MEGAN GAILEY LOVES CHER

Blair welcomes her dear friend Megan Gailey (Pause With Sam Jay, Comedy Central) to the show. She comes on to profess her love to a beloved singer icon with a career spanning decades. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everyone, and welcome back to another episode of Dear
Owen Wilson. You guys, I say this every week, but
it's so great to be with you again. You are
my family, my podcast listeners. We do this together every week.
We are creating something, building something. It's pretty exciting. I'm

(00:20):
having a great time. I'm enjoying it. And Um, I
hope you had a good weekend. You know, since this
comes out on Mondays, you know you're coming to the
Blair Dog fresh off a weekend. Maybe you did some
deep rest or maybe you were out in the club
being wild, something I personally cannot identify with as I
am a sleepy bitch, prefer to be said interior as

(00:43):
much as possible. But I support you and everything you do,
all your endeavors of course for family. Um. This week's episode,
So Funny and Fun, features my friend Megan Gaily you
know where from all over Paul to Sam j Comedy
Central special Conan Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. She's everywhere, bitch. Um,

(01:08):
it's such a fun episode. I've known Megan for so long,
so we really go over and have some fun memories
and stories to tell. And um, I think you're gonna
love this episode. You guys. It makes me so happy
when you DM me or post about the show. I
love hearing your feedback. I say that every week. Your
reviews means so much to me and so much to

(01:30):
the show to keep it going. Tell a friend love
if you share with the friend. That's so helpful. And yeah,
I'm just really appreciative. I'm having a great time also
right in if there's anyone you would like me to
have on to interview, let me know suggestions of guests
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read a review because I want these people to know
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you already know of her, you have already experienced this epiphany.
If you don't know Blair, now is it time to

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tip up the brim of your hat and say nice
to Nietzsche and mean it, because the pleasure truth you
will be yours. In a world filled with a million
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fun of everyone and everything ad nauseum, it is refreshing
to have a show where people express their childlike admiration
for others while still finding ways to endearingly make good

(02:33):
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comes out, I thank the cosmos for being Blair to us.
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with my dear Owen Wilson family. Anyway, guys, um yeah,
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love you so much. I love you, I love you,
I love you. Have a great week. Hello everyone, and

(03:16):
welcome back to the Dear Owen Wilson Podcast. I have
to say I have just been enjoying this so much.
I've been enjoying your guys feedback. Thanks for listening. We're
having a wild, rocking time. And guys, do I have
a guest for you today. This woman you know her
from all over your television. She's right in, she's on there,

(03:40):
she's doing stand up, she's everywhere. She has had a
motherfucking baby. Okay, please welcome to the show. My friend
Megan Gaily everybody high player. How are you doing? Megan

(04:05):
tell us update us. Well, you know, I just had
a very painful bowel movement, but I'm doing pretty good.
Oh my god, you poor thing. How do you recover
from that and then bounce back and then be so
charming on a podcast. It's just I honestly think that

(04:25):
being in a sorority prepared me for it, you know,
just pain and then happy face. Women are incredible. We
really are, we really are. It has you know, my
husband is really lovely and has been a wonderful partner,
and I, you know, I love to drag him and
I like, can't. I mean, yeah, he's horrified by poop,

(04:49):
which is really funny. But other than that, top notch,
so sweet, great, huppy, so nice. I love when um
partners love. They're like find out that they love their
partner even more through like a child. Well you know
that's interesting because I said that I love him even
more and then I asked if he loved me anymore

(05:10):
and he said, know, um, and I would ask the
same thing. I'm the one who gave. I was like,
I love you more than I even thought, you know,
and you only say that because you want someone to
reciprocate it, you know, like it's like, okay, this was
sort of like a yes on a situation. Yum. And

(05:31):
so he goes, well, when we got married, I already
loved you the max and so if you're maxed out,
you can't go up, and I go, nope, try again.
I knew that when you said that that that was
going to be his answer, that he was going to
say that. But I'm like, so, so watching me give
birth and then watching the doctor sew me back together,

(05:54):
that didn't up it at all. Oh wait, did you
have an epsotomy? Or should we talk about this all flying?
What's in a pecotomy? I don't I hear that's when
they stitch you back up. Oh yeah, I mean I
had to get stitch back up and like like you
got you had to tear. Oh yeah, that's I had
a level two. There's there's four levels. Oh my god,

(06:14):
and I had a level two, which they're like pretty
you know, I go, did my butt whole te did?
Like your bothole is fine? Um, wasn't really painful? Um
it's not. I mean like I had an epidural, so
it's um, it's painful. Kind of like after um, and
you know you're yeah, it's just like they you squeeze

(06:37):
the baby out and then they then they're working on
you for a while for holy shit, and they stuff.
They brought down those lights that like you know when
they are like a UFO landed and they and they
show like those like giants, Like those were the lights
that were like brought down from the ceiling to be
like spotlighted on my vagina for her to sew it

(07:00):
back up. Oh my god, honestly, like, I can't believe
you went through this. I can't believe like all the
mothers throughout the beginning of time have gone through this.
But I have to say, I can't wait to see
your material about I can't wait to hear what you
talk about on stage. Like it's going to be a
lot of fun. Thank you. It is wild to be
like every mother did this, you know, because it's like

(07:24):
we know some not great mothers, um. And then you
know it's like we watch reality TV and you're like, yeah,
Deret did this, um, but I guess she did. I
guess she did. Wow. That's just so amazing. You know,
even all my friends like having babies, I feel like

(07:45):
I learned about every single time I learned about something
new from their experience, I was learning about new stuff
like on the fly. I didn't know that, you know,
like a squeeze bottle that usually seeing like a sports commercial,
you need to squeeze one of those um with hot
water onto your vagina for like weeks after while you

(08:05):
and I didn't and I never knew that I didn't hear. Wow,
I just can't believe you create a baby in your
body like men don't know. Men just have like a
completely different human experience. And then we and then we
breastfeed it, so we keep it a lot. Like it's
like we carry it, we burth it, and then we
keep it alive. It's like you guys could do one

