August 17, 2024 • 29 mins
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"I love a rowdy bar show, but a packed comedy club is pretty awesome too. It does help to be funny." Cheri Hardman
Cheri is an award-winning comic, a YouTube and podcast host, and does live shows too, for her Diary of an Ex Ho show! You won't need to wonder what she's thinking. She is wonderfully direct, bawdy, sassy, and just dang fun.
Hardman started her comedy career later in life. Learn why and how she took to the stage at age 54. This "menopausal plus-size babe" is a wife and mama who takes her show on the road, making friends along the miles.
We talk about how to write jokes, casseroles, dirty dark secrets, normalizing being strange, tragedy to comedy, her lady parts, rotary phones, and her show Diary of an Ex Ho where people share it ALL, openly.
CheriHardman.com
Diary of an Ex Ho on YouTube and wherever you catch your favorite podcasts.
"I love a rowdy bar show, but a packed comedy club is pretty awesome too. It does help to be funny." Cheri Hardman
Cheri is an award-winning comic, a YouTube and podcast host, and does live shows too, for her Diary of an Ex Ho show! You won't need to wonder what she's thinking. She is wonderfully direct, bawdy, sassy, and just dang fun.
Hardman started her comedy career later in life. Learn why and how she took to the stage at age 54. This "menopausal plus-size babe" is a wife and mama who takes her show on the road, making friends along the miles.
We talk about how to write jokes, casseroles, dirty dark secrets, normalizing being strange, tragedy to comedy, her lady parts, rotary phones, and her show Diary of an Ex Ho where people share it ALL, openly.
CheriHardman.com
Diary of an Ex Ho on YouTube and wherever you catch your favorite podcasts.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
These people they trust me. I'm just shocked by how
they've just opened up and telling me their dirtiest, darkest
sacred So there's a lot of people just lay in
their souls bare and it just normalizes all that.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Stranger Connections is the embodiment of Lisa david Olsen's perspective
of we're all just friends who just simply haven't met yet.
It's an exploration of the weirdly wonderful side of life
and a look at the single commonality we have with
each other, our differences. Slip off your shoes, pour a
cup of your favorite and let's meet this week's barrel
of quirks.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Welcome to Stranger Connections, where I celebrate wonderfully weird people
who are strange and quirky and fun and funny and sassy.
And that really is the best way I can introduce
my next guest, who captivates audiences with hilarious tales about
being a plus size menopausal babe. And she won Tacoma
(00:58):
Comedy Clubs The Voice. She was a finalist in Nate
Jackson Super Funny Comedy Club's Funniest Mother Trucker out Here,
and performed in Seattle International comedy competition. I'm Lisa david Olson.
She is Sherry Hardman. Thank you for being on Stranger Connections.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Well, thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Thanks for being a funny, funny person that I love
to catch your YouTube videos. Sherry is c Cheri and
then Hardman put together Hardman. The website is Schryhardman dot
com and of course searcher up on YouTube. I love
the way you play with the audience and yet you're
(01:42):
in control. That's not easy.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
It's not but I don't even know how I do it,
is the funny thing.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
I just know that I will do it before I
go up there.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
It's like, say it's a chaos bar room and everybody's
been bombing for me. I'm always like, oh, it'll be
fine once I get up there, and then it is.
Then I'm like, I don't know how that happens, but
it just does.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Maybe that's the best way is to not overthink it
and not go, oh, I've got this formula. No you don't,
because every single crowd is different, right, and I mean
it don't just trust it.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
It does help to be funny, because you know, once
they're laughing, they're gonna like, they're just gonna want to
hear more about what's coming out of your mouth.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Well, yes, you are that. You are definitely I would
say body and sassy, and I love your humor so much.
But you do the kind of humor I wish I
could do, but I don't because I'm corporate kind of stuff,
Like I'm keeping it clean, but I am always keeping
it clean on the stage. And I always envy that
you can be free and be you. And you put
(02:52):
that together with your podcast, which is Diary of an
ex ho. It's a sex positive But I first want
to say more about your comedy, and then we'll get
into your podcast, which is really binge worthy because I'm
nosy and I love to hear the R rated things
I'm hearing. What does that make me?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
What does that make me? It's like a voyeur, just
like the rest of us.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
That's the word girlfriend before I'm a boyant. Yeah, but
you're always like, how did you start in comedy?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I was fifty four years old for a bucket list item.
I was just gonna do an open mic once.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Oh my gosh, that's when I started. I never knew that.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Yeah, And so because I'm older probably.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I thought, well, before I do this, I'm going to
fully research it, you know, And so I looked up
how to write jokes and I found this guy on
YouTube that does this method of like I don't go,
I don't remember the numbers exactly, but like how to
write ten jokes in twenty five minutes, oh something like that,
(04:06):
And so I watched him. I thought, oh, that's interesting.
