#16. Courtenay Collins & Jessica Vargas

8th Annual Northwest Black Comedy Festival in Portland, OR.

Cat ownership.

Lots of fun, lots of laughs.

Episode Transcript

(00:03):
Well, here we go ladies and gentlemen.
That's right. Welcome again to another edition
of It's Not About You podcast with myself, Jamal Harrington,
my lovely Co host Mary Ann. And we do have a special guest.
And when I say special, I don't mean the Olympics.
I mean a really great, great person.

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We have Courtenay Collins, the husband of Tyrone.
Husband. Collins I don't.
Know like that needs to be. I'll be the husband.
Well, the reason why is the person who gets all of his, his
stuff together as far as, like his comedy calendar, who you're

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you're, you're the woman behind the man.
Yeah, manager. I'll take her husband too.
You know me. She plays both roles, but she's
a wonderful person. And also not only is she the
wife of Tyrone, Hijinks Collins,but she's also one of the Co

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founders of the PNW Black ComedyFestival.
You could see the shirt there. Is that the.
Is that the the newest one? That's the 8th annual one you
do. You have like 7.
No, this is just the general onethat just says when we're
established. But we picked up the shirts
today, so they look great. The 8th annual.

(01:34):
Yeah, we picked them up today. Oh, nice.
Yeah. And so those who don't know, the
Black Comedy Festival, which wasestablished in 2017, starts
next. Week on Thursday?
Nope. This Thursday In two days.
This Thursday. Yes, that's why we're hopping
around doing press all week long.
But yes, and it's the Northwest Black Comedy Festival.

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Yep. Curious Comedy Theater starting
February 15th through the 18th. So Thursday through Sunday, 11
showcases, 4 days. It's going to be fun.
Musical performances, soul food,dinner, full bar, great hosts
and comics from all over the country.

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It's going to be a ball. I'm.
Sorry, did I hear full bar? Yes, you know it.
Come on full. OK.
Yeah. Did they not have.
Oh, you know you were. This is going to be your first
time. I'm curious, right Jamal?
I think so. Yeah, you were Alberta Abbey
when you were in. It right, Yeah.

(02:40):
Big curious. Yeah.
So, yeah, you'll love. Curious.
Yeah, you'll have. Yeah.
It's a good bar there. You guys have been on the
Portland like you just mentioned.
You were, you guys are. Doing a media blitz on this.
I've seen. I've seen the one that you have
sent me. And I mean, I watched it on the

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train and I watched it twice andI was like, wow, you guys, you
know, answer the questions. I mean the and and and kudos to
the interviewer asking great questions.
I was like, yeah, there you go. It wasn't like some half assed
exactly. It was like he was asking these

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questions and it was like, you guys took turns, you know,
answering the questions or it was cute.
I mean, like, yeah. Thank you.
It honestly was one of the best interviews that we've done that
I felt leaving that we said everything we needed to say that
I felt like the person interviewing us was interested,
you know? So yeah, we haven't really

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gotten that. And he actually interviewed High
Jinks a few years ago. So he's already familiar with
us, which always helps instead of them just sending a person
who's like, Oh yeah, go cover this story.
So it was his choice to call us and say, I want to do this on
the live stream. Yeah.
And that was our first time doing that particular show.

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And it was, yeah, it came out amazing.
I never watch myself doing interviews because it's always a
cringe moment or something or the, yeah, it just never works
out for us, quite honestly. But I might have watched that
one. Probably 10.
Times. Yesterday.
The one. Thing that I was like, Oh yeah,
we sound good. The one thing that stood out in

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the interview was when he asked them, of course, why you guys
wanted to do that. And and hi, Jinx mentioned
Bridgetown. Yes, if you and I was like, I
had to rewind it again, I was like, Oh my God, you're not
saying it loud enough. But I was like.

(04:46):
Oh my God, say it again, if you will.
Like if you could just for the audience, the paraphrase kind of
what he was talking about, because I don't want to put
words in his life. You were there.
I mean, I watched the Internet, but it was such a great answer.
Like what? Do you want to do a black Comedy
Festival? Like what gave you the idea?

(05:08):
And in the Pacific Northwest, yeah.
What? What?
What? Got.
You So, yes, there was a huge festival done here called the
Bridgetown Festival when he first started comedy and you
know, the city basically shut down.
It was over like 3 streets, bar hopping, really big and they
brought you know, national headliners here and maybe three

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or four or six local comics would get in that.
And it was very, very, very rarely black folks in that line
up. I mean local comics period, but
even fewer, you know, black comics.
So he worked a stage hand job atthat festival a couple of times
and he came away like it's such a good festival, so well done.

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But we're not there. We're not represented, you know,
I mean, even backstage he was, you know, one of the only few
black folks. So he's like, I want to do this
in Portland. I want to do it where we have
all the black comics on the stage where they can see all the
talent. That's right here in the Pacific
Northwest. It's here.

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Yeah. And he jumped on it, called all
his friends and people that he'smet doing comedy for two or
three years. Just at that point.
Ken Hamlet, you know, coming from you guys or I should say
you're all over the place, Jamal, but coming from also the
Pacific Northwest, Washington area, he was honestly one of the

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first people to jump on and say,you know, hijinks, whatever you
need. I got your back and he's still
with us eight years later. So that tells you right there
how much he believes in it and how, yeah, how much him and
hijinks respect each other. So that is how it came to be.

(06:58):
It's. And like you guys had mentioned,
it's just the two of us. You know what?
I'm saying. And that was like, so, so it's
just like and and yeah, I remember so I remember two years
ago when I first saw him bouncing around, I was like and

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and and that was like the 1st. And that was like I had so much
respect for him because I saw white people running around
doing his bidding. And I was like, Oh yeah, you're
so sad. That's like, kind of It was
almost like a like a Planet of the Apes kind of.
That's a good description. That's a good description.

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It was like, he was like pointing and I was like, is he
doing? Is he so, like, I was like, is
this guy here for stage time? Is he working or is this like
not holding a mic? Is he like, if this is a black
Comedy Festival, like let this be a black Comedy Festival?
Like don't let it be a black Comedy Festival with exceptions,

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you know what I'm saying? Like, yes, but he, you know, I I
was talking to one of the the the the white dudes in the back
in the green room and I was like, So what do you get out of
this? He's like, Oh no, you know, I'm
just, I'm just helping because I'm like that white person
really is helping. They do, they do.

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They come up, they show up. They are super supportive of
what we do as well and they like.
We have a couple person, Chelsea, who have done it for
3-4 years now and they take off work, you know what I'm saying?
They take off work and work our whole festival.

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Like they're my top volunteers now.
I made them my volunteer coordinators because they know
all the jobs, because they've done them and I know they care
about our festival as much as wedo.
And yeah, and they know what's up.
They know they're going to be running and just scrambling and
you know, just helping other comics and and us and they're
very happy to do so. And you know, no pay, but we

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feed them very, very well and they get to see all the shows
for free. So I think it's a good trade
off. Well, and not only that, but
they also, if they're comics also, they get to network with
other comics. There you go.
Thank Marianne. That is such.
It is so. Critical to be able to do that
networking, yes. And be able to learn like when

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you watch somebody else do theircraft, especially people who are
like really masters at it. And I'll tell you what I had I'd
heard a lot about high jinks. I'd never seen him before.
And then I finally, you know, and I'd heard about him for a
year and I finally got to see him perform.
Man, he is so high energy. Yes.

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All over the place, he's. Growing on the floor, just.
Like blown away at. That.
Level of of talent, but with that energy to boot.
And that's something that is so,so important to be able to watch
comics that perform if you're high energy, to be able to see
other high energy comics. Right.

(10:17):
New and how they incorporate physicality.
Yes, yes. Or if you are something that is
low energy, but you also want tosee somebody who is your
opposite or you know or somebodywho's high energy to watch.
Somebody who can really command the stage and take.
The right base and be like a dead yeah.
Mm hmm. And be at this level, right?

(10:38):
That and. They it.
Looks easy. That's.
That's what happens when you're.You're a professional.
Yeah, that's such a good point. Marianne, because that was the
first time I've seen high jinks.Also when I put him on that show
in rental when he opened for Tony Daniel, right?
I've never seen him before. Right, right.

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You can see him do the little intros and stuff.
But yeah, when people get to seehim work, cook, but he.
Was all over. He's good.
It's you know what sometimes youcan I mean not for nothing you
could kind of tell somebody. I mean he's very passionate
about stand up comedy that that right there and and he wants to

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do good. He wants everyone around him to
do good. You know when when we did shows
in the, when we did shows in theSouth, it was like it was almost
like wow and and and not only that, he's funny, you guys are
funny. It's that you guys are very you.
You guys are very serious about this business.

(11:44):
Very, yes. You know, you guys aren't
tourists here. You guys are Hey man.
You guys don't like? To live here.
We live here. Yeah, you guys are are are not
doing this just because you needsomething to do like you guys,
like you guys are very serious about that.
And the one thing that I like about you, Courtenay and High

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Jinks is just like. You.
First of all, he's madly in lovewith you like he is.
I I I can't. He'll always say something like,
Oh yeah, we need to do this or she'll be mad.
I'm like, wait, wait. What?

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And that's like my mind. I'm like, wait, she's married to
you. But but in all respect though.
You. Can tell that he does because
it's just like he's he's thinking about you, right?
You know what I'm saying? Like that?
That, that. Don't get me wrong.
Yes, he's about to do a show. He's about to do whatever.

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Right. Yeah, but.
He's he's also thinking about his wife and her well-being
before he stepped on stage. I'm like, you son of a bitch
dude, you. Got to start over here.
When I go on stage, I'm just like, shit, does the mic work?
He's going on just your wife, OK?

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Because, you know, he got that like he don't have to work.
That's what he said. He he that's not his stressful
part. Like he's we see comic spaces
like that's yeah. I'm the one who stressed him out
on the stage. He's like woo Hoo freedom and
it's so. Funny.
Oh, go ahead. But you're not only are you OK,

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aside from the marriage, you area fan of comedy.
Like, you have a great time. When he's on stage, you are.
I see you laughing. I'm like, wow, she's laughing at
his jokes. And they've been married for how
long? You don't see that a lot.
Like sometimes it's just like, Oh yeah, I've heard that joke
before by that. Like.
You're a fan. You're a fan of his.

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But but if we if we didn't know who you were and we saw you in
the crowd, we wouldn't even think you guys were married
until like. After the show, that's.
Crazy. He got him a groupie, a fan.
Well, you know what the how muchof it is that you're laughing at
his jokes versus you're laughingat the enjoyment of the audience

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that keeping? That actually the audience is
him. It's definitely him.
I get a kick out of. I'm watching some folks
reaction, but I'm laughing at him, I'm laughing at him and
actually I think audience members get more of a kick out
of me laughing at him and us, our kind of little thing that we
do more than the other way around.

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But yeah, he is just so good. Like of course I've heard his
jokes a million times, right. But he'll say it different or
he'll. I mean, he just is, Yeah.
And he did his spell yesterday at the Good Foot.
And I was so happy that a couplefestival comics are in the
building because usually they don't come this early, right?

(14:56):
But we had one in the building yesterday and another local
comic who, you know, just gets to see him at his open mics
where he's really just, you know, it's not, he's not doing
his, you know, stage level work.He's just up there playing
around at open mics and people think that's his where he's at.
And then they go see him when he's booked.
I'm telling you this girl sent me probably 8 messages just like

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Oh my God hi Jinx is a star. I'm like girl you telling who
you telling. I know she's like and it's so
funny you said that Marianne cuzshe said if he ever decides to
teach a class and not a beginner's class but for folks
that are already doing it because his physical comedy and
hit like everything you literally just said she was like

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he needs to I would be and I'll be the first one to sign up like
it's crazy. So I'm like, maybe we can do
physical comedy and stage presence.
Class is what he kind of wants to.
You know, and that's the hardestthing for anybody to do.
Like, you can learn how to writejokes and be funny.
But. To learn how and the stage and

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to have that stage presence one of the hardest things.
It is. It's a whole different beast.
And that's a lot of folks don't get that.
They spend so much time writing that they forget that they have
to. You still, it's still an
entertainment. We still gotta get the people
in, right? So it's.
All about, it's not being necessarily the funniest.
Person Most entertaining people.There you go.

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And that's what people get confused sometimes, That is,
yes. And that's one of the things
that I had a lot of respect I'veheard about his comedy, that's,
I think probably what's really shocked me was is that I've
heard from plenty of comics thathe's worked with up here.
Yeah, that he was funny. OK.
I would expect him. Yeah, right.
Right. I hope so right?
But what they didn't say was that he is a very physical

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person like he's. He's damn.
You cannot. I mean, like he commands the
entire stage. Yeah, no matter.
Like the stage we were working with, it was the craziest.
Thing I Remember Remember had the whole I remember.
Yeah. They had this whole and the
safety professional, like those who know me know that I'm a

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safety. Professional.
I was losing my fucking mind. There's a hole in the middle of
He didn't care. Just a hole.
We need fall protection. Are you kidding?
I'm going to lose my my licensing and all my credibility
because I'm working around this fucking.
Hole. And then I saw him.

