Speaker 1: Are you leaving?
Speaker 2: I you want your way back home? Either way, we
Speaker 2: want to be there. Doesn't matter how much baggage you claim,
Speaker 2: and give us time and a termino and gage.
Speaker 3: We want to send you off in style.
Speaker 2: You wanna welcome you back home?
Speaker 3: Tell us all about it?
Speaker 2: We scared?
Speaker 1: Or was it fine?
Speaker 4: Malcorn?
Speaker 2: Do you need to ride? Do you need to ride?
Speaker 3: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 2: Do you need to ride? Do you need to ride?
Speaker 2: Do your need you ride?
Speaker 3: To ride? Do you need with Karen and Chris welcome
Speaker 3: to Do you need to ride?
Speaker 2: This is Chris Fairbanks and this is Karen Tilgarris.
Speaker 3: Hello, Karen, Hello Chris. Did you have any adventures today?
Speaker 2: No? No adventures?
Speaker 3: Well I did.
Speaker 4: I finally got health insurance, not fancy like SAG health
Speaker 4: insurance what I which I got used to and I
Speaker 4: liked it. But I just got an HMO just to
Speaker 4: have you know, and I met my I had an
Speaker 4: appointment today to talk to my doctor because there's a
Speaker 4: whole list of things that I feel like I should
Speaker 4: be checking on. It was conveniently right across the street
Speaker 4: in what I thought was an abandoned building for years.
Speaker 3: But there's a doctor in there.
Speaker 2: Oh, he's kind of in the corner.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, one receptionist person and then the doctor who right
Speaker 4: when I walked in. She was yelling at someone and
Speaker 4: was looked very mean and the dieta she she was.
Speaker 3: I didn't get her.
Speaker 2: The receptionist. Uh.
Speaker 4: The receptionist felt like it was a hostage situation. She's
Speaker 4: sweet and I'm still worried about her. There was a
Speaker 4: woman in there just bleeding that was uh. I think
Speaker 4: just got in like but implants and they were they
Speaker 4: flipped around. I'm not a doctor, but this is going
Speaker 4: to get clinical, but why not? I think she was
Speaker 4: in pain and I was concerned and I asked her
Speaker 4: if she maybe thought it was infected because no one
Speaker 4: was helping her. And then I was going before I'm like, no,
Speaker 4: let her go first. That looks serious. They're like, no,
Speaker 4: that's your appointments now. And they wanted cash. I'm or
Speaker 4: check to forms of payment from the nineties and I
Speaker 4: don't carry cash.
Speaker 3: Maybe I should, I probably should. I got to stop you.
Speaker 3: You you must please do this is boring so far?
Speaker 2: No, okay, it's because I have a legit question and
Speaker 2: then what based on your answer, I may have a small.
Speaker 3: Anecdote, okay, thank you.
Speaker 2: Was the woman with the butt implants, maybe that you
Speaker 2: were thinking maybe that was the problem. Had her butt
Speaker 2: implants flipped around, because that is a thing that happens
Speaker 2: to people that get butt like cheap butt implants. The
Speaker 2: implant itself flips and then there's like a flat It
Speaker 2: basically looks like a big square in their pants.
Speaker 4: Oh square pants. She was not square pants. She I
Speaker 4: think did everything at once, and that the blood that
Speaker 4: I saw was on.
Speaker 3: The sides of her new boobs.
Speaker 4: And that from what I could tell from And I'm
Speaker 4: not you know, I'm not a creepy guy, but it
Speaker 4: looks like they did an okay job. I was just
Speaker 4: worried that she was groaning in pain. And I'm not
Speaker 4: even trying to make light of it. I was very
Speaker 4: worried that she'd gone septic.
Speaker 2: Now, is there a chance that you went to a
Speaker 2: ghost kaiser?
Speaker 3: I went.
Speaker 4: Then I was like, well, I just have an irash
Speaker 4: and some other things.
Speaker 3: And the doctor came in.
Speaker 4: She's like, only one ailment per appointment. I could not
Speaker 4: mention a second thing. She didn't want to even hear it.
Speaker 4: I started with Irash. I was going to get to
Speaker 4: I should have a camera in my BH, and she didn't.
Speaker 4: She's like Irash I said, and I left.
Speaker 2: I should say, you know, you could say, is hey,
Speaker 2: you know what you don't. I don't have to talk
Speaker 2: about it now. You can listen to my podcast and
Speaker 2: I'll just listen out on there.
Speaker 3: Because I did in depth. I did it. I our
Speaker 3: guest today was pre med.
Speaker 4: I'd be nice for her to brush up on her
Speaker 4: earlier studies.
Speaker 2: Oh you're trying to open the door to maybe get diagnosed.
Speaker 3: I'm assume opening.
Speaker 4: I'm doing one of my classic sagging into the intro
Speaker 4: of today's guest, who I'm very excited about out She's
Speaker 4: done clubs and colleges throughout the country. I'm kidding that
Speaker 4: she's a very impressive person and I'm very excited for
Speaker 4: us to talk to her. To everyone put your hands
Speaker 4: together for Brothi Gupta.
Speaker 1: Kay, Hi, thank you for having me.
Speaker 3: Hi.
Speaker 4: The lead up was good, but I think I sorry
Speaker 4: for the clunky introduction. Usually Karen takes the reins on those,
Speaker 4: but I thought I'd give it a stab.
Speaker 1: No, it was great. I really liked it.
Speaker 4: What should I have done with this? This poor woman
Speaker 4: in the waiting room.
Speaker 2: As a pre med expert.
Speaker 3: Yes, as a.
Speaker 1: Pre med expert. First of all, I think you did
Speaker 1: the right thing, which was immediately offering medical advice, which
Speaker 1: was immediately taking the role of a medical professional. Because
Speaker 1: that's the thing about I think being a doctor is
Speaker 1: the doctor in the room, is the person willing to
Speaker 1: stand up.
Speaker 4: Right and he's situation, even when it's unsolicited, right, that's.
Speaker 1: When it's especially when it's unsolicit.
Speaker 4: I've been meeting a lot of these types of doctors lately.
Speaker 1: Oh. I Also, here's my solution for your for the
Speaker 1: like one ailment per appointment you should have, you should
Speaker 1: have a doctor on the podcast.
Speaker 3: I think you're right.
Speaker 2: Do we know any comedy doctors? Ken Jong?
Speaker 4: I guess Mattisman, host of American Ninja Warrior. He was
Speaker 4: a doctor and then quit to do comedy, And I thought,
Speaker 4: what are your nuts?
Speaker 2: Remember Pete, my ex used to be the cameraman for
Speaker 2: the home renovation show that he was a host of.
Speaker 2: He's a very nice person.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's very nice.
