Speaker 1: Are you leaving?
Speaker 2: I you wanna way back home?
Speaker 3: Either way, we want to be there.
Speaker 4: Doesn't matter how much baggage you claim and give us
Speaker 4: time and a terminol and gay.
Speaker 2: We want to send you off instile.
Speaker 3: We wanna welcome you back home.
Speaker 4: Tell us all about it.
Speaker 5: We scared her? Was it fine? Malborn? Do you need
Speaker 5: to ride? Do you need to ride?
Speaker 3: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 5: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 3: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 5: Do your need to ride?
Speaker 2: Ride with Karen and Chris? Welcome to Do you need
Speaker 2: to ride?
Speaker 5: This is Chris Fairbanks and this is Karen Tilgaroff.
Speaker 2: Hello, my friend Karen. I've not seen you in over
Speaker 2: a month.
Speaker 5: I know how are you?
Speaker 2: I'm terrific. I am.
Speaker 6: Like many episodes, I'd like to start this one with
Speaker 6: a personal apology. I really dismissed. According to the audio
Speaker 6: clip that was posted our Instagram, I very much dismissed
Speaker 6: your call for help when you were smelling toasts.
Speaker 2: I was trying to make jokes the whole time.
Speaker 5: I would only expect you to do that.
Speaker 6: But I immediately after hearing it the other day, I
Speaker 6: did a little research, and indeed there are several things
Speaker 6: that it could mean. But one of them is related
Speaker 6: to a minor your body avoiding an epileptic feature.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you don't have to convince me that it's not
Speaker 4: good news to smell toast randomly.
Speaker 5: I did not have to convince you.
Speaker 6: See it's funny because with the backstory, I immediately thought
Speaker 6: it was like when the Oh if your hand smells
Speaker 6: like peanut butter dut and then someone slaps your hand
Speaker 6: and it.
Speaker 2: Hits your face. Oh, I thought you were about to
Speaker 2: hit me in the face. I know when I'm being
Speaker 2: set up.
Speaker 6: But no, you were actually concerned about your health, and
Speaker 6: I just started, you know, my defense mechanism.
Speaker 5: But here's the thing.
Speaker 4: The interaction expectation between you and I being stand up
Speaker 4: comedians is not the same as the audience or even
Speaker 4: just the general listener that you embody when you listen
Speaker 4: to clips of our show.
Speaker 6: Yeah, wormchair, general listener, you know what I would have done.
Speaker 6: I love everything live. I would love that everyone who's
Speaker 6: listening right now. This is not a personal.
Speaker 2: Attack, not in the least, but it is.
Speaker 6: Yes, It's it's hard to understand how like if there
Speaker 6: was an accident in a car flip you'd start maniacally
Speaker 6: laughing Yeah, it's hard for you to relate to that.
Speaker 6: When you're just listening. It seems like we're selfish or something.
Speaker 4: Well, unless you have the same weird disease coping mechanisms
Speaker 4: that we do, which I think a lot more people,
Speaker 4: you don't have to be a stand up comedian to
Speaker 4: relate to our weird personalities.
Speaker 6: I don't think absolutely no. I think it's more common
Speaker 6: that that is your outlet. Now that I healthily have
Speaker 6: a stage place to do these things in a controlled environment,
Speaker 6: I think I act more appropriately out in the streets.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 5: Good, I'm worried about you in the streets.
Speaker 6: I have been in these streets, you know when I
Speaker 6: saw the other day street You're actually this is a
Speaker 6: good one.
Speaker 5: Oh cold on. Is there an animal involved? Yes? Is
Speaker 5: the animal hurt? No? Does it have cancer?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 5: Then go tell me this story.
Speaker 2: I do have some tragic news about the turtles.
Speaker 5: See it?
Speaker 2: No, it's the uh.
Speaker 6: It's there is a cat in my neighborhood that I've
Speaker 6: seen twice. Now, what color black with white areas as well.
Speaker 2: Some call them spots.
Speaker 6: Hangs out on the sidewalk and waits or or just
Speaker 6: looks around until it finds a car with an open window, Yes,
Speaker 6: will get climb into that car, any person's car, yep,
Speaker 6: and sit in the front seat. It loves getting into
Speaker 6: cars and sitting in the front streets with good posture
Speaker 6: like it's driving. And I'm maybe imagining that part. It's
Speaker 6: not pretending to drive, but loves hanging out in cars.
Speaker 6: I love it, and I hope.
Speaker 2: It's paying a little because why you're leaving your window down?
Speaker 5: Why are you in a city like this?
Speaker 6: I yes, and I'm a little worried that I'm just
Speaker 6: thinking of this now, but this sounds like bad news.
Speaker 6: I just hopefully that window isn't down because there's a
Speaker 6: dog in the car and then it'll attack the cat.
Speaker 2: But that's just something I know.
Speaker 4: You're looking for problems on that one hypothetical that almost
Speaker 4: would never happen.
Speaker 6: Yes, I cannot talk about animals without the possibility of
Speaker 6: them being injured.
Speaker 2: I went right back.
Speaker 5: One opportunity to describe a hurt animal. You will jump on.
Speaker 6: Now, this is a cat that feels empowered, great, and
Speaker 6: it's finding shelter and it's also just having fun. It's
Speaker 6: the best version of a cat prank I've ever seen.
Speaker 4: One of my saddest. I'll do the sad cat think
Speaker 4: if you're not going to.
Speaker 5: That makes me think.
Speaker 4: When I lived in Silver Like, I had this cat, Rudy,
Speaker 4: and this was Rudy was the best cat. He was
Speaker 4: super fluffy, like his cat hair was dense. He was
Speaker 4: a black and white dense hair like a like an
Speaker 4: otter and really short, and so he was always really
Speaker 4: shiny and beautiful and he wanted you to pick him
Speaker 4: up and hold him so like he was like kind
Speaker 4: of a rag doll in your hands. But he wasn't
Speaker 4: the rag doll type, that's right. He just was weirdly like, yay,
Speaker 4: someone's holding me. And when I lived in Silver Lake,
Speaker 4: he got attacked by coyotes and basically went off to
Speaker 4: die by himself.
Speaker 2: This is more tragic than any story I've ever told.
Speaker 6: Please continued, do you see?
Speaker 4: And so I like he was gone and I didn't know.
Speaker 4: It was like he's just gone, and I have to
Speaker 4: face that. But anytime I see a black and white
Speaker 4: cat when I'm on the east side or hear about it,
Speaker 4: I'm like, be Rudy. I don't think it could at
Speaker 4: this point because it would mean he was thirty nine
Speaker 4: years old. Or whatever, But I just I miss Rudy.
Speaker 4: He was rip Rudy. You are a great one.
Speaker 6: A message to you, Rudy, This truly is a message
Speaker 6: to you, Rudy. Yes, if for those second wave SKA
Speaker 6: fans get in here.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's first. Who knows. There were so many waves
Speaker 2: with that SKA.
Speaker 5: I feel like that was second.
Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe they shouldn't have just announced every wave wave.
Speaker 2: Same with feminism, yes exactly.
Speaker 6: Wouldn't feminism just stay popular if people weren't skanking to
Speaker 6: it every twenty years?
Speaker 5: STA and feminism go hand in hand.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And on this podcast episode, we are going to
Speaker 4: explain to you how.
Speaker 2: Feminism pick it up, Pick it up, pick it up.
Speaker 4: I'm racking my brain for like, I never listened to
Speaker 4: SKA really, but we did go to some Skankin' pickle
Speaker 4: shows in the late nineties.
Speaker 2: I love skankin, love them, love them.
Speaker 6: I didn't know it was a movement when it started again.
Speaker 6: And I accidentally saw the most terribly named band ever
Speaker 6: Cherry Puff and Daddy's And this is before.
Speaker 2: Zoot Suit, Ryot and all that.
Speaker 6: But I just saw them at a show and I
Speaker 6: was like, I like rock or punk with horn section.
Speaker 6: This is amazing because it's like, Okay, here's a bunch
Speaker 6: of jazz guys.
Speaker 2: They got together with some punk rock guys. That's what
Speaker 2: I liked.
Speaker 6: But then when I had a name and all this history,
Speaker 6: I'm like, well, now I can't jump aboard some bandwagon
Speaker 6: and start wearing thin suspenders.
Speaker 4: You just can't. Like, you can't in terms of you
Speaker 4: don't want to be seen that way.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: I like to revolt against popularity or groups. Yes, I
Speaker 6: thought it was my music. It was the only one
Speaker 6: in the audience. But yeah, I still there's the occasional
Speaker 6: SKA song that just brings me back in a Brandy
Speaker 6: Posey way.
Speaker 4: I mean, Brandy's holding out for Scott's. She'll keep it alive,
Speaker 4: and I'm positive that she's the one that can do it.
Speaker 6: Brandy, our friend painted her car as a real big fish.
Speaker 2: It said real big Fish on it.
Speaker 5: Yep, she was a huge fan.
Speaker 4: Yes, uh, you know Brandy Posey from the Great two
Speaker 4: part episode where we go to the Krispy Kreme drive
Speaker 4: through for the first time. Oh, we've done it since,
Speaker 4: but we did it first with Brandy.
Speaker 2: You're right, that was a ground breaking. What is I
Speaker 2: smell toast.
Speaker 4: I see, And now what if I just didn't answer
Speaker 4: you when you said you smell toast? And then I'm
Speaker 4: just like, I'm like, keep changing the subject.
Speaker 6: I do want to say that in this article it
Speaker 6: everything that could ever possibly happen to where it's like, well,
Speaker 6: I think now, it's just it takes away when it's
Speaker 6: thirty nine things it could be.
