Speaker 1: James Cameron loves strong women. That's why.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's way and a strong woman. That's why you
Speaker 2: married Catherine Bigelow.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, because she looked she throw you on
Speaker 3: the room. Now, yo, the nickname from my plus used
Speaker 3: to be hurt locked. Now we'll hearting on.
Speaker 1: And now.
Speaker 4: Why can't you look at me? Look at me? I
Speaker 4: see you in a reflection. Don't look at my reflection.
Speaker 4: Look at me. I did not know that.
Speaker 1: Just add that to the pilot.
Speaker 4: Then I met my.
Speaker 3: Husband, who's duds, and I called the Holland tunnel because
Speaker 3: gas is cheap on the other side. And now that
Speaker 3: I'm married and tired, I called it brim a triangle.
Speaker 3: Just get up, Christopher Columbus and find your way.
Speaker 4: Is it haunted? Maybe it's been a long two years.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Hey everybody, we're back with another episode
Speaker 2: of adulting.
Speaker 3: We sure are, honey, and today, oh boy, dude, we
Speaker 3: got a truth for you.
Speaker 4: It's the one, the only, the incredible short.
Speaker 3: Our conversation with her is nothing short of inspiring.
Speaker 1: You are not kidding, my friend.
Speaker 2: So sit back, relax, and let's have a little pre
Speaker 2: salida chat.
Speaker 4: Welcome to adulta, Hey, friend, how you doing. Hey, I'm
Speaker 4: just pretty. Whoa, I mean, I'm not bad.
Speaker 2: You're not bad. You're coming into the studio. This is
Speaker 2: just one of the myriad things that you do. I mean,
Speaker 2: now you're a full on boss.
Speaker 4: Yes, I've always been a boss. That's bitch, though.
Speaker 3: Did I tell you When I was little? I think
Speaker 3: I was seven or eight or maybe even nine.
Speaker 4: Who knows.
Speaker 3: I made a magazine at a construction paper and the
Speaker 3: cul de Sac I lived in, and would like drop
Speaker 3: it into everyone's mailbox.
Speaker 4: And it was called Head over Heels and it was.
Speaker 3: A severed head that I cut out and put it
Speaker 3: into like a shoe that I made. Whoa, No, it
Speaker 3: was like a head that I made. It was very literal.
Speaker 4: I was like very young.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And it was just like a newspaper, like a
Speaker 3: weekly news clipping that I would draw of all the
Speaker 3: things that happened on the cul de Sac, like someone's
Speaker 3: dog was barking, someone didn't pick up the dog ball.
Speaker 3: You know, the flowers are in bloom. And I thought
Speaker 3: it was so cute and productive. But the neighbors ask
Speaker 3: my parents to have me stop putting stuff.
Speaker 4: In their mids.
Speaker 2: Make it stop, right, was anybody like, hey, when is
Speaker 2: the Christmas issue coming out?
Speaker 3: I did have a Christmas issue and nobody cared and
Speaker 3: it was just like, is kwans of real?
Speaker 4: That was like my first one.
Speaker 3: Nobody can't and it's just like, how dare you?
Speaker 4: Did you have anything that?
Speaker 1: Did I have anything like that?
Speaker 3: I've always been a busy person though I love community,
Speaker 3: so that's I think that's where that started.
Speaker 2: I did participate in a magazine when I was a
Speaker 2: small child in the fourth grade. My friend John Searcy
Speaker 2: naming names published a magazine and he was brilliant beyond
Speaker 2: his years. And that was the first time I had
Speaker 2: ever understood anxiety. She's like, where where is your story?
Speaker 1: Where it's the deadline?
Speaker 2: And I was like, huh, Like I didn't know what
Speaker 2: anxiety was. You know, when you're a kid, it's just
Speaker 2: like what But yeah, I like put in my story.
Speaker 2: He would print it out on his zeroxit his dad's office,
Speaker 2: and kids would just like read it and be like
Speaker 2: this is good. All the kids in school loved it.
Speaker 4: You know that is so wild?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think it is important to support
Speaker 3: what your kids do, even if it's silly. Oh absolutely,
Speaker 3: you know, like, I can't wait to see what these
Speaker 3: kids come up with.
Speaker 4: I used to do it.
Speaker 3: I used to do a cabbage patched kid in Pound
Speaker 3: Puppy Club, sure on Saturday mornings because my mom wouldn't
Speaker 3: let me watch cartoons because she thought they were like
Speaker 3: dumb and American.
Speaker 4: No fruit roll ups, no sugar seees. God, I know,
Speaker 4: we're just jail.
Speaker 3: Was no, it was like a switch prison. It's like
Speaker 3: it just looks better than it was. This is the
Speaker 3: thing you can't really deny someone something like parents were
Speaker 3: like no snacks, know this, know that. And then when
Speaker 3: I got to college, I just like ate everything. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: what I mean, So you can't I feel like, don't
Speaker 3: tell you use especially with like sex.
Speaker 4: It's like smoking weed. Getting off topic.
Speaker 3: The point is I was a boss ass bitch and
Speaker 3: I'm still a boss ass bitch. And I feel like
Speaker 3: you have people working under you now, not under me
Speaker 3: with me.
Speaker 1: You people working directly under you.
Speaker 4: No with me.
Speaker 3: This is the difference between my cannitellia and yours.
Speaker 4: You can't wait to boss people around. Uh No.
Speaker 2: I got an assistant for the first time after I
Speaker 2: told you to get an assistant for forever and you're like, You're.
Speaker 4: Like, I can't do it.
Speaker 1: Everything's stressing me out.
Speaker 2: I was like a kid and assistant that I was like,
Speaker 2: that was like a year before you gotten I know.
Speaker 3: People have been telling me that I need an assistant
Speaker 3: for like five years. But people tell me what to
Speaker 3: do all the time, and I don't listen. You know
Speaker 3: what I mean, right, like you should try a Cayenne
Speaker 3: lemon fucking fast, Like people are always telling me dumb shit,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, I got this. But there was a
Speaker 3: point where I did feel like Donald Duck under like
Speaker 3: a pile of gold, where I was like, there's just
Speaker 3: like one finger sticking out. It was just like an
Speaker 3: embarrassment of riches I could share with no one yecause.
Speaker 2: I'm tired, because you needed to like delegate that and
Speaker 2: get that together.
Speaker 3: I'm so glad that you finally have. Oh my god,
Speaker 3: is amazing. Her name is Alex. She is friendly, but
Speaker 3: she's really friendly. She's not like fake friendly, which is great.
Speaker 3: She doesn't JOKEO like such a hard New Yorker.
Speaker 4: She's like, how you doing.
Speaker 3: I'm like good, I guess with the state.
Speaker 4: Of a family.
Speaker 3: She loves dogs like I am like John goes back.
Speaker 3: Diane Lane muslif dunks. Yeah, because I've got two big, black,
Speaker 3: beautiful beauties at home and they're a mess and she
Speaker 3: don't mind, which is great. She's great with kids, which
Speaker 3: is especially great with me and my husband because he's
Speaker 3: the third kid.
Speaker 4: He oh so yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I always talk about people as
Speaker 3: like chosen family, and it almost feels like that where
Speaker 3: I'm just like, thank you so much for fitting into
Speaker 3: my world.
Speaker 4: Don't everlate.
Speaker 3: Sometimes at the end of the day, I do feel
Speaker 3: like the terminator, do you know what I mean? Just
Speaker 3: like again getting back to the one finger, just like.
Speaker 4: You don't remember the end of the time.
Speaker 2: A yeah, of course, don dun dun dunn, Don dunt dun.