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Take a little baby steps and tryto be great.
I remember. All over the floor.
All over. And I'm like, we got us a
fucking lawsuit. He's going to fall.
In it's over. Right.
Oh man, I was so stressed and I was so impressed that he didn't
get hurt. At the He's not clumsy, OK?

(17:54):
My God. Yes, it was very, very.
But he yeah, it was something that was incredibly
entertaining. But so you guys started the
Black Comedy Festival and I can understand that you as his wife.
Now let me ask you something. You guys have been doing a lot
of interviewing. Here's a question I have to ask.

(18:16):
Has there ever been a question that you wished people like when
you were getting interviewed that people would ask you?
What's the point? Where did they miss you?
What are the questions that they're not asking that you wish
they? Would ask.
Dang, that's a good question, Mary Ann.

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And honestly, I would have had better answers if I didn't have
that interview yesterday. That guy.
Right. But really just more about Dirty
Angel and him specifically, justI think more about his what's
the word? I'm looking for people that he

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looks up to his influences. There we go, his influences.
Why, You know, why does he do comedy?
Just kind of more into who he isas a person?
Because I do think people miss alot about him.
They might see one thing or hearthis thing or whatever, but he's
a very, you know, deep, complex dude.

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So I think it's getting just more into his mind and asking
him like his opinions on things more and not just focus on like
on the festival. I guess maybe that's.
Right, right. And I think that that's
something like I knew we we've interviewed him before.
We didn't get a chance to. It's been some crazy interviews
because he double books the shitout of everything.

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He's. Talked about the phone.
That's how he lit, Yeah. That's how his comedy is, is how
his life is, yes. He took us.
He. Took us to a.
Dispensary. Yeah.
You said what? He took us to a weed dispensary
once. Yes.

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In there buying weed. Oh, on the Gotcha.
Yeah. That's his daily field trip.
I know. I was there today, and I'm like
hijinks is why they're like, oh,got your order.
He has a discount code. I brought my business partner
with me. She's like, oh, you were really

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serious. He has a discount.
I was like, I was dead serious when I said tell him hijinks
sent you. I'm being dead.
He didn't get the name High Jinxfor nothing.
Y'all like that means something.That is a that's actually a
really good question. How did he get?
Yeah, high. Jinx.
Yeah, well first he did get Jinx, and that was the original

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nickname, and he got that as a teenager.
He's His birthday is November 13th and his mom always told him
he was born on Friday the 13th, which we I've looked up and it's
not true. I was.
Like woo. Families keep those legends miss
going, don't they? But anyway, he was a high school

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job working at Popeye's and he was like fixing the order and
knocked the whole thing of chicken down.
And his boss was like, boy, you a jinx, you a jinx.
And so everybody start calling him that.
And then I guess when the weeds started, he added the high to
it. That's hilarious.
Yeah. And I use it a lot just for, you
know, because, you know, high jinks as in funny.

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That's why it's like the House of high jinks, like it's a
double entendre. Yeah, so.
That's what makes. It so funny, yeah.
Because it's not. Because most people, if you hear
about that name high jinks, you would think that it was just it,
you know? Oh, that's great for the funny.
Yeah, but there's it. Just sounds like there's
something else there. You know, yeah, it's definitely

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about the smoke. We know that boy loved to smoke.
Yeah. But being a Friday the 13th
baby, although he's not really. A Yeah, but that was what he
grew up thinking. So, yeah, so.
That is so funny. It is and it does fit him.
I mean, and it's so funny because when I say that was his
name we met at Applebee's. He's my waiter.

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His name tag, said Jinx. He had them people calling him
Jinx. Oh, my God.
I did not know his government name until he asked me to marry
him. And I talked to his mother and
they called him his government name.
I was like, oh, I said, OK, well, your mom called you

(22:31):
Tyrone. I'm calling you Tyrone.
But like my sisters, my family, everyone, he's jinx.
Yeah, he's that's what they did ask.
How long have? You guys been married?
You guys been married a long time?
Yeah, we just celebrated 25 thispast November.
Wow, since 1998. His anniversary?
His birthday is the 13th. When's your guys's anniversary?

(22:53):
November 21st. OK, so like a week later.
Exactly. And we started dating on October
15th, and that's the kind of onewe wanted to get married.
But when we told my mom and thenthat we were getting married, it
was like only two weeks away. We were just going to go to the
courthouse and she was like, you're my first daughter.
Can I please, please let me do awedding?

(23:15):
Please. And so I gave her a month, which
went out to the yeah. You know and.
It's so funny because my husbandand I actually met on November
13th. That's.
Our anniversary. I love fall.
Yeah, I love fall. Weddings are, Yeah, Those are my
favorite. People tell me they were married
in September. November.
Like I love that. You know, I yeah.

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And and The thing is, so is, is that we got married.
We wanted to get married on our anniversary that November 13th.
The only thing is just that we went down to my dad's not doing
well. And honestly, I was just talking
to my nephew tonight and I'm like, honestly, I don't know how
the man's still alive. Oh wow.

(23:56):
A. Couple years ago.
Got you. I I just don't know what keeps
him going on. And so my husband, when we went
down there for Dad's 80th birthday, he's like, OK, we're
going to get married. And I was like, OK, yeah.
And I was like, yeah, whatever. It's not.
And then he's telling all my family that we're getting
married because he wanted my dadto walk me down the aisle.

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And I was like, oh, you're beingfor reals.
And I'm thinking, you know, we had some shit going on That is a
whole another dramatic. Another show.
I was like, so this is just on. So as far as my dad is
concerned, we got married then. Oh, got.
You here and. Then I was like, well, because

(24:37):
it's November 5th or September 5th, now we have to keep that as
our wedding date because then it's going.
To look weird. Got you.
And we renewed our vows. We were up here.
But it's in September, he said. So that's still.
Fall Yeah. Still, yeah.
It's it is that fall things thatto me like getting married in

(24:58):
the fall, but like that is such a beautiful time of year.
I agree. Right into the winter, it's it's
such a great time. Yeah, we had an evening wedding.
It was gorgeous. Yeah, it was gorgeous.
I will say probably the most gorgeous low budget wedding we
have ever seen. Yeah.
He did a good job with a little bit, you know.
What though? It doesn't take a whole lot of

(25:19):
money to be able to have a beautiful wedding.
I. Agree.
I agree. Yeah.
I didn't want much. So yeah, I.
Was yeah. Yeah.
And I, you know I get it and but25 years.
Yeah, you guys. How many kids do you guys?
Have 4 total. He had a son when we met and
then three together. So wow.

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And his My Bonus son colleague just turned 2727 on a the 7th of
this month. So hold on.
Let me make sure look at how I got to do the math because I

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don't want to say it wrong. OK?
He he's that he's my first childeven though he wasn't you know
my biological was the first kid and I was parenting so.
So he made me a mother 27. Yep, I was right.
So yeah, he turned 27 and my oldest turns 20.

(26:23):
Four in October. So you guys, you guys had a
toddler when you got together? Yes, yes.
He was eight months old when we got together.
Wow. Yeah, it was, it was rough.
And like I said, I would not recommend that would not

(26:45):
recommend that women's. But you know, love the
heartworms with the heartworms. My goodness, yeah, it yeah, it
was rough. It was rough.
And we were young, but he was a good dad, which is what actually
attracted to me, attracted me tohim when I saw him with his son,

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or we're gonna be talking, he'd be like, oh, got to go, time to
feed my son. Time to bathe my son.
Like he didn't play. He's by girl.
Like, you know, I've never seen that before in my life.
Yeah. And never.
I'm used to men. Like when the when they break
up, then you the man goes and you know, he might be parents
and kids. That's not his because he's with

(27:25):
that woman. But I've never seen a man break
up with a woman and still be like a dad.
Wow. What a concept.
Right. So that is really was like
because I didn't eat my biological dad till I was 16.
So I was like in awe like, oh wow, this man, wow.
This is a young guy. And he is.
He came to Portland for his son.He met they he was from Atlanta

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and she was going to school in Atlanta, but she was from
Portland. So when she got pregnant, she
moved back here to raise her sonaround her family, and he
followed her out here to Portland because he was not
going to be away from his son. That is amazing.
It is. So, yeah, he's he's a good, good
daddy. Yeah.
And you know what, though? That's the world needs.

(28:12):
I agree. Like that, They really do.
I really agree, Yeah. It's a hard thing like, you
know, I I know, I think you know, we we, I was talking about
this with somebody else about how my generation is the first
generation of divorce. Right.

(28:34):
Yep. Like.
So you guys are just a little bit younger than I am, but I'm
a. Little bit like, yeah.
I'm sure, yeah. Where when you went to school
and you, you know people were like, your parents are married,
you're what do you mean you don't have a dad?
How? Come.
You don't have a dad. Did he die?
Yeah, you know. Yeah, and very true.

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And so it was not common at all.And not in my neighborhood.
Yeah, not in my neighborhood. Yeah, exactly.
You're right. I was in oddballs.
Right. And so I think a lot of it is,
is that these, these men have watched, they're like their mom

(29:18):
struggling. And you know, they're a few
years back they said that the largest growing demographic is
single fathers. I would, I I see.
I see that all the time. More than you would.
Yeah, I agree. These women are just like bye.
Right. Which is?
Hey, hey. You know.
Which is so at, you know, and that's the way it should be.

(29:40):
You know, I agree. You know that there there needs
to be that involvement. I would like to see more
involvement from both parents. But hey, yeah, you know what?
Yeah. Exactly.
See, you know, the courts allowed.
There's, you know, I remember there was times that the mom was
just a shitty fucking. Human being, right?
And they didn't care, right? And they didn't care.
She She had a mom. Right, exactly.

(30:03):
And I hate that because there, yeah, there are dads that
obviously are better parents. I mean just, I mean, honestly,
for us, he was the the cooking, cleaning guy.
I was a career woman, you know, so.
That's just fine by me. He.
Yeah. A.
Lot of that stereotype is starting to change, too.

(30:24):
Where he Yeah, because my mom and them thought it was crazy,
OK? They talked about our marriage
so bad. People really talked about our
marriage. They did not understand it.
But look who's still standing, right.
And. And.
That's because you have to do what works for you.
You got to do what works for you, not what your mom did or
your aunt did. That's one thing.
Don't listen to people's advice.Nope.

(30:47):
And the. Other thing too is that keep in
mind when people tell you, oh, you can't do that.
Yes. What they're really saying is.
I can't do that. Therefore.
You can't. Preach that is true.
They they put their fears on you.
It happens all the time. But, and being dreamers like we
all are, believe me, they speak fear.

(31:08):
Yeah, yes. And we wouldn't be doing this
if. Successful ones have not clung
to that fear, and they push through and keep doing it
anyways. Exactly.
But we have to be different. We have to be ground Breakers to
do it right. You.
Get crazy and Oh yeah, people, you are the same.
You have to be obsessed, intense, all that.

(31:30):
All of that, all of that. And to be able to really chase
that, to really chase your dream, nobody else is going to
understand that they can't no Of.
Course not. You have to and if you are are
lucky enough to find a partner who not only supports your dream
but understands. It.
Yeah. And is with you 100%.

(31:52):
Yeah. That is a blessing.
Oh, that's a that is such a a rarity, that is.
So I agree. Like, and that's why.
Yeah, yeah, Sorry. Yeah.
But that's why, you know, folks,we're different.
Like I say, we're not for everyone.
And that is totally OK. Because my thing is everybody

(32:15):
likes you, then you're not probably standing for much.
You probably don't stand for much.
Exactly. And and that's just it though.
It's just that, you know, there is definitely a lot of things
that you know. So when you do something that's
non traditional, yes, you're always got people, their lips

(32:36):
are flapping, you know, because they got to be talking about
something because it's not, you know, how they would perceive
things or how they would do things.
And I don't give like look. I've never given much shit about
whoever's talking. About I don't care.
Yeah, your. Your opinion of me is your
business, not mine, no. Thank you.

(32:56):
And I'm glad I learned that lesson early on.
And it's so funny. My mom taught me that lesson,
but it backfired because she's like, hey, yeah, I went from
that nine to five and was like, quit it.
And yeah, I'm telling you that everybody, my family was like,
what the hell are you doing, child?
We didn't raise you to be doing this.
Whatever you're doing. And now with this festival and

(33:20):
these, everything that's taken off, they're just like woo Hoo.
Good job guys. We didn't get it at first, OK,
we're we're starting to see the vision.
We're starting to see. The vision, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
And it's still staying positive and pushing through all the
negativity and. Yeah, it's rough.
Putting all that work in, you know that's an an insane amount

(33:41):
because you guys will finish thefestival this weekend, right?
Take what, a couple days off maybe and.
Then you'll you. Know it.
And it's. Yeah, you already know over the
weekend we'll be going. OK well let's do that.
Yeah. Especially high jinks like
there's he does not turn off there's I literally have to be

(34:02):
like OK, babe I need just give me two hours Just let me watch
my Judge Judy for let me watch four episodes.
Of Judge Judy and. Then we didn't regroup.
As he he will. I mean, it really is 24 hours a
day. We wake up talking about this.
We go to sleep talking about this.