(08:28):
of those things. Right. How's that going? Is it? Is? That?
Is it good? Yeah? I mean heard, it's really hard.
It's it's true. It really is like a true full
time job. And it's just constant. My boobs are aching
right now just because they're like, you know, just brimming
with milk, which is which is like they're huge. I

(08:50):
mean you know that I don't have all them button this,
let's get into it. Yeah, No, I'm learning a lot. Whoa, yeah,
they are huge. They are huge to the listeners. There's
some big old cans over here, melons like you know
sweet c J. My husband, he's like, whoa, And it's
like you're these aren't You don't get to do anything

(09:10):
with these? There? Fo our son? Have you? Have you
been able to have a drink yet? Or no? Don't
worry about me. Don't you worry about me? Hot right
back on that saddle? Did you wow? Good for you? Yeah,
you probably needed it. It was a long wait. I've
been thinking about this so much, but I've never asked

(09:32):
anyone how come, Megan? People say that you're pregnant for
ten months instead of nine, so you're pregnant for full
full term is forty weeks and a month has four
weeks in it, so you are technically pregnant for ten months.
It's not. But I don't, well, why do people say
nine months? I'm so because you don't typically know um

(09:54):
for that like first part or like they don't count that,
like it's like counted from the first date of your
last pere it or something, and so that ends up
being the ten But it's a true myth. It's and
nine months that's a film, you know, like it's one
of the most commonly known things and it's not it's
not correct. Yeah, I always wonder that, and I'm like,
I don't think I mean a good woman. I don't

(10:15):
know why I was doing stand up. I would like
told no audience. I was like, so I'm like nine
and a half months pregnant and people are like, you
need to go to to the hospital, and it's like, I
have two weeks to go. Wait, so you've done stand up,
Like didn't you do Faded or how I did a
show last week? Yeah? Was it fun? You know, like

(10:37):
three days um post squeezing him out, I was like,
you know, I don't think I'm ever going to do
stand up again, like I've retired. It's crazy. We're raging.
And then c J was like, I think you should
like go do it sooner rather than later. Um, and
so he encouraged me. You know, we are in a
COVID up swing, right, So I wanted to do something

(10:59):
outside that felt like fun and not like, oh my god,
if I forget what dangering about or endangering like how
I put my set before his safety. I was like,
I don't want to make him sick. So yeah, it
was really fun actually, and I was really scared when
I got up there. I was like, what the fuck?

(11:20):
And then um, and it ended up being really fun.
And yeah, there's a lot there's a lot of people
don't know. There was a bald man with a goatee
who looked shocked, um, and I was like, I'm so sorry.
Certain he goes, I'm learning a lot. And you know
that's what that's what we're here for. That's what comedy
is for. And this two of our Lord's year. You

(11:43):
were nervous. I can't imagine ever being nervous. I was
so nervous because it was like what if I just like,
don't have it. You know what if it's like Rookie
of the Year, um, and like my injury wears off
and I can't do it anymore. No, No, that's crazy.
Oh god, Okay, this is so fun. Um. All right, Well,

(12:04):
I guess I could just do this the whole time,
but I guess we should have you get into your letter. Yeah,
and I'm I'm really excited that it is a mother
as well. Yes, a famous mother. Okay, I can start, Yeah, yeah,
let it out, let it out. Okay, My dearest Share,

(12:26):
you are my everything, my north Star, my Gypsy, my tramp,
and my thief. That's a song title. Please do not
cancel me for saying Gypsy. You were the first concert
I ever saw, the Belief Tour, and Cyndi Lauper opened
for you, and it was transformative. It was in the
middle of a cornfield in Indiana, but it felt like

(12:47):
the coolest place on earth. There were gay men in
leather vests. I know they were gay because they were
there and in leather vests. And I smelled weed for
the first time, and my mom told me, whenever I
smell that smell to run in the other direction. Please

(13:07):
know that I did not take Peggy's advice on that one.
I have now seen you two more times, both of
them farewell tours, but as you but as you joked,
you've got a few more farewell tours left in you.
One of the shows you had a comedic magician open
for you, definitely a choice. And the last show I

(13:34):
saw you do was in Vegas, where you belong. They
should rename Vegas Share. You were seventy two at the time,
and please accept my apologies for bringing that up. But
you said it on stage because there were some audience
members sitting and clapping along, and you said, hello, I'm
seventy two, and if I'm up here dancing, you should

(13:55):
be up dancing too. You sparkled extra right that night.
You did no less than nine outfit changes for a
eighty minute show. You sang with a hologram of sunny,
and you rambled on about your feud with Johnny Carson
and it made no sense, and I ate it all up.

(14:18):
I love everything about you, your voice, your clothes, your hair,
you're acting, your Twitter share. You make Twitter almost fun
and that's fucking impossible. Do your tweets make sense? No,

(14:39):
and that's part of what makes them so beautiful. No
one has accomplished more or meant more to little Indiana
girls and gays than you. But I still have dreams
you'll continue to achieve, like I want you to do
the super Bowl halftime show. I am of the firm
belief that only women Bruno Mars should perform at the

(15:06):
super Bowl, and you are the type of artists that
could unite this country. You have an incredible list of hits,
You dance, You even wore a thong on a battleship
there's truly nothing you can't do. Share. We need you
now more than ever. Keep singing, keep having for awhell tours,

(15:30):
and for the love of God, keep fucking tweeting your
biggest fan. Megan Gaily. Oh my god, Megan, Megan, how
did you write that incredible letter while being a mother
of a new born? Well, I'll tell you. I said,
c J, you need to take our baby. I need

(15:52):
to write a letter to share um And he understood,
he understood. He didn't ask one question. Okay, I think
that might be the best letter we've had yet. I'm
not kidding, really really good. I've loved her since I
was twelve, truly, you know what's so crazy? As like,
I've seen Share once and I was in I think

(16:15):
I was also thirteen maybe, And it was at the
Honda Center in Anaheim, and my punk ass middle school self.
What my mom? Like, someone gave her free tickets, like
I don't know, an Orange County person or something gave
her free tickets and she really wanted to go. And
she's like, I want to take you to the Share concert.

(16:37):
And I was like, Mom, that's not cool, like a
little ship head. And then she's like, you can bring
friends because I don't know, there were some random I
don't know how she got these tickets. And I told
my friends and they were like, that's the coolest thing
we ever heard. And we went. It was Megan Orange County.