Speaker 1: You think remember a terminator?
Speaker 2: Linda Hamilton racking a shotgun.
Speaker 4: With one arm. Let me say, a jaw. What is
Speaker 4: one look that you've always wanted to achieve but you
Speaker 4: never could.
Speaker 2: Probably like wearing a muscle shirt out on a you know,
Speaker 2: like in a fire escape while playing the trumpet.
Speaker 4: Look, I will definitely book you.
Speaker 3: I'm just getting vibes of like the black dude at
Speaker 3: the end of Pretty Woman.
Speaker 4: Oh that's me. Yeah. A store in this door store.
Speaker 4: Who is this mystical magical Miro.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but he did his thing, Honey. He
Speaker 3: was the only black person in that movie. You love
Speaker 3: that we were arguing about Pretty Woman.
Speaker 4: Were we arguing or having a debate.
Speaker 2: We're having a spirited, healthy exchange of ideas.
Speaker 3: Because you thought it was Remind me what you thought
Speaker 3: Pretty Woman? Well, you thought it was not a great look.
Speaker 2: I thought it was a bloated, transactional horror escape.
Speaker 1: And just this.
Speaker 2: The terrible worship of capitalism in the exchange of flesh
Speaker 2: and how women are owned.
Speaker 1: And I did not like that in any cana.
Speaker 4: What did I think about it?
Speaker 3: You're better at something this up than me, because I
Speaker 3: don't remember.
Speaker 2: You were like, let it live, it's great, we love it.
Speaker 2: And then everybody who had written all this stuff at
Speaker 2: AMC to help me out in this argument was like,
Speaker 2: She's right, she's so funny, winning and charismatic.
Speaker 3: I mean, I do like, look, you never know how
Speaker 3: you're gonna find love, right, And so the fact that
Speaker 3: the fact that Julia was like, I'm doing my job,
Speaker 3: but then like you know, she sort of falls in
Speaker 3: love with this guy and sees how vulnerable he is
Speaker 3: and powerful at the same time, and same with him
Speaker 3: about her.
Speaker 2: I mean it's a cute everything though, Like I think
Speaker 2: people just like they are suckers for a meet cute.
Speaker 3: I mean, yes, we all are. Everyone wants to know
Speaker 3: the story. That's how you end every rom com too.
Speaker 3: But like at this point when you said meat cute,
Speaker 3: I just I'm hosting a show on Netflix called Barbecue
Speaker 3: Showdown and everything else, like the other kind of meat is.
Speaker 3: I'm like, meet cute, right, you gotta get smoke rings?
Speaker 3: What about the juices? But yeah, I mean that is
Speaker 3: the number one question, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean, have you ever had like a meat cute
Speaker 2: that didn't go anywhere many years?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What's your what's your most memorable meet cute?
Speaker 4: You know what?
Speaker 3: I really have to go back to my book survirval
Speaker 3: Thick is available on paperback and hit up that chapter
Speaker 3: Game of Hose, which really just explores sexuality and body
Speaker 3: positivity and coming into your own and not being ashamed
Speaker 3: of it book. But you know, I think anytime that
Speaker 3: I've put myself out there where I have done the
Speaker 3: first handshaker hello is like.
Speaker 4: A pat of my back for a meat cute.
Speaker 3: I am really tired of everyone saying that shit has
Speaker 3: to happen to you.
Speaker 4: You can make it happen for you.
Speaker 3: And that's why I always say open your mind, your heart,
Speaker 3: and your legs to love.
Speaker 4: Yeah. But I think the ultimate meeque was obviously my husband. Yeah,
Speaker 4: because I was out.
Speaker 3: On a very terrible day before with a guy who
Speaker 3: was not worthy of my time. But I was in
Speaker 3: New York and feeling myself and you know, I didn't
Speaker 3: necessarily like even want a hand to hold. I was
Speaker 3: also just like, I don't know how to end this.
Speaker 3: And so when he finally said all the terrible things
Speaker 3: he should, I met my husband like minutes later.
Speaker 1: Wow, he was waiting in the wings.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like ce okay kind of yeah.
Speaker 4: He's like, do you want to dance? I'm like, okay, oh,
Speaker 4: that's right. You were.
Speaker 1: You were at Binbee.
Speaker 3: Bebe you guys. Is just like, this is a great
Speaker 3: thing about New York. There's all these little pockets of lounges,
Speaker 3: not necessarily clubs. Yeah, if you want to go out dancing,
Speaker 3: you don't have to like wait in line like you're
Speaker 3: in Vegas or like at Disney World.
Speaker 4: You could just walk up to like a little lounge.
Speaker 3: It looks like a regular ass door and you go
Speaker 3: inside a whole fucking moment. It was an international, free
Speaker 3: every night dance lounge where there'd be dudes with dreads.
Speaker 3: They'd be white or black, we don't know. With the jorum,
Speaker 3: there's like really cool artistic bartenders, cash on le bar
Speaker 3: where you can buy over price squava drinks.
Speaker 4: You can get spun by seven different tunes.
Speaker 3: Everybody looks like a backup dancer for Shakiro, and it's
Speaker 3: just like, it's amazing. It was amazing, and so you know,
Speaker 3: I'm really glad I met husband in that sort of situation.
Speaker 3: And not like no offense if you're this guy, but
Speaker 3: the guy at the wine bar with his book and
Speaker 3: his muscles look and his little artisan coasts on the
Speaker 3: same page for seventeen hours, I'll see you, bitch, with
Speaker 3: your red lips and your mom's credit card.
Speaker 4: I know your game.
Speaker 2: That was very specific, I have to say, though, I mean,
Speaker 2: of course, Pantheon Hall of Fame, meet cute me and
Speaker 2: my wife. Yeah, of course, although lately this happened to
Speaker 2: me Ego Stroke went to Grace Parr's wedding.
Speaker 1: I love Grace par hilarious comedian and I was.
Speaker 2: In La for it and I was there unfortunately solo doo.
Speaker 2: I come out of my hotel in my tuxedo.
Speaker 4: Was it white?
Speaker 3: No, that's a miss. That's a miss. Yeah, no, a
Speaker 3: white taxiedo. Just hear me out here me out eleven spices.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I'm in my I'm in my own
Speaker 2: bought tuxio.
Speaker 1: I own one. Be an adult. Be an adult own
Speaker 1: a tuxedo.
Speaker 4: Wow, men's werehouse coupon.
Speaker 1: Cole's cashulew.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah no.
Speaker 2: So I had the tux and this lady she just goes,
Speaker 2: you look really good in that tuxiedot it up.
Speaker 1: I was like no, I was.
Speaker 2: I was waiting for my car and she's like, you
Speaker 2: look really good in that tuxedo. And a woman looked
Speaker 2: like she just, you know, nice looking white lady. And
Speaker 2: I was like, thank you very much, tall, short, what
Speaker 2: color hair, blonde hair, brown eyes. She was going out
Speaker 2: for the evening as well, and I was like, thank
Speaker 2: you so.
Speaker 1: Much, and occupado goodbye, Like you know, I.
Speaker 3: Was like, that's right, but it isn't the best feeling,
Speaker 3: like yeah, still got it, still got it was the
Speaker 3: best feeling still got it is the best feeling.
Speaker 1: I just said thanks. I just said thanks.
Speaker 4: That's all you need to say. Yeah, that's all you
Speaker 4: need to say.
