeah.
Speaker 6: And my English teacher came up, He's like, did you
Speaker 6: write those that was hilarious? And I straight up was
Speaker 6: just like yeah I did. Yeah, that's all me, that's
Speaker 6: all me. I knew he wasn't gonna watch Comedy Central.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: There was a skateboarding shoe that came out one year
Speaker 1: and it was called The Story, And in the tread
Speaker 1: the skater whose pro model shoe it was, had a
Speaker 1: story and there was six or seven Hadburg jokes in it,
Speaker 1: but it was before anyone outside of being a hardcore
Speaker 1: fan of comedy would be able to pick them out.
Speaker 1: And I was like so furious that it was on
Speaker 1: a shoe and it didn't say Hedberg wrote this.
Speaker 3: You know which, so it almost was like if when
Speaker 3: I'm really I eat rice when I'm hungry for three hundred.
Speaker 2: And something or whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like that.
Speaker 3: Written on a shoe with no credit within.
Speaker 1: A story that this guy, but he was saying, this
Speaker 1: is my story.
Speaker 6: They steal from Mitch all the time, especially on TikTok,
Speaker 6: since that's just how the app works. I will see
Speaker 6: so many people just like using it as like quotes
Speaker 6: on there, you know, the thing where they put text
Speaker 6: and then like, I don't make sad faces in the
Speaker 6: background like they do that now with all comedians. It's
Speaker 6: just yes, And then people just go, no, it's a meme.
Speaker 6: That's how it's supposed to be, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: And it's literally I've I've seen it with other people's
Speaker 3: tweets where it's like a person making a face and
Speaker 3: it's the copy. And then one day it was one
Speaker 3: of my tweets like this isn't that good? Yeah, And
Speaker 3: I'm really I'm half embarrassed because I know that's mine,
Speaker 3: and then I'm half like really proud, where I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: you wanted to steal it, that's great.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Like okay, I guess it resonated with people, and
Speaker 6: then I'm like in I don't know. It's like if
Speaker 6: you try to be like, hey, that was mine, then
Speaker 6: it's just like you look like a loser because people
Speaker 6: are like this is TikTok.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in the beginning of Twitter, that's what I always said,
Speaker 3: where I was like, why would people want to put
Speaker 3: their notebook on the internet, because anyone can say that
Speaker 3: was my idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it also is time stamping and showing that
Speaker 1: when and where you thought of it first.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I've seen it go both ways.
Speaker 6: I mean there was I think there's legit cases where
Speaker 6: you know, you've had really big comics be like I
Speaker 6: tweeted this exact like Zillo bit and then Saturday Night
Speaker 6: Live made this sketch like, you know, a year later.
Speaker 2: But then there was.
Speaker 6: Also recently this woman who like tweeted a very very
Speaker 6: common joke about Nancy Reagan, you know, like, oh, stocks
Speaker 6: are so there, like Nancy Reagan on the MGM but
Speaker 6: back lot, which classic old joke. Sure, and then they
Speaker 6: made that same joke in an episode of the Boys,
Speaker 6: and she went on Twitter demanding that the Boys give
Speaker 6: her a writing credit that this was her joke and
Speaker 6: they stole it.
Speaker 1: I literally just saw it two days ago, right, it
Speaker 1: didn't even fit in that boy's scene. Yeah, it was like,
Speaker 1: let me get the stoke out of my met Like
Speaker 1: even the actor felt uncomfortable.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it just felt like pushing and kind of like, oh,
Speaker 6: that's a joke, and it was like, well, clearly they
Speaker 6: didn't steal this from you. It's just a hack joke,
Speaker 6: and you should not feel proud that you also tweeted it.
Speaker 2: Also, when I.
Speaker 3: Started stand up, I did a lot of things where
Speaker 3: I quote unquote wrote a joke and what actually happened
Speaker 3: is I remembered a joke from television from television, and
Speaker 3: so that happened once where I had a joke about
Speaker 3: like a girl that was being very territorial about her boyfriend,
Speaker 3: and then I was like, why don't you pee a
Speaker 3: circle around him? Which I thought was the most amazing joke,
Speaker 3: and then like whatever, four years later, I saw it
Speaker 3: on Friends and I was like, they totally stole my joke.
Speaker 3: And I sent it to some comic we know and
Speaker 3: they were like, I'm really sorry to tell you this.
Speaker 3: That is the oldest and I was.
Speaker 5: Just like, so funny.
Speaker 1: That's what Billy Vayne Davis did to me when my
Speaker 1: my dad would.
Speaker 5: I would use.
Speaker 1: My dad's jokes when I first started, but a lot
Speaker 1: of them were from Seinfeld. I did not know that
Speaker 1: the whole who's getting all those blood tide gets blood
Speaker 1: stains and grass staines out of your clothes? Are they
Speaker 1: marketing themselves towards murderers? I don't know what It was
Speaker 1: some version of that. And he told me that's a
Speaker 1: that tide bit is Seinfeld through and through?
Speaker 2: Oh, I did not know.
Speaker 5: And I called and screamed it my dad.
Speaker 1: One time I got a mug with a joke on
Speaker 1: it that was the way too close.
Speaker 5: Someone sent me a mug.
Speaker 1: As a gift about what's what all these owls graduating
Speaker 1: from something?
Speaker 5: Because owls always have graduation tats.
Speaker 1: The illustration told the joke, and I was like, where
Speaker 1: I want to that's my joke. And my friend made
Speaker 1: me the mug and send it to me. I didn't
Speaker 1: realize it was a thoughtful gift.
Speaker 6: So your friend's actually listening to you, and you're like,
Speaker 6: I can't believe you do.
Speaker 1: At You know when it sucks because I had assume
Speaker 1: my friend and he was just doing a nice thing.
