Speaker 1: Hey, guys. Coming up, we have a New York Comedy
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Speaker 1: to see you there. Ding dong less Cultures us calling Well.
Speaker 1: I guess you could say the Eminem's are backs are bad.
Speaker 1: I guess you could say that not only did I
Speaker 1: bring the Eminem's on this episode, but you brought a
Speaker 1: new favorite of my mine. Can I plug? The snacks
Speaker 1: are really happening today. We've got pretzel crisps Buffalo wing
Speaker 1: flavor Deli style. I told you, matt it, I put
Speaker 1: this in my mouth and I was like, there was
Speaker 1: a piece of gorgeously fried chicken in my name. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know who exposed me to this already? Our
Speaker 1: guest is, which, of course, is the original song. It
Speaker 1: was more of a ballad um Katrina Rogers, who is
Speaker 1: my mother? Who I'm gonna radically say this radical She
Speaker 1: should be on the pod. I think Katrina should be
Speaker 1: on the pod. I would love that. I think that
Speaker 1: would be an amazing episode. But yeah, okay, but what
Speaker 1: I'm saying stupid first symmetry, Like I would love that.
Speaker 1: That means we would have we would we should bring
Speaker 1: my mom on. And I don't know if that's Why
Speaker 1: don't we bring someone else in your family on? We
Speaker 1: can bring my sister on. Why doesn't Yang Yang come on?
Speaker 1: My sister would be great, would be so great? You think?
Speaker 1: I think so? And speaking of family, we have a
Speaker 1: new member of the family in the room, not our guests,
Speaker 1: but we have hot engineer well high Well he just
Speaker 1: moved from Seattle. It's he's fresh off the boat and
Speaker 1: fresh in our hearts. And well, I'll ask you one question,
Speaker 1: what's the best eminem? Okay, that's wrong, that's unfortunately wrong.
Speaker 1: Christy eminem is good and Pretzels close enough. Now, Will
Speaker 1: is a certified expert in all things audio. He just
Speaker 1: walked me and Matt through with a delicious, sumptuous tapestry
Speaker 1: of words. He told us about a sonorous proximity effect
Speaker 1: when he was telling us to please speak more directly
Speaker 1: into the microphone. And I just want to say, that
Speaker 1: was a note for Bow and I never need a
Speaker 1: note in terms of how to speak into a mic.
Speaker 1: That was a note for me. But but I mean,
Speaker 1: do you not do you regret having those words spoken
Speaker 1: to you? No, no, no, I don't regret it. I
Speaker 1: felt something and then you know. And then he later
Speaker 1: on he would he very very Genteelly talked us through
Speaker 1: the axis of the microphone. These were guys. Now, I
Speaker 1: know I can tell everyone we're recording on the R twenty,
Speaker 1: which is um designed for people who can, you know,
Speaker 1: push a lot of breath like voice actors. I'm anxious now,
Speaker 1: okay that people now know the secrets of the podcast.
Speaker 1: I mean, and they wiled themselves by an r E
Speaker 1: twenty and all of a sudden you'll be hearing ding
Speaker 1: dong and all of a sudden is going to be
Speaker 1: Lost Culturistas Too. Well. I challenge someone out there to
Speaker 1: start a new podcast called Lost Cultureista's Too, and I
Speaker 1: will sue. I will have my lawyers on it. What
Speaker 1: a fun little social experiment. Speaking of my lawyers, I
Speaker 1: want to bring my lawyers in right now and sue
Speaker 1: our guests for making me laugh so hard and also
Speaker 1: for laughing over our whole intro, because you, how dare
Speaker 1: you you? I would bring a lawsuit to you. Who
Speaker 1: is she? She? She has one of those laughs that's
Speaker 1: so contagious, and whenever she laughs, I laugh, you know,
Speaker 1: And whenever she laughs, I break out into a rash.
Speaker 1: She is a veteran. This is the credits, by the way,
Speaker 1: let's go through the credit. She's a veteran of Comedy
Speaker 1: Central Roast Battle. She is one of the She's under
Speaker 1: the co host of Battle of the Gebas with former
Speaker 1: Queen of the Pod Matteo Lane at Union Hall and
Speaker 1: you can see they have a show at New York
Speaker 1: Comedy Festival. Yes, and of course she has her upcoming
Speaker 1: solo show at Ours Nova on November four. It's Christie bitch,
Speaker 1: starring the person sitting to my lapt Matt Roger. I do.
Speaker 1: I do feature into the show in a role that
Speaker 1: I was born to play, and in fact, perhaps I've
Speaker 1: already played in my life. And of course she was
Speaker 1: a new face at JFF all this year, um star
Speaker 1: on the rise and I need to Okay, well let's
Speaker 1: introduce her. It's you, guys. Thank you so much. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry I've been such a bag of giggles. Why are
Speaker 1: you giggling? Almost? Tell us why? Because I've wanted to
Speaker 1: do this podcast my whole entire life. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: a fan. You know I've been to both your live
Speaker 1: shows in New York City and to see it happening
Speaker 1: in the students is a real honestly a real tree
Speaker 1: to watch you guys. Do that we ask you? We
Speaker 1: asked you a question at this point, We asked you
Speaker 1: a question at this point. Is this what you pictured? Honestly?
Speaker 1: You know what strikes me the most is that physically
Speaker 1: we are so close to I feel very close to
Speaker 1: you guys, And you know what, this is everything I
Speaker 1: thought it would be in more. I mean, I'm having
Speaker 1: the best time of my left and don't there's no
Speaker 1: need to point out how close we are. We are
Speaker 1: doing this one to create this kinship in the spond
Speaker 1: and too for that sonorous we should say we're in
Speaker 1: a room that is acres large. We we don't have
Speaker 1: to be sitting within a cubic foot of one another,
Speaker 1: but we just are because that is the love. And also,
Speaker 1: you know, hot engineer Will is also in the same
Speaker 1: cubic foot as us, so close to us, and the
Speaker 1: lasting as baby Green, Baby Green. You you thought they
Speaker 1: were something you could order as a side at you
Speaker 1: know that restaurant, but in fact they're in Will's eyes,
Speaker 1: in Will's eyes. Now, Christie, I didn't know where you
Speaker 1: going with that. I got it at the end. It's
Speaker 1: called being that you don't know where you're going, but
Speaker 1: you get there where all that is you don't know?
Speaker 1: I mean what nothing my brain destroyed circuiting you. Guys.
Speaker 1: All I know is you started this by attacking my mother.
Speaker 1: I did not attack your mom. You attacked I said
Speaker 1: my mother should be a podcast guest, and you said,
Speaker 1: well no, I said, but I did only to counter
Speaker 1: that with well, what I was just I'm sorry, and
Speaker 1: I was just placing my own mother in that place,
Speaker 1: and I was like, would that be that would be
Speaker 1: uncomfortable for everybody? And so I was just like, maybe
Speaker 1: that disqualifies Katrina. I don't think it does. I don't
Speaker 1: think it does. I think Katrina stands on her own.
Speaker 1: I think Katrina is more than a mother. And I
Speaker 1: think that you you said that she is merely a mother.
Speaker 1: I didn't I say more than you say merely rule
Speaker 1: number fifty two. Culture a mother is not merely a mother.
Speaker 1: She didn't say it with me, said that that didn't
Speaker 1: That didn't register it lands it either way. Christie, Hi,
Speaker 1: you guys wait, speaking of maternal figures, I truly it
Speaker 1: just hit me. And Christie, this is why I I
Speaker 1: feel like I connect with you is because you have
Speaker 1: such a um. You're such a joy that and you
Speaker 1: laugh at the same moments that my grandmother would laugh.
Speaker 1: And you remind me of just just just by sense
Speaker 1: of fumer alone, no, I mean and like Christie laughs
Speaker 1: at the moments that my grandmother would laugh, like especially
Speaker 1: during like silences or pauses, Christie, someone you can always
Speaker 1: count on Christie to fill in the silence to gorgeous
Speaker 1: laugh so much think your grandmother sounds like an amazing one,
Speaker 1: an amazing woman. You're a laugher, Huh. I'm an easy
Speaker 1: laugh and I pride myself on being easy laugh. You
Speaker 1: want on the way we're rapidly ascending towards our death,
Speaker 1: you gotta laugh. You want to ask you what do
Speaker 1: you what do you think will kill us? That's a
Speaker 1: great question. What's too much laughter on this podcast? I
Speaker 1: don't think that's it, Christie. I don't think that's it. Now.
Speaker 1: You think you think I was justsking for a joke,
Speaker 1: for a laugh, for a for a thrill. I want
Speaker 1: to know what's going to kill us? Yeah? Oh god,
Speaker 1: I'm really thinking hard about this. What's going to happen? God?
Speaker 1: Who knows? I think it's I think I know. We
Speaker 1: were just talking about this true story. Christie and I
Speaker 1: ran into each other very very very randomly at this
Speaker 1: like little Deli grocery store around the corner. It wasn't
Speaker 1: like that random because you're both going to be here
Speaker 1: but an hour beforehand. We're both early, and he sat
Speaker 1: and we both had We both arrived at the same
Speaker 1: conclusion that um social media is in shambles right now,
Speaker 1: just the whole concept of it. We're really questioning right
Speaker 1: now as a society, what the uses and because it's
Speaker 1: cost so much damage. But so we hate Facebook, you
Speaker 1: and you and me at least, I mean, are we
Speaker 1: getting real right now? Let's geta come on, we've been
Speaker 1: so fake this whole time. Make this funk this entire time.
Speaker 1: I mean we can, we can bounce back and forth talk. No,
Speaker 1: come on, everyone's going to see the real me now, Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: so let's let's put a pin in this. Social media
Speaker 1: is bad. We just need to talk about Christie's voice. Honestly,
Speaker 1: my little sister sounds a lot like me. And it's
Speaker 1: really funny because she's I say she's little, like she's
Speaker 1: really little. She's not. She's like twenty eight, and yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so weird. I did get my tonsils out there
Speaker 1: as an adult, okay, a couple of years ago, and
Speaker 1: I remember being like, oh my god, is this gonna
Speaker 1: make me sound even weirder or maybe like would normalize
Speaker 1: my voice? And I didn't really know change at all.
Speaker 1: I felt a change. I felt so much space in
Speaker 1: my throat. I want to get my tonsils. That's so
Speaker 1: badly because they always get so I got tonslitis all
Speaker 1: the time, and with mine were like golf balls that
Speaker 1: would like touch each other. So so it's it's weird.
Speaker 1: It's like I didn't even know that the mouth is
Speaker 1: supposed to feel so open. Yeah, it's really deep. Do
Speaker 1: you feel empty now that there's a part of you
Speaker 1: out there in the world that you can't touch anymore?
Speaker 1: Honestly know? Because I feel like this is the real me?
Speaker 1: Those tonsils held me back. Oh my god, So I
Speaker 1: really encourage I think you should do. It was like
Speaker 1: an exorcism. Yeah, I mean I should do. It's rule
Speaker 1: number culture a part of your body and if it is,
Speaker 1: jap chap, get rid of it like a weird clastic
Speaker 1: surgery allegory that I love it. And you know what
Speaker 1: this this leads into rule number four of culture, which
Speaker 1: is a ton selected to me, is like an ex cercism.