Speaker 3: The best feeling used to be when someone recognized me
Speaker 3: on the street and I'm like, oh, that's why i
Speaker 3: was tap dancing for all these fucking shows. But now
Speaker 3: I'm just like okay. But like when someone's just like,
Speaker 3: good for you, you're doing You're looking good. Yeah, And
Speaker 3: it's always different for like a woman getting a compliment,
Speaker 3: because it's sometimes just gross. Like I was walking back
Speaker 3: in the day to uc B in the West twenties
Speaker 3: in New York City, and this guy I said to me, damn,
Speaker 3: MO love to use you as my coffee table.
Speaker 2: It's like, what the fuck is that mean? Does that
Speaker 2: mean he's gonna put like Rizzoli art books on you?
Speaker 2: I think I understand what it means.
Speaker 3: Yes, can you please get this Cape Cod Martin book.
Speaker 4: Chester? But I don't even know what that means. And
Speaker 4: I was like, you're grosss.
Speaker 3: But like if someone compliments to you on your style
Speaker 3: and it's just like, damn, you look good.
Speaker 2: That's great, Yeah, fantastic.
Speaker 4: I'm so excited about our guest today.
Speaker 1: Yes, me too.
Speaker 4: I mean every time I see her, I get happy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 3: Like I never know what she's thinking by her face.
Speaker 3: That's my favorite. She's just like whatever. She's Atlanta raised. Okay,
Speaker 3: but I feel like you're so Brooklyn. She's a comedian,
Speaker 3: a writer, a co host of The War Report podcast
Speaker 3: on current events. She has not one, but two comedy albums,
Speaker 3: Motherfucker Yes, and she also just recently appeared on Peacock's.
Speaker 4: New black comedy Black. Why are you doing that with
Speaker 4: your hands?
Speaker 3: Dad? The bust Down? She's on the bus down, Please
Speaker 3: help us. Welcome Sharp.
Speaker 6: Was lovely. Okay, ye talk to me. I was actually
Speaker 6: born in Brooklyn.
Speaker 5: Oh see, you can tell yeah Atlanta business.
Speaker 6: When I was eight, I left my family behind and
Speaker 6: moved to it. No, my family moved to Atlanta when
Speaker 6: I was eight.
Speaker 4: Did you divorce your parents?
Speaker 6: At me?
Speaker 4: That is true? Therefore, I know I.
Speaker 6: Wish, but I mean they were lovely people, but I
Speaker 6: probably wouldn't have thought of that until like eleven.
Speaker 2: Wait, so are you a wings enthusiast because you're from Atlanta?
Speaker 4: I am not?
Speaker 1: Wow you are you different?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I mean they're they're lovely and I wish all wings well,
Speaker 6: but it feels like so much work. It feels like
Speaker 6: so much work, and I've got there's so many other
Speaker 6: reasons to judge me.
Speaker 4: Other ways.
Speaker 6: I mean, there's so I'm there are many other things
Speaker 6: that I'm doing that are probably problematic, not problematic, but
Speaker 6: probably wrong.
Speaker 4: I love.
Speaker 1: You not liking wings. It's more wings for me, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: But I have them. But I mean, by the time
Speaker 4: we get the wings, I'm just like, you know what
Speaker 4: I understood. Why do the strip clubs in Atlanta have
Speaker 4: so many wings? Oh? I guess because you're going to
Speaker 4: be there a while. Actually I was. I was in
Speaker 4: a strip club for a friend's work. Not that one.
Speaker 1: It was actually Strokers.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, okay, yes.
Speaker 2: I.
Speaker 4: Remember when it opened.
Speaker 6: My dad and we drove by and my dad was like, wow,
Speaker 6: they didn't even try Brokers.
Speaker 4: And yeah.
Speaker 6: So I'm there for friend's birthday and I watched a
Speaker 6: man come up to the bar, everyone greeting.
Speaker 4: Him, Hey, what's up. He's like, hey, what's up. He
Speaker 4: came up to the bar. They already had his wings ready, Yeah, sure,
Speaker 4: sure in front of them.
Speaker 6: Now the thing is in Atlanta, the strippers are completely nude.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 6: And they serve alcohol, so that is that is how
Speaker 6: they would get there California.
Speaker 4: You cannot serve alcohol, right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and some places they castes are under some sort
Speaker 6: but yeah, no we busting it, busting.
Speaker 4: It wide Sea of Florida. No, yeah, have alcohol. And
Speaker 4: it's like.
Speaker 6: So there, you know, the things are going on around him,
Speaker 6: but he is focused on his basket of wings, sitting
Speaker 6: at the bar, just cleaning him, just sucking marrow out,
Speaker 6: just like whistle clean. And I'm watching him just go
Speaker 6: through so much, just like here are my fresh ones,
Speaker 6: here are the remains, and just going back and forth.
Speaker 6: And then he finishes, and he takes his wet nap
Speaker 6: and very elegantly wipes off his fingers and then puts
Speaker 6: that in the basket, pushes it aside, and then turns
Speaker 6: around in a stool and then opens his arms up like.
Speaker 4: Ladies, I am ready for you now. And I was like,
Speaker 4: all right, well, I've seen all I need to say
Speaker 4: that is yuck.
Speaker 2: After you get your sixteen wings, then you're ready for
Speaker 2: the table. You know that he's going to be there
Speaker 2: a while.
Speaker 6: He must tip well, because they already had the wings ready.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 6: So I'm like, I can't even really hate because if
Speaker 6: they love him at Strokers, he must be treating them right.
Speaker 4: You know, it's so funny. Okay, So I was thinking
Speaker 4: about this today. Oh my god.
Speaker 3: So my husband from Europe doesn't understand that takeout might
Speaker 3: be shitty takeout. He's so pure and he's just like,
Speaker 3: if they serve you the foodage should be done well.
Speaker 3: Why would they not poking holes at the top to
Speaker 3: keep it crispy and like that, And so we have
Speaker 3: we always have like a phone call with Seamless or
Speaker 3: Uber Eats where he's just.
Speaker 4: Like, how dare you?
Speaker 3: And I'm like you, I'm just thinking about the person
Speaker 3: leaving Strokers or any strip club, being like, I can't
Speaker 3: believe those fucking wings were terrible? Do you think anyone
Speaker 3: is just like absolutely, I'm so mad they gave me
Speaker 3: all flat tops.
Speaker 6: Yes, absolutely, because there are enough strip clubs serving wings
Speaker 6: that you can pick like, nah, I like that one
Speaker 6: for the girls, but the wings are tighter over here, you.
Speaker 4: Know what I mean? And so yeah, you absolutely.
Speaker 6: I mean I feel like, if you're going to spend
Speaker 6: that much time and money in a place, it all
Speaker 6: needs to be right for you.
Speaker 1: Do you go back to recharge? Is your family's still there.
Speaker 6: My sister is still there, and I do try to
Speaker 6: go back as much as possible.
Speaker 4: It was a little rough.
Speaker 6: We of course, spent a complete year apart, which was
Speaker 6: the longest in her life of her not being around me.
Speaker 6: I mean, I had a good three years before she
Speaker 6: showed up, but just throwing bottles and stuff and being
Speaker 6: weird standing at the foot of my parents' bed sure
Speaker 6: them out.
Speaker 4: But then she came around.
Speaker 6: So we did get together around the holidays, and we recently.
Speaker 4: I told jokes on a cruise.
Speaker 6: It went really well in that it was like a
Speaker 6: chartered cruise, you know what I mean, So everybody there
Speaker 6: they were there for a reason.
Speaker 3: So the assignment absolutely. Oh I've done like the cruises
Speaker 3: for families.
Speaker 4: That are Carnival cruise and stuff like that wasn't carnival.
Speaker 4: I don't remember what it was.