Speaker 2: So I think you're fine, but I do well.
Speaker 6: Now if I did, maybe go to a doctor so
Speaker 6: you know that toast thing, and they'll laugh.
Speaker 2: They'll laugh. They'll be like, oh, someone's been on the internet.
Speaker 4: What if the last thing on that list of possible
Speaker 4: problems is that you could get electrocuted by a toaster?
Speaker 7: Oh my god, that's great, stupid, it's well toasted.
Speaker 2: It's probably just my friend alone, and tell it's me.
Speaker 2: I'm murdering you.
Speaker 5: I'm holding a toaster. How is Montana?
Speaker 2: It was great.
Speaker 6: Actually I did a little uh sketch for one of
Speaker 6: my shows recorded on my watch where I was like, Oh,
Speaker 6: I got this used Apple Watch. I'm trying to figure
Speaker 6: it out. Oh, it looks like there's a recorded track
Speaker 6: on it. And there's an argument that I did with
Speaker 6: my help Brooks and we, uh, yeah, it's a guy
Speaker 6: in a bathtub. And the landlord comes over and he's like,
Speaker 6: you haven't paid rent. I see you've been going to
Speaker 6: best Buy. I'm gonna sell all that stuff and get
Speaker 6: your rent. He's like, you can't sell my stuff. What
Speaker 6: are you holding a toaster? And then I throw the
Speaker 6: toaster in the bathtub and all we did is turn
Speaker 6: on the water and the hair dryer and it sounds
Speaker 6: like Brooks.
Speaker 2: Is being electrocuted.
Speaker 6: And I was just gonna play that on stage and like,
Speaker 6: here's a used watch. Hopefully there's no backstory with it,
Speaker 6: nothing nefarious. I only paid five dollars. There's a crack
Speaker 6: in it, and it'll just bottle of blood.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 6: I didn't work it out because even holding a microphone
Speaker 6: up to it, it really didn't register it.
Speaker 2: Oh so it but it was a good idea.
Speaker 5: Want did the audience get you?
Speaker 6: They kind of were trying to listen, but it was
Speaker 6: really hard until we started screaming and we made it
Speaker 6: way too long. It was like a two minute sketch. Oh,
Speaker 6: it needs to be fifteen seconds. But if you see
Speaker 6: me in the future, maybe I'll have ironed out the
Speaker 6: used watch sketch.
Speaker 5: I like, the concept is really good, though, thank you.
Speaker 4: I wonder if you do it way way shorter, where
Speaker 4: you're like, I hope there's nothing nefarious, and then it's
Speaker 4: like a series of ways things that people could be
Speaker 4: yelling while they're being robbed or whatever. Short, so it's
Speaker 4: literally people like, get away from my watch.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 6: And it's different, like this watch has bounced around from
Speaker 6: tragedy to tragedy and I'm next yep.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's a great idea, but.
Speaker 5: Really it can't be.
Speaker 4: It has to be like a sentence of each moment,
Speaker 4: so the people don't have to like buy into a
Speaker 4: whole concept.
Speaker 6: Yes, oh, and then each one it's a different era.
Speaker 6: Maybe there's twenties music in the background.
Speaker 2: This is a.
Speaker 6: Time traveling watch that has been around for so many depths.
Speaker 5: This watch has always existed.
Speaker 6: Right a podcast where Karen and I discuss sketches that
Speaker 6: will never come.
Speaker 4: To fruition, sketches that Chris is going to do during
Speaker 4: stand up sets.
Speaker 5: The hardest place to do a sketch.
Speaker 4: Yes, you're alone, there's no hats, and the people got.
Speaker 6: To make it up after you do it. Someone's going
Speaker 6: to call it a skit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's going to be your dad.
Speaker 2: I like your skits.
Speaker 4: Oh, your sketch and your little sketches and your skits.
Speaker 6: But yes, to answer your question, Montana was beautiful. There's
Speaker 6: baby deer in my dad's front yard. I videoed them
Speaker 6: and then I just watched them Bambi level cute cartoon
Speaker 6: animated deer that lay right by the window in the shade,
Speaker 6: and I opened the shades and there's baby deer. I'm like,
Speaker 6: how did I want to get away from this my
Speaker 6: whole childhood? Why did I want to go live at
Speaker 6: the beach, a place I then lived and immediately missed
Speaker 6: these baby deer.
Speaker 4: Well, you could find baby deer if you looked hard
Speaker 4: enough in Santa Monica.
Speaker 6: I yes, I just I don't know I've ever lived
Speaker 6: somewhere where they'll be right outside my window.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I had a great I had a great time
Speaker 6: and relaxing.
Speaker 2: How was your.
Speaker 4: Triat It was really nice. I went to see Bradford
Speaker 4: in Milwaukee?
Speaker 2: Oh yes, and.
Speaker 6: Well I also my Bradford is very sweet. I met
Speaker 6: Bradford at a show.
Speaker 2: In was it Milwaukee?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yes, this is all lining up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you get it now.
Speaker 4: Uh wait, okay, we're coming off the freeway and then
Speaker 4: what am I doing?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 4: So uh so it was we have been talking about
Speaker 4: it for a long time because he's lived there for
Speaker 4: whatever three years since COVID. They have moved out of
Speaker 4: LA and to Milwaukee during COVID, and I was so scared,
Speaker 4: like they were going to drive across the country and
Speaker 4: this was when like people were getting into fistfights yea
Speaker 4: because of masks. Yeah.
Speaker 6: And you and I were hand washing or lettice with
Speaker 6: hand sanitizing, yeah.
Speaker 4: And wiping down the cereal boxes. Yes, And they're like, yeah,
Speaker 4: We're gonna go ahead and move across. And I was
Speaker 4: just like, you, please be careful. I was so scared.
Speaker 4: I was just like all the threat in the world.
Speaker 4: And of course it was perfectly timed. They bought a
Speaker 4: house for one sixteenth of what you pay in Los Angeles,
Speaker 4: like wild and it's it's great.
Speaker 6: So yeah, a lot of people did that, I think,
Speaker 6: and it happened to be most of the people that
Speaker 6: book I independently produced comedy shows down because I've noticed
Speaker 6: where it's this person, what's this person used to do
Speaker 6: a show, And I'll look and they are happy with
Speaker 6: a picket fence somewhere in Illinois.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I think like the next five years everyone's going to
Speaker 4: be processing what actually happened to them during the COVID experience.
Speaker 2: We're all traumatized.
Speaker 5: We're all traumatized.
Speaker 4: I'm still getting over my absolute Like I have a
Speaker 4: monologuing problem that I have to literally in meetings just
Speaker 4: shut my lips.
Speaker 5: So I stopped talking. The talking won't end.
Speaker 2: It's so uh.
Speaker 6: Nick Vadorat, who's a comedian that I makes me laugh
Speaker 6: like no other, has a very funny joke about trying
Speaker 6: to different differentiate between you know, is this the trauma
Speaker 6: of COVID or am I just regular, regular old not
Speaker 6: popular anymore?
Speaker 2: Like the oh this is a are we Is this
Speaker 2: gonna work?
Speaker 5: Well, it's I think across the street. Oh wow, I'm
Speaker 5: not sure.
Speaker 6: Yeah, is this gonna work? The most not helpful comment
Speaker 6: I could have ever made?
Speaker 5: Could you stop doing this?
Speaker 1: Is here?
Speaker 4: Let me let me try it again and uh, I'll
Speaker 4: pull over On the other side, I was kind of confused,
Speaker 4: what's this creepy alley?
Speaker 6: Ooh this is let challenge someone to a dance off?
Speaker 2: Much kind of alley.
Speaker 5: We're then a ball tonight.
Speaker 6: But I, uh, yes, it's uh, we're all going We're
Speaker 6: still going through it.
Speaker 5: Still going through it. Wait, will you resay what you said?
Speaker 5: Nick Vatter outside? Because I wasn't well.
Speaker 6: I had trouble saying what I said because of the
Speaker 6: problem we're talking about. I still am having communication breakdowns.
Speaker 5: I see. But his joke was what Yes, I see.
Speaker 6: It's that thing where you start telling someone's joke. And
Speaker 6: then I realized I kind of don't know.
Speaker 1: How it goes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I set myself up for that.
Speaker 1: I see.
Speaker 2: It's just in the joke, he's looking out the window.
Speaker 6: Well, I don't see anyone with masks on, Like in
Speaker 6: his mind it's still COVID he's experiencing or quarantine.
Speaker 2: But it's just regular not being popular.
Speaker 5: Oh got it?
Speaker 6: Okay, And I butchered it both times. I hope he
Speaker 6: doesn't listen.
Speaker 5: I can guarantee he does.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, No, he's a fan of us both.
Speaker 5: No. Yeah, I have heard of Nick Vadaroth for a
Speaker 5: long time.
Speaker 4: Let's see if I get in front of somebody and
Speaker 4: make them honk at me.
Speaker 5: But he was one of those people.
Speaker 4: I always love it when there's somebody from a different
Speaker 4: town that people like, hey, have you seen this guy?
Speaker 4: It's like that is the most exciting thing about stand up,
Speaker 4: when someone is the new guy and then everyone's like
Speaker 4: excited about them.
Speaker 6: Yeah, especially when it was the actual word of mouth.
Speaker 6: Days now, it's like there are many people that I
Speaker 6: follow and I don't know their names, and I like
Speaker 6: their videos and I'm like, well, that's my new favorite
Speaker 6: joke writer. This person with eight hundred followers. But I
Speaker 6: have noticed that everyone I start to like, I see
Speaker 6: them grow in popularity, and I feel like an old
Speaker 6: timey producer that wants his cut. Yeah, yeah, I knew
Speaker 6: this person back when they had four videos, And where's
Speaker 6: my ten percent?