Speaker 3: Well, he didn't have the rights to make that much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, you gotta pay the usage, right pees.
Speaker 3: I was in a situation at lunch today where I
Speaker 3: couldn't actually eat the sandwich I had because I was
Speaker 3: in a meeting and that people were watching me.
Speaker 2: Oh my breakfast this morning?
Speaker 3: Did it really?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I like ordered my oatmeal, and then these two people
Speaker 6: I work with were like, can we hop on a
Speaker 6: last minute call By the time we're done? My oatmeal
Speaker 6: schoold because I didn't want to eat it with them
Speaker 6: all looking, and they insisted the skin on top.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well, so I was thinking, should we go
Speaker 3: to Rick's drive through?
Speaker 2: It's so good? I mean, I would love to eat
Speaker 2: something and drink something. It's really good.
Speaker 5: I'm all for it.
Speaker 3: They just have beverages too.
Speaker 2: Right Oh yeah, yeah, fun?
Speaker 6: They got milkshakes they got when I did I did
Speaker 6: what's that podcast where the people they eat food you
Speaker 6: go to restaurants The boy Doboys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, of course that.
Speaker 6: Was the restaurant I chose is Rix. It is my
Speaker 6: favorite neighborhood place.
Speaker 3: Nice, okay, well you can be our guide.
Speaker 2: Their drives are great. They got pie, they got milk chicks,
Speaker 2: they got everything there.
Speaker 1: Wait, does this place bost having something world famous.
Speaker 2: They kind of do.
Speaker 1: I think that we are about to find out like spaghetti.
Speaker 2: Yes, their big thing is there spaghetti.
Speaker 6: Whenever it's gone, they put like a big thing up
Speaker 6: that's like spaghetti is gone and it's like a big deal.
Speaker 6: And then when spaghetti is back, it is like spaghetti
Speaker 6: is back and it's truly lines out the doors.
Speaker 3: Should we all get big bowls of spaghetti to eat
Speaker 3: in the car?
Speaker 7: Well, I'm just in the Yeah. It's like the mac
Speaker 7: ram of that play ye seasonal. Yeah, this it must
Speaker 7: be a real hit there. Yes, I love that independent drive.
Speaker 5: It does say world famous ricks people know Rick Rick.
Speaker 6: I also think they have the best La hot dog
Speaker 6: Do I do?
Speaker 3: I do it here?
Speaker 2: Oyeah you can turn it in this way and then
Speaker 2: like go down. Yeah perfect.
Speaker 3: I've never been here. It's so crazy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they la for us to have this location and
Speaker 6: want in Inglewood. Oh okay, some of the best like
Speaker 6: chili fries. It's just it's a little hidden gem.
Speaker 3: Okay, awesome, We're gonna have to take a look.
Speaker 5: At this on the edge of ice.
Speaker 1: See what the I don't know the status of spaghetti
Speaker 1: or not true?
Speaker 2: True. It wasn't on the side, so we do not know.
Speaker 5: Hungry, but I shouldn't eat.
Speaker 3: You could have just like one taco.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I kind of want to taco.
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: Is that what you want?
Speaker 5: And iced coffee? Is that a terrible combination to most?
Speaker 3: I mean it's your life.
Speaker 2: I'll do the ice coffee. And you know they have
Speaker 2: ice coffee a guarantee, we all? I actually do not
Speaker 2: I know they have.
Speaker 3: Can I ask you a question? Do you have ice coffee? Okay? Oh,
Speaker 3: they have raspberry iced tea? They have like iced tea, raspberry.
Speaker 5: Iced tea, all of regular iced tea.
Speaker 3: Can we get a regular iced tea? And what would
Speaker 3: you like?
Speaker 2: I'll get a tortata is it flavored?
Speaker 3: And a horchata regular sized? And a raspberry iced tea
Speaker 3: regular sized? On a lease a raspberry and two raspberry
Speaker 3: iced teas? And can we also get an asada taco
Speaker 3: and one of your ground beef hardshell tacos? Please? Actually
Speaker 3: anything to eat on? Alise?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 3: Okay, that's gonna be it.
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 3: Can you are you allowed to park in the drive?
Speaker 5: That's what I wondered, And now I saw the lines.
Speaker 1: In which she was parked and then I started to
Speaker 1: think we were wrong.
Speaker 5: But we're in the drive room. We belong here too.
Speaker 6: But now that we're past the thing, I will say
Speaker 6: the spaghetti not that good, Okay, if Y ask me,
Speaker 6: I don't.
Speaker 2: Think the spaghetti is that good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can really lower the bar when it's drived
Speaker 1: through spaghetti.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's no one's going to compare it to.
Speaker 2: Sau Oh no, yeah, then why are they here? I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 6: If it's like, there's not a great pasta place in
Speaker 6: La so people go for this, but.
Speaker 2: There's not a great drive through.
Speaker 1: Possibly every time you tell me to simply grab your purse,
Speaker 1: I turn into my mom's son and.
Speaker 5: I stick my fist in there and just start routing around.
Speaker 5: I've done it over and.
Speaker 3: Over, trying to get served.
Speaker 1: I just get, oh, where's that redson?
Speaker 3: I think there should be more drive through everything in
Speaker 3: this town.
Speaker 2: Yes, we all drive, and I don't understanding.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, let's just face the facts that we don't
Speaker 1: like to get out of our cars. And no one
Speaker 1: it's not just a catchy song, but no one walks
Speaker 1: in La.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 2: I had a friend from Chicago some visit.
Speaker 6: She walked to the whole foods that's like around the
Speaker 6: corner from me, And she was like, why were people
Speaker 6: staring at me?
Speaker 2: Isn't that because you're crazy for doing that? Yeah?
Speaker 3: People are worried about you as you walk down the street.