(34:22):
I mean, yeah, it's we live and breathe it for.
Somebody who smokes weed and hasthat kind of energy still, I
can. Right.
That's why I said people don't be blame it on weed, man.
This man will get up, clean my house, do the laundry, cook and
be high. There's nothing wrong with that.

(34:44):
Nope, there's nothing wrong withthat.
And I got to say that I don't think I would ever want to see
him not be on Wii Energy. What the fuck would he be like
if he was unplugged? Like, he's probably one of those
people that would be the exact opposite.
Like he would probably crash andjust like.
Yeah. Yeah.

(35:04):
Yeah, I don't like when Hijinks is quiet, but yeah, even though
I'll be like, be quiet when he is, I'm like, oh man, what's
wrong? Yeah, it's rare, but yeah, I
don't like it. Yeah, I.
Don't like it? That's funny.
Well, and there's a lot like so for you personally.
You're not just somebody who works the the day job and is

(35:28):
also his supporter like you have.
Yeah, doing stuff too, yeah. As well, You're an entertainer
as well, yeah, and that's something that a lot of.
People don't. Know.
Yeah, I forget myself sometimes.Yeah, I want to say I'm his
manager and he's mine as DJ. Wild child.
He's as as supportive for my career as his career, you know,

(35:53):
same thing like Jamal, you sent him.
I mean, you sent me that info. He'll do the same for me.
If I have a booking, I'll be like send it to high jinks.
He'll, you know, he keep my calendar, I'll keep his.
He speaks highly about me. He's always begging me up.
And that is very rare, especially, I mean, just to be
real. I mean men.
It's it's it's rare. Yeah, it.

(36:14):
Is it's rare? It's rare.
Especially, I would say, especially with a man who's an
entertainer. Period, period, right.
But especially as an entertainer.
Yeah. So because they're usually busy
talking about themselves. Yes.
And they forget to like. Yeah.

(36:40):
Think about other folks or Yeah,exactly.
And there's times honestly whereI'll be like, OK, this is about
me now outdoor, you know he ain't perfect now but but, but
but just to overall have that attitude where you know my wife
is dope, hire my wife. Like yeah he's out there, you

(37:00):
know selling. Which is so cool.
Yeah. It's so cool to have you know
your front man right there, too.You're, you know, somebody
promoting you and that's that issomething that you know,
honestly, I think a lot of of couples have a hard enough, it's
hard enough to be a couple anyways, to be an entertainer,
both of them. To be an entertainer, it's a

(37:22):
lot, Yep. Wowzers.
That is so much more intense. Like my husband, My husband is
also does comedy, OK? And so for us, it's like, so
we're at totally different levels.
Got you. OK.
And so I think the one of the things that I had to tell him

(37:46):
straight up I was gay. I told him straight up was you
and I are a couple. You and I are a team.
Except for when it comes to comedy, OK.
I like that I'm. I'm a comic, yeah.
It's not a we. It's a it's me and you.

(38:07):
You or you? Got you.
Because when. He would say shit like so.
So when are we? When is our next show?
When are. We getting booked.
Ah, got you like, no, that's your career friend.
You. I got booked, but that would.
Do with some hustling. And so.
And you started first, right? So you asked me this question a
long time ago. We haven't talked about it.

(38:29):
Yes, OK. Jamal, Jamal is here.
So there you go. And Jonathan just joined us.
Welcome Jonathan. I'm Jonathan.
Jonathan, I don't know if you'vemet Courtney before.
No, not yet. How are you, Courtney?
Nice to meet. You oh, you're the friend.
You're you're the friend Jamal'stalking about, though.
In mobile, right? I'm East Coast.
That's right. Yeah.
Were you going to say East Coast?
Yeah. No, that he was hanging.

(38:51):
Out. No, he was talking about you
when we were in mobile. Mobile.
Whatever. I.
Used to, yeah. That's when we were in Alabama.
So. Jamal.
Everybody knows that Jamal is also a promoter and he does
bookings and stuff. And Jamal told me and and Romeo

(39:15):
that he would never book a husband and wife comedy.
OK. And I was like, and he said that
he's not the only promoter, thatthere's other promoters that
would not book a husband and wife on the same show.
OK. And I said why?

(39:35):
I don't understand why. So, Jamal.
Yeah, I want to yeah, I'm. I want.
I want to know the answer to this.
Are I've. Been partners before, so yeah, I
want to see. I don't even go as far as not
just husband and wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, Got it?
I don't hear significant other not book you on the same show.
One reason. Here's one reason.

(39:58):
Let's say. You both have a situation where
you can't make the show and I have a 5 comic lined up, is
gutted and I got to replace two people both.
People. OK, well.
That's no different than bookingsomeone with a car to take and
then somebody without a car getshitched a ride.

(40:20):
That's kind of this. I know a whole show that got,
yeah, cancelled because everybody in the car and they
got an accident into an accident.
So yeah, the whole show was cancelled.
With that being said, when I wasliving in Seattle, I was not
booking comics who didn't have acar.
Sorry. You don't have a.
You don't play about your book, OK, Yeah, you got a whole list
of will. Not live.

(40:43):
When I do, I was going to start doing.
Comedy. I waited till I bought a car 1st
and trust me, I waited a month before I made my first payment
and once I made that first payment and got me that car I
was, I was going to open mics. I was driving to open mics.
I will if you don't have a vehicle.
Sorry, I can't book you because I can't trust If you're going to

(41:05):
show up, what kind of here's. The thing Hard bargain.
How irresponsible would it be for me for me to book you on a
theater show where people are paying to come and see?
A. Show and you don't show up
because I knew you didn't have acar.
That that's on me. That's not on the comic.

(41:25):
Who doesn't have a car? I should know better.
Oh, you don't have a? Car.
OK, I move on to the next comic with.
The car. Yeah, but Jamal.
There would be no shells in Portland that would be. 0.
Really. You know, so like, I'm in New
York, most people in the city don't have cars.
Most people in Brooklyn and Queens, most common, we don't

(41:48):
have cars. Harlem, the Bronx, like, they
might not have cars, right. Even people in like Jersey City
might not have cars. Parts of Jersey, if you're close
to the metropolitan New York area, you just it's, you know,
it's expensive. Like we're paying rent.
Like we, you know, cars are a luxury.
The minority of people out here have cars.
Maybe 10% of comics I know have cars.

(42:08):
So like, if I'm doing something out in Pennsylvania, I might put
out an APB and just kind of see who's got a ride and who can
take people. So I appreciate in other parts
of the country that's not the story.
But like out here our pools are a thing.
You know, drivers are a thing. Like, that's just a thing we we
we deal with out here. And yeah, we suffer the
consequences of, you know, the, you know, the guy the driver

(42:29):
left late or they were trying topick up, you know, they were
picking up two other people. One was on time, the other was
like 40 minutes late. Well, but all three of them are
now 40 minutes late. Like that's this is the shit we
deal with. So that's why, you know, we we
look to book professionals, you know, comics who are both very
professional, what they do, planaccordingly, anticipate, you
know, shit like that. Yeah, regardless.
Let's let's let me to clarify, Allow me to clarify.

(42:51):
I'm not talking about New York comics or East Coast.
I'm not talking because I know that situation.
I don't have a car but and and Iknow I could get to a Venue if I
play my cards right with the train.
I'm talking about Tacoma. Yeah, maybe I'm talking.
About I'm talking about like Civic Northwest, where places
where you need a vehicle. Yeah.

(43:12):
Portland you Yeah. Portland, you definitely don't.
Because I know you, you could gofrom Seattle to Renton and get
there on public transportation and probably 45 minutes to an
hour, which usually takes like a20 minute drive.
Got it. You know, that's wild.
Yeah, that's. And and I booked a comic,
actually from Portland, who I thought had a vehicle he calls.

(43:39):
Tell me who? He calls me 20 minutes.
After the dummy who who gave youthe bad taste in your mouth.
But he was on his way, and this is what he tells me.
I'm in Tacoma right now. We had to stop and pick up
passengers and I was like. Did you take a?
Greyhound bus from. Port.

(44:01):
And he was like, yeah, I don't have a car and I got so.
Is it a headlining type person? OK then then OK then.
That's not who I'm thinking. There's a pretty big comic out
here who don't have a vehicle that.
I was there's a 5050. Chance if he'll come to your

(44:24):
show and I don't think that's just about not having a car
though, so. And the funny?
Thing is, every time I do the open mics in Portland, he was
there, so I assume he has what? I'm saying people get to where
they want to, with or without a car.
That's all I'm going to say, right?
Even people with cars flake. We got car flaked.
I know I'm thinking of they havea very beautiful car and they

(44:48):
flake a lot. So I think it's really the
comic. Going back, well we yeah, the
original question was why won't you look?
Yeah, yeah, because they mess uphis.
Lineup. It's it's that also, it's just
like, you know my my favorite thing is when I book a woman and

(45:13):
she brings her significant otherand they're like, oh, he's a
comic too. So if there's.
Is there a way? I don't like that.
I don't like that. There's.
Always. Oh no, we're good.
Like I would. Never add you because if you The
thing is this, if he's a comic, good for him.
Yeah. I'd rather him tell me.

(45:34):
Yeah. Like, right, of course.
Because nine times out of 10, one of them is funnier, way
funnier than the. Other of course.
Always. And not for nothing.
That's a long drive home. You trying?
You trying to save relationships?

(45:55):
Thank you. Thank you.
Let me tell you something. Let's say me and my significant
other, who's also a comic, we'reon the same show.
We actually. I remember I was dating this
comic. We had rules.
We are not going to ever be on the same show, but I want you to
come to the show and support me because if she crushes and I
don't do well and I have to hearabout how great the audience was

(46:21):
to her and all the laughs she's got.
Meanwhile, I'm hoping that I don't crash this car.
Until. I like no, I got to.
I got to carry that. I don't have it in my heart to
be like. Hey, I'm saying y'all comics are
sensitive. Lord Lord.
Lord. You breaking it down this is all

(46:43):
better but this all sounds like these this is coming from your
trauma. I want to side because.
Like typically and like Valentine's Day is like, what?
Tomorrow? And so typically I'll produce a
Valentine's Day show, right? And I'll go out of my way to try

(47:07):
to book couples for the show. OK.
Reason being, there's a few reasons.
One, my audience who tends to come back to my shows because I
like the quality of my shows. They know I bring different line
UPS. They know the the kind of
talent, high quality talent. The reason is, you know, when I
think about the audience, and I'm going all right, if people
are going to buy tickets to a Valentine's Day show, this might

(47:27):
be their Valentine's Day eveningout, right?
I just. Want to be?
Friday, if it's on a Thursday, whatever.
So like they're going to get dressed up, they're going to
come through. I don't want people talking
politics. I don't want people talking
military. I want people talking about
relationship. They right wife.
And they're doing different. And like, when I book people, I
typically know. Like, yeah, if someone's gonna

(47:47):
bring a plus one, it's nice to meet you.
Thanks for supporting the show. Submit a tape, I'll, you know,
I'll review it maybe and get youon the next one.
But if I'm booking a husband, wife or a boyfriend, girlfriend
or whatever, like if they're gonna get out, the guy's gonna
get there and be like, let me tell you something, my
girlfriend, she forced in her sleep.
Nah, Nah, Nah, They broke it. My my man, he won't take the
garbage out. Blah, blah, blah.

(48:08):
Like it's relatable to the audience, right?
And so a month later when I'm doing Saint Patty's Day and I
got a bunch of Irish folks up there, and then when it's
Memorial Day, I got a bunch of veterans up there.
Like, I like connecting comics with Prop.
Now if it's just a regular old show, same thing.
I still don't really mind. Like couples can talk their
shit, they can talk, you can be in a couple.

(48:29):
And typically I feel comics justkind of talk about their life
story anyway to be a part of it.If you're married, that's going
to be a part of it, you know andso but any anybody can talk
about relationships. So like I don't really think it
makes a difference. Now the you know Jamal, if
you're talking about you know inyourself with your with your
with your. SO that's right.

(48:49):
That was a personal story, right?
Go ahead. Yeah.
Hi. Jinx and I did a storytelling
show together. That's the only show we got to
do together, because obviously I'm not a comment.
Even though I'm hilarious, I'm not a comment.
I will say that. Go ahead.