Speaker 2: I want to ask them.
Speaker 6: I own in the studio, and I want a cut
Speaker 6: of all of all your acting pay on the movie.
Speaker 2: I pay the old classic double.
Speaker 6: Dip scene and thank you. That was my nineteen twenties
Speaker 6: movie producer. No change in voice. I'm one of the best.
Speaker 4: It was all vibe and I have to tell you,
Speaker 4: listener might not have gone all the way through your earbuds,
Speaker 4: but in this car it was the twenty Yeah.
Speaker 6: A lot of people would have to do a voice
Speaker 6: like this, I want twenty percent of.
Speaker 7: All of it.
Speaker 6: See but no, no, that's not how you do it. No,
Speaker 6: people talk normal like them once the camera wasn't.
Speaker 5: Rolling, once, they weren't showing off.
Speaker 2: It's just a style of acting.
Speaker 6: And then one day a man named Merlon Brando was like,
Speaker 6: what if I just talk like a normal person while
Speaker 6: the camera rolls?
Speaker 5: Yeah? What if I wear a tank top and act casual?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: And the new style of acting was born.
Speaker 6: Yes, hopefully someone doesn't emulate it to a t in
Speaker 6: the future named Tom Hardy.
Speaker 2: He's very brandowly.
Speaker 5: That's right, that's true.
Speaker 6: I'm always picking Hollywood fights in this podcast.
Speaker 4: Did you ever see the the FX series Taboo that
Speaker 4: Tom Hardy stars in? And Tom Hardy's dad wrote.
Speaker 5: No, it's so good.
Speaker 2: Really you want to.
Speaker 4: See some Brando level. His dad's a playwright. Oh wow,
Speaker 4: it's really good. That's ringing bells Taboo, Taboo.
Speaker 5: I believe.
Speaker 2: Let us watch it. We can see it.
Speaker 6: Today's guest thinks of it because today's guest is a
Speaker 6: TV critic.
Speaker 2: I like to into very much.
Speaker 6: Yes, podcast based on TV shows and also a lot
Speaker 6: of articles for you know, old rags that I've heard
Speaker 6: of I see Ashley cumming. Hopefully we didn't make her
Speaker 6: walk too far. And should I give some indication that
Speaker 6: we are the people?
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, Hi, just letting you know we aren't strangers.
Speaker 2: Why there, come.
Speaker 5: On, sorry, we made you walk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're right now.
Speaker 6: We're already mad recording, so I've just now you know
Speaker 6: today's guests from clubs and colleges across the country.
Speaker 2: Put your ears together for Ashley Ray.
Speaker 1: Hello.
Speaker 6: Hello, Yes, that I warned us about the curb?
Speaker 5: Was that the curb?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we curbed up a little.
Speaker 1: It is a tricky curb here, it is. Yes, it's
Speaker 1: like they made it fancy so people can turn into
Speaker 1: those new condos.
Speaker 6: But it's oh they immediately flip a U turn when
Speaker 6: they read the sign.
Speaker 2: If you lived here, you'd be home right now.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yes, and people just then they get mad
Speaker 1: because lots of people who don't live over here park there.
Speaker 2: Oh do you live where we were just had? Of course?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm like two houses down.
Speaker 6: I just wanted to make sure we didn't make you
Speaker 6: walk many many.
Speaker 5: Before in ninety five degree heat.
Speaker 1: Yeah I can handle it. I'm a strong girl, all right.
Speaker 5: Good, Yeah, how's.
Speaker 1: It going to Texas? Good?
Speaker 5: How are you? You're from Texas?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dallas was born where my family is, so I'm
Speaker 1: used to the like heat where you can't breathe.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it can get I started in Austin and would
Speaker 6: drive to Dallas to do the Addison improv and I
Speaker 6: remember it being.
Speaker 2: A special level of heat.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like Houston's more muggy and there's bugs in your sweaty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dallas was like super hot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just dry, can't breathe, like your car needs ac oh.
Speaker 6: It's I can't believe the number of people I knew,
Speaker 6: Like my friend Matt was a comic.
Speaker 2: He had a Honda Dell Soul that with no roof.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people.
Speaker 6: Just more popularly call it a convertible, but it had
Speaker 6: no air conditioning, and I didn't understand how he lived
Speaker 6: his life that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah. My aunt has had a BMW in Dallas for
Speaker 1: seven years with no ac oh, and she just thinks
Speaker 1: it's so cool to have a BMW. She like won't
Speaker 1: upgrade it or get it and she like, I guess
Speaker 1: can't afford to get it fixed because it's a lot
Speaker 1: for a BMW.
Speaker 4: Yes, that's really funny, and that's I wonder if that's
Speaker 4: building like some sort of a tenacity or like a
Speaker 4: level where she can handle more stuff because she's like
Speaker 4: forcing herself to suffer.
Speaker 1: I mean, it definitely seems like it's impacting her negatively
Speaker 1: mental health bodies. I don't think it's good for her.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's not good to slowly cook your brain, although they.
Speaker 5: Say saunas are really good for your true. Yeah, so
Speaker 5: I don't know. Maybe she's killing two birds, yeah, very true.
Speaker 2: It would be therapeutic.
Speaker 6: If a Texas day was only fifteen minutes long, that's
Speaker 6: would be perfect. And then you went right into a
Speaker 6: cryo chamber. Did you start stand up in Dallas?
Speaker 1: No? I started in Chicago. When I was a kid,
Speaker 1: we moved to northern Illinois, so I mostly grew up
Speaker 1: in Rockford, Illinois in Chicago. After college, went back there
Speaker 1: and that's when I was like, you know, spoken word
Speaker 1: is embarrassing. I don't want to do this anymore. I
Speaker 1: want to do something less embarrassing, so I'll try stand
Speaker 1: up comedy.
Speaker 2: Did you start in slam poetry?
Speaker 1: It was I did. Yeah, it was huge. Okay, this
Speaker 1: was like two thousand and nine, right, like I in
Speaker 1: high school was super into Auni DiFranco, and I would
Speaker 1: like perform her songs like spoken word poems at like
Speaker 1: our talent shows.
Speaker 2: I think it's more perfect than that. I love it.
Speaker 1: And like in college, I joined speak for our spoken
Speaker 1: word team. I would like compete at the Bowery. I
Speaker 1: was in like national Slam competitions and in Chicago, obviously
Speaker 1: the scene is huge there, Like the Moth, That's what
Speaker 1: I was doing, And like after every show, all these
Speaker 1: white people would come up to me like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: that was so moving. You're teaching us so much, and
Speaker 1: I would just kind of be like, I just want
Speaker 1: to make jokes. I just like the funny parts. I'm
Speaker 1: not here to like teach you. Oh my gosh, that's.
Speaker 2: The guy situation.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that person is a lunatic and that is going on'
Speaker 6: such a normal haircut. It's always amazing to see a
Speaker 6: perfectly normal looking face act like Ted Bundy of the Road.
Speaker 4: They're literally listener weaving in and out of traffic, like
Speaker 4: trying to catch each other and get in front of
Speaker 4: each other and slam on the brakes.
Speaker 6: Oh and now they're taking it into a residential well
Speaker 6: enjoyed what short life you have?
Speaker 5: Sorry, you were competing at a national.
Speaker 1: Level, yeah, for spoken word in Chicago. I would like
Speaker 1: compete in the moth and stuff. Oh my god. Now
Speaker 1: he's given people the jerk a symbol, and.
Speaker 4: That guy is getting giving maybe gang signs to say, yeah.
Speaker 6: He was just showcasing his many finger taps. I do
Speaker 6: think I got these, you know.
Speaker 1: From I'm not Gonna Fight someone a far He's like, well,
Speaker 1: this one is a little mustache on the side of
Speaker 1: my finger. Actually very hip in two thousand.
Speaker 2: They're all old poems he used to read. I always
Speaker 2: bring it back.
Speaker 4: So what was the moment where you were like, aside
Speaker 4: from the embarrassment where you're like, I'm going to do comedy,
Speaker 4: it was.
Speaker 1: Like, so I would do these like spoken word things
Speaker 1: like short like you know, storytelling, and I always just
Speaker 1: like telling the funny parts of the stories. I like
Speaker 1: when people would laugh, and I hated when like these
Speaker 1: like you know, well meaning liberals would come up to
Speaker 1: me after like that was so moving. Thank you for
Speaker 1: teaching us about the black female experience. Oh wow. And
Speaker 1: I would just be like but just like.
Speaker 5: Laugh though, right, we're trying to have fun.
Speaker 1: Here, and I was in Chicago and Sarah Sherman, who's
Speaker 1: now you know on SNL huge, and Beck O'Neill, who's
Speaker 1: another comedian I love. They were hosting the Coles open Mic,
Speaker 1: which is like the best, biggest open mic in Chicago,
Speaker 1: and they were trying to just get more women to
Speaker 1: do it. And they were like, look, you already do
Speaker 1: spoken word, you may as well try stand up. It's
Speaker 1: also embarrassing. Just come to this open mic. We'll put
Speaker 1: you up and give it a shoy. And the first
Speaker 1: time I did it, I fell in love. I was
Speaker 1: just like, I love doing this. I think I did
Speaker 1: five minutes on Gypsy Rose. Actually I'm very ahead of
Speaker 1: my time. This was like twenty seventeen. That's right, Mommy,
Speaker 1: Dad and DearS had just come out and I had
Speaker 1: like a five minute set of jokes on her.