Speaker 5: Yeah, everyone that visits.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, I figured we do this, this, this,
Speaker 1: and okay, first of all, we're only going to be
Speaker 1: able to do two things. Yeah, and your idea of
Speaker 1: walking to all these things not at all. There's absolutely
Speaker 1: no no, no, no way, no no no. Yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: just shoot over from Lax to Burbank and then back
Speaker 1: to you know, Long Beach.
Speaker 6: We just walked from like we ho to Santa Monica
Speaker 6: and then and it's like, no, that's it was not
Speaker 6: what we do.
Speaker 1: I need you to zoom into whatever map you're looking
Speaker 1: at and consult the key.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you will see a highway you can't walk on it.
Speaker 3: What was the first neighborhood you moved to when you moved.
Speaker 6: To LA I was in mid City, which was actually
Speaker 6: pretty nice. It was you know, mostly families. I was
Speaker 6: close to the comedy store.
Speaker 5: That's what.
Speaker 6: Kind of it's like that neighborhood that's like, what is
Speaker 6: it like Wilshire just down to I guess it's kind
Speaker 6: of Adams.
Speaker 5: Okay, I know exactly. Yes, it's so funny.
Speaker 1: I always when someone says mid City, I think Century
Speaker 1: City because I feel like that.
Speaker 3: To me, it's very na thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3: My friend used to live in mid City, had a
Speaker 3: really beautiful house.
Speaker 6: There's nice houses over there, Yeah, and like it probably
Speaker 6: honestly the nicest apartment I've had.
Speaker 2: I love my apartment now, but that one.
Speaker 6: It just had these huge windows, central location parking.
Speaker 2: And I loved the.
Speaker 6: Neighborhood because even though there's not a lot of places
Speaker 6: to go out, it's quiet and good restaurants. But then
Speaker 6: I had the world's worst roommate. I tried to like
Speaker 6: wait her out. I tried to be like, she's gonna go,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna get this apartment and I will stay here.
Speaker 6: And she was so awful. It was like she just
Speaker 6: was doing whatever she could to get me to leave.
Speaker 3: Can you give examples maybe of how awful?
Speaker 2: Oh my, okay.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 6: She would shower in the dark with the door open
Speaker 6: because she didn't want to clean the bathroom and seeing
Speaker 6: the dirt made her uncomfortable, so she would wash her
Speaker 6: plants in the bathroom, like she'd put them on the bathtub, like,
Speaker 6: let the plants get dirt everywhere. And then she would
Speaker 6: shower and be like, I'm just gonna shower with the
Speaker 6: door close, with the door open and the lights off
Speaker 6: so I don't see the dirt.
Speaker 2: And then I would be like in my room.
Speaker 6: Listening to music in my headphones, and I would go
Speaker 6: into the bathroom.
Speaker 2: Thinking, no one's in here.
Speaker 6: Oh, walked in on her like four times, and every
Speaker 6: time she'd act like I was the crazy person.
Speaker 5: Her dirt it was her plant dirt.
Speaker 6: Yes, her dirt. She would never clean the bathroom. I
Speaker 6: gleaned it every single time I lived there.
Speaker 1: I want a there's that show. I think it's called
Speaker 1: The Worst Roommates Ever. And even just came out I'm
Speaker 1: so already and I first, lady, what are you thinking?
Speaker 2: She tried to take your kid and you just stay so.
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 5: I yes?
Speaker 1: But also at the same time, that's pretty convenient that
Speaker 1: she had a hard to raise special needs kid in
Speaker 1: her roommate's like, no, it's my kid.
Speaker 5: I'm like, well, this is actually if if.
Speaker 6: But then she was she's just just giving her. She
Speaker 6: was ordering mersa on the internet.
Speaker 1: Yes, and yeah, I've I've rewatched a few of them.
Speaker 1: But I like the idea of some of the episodes
Speaker 1: just being dirt shower, ignoring dirt in the shower, like
Speaker 1: actual relatable.
Speaker 3: Not mur not murder because it's on part in some
Speaker 3: ways in terms of day to day life, where you're
Speaker 3: just like, hey, when I walk into the bathroom, there's
Speaker 3: just a bare minimum of not dirten yre because it's
Speaker 3: the bathroom, because it's the bathroom, not the garden.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 6: She would use a Diva cup and if you're not familiar,
Speaker 6: they can be kind of messy, but yeah, you're supposed
Speaker 6: to just kind of get it all in the bowl,
Speaker 6: but she would get it on like the underpart of
Speaker 6: the toilet seat rim and refuse to clean it.
Speaker 5: Oh wow.
Speaker 6: Like I didn't let that truly get to me until
Speaker 6: one day she had like a guy friend over, and
Speaker 6: the guy friend I hear him like, go, like, O,
Speaker 6: can I use the bathroom. He goes in there and
Speaker 6: I just immediately hear him walk out and he just says,
Speaker 6: I hear him go, there's blood all over the inside
Speaker 6: of your toilet seat.
Speaker 2: And she blamed it on me. Oh, I have heard
Speaker 2: her through the door.
Speaker 6: Going, oh, yeah, my roommate is such a mess, and
Speaker 6: I was like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: Oh what? God? I was like, I have miss tampons
Speaker 2: over here. That is all you.
Speaker 1: Oh God, I wish you'd burst out and called her
Speaker 1: on it right then.
Speaker 5: I don't care what romance budding, what's happened.
Speaker 2: I was so upset.
Speaker 6: And the worst part is that instead I just went
Speaker 6: out there and very loudly cleaned the toilet and then
Speaker 6: I went in the living room was like, I cleaned
Speaker 6: the toilet for you, and she knew.
Speaker 2: She I was like, you know the deal here.