And then I went to his website and found his
name's Jerry Corley. And I went to his website and
found some stuff, and I saw he was going to
be in Vegas, and I am a frequent Vegas traveler, so.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
I made I went to one of his.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Workshops in Vegas and on the first night we got
to do an open mic on the Vegas Strip.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
So my very first open mic was on the Vegas Strip,
which is amazing.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Let's just do that.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Why not? And I remember he said to me that night,
you're so funny. You have to do this, like I
would pay to see you and.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
That has he yet?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
No, But that's all.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
But you know that having someone like encourage you like that,
like wow, that went a long way.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Yeah, yes, because it's scary and you doubt yourself and
you know it's funny to you or your family or
your dog. And then you're like, Okay, I'll just go
to Vegas and do a quick set and see what
people think. Has your material been similar since you started?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
That? Pretty much? I mean I just started with one
bit and then I just keep adding to it.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Now I'm I think the last set I did last
week was fifty minutes forty eight minutes, so and I
could probably push it past so I'm getting close to
an hour.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
But I mean at five minutes at.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
A time, you know, okay? Is that the way you're
memorizing is you're just okay, now I'm going to add this,
And that's.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Just usually about how long a bit is, and so
just I'm not the fastest writer mm hmm, but once
I write.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Something, it pretty much sticks with me and stays with me.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
So a lot of comics have their different things. I
keep paper by the bed because that's you know, when
you're half asleep, your mind is actually more open or
I've woken myself up laughing, although it turns out it
wasn't really funny stuff. So I'm kind of a liar
in my sleep. But what do you do? To keep
your notes. I mean talking into the phone.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I well, I'm sixty three now, and so I forget
a lot of stuff just naturally because of my age.
And so I'll be like talking with my husband and
will be a lot of ore. That's how my humor
starts as just him and I bes sing and then
I'm like, oh wait, that's funny.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
And if I don't go write.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
It down right then, so I've lost a lot of stuff,
just totally lost it.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
I'm still not.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Used to I'm not used to using my phone for stuff.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I still want to write things down on paper.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yes, which is dangerous because we grab whatever's near. It
could be a napkin or whatever, and so.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Right, and then you got to find out I have
a box just scraps of paper that I've written step once.
But also it's bad because of like my calendar. I
don't have my calendar in my phone, so I like
memorize if I don't have my this thing with wow,
I've so that's another I just try to I got
to try to transition, right, yeah, because I know what
(07:21):
was go.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
I always got my phone on me or my town.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
And once you start setting reminders in your phone like
I did for our meetup today. I set it for
earlier because I'm like, get my brain around it, because
I won't. Yeah, I'm right behind you. I'm fifty eight
right now, so it's like, yeah, I got to have
little reminders and my calendar yelling at me. So anyway,
I think that I did.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
All a joke about it once about how I went
to my doctor because he had put me on a
medication and he said that it may make you lose words.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
So if you start losing words, let me know, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Anyway, So I told him that I am losing my
memory a little bit, and so he did all this
blood work on me and then and then I get
it back and I'm like, you know, he checked my
vitamin D and this and that, and then I look
and there's like syphilis like like and I was looking
at him like my doctor thinks I look like someone
who could have UNDI you know, I just thought that was.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Yeah, I'm hot. Whatever I get around. I think that's great.
And you paid for that too, You paid for that test. Yeah, really, well,
so you've been I know you're a road dog too,
and I know you hang out with one of my
online BFFs Andy Vargo. He's owning his awkward.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
So yeah, I love Andy.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah he's a good one. He's a keeper, Hi, Andy.
And so you just take to the road, and what's
that got to be? Like, I mean, we're just I
don't know, I just don't know about the whole travel thing,
being away from home, possible car trouble, the whole drama
that way. Then again, it lends to some comedic fodder
(09:03):
that you can throw in your act.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Well, you know, we had a really good trip back
in wherever it was March or April.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
I forget even when we went.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
But we, uh, we're doing the Diary of an X Hope,
the live version, and so Carol, Andy and I went
down to Oregon.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
We did We had four stops and it was really fun.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
But there's so much to consider, like hotel rooms, so
like if I you know, like I.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Have to think about who am I going to bring
with me?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Because I can't bring some single male, straight comic to
sleep in the same room with me, Like I mean,
I could, but my husband wouldn't like it, you know,
So you have to think of just stuff like that,
And like I have driving phobias, I have to find
people who are willing to drive where there's bridges or
anything I'm afraid of, you know.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Oh no, but I mean you know I can.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Do here to Portland. See how the Portland just fine. Yeah.
So there's a lot of that kind of stuff to it.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
And then you know a lot of times, uh, paying
for hotels and stuff, you're not really making that much,
if any money.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
You're just going billy to be seen and to you know,
do all this.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I mean, if you come out even sometimes uhh that's
pretty good.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I don't think people know that part. I think they
assume that you are being wined and dined and here's
your room and here's your dinner tickets and all that. No,
comics are not well.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
When you're bigger, when you're bigger famous.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah, but at my level, no, I'm paying for everything
right right, But.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
What about this live show you're doing? Tell me how
that how that's going? What do you do?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Well?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
It's great because first of all, we started off I
started off with the podcast where I just talked to
comedians about their love lives, and then I started thinking
like this would be a great live show. So we
do like we have there's me and then three comedians.