(16:57):
It was the first time I'd ever seen a gay person. Wow. Yes, yes,
And two men were kissing in front of me and
I was like clapping and I we had the best
time in seeing Cyndi lauper, like I was like, and
I remember being like, oh my god, I need to
be like nicer to my mom and like listen to

(17:17):
my mom more. And I was like, this is incredible.
I can't believe I almost missed out on this. And
the thing is she was like fifty something then, you know,
and I think that's probably why you thought it wasn't cool.
I went with my mom um, and then my my
older brother's girlfriend and her mom, and then there were
like two other people and we had a time. We

(17:40):
had a time. It was so fun. And also like
I got there and I knew all the songs, like
I heard every song. Oh my god, she's a hit maker.
She is a hit maker. And also, like you mentioned,
the outfit changes just were she's in the league of
her own. Like I think so many people have copied

(18:00):
or not copied her, but been influenced by her, Like
basically all women now that are performers. Yeah, because even
I look at like Casey Musgrave's hair, and I'm like
that shair, you know. I like, I'm a huge fan
of drag and drag race, and it's like they're all
doing share to something, you know, right, Yeah, And I
feel like, I mean, Kim Kardashian, she's very open about it,

(18:22):
but she's like always doing share. Now, oh god, this
is so exciting. Okay, let's get into it, Megan. According
to Lucian Wiggles, you remember Lucian rights, COVID affected him.

(18:45):
He's got COVID three times, but he's bounced back every time,
no problem. You know, he's he doesn't really follow rule
as well, unfortunately, but um and he's always like going
in and out of the casinos and stuff in Bakersfield.
So yeah, you know, he bounced his back somehow. The
man indomitable, given my best, all right, will he's according

(19:06):
to Lucian Share, his real name is Sherlyn's Sarkasian. Megan,
what is your actual secret name that you have been
hiding from the public all this time. Um, so I
believe Share is Serbian. I don't know. I don't even know. Way,
I guess not appropriate. My um my real name is
actually even more Irish than Megan Elizabeth Gaily. Oh yeah,

(19:31):
it's actually um four Leaf O'Donovan. Um yeah, wow, wow,
Oh my god. I'm so glad. Lucian asked this question
because how would we have ever gone to the bottom
of this that this has been your real name the
whole time. And I wanted to stay true to like
some Irish heritage, so that's why I went with Megan

(19:53):
Elizabeth Gailey. Um. But see I even said it wrong,
and the poor Leaf that's why you went with it.
Four Lead was like, I'm not gonna work. That's why
this show is so important. We really get to it
here and four Leaf Donovan and it's like, I've known

(20:13):
you all these years and I would have never known
that before this moment. Okay. According to Lucian, Share one
an Academy Award for me Chuck in seven, Megan, what
movie do you hope to win an Academy Award for? Um?
The Megan Gailey Story where I will be playing myself,
so it seems like, oh, you're not really going to

(20:34):
have to be like stretching play yourself, but I will
be writing, directing and starring, and yes, and so I'm
hoping to do a clean, sweep, clean sweep. Wow. And
what's going to happen in the Megan Gaily story that's
going to win this Academy Award? Oh gosh, now I'm
worried because nothing really like that tragic has happened. I'm

(20:56):
knocking on wood. I mean, I guess it could just
follow the rise and fall of the MTB hit show
Lady like um, very lauded MTV hit show Lady like. Yes, wow,
I know I must lose my life multiple times. So
I was threatened by um strangers in New York City.

(21:19):
So I think that would be Yeah, I think that
would be really something, you know. The interesting to sort
of tease that out for a full length film since
it came and went so fast. Not the shooting part.
Did shoot. We did shoot for six full months, almost
every day, but the premiere and subsequent cancelation I think

(21:39):
was like a blink of we were called five weeks.
We would call that a fifth of a pregnancy. Um.
And but that's why I want to make the movie
is because I need to recoup my earnings. You know,
I went into massive debt. I opened five credit cards
while we were filming, and now I thought hundreds of

(22:00):
thousands of debt. And so I will be putting up
a um go fund me to fund the film and
then I will be keeping all of the money. Oh.
I love that. That's sort of a Zach Braff crowd
fund movie type thing. I love that. I love that.
What do you think about the Zach Braff Laurence pew
Uh dating? Did you know that they're dating? I did

(22:22):
know that they were dating, and like, that's are they
still dating? I really like, I'm not great at my
celebrity couples. I did know that they were dating. I'm
always like he sucks. Um. But then I remember Scrubs
is fun. Um, So it's for Florence. Hugh's one of
those like, you know, she's so hot, like she's very

(22:44):
very hot. Um. But then she did a really hilariously
bad accent in whatever Marvel show that I was forced
to watch, um and not up on the Marvel shows.
She well, because you're not married to a man, um so,
it has one of the drawbacks of marriage, and she's
got one of those bodies that I'm like, that's what

(23:06):
my body looks like and it doesn't at all. Um So,
I'm like, I'm Florence po Basically that's true. I disagree.
I like, I think Florence Pew is extremely attractive. But
what I like, I feel like her body is like
a normal body, and it's like sexy body. It's not
like that stick thin type thin. I think if we
were to like see it up close and personal, it

(23:27):
would be like the hottest body we've ever seen it,
but like you have one of the hottest bodies I've
ever seen. It would be like you and Florence Pew.
And then I'm like, but even when we were even
when we would like sit at pools, when I was
like nine and a half months pregnant, I'd be like, well,
Blair and I have the same body. Um dump dump.
So there's a not when I'm nine and a half. No,

(23:51):
You're like, oh my god, I like this thing where
like when I see I feel like Jemiam Kirk sort
of has that same vibe where she was like like,
of course it's we're talking body privilege. We're talking body
privilege everyone, Fine, fine, fine, get off our backs. But
I like this like thing where it's like a normal

(24:11):
body and these women are like sexy and you know there,
I think Florence Spew has that sexy, sexy sex appeal.
How did she originally become famous? Like, she's the one
that's hard to trap for me. I remember Midsummer was
there before. I have no idea because I didn't see Midsummer,
but I know that that movie popped off and I

(24:31):
don't watch Scary Ship like that. But I don't only
know her from Little Women, right, Little Women, that's the
only thing that's when I was introduced to her. Yeah,
see the not I guess like the Little Women with
like Winona Writer is like so special to me, Like
that Little Women. It did not I saw it. I
liked it. It did not attach to my brain at all. Um.