(49:09):
Courtenay is a very, very cool hang.
Thank you if I'm just saying so myself.
She. Lets the dudes do whatever they
want. My favorite, My favorite moment,
What was in mobile. What was in mobile.
I have to share this as we all just it's about Courtenay's a

(49:32):
DJ, so we're walking around Dolphin St. which is like the
Party St. of Mobile, downtown mobile that has bars everywhere.
As a matter of fact, even Jonathan knows, like we went to
that one place where we got the wings.
Yeah, yeah. Down there, we went back there
actually, still good. We're walking around Dolphin and

(49:53):
we found a place that looked like it didn't need our
business. So we walk in, they they pat us
down, which it's mobile. So yeah, you got to pat us down.
We walk in and there's not really much going on in this
place. But there's a a big buff white
DJ spinning and and listening toCourtney be like, wow, if I was

(50:16):
him, here's how I would draw theladies into this bar and I'm
like, who? Better.
Who? Better to on this.
Dude. Then the then DJ.
Watch out, you know. I would have had it cracking in
there. It was.
It was insane. And it was almost like he's and

(50:40):
we so he stood out. It was almost like this guy did
not belong here. Like who paid you to be?
In. This.
Like, who are you? Trying.
Music. But but meanwhile, the next day
we go to a a cigar bar and there's a black DJ and there's
black people in this place smoking cigars and we're like,

(51:02):
yeah, let's go in here. This place looks interesting.
There's a bar and then the. Fortunate said, let's go in
there. And yeah, oh, she picked the
place. I'm not.
I thought it was a hookah lounge, which it kind of worked,
but it was really, it was like acigar bar and it was amazing.
And the DJ would not play any East Coast stuff for me because

(51:23):
he's like, yeah, they don't, they don't like pop smoke out
here. Yeah, he's like, yeah, they
won't let me. They'll he's like Pratt.
Your name's supposed to be wearing that Yankee hat near me.
Basically he's like just becauseif I play anything on the East
Coast, they're going to know it was you and they're going to
jump you so. But it was such a cool place.

(51:47):
And. I'm like, she really knows how
to pick her. Pick her spots and let.
Do. Guide shit, you know what I'm
saying? So that was pretty fun, though
Courtney's a really good hang. Life of the party.
Yeah, and it kind of goes back to like two years ago when you
guys did the Black Comedy Festival.
Other When I left, other comics told me that you took you guys,

(52:10):
took them to the strip club. I did, mom.
I listened to the strip club. Yeah, they know.
Like you should have stayed. They they hooked us up.
Like I was handing out ones to people.
Yeah, I'm, I'm the best wingman in the world.
Let's just let's just say that, yeah, we have a ball.

(52:33):
We got, I'm planning the strip club night as we speak.
Oh, so you also comics are OK all right.
Oh yeah. That's part of the that's one of
the after parties. So Saturday night is strip club
night. Are you coming on Saturday?
What day are you here? I fly you're.
Saturday, right? Fly I fly in Friday 7:30.

(52:54):
And then you leave when. Sunday.
OK, Yeah, so. Yeah, strip.
Club SO. This is bullshit, man.
I'm. We got to get you here,
Jonathan. All right.
We, we party hard. That's one thing.
Work hard, play hard. That is the motto, Yeah, Yeah.

(53:18):
I don't play. Yeah, when it's when I'm.
Off the. Yeah, it's it's go go time.
What are the what are the strip clubs like out there?
Never been to the the Pacific North Way.
I've never been to one in the Pacific Northwest.
You know, we're the strip club city capital of the Pacific
Northwest, so we have all manners.

(53:38):
We have the very fancy like steakhouse gentleman clubs all
the way down to the dive bars with the girls with the
gunshots, so you can take your pick.
Your pick the. Comics what?
Are the. Guys, oh, you know, like girls
who have been shot before and they but they still dancing, but

(53:59):
they have bullet wounds. They've had a rough life.
Survivors. They're survivors, right?
Right. These are the people that want
to dance. They like, have to dance, right.
So the quality is is different. And I like all men.
It just depends on you know, what mood I'm in.

(54:23):
But yeah, they they're, they're they're good out here and you
know, all ours are all nude. And yeah, it's, it goes down.
OK. It goes down, yeah, Yeah.
There's one probably on almost every corner right now.
Yeah. Yeah, Portland is.
Yeah, you can't go anywhere in Portland without.
Running, but yeah. Down there with, I said a little

(54:49):
crazy story, but I went down. There a.
Couple different times. One time I went down there to go
do comedy with another comic whowas a really good friend of mine
and he this guy. Like, comics are whores, OK?
They're just. Period.
Period. He has like the morals of an

(55:09):
alley cat and he was dating a married.
Woman oh jeez, whose husband was?
Deployed. Oh wow, that's wild.
Yeah, she had no problem with him going to Portland with me.
Had no problem with him sharing a hotel room with me because

(55:29):
we're friends. So he said something I had in my
bed. Had no problem with him going to
a strip club as long as he didn't take me and I'm like,
what? This bitch got some morals.
Right now. Now.
Right now. And that really is the worst.
Cheating, I must say is I can cuss on here, right?

(55:53):
Bitches Cheating on the militaryhusbands, That is wild.
The worst. The worst.
That is it. Really.
You have to be a low down, dirtysomething.
OK, exactly. So that's.
Cold blooded. Oh my God.
The first thing he did was take me to a strip club.

(56:13):
And I looked at him and I was like, Riggs, Dude, what in our
association together ever made you think that this was my kind
of place, right? Shit, what did she do?
And I was like this woman, she was an older lady, and it was
Mary's place down there in Portland.
And this older broad, she bounced.
One boob and then bounce the other one and then bounce this

(56:37):
one and I'm like, hats off to you.
That's fucking talent. About you are.
Rick, give her something. Right?
Yeah, exactly. I'm a huge supporter of
strippers. I pay bills.
If I'm in the club, you're goingto get your bills paid.
Just say that. Right and and.

(56:58):
It's I support them. I don't have like I went to I
mean and I've been to a strip clubs before and it was it was
like it was so funny because women in strip clubs always get
attention, always get attention.And like, the first time I ever
went to a strip club was in Alaska.

(57:20):
The green Alaska. Those are good, yeah, those are
good clubs out there, right? It's wild.
It is wild. And I, one of my male cousins,
actually took me there. Nice.
And he was like, oh, yeah, theseguys serve the strongest drinks
and like you notice, how are youknow?
And so this. And he kept buying me lap dances
and I'm like, this is really awkward.

(57:41):
This is awkward. And this one girl who was really
tall, this really beautiful blonde girl, and she was very
tall and she was talking to me and she's like, you know, it's
it's really hard for me to make money here because like the
guys, I'm not getting the private dances because I'm.
So tall. And I said, here's what you do.
I said, OK, I said you want to go make some money.
I said, girl, go over the one ofthose guys that's, you know, not

(58:05):
too scudgy looking but looks like they might have a little
bit of money. I said get upon them and just
kind of rub your your nose into their neck and then kind of purr
at them and then. OK, Marianne.
And I'm telling you, she goes, Oh my God, I made so much
fucking money and. They won't.
Leave me alone. Yeah, she goes.

(58:26):
You know, I'm, I'm 99% straight,but what are you doing tonight?
Oh. That's what's up.
Yeah. See I do shame.
I shame if I'm I go to the rack and I just you shame in they put
in like their little dollars andI'll go up there and be and then
they'll be like oh. OK, big you think?
You And then. Then the girl gets all the

(58:48):
money. Right, it does.
Good choice. Is that you?
Know shame works well too. Right.
And and The thing is just that they're making a living.
They're up there working. Don't matter exactly.
They are making a living and they're doing.
I can't stand people at the rackthat are not giving money,
right? Get your ass back there.
And I I get so mad at women who who shame them and and.

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Want thank you. Look, thank you.
The body. Everybody has a yeah, a place.
In. Rest of us.
Right. And I don't like people who are
like, oh, I need money. I'm going to be a stripper.
Like, do you know how hard that job is, you dummy?
Yeah. That's not no job that you can
just walk in and go do believe me, or we would all be doing it.

(59:34):
So yeah, I respect it wholeheartedly.
Exactly. And me too.
I mean, they have to work very hard.
It's a craft, you. Know.
Oh, it definitely is. Definitely is.
I remember. It's definitely an art form and
it's it's dancing, it's it takesa lot of physical, you know, I
have, I have respect for them. I I remember I was in a

(59:57):
relationship in Seattle and my girlfriend at the time found out
that I went to a strip club and I guess the glitter on my you
know, he. Gave it away a little bit.
And I and I didn't even know that there was glitter on me.
I I went home, I didn't take a shower, which but then woke up

(01:00:20):
the next morning and she was like, why do you have glitter on
your face? And I was like, huh, And I had
glitter. I looked, I had glitter on like
my I was like, oh, she's like, did you go to her?
She playfully asked if I went toa strip club.
And I couldn't lie to her. I was like, maybe.
And she looked like. She got mad at me not because I

(01:00:42):
went to a strip club, but I wentto a strip club without her.
Yeah, there you go. Yeah, you said girlfriend me.
That's a good girlfriend. That's why, Jamal, I
periodically put glitter on myself just to throw them off.

(01:01:05):
I was just in the glitter department in, you know, at
Michael's and was looking to buyA-frame, you know?
And. Hassle it.
You know. You know how it did.
Go No, but it was. It was.
The thing is, it was like a subtle amount of glitter, like
even I didn't notice it. Right.

(01:01:26):
But she did Wait. Let me tell you something.
Women know when. You.
Would anything shiny on you thatisn't supposed to be shiny on
you? Oh yeah, no.
Am I right, Jessica? Like, do they?
Do we? I don't.
Know that. You guys know I don't.
Know. I don't know.

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I'm not the I'm not the crazy, jealous, deranged person in my
relationship. So I would not know.
And luckily for. Me.
And luckily for me, she wasn't either.
But man, I when I started looking in the mirror.
I was like, wow. How she saw that?
You know. And I kept, like, I kept, like
tracing my steps back, like whose face that I buried.

(01:02:13):
Like whose tits that I buried myface and that had glitter and
didn't warn me, you know, You know, But yeah, all it took was
one dance. And I.
And y'all making me want a lap dance.
Look, I'm glad I'm going to strip club on Saturdays.
You know what? Here's the thing, My mom might
actually come with us, to be honest.

(01:02:36):
I'm hoping you weren't going to say something crazy like, well,
my mom's going to be here, so I can't go.
I'm like what? Oh, no.
If my mom oh, I'm like, here's the key to the room, mom.
Good. OK, good.
Yeah. Do not wait up.
We're. Going to have a ball.
So what If two things are going to happen?

(01:02:56):
We are both going to stumble at the same time at the hotel.
Fuck that, because my mom gets down, OK?
I love it. I thought, I thought she was a
prude. But when she hangs out with me
and my brother, or me and other comedians, oh.
That's. Good.
Let me buy you guys around and I'm.
Like, oh, that's what's up. Yeah, I don't.

(01:03:17):
I don't have a mom like that. Yeah, but see, sometimes I got a
reminder. I'm your son, remember?
OK. You're here from.
You're here from me. I'm.
Talking. About me she's.
Jealous. Yeah, I can't wait to meet her.
I can't. I'm here going to play Mommy,

(01:03:38):
not them. Right.
Right, right. Like you're my mommy.
Now go get me another Jack and Coke.
That's that's mother. That's mother's milk to me.
Yeah, you know it. Yeah.
You was. Yeah.
Killing the whiskey boy. Yeah.
Hello, Jessica. Hi.

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Jessica. Hi, Courtney.
How are you? Courtney.
Courtney. Yes, Courtney.
Yes, 3 syllables. I I'm just as shocked as you
sometimes. I know the interview yesterday
he I told him twice before we started and then when we started
he said Courtney and then by theend he was saying Courtney.

(01:04:27):
I was like, and my sisters were like, tell that man to say your
name. Right.
And I'm like, guys, the interview's over.
I can't correct it. Yeah, my family gets more mad
than me. My kids will hear my yeah, my
mom, yeah, Lord, I'll be like, OK, you guys, I'm getting better
at correcting people. Before I would just let it go.
It's. Hard it I have to pick my, you

(01:04:49):
know, people. Are always trying to call me
Mary and. I'm like, really?
Really just to cut it. Just to cut your name.
Or they think that's your name. Yeah.
Well, or they just want to make it shorter?
Shorten it like. Yeah, exactly.
No, you don't get to just do that.
Yeah, yeah, Say it all, Mary Ann.

(01:05:11):
Look, Ann, it's not that many more simple.
Doesn't take that much more time.
Doesn't really take that much more effort, Mary Ann.
And I love the name Courtney, but it's not my name.
Got friend's name Courtney. I'm not Courtney.
Right. That's somebody else.
Well, I missed court today. I heard so many good things

(01:05:31):
about you last. Thank you.
Yes, yes, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, it's a pleasure to meet you.
And I'm from Houston, TX here. OK, that's where you are now,
huh? That's where you are now.
Yes, OK. Very.
Cool. Where you located?

