January 20, 2025 • 70 mins
In this classic episode, Karen and Chris welcome comedian Ashley Ray to chat about drive-thru spaghetti, the world's worst roommate and more!
https://www.instagram.com/dynarpodcast/
https://twitter.com/DynarPodcast
https://www.facebook.com/dynarpodcast/
Buy Merch! https://www.exactlyrightmedia.com/merch
Follow Ashley –
Website - https://theashleyray.com/
Twitter - https://x.com/theashleyray
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theashleyray
Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/3UMGNo5
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, it's Chris Fairbanks, host of the podcast you're currently
listening to. I have just a weekend of shows i'd
like to announce at the end of the month here
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, January twenty fourth and twenty fifth, I'll
be at the Laughing Tap Comedy specific comedy Club. Get
tickets at Chris Fairbanks dot com. Thank you and you're welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Are you leaving?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I you wanna way back home?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Either way, we want to be there.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Doesn't matter how much baggage you claim and give us
time and they turn and on engage.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
We want to send you up in star.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
We wanna welcome you back home. Tell us all about it.
We scared or was it fine?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Melbourne?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Do you need to ride? Do you need to ride?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Do you need to ride?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Do you need to ride? Do you need to ride?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Do you need to ride?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Do you need to ride?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Do you need.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
With Karen and Chris welcome to Do you need to ride?
This is Chris.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Fairbanks and this is Karen Kilgarriff.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Hello, my friend, Karen. I've not seen you in over
a month.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I know how are you?
Speaker 5 (01:46):
I'm terrific. I am.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Like many episodes, I'd like to start this one with
a personal apology.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
I uh really dismissed.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
According to the audio clip that was posted to our Instagram,
I very much dismissed your call for help when you
were smelling toast.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
I was trying to make jokes the whole time.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I would only expect you to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
But I immediately after hearing it the other day, I
did a little research, and indeed, there are several things
that it could mean, but one of them is related
to a minor your body avoiding an epileptic seizure.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Yeah, you don't have to convince me that it's not
good news to smell toast randomly. I did not have
to convince you.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
See it's funny because with the backstory, I immediately thought
it was like when the oh if your hand smells
like peanut butter dut and then someone slaps your hand
and it hits your face.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Oh, I thought you were about.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
To hit me in the face.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I know when I'm being set up, But no, you
were actually concerned about your health, and I just you
know my defense mechanism.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
But here's the thing. The interaction expectation between you and
I being stand up comedians is not the same as
the audience, or even just the general listener that you
embody when you listen to clips of our show.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, armchair general listener, you know what I would have done.
I love everyone live. I would love that everyone who's
listening right now. This is not a personal.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Attack, not in the least, but it is.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yes, It's it's hard to understand how like if there
was an accident and a car flip, you'd start maniacally laughing. Yeah,
it's hard for you to relate to that when you're
just listening.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
It seems like we're self I share something.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Well, unless you have the same weird disease coping mechanisms
that we do, which I think a lot more people.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
You don't have to be.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
A stand up comedian to relate to our weird personalities.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I don't think absolutely not. I think it's more common
that that is your outlet. Now that I healthily have
a stage place to do these things in a controlled environment,
I think I act more appropriately out in the streets.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Good, I'm worried about you in the streets.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I have been in these streets. You know what I
saw the other day on my street. You're actually this
is a good one.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Oh, cold on.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Is there an animal involved, yes? Is the animal hurt no?
Does it have cancer?
Speaker 5 (04:32):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Then go tell me this story.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I do have some tragic news about the turtles.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
See it.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
No, it's the it's there is a cat in my
neighborhood that I've seen twice, now what color black with
white areas as well.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Some my call them spots.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Hangs out on the sidewalk and waits or or just
looks around until it finds a car with an open window. Yes,
will get climb into that car, any person's car, yep,
and sit in the front seat. It loves getting into
cars and sitting in the front street with good posture
(05:15):
like it's driving. And I'm maybe imagining that part. It's
not pretending to drive, but loves hanging out in cars.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
I love it, and I.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Hope it's paying a little because why you're leaving your
window down?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Why are you in a city like this?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I yes, And I'm a little worried that I'm just
thinking of this now, but this sounds like bad news.
I just hopefully that window isn't down because there's a
dog in the car and then it'll attack the cat.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
But that's just something I know.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
You're looking for problems on that line's hypothetical that almost
would never happen.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yes, I cannot talk about animals without the possibility of
them being injured.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
I went right back.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
That's an opportunity to describe a hurt animal. You will
jump on.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
This is a cat that feels empowered, great, and it
is finding shelter and is also just having fun. It's
the best version of a cat prank I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
One of my saddest I'll do the sad cat think
if you're not going to that makes me think. When
I lived in Silver Like, I had this cat, Rudy,
and this was Rudy was the best cat. He was
super fluffy, like his cat hair was dense. He was
a black and white dense hair like a like an
otter and really short, and so he was always really
(06:34):
shiny and beautiful, and he wanted you to pick him
up and hold him so like he was like kind
of a rag doll in your hands. But he wasn't
the rag doll.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Type, that's right.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
He just was weirdly like, yay, someone's holding me. And
when I lived in Silver Lake, he got attacked by
codes and basically went off to die by himself.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
This is more tragic than any story I've ever told.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Please continue, do you see?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
And so I like he was gone and I didn't know.
It was like he's just gone, and I have to
face that. But anytime I see a black and white
cat when I'm on the east side or hear about it,
I'm like, be Rudy. I don't think it could at
this point because it would mean he was thirty nine
years old or whatever. But I just I miss Rudy.
He was rip Rudy. You were a great one.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
A message to you, Rudy.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
This truly is a message to you, Rudy.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yes, if for those second wave SKA fans get in here,
maybe it's first.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Who knows. There were so many waves with that SKA.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I feel like that was second.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, maybe they shouldn't have just announced every wave wave.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Same with feminism, Yes exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Wouldn't feminism just stay popular if people weren't skanking to
it every twenty years?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
His STA and feminism go hand in hand. Yeah, this
podcast episode, we're going to explain to you how feminism.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I'm racking my brain for like I never listened to
ska really, but we did go to some skankin Pickle
shows in the late nineties.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
I love skankin Pickle, love them, love them.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I didn't know it was a movement when it started again,
and I accidentally saw the most terribly named band ever
Cherry Pop and Daddy's and this is before Zoot Suit, Ryot.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
And all that.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
But I just saw them at a show and I
was like, I like rock or punk with horn section.
This is amazing because it's like, Okay, here's a bunch
of jazz guys. They got together with some punk rock guys.
That's what I liked. But then when I had a
name and all this history, I'm like, well, now I
(08:58):
can't jump aboard some pandwagon and start wearing thin suspenders.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
You just can't. Like, you can't in terms of you
don't want to be seen that way, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I like to revolt against popularity or groups. Yes, I
thought it was my music. It was the only one
in the audience. But yeah, I still there is the
occasional ska song that just brings me back to me
in a Brandy posey way.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I mean, Brandy's holding out for ska. She'll keep it alive,
and I'm positive that she's the one that can do it.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
She Brandy our friend painted her carb as a real
big fish.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
It said real big fish on it.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yep, she was a huge fan.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Uh, you know Brandy Posey from the Great two part
episode where we go to the Krispy Kreme drive through
for the first time. Oh, we've done it since, but
we did it first with Brandy.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
You're right, that was a ground breaking what's I smell
to I see?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
And now what if I just didn't answer you when
you said you smell toast? And then I'm just like,
I'm like, keep changing the subject.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I do want to say that in this article it
everything that could ever possibly happen to where it's like, well,
I think now, it's just it takes away validity when
it's thirty nine things it could be.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
So I think you're fine, but I do, well, it's
too late. Now if I did maybe go.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
To a doctor so you know that toast thing, and
they'll laugh, they'll laugh. They'll be like, oh, someone's been
on the internet.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
What if the last thing on that list of possible
problems is that you could get electrocuted by a toaster? Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
My God, that's great. Stupid, I swell toast.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
It's probably just my friend alone.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
And tell it's me. I'm murdering you.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I'm holding a toaster. How is Montana?
Speaker 5 (11:04):
It was great.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Actually, I did a little sketch for one of my
shows recorded on my watch, where I was like, Oh,
I got this used Apple watch. I'm trying to figure
it out. Oh, it looks like there's a recorded track
on it. And there's an argument that I did with
my Pelt Brooks, and we yeah, it's a guy in
(11:26):
a bathtub. And the landlord comes over and he's like,
you haven't paid rent. I see you've been going to
best Buy. I'm gonna sell all that stuff and get
your rent. He's like, you can't sell my stuff. What
are you holding a toaster? And then I throw the
toaster in the bathtub and all we did is turn
on the water and the hair dryer and it sounds like.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Brooks is being electrocuted.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
And I was just gonna play that on stage and like,
here's a used watch. Hopefully there's no backstory without nothing nefarious.
I only paid five dollars. There's a crack and it
just bottle of blood. Anyway, I didn't work it out
because even holding a microphone up to it, it really
didn't register it.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Oh, so it but it was a good idea.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Did the audience get you?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
They kind of were trying to listen, but it was
really hard until we started screaming and we made it
way too long. It was like a two minute sketch. Oh,
it needs to be fifteen seconds. But if you see
me in the future, maybe I'll have ironed out the
used watch sketch.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
I like the concept is really good, though, thank you.
I wonder if you do it way way shorter where
you're like, I hope there's nothing nefarious. And then it's
like a series of ways things that people could be
yelling while they're being robbed or whatever. Short, so it's
literally people like get away from.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
My watch, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
And it's different, like this watch has bounced around from
tragedy to tragedy and I'm next.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Oh, that's a great idea.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
It can't be. It has to be like a sentence
of each moment, so the people don't have to like
buy into a whole concept.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Yes, oh, and then each one it's a different era.
Maybe there's twenties music in the background. This is a
time traveling watch that has been around for so many deaths.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
This watch has always existed.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
The Writer's Room, a podcast where Karen and I discuss
sketches that will never come.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
To fruition, sketches that Chris is going to do during
stand up sets. The hardest place to do a sketch. Yes,
you're alone, there's no hats.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
And the people got to make it happen. After you
do it, someone's going to call it a skit.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah, and it's going to be your dad.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
I don't like your skits.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Oh, your skitch and your little sketches and your skits.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
But yes, to answer your question, Montana was beautiful. There's
baby deer in my dad's front yard. I videoed them
and then I just watched them Bambi level cute cartoon
animated deer that lay right by the window in the shade,
and I opened the shades and there's baby deer. I'm like,
how did I want to get away from this my
(14:11):
whole childhood? Why did I want to go live at
the beach, a place I then lived and immediately missed
these baby deer?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Well, you could find baby deer if you looks hard
enough in Santa Monica.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I yes, I just I don't know that I've ever
lived somewhere where they'll be right outside my window.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Yeah, I had a great I had a great time
and relaxing.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
How was your tread?
Speaker 3 (14:37):
It was really nice. I went to see Bradford in Milwaukee.
Oh yes, and well I also my.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Badford is very sweet.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I met Bradford at a show in was it Milwaukee?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Yes, this is all lining up?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah, you get it now? Uh wait, okay, we're coming
off the freeway and then what am I doing?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Uh? So it was we have been talking about it
for a long time because he's lived there for whatever
three years since COVID. They moved out of LA and
to Milwaukee during COVID, and I was so scared, Like
they were going to drive across the country and this
was when like people were getting into fistfights because of
(15:21):
masks and stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah, and you and I were hand washing or lettice
with hands sand title yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
And wiping down the cereal boxes and they're like, yeah,
we're gonna go ahead and move across. And I was
just like, you please be careful. I was so scared.
I was just like all the threat in the world,
and of course it was perfectly timed. They bought a
house for one sixteenth of what you pay in Los Angeles,
like wild and it's it's great.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
So yeah, a lot of people did that, I think,
and it happened to be most of the people that
book I independently produced comedy shows down because I've noticed.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Where is this and what's this person used to do
a show?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
And I'll look and they are happy with a picket
fence somewhere in Illinois.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I think like the next five years, everyone's going to
be processing what actually happened to them during the COVID experience.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
We're all traumatized.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
We're all traumatized. I'm still getting over my absolutely, like
I have a monologuing problem that I have to literally
in meetings just shut my lips so I stopped talking.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
They're talking, won't end.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
It's so uh.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Nick Vadorat, who's a comedian that I makes me laugh
like no other, has a very funny joke about trying
to different differentiate between you know, is this the trauma
of COVID or am I just regular regular all not
popular anymore?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Like the uh oh, this is a are we Is
this going to work?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Well, it's I think across the street.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Oh wow, OK, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah, is this gonna work? The most not helpful comment
I could have ever made?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Could you stop doing this?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Is here?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Let me let me try it again and I'll pull
over on the other side. I was kind of confused,
what's this creepy alley?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Ooh, this is let's challenge someone to a dance off?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
How much kind alley? We're then a ball tonight?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
But I, uh, yes, it's we're all going We're still
going through it.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Still going through Wait, will you resay what you said?
Nick Vatter outside? Because I wasn't well.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I had trouble saying what I said because of the
problem we're talking about. I still am having communication breakdowns.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I see.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
But his joke was what, Yes, it's that thing where
you start telling someone's joke.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
And then I realized I kind of don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
How it goes.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Yeah, I set myself up for that. I see, it's
just in the joke. He's looking out the window.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Well, I don't see anyone with masks on, Like in
his mind it's still COVID. He's experiencing or quarantine. But
it's just regular not being popular.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Oh got it? Okay?
Speaker 5 (18:16):
And I butchered it both times. I hope he doesn't listen.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
I can guarantee he doesn't.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Yeah. No, no, he's a fan of us both.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
No.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah, I have heard of Nick Vadaroth for a long time.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Let's see if I get in front of somebody and
make them honk at me. But he was one of
those people. I always love it when there's somebody from
a different town that people like, hey, have you seen
this guy? It's like that is the most exciting thing
about stand up, when someone is the new guy and
then everyone's like excited about them.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Yeah, especially when it was the actual word of mouth.
Days now, it's like there are many people that I
follow and I don't know their names, and I like
their videos and I'm like, well, that's my new favorite joke, right,
this person with eight hundred followers. But I have noticed
that everyone I start to like, I see them grow
in popularity, and I feel like an old timey producer
(19:11):
that wants his cut.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yeah yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Knew this person back when they had four videos, And
where's my ten percent? I want to ask them I
own the studio and I want a cut of all
of all your acting.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Pay on the movie. I pay the old classic double
dip scene and thank you.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
That was my nineteen twenties movie producer. No change in voice.
I'm one of the best.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
It was all vibe and I have to tell you,
listener might not have gone all the way through your earbuds,
but in this car it was the twenty Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
A lot of people would have to do a voice
like this. I want twenty percent of all of it.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
See but no, No, that's not how you do it. No,
people talk normal like them once the camera wasn't.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Rolling, once, they weren't showing off.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
It's just a style of acting.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
And then one day a man named Marlon Brando was like,
what if I just talk like a normal person while
the camera rolls?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
What if I were a tank top and act casual?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
And the new style of acting was born.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Yes, hopefully someone doesn't emulate it to a T in
the future named Tom Hardy.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
He's very Brandow.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
That's right, that's true.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I'm always picking Hollywood fights in this podcast.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Did you ever see the t the FX series Taboo
that Tom Hardy stars in and Tom Hardy's dad wrote, no,
it's so good. Really, you see some brando level. His
dad's a playwright. Oh wow, it's really good.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
That's ringing bells taboo, taboo, I believe. Let us watch it.
We can see it.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Today's guest thinks of it because today's guest is a
TV critic.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
I like to eat into very much.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yes, podcast based on TV shows and also a lot
of articles for uh, you know.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Old rags that I've heard of.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I see Ashley coming. Hopefully we didn't make kur walk
too far? And should I give some indication that we
are the people?
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Yes, okay, Hi, just letting you know we aren't strangers.
Why there, come.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
On, sorry, we made you walk.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
We're you right now.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
We're already mad recording. So I've just now you know,
today's guests from clubs and colleges across the country put
your ears together for Ashley Ray. Hello, Hello, Yes, that
I warned us about the curb?
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Was that the curb?