Speaker 3: But it's almost like that level of passive aggression, not
Speaker 3: on your part but on her part. And then you're like, okay, fine,
Speaker 3: you want to do this like here, I just cleaned it,
Speaker 3: and it's like you just played right into her hands.
Speaker 5: Yeah. She's like, oh, I got what I wanted.
Speaker 3: It ultimate manipulation where you're trying to get back at
Speaker 3: her and then basically doing chores.
Speaker 1: She just and she invites another guy over. Sorry, that's
Speaker 1: my roommate's plant.
Speaker 6: Oh, just like always, those are my roommate's dishes. She
Speaker 6: was awful, and the last shraw was. I was on tour.
Speaker 6: I was doing shows in Boston and I get a
Speaker 6: text message from one of her friends that lives in
Speaker 6: a different city, who I like, kind of know, but
Speaker 6: not that well. And she was like, Hey, just FYI,
Speaker 6: people told me to tell you that you need to
Speaker 6: get a new key for your apartment because your roommate.
Speaker 2: Changed all the locks.
Speaker 5: What.
Speaker 2: And I'm just like what, why would she do that?
Speaker 6: And she's like, oh, well, I guess she got locked
Speaker 6: out and you weren't there, and instead of like asking
Speaker 6: the landlord for the extra key, she just had all
Speaker 6: the locks changed.
Speaker 5: I am furious. Do you know where there's person is
Speaker 5: right now? I didn't let's go let's drop by. Let's
Speaker 5: don't drop by.
Speaker 6: She's no longer in the city of la She totalled
Speaker 6: five cars and got three DUIs and decided to go back.
Speaker 2: She didn't like it.
Speaker 3: She was trying to get someone to send her away.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and plants weren't doing the trick.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And when I moved out, I cause she like had
Speaker 6: been pulling out our least agreement to try to be
Speaker 6: like you can't leave yet, blah blah blah, and she
Speaker 6: like left it on the table and on the back
Speaker 6: I got a sharpie and I just wrote, you really
Speaker 6: should leave La. I don't think this place is for you,
Speaker 6: and it's gonna destroy you. I don't know another human
Speaker 6: in the city who has totaled five cars and under
Speaker 6: year that under under a year, and every accident was
Speaker 6: her fault. One of them she hit a parked food
Speaker 6: car like a food truck, and then the food truck
Speaker 6: got the ticket because when the cops came, she started
Speaker 6: like crying, and she's like this cute little white girl
Speaker 6: and she's like, oh.
Speaker 2: My god, I didn't know what even happened, and the
Speaker 2: food truck got the ticket. That's fucked exactly.
Speaker 3: But I have to say, just in fairness, when I
Speaker 3: lived in Sacramento, a place I did not want to live,
Speaker 3: I got in three car accidents in a year, and
Speaker 3: when I had to call and tell my parents about
Speaker 3: the third one, my mom goes, I'm coming up and
Speaker 3: getting you tomorrow, and I was just like okay, and
Speaker 3: I had to move home. Like my mother's like, we're
Speaker 3: not fucking doing this funny.
Speaker 6: We should like laid the law down, and instead her
Speaker 6: family would just be like, here's money for another car babe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's bad. She had an old lady head on.
Speaker 6: Yeah, in a car, in a car she was making
Speaker 6: a left and just decided. I don't know, I thought
Speaker 6: the lady would stop for me, even though she didn't
Speaker 6: not have an arrow or anything.
Speaker 5: Oh, I am so mad at this person.
Speaker 1: I'm madder than the murderers on the show we're talking about.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I would rather be friends with a lady ordering
Speaker 6: mersa online than live with that girl again.
Speaker 3: And so lady's kind of trying to kiss your ass
Speaker 3: a little bit and like make it all go well
Speaker 3: until she poisons you. It's not daily attacks.
Speaker 6: I bet she cleaned the bathtub when she was living
Speaker 6: with that lady.
Speaker 1: Oh, so many things are flashing now. I'm so I'm
Speaker 1: glad that I live alone right now? Are you alone?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 5: I'm alone?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 2: After that, I truly was just like I could never
Speaker 2: have a roommate again.
Speaker 6: Got my own place. Yeah, and now I'm in Silver
Speaker 6: Lake the best. I love it over here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really it's so good over here. And also
Speaker 3: it's so nice.
Speaker 2: To live alone.
Speaker 6: It's yeah, I I you know that I was. It
Speaker 6: was my twenties.
Speaker 2: I tried. I can never do it again.
Speaker 3: You did your best.
Speaker 2: I don't even know that I could live with someone
Speaker 2: I was dating at this point.
Speaker 3: Well, also, I think we're Are you in a house
Speaker 3: by yourself during COVID, Yes, yeah, me too, And I
Speaker 3: think it Like at the beginning, I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: I'm scared. I hope I don't have a nervous breakdown
Speaker 3: or because I'm alone as long. And at this point
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, I got through all of the dark
Speaker 3: night of the soul of that, and now I'm like,
Speaker 3: this is what I prefer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was starting to get worried about how comfortable,
Speaker 1: how much fun I could have by myself. I didn't
Speaker 1: anticipate that. Yeah, like this has been a party.
Speaker 6: I love it, and you don't have the guilt of
Speaker 6: I'm supposed to be places. That was the best part
Speaker 6: of COVID. Oh yo, but I was invited, I'm supposed
Speaker 6: to be.
Speaker 2: There is none of that.
Speaker 1: I always say that nothing was expected of me, and
Speaker 1: all my gray hair went away.
Speaker 5: It was the best.
Speaker 1: Sure, Yes, it sucks, nothing's going on career or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the happiness is pretty hard to ignore it.
Speaker 6: All those people who did that was horrible, very sad
Speaker 6: and yet not making line of like just the no
Speaker 6: oh fomo, just the guilt free yesh, gotta stay in all.