Speaker 4: He has rheumatoid arthritis and we did arthritis shows together.
Speaker 2: That's another ailment on Chris's list of ailments. Yeah, he's
Speaker 2: going to fit him in the whole show.
Speaker 4: I want you both to know. Though she was like,
Speaker 4: I need to go to a hospital. I'm like, uh,
Speaker 4: And I almost offered. I acted like I was going to,
Speaker 4: and then I realized I didn't want it was the implant,
Speaker 4: the butt. I didn't want her sitting on my car,
Speaker 4: and my car wasn't right there. She would have had
Speaker 4: to walk three blocks to my house on her hurt butt.
Speaker 4: But it's okay because she got angry and stormed out
Speaker 4: and then out of our lives.
Speaker 1: Also, when you were okay, when you were describing the
Speaker 1: implant slipping around or like turning around in some capacity,
Speaker 1: I did immediately imagine that it like I imagine the
Speaker 1: most unnatural version of that, which was the implant going
Speaker 1: around to.
Speaker 2: The thigh so that it kind of looks like you
Speaker 2: have two lumps in your lap when you're.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so a sort of a front butt were looking at.
Speaker 2: So disturbing.
Speaker 1: That's that's really upsetting. No, I don't recommend that thinking
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 4: No, my friends when I lived in Austin, these screen printers,
Speaker 4: they were in a band called Front.
Speaker 3: But I just have to let you know, Wow, that's
Speaker 3: a thing I guess it is.
Speaker 4: These things have been flipping for decades now.
Speaker 2: I mean there's pictures you can go look up on
Speaker 2: the internet. Obviously that's how I did it. I didn't
Speaker 2: see that in person. You can anybody can see it,
Speaker 2: because like all those plastic surgery gone wrong TV shows. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, if one of those comes on, like in
Speaker 2: a hotel or something, I have to watch the entire thing.
Speaker 2: And I normally like to pretend I'm above something like that,
Speaker 2: or like I'd rather read a Jane Austen novel. But
Speaker 2: the truth is, if you show a person that tried
Speaker 2: to better themselves in this one way, there, they've decided
Speaker 2: they need improvement, which is often not what I see.
Speaker 2: Like it's that kind of thing where you're like, I
Speaker 2: don't why are you so obsessed with this? It doesn't
Speaker 2: make sense. And then to have that vantage he likes
Speaker 2: like slap them in the face. And then they have
Speaker 2: cubes on their ass. Yeah yeah, it's horrible.
Speaker 1: And now they have front button and now they will
Speaker 1: float her, but they can go anywhere in their fronts anywhere.
Speaker 1: I guess I sort of think of the body as
Speaker 1: as like a skin bag. I guess that's yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess that's a lot of the problem here.
Speaker 2: That was the problem in medical school.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like, oh, I can't do this. I
Speaker 1: was like, just push it down, push it down.
Speaker 2: Just flip it over the side.
Speaker 4: I do recall in her final pleads with the doctor.
Speaker 3: Uh, this person was like, what is happening? What is happening? Doctor?
Speaker 4: And I kind of feel like she's saying, hey, what's
Speaker 4: happening doctor, Like she knows her already, But I think
Speaker 4: she was asking what was happening. She asked like three times,
Speaker 4: and the doctor would not look at her, and then
Speaker 4: she walked out. And that's when I I'm like, oh,
Speaker 4: this is like a scary doctor, a doctor death doctor.
Speaker 2: To me, that suggests that that doctor is the one
Speaker 2: who did the procedure that then went wrong.
Speaker 4: That it's and then who my insurance sent me to.
Speaker 4: I didn't choose her. It was like, that's the best
Speaker 4: of my group.
Speaker 3: I gotta get new insurance. But you can go back
Speaker 3: to you know, the student.
Speaker 4: The student, the patient knew the doctor from previous Yeah,
Speaker 4: are you sure. I'm not sure that you went to
Speaker 4: I am not at all. There was holes in the
Speaker 4: wall that only could have been punched. There was a
Speaker 4: door to the hallway to go to the examination rooms
Speaker 4: that had been bent the wrong way out of anger.
Speaker 4: And then I read this doctor's reviews and a lot
Speaker 4: of them are scathing. If there's a doctor death situation.
Speaker 4: It was very it's all kind of hitting me now.
Speaker 4: It was a scary day. Yeah, I'm glad it is scary.
Speaker 4: I'm glad I turned round and left him. I'm just
Speaker 4: worried about that, poor lady. But Broth, you were you.
Speaker 4: I it was funny that we were told that you
Speaker 4: you switched from pre med to writing and so many
Speaker 4: lives were saved, which.
Speaker 3: I laughed hard.
Speaker 1: No, truly, it's like a blessing for everyone.
Speaker 3: And that was all. It is a Wellesley Wellesley College.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I don't know anything about that school, but
Speaker 4: because it's named that, I feel like it's a very
Speaker 4: good school.
Speaker 1: It is a very good school, and and you know
Speaker 1: it's a it's a place everyone is really serious and academic.
Speaker 1: And I used to be very serious in academic. And
Speaker 1: then when I got to the Wellesley campus, so my
Speaker 1: I was like wanting to do you know, pre med,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to do public health, and I was
Speaker 1: like the dream is to work at like the World
Speaker 1: Health Organization. And so I got to campus and I
Speaker 1: looked around for like one minute, and I was like, no,
Speaker 1: they're going to do that. I'm fine, that's yeah, they'll
Speaker 1: take care of it. I get you do not say
Speaker 1: no more. I get exactly who I am here.
Speaker 2: You just needed that, you need perspective. I needed the
Speaker 2: problem where you basically kind of showed up thinking you
Speaker 2: would do pre MED and then immediately decided you're going
Speaker 2: to go in a different direction.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I did pre Med for about a year
Speaker 1: and a half, and then I told my parents that,
Speaker 1: you know, I I think I want to be a writer, specifically,
Speaker 1: I want to be a comedy writer. And my parents
Speaker 1: were like, you're not the right generation, like where the
Speaker 1: immigrants you do something like be a doctor and then
Speaker 1: your children can be.
Speaker 3: Clowns and generation.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: My parents like, that's not this isn't supposed to be
Speaker 1: our problem. This is supposed to be your problem.
Speaker 2: You're going out of order.
Speaker 3: That's so specific and great. I love that.
Speaker 2: Where were your parents from.
Speaker 1: They're both from India and I grew up in Kentucky.
Speaker 1: I grew up right outside Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: And why did they choose to move there? Is it
Speaker 2: for work or was there anything specific that they.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, my dad is a physician, and so he
Speaker 1: was like after he did his residency in Boston, he
Speaker 1: was wanting to like practice in sort of a low
Speaker 1: income area, and so then we moved to the middle
Speaker 1: of Kentucky. And then my parents really quickly were like
Speaker 1: they realized. They were like, oh, America is really racist.