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Yeah, yeah, we curbed up a little.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
It is a tricky curb here it is.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Yes, it's like they made it fancy so people can
turn into those new condos.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
But yeah, it's oh, they immediately flip a U turn
when they read the sign.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
If you lived here, you'd be home right now.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Oh yeah yes, And people just then they get mad
because lots of uh people who don't live over here
park there.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Yeah, oh do you live where we were just at?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Of course, yeah, you're like two houses down.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
I just wanted to make sure we didn't make you
walk many many before.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Five degree heat.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah. I can handle it. I'm strong girl. All right.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Good?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Yeah, how's it going to Texas? Good? How are you?
You're from Texas? Yeah, Dallas.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
I was born where my family is, so I'm used
to the like heat where you can't breathe.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, it can get I started in Austin and would
drive to Dallas to do the Addison improv, and I
remember it being.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
A special level of heat. Yeah, Like Houston's more muggy
and there's bug in you're sweaty. Yeah, Dallas was like
super hot.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Yeah, just dry, can't breathe, like your car needs ac Oh.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
It's I can't believe the number of people I knew,
Like my friend Matt was a comic.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
He had a Honda Dell Soul that with no roof.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I think a lot of people it's just more popularly
call it a convertible, but it had no air conditioning,
and I didn't understand how he lived.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
His life that way.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Yeah, my aunt has had a BMW in Dallas for
seven years with no ac oh, and she just thinks
it's so cool to have a BMW. She like won't
up read it or get it, and she like, I guess,
can't afford to get it fixed because it's a lot
for a BMWUS.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
That's really funny. And that's I wonder if that's building
like some sort of a tenacity or like a level
where she can handle more stuff because she's like forcing
herself to suffer.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
I mean, it definitely seems like it's impacting her negatively
mental health, Livin.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I don't think it's good for her.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah, it's not good to slowly cook your brain, although they.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Say saunas are really good for your true. Yeah, so
I don't know. Maybe she's killing two birds, yeah, very true.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
It would be therapeutic if a Texas day was only
fifteen minutes long.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yeah, that's would be perfect.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
And then you went right into a cryo chamber. Did
you start stand up in Dallas?
Speaker 7 (24:25):
No?
Speaker 6 (24:25):
I started in Chicago when I was a kid, we
moved to northern Illinois, so I mostly grew up in Rockford,
Illinois in Chicago. After college, went back there, and that's
when I was like, you know, spoken word is embarrassing.
I don't want to do this anymore. I want to
do something less embarrassing, so I'll try stand up comedy.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Did you start in slam poetry?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
It was I did.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Yeah, it was huge.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Okay, this was like two thousand and nine, right, Like
I in high school was super into Audio DeFranco. Yeah,
and I would like perform her songs like spoken word
poems at like our talent shows.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
I think it's more perfect than that. I love it.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
And like in college I joined speak for our spoken
word team. I would like compete at the Bowery. I
was in like national slam competitions and in Chicago, obviously
the scene is huge there, like the Moth, That's what
I was doing, And like after every show, all these
white people would come up to me like, oh my gosh,
that was so moving, You're teaching us so much, and
(25:26):
I would just kind of be like, I just want
to make jokes. I just like the funny parts. I'm
not here to like teach you. Oh my gosh, that's
the situation.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Yeah, that person is a lunatic and that is going on'
such a normal haircut. It's always amazing to see a
perfectly normal looking face act like Ted Bundy of the Road.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
They're literally listener weaving in and out of traffic, like
trying to catch each other and get in front of
each other and slam on the brakes.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
And now they're taking it into a residentia. Well enjoyed
short life you have.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Sorry you were competing at a national level.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
Yeah, uh for spoken word in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I would like compete in the moth and stuff. Oh
my god. Now he's given people the jerk off symbol.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Yeah, and that guy is getting giving maybe gang signs to.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Say, yeah, I was just showcasing his many fingertaps.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
I do you think I got these?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
You know from I'm not Gonna fight someone a far He's.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Like, well, this one is a little mustache on the
side of my finger.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Actually very hip in two thousand.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
They're all old poems he used to read, I always
bring it back.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
So what was the moment where you were like, aside
from the embarrassment, where you're like, I'm going to do comedy.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
It was like, so I would do these like spoken
word things like short like you know, storytelling, and I
always just like telling the funny parts of the stories.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
I like when people would laugh.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
And I hated when like these like you know, well
meaning liberals would come up to me after like that
was so moving, thank you for teaching us about the
blacks femail experience.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Oh wow. And I would just be like, but just
like laugh though, right, we're trying to have fun here.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
And I was in Chicago and Sarah Sherman who's now
you know on S and l Huge and Beck O'Neill,
who's another comedian I love. They were hosting the Cole's
open Mic, which is like the best, biggest open mic
in Chicago, and they were trying to just get more
women to do it. And they were like, look, you
already do spoken word, you may as well try stand up.
It's also embarrassing. Just come to this open mic. We'll
(27:29):
put you up and give it a shot. And the
first time I did it, I fell in love. I
was just like, I love doing this. I think I
did five minutes on Gypsy Rose. Actually I'm very ahead.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Of my time. This was like twenty seventeen.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
That's right, Mommy, Dad and DearS had just come out,
and I had like a five minute set of jokes
on her.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Nice soft I noticed, though, there was a comedy scene
in Boise, Idaho that's kind of changed since this woman,
Lisa Young, she used to run the Funny Bone there.
She was so passionate about the poetry scene. They had
like three nights and she was trying to get a
(28:10):
lot of them to do stand up. She had like
a master plan for all these comics, and in a
lot of comics were really good as a result. I
think it makes for a good stand up, it does.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
You know.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
It's like spoken word storytelling.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
You have to kind of be willing to like take
your sad thoughts in sad life and turn it into entertainment. Yeah,
so it's just one more step to be like, okay,
well let me make it funny.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Right right.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I think for me it would have helped because it's like, oh,
the actual words.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
Don't just go up there and riff on a topic.
You should write.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Because it took me a long time, I still don't
necessarily write things out and then memorize them and go
out there.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
Yeah, the comics who are like, no, I write my
jokes down and I like, you know, write them again
and again.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Like that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
So what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (29:02):
You don't just like.
Speaker 6 (29:03):
Write a premise and get on stage on an open
mic and just kind of feel it out.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
It makes so much sense though, the like that pipeline
because you you're up there and you are being so
vulnerable spoken word it is like you you are gutting
it out in a way where it's like, is comedy
any harder? I think it might be slightly easier. Yeah,
I mean I wouldn't know. You have to tell me.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
I mean I guess with spoken word, it's you all.
Speaker 6 (29:27):
You're trying to also get people to feel that emotional
pull or like you have to use that cadence like
what I'm saying is the most important thing that could
ever be said.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Yeah, right. And like my freshman year, my.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
Biggest poem that like one in the like Northeast Slam
poetry contesting was called I don't hook Up, I Fuck
And it was like this treaties against like hookup culture.
That was like I'm an adult, Okay, I don't need
hookup culture.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Did the people were they on their feet at the end. Yes.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Oh, all these like seventeen and eighteen year olds are
just like, oh my gosh, this is revolutionary. And I
read it and like saw a clip of it a
few years ago, it was like, this is the most
embarrassing thing.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Please, I can never have this on the internet.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Was it just because there wasn't enough jokes in it
and you wanted to tell The.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Sad thing is that I tried to get a lot
of jokes in it right, and they were not good.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I have a come from a similar just coming from improv,
and I'd always go for the joke and disappoint everyone
else on stage. And then I like heard comics that
tell joke like Mitchadberg and people that told one liners,
and I'm like, oh, I think I should do this
because it's a lot less pressure, oh than going through
(30:50):
all these building scenes and.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
Then ruining other people's scenes.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
Mitch Edburg definitely was someone who inspired my stand up
and just my desire to want to perform. Like in
high school, before I even knew I wanted to be
a comedian, I would dress up is Mitch Heedburg and
do his jokes at like talent shows, and I would
just be like, yeah, I'm just doing a Mitch Hedburg
set as well.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
I'm glad that I brought him up.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
Then yeah, that's amazing, very funny when you're like fourteen.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Sure, so absolutely, also so satisfying because they really it
is the all those little self contained moments where it's
like you with his material, you get to kill the
entire time. Yeah, like they're gonna laugh whether you say it.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Or oh yeah.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
And my English teacher came up, He's like, did you
write those that was hilarious? And I straight up was
just like yeah I did. Yeah, that's all me, that's
all me. I knew he wasn't gonna watch Comedy Central.
Speaker 5 (31:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
There was a skateboarding shoe that came out one year
and it was called The Story, And in the tread
the skater whose pro model shoe it was, had a
story and there was six or seven Hadburg jokes in it,
but it was before anyone outside of being a hardcore
fan of comedy would be able to pick them out.
(32:07):
And I was like so furious that it was on
a shoe and it didn't say Hedberg wrote this.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
You know which, so it almost was like if when
I'm really I eat rice when I'm hungry for three hundred.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
And something or whatever.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Yeah, like that.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Written on a shoe with no credit within.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
A story that this guy, but he was saying, this
is my story.
Speaker 6 (32:29):
They steal from Mitch all the time, especially on TikTok,
since that's just how the app works. I will see
so many people just like using it as like quotes
on there, you know, the thing where they put text
and then like, I don't make sad faces in the
background like they do that now with all comedians. It's
just yes, And then people just go, no, it's a meme.
That's how it's supposed to be, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
And it's literally I've I've seen it with other people's
tweets where it's like a person making a face and
it's the copy. And then one day it was one
of my tweets like this isn't that good? Yeah, And
I'm really I'm half embarrassed because I know that's mine,
and then I'm half like really proud, where I'm like, oh,
you wanted to steal it, that's great.
Speaker 6 (33:09):
Yeah, Like okay, I guess it resonated with people, and
then I'm like in I don't know. It's like if
you try to be like, hey, that was mine, then
it's just like you look like a loser because people
are like this is TikTok.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Yeah, in the beginning of Twitter, that's what I always said,
where I was like, why would people want to put
their notebook on the internet, because anyone can say that
was my idea.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Yeah, but it also is time stamping and showing that
when and where you thought of it first.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
So yeah, I've seen it go both ways.
Speaker 6 (33:40):
I mean there was I think there's legit cases where
you know, you've had really big comics be like I
tweeted this exact like Zillo bit and then Saturday Night
Live made this sketch like, you know, a year later.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
But then there was.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
Also recently this woman who like tweeted a very very
common joke about Nancy Reagan, you know, like, oh, stocks
are so there, like Nancy Reagan on the MGM but
back lot, which classic old joke. Sure, and then they
made that same joke in an episode of the Boys,
and she went on Twitter demanding that the Boys give
(34:13):
her a writing credit that this was her joke and
they stole it.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
I literally just saw it two days ago, right, it
didn't even fit in that boy's scene. Yeah, it was like,
let me get the stoke out of my met Like
even the actor felt uncomfortable.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
Yeah, it just felt like pushing and kind of like, oh,
that's a joke, and it was like, well, clearly they
didn't steal this from you. It's just a hack joke,
and you should not feel proud that you also tweeted it.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Also, when I.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Started stand up, I did a lot of things where
I quote unquote wrote a joke and what actually happened
is I remembered a joke from television from television, and
so that happened once where I had a joke about
like a girl that was being very territorial about her boyfriend,
and then I was like, why don't you pee a
circle around him? Which I thought was the most amazing joke,
and then like whatever, four years later, I saw it
(35:04):
on Friends and I was like, they totally stole my joke.
And I sent it to some comic we know and
they were like, I'm really sorry to tell you this.
That is the oldest and I was.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
Just like, so funny.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
That's what Billy Vayne Davis did to me when my
my dad would.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
I would use.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
My dad's jokes when I first started, but a lot
of them were from Seinfeld. I did not know that
the whole who's getting all those blood tide gets blood
stains and grass staines out of your clothes? Are they
marketing themselves towards murderers? I don't know what It was
some version of that. And he told me that's a
that tide bit is Seinfeld through and through?
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Oh, I did not know.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
And I called and screamed it my dad.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
One time I got a mug with a joke on
it that was the way too close.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
Someone sent me a mug.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
As a gift about what's what all these owls graduating
from something?
Speaker 5 (36:03):
Because owls always have graduation tats.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
The illustration told the joke, and I was like, where
I want to that's my joke. And my friend made
me the mug and send it to me. I didn't
realize it was a thoughtful gift.
Speaker 6 (36:18):
So your friend's actually listening to you, and you're like,
I can't believe you do.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
At You know when it sucks because I had assume
my friend and he was just doing a nice thing.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Well, he didn't have the rights to make that much.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Yeah, you know, you gotta pay the usage, right pees.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
I was in a situation at lunch today where I
couldn't actually eat the sandwich I had because I was
in a meeting and that people were watching me.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Oh my breakfast this morning?
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Did it really?
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (36:44):
I like ordered my oatmeal, and then these two people
I work with were like, can we hop on a
last minute call By the time we're done? My oatmeal
schoold because I didn't want to eat it with them
all looking, and they insisted the skin on top.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Oh yeah, well, so I was thinking, should we go
to Rick's drive through?
Speaker 2 (36:58):
It's so good? I mean, I would love to eat
something and drink something. It's really good.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
I'm all for it.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
They just have beverages too.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Right Oh yeah, yeah, fun?
Speaker 6 (37:07):
They got milkshakes they got when I did I did
what's that podcast where the people they eat food you
go to restaurants The boy Doboys.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
Yeah, yeah, of course that.
Speaker 6 (37:16):
Was the restaurant I chose is Rix. It is my
favorite neighborhood place.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Nice, okay, well you can be our guide.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Their drives are great. They got pie, they got milk chicks,
they got everything there.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Wait, does this place bost having something world famous.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
They kind of do.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
I think that we are about to find out like spaghetti.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Yes, their big thing is there spaghetti.
Speaker 6 (37:39):
Whenever it's gone, they put like a big thing up
that's like spaghetti is gone and it's like a big deal.
And then when spaghetti is back, it is like spaghetti
is back and it's truly lines out the doors.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Should we all get big bowls of spaghetti to eat
in the car?
Speaker 7 (37:55):
Well, I'm just in the Yeah. It's like the mac
ram of that play ye seasonal. Yeah, this it must
be a real hit there. Yes, I love that independent drive.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
It does say world famous ricks people know Rick Rick.
Speaker 6 (38:12):
I also think they have the best La hot dog
Do I do?
Speaker 3 (38:15):
I do it here?
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Oyeah you can turn it in this way and then
like go down. Yeah perfect.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
I've never been here. It's so crazy.
Speaker 6 (38:23):
Yeah, they la for us to have this location and
want in Inglewood. Oh okay, some of the best like
chili fries. It's just it's a little hidden gem.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Okay, awesome, We're gonna have to take a look.
Speaker 5 (38:34):
At this on the edge of ice.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
See what the I don't know the status of spaghetti
or not true?
Speaker 2 (38:39):
True. It wasn't on the side, so we do not know.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
Hungry, but I shouldn't eat.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
You could have just like one taco.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
Yeah, I kind of want to taco.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Is that what you want?
Speaker 5 (38:50):
And iced coffee? Is that a terrible combination to most?
Speaker 3 (38:57):
I mean it's your life.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
I'll do the ice coffee. And you know they have
ice coffee a guarantee, we all? I actually do not
I know they have.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Can I ask you a question? Do you have ice coffee? Okay? Oh,
they have raspberry iced tea? They have like iced tea, raspberry.
Speaker 5 (39:18):
Iced tea, all of regular iced tea.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Can we get a regular iced tea? And what would
you like?
Speaker 2 (39:28):
I'll get a tortata is it flavored?
Speaker 3 (39:31):
And a horchata regular sized? And a raspberry iced tea
regular sized? On a lease a raspberry and two raspberry
iced teas? And can we also get an asada taco
and one of your ground beef hardshell tacos? Please? Actually
(39:53):
anything to eat on? Alise?
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Okay, that's gonna be it.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Can you are you allowed to park in the drive?
Speaker 5 (40:01):
That's what I wondered, And now I saw the lines.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
In which she was parked and then I started to
think we were wrong.
Speaker 5 (40:08):
But we're in the drive room. We belong here too.
Speaker 6 (40:10):
But now that we're past the thing, I will say
the spaghetti not that good, Okay, if Y ask me,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Think the spaghetti is that good.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Yeah, you can really lower the bar when it's drived
through spaghetti.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
Yeah, there's no one's going to compare it to.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Sau Oh no, yeah, then why are they here? I
don't know.