Speaker 1: You're not saying them, but I didn't know where the
Speaker 1: funk you were going. Something that something in this system
Speaker 1: isn't is flawed now, Yeah, you bitch, it's you da flow. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's you da flow. Can I ask um? Can I
Speaker 1: ask Christie your question? Yeah? Is it going to be
Speaker 1: as deep as the last one? I mean I'm prepared
Speaker 1: for it. It's actually going to be the question that
Speaker 1: we ask every guest, but we never got to what
Speaker 1: we think will kill us? All, yeah, okay, let's let's
Speaker 1: let's let's answer that if we're okay. So the way
Speaker 1: the place I was going to with that was social media,
Speaker 1: like just the fact that, um, it's so easy to
Speaker 1: organize around any stupid idea, is what will you know?
Speaker 1: What I think is gonna kill us? And and I
Speaker 1: think social media is gonna keep keep keep moving forward,
Speaker 1: and then it's going to just become robots. And the
Speaker 1: robots are going to come and they're gonna We're going
Speaker 1: to be replaced by robots. You guys should read this
Speaker 1: amazing article um on a on a website called Wait
Speaker 1: but Why talks all about AI and how we are
Speaker 1: currently We're going to be on a balance beam with AI.
Speaker 1: Either we fall on one side, which is like we
Speaker 1: we all live forever like robots will we will be
Speaker 1: the robots, we will live in the robots, we will
Speaker 1: be immortal within the robots, or the other side of
Speaker 1: that balance beam is they they kill us. Any one know.
Speaker 1: It's weird, though, I like not scared of death. Um,
Speaker 1: that's like, it doesn't really scare me. Um, I've never
Speaker 1: been scared by it. Not that I like want to
Speaker 1: die because I'll go to heaven and make yes all
Speaker 1: my old dogs, all your old dogs. Oh god, how
Speaker 1: many old dogs? One one that I love, the other
Speaker 1: one I didn't love because it's always tried to bite me. No, then,
Speaker 1: why do you think it's in heaven? Because I think
Speaker 1: all dogs go to heaven, bitch, Real number thirty seven
Speaker 1: culture that I can get down with that. Okay, so
Speaker 1: it's Christie's answer. Matt. Then is social media and not
Speaker 1: in tengentially robots? Okay, I have a what do you think?
Speaker 1: I think something crazy I left field, like an asteroid.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, I think we're going to deep impact this ship.
Speaker 1: Space is so crazy that that's amazing, Christie. But space
Speaker 1: is honestly so amzing that that's amazing. That's actually real
Speaker 1: number culture. Space is so amazing. I think you're both right.
Speaker 1: I think there is some ran extinction event that is
Speaker 1: um inevitable, and you know who's going to tell us
Speaker 1: about it, Anderson Cooper. Wait, do you not like Anderson Cooper? That? No,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't love Anderson anymore because I feel
Speaker 1: that he threw Kathy Griffin under them. That's true. I
Speaker 1: think he kind of did as well. And I think
Speaker 1: there that he's definitely certainly in a position where he
Speaker 1: didn't have to do that, and I think he did.
Speaker 1: And I think it's really unfortunate, and I think it's
Speaker 1: if you should always have your friends back. He should.
Speaker 1: If he came out with an apology, would you forgive him? Uh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think people make mistakes. I think he's under a
Speaker 1: lot of pressure. I also don't think he cares. And
Speaker 1: I think I don't even know how close they actually were.
Speaker 1: It certainly seemed like they were friends. Um. I have
Speaker 1: this image in my mind because I think they create
Speaker 1: this of like fucking Kelly Ripper, Anderson Cooper and Andy
Speaker 1: Cohen and Kathy Griffin and all the cool like gay
Speaker 1: and Gay and Jason celebrities who are are your wealthy
Speaker 1: all hanging out on a boat. Um, But like, I
Speaker 1: don't know that that's true Andy Cohen and Saratisca Parker. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I know that they're also friends, So I
Speaker 1: would I would, Um, I would stand up. I would
Speaker 1: stand up for you guys, or I would have support
Speaker 1: you guys, literally no question. In my mind. I'm half
Speaker 1: joking too, I'm saying, like, there's no need to say this,
Speaker 1: but I would support you. But if I was, if
Speaker 1: I was holding Trump's bloody head, can imagine if you said,
Speaker 1: for the record, I think what Matt's done is disgusting,
Speaker 1: when yeah, deplorable, all right, I forgot honestly, don't call
Speaker 1: me on the word, but you can look it up
Speaker 1: what he said, like for the record, I think what
Speaker 1: Kathy Griffin did was and then he described it in
Speaker 1: some like you know, media ready way to say it
Speaker 1: was disowning her as if she didn't like deal with enough.
Speaker 1: And then I read an article where she was quoted
Speaker 1: as saying that he never even person only reached out
Speaker 1: to her until months and months later. That's I thought,
Speaker 1: because I thought at the time, oh, he must be
Speaker 1: saying this because he has to say this. He's definitely
Speaker 1: reached out to her and said, hey, I'm going to
Speaker 1: have to public condemn you, but you know I have
Speaker 1: your back, which I think would have made a big difference.
Speaker 1: But he didn't do that. But like I mean, I
Speaker 1: think it's important though to know if they were really
Speaker 1: good friends in real life or if they were, I
Speaker 1: mean we like, how close were they in real life?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I know he was a
Speaker 1: big champion of her getting and keeping that job of
Speaker 1: the of the ball dropping, you know, and I think
Speaker 1: that they always just I don't know. Yeah, either way,
Speaker 1: it's it's a little it's a little fish. It's hard.
Speaker 1: I'm sure. I'm sure Anderson was caught between a rock
Speaker 1: and a hard place and really had to, like, you know,
Speaker 1: for his job. Who knows what they were hanging over
Speaker 1: his ag. Yeah. But here's the thing, Christie, he's a
Speaker 1: Vanderbilt and he's gonna be fine, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like it could be fine. You know, Kathy Griffin wasn't
Speaker 1: making a break in Anderson Cooper and also and the
Speaker 1: Trump voters would have like already hate him for being gay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like he wasn't losing anybody. But unfortunately I think
Speaker 1: he did. Oh this one, I mean I loved Anderson.
Speaker 1: I was going to get a dog and name of
Speaker 1: Anderson Cooper. Really. I was, not only because not only
Speaker 1: because it's hilarious, but also because I liked Anderson Cooper.
Speaker 1: I really liked him to he um, Sam Tagger and
Speaker 1: I went dancing one night at Eastern Block now Club
Speaker 1: coming Um but uh yeah, one night he and Andy
Speaker 1: Cohen came h and Sam. This was like Sam's first
Speaker 1: month in New York, which is so funny, but he
Speaker 1: was like freaking out, was so star struck, and we
Speaker 1: were like and Mike Expence was there and me and
Speaker 1: Mike were like my straight roommate, make Expense and we
Speaker 1: were both like like Sam like calmed down, like be cool.
Speaker 1: He was like, I'm gonna go over there and say
Speaker 1: hi to him, and we were like, no, don't do that. Um.
Speaker 1: Although I at one point, like later on and then
Speaker 1: I got super drunk and on my way to the bathroom,
Speaker 1: like Andy Cohen was just like being like a little
Speaker 1: I mean, and he's this is his right to be
Speaker 1: this way, but he was being a little little seezy.
Speaker 1: I live for hearing the dirt on celebs, like behind them,
Speaker 1: not even dirt, like you know, he's allowed to do this,
Speaker 1: he's a single or even if he's not, like he's
Speaker 1: allowed to do this, but I just but then I
Speaker 1: decided to try my luck and I didn't go out
Speaker 1: to him anything, but like I like put my hand
Speaker 1: on his arm as I was walking to the bathroom
Speaker 1: in the opposite direction and just like sort of like
Speaker 1: stroke to the like stroke, a casual stroke, a walk
Speaker 1: by stroke. It was a walk by stroke. I did
Speaker 1: I did this, christ I did this, and then like
Speaker 1: I just got wet and they went excuse me, what
Speaker 1: the was? No, no, no, and like at this like
Speaker 1: who knows, who knows how like three sheets to them
Speaker 1: when he was but then like we like clasped hands
Speaker 1: as I walked away. Obviously he was into that walk
Speaker 1: by swoop. Well he didn't. He didn't see me, Like
Speaker 1: like if he had turned around and seen my face,
Speaker 1: he he'd have been like, no fats, no fams novation.
Speaker 1: But it was we don't know that he's like that.
Speaker 1: I know I'm but I'm saying like and making the
Speaker 1: white gay community. Um, I actually think Andy Cohen is
Speaker 1: very hot, very handsome. Yeah, and he seems like a
Speaker 1: really nice guy. Seems like a really really nice uson guy.
Speaker 1: I don't even mean to be like, I actually think
Speaker 1: like help subversive of you now? Um uh no. Everyone
Speaker 1: everyone who's like worked at Bravo, like Nicole Conlin, former
Speaker 1: guest of the show, was an intern they're like back
Speaker 1: in college, like oh nine, and like I had nothing
Speaker 1: but good things to say that about. He just seems
Speaker 1: like a nice guy. I think he's great. I think
Speaker 1: he's so great. I just I'm disappointed that Anderson didn't
Speaker 1: have Kathy Griffin's back because I just couldn't find a
Speaker 1: place where I couldn't find a place where I would
Speaker 1: put myself in that position and not have my friends back,
Speaker 1: like especially like you know who Kathy Griffin is, Like
Speaker 1: I guess great, that's a good reason to not like
Speaker 1: him anymore. Yeah, totally, yes, it is. It is it
Speaker 1: as Christie, We're gonna ask you what we ask all
Speaker 1: of our guests finally, which is Christie, what is the
Speaker 1: culture that made you say culture is for me? Now
Speaker 1: this this means um, movies, books, TV, the small screen,
Speaker 1: un religion, maybe like whatever you want. You just repeat
Speaker 1: the question one more time and I'm going to close
Speaker 1: my eyes. What is and I'm not feel free to
Speaker 1: chime in and like rephrase the question. What is the
Speaker 1: culture that made you say culture is for you? What
Speaker 1: is the culture that made you want to step in
Speaker 1: a cultural direction? Imagine you are the baby dinosaur and
Speaker 1: Jurassic Park coming out of the EDG. Not the Mama,
Speaker 1: because she's far too jaded. You know, she's already made
Speaker 1: her cultural decisions. Actually, I have an answer, um and
Speaker 1: I feel like it's it's it's might have been an
Speaker 1: answer that has been given on the podcast already, but
Speaker 1: my reason is my own. Um So, uh, boy bands, yes,
Speaker 1: And it started for me with new Kids on the Block,
Speaker 1: older sibling and that I got. I went on the
Speaker 1: local news channel in my hometown and I wrote Joey
Speaker 1: McIntyre a love letter and I got to read it
Speaker 1: to him. It was on the news and then he
Speaker 1: gave me a hug. After I met all of them,
Speaker 1: I went to their concerts, and then growing up, I
Speaker 1: was just huge into the boy bands, mainly in Sync.