Speaker 6: Nice So I noticed, though. There was a comedy scene
Speaker 6: in Boise, Idaho. That's kind of changed since this woman,
Speaker 6: Lisa Young, she used to run the Funny Bone there.
Speaker 6: She was so passionate about the poetry scene. They had
Speaker 6: like three nights and she was trying to get a
Speaker 6: lot of them to do stand up. She had like
Speaker 6: a master plan for all these comics, and in a
Speaker 6: lot of comics were really good as originalt I think
Speaker 6: it makes for a good stand.
Speaker 1: Up, it does. You know, it's like spoken word storytelling.
Speaker 1: You have to kind of be willing to like take
Speaker 1: your sad thoughts in sad life and turn it into entertainment. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it's just one more step to be like, okay,
Speaker 1: well let me make it funny.
Speaker 2: Right right.
Speaker 6: I think for me it would have helped because it's like, oh,
Speaker 6: the actual words.
Speaker 2: Don't just go up there and riff on a topic.
Speaker 2: You should write because it took me a long time.
Speaker 6: I skill don't necessarily write things out and then memorize
Speaker 6: them and go out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The comics who are like, no, I write my
Speaker 1: jokes down and I like, you know, write them again
Speaker 1: and again. I'm like, that's crazy, So what are you doing?
Speaker 1: You don't just like write a premise and get on
Speaker 1: stage and an open mic and just kind of feel
Speaker 1: it out. Okay.
Speaker 4: It makes so much sense though, the like that pipeline
Speaker 4: because you're up there and you are being so vulnerable
Speaker 4: spoken word, it is like you you are gutting it
Speaker 4: out in a way where it's like is comedy any harder.
Speaker 4: I think it might be slightly here. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 4: I wouldn't know. You have to tell me.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess with spoken word it's you all.
Speaker 1: You're trying to also get people to feel that emotional
Speaker 1: pull or like you have to use that cadence, like
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is the most important thing that could
Speaker 1: ever be said. Yeah. Right, And like my freshman year,
Speaker 1: my biggest poem that like one in the like Northeast
Speaker 1: Slam poetry contesting was called I Don't hook Up, I
Speaker 1: Fuck And it was like this treaties against like hook
Speaker 1: up culture. Yes, that was like I'm an adult, Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't need hookup culture.
Speaker 5: Did the people were they on their feet at the end, yes.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, All these like seventeen and eighteen year olds
Speaker 1: are just like, oh my gosh, this is revolutionary. And
Speaker 1: I read it and like saw a clip of it
Speaker 1: a few years ago. It's like, this is the most
Speaker 1: embarrassing thing. Please, I can never have this on the internet.
Speaker 2: Was it just because there wasn't enough jokes in it?
Speaker 1: And you want I think the sad thing is that
Speaker 1: I tried to get a lot of jokes in it, right,
Speaker 1: And they were not good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I have a come from a similar just coming
Speaker 6: from improv, and I'd always go for the joke and
Speaker 6: disappoint everyone else on stage. And then I like heard
Speaker 6: comics that tell joke like Mitch Hedburg and people that
Speaker 6: told one liners, and I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, oh, I think I should do.
Speaker 6: This because it's a lot less pressure, oh than going
Speaker 6: through all these building scenes.
Speaker 2: And then ruining other people's scenes.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Mitch Heedburg definitely was someone who inspired
Speaker 1: my stand up and just my desire to want to perform.
Speaker 1: Like in high school, before I even knew I wanted
Speaker 1: to be a comedian, I would dress up is Mitch
Speaker 1: Heedburgh and do his jokes at like talent shows, and
Speaker 1: I would just be like, yeah, I'm just doing a
Speaker 1: Mitch Hedburg set as well.
Speaker 2: I'm glad that I brought him up.
Speaker 1: Then, Yeah, that's amazing, very funny when you're like fourteen.
Speaker 4: Sure, so absolutely, also so satisfying because they really it
Speaker 4: is the all those little self contained moments where it's
Speaker 4: like you with his material, you get to kill the
Speaker 4: entire time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like they're gonna laugh whether you say it.
Speaker 1: Or oh yeah, And my English teacher came up, He's like,
Speaker 1: did you write those? That was hilarious? And I straight
Speaker 1: up was just like yeah I did. Yeah, that's all me,
Speaker 1: that's all me. I knew he wasn't gonna watch Comedy Central.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: There was a skateboarding shoe that came out one year
Speaker 6: and it was called The Story And in the tread
Speaker 6: the skater whose pro model shoe it was, had a
Speaker 6: store and there was six or seven Hedburg jokes in it,
Speaker 6: but it was before anyone outside of being a hardcore
Speaker 6: fan of comedy would be able to pick them out.
Speaker 6: And I was like so furious that it was on
Speaker 6: a shoe and it didn't say Hedburg wrote.
Speaker 2: This, you know.
Speaker 4: So it almost was like if when I'm really I
Speaker 4: eat rice when I'm hungry for three hundred and sixty
Speaker 4: five thousand of something or whatever.
Speaker 5: Ye like that written on a shoe with no credit within.
Speaker 6: A story that this guy, but he was saying, this
Speaker 6: is my story.
Speaker 1: They steal from Mitch all the time. Yeah, especially on TikTok,
Speaker 1: since that's just how the app works. I will see
Speaker 1: so many people just like using it as like quotes
Speaker 1: on there, you know, the thing where they put text
Speaker 1: and then like I don't make sad faces in the
Speaker 1: background like they do that now with all comedians. It's
Speaker 1: just yes, and then people just go, no, it's a meme.
Speaker 1: That's how it's supposed to be.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, And it's literally I've I've seen it with
Speaker 4: other people's tweets where it's like a person making a
Speaker 4: face and it's the copy.
Speaker 5: And then one day it was one of my tweets
Speaker 5: and I was like, this isn't that good?
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'm really I'm half embarrassed because I know
Speaker 4: that's mine, and then I'm half like really proud, where
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh.
Speaker 5: You wanted to steal it, that's great?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like okay, I guess it resonated with people, and
Speaker 1: then I'm like, in I don't know, it's like if
Speaker 1: you try to be like, hey, that was mine, then
Speaker 1: it's just like you look like a loser. People are
Speaker 1: like this is TikTok.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: In the beginning of Twitter, that's what I always said,
Speaker 4: where I was like, why would people want to put
Speaker 4: their notebook on the internet because anyone can say that
Speaker 4: was my idea?
Speaker 6: Yeah, but it also is time stamping and showing that
Speaker 6: when and where you thought of it first, So.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've seen it go both ways. I mean there
Speaker 1: was I think there's legit cases where you know, you've
Speaker 1: had really big comics be like I tweeted this exact
Speaker 1: like Zillo bit, and then Saturday Night Live made this
Speaker 1: sketch like, you know, a year later. But then there
Speaker 1: was also recently this woman who like tweeted a very
Speaker 1: very common joke about Nancy Reagan, you know, like, oh,
Speaker 1: stocks are solo, they're like Nancy Reagan on the MGM
Speaker 1: but back lot, which classic old joke. Sure, and then
Speaker 1: they made that same joke in an episode of the Boys,
Speaker 1: and she went on Twitter demanding that the Boys give
Speaker 1: her a writing credit, that this was her joke and
Speaker 1: they stole it.
Speaker 6: I literally just saw it two days ago, but fit
Speaker 6: in that Boy's scene. Yeah, it was like, let me
Speaker 6: get the stoke out of my met Like even the
Speaker 6: actor felt uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it just felt like pushing kind of like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's a joke, and it was like, well, clearly they
Speaker 1: didn't steal this from you. It's just a hack joke
Speaker 1: and you should not feel proud that you also tweeted it.
Speaker 5: Also, when I started stand up, I did a lot
Speaker 5: of things.
Speaker 4: Where I quote unquote wrote a joke, and what actually
Speaker 4: happened is I remembered a joke from television from television,
Speaker 4: and so that happened once where I had a joke
Speaker 4: about like a girl that was being very territorial about
Speaker 4: her boyfriend, and then I was like, why don't you
Speaker 4: pee a circle around him? Which I thought was the
Speaker 4: most amazing joke, and then like whatever, four years later
Speaker 4: I saw it on friends and I was like, they
Speaker 4: totally stole my joke. And I sent it to some
Speaker 4: comic we know and they were like, I'm really sorry
Speaker 4: to tell you this.
Speaker 5: That is the oldest old and I was just.
Speaker 8: Like, so funny.
Speaker 6: Oh, that's what Billy Mayne Davis did to me when
Speaker 6: my my dad would. I would use my dad's jokes
Speaker 6: when I first started, but a lot of them were
Speaker 6: from Seinfeld. I did not know that the whole who's
Speaker 6: getting all this blood tide gets blood stains and grass
Speaker 6: staines out of your clothes. Are they marketing themselves towards murderers?
Speaker 6: I don't know what it was.
Speaker 2: Some version of that. And he told me that's a
Speaker 2: that tide bit is Seinfeld through and through?
Speaker 1: Oh I did not know.
Speaker 2: And I called and screamed it my dad.
Speaker 6: One time I got a mug with a joke on
Speaker 6: it that was the way too close.
Speaker 2: Someone sent me a mug as a gift about what's
Speaker 2: with all these owls graduating from something? Because owls always
Speaker 2: have graduation tats.
Speaker 6: The illustration told the joke, and I was like, where
Speaker 6: I want to that's my joke. My friend made me
Speaker 6: the mug and sent it to me. I didn't realize
Speaker 6: it was a thoughtful gift.
Speaker 1: Your friends actually listening to you, and you're like, I
Speaker 1: can't believe.