Speaker 3: I really had to black it out. For cruises for comedians,
Speaker 3: you have to do an early show, which is like
Speaker 3: a clean show, and then the late show that's a
Speaker 3: dirty show. And so I just completely bombed and the
Speaker 3: early show and then I had to go have dinner
Speaker 3: with everyone that was at.
Speaker 4: The show in the same time. Yeah, I'm like, you'll.
Speaker 3: Get it next time. I'm like, I am not here
Speaker 3: for this. I had a terrible time in a cruise.
Speaker 3: I'm so glad you are our unicorn.
Speaker 6: You were the really was the luckiest situation because I mean,
Speaker 6: it's my first time on the cruise.
Speaker 4: I had to get baby's first passport. Yeh, where'd you go?
Speaker 6: We stopped by NASA and Saint Croix and then apparently
Speaker 6: cruise ship's own little private islands right around the Bahamas,
Speaker 6: so we stopped in there, and my sister and I
Speaker 6: went to a cabanda that I think you were supposed
Speaker 6: to rent, but they had already unlocked the chair.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Saw the woman look at us and just go, yeah,
Speaker 6: we'll let him have that.
Speaker 4: I love that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, not to circle back to strip clubs,
Speaker 3: I've also done stand up in a strip club really,
Speaker 3: Yes and Queens and there was hot food, which was good.
Speaker 2: I think I did stand up in that same Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're on the same show.
Speaker 3: No, I don't know. We've been doing stand up for
Speaker 3: a while. But like, I just love all the places
Speaker 3: that stand up.
Speaker 4: Will well, I've taken you. Yeah, it changes your eye.
Speaker 6: I I've been teaching some comedy classes and one thing
Speaker 6: I tell the students is that from this point on,
Speaker 6: every place you go, you're going to look at the
Speaker 6: corner of that room and go. I mean I could
Speaker 6: probably put something there right, like a little actually.
Speaker 4: Everywhere you go.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah absolutely. So what makes a good
Speaker 1: show space for sure to comedy?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it never will be conducive, So you guys got.
Speaker 4: I don't know. No, it's never gonna work. But I
Speaker 4: mean you can see it where it's like the not
Speaker 4: the worst show, but like the worst venue.
Speaker 2: Sometimes bad venues can be amazing shows, though, you know,
Speaker 2: if it's like intimate and dank whatever.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm gonna say sports bars. Did quite a few
Speaker 6: sports bars while in the South, and.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, if they really want.
Speaker 6: You there, they'll turn off one of the television one.
Speaker 6: Oh that's huge, one that is huge. It won't be
Speaker 6: the one that's directly over your head, No, but it's
Speaker 6: one by the kitchen or something.
Speaker 4: Sure, but yeah, those are usually rough.
Speaker 6: I did one in a in the sports bar once,
Speaker 6: and halfway through my set, a kitten crawled.
Speaker 4: Out of the PA system.
Speaker 6: What the act I wish because it got a great response,
Speaker 6: and I was like, I'll take you. But the guy
Speaker 6: who had put the show together kept his PA system
Speaker 6: in his garage and they also had kittens in there.
Speaker 6: I guess some cat had gone into the garage and
Speaker 6: had kittens, and so one of the cats crawled into
Speaker 6: the PA. So he drove around with that speaker in
Speaker 6: his truck all day, had no idea set up the.
Speaker 4: Speaker still in there.
Speaker 6: Two other comics went before me in addition to him,
Speaker 6: you know, opening and hosting.
Speaker 4: Nothing.
Speaker 6: I start and the Cat's like, I can't do this anymore,
Speaker 6: Oh my god, this, I must leave the cat.
Speaker 4: I walked the cat.
Speaker 6: Not only did I walk the cat, the cat found
Speaker 6: a home on the show at the show because his
Speaker 6: wife explained, Oh, it's because these kittens in the garage
Speaker 6: and someone's like, i'll take that kitten.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: I'm like, what is happening here? No, you are the
Speaker 3: sea lea for that cat. Yeah, you're the Sealy.
Speaker 4: You're the.
Speaker 3: I must walk you out of the show. Chlice walker.
Speaker 4: You guys, I'm trying. I am so tired. Oh are
Speaker 4: you not late night?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: No, No, it's just twenty years of comedy and forty
Speaker 3: four years of the patriarchy.
Speaker 4: That's where I'm tired.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that I feel like I've been tap dancing
Speaker 3: in and just like I feel like a fat ballerina
Speaker 3: around men's egos.
Speaker 4: Other than that, I'm fine, Yeah, especially mine.
Speaker 1: She feels very nervous.
Speaker 2: Wait, I gotta know you started in the South and
Speaker 2: it like, yes, wow?
Speaker 4: What was that?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 6: Fine? I started and I guess what would be considered
Speaker 6: the alternative part of it, which just means that it
Speaker 6: was an open mic in a dive bar that was
Speaker 6: very popular, and that's you know where I started. And
Speaker 6: then at the comedy club that you could get to
Speaker 6: on public transportation because most of them were way out
Speaker 6: deep in the suburbs and you had to have a car,
Speaker 6: and I started with no car.
Speaker 4: Wow, some rules.
Speaker 3: Too, especially in LA you need a car too for
Speaker 3: the open mics. Now, what are your other comedy rules?
Speaker 3: Will you date a comedian?
Speaker 6: I've done it one and a half times and a
Speaker 6: half halftimes a half.
Speaker 4: Day, well the point five. He didn't really have much drive,
Speaker 4: so when it came.
Speaker 3: To dating or comedy, yes, now, actually dating, he had
Speaker 3: a lot of drive and that he was dating many
Speaker 3: people at once, but comedy wise, I think he was
Speaker 3: one of those that like he had started and was
Speaker 3: just wondering why the industry wasn't checking for him yet.
Speaker 4: Oh god, it was like, I mean what like Our.
Speaker 6: Biggest argument was he had talked to someone about doing
Speaker 6: a show and their venue, and that person was like, well.
Speaker 4: Can you do like twenty? Do you have twenty minutes?
Speaker 6: And he was a gas that anyone would ask him
Speaker 6: if he had twenty minutes? And I said, well, actually,
Speaker 6: do you have twenty minutes? No shade, no shame, I
Speaker 6: don't know I have. I've only seen you in five
Speaker 6: minute increments, So do you have twenty? And then he
Speaker 6: was furious again and he was like do you have twenty?
Speaker 6: And I said, honestly, when I moved here from Atlanta,
Speaker 6: I had thirty, but I had in Atlanta thirty, which
Speaker 6: has now been cut down in New York to like
Speaker 6: New York. Wow, we'll ask the comeding answer right there,
Speaker 6: because it's the currency exchange rightly, so it wouldn't all translate.
Speaker 6: And he was just like, I don't even know that,
Speaker 6: and I'm like that. That's how it ended up going
Speaker 6: into my brain.
Speaker 3: I love doing comedy in New York City, especially for
Speaker 3: the clubs, because it's so international, Like you really have
Speaker 3: to figure out that's your international set. I feel like
Speaker 3: in New York City at a comedy club because you
Speaker 3: have a table from Germany and then a table from Australia,
Speaker 3: a table from the Bronx, a table from Canada, and
Speaker 3: it's just like, what are you going to do to
Speaker 3: make everybody laugh?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: So that's like such a great answer because I don't
Speaker 3: think a lot of people moving to New York about
Speaker 3: that at all, but you know who does?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely, well because I'm an old lady.
Speaker 4: So I mean I moved to New York at forty?
Speaker 4: Was and what made you decide to move to New
Speaker 4: York at forty.