Speaker 1: We forgot about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we somehow.
Speaker 1: Forgot about that coming from Boston.
Speaker 2: That highway must have been very long, but it was
Speaker 2: bustin in Kentucky to forget about racism.
Speaker 1: It was real long.
Speaker 2: It was real.
Speaker 1: It was that they were both hit very hard in
Speaker 1: the head by a racist.
Speaker 2: But did they stay did they make it work? Uh?
Speaker 1: We stayed in like truly like Farmland, Kentucky for a
Speaker 1: few years and then moved up to like the greater
Speaker 1: Cincinnati area.
Speaker 2: Cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's where they still are.
Speaker 2: The idea that they wouldn't think they'd get a comedy
Speaker 2: writer out of a situation like that, like that's basically
Speaker 2: was one of your only options.
Speaker 1: It was my only option.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was absurd and report please. Yeah, although I
Speaker 2: bet there's a lot of pressure to be a doctor
Speaker 2: when you that's common if there's doctors in your family, right, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they and like I remember they were so upset
Speaker 1: that I wanted to be a writer. And one time
Speaker 1: my mom said she like I called her and she
Speaker 1: her version of hello was just like a deep sigh,
Speaker 1: and then she said, you were the grandchild that your
Speaker 1: grandfather wanted to become a doctor. And I was like, oh, sure,
Speaker 1: they never talked about that. Why would my grandpa say that.
Speaker 1: He was like he was like asking more interesting questions
Speaker 1: or he was like he was like, what's up, America's weird?
Speaker 2: Like he wasn't.
Speaker 1: He wasn't like that is a grandchild that will become
Speaker 1: a doctor.
Speaker 2: He was kind of like, I've seen it. I've seen
Speaker 2: it in a vision. I had a dream last night,
Speaker 2: and this is what must happen.
Speaker 3: Did you call her on it? Where you're like, no,
Speaker 3: he didn't, you're making that up.
Speaker 1: I tried to. I tried to. But I'm also terrified
Speaker 1: of my mom. She's very smart and funny, which means
Speaker 1: that she is very mean, and in a way that's true.
Speaker 4: If she's funny, then she had to understand then that
Speaker 4: you wanted to be a comedy writer.
Speaker 3: Part of it's.
Speaker 2: Also her fault. Yeah, point, don't be funny to me.
Speaker 1: If I'm not, I just throw back a whole bottle
Speaker 1: of ad bill. Yeah. She is very funny, and she well,
Speaker 1: she was always kind of like like, while she was
Speaker 1: trying to talk me out of this, she was like,
Speaker 1: why can't you just be funny, just like being funny friends.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love when doctors have jokes. I'm not defending her,
Speaker 4: but it's a great time for comedy.
Speaker 1: It's a great time for comedy.
Speaker 4: Airline pilots, when stakes are high, bring the comedy.
Speaker 2: But that is a very relevant question because I lately
Speaker 2: have had that idea where I was like, in my
Speaker 2: mind there was never a question of what I wanted
Speaker 2: to do, and it was very much like this weird
Speaker 2: kind of like, oh the I that was my calling legitimately,
Speaker 2: but only very recently. I was just like, but why
Speaker 2: did I have to do it to this degree? Why
Speaker 2: couldn't I. It's it's a very salient point to be like,
Speaker 2: but in the smaller pond of being like, you know,
Speaker 2: even like just an amazing accountant. That's also the most
Speaker 2: fun at parties that's a victory in and of itself, Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: does it have to be official?
Speaker 1: Yeah? She was just like, why do you have to
Speaker 1: make it a whole thing? Stop making everything a whole thing.
Speaker 1: It's exhausting. And I was like, you don't understand my art,
Speaker 1: and she was like, what art You've never written?
Speaker 3: You put on a black beret and storm off. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I teach her a little something about society.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly spoken word.
Speaker 4: Were you able to stay at the same school they had,
Speaker 4: so it's like a pre med and they have a
Speaker 4: liberal arts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's a liberal arts school, so I could
Speaker 1: like very easily switch over.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I ended up majoring in English, and it was
Speaker 1: for fun. It was also I do think that there
Speaker 1: was some merit to being funny in a place where
Speaker 1: everyone is really smart, because a lot of the times
Speaker 1: then the professors felt like they could kind of relax
Speaker 1: around me because they were like, you're not trying to like,
Speaker 1: you're not going to outsmart us, you're not even gonna
Speaker 1: meet us. So this is like nice. We just this
Speaker 1: dynamic is exactly what it's supposed to be. You're a
Speaker 1: weird child and I'm grown up.
Speaker 4: That's what I wanted to hear you say because that
Speaker 4: my dad always told me my plan B could be
Speaker 4: if comedy ended up not working out, which he was
Speaker 4: supportive of, but he said the other option is to
Speaker 4: get a normal job, like he worked in government and
Speaker 4: he was funny all the time. That's how he showed
Speaker 4: power over people, so that he was sarcastic and funny,
Speaker 4: and it would like intimidate. He did it in a
Speaker 4: certain way. It's a style of comedy. But he always
Speaker 4: told me like, or you could get a regular job
Speaker 4: and be funny there. But primarily he wanted me to
Speaker 4: keep doing comedy, which is I'm lucky to have that
Speaker 4: kind of support.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's really nice.
Speaker 4: You've finished school, like not that long ago, right was
Speaker 4: it in twenty sixteen? Yeah, and you're because you what
Speaker 4: you've done already. I just is a list of things
Speaker 4: that intimidate me, like McSweeney's and just the name of
Speaker 4: that college I didn't know, and what anything about it?
Speaker 4: I knew that college that that name intimidates me.
Speaker 2: And uh so you can go there if you want to.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's all girls as women's girls.
Speaker 1: It is a women's college.
Speaker 2: Are we not supposed to sail girls.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: All female. All female.
Speaker 1: I don't know either. We were all getting in trouble.
Speaker 1: Girly girl, tiny girls, the little time.
Speaker 2: He wants go to school because they're so smart.
Speaker 3: I'm glad we're talking about this in these terms.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a college. It's a college for the daintiest,
Speaker 1: tiniest girl.
Speaker 2: You have to walk around campus with books on your head,
Speaker 2: balancing books on your head the entire time. Yeah, people
Speaker 2: love fucking college. On the East Coast, they loved they
Speaker 2: love it like it's a big deal. Yeah, in California
Speaker 2: it's a little less. It's a little more locy goosy
Speaker 2: out here. I think people are just like, maybe if
Speaker 2: you went to Stanford.