(24:55):
So yeah, she's just one of those people where I'm like,
I know she's famous and I know Midsummer because I
saw seventy five hot girls do that as a Halloween
costume year. Yes. Um, but it's like yeah, so then
I'm like, maybe they're perfect for each other, you know,
because it's like they're they're both inconsequential in my brain, right.

(25:16):
I never had a problem was Zach Praff. I never
thought about him at all. But when I did find
out about that couple, I was surprised. And I do
I do have to side I when there's a twenty
four year old dating like a fifty two year old
or something, that's what it is. Yeah, and because and
like I know, when you're twenty four, you get confused

(25:38):
and you date older men sometimes like I but like
I always think that these women look back in six years,
seven years, eight years, and they're like, oh funk that guy.
I was so young. I didn't know what I was doing.
Like most of the time. Maybe I don't know. I
just think that a lot of times women look back

(25:58):
when at those relations chips and were like, I was
so young, How gross is that guy? Like I didn't
know what I was doing? And I think she's like not,
that doesn't matter what like it does? I think she's
richer than him. Like it's like even like, uh, you
know Beeves dad and um whatever his wives were. I
don't even know whommed, but you know I know Mommed

(26:22):
of course, Well I only know his second wife because
she was on a show, short lived show called Second
Wives Club WHOA that I loved. Okay, we're getting confirmation
it's a twenty one year forty seven and twenty six
not it's weird, you know, like because I always think
about Okay, think if we had a friend who was

(26:44):
forty seven, which I don't even think we would think
if we did, I think, Okay, so think if we
had a friend who's forty two who was dating a
twenty year old, would be like, I don't want to
be your friend, dude, No, it's gross. It's gross, and like, yeah,
I don't like it's weird, Like I don't think maybe
I had these I think maybe I had that same
thought when I was that young. But like as you

(27:06):
get older as a woman, like you get it, its strengthens.
Like I remember I would get grossed out when like
a much older man would hit on me back to
back to Share, Sonny was way older. Like I think
they started dating when Share was like sixteen fifteen or sixteen. Yeah,
I know that's brutal. I feel like should happened like

(27:27):
that all the time back then, Like I think that
people didn't even like really think about it in a
deep way until thousand percent because I'm like, I got you, babe,
one of one of my favorites. And then you're like,
he was statutory, right, yeah? And I hate to speak
ill of anyone who died in a skiing accident, but

(27:50):
oh god, okay. Share is the only artist who have
a number one single on the Billboard Charts in six
consecutive decades, older person ever on earth to do so, Megan, Megan,
do you hope to do comedy until your last dying
days or what are you thinking there? I just think

(28:11):
if I'm like, I look at Joan Rivers and I go, yes,
I want to do that, and then I go, but
if I'm still doing it, it means I'm not rich,
you know. So there is part of me that's like
get rich, get out at fifty, right. But or people
do like the ten year break and come up like
you know, like Eddie Murphy type of things, or like, um, yeah,

(28:31):
they come out like years later. What we've seen is
that they've really kept up with the times, um, you know,
and that all their takes are spot on when they
take those breaks. I know that's the sad thing because like,
don't you worry it could happen to us, like because
when you get old, like I feel like a lot
of your takes get bad because you're like, fuck it,

(28:54):
I'm old, Like I don't give a fuck anymore. And
I think you're I think they are like also rich,
so it's like being old and rich. I think if
you're old and not rich, you're like medicare for all right, right,
I need my hip done. But if you're just like
super super rich, you're like, I don't want to give
my money away. I'm trying to think of like I

(29:16):
don't want I hesitate to call him old um, but
like I think of someone like Eddie peppertone who is
like older than us, comedian who is like the actual
favorite comedian, more with the times than like we are
even and it's like you'd hope to you'd hope to
be that. And I like I think of Joan and
I like, I've missed Joanes so much. You know, she's

(29:39):
she's up there on on my mountain rushmore with with share.
It's not a comedy mountin rush Shore. It's like it's
like um and she's up there. Karen Um the character
Karen from Will and Grace is up there, and then
maybe like Miss Peggy and then Daisy Duck. There's kide
people on it. That's a good mount rush. Yeah. So

(30:01):
it's like Joan was like she stayed working, so she
was like, up, I'm calling her Joane, like we're p's
first name. So she was she was constantly, you know,
and she was like watching the award shows, which even
though those are like outdated, it's like she knew all
the celebs and she stayed fresh to me in the

(30:21):
sense that like, since she's passed, I'm like, we miss
her and need her so fucking much. Like what she
could have done to Trump and what she could have done,
like to all the nonsense and horrible things that are
happening in the world. I think there really is a void. Yeah,
maybe you're going to be the next Joane, but Joan

(30:42):
probably would have gotten canceled, you know. Like Joan was
wild wild, but then her husband committed suicide and everybody
was like, let her, let her go, let her do
what she wants. I are you watching hacks? Do you
watch hacks? Um? So I'm not fully caught up on
my TV because of my baby, and I'm fully caught
up on Bravo. Haven't a second, but I need to

(31:05):
catch up on the new season. But I love Debrah Vans. Yeah,
because this new season, I feel like they're drawing a
lot of I feel like there's it's a lot of
it is based on Joan Rivers, Okay, because I got
that in the first season too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It
kind of has a share vibe, you know, Vegas spark.
Yeah yeah, and she like there's so much like tragedy

(31:28):
around her with her husband and all this stuff. But
it does bring up that thing. A lot of the
second season is about like should she keep going? Is
she too old to be doing it? Like is she
not with the times? Like you know, she says some
dumb ship that she has some bad takes like in
the second season, And it is interesting because I was like,
is this like a look into our future? You know, Yeah, Wobbly,