Speaker 6: To see how much I loved actually doing comedy because
Speaker 6: I started doing comedy at like thirty seven, and I
Speaker 6: was like, I really am enjoying this. Let me go
Speaker 6: to New York and try to stick it out as
Speaker 6: long as I can, as long as my knees will allow,
Speaker 6: you know.
Speaker 4: And then and then figure it out just shouting vitamins.
Speaker 2: When you moved from Atlanta, did you move in SlowMo
Speaker 2: away from a burning house, like not look back, get
Speaker 2: your ship.
Speaker 6: I definitely my second day in New York, I was like, oh,
Speaker 6: I've made a.
Speaker 1: Terrible Why was that? Why did you feel that?
Speaker 6: I was just like, I'll go and I'll just I
Speaker 6: guess I'll just get me a.
Speaker 4: Job and then I'll just get me a job.
Speaker 6: Exactly when you think I'll just get me a job,
Speaker 6: you are in no way prepared prepared, But let me
Speaker 6: just grab one of these jobs, man.
Speaker 4: I mean I.
Speaker 6: Did in a reasonable amount of time, but I don't.
Speaker 6: The delusion that makes you think you can make a
Speaker 6: whole room of people laugh is the same delusion that's like.
Speaker 4: Let me go on up here and get me a
Speaker 4: job right quick. But you need that.
Speaker 2: I yes, but you need I think it was Frandly
Speaker 2: Boyce talked about that you need a little naivete when
Speaker 2: you're coming to New York.
Speaker 1: She said, like her first thing that she did was
Speaker 1: she walked.
Speaker 2: Into the offices of the New York Times and was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know what, I would write a couple.
Speaker 1: Of columns for you if you want me to do that.
Speaker 2: And they were just like, I'm so surprised that anybody
Speaker 2: would do that. That they were like, I you know,
Speaker 2: it's that kind of thing. It's that kind of thing.
Speaker 2: But don't you feel that way? Like it feels like
Speaker 2: you needed that a little bit. Oh No, I had
Speaker 2: come to the.
Speaker 4: City, need to just be like duh, you know what
Speaker 4: I mean. That's how it was when I started comedy.
Speaker 6: I felt like, kind of the way to make it
Speaker 6: through a lot of the bullshit is to be dumb
Speaker 6: about it.
Speaker 4: Hmmm, just like huh.
Speaker 6: Wow, and then keep going like oh that's humph clock
Speaker 6: it when you see it, and then don't interact.
Speaker 3: Think that would work, and that is such a superpower
Speaker 3: that nobody ever talks about because it's just like that's
Speaker 3: something you have to figure out on your own two.
Speaker 4: And what I love about.
Speaker 3: You moving to New York to pursue comedy at forty
Speaker 3: is that I don't know anybody else that would do that.
Speaker 3: But you know what I mean, and I mean for better,
Speaker 3: because everyone talks themselves out of what they should be doing.
Speaker 3: I always see my most talented friends are the ones
Speaker 3: that are in a corner, second guessing everything they fucking do.
Speaker 3: And it's these basic bitches that are out here just being.
Speaker 4: Like, look at me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, at any and every age, and it's
Speaker 3: just like they can't even come close to what we
Speaker 3: can do. And so I love that you didn't talk
Speaker 3: yourself out of shit. You're just like, let me go
Speaker 3: see because the realization in New York, which is like
Speaker 3: a masterclass of life and adulting, whether you're twenty or
Speaker 3: thirty or forty, it's just.
Speaker 4: Like, oh shit, how am I going to do?
Speaker 6: This?
Speaker 4: Is so yeah.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, I remember calling my parents and talking to them
Speaker 6: and just breaking down at how how hard it was.
Speaker 6: And my parents, now, my dad had grown up in
Speaker 6: New York.
Speaker 4: He was a how you say bedsty do and or die.
Speaker 4: I've heard of this. He was one of those.
Speaker 6: And my mother grew up in Middle Georgia and then
Speaker 6: moved to New York when she was like eighteen. Like
Speaker 6: as they were trying to give her her high school diploma,
Speaker 6: she was like thanks, I'm out by Yeah, so she
Speaker 6: had some frame of references to the toughness of just
Speaker 6: going up there. And I guess I'm a little I
Speaker 6: wouldn't say stoic. I feel like I'm emotional. I just
Speaker 6: don't know if I portray it a lot.
Speaker 4: You don't. And I love it you don't love it.
Speaker 6: So my parents, even with my parents knowing me since
Speaker 6: having me, they still were like, who is this bitch?
Speaker 6: Like crying on the phone and they were just like okay,
Speaker 6: but you're going to figure this out, right, like you're
Speaker 6: gonna are you coming back? Like what's happening? It's been
Speaker 6: like a month. And I said no, I'll get it.
Speaker 6: I just it is a lot.
Speaker 4: It's a lot.
Speaker 6: And they're like okay, all right, cool, cool. And my
Speaker 6: mother was like, I know, it is a lot. And
Speaker 6: my dad's like, well, just do it. This is what
Speaker 6: you wanted, right, And I'm like, yeah, they are both
Speaker 6: trying in their own ways and I appreciate that and
Speaker 6: I'm just.
Speaker 4: Gonna keep going.
Speaker 2: So coming up at forty, I mean I said this
Speaker 2: about myself a lot too, like I always think of
Speaker 2: last best chances.
Speaker 4: Hmm.
Speaker 2: I was like, I think I in twenty twenty kind
Speaker 2: of like set myself up for my last best chance.
Speaker 1: In comedy, you know.
Speaker 2: And because I was like I'm forty, like I really
Speaker 2: need to annie up and kick in. Did you feel
Speaker 2: that way too, Because if you're saying you're forty when
Speaker 2: you came here and now you're on bust down like
Speaker 2: it's like, I mean, it's an amazing thing.
Speaker 6: It's like, actually I feel a little bit of that
Speaker 6: now because I'll be turning fifty this year, yes quick,
Speaker 6: And so I'm like, I gotta I mean, were running
Speaker 6: at a all of the replenty, like we're at of eggs, lubrication,
Speaker 6: we're running out all the cartilage.
Speaker 4: We gotta we gotta, we gotta work it well.
Speaker 6: We can't love this so at forty since I already
Speaker 6: started so late and was just in the throes of it,
Speaker 6: just in love with it, I was like, yep, let's go,
Speaker 6: let's do this.
Speaker 4: And now I'm like, okay, I seem to be in this.
Speaker 4: Now you're in it. You're in it, so now what?
Speaker 6: And I am trying to not be a person who
Speaker 6: is like you mentioned Michelle, like in the corner, just
Speaker 6: like I don't know, I'm trying.
Speaker 4: To not be that person.
Speaker 6: That's That's what I've been working on over the past
Speaker 6: couple of years of just like you know, you've stopped
Speaker 6: every other caper that you've started. This is not a caper.
Speaker 6: This is not a scheme, This is not just something
Speaker 6: you're trying.
Speaker 3: You like, you're in no more imposter syndromes, like yeah,
Speaker 3: once we really fake it, Yeah we made then we're like,
Speaker 3: oh fuck, we're making.
Speaker 4: We're making it dope, right.
Speaker 3: And I just I just I love that you're in
Speaker 3: the New York comedy scene. I really do we need
Speaker 3: more voices like you. We need more faces like you. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and also women who fucking say their age.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what are we not doing happen?
Speaker 2: We can bleep that out the fifty thing. We can
Speaker 2: blep that out. It's not wait on, I'm slow.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you this though, what was your
Speaker 2: defining moment when you were like, because you said you
Speaker 2: came here at forty you started thirty seven. What happened
Speaker 2: at age thirty seven and you're like, fuck this noise,
Speaker 2: I'm doing this well.