They each do like a fifteen minute.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Set while the audience.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
While they're up there, the audience is sending in on
their phone. They're sending in questions to the comedians, like
about their love lives. And so the last part of
the show is a Q and A and we have
prizes for the for the audience members who do like
the best questions, and I also tell them they can
write their own two sentence host story. So we've had
(11:47):
people sending like cute little host stories and it's a
really fun show.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
It's just so fun. And yeah, it's called Diary of
an x Ho does that mean you were a hole?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Well, h I got a whole episode just this me
telling all so ooh girl.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Now, but uh, you know I got around when I
was younger, so nice. Yeah, but you know, I'm finding
like younger people now they have a bunch of weird
stuff that I've never even heard of.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
So you know, we're not going to get into the
gory details of that, but it's like wow, oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
And so the younger the comic that you interview, the
more you find out like, oh, I forgot to try
that when I was younger.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Yeah, like on one of the live shows, someone sent
something in. I had to google it because I didn't
even know what it was.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
You know, I'm like, wait a minute, but I said,
I guess you can teach an old whole new tricks,
you know, because I didn't know that one.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
So back in our day, we couldn't just google it.
We had to we had to be shown.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Yeah, right, I had to go to the library.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, poor go to the porn store. But uh, one
of the main reasons that I'm doing this show is
because I'm getting such.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
I don't know how to say this, but it would
that sounded like an asshole.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
But kind of I feel being discriminated against, certainly for being.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
An older woman.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Who does sexually themed material. I'm so, you know, oh,
she's so dirty. And then I'll watch the man before
me talking about his dick for fifteen minutes and that's okay,
and nobody says that about him, and so I'm like, Okay,
if they're going to talk that way about me, then
that's what I'm going to be and I'm just going
(13:43):
to embrace it and I'm going to make it my thing.
So right now, I'm just kind of going from being
just a comic that gets hired by people to a
comic that's making her own way.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
And I have no one guiding me. I'm just stumbling
through it.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
So oh, it so brings back. I just read an
article about this author that was asked in a public forum.
You've written three books, You've got two kids, you still
had to work part time. How do you do it
as a mom and all this? And she said, I
will not answer that. You would never ask a man that,
and so like to introduce you as a female comic,
(14:23):
that would just not She is a comic, you are
a performer and the whole thing. So that's a hard
one because all of a sudden, what we have to
think of things differently. No, in fact, you just said,
you know males with their dick jokes, you have your
own set of vagina jokes. We compare our a JJ
(14:44):
we I'm gonna jump in there to the space needle,
to an eclipse, to a remote even to a cast role. Right,
and you have cards, you have merch and I love
this so much. How did you get on that role?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I don't even know, but I think I just wrote
one vagina joke, and I thought Casserole was the first one,
and I was like, I was so proud of myself
that I was like, oh, I bet I could write
a bunch and then I just I've been doing it
ever since, and then even now and then every now
and then I'll come across one that I wrote that
I forgot about, like, oh, I haven't done that one
(15:24):
in a long time, but it's been But you know,
I used to do that. That's how I used to
end my show, and I still do sometimes. But I
had someone tell me that I shouldn't do that because
club owners were going to think it was hack's opinion.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
I know, but it is in my head now, yep.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
And that's unfortunate because now every time I now, the
audiences love it, they eat it up, and then I'll
even say I won't tell you guys the really gross ones,
and then they always go, yeah, you know, so you do.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Yeah, But you know, that did kind.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Of put a damper on it. So sometimes I go
a little less hard on those now than I used to.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
But may I give you permission to do that soon
to end with all those May I dare you to
do that and rattle off as many as you can,
even if they're on cards, because that is hilarious and
that is yours. Yeah, So if you were watching somebody
else's show and they did it towards the end, you'd
(16:27):
be pissed. You'd be like, that's mine, and I was gonna.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Do that right right, So there I go.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
So as a podcast interviewer, I've been doing this for
four years and I've never yet asked a guest this, Sherry,
how is your vagina like a cast role?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Well, my vagina's like a cast role because if I
put it in front of my husband, he damn well
better eat it. Because they're also stupid in a way
that just makes them funnier.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I just love that's the kind of stuff that we
remember and we're going to say later on. I think
that's fantastic, Thank you. I didn't know the end.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
That's funnier to older people because we know about putting
something in front of somebody and they better eat it,
like that's right.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
I don't do it like that anymore.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
But yeah, no they don't. They door dash. They not
the vagina, but the dinner. Well maybe you can. I
don't know. That's more of your realm than mine. I
certainly don't know what's your favorite kind of gig to do.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Then I love kind of like a well I love
a rowdy bar show, but a pack comedy club is
pretty awesome too.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
I like the bar show because I feel like.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I tamed a wild animal when I do that. You
know where you could hear them rumbling through everybody else's set,
and then I get up there and I start talking
to them.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
They all go, wait a minute, and they want to listen.