Speaker 4: And in Montana, it's like, I guess I'll go to college.
Speaker 4: I lost my really good job at the paper mill.
Speaker 1: It's like, but you kept showing up to the paper mill.
Speaker 3: I like the smell.
Speaker 4: I secretly was just nonchalantly sniffing glue.
Speaker 2: You pick up raw paper, and like, if only there
Speaker 2: are a bunch of words on this, it would teach
Speaker 2: me something.
Speaker 1: Yes, amazing, what if I found these?
Speaker 4: I just wanted to get on the ground floor of bookmaking.
Speaker 3: Not the writing.
Speaker 4: I like the construction of books, the binding, you know,
Speaker 4: not binding.
Speaker 2: And fully and sincerely. I just watched a video the
Speaker 2: other day of someone doing bookbinding and that one last
Speaker 2: thing where they the huge paper cutter comes down. Yes
Speaker 2: to cut like all the pages at once. Ooh that
Speaker 2: feels good. Yeah, just like cutting that whole.
Speaker 1: And it's so smooth, it's so sis.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And sometimes it's curved. How do they do that? Was
Speaker 4: that in the video where it's curved?
Speaker 2: Oh, like old old books.
Speaker 4: I'll just keep doing this with my hand because that
Speaker 4: makes for good podcast.
Speaker 2: Curved verticular, like if the implant stayed in the right direction, curved,
Speaker 2: curved direct.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're describing. You're describing a beautiful woman. You're not
Speaker 1: describing a paper cutter.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you're right. I was doing the figure rate
Speaker 4: with both hands. About sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 2: He loves bookmaking, he said.
Speaker 3: He left it, yeah in the envelope today saying the
Speaker 3: wrong thing.
Speaker 2: So what happened after you graduated from college? Let's let's
Speaker 2: get the whole storyline, your full origin story.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's happened so quickly, it seems.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I after I graduated college, I like two
Speaker 1: weeks later, moved out to LA and I applied to
Speaker 1: a million assistant jobs and they all said no, thank you,
Speaker 1: and they were correct. I it would not be good
Speaker 1: at that.
Speaker 2: But it's hard.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, it's really hard. It's like a you have
Speaker 1: to be like organized and you have to be smart
Speaker 1: to do that.
Speaker 2: Oh big time.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And so then I I became a nanny and I
Speaker 1: love kids, so it was super super fun. I nanny
Speaker 1: Day's seven year old boy who was like so sweet.
Speaker 1: And then there was like one day where I was like,
Speaker 1: should I maybe I like put a some effort and
Speaker 1: I asked him. I was like, do you want like
Speaker 1: a playdate with your friend? And he looked at me
Speaker 1: and said, I want to just sit and chat.
Speaker 4: I was like, yes, sit in chat And.
Speaker 1: My favorite thing is that. Like then when we did,
Speaker 1: you know, sit down to have a chat, he was like,
Speaker 1: what do you want to talk about?
Speaker 2: Classy?
Speaker 3: I yeah.
Speaker 4: I remember I was greeted at the door of a
Speaker 4: house a party I went to and it was a
Speaker 4: ten year old kid and he said, can I get
Speaker 4: you anything to drink? He just water, But it was
Speaker 4: it seemed like the most I love kids when they
Speaker 4: say grown up things.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's so funny because I mean when now
Speaker 1: if you talk to like a five or six year old,
Speaker 1: like those are pandemic kids, like they learned all of
Speaker 1: their social in action at home with adults. And so
Speaker 1: like my friend her daughter like went to preschool in
Speaker 1: person for the first time, and it was reported back
Speaker 1: to her after the first day that apparently she like
Speaker 1: went around saying, may I play with you? And my
Speaker 1: friend was like, that's so scary. Yeah, the children were like,
Speaker 1: you know, not looking. Some of them just like took
Speaker 1: off their shirt because that's what children do.
Speaker 4: This is so interesting because one of my biggest concerns,
Speaker 4: other than elderly people in care not being visited because
Speaker 4: of COVID, was little kids not being able to play
Speaker 4: and go outside and yeah and get in trouble and
Speaker 4: ride bikes and blow stuff up with fireworks. But what
Speaker 4: if statistically it means that it is the highest performance
Speaker 4: that two year in the developmental stage the people at
Speaker 4: are homeschooled. We just find out that it makes these geniuses.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's called the polite generation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just really good conversationalist, just very generous and very
Speaker 2: emotionally intelligent.
Speaker 1: Well, my neighbor. My neighbor's kid is five, and he
Speaker 1: is the same exact way where I saw him like
Speaker 1: right outside the garage and he was like he said
Speaker 1: to me, he was like, you have to come over,
Speaker 1: and I was and I was like, what what do
Speaker 1: you mean And he was like, We've got a lot
Speaker 1: of toys. You got to see him.
Speaker 2: Get your ass over here.
Speaker 1: It was like, there is a couch with your name
Speaker 1: on it.
Speaker 2: Girls, sit down and spill it. Well, it makes sense
Speaker 2: to me because I think little kids, especially that age
Speaker 2: like five and six, adult attention is like kind of
Speaker 2: hard to come by sometimes. So when there's like when
Speaker 2: you can give a kid focused attention and literally like
Speaker 2: have a conversation or make them tell you a story
Speaker 2: or whatever, that is like they love that the most,
Speaker 2: right Yeah. I mean like there's some kids are like
Speaker 2: get it away from me, minecraft or whatever, but there's
Speaker 2: definitely those kids that are like, yeah, I would love
Speaker 2: like an adult who basically give me the floor and
Speaker 2: I get listened to the way I have to listen
Speaker 2: to you assholes all day long. That's how I always
Speaker 2: felt as a kid, where I'm just like, yeah, yep, yeap,
Speaker 2: I've got some good shit to tell you about what
Speaker 2: happened at school today, Like let's wrap it up, it's
Speaker 2: my turn, ye.
Speaker 1: And it's so funny that age, they're also like putting
Speaker 1: on kind of adult behaviors and they're sort of trying
Speaker 1: things out. So like I have another friend who because
Speaker 1: in LA you have to like interview or like temp
Speaker 1: at preschool before you get in. But she like took
Speaker 1: her daughter to like a kindergarten interview, and her daughter
Speaker 1: right out the gate told the interviewer, girl, I love
Speaker 1: your shoes.
Speaker 2: In Yeah, I mean, what more do you want from
Speaker 2: a child?
Speaker 1: I know? And then everyone started laughing and then immediate tears.
Speaker 1: Everyone's laughing at me, everyone's laughing at you.