Speaker 5: You shit at you.
Speaker 6: You know, it sucks because I had to assume my
Speaker 6: friend and he was just doing a nice thing.
Speaker 5: Well, he didn't have the rights to make that money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know you gotta pay the usage, righteees.
Speaker 4: I was in a situation at lunch today where I
Speaker 4: couldn't actually eat the sandwich I had because I was
Speaker 4: in a meeting and that people were watching me.
Speaker 1: Oh that's it was my breakfast this morning?
Speaker 5: Did it really?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I like ordered my oatmeal and then these two
Speaker 1: people I work with were like, can we hop on
Speaker 1: a last minute call. By the time we're done, my
Speaker 1: oatmeals cold? Because I didn't want to eat it with
Speaker 1: them all looking and they in sipt on the skin
Speaker 1: on top.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, well, so I was thinking, should we go
Speaker 4: to Rick's drive through?
Speaker 1: It's so good?
Speaker 5: I mean I would love to eat something and drink something.
Speaker 1: It's really good.
Speaker 2: I'm all for it.
Speaker 5: They just have beverages too, right, Oh yeah, yeah, fine,
Speaker 5: they got milkshakes.
Speaker 1: They got it. When I did, I did what's that
Speaker 1: podcast where the people they eat food? You go to
Speaker 1: restaurants The boy Do Boys?
Speaker 2: Of course, that was the.
Speaker 1: Restaurant I chose is Rix. It is my favorite neighborhood place.
Speaker 5: Nice. Okay, well you can be our guide drive through.
Speaker 1: Great, they got pie, they got milk, chicks, they got
Speaker 1: everything there.
Speaker 6: Wait does this place boast having something world famous?
Speaker 1: They do?
Speaker 6: I think that we are about to find out, like spaghetti.
Speaker 1: Yes, their big thing is there spaghetti. Whenever it's gone,
Speaker 1: they put like a big thing up that's like spaghetti
Speaker 1: is gone, and it's like a big deal. And then
Speaker 1: when spaghetti is back, it is like spaghetti is back
Speaker 1: and it's truly lines out the doors.
Speaker 4: Should we all get big bowls of spaghetti to eat
Speaker 4: in the car?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm just in the Yeah, it's like the micrap
Speaker 2: of that place. Very seasonal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it must be a real hit there. Yes, I
Speaker 4: love the independent drive.
Speaker 2: It does say world famous ricks. People know Rick Rick.
Speaker 1: I think they have the best La hot dog. What
Speaker 1: do I do?
Speaker 5: I do it here?
Speaker 1: Oah, you can turn it in this way and then
Speaker 1: like go down.
Speaker 5: Yeah perfect. I've never been here. It's so crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they only for us to have this location and
Speaker 1: want in Inglewood. Oh okay, some of the best like
Speaker 1: chili fries. It's just it's a little hidden gem.
Speaker 5: Okay, awesome, We're gonna have to take a look at.
Speaker 2: This on the edge of ice. See what the I
Speaker 2: don't know the status of spaghetti or not?
Speaker 4: True?
Speaker 1: True, it wasn't on the side, so we do not know.
Speaker 2: Hungry, but I shouldn't eat.
Speaker 5: You could have just like one taco.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I kind of want to tao.
Speaker 5: Okay, is that what you want?
Speaker 6: And iced coffee? Is that a terrible combination to most?
Speaker 5: I mean it's your life.
Speaker 1: I'll do the ice coffee tea.
Speaker 5: And you know they have ice coffee a guarantee we all.
Speaker 1: Actually do not I know they have regularly.
Speaker 5: Can I ask you a question? Do you have ice coffee. Okay,
Speaker 5: oh they have raspberry iced tea. They have like iced tea,
Speaker 5: raspberry iced tea.
Speaker 2: All of regular iced tea.
Speaker 5: Can we get a regular iced tea? And what would
Speaker 5: you like?
Speaker 1: I'll get a tortata, uh is it flavored?
Speaker 5: And a horchata.
Speaker 4: Regular sized and h a raspberry iced tea regular sized
Speaker 4: on a lease a raspberry and two raspberry iced teas?
Speaker 4: And can we also get an asada taco and one
Speaker 4: of your ground beef hardshell tacos?
Speaker 5: Please? Actually anything to eat on aalise?
Speaker 1: Thank you?
Speaker 5: Okay, that's gonna be it. Ok thank you? Can you
Speaker 5: are you allowed to park?
Speaker 2: That's what I wondered. And now I saw the lines.
Speaker 6: In which he was parked, and then I started to
Speaker 6: think we were wrong.
Speaker 2: We're in the drive room. We belong here too.
Speaker 1: But now that we're past the thing, I will say
Speaker 1: the spaghetti not that good, okay, if you ask me,
Speaker 1: I don't think the spaghetti is that good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you can really lower the bar when it's drived
Speaker 6: through spaghetti.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No one's going to compare.
Speaker 5: Oh no, yeah, then why.
Speaker 2: Are they here? I don't know if it's.
Speaker 1: Like, there's not a great pasta place in La. So
Speaker 1: people go for.
Speaker 5: This, but there's not a great drive through.
Speaker 6: Possibly every time you tell me to simply grab your purse,
Speaker 6: I turn into my mom's son and I stick my
Speaker 6: fist in there and just start ruining around.
Speaker 2: I've done it over and over trying to get served.
Speaker 6: I just yees, oh, where's that Redson?
Speaker 5: I think there should be more drive through everything in
Speaker 5: this town.
Speaker 1: Yes, we all drive, and I don't understanding.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, let's just face the facts that we don't like
Speaker 6: to get out of our cars. And no one it's
Speaker 6: not just a catchy song, but no one walks in La.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: I had a friend from Chicago some visit. She walked
Speaker 1: to the Whole Foods that's like around the corner for me,
Speaker 1: and she was like, why were people staring at me?
Speaker 1: Isn't that because you're crazy for doing that? Yeah?
Speaker 5: People are worried about you as you walk home the street.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Everyone that visits it's like, oh, I figured we do this, this, this,
Speaker 6: and okay, first of all, we're only going to be
Speaker 6: able to do two things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and your idea of walking to all these things.
Speaker 1: Not at all.
Speaker 6: There's absolutely no no, no no way, no no, no yeah,
Speaker 6: we'll just shoot over from Lax to Bourbank and then
Speaker 6: back to you know, Long Beach.
Speaker 1: We just walked from like weh to Santa Monica and
Speaker 1: then we'll it's like, no, that's it was not what
Speaker 1: we do.
Speaker 6: I need you to zoom into whatever map you're looking
Speaker 6: at and consult the key.
Speaker 1: You will see a highway you can't walk on it.
Speaker 5: What was the first neighborhood you moved to when you
Speaker 5: moved to LA.
Speaker 1: I was in Mid City, which was actually pretty nice.
Speaker 1: It was, you know, mostly families. I was close to
Speaker 1: the comedy store.
Speaker 2: That's what mid City is kind of.
Speaker 1: It's like that neighborhood that's like, what is it like
Speaker 1: Wilshure just down to I guess it's kind of Adams, Okay,
Speaker 1: I know exactly.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's so funny.
Speaker 6: I always when someone says mid City, I think Century
Speaker 6: City because I feel like that.
Speaker 4: To me, Raspberry Honally or Tota, thank you, thank you,
Speaker 4: thank you. My friend used to live in mid City,
Speaker 4: had a really beautiful house.
Speaker 1: There's nice houses over there. Yeah, and like it probably
Speaker 1: honestly the nicest apartment I've had. I love my apartment now,
Speaker 1: but that one, it just had these huge windows, central
Speaker 1: location parking, and I love the neighborhood because even though
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of places to go out, it's
Speaker 1: just quiet and good restaurants. But then I had the
Speaker 1: world's worst roommate. I tried to like wait her out.
Speaker 1: I tried to be like, she's gonna go, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get this apartment and I will stay here. And she
Speaker 1: was so awful. It was like she just was doing
Speaker 1: whatever she could to get me to leave.
Speaker 5: Can you give examples maybe of how awful?
Speaker 1: Oh my okay. Yes. She would shower in the dark,
Speaker 1: the door open because she didn't want to clean the
Speaker 1: bathroom and seeing the dirt made her uncomfortable, so she
Speaker 1: would wash her plants in the bathroom, like she'd put
Speaker 1: them on the bathtub, like let the plants get dirt everywhere.
Speaker 1: And then she would shower and be like, I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna shower with the door close, with the door open
Speaker 1: and the lights off so I don't see the dirt.
Speaker 1: And then I would be like in my room listening
Speaker 1: to music in my headphones, and I would go into
Speaker 1: the bathroom thinking, no one's in here. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: in on her like four times and every time, she'd
Speaker 1: act like I was the crazy person.
Speaker 2: It's her dirt. It was her plant dirt.
Speaker 1: Yes, her dirt. She would never clean the bathroom. I
Speaker 1: cleaned it every single time I lived here.
Speaker 6: I want there's that show. I think it's called The
Speaker 6: Worst Roommate's Ever.
Speaker 1: The second season just came out. I'm so good, And
Speaker 1: what about that first lady? What are you thinking? She
Speaker 1: tried to take your kid and you just stay so.
Speaker 6: She's what I yes, But also at the same time,
Speaker 6: that's pretty convenient that she had a hard to raise
Speaker 6: special needs kid in her roommate's like, no, it's my kid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, well, that's actually if if.
Speaker 1: But then she's just just given her She was ordering
Speaker 1: MRSA on the internet, yes.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I've I've rewatched a few of them.