That's amazing, but.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Also hard to compete with an open bar, that's for sure,
or a bar at.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
All, yeah right, or open table that they you know,
But a comedy club packed full of people like full
House two hundred and fifty and eighty people is the last.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
That hits you. Is just like a wall coming at you.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
And that's great, Oh fantastic. Well, tell people why they
should listen to the podcast called Diary of an ex Hope.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Well, you should listen to it. You know, it's really
not that funny.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
First of all, I want to say, so if you're
expecting jokes, it's not jokes, but it is comedians, So
there are jokes every now and then, but I think
more it's because these people they trust me and they
just open them like I'm just shocked by how they've
just opened up and telling me their dirtiest, darkest secrets
(18:54):
without betting an eyelash and become very vulnerable with me,
Like I had Nate Jackson on. Nate Jackson owns the
largest black owned club in the United States, and he's
a big TikTok star, selling out stadiums now and he
came on and was very vulnerable about how hard it
is to find the woman that he wants to find,
(19:16):
you know, Like, so there's a lot of people just
lay in their souls bare, and I think it will
probably if you watch, it will make you feel less
alone with whatever weirdnesses you may have or which whatever
those thoughts or things that you've done that you never
really tell anybody about.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
And it just normalizes all that.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Love that It does normalize it. It's when I was
listening you allow that, and you make it so easy
to chitty chat. It's such a living room feel. It's
such a yah. We're just friends here, so it's not
going anywhere else except to outward right, right, you have
that vibe as a host, and you make it very
(20:02):
comfortable for the listener and for the person being interviewed.
So I just, yeah, everybody's got to tune into that.
And uh, is it also a video because I've only
caught audio. I'm on the goal.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Yeah, it does. It does best on YouTube. Actually nice,
that's right.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I get more more views than like listen to on
audio podcasts.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
But but the thing about the video podcast is that.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I've realized I have a habit of rocking myself all
the time. So I have like this, I've written on
a piece of paper like sit still. So I was
doing this like I don't know what that's about, but
you will notice that.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
So wow, what you're You're comfortable, You're just like zone
and I don't.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Know what it is, but it's like I didn't realize
I did it until I started watching.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
So well, I'm strictly mostly audio, So you're fine. You
can rock rock away because it's working. You know. I
love the conversation, I really do. I just think you're
so fun. I do have to ask you to share
a dare or a prank story when you've done when
you've had done to you. Maybe one that involves Andy.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I don't know, I don't well I might be able
to think of one that has andy, but the one
that I can think of. And this is going back
in the day when everybody were we all had house phones, okay,
and we were all starting to get services like call
waiting and three away calling and stuff. But it was
(21:34):
all pretty brand new, right high. Yeah, And so then
you could pay extra to have h what was I
think it was Star six ' nine where you could
block so that people couldn't see that it was.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
You calling, right, and you paid a little bit. Actually
there was like packet.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Well anyway, I had a friend named Scott God rest
his soul. He's no longer here with us, but we
uh both had three way calling, and so he had
an aunt and a grandma in Minnesota. So we would
get our get on the phone and we go, okay,
(22:12):
go and he would call his grandma and I would
call his aunt on a three way call, and then
we would connect the calls and come back and not
say anything. So this and we do it like at
eleven o'clock at night, you know. So you have these
two old ladies going hello, Hello, and then they'd recognize
(22:33):
each other's voice. Lois you know, what are you calling for?
Speaker 4 (22:38):
This late at night. I didn't call you, you called me.
I didn't call you know, and listen to.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Them argue, and we would never say a word, and
just listen to these two old ladies arguing about who
called who, and I'm sure they both hung up the phone.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
They're like Lois has gone crazy, you know, like and
then when it was over, we would hang up and
we would just laugh our asses up. And Jimmy, I
think it is a really clever thing that he thought
of it.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
You know, yes, yes, yes, I can remember party lines
we had that, and so yes, having caller ID. I
was like I remember saying to my parents one day,
I bet we'll even see each other when we're on
the phone. I was so ahead of myself. I was
so you know, whoever invented the video chat? I was
(23:30):
so that guy. But you know, I said, one day,
you're gonna have to get dressed up to even make
a phone call. I thought I was hilarious as a kid.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Well, when you think back, like a lot of changes
have happened in our lifetime, Like, yes, crazy, but I
mean it's great, you know. I remember thinking when I
was a kid, man, I wish I had a watch
or I could watch TV on it, and when I
was in school, I could just watch TV like that
was the big what I wish?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
You know.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Yes, when I was a kid, I thought we were
going to run out of songs because there's already so
many How could you possibly think of another song?
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Right? Right?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Or you know, so I actually cried over that one
because I was so into music. Poor younger me.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Well, there's only so many notes. So I mean that
kind of makes sense to have that thought, you know.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
But what a limiting thought because if that were the case,
we wouldn't have new jokes, new podcast episodes, right, new
lovely things, Oh my gosh. So I know people can
find you at Sherryhardman dot com and Sherry Hardman Comedy.
Look up on YouTube. What's that thing?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
That is just my I'll tell you real quick where
it came from.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I used to be on a chat line and where
you call and you had to make a greeting and
I didn't want to say my name or whatever, so
I was just said hmmmmm for like years and this
just followed me. It became my email. So the Sherry
is just my handle on formerly Twitter and Instagram at
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Sherry and that's my email.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Oh yeah that.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Yeah, but then you know, having to spell that out
for everyone to give it out, so it's.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Like mary m m h m m.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Yeah, that's a lot, but it's adorable. So once people
have it, they have it, so it's right. And I
saw it on Instagram, so that's fantastic. Well where you
headed too soon? You're on the road.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
I am not until September and October. In fact, that's
what I was doing today, was booking some shows but
September and going back down to Oregon.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
So they loved us down there and sayalem especially, so
oh great, well there, yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Enjoy enjoy the time of rest before that and causing
more stories that will end up on stage. That's always good.