(31:52):
we're gonna well and we're gonna look back and be like, yeah,
because we're gonna have male friends that are no longer
going to be out to do stand up and we're
gonna we're gonna have to be like do we publicly
support them or not? You know, like we may we
may be voice, memoing them, not even texting because we
don't want a paper chairl maybe like I support you

(32:15):
delete this, but like I'm on your side. And then
you know the vultures emailing us, and it's like, fuck
that guy. You know that maybe what we're staring down
I know, or we will get canceled, like not because
we not because either of us intentionally wanted to hurt anyone,

(32:35):
but it is easy to say something dumb. And you know,
comedy is not uh, it's not timeless. It's not everything
like things things are appropriate one decade that are completely
inappropriate the next decade. And then you're like nobody's saying
because this ship lives forever. See my husband shocked, I

(32:56):
haven't been canceled yet. Yeah. Yeah, He's like, he's like,
you need to go back in the archives. I'm like,
I don't even want to know it's there. I know,
I know I feel the same thing, but I also
feel like I you know, but it is very possible
to say dumb ship without meaning to. I also think
it's an important point. People are going to be like,

(33:17):
this episode is a while. It started getting her pussy
so back together, and now she's like, I'm gonna got canceled.
That's what we love here, This is what the people want.
I think one of the important things is is really
actually apologizing though, and I do think women and minorities

(33:37):
are much more susceptible actually the cancelation, I don't think.
I think men end up being fine because they're like, oh,
I'll just pivot and then I'll make money. Did you
see who about a four million dollar Hampton's house yesterday? Okay,
so like, um, I'm gonna put it in the chat Okay,
you're gonna have to I am typing it in the
chat us Okay. So it's like there's a market, um,

(34:05):
and there's most of a market for women and minorities.
And I think we tend to also have more empathy
because we've had to go through things or had people
be terrible to us. That like if someone's like, hey,
you sucked up, we're much more willing to go, oh
my god, I'm really sorry. I sucked up. Yeah it's
not my intention. And I actually will go away from

(34:26):
more than nine months, um and and learn, well, yeah, no,
I think that's so true because you know I and
I don't know if it's more the fan base or
the person, because when you see a man mess up,
all these men around the country who might not even
be fans been fans of them prior rally around them

(34:47):
because they want to support like this not sorry like
type of thing. But you you never see a woman
doing arenas after they get canceled. No, Kathy Griffin is
like is you know she's she's working, but she's not
working right, Like she's not She's not like announcing her

(35:09):
that she's doing Madison Square Garden like a year after
like a lot of these guys. You know, she's got
a great promotional photo to do. Yeah, oh my god,
Oh my god. All right, um back to Share Megan.
Do you think that Share like stand up comedy? Yeah?

(35:31):
I do. I think really. I think she spent enough
time in Vegas that like she I think, yeah, And
like she's saip on Carson all the time. I think
she likes the late nights. I think she gets a
hoot out of it, right, And can you you didn't
mention briefly that she brought up her feud about Johnny
Carson during the tour and that you didn't understand it.
But like, I didn't know they had a feud like

(35:52):
what was their feud about, do you know? I think
it was more just like Johnny was an asshole um
and she would like call him on it on TV,
right because our our other Joan famously had her things
because and that was like that was behind the scenes.
But I think, yeah, he would just like say crazy
ship to her and she would like give it right

(36:13):
back to him. Right. Well, it sounds like Johnny, like
from the little that I know historically, might have had
some typical of the times minny misogyny, misogic. Well, I
know he did like X out men too, but like
probably at the time, like you know, if you see
a woman like scantily dressed and like owning who she

(36:34):
is and like a big personality, it was like probably
very threatening to Yeah, and I think there was some
love hate there. And part of the reason I don't
know the full story is because Share made no sense
when she was talking about she like like it was
I went to the last time I saw I was
with Karaklank, another comedian, and we were like, let us

(36:56):
do punch up on her banter because it was all
over the place and we were like we loved it,
you know, But I'm like we could really tighten this
up for her, right, Yeah that makes sense. Well you
did mention her Twitter, which honestly is the best thing
about Twitter. But yeah, I can see how that happens
because she has one she has insane confidence to like

(37:17):
she has lived more life than anyone has lived. And
three she just like she always has that little twinkle
like she's saying something, um wild. So yeah, I can
see her Twitter. Her Twitter is any representation of what
she's saying on stage. It is interesting when you're out
of a musical concert what the people say on stage.

(37:39):
Like I was just telling someone like when I went
to a him concert, like Alanna, the one that who
was in Liquorice Pizza, which I did not watch because
you know it was I heard it was about an
old statutory rape situation, old switchero one. It was yeah
girl year old girl to like sixteen old boy. Oh really, Okay,

(38:02):
maybe I can watch it then maybe that'll be less
triggering to me. It's pretty long. That was my takeaway.
But Alano talked the whole time during the cold well
like there's always that thing of like, you know, comedians
want to be musicians, Musicians want to be comedians, act musicians,

(38:22):
you know, like you but yes you and like we've
seen it too. I think when you watch um watch
what happens live is someone will be on and you're like, oh,
they don't know how to talk um. So even it
even happens with actors sometimes, like there was a gal
On who is like a really great actress and it
was like, oh, she said out a body experience four times,

(38:45):
like give her that would be me. Honestly, I do
podcasts all the time where after I'm like, oh, I
shouldn't have said that, Why did I say that? But
with actors it is weird, like and I'll never forget that,
and I don't want to shoot on him at all
because they just don't want to shoot on him. But
Patrick Dempsey this was like I don't know, ten fifteen

(39:08):
years ago and like I was at the time watching
Gray's Anatomy and I thought, I think I was in
high school when I saw it, and it's yeah, but
I was like, this is to me the hottest man
I've ever seen. And then I think I saw him
on like Live with Kelley Rip Because my mom is
a very faithful watcher since the beginning of time and

(39:29):
he had. I think like, and it could have just
been that day, but I think like zero charisma, and
I was like, what, how could this be the same person?
Everything shattered inside, the whole facade shattered, and you know,
we all have off days, so maybe it was just that.
But I was like, Oh, some people could just be
really good at acting and not like the same show. No,

(39:53):
And you know what, he's someone I saw like a
TikTok of him within the last year, where like he's
really nice to a woman in like a snowy parking lot.
And I watched and it went like, you know, it
had millions of yous on TikTok, And when I was
watching it, I go, I think a PR firm did this,
Like it's really ring true to me. God, I'm so nie.