Speaker 6: But I like the idea of some of the episodes
Speaker 6: just being dirt shower, ignoring dirt in the shower, like actual, relatable, not.
Speaker 4: Letter not murder, because it's on part in some ways
Speaker 4: in terms of day to day life, where you're just like, hey,
Speaker 4: when I walk into the bathroom, there's just a bare
Speaker 4: minimum of not dirt any because it's the bathroom.
Speaker 5: Because it's the bathroom, not the garden.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 1: She would use a Diva cup and if you're not familiar,
Speaker 1: they can be kind of messy, but yeah, you're supposed
Speaker 1: to kind of get it all in the bowl. But
Speaker 1: she would get it on like the under part of
Speaker 1: the toilet seat rim and refuse to clean it.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 1: Like I didn't let that truly get to me until
Speaker 1: one day she had like a guy friend over and
Speaker 1: the guy friend I hear him like, go, like, okay,
Speaker 1: I use the bathroom. He goes in there and I
Speaker 1: just immediately hear him walk out and he just says,
Speaker 1: I hear him go, there's blood all over the inside
Speaker 1: of your toilet seat. And she blamed it on me.
Speaker 1: Oh my, I have heard her through the door go
Speaker 1: oh yeah, my roommate is such a mess. And I
Speaker 1: was like, are you kidding me? Oh what?
Speaker 5: God?
Speaker 1: I was like, I have miss tampons over here, that
Speaker 1: is all you.
Speaker 6: Oh God, I wish you'd burst out and called her
Speaker 6: on it right then.
Speaker 2: I don't care what romance budding, what's happened.
Speaker 1: I was so upset, And the worst part is that
Speaker 1: instead I just went out there and very loudly cleaned
Speaker 1: the toilet and then I went in the living room
Speaker 1: was like, I cleaned the toilet for you, and she knew.
Speaker 1: She I was like, you know the deal here, But
Speaker 1: it's almost.
Speaker 4: Like that level of passive aggression, not on your part
Speaker 4: but on her part. And then you're like, okay, fine,
Speaker 4: you want to do this like here, I just cleaned it,
Speaker 4: and it's like you just played right into her hand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got what I wanted.
Speaker 4: An ultimate manipulation where you're trying to get back at
Speaker 4: her and then basically doing chores.
Speaker 6: She just and she invites another guy over. Sorry, that's
Speaker 6: my roommate's plant.
Speaker 1: Oh, just like always, those are my roommate's dishes. She
Speaker 1: was awful. And the last straw was I was on tour.
Speaker 1: I was doing shows in Boston and I get a
Speaker 1: text message from one of her friends that lives in
Speaker 1: a different city, who I like kind of know but
Speaker 1: not that well, and she's like, hey, just FYI, people
Speaker 1: told me to tell you that you need to get
Speaker 1: a new key for your apartment because your roommate changed
Speaker 1: all the locks. What And I'm just like what, why
Speaker 1: would she do that? And she's like, oh, well, I
Speaker 1: guess she got locked out and you weren't there, and
Speaker 1: instead of like asking the landlord for the extra key,
Speaker 1: she just had all the locks changed.
Speaker 2: I am infury it.
Speaker 6: Do you know where there's person that's right now, let's go,
Speaker 6: let's drop by, Let's don't drop by.
Speaker 1: She's no longer in the city of La. She totaled
Speaker 1: five cars and got three DUIs and decided to go back.
Speaker 5: She didn't like it.
Speaker 4: She was trying to get someone to send her away.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and plants weren't doing the trick.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And when I moved out, I because she like
Speaker 1: had been pulling out our least agreement to try to
Speaker 1: be like, you can't leave yet, blah blah blah, and
Speaker 1: she like left it on the table and on the back.
Speaker 1: I got a sharpie and I just wrote, you really
Speaker 1: should leave La. I don't think this place is for you,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna destroy you. I don't know another human
Speaker 1: in the city who has totaled five cars and under
Speaker 1: a year. That under under a year, and every accident
Speaker 1: was her fault. One of them she hit a parked
Speaker 1: food car like a no food truck, and then the
Speaker 1: food truck got the ticket because when the cops came.
Speaker 1: She started like crying, and she's like this cute little
Speaker 1: white girl and she's like, oh my god, I didn't
Speaker 1: know what even happened, and the food truck got the ticket.
Speaker 5: That's fucked exactly.
Speaker 4: But I have to say, just in fairness, when I
Speaker 4: lived in Sacramento, a place I did not want to live,
Speaker 4: I got in three car accidents in a year. And
Speaker 4: when I had to call and tell my parents about
Speaker 4: the third one, my mom goes, I'm coming up and
Speaker 4: getting you tomorrow. But I was just like okay, and
Speaker 4: I had to move home. Like my mother's like, we're
Speaker 4: not fucking doing this.
Speaker 1: Money like lead the law down, and instead her family
Speaker 1: would just be like, here's money for another car, babe.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's bad.
Speaker 1: She had an old lady head one in a car
Speaker 1: in a card. She was making a left and just decided,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I thought the lady would stop for me,
Speaker 1: even though she did not have an arrow or anything.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 6: I am so mad at this person. I'm madder than
Speaker 6: the murderers on the show we're talking about.
Speaker 1: I would rather be friends with a lady ordering MRSA
Speaker 1: online than live with that girl again.
Speaker 4: And soot lady's kind of trying to kiss your ass
Speaker 4: a little bit and like make it all go well
Speaker 4: until she poisons you.
Speaker 5: It's not daily attacks.
Speaker 1: I bet she cleaned the bathtub when she was living
Speaker 1: with that lady.
Speaker 6: Oh, so many things are flashing back. I'm so I'm
Speaker 6: glad that I live alone right now? Are you alone?
Speaker 1: Now? I'm alone? Yes? After that, I truly was just
Speaker 1: like I could never have a roommate again. Got my
Speaker 1: own place, yeah, and now I'm in Silver Lake the best.
Speaker 1: I love it over here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's really it's so good over here. And also
Speaker 5: it's so nice to live alone.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, I I you know that I was. It
Speaker 1: was my twenties. I tried, can never do it again.
Speaker 5: You did your best.
Speaker 1: I don't even know that I could live with someone
Speaker 1: I was dating at this point.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 4: Also, I think put were you in a house by
Speaker 4: yourself during COVID?
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, me.
Speaker 4: Too, And I think it like at the beginning, I
Speaker 4: was like, oh, I'm scared. I hope I don't have
Speaker 4: a nervous breakdown or because I'm alone as long. And
Speaker 4: at this point I'm like, oh, I got through all
Speaker 4: of the dark night of the soul of that, and
Speaker 4: now I'm like.
Speaker 5: This is what I prefer.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm I was starting to get worried about how comfortable,
Speaker 6: how much fun I could have by myself. I didn't
Speaker 6: anticipate that. Yeah, like this has been a party.
Speaker 1: I love it, and you don't have the guilt of
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be places. That was the best part
Speaker 1: of koh Yo, but I was invited, I'm supposed to
Speaker 1: be there is none of that.
Speaker 6: I always say that nothing was expected of me, and
Speaker 6: all my gray hair went away.
Speaker 2: It was the best.
Speaker 6: Sure, Yes it sucks, nothing's going on career or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 6: the happiness is pretty hard to ignore.
Speaker 1: And all those people who did that was horrible, very sad,
Speaker 1: and yes, yes, making line of like just the no fomo,
Speaker 1: just the guilt free. Yes, gotta stay in all.
Speaker 5: Weekend, gotta watch more TV.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no one cares that I'm binging all of Sex
Speaker 1: in the City and my movies now that.
Speaker 2: I haven't shaken. How many things from that time?
Speaker 4: Have you?
Speaker 6: Are you disappointed that you're still experiencing today?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 6: Are are you still having trouble going to things and
Speaker 6: watching too much?
Speaker 1: Absolutely? Yeah, I still cannot get into the rhythm of
Speaker 1: being social again. Like I used to be someone who
Speaker 1: is like go out to a bar, like after a show,
Speaker 1: I'd be like, oh, everybody's probably just hanging out here.
Speaker 1: I'll just go stop by and end up like you know,
Speaker 1: hoppingto different shows, different bars all night. And now like
Speaker 1: I will be like, when exactly do I need to
Speaker 1: be at the show for me to walk on stage
Speaker 1: and immediately leave right after? Like if I get there
Speaker 1: at eight to fifteen in my I'll be like, what
Speaker 1: eight twenty and we're good.
Speaker 4: Like I feel like because it was so comfortable, even
Speaker 4: though it was scary as hell and very like obviously
Speaker 4: traumatizing to everybody, there's a comfort level that now everything
Speaker 4: seems really hard.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like all those kinds of social this this social energy.
Speaker 4: Is something that like you need it to get it
Speaker 4: like you have, it has to already be happening almost.
Speaker 4: It's like a momentum thing for me. So then I'm like, well,
Speaker 4: I can't cold go to this party, and I haven't
Speaker 4: gone to a party in four years, right, so I
Speaker 4: just keep not doing it where it's like because I
Speaker 4: don't like being uncomfortable ever at all, Because I was
Speaker 4: so comfortable all through COVID, just being like, oh, I
Speaker 4: don't ever have to risk anything. I don't have to
Speaker 4: do anything that I don't like doing.
Speaker 6: Well, the good news is this podcast, what you're experiencing
Speaker 6: right now, has replaced parties, at least for me. At
Speaker 6: the end of the episode, you'll feel like you went
Speaker 6: to a thing and even hung out by a pool ferment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's all I really need now.
Speaker 2: I can't promise the swimming pool party. I just kind of.