I'm sure that scares the hell out of your husband.
I don't want to be in your act.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I've told him specifically, he's in my act. He doesn't
mind that, but I've told him don't watch diurbn Exo.
Just don't even watch it because it will just upset
you and it doesn't matter in our life now what.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
I say, like, just so he does not. Oh, he's
been to the live show.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
So that's so cool. Yeah, well, I know he's supportive
of all you do, and so we sent him kisses too.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Right, he's a very good sport because I do a
whole five minutes about him scratching his balls.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Oh yes, I did see them. Do you mind sharing?
That can be our out?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Okay, my husband has a bad habit of scratching himself
a lot. Like if he was murdered and they were
scraping under his fingernolse for evidence, they'd say his balls
definitely did it. And I'm sorry, but balls are ridiculous.
I told him that he accused me of ball shaving him.
I said, what have the common decency to be ashamed
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of those things.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
On your own? Now?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
A lot of times right there, the men kind of
stop laughing, like they're starting to get a little bit offended,
and mine are pretty yeah, But I say, come on, guys,
there's never in the history of the world has anyone
ever said it's the third date. Can't wait to find
out what his balls look like. That doesn't happen. But
you know, I don't want to body shame anybody because
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I get it. You know, I have vagina's like an eclipse.
You know, it causes a lot of excitement, but you
probably don't want to look directly.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
At it, but you have special glasses.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Balls are just wrinkled, bloated sacks, just hanging around, moping,
waiting for someone to pet him, like a parent neglected
bass of hounds. At least a penis can stand up
and be proud. But the balls are just like two
homely trolls hanging out with their friend. I think maybe
they're going to get some action because they just happen
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to be in the right place. It's like the penis
is Dwayne the Rock Johnson. The balls are too little.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Kevin Hart's.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
You changed that one.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
The ending I.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Did it used to be James Franco with Seth Rogen
and Jonah Hill, and they kind of are out of
favor right now. So I was like, I need something,
especially because I would do it at Nate's Club.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
It's a black club. They're like, who the fuck is
Seth Rogan? What?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
I was talking about it to an old kind of
famous cleaning named Rodney Perry, and he helped me write
that new That's great.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
I love that so much. The visual, Oh woman, that
was hilarious.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
It's a fun joke. It's a fun bitch.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Yes, you are amazing. Well. I am honored to have
chatted with you, Sherry Hardman. And remember that we can
only be strangers once, and I invite you to stay
weird cool.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
I will do that. Thank you so much, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
This has been Stranger Connections with Lisa David Olson
These people they trust me. I'm just shocked by how
they've just opened up and telling me their dirtiest, darkest
sacred So there's a lot of people just lay in
their souls bare and it just normalizes all that.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Stranger Connections is the embodiment of Lisa david Olsen's perspective
of we're all just friends who just simply haven't met yet.
It's an exploration of the weirdly wonderful side of life
and a look at the single commonality we have with
each other, our differences. Slip off your shoes, pour a
cup of your favorite and let's meet this week's barrel
of quirks.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Welcome to Stranger Connections, where I celebrate wonderfully weird people
who are strange and quirky and fun and funny and sassy.
And that really is the best way I can introduce
my next guest, who captivates audiences with hilarious tales about
being a plus size menopausal babe. And she won Tacoma
(00:58):
Comedy Clubs The Voice. She was a finalist in Nate
Jackson Super Funny Comedy Club's Funniest Mother Trucker out Here,
and performed in Seattle International comedy competition. I'm Lisa david Olson.
She is Sherry Hardman. Thank you for being on Stranger Connections.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Well, thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Thanks for being a funny, funny person that I love
to catch your YouTube videos. Sherry is c Cheri and
then Hardman put together Hardman. The website is Schryhardman dot
com and of course searcher up on YouTube. I love
the way you play with the audience and yet you're
(01:42):
in control. That's not easy.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
It's not but I don't even know how I do it,
is the funny thing.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
I just know that I will do it before I
go up there.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
It's like, say it's a chaos bar room and everybody's
been bombing for me. I'm always like, oh, it'll be
fine once I get up there, and then it is.
Then I'm like, I don't know how that happens, but
it just does.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Maybe that's the best way is to not overthink it
and not go, oh, I've got this formula. No you don't,
because every single crowd is different, right, and I mean
it don't just trust it.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
It does help to be funny, because you know, once
they're laughing, they're gonna like, they're just gonna want to
hear more about what's coming out of your mouth.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Well, yes, you are that. You are definitely I would
say body and sassy, and I love your humor so much.
But you do the kind of humor I wish I
could do, but I don't because I'm corporate kind of stuff,
Like I'm keeping it clean, but I am always keeping
it clean on the stage. And I always envy that
you can be free and be you. And you put
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that together with your podcast, which is Diary of an
ex ho. It's a sex positive But I first want
to say more about your comedy, and then we'll get
into your podcast, which is really binge worthy because I'm
nosy and I love to hear the R rated things
I'm hearing. What does that make me?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
What does that make me? It's like a voyeur, just
like the rest of us.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
That's the word girlfriend before I'm a boyant. Yeah, but
you're always like, how did you start in comedy?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I was fifty four years old for a bucket list item.