Speaker 4: I had wanted to do stand up since I was fifteen.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, and I.
Speaker 6: Finally it's a little morbid, but I was like, Okay,
Speaker 6: I want to do this. My mother had had a
Speaker 6: serious stroke when she was like forty six, and so
Speaker 6: she was paralyzed like on her right side, and so
Speaker 6: I'm penciling my stroke in at like forty one.
Speaker 4: Let me go ahead and just do comedy once, right.
Speaker 6: So I could say that on some old bucket list
Speaker 6: thing and then I can say that I've done it.
Speaker 4: So I went up and my first set.
Speaker 6: As I was doing it, you know, you disassociate and
Speaker 6: you float above and you watch yourself do it. And
Speaker 6: then I got annoyed because I was like, oh no,
Speaker 6: this is what I have to do for the rest
Speaker 6: of my life.
Speaker 4: Now I got to figure out how to change my life.
Speaker 6: So as I am telling jokes for the first time,
Speaker 6: my brain is also like, so, like, what do we
Speaker 6: do now?
Speaker 4: How how do we do this forever?
Speaker 6: Annoy that was annoyed that I now have to do
Speaker 6: comedy for I had a thing about what like a
Speaker 6: passive aggressive pimps, like.
Speaker 4: You know, just down what's a passive aggressive.
Speaker 6: Just one who's like talking to his employees and it's
Speaker 6: just like, well, I mean I get you know, just
Speaker 6: like you're not going to hit him, but you're just like, oh,
Speaker 6: it seems like other people are able to do it,
Speaker 6: but I mean if.
Speaker 4: You can, you can't work with them. The mother in
Speaker 4: law energy.
Speaker 6: Like that whole thing just kind of goofy things like that.
Speaker 3: Okay, we got some questions from audience members. This is
Speaker 3: very exciting. Oh this is a nerdy one, so perfect
Speaker 3: for you guys.
Speaker 1: We wear glasses, right, I don't guess is actually.
Speaker 4: Your eyes are bad nerve.
Speaker 3: Okay, the question is what's the difference between a four
Speaker 3: oh one K and an IRA which gets me closer
Speaker 3: to early retirement?
Speaker 2: Do you want to take this because maybe you have
Speaker 2: a stronger prescription than that.
Speaker 6: I not, I will say, but they are progressive. So
Speaker 6: I do have two prescriptions. Let's see the IRA. I
Speaker 6: think there's something there with a ros IRA. Both of
Speaker 6: them are things that I have signed up for without
Speaker 6: knowing what they are.
Speaker 4: Right me too, I thought it was IRA the whole time.
Speaker 4: I would love to meet IRA. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and uh, if you take money out of the
Speaker 6: four oh one K, you will have to pay taxes
Speaker 6: on it.
Speaker 2: Yes, if you take money out of the four one
Speaker 2: K before and a half years old, yeah yeah, you
Speaker 2: can stand for independent retirement account. But you can take
Speaker 2: money out of your IRA if you're making like your
Speaker 2: first home purchase, Okay, you can take you can do that,
Speaker 2: and then you can also I think borrow against a
Speaker 2: four oh one K for the same purposes, but like
Speaker 2: four one K is it's employer base, so it's your
Speaker 2: it's the company that you work for. It's their retirement
Speaker 2: fun and hopefully they'll match whatever you put in.
Speaker 3: It's a it's a good company, and it probably isn't
Speaker 3: if you're in a mayor Listen, good luck though. My
Speaker 3: husband's from Holland. These motherfuckers take like three month vacation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's wild. That is wild.
Speaker 3: Think it a whole year off from eternity, lee, right,
Speaker 3: so they can heal, you know.
Speaker 6: So I'm just like, I have things set up for retirement,
Speaker 6: and yet I also don't actually see myself retire ring.
Speaker 4: Right, you know, you know what I mean. I'm like,
Speaker 4: I don't even know what that world is.
Speaker 6: Like, I literally see myself doing the makeup for my
Speaker 6: Netflix special in the bathroom of my day job, do
Speaker 6: you know, Like that's how I see these kind of things.
Speaker 3: I'm with that Woopy Goldberg, Joan Rivers, Betty White life
Speaker 3: where I want to be an adult diapers hosting SML.
Speaker 3: I want to I definitely as to the bathroom. Yeah, oh,
Speaker 3: this is a fun question. I recently moved to BK. Lately,
Speaker 3: lots of friends and family have wanted to visit I'm
Speaker 3: still new to the city and having a heart time
Speaker 3: figuring out how to best host them, and I want
Speaker 3: to create a dope New York experience.
Speaker 4: P s. Also, I'm black. Can't be done. Then, Oh
Speaker 4: that's impossible.
Speaker 6: She's saying that she was black because we would have
Speaker 6: said just tell them to stay somewhere else, and she's like, well, i'm.
Speaker 4: Black, so take that off the table. I think it's like, right,
Speaker 4: I'm black.
Speaker 3: And then also, I'm going to have a really hard
Speaker 3: time trying to impress them or have anything.
Speaker 4: Be the way that they want it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, show huh the walk and just tell tell you folks,
Speaker 3: they're gonna have to walk.
Speaker 4: Lots of cares. It's okay, it's fine. Tell them they
Speaker 4: won't get murdered.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can feel it.
Speaker 2: After like three blocks with black family, they're just like,
Speaker 2: where where is MoMA?
Speaker 3: Then yeah, we gotta meet mama.
Speaker 1: Oh we ain't even got the Googenheim.
Speaker 6: Yeah, just explain to them comfortable shoes and say even
Speaker 6: if they don't match, mom, wear the comfortable.
Speaker 4: Shoes, yes, please don't.
Speaker 6: And and those sandals are not just because they're flats
Speaker 6: doesn't mean they're comfortable.
Speaker 4: Two more questions. These are real cute. Okay.
Speaker 3: The first one is if my partner wants to eventually
Speaker 3: move across the country, how do I thoughtfully engage with
Speaker 3: their wants while realistically prioritizing my own goals?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 6: Okay, so you.
Speaker 4: Don't want to go? Is so you don't want to go?
Speaker 4: I'm hearing.
Speaker 6: What I'm hearing is you don't want to go? How
Speaker 6: do I picking up of a sense of I don't
Speaker 6: want to go.
Speaker 4: I don't want to go? So you don't want to go?
Speaker 4: So how do I? This is my out. It is
Speaker 4: also a side note, right okay?
Speaker 6: So what then you're gonna have to do is decide
Speaker 6: real quickly the thing that you're trying to save.
Speaker 4: What is this thing that you're like?
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, I want to rest the fact that
Speaker 6: you have to leave, But I have this that I'm
Speaker 6: working on.
Speaker 4: What's the this? Have you ever done long distance? No?
Speaker 4: I barely do.
Speaker 6: Next to me, so, oh, my goodness, full of advice
Speaker 6: and I got nothing.
Speaker 3: Uh huh no h I did long distance for two
Speaker 3: years in New York to Amsterdam for my husband with
Speaker 3: my husband with my then boyfriend, because I knew there
Speaker 3: was no other Dick, I want to sit on right, Like,
Speaker 3: I mean, when you know, when you know that's this question,
Speaker 3: isn't I just But for me, what really helps me
Speaker 3: is a pro and con list, like like I actually
Speaker 3: have to write it down and I say this all
Speaker 3: the time. Once I figure out the why, then I
Speaker 3: like kind of have the answers. It's like, why do
Speaker 3: I not want to go?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: Wouldn't it be exciting unless you don't want to leave
Speaker 3: your apartment, your goals or be with this person anymore?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 2: I feel like this is a very genteel couple and
Speaker 2: I would love to see them mark you.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: It feels like they would never just come out and
Speaker 2: be like that. It's just like, yeah, but I'm feeling this.