Speaker 2: Weekend, gotta watch more TV.
Speaker 6: Yep, no one cares that I'm binging all of Sex
Speaker 6: in the City and my movies now that.
Speaker 5: I haven't shaken. How many things from that time? Have you?
Speaker 1: Are you disappointed that you're still experiencing today? Like, are
Speaker 1: are you still having trouble going to things and watching?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Too much?
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I still cannot get into the rhythm of being social again.
Speaker 6: Like I used to be someone who was like, go
Speaker 6: out to a bar, like after a show, I'd be like, oh,
Speaker 6: everybody's probably just hanging out here. I'll just go stop
Speaker 6: by and end up like you know, hopp into different shows,
Speaker 6: different bars all night.
Speaker 2: And now like I will be like, when exactly do I.
Speaker 6: Need to be at the show for me to walk
Speaker 6: on stage and immediately leave right after? Like if I
Speaker 6: get there at eight fifteen, and I'll be like, what
Speaker 6: eight twenty and we're good?
Speaker 3: Like I feel like because it was so comfortable, even
Speaker 3: though it was scary as hell and very likebviously traumatizing
Speaker 3: to everybody, there's a comfort level that now everything seems
Speaker 3: really hard. Yeah, like all those kinds of social the
Speaker 3: social energy is something that like you need it to
Speaker 3: get it, like you have, it has to already be
Speaker 3: happening almost. It's like a momentum thing for me. So
Speaker 3: then I'm like, well, I can't cold go to this
Speaker 3: party when I haven't gone to a party in four years, right,
Speaker 3: So I just keep not doing it where it's like
Speaker 3: because I don't like being uncomfortable ever at all, because
Speaker 3: I was so comfortable all through COVID just being like, oh,
Speaker 3: I don't ever have to risk anything. I don't have
Speaker 3: to do anything that I don't like doing.
Speaker 1: Well, the good news is this podcast, what you're experiencing
Speaker 1: right now, has replaced parties, at least for me. At
Speaker 1: the end of the episode, you'll feel like you went
Speaker 1: to a thing and even hung out by a pool FIRMA.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that's all I really need.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: I can't promise the swimming pool party. I just kind of.
Speaker 3: Said that, But if I start having parties at my house,
Speaker 3: I will invite you, Ashley, and then you can do
Speaker 3: to put a big toe in see what happens. I'll
Speaker 3: do it leave whenever.
Speaker 2: You'll give it a shot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Like I used to throw a huge house parties,
Speaker 6: birthday parties, and I don't think I've thrown a party
Speaker 6: since before COVID.
Speaker 2: Like I just kind of was like I don't want
Speaker 2: people in my space, right, Like I didn't just like, no,
Speaker 2: this is just my thing now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been meaning to have a housewarming party for
Speaker 1: my place and I've been there four and a half years.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I've been at my place like three and
Speaker 6: a half years and I have not had a housewarming party.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just want someone else's cast for all dishes.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And my friends are like, oh, you finally left that
Speaker 6: horrible roommate. You should celebrate, And I'm like, I'll get
Speaker 6: around to it and celebrating, but just being alone here,
Speaker 6: that's the celebration.
Speaker 3: What Also, I love though, And I think I always
Speaker 3: forget because when I'm like I have to go to
Speaker 3: a party. In my mind, that means I have to
Speaker 3: walk and be like hello everyone and then start doing
Speaker 3: some It's like you can walk into a party in silence, Yeah,
Speaker 3: talk to only the people you know, and leave twenty
Speaker 3: minutes later. No one gives a show with me, right,
Speaker 3: no one cares?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can just go in and listen to other
Speaker 1: people and leave.
Speaker 5: You have to say a word. But does that sound fun?
Speaker 5: I got to go in and do a dance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's that's the old me.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I think it's like you didn't say
Speaker 2: hi to me. No, no, no.
Speaker 1: What if I go in, act like I'm going to
Speaker 1: do a dance, put a lampshade on my head, and
Speaker 1: then I just listened to people.
Speaker 5: It's the best. It's the best.
Speaker 3: About It is quite a way to party.
Speaker 5: Actually read online. We do research. I don't did the research.
Speaker 5: The sweet on least next Dude does the research. But
Speaker 5: it says you grew up in a house that had
Speaker 5: a daycare.
Speaker 1: Yes, oh, I used to live next to a daycare,
Speaker 1: and so I worked at the daycare for years and
Speaker 1: I loved it.
Speaker 5: Did what was your How much of your life was spent?
Speaker 5: All of it? Really?
Speaker 6: Literally when my mom opened the daycare when I was
Speaker 6: like nine months old, because at the time she had
Speaker 6: a job in Chicago and we lived in Rockford. It's
Speaker 6: like a two hour drive between the cities, and she
Speaker 6: would like drop me off at a daycare, go drive
Speaker 6: into the city, work, pick me up and she was like,
Speaker 6: I hate this. I could just start a daycare and
Speaker 6: spend more time with my daughter, and.
Speaker 2: So she did.
Speaker 6: We had a two story house and we basically lived
Speaker 6: upstairs and the entire downstairs was a daycare, like all just.
Speaker 2: Child's size seating.
Speaker 6: Like I like, friends would come over and I would
Speaker 6: be like, oh, sorry, the only place we have for
Speaker 6: use it is like this little like kindergarten table.
Speaker 5: They're on little tykes, like little.
Speaker 6: Tax equipment, and like I think my in high school,
Speaker 6: my mom finally got a couch down there because I
Speaker 6: was like, it would be cool to kind of have
Speaker 6: a real living room.
Speaker 5: That's so funny.