I was just gonna do an open mic once.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Oh my gosh, that's when I started. I never knew that.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Yeah, And so because I'm older probably.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I thought, well, before I do this, I'm going to
fully research it, you know, And so I looked up
how to write jokes and I found this guy on
YouTube that does this method of like I don't go,
I don't remember the numbers exactly, but like how to
write ten jokes in twenty five minutes, oh something like that,
(04:06):
And so I watched him. I thought, oh, that's interesting.
And then I went to his website and found his
name's Jerry Corley. And I went to his website and
found some stuff, and I saw he was going to
be in Vegas, and I am a frequent Vegas traveler, so.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
I made I went to one of his.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Workshops in Vegas and on the first night we got
to do an open mic on the Vegas Strip.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
So my very first open mic was on the Vegas Strip,
which is amazing.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Let's just do that.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Why not? And I remember he said to me that night,
you're so funny. You have to do this, like I
would pay to see you and.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
That has he yet?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
No, But that's all.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
But you know that having someone like encourage you like that,
like wow, that went a long way.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Yeah, yes, because it's scary and you doubt yourself and
you know it's funny to you or your family or
your dog. And then you're like, Okay, I'll just go
to Vegas and do a quick set and see what
people think. Has your material been similar since you started?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
That? Pretty much? I mean I just started with one
bit and then I just keep adding to it.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Now I'm I think the last set I did last
week was fifty minutes forty eight minutes, so and I
could probably push it past so I'm getting close to
an hour.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
But I mean at five minutes at.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
A time, you know, okay? Is that the way you're
memorizing is you're just okay, now I'm going to add this,
And that's.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Just usually about how long a bit is, and so
just I'm not the fastest writer mm hmm, but once
I write.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Something, it pretty much sticks with me and stays with me.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
So a lot of comics have their different things. I
keep paper by the bed because that's you know, when
you're half asleep, your mind is actually more open or
I've woken myself up laughing, although it turns out it
wasn't really funny stuff. So I'm kind of a liar
in my sleep. But what do you do? To keep
your notes. I mean talking into the phone.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I well, I'm sixty three now, and so I forget
a lot of stuff just naturally because of my age.
And so I'll be like talking with my husband and
will be a lot of ore. That's how my humor
starts as just him and I bes sing and then
I'm like, oh wait, that's funny.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
And if I don't go write.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
It down right then, so I've lost a lot of stuff,
just totally lost it.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
I'm still not.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Used to I'm not used to using my phone for stuff.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I still want to write things down on paper.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yes, which is dangerous because we grab whatever's near. It
could be a napkin or whatever, and so.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Right, and then you got to find out I have
a box just scraps of paper that I've written step once.
But also it's bad because of like my calendar. I
don't have my calendar in my phone, so I like
memorize if I don't have my this thing with wow,
I've so that's another I just try to I got
to try to transition, right, yeah, because I know what
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was go.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
I always got my phone on me or my town.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
And once you start setting reminders in your phone like
I did for our meetup today. I set it for
earlier because I'm like, get my brain around it, because
I won't. Yeah, I'm right behind you. I'm fifty eight
right now, so it's like, yeah, I got to have
little reminders and my calendar yelling at me. So anyway,
I think that I did.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
All a joke about it once about how I went
to my doctor because he had put me on a
medication and he said that it may make you lose words.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
So if you start losing words, let me know, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Anyway, So I told him that I am losing my
memory a little bit, and so he did all this
blood work on me and then and then I get
it back and I'm like, you know, he checked my
vitamin D and this and that, and then I look
and there's like syphilis like like and I was looking
at him like my doctor thinks I look like someone
who could have UNDI you know, I just thought that was.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Yeah, I'm hot. Whatever I get around. I think that's great.
And you paid for that too, You paid for that test. Yeah, really, well,
so you've been I know you're a road dog too,
and I know you hang out with one of my
online BFFs Andy Vargo. He's owning his awkward.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
So yeah, I love Andy.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah he's a good one. He's a keeper, Hi, Andy.
And so you just take to the road, and what's
that got to be? Like, I mean, we're just I
don't know, I just don't know about the whole travel thing,
being away from home, possible car trouble, the whole drama
that way. Then again, it lends to some comedic fodder
(09:03):
that you can throw in your act.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Well, you know, we had a really good trip back
in wherever it was March or April.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
I forget even when we went.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
But we, uh, we're doing the Diary of an X Hope,
the live version, and so Carol, Andy and I went
down to Oregon.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
We did We had four stops and it was really fun.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
But there's so much to consider, like hotel rooms, so
like if I you know, like I.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Have to think about who am I going to bring
with me?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Because I can't bring some single male, straight comic to
sleep in the same room with me, Like I mean,
I could, but my husband wouldn't like it, you know,
So you have to think of just stuff like that,
And like I have driving phobias, I have to find
people who are willing to drive where there's bridges or
anything I'm afraid of, you know.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Oh no, but I mean you know I can.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Do here to Portland. See how the Portland just fine. Yeah.