Speaker 6 (40:29):
If it's like, there's not a great pasta place in
La so people go for this, but.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
There's not a great drive through.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Possibly every time you tell me to simply grab your purse,
I turn into my mom's son and.
Speaker 5 (40:42):
I stick my fist in there and just start routing around.
I've done it over and.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Over, trying to get served.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
I just get, oh, where's that redson?
Speaker 3 (40:52):
I think there should be more drive through everything in
this town.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Yes, we all drive, and I don't understanding.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Yeah, yeah, let's just face the facts that we don't
like to get out of our cars. And no one
it's not just a catchy song, but no one walks
in La.
Speaker 5 (41:08):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
I had a friend from Chicago some visit.
Speaker 6 (41:11):
She walked to the whole foods that's like around the
corner from me, And she was like, why were people
staring at me?
Speaker 2 (41:16):
Isn't that because you're crazy for doing that? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (41:19):
People are worried about you as you walk down the street.
Speaker 5 (41:22):
Yeah, everyone that visits.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
It's like, oh, I figured we do this, this, this,
and okay, first of all, we're only going to be
able to do two things. Yeah, and your idea of
walking to all these things not at all. There's absolutely
no no, no, no way, no no no. Yeah, we'll
just shoot over from Lax to Burbank and then back
to you know, Long Beach.
Speaker 6 (41:42):
We just walked from like we ho to Santa Monica
and then and it's like, no, that's it was not
what we do.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
I need you to zoom into whatever map you're looking
at and consult the key.
Speaker 6 (41:53):
Yeah, you will see a highway you can't walk on it.
Speaker 3 (41:57):
What was the first neighborhood you moved to when you moved.
Speaker 6 (42:00):
To LA I was in mid City, which was actually
pretty nice. It was you know, mostly families. I was
close to the comedy store.
Speaker 5 (42:10):
That's what.
Speaker 6 (42:12):
Kind of it's like that neighborhood that's like, what is
it like Wilshire just down to I guess it's kind
of Adams.
Speaker 5 (42:22):
Okay, I know exactly. Yes, it's so funny.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
I always when someone says mid City, I think Century
City because I feel like that.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
To me, it's very na thank you, thank you, thank you.
My friend used to live in mid City, had a
really beautiful house.
Speaker 6 (42:42):
There's nice houses over there, Yeah, and like it probably
honestly the nicest apartment I've had.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
I love my apartment now, but that one.
Speaker 6 (42:50):
It just had these huge windows, central location parking.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
And I loved the.
Speaker 6 (42:57):
Neighborhood because even though there's not a lot of places
to go out, it's quiet and good restaurants. But then
I had the world's worst roommate. I tried to like
wait her out. I tried to be like, she's gonna go,
I'm gonna get this apartment and I will stay here.
And she was so awful. It was like she just
was doing whatever she could to get me to leave.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
Can you give examples maybe of how awful?
Speaker 2 (43:18):
Oh my, okay.
Speaker 5 (43:18):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (43:19):
She would shower in the dark with the door open
because she didn't want to clean the bathroom and seeing
the dirt made her uncomfortable, so she would wash her
plants in the bathroom, like she'd put them on the bathtub, like,
let the plants get dirt everywhere. And then she would
shower and be like, I'm just gonna shower with the
door close, with the door open and the lights off
(43:41):
so I don't see the dirt.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
And then I would be like in my room.
Speaker 6 (43:44):
Listening to music in my headphones, and I would go
into the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Thinking, no one's in here.
Speaker 6 (43:48):
Oh, walked in on her like four times, and every
time she'd act like I was the crazy person.
Speaker 5 (43:54):
Her dirt it was her plant dirt.
Speaker 6 (43:57):
Yes, her dirt. She would never clean the bathroom. I
gleaned it every single time I lived there.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
I want a there's that show. I think it's called
The Worst Roommates Ever. And even just came out I'm
so already and I first, lady, what are you thinking?
Speaker 2 (44:16):
She tried to take your kid and you just stay so.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
What?
Speaker 5 (44:21):
I yes?
Speaker 1 (44:22):
But also at the same time, that's pretty convenient that
she had a hard to raise special needs kid in
her roommate's like, no, it's my kid.
Speaker 5 (44:31):
I'm like, well, this is actually if if.
Speaker 6 (44:33):
But then she was she's just just giving her. She
was ordering mersa on the internet.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
Yes, and yeah, I've I've rewatched a few of them.
But I like the idea of some of the episodes
just being dirt shower, ignoring dirt in the shower, like
actual relatable.
Speaker 3 (44:54):
Not mur not murder because it's on part in some
ways in terms of day to day life, where you're
just like, hey, when I walk into the bathroom, there's
just a bare minimum of not dirten yre because it's
the bathroom, because it's the bathroom, not the garden.
Speaker 4 (45:11):
Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 6 (45:13):
She would use a Diva cup and if you're not familiar,
they can be kind of messy, but yeah, you're supposed
to just kind of get it all in the bowl,
but she would get it on like the underpart of
the toilet seat rim and refuse to clean it.
Speaker 5 (45:25):
Oh wow.
Speaker 6 (45:27):
Like I didn't let that truly get to me until
one day she had like a guy friend over, and
the guy friend I hear him like, go, like, O,
can I use the bathroom. He goes in there and
I just immediately hear him walk out and he just says,
I hear him go, there's blood all over the inside
of your toilet seat.
Speaker 2 (45:43):
And she blamed it on me. Oh, I have heard
her through the door.
Speaker 6 (45:47):
Going, oh, yeah, my roommate is such a mess, and
I was like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (45:51):
Oh what? God? I was like, I have miss tampons
over here. That is all you.
Speaker 1 (45:57):
Oh God, I wish you'd burst out and called her
on it right then.
Speaker 5 (46:01):
I don't care what romance budding, what's happened.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
I was so upset.
Speaker 6 (46:05):
And the worst part is that instead I just went
out there and very loudly cleaned the toilet and then
I went in the living room was like, I cleaned
the toilet for you, and she knew.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
She I was like, you know the deal here.
Speaker 3 (46:20):
But it's almost like that level of passive aggression, not
on your part but on her part. And then you're like, okay, fine,
you want to do this like here, I just cleaned it,
and it's like you just played right into her hands.
Speaker 5 (46:32):
Yeah. She's like, oh, I got what I wanted.
Speaker 3 (46:33):
It ultimate manipulation where you're trying to get back at
her and then basically doing chores.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
She just and she invites another guy over. Sorry, that's
my roommate's plant.
Speaker 6 (46:45):
Oh, just like always, those are my roommate's dishes. She
was awful, and the last shraw was. I was on tour.
I was doing shows in Boston and I get a
text message from one of her friends that lives in
a different city, who I like, kind of know, but
not that well. And she was like, Hey, just FYI,
people told me to tell you that you need to
get a new key for your apartment because your roommate.
Speaker 2 (47:07):
Changed all the locks.
Speaker 5 (47:09):
What.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
And I'm just like what, why would she do that?
Speaker 6 (47:13):
And she's like, oh, well, I guess she got locked
out and you weren't there, and instead of like asking
the landlord for the extra key, she just had all
the locks changed.
Speaker 5 (47:21):
I am furious. Do you know where there's person is
right now? I didn't let's go let's drop by. Let's
don't drop by.
Speaker 6 (47:28):
She's no longer in the city of la She totalled
five cars and got three DUIs and decided to go back.
Speaker 2 (47:34):
She didn't like it.
Speaker 3 (47:35):
She was trying to get someone to send her away.
Speaker 5 (47:38):
Yeah, and plants weren't doing the trick.
Speaker 1 (47:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (47:41):
And when I moved out, I cause she like had
been pulling out our least agreement to try to be
like you can't leave yet, blah blah blah, and she
like left it on the table and on the back
I got a sharpie and I just wrote, you really
should leave La. I don't think this place is for you,
and it's gonna destroy you. I don't know another human
in the city who has totaled five cars and under
year that under under a year, and every accident was
(48:04):
her fault. One of them she hit a parked food
car like a food truck, and then the food truck
got the ticket because when the cops came, she started
like crying, and she's like this cute little white girl
and she's like, oh.
Speaker 2 (48:16):
My god, I didn't know what even happened, and the
food truck got the ticket. That's fucked exactly.
Speaker 3 (48:22):
But I have to say, just in fairness, when I
lived in Sacramento, a place I did not want to live,
I got in three car accidents in a year, and
when I had to call and tell my parents about
the third one, my mom goes, I'm coming up and
getting you tomorrow, and I was just like okay, and
I had to move home. Like my mother's like, we're
not fucking doing this funny.
Speaker 6 (48:43):
We should like laid the law down, and instead her
family would just be like, here's money for another car babe.
Speaker 2 (48:48):
Yeah, that's bad. She had an old lady head on.
Speaker 6 (48:52):
Yeah, in a car, in a car she was making
a left and just decided. I don't know, I thought
the lady would stop for me, even though she didn't
not have an arrow or anything.
Speaker 5 (49:02):
Oh, I am so mad at this person.
Speaker 1 (49:04):
I'm madder than the murderers on the show we're talking about.
Speaker 6 (49:08):
Yeah, I would rather be friends with a lady ordering
mersa online than live with that girl again.
Speaker 3 (49:13):
And so lady's kind of trying to kiss your ass
a little bit and like make it all go well
until she poisons you. It's not daily attacks.
Speaker 6 (49:21):
I bet she cleaned the bathtub when she was living
with that lady.
Speaker 1 (49:26):
Oh, so many things are flashing now. I'm so I'm
glad that I live alone right now? Are you alone?
Speaker 2 (49:32):
Now?
Speaker 5 (49:32):
I'm alone?
Speaker 6 (49:33):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (49:34):
After that, I truly was just like I could never
have a roommate again.
Speaker 6 (49:37):
Got my own place. Yeah, and now I'm in Silver
Lake the best. I love it over here.
Speaker 3 (49:42):
Yeah, it's really it's so good over here. And also
it's so nice.
Speaker 2 (49:45):
To live alone.
Speaker 6 (49:47):
It's yeah, I I you know that I was. It
was my twenties.
Speaker 2 (49:51):
I tried. I can never do it again.
Speaker 3 (49:54):
You did your best.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
I don't even know that I could live with someone
I was dating at this point.
Speaker 3 (49:58):
Well, also, I think we're Are you in a house
by yourself during COVID, Yes, yeah, me too, And I
think it Like at the beginning, I was like, oh,
I'm scared. I hope I don't have a nervous breakdown
or because I'm alone as long. And at this point
I'm like, oh, I got through all of the dark
night of the soul of that, and now I'm like,
this is what I prefer.
Speaker 1 (50:18):
Yeah, I was starting to get worried about how comfortable,
how much fun I could have by myself. I didn't
anticipate that. Yeah, like this has been a party.
Speaker 6 (50:27):
I love it, and you don't have the guilt of
I'm supposed to be places. That was the best part
of COVID. Oh yo, but I was invited, I'm supposed
to be.
Speaker 2 (50:37):
There is none of that.
Speaker 1 (50:39):
I always say that nothing was expected of me, and
all my gray hair went away.
Speaker 5 (50:44):
It was the best.
Speaker 1 (50:46):
Sure, Yes, it sucks, nothing's going on career or whatever. Yeah,
the happiness is pretty hard to ignore it.
Speaker 6 (50:52):
All those people who did that was horrible, very sad
and yet not making line of like just the no
oh fomo, just the guilt free yesh, gotta stay in all.
Speaker 2 (51:04):
Weekend, gotta watch more TV.
Speaker 6 (51:07):
Yep, no one cares that I'm binging all of Sex
in the City and my movies now that.
Speaker 5 (51:12):
I haven't shaken. How many things from that time? Have you?
Speaker 1 (51:15):
Are you disappointed that you're still experiencing today? Like, are
are you still having trouble going to things and watching?
Speaker 3 (51:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (51:25):
Too much?
Speaker 2 (51:25):
Absolutely?
Speaker 5 (51:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (51:26):
I still cannot get into the rhythm of being social again.
Like I used to be someone who was like, go
out to a bar, like after a show, I'd be like, oh,
everybody's probably just hanging out here. I'll just go stop
by and end up like you know, hopp into different shows,
different bars all night.
Speaker 2 (51:42):
And now like I will be like, when exactly do I.
Speaker 6 (51:45):
Need to be at the show for me to walk
on stage and immediately leave right after? Like if I
get there at eight fifteen, and I'll be like, what
eight twenty and we're good?
Speaker 3 (51:53):
Like I feel like because it was so comfortable, even
though it was scary as hell and very likebviously traumatizing
to everybody, there's a comfort level that now everything seems
really hard. Yeah, like all those kinds of social the
social energy is something that like you need it to
(52:14):
get it, like you have, it has to already be
happening almost. It's like a momentum thing for me. So
then I'm like, well, I can't cold go to this
party when I haven't gone to a party in four years, right,
So I just keep not doing it where it's like
because I don't like being uncomfortable ever at all, because
I was so comfortable all through COVID just being like, oh,
I don't ever have to risk anything. I don't have
(52:36):
to do anything that I don't like doing.
Speaker 1 (52:38):
Well, the good news is this podcast, what you're experiencing
right now, has replaced parties, at least for me. At
the end of the episode, you'll feel like you went
to a thing and even hung out by a pool FIRMA.
Speaker 6 (52:52):
Yeah, that's that's all I really need.
Speaker 2 (52:55):
Now.
Speaker 5 (52:55):
I can't promise the swimming pool party. I just kind of.
Speaker 3 (52:58):
Said that, But if I start having parties at my house,
I will invite you, Ashley, and then you can do
to put a big toe in see what happens. I'll
do it leave whenever.
Speaker 2 (53:06):
You'll give it a shot.
Speaker 6 (53:08):
Yeah, Like I used to throw a huge house parties,
birthday parties, and I don't think I've thrown a party
since before COVID.
Speaker 2 (53:15):
Like I just kind of was like I don't want
people in my space, right, Like I didn't just like, no,
this is just my thing now.
Speaker 1 (53:22):
Yeah, I've been meaning to have a housewarming party for
my place and I've been there four and a half years.
Speaker 6 (53:29):
Oh yeah, I've been at my place like three and
a half years and I have not had a housewarming party.
Speaker 2 (53:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (53:33):
Yeah, I just want someone else's cast for all dishes.
Speaker 3 (53:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (53:36):
And my friends are like, oh, you finally left that
horrible roommate. You should celebrate, And I'm like, I'll get
around to it and celebrating, but just being alone here,
that's the celebration.
Speaker 3 (53:47):
What Also, I love though, And I think I always
forget because when I'm like I have to go to
a party. In my mind, that means I have to
walk and be like hello everyone and then start doing
some It's like you can walk into a party in silence, Yeah,
talk to only the people you know, and leave twenty
minutes later. No one gives a show with me, right,
no one cares?
Speaker 1 (54:07):
Yeah, you can just go in and listen to other
people and leave.
Speaker 5 (54:11):
You have to say a word. But does that sound fun?
I got to go in and do a dance.
Speaker 3 (54:16):
Yeah, I mean that's that's the old me.
Speaker 2 (54:19):
I don't know. I think it's like you didn't say
hi to me. No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (54:23):
What if I go in, act like I'm going to
do a dance, put a lampshade on my head, and
then I just listened to people.
Speaker 5 (54:30):
It's the best. It's the best.
Speaker 3 (54:31):
About It is quite a way to party.
Speaker 5 (54:34):
Actually read online. We do research. I don't did the research.
The sweet on least next Dude does the research. But
it says you grew up in a house that had
a daycare.
Speaker 1 (54:45):
Yes, oh, I used to live next to a daycare,
and so I worked at the daycare for years and
I loved it.
Speaker 5 (54:51):
Did what was your How much of your life was spent?
All of it? Really?
Speaker 6 (54:56):
Literally when my mom opened the daycare when I was
like nine months old, because at the time she had
a job in Chicago and we lived in Rockford. It's
like a two hour drive between the cities, and she
would like drop me off at a daycare, go drive
into the city, work, pick me up and she was like,
I hate this. I could just start a daycare and
spend more time with my daughter, and.
Speaker 2 (55:16):
So she did.
Speaker 6 (55:17):
We had a two story house and we basically lived
upstairs and the entire downstairs was a daycare, like all just.
Speaker 2 (55:25):
Child's size seating.
Speaker 6 (55:27):
Like I like, friends would come over and I would
be like, oh, sorry, the only place we have for
use it is like this little like kindergarten table.