Speaker 1: Everywhere there's your friends sit, there's just a wet cracker
Speaker 1: between the couch.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, yeah, so many wet goldfish.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And she did a first, second, and third shift six
Speaker 6: months old yeah, no six or no, six weeks old
Speaker 6: to twelve.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 6: And because I lived there, like my brother and I
Speaker 6: had to be CPR certified.
Speaker 2: You had to have background checks.
Speaker 6: I like started getting fingerprinted when I was twelve years old.
Speaker 2: Wow, Oh my god, just to live in my house.
Speaker 3: That's crazy, just to go downstairs truly.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Like it was like to go downstairs and lifty,
Speaker 6: or you have to have a background check as like
Speaker 6: a thirteen year old girl.
Speaker 3: Does that mean that you're kind of like you have
Speaker 3: this rock solid portfolio now behind you where you're like
Speaker 3: from the time of twelve, I can prove that I've
Speaker 3: always been an upstanding citizen.
Speaker 2: Kind yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6: And like I did start working for my mom, Like
Speaker 6: I started working with the daycare kids and taking care
Speaker 6: of them, probably when I was eight years old. I
Speaker 6: started like changing diapers, carrying kids, like helping with field trips,
Speaker 6: and by the time I was thirteen, I could like
Speaker 6: wrangle a room of like fifteen children.
Speaker 5: That part I liked.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the wrangling, yes, but I did it in the
Speaker 1: wrong way. I'm like, who wants to get sprayed with
Speaker 1: a hose? And then the parents are come and I
Speaker 1: just had them web kids and sandy wet clothes and
Speaker 1: they were like they loved me.
Speaker 5: I had zero, there.
Speaker 1: Was no I was just my my friend, my roommate's friend.
Speaker 1: That was all my credentials. I know that in Montana
Speaker 1: at the time, you could not a male childcare worker,
Speaker 1: couldn't change diapers, And I'm like, yank God, So I
Speaker 1: would just call up Lanti's grandma.
Speaker 5: We got one, there's a live one, and then I
Speaker 5: just watch.
Speaker 6: That was a surprising rule in also Illinois, they like
Speaker 6: mail daycare workers aren't allowed to change diapers, and I
Speaker 6: was good.
Speaker 2: I remember me like, this is sexist.
Speaker 1: Actually yeah it was we at the time, but it
Speaker 1: was all It also was like that was my biggest
Speaker 1: fear of having to do. Like when she asked me,
Speaker 1: do you want to work here occasionally since you're right
Speaker 1: next door, I was like, I have some diaper questions
Speaker 1: and yeah, and.
Speaker 3: She's like, don't worry about the diaper's pervert. No, not
Speaker 3: your area.
Speaker 2: Like I can change a diaper one handed now.
Speaker 6: And I'll like talk to like new moms or parents
Speaker 6: and they're like, I've never even touched a diaper, and
Speaker 6: I'm just like how Yeah, they're like, oh, because most
Speaker 6: people have normal childhoods where they didn't have to like
Speaker 6: wake up to screaming children at six in the morning.
Speaker 3: But I bet those little kids loved a slightly older
Speaker 3: kid being around.
Speaker 6: Okay, I mean I was like the queen of the place.
Speaker 6: Yeah you were not only because I lived there. Like
Speaker 6: like when I was younger, there were kids my age,
Speaker 6: and when I had favorite daycare kid friends, I would
Speaker 6: be like, you're allowed to come up to my room
Speaker 6: and play with a good toys.
Speaker 2: And I'd bring up like my three favorite female friends
Speaker 2: up and.
Speaker 6: We'd be like, I'm in a you can play with
Speaker 6: the good barbies that are up in my room. But
Speaker 6: then also, and if there were kids I didn't like,
Speaker 6: I'd be like, yeah, you can go play on the
Speaker 6: outside playground.
Speaker 2: Actually that's right.
Speaker 3: But getting them used to this is the politics of childhood.
Speaker 3: You get used to it. Yeah, those only children, That's.
Speaker 2: What I was doing, you know, and I loved it.
Speaker 6: Like a lot of the kids I'm still really close with,
Speaker 6: which it's wild to watch.
Speaker 2: Them grow up. And I'm like, what do you mean,
Speaker 2: You're like in college.
Speaker 1: Many of the kids that were in my daycare have
Speaker 1: their own kids now, and those kids are already riding
Speaker 1: bikes yeah, and driving cars.
Speaker 6: They have my mom babysitting their kids, and I'm just like,
Speaker 6: this is so wild, Like.
Speaker 5: Oh, your mom still has the daycare.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she still has the daycare.
Speaker 6: She eventually moved it to Texas and she started doing
Speaker 6: like daycare and elderly care. So now she takes care
Speaker 6: of babies and old people.
Speaker 5: Wow, this is a.
Speaker 3: Very cross question. But does she fucking make bank?
Speaker 2: She does. We can cut that out.
Speaker 3: If you want, but it's all I can think about
Speaker 3: where I'm like the idea that she quit her career
Speaker 3: and basically was like, oh no, no, I'm feeling this niche.
Speaker 3: It's such a need in this country. Yeah, especially people
Speaker 3: who know what the fuck they're doing.
Speaker 6: And she's I mean she's been doing it for like
Speaker 6: just over thirty years.
Speaker 2: She started it, like.
Speaker 6: You know, just kind of independently in the house, but
Speaker 6: she went back to school to get her degree in
Speaker 6: early childhood education. So like after that you're allowed you
Speaker 6: can like charge higher rates and like taken like children
Speaker 6: whose rates are subsidized by the state. Oh so that's
Speaker 6: like how you make so much money because it's you know,
Speaker 6: kind of like Section eight housing where the parents only
Speaker 6: have to pay a certain amount and then the state
Speaker 6: like pays all the rest of it, and like you
Speaker 6: get reimbursed for the money you spend on food and stuff,
Speaker 6: which I think is really the biggest thing about a
Speaker 6: daycare home is I was learning how to cook for
Speaker 6: twenty people by the time it was like ten.