Speaker 4: Said that, but if I start having parties again at
Speaker 4: my house, I will invite you, Ashley, and then you
Speaker 4: can do to.
Speaker 5: Put a big toe in see what happened.
Speaker 1: I'll do it leave whenever you'll give it a shot.
Speaker 1: Like I used to throw a huge house parties, birthday parties,
Speaker 1: and I don't think I've thrown a party since before COVID.
Speaker 1: Like I just kind of was like, I don't want
Speaker 1: people in my space, right, Like I didn't just like, no,
Speaker 1: this is just my thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I've been meaning to have a housewarming party for
Speaker 6: my place and I've been there four and a half years.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've been at my place like three and
Speaker 1: a half years and I have not had a housewarming party.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I just want someone else's cast for all dishes. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And my friends are like, oh, you finally left that
Speaker 1: horrible roommate. You should celebrate, And I'm like, I'll get
Speaker 1: around to it. And celebrating just being alone here, that's
Speaker 1: the celebration. What also?
Speaker 4: I love though, and I think I always forget because
Speaker 4: when I'm like I have to go to a party.
Speaker 5: In my mind, that means I.
Speaker 4: Have to walk and be like hello everyone, and then
Speaker 4: start doing some It's like you can walk into a
Speaker 4: party in silence. Yeah, talk to only the people you know,
Speaker 4: and leave twenty minutes later.
Speaker 5: No one gives a show with right, no one cares.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can just go in and listen to other
Speaker 2: people and leave. You have to say a word. But
Speaker 2: does that sound fun? I got to go in and
Speaker 2: do a dance.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's that's the old me.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I think it's like what.
Speaker 1: It sounds like, say hi to me? No? No, no?
Speaker 6: What if I go in act like I'm going to
Speaker 6: do a dance, put a lampshade on my head, and
Speaker 6: then I just listened to people.
Speaker 2: It's the best.
Speaker 5: It's the best about It is quite a way.
Speaker 2: To party, Ashley read online. We do research. I don't
Speaker 2: did the research. The sweet On onlyase.
Speaker 6: Next Dude does the research, but it says you grew
Speaker 6: up in a house that had a daycare.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 6: Oh, I used to live next to a daycare and
Speaker 6: so I worked at the daycare for years and I
Speaker 6: loved it.
Speaker 2: Did what was your how much of your life was spent?
Speaker 1: All of it? Literally when my mom opened the daycare
Speaker 1: when I was like nine months old, because at the
Speaker 1: time she had a job in Chicago and we lived
Speaker 1: in Rockford. It's like a two hour drive between the cities,
Speaker 1: and she would like, drop me off at a daycare,
Speaker 1: go drive into the city, work, pick me up. And
Speaker 1: she was like, I hate this. I could just start
Speaker 1: a daycare and spend more time with my daughter, and
Speaker 1: so she did. We had a two story house and
Speaker 1: we basically lived upstairs. In the entire downstair was a daycare,
Speaker 1: like all just child's size seating, Like I like, friends
Speaker 1: would come over and I would be like, oh, sorry,
Speaker 1: the only place we have for you to sit is
Speaker 1: like this little like kindergarten table.
Speaker 2: They're on little tykes like little.
Speaker 1: Tax equipment, and like, I think my in high school.
Speaker 1: My mom finally got a couch down there because I
Speaker 1: was like, it would be cool to kind of have
Speaker 1: a real living room.
Speaker 2: That's so funny.
Speaker 6: Everywhere there's your friends sit, there's just a wet cracker
Speaker 6: between the couch.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah, so many wet goldfish.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And she did a first, second, and third shift six
Speaker 1: months old yeah, no, six no, six weeks old to twelve.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 1: And because I lived there, like my brother and I
Speaker 1: had to be CPR certified. You had to have background checks.
Speaker 1: I like started getting fingerprinted when I was twelve years old. Wow,
Speaker 1: oh my god, just to live in my house.
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 1: Just to go downstairs truly, Yeah, Like it was like
Speaker 1: to go downstairs and lift he or you have to
Speaker 1: have a background check, like a thirteen year old girl.
Speaker 4: Does that mean that you're kind of like you have
Speaker 4: this rock solid portfolio now behind you where you're like
Speaker 4: from the time of twelve, I.
Speaker 5: Can prove that I've always been an upstanding citizen me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. And like I did start working for
Speaker 1: my mom, Like I started working with the daycare kids
Speaker 1: and taking care of them, probably when I was eight
Speaker 1: years old. I started like changing diapers, carrying kids, like
Speaker 1: helping with field trips, and by the time I was thirteen,
Speaker 1: I could like wrangle a room of like fifteen children.
Speaker 2: That part I liked.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the wrangling, yes, but I did it in the
Speaker 6: wrong way. I'm like, who wants to get sprayed with
Speaker 6: a hose? And then the parents had come and I
Speaker 6: just had them wet kids and sandy wet clothes, and
Speaker 6: they were like they loved me.
Speaker 2: I had zero, there.
Speaker 6: Was no I was just my my friend, my roommate's friend.
Speaker 6: That was all my credentials. I know that in Montana
Speaker 6: at the time, you could not a male child care
Speaker 6: worker couldn't change diapers, and I'm like, yeah, god, so
Speaker 6: I would just call up Grandma, we got one, there's
Speaker 6: a live one, and then I just watch.
Speaker 1: That was a surprising rule. In also Illinois, they like
Speaker 1: mail daycare workers aren't allowed to change diapers, and I
Speaker 1: was I remember me, like, this is sexist.
Speaker 6: Actually yeah it was at the time, but it was
Speaker 6: also it also was like that was my biggest fear.
Speaker 2: Of having to do.
Speaker 6: Like when she asked me, do you want to work
Speaker 6: here occasionally since you're right next door, I was like,
Speaker 6: I have some diaper questions.
Speaker 2: And yeah, and.
Speaker 5: She's like, don't worry about the diaper's pervert.
Speaker 1: No, not your areas, Like I can't change a diaper
Speaker 1: one handed now. And I'll like talk to like new
Speaker 1: moms or parents and they're like, I've never even touched
Speaker 1: a diaper, and I'm just like how. Yeah, they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: because most people have normal childhoods where they didn't have
Speaker 1: to like wake up to screaming children at six in
Speaker 1: the morning.
Speaker 4: But I bet those little kids loved a slightly older
Speaker 4: kid being around.
Speaker 1: Okay, I mean I was like the queen of the place. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not only because I lived there. Like, like when I
Speaker 1: was younger, there were kids my age, and when I
Speaker 1: had favorite daycare kid friends, I would be like, you're
Speaker 1: allowed to come up to my room and play with
Speaker 1: a good toy. And I'd bring up like my three
Speaker 1: favorite female friends up and we'd be like, I'm in,
Speaker 1: you can play with the good barbies that are up
Speaker 1: in my room. But that also and if there were
Speaker 1: kids I didn't like, I'd be like, yeah, you can
Speaker 1: go play on the outside playground. Actually that's right.
Speaker 5: But getting them used to this is the politics of childhood.
Speaker 1: You get used to it, you know, yeah, children, that's
Speaker 1: what I was doing, you know, and I loved it.
Speaker 1: Like a lot of the kids I'm still really close with,
Speaker 1: which it's wild to watch them grow up. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: what do you mean, you're like in college.
Speaker 6: Many of the kids that were in my daycare have
Speaker 6: their own kids now, and those kids are already riding bikes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and driving cars.
Speaker 1: You have my mom babysitting their kids. And I'm just
Speaker 1: like this is so wild, Like.
Speaker 2: Oh, your mom still has the daycare.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she still has the daycare. She eventually moved it
Speaker 1: to Texas and she started doing like daycare and elderly care,
Speaker 1: so now she takes care of babies and old people.
Speaker 2: Wow, this is a.
Speaker 5: Very cross question. But does she fucking make bank?
Speaker 1: She does.
Speaker 4: We can cut that out if you want, but it's
Speaker 4: all I can think about where I'm like the idea
Speaker 4: that she quit her career and basically was like, oh no, no,
Speaker 4: I'm feeling this niche. It's such a need in this country, yeah,
Speaker 4: especially people who know what the fuck they're doing.
Speaker 1: And she's i mean she's been doing it for like
Speaker 1: just over thirty years. She started it, like, you know,
Speaker 1: just kind of independently in the house, but she went
Speaker 1: back to school to get her degree in early childhood education.
Speaker 1: So like after that you're allowed you can like charge
Speaker 1: higher rates and like taken like children whose rates are
Speaker 1: subsidized by the state. Oh that's like how you make
Speaker 1: so much money because it's you know, kind of like
Speaker 1: Section eight housing where the parents only have to pay
Speaker 1: a certain amount and then the state like pays all
Speaker 1: the rest of it, and like you get reimbursed for
Speaker 1: the money you spend on food and stuff. Which I
Speaker 1: think is really the biggest thing about a daycare home
Speaker 1: is I was learning how to cook for twenty people
Speaker 1: by the time I was like ten.
Speaker 2: That's amazing.
Speaker 6: And do the elderly folks hang out with the kids
Speaker 6: and they yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1: Yeah they do. It's honestly the shuest thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1: Like she has this one kid right now, this sacred
Speaker 1: kid who is obsessed with vacuuming because he like is
Speaker 1: in love with this one ninety eight year old woman
Speaker 1: my mom watches, who is like love it forces anyone
Speaker 1: to vacuum if they come into her house. She's like
Speaker 1: one of those strict old ladies that's like if you
Speaker 1: walk in my living room, you vacuum on the way out.
Speaker 1: And this little like six year old boy, as soon
Speaker 1: as like he sees Miss Irma, he's like, Miss Irma, vacuum, vacuum,
Speaker 1: Miss ermam down, can I vacuum? And he loves it.