So there's a lot of that kind of stuff to it.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
And then you know a lot of times, uh, paying
for hotels and stuff, you're not really making that much,
if any money.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
You're just going billy to be seen and to you know,
do all this.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I mean, if you come out even sometimes uhh that's
pretty good.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I don't think people know that part. I think they
assume that you are being wined and dined and here's
your room and here's your dinner tickets and all that. No,
comics are not well.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
When you're bigger, when you're bigger famous.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah, but at my level, no, I'm paying for everything
right right, But.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
What about this live show you're doing? Tell me how
that how that's going? What do you do?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Well?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
It's great because first of all, we started off I
started off with the podcast where I just talked to
comedians about their love lives, and then I started thinking
like this would be a great live show. So we
do like we have there's me and then three comedians.
They each do like a fifteen minute.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Set while the audience.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
While they're up there, the audience is sending in on
their phone. They're sending in questions to the comedians, like
about their love lives. And so the last part of
the show is a Q and A and we have
prizes for the for the audience members who do like
the best questions, and I also tell them they can
write their own two sentence host story. So we've had
(11:47):
people sending like cute little host stories and it's a
really fun show.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
It's just so fun. And yeah, it's called Diary of
an x Ho does that mean you were a hole?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Well, h I got a whole episode just this me
telling all so ooh girl.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Now, but uh, you know I got around when I
was younger, so nice. Yeah, but you know, I'm finding
like younger people now they have a bunch of weird
stuff that I've never even heard of.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
So you know, we're not going to get into the
gory details of that, but it's like wow, oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
And so the younger the comic that you interview, the
more you find out like, oh, I forgot to try
that when I was younger.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Yeah, like on one of the live shows, someone sent
something in. I had to google it because I didn't
even know what it was.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
You know, I'm like, wait a minute, but I said,
I guess you can teach an old whole new tricks,
you know, because I didn't know that one.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
So back in our day, we couldn't just google it.
We had to we had to be shown.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Yeah, right, I had to go to the library.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, poor go to the porn store. But uh, one
of the main reasons that I'm doing this show is
because I'm getting such.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
I don't know how to say this, but it would
that sounded like an asshole.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
But kind of I feel being discriminated against, certainly for being.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
An older woman.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Who does sexually themed material. I'm so, you know, oh,
she's so dirty. And then I'll watch the man before
me talking about his dick for fifteen minutes and that's okay,
and nobody says that about him, and so I'm like, Okay,
if they're going to talk that way about me, then
that's what I'm going to be and I'm just going
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to embrace it and I'm going to make it my thing.
So right now, I'm just kind of going from being
just a comic that gets hired by people to a
comic that's making her own way.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
And I have no one guiding me. I'm just stumbling
through it.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
So oh, it so brings back. I just read an
article about this author that was asked in a public forum.
You've written three books, You've got two kids, you still
had to work part time. How do you do it
as a mom and all this? And she said, I
will not answer that. You would never ask a man that,
and so like to introduce you as a female comic,
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that would just not She is a comic, you are
a performer and the whole thing. So that's a hard
one because all of a sudden, what we have to
think of things differently. No, in fact, you just said,
you know males with their dick jokes, you have your
own set of vagina jokes. We compare our a JJ
(14:44):
we I'm gonna jump in there to the space needle,
to an eclipse, to a remote even to a cast role. Right,
and you have cards, you have merch and I love
this so much. How did you get on that role?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I don't even know, but I think I just wrote
one vagina joke, and I thought Casserole was the first one,
and I was like, I was so proud of myself
that I was like, oh, I bet I could write
a bunch and then I just I've been doing it
ever since, and then even now and then every now
and then I'll come across one that I wrote that
I forgot about, like, oh, I haven't done that one
(15:24):
in a long time, but it's been But you know,
I used to do that. That's how I used to
end my show, and I still do sometimes. But I
had someone tell me that I shouldn't do that because
club owners were going to think it was hack's opinion.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
I know, but it is in my head now, yep.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
And that's unfortunate because now every time I now, the
audiences love it, they eat it up, and then I'll
even say I won't tell you guys the really gross ones,
and then they always go, yeah, you know, so you do.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Yeah, But you know, that did kind.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Of put a damper on it. So sometimes I go
a little less hard on those now than I used to.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
But may I give you permission to do that soon
to end with all those May I dare you to
do that and rattle off as many as you can,
even if they're on cards, because that is hilarious and
that is yours. Yeah, So if you were watching somebody
else's show and they did it towards the end, you'd
(16:27):
be pissed. You'd be like, that's mine, and I was gonna.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Do that right right, So there I go.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
So as a podcast interviewer, I've been doing this for
four years and I've never yet asked a guest this, Sherry,
how is your vagina like a cast role?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Well, my vagina's like a cast role because if I
put it in front of my husband, he damn well
better eat it. Because they're also stupid in a way
that just makes them funnier.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I just love that's the kind of stuff that we
remember and we're going to say later on. I think
that's fantastic, Thank you. I didn't know the end.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
That's funnier to older people because we know about putting
something in front of somebody and they better eat it,
like that's right.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
I don't do it like that anymore.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
But yeah, no they don't. They door dash. They not
the vagina, but the dinner. Well maybe you can. I
don't know. That's more of your realm than mine. I
certainly don't know what's your favorite kind of gig to do.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Then I love kind of like a well I love
a rowdy bar show, but a pack comedy club is
pretty awesome too.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
I like the bar show because I feel like.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I tamed a wild animal when I do that. You
know where you could hear them rumbling through everybody else's set,
and then I get up there and I start talking
to them.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
They all go, wait a minute, and they want to listen.