Speaker 5: That's amazing to the elderly folks hang out with the kids.
Speaker 2: They yeah, I love it, Yeah they do. It's honestly
Speaker 2: the suggest thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, I love it.
Speaker 6: Like she has this one kid right now, the stacred
Speaker 6: kid who is obsessed with vacuuming because he is in
Speaker 6: love with this one ninety eight year old woman my
Speaker 6: mom watches, who is like love it forces anyone to
Speaker 6: vacuum if they come into her house. She's like one
Speaker 6: of those strict old ladies. That's like, if you walk
Speaker 6: in my living room, you vacuum on the way out.
Speaker 6: In this little like six year old boy, as soon
Speaker 6: as like he sees Miss Irma, he's like, miss Irma, vacuum, vacuum,
Speaker 6: miss Erma, how can I vacuum?
Speaker 2: And he loves it.
Speaker 6: And I'm just like, you are creating my little sens
Speaker 6: as scolden girl children, and I love it.
Speaker 1: Is my I had a cousin in Montana that, when
Speaker 1: he was six or seven, was obsessed with vacuum cleaners
Speaker 1: and wanted a vacuum.
Speaker 3: Sorry, will you let me go over there? I didn't
Speaker 3: I misread my map and I need to go over there?
Speaker 3: Will you let me go.
Speaker 2: In front of you. Thank you. Sorry, I said, it's okay.
Speaker 1: No, that's part of the podcast. We that happens all
Speaker 1: the time. Sometimes it's it's directions. Other times someone wielding
Speaker 1: a bike clock wants to attack it.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of trauma. It's a mixed bag in LA.
Speaker 6: If you're going to get someone who's like I totally
Speaker 6: get it, or someone who's gonna pull a gun out.
Speaker 1: This kid, anyway, UH was obsessed with vacuums and would
Speaker 1: take them apart and put them back together, and everyone
Speaker 1: was like, oh, we're dealing with a genius here. Yeah was,
Speaker 1: and UH was very good at it, and the vacuum
Speaker 1: would run again a child and guess what he does now.
Speaker 5: He owns a vacuum repair shop. Like he just knew
Speaker 5: his passion early on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it just clicked.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it didn't have to become like, oh that that
Speaker 1: kid now designs rockets for Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I was like, I'm just like this and that's
Speaker 3: what I want to make people's vacuum cleaners work. That's
Speaker 3: so noble in this world.
Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe this kid'll grow up to well, I guess,
Speaker 6: I don't know, be a maid. Just like he just
Speaker 6: likes to use the vacuum, but misters made service first.
Speaker 1: I wanted to see how the vacuum worked at a
Speaker 1: young age, all the electronics. I built one from scratch
Speaker 1: with a three D printer. Now my passion is this motel,
Speaker 1: but it's.
Speaker 3: Kind of ironic too. Where you were forced to share
Speaker 3: your house with thirty to eighty children, and children ayhow
Speaker 3: and so you probably learned to actually be the best
Speaker 3: roommate anyone could be cooking, cleaning all that shit.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you were doing it for like mass amounts of people.
Speaker 6: And like you know, with a daycare home, it's like
Speaker 6: at the end of every day, you don't just close
Speaker 6: with it being a mess. You have to clean up
Speaker 6: and make sure it looks good. And if new parents
Speaker 6: come and check out the daycare, it has to all
Speaker 6: look nice. And you know, even the upstairs has to
Speaker 6: look good because it's like this one place we have
Speaker 6: to live. But I think mostly it made me like,
Speaker 6: like I loved sharing my mom. Like I was just like,
Speaker 6: I have the world's best mom. She's so amazing and these.
Speaker 2: Kids are so lucky that they get to have her
Speaker 2: in their lives.
Speaker 3: Are you an only child?
Speaker 5: No, I have eight.
Speaker 2: Brothers and sisters.
Speaker 5: Holy shit.
Speaker 2: So but we're like so broad in age.
Speaker 6: Like my oldest sibling he was born in nineteen sixty
Speaker 6: nine and my youngest sibling was born in two thousand
Speaker 6: and three.
Speaker 5: Oh wow.
Speaker 6: So it's like such a broad range that like my
Speaker 6: older siblings didn't really feel like siblings. They felt like
Speaker 6: older cousins and aunts and uncles because they would babysit me.
Speaker 6: So in the daycare was where it kind of felt like, oh,
Speaker 6: these are like siblings, Like I have to share my
Speaker 6: mom with them, I have to share attention and stuff
Speaker 6: with them. Yeah, and like I now blame that on
Speaker 6: why I'm polyamorous, and my mom hates it.
Speaker 2: She's like, you're not gonna blame me for that. You're
Speaker 2: being all messed up.
Speaker 6: And I'm just like, but you like raise me in
Speaker 6: this house where I was like, love is for everyone,
Speaker 6: there's no limits on it.
Speaker 2: My mom can love me and eighty children.
Speaker 1: I will blame the house on you, immediately claiming the
Speaker 1: blood off of a toilet seat.
Speaker 6: Yes, it's just maybe like I've had to clean children's
Speaker 6: peep poop my whole life.
Speaker 2: Let's just clean it up.
Speaker 5: Wow, that's great.
Speaker 1: That you still look on it as a good experience,
Speaker 1: because I wondered if it was different from my I
Speaker 1: think year and a half that I've worked.
Speaker 6: I mean, I guess maybe there were moments at the
Speaker 6: time when I wanted.