Speaker 2: I'm feeling that I'm not getting through to you in
Speaker 2: the manner by which I think. They're both customer service
Speaker 2: representatives and they're locked in the ultimate conflict.
Speaker 6: No customer service representatives would yell at each other because
Speaker 6: they have to stay calm for the customers.
Speaker 4: That's why there's always coming home and young at our kids. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, I really feel bad.
Speaker 3: I have a couple of friends, like what you're saying
Speaker 3: where they really can't express how they're feeling because they
Speaker 3: don't want to be the bad guy and hurt each
Speaker 3: other's feelings deliberately. And so they're like their insides are
Speaker 3: literally like burning up because they're like holding it all in, right, yeah,
Speaker 3: and so like we'll just have like a gallon of
Speaker 3: wine or a box of wine and.
Speaker 4: Bring a bucket of.
Speaker 3: Way we all have purple lips and we can finally
Speaker 3: talk about it.
Speaker 4: It's like Game a Trivia was so long. It was
Speaker 4: so long.
Speaker 3: Give the about Jacob, bitch, tell him how you feel.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I think that's it. I think that person
Speaker 6: just has to say, oh no, I don't.
Speaker 4: Know if I want to go, and then see where
Speaker 4: it goes from there.
Speaker 6: I bet you at no point has a person gone.
Speaker 4: I'm doing this. Yeah, we got to own it.
Speaker 3: That person has to happened. Oh, it'll take care of itself.
Speaker 3: Sometimes that happens where it's it's like, oh it didn't
Speaker 3: work out, Okay, I don't even have to like.
Speaker 4: Do a thing.
Speaker 1: Oh, but that is holding it a fart for so long.
Speaker 4: It is hoping wish your If anyone knows what it's
Speaker 4: like to hold the farts me and you're welcome. Guys,
Speaker 4: you're welcome for this whole side of this small room.
Speaker 3: Okay, because I had the sweet potatoes, you.
Speaker 2: Did have the sweet potatoes. Those are ruders and tutors.
Speaker 3: Okay, this is an exciting question. What I love is
Speaker 3: that it seems like a simple question, but it is.
Speaker 3: It really is people needing help.
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, So here's the question.
Speaker 3: What's one routine I should add to my life to
Speaker 3: make my workday or regular life more exciting and.
Speaker 1: Fruitful, more exciting and fruitful.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I.
Speaker 3: Get this because you get stuck in the mundane of
Speaker 3: responsibility and what you like child rose, thank you so much,
Speaker 3: and some dried mango slices. But then you want to
Speaker 3: do something fun and new, but you don't want to.
Speaker 3: I don't want to go to a class. I don't
Speaker 3: want to meet new friends. I don't want to have
Speaker 3: to like sign up and let like I could barely
Speaker 3: want to like pay for an app. Sure, so, how
Speaker 3: do you add something to your life to make it
Speaker 3: more fruitful?
Speaker 1: Fruitful?
Speaker 6: Try making a food that you've never had, not just
Speaker 6: ordering it, but actually cooking.
Speaker 3: You got snapped? Can you snapping that mic again.
Speaker 4: Oh, yes, fruit, that makes it fruity.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I feel like that that might be it because if
Speaker 6: cooking is your thing, then that's a way to get into.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And if it's not your thing, well now we're trying that.
Speaker 6: So even if whatever you cook isn't great, at least
Speaker 6: you tried.
Speaker 1: I find that about cocktails.
Speaker 2: I have a cocktails book, and I love like making
Speaker 2: a newbie.
Speaker 3: You know, my husband froths an egg white stick right off. Wow,
Speaker 3: I'm right, one little gentle like syrup, be cherry cherry thing,
Speaker 3: and I'm gonna pretend.
Speaker 4: Pretended because that's delicious.
Speaker 3: Oh, the little egg white frothy.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 1: Thank you for having me, are you Yeah? Are you kidding? Like,
Speaker 1: thank you for elevating this show.
Speaker 4: Yeah. It is all gutta all the time.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about egg froths and fucking blow jobs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you are just so much. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Go to Shaula's website or listen to her podcast.
Speaker 4: The War Report.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was just listening to you looking for it.
Speaker 2: I was listening to this episode of the War Report
Speaker 2: where you were talking about how you were when you
Speaker 2: were a kid. You're sick and stay home and you
Speaker 2: just wanted to sleep and that was it. And then
Speaker 2: like you lived across from a bowling alley and a
Speaker 2: grocery store and you was yeah, yeah, it was just
Speaker 2: that made me laugh so much. Were you like a
Speaker 2: grown up when you were six?
Speaker 6: I mean, it's looking like it's looking like from stories
Speaker 6: things that piece together is looking like I've been not
Speaker 6: necessarily an old soul, but definitely a crotchety old man
Speaker 6: like I've definitely been Benjaminities.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I think old souls become young spirits.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, well then my sister was definitely the old soul,
Speaker 6: whereas I've just stayed crotchety throughout, throughout, throughout, just a
Speaker 6: steady like humph. There's always an element of so funny.
Speaker 3: I don't get crotchety, but I definitely get like stone,
Speaker 3: like the Stone Colt, which I love. But I think
Speaker 3: there's a lot going on under there, and so I'm
Speaker 3: always like, what is it? That's what I love about it.
Speaker 2: Yes, everybody, please go and watch Chile show Bust Down.
Speaker 1: Is it out now?
Speaker 4: It is out?
Speaker 2: It's out, amazing, amazing, can't wait. Can you tell me
Speaker 2: just a little bit about your character before we have
Speaker 2: to go.
Speaker 6: Oh sure, Well it's a show that was put together
Speaker 6: by Langston Kerman, Chris Red, Sam Jay and and it's
Speaker 6: basically just them being extremely silly based in the casino
Speaker 6: in the Midwest, and I'm on an episode.
Speaker 4: Where they are dealing with the homeless.
Speaker 6: Actually wow, so I'm there as one of their former employees.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well fantastic's so thank you for fucking coming,
Speaker 3: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 5: I love that so much. Yeah, like what a beautiful
Speaker 5: ass story. I mean, like I said, very inspiring. Yes,
Speaker 5: Like I was just like, damn, what's my excuse?
Speaker 4: You know, No, I mean, you're out here doing it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But she's doing she doing it, doing it and yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: And that's the thing, Like no one's gonna bet on
Speaker 3: you like you, you know what I mean, Like do
Speaker 3: fucking you. Don't wait for somebody else.
Speaker 1: Yep, you know, don't wait, just.
Speaker 2: Be your own advocate, get out there, do it. I
Speaker 2: hope people listening today are like, yeah, I'm gonna do
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1: Like, get your ass off the couch.
Speaker 3: Are you gonna give me some Kim Kardashian, don't fucking
Speaker 3: be lazy, get your ass up and fucking okay.
Speaker 4: Caim no, but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's really important for people to know
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter how old you are or how much
Speaker 3: experience you have at something. If you really really love
Speaker 3: it and you feel the desire to do it, do it.
Speaker 2: You don't have to tell everybody. You don't need everyone's permission.
Speaker 2: But it's just the messages that we're getting from society.
Speaker 2: It's like the twenty under twenty, the thirty under thirty,
Speaker 2: the forty, you know, like that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: It's like youth is prized.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I always say that people love logic. They love the
Speaker 3: black and white. They love like, well, it's either.
Speaker 4: This or this.