Speaker 1: Oh that was like you were a whole generation ahead
Speaker 1: of a lot of because I feel like I missed
Speaker 1: that window. So I was into new Kids on the
Speaker 1: fucking block. So you're you got it on the ground
Speaker 1: fucking floor with boy bands exactly. And when Backsheet Boys
Speaker 1: came and when in Sync came in ninety degrees in
Speaker 1: LFO and Otown and five and like all of them,
Speaker 1: I mean I compared them. I know their names, I
Speaker 1: know their facts, I know their origins like that for me,
Speaker 1: something about to grow really your type. Yes, it was
Speaker 1: like the musical the guy who did musical theater who
Speaker 1: was quote unquote like the straight guy with like necklace
Speaker 1: but was like cool, but it was still it was
Speaker 1: ultimately still straight. Ultimately still straight, right, Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: that was my time. There was that guy in my
Speaker 1: high school who like we we had to pull him
Speaker 1: in from lacrosse, but he was such a good singer,
Speaker 1: so so so attractive and was you know, still is straight.
Speaker 1: But it was just like a dang, like yeah, they've
Speaker 1: got that one. But no, that is a great answer
Speaker 1: because that just covers the whole swath of you know what.
Speaker 1: It's like, it's the showman ship because these boys could
Speaker 1: sing and they would like their choreography. Like also it
Speaker 1: was like a sexual awakening, like the first feelings I
Speaker 1: had of like being horny was shirtless men like gy
Speaker 1: rating and and and the words they were saying and
Speaker 1: it was Those were formative years for me. I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: do you remember justin Timberlake in the Terror at My
Speaker 1: Heart video in the white wife beater, like on his
Speaker 1: knees on top of that bed and dark black and white.
Speaker 1: It was. But the thing about it is, what was
Speaker 1: he seventeen sixteen? He was fully I mean he was
Speaker 1: in a on a bed, in a wife beater, like
Speaker 1: the implicably masculinized. Yeah, the implication was you're gonna fuck
Speaker 1: this boy. Everyone watching it was like Brittany like did
Speaker 1: not have that awkward phase, like she was a sexual
Speaker 1: being as soon as you saw they were. People think
Speaker 1: that like Christina Aguilera's like sexual moment was was dirty,
Speaker 1: but no, she was sinking you gotta rub me the
Speaker 1: right way, laying on her belly, flipping her little, you know,
Speaker 1: for about lack of a better word, vagina flipping her little.
Speaker 1: But yeah, there is to and fro. I have a
Speaker 1: question for you to and fro number three hundred something
Speaker 1: something culture. You gotta gotta flip that post post to
Speaker 1: and fro. In fact, I might be a new hip song.
Speaker 1: You gotta flip that. You gotta flip it. To fro,
Speaker 1: you gotta flip that, you gotta flip it. This is
Speaker 1: to the tune of no very clearly it's hip hip
Speaker 1: and you don't stop love that. I was the illusion
Speaker 1: shattered for you though, when like when you learned about
Speaker 1: like how awful of a person Loop Perlman was, No,
Speaker 1: oh you want to know why I'm the worst when
Speaker 1: it comes to that. Michael Jackson is I utilize Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, although I remember watching his trial on TV
Speaker 1: and just turning the other cheek. I was like, oh
Speaker 1: he sleeps little boys. I still love remember the time
Speaker 1: music video. That's so interesting. I mean, I'm you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not proud of this, but I'm gonna admit it
Speaker 1: because it's my true I do that not as much anymore.
Speaker 1: You know what the breaking point was for me Chris Brown.
Speaker 1: At first, when the Chris Brown Rihanna thing happened, I
Speaker 1: would like close my eyes and printed. And he was
Speaker 1: usher because I liked his music. Everyone It's like because
Speaker 1: that was sort of that for him. He was the
Speaker 1: guy for me who made me look at real life
Speaker 1: and be like, you know, well, well I can't support
Speaker 1: you know. It's like, um, so like like you know, well,
Speaker 1: now with like Woody Allen or whatever. I don't like
Speaker 1: their films, but but you know what, learning about Luke
Speaker 1: Prolman didn't it shock me as much as because like,
Speaker 1: you know what these were little boys is not dead
Speaker 1: who were being clearly they were sexualized and blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: like you knew it was a little fun if anything,
Speaker 1: that explains how truly, so it didn't feel like as
Speaker 1: big of a shock to me totally. Speaking of Chris Brown,
Speaker 1: I just want to say, um, I'm so have you
Speaker 1: seen this documentary that's on Netflix about him? But I'm
Speaker 1: really into it might be good anyway, I just I
Speaker 1: just want to put that on. Everyone is focused on him.
Speaker 1: I think so I might be miss speaking, but I
Speaker 1: just know that I'll watch it. And also, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't want to get this is like my biggest
Speaker 1: fear is that with this podcast, I'm gonna want to
Speaker 1: talk about too many things. But did you watch the Demi?
Speaker 1: I know that watching talk about it? We have not.
Speaker 1: We have not talked about it. We should absolutely talk
Speaker 1: about you did watch it? Oh? And I have? I mean,
Speaker 1: I loved it. I fucking loved it. And I see
Speaker 1: her on a whole new night Light and I've been
Speaker 1: a fan from day one and I'm more so fan now. Great.
Speaker 1: I loved Demi and I did love the documentary. Of
Speaker 1: course there was it was very funny to me, like
Speaker 1: that every fifteen minutes. There was like a photo shoot
Speaker 1: that those are fun. I mean, she looked absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: But the thing is like you hate doing this, you
Speaker 1: hate comparing it to something else. But so, um. What
Speaker 1: I liked about the Demi Lavata documentary as I thought
Speaker 1: it revealed real truths about like the dishonesty that comes
Speaker 1: along with addiction, you know what I mean. That was
Speaker 1: something that I feel like, like you just assumed dem
Speaker 1: Levado had all these problems got better when she sang
Speaker 1: the song Skyscraper and then it was no looking back. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: there was like, you know confirmed um in the documentary.
Speaker 1: Was that like even when she was releasing another documentary
Speaker 1: like four years ago about how she was like rehabilitated,
Speaker 1: she was doing coke and like how funked up super
Speaker 1: fucked up um post, you know, rehabilitated image like singing
Speaker 1: that American idol, like like she saying she's clean at
Speaker 1: this time and she's revealing that she lied, but she's
Speaker 1: still and I thought this was refreshing. She's still dealing
Speaker 1: with bulimia. She said, she's still dealing with and she
Speaker 1: said that's not that chapter. I mean, like I don't
Speaker 1: think any of these books or chapters are closed. They
Speaker 1: never are. They never are. And that's a that's a
Speaker 1: real a stick sort of presentationally, like you know, I
Speaker 1: feel I always understand, especially with the Disney the Disney
Speaker 1: girls or the Nickelodeon girls, like they're they come into
Speaker 1: the spotlight a role model, and that's a lot of
Speaker 1: pressure for these girls. And I really seeing demi story,
Speaker 1: you know, she started doing Barney and then shot to
Speaker 1: fame doing the Disney stuff. But but to see her
Speaker 1: story and to have her be so honest with it,
Speaker 1: now I understand why her fans are so right or
Speaker 1: die because she's real. I feel like she's very authentic
Speaker 1: and an amazing vocalist. I thought it was good study,
Speaker 1: and I watched it together and just in the even
Speaker 1: in the very just in the very beginning, I just
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying this like I'm like, I like,
Speaker 1: I'm very astute to observe this, but I feel like
Speaker 1: the artifice of the of the documentary, of it being
Speaker 1: like overly produced, like was just I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't know how to feel about it. I either admire
Speaker 1: it so much for being so like blatantly like, oh
Speaker 1: this is like this was a fed line, or like
Speaker 1: even in the beginning where she was like, I'm nervous
Speaker 1: to talk to you because the last time I talked
Speaker 1: to someone this long on camera, I was on cocaine.
Speaker 1: Like it was just it was just like, okay, like
Speaker 1: you you're just repeating this that that that's that's that's
Speaker 1: how I felt. That's giving me a luck. Like, well,
Speaker 1: I mean sure, but you could literally say that about us,
Speaker 1: you know what, you know what I like at a
Speaker 1: certain point, you just have to like if we're gonna
Speaker 1: sit down and watch this, either accepted for the message
Speaker 1: that it's giving, which is I think a pretty honest
Speaker 1: message about you know what it's about like her, her
Speaker 1: many many issues, or kind of say, okay, well just
Speaker 1: remember this is still a product. This is still a product.
Speaker 1: This is still a product. I'm still being sold something.
Speaker 1: But you could literally do that to yourself for a
Speaker 1: long time, where I think you need to find a balance.
Speaker 1: That's I think sometimes why it's dangerous to watch things
Speaker 1: with Sudi because she is always going to see right
Speaker 1: through too. But but it's great though, and like you know,
Speaker 1: it is totally great, and I'm so thankful for that.
Speaker 1: I yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean I know, I mean
Speaker 1: I just watched this and I picked up on it
Speaker 1: at certain parts that Sudi didn't even and I was
Speaker 1: just like, oh yeah, like it's fine, like we get
Speaker 1: that this is a documentary that certain moments have to
Speaker 1: be like staged in a way to feel powerful, but
Speaker 1: also like just like go there anyway. And that's why
Speaker 1: that's why I like the photo shoots, because it's blatantly
Speaker 1: like of course this was a set, like this was
Speaker 1: set up, and you know what, I would prefer the
Speaker 1: overproduction versus you know, a couple of scenes in Gagas
Speaker 1: where she's topless by the pool and the ship thank You,
Speaker 1: where it's like a little born I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: because Demi's was transparently placed, whereas Gagas was like you
Speaker 1: cut back to her and her fucking tits are out
Speaker 1: just like the best the best part of Gaga, of
Speaker 1: the Gaga documented it was like it's so so produced,
Speaker 1: was where she's like sucking at um. She's at some
Speaker 1: studio and she's talking to the phone with Sonya, her
Speaker 1: friend who has cancered. What the doctor said, what you
Speaker 1: still have cancer? And so the cancer is is definitely back,
Speaker 1: is what you're saying about it so expository. No, I
Speaker 1: do want to say she did pass away and she
Speaker 1: was a lovely person and God cared about her very much.