(40:14):
I am so pathologically naive that like I never consider
these things. And even like after years of watching reality TV,
do I ever not consider that everything is like completely real?
Well with reality TV, it's like I just don't. It's
just more fun for it to for us to like
not think it's scripted. So I just like, I like,

(40:38):
forcibly tell myself that it's real, not me, not me.
I'm like I'm never I'm like, oh my god, I
can't believe they're going through Like it never crosses my mind.
It's so sick, it's so fucking you're a sweet person.
I do think it will haunt me that. I cause
that I called Patrick demc on Charismatic, on Live with

(40:59):
Kelly and Rupa, Live with Kelly Ryan and Kelly Ryan.
I mean it was Regis and Regis and Kathy Lee
and then Regis and Kelly and now it's Kelly and Ryan. Yeah.
Remember when Ryan like got all those sexual assault UM

(41:19):
allegations and just like literally nothing happened. There was something. Yeah,
there's people that you're like, well, okay, I guess they
slipped through um. There was something about theirs. I feel
like there was being in his boxers. You turn on
your radio, he's on seventy five channels and you're like, yeah,
that man doesn't sleep. Holy shit. Okay. And according to

(41:49):
Lucian Wiggles, when Sharon was in fifth grade, she produced
a performance of the musical Oklahoma, directing and choreographing choreographing
a group of girls, but she was unable to convince
any boys to play the boys parts, so she acted
those parts, And they say by age nine that is
how she developed an unusually low voice. She fucking Shakespeare. Yeah,

(42:13):
have you ever played a male part? Have you ever
acted in a male part? So in college I um
auditioned for Romeo and Juliet, and when the callbacks went up,
I was the only woman who got a call back
for Romeo. Yea, that is so funny to me. Wait,

(42:40):
so did you tell me did you only audition for
Romeo or did you audition for other parts? No audition
for Juliet. Oh my god. And I heard no boys
and audition what happened here? Unbeknownst to me, their desire
was to do an all female capt real. Yeah, I

(43:01):
did not know. No, I don't. I mean, well, then
you see the list and I'm the only one, so
I'm like, well, this seems weird. Um. And then and
then unfortunately, yeah, in college, and then unfortunately I did
not have a good Romeo audition, but I was cast
as Juliette. Oh my god. Okay, wow, that was a

(43:25):
full ride. And then you eventually cast Oh my god,
I love because I think I only found out that
you were a theater major in like the last couple
of years because I look anything. So it's like, oh, no,
that's not true. I didn't think. It's just like I
that world. I always wanted to like do theater, but
I never could with sports, and like, I just don't

(43:46):
think of you as someone who did theater because we
have a lot of theater school friends, right, Well, yeah,
college theater is definitely a whole other world. But like
I did theater at a school that like people are like,
I have theater, you know, So it was like, yeah,
oh my god, that is hilarious a callback, yeah, and

(44:10):
I was like, uh, they're found Julio sending on your hair.
According according to Lucian, Share was disappointed as a child
about the lack of dark haired Hollywood actresses. Um. She

(44:33):
wanted to be a famous singer but felt unattractive and untalented. Megan,
you're a very confident person, but do you find comfort
knowing that one of the most famous singers in the world.
I felt like she wasn't good enough. Well, I've seen
shares like behind the music. I've seen like a lot
of like docs on Share and people were like openly

(44:55):
like you're ugly. Sorry anyone ever called you ugly? Um? Yes,
we were at a We're at a bagel shop. Um,
late night at a bagel shop, and it was like
the night before Thanksgiving, you know, it's like blackout Wednesday
the bagel shop in Indianapolis. And these guys were just

(45:16):
being like such assholes. And then one of them like
turned to my brother and goes, your girlfriend's ugly, and
then my brother goes, she's my sister and she's beautiful.
So sweetly did it because he was drunk. Um, But
that is like also the sweetest thing I've ever heard though. Also,

(45:37):
it's just so fucking crazy the way I mean, look,
I said, you know, everyone knows what I just said
about Patrick Dempsey, but I just got on. I just
got on TikTok, and I am I cannot believe how
fucking mean it is. It makes you not even think
about the nice comments. And there's so many more nice
comments than the mean comments, but they the meanest shoot

(46:01):
on there. And I'm like, who is going on tiktoks
of strangers and just like to be mean? Yes, uh,
STEP's all I was talking to me about this because
she is like a huge TikTok following, and she was like,
can you imagine finding out your husband trolls women online.
I was like, divorced. I think that, honestly would be
like worse than cheating. I end up getting bullied a

(46:24):
lot by like younger boys. Yes, that's what they all are.
They're young boys who are like misogynist. My first ever
TikTok I was just like high and I was like,
what is you know, like it's it's so bad, and
like I didn't. I was, you don't know, I'm old,
It's truly, I'm an old person totally. And a guy
like a kid commented, why is this old lady trying
to be funny? And I'm like, wow, the way to

(46:52):
cut me to my core? Oh my god. Well, I
just find it interesting, like I like, um pulling back
the curtain and finding out like like if share feels
like she was unattractive and not a good singer and untalented,
but she was just like I'm going to be a star.
I find it really comforting to know because you know,
I'm super into like metaphysics and all this stuff, and

(47:13):
it's all about like how you have to believe all
these things about yourself in order for them to come true.
And I do think that's true. But at the same time,
it's like not human, like like I don't know, I'm
like all these people they can't feel great all the time.
It's hard. I'm trying to put yourself out there. Don't
you think it's kind of kid? Isn't it that the

(47:33):
first time we ever saw her was the belief to her? Yeah,
do you believe in love after Love that I'm gonna
listen to Share like all day today? She has the
great Greatest Hits album? Yes? Absolutely? Um, Okay, do you
think that Share ever watched the twenties SI seen show Lady? Like,

(47:55):
I honestly like to imagine that she caught an episode,
you know, like like an assistant set up her roku
wrong and she was like, what are these scales up to?
And then she's like, I want to watch the dog show, um,
you know, which isn't like the Westminster Dog Show. It's
just like a show that has a dog on it.