Speaker 3: But real love and growth and experience and humanity is
Speaker 3: the shades of grain between.
Speaker 2: Oh what you're gonna put it on?
Speaker 4: I don't know yet, sandwich a magnet. I don't know yet.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: But I say that all the time because I had
Speaker 3: a surrogate from my kids. But that doesn't make me
Speaker 3: any less of their mom.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: You know what, it's not as black and white that
Speaker 3: you get to have a baby and be a mom.
Speaker 3: You can be a mom, but without even having kids,
Speaker 3: you know, you can just take care of people. And
Speaker 3: so I don't know, I'm just really inspired by SCHILEI wah.
Speaker 3: And what's so exciting too, is that she's about to
Speaker 3: turn fifty and she's only getting started. Yeah, right, Like
Speaker 3: that's the fucking dope part. Like I can see it.
Speaker 3: It's like real fucking fun to watch.
Speaker 2: So let's ask h this which is which is kind
Speaker 2: of our wrap up portion of the evening.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's been your rose? What's been your throne? What's
Speaker 1: been your bud?
Speaker 4: Rose? Thorns, buds? You go, you go?
Speaker 2: Okay, cool, let's see I'll start with Rose.
Speaker 4: Rose? Was that?
Speaker 2: And maybe this is a little selfish, but I got
Speaker 2: my first, really, my first offer on something that I
Speaker 2: didn't ever audition for.
Speaker 4: Nice is a good feeling, right, that's a really.
Speaker 2: I was like, I had to read the email a
Speaker 2: couple of times. It's like, are you are you sure?
Speaker 4: Are you sure?
Speaker 1: Wait?
Speaker 4: This is art?
Speaker 3: What do you remember what I told you at the
Speaker 3: Ponce Dellion situation when we were having an overpriced pretzel.
Speaker 4: When you told me you're doing the AMC show.
Speaker 1: And I cried, Yes, I remember that so well because.
Speaker 4: I knew it was happening. Oh, well, what.
Speaker 1: Was happening that I was becoming something?
Speaker 3: You are always something, but now people are starting to
Speaker 3: recognize it.
Speaker 2: Oh that's so sweet, You're so sweet. No shit thorn
Speaker 2: this week, haven't had one yet and oh you can
Speaker 2: just skip it. No, I haven't had I really haven't
Speaker 2: had one it yet. There hasn't been like a down spot. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but we're only halfway through the week, and I guess
Speaker 2: one to grow on is just and it always remains.
Speaker 1: This is being more organized.
Speaker 2: Just being more organized, being more responsible for my things, yeah,
Speaker 2: and really looking out for myself at night. My mornings
Speaker 2: go really well, but my night prep I make excuses
Speaker 2: as to why I shouldn't, like.
Speaker 1: Why charge your phone, why wash my face? Why do anything?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 3: That's me and eating at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: Like I'm so good for the first half of the day,
Speaker 3: and then when I just get home, I'm like, hell, yeah,
Speaker 3: I just need to stuff whatever I can in my
Speaker 3: face and go to bed.
Speaker 1: You ever taken a little bit of chocolate and peanut
Speaker 1: butter and just throw that.
Speaker 4: Wait, yeah, and put it on top of ice cream?
Speaker 4: Who the fuck are you talking a bit? Who the
Speaker 4: fuck are you talking to? I don't wear anything with
Speaker 4: zippers anymore. This is a coat. There's no buttons or.
Speaker 3: Zippers, but rose, thorns and bud you know, I have
Speaker 3: They call these three year olds now they're so sassy
Speaker 3: and grown.
Speaker 4: They call them three najors.
Speaker 3: So I have a couple of three majors, y'all, and
Speaker 3: just a whole ass opinion. And what about what just
Speaker 3: everything's all everything just ice age or blue ey or
Speaker 3: I don't want to wear these socks or don't touch me, mama,
Speaker 3: I don't like that. Don't don't do my hair uh
Speaker 3: or cut my nails, like all over the plane. Their
Speaker 3: cute litt a cute little mouths all over the place,
Speaker 3: and so no, I don't except my rose is that
Speaker 3: they I see their little minds developing and they're becoming
Speaker 3: so independent and wonderful and juicy and yummy. And my
Speaker 3: thorn is that I lost my temper in the car
Speaker 3: because they learned how to open the door that.
Speaker 4: The black mom at a target came out.
Speaker 3: I was like, don't you can't ship, don't do that
Speaker 3: shit that's dangerous.
Speaker 4: I was like goo ga ga good.
Speaker 3: And then I'm like, please don't do that because but
Speaker 3: I already saw them just so disappointed with me, and
Speaker 3: they shut down and I just pickme up from daycare
Speaker 3: and we were all so happy to see each other,
Speaker 3: and they just like try to open the door, and
Speaker 3: they were proud of themselves for opening the door. But
Speaker 3: I also was like in the middle of a fucking
Speaker 3: road and was on the freeway. No, no freeway, it
Speaker 3: was a back road.
Speaker 1: But still do that.
Speaker 3: So I apologized to them. It was the first time
Speaker 3: I had to apologize to them. Wow, because they understood
Speaker 3: that I did something bad.
Speaker 2: Can I ask you a question, please, did your parents
Speaker 2: ever apologize to you when they got uprest?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Then that's a really cool thing because my parents ever
Speaker 2: apologized to me when they get upset, And I think, uh,
Speaker 2: breaking that cycle is It's really important, especially when you
Speaker 2: don't have any examples.
Speaker 4: Be the change you want to see. I know that
Speaker 4: sounds so hashtaggy.
Speaker 1: But that's kindy.
Speaker 4: It's true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but everything everyone livesing hashtags and like T shirts
Speaker 3: and topeggs. You're like, yeah, hashtag, I know, but it's true.
Speaker 3: You really just treat people how you want to be treated,
Speaker 3: even if those people are your people and they're little people.
Speaker 3: Because I don't want them going around yelling at people
Speaker 3: for no reason, losing their temper and they're all gonna
Speaker 3: they're already gonna do that because they live in New York,
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 4: And so the bud is that we are growing together. Hey,
Speaker 4: you and the kid.
Speaker 3: Oh for Fox you guys, thank you so much for
Speaker 3: listening to our show. We appreciate you, We love you.
Speaker 3: We don't know who the fuck you are.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you guys have any donations that you want
Speaker 2: sitting with, didn't I almost feel.
Speaker 1: That like that, like like we're brought to you by donation.
Speaker 4: I know who wants some coffee beans? Anyways. Yeah, take
Speaker 4: care of yourself, but don't forget to wash, Like especially,
Speaker 4: just check.
Speaker 3: Under your fucking fingernails, people, like, just look under your fingernails,
Speaker 3: look behind your ears, looking, this is your assignment. Everyone,
Speaker 3: Look in those crevices, okay, like what we do in
Speaker 3: the shadows type shit on your body.
Speaker 4: Just do that because yuck. That's all. That's all.
Speaker 3: I gotta go, bye bye.
Speaker 1: This has been an exactly right production.
Speaker 4: Our senior producer is Natalie Wrinn. Senior Managing producer is
Speaker 4: Hannah Kyle Kriton. This episode was sound designed and mixed
Speaker 4: by Andrew Eapen and engineered by Ryobam. Our guest booker
Speaker 4: is Patrick Cotner. Our theme song is by dj on Will.
Speaker 4: Photography by Chris Spender, most.
Speaker 1: Artwork by Jamie Bechtel.
Speaker 3: Executive produced by Karen Kilgarriff, Georgia Harstark, and Danielle Kramer.
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Speaker 3: Email your questions to Adulting Questions at gmail dot com
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