Speaker 1: And I Love Girls was the song inspired by Sonya
Speaker 1: and seriously like and that's why I almost don't even
Speaker 1: like to compare. I know, yes, but of course you
Speaker 1: compare them because they're very similar, and like worth, You're
Speaker 1: the mine of the comedy out of these things. And yes,
Speaker 1: there were many parts of Gaga's documentary where it's like,
Speaker 1: it's almost more shitty to me because it's presenting itself
Speaker 1: as an unproduced and more raw, whereas I live for
Speaker 1: the fact that Demilovado basically blocked her eyebrows out to
Speaker 1: go boxing, honey. But this is the thing that was
Speaker 1: so funny, this is this supposed to this us to
Speaker 1: both documentaries, though, is that I like, you know, the
Speaker 1: parts that are authentically are so much more powerful powerful,
Speaker 1: Like when Gaga's giving notes at the her Super Bowl
Speaker 1: rehearsal where she's like, I have to be here, Like
Speaker 1: that was a real moment where she's like taking everyone
Speaker 1: to task and it was amazing. And for DEMI like
Speaker 1: several parts in Demi's documentary where she does that. But
Speaker 1: then you know, um, I just thought I loved the
Speaker 1: studio sessions where she was like and suiting and I
Speaker 1: just couldn't stop hoting this where she's just like talking
Speaker 1: back and forth with the producers and then at one
Speaker 1: point she just goes just completely like Anna Dine, like
Speaker 1: like straight toned, like I just want to make sure
Speaker 1: my vibrato is consistent, which is like not something you said,
Speaker 1: you say that all, but I mean it was. That
Speaker 1: was an amazing moment. I love. I love that they
Speaker 1: go over to like the recording of the computer and
Speaker 1: they say, look, look how cons like bitch, we know
Speaker 1: she can sing, like we understand. It was great I
Speaker 1: can do that would show up on there as conn't
Speaker 1: you know, well, what does it? What does the wave
Speaker 1: for him look like? Pretty? It's pretty consistent? Thank you? Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: you're yeah. I mean, but I love that moment, and
Speaker 1: you know what that you're right. I agree with you.
Speaker 1: I'm on the same page. I liked the Demi documentary
Speaker 1: better because by virtue of it being overproduced for moments
Speaker 1: such as those, Yeah, because it's like, what are you
Speaker 1: gonna do? Like lie, like at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: like you want eyes on this to sell things? Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I guess like I think there is more prestige
Speaker 1: in the fact that likely Gagas was released to Netflix,
Speaker 1: and I think maybe a little bit more artistically done
Speaker 1: which is on YouTube, and like absolutely like you know,
Speaker 1: at some point we definitely all subliminally thought, like you
Speaker 1: know what I want right now, Pepsi. You know, I
Speaker 1: really want pepsi right now. I really in the hanker
Speaker 1: in the mood. Oh my god. Wait, I don't know
Speaker 1: if this is the sort of relates to your your
Speaker 1: boybend obsession. What are your feelings on Josy and the
Speaker 1: pussy Cats the movie loved and speaking of slivonal message
Speaker 1: like you haven't seen that, you have to see it.
Speaker 1: I don't think. I think I've seen pieces because my
Speaker 1: sister was watching. I remember pieces of it. I've never
Speaker 1: seen the movie in its entirety. But I am watching Riverdale, okay,
Speaker 1: and they are there are characters in Riverdale, and I'm
Speaker 1: loving the puzzy yards in Riverdale. For that one tired
Speaker 1: one who's just also diet elady is there. One more
Speaker 1: thing is that she's tired. No, but did you eat
Speaker 1: her face? She looks so tired. She just looks very tired.
Speaker 1: I watched like the first six episodes of the first season,
Speaker 1: and honestly, like, I really loved it. I thought it
Speaker 1: was like stylistically it was great, but then something about it.
Speaker 1: I just didn't keep watching it. I think maybe because
Speaker 1: I felt like I got it. Well, I'm watching it
Speaker 1: for Luke Perry as a high Delph. I get that
Speaker 1: he's Looke. Harry's in it. Archer's dad. She's dad, and
Speaker 1: he's hot as fuck, and he's I just haven't seen
Speaker 1: him in so long that I did not registring through that. Also,
Speaker 1: what's Veronica's mother? Her name is Marison Nichols. She's also
Speaker 1: gorgeous Veronica. The acts who plays Veronica. I guess who
Speaker 1: her teacher and playwrights was, Andrew Farmer really yeah friend.
Speaker 1: I Google then saw that she went to yeah, our friend.
Speaker 1: That means, oh my god, a really good friend taught her,
Speaker 1: and she tweeted something because because hi, Andrew, and Andrew's
Speaker 1: doing this really cool like um or maybe he will
Speaker 1: have just finished this like cool like series on about
Speaker 1: subway scary stories. Um. And then she like tweeted, she
Speaker 1: was like, Hi, my one of my one of the
Speaker 1: best drama teachers I've ever had at and my U
Speaker 1: is doing this cool project. Check him out. So she's
Speaker 1: like an Andrew Farmers stand. She's she's really good. She's
Speaker 1: really good. Can I I've only seen the first two episodes,
Speaker 1: but I like, I liked get it. Yeah, you've seen
Speaker 1: it all. I really like it. But I had such
Speaker 1: a nostalgia when I was watching it for the o
Speaker 1: C for you know, all these shows that I would
Speaker 1: watch as a team, and like, I'm like, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: glad there's one for this new generation. But I want
Speaker 1: that but scaled up to my age. But I don't
Speaker 1: think that weird realization like watching it this time around,
Speaker 1: because I like, I loved those yeah, and it does
Speaker 1: make me feel nostalgic. The thing this time around it
Speaker 1: is tripping me out is that I'm really into the
Speaker 1: parents storyline, which I feel like isn't a sign that
Speaker 1: I'm getting older. I was always I'm like, oh, the
Speaker 1: Dad's Like. I was never into Sandy Cohen. I was
Speaker 1: into Julie Cooper. Julie Cooper. Julie Cooper. Early gay icon
Speaker 1: also what was Kirston Kirstenhens alcoholism was a huge, huge
Speaker 1: I loved the parents even as even as a young child. Wait,
Speaker 1: Kirston Cooper. Oh that's Kitty right. Who is the redhead
Speaker 1: Julie Julie Cooper, But that was Julie Coopers. That's mom, mom,
Speaker 1: mom had alcoholism. Later in remembering it was really remember
Speaker 1: I do love Sandy Colin that she gets in like
Speaker 1: a horrible car accident because she's drunk. I remember remember
Speaker 1: Tate Donovan another hot day. I love don voiced Hercules
Speaker 1: and I like, as a young child watching her cays,
Speaker 1: I was like, we ever voicing him Hercules saying distance?
Speaker 1: That was Roger bart Er Broadway Lodgend Roger bart every
Speaker 1: single quote unquote straight Yeah. I had sang that song
Speaker 1: for their distance. Can I tell you we want? They
Speaker 1: used to have an American Idol attraction at Disney World
Speaker 1: where you could sing. You'd go up and sing to
Speaker 1: every people. You could go up and be a contestant,
Speaker 1: and then had who won saying go the distance? And
Speaker 1: afterwards they like did this thing where they brought him
Speaker 1: to the back and they were having imposed and people
Speaker 1: had to like pretend to be fans, and I I
Speaker 1: pushed my sister so hard to go up there. I
Speaker 1: was like, I was like, oh, let's and I'm like
Speaker 1: pushed her up there, and she's like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: And this like Hollywood director quote unquote in the parks
Speaker 1: that was like, alright, out extras, come on, we're doing
Speaker 1: this now. When he when he raises his arms to
Speaker 1: give muscles, you guys are gonna be fair. My sister
Speaker 1: was mortified. She does not do this kind of thing.
Speaker 1: But but it was like too late. It was like,
Speaker 1: a she doesn't do this kind of thing. Be She's
Speaker 1: also not the kind of person to like break authority.
Speaker 1: So the fact she was up there she was going
Speaker 1: to do it, Oh my god. And watching her like
Speaker 1: pretend to like fan herself like very fun for me.
Speaker 1: I competed in the Warwick Mall idol. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: what did you saying? Tell us it's brutal. I think
Speaker 1: I'm used a beaters on okaying all that jazz. It
Speaker 1: was a stupid And I auditioned for American Idols Season
Speaker 1: two with Clay Aging and Reuben Stard and did you
Speaker 1: get anywhere? I made it past one cud of judges.
Speaker 1: To go sing for other people. But I never saw
Speaker 1: I say for that, I say, Christina aguilar As I
Speaker 1: turned to you and started with when I'm most like
Speaker 1: my stupid voice, it was like, no one understands that
Speaker 1: that is the song number three hundred and something of culture,
Speaker 1: something something get specific with you. You know we're gonna culture,
Speaker 1: Christina Aguilera. The song is. Now We're going to take
Speaker 1: a quick break to listen to that song and its entirety,
Speaker 1: and when we get back, we're going to have so
Speaker 1: much more from Christie Chello. But I think now we
Speaker 1: should go to a word from ourselves about our upcoming
Speaker 1: show at New York Comedy Festival. So here's ourselves. Oh man,
Speaker 1: I think I sent a chill in the air. Yes, Well,
Speaker 1: if you thought that chill was the fall the autumn,
Speaker 1: I have to say it's not. It's a chill between
Speaker 1: you and I. That's because we are going head to
Speaker 1: head people at culch War. It's our show for New
Speaker 1: York Comedy Festival, and it's an I don't think so,
Speaker 1: honey deathmatch. Team Matt and Team Bowen are going to
Speaker 1: have their own teams of ten comedians basing off head
Speaker 1: to head in many rounds, Honey, for the title of
Speaker 1: the Ultimate Culturalista. Yes, there will be a hundred dollar
Speaker 1: cash prize. Now, what are some things you can do
Speaker 1: with a hundred dollars Bowen? Oh, I think you could
Speaker 1: pay for a Spirit Airlines ticket to Tacoma. I think
Speaker 1: that that's a pretty reasonable that I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: uh Bill, Oh yeah. I think someone whoever wins coulch
Speaker 1: War will be paying their Connent bill, and they'll also
Speaker 1: be bringing glory and victory to either Team Matt or
Speaker 1: Team Bowen. You will find out which team wins on
Speaker 1: November seven at eight pm. This is for New York
Speaker 1: Comedy Festival people, and tickets are on sale now. We're
Speaker 1: doing it at Villain in Brooklyn. We're very excited. November
Speaker 1: seven thirty. It's a Tuesday, New York Comedy Festival, Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: Villain is the space. And you know what, November seven
Speaker 1: is Election Day. And I would say that this election
Speaker 1: is more important than anything else that's happening in the country. Yes,
Speaker 1: I agree. Now, if you can't make November seven, if
Speaker 1: that's not something you can make work, then you can
Speaker 1: come to the beautiful, more positive, more cathartic uh the
Speaker 1: proven quantity of our I don't Think so Honey live
Speaker 1: show this time at the Bellhouse. We're so excited to
Speaker 1: be performing there. We're gonna have fifty brand new comedians
Speaker 1: doing there. I don't Think so honeyes as we record them,
Speaker 1: as we introduce their uh, stunningly, stunningly incisive attacks to
Speaker 1: the world. And it's gonna be so fun, so fun,
Speaker 1: got some amazing comics lined up for it. Will be
Speaker 1: announcing that very soon and podcast festival. Honey at the
Speaker 1: Bell was very excited about that. So again, that's November seven,
Speaker 1: Coach War and I Don't Think So Honey Death Match
Speaker 1: as part of New York Comedy Festival, and November eighteen,
Speaker 1: I Don't Think so Honey Live at ten o'clock at
Speaker 1: the Bell House as part of the Brooklyn Podcast Festival.