(01:05:53):
Portland, OR. Oh, OK, OK, so.
I'm in the Northwest too, with yeah, on their side.
Yeah. My sister lives in Dallas.
I used to live in Houston a long, long time ago for a very
short time. But yeah, that's a good city.
Obviously you like. It Oh yeah, I've been here for

(01:06:16):
almost forever. It's OK.
My parents are here family oriented and I would love to
move out, but my like I'm very close to my my family, so I do
not want to. Yes, that's what I'm saying.
That's then that's. I understand that.
That's exactly why I can't stay away from Portland very long.
Because my my mom is here. I get it.

(01:06:38):
Y'all give me a second. Hijinks just called me.
Hold on. Uh.
Oh. Say hi.
Holding a kit, Miss Kitty. Yes, this is my new It's my new
fur baby. You're new.
Fur baby. Yeah, Yep, 2 weeks tomorrow.
He'll be with me two weeks tomorrow so.

(01:07:00):
What's her name? Him.
He is named Tango and had a cash, but I didn't like that
cash, so I'm going to get another cash.
Oh. The other cat.
Oh, you know, so I rest. I didn't want the other cat.

(01:07:21):
Like hell. I didn't even want this one.
But he he had other plans. He's very demanding.
He's very loving And he was at the the pound.
I wanted my nice Bengal Kitty, the expensive one that I was

(01:07:43):
going to go buy, and my husband decided that we needed to go by
the pound and look and see what they had.
And I was like, oh, you fool, you do not know me.
We go to the pound. I'm taking everything home.
You know. Oh, I I love me.
And so my husband fell in love with this big fat 20 LB cat.

(01:08:07):
He was huge. This Kitty was huge.
And I was like, yeah, that's cool because it's mostly for my
husband, right? He's, he's retired, he stays at
home, he's medically retired. He needs somebody to to, you
know that he can give all that attention and love to during the
day, stay the hell out of the bingo hall, stop gambling during
the day while I'm at work, so. I.

(01:08:28):
Broke down and I was going to. I wanted to get him a dog.
I kept offering to get him a dogand every time I show him a
picture of a puppy, he's like, oh, he looks.
Judgy like you're going to come home and he's.
Going to be like, you know what That Dirty Bastard did while you
were at work. You know, oh, don't.
Pet me with that hand. I know what you do with that
hand. Oh, so pretty.

(01:08:49):
Oh. Looks like your cat.
It does see markings, yeah and and so I I went to the OK.
So. My husband found this Kitty,
Milo, big Kitty. Only the couple in front of us
got him. So my husband was really

(01:09:11):
disappointed and he was bummed out and I was kind of like and
they said, well, there's some other cats up.
They just brought in some cats, a couple more cats and there's
one up there that's a real big cat too.
And we went upstairs and all I was walking by and I didn't see
anything. I wasn't really paying that much
attention. All of a sudden this
Pennsylvania shot out from the kennel.

(01:09:34):
And and I was like, what? And I kind of just took a step
back and he was like, wow. And he started purring at me and
put his paws through the kennel and was looking at me and I was
like, oh, so I started touching his paws and he didn't try and
pull back or he didn't try and put his claws out or anything.
And I was like, wow. And I was even holding them.

(01:09:55):
And he didn't use his claws. And I was like, oh, that's
really sweet. So Romeo walks by and I'm like
Romeo, Look, look. And he goes whatever, and kept
walking. And I was like, oh, OK, and he
was, he wouldn't stop like meowing at me, so kind of
leaning towards the kennel. And he stood up in the kennel,

(01:10:18):
reached his paw all the way through, and started petting my
face. And I was like, Oh my God, he's
petting me. I'm like baby, he's petting me.
And he was like, yeah, he just had something on his paw.
He's just trying to wipe it off.And I'm like, no, he's knocked
me out. So he came back and he looked at

(01:10:39):
him and he's like, yeah. And I said I was like, OK, I'm
going to break the rules. Guard me.
Don't let anybody see. And I went in and I opened up
the kennel door, And you're not supposed to do that.
I opened up the kennel door and I kind of leaned in and he came
right over. And he put one paw on either
shoulder. And he put his face in and
started rubbing against me and purring.
And I'm like. He's laughing.

(01:11:05):
At me and. So Romeo was like, no.
And I said, OK, he wanted something because this one here
is 6 years old. They found him in a dumpster.
They literally fished him out ofa dumpster.
And so we left and got all the way almost home.
Before Romeo was like, you really wanted that cat.

(01:11:26):
Like you were crying, You had tears.
And I'm like. Because he was betting.
Me, he's like, all right, let's go get your cat.
And so we went back and we got him and they said, well, they
just got him. So they'd had to wait for a
couple of days, you know, to make sure that nobody came and
claimed him. And I was like, well, if they

(01:11:47):
do, you know, he's got a family who's missing him.
They said 30% of people ever reclaim their animals.
Well, the turn around time is insane.
Like, he came in on Sunday night, Wednesday afternoon they
called and said, OK, your cat's going in for surgery to get
chipped, microchipped and and neutered.
You can pick him up at 4:30. Like, seriously, they had Monday

(01:12:07):
and Tuesday to find their cat and Wednesday he was ours.
And so Romeo, when he was talking to me, he goes, well,
you know, cats do better when there's two of them, so that
they have a companion, so that they don't fuck up all your
shit. And I was like, so you're
something. Because what I really wanted to

(01:12:29):
do was buy a Bengal cat. And I don't know if you've seen
these Bengals. They are extraordinarily
gorgeous. They're mixed with exotic.
They're with wild Ant cats and they look like a Bengal tiger.
Like, they have all those, you know, they have.
Like they're kind of the spots and stuff and they're just
exotic and they're. Gorgeous.
And they're like, expensive. And that's what I wanted.

(01:12:52):
And then my husband was like, hewas looking at other all these
other animal shelters around here and and there was like, no,
he wanted a male cat because male cats According to him are
more loving and more attentive. And they are, I mean this one
here is just an intention horror.
And I was like, I kind of like the cat that comes in, gives you

(01:13:16):
some loves, you've got to pet him for a little bit.
And then they bounce and they dotheir own thing and they mind
their own business. Like, that's a female, I guess.
But but I was thinking, OK, we're still going to get our
Bengal Kitty, right? No, no.
He went and picked up a cat. He calls me.
And I'm like, what are you doing?
And he's like, well, I'm just trying, you know, Did I did this
today? And I did this and I'm driving

(01:13:37):
home with my, my, my Kitty. And I'm like, what?
He went and picked up this cat like the next day.
And I was like, oh, OK, I we sawthe cat.
That's how this one got his namebecause I saw the cat online.
And I was like, that's a cool name.
The cat was named Cash. That's a badass cool name,

(01:14:00):
right? And I'm like, so I was trying to
figure out what to name him. I said, OK, well, our next cat
that we get, our other cat's going to be named Cash because
that's such a cool name. I don't want that cat.
I want the name. We don't need that cat.
We need the name from our other cat.
And so I was like, oh, I know what?
And he goes, what do you name it?
Johnny. And I was like, no tango from
the movie Tango and Cash. Cash.

(01:14:22):
Right. And so he gets this other Kitty
who was like a 10 month old malecat who was very like skittish
beyond skittish. He never came out of the
bathroom that we put him in. When we went in there, he'd hide
underneath the toilet. He would kind of let you pet
him. But he was just so scared and so

(01:14:42):
skittish and he shed a lot and Iwas just like, oh, Tango is
going to just completely, totally railroad this cat.
Like, so after about a week, he didn't settle in at all the
other cat. Just he just, we're like, OK,
this is just not a real good effect.
We feel like we're forcing it and Romeo and here's here's what

(01:15:04):
Romeo tells me. He's like, well, I'm going to go
ahead and take him back because you know, he's just really shy.
Here's the real story. Romeo went and saw to a PetSmart
and saw one of those Bengal catsthat was for sale for $500
instead of the 2500. And he's like, well, $500 is a

(01:15:25):
much more reasonable price for acap.
But he didn't buy that one. She he was like, she was so
beautiful. I wanted her until they told me
that she'd been returned four times for litter box issues.
It's like, I love it, but I don't like it that much.
The litter box issue is it's that means there's something
wrong with them. They're they're sick and also it

(01:15:49):
takes about two to three weeks to get a cat adapted to a new
home but they are annoying. As of the first week they all
they do is meow hide. Yeah it it it's a hit or miss
with with cats. But man I I wish you could get
that bangle. That bangle would have a lot of
energy. A lot of energy.

(01:16:11):
Oh yeah. See, and that's just a though it
says we are going to end up getting a bangle.
One of the things that I love about the Bengals, besides the
fact that they get really big, that's one of the things he
likes. But they're hypoallergenic,
they're smart. They are.
They love the water, like. So you got to be careful.
You're taking a shower and then all of a sudden you turn around

(01:16:32):
and you're taking a shower with your cat.
You know, like they're just like.
Hey, I heard the water running. You didn't tell me it was bath
time, you know, so it's but we also have some really cool spots
in our house where we would be able to have like we we're
already putting like some trees and shit so that they can get
way up there because they're shelves, like they're big open

(01:16:52):
spaces. Kind of hard to describe, but
like when they put the the the closet inside the doorway when
you first walk in the house, we have our, our living area.
Our ceilings are probably, I would say probably.
I'm trying to say like probably about 18 feet tall.

(01:17:17):
So they didn't. When they built the the closets,
they wanted the sliding doors, the the coat closets, They
capped it off at probably about probably 10 feet high and put a
roof on it and then left like 4 feet above it is empty.
So for us, that's like the perfect place for a cat to go

(01:17:40):
hang out. So we're going to have it set up
so that a cat can go hang out upthere and look down on its realm
and its world and its its subjects, like a royal animal
that they are. How exciting.
Yes. So yes, I'm and I went from
refusing to have any animals in my house.

(01:18:00):
No pets, no pets. All of a sudden I got a cat and
and here's the thing, I I had this like this realization that,
Oh my God, I'm going to have a cat house and no dogs allowed,
No dogs allowed. And then I realized, wait a
minute, that's the opposite of areal cat house, because they
want all the dogs they can get to come in.

(01:18:25):
Walk. Walk.
Walk. It's OK.
They can't all. Be brilliant as long as you have
them. Like as like I have a 16 year
old cat. That's the one I showed you and
his name is Cassius Clay. Like the boxer?
Yes. And I have a cat that I got on
Valentine's Day. I picked him up.
He was inside of a she was inside of a tire.

(01:18:48):
So she's going to be 6 years this tomorrow.
But yeah, I was like, I am really the cat lady.
I'm 40 years old and I. Live with cats How?
Many do you have. Just two and a dog.
I had a boxer. You just have to introduce the
the dogs. I don't know the boxers we have

(01:19:09):
to do introduce the dogs. You know, when they're kittens
because they they sunk up Valentine and Harleen Quinzel.
Her names are Harleen Quinzel. Got it.
Got. It.
Yeah she they just you know meshed and and then Cash's the
16 year old man old man. He was like, yeah, I ain't gonna

(01:19:34):
put up with this dog that's going to try to chase and you
know, but it it was a after all,it took months.
They all got along together and they're all fine so.
Good. Good.
So what was the topic you guys have been talking about?
I've missed the call for an hour.
I have a cat and pussy. I want to put one on screen

(01:19:58):
that's. What we were talking about,
yeah. Well, we went from talking
about. Strip clubs.
To cats so you know, keeping them right.
There I love one and and and dislike the other.
Though, oh. Yeah, sometimes this is.
Going to be my time to Mosey. Off.

(01:20:19):
Oh, you're not a cat person? Ask Jamal what happened in in
in. I'm just say Alabama because.
Oh. God, I did not be.
Saying it wrong. So I was.
Working in you. The venue actually has a cat
that kind of roams around while we're performing.
And I remember I went out, I went outside, I came inside and

(01:20:42):
I noticed that for today is likeon one end of the venue.
Shawn hasn't even started yet. The cat is on the other side.
And I was like, oh, and then I was like, so I was like, why is
she way over there? And he was like, Oh yeah, my
wife, she's not a cat person at all.

(01:21:04):
I was like, is she allergic? He's like, no, she just doesn't
like them. And I was.
Like they don't like me. I am afraid of them.
Scared. Did you?
See that? Did the cat OK?
Did the cat chase me out of the venue?
Yes or no? Affirmative.
Affirmative. I had.

(01:21:25):
Literally chased me out of the venue.
I had to sit outside Kitty. I was kidding outside in
December at night time in mobileAL because the cat would not
leave me alone. The cat and that is my.
Experience. Yeah, I mean, they jump.