Speaker 3: Oh that's great.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Like when kids are all excited it's their
Speaker 4: birthday and the cake comes and they're about to blow
Speaker 4: out the candle and everyone sings and they just burst
Speaker 4: into tears. There's entire that's like series of YouTube videos
Speaker 4: that I've.
Speaker 3: Watched, like I don't true though, I don't like this
Speaker 3: attention from this.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you think you want the attention because it's
Speaker 2: like when the birthday cake is coming at you. You're
Speaker 2: in a dark room. Suddenly someone turned out all the lights.
Speaker 2: No one's looking at you, everyone's looking at the cake.
Speaker 2: And then the cake slowly gets brought to you until
Speaker 2: it's right under your face. And then everyone's staring at
Speaker 2: you now, and what you're going to do with this
Speaker 2: cakeated by flame? Yes it's hot, suddenly it's hot, and
Speaker 2: all their children crowding on either side of you. It's sinister.
Speaker 4: And then adults sing the most poorly written song music.
Speaker 3: No one wants to hear it, No one wants to
Speaker 3: sing it.
Speaker 4: Only Tgi Fridays was smart enough to write a new one.
Speaker 4: And yet we all sing the worst song in history,
Speaker 4: next to a couple songs by Third Eye Blind.
Speaker 3: Sorry take that Third Eye Blind.
Speaker 1: I feel the same way. But about our national anthem,
Speaker 1: I think it's the worst. Like do not expect a
Speaker 1: group of people to hit and the rockets red glare,
Speaker 1: We just as a country are revealed to be awful
Speaker 1: singers because suddenly we're all having sing this very complicated song.
Speaker 4: It's a hard it's hard to sing. I've seen amazing
Speaker 4: singers mass that up.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's it's all over the map. It's like Wade,
Speaker 2: it starts down't here, then it's nuts.
Speaker 1: So it's nuts. And also like my favorite moment is
Speaker 1: when like the panic starts to set in of we
Speaker 1: started too high.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, oh man, I experienced that ye lately at
Speaker 4: my nearby karaoke.
Speaker 1: Stop you do the national anthem and it sounds good.
Speaker 2: Followed by it and the people love that Happy Birthdays
Speaker 2: right behind it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, one two punch and I don't even attempt it.
Speaker 4: When I see how high it's going, I'm like, ah,
Speaker 4: fuck it, I tried it.
Speaker 2: I just stop, you know, switch into your head voice
Speaker 2: and go no, I go immediately into interpretive dance, which
Speaker 2: no one expects. I honestly, you guys have to look
Speaker 2: up or if you haven't seen it, you may have
Speaker 2: seen it already. You know who can sing a perfect
Speaker 2: national anthem as Jack Black? And he there's a video
Speaker 2: of him on YouTube doing it, and I think it's
Speaker 2: the early two thousands, probably it was a while ago,
Speaker 2: and he's doing it at the beginning of a basketball
Speaker 2: game for a basketball team I've never seen before, so
Speaker 2: perhaps not a California team.
Speaker 3: Was it the MTV Rock and Jock b Bald Jam.
Speaker 2: Yes, just as a real game. Sorry, but you have
Speaker 2: to see it because he well he has that range,
Speaker 2: but he sings it because he, you know, was a
Speaker 2: really good singer and he was in a lot of
Speaker 2: musicals in high school and stuff. He fucking nails it, like,
Speaker 2: and the crowd is so relieved, like there's some deep
Speaker 2: discomfort where no one's had enough beer yet to not
Speaker 2: feel when somebody's suffering under like that really is. People
Speaker 2: feel that pain when even when it's even slightly off
Speaker 2: a little bit, it's hard.
Speaker 4: And then they take it to the court and it
Speaker 4: affects team play. Yes, that community started by witnessing pain.
Speaker 4: Why fundamentals go right out the goddamn window.
Speaker 3: I want to band singing all together. I just turned
Speaker 3: to the dad from Piddlers. It's bad for sports.
Speaker 2: It gets everybody all riled up, I guess everyone.
Speaker 1: And then and then they're just bummed out. So they're
Speaker 1: just like now dribbling and walking across the what's the
Speaker 1: fucking point, my legs.
Speaker 2: Are so heavy? Yeah, suddenly I'm exhausted.
Speaker 3: Nothing sadder than a crying man dribbling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's just you just gotta run the clock out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And you're like, we all we all started off like
Speaker 1: that singer is still here, and it's really it's really
Speaker 1: drained the energy out.
Speaker 2: What if you fucking like just eight ship trying to
Speaker 2: sing the national anthem at a national sport game and
Speaker 2: then you had to go sit in your seat like
Speaker 2: in the row soup, just sit there like you love
Speaker 2: it for an hour, knowing that you basically started off wrong,
Speaker 2: and everyone it like blames you for the bad energy.
Speaker 2: And then you're just like here I am in my
Speaker 2: the ribbons in my hair, like yeah, big smile, Now
Speaker 2: I'm gonna.
Speaker 3: Have some fun.
Speaker 4: The camera keeps zooming in on you and showing you
Speaker 4: on the screen so everyone could shake their heads, remembering
Speaker 4: how you're saying terribly.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And then the headline the next day just like
Speaker 1: weird energy on court, like weird energy settling. Yeah, everyone
Speaker 1: a little off.
Speaker 3: I failed to tempt at pais.
Speaker 4: Another thing that I only know smart people to be
Speaker 4: involved with is mc sweeney's.
Speaker 3: How did that happen? Was that I just.
Speaker 1: Started like submitting stuff to them when I was in college,
Speaker 1: and then eventually and then eventually one stuck. That's I
Speaker 1: wore them out.
Speaker 2: How many did you submit? Over one hundred less than five.
Speaker 1: Over fifteen, less than five, and.
Speaker 2: She's a Wellesley girl.
Speaker 1: I'm a.
Speaker 3: Dainty little Wellesley.
Speaker 1: I'm the tiniest girl you've ever seen.
Speaker 3: But don't worry.
Speaker 4: She has good posture, she can still tye, and good
Speaker 4: pomp and circumstance.
Speaker 1: I have three mixed Sweeney's anthologies on my head that
Speaker 1: I balance.
Speaker 2: Someday, and it's like, through osmosis, you get there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I just started. I just started submitting from
Speaker 1: college and.
Speaker 2: Then and they way with the first one you got in,
Speaker 2: Just what was that? Like? Was was it out of
Speaker 2: the blue? Die? Did you know anybody there?
Speaker 3: Were? You?
Speaker 2: Just like blind submitting?
Speaker 1: And I was just yeah, it was just blind submitting.
Speaker 2: And how do they let you know? Do they email you?
Speaker 1: Yeah? They emailed and they were like, uh, we like
Speaker 1: this fucking finally. All your other pieces were dog shit.