Speaker 5 (55:34):
They're on little tykes, like little.
Speaker 6 (55:37):
Tax equipment, and like I think my in high school,
my mom finally got a couch down there because I
was like, it would be cool to kind of have
a real living room.
Speaker 5 (55:44):
That's so funny.
Speaker 1 (55:46):
Everywhere there's your friends sit, there's just a wet cracker
between the couch.
Speaker 5 (55:51):
Yes, yeah, yeah, so many wet goldfish.
Speaker 2 (55:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (55:54):
And she did a first, second, and third shift six
months old yeah, no six or no, six weeks old
to twelve.
Speaker 2 (56:01):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (56:02):
And because I lived there, like my brother and I
had to be CPR certified.
Speaker 2 (56:07):
You had to have background checks.
Speaker 6 (56:09):
I like started getting fingerprinted when I was twelve years old.
Speaker 2 (56:12):
Wow, Oh my god, just to live in my house.
Speaker 3 (56:15):
That's crazy, just to go downstairs truly.
Speaker 6 (56:18):
Yeah, Like it was like to go downstairs and lifty,
or you have to have a background check as like
a thirteen year old girl.
Speaker 3 (56:24):
Does that mean that you're kind of like you have
this rock solid portfolio now behind you where you're like
from the time of twelve, I can prove that I've
always been an upstanding citizen.
Speaker 2 (56:33):
Kind yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6 (56:34):
And like I did start working for my mom, Like
I started working with the daycare kids and taking care
of them, probably when I was eight years old. I
started like changing diapers, carrying kids, like helping with field trips,
and by the time I was thirteen, I could like
wrangle a room of like fifteen children.
Speaker 5 (56:51):
That part I liked.
Speaker 1 (56:53):
Yeah, the wrangling, yes, but I did it in the
wrong way. I'm like, who wants to get sprayed with
a hose? And then the parents are come and I
just had them web kids and sandy wet clothes and
they were like they loved me.
Speaker 5 (57:06):
I had zero, there.
Speaker 1 (57:08):
Was no I was just my my friend, my roommate's friend.
That was all my credentials. I know that in Montana
at the time, you could not a male childcare worker,
couldn't change diapers, And I'm like, yank God, So I
would just call up Lanti's grandma.
Speaker 5 (57:28):
We got one, there's a live one, and then I
just watch.
Speaker 6 (57:32):
That was a surprising rule in also Illinois, they like
mail daycare workers aren't allowed to change diapers, and I
was good.
Speaker 2 (57:39):
I remember me like, this is sexist.
Speaker 1 (57:41):
Actually yeah it was we at the time, but it
was all It also was like that was my biggest
fear of having to do. Like when she asked me,
do you want to work here occasionally since you're right
next door, I was like, I have some diaper questions
and yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (57:57):
She's like, don't worry about the diaper's pervert. No, not
your area.
Speaker 2 (58:03):
Like I can change a diaper one handed now.
Speaker 6 (58:06):
And I'll like talk to like new moms or parents
and they're like, I've never even touched a diaper, and
I'm just like how Yeah, they're like, oh, because most
people have normal childhoods where they didn't have to like
wake up to screaming children at six in the morning.
Speaker 3 (58:18):
But I bet those little kids loved a slightly older
kid being around.
Speaker 6 (58:24):
Okay, I mean I was like the queen of the place.
Yeah you were not only because I lived there. Like
like when I was younger, there were kids my age,
and when I had favorite daycare kid friends, I would
be like, you're allowed to come up to my room
and play with a good toys.
Speaker 2 (58:39):
And I'd bring up like my three favorite female friends
up and.
Speaker 6 (58:42):
We'd be like, I'm in a you can play with
the good barbies that are up in my room. But
then also, and if there were kids I didn't like,
I'd be like, yeah, you can go play on the
outside playground.
Speaker 2 (58:54):
Actually that's right.
Speaker 3 (58:56):
But getting them used to this is the politics of childhood.
You get used to it. Yeah, those only children, That's.
Speaker 2 (59:04):
What I was doing, you know, and I loved it.
Speaker 6 (59:07):
Like a lot of the kids I'm still really close with,
which it's wild to watch.
Speaker 2 (59:11):
Them grow up. And I'm like, what do you mean,
You're like in college.
Speaker 1 (59:14):
Many of the kids that were in my daycare have
their own kids now, and those kids are already riding
bikes yeah, and driving cars.
Speaker 6 (59:24):
They have my mom babysitting their kids, and I'm just like,
this is so wild, Like.
Speaker 5 (59:29):
Oh, your mom still has the daycare.
Speaker 2 (59:31):
Yeah, she still has the daycare.
Speaker 6 (59:34):
She eventually moved it to Texas and she started doing
like daycare and elderly care. So now she takes care
of babies and old people.
Speaker 5 (59:40):
Wow, this is a.
Speaker 3 (59:41):
Very cross question. But does she fucking make bank?
Speaker 2 (59:44):
She does. We can cut that out.
Speaker 3 (59:46):
If you want, but it's all I can think about
where I'm like the idea that she quit her career
and basically was like, oh no, no, I'm feeling this niche.
It's such a need in this country. Yeah, especially people
who know what the fuck they're doing.
Speaker 6 (59:59):
And she's I mean she's been doing it for like
just over thirty years.
Speaker 2 (01:00:06):
She started it, like.
Speaker 6 (01:00:07):
You know, just kind of independently in the house, but
she went back to school to get her degree in
early childhood education. So like after that you're allowed you
can like charge higher rates and like taken like children
whose rates are subsidized by the state. Oh so that's
like how you make so much money because it's you know,
kind of like Section eight housing where the parents only
have to pay a certain amount and then the state
(01:00:28):
like pays all the rest of it, and like you
get reimbursed for the money you spend on food and stuff,
which I think is really the biggest thing about a
daycare home is I was learning how to cook for
twenty people by the time it was like ten.
Speaker 5 (01:00:41):
That's amazing to the elderly folks hang out with the kids.
Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
They yeah, I love it, Yeah they do. It's honestly
the suggest thing.
Speaker 5 (01:00:51):
Yeah yeah, I love it.
Speaker 6 (01:00:52):
Like she has this one kid right now, the stacred
kid who is obsessed with vacuuming because he is in
love with this one ninety eight year old woman my
mom watches, who is like love it forces anyone to
vacuum if they come into her house. She's like one
of those strict old ladies. That's like, if you walk
in my living room, you vacuum on the way out.
In this little like six year old boy, as soon
(01:01:14):
as like he sees Miss Irma, he's like, miss Irma, vacuum, vacuum,
miss Erma, how can I vacuum?
Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
And he loves it.
Speaker 6 (01:01:21):
And I'm just like, you are creating my little sens
as scolden girl children, and I love it.
Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
Is my I had a cousin in Montana that, when
he was six or seven, was obsessed with vacuum cleaners
and wanted a vacuum.
Speaker 3 (01:01:37):
Sorry, will you let me go over there? I didn't
I misread my map and I need to go over there?
Will you let me go.
Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
In front of you. Thank you. Sorry, I said, it's okay.
Speaker 1 (01:01:50):
No, that's part of the podcast. We that happens all
the time. Sometimes it's it's directions. Other times someone wielding
a bike clock wants to attack it.
Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
There's a lot of trauma. It's a mixed bag in LA.
Speaker 6 (01:02:03):
If you're going to get someone who's like I totally
get it, or someone who's gonna pull a gun out.
Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
This kid, anyway, UH was obsessed with vacuums and would
take them apart and put them back together, and everyone
was like, oh, we're dealing with a genius here. Yeah was,
and UH was very good at it, and the vacuum
would run again a child and guess what he does now.
Speaker 5 (01:02:29):
He owns a vacuum repair shop. Like he just knew
his passion early on.
Speaker 2 (01:02:35):
Yeah, it just clicked.
Speaker 1 (01:02:37):
Yeah, it didn't have to become like, oh that that
kid now designs rockets for Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:02:45):
So I was like, I'm just like this and that's
what I want to make people's vacuum cleaners work. That's
so noble in this world.
Speaker 6 (01:02:53):
Yeah, maybe this kid'll grow up to well, I guess,
I don't know, be a maid. Just like he just
likes to use the vacuum, but misters made service first.
Speaker 1 (01:03:04):
I wanted to see how the vacuum worked at a
young age, all the electronics. I built one from scratch
with a three D printer. Now my passion is this motel,
but it's.
Speaker 3 (01:03:17):
Kind of ironic too. Where you were forced to share
your house with thirty to eighty children, and children ayhow
and so you probably learned to actually be the best
roommate anyone could be cooking, cleaning all that shit.
Speaker 6 (01:03:32):
Yeah, you were doing it for like mass amounts of people.
And like you know, with a daycare home, it's like
at the end of every day, you don't just close
with it being a mess. You have to clean up
and make sure it looks good. And if new parents
come and check out the daycare, it has to all
look nice. And you know, even the upstairs has to
look good because it's like this one place we have
to live. But I think mostly it made me like,
(01:03:55):
like I loved sharing my mom. Like I was just like,
I have the world's best mom. She's so amazing and these.
Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
Kids are so lucky that they get to have her
in their lives.
Speaker 3 (01:04:05):
Are you an only child?
Speaker 5 (01:04:06):
No, I have eight.
Speaker 2 (01:04:07):
Brothers and sisters.
Speaker 5 (01:04:08):
Holy shit.
Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
So but we're like so broad in age.
Speaker 6 (01:04:13):
Like my oldest sibling he was born in nineteen sixty
nine and my youngest sibling was born in two thousand
and three.
Speaker 5 (01:04:23):
Oh wow.
Speaker 6 (01:04:24):
So it's like such a broad range that like my
older siblings didn't really feel like siblings. They felt like
older cousins and aunts and uncles because they would babysit me.
So in the daycare was where it kind of felt like, oh,
these are like siblings, Like I have to share my
mom with them, I have to share attention and stuff
with them. Yeah, and like I now blame that on
(01:04:45):
why I'm polyamorous, and my mom hates it.
Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
She's like, you're not gonna blame me for that. You're
being all messed up.
Speaker 6 (01:04:52):
And I'm just like, but you like raise me in
this house where I was like, love is for everyone,
there's no limits on it.
Speaker 2 (01:04:58):
My mom can love me and eighty children.
Speaker 1 (01:05:01):
I will blame the house on you, immediately claiming the
blood off of a toilet seat.
Speaker 6 (01:05:06):
Yes, it's just maybe like I've had to clean children's
peep poop my whole life.
Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
Let's just clean it up.
Speaker 5 (01:05:15):
Wow, that's great.
Speaker 1 (01:05:16):
That you still look on it as a good experience,
because I wondered if it was different from my I
think year and a half that I've worked.
Speaker 6 (01:05:25):
I mean, I guess maybe there were moments at the
time when I wanted.
Speaker 5 (01:05:31):
To be alone.
Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:05:33):
When I went off to college, I had trouble sleeping
because I was so used to falling asleep to the
sound of children, waking up to children at like four am,
and I was just like, what is this like scary silence?
Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
Yeah, it's like where are the where's the crying?
Speaker 5 (01:05:47):
You is just crying sounds and diaper smell.
Speaker 6 (01:05:51):
Yeah, And it took forever for me to be like, oh, okay, yeah,
this is just how normal people live in sleep.
Speaker 3 (01:05:56):
Do you want to have kids?
Speaker 6 (01:05:58):
I did for a long time, and mostly because I
know I'd be an incredible parent.
Speaker 2 (01:06:04):
I would be an amazing.
Speaker 6 (01:06:06):
Mom, like I have helped raise all my nieces, nephews,
great nieces and nephews. Like I love kids, I'm so
good with them. And then I'm just like, oh, but
the world is so bad, and yeah, it's like I
can do the best job in the world and like
a TikTok can ruin my kids, and that terrifies me.
Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
It's so horrifying. It's so true. Oh, it's that's funny.
My grandma had my dad had eight brothers and sisters,
so my grandma had and raised nine kids, and then
she babysat the neighborhood kids. But it was much more
kind of casual.
Speaker 2 (01:06:41):
Yeah, back in the forties and fifties or whatever.
Speaker 3 (01:06:44):
But that always blew my mind where I was like,
she must fucking love kids because she already had. You
would think she would be like exhausted or angry or something,
and instead she's like, no, keep them coming.
Speaker 2 (01:06:54):
Yeah, that's what I was always like with my mom.
Speaker 6 (01:06:56):
I was like, I don't know why you raise all
those kids and now you're just like, let me just
keep doing this.
Speaker 5 (01:07:01):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (01:07:02):
But yeah, I bet she's a really cool Always she's
she's cooler than me. All my friends are always literally like,
your mom's actually cooler and funnier than her. You should
like try to get her into stand up. Oh, he's
so great.
Speaker 1 (01:07:15):
I was on a show, a Comedy Central show with
Donnelle Rollins.
Speaker 5 (01:07:21):
What's one of the comics he's like? And he was
like always trying.
Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
To be loud and I don't know he robbed me
the wrong way at first. I've since become pals with him.
But his mom they he grew up in a foster
care house that like would take on teenagers and twenty
something year olds that were having trouble, and he also
had multiple siblings, and his mom was the coolest woman I.
Speaker 5 (01:07:49):
Had ever met.
Speaker 1 (01:07:50):
My dad and her like, it would just talk for
everyone's parent had to be on this show for a
little bit, and I'm like, oh, okay, that may for
the coolest person ever, the most compassionate human that's willing
to open their home to all these people.
Speaker 6 (01:08:07):
It's just yeah, and just don't even when things would
like get tough and kids were annoying, her parents weren't
paying their bills, she just had no problem being funny
about it.
Speaker 2 (01:08:19):
And just always making sure all these kids were happy.
Speaker 1 (01:08:22):
Yeah, and yeah, I think that's what struck me about
this woman.
Speaker 5 (01:08:26):
It's just riddled with nothing but compassion. Like that's the best.
We're getting pulled over.
Speaker 3 (01:08:35):
I'm I'm like, I can't be inconvenience to go to
a party that someone's trying to people and please stop
invading my privacy. Anything that you want to plug or
talk about before we wrap it up.
Speaker 6 (01:08:50):
Well, you can listen to my comedy album ice Cream Money.
It's out everywhere, Spotify, whatever you like to stream your
music on. I have a special comeing out this fallow
that I don't even I think I'm gonna film it
at the Comedy Store. I'm not sure yet actually, And
if you live in LA you can head to my
social media to see what shows I have coming up.
Speaker 2 (01:09:12):
Follow me at the Ashley Ray Anywhere.
Speaker 6 (01:09:14):
And your podcast Yes, and listen to my podcast TV
I Say with Ashley Ray, which is also wherever you
stream stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:09:20):
What's it about?
Speaker 2 (01:09:21):
It's all Things TV.
Speaker 6 (01:09:23):
I interview your favorite comedians actors about all the shows
they love. The latest episode is Jason man Zukus and
does he hate the Bear?
Speaker 2 (01:09:31):
Love it? We yell about it for an hour.
Speaker 5 (01:09:33):
Wait, that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (01:09:35):
Is he a Chicago guy too?
Speaker 6 (01:09:37):
Yeah, he started an improv there and we like went
to college not too far from each other. Eloy is
much older than me, but he is a huge friend
of the pod. So we have a lot of episodes
with Jason since he's not on the internet. So if
you want to know what Jason man Zukis watches TV,
I say, is the only place to I do.
Speaker 3 (01:09:55):
Want to know everything that not on.
Speaker 1 (01:09:59):
The internet because he watched all these things on VHS
pretty much learned that and more.
Speaker 5 (01:10:04):
You've been the best.
Speaker 3 (01:10:06):
Yes, thank you so much. Great to meet you.
Speaker 2 (01:10:09):
You too, Thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (01:10:11):
You're listening. You've been listening to Do you Need a Ride?
Speaker 2 (01:10:14):
D y n are hot cock cock.
Speaker 4 (01:10:25):
This has been an exactly right production.
Speaker 3 (01:10:28):
Produced by Analise Nelson.
Speaker 4 (01:10:30):
Mixed by Edson Choi.
Speaker 3 (01:10:32):
Our talent booker is Patrick Cootner.
Speaker 4 (01:10:34):
Theme song by Karen Kilgarrett.
Speaker 3 (01:10:36):
Artwork by Chris Fairbanks. Follow the show on Instagram, Twitter,
and Facebook at dinar podcast That's d y n ar Podcast.