(01:21:46):
On me. They just.
I don't know what it is. Did.
You get to a point where. People run from dogs.
You see me running from cats. She was outside and it was
almost like the cats roaming around, like, yeah, this is my
venue, this is my right, pump me, pump me and so.

(01:22:09):
And yes, I would fight a grown man, but I ran out of a building
because of a cat. Yeah.
So he had to. He ended up caddling the cat.
I cadded the cat and I'm like. Thank.
You. I'm outside.
That cat. Can be an asshole, but I have.

(01:22:30):
I have been scratched by that cat because I guess I pet him in
the wrong. Time you exactly it.
Was scratching you. Cat cats have personality, so
and they and they know and they know when you're not a cat
person. So that that that cat was like,
oh, she's not a cat person, I'm going to get her.
Yeah, I like blind worship. That's why I'm a dog person.
I'm not. I'm not going to have an animal

(01:22:52):
in my house with an attitude problem.
How does that even work? Cats are for women.
Cats are worship me. I want you wagging your tail.
Yes, I'm your best friend. Cats ain't.
You know, and it's funny becausecats are the exact they're the
same way as you are. They say they look at you and

(01:23:12):
say worship. Me, right.
And you know what my friend said?
She said. You know why you don't like
cats? I said why?
She said. Because you're a cat.
Right. I said You are so.
Like. What?
Yeah, broke it down. For me, broke it down.
Yeah, I want to be worshipped and and you know, pawned over.

(01:23:33):
Dang it, we both can't want that.
Cats want to come to you and they want to come to you.
The dog is right there waiting at the door.
You see, I'm going to the contrarian again.
You know what you're saying isn't wrong.
But here's the thing I like. I would like a dog, right?
But because I travel a lot, I'm on the road a lot.

(01:23:56):
It's a real pain in the ass to have a dog.
And dogs are great and I love dogs, right?
Oh. Yeah.
So when I when I got, when I gotAngie, when I got my little cat,
I was like, great. This is none of the
responsibility of a dog. I can go away for a night or
two, no big deal. She's fine.
I don't need to take her outsideWhen it's snowing, she goes in
the box. I clean it every few days.

(01:24:18):
She cleans herself, she smells nice.
She doesn't smell like a dog. She doesn't funky up the place
right and you have. A good cat because all cats,
people I know how stink. Yeah, she's also.
You're doing good, Jonathan. There's some training.
There's some training involved. You know, I would, I would put
the food bowl down and she'd bend down and I'd lift it up and
she'd pick her head up and then I'd plant some kisses at the

(01:24:39):
top, her head. And now when she's hungry, she
comes, she gives me kisses. You know, you couldn't train
cats. They're not, you know, they're,
you know, you got to put some time in so.
Yeah, you don't never sell me, but that's great.
I I I read a book on how to train cats, actually, because
you can train them in the first year, that's when they so you
should. Tell.
Other owners. Not me.

(01:25:00):
Yes. They need the info.
I'm going to pass it on to all the cat owners.
I know y'all know once that. Once that one year goes by, then
they stick to how they are. Sometimes you can treat your
cat, you know, you just got yoursix year old cat, but you can
train a cat to even use the, youknow, the toilet to go to the

(01:25:22):
bathroom. Yeah.
Yeah. I've seen it and that's all
wonderful and I still don't. Get.
It, yeah, yeah. Keep the evil little efforts.
Yeah. It's all about the personality
I've had, like the the one cat that I had the last time I had a
cat, That cat traumatized me so bad I couldn't even be around a

(01:25:43):
cat. They scared the shit out of me
for years. Yeah.
But this cat was evil. Like you would just be walking
by and it would reach out and claw you.
And I'm not talking about just like Pat's swag like claw.
It would dig its claws into you and take flesh like, or it it
would you could put its claws into your hand, and when you go

(01:26:06):
to lift your hand it was still hanging off your hand.
Oh. Yeah, that's that's crazy.
And see and and I mean, and it was great.
People can change. But yeah, cats were not.
I grew up deathly afraid of dogs.
Like, you know, my mom's from New York.
Projects like dogs are like, we don't do animals grow up with
animals terrified of dogs growing up now they're like, I

(01:26:29):
love dogs. So, you know, there can be a
shift when there's supposed to be a shift.
But me and Kat, We're enemies. Mortal, mortal, Mortal.
Courtney, if you had, if you came over and you met Angie,
could you not vibe with her? Probably not.
I I literally in 2024 made a resolution that I'm not going

(01:26:52):
over nobody's house with the catanymore because I'm so
uncomfortable. A no.
Like even with you guys, I'm notfeeling any like compassion.
You're all like, well, no. Well no, that's what cat owners
do like. I don't feel no compassion from
y'all oh. No, trust me, I have friends
that are scared of the cats, so.When I go to people's house and

(01:27:12):
I'm telling them that I'm afraidthey don't take that seriously
or they laugh or they let their cats still jump on me and think
it's hilarious. So like I said, it's cats.
Are cats animals going to do what they going to do?
I actually have more issues withthe owners because they don't be
y'all sound like y'all are good cat owners, especially you,

(01:27:33):
Jonathan, If your cat listens toyou and kiss you, I want to see
that in person. I want to see it.
If I saw that, I might creep in your house, but it.
Has to be. It has to be a good human that
I'm with. Honestly, I could trust the
human. All right.
I think you know, I'll take my chance.
I'll take my bet that this wouldwork out well if you came over.

(01:27:53):
You know and. You got a East Coast cat.
I ain't met no East Coast cat. That might be a cool ass cat.
Yeah, so I'm going to see if Letme see if I can pull this out
for you. So this is a picture of my buddy
who was also deathly afraid of cats.
Like just super cats. And he used to come over and he
used to hang out and slowly but surely he would just, you know,

(01:28:17):
at first he was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no. And then he kind of took his
time as real patient, little bitof wine, little bit of smoke in
him and they got no. And then he just barbed out and
now him and his wife had three cats together.
Can you believe? It stop.
It stop. It stop.
Yeah. I want to talk to him myself

(01:28:39):
because he don't sound like he he was deathly afraid like me.
I mean, I I framed the photo because it was, like, so
ridiculous. Like sorry.
You hate cats. She would like sit.
On the couch, like. Angie would like, hop and, like
walk behind him. Yeah, like oddly, like just so

(01:28:59):
cowardly, so, like, so scaredy Ken, you know he just couldn't.
I was like, are you OK? Like, that's wrong.
I ran out of a building, Jonathan.
I thought, joke, OK? I mean, the real it was a real
moment, you know, But now it's awhole different story for.
Him So. Who knows?
We don't know. I like that ID gets booked in

(01:29:22):
Philly. I'm going to come to New York to
visit my family. Where you at?
Hell kitchen. No.
Where are you in the city? Like, where are you in New York?
Hell's Kitchen. Hell's Kitchen.
Oh, Hell's Kitchen. I'm sorry.
I thought you said in the kitchen.
I'm like, yeah, you're in the kitchen.
Got you, Hell's Kitchen, guys. Sorry.

(01:29:42):
Good bet. That's a good bet.
I'll be in, you know. You know what's funny?
For today, the way that these guys are to you about cats are
the same way I am when it comes to other people's children.
I'm like, people are like you want to know what you need a

(01:30:02):
kid. It's going to enrich your life.
I'm like. I'm.
Fucking Facebook post. You hate your family.
OK. No, thank you.
OK. And again I agree.
And I agree with what Jonathan was saying because I had a dog
when I was living in Seattle. There'll be times where I will

(01:30:23):
get dressed to go to an open mic, mind you, an open mic, a
silly little open mic in the city in Seattle.
And that dog would stand in the doorway with that place like
you're going and why aren't you taking me?
And the designated survivor is on.
Why aren't we watching that? So like you promised we would

(01:30:45):
watch Eddie Hall together. What the hell?
You just got home So and then she would give me and and and
there's been a handful of times where I'm like fully dressed,
got the fresh converse is on andI undress and I'm like, you know
what? You're right.
And I stay home. The.
Dog it was, yeah. Just because of the dog.

(01:31:09):
I'm like, OK, fine, you're right, you're right.
You know, let's, let's spend time together.
What tomorrow? Yeah, I'll tell you this.
So, so I got her at 8 weeks. She's 14 years old right now.
So basically like. That's your baby, Yeah.
That's your baby chill. Like she's been so chilled.
But now she's older, she's got hyperthyroidism, so he's not

(01:31:32):
happy. She's not.
So I had to get her on meds, right?
So now I got to take, I got to give it to her twice a day, in
the morning and at night. And I was kind of cramping.
It's kind of cramping my social life.
So she's got what? Hyperthyroidism.
OK, Did they also check for felines?

(01:31:53):
AIDS for cats? Yes, they did.
OK, good. So she doesn't do well.
If it was a pill, I could give it to her once a day, right?
But she doesn't do pills, so she'll, like, eat the peanut
butter all around it and still manage to spit.
Out. So what is it?
A liquid or. It's a gel that I rub into her

(01:32:14):
here. Got you, Got.
You. Got to be twice a day.
So like it doesn't matter if it's if I go home at 9:00 at
night or 11:00 or two in the morning, that's night time.
But like little weekend getawaysand things like that, putting
the crimp on. So I'm like.
Yeah, I'm. Just going to ask one of my
neighbors who's got like a, you know, a nurse's touch to come in

(01:32:37):
and you know and. Yeah.
Hey, you know, how long is that for the rest of?
The rest of her life, yeah. And and and and and and and,
yeah. And then my buddy who's who's a
vet and he's like, man, this, this is the first of many to
come. So it's just going to get worse.
So I was like, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

(01:32:59):
All right. And he's a companion.
She had one before. It wasn't really our thing.
We're just kind of solo artists,you know?
Gotcha. That's how that's how my Cassius
Clay was. He didn't want anybody else to
be a part of my life. Yeah.
Wow. Cassius.

(01:33:21):
Yeah, Cassius Clay, he's 16. He's about to be 17 actually in
July. Arthritis, gingivitis gone blind
and deaf. So cats meow loud when they're
deaf. So yeah, I get it.
I either he can't hear me when Icouldn't come into the apartment

(01:33:45):
and he can't hear me at all and he's asleep in the bed.
I'm like, what the heck? I've been here 30 minutes and
you haven't come out. But then sometimes I come in
meow like screaming meow. So I was like, oh, oh, man.
Hold up, hold up, hold up, Cat. I got you.
I got you. I'll pick him up so I can shut
up. Shut the fuck up.

(01:34:05):
Shut the fuck up. Shake the cat.
No, I wouldn't do that. I would never do that.
No, I I trained no cats. I he had a brother, Cortana.
He died of when he was eight, ofa heart attack.
But they were like, you know, Ying and Yang.
So they were. They were just together all the

(01:34:26):
time and when he passed away he was just me and him and he
didn't want to meet with anybodyelse.
So yeah, it dogs. When Harley came into my life,
it was a blessing because she was a so hyper, hyper and just

(01:34:46):
playful. Didn't care.
You were gone 3 minutes going tothe car.
Come back and you're like, hey, welcome back.
I want to play and like Jamal said, like it gives you the pity
she gives you would give you that pity look like, where you
going? Can I have a kiss before I go?
And then she'll turn her head like, no, I'm like like little

(01:35:07):
sassy little thing. Yeah, that shit.
And the and The funny thing is, it's like the fact that it
works. I'm like, what does that say
about? Me exactly.
But. They know you're a sucker.
They. Right.
But I like I said with this one,he snuck his paw out and tapped

(01:35:28):
at me from the candle of town. Hey, Hello Mao Mao the girl, 00.
And then seal the deal. He's like, Oh yeah, I got, I got
this killer move that she can't.She can't avoid this killer
move. Wait, she's going to get close
now. I'm going to reach out and
tenderly pet her face, Romeo said.
She went from dumpster to Trumpster.

(01:35:51):
Oh my. He went out and spent $300.00 in
the first day just buying toys and and all kinds of shit for
this cat, Marquette. That's just the first day he's
already spent another 4 or 500 bucks on these cats.
Yeah, that's wild. Wild.

(01:36:16):
And he had an issue with me spending money on this cat that
I want. I'm like, Oh my good.
Word. I ain't got an issue with you
spending on on the cat at all. You had an issue with me wanting
to spend $2500 on a cat to buy in a cat for $2500 and my exotic
I. Said we can pick up a cat at the
pound. And we did.

(01:36:37):
And look what happened. We returned.
It a week later. Nah, well, we got.
This in that account. When we.
My only response to my only my only response to that is.
Look, that's another thing. Don't they only meow for humans?
That's not really how they communicate with each other.