Speaker 3: I'm not kidding though.
Speaker 4: When I moved here, other than someone being a lampoon
Speaker 4: but I don't even know enough about it to talk
Speaker 4: about it in the lampoon or going to Emerson or
Speaker 4: something like, there would always be people going like that
Speaker 4: person's written for McSweeney's and everyone's.
Speaker 3: Like, oh, it's like such a big deal. It really is.
Speaker 2: So you get this email and what do you quietly
Speaker 2: smile to yourself and go about your business. Do you
Speaker 2: turn to someone and scream, I fucking told you, I'm
Speaker 2: out of here? Like, what give me the moment that
Speaker 2: you got that news?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I tourched the building. I'm in.
Speaker 2: Match over the shoulder as you walk away, putting on sunglasses.
Speaker 1: Exactly.
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was super excited. I was like because
Speaker 1: it was, you know, my first time being published, and yeah,
Speaker 1: it was just it was very exciting and I and
Speaker 1: I called my parents and told them, and then and
Speaker 1: the thing about my parents really humble me a lot,
Speaker 1: because they were like, what's.
Speaker 2: That You're like, then you trust me that it's really
Speaker 2: good and a very big deal.
Speaker 1: And then well, actually my mom's My mom's whole thing
Speaker 1: was she was like, if you get published by like
Speaker 1: the New Yorker before you graduate, then I'll like believe
Speaker 1: in this thing. And it did happen to the day
Speaker 1: one week before I graduated, So I was like, just under.
Speaker 4: The wall, Yeah that's was that uh just a coincidence
Speaker 4: or was that a goal of yours?
Speaker 3: And then it happened. It wasn't.
Speaker 1: It wasn't really a goal of mine, but it was.
Speaker 1: It was very funny because the the editor for the
Speaker 1: humor section like reached out to me because she had
Speaker 1: read some of my McSweeney stuff by then, and she
Speaker 1: was like, I don't know if you'd at all be
Speaker 1: interested in writing for us, And I was like, can
Speaker 1: you imagine if I had emailed back? No, I'm good,
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not that in your cartoon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, start coloring those in then I'll do something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't like your black and line artwork.
Speaker 2: Just send them. You clip out some Garfields and like,
Speaker 2: you know, take take a hint from this color palace.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I say, why is this? Why is this cat
Speaker 1: a winner?
Speaker 2: Because this is not? And we all know this is
Speaker 2: why you.
Speaker 1: Will never see Garfield in fucking therapy, Like all of
Speaker 1: your animals are.
Speaker 4: In Yeah, only John is in therapy.
Speaker 1: That poor guy, That poor guy. He really deals with
Speaker 1: a lot, Yeah he does. He really deals with a lot.
Speaker 2: He's up against it for.
Speaker 3: He's kind of creep.
Speaker 4: It always seems like he's uh lusting after nurses. And
Speaker 4: I feel like John had he was like a weird guy.
Speaker 2: Well he's a cat guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, there are those cats. Hey wait, I'm a
Speaker 3: cat guy. I was. I was about to agree, and
Speaker 3: then I remember it. I like cats.
Speaker 2: I'm just from the light in here on because it's slow,
Speaker 2: the sun's going down.
Speaker 4: But it did the sun suddenly dip in the ocean,
Speaker 4: because all of a sudden it just was dark.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. I mean, we've been recording during magic hour,
Speaker 1: and what a magic hour it's been.
Speaker 3: This is when it all happens.
Speaker 2: We're losing light people.
Speaker 3: Look, yeah, where's the first ad on this thing?
Speaker 1: We only get one shot at this. We only get
Speaker 1: one shot at this.
Speaker 2: Guys, no one flow up your line from here on us.
Speaker 3: So what is the invite?
Speaker 4: You now work at the Simpsons, and you work there today,
Speaker 4: what happened?
Speaker 3: Tell us some stories.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's the most fun job I've ever had.
Speaker 1: I'm having just like the best time. Yeah, honestly, the
Speaker 1: gossip is lovely job, really nice time, really really nice people.
Speaker 1: And every day has felt like I'm a make a
Speaker 1: wish kid.
Speaker 3: That's so great. What season is it right now?
Speaker 1: The season that's airing is thirty four?
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh wow, isn't Homer Simpson thirty four years old.
Speaker 1: He really he's thirty eight. He was actually four when
Speaker 1: he first turned thirty eight.
Speaker 4: Think about it, man, so trippy, just like go to
Speaker 4: sleep out of stress. I mean, I know you just
Speaker 4: met me, but good job graduating in twenty sixteen. Like
Speaker 4: what if I, especially in the last two years, if
Speaker 4: I think of what I've done in the time.
Speaker 3: That you've done all.
Speaker 4: This, it's let's just not talk about it. I'm just saying,
Speaker 4: good job. I think that happened so fast for you.
Speaker 1: I mean, I am incredibly lucky like that. It happened
Speaker 1: because I just had a lot of people in my corner,
Speaker 1: and my first few years in LA I almost exclusively
Speaker 1: made friends with people over forty And I don't really
Speaker 1: know why or how that you know what, Actually it
Speaker 1: happened because the mom of the kid I nannyied. She
Speaker 1: and I got really close and she's also TV writer,
Speaker 1: and so then she like introduced me to all her
Speaker 1: friends and as a result, like I would say, the
Speaker 1: median age of my engagement party was like sixty five.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's terrific.
Speaker 4: It's perfect. I have my same with me, but for
Speaker 4: different reasons. It's because I started golfing. I have a
Speaker 4: lot of older friends.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, how often do golf?
Speaker 4: Oh I'm not as much as I used to, but
Speaker 4: three or four times a week, like I got addicted
Speaker 4: to it. And then my skateboarder friends are like eighteen
Speaker 4: to twenty four. It's just I think it's important to
Speaker 4: have that many friends.
Speaker 2: But full range.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's a good range.
Speaker 4: I think it's luck even though you met those people.
Speaker 4: It sounds like the fact that you kept submitting. I
Speaker 4: think most comic or what I'm afraid of personally is
Speaker 4: being told you're not good enough or hearing I create
Speaker 4: my own obstacles because I'm so scared to get shot
Speaker 4: down that I that's what's kept me from doing that.
Speaker 3: It sounds like you weren't scared to do that.
Speaker 1: I will say that, like I've never really obviously like
Speaker 1: rejection is a bummer because it's rejection. But I really
Speaker 1: wasn't like afraid of rejection. And I think it was
Speaker 1: because early on, like my parents were so mad at
Speaker 1: me that it was like, what you're gonna reject me?
Speaker 1: My mom just did, You're not gonna You're not gonna
Speaker 1: like meet her level. You're not going to get up
Speaker 1: there in terms of rejection.