Speaker 1: So there you go, people to options and we'll find
Speaker 1: out who can really serve Coach. It's getting colder in
Speaker 1: here and we're back with Christie. Chill out we are.
Speaker 1: We just listened to I turned to you in its entirety,
Speaker 1: and you know what it holds up? Came Christie, came
Speaker 1: You're so Christie's brand is horny, Yeah, and that actually
Speaker 1: really rings true in your upcoming show. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: It's Christie Bitch, which is going to be at Ours
Speaker 1: Nova on November four. I'm really excited and that you're
Speaker 1: a part of it. I'm thrilled to be a part
Speaker 1: of it. It's directed by um John Trowbridge. We want
Speaker 1: to say hello to him. Hi John, Hi John, how
Speaker 1: are you? And check out his instagram pages one for
Speaker 1: the Agent. You should check out his instagram. He bears
Speaker 1: a little again, there's a little into it. I really
Speaker 1: adored him another way. Another hottie in the show is
Speaker 1: Evan Williams. Oh my god, yeah, he plays I can
Speaker 1: say he plays um the role of my fantasy man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's something to you. He's a phenomenal stand up
Speaker 1: very fun. I'm and I we also got close doing roasts.
Speaker 1: But he's an incredible actor and oh my god, it's
Speaker 1: like what he wants to do, and he can do
Speaker 1: impressions and he's incredibly versatile and um and yeah, he's
Speaker 1: he's he's an amazing actor. So there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot of reasons to come to this. Okay, tell us
Speaker 1: a little bit about it. Why did you want to
Speaker 1: do it like, talk a bit little about the show
Speaker 1: because I want people. I want butts and seeds. Oh
Speaker 1: you're the best. It's really fun. It's it's the debut
Speaker 1: of my one woman show. I've always wanted to do it. Um,
Speaker 1: and I really love stand up, which is what I
Speaker 1: normally do, but I wanted an opportunity to do a
Speaker 1: little bit more than just stand up, so sort of
Speaker 1: combined stand up and a little storytelling. There might be
Speaker 1: a little song and dance in there. Acting. Um, it's
Speaker 1: a whole. It really follows my life as a horny
Speaker 1: and holy girl. And we don't just mean holes as
Speaker 1: in the holes we all have. Um, your religious lady,
Speaker 1: M I just need I need to pull up something
Speaker 1: that Christie posted today on Facebook that really, like really
Speaker 1: affected me because it's just so funny and so true
Speaker 1: to her and who she is. Okay, and she even
Speaker 1: put the background on this, you know, those big backgrounds
Speaker 1: of the big letters. She goes, is it hard for
Speaker 1: me to be holy and horny? Id K, is it
Speaker 1: hard for the sun to shine? Sick of these tired
Speaker 1: ask questions of my own joke, it's so funny saying
Speaker 1: it's so funny to ask questions. I really I'm trying
Speaker 1: to talk more about how I'm Catholic, but do it
Speaker 1: in a way that is a little I try for
Speaker 1: it to be a little refreshing, very positive, and like
Speaker 1: not you know, when you when you bring up Jesus,
Speaker 1: there is you know, you alienate people and you can
Speaker 1: anchor people, and it's personal and it's a strange thing
Speaker 1: to bring about. But I'm trying to do it in
Speaker 1: this way where like, I'm a very horny girl. I
Speaker 1: love sex. I sin all the time in my Jesus
Speaker 1: fucking loves that. And I've the only all the times
Speaker 1: I've heard you talk about religion, um have always been
Speaker 1: so personal, so beautiful, so moving, so refreshing. So I
Speaker 1: don't I don't think you shouldn't fear. I had friends
Speaker 1: that were I wasn't at the show, but I had
Speaker 1: a lot of friends that were at. A friend of
Speaker 1: the show and competitor in culture War at least Moralice
Speaker 1: called so do We. So it's a show called the
Speaker 1: Roast of a fifteen year old Self, and there's an
Speaker 1: upcoming roast of the fear old stuff. I'm look looking
Speaker 1: up in one of my favorite shows I've I've done
Speaker 1: it as well? Have you done it? It's phenomenal. It
Speaker 1: was so fun and it's really really good. Um. But
Speaker 1: I had several people called to me and tell me
Speaker 1: how amazing yours was. Um, and also you did a
Speaker 1: really good Um you are heard. Remember the show You
Speaker 1: are Heard? Yeah, And so that was I had a
Speaker 1: lot of people come back to me and they were like,
Speaker 1: I was really moved by this because a lot of
Speaker 1: people you talk about being religious and they immediately shut down. Um,
Speaker 1: but you were able to speak about it in a
Speaker 1: way that made it very real and it was very
Speaker 1: genuine and like, I don't know what it is. I
Speaker 1: think we all kind of associated with our childhoods and
Speaker 1: maybe an oppression or like you assume someone else is oppressed,
Speaker 1: you never assume someone's empowered by that. I completely understand.
Speaker 1: I think it's important to you. Is like I understand
Speaker 1: the people who get angry at religion and don't like
Speaker 1: it and why people are atheists. Like I understand that,
Speaker 1: but you know, it really is like I according to
Speaker 1: most Catholics, I'm not a Catholic because I don't, you know,
Speaker 1: adhere to all the whatever is in the Bible. But
Speaker 1: I very much pick and choose what I do for myself.
Speaker 1: And I have my own religion, but like I very
Speaker 1: much have like a strong relationship with Jesus, Like it's
Speaker 1: very important to me. I love that. And we had
Speaker 1: Blair on a couple episodes ago, and she just talked
Speaker 1: about how she's starting to like turn to like God
Speaker 1: as this concept, not under an organized religion per se,
Speaker 1: but like yeah, just as like just as like a
Speaker 1: good force in her life. You've really talked, Blair and
Speaker 1: I have talked a lot of about and you came
Speaker 1: up and we were just like, have you and Christie
Speaker 1: talked about this? And and she was like, we have.
Speaker 1: But Blair is like not necessarily operating under this like
Speaker 1: you know, organized sort of structure around religion, but you are.
Speaker 1: And I feel like, like, what what do you like
Speaker 1: about like just having them I'll say institution but not
Speaker 1: in a bad way, the institution of Catholicism just to
Speaker 1: like organize your your your your faith behind Does that
Speaker 1: make sense? Like what do you like about having Catholicism
Speaker 1: be the system that's already in place? Well? I think
Speaker 1: Jesus like like that being the center of it. It's
Speaker 1: literally Jesus, but Also I do litera church every Sunday,
Speaker 1: and I see in the Choiret mat Urch and I
Speaker 1: like love for me. I think it's like my equivalent
Speaker 1: to like how people would practice yoga or meditation. Like
Speaker 1: I turn off my phone and I just think and
Speaker 1: I and I kind of meditate on my thoughts, and like,
Speaker 1: you know, there is like a stigma with religion, and
Speaker 1: I get why when you know priests were molesting boys
Speaker 1: and there's been you know, it can it's parts of
Speaker 1: it are corrupt and I get that, but like you know,
Speaker 1: I belong to a really amazing church. And like the
Speaker 1: pastor is so this guy, Pastor Kevin, and he's so funny,
Speaker 1: like he's watched my common online and like and he'll
Speaker 1: always like kind of roll his eyes and like Christie
Speaker 1: and I always make these jokes with him, like like
Speaker 1: literally one time I made a joke with Pastor Kevin,
Speaker 1: and he was like this Irish New York like older
Speaker 1: chubby guys, really great and I was like, I was,
Speaker 1: like I said to him, I will Jesus be mad
Speaker 1: or Jesus gonna be mad if I'm gay or I'm
Speaker 1: not gay? But I said, would Jesus be mad if
Speaker 1: I was gay, and then he said no, Christie, and
Speaker 1: I said, hell, yeah, this weekend is going to be
Speaker 1: lit and he was like Christidae and lapsed and rolls
Speaker 1: his eyes and it's like, you know this, like knowing
Speaker 1: we have a great relationship and you have to you know,
Speaker 1: it's a personal thing. But yeah, I love that to everyone.
Speaker 1: It's personal to everyone, and I love thinking about it
Speaker 1: at this place where you can go and have a joyous, contemplative,
Speaker 1: um singular experience. Thank you for talking to us about
Speaker 1: about that, because we know, we know it's personal. We
Speaker 1: know that you have the right to be selective about
Speaker 1: when to talk about this. Was there a reason why
Speaker 1: you founded or like a good question like I was.
Speaker 1: I was brought up Catholic and it gave me a
Speaker 1: lot of anxiety and it gave me some of my
Speaker 1: O c D habits that I have because I was
Speaker 1: so afraid of going to Hell and burning with the
Speaker 1: devil um. So that gave me a lot of Catholic guilt.
Speaker 1: And there are things I didn't like about it. But
Speaker 1: in the city I sort of rediscovered it. I had
Speaker 1: this crazy like experience where I had this cancer on
Speaker 1: my back in melanoma and I had to get this tumor.
Speaker 1: Uh they found it really late, and so I had
Speaker 1: I was set up to like start this radiation for
Speaker 1: this cancer that I had, and they got it all
Speaker 1: out in surgery, and all the doctors were very much like,
Speaker 1: oh my God, you have someone looking out for you.
Speaker 1: Like You're so lucky. Had I waited another couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: I would have had to get treatment. And it's like,
Speaker 1: I'm not this like survivor rightn beat cancer. But I
Speaker 1: got so lucky that I really believe that people are
Speaker 1: like looking out for me. I believe that all the time.
Speaker 1: I believe in like angels, and I believe in like
Speaker 1: the power of prayer, and like I believe in it.
Speaker 1: So that really changed my life. It's just I really
Speaker 1: genuinely believe that it just matters what you decide to
Speaker 1: call it, you know, because you know there's people in
Speaker 1: my life now that are like, it's about positive energy
Speaker 1: and you know the universe. Yeah, exactly calling it the
Speaker 1: universe and uh, investing positivity into the world and self
Speaker 1: belief and all these things. And it's like you could
Speaker 1: just change the verbiage of that and call it God
Speaker 1: and you would be still live in the same goddamn
Speaker 1: life as I as I take the Lord's same in vain.
Speaker 1: God loved it. I think you love laughing. He's r
Speaker 1: l rolling on the cloud, laugh rolling on the cloud laughing.
Speaker 1: I think really fitting. And you know what, hot engineer
Speaker 1: will not it along a thank you. Even Oprah, who
Speaker 1: is definitely like religious, like in a Christian sense, like
Speaker 1: I think she's even learned to just like in order
Speaker 1: for something, she wants to tell everybody about God, but
Speaker 1: knowing that she has to reach this white audience with
Speaker 1: very backgrounds, she refers to it as like this force
Speaker 1: that like guides you. That's what that's sort of what
Speaker 1: to therapy and my therapist. One of the first days,
Speaker 1: she asked me if I believed in God, and she
Speaker 1: was like, okay, then I'm gonna then she'll use the
Speaker 1: term God. But my girlfriend sees the same therapist in
Speaker 1: the girlfriend doesn't believe in God, so she calls it
Speaker 1: the universe and we're talking about the same thing. Put
Speaker 1: it out. It's but it's very true. She she uses
Speaker 1: God with me because it's something I know. Can I
Speaker 1: this is This might seem like totally un of noowhere.