Speaker 5: To be alone.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: When I went off to college, I had trouble sleeping
Speaker 6: because I was so used to falling asleep to the
Speaker 6: sound of children, waking up to children at like four am,
Speaker 6: and I was just like, what is this like scary silence?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like where are the where's the crying?
Speaker 5: You is just crying sounds and diaper smell.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And it took forever for me to be like, oh, okay, yeah,
Speaker 6: this is just how normal people live in sleep.
Speaker 3: Do you want to have kids?
Speaker 6: I did for a long time, and mostly because I
Speaker 6: know I'd be an incredible parent.
Speaker 2: I would be an amazing.
Speaker 6: Mom, like I have helped raise all my nieces, nephews,
Speaker 6: great nieces and nephews. Like I love kids, I'm so
Speaker 6: good with them. And then I'm just like, oh, but
Speaker 6: the world is so bad, and yeah, it's like I
Speaker 6: can do the best job in the world and like
Speaker 6: a TikTok can ruin my kids, and that terrifies me.
Speaker 3: It's so horrifying. It's so true. Oh, it's that's funny.
Speaker 3: My grandma had my dad had eight brothers and sisters,
Speaker 3: so my grandma had and raised nine kids, and then
Speaker 3: she babysat the neighborhood kids. But it was much more
Speaker 3: kind of casual.
Speaker 2: Yeah, back in the forties and fifties or whatever.
Speaker 3: But that always blew my mind where I was like,
Speaker 3: she must fucking love kids because she already had. You
Speaker 3: would think she would be like exhausted or angry or something,
Speaker 3: and instead she's like, no, keep them coming.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I was always like with my mom.
Speaker 6: I was like, I don't know why you raise all
Speaker 6: those kids and now you're just like, let me just
Speaker 6: keep doing this.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I bet she's a really cool Always she's
Speaker 6: she's cooler than me. All my friends are always literally like,
Speaker 6: your mom's actually cooler and funnier than her. You should
Speaker 6: like try to get her into stand up. Oh, he's
Speaker 6: so great.
Speaker 1: I was on a show, a Comedy Central show with
Speaker 1: Donnelle Rollins.
Speaker 5: What's one of the comics he's like? And he was
Speaker 5: like always trying.
Speaker 1: To be loud and I don't know he robbed me
Speaker 1: the wrong way at first. I've since become pals with him.
Speaker 1: But his mom they he grew up in a foster
Speaker 1: care house that like would take on teenagers and twenty
Speaker 1: something year olds that were having trouble, and he also
Speaker 1: had multiple siblings, and his mom was the coolest woman I.
Speaker 5: Had ever met.
Speaker 1: My dad and her like, it would just talk for
Speaker 1: everyone's parent had to be on this show for a
Speaker 1: little bit, and I'm like, oh, okay, that may for
Speaker 1: the coolest person ever, the most compassionate human that's willing
Speaker 1: to open their home to all these people.
Speaker 6: It's just yeah, and just don't even when things would
Speaker 6: like get tough and kids were annoying, her parents weren't
Speaker 6: paying their bills, she just had no problem being funny
Speaker 6: about it.
Speaker 2: And just always making sure all these kids were happy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and yeah, I think that's what struck me about
Speaker 1: this woman.
Speaker 5: It's just riddled with nothing but compassion. Like that's the best.
Speaker 5: We're getting pulled over.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm like, I can't be inconvenience to go to
Speaker 3: a party that someone's trying to people and please stop
Speaker 3: invading my privacy. Anything that you want to plug or
Speaker 3: talk about before we wrap it up.
Speaker 6: Well, you can listen to my comedy album ice Cream Money.
Speaker 6: It's out everywhere, Spotify, whatever you like to stream your
Speaker 6: music on. I have a special comeing out this fallow
Speaker 6: that I don't even I think I'm gonna film it
Speaker 6: at the Comedy Store. I'm not sure yet actually, And
Speaker 6: if you live in LA you can head to my
Speaker 6: social media to see what shows I have coming up.
Speaker 2: Follow me at the Ashley Ray Anywhere.
Speaker 6: And your podcast Yes, and listen to my podcast TV
Speaker 6: I Say with Ashley Ray, which is also wherever you
Speaker 6: stream stuff.
Speaker 3: What's it about?
Speaker 2: It's all Things TV.
Speaker 6: I interview your favorite comedians actors about all the shows
Speaker 6: they love. The latest episode is Jason man Zukus and
Speaker 6: does he hate the Bear?
Speaker 2: Love it? We yell about it for an hour.
Speaker 5: Wait, that's awesome.
Speaker 3: Is he a Chicago guy too?
Speaker 6: Yeah, he started an improv there and we like went
Speaker 6: to college not too far from each other. Eloy is
Speaker 6: much older than me, but he is a huge friend
Speaker 6: of the pod. So we have a lot of episodes
Speaker 6: with Jason since he's not on the internet. So if
Speaker 6: you want to know what Jason man Zukis watches TV,
Speaker 6: I say, is the only place to I do.
Speaker 3: Want to know everything that not on.
Speaker 1: The internet because he watched all these things on VHS
Speaker 1: pretty much learned that and more.
Speaker 5: You've been the best.
Speaker 3: Yes, thank you so much. Great to meet you.
Speaker 2: You too, Thank you so much.
Speaker 5: You're listening. You've been listening to Do you Need a Ride?
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Speaker 4: This has been an exactly right production.
Speaker 3: Produced by Analise Nelson.
Speaker 4: Mixed by Edson Choi.
Speaker 3: Our talent booker is Patrick Cootner.
Speaker 4: Theme song by Karen Kilgarrett.
Speaker 3: Artwork by Chris Fairbanks. Follow the show on Instagram, Twitter,
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Speaker 1: For more information, go to exactly rightmedia dot com.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Oh You're welcome.