(48:16):
But I think I like to think she caught maybe
three minutes. Yeah, that's how much I caught to not
not my parents. My parents caught all the episodes. Whenever
I see your parents say always bring it up to me.
They're like, I watched one episode all this is the true. Wow. Yeah,

(48:40):
I didn't have an I didn't have MTV an HBO.
I don't have MTV even did I. I need to
ask someone for a logging to watch it, which is tough.
You know, you can't when you can't even afford to
watch yourself on TV show Basic cable. Yeah, it's tough, okay.

(49:01):
According to Lucian Wiggles, share Mit Sonny Bono in nine
sixty two when he was working with Phil Specter, who
produced her first single, Ringo I Love You, but the
song was rejected from radio stations and band because they
thought it was a man's voice and a homosexual love

(49:22):
song for Ringo Starr Megan, have you ever worked with
Phil Specter? Um? I have not, but I have worked
with murderers, which one mind out. We believe, we believe
that there is a comedian in Chicago who has murdered.

(49:43):
We do believe, we believe, and and I challenge you
to you know, just if it comes to your mind
the next time you're with a comedian from Chicago, do
you think anyone in the Chicago comedy scene murdered? And
they'll go I do? I do. I have a guess
of who you would say it is you honestly might

(50:05):
not even know this person. Oh probably probably because if
you're I mean, you would think if you've murdered, you'd
move around a lot. Um. But I mean I think
we probably Yeah, I mean I bet we have. Um,
I bet our names have been signed up on open
mic list with someone who's murdered. Oh my god, open

(50:27):
mics are the scariest place in the world. I always
think back about like how my parents were so disturbed
when they found out, like I started doing open mics
in grad school and like their friends, like they're close friends,
came to see me at like the Village Lantern when
I was barking for six hours a night on Friday

(50:48):
and Saturdays for free for five minutes, and they saw
me at like the scariest show because it would just
be people that were like barked in like at like
eleven at night, like in the village. And my dad
was like, I'm just really like worried about the people
that you're spending time around. And now I looked back
and I was like, Dad, I just don't understand. And

(51:11):
now I look back, like, oh my god, if he
knew the actual people that I was around. Oh I remember.
It was like one of my first, um like comedy
road trips and it was myself this this was in
Chicago as myself a guy who had like organized it,
and then to other people, so there were four of us,
luckily you know, some strength. And but my mom called

(51:33):
when we were like driving and we were driving like
probably like a hundred miles away, um, and my mom
called when we were leaving and was like, okay, well
you be safe is the person you were a good driver?
And I like looked at them and I was like,
in my mind, I go and I knew this to
be a fact. They are a registered sex offender. Um,

(51:55):
but it seemed like a good driver. Oh my god. Yeah.
It is crazy because you think about like the women
in the three generations of comedy before us, like what
they went through, especially like the little clubs in like
the middle of America, like driving around like and then
trying to get paid and these sucking, disgusting club owners

(52:18):
like chasing after them. Um, and then like you think
like I because I remember I used to do I
think it was like two oh four or something. It
was this Mike run in Alphabet City and I did
it like my first year or two, and like Anthony
DeVito talks about like how he remembers like my first
six months on stage where my legs would shake, like

(52:40):
my legs would shake every time, Yes, my legs would shake.
And I remember at this mic like too to a
couple of times in a row when I would go
on stage, they yelled like show us your tits, and
I like, I don't even know what I said or
what I did it, but I was determined to go

(53:01):
back the next week, which is a mental illness in
its own sickness, because I was like, they're not gonna
bully me out of there, these dorks, you know, these
like little sewage rats. And I was like, I was
like they were sucking nerds in high school. This sick us.
And I went back, but I was so scared, and
I wasn't even like going to the mic with a friend.

(53:23):
I was like going by myself. We would go to
these open mics and we would see this cast of
crew and we would have those things yelled at us
and be bullied and be sexually harassed and go, Yep,
this is gonna be my life's work. YE said, that
looks really, this looks like a really good life. I
should stay here sell real estate. Yeah, I can't believe that.

(53:45):
Like I think back. Part of me is like there's
like that thing like, oh, I'm not going to let
a guy like to kick me out of a space.
But also I'm like, why would I go back to
the space that's like six six six six. I remember
my mom going on, it's not gonna be funny if
you die. That's hilarious. She really understood the landscape. I
always think because you're you've exposed your mom, like your

(54:08):
parents have seen it all and they're like so, but
I guess they just know that you're tough and can
handle it. Yeah. But like to some extent, it's like
I'm not really that time. I've never even been in
a physical altercation. Um knock on wood. So it's like,
you know, like if someone actually like I have a
I have a like I talk a big game, but
if someone steps to me, I'm like, where's the man?
You know? Oh yeah, have you ever had that happen?

(54:31):
Oh yeah? Oh yeah. That's why That's why like the
Oscars thing was so funny to me because I was like,
I've had multiple men hop on stage and pull their
dicks out at me. Really god, I've never had that happen.
That's terrifying. Where did that happen? Um, it happened in Chicago.
Hadn't happened at knitting factory? Chicago sounds really wild? Chicago

(54:52):
was sucking nuts. I mean it's why it was. It
was like doing comedy at Guantanamo Bay, Like you think
the same as it was back in your time. Yeah, right,
because like the stories that you guys talk about, like
your big crew, like yeah, and I'm sure it's still
like a drunk town that like loves sports, but it's like, yeah,

(55:15):
the black Hawks would be in like Game four of
the Stanley Cup Finals and they would like turn the
TV off and be like now comedy and people be
like fu Yeah, oh god. I used to hate those
shows when I first started, where they like ambush the
bar and everyone is so pissed. They're like, what are
you talking about? We all have to be quiet, and
like everyone stop all the fun we're having to listen to,

(55:38):
like a bad open mind. Sometimes it wasn't even a bar.
Sometimes it would be like this is a nice Italian restaurant,
are enjoying a lovely carbon era, like what the fun
with us? Oh God, that was. I would get so
much anxiety because if you get the anxiety because you