Speaker 3: That's funny.
Speaker 4: That lines up perfectly because I had both my parents'
Speaker 4: full support and approval when I went into comedy, so
Speaker 4: they believed in me, So why should I you know?
Speaker 1: I yeah, I do think that the kind of the
Speaker 1: special sauce was that my parents were like mean to
Speaker 1: me some of the time.
Speaker 2: Also, I mean, there there's really something to be said
Speaker 2: for that idea that you went in thinking you were
Speaker 2: going to have one plan right and then seeing it,
Speaker 2: feeling it, knowing it isn't right, calling it early enough,
Speaker 2: taking the heat early enough, because that's a huge fucking deal.
Speaker 2: When you have like legacy doctor shit in your family,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of pressure. And there's also that kind
Speaker 2: of thing. Nobody in my family expected me to do anything,
Speaker 2: like they were just like hopefully, you know, hopefully she'll
Speaker 2: get through college and I didn't. But but it's that
Speaker 2: idea of like you have to you have to know
Speaker 2: what's like when I went to college and I was
Speaker 2: just kind of like a theater major, I was just like,
Speaker 2: I fucking hate this and I hate school. None of
Speaker 2: this feels like it's what I should be doing. And
Speaker 2: then I got kicked out for having a bad really
Speaker 2: low GPA, and that's and I was like, I'm going
Speaker 2: to turn this around by doing stand up comedy, which
Speaker 2: is like the worst solution, Like this is a non solution.
Speaker 1: And now that's your advice.
Speaker 2: Yes exactly, It's like, but what my advice is, like,
Speaker 2: know your gut well enough to not force yourself to
Speaker 2: do something that you know for a fact isn't going
Speaker 2: to give you that like life energy thing. For me,
Speaker 2: listening to you talk about that, it's just like you
Speaker 2: just did the thing of like you took all that
Speaker 2: doctor pre med energy and laser focused it toward comedy writing,
Speaker 2: you know what.
Speaker 1: That's I think that's exactly what I did, because I
Speaker 1: also like, I didn't start writing comedy. I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, I was always a fan of comedy and
Speaker 1: I really liked, you know, to be funny, and which
Speaker 1: as a teenager exhausting. That sucks. When a teen wants
Speaker 1: to be funny.
Speaker 3: That sucks.
Speaker 2: It's very national anthem going bad vibes.
Speaker 1: It's very national anthem going poorly. But it won't stop.
Speaker 1: It just won't stop, and the singer thinks it's going amazing, Yes,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I you know, I think a couple of things.
Speaker 1: I realized that the thing that I was studying, you know,
Speaker 1: doing pre med, going to med school, I would then
Speaker 1: have to become a doctor. And I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't think I want to do that, which you know, again,
Speaker 1: if if you're not like passionate about being a physician,
Speaker 1: people could die, right, And I've only killed two people
Speaker 1: doing comedy, right, I wouldn't.
Speaker 3: Bring that up. Yeah, well under the bridge, we're all
Speaker 3: over it. We're over it. It was fine.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think Karen, you're exactly right that that
Speaker 1: I used a lot of that energy. I used all
Speaker 1: of that energy towards like teaching myself how to write comedy,
Speaker 1: because I started writing comedy like my first jokes and
Speaker 1: my first like comedy pieces nine years ago. And I
Speaker 1: was every single night I was after I was done
Speaker 1: with all of my like pre med homework, I would
Speaker 1: go sit in the library until one am, and every
Speaker 1: single night I would write for at least three hours.
Speaker 1: And so I have pages of garbage. Yeah, it sucks
Speaker 1: so hard. Those now double as my suicide.
Speaker 2: Not no, but you have to have that shit at
Speaker 2: the beginning, right, It's almost you have to get that,
Speaker 2: you have to clear that out you have to practice it.
Speaker 2: I mean that's also amazing because I think you just
Speaker 2: to kind of applied that, like how like the seriousness
Speaker 2: and how to succeed in school to a thing that
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people. I know, for myself,
Speaker 2: writing is difficult in that way where it is so
Speaker 2: much about discipline and it is so much about getting
Speaker 2: out of the way and just being like here, tell me, o,
Speaker 2: muse what is going to come next? And getting out
Speaker 2: of the way. But we all tell ourselves there's creativity
Speaker 2: or this, or you have all your processes and you
Speaker 2: get all ego about it. But it's like that journeyman approach,
Speaker 2: like you know, you've kind of proven that to be
Speaker 2: where it's just like, yeah, put in the Malcolm Gladwell
Speaker 2: style hours, because that's what it takes.
Speaker 1: That's what I was. I guess at the time, I
Speaker 1: was like, what if I did the ten thousand hours today?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 2: And so on one day? Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it made several mathematicians kill themselves.
Speaker 4: Is there anything you want to plug or oh, how
Speaker 4: about the short film that Billy meets Lisa Simpson short?
Speaker 3: Did you write that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I was part of a group of people who
Speaker 1: wrote that. Yeah, I just.
Speaker 4: Looked for it and I couldn't find it, so I
Speaker 4: wondered if it had come out or how do you
Speaker 4: watch it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's on Disney Plus. I'd love to take this
Speaker 1: time to plug Disney Plus. You can get the bunder.
Speaker 2: Promo code, Brothy, get in there, get your discount.
Speaker 1: Yeah, promo code, and then I just give my password.
Speaker 2: Which is your mom's past, which is my mom's pass word.
Speaker 1: Yeah. What do I want to plug? Well, my good
Speaker 1: friend Dylan Galula, who is super, super funny. She and
Speaker 1: I co host a podcast called Lecture Hall, where it's
Speaker 1: on it's impossible to find. It's only on Patreon, and
Speaker 1: we spend a lot of so the the objective of
Speaker 1: the show was always that we like we each learn
Speaker 1: something new and then teach it to the other person it.
Speaker 3: That's great, that's a great idea.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I do a poor job of it. I
Speaker 1: do a really bad job. I'm on the Wikipedia page
Speaker 1: during recording. So if you want to learn stuff, I
Speaker 1: don't really recommend it. But if you want to have,
Speaker 1: if you want to hear, if you want more of
Speaker 1: this energy, I guess head over to Patreon. Did I
Speaker 1: do the job? Plug it?
Speaker 4: Excuse Me, voted one of the fifteen best educational podcasts
Speaker 4: to Expand your Mind by Oprah Oprah herself.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm a huge fan of the podcast.
Speaker 3: That's another.
Speaker 2: She loves.
Speaker 1: Yes, it did get it got bad enough because Dylan
Speaker 1: is the one who, like she really prepares and then
Speaker 1: during the podcast, I'll sometimes just be like, well, what
Speaker 1: do you want to know about this thing? And then
Speaker 1: just kind of look it up as we're as we're talking.