(01:37:00):
They communicate with each other.
Got meowing. By by saying like like they'll
do like a little. No, but I'm saying I thought
meowing was not how cats really communicate with each other.
They only do that for humans. Yeah, they do that for humans.
Scary, man. That's wild.
That'll scare. Y'all you know overcome these

(01:37:26):
fears, man, you know? No, I'm not scared of of very
many things. Like I said, I will beat up a a
grown man. I had him.
I had him blue. And Thunder are my 2 fears.
Oh Thunder. I get that.
I light lightning I. Yeah, I'm out.
I had AI was. Moving I couldn't stay in
Houston, those thunderstorms. It's it's beautiful lightning.

(01:37:52):
But yeah, we we got some hail. To like that to kill you.
The Thunder is just to air crashyou back together.
This sounds like the world is ending.
Yeah, I can't do it. Thank God we don't get them much
out here. Well, yeah, I was moving one
time and I had a friend that came in and she saw my, my other

(01:38:14):
cat was Cortana after Mortal Kombat, and it's 22 lbs.
And she came in and she ran backout.
She's like, oh hell no, I don't want to be around that cat.
I was like, OK, I'll put the catup.
And then the closet, you know, Iwas like, you're really scared
of that cat. Who's going?

(01:38:35):
Skydiving with me. I want to go.
I got invited. I'll go, but I'll go.
That's on my bucket list, yeah. That's what I'm saying.
I'll jump out a plane, but I don't want to be around the cat.
Sorry, sorry. Look, I I'm not anyone.
I'm comfortable with having thatfear, I.

(01:38:57):
Did not want to to mock somebodyin their fears because.
We are. Thanks.
See what I'm saying? Right.
And I appreciate it. They just keep.
Get. Get all over it.
Get over it. Get over it.
Can't get like. Can't even get on a plane.
I I'll keep my cat. Fear if I got two fears.
I know people that are scared ofeverything in life.
So I'm OK and the cat's the Fed.No, I'm kidding.

(01:39:22):
But that's what. You.
Literally happens. No one ever goes.
I I understand. I get it.
I'm scared of this. They go, oh girl, please, you
just kiddo, And. I'll tell you something, and I
have a friend do. That if you.
He's pretty much like a a world class martial artist, like he
studied a number of disciplines.He he's retired now, but back in

(01:39:43):
the day he was something and he's been over to the apartment
a few times and he doesn't like cats either because he's like,
yeah, they're only 10 lbs, but they're like the most efficient
killing machine. Thank.
Thank you. They're literal serial killers.
That's it's. Just.
Being fruitful. About currency.
Thank you. They suck the they.

(01:40:05):
They suck the breath out of you when you're sleeping.
No. I don't know about that, but
see, that scared me. What?
What movie was that? Pet cemetery that was that was.
Another It was a old school 80s movie, Yeah.
It's not pet cemetery it. Was another one, No.
It was it was called Cat's Eye, I think.
Cat's eye. Yeah, cats have.
Been kids of series of like horror stories and one of it was

(01:40:29):
about a cat. I know, but there's a.
Movie actually where he's sitting on the.
He terrorized anchor here. What movie?
Is that is that cat's eye? That don't sound familiar
because I don't. I don't think I've ever seen
that movie. So let me now I got to go.
It's a good movie. You should check it out.
It's actually not that enough. Watching cat's.
Eye. Oh no, you're you're.

(01:40:50):
Speaking cats, if she already has a fear, don't don't have to
watch something that. Would raise oh you guys will
know this is the only thing thathave you guys.
I'm a big you know true crime person.
Have you watched Don't Fuck WithCats.
Yes. I was told to stay OK and I

(01:41:11):
intend to. Why?
Isn't that the one where they show all the ways that cats get
tortured? No.
Oh, no. This is about a serial killer
who killed cats in a video, and these Internet sleuths tracked
him down because they were so offended.
More offended by him killing thecats than the humans by.
That's how the investigation started, that he was torturing

(01:41:34):
cats on film and they tracked him.
It's a very good documentary. You should watch it.
Wow. It's.
Pretty good they they see prettymuch terrorized and like he
would suck them in a a vacuum cleaner and and yeah and he also
did all other things as well he wasn't just you know the the cat
you know killer he also I said. He was a serial killer.

(01:41:56):
Yeah, he was a serial killer. But they caught him because of
him killing cats on. And it was the formality, yeah,
it was like a formality on the like one of his videos that
showed like a a little like I didn't like.
They identified him like by something in the background of
his videos and that's how they caught him.

(01:42:17):
But they were actually making fun of, you know, YouTube or or
or Netflix movies or series now because, you know, they, they
had the drama music and and theymake it more like 1 Sided.
And you know, I I get it. Yeah.
You know, I've watched so many documentaries.
Jeffrey Epstein and R Kelly, I don't even want to go there but

(01:42:41):
and and other documentaries likethey it can be 1 sided but also
to like scratching your head. Like did this really happen?
Did this guy really you know parent or wipe down the stairs
or did he you know fake it like or it wasn't real.
It's just it's a lot of weird documentaries too on that too.

(01:43:02):
It's just, yeah, yeah, well. They do have it.
I don't know if you saw Don't fuck with cats.
That's all. It's good.
I think they have to do something a little bit different
to set themselves aside from everything else.
I mean, you know right now everybody has such a very short

(01:43:22):
attention span because of all ofour our social media like just
we're bombarded by it all the time.
So there's so like people, so their their attention span has
gone from being like a being able to sit down and watch a 2

(01:43:44):
hour movie. So like, you've got to be able
to really punch him in the face because they're so used to
getting things in burst of information, like 3 minute
burst, you know? Yeah, I don't know.
I wasn't critiquing them. I like, I like true crime.
I can watch all manner of anything.
But yes, I just think that's it's a good one.

(01:44:09):
I mean, I. Would.
Say. We do.
Appreciate it. I wouldn't try to get.
Into a deep conversation about documentaries.
Well Courtney, you guys have youyou got an open mic or you got
to go to tonight? I do.
I do I First of all looking forward to the to the festival.
Can't wait? To get here.

(01:44:32):
Again, you guys have been doing mad press about it.
It was great having you on the show.
I know you got a you got a fun, but thank you for coming on this
and thank you for your insight. And if I own a cat, I will
candle it so whenever you ever come over, it won't.
It won't. It won't be a wrap.

(01:44:53):
I appreciate it. And shout out to high jinks and
and dirty Angel, yeah. I will tell him hi for you guys
when he comes to the mic. Yeah, he comes from work, so we
get there at different times. I start the party with the music
and then he comes to host. That's what love that's what

(01:45:15):
love looks like right there, I mean.
He. Ain't he ain't in the picture.
But that's what love looks like.And man, you guys I envy.
I envy your love. Hopefully the woman that I'm
with will have that that that you guys know.
So I'm glad. I'm glad that I get to see that
and just, you know, wish that for myself.

(01:45:38):
And he'd even be on the same lineup with her one night.
Who knows the future? You know.
You know how I feel about that, Kind of.
We're going to book you and yoursignificant other.
Exactly. You were first.
One more thing, I don't know if you saw the article that just

(01:46:00):
got posted on Laughs PDX Jamal. No, I have not.
All right, I'm going to send it to you.
It is an amazing article about. It's called.
Oh, it's actually Like I said, we got really blessed this year
yesterday. Best online interview.

(01:46:21):
And this is the best article ever written about us.
She took such care. I'm messaging it to you.
The love song and story. Yeah, it's it's awesome.
It's long, so you probably don'twant to read it now, but yeah,
no. No, I'm going to, I'm going to
read it tomorrow on the way to work.

(01:46:42):
I've been following you guys andreading up on all the Again, You
guys are touring around Portland.
On our press tour. Yeah, so it's it's nice that you
guys are getting this, this recognition.
I'm really, I'm happy for you guys and I hope this thing goes
for 203050 years and we're stilldoing this, so yeah, I'm looking

(01:47:07):
forward. To and we got more ideas to
come, so we shall be in, you know, forever touch.
Maybe. Family now.
You can't get rid of us now. Maybe if Jonathan gets that tan
I keep begging him to get, he'llbe able to at least qualify to
be on one of the shows of the festival all.

(01:47:27):
Right. How are you?
Everybody's like, are you ever going to have like, a ally show
or let other people in? I said.
When this city changes, then my festival will change.
So there you go. See what you did, Bridgetown.
You did this? Right.
But I mean, it's Oregon, you know, But that's what people are

(01:47:48):
like. We're getting.
So, I mean, you saw some of the comments on the article, Jamal,
that hate full comments that people leave, We get them every
year. And, you know, I'll get
discouraged for a moment and then I'll be like, why are you
listening to these five people, you know, when literally you
sell out every show over four days.
So. Oh, you guys are so divisive.

(01:48:09):
You're what's wrong with the problem?
You you know so. To to give you guys an idea,
Cortenay sent me the one of the first press interviews that she
did and I'm on the train and I'mreading it and the first
comments that was on there and it was just, it just caught me
by surprise. It said I will not be attending

(01:48:33):
or something of that sport. I was like and it kind of
bothered me while I was watchingthe interview because all the
stuff that these guys are talking about is positive
things, everything, you know, it's it's it's about bringing
black comedians to the forefrontof this festival.

(01:48:55):
Hey, basically what what? What Tyrone was saying is we're
here. Yeah, OK, we're here.
There's a there's a black community.
There's a black people. Do not know it right.
So when so I messaged why didn'tmessage different?
I yeah, you replied. Because I'm just like, if you're

(01:49:15):
going to say something like, I won't be attending something
like this, me personally, I wantto know why.
Yeah. Don't just say fuck this and
then just walk away without showing your work.
That's. Exactly what you told her to
show your work. So when I.
I spoke to Tyrone about this actually.
Before we did the podcast, we were talking about it and you

(01:49:38):
know, I was like it. It's very disgusting.
I was very because again, I'm AIfeel part of this festival.
You know why? You are right.
You're doing is hard, OK? You're.
Doing a Comedy Festival in the whitest part of the Pacific
Northwest. It's just the Connecticut of the

(01:50:00):
Pacific Northwest. Yeah.
OK, so I know you're not in Chicago.
You're not in New York. You're not in.
We wouldn't. Yeah, we probably wouldn't need
it, yeah. You're doing this in fucking
Pearl Jam loving, OK? You're doing this grunge music.

(01:50:22):
Literally heavy metal. Bar, right?
You know what I'm saying? Do you know how hard it is to
get black folks to come out to any show in Portland for that
matter, Right? So.
What you guys do, I I respect what you do because when I first
heard about it, we had high ticks on here a couple years

(01:50:43):
ago, actually, and we made fun of the idea.
I'm like, we broke his balls about it.
I'm like, OK, really? Portland, of all fucking places.
Right. People ask.
I was like, are they even black people?
Portland, who's doing this? Yeah, believe me, we've heard.
Even Seattle has a three. Percent black population.

(01:51:03):
Oh yeah, right. Way more than us.
Yeah. Tacoma, Seattle.
All way more. Yeah.
So the fact and also the fact that you are able to get and
again the people that I met two years ago from Chicago, from
Atlanta, I'm still friends with.Exactly.
I'm still friends with a lot of the people that I've come in

(01:51:24):
contact with. So it's not just.
Me. Going there, well, it's it's a
networking thing, you know, it'sa place to go and it's a place
to network. So for somebody or anybody to
disparage what you guys do because they feel like, oh, if
if white people were doing this,then it would be considered

(01:51:48):
racist. I'm like, you guys were doing
it. It was called Bridgetown Comedy
Club and he and I couldn't. Get.
It so it was Bridgetown Comedy Festival.
You guys were doing it already. So what you guys did is you took
something and you made it your own.
And I'm very proud of you guys. And I'm very proud to work with

(01:52:08):
High Jinks and get to see you whenever I can.
You you guys are actually. I consider you guys family at
this point, Yeah. So yeah, you can't get rid of us
now. I want guys to keep this going.
I want you guys to you know if it draws more black people just
to into Portland then there you go.
So I'm going to have fun. I'm looking forward to it.

(01:52:32):
And but like I said, I think it's, I think it says something
about people, you know, that I'mlike, OK, I get it.
You have a militia and you you know you're not coming to this.
Right. You know, but it's Black History
Month and it's Valentine's Day, so there you go.
Love. That's what I'm saying.

(01:52:53):
My my two favorite things black folks in love.
Like, it's perfect. So thank you guys so much for
having us and all the love and support for real.
It means a lot. Absolutely, absolutely.
Thank you so much for coming it.Gets well out here, yeah, I've

(01:53:13):
always anytime, you guys, anytime.
Come back and tell us about the festival.
Oh, thank you. Yes, we will.
Hopefully maybe we both can joiny'all him and on that.
'D be a great idea, actually, yeah.
Cool. All right.
Y'all have a good rest of y'all evening.
Enjoy. Your night.
Courtney. I will, but I say I got to go

(01:53:34):
get my DJ stuff all packed up and yeah, I'm ready to party.
As y'all can see, I keep dancingin my I always have music going.
Always. Actually, before you go, I do
want to tell this one story and I love and I love this story.
I remember the first time I met you.
I met you at the festival years ago and I was with my my my

(01:53:57):
friend Christina Taylor. Not a comedian, but she knows
all of you guys love her to death.
Amaze. She's like my great, great
friend. I see.
So I see. You're.
At the roof I'm supposed to be doing, You're DJ ING, I see you
hijinks comes out before the show starts and he's like

(01:54:18):
talking to you and he's. Running.
On you and he's touching up you while everybody is looking and
I'm like, I was like I. Thought.
Hi, Jinx was married and she andyeah, she is.
I'm like. Like, why is he why?
Is he all over the? DJ like, this is like this is

(01:54:39):
important and like people talk and he was like, she was like,
that's his wife you idiot. So he.
Thought he was. Flirting with the DJ.
DJ I was like, man, please don'tbe one of those dudes that I
respected and find out that I got to be your alibi.