Speaker 1: But do you talking about um this melanoma? I mean wow?
Speaker 1: First of all, Wow. Second of all, Um, do you
Speaker 1: and Molly ever talk about these kinds of things that
Speaker 1: Like Molly Molly Austin, friend of a friend of the
Speaker 1: show Only Austin. She she talks every now and then about, um,
Speaker 1: this near death experience or not, you know, not a
Speaker 1: near death experience, but like a really traumatizing physical experience
Speaker 1: she had about how that reorganized almost everything in her life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it really, Yeah, it was there was like a before
Speaker 1: and after with that? Was there was there like a
Speaker 1: before and after thing with that? Like what was that?
Speaker 1: What was the shift there after? After? Like that moment
Speaker 1: I think that it was just like it sounds so cheesy,
Speaker 1: but it's just a real I think, you know God,
Speaker 1: But like it sounds so it's like you you really
Speaker 1: look at your life and you realize, like you're lucky.
Speaker 1: Like I started practicing you know what I practice more
Speaker 1: than anything else is gratitude. I thought you were going
Speaker 1: to say, Bocci, I was, you know what I practice
Speaker 1: more than anything else? That had like all the time
Speaker 1: and just to be thankful and I really felt like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's you know, it's it's it's just helped.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, I think it. Yeah. You know, if you
Speaker 1: want to practice bocci, if you could just when you
Speaker 1: host your show at Union Hall, at Battle of the Diva's,
Speaker 1: you know Union Hall, you could just go right up
Speaker 1: to court in the bar. That's true. So if you
Speaker 1: did want to practice bocci and get better at it,
Speaker 1: so talk to us about about your show Dial the
Speaker 1: Diva's with this bitch Matto Lane first of all, just
Speaker 1: tooking this back to Cathi Griffin, an interesting cooper that
Speaker 1: would be like a Matto, like a disowned like disowned
Speaker 1: you as a would never do that. It's like that.
Speaker 1: I adore mattal Lane our show Battle of the Diva's.
Speaker 1: You both have done it and you were a phenomenal
Speaker 1: We just take two diva Who won? I guess I
Speaker 1: just want to I guess I just want to know
Speaker 1: who won. The amount of times Matt will bring this
Speaker 1: up is truly shocking, So just so everyone knows, like,
Speaker 1: what does that sound like a contest that someone wins
Speaker 1: and then he can't still can't stop talking about it,
Speaker 1: So like victory sounds like a Trumpian fucking impulse. To me,
Speaker 1: it was like our we had you guys did Brittany
Speaker 1: versus Christian, which is which thank you for honoring us
Speaker 1: with that matchup, because that is that's a big one.
Speaker 1: That's the match up, that's that is the max. I
Speaker 1: mean there are there are only a few other ones
Speaker 1: that are like as big Whitney and Maria Maria, we
Speaker 1: had instinct Backstreet Boys, which great. So was it was
Speaker 1: that Sharon and Evans. Sharon and Evans and Evan was
Speaker 1: so so We're coming back and I really want your
Speaker 1: your opinions on this, on this match up. Okay, we
Speaker 1: invited Marie Fouston and Evan Williams back, all these divas,
Speaker 1: and I'm curious what you boys think it's going to
Speaker 1: be Katie Perry versus Taylor Swim. I mean, there is
Speaker 1: no comparison here, are you for real? I don't think
Speaker 1: there's a comparison. There's no contest. There's no contest. I
Speaker 1: think that's what that' is that what you mean? Like
Speaker 1: it's Taylor Taylor, Like Katie's had so many missis. Guys
Speaker 1: were saying this and I was convinced you were going
Speaker 1: to say Katiety, you know, because it doesn't matter what
Speaker 1: our opinion is. There's one who's objectively one is like
Speaker 1: there's one who's defeated the other. Yeah, like like Taylor's
Speaker 1: want quote unquote one which which like we don't necessarily
Speaker 1: agree with, but that is the like cold hard truth,
Speaker 1: capital t truth. It was hard. I will say, Marie
Speaker 1: is defending Taylor. That really so very funny. It's going
Speaker 1: to be literally is she gonna throw like I don't
Speaker 1: know how she feels about Connie, but she does that
Speaker 1: mean she's gonna throw Connie under the beast. It's not
Speaker 1: about how you feel, it's about what you do to win.
Speaker 1: It's like you have to throw it out, you have
Speaker 1: to perform. Matt has an interesting tactic and you both
Speaker 1: didn't I think, and this is this is an interesting
Speaker 1: thing that Matt Taylor and I noticed with Matt, he
Speaker 1: took the argument against Christine and turned it into the
Speaker 1: argument for Chris. It was it was trumpion. It was
Speaker 1: it was like using what you would shin on her
Speaker 1: four as if that was in power, but spitting, spinning
Speaker 1: it and then flipping the flipping this, flipping the entire
Speaker 1: and then he so, yeah, and who won the election?
Speaker 1: Mom is trauma. Okay, so I so I opened My
Speaker 1: opening argument was, Brittany has been through a lot. She's
Speaker 1: been We've seen her through so much. Everyone wasn't here
Speaker 1: a sob story. She's been with us, weep with her,
Speaker 1: weepen with her, and um, you know I did not,
Speaker 1: but I did not, And then I came out. And
Speaker 1: then I came out looking like a tramp. Okay, real quick.
Speaker 1: His definition of looking like a tramp. You were shorts
Speaker 1: that were completely covering you, black wife beater boots, and
Speaker 1: you wore a bandon sank slut. So anyway, his mat
Speaker 1: whole arguments completely. I was being such a hoe and
Speaker 1: oh no, I mean bowen. And I was Matt used
Speaker 1: what Christina used. Matt used his body, he used his body.
Speaker 1: I was a sexual. I was a sex positive, talented
Speaker 1: bitch and listen, and some of us out there in
Speaker 1: the world do not have that capital to barter her
Speaker 1: on that. And I was thinking I was making no,
Speaker 1: I was making a measured argument for Brittany, passionate, compelling, smart,
Speaker 1: It was interesting. And then Matt poses naked and a
Speaker 1: pile of beauty babies. I don't know one hands down,
Speaker 1: so funny. It was incredible, and but you know what,
Speaker 1: the people, the people vote on whoever. You know, that
Speaker 1: was right after Trump was elected, right right before this
Speaker 1: was like February January, and you had done Beyonce. I
Speaker 1: had just so here's the thing. So you came back
Speaker 1: with that. I had just represented Beyonce and the Beyonce
Speaker 1: versus Lady Gaga battle, and I had lost representing Beyonce.
Speaker 1: So I was not about to let that happen. And
Speaker 1: I saw what my failures were, and my failures were
Speaker 1: just assuming that I was going to get by on
Speaker 1: public narrative. That's what I thought I was, and those
Speaker 1: people already know. And honestly, you have to play here's
Speaker 1: the thing about. People go in for the underdogs. So
Speaker 1: the crowd goes to the show to play up the
Speaker 1: things that are funny and stupid about these icons, because
Speaker 1: that is what makes the comedy crowd laugh. You have,
Speaker 1: like every show we do, we just want to have you,
Speaker 1: guys want to have Marie Evan. Evan has won his
Speaker 1: pass battle, and Ree has won her passpresent and she
Speaker 1: she was unbelievably her best friend Sydney. Actually, no, we
Speaker 1: have not had Sydney and this one we're taking. We
Speaker 1: decided to take two champions who know the show? Who
Speaker 1: did that smart? Also with Sydney, we want to give
Speaker 1: her picks of diva's we we want to put. We
Speaker 1: want to do like a Janet Jackson one that's great.
Speaker 1: So we want Sydney to choose their diva which one
Speaker 1: she wants to do. We came on your podcast May
Speaker 1: She Rest and Rest and Piece. We pitched to you
Speaker 1: that you should do an addition with Disney Villains. Oh
Speaker 1: my god. And I talked to a tale that what
Speaker 1: did he think? Love? Okay? Then? Okay? Great? I mean
Speaker 1: literally love open offer, free, offer, take it honestly, thank you.
Speaker 1: Will you guys come back? Yes? Do you maybe like
Speaker 1: an Ursula versus Maleficent or something that's exactly what I
Speaker 1: was thinking. Versus Maleficent, I would I would come in
Speaker 1: hard for Jafar to oh is not Jar versus Scars? Okay?
Speaker 1: That and that's that's a different those are the icon
Speaker 1: would win it. I would want you would want to
Speaker 1: represent Ursula? Yeah? Um, Dan, you know who would represent
Speaker 1: melisas Mattea? I know Matteo and Fat. He talked about
Speaker 1: Maleficent at length on this podcast. Typical, typical, typical. You
Speaker 1: know he is such an encyclopedic, cortous knowledge of it.
Speaker 1: Um No, it's such a good show. Go check it
Speaker 1: out if you're listening shows coming up you have It's
Speaker 1: christs Are you still roast battling? You know what? Not? Really? No,
Speaker 1: tell us how. I've always been curious because you are
Speaker 1: basically a roast icon at this point. I want to
Speaker 1: know how you even got into like what like what
Speaker 1: what got you into this like gorgeous world into that
Speaker 1: or a bit because you would never think of you
Speaker 1: as someone who is a roaster. It's interesting, you know.
Speaker 1: I I knew I kind of figured that I could
Speaker 1: get away saying some fucked up ship because I can
Speaker 1: say it and you're so likable. Yeah, and I can
Speaker 1: really and and I say horrible I've said horrible things.
Speaker 1: But the stand was like started to do these roasts
Speaker 1: and I just tried it, and my first one, I
Speaker 1: really I liked having like an outlet to say really
Speaker 1: fucked up things and oh god, this is the worst. Um.
Speaker 1: I like going after like the physical Yeah, I'll go
Speaker 1: after the way I'll go after. I mean, nothing's off limits.
Speaker 1: It's low hanging fruit, but you know it's the juiciest fruit.
Speaker 1: And I do want to say that, like I did,
Speaker 1: I did so many of them, and I started to
Speaker 1: just that my stand up in my comedy took a
Speaker 1: back seat. So I'm very actively trying to not do
Speaker 1: them all the time anyway. Um, but I will say that,
Speaker 1: like in all the times I've done them, like everyone's
Speaker 1: very respectful, like, well me beforehand, and they'll say, like,
Speaker 1: is anything off limits? And then if I were to say, yes,
Speaker 1: don't say this, this this, which I never have, but
Speaker 1: people have said that, and that's respect. But that's respected,
Speaker 1: and like of course, like I would want to know
Speaker 1: that for anybody, Like I'm not saying that you don't
Speaker 1: want to hurt people, you know, so, but but I
Speaker 1: had a great I mean it was a great oppert
Speaker 1: tunity for me. So then you kept doing it at
Speaker 1: the stand. And then finally Comedy Central came knocking or
Speaker 1: were they just shot they just stuff at the stand.