Speaker 1 (01:10:45):
For more information, go to exactly rightmedia dot com.
Speaker 3 (01:10:48):
Thank you, Oh You're welcome.
Hey, it's Chris Fairbanks, host of the podcast you're currently
listening to. I have just a weekend of shows i'd
like to announce at the end of the month here
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, January twenty fourth and twenty fifth, I'll
be at the Laughing Tap Comedy specific comedy Club. Get
tickets at Chris Fairbanks dot com. Thank you and you're welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Are you leaving?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I you wanna way back home?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Either way, we want to be there.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Doesn't matter how much baggage you claim and give us
time and they turn and on engage.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
We want to send you up in star.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
We wanna welcome you back home. Tell us all about it.
We scared or was it fine?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Melbourne?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Do you need to ride? Do you need to ride?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Do you need to ride?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Do you need to ride? Do you need to ride?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Do you need to ride?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Do you need to ride?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Do you need.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
With Karen and Chris welcome to Do you need to ride?
This is Chris.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Fairbanks and this is Karen Kilgarriff.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Hello, my friend, Karen. I've not seen you in over
a month.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I know how are you?
Speaker 5 (01:46):
I'm terrific. I am.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Like many episodes, I'd like to start this one with
a personal apology.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
I uh really dismissed.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
According to the audio clip that was posted to our Instagram,
I very much dismissed your call for help when you
were smelling toast.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
I was trying to make jokes the whole time.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I would only expect you to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
But I immediately after hearing it the other day, I
did a little research, and indeed, there are several things
that it could mean, but one of them is related
to a minor your body avoiding an epileptic seizure.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Yeah, you don't have to convince me that it's not
good news to smell toast randomly. I did not have
to convince you.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
See it's funny because with the backstory, I immediately thought
it was like when the oh if your hand smells
like peanut butter dut and then someone slaps your hand
and it hits your face.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Oh, I thought you were about.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
To hit me in the face.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I know when I'm being set up, But no, you
were actually concerned about your health, and I just you
know my defense mechanism.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
But here's the thing. The interaction expectation between you and
I being stand up comedians is not the same as
the audience, or even just the general listener that you
embody when you listen to clips of our show.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, armchair general listener, you know what I would have done.
I love everyone live. I would love that everyone who's
listening right now. This is not a personal.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Attack, not in the least, but it is.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yes, It's it's hard to understand how like if there
was an accident and a car flip, you'd start maniacally laughing. Yeah,
it's hard for you to relate to that when you're
just listening.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
It seems like we're self I share something.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Well, unless you have the same weird disease coping mechanisms
that we do, which I think a lot more people.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
You don't have to be.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
A stand up comedian to relate to our weird personalities.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I don't think absolutely not. I think it's more common
that that is your outlet. Now that I healthily have
a stage place to do these things in a controlled environment,
I think I act more appropriately out in the streets.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Good, I'm worried about you in the streets.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I have been in these streets. You know what I
saw the other day on my street. You're actually this
is a good one.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Oh, cold on.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Is there an animal involved, yes? Is the animal hurt no?
Does it have cancer?
Speaker 5 (04:32):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Then go tell me this story.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I do have some tragic news about the turtles.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
See it.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
No, it's the it's there is a cat in my
neighborhood that I've seen twice, now what color black with
white areas as well.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Some my call them spots.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Hangs out on the sidewalk and waits or or just
looks around until it finds a car with an open window. Yes,
will get climb into that car, any person's car, yep,
and sit in the front seat. It loves getting into
cars and sitting in the front street with good posture
(05:15):
like it's driving. And I'm maybe imagining that part. It's
not pretending to drive, but loves hanging out in cars.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
I love it, and I.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Hope it's paying a little because why you're leaving your
window down?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Why are you in a city like this?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I yes, And I'm a little worried that I'm just
thinking of this now, but this sounds like bad news.
I just hopefully that window isn't down because there's a
dog in the car and then it'll attack the cat.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
But that's just something I know.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
You're looking for problems on that line's hypothetical that almost
would never happen.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yes, I cannot talk about animals without the possibility of
them being injured.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
I went right back.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
That's an opportunity to describe a hurt animal. You will
jump on.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
This is a cat that feels empowered, great, and it
is finding shelter and is also just having fun. It's
the best version of a cat prank I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
One of my saddest I'll do the sad cat think
if you're not going to that makes me think. When
I lived in Silver Like, I had this cat, Rudy,
and this was Rudy was the best cat. He was
super fluffy, like his cat hair was dense. He was
a black and white dense hair like a like an
otter and really short, and so he was always really
(06:34):
shiny and beautiful, and he wanted you to pick him
up and hold him so like he was like kind
of a rag doll in your hands. But he wasn't
the rag doll.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Type, that's right.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
He just was weirdly like, yay, someone's holding me. And
when I lived in Silver Lake, he got attacked by
codes and basically went off to die by himself.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
This is more tragic than any story I've ever told.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Please continue, do you see?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
And so I like he was gone and I didn't know.
It was like he's just gone, and I have to
face that. But anytime I see a black and white
cat when I'm on the east side or hear about it,
I'm like, be Rudy. I don't think it could at
this point because it would mean he was thirty nine
years old or whatever. But I just I miss Rudy.
He was rip Rudy. You were a great one.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
A message to you, Rudy.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
This truly is a message to you, Rudy.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yes, if for those second wave SKA fans get in here,
maybe it's first.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Who knows. There were so many waves with that SKA.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I feel like that was second.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, maybe they shouldn't have just announced every wave wave.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Same with feminism, Yes exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Wouldn't feminism just stay popular if people weren't skanking to
it every twenty years?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
His STA and feminism go hand in hand. Yeah, this
podcast episode, we're going to explain to you how feminism.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I'm racking my brain for like I never listened to
ska really, but we did go to some skankin Pickle
shows in the late nineties.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
I love skankin Pickle, love them, love them.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I didn't know it was a movement when it started again,
and I accidentally saw the most terribly named band ever
Cherry Pop and Daddy's and this is before Zoot Suit, Ryot.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
And all that.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
But I just saw them at a show and I
was like, I like rock or punk with horn section.
This is amazing because it's like, Okay, here's a bunch
of jazz guys. They got together with some punk rock guys.
That's what I liked. But then when I had a
name and all this history, I'm like, well, now I
(08:58):
can't jump aboard some pandwagon and start wearing thin suspenders.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
You just can't. Like, you can't in terms of you
don't want to be seen that way, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I like to revolt against popularity or groups. Yes, I
thought it was my music. It was the only one
in the audience. But yeah, I still there is the
occasional ska song that just brings me back to me
in a Brandy posey way.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I mean, Brandy's holding out for ska. She'll keep it alive,
and I'm positive that she's the one that can do it.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
She Brandy our friend painted her carb as a real
big fish.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
It said real big fish on it.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yep, she was a huge fan.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Uh, you know Brandy Posey from the Great two part
episode where we go to the Krispy Kreme drive through
for the first time. Oh, we've done it since, but
we did it first with Brandy.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
You're right, that was a ground breaking what's I smell
to I see?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
And now what if I just didn't answer you when
you said you smell toast? And then I'm just like,
I'm like, keep changing the subject.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I do want to say that in this article it
everything that could ever possibly happen to where it's like, well,
I think now, it's just it takes away validity when
it's thirty nine things it could be.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
So I think you're fine, but I do, well, it's
too late. Now if I did maybe go.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
To a doctor so you know that toast thing, and
they'll laugh, they'll laugh. They'll be like, oh, someone's been
on the internet.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
What if the last thing on that list of possible
problems is that you could get electrocuted by a toaster? Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
My God, that's great. Stupid, I swell toast.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
It's probably just my friend alone.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
And tell it's me. I'm murdering you.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I'm holding a toaster. How is Montana?
Speaker 5 (11:04):
It was great.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Actually, I did a little sketch for one of my
shows recorded on my watch, where I was like, Oh,
I got this used Apple watch. I'm trying to figure
it out. Oh, it looks like there's a recorded track
on it. And there's an argument that I did with
my Pelt Brooks, and we yeah, it's a guy in
(11:26):
a bathtub. And the landlord comes over and he's like,
you haven't paid rent. I see you've been going to
best Buy. I'm gonna sell all that stuff and get
your rent. He's like, you can't sell my stuff. What
are you holding a toaster? And then I throw the
toaster in the bathtub and all we did is turn
on the water and the hair dryer and it sounds like.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Brooks is being electrocuted.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
And I was just gonna play that on stage and like,
here's a used watch. Hopefully there's no backstory without nothing nefarious.
I only paid five dollars. There's a crack and it
just bottle of blood. Anyway, I didn't work it out
because even holding a microphone up to it, it really
didn't register it.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Oh, so it but it was a good idea.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Did the audience get you?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
They kind of were trying to listen, but it was
really hard until we started screaming and we made it
way too long. It was like a two minute sketch. Oh,
it needs to be fifteen seconds. But if you see
me in the future, maybe I'll have ironed out the
used watch sketch.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
I like the concept is really good, though, thank you.
I wonder if you do it way way shorter where
you're like, I hope there's nothing nefarious. And then it's
like a series of ways things that people could be
yelling while they're being robbed or whatever. Short, so it's
literally people like get away from.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
My watch, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
And it's different, like this watch has bounced around from
tragedy to tragedy and I'm next.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Oh, that's a great idea.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
It can't be. It has to be like a sentence
of each moment, so the people don't have to like
buy into a whole concept.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Yes, oh, and then each one it's a different era.
Maybe there's twenties music in the background. This is a
time traveling watch that has been around for so many deaths.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
This watch has always existed.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
The Writer's Room, a podcast where Karen and I discuss
sketches that will never come.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
To fruition, sketches that Chris is going to do during
stand up sets. The hardest place to do a sketch. Yes,
you're alone, there's no hats.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
And the people got to make it happen. After you
do it, someone's going to call it a skit.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah, and it's going to be your dad.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
I don't like your skits.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Oh, your skitch and your little sketches and your skits.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
But yes, to answer your question, Montana was beautiful. There's
baby deer in my dad's front yard. I videoed them
and then I just watched them Bambi level cute cartoon
animated deer that lay right by the window in the shade,
and I opened the shades and there's baby deer. I'm like,
how did I want to get away from this my
(14:11):
whole childhood? Why did I want to go live at
the beach, a place I then lived and immediately missed
these baby deer?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Well, you could find baby deer if you looks hard
enough in Santa Monica.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I yes, I just I don't know that I've ever
lived somewhere where they'll be right outside my window.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Yeah, I had a great I had a great time
and relaxing.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
How was your tread?
Speaker 3 (14:37):
It was really nice. I went to see Bradford in Milwaukee.
Oh yes, and well I also my.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Badford is very sweet.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I met Bradford at a show in was it Milwaukee?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Yes, this is all lining up?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah, you get it now? Uh wait, okay, we're coming
off the freeway and then what am I doing?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Uh? So it was we have been talking about it
for a long time because he's lived there for whatever
three years since COVID. They moved out of LA and
to Milwaukee during COVID, and I was so scared, Like
they were going to drive across the country and this
was when like people were getting into fistfights because of
(15:21):
masks and stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah, and you and I were hand washing or lettice
with hands sand title yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
And wiping down the cereal boxes and they're like, yeah,
we're gonna go ahead and move across. And I was
just like, you please be careful. I was so scared.
I was just like all the threat in the world,
and of course it was perfectly timed. They bought a
house for one sixteenth of what you pay in Los Angeles,
like wild and it's it's great.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
So yeah, a lot of people did that, I think,
and it happened to be most of the people that
book I independently produced comedy shows down because I've noticed.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Where is this and what's this person used to do
a show?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
And I'll look and they are happy with a picket
fence somewhere in Illinois.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I think like the next five years, everyone's going to
be processing what actually happened to them during the COVID experience.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
We're all traumatized.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
We're all traumatized. I'm still getting over my absolutely, like
I have a monologuing problem that I have to literally
in meetings just shut my lips so I stopped talking.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
They're talking, won't end.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
It's so uh.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Nick Vadorat, who's a comedian that I makes me laugh
like no other, has a very funny joke about trying
to different differentiate between you know, is this the trauma
of COVID or am I just regular regular all not
popular anymore?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Like the uh oh, this is a are we Is
this going to work?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Well, it's I think across the street.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Oh wow, OK, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah, is this gonna work? The most not helpful comment
I could have ever made?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Could you stop doing this?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Is here?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Let me let me try it again and I'll pull
over on the other side. I was kind of confused,
what's this creepy alley?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Ooh, this is let's challenge someone to a dance off?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
How much kind alley? We're then a ball tonight?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
But I, uh, yes, it's we're all going We're still
going through it.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Still going through Wait, will you resay what you said?
Nick Vatter outside? Because I wasn't well.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I had trouble saying what I said because of the
problem we're talking about. I still am having communication breakdowns.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I see.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
But his joke was what, Yes, it's that thing where
you start telling someone's joke.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
And then I realized I kind of don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
How it goes.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Yeah, I set myself up for that. I see, it's
just in the joke. He's looking out the window.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Well, I don't see anyone with masks on, Like in
his mind it's still COVID. He's experiencing or quarantine. But
it's just regular not being popular.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Oh got it? Okay?
Speaker 5 (18:16):
And I butchered it both times. I hope he doesn't listen.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
I can guarantee he doesn't.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Yeah. No, no, he's a fan of us both.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
No.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah, I have heard of Nick Vadaroth for a long time.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Let's see if I get in front of somebody and
make them honk at me. But he was one of
those people. I always love it when there's somebody from
a different town that people like, hey, have you seen
this guy? It's like that is the most exciting thing
about stand up, when someone is the new guy and
then everyone's like excited about them.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Yeah, especially when it was the actual word of mouth.
Days now, it's like there are many people that I
follow and I don't know their names, and I like
their videos and I'm like, well, that's my new favorite joke, right,
this person with eight hundred followers. But I have noticed
that everyone I start to like, I see them grow
in popularity, and I feel like an old timey producer
(19:11):
that wants his cut.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yeah yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Knew this person back when they had four videos, And
where's my ten percent? I want to ask them I
own the studio and I want a cut of all
of all your acting.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Pay on the movie. I pay the old classic double
dip scene and thank you.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
That was my nineteen twenties movie producer. No change in voice.
I'm one of the best.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
It was all vibe and I have to tell you,
listener might not have gone all the way through your earbuds,
but in this car it was the twenty Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
A lot of people would have to do a voice
like this. I want twenty percent of all of it.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
See but no, No, that's not how you do it. No,
people talk normal like them once the camera wasn't.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Rolling, once, they weren't showing off.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
It's just a style of acting.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
And then one day a man named Marlon Brando was like,
what if I just talk like a normal person while
the camera rolls?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
What if I were a tank top and act casual?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
And the new style of acting was born.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Yes, hopefully someone doesn't emulate it to a T in
the future named Tom Hardy.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
He's very Brandow.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
That's right, that's true.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I'm always picking Hollywood fights in this podcast.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Did you ever see the t the FX series Taboo
that Tom Hardy stars in and Tom Hardy's dad wrote, no,
it's so good. Really, you see some brando level. His
dad's a playwright. Oh wow, it's really good.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
That's ringing bells taboo, taboo, I believe. Let us watch it.
We can see it.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Today's guest thinks of it because today's guest is a
TV critic.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
I like to eat into very much.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yes, podcast based on TV shows and also a lot
of articles for uh, you know.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Old rags that I've heard of.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I see Ashley coming. Hopefully we didn't make kur walk
too far? And should I give some indication that we
are the people?
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Yes, okay, Hi, just letting you know we aren't strangers.
Why there, come.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
On, sorry, we made you walk.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
We're you right now.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
We're already mad recording. So I've just now you know,
today's guests from clubs and colleges across the country put
your ears together for Ashley Ray. Hello, Hello, Yes, that
I warned us about the curb?
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Was that the curb?
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Yeah, yeah, we curbed up a little.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
It is a tricky curb here it is.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Yes, it's like they made it fancy so people can
turn into those new condos.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
But yeah, it's oh, they immediately flip a U turn
when they read the sign.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
If you lived here, you'd be home right now.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Oh yeah yes, And people just then they get mad
because lots of uh people who don't live over here
park there.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Yeah, oh do you live where we were just at?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Of course, yeah, you're like two houses down.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
I just wanted to make sure we didn't make you
walk many many before.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Five degree heat.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah. I can handle it. I'm strong girl. All right.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Good?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Yeah, how's it going to Texas? Good? How are you?