(01:54:59):
I don't. I just yeah.
But we went. We went through those friends
already. That's why I appreciate you so
much. He's had those friends already,
which is why they hate me, why they're not friends anymore.
And I'm not, no, you know, titleteller.
Because the girl ain't going to believe me anyway.

(01:55:22):
I'm not that girl. I'm not telling you I'm.
Not telling you. I've been the messenger that has
been killed before. So Oh yeah.
You going to find out on your own?
Or someone else will tell you she's not getting involved.
She's not getting involved, my sister or my daughter.
But also you don't know what youdon't know if they have that

(01:55:44):
arrangement, so. They don't.
They don't. They don't.
They don't. None of these women have the
arrangement. I promise they might say it.
They. Got the arrangement.
So yeah, I don't do it. Yeah, he's a good guy.

(01:56:10):
I know everybody thought he was flirting with the DJ because
they didn't know his DJ was his.Wife Oh, gosh, gets.
You in? Trouble.
Yeah, right. Almost.
Almost. But yeah, he's yeah, like I
said. But even if like I'm I'm so not
the jealous type like I'm told y'all I'm at the rack throwing

(01:56:31):
ones at the strippers. How can I be jealous now?
Him on the other hand, that man can't even come really talk to
me unless they know hijinks. So.
Right on. Right on.
Yeah, he's been on stage and like, dudes have come talk to me

(01:56:53):
at the bar and stop the show andbe like, yeah, that's that's
hijinks. He tried to act cool, but yeah,
when it comes to his wife, boy. Lord.
It's like you got to let people can compliment me.
I mean, you got girls hugging you, kissing on you, A man came
and say, oh, you look nice. He's like, what?

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You mean she look nice? Like.
Damn, I thought, Yeah, he's a good one.
I got a good one. All right.
Y'all I am. Too take care.
Thank you. And I follow you, Jonathan.
I think we follow each other, Mary.
Yeah. I think the only person I hadn't

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met was Jessica. So tell her I said bye.
Yes, it. Was a pleasure meeting you.
You too. Oh, you're there.
OK, good bye. Bye.
Yeah, bye. Still early over there on the
Pacific Northwest. So yeah.

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All right. So I guess before we should wrap
this bad boy up, this was it. I I have to say, this was very
fun. I don't think we've had this
many people at the same time. So I was kind of, I was kind of
like. I hope we could.
I hope Skype will allow us to dothis.
I am very, no, this was very, very good.

(01:58:26):
You know, six screens going on. I think something like that.
A little, a little Romeo appearance.
That's always good. At least we know that Marianne
didn't poison him. So that's that's always a good
thing. Yet, yet, yet.
Yet. But no, that this was.
No, this was very good. This was everything that I
wanted it to be. Before we leave, Of course, we

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always do the favorite segment. What are we binge watching?
And I'm sure that we are binge watching some stuff.
I guess, Mary Ann, you start. I always like it when you start
because you always have some. You're always watching some
interesting stuff. So I'm I've made it to, I
believe, Season 5 of 24. Yeah, you're Wow, you guys are

(01:59:14):
yeah that. Is so every time I think it
can't get any more intense, it does and it throws you for
curves. And boy, that was the original
Game of Thrones of don't fall inlove with the characters because
they ain't going to last forever.
Yeah, right, right. Yeah.
And then we're about to finish watching, you know, we've been

(01:59:37):
watching American Family. You know the cartoon American
Dad? American Dad.
Oh, OK, OK, cartoon. And I could see why it went off
the air. It is getting.
Weird. OK.
It's always been weird, but it'sstarting to get and I think
we're getting towards the end. They had to have had to jump the

(01:59:59):
shark moment somewhere in there because it just got.
Weird and weird. Like they started really cussing
and stuff. So I'm thinking they went off a
national. They must have gone off of a
like a national and then off. To a they went to, they went to.
I think TBS actually has been airing their episodes for the
most part. I don't see they used to be on

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Fox then I think TBS ended up getting them and they had some
seasons, but I don't. I keep.
I don't know where they stopped.I don't know if it's been
cancelled or if they finished their run, but I mean, I like
the earlier stuff and it'll it, you know, the earlier stuff
makes me laugh. But yeah, once it got to TBS, it

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like it was just like all bets were off.
Yes, yes. And you can really feel that in
how the whole like the the screen, right.
You know the story writing on itwent way out there to left field
and a lot of gratuitous swearinglike that that wasn't needed.

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I was just kind of lazy. So I'm kind of disappointed in
that but and we're trying to find you know like we we've been
finding some new stuff to watch too so.
Well, Speaking of that, I highlyrecommend The Bear on Hulu.

(02:01:28):
The bear. Season 2, I think is already
out. It is such an intense show.
I mean it it it makes, it makes me look at different.
It makes me look at the way thatI go to a restaurant, especially
a night, you know, differently now.
The work they put in, the prep, the pressure and Oh my God,

(02:01:51):
every. Whenever I talk to somebody that
has watched it before that's been in the food service
industry, they're like, they're not even exaggerating.
That's exactly how it is. I'm like, get the fuck out of
here. They're like, Yep, it's on
point. That show is scary, incredible,
and I highly recommend that show.
OK, OK. We'll have to check that out.

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Yeah, it's on Hulu and I think they're entering their second
season. So, Jessica, ladies first, what
have you been watching? I have actually started watching
Mr. and Missus Smith on Netflix or no Prime Video I think.

(02:02:34):
Oh, so the series? Yeah, the series with Donnie
Donald Glover, you. Know.
Yes, yes. I actually didn't discover him
until Community. And then I didn't know that he
was. I know I was like, wait, he's

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he's saying red bone salt, Like like what?
Like yeah, I was, I was tripping.
But it it did, it had a slow start to it.
But it's it's gotten to the to the point where you know I can't
stop watching it. So that's it.
That's one series that I'm watching.
And then I got it to the Anna Delvy wanted to see what that

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was all about. You know.
And now I'm waiting for Dune 2 to come out the the movie.
I'm. I'm so stoked.
I was a as a kid, I watched thatmovie Bench, watch that movie
with, you know in the 80s and toto see how James Cameron just

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animated that that movie and just yeah, I I I get chill bumps
every time I watch the trailer, the worms, because that was my
favorite scene as a kid. I feel like I'm a 10 year old
again. Oh, that's so cool.
Yeah I'm a little silly but but yeah Mr. and Misses Smith is is

(02:04:11):
it's funny and then it's got it's it's got as good parts to
it. I like it.
You know I could I'll. I'll recommend it.
That's good. Jamal, what about you, So.
I've been watching the Bear. I've been also watching a
season. I'm on Season 2.

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No, Season 3 of 24. I've been.
I've been watching. Yeah, I've been because of you.
You got me into it. So yeah, I'm on season three.
It's as if I. You know.
It's like I'm watching it for the first time again.
So I'm watching that, loving that show.
I'm also been watching. I've actually gone back and

(02:04:57):
started watching Narco. That used to be I was on
Netflix. I started watching that again
and then I have been actually watching.
Basically. I fell asleep last night
watching Annie Hall, and then the night before that I wanted
to watch A Fish Called Wanda again.

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I'm starting to like that movie.So that is a blast from the
past. I watched that in the movie
theaters. Oh, wow.
See, I wasn't see, Gosh, man, this movie when I started watch.
First of all, I'm a huge Kevin Kline fan.
So, like, my favorite Kevin Kline movie was Dave, actually.

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But then watching this movie, I'm like, Oh my God, he's so
better than I like. I hate Dave even more now
watching this movie because he was so good in this movie.
So this was one of these movies that I know it was on the list
that I've had of the guilty pleasure of the movie, that if I
consider myself a movie bump, these are movies that I should

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have seen before that was on themovie list.
So I wanted to watch it so I could, like, cross it off that
list. I've watched that movie three
times already. Wow.
I've watched it three times during the Super Bowl weekend.
Yeah, Friday night when I got home.

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And then Saturday morning, Saturday.
Oh, actually Saturday morning. And then me and my father, we
went to a Super Bowl party. And after that we came home, I
was drunk, getting ready for thenext work day.
And I put it on and I watched itin its entirety, drunk off my
tits. And I was like, wow, most.

(02:06:45):
I would have both movies. I would have fell asleep 45
minutes because I was really, I was really inebriated.
I was laughing my ass off, especially that dog scene.
I'm laughing my ass off. And yeah, it's, it's, it's now
on my top five favorite comediesbecause Jamie Lee Curtis.

(02:07:08):
Yeah, baby. Yeah.
Love me some Jamie Lee, but Oh no.
Such a good movie. I saw that you posted that you
hadn't seen it before and I was like, what?
What? How could you?
Not have seen it. I again, it It's the the same

(02:07:30):
reason why I haven't seen a bunch of other movies on that
list where I'm just like and I think what it is is I know like
a movie is out. Like I I remember when I was, I
was a go to the movies a lot when I was a kid, but I still
saw movies. I still saw The Karate Kid and
you know when it was in its prime, I still saw Jaws and all
those movies. But there was some movies that

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kind of sipped through the cracks.
Like even at my age I still haven't seen Apocalypse Now.
And when I mentioned that peopleare like, what's wrong with you?
Like one of the greatest war movies ever?
And I'm like, OK, And so it's just like now I am, you know,
between A Fish Called Wanda and Casablanca, which I've seen

(02:08:12):
probably 10 times already. It's I love that movie so much
because of does the story alone.And man, Humphrey Bogart was
just the man back then. So yeah, I've just been like
being at it's winter time and I'm not really going outside
doing too much. I just there and I try to watch
a classic movie that I otherwisewouldn't watch if I was, you

(02:08:36):
know, on the road doing comedy or doing other things.
I try to just watch it and then not just watch it but like
appreciate it. You know what I'm saying?
I love the movie. So I I want to be able to watch
a movie and then not just watch it, but appreciate it and feel
what most people are feeling forthe most part.
So yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm going through that list one movie at a

(02:08:58):
time. But then I I saw because I'm
like, I want to see this movie again.
So luckily for me to be has or first call Wanda and I can watch
it as many times as I want. So.
You need to share that list withall of us and what that movie,
your movie list that your moviesyou haven't seen.
I think I've did it before actually.
But yeah, I've I have. I could, I think it was 20

(02:09:22):
movies on that list. I've added some crossed off a
few, but I will definitely send.I will definitely get that list
and I'll post it up on on Facebook because you're not the
only person that asked. Ashley, another person had asked
for that list. So I'm going to probably I got
to dig for it, but I have it andI'm going to I'll post it up

(02:09:43):
tomorrow. Yeah, because now I.
Want to see your list and I wantto compare it to list.
Like I have such a list of so many movies I've never seen the
I get. I'm like when people go, really.
You haven't seen that? And I'm like, OK, look, I'm not
Jamal. I don't watch a lot of I I grew
up without ATV most of my life. So no, no, no what Sort of no.

(02:10:03):
I haven't seen a lot of movies. But what the criteria is, the
criteria is they have to be likeclassic movies.
They can't just it's not just like popular movies even like
like cult classics, you know like if I've never seen true
romance like or Pulp Fiction like.
I mean, I think those are, thoseare kind of like classic movies.

(02:10:24):
But yeah, I could definitely draw up a list of movies that
most movie buffs because you know, have seen that.
I could say I haven't. And again, the first one that
comes to mind is Apocalypse Now.You know, like it's a 3 hour
long move, three hours, something long movie or or
Patton or like those war movies,you know, it's like I literally

(02:10:47):
have to I. Barely I.
Barely watched Saving Private Ryan last year for the first
time if. You're not, that's.
Fine. Saving Ryan's private all.
Righty guys, I. Got to wrap.
Things. Up.
OK, guys, this one's been a great show.
Thank you for listening. Special shout out to court
today, Collins. Special shout out to Jessica

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Vargas. We love having you.
Special shout out to Special shout out to Jonathan, our other
Co host. Special shout out to the guy who
made an appearance, Romeo Go Chiefs.
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For those of you. Who?
If you're if, if you do not likecats, that's fine, we understand

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Bye, guys. Thank you very much for
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