Speaker 1: They shot a lot at the stand, and like Jeff
Speaker 1: Ross would come into the stand and so he saw
Speaker 1: me a couple of times and then um, and then yeah,
Speaker 1: then Comedy Central did this, did the show at Montreal,
Speaker 1: and I was the I mean I think because somebody
Speaker 1: turned it down. They because they I found out, I
Speaker 1: mean like a week before the thing that I was going.
Speaker 1: And then I battled Jimmy Carr, who was the biggest
Speaker 1: name and he had won the year before, so he
Speaker 1: was like the undisputed champion, and so we battled each
Speaker 1: other and he's like this legend and it was I
Speaker 1: gotta be honest. I think people like we're like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, like, are you terrified because You're going in
Speaker 1: this no name underdog And I was like, no, no no, no,
Speaker 1: this is the best best situation because because I know
Speaker 1: I'll get knocked out, but I don't give a funk.
Speaker 1: I can just have fun. It's nobody knows who I am,
Speaker 1: so I had nothing to lose. And I went in
Speaker 1: there like I was very in the moment. I was nervous.
Speaker 1: I had to prep myself and and I just like,
Speaker 1: you know, I brought myself into it, which I which
Speaker 1: I liked, and it didn't matter. It didn't matter. But
Speaker 1: did you end up? Oh? Can I tell you something,
Speaker 1: I've lost almost every roast I've ever done. I never win.
Speaker 1: I never ever win. But I'm a great loser. I'll
Speaker 1: do such a great job and I don't give it.
Speaker 1: It's not even about losing or winning. Yeah, so's it's
Speaker 1: been a lot of it's been a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: But I also like, I'll say this too, I had
Speaker 1: um as like a story of how you can overcome
Speaker 1: my first like big shows that I did at Carolines.
Speaker 1: Jeff had asked me to host and it was like
Speaker 1: my first time performing at Carolines and I'm not I I
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys have been in similar situations,
Speaker 1: but just just a bomb city, just bombs over back
Speaker 1: and I was, I mean it was. I I felt
Speaker 1: like I couldn't show my face in Carolines for a
Speaker 1: long time. I feel like I'm on the no fly
Speaker 1: list there. Oh my god, you know at this and
Speaker 1: I to the point where you're like, you you feel
Speaker 1: like you need to write everybody you know a letter
Speaker 1: and apologize for knowing them. I felt the same. I'm
Speaker 1: actually doing a show next week that I bombed like
Speaker 1: years ago, and I haven't done it for years because
Speaker 1: I bombed so hard and yet you're going to do
Speaker 1: great And I bombed so hard. The hardest I ever
Speaker 1: bombed was at a show with and I begged Matt
Speaker 1: to do it with me because I didn't know what
Speaker 1: I was going to do because I didn't really know
Speaker 1: about show for all people, talking about gay show for
Speaker 1: all people. We we fucking were so bad. But it
Speaker 1: was this is three years ago. I had no No,
Speaker 1: it was longer than that. This is right after we
Speaker 1: had just met them. This is right after we just
Speaker 1: met them. I didn't really know what I was doing,
Speaker 1: like in in comedy just at all besides like pap
Speaker 1: Roulette and and like um and like they had asked
Speaker 1: me to do it, and I was like, I don't
Speaker 1: know what then I'm gonna do because at that point
Speaker 1: I didn't didn't do characters, didn't do stand up, didn't
Speaker 1: do anything that was just me on a stage. And
Speaker 1: but they asked me, and I was like, okay, it
Speaker 1: was too terrified to turn them down because I just
Speaker 1: I still do but like them back then it was
Speaker 1: just like worshiped them. Um still do. And then so
Speaker 1: then I begged Matt to do to do this a
Speaker 1: bit with me where we were too Gray's Anatomy improvisers,
Speaker 1: like our specialty was we will improvise a scene. That
Speaker 1: was great but we got out. We came out and
Speaker 1: we got laughs because I was dressed that's like Meredith
Speaker 1: Gray and he was dressed as Christmas. Were like when
Speaker 1: you're like, we are Gray's Anatomy drag and people like that.
Speaker 1: I don't know. We just did it and then ashamed. Um,
Speaker 1: I understand, Yeah, I mean it takes you. It's it's
Speaker 1: a loss. Part of your soul goes away. And I
Speaker 1: was like, this is the biggest show I've ever done.
Speaker 1: I thought, Oh, Jeff's never gonna I still think, oh
Speaker 1: my god, is he ever gonna want to like work
Speaker 1: with me. It was an opportunity and I believe knew it.
Speaker 1: But part of me and you just move on. You
Speaker 1: get it for it, you got it, it's part of it.
Speaker 1: Part of me gets off on this failing and then
Speaker 1: balancing back. And I was listening to I was I've
Speaker 1: been listening to not a lot of how I'm trying
Speaker 1: to listen to more. I'm trying to go through the
Speaker 1: back catalog of Howard Stern interviews and they're great. Um.
Speaker 1: But the first time Lady Gaga was on, she talked
Speaker 1: about how she came up in like the Lewry Side scene,
Speaker 1: and like how she like bombed all the time, but
Speaker 1: she was like part of me got off on it
Speaker 1: and it made me want to be better. And I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, that's cool. Yeah, it's interesting. It's interesting.
Speaker 1: Has you know, when you progress in this business, the
Speaker 1: stakes get higher because we feel like we have more
Speaker 1: to lose. It's I almost look back at the roast
Speaker 1: Battle experience with like a little sadness because I feel
Speaker 1: like I'll never really have it again. Like I was,
Speaker 1: I mean, not not that I'm I mean, I'm not
Speaker 1: a big name now, but I wasn't. I was like
Speaker 1: I was doing open micah and and to have gotten
Speaker 1: that and to go and now Carolines and now I
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, oh, like now it's like, well people,
Speaker 1: you know, expect me to be funny people. I'm still
Speaker 1: new comic, but like you're not anyone. But that's that's
Speaker 1: the great thing. And this is so exciting about the
Speaker 1: show um at Our at Ours Nova um is that
Speaker 1: the ceiling keeps you keep this, I'm sorry, the floor
Speaker 1: keeps rising high floor ceiling still high, ceiling rises with
Speaker 1: the floor, so like your horizons just analogy, but um,
Speaker 1: you know, you're just you're leveling up every every day.
Speaker 1: And it's so cool that you've gone to this place
Speaker 1: now where you can have a show at Ours Nova.
Speaker 1: That's a solo show. Thank you so much, and I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to it. And if you're here, you should come. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it shouldn't be checking out. It's going to be really
Speaker 1: good and you get to you get to see me perform,
Speaker 1: which is always such a treat. Oh my god, it's
Speaker 1: always such a treat. Oh my god, do you know
Speaker 1: how much I love to perform? Yes? You boys are you?
Speaker 1: Boys are literally also too. I want to see real
Speaker 1: quick that, Like I was obsessed with both of you
Speaker 1: before you knew who I was. I remember exactly when
Speaker 1: you first saw me perform, and I was in my head,
Speaker 1: or at least when I know the guys, and I
Speaker 1: was in my head because I wanted to do really
Speaker 1: well in front of you guys, and I felt like
Speaker 1: I did five and I was like I really and
Speaker 1: I had like a good step, but I was like,
Speaker 1: I really want to press them because you guys performed
Speaker 1: as Papua Latte, which I have Molly and I have
Speaker 1: sat and watched all the paper Lette videos all the time.
Speaker 1: I mean, I remember so many of them. I mean,
Speaker 1: I love that's like the I mean, and I've gone
Speaker 1: on to follow all of you individually. I'm like a stalker.
Speaker 1: I would watch those videos and I would google you,
Speaker 1: and I'd google Suity, and I'd google Tessa and i
Speaker 1: google Amanda. Right, And I'm literally a psycho. And I
Speaker 1: loved it. So we loved doing it. It's just so
Speaker 1: hard to get everyone that it's got to be so
Speaker 1: you know how I started following on Instagram not too
Speaker 1: long ago. Is Amanda from Proper Life, who I've only
Speaker 1: met once. That bit you can sing, She's gonna be
Speaker 1: on the show soon. She's going to be man, I
Speaker 1: keep out a little bit over her vocals. We're going
Speaker 1: to try a different format. We're going to try something
Speaker 1: a little bit different, and it's going to be really
Speaker 1: really fun and the fans are going to be gagged. Yeah,
Speaker 1: or I didn't think everyone, So, I mean, all of
Speaker 1: you guys are so fun and I love I love
Speaker 1: Thanks Christy. No. The first time Christine and I ever
Speaker 1: like officially sat down and was at the you've heard
Speaker 1: the story before, right, I'm so glad you brought this up.
Speaker 1: I just want everyone to know that. The first time Christine,
Speaker 1: I like, actually I had a conversation was in the
Speaker 1: waiting room for the audition of what the fun was
Speaker 1: that joking off? It was joking of me, God blessed,
Speaker 1: it's a fun show. But our managers like put us
Speaker 1: in and put us up for this. Why were we there?
Speaker 1: Why there was so much homework to do? Do you remember?
Speaker 1: I came out of my audition, felt okay, and then staid,
Speaker 1: I'm going back in because I remembered I had one
Speaker 1: joke that I wanted to tell them, and I went
Speaker 1: back and expecting it to bring the house down, and
Speaker 1: it was like, think, thank you, I just slick slip out. No,
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you did that. I'm so glad you
Speaker 1: did that because you know what like that will that's
Speaker 1: like a that is like a swinging doors thing where
Speaker 1: like now you're on this path in life that will
Speaker 1: that you like where you will sort of like make
Speaker 1: sliding doors. I'm sorry, that's why that's a sliding doors
Speaker 1: story with Paltrowwyneth Paltrow, Gwyneth, I know my references. So
Speaker 1: it's a sliding doors thing now because you will always
Speaker 1: go back into rooms and be like, wait one more,
Speaker 1: and that is it didn't make a difference. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: The room was so awful. It was we had they
Speaker 1: would show me, they would what we do on our
Speaker 1: Instagram every day. And at one point one of my
Speaker 1: notes was okay, you know, to make a joke about
Speaker 1: the picture, right and not just say what you see.
Speaker 1: I was like that feeling when it catas into the
Speaker 1: living room, like okay, can you say something funny? That's bob.
Speaker 1: It was just like it was just like a weird,
Speaker 1: like aged crat house vibe where it was just these
Speaker 1: people sitting on couches like just foot's up on. They
Speaker 1: were too chill. They were too chill about it, and
Speaker 1: it made me very self common. I was like, look alive, yeah,
Speaker 1: trying to make moves there a baby, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: But anyway, that was that was you were the perfect
Speaker 1: person that room with me. I'm so happy that's the
Speaker 1: genesis of your relationship. The joking off on this and
Speaker 1: I think I like rot like did you hear anything?
Speaker 1: I was like, no, imagine if we both got better
Speaker 1: show it's canceled. It's not anymore. Oh I know why
Speaker 1: that was canceled. And on the I think I even
Speaker 1: casually mentioned. I was like, oh yeah, yeah, and I'm
Speaker 1: friends with Matteo to like an, I've been that in emails,
Speaker 1: I've written whatever. No emails is fine, but um, it
Speaker 1: is now time to move on to I don't think so, honey. Now, Christie,
Speaker 1: I didn't prepare the last time. You didn't. I don't
Speaker 1: think so, honey. You were throwing things, you were stopping about.