(55:59):
know this isn't right, these people don't want this, see
and I there's something wrong with my brain because I
would be like, I'm gonna get them, you know, like
you would see like bombing and I'd be like, I
think I can get these people. And it was like
a tool I had that Then I ended up losing
in New York because I felt like I just did
wait and I don't think I have it anymore at all,

(56:21):
because it's like usually I'm doing comedy now in places
where people know there's going to be comedy, and I'm like, man,
I missed that skill. It's like, Megan, is that a
great skill um to be able to win over people
that hate you? No. I think I have the same
skill that I did not have for a long time.
But and it was born like I cold open on

(56:43):
the road for like multiple years with no one going
before me and like large groups of people and stuff,
and I'm like, Okay, I have that now, and thank god,
because there are so many bad situations you're in where
you're responsible for like the whole crowd yeah, well you
and I have both opened for like famous people or

(57:05):
people that like there's a lot of people to here
to see that person going out and I'm not that person.
And it's very clear and you have to be like
you know, I definitely said to crowds before, like they
liked me, okay, so like the nights I'm their friends.
Yeah that's really smart. Oh my god, oh god, Megan,

(57:28):
this has just been so fun. I love share so much.
It's in your letter. Was so good and what a
good person to do. Like, I feel like this could
last for hours, six decades, six decades, six decades, unfucking real.
But one segment we like to do at the end
of our episode is called fan on the Street Tree

(58:02):
And if you have like a fun anecdote when you
run into a celebrity. I thought you're gonna say, when
I got recognized, you tell us that one first. No,
I don't. I don't get recognized. I mean, I mean
I have, but there's not anything. Um, there's not anything.
Top of mind, I did get recognized on my birthday

(58:24):
at a podcast taping of one of my favorite Bravo podcasts,
Watch What Crappens, and these two girls were like are
you making gaily? And I was like hugely pregnant. Um,
And I truly was like did someone pay you to
do this for me? Like this is That's a perfect moment. Yeah. Um.
And the venue had been really mean to me because
I was trying to bring in lu Anne's fos and

(58:46):
then like you can't bring alcohol in and it's like,
I'm one thousand months pregnant. It's fake roset okay, which
I've never heard of phose sse. It was not good. Um.
What was your first drink? I must know? Probably I
feel like it was like maybe apple pucker No, No,

(59:09):
I mean after you had Connor. I was like I
was like, I know you did not have apple pucker
as your first drink. Yeah, I brought it to the hospital.
If you're like peach snops a sour um, No, my
first drink when we got home from the hospital, I

(59:29):
like got delivery wine. You had like white wine? Yeah,
because my mom is like not a big drinker, and
she was here and she was like there's wine here,
and I was like amazing, and I thought she'd like
bought wine and it was like wine from open from
before I was pregnant. I was like, oh no, no, no, no,
this is not we can't drink. Oh my god. No.

(59:49):
So I like, um, caviard wine over. Was it delicious? Yeah?
Because I go I ordered. My moment was like, you
have wine coming? Yeah? I ordered caviar. She goes, you
have caviar coming, and I was like, no, it's like
it's a delivery service. She was like, oh, I love caviar.
I was like, all right, calm down, that'd be still funny. Sorry, Peg,

(01:00:10):
You're in Highland Park, not Beverly Hills. Okay. Um, when
I you know what, I did a show, it was
your show. Oh my gosh, this is a dear Owen
Wilson show because you were You're like a three time
Owen Wilson guest. Like you, We've had you on a bit.

(01:00:30):
I'm avt. Yeah. This is just one of my favorite
celebrity encounters. Um. Demi Moore was at the show. And
when Demi Moore famously came to the show two months
in a row. You guys have heard about this. It
was crazy and I was doing stand up. I was
not reading a letter, um, and so I was doing
stand up and I remember that she like, we like

(01:00:53):
chatted afterwards, um and yeah, she she told um us
that she had had sex with a famous person that
I did not know that she had had sex with.
And it was truly incredible. Yeah, it is, and it
was when you told me that, it just felt so good.
I could not It was an incredible piece of information

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to me. I have read her book, which I did
read the first day that came out in one day, um,
because I'm such a fan, and it came out after
we met her, so I was even more excited. But
she was so nice to us, Like she stayed and
chatted for like forty minutes after which was ridiculous. Like
she came right up to me and gave me a
hug after she texted Owen in front of me, which

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was insane. It's crazy. I was like, oh man, who yeah, yeah,
so generous and gorgeous. She's so gorgeous, share hair, share hair.
They could be mother daughter, sisters, cousins, lovers. Yea, oh

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my god, Magan. Well, I'll tell you this off. But
I did bitches yesterday and I said on there like
that I think Kyle is so pretty. She's beautiful, and
I don't think they like Kyle. But I was just
thinking hair. I was like, her hair is just like
I stare at her hair as someone with like fine

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crunchy hair, I stare at her hair. Listen, a blonde
can never complain about their hair. Okay, you are what
you are what the world fantasizes about. Um, it's bleached, babe.
It's thousands of dollars of bleach. But the men don't
now you know, they're simple. But yeah, no, Um, Kyle
has very share hair and like her and her and

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Casey must grapes, you know, just like that, Oh my god,
like horse shiny, shiny like Dey's hair is like the
shiniest hair you've ever seen. Her daughter had the same
hair that sticks straight long. It's beautiful. It's beautiful. I mean,
I think shiniest besides you and me when we were
doing ladylike obviously. Oh you, well you have really good, thick,

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shiny hair like I have really fine hair. Do you
feel like there's a lot of it? No, No, it's
just like big, but it's really that like my ponytail,
I squeeze it. But you're you have like thick, thick hair,
but it's blowout hair. I have. Well, yeah, and sometimes
I'll get a blowout, and I'm like, I should have
just stayed home. I could have done this better myself.

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Oh god, well this is just so much fun. I
don't want it to end. But um, thank you so
much for coming on and share. What a legend. God. Absolutely,
I'll show you. I'm opening up my milk ducks right now.
I'm doing your kids a giant I gotta get my
open us open to go feed my little baby. Goodbye, everyone,

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