Speaker 2: So what kind of things have you taught each other
Speaker 2: so far?
Speaker 1: So we have taught each other about like our most
Speaker 1: recent episode, Oh my gosh, what did we teach each other?
Speaker 3: Podcast?
Speaker 2: You don't have a podcast.
Speaker 3: I don't have a podcast.
Speaker 1: I don't have a podcast. The Patreon link is actually
Speaker 1: upfront for another Disney Plus plug.
Speaker 2: Money goes straight to Disney. Really concerned keep them in business, guys.
Speaker 1: It's a really good cause. I'm yeah, I'm really fighting
Speaker 1: for this cause it's Disney Plus.
Speaker 3: They've struggled for what did.
Speaker 1: We Yeah, And I just want to show my appreciation,
Speaker 1: my appreciation for the mouse nice.
Speaker 4: It is so hard to remember what you podcast about,
Speaker 4: my sister.
Speaker 2: I know it's a good trick.
Speaker 4: Question my sister is always like mentioning things that we
Speaker 4: just talked about, and I have no memory for real.
Speaker 2: Anytime that happens, someone goes, oh, you're your conversation, you
Speaker 2: guys whatever. The most recent one was my friend Jason
Speaker 2: is like my stage mother and listens to every episode.
Speaker 2: He was like, that conversation was great. I literally sat
Speaker 2: there like staring into space, like I couldn't think of one.
Speaker 2: How was it great?
Speaker 4: As soon as we log off, I take a nap
Speaker 4: or just crawling.
Speaker 1: He's telling you about your latest episode, and you're just
Speaker 1: kind of like foaming at the mouse.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just like what silent?
Speaker 2: What did I say?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Great plug that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Broth, you're the you're the best.
Speaker 1: Thank you, you guys are thank you so much for
Speaker 1: having me on. So I just figured out what the
Speaker 1: latest thing we taught each other was. Okay, she taught
Speaker 1: me okay, she taught me about monogamy and animals, and
Speaker 1: I taught her about hands across America.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I was like ten years old when
Speaker 2: that happened.
Speaker 1: It was witness the craziest thing. What a wild concept.
Speaker 2: Yes, insane, pointless. Also hard to track back then because
Speaker 2: that was back when there was only three channels. So
Speaker 2: I remember asking my parents of like, hey, when's this
Speaker 2: going to be on? And they're like, we don't know
Speaker 2: what you're talking about. Because there would be commercials for
Speaker 2: it during like cartoon time when we would come home
Speaker 2: from school and like watch cartoons for a while, and
Speaker 2: they'd be like and there was a whole song, and
Speaker 2: they would like they promoted it, like you could go
Speaker 2: participate in it, but then there was no word about
Speaker 2: like what's the local chapter, like where do we meet
Speaker 2: at the library? Like it was. It was presented as
Speaker 2: like guys, we've got a plan as a nation, and
Speaker 2: we're all going to go hold hands, but then that
Speaker 2: was there was no follow up in my life.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it seems risky. That's risky behavior. I remember the song.
Speaker 4: I remember the logo. I still don't know what it is.
Speaker 4: You actually go outside and hand hold hands with the
Speaker 4: whole town across you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you had to pay ten dollars for your
Speaker 1: place in the line. And they was getting rich, so
Speaker 1: they it was supposed to be like a yeah, everyone
Speaker 1: paid for their own Disney Plus subscription, but they said
Speaker 1: they were like we're gonna make like fifty million dollars
Speaker 1: for like, uh, to combat like poverty and homelessness in
Speaker 1: the US. They did not make that much money. They
Speaker 1: made like ten million dollars like if even And I
Speaker 1: think the like the birth of the idea was that
Speaker 1: a guy who was involved with We Are the World
Speaker 1: just like said he just said, outline, what if everybody
Speaker 1: held hands across the country. And then someone was like,
Speaker 1: that sounds so impossible, that it's possible, and then they
Speaker 1: which is like, so two insane people set insane sentences
Speaker 1: at each other and they made it everyone else's problem.
Speaker 2: And if you wrote those down and you put them
Speaker 2: into a stoner movie, there would be two perfect stoner
Speaker 2: lines for people who just got really high and to
Speaker 2: say to each other and then and take it seriously,
Speaker 2: like how could drugs not have been involved in that plan?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Where it's like how just I used to think about
Speaker 2: it so much because I lived in the North Bay
Speaker 2: and the in near San Francisco, the Bay area. But
Speaker 2: I was like, how are we going to Like my
Speaker 2: cousins live in Millbray and we live up in Petaluma,
Speaker 2: But there's no way this chain is going, Like it's
Speaker 2: not going north, south, east, and west, like they're gonna
Speaker 2: it can only be one line. So look, where wouldever
Speaker 2: you're gonna meet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's all these rivers and lakes and stuff. How
Speaker 3: do you deal with that? Boats?
Speaker 1: They also didn't account for like the desert.
Speaker 2: Right, I mean it would have to go up. It
Speaker 2: would basically have to start in like southern Oregon to
Speaker 2: go across through Wyoming, because if you go anywhere above
Speaker 2: that are below it, you're either boiling hot or freezing cold. Yes, right,
Speaker 2: you'd have to go straight through the middle. I actually
Speaker 2: want to map this out now. And now I'm gonna
Speaker 2: have to go. I'm gonna have to give you five
Speaker 2: dollars for Patreon and listen to this goddamn episode.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're gonna have to do that, and
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry and advance.
Speaker 2: It was the perfect No, this is perfect marketing. You've
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Speaker 3: That podcast is called Lecture Haul.
Speaker 1: Yes, the podcast is called Lecture Hall. So what did
Speaker 1: I say? Okay, it's impossible to find it and it's
Speaker 1: called Lexa.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you Brothie for being on guys.
Speaker 2: Yes, it was great. To meet you, and it was
Speaker 2: actually great to hear. I've been pronouncing your name in
Speaker 2: my head from Twitter incorrectly, so now i know how
Speaker 2: to say it correctly, and I'm really excited.
Speaker 3: We have cheat code.
Speaker 4: They are our information sheet has a correct pronunciation, so
Speaker 4: it's not like I'm smarter than Karen and I just
Speaker 4: said that.
Speaker 3: That's thing I don't want to take credit.
Speaker 2: Thank you for being honest. I thought you guys were
Speaker 2: like old buddies, yeah.
Speaker 3: Back in the day and make sure there was a sound. Yeah.
Speaker 3: But thank you for being on.
Speaker 2: It was great to meet you. So fun guys, it
Speaker 2: was so lovely to meet you.
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