You're from Texas? Yeah, Dallas.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
I was born where my family is, so I'm used
to the like heat where you can't breathe.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, it can get I started in Austin and would
drive to Dallas to do the Addison improv, and I
remember it being.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
A special level of heat. Yeah, Like Houston's more muggy
and there's bug in you're sweaty. Yeah, Dallas was like
super hot.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Yeah, just dry, can't breathe, like your car needs ac Oh.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
It's I can't believe the number of people I knew,
Like my friend Matt was a comic.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
He had a Honda Dell Soul that with no roof.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I think a lot of people it's just more popularly
call it a convertible, but it had no air conditioning,
and I didn't understand how he lived.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
His life that way.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Yeah, my aunt has had a BMW in Dallas for
seven years with no ac oh, and she just thinks
it's so cool to have a BMW. She like won't
up read it or get it, and she like, I guess,
can't afford to get it fixed because it's a lot
for a BMWUS.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
That's really funny. And that's I wonder if that's building
like some sort of a tenacity or like a level
where she can handle more stuff because she's like forcing
herself to suffer.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
I mean, it definitely seems like it's impacting her negatively
mental health, Livin.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I don't think it's good for her.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah, it's not good to slowly cook your brain, although they.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Say saunas are really good for your true. Yeah, so
I don't know. Maybe she's killing two birds, yeah, very true.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
It would be therapeutic if a Texas day was only
fifteen minutes long.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yeah, that's would be perfect.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
And then you went right into a cryo chamber. Did
you start stand up in Dallas?
Speaker 7 (24:25):
No?
Speaker 6 (24:25):
I started in Chicago when I was a kid, we
moved to northern Illinois, so I mostly grew up in Rockford,
Illinois in Chicago. After college, went back there, and that's
when I was like, you know, spoken word is embarrassing.
I don't want to do this anymore. I want to
do something less embarrassing, so I'll try stand up comedy.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Did you start in slam poetry?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
It was I did.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Yeah, it was huge.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Okay, this was like two thousand and nine, right, Like
I in high school was super into Audio DeFranco. Yeah,
and I would like perform her songs like spoken word
poems at like our talent shows.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
I think it's more perfect than that. I love it.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
And like in college I joined speak for our spoken
word team. I would like compete at the Bowery. I
was in like national slam competitions and in Chicago, obviously
the scene is huge there, like the Moth, That's what
I was doing, And like after every show, all these
white people would come up to me like, oh my gosh,
that was so moving, You're teaching us so much, and
(25:26):
I would just kind of be like, I just want
to make jokes. I just like the funny parts. I'm
not here to like teach you. Oh my gosh, that's
the situation.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Yeah, that person is a lunatic and that is going on'
such a normal haircut. It's always amazing to see a
perfectly normal looking face act like Ted Bundy of the Road.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
They're literally listener weaving in and out of traffic, like
trying to catch each other and get in front of
each other and slam on the brakes.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
And now they're taking it into a residentia. Well enjoyed
short life you have.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Sorry you were competing at a national level.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
Yeah, uh for spoken word in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I would like compete in the moth and stuff. Oh
my god. Now he's given people the jerk off symbol.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Yeah, and that guy is getting giving maybe gang signs to.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Say, yeah, I was just showcasing his many fingertaps.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
I do you think I got these?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
You know from I'm not Gonna fight someone a far He's.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Like, well, this one is a little mustache on the
side of my finger.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Actually very hip in two thousand.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
They're all old poems he used to read, I always
bring it back.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
So what was the moment where you were like, aside
from the embarrassment, where you're like, I'm going to do comedy.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
It was like, so I would do these like spoken
word things like short like you know, storytelling, and I
always just like telling the funny parts of the stories.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
I like when people would laugh.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
And I hated when like these like you know, well
meaning liberals would come up to me after like that
was so moving, thank you for teaching us about the
blacks femail experience.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Oh wow. And I would just be like, but just
like laugh though, right, we're trying to have fun here.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
And I was in Chicago and Sarah Sherman who's now
you know on S and l Huge and Beck O'Neill,
who's another comedian I love. They were hosting the Cole's
open Mic, which is like the best, biggest open mic
in Chicago, and they were trying to just get more
women to do it. And they were like, look, you
already do spoken word, you may as well try stand up.
It's also embarrassing. Just come to this open mic. We'll
(27:29):
put you up and give it a shot. And the
first time I did it, I fell in love. I
was just like, I love doing this. I think I
did five minutes on Gypsy Rose. Actually I'm very ahead.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Of my time. This was like twenty seventeen.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
That's right, Mommy, Dad and DearS had just come out,
and I had like a five minute set of jokes
on her.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Nice soft I noticed, though, there was a comedy scene
in Boise, Idaho that's kind of changed since this woman,
Lisa Young, she used to run the Funny Bone there.
She was so passionate about the poetry scene. They had
like three nights and she was trying to get a
(28:10):
lot of them to do stand up. She had like
a master plan for all these comics, and in a
lot of comics were really good as a result. I
think it makes for a good stand up, it does.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
You know.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
It's like spoken word storytelling.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
You have to kind of be willing to like take
your sad thoughts in sad life and turn it into entertainment. Yeah,
so it's just one more step to be like, okay,
well let me make it funny.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Right right.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I think for me it would have helped because it's like, oh,
the actual words.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
Don't just go up there and riff on a topic.
You should write.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Because it took me a long time, I still don't
necessarily write things out and then memorize them and go
out there.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
Yeah, the comics who are like, no, I write my
jokes down and I like, you know, write them again
and again.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Like that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
So what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (29:02):
You don't just like.
Speaker 6 (29:03):
Write a premise and get on stage on an open
mic and just kind of feel it out.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
It makes so much sense though, the like that pipeline
because you you're up there and you are being so
vulnerable spoken word it is like you you are gutting
it out in a way where it's like, is comedy
any harder? I think it might be slightly easier. Yeah,
I mean I wouldn't know. You have to tell me.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
I mean I guess with spoken word, it's you all.
Speaker 6 (29:27):
You're trying to also get people to feel that emotional
pull or like you have to use that cadence like
what I'm saying is the most important thing that could
ever be said.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Yeah, right. And like my freshman year, my.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
Biggest poem that like one in the like Northeast Slam
poetry contesting was called I don't hook Up, I Fuck
And it was like this treaties against like hookup culture.
That was like I'm an adult, Okay, I don't need
hookup culture.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Did the people were they on their feet at the end. Yes.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Oh, all these like seventeen and eighteen year olds are
just like, oh my gosh, this is revolutionary. And I
read it and like saw a clip of it a
few years ago, it was like, this is the most
embarrassing thing.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Please, I can never have this on the internet.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Was it just because there wasn't enough jokes in it
and you wanted to tell The.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Sad thing is that I tried to get a lot
of jokes in it right, and they were not good.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I have a come from a similar just coming from improv,
and I'd always go for the joke and disappoint everyone
else on stage. And then I like heard comics that
tell joke like Mitchadberg and people that told one liners,
and I'm like, oh, I think I should do this
because it's a lot less pressure, oh than going through
(30:50):
all these building scenes and.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
Then ruining other people's scenes.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
Mitch Edburg definitely was someone who inspired my stand up
and just my desire to want to perform. Like in
high school, before I even knew I wanted to be
a comedian, I would dress up is Mitch Heedburg and
do his jokes at like talent shows, and I would
just be like, yeah, I'm just doing a Mitch Hedburg
set as well.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
I'm glad that I brought him up.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
Then yeah, that's amazing, very funny when you're like fourteen.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Sure, so absolutely, also so satisfying because they really it
is the all those little self contained moments where it's
like you with his material, you get to kill the
entire time. Yeah, like they're gonna laugh whether you say it.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Or oh yeah.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
And my English teacher came up, He's like, did you
write those that was hilarious? And I straight up was
just like yeah I did. Yeah, that's all me, that's
all me. I knew he wasn't gonna watch Comedy Central.
Speaker 5 (31:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
There was a skateboarding shoe that came out one year
and it was called The Story, And in the tread
the skater whose pro model shoe it was, had a
story and there was six or seven Hadburg jokes in it,
but it was before anyone outside of being a hardcore
fan of comedy would be able to pick them out.
(32:07):
And I was like so furious that it was on
a shoe and it didn't say Hedberg wrote this.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
You know which, so it almost was like if when
I'm really I eat rice when I'm hungry for three hundred.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
And something or whatever.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Yeah, like that.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Written on a shoe with no credit within.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
A story that this guy, but he was saying, this
is my story.
Speaker 6 (32:29):
They steal from Mitch all the time, especially on TikTok,
since that's just how the app works. I will see
so many people just like using it as like quotes
on there, you know, the thing where they put text
and then like, I don't make sad faces in the
background like they do that now with all comedians. It's
just yes, And then people just go, no, it's a meme.
That's how it's supposed to be, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
And it's literally I've I've seen it with other people's
tweets where it's like a person making a face and
it's the copy. And then one day it was one
of my tweets like this isn't that good? Yeah, And
I'm really I'm half embarrassed because I know that's mine,
and then I'm half like really proud, where I'm like, oh,
you wanted to steal it, that's great.
Speaker 6 (33:09):
Yeah, Like okay, I guess it resonated with people, and
then I'm like in I don't know. It's like if
you try to be like, hey, that was mine, then
it's just like you look like a loser because people
are like this is TikTok.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Yeah, in the beginning of Twitter, that's what I always said,
where I was like, why would people want to put
their notebook on the internet, because anyone can say that
was my idea.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Yeah, but it also is time stamping and showing that
when and where you thought of it first.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
So yeah, I've seen it go both ways.
Speaker 6 (33:40):
I mean there was I think there's legit cases where
you know, you've had really big comics be like I
tweeted this exact like Zillo bit and then Saturday Night
Live made this sketch like, you know, a year later.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
But then there was.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
Also recently this woman who like tweeted a very very
common joke about Nancy Reagan, you know, like, oh, stocks
are so there, like Nancy Reagan on the MGM but
back lot, which classic old joke. Sure, and then they
made that same joke in an episode of the Boys,
and she went on Twitter demanding that the Boys give
(34:13):
her a writing credit that this was her joke and
they stole it.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
I literally just saw it two days ago, right, it
didn't even fit in that boy's scene. Yeah, it was like,
let me get the stoke out of my met Like
even the actor felt uncomfortable.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
Yeah, it just felt like pushing and kind of like, oh,
that's a joke, and it was like, well, clearly they
didn't steal this from you. It's just a hack joke,
and you should not feel proud that you also tweeted it.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Also, when I.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Started stand up, I did a lot of things where
I quote unquote wrote a joke and what actually happened
is I remembered a joke from television from television, and
so that happened once where I had a joke about
like a girl that was being very territorial about her boyfriend,
and then I was like, why don't you pee a
circle around him? Which I thought was the most amazing joke,
and then like whatever, four years later, I saw it
(35:04):
on Friends and I was like, they totally stole my joke.
And I sent it to some comic we know and
they were like, I'm really sorry to tell you this.
That is the oldest and I was.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
Just like, so funny.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
That's what Billy Vayne Davis did to me when my
my dad would.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
I would use.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
My dad's jokes when I first started, but a lot
of them were from Seinfeld. I did not know that
the whole who's getting all those blood tide gets blood
stains and grass staines out of your clothes? Are they
marketing themselves towards murderers? I don't know what It was
some version of that. And he told me that's a
that tide bit is Seinfeld through and through?
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Oh, I did not know.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
And I called and screamed it my dad.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
One time I got a mug with a joke on
it that was the way too close.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
Someone sent me a mug.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
As a gift about what's what all these owls graduating
from something?
Speaker 5 (36:03):
Because owls always have graduation tats.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
The illustration told the joke, and I was like, where
I want to that's my joke. And my friend made
me the mug and send it to me. I didn't
realize it was a thoughtful gift.
Speaker 6 (36:18):
So your friend's actually listening to you, and you're like,
I can't believe you do.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
At You know when it sucks because I had assume
my friend and he was just doing a nice thing.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Well, he didn't have the rights to make that much.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Yeah, you know, you gotta pay the usage, right pees.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
I was in a situation at lunch today where I
couldn't actually eat the sandwich I had because I was
in a meeting and that people were watching me.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Oh my breakfast this morning?
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Did it really?
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (36:44):
I like ordered my oatmeal, and then these two people
I work with were like, can we hop on a
last minute call By the time we're done? My oatmeal
schoold because I didn't want to eat it with them
all looking, and they insisted the skin on top.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Oh yeah, well, so I was thinking, should we go
to Rick's drive through?
Speaker 2 (36:58):
It's so good? I mean, I would love to eat
something and drink something. It's really good.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
I'm all for it.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
They just have beverages too.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Right Oh yeah, yeah, fun?
Speaker 6 (37:07):
They got milkshakes they got when I did I did
what's that podcast where the people they eat food you
go to restaurants The boy Doboys.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
Yeah, yeah, of course that.
Speaker 6 (37:16):
Was the restaurant I chose is Rix. It is my
favorite neighborhood place.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Nice, okay, well you can be our guide.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Their drives are great. They got pie, they got milk chicks,
they got everything there.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Wait, does this place bost having something world famous.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
They kind of do.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
I think that we are about to find out like spaghetti.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Yes, their big thing is there spaghetti.
Speaker 6 (37:39):
Whenever it's gone, they put like a big thing up
that's like spaghetti is gone and it's like a big deal.
And then when spaghetti is back, it is like spaghetti
is back and it's truly lines out the doors.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Should we all get big bowls of spaghetti to eat
in the car?
Speaker 7 (37:55):
Well, I'm just in the Yeah. It's like the mac
ram of that play ye seasonal. Yeah, this it must
be a real hit there. Yes, I love that independent drive.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
It does say world famous ricks people know Rick Rick.
Speaker 6 (38:12):
I also think they have the best La hot dog
Do I do?
Speaker 3 (38:15):
I do it here?
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Oyeah you can turn it in this way and then
like go down. Yeah perfect.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
I've never been here. It's so crazy.
Speaker 6 (38:23):
Yeah, they la for us to have this location and
want in Inglewood. Oh okay, some of the best like
chili fries. It's just it's a little hidden gem.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Okay, awesome, We're gonna have to take a look.
Speaker 5 (38:34):
At this on the edge of ice.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
See what the I don't know the status of spaghetti
or not true?
Speaker 2 (38:39):
True. It wasn't on the side, so we do not know.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
Hungry, but I shouldn't eat.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
You could have just like one taco.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
Yeah, I kind of want to taco.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Is that what you want?
Speaker 5 (38:50):
And iced coffee? Is that a terrible combination to most?
Speaker 3 (38:57):
I mean it's your life.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
I'll do the ice coffee. And you know they have
ice coffee a guarantee, we all? I actually do not
I know they have.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Can I ask you a question? Do you have ice coffee? Okay? Oh,
they have raspberry iced tea? They have like iced tea, raspberry.
Speaker 5 (39:18):
Iced tea, all of regular iced tea.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Can we get a regular iced tea? And what would
you like?
Speaker 2 (39:28):
I'll get a tortata is it flavored?
Speaker 3 (39:31):
And a horchata regular sized? And a raspberry iced tea
regular sized? On a lease a raspberry and two raspberry
iced teas? And can we also get an asada taco
and one of your ground beef hardshell tacos? Please? Actually
(39:53):
anything to eat on? Alise?
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Okay, that's gonna be it.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Can you are you allowed to park in the drive?
Speaker 5 (40:01):
That's what I wondered, And now I saw the lines.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
In which she was parked and then I started to
think we were wrong.
Speaker 5 (40:08):
But we're in the drive room. We belong here too.
Speaker 6 (40:10):
But now that we're past the thing, I will say
the spaghetti not that good, Okay, if Y ask me,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Think the spaghetti is that good.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Yeah, you can really lower the bar when it's drived
through spaghetti.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
Yeah, there's no one's going to compare it to.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Sau Oh no, yeah, then why are they here? I
don't know.
Speaker 6 (40:29):
If it's like, there's not a great pasta place in
La so people go for this, but.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
There's not a great drive through.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Possibly every time you tell me to simply grab your purse,
I turn into my mom's son and.
Speaker 5 (40:42):
I stick my fist in there and just start routing around.