Speaker 1: I'm just like you are creating little as scolden girl children,
Speaker 1: and I love it.
Speaker 6: I had a cousin in Montana that, when he was
Speaker 6: six or seven, was obsessed with vacuum cleaners and wanted
Speaker 6: a vacuum.
Speaker 5: Sorry, will you let me go over there? I didn't
Speaker 5: I misread my map and I need to go over there?
Speaker 5: Will you let me go in front of you? Thank you? Sorry?
Speaker 2: I said, it's okay.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 6: That's part of the podcast we that happens all the time.
Speaker 6: Sometimes it's it's directions. Other times someone wielding a bike
Speaker 6: clock wants.
Speaker 2: To attack us.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of trauma.
Speaker 1: It's a mixed bag in LA. If you're going to
Speaker 1: get someone who's like I totally get it, or someone
Speaker 1: who's gonna pull a gun it.
Speaker 6: This kid, anyway, was obsessed with vacuums and would take
Speaker 6: them apart and put them back together, and everyone was like, oh,
Speaker 6: we're dealing with a genius here. Yeah was, and uh
Speaker 6: was very good at it, and the vacuum would run
Speaker 6: again a child And guess what he does now he
Speaker 6: owns a vacuum repair shop.
Speaker 4: Wo.
Speaker 2: Like he just knew his passion early on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it just clicked.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it didn't have to become like oh that that
Speaker 6: kid now designs rockets for Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I was like, I'm just like this.
Speaker 4: I want to make people's vacuum cleaners work. That's so noble,
Speaker 4: yes world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe this kid'll grow up to well, I guess,
Speaker 1: I don't know, be a maid because he just likes
Speaker 1: he just likes to use the vacuum.
Speaker 5: But made service first.
Speaker 6: I wanted to see how the vacuum worked at a
Speaker 6: young age, all the electronics. I built one from scratch
Speaker 6: with a three D printer. Now my passion is, uh,
Speaker 6: this motel.
Speaker 5: But it's kind of ironic too. Where you were forced
Speaker 5: to share your house with thirty to.
Speaker 4: Eighty children, so many children, yew, and so you probably
Speaker 4: learned to actually be the best roommate anyone could be cooking,
Speaker 4: cleaning all that shit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's like I used to doing it for
Speaker 1: like mass amounts of people, and like you know, with
Speaker 1: a daycare home, it's like at the end of every day,
Speaker 1: you don't just close with it being a mess. You
Speaker 1: have to clean up and make sure it looks good.
Speaker 1: And if new parents come and check out the daycare,
Speaker 1: it has to all look nice. And you know, even
Speaker 1: the upstairs has to look good because it's like this
Speaker 1: one place we have to live. But I think mostly
Speaker 1: it made me like, like I loved sharing my mom, Like
Speaker 1: I was just like I have the world's best mom.
Speaker 1: She's so amazing, and these.
Speaker 2: Kids are so lucky that they get.
Speaker 1: To have her in their lives.
Speaker 5: Are you an only child?
Speaker 1: Uh no, I have eight brothers and sisters only shit
Speaker 1: hotly shit so, but we're like so broad in age.
Speaker 1: Like my oldest sibling he was born in nineteen sixty nine,
Speaker 1: and my youngest sibling was born and two thousand and three.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 1: So it's like such a broad range that like my
Speaker 1: older siblings didn't really feel like siblings, they felt like
Speaker 1: older cousins and aunts and uncles because they would babysit me.
Speaker 1: So in the daycare was where it kind of felt like, oh,
Speaker 1: these are like siblings, Like I have to share my
Speaker 1: mom with them. I have to share attention and stuff
Speaker 1: with them. Yeah, and like I now blame that on
Speaker 1: why I'm polyamorous, and my mom hates it. She's like,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna blame me for that, and you being
Speaker 1: all messed up, and I'm just like, but you like
Speaker 1: raise me in this house where I was like, love
Speaker 1: is for everyone, there's no limits on it. My mom
Speaker 1: can love me and eighty children.
Speaker 6: I will blame the house on you. Immediately claiming the
Speaker 6: blood off of a toilet seat.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's just maybeing like I've had to clean children's
Speaker 1: peep poop my whole life. Let's just clean it up. Wow.
Speaker 6: That's great that you still look on it as a
Speaker 6: good experience, because I wondered if it was different from
Speaker 6: my I think year and a half that I've worked.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess maybe there were moments at the
Speaker 1: time when I.
Speaker 2: Wanted to be alone.
Speaker 1: Yeah. When I went off to college, I had trouble
Speaker 1: sleeping because I was so used to falling asleep to
Speaker 1: the sound of children, waking up to children at like
Speaker 1: four am. And I was just like, what is.
Speaker 5: This like scary silence?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like, are the where's the crying white
Speaker 1: is just crying sounds and diaper smell. Yeah, And it
Speaker 1: took forever for me to be like, oh, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is just how normal people live in sleep.
Speaker 5: Do you want to have kids?
Speaker 1: I did for a long time, and mostly because I
Speaker 1: know I'd be an incredible parent. I would be an
Speaker 1: amazing mom, like I have helped raise all my nieces
Speaker 1: nephews great nieces nephews, Like I love kids, I'm so
Speaker 1: good with them. And then I'm just like, oh, but
Speaker 1: the world is so bad, and yeah, it's like I
Speaker 1: can do the best job in the world and like
Speaker 1: a tickto can ruin my kids, And that terrifies me.
Speaker 5: It's so horrifying. It's so true. Oh, it's that's funny.
Speaker 4: My grandma had my dad had eight brothers and sisters,
Speaker 4: so my grandma had and raised nine kids, and then
Speaker 4: she babysat the neighborhood kids. But it was much more
Speaker 4: kind of casual, yeah, back in the forties and fifties
Speaker 4: or whatever. But that always blew my mind where I
Speaker 4: was like, she must fucking love kids because she already had.
Speaker 4: You would think she would be like exhausted or angry
Speaker 4: or something, and instead she's like, no, keep them coming.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I was always like with my mom.
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know why you raise all
Speaker 1: those kids, and now you're just like, let me just
Speaker 1: keep doing this.
Speaker 6: Wow, But yeah, I bet she's really cool.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, she's cool. Bit, she's cooler than me. All
Speaker 1: my friends are always literally like, your mom's actually cooler
Speaker 1: and funnier than her. You should like try to get
Speaker 1: her into stand up. She's so great.
Speaker 6: I was on a show, a Comedy Central show with
Speaker 6: Donnelle Rollins, what's the Tomics? He's like, and he was
Speaker 6: like always trying to be loud, and I don't know,
Speaker 6: he rubbed me the wrong way at first. I've since
Speaker 6: become pals with him, but his mom they he grew
Speaker 6: up in a foster care house that like would take
Speaker 6: on teenagers and twenty something year olds that were having trouble,
Speaker 6: and he also had multiple siblings, and his mom was
Speaker 6: the coolest woman I had ever met. My dad and
Speaker 6: her like would just talk for everyone's parents. Had to
Speaker 6: be on this show for a little bit, and I'm like, oh, okay,
Speaker 6: that makes for the coolest person ever, the most compassionate human.
Speaker 6: That's willing to open their home to all these people.
Speaker 1: It's just yeah and just I don't even when things
Speaker 1: would like get tough and kids were annoying, her parents
Speaker 1: weren't paying their bills, she just had no problem being
Speaker 1: funny about it and just always making sure all these
Speaker 1: kids were happy.
Speaker 6: Yeah and yeah, I think that's what struck me about
Speaker 6: this woman.
Speaker 2: It's just riddled with nothing but compassion.
Speaker 1: Like that's the masks.
Speaker 2: Where you're getting pulled over.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm like, I can't be inconvenience to go
Speaker 4: to a party that someone's trying to be nice to people.
Speaker 4: I'm like, please stop invading my privacy. Anything that you
Speaker 4: want to plug or talk about before we wrap it up.
Speaker 1: Well, you can listen to my comedy album, ice Cream Money.
Speaker 1: It's out everywhere, Spotify, whatever you like to stream your
Speaker 1: music on. I have a special coming out this fall
Speaker 1: oh wow that I don't even I think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: film it at the Comedy Store. I'm not sure yet actually,
Speaker 1: And if you live in LA, you can head to
Speaker 1: my social media to see what shows I have coming out,
Speaker 1: followed me at the Ashley Ray Anywhere and your podcast, Yes,
Speaker 1: and listen to my podcast TV I Say with Ashley Ray,
Speaker 1: which is also wherever you stream stuff.
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Speaker 1: It's all Things TV I interview your favorite comedians actors
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Speaker 1: Jason man Zukus and does he hate the Bear? Love it?
Speaker 1: We yell about it for an hour?
Speaker 2: Oh wow, I can't wait. That's awesome.
Speaker 5: Is he a Chicago guy too?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he started improv there and we like went to
Speaker 1: college not too far from each other. ELOI is much
Speaker 1: older than me, but he is a huge friend of
Speaker 1: the pod. So we have a lot of episodes with
Speaker 1: Jason since he's not on the internet. So do you
Speaker 1: want to know what Jason Manzukis watches? TV? I say
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Speaker 4: Today I do want to know everything that means.
Speaker 2: Not on the internet.
Speaker 6: Does he watched all these things on VHA pretty much
Speaker 6: learned that and more.
Speaker 2: You've been the best.
Speaker 5: Yes, thank you so much. Great to meet you too,
Speaker 5: Thank you so much.
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Speaker 8: Mixed by Edson Choi.
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