Speaker 1: Remember the email I wrote you the day after apologizing.
Speaker 1: I wrote on that email I took a water gun
Speaker 1: and used it without permission, and I feel like they overstepped,
Speaker 1: but you didn't never stop. In fact, it was entertainment.
Speaker 1: I might be wrong, but I feel like I was
Speaker 1: the first person to draw from the trouball. I think
Speaker 1: you might have been first. Wait, that's huge, that's historic.
Speaker 1: First person ever dropped from the trouble And I had
Speaker 1: something prepared. I was like, you know what, I love
Speaker 1: a challenge. What did you say your prepared thing was
Speaker 1: going to be about? Well, maybe she'll do it now.
Speaker 1: Maybe she'll do it now because I really didn't prepare.
Speaker 1: Anything's fine, don't worry. We'll go first first. You go first, man, Okay,
Speaker 1: I will go Okay, shouldn't be current or no young
Speaker 1: minus minus for all time. Okay, give me as timeless
Speaker 1: as you want, maybe like Jesus. Okay, alright, I'm excited. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is Matt Rodgers. I don't think so, honey, think
Speaker 1: of new ones because you've seen so many. But there's
Speaker 1: always But you have to It's rule number six of culture.
Speaker 1: You have to be oh my god. It's like I
Speaker 1: immediately go to the classics who have done your show,
Speaker 1: and I think of their don't go over there, don't
Speaker 1: go your own way. It's really number fourteen of culture.
Speaker 1: Don't go their girlfriend. This is Matt Rodgers. Is I
Speaker 1: don't think so, honey. Time starts now. I don't think so, honey. Auditions, No,
Speaker 1: you come to me. I've been out there before. I
Speaker 1: do many shows. You want me for a project, you
Speaker 1: come to me. I don't think so, honey. The agent
Speaker 1: Greeks and the Romans they started theater, but they did
Speaker 1: not start auditions. I believe it is natural, Honey, for
Speaker 1: me to stand in front of a crowd and perform.
Speaker 1: I believe it is something that even the ants do.
Speaker 1: I believe the birds do it. I believe it is
Speaker 1: part of nature. I do not believe, honey. I don't
Speaker 1: think so, honey, that it is natural for the ants
Speaker 1: to say hi, my name is in number sixteen, and
Speaker 1: here is my audition. I do not think the Greeks
Speaker 1: and the Romans stepped in front of each other and
Speaker 1: audition for parts. Therefore, why should I? This is capitalist nonsense.
Speaker 1: You want to see me in a performance to see
Speaker 1: if I'm good for your show. Come to my show
Speaker 1: in December. Have you heard of Christmas? At the Duplex?
Speaker 1: First time? Come to my show? Auditioners, You come to
Speaker 1: me ching, who oh, and that's one minute with a
Speaker 1: little cards on my fucking body monologue you memorized. There
Speaker 1: were beats the timing the review of your new show.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I've been doing this a long time.
Speaker 1: I believe that auditions are really quickly. I'm sorry. What
Speaker 1: was the show called? Have you heard of Christmas? This
Speaker 1: is Matt. This is an exciting announcement. I'm doing two
Speaker 1: shows at the Duplex in December, on December twelfth and
Speaker 1: December twenty one. I'll be accompanied by Henry Koperski. It's
Speaker 1: the release of my Christmas album. Have you heard of Christmas?
Speaker 1: Are you for real? Is my album coming out. Probably not,
Speaker 1: but let's just say that it original song will be
Speaker 1: a full catalog of original holiday music. I'm saving the
Speaker 1: date right now. I will be there. I have you
Speaker 1: heard of Christmas chas? Yours truly is designing the album
Speaker 1: cover and I've heard a few snippets of some of
Speaker 1: the songs, and I gotta tell you can't miss this.
Speaker 1: Can you give me a little, just a little, a little,
Speaker 1: but I will say that I can. I can announce
Speaker 1: that I will have some special guests. Um they will
Speaker 1: be announced, they will be announced. Oh my god, this
Speaker 1: is huge, this is well did you have any idea
Speaker 1: this was going to happen? No ideas? Okay, here have
Speaker 1: you heard of Christmas December? What were the date? December
Speaker 1: twelve and December one? Amazing the legendary Duplex Cabaret. I love,
Speaker 1: first of all, I love speaking of Josh and Aaron Pioneers.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean people a cold school. I've had
Speaker 1: shows there, of course, but now it's really is becoming
Speaker 1: this nice new back on that I opened for Katherine
Speaker 1: Cohen and I was floored, floored to my core. She
Speaker 1: just did her her one woman show and it was incredible,
Speaker 1: and Henry played the Yeah, we're going right after this,
Speaker 1: We're going to Henry wanted to go, and I can't
Speaker 1: have a birthday party, but I really wanted to go.
Speaker 1: See it was phenomenal. Venny was something about that venue.
Speaker 1: It's really great. Benny Barbara's pretty cool, alright, I don't
Speaker 1: think so unique and his time starts. I don't think so, honey.
Speaker 1: The employees of the Doc Martin store on on Spring Street, bitch,
Speaker 1: I just bought a pair of beautiful black boots. But honey,
Speaker 1: the service there was deplorable. If I want to walk
Speaker 1: into the room full of fucking bleach haired Asians, I'd
Speaker 1: turn on sailor Moon. Bitch. I don't know. That's not
Speaker 1: even a good joke. Whatever. It was just all these dour,
Speaker 1: like tragically hip Asians and then like girl, this was
Speaker 1: my phase back in old Honey. I've I've done bleached
Speaker 1: my hair too. I've been I I went to your
Speaker 1: fucking these Conversations of the West seminars in college and
Speaker 1: your liberal arts programs. To honey, you're not special, you
Speaker 1: are not so smooth. You don't have the right to
Speaker 1: comment on how my feet are a little anomalous or
Speaker 1: whatever the fuck you think. I have perfect feet. I
Speaker 1: get to wear whatever boots I wanted five seconds. Don't
Speaker 1: tell me it's final sale. I know I'm not an idiot.
Speaker 1: I don't think so, Honey, that's one minute. What do
Speaker 1: you think that Matt always has something to note on
Speaker 1: my don't? Well? Not a question, the question what you
Speaker 1: had bleached hair? I bleach my hair. This was pretty recently,
Speaker 1: two or three years ago, bleached and it was blue
Speaker 1: and gray, blue, silver. And I missed to see photos
Speaker 1: and I'll show you. I miss it so much. But
Speaker 1: I don't think I can get away with it now
Speaker 1: because I think like people can be like, oh but
Speaker 1: auditions blah blah blah blah. But I don't think Johnny auditions. Um,
Speaker 1: what do you have to say, Matt? I don't have
Speaker 1: a thought. I thought it was really beautiful. I thought
Speaker 1: what was amazing? And I resent the um, I resent
Speaker 1: your tone and saying that I constantly have a note. No,
Speaker 1: I wasn't saying let me tell you something. Me and
Speaker 1: Will just shared a glance, and I know that I
Speaker 1: know that we both think that you're really ridiculous. Matt.
Speaker 1: You and I can't fight over an engineer will yet
Speaker 1: this early? But yeah, we can't fight because bitch, I
Speaker 1: already want can I ask you gave me his number?
Speaker 1: I want? I want to clear. I have a clarifying question.
Speaker 1: Gave me his number? Stop stop, I have a clarifying
Speaker 1: question for you about your I don't think so, I
Speaker 1: will text him. What was what were the ants about?
Speaker 1: You're saying ants do theater? I was saying that everyone,
Speaker 1: every organism does theater. Okay, that's what even I think.
Speaker 1: I don't know that it will understand. That is trying
Speaker 1: to be like little little Mr Sociologists for animals. But
Speaker 1: I don't think I don't think it. You have something ready,
Speaker 1: and I'm just gonna. I'm gonna. I drew from the
Speaker 1: troll birl in my head. I think you're I don't
Speaker 1: think so, honey. Her time starts now, Okay, I don't
Speaker 1: think so, honey. My adult acne, I mean what the
Speaker 1: people who say it gets better do they know about
Speaker 1: adult acne? Because I'm really struggling, you know, And it's
Speaker 1: not it's in places I didn't know it would ever be.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's hard. You know. People go through that
Speaker 1: stage in high school. But I'm a grown as woman
Speaker 1: and I'm really trying. I wish I was awkward in
Speaker 1: high school. Now I should be thriving, you know. And
Speaker 1: when when the pimples are by your hair and it
Speaker 1: hurts when you brush it, I mean, I don't think
Speaker 1: so honey, brushing hair with pimples. Right, well, I threw
Speaker 1: the table, you know. I don't think so honey. Having
Speaker 1: to buy expensive crane. I don't think so honey. Having
Speaker 1: to contour my face around my pimples. I don't think,
Speaker 1: so honey, having to wear makeup, but I don't want
Speaker 1: to wear makeup. I don't think, so honey. Why aren't me? Why?
Speaker 1: Why aren't people cool? You know, the Kardashians should make
Speaker 1: acne cool and then I'll be cool. I don't think
Speaker 1: so honey. Wow, I think that we have a lot
Speaker 1: to think about. Why aren't pimples cool? Like if the
Speaker 1: Kardashians said they were cool, they'd be cool. If if
Speaker 1: some I fucking Gwyneth Paldrow, right, if if like some
Speaker 1: lifestyle blogger walked into this room and was like, you
Speaker 1: know what, pimples actually make you better in sex in secks,
Speaker 1: better in secks, you know, what you'd be like great,
Speaker 1: and it's like a weird thing, like maybe my next
Speaker 1: I don't think so, honey is going to be like makeup.
Speaker 1: Like I'm like over having to wear makeup. I didn't
Speaker 1: want to wear makeup. It's your choice, well born with
Speaker 1: this sucking face, I think we have a lot to
Speaker 1: think about after this episode of Lost Culture. Sta. This
Speaker 1: was a very This was a very thought. It was educational,
Speaker 1: thought provoking, heartwarming episode, lots of ups, downs and all around.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much for having And we want
Speaker 1: to say one more time that Christie's show, It's Christie Bitch,
Speaker 1: will be November four at the Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see you guys there and please
Speaker 1: come out. It will be a really hopefully it'll be really.
Speaker 1: I'd better be there because I'm in the gig. Matt's
Speaker 1: in the gig. Girl. Um, Christie, we love you so much,
Speaker 1: and you know what, you have the energy of a
Speaker 1: thousand smiling butterflies, and you be as horny as you want.
Speaker 1: Let no one stop you from being horny. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much because you are Holy. Now I think it's
Speaker 1: so much We're going to until your hole with God
Speaker 1: feel your horse. We feel your horse with Christie, Feel
Speaker 1: your ho with God. Feel your horse, We love your
Speaker 1: hole with Christie, Horse, Queen God, fel I just want
Speaker 1: to ask, was my vibrato consistent? Okay? Thanks bye. This
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