I've done it over and.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Over, trying to get served.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
I just get, oh, where's that redson?
Speaker 3 (40:52):
I think there should be more drive through everything in
this town.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Yes, we all drive, and I don't understanding.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Yeah, yeah, let's just face the facts that we don't
like to get out of our cars. And no one
it's not just a catchy song, but no one walks
in La.
Speaker 5 (41:08):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
I had a friend from Chicago some visit.
Speaker 6 (41:11):
She walked to the whole foods that's like around the
corner from me, And she was like, why were people
staring at me?
Speaker 2 (41:16):
Isn't that because you're crazy for doing that? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (41:19):
People are worried about you as you walk down the street.
Speaker 5 (41:22):
Yeah, everyone that visits.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
It's like, oh, I figured we do this, this, this,
and okay, first of all, we're only going to be
able to do two things. Yeah, and your idea of
walking to all these things not at all. There's absolutely
no no, no, no way, no no no. Yeah, we'll
just shoot over from Lax to Burbank and then back
to you know, Long Beach.
Speaker 6 (41:42):
We just walked from like we ho to Santa Monica
and then and it's like, no, that's it was not
what we do.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
I need you to zoom into whatever map you're looking
at and consult the key.
Speaker 6 (41:53):
Yeah, you will see a highway you can't walk on it.
Speaker 3 (41:57):
What was the first neighborhood you moved to when you moved.
Speaker 6 (42:00):
To LA I was in mid City, which was actually
pretty nice. It was you know, mostly families. I was
close to the comedy store.
Speaker 5 (42:10):
That's what.
Speaker 6 (42:12):
Kind of it's like that neighborhood that's like, what is
it like Wilshire just down to I guess it's kind
of Adams.
Speaker 5 (42:22):
Okay, I know exactly. Yes, it's so funny.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
I always when someone says mid City, I think Century
City because I feel like that.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
To me, it's very na thank you, thank you, thank you.
My friend used to live in mid City, had a
really beautiful house.
Speaker 6 (42:42):
There's nice houses over there, Yeah, and like it probably
honestly the nicest apartment I've had.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
I love my apartment now, but that one.
Speaker 6 (42:50):
It just had these huge windows, central location parking.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
And I loved the.
Speaker 6 (42:57):
Neighborhood because even though there's not a lot of places
to go out, it's quiet and good restaurants. But then
I had the world's worst roommate. I tried to like
wait her out. I tried to be like, she's gonna go,
I'm gonna get this apartment and I will stay here.
And she was so awful. It was like she just
was doing whatever she could to get me to leave.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
Can you give examples maybe of how awful?
Speaker 2 (43:18):
Oh my, okay.
Speaker 5 (43:18):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (43:19):
She would shower in the dark with the door open
because she didn't want to clean the bathroom and seeing
the dirt made her uncomfortable, so she would wash her
plants in the bathroom, like she'd put them on the bathtub, like,
let the plants get dirt everywhere. And then she would
shower and be like, I'm just gonna shower with the
door close, with the door open and the lights off
(43:41):
so I don't see the dirt.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
And then I would be like in my room.
Speaker 6 (43:44):
Listening to music in my headphones, and I would go
into the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Thinking, no one's in here.
Speaker 6 (43:48):
Oh, walked in on her like four times, and every
time she'd act like I was the crazy person.
Speaker 5 (43:54):
Her dirt it was her plant dirt.
Speaker 6 (43:57):
Yes, her dirt. She would never clean the bathroom. I
gleaned it every single time I lived there.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
I want a there's that show. I think it's called
The Worst Roommates Ever. And even just came out I'm
so already and I first, lady, what are you thinking?
Speaker 2 (44:16):
She tried to take your kid and you just stay so.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
What?
Speaker 5 (44:21):
I yes?
Speaker 1 (44:22):
But also at the same time, that's pretty convenient that
she had a hard to raise special needs kid in
her roommate's like, no, it's my kid.
Speaker 5 (44:31):
I'm like, well, this is actually if if.
Speaker 6 (44:33):
But then she was she's just just giving her. She
was ordering mersa on the internet.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
Yes, and yeah, I've I've rewatched a few of them.
But I like the idea of some of the episodes
just being dirt shower, ignoring dirt in the shower, like
actual relatable.
Speaker 3 (44:54):
Not mur not murder because it's on part in some
ways in terms of day to day life, where you're
just like, hey, when I walk into the bathroom, there's
just a bare minimum of not dirten yre because it's
the bathroom, because it's the bathroom, not the garden.
Speaker 4 (45:11):
Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 6 (45:13):
She would use a Diva cup and if you're not familiar,
they can be kind of messy, but yeah, you're supposed
to just kind of get it all in the bowl,
but she would get it on like the underpart of
the toilet seat rim and refuse to clean it.
Speaker 5 (45:25):
Oh wow.
Speaker 6 (45:27):
Like I didn't let that truly get to me until
one day she had like a guy friend over, and
the guy friend I hear him like, go, like, O,
can I use the bathroom. He goes in there and
I just immediately hear him walk out and he just says,
I hear him go, there's blood all over the inside
of your toilet seat.
Speaker 2 (45:43):
And she blamed it on me. Oh, I have heard
her through the door.
Speaker 6 (45:47):
Going, oh, yeah, my roommate is such a mess, and
I was like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (45:51):
Oh what? God? I was like, I have miss tampons
over here. That is all you.
Speaker 1 (45:57):
Oh God, I wish you'd burst out and called her
on it right then.
Speaker 5 (46:01):
I don't care what romance budding, what's happened.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
I was so upset.
Speaker 6 (46:05):
And the worst part is that instead I just went
out there and very loudly cleaned the toilet and then
I went in the living room was like, I cleaned
the toilet for you, and she knew.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
She I was like, you know the deal here.
Speaker 3 (46:20):
But it's almost like that level of passive aggression, not
on your part but on her part. And then you're like, okay, fine,
you want to do this like here, I just cleaned it,
and it's like you just played right into her hands.
Speaker 5 (46:32):
Yeah. She's like, oh, I got what I wanted.
Speaker 3 (46:33):
It ultimate manipulation where you're trying to get back at
her and then basically doing chores.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
She just and she invites another guy over. Sorry, that's
my roommate's plant.
Speaker 6 (46:45):
Oh, just like always, those are my roommate's dishes. She
was awful, and the last shraw was. I was on tour.
I was doing shows in Boston and I get a
text message from one of her friends that lives in
a different city, who I like, kind of know, but
not that well. And she was like, Hey, just FYI,
people told me to tell you that you need to
get a new key for your apartment because your roommate.
Speaker 2 (47:07):
Changed all the locks.
Speaker 5 (47:09):
What.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
And I'm just like what, why would she do that?
Speaker 6 (47:13):
And she's like, oh, well, I guess she got locked
out and you weren't there, and instead of like asking
the landlord for the extra key, she just had all
the locks changed.
Speaker 5 (47:21):
I am furious. Do you know where there's person is
right now? I didn't let's go let's drop by. Let's
don't drop by.
Speaker 6 (47:28):
She's no longer in the city of la She totalled
five cars and got three DUIs and decided to go back.
Speaker 2 (47:34):
She didn't like it.
Speaker 3 (47:35):
She was trying to get someone to send her away.
Speaker 5 (47:38):
Yeah, and plants weren't doing the trick.
Speaker 1 (47:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (47:41):
And when I moved out, I cause she like had
been pulling out our least agreement to try to be
like you can't leave yet, blah blah blah, and she
like left it on the table and on the back
I got a sharpie and I just wrote, you really
should leave La. I don't think this place is for you,
and it's gonna destroy you. I don't know another human
in the city who has totaled five cars and under
year that under under a year, and every accident was
(48:04):
her fault. One of them she hit a parked food
car like a food truck, and then the food truck
got the ticket because when the cops came, she started
like crying, and she's like this cute little white girl
and she's like, oh.
Speaker 2 (48:16):
My god, I didn't know what even happened, and the
food truck got the ticket. That's fucked exactly.
Speaker 3 (48:22):
But I have to say, just in fairness, when I
lived in Sacramento, a place I did not want to live,
I got in three car accidents in a year, and
when I had to call and tell my parents about
the third one, my mom goes, I'm coming up and
getting you tomorrow, and I was just like okay, and
I had to move home. Like my mother's like, we're
not fucking doing this funny.
Speaker 6 (48:43):
We should like laid the law down, and instead her
family would just be like, here's money for another car babe.
Speaker 2 (48:48):
Yeah, that's bad. She had an old lady head on.
Speaker 6 (48:52):
Yeah, in a car, in a car she was making
a left and just decided. I don't know, I thought
the lady would stop for me, even though she didn't
not have an arrow or anything.
Speaker 5 (49:02):
Oh, I am so mad at this person.
Speaker 1 (49:04):
I'm madder than the murderers on the show we're talking about.
Speaker 6 (49:08):
Yeah, I would rather be friends with a lady ordering
mersa online than live with that girl again.
Speaker 3 (49:13):
And so lady's kind of trying to kiss your ass
a little bit and like make it all go well
until she poisons you. It's not daily attacks.
Speaker 6 (49:21):
I bet she cleaned the bathtub when she was living
with that lady.
Speaker 1 (49:26):
Oh, so many things are flashing now. I'm so I'm
glad that I live alone right now? Are you alone?
Speaker 2 (49:32):
Now?
Speaker 5 (49:32):
I'm alone?
Speaker 6 (49:33):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (49:34):
After that, I truly was just like I could never
have a roommate again.
Speaker 6 (49:37):
Got my own place. Yeah, and now I'm in Silver
Lake the best. I love it over here.
Speaker 3 (49:42):
Yeah, it's really it's so good over here. And also
it's so nice.
Speaker 2 (49:45):
To live alone.
Speaker 6 (49:47):
It's yeah, I I you know that I was. It
was my twenties.
Speaker 2 (49:51):
I tried. I can never do it again.
Speaker 3 (49:54):
You did your best.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
I don't even know that I could live with someone
I was dating at this point.
Speaker 3 (49:58):
Well, also, I think we're Are you in a house
by yourself during COVID, Yes, yeah, me too, And I
think it Like at the beginning, I was like, oh,
I'm scared. I hope I don't have a nervous breakdown
or because I'm alone as long. And at this point
I'm like, oh, I got through all of the dark
night of the soul of that, and now I'm like,
this is what I prefer.
Speaker 1 (50:18):
Yeah, I was starting to get worried about how comfortable,
how much fun I could have by myself. I didn't
anticipate that. Yeah, like this has been a party.
Speaker 6 (50:27):
I love it, and you don't have the guilt of
I'm supposed to be places. That was the best part
of COVID. Oh yo, but I was invited, I'm supposed
to be.
Speaker 2 (50:37):
There is none of that.
Speaker 1 (50:39):
I always say that nothing was expected of me, and
all my gray hair went away.
Speaker 5 (50:44):
It was the best.
Speaker 1 (50:46):
Sure, Yes, it sucks, nothing's going on career or whatever. Yeah,
the happiness is pretty hard to ignore it.
Speaker 6 (50:52):
All those people who did that was horrible, very sad
and yet not making line of like just the no
oh fomo, just the guilt free yesh, gotta stay in all.
Speaker 2 (51:04):
Weekend, gotta watch more TV.
Speaker 6 (51:07):
Yep, no one cares that I'm binging all of Sex
in the City and my movies now that.
Speaker 5 (51:12):
I haven't shaken. How many things from that time? Have you?
Speaker 1 (51:15):
Are you disappointed that you're still experiencing today? Like, are
are you still having trouble going to things and watching?
Speaker 3 (51:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (51:25):
Too much?
Speaker 2 (51:25):
Absolutely?
Speaker 5 (51:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (51:26):
I still cannot get into the rhythm of being social again.
Like I used to be someone who was like, go
out to a bar, like after a show, I'd be like, oh,
everybody's probably just hanging out here. I'll just go stop
by and end up like you know, hopp into different shows,
different bars all night.
Speaker 2 (51:42):
And now like I will be like, when exactly do I.
Speaker 6 (51:45):
Need to be at the show for me to walk
on stage and immediately leave right after? Like if I
get there at eight fifteen, and I'll be like, what
eight twenty and we're good?
Speaker 3 (51:53):
Like I feel like because it was so comfortable, even
though it was scary as hell and very likebviously traumatizing
to everybody, there's a comfort level that now everything seems
really hard. Yeah, like all those kinds of social the
social energy is something that like you need it to
(52:14):
get it, like you have, it has to already be
happening almost. It's like a momentum thing for me. So
then I'm like, well, I can't cold go to this
party when I haven't gone to a party in four years, right,
So I just keep not doing it where it's like
because I don't like being uncomfortable ever at all, because
I was so comfortable all through COVID just being like, oh,
I don't ever have to risk anything. I don't have
(52:36):
to do anything that I don't like doing.
Speaker 1 (52:38):
Well, the good news is this podcast, what you're experiencing
right now, has replaced parties, at least for me. At
the end of the episode, you'll feel like you went
to a thing and even hung out by a pool FIRMA.
Speaker 6 (52:52):
Yeah, that's that's all I really need.
Speaker 2 (52:55):
Now.
Speaker 5 (52:55):
I can't promise the swimming pool party. I just kind of.
Speaker 3 (52:58):
Said that, But if I start having parties at my house,
I will invite you, Ashley, and then you can do
to put a big toe in see what happens. I'll
do it leave whenever.
Speaker 2 (53:06):
You'll give it a shot.
Speaker 6 (53:08):
Yeah, Like I used to throw a huge house parties,
birthday parties, and I don't think I've thrown a party
since before COVID.
Speaker 2 (53:15):
Like I just kind of was like I don't want
people in my space, right, Like I didn't just like, no,
this is just my thing now.
Speaker 1 (53:22):
Yeah, I've been meaning to have a housewarming party for
my place and I've been there four and a half years.
Speaker 6 (53:29):
Oh yeah, I've been at my place like three and
a half years and I have not had a housewarming party.
Speaker 2 (53:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (53:33):
Yeah, I just want someone else's cast for all dishes.
Speaker 3 (53:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (53:36):
And my friends are like, oh, you finally left that
horrible roommate. You should celebrate, And I'm like, I'll get
around to it and celebrating, but just being alone here,
that's the celebration.
Speaker 3 (53:47):
What Also, I love though, And I think I always
forget because when I'm like I have to go to
a party. In my mind, that means I have to
walk and be like hello everyone and then start doing
some It's like you can walk into a party in silence, Yeah,
talk to only the people you know, and leave twenty
minutes later. No one gives a show with me, right,
no one cares?
Speaker 1 (54:07):
Yeah, you can just go in and listen to other
people and leave.
Speaker 5 (54:11):
You have to say a word. But does that sound fun?
I got to go in and do a dance.
Speaker 3 (54:16):
Yeah, I mean that's that's the old me.
Speaker 2 (54:19):
I don't know. I think it's like you didn't say
hi to me. No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (54:23):
What if I go in, act like I'm going to
do a dance, put a lampshade on my head, and
then I just listened to people.
Speaker 5 (54:30):
It's the best. It's the best.
Speaker 3 (54:31):
About It is quite a way to party.
Speaker 5 (54:34):
Actually read online. We do research. I don't did the research.
The sweet on least next Dude does the research. But
it says you grew up in a house that had
a daycare.
Speaker 1 (54:45):
Yes, oh, I used to live next to a daycare,
and so I worked at the daycare for years and
I loved it.
Speaker 5 (54:51):
Did what was your How much of your life was spent?
All of it? Really?
Speaker 6 (54:56):
Literally when my mom opened the daycare when I was
like nine months old, because at the time she had
a job in Chicago and we lived in Rockford. It's
like a two hour drive between the cities, and she
would like drop me off at a daycare, go drive
into the city, work, pick me up and she was like,
I hate this. I could just start a daycare and
spend more time with my daughter, and.
Speaker 2 (55:16):
So she did.
Speaker 6 (55:17):
We had a two story house and we basically lived
upstairs and the entire downstairs was a daycare, like all just.
Speaker 2 (55:25):
Child's size seating.
Speaker 6 (55:27):
Like I like, friends would come over and I would
be like, oh, sorry, the only place we have for
use it is like this little like kindergarten table.
Speaker 5 (55:34):
They're on little tykes, like little.
Speaker 6 (55:37):
Tax equipment, and like I think my in high school,
my mom finally got a couch down there because I
was like, it would be cool to kind of have
a real living room.
Speaker 5 (55:44):
That's so funny.
Speaker 1 (55:46):
Everywhere there's your friends sit, there's just a wet cracker
between the couch.
Speaker 5 (55:51):
Yes, yeah, yeah, so many wet goldfish.
Speaker 2 (55:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (55:54):
And she did a first, second, and third shift six
months old yeah, no six or no, six weeks old
to twelve.
Speaker 2 (56:01):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (56:02):
And because I lived there, like my brother and I
had to be CPR certified.
Speaker 2 (56:07):
You had to have background checks.
Speaker 6 (56:09):
I like started getting fingerprinted when I was twelve years old.
Speaker 2 (56:12):
Wow, Oh my god, just to live in my house.
Speaker 3 (56:15):
That's crazy, just to go downstairs truly.
Speaker 6 (56:18):
Yeah, Like it was like to go downstairs and lifty,
or you have to have a background check as like
a thirteen year old girl.
Speaker 3 (56:24):
Does that mean that you're kind of like you have
this rock solid portfolio now behind you where you're like
from the time of twelve, I can prove that I've
always been an upstanding citizen.
Speaker 2 (56:33):
Kind yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6 (56:34):
And like I did start working for my mom, Like
I started working with the daycare kids and taking care
of them, probably when I was eight years old. I
started like changing diapers, carrying kids, like helping with field trips,
and by the time I was thirteen, I could like
wrangle a room of like fifteen children.
Speaker 5 (56:51):
That part I liked.
Speaker 1 (56:53):
Yeah, the wrangling, yes, but I did it in the
wrong way. I'm like, who wants to get sprayed with
a hose? And then the parents are come and I
just had them web kids and sandy wet clothes and
they were like they loved me.
Speaker 5 (57:06):
I had zero, there.
Speaker 1 (57:08):
Was no I was just my my friend, my roommate's friend.
That was all my credentials. I know that in Montana
at the time, you could not a male childcare worker,
couldn't change diapers, And I'm like, yank God, So I
would just call up Lanti's grandma.
Speaker 5 (57:28):
We got one, there's a live one, and then I
just watch.
Speaker 6 (57:32):
That was a surprising rule in also Illinois, they like
mail daycare workers aren't allowed to change diapers, and I
was good.
Speaker 2 (57:39):
I remember me like, this is sexist.
Speaker 1 (57:41):
Actually yeah it was we at the time, but it
was all It also was like that was my biggest
fear of having to do. Like when she asked me,
do you want to work here occasionally since you're right
next door, I was like, I have some diaper questions
and yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (57:57):
She's like, don't worry about the diaper's pervert. No, not
your area.
Speaker 2 (58:03):
Like I can change a diaper one handed now.
Speaker 6 (58:06):
And I'll like talk to like new moms or parents
and they're like, I've never even touched a diaper, and
I'm just like how Yeah, they're like, oh, because most
people have normal childhoods where they didn't have to like
wake up to screaming children at six in the morning.
Speaker 3 (58:18):
But I bet those little kids loved a slightly older
kid being around.
Speaker 6 (58:24):
Okay, I mean I was like the queen of the place.
Yeah you were not only because I lived there. Like
like when I was younger, there were kids my age,
and when I had favorite daycare kid friends, I would
be like, you're allowed to come up to my room
and play with a good toys.
Speaker 2 (58:39):
And I'd bring up like my three favorite female friends
up and.
Speaker 6 (58:42):
We'd be like, I'm in a you can play with
the good barbies that are up in my room. But
then also, and if there were kids I didn't like,
I'd be like, yeah, you can go play on the
outside playground.
Speaker 2 (58:54):
Actually that's right.
Speaker 3 (58:56):
But getting them used to this is the politics of childhood.
You get used to it. Yeah, those only children, That's.
Speaker 2 (59:04):
What I was doing, you know, and I loved it.
Speaker 6 (59:07):
Like a lot of the kids I'm still really close with,
which it's wild to watch.
Speaker 2 (59:11):
Them grow up. And I'm like, what do you mean,
You're like in college.
Speaker 1 (59:14):
Many of the kids that were in my daycare have
their own kids now, and those kids are already riding
bikes yeah, and driving cars.
Speaker 6 (59:24):
They have my mom babysitting their kids, and I'm just like,
this is so wild, Like.
Speaker 5 (59:29):
Oh, your mom still has the daycare.
Speaker 2 (59:31):
Yeah, she still has the daycare.
Speaker 6 (59:34):
She eventually moved it to Texas and she started doing
like daycare and elderly care. So now she takes care
of babies and old people.
Speaker 5 (59:40):
Wow, this is a.
Speaker 3 (59:41):
Very cross question. But does she fucking make bank?
Speaker 2 (59:44):
She does. We can cut that out.
Speaker 3 (59:46):
If you want, but it's all I can think about
where I'm like the idea that she quit her career
and basically was like, oh no, no, I'm feeling this niche.
It's such a need in this country. Yeah, especially people
who know what the fuck they're doing.
Speaker 6 (59:59):
And she's I mean she's been doing it for like
just over thirty years.
Speaker 2 (01:00:06):
She started it, like.
Speaker 6 (01:00:07):
You know, just kind of independently in the house, but
she went back to school to get her degree in
early childhood education. So like after that you're allowed you
can like charge higher rates and like taken like children
whose rates are subsidized by the state. Oh so that's
like how you make so much money because it's you know,
kind of like Section eight housing where the parents only
have to pay a certain amount and then the state
(01:00:28):
like pays all the rest of it, and like you
get reimbursed for the money you spend on food and stuff,
which I think is really the biggest thing about a
daycare home is I was learning how to cook for
twenty people by the time it was like ten.
Speaker 5 (01:00:41):
That's amazing to the elderly folks hang out with the kids.
Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
They yeah, I love it, Yeah they do. It's honestly
the suggest thing.
Speaker 5 (01:00:51):
Yeah yeah, I love it.
Speaker 6 (01:00:52):
Like she has this one kid right now, the stacred
kid who is obsessed with vacuuming because he is in
love with this one ninety eight year old woman my
mom watches, who is like love it forces anyone to
vacuum if they come into her house. She's like one
of those strict old ladies. That's like, if you walk
in my living room, you vacuum on the way out.
In this little like six year old boy, as soon
(01:01:14):
as like he sees Miss Irma, he's like, miss Irma, vacuum, vacuum,
miss Erma, how can I vacuum?
Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
And he loves it.
Speaker 6 (01:01:21):
And I'm just like, you are creating my little sens
as scolden girl children, and I love it.
Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
Is my I had a cousin in Montana that, when
he was six or seven, was obsessed with vacuum cleaners
and wanted a vacuum.
Speaker 3 (01:01:37):
Sorry, will you let me go over there? I didn't
I misread my map and I need to go over there?
Will you let me go.
Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
In front of you. Thank you. Sorry, I said, it's okay.
Speaker 1 (01:01:50):
No, that's part of the podcast. We that happens all
the time. Sometimes it's it's directions. Other times someone wielding
a bike clock wants to attack it.
Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
There's a lot of trauma. It's a mixed bag in LA.
Speaker 6 (01:02:03):
If you're going to get someone who's like I totally
get it, or someone who's gonna pull a gun out.
Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
This kid, anyway, UH was obsessed with vacuums and would
take them apart and put them back together, and everyone
was like, oh, we're dealing with a genius here. Yeah was,
and UH was very good at it, and the vacuum
would run again a child and guess what he does now.
Speaker 5 (01:02:29):
He owns a vacuum repair shop. Like he just knew
his passion early on.
Speaker 2 (01:02:35):
Yeah, it just clicked.
Speaker 1 (01:02:37):
Yeah, it didn't have to become like, oh that that
kid now designs rockets for Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:02:45):
So I was like, I'm just like this and that's
what I want to make people's vacuum cleaners work. That's
so noble in this world.
Speaker 6 (01:02:53):
Yeah, maybe this kid'll grow up to well, I guess,
I don't know, be a maid. Just like he just
likes to use the vacuum, but misters made service first.
Speaker 1 (01:03:04):
I wanted to see how the vacuum worked at a
young age, all the electronics. I built one from scratch
with a three D printer. Now my passion is this motel,
but it's.
Speaker 3 (01:03:17):
Kind of ironic too. Where you were forced to share
your house with thirty to eighty children, and children ayhow
and so you probably learned to actually be the best
roommate anyone could be cooking, cleaning all that shit.
Speaker 6 (01:03:32):
Yeah, you were doing it for like mass amounts of people.
And like you know, with a daycare home, it's like
at the end of every day, you don't just close
with it being a mess. You have to clean up
and make sure it looks good. And if new parents
come and check out the daycare, it has to all
look nice. And you know, even the upstairs has to
look good because it's like this one place we have
to live. But I think mostly it made me like,
(01:03:55):
like I loved sharing my mom. Like I was just like,
I have the world's best mom. She's so amazing and these.
Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
Kids are so lucky that they get to have her
in their lives.
Speaker 3 (01:04:05):
Are you an only child?
Speaker 5 (01:04:06):
No, I have eight.
Speaker 2 (01:04:07):
Brothers and sisters.
Speaker 5 (01:04:08):
Holy shit.
Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
So but we're like so broad in age.
Speaker 6 (01:04:13):
Like my oldest sibling he was born in nineteen sixty
nine and my youngest sibling was born in two thousand
and three.
Speaker 5 (01:04:23):
Oh wow.
Speaker 6 (01:04:24):
So it's like such a broad range that like my
older siblings didn't really feel like siblings. They felt like
older cousins and aunts and uncles because they would babysit me.
So in the daycare was where it kind of felt like, oh,
these are like siblings, Like I have to share my
mom with them, I have to share attention and stuff
with them. Yeah, and like I now blame that on
(01:04:45):
why I'm polyamorous, and my mom hates it.
Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
She's like, you're not gonna blame me for that. You're
being all messed up.
Speaker 6 (01:04:52):
And I'm just like, but you like raise me in
this house where I was like, love is for everyone,
there's no limits on it.
Speaker 2 (01:04:58):
My mom can love me and eighty children.
Speaker 1 (01:05:01):
I will blame the house on you, immediately claiming the
blood off of a toilet seat.
Speaker 6 (01:05:06):
Yes, it's just maybe like I've had to clean children's
peep poop my whole life.
Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
Let's just clean it up.
Speaker 5 (01:05:15):
Wow, that's great.
Speaker 1 (01:05:16):
That you still look on it as a good experience,
because I wondered if it was different from my I
think year and a half that I've worked.
Speaker 6 (01:05:25):
I mean, I guess maybe there were moments at the
time when I wanted.
Speaker 5 (01:05:31):
To be alone.
Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:05:33):
When I went off to college, I had trouble sleeping
because I was so used to falling asleep to the
sound of children, waking up to children at like four am,
and I was just like, what is this like scary silence?
Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
Yeah, it's like where are the where's the crying?
Speaker 5 (01:05:47):
You is just crying sounds and diaper smell.
Speaker 6 (01:05:51):
Yeah, And it took forever for me to be like, oh, okay, yeah,
this is just how normal people live in sleep.
Speaker 3 (01:05:56):
Do you want to have kids?
Speaker 6 (01:05:58):
I did for a long time, and mostly because I
know I'd be an incredible parent.
Speaker 2 (01:06:04):
I would be an amazing.
Speaker 6 (01:06:06):
Mom, like I have helped raise all my nieces, nephews,
great nieces and nephews. Like I love kids, I'm so
good with them. And then I'm just like, oh, but
the world is so bad, and yeah, it's like I
can do the best job in the world and like
a TikTok can ruin my kids, and that terrifies me.
Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
It's so horrifying. It's so true. Oh, it's that's funny.
My grandma had my dad had eight brothers and sisters,
so my grandma had and raised nine kids, and then
she babysat the neighborhood kids. But it was much more
kind of casual.
Speaker 2 (01:06:41):
Yeah, back in the forties and fifties or whatever.
Speaker 3 (01:06:44):
But that always blew my mind where I was like,
she must fucking love kids because she already had. You
would think she would be like exhausted or angry or something,
and instead she's like, no, keep them coming.
Speaker 2 (01:06:54):
Yeah, that's what I was always like with my mom.
Speaker 6 (01:06:56):
I was like, I don't know why you raise all
those kids and now you're just like, let me just
keep doing this.
Speaker 5 (01:07:01):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (01:07:02):
But yeah, I bet she's a really cool Always she's
she's cooler than me. All my friends are always literally like,
your mom's actually cooler and funnier than her. You should
like try to get her into stand up. Oh, he's
so great.
Speaker 1 (01:07:15):
I was on a show, a Comedy Central show with
Donnelle Rollins.
Speaker 5 (01:07:21):
What's one of the comics he's like? And he was
like always trying.
Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
To be loud and I don't know he robbed me
the wrong way at first. I've since become pals with him.
But his mom they he grew up in a foster
care house that like would take on teenagers and twenty
something year olds that were having trouble, and he also
had multiple siblings, and his mom was the coolest woman I.
Speaker 5 (01:07:49):
Had ever met.
Speaker 1 (01:07:50):
My dad and her like, it would just talk for
everyone's parent had to be on this show for a
little bit, and I'm like, oh, okay, that may for
the coolest person ever, the most compassionate human that's willing
to open their home to all these people.
Speaker 6 (01:08:07):
It's just yeah, and just don't even when things would
like get tough and kids were annoying, her parents weren't
paying their bills, she just had no problem being funny
about it.
Speaker 2 (01:08:19):
And just always making sure all these kids were happy.
Speaker 1 (01:08:22):
Yeah, and yeah, I think that's what struck me about
this woman.
Speaker 5 (01:08:26):
It's just riddled with nothing but compassion. Like that's the best.
We're getting pulled over.
Speaker 3 (01:08:35):
I'm I'm like, I can't be inconvenience to go to
a party that someone's trying to people and please stop
invading my privacy. Anything that you want to plug or
talk about before we wrap it up.
Speaker 6 (01:08:50):
Well, you can listen to my comedy album ice Cream Money.
It's out everywhere, Spotify, whatever you like to stream your
music on. I have a special comeing out this fallow
that I don't even I think I'm gonna film it
at the Comedy Store. I'm not sure yet actually, And
if you live in LA you can head to my
social media to see what shows I have coming up.
Speaker 2 (01:09:12):
Follow me at the Ashley Ray Anywhere.
Speaker 6 (01:09:14):
And your podcast Yes, and listen to my podcast TV
I Say with Ashley Ray, which is also wherever you
stream stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:09:20):
What's it about?
Speaker 2 (01:09:21):
It's all Things TV.
Speaker 6 (01:09:23):
I interview your favorite comedians actors about all the shows
they love. The latest episode is Jason man Zukus and
does he hate the Bear?
Speaker 2 (01:09:31):
Love it? We yell about it for an hour.
Speaker 5 (01:09:33):
Wait, that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (01:09:35):
Is he a Chicago guy too?
Speaker 6 (01:09:37):
Yeah, he started an improv there and we like went
to college not too far from each other. Eloy is
much older than me, but he is a huge friend
of the pod. So we have a lot of episodes
with Jason since he's not on the internet. So if
you want to know what Jason man Zukis watches TV,
I say, is the only place to I do.
Speaker 3 (01:09:55):
Want to know everything that not on.
Speaker 1 (01:09:59):
The internet because he watched all these things on VHS
pretty much learned that and more.
Speaker 5 (01:10:04):
You've been the best.
Speaker 3 (01:10:06):
Yes, thank you so much. Great to meet you.
Speaker 2 (01:10:09):
You too, Thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (01:10:11):
You're listening. You've been listening to Do you Need a Ride?
Speaker 2 (01:10:14):
D y n are hot cock cock.
Speaker 4 (01:10:25):
This has been an exactly right production.
Speaker 3 (01:10:28):
Produced by Analise Nelson.
Speaker 4 (01:10:30):
Mixed by Edson Choi.
Speaker 3 (01:10:32):
Our talent booker is Patrick Cootner.
Speaker 4 (01:10:34):
Theme song by Karen Kilgarrett.
Speaker 3 (01:10:36):
Artwork by Chris Fairbanks. Follow the show on Instagram, Twitter,
and Facebook at dinar podcast That's d y n ar Podcast.
Speaker 1 (01:10:45):
For more information, go to exactly rightmedia dot com.
Speaker 3 (01:10:48):
Thank you, Oh You're welcome.
Hosts And Creators
Karen Kilgariff
Chris Fairbanks
Popular Podcasts
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com