That's amazing, but.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Also hard to compete with an open bar, that's for sure,
or a bar at.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
All, yeah right, or open table that they you know,
But a comedy club packed full of people like full
House two hundred and fifty and eighty people is the last.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
That hits you. Is just like a wall coming at you.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
And that's great, Oh fantastic. Well, tell people why they
should listen to the podcast called Diary of an ex Hope.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Well, you should listen to it. You know, it's really
not that funny.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
First of all, I want to say, so if you're
expecting jokes, it's not jokes, but it is comedians, So
there are jokes every now and then, but I think
more it's because these people they trust me and they
just open them like I'm just shocked by how they've
just opened up and telling me their dirtiest, darkest secrets
(18:54):
without betting an eyelash and become very vulnerable with me,
Like I had Nate Jackson on. Nate Jackson owns the
largest black owned club in the United States, and he's
a big TikTok star, selling out stadiums now and he
came on and was very vulnerable about how hard it
is to find the woman that he wants to find,
(19:16):
you know, Like, so there's a lot of people just
lay in their souls bare, and I think it will
probably if you watch, it will make you feel less
alone with whatever weirdnesses you may have or which whatever
those thoughts or things that you've done that you never
really tell anybody about.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
And it just normalizes all that.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Love that It does normalize it. It's when I was
listening you allow that, and you make it so easy
to chitty chat. It's such a living room feel. It's
such a yah. We're just friends here, so it's not
going anywhere else except to outward right, right, you have
that vibe as a host, and you make it very
(20:02):
comfortable for the listener and for the person being interviewed.
So I just, yeah, everybody's got to tune into that.
And uh, is it also a video because I've only
caught audio. I'm on the goal.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Yeah, it does. It does best on YouTube. Actually nice,
that's right.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I get more more views than like listen to on
audio podcasts.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
But but the thing about the video podcast is that.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I've realized I have a habit of rocking myself all
the time. So I have like this, I've written on
a piece of paper like sit still. So I was
doing this like I don't know what that's about, but
you will notice that.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
So wow, what you're You're comfortable, You're just like zone
and I don't.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Know what it is, but it's like I didn't realize
I did it until I started watching.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
So well, I'm strictly mostly audio, So you're fine. You
can rock rock away because it's working. You know. I
love the conversation, I really do. I just think you're
so fun. I do have to ask you to share
a dare or a prank story when you've done when
you've had done to you. Maybe one that involves Andy.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I don't know, I don't well I might be able
to think of one that has andy, but the one
that I can think of. And this is going back
in the day when everybody were we all had house phones, okay,
and we were all starting to get services like call
waiting and three away calling and stuff. But it was
(21:34):
all pretty brand new, right high. Yeah, And so then
you could pay extra to have h what was I
think it was Star six ' nine where you could
block so that people couldn't see that it was.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
You calling, right, and you paid a little bit. Actually
there was like packet.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Well anyway, I had a friend named Scott God rest
his soul. He's no longer here with us, but we
uh both had three way calling, and so he had
an aunt and a grandma in Minnesota. So we would
get our get on the phone and we go, okay,
(22:12):
go and he would call his grandma and I would
call his aunt on a three way call, and then
we would connect the calls and come back and not
say anything. So this and we do it like at
eleven o'clock at night, you know. So you have these
two old ladies going hello, Hello, and then they'd recognize
(22:33):
each other's voice. Lois you know, what are you calling for?
Speaker 4 (22:38):
This late at night. I didn't call you, you called me.
I didn't call you know, and listen to.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Them argue, and we would never say a word, and
just listen to these two old ladies arguing about who
called who, and I'm sure they both hung up the phone.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
They're like Lois has gone crazy, you know, like and
then when it was over, we would hang up and
we would just laugh our asses up. And Jimmy, I
think it is a really clever thing that he thought
of it.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
You know, yes, yes, yes, I can remember party lines
we had that, and so yes, having caller ID. I
was like I remember saying to my parents one day,
I bet we'll even see each other when we're on
the phone. I was so ahead of myself. I was
so you know, whoever invented the video chat? I was
(23:30):
so that guy. But you know, I said, one day,
you're gonna have to get dressed up to even make
a phone call. I thought I was hilarious as a kid.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Well, when you think back, like a lot of changes
have happened in our lifetime, Like, yes, crazy, but I
mean it's great, you know. I remember thinking when I
was a kid, man, I wish I had a watch
or I could watch TV on it, and when I
was in school, I could just watch TV like that
was the big what I wish?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
You know.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Yes, when I was a kid, I thought we were
going to run out of songs because there's already so
many How could you possibly think of another song?
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Right? Right?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Or you know, so I actually cried over that one
because I was so into music. Poor younger me.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Well, there's only so many notes. So I mean that
kind of makes sense to have that thought, you know.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
But what a limiting thought because if that were the case,
we wouldn't have new jokes, new podcast episodes, right, new
lovely things, Oh my gosh. So I know people can
find you at Sherryhardman dot com and Sherry Hardman Comedy.
Look up on YouTube. What's that thing?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
That is just my I'll tell you real quick where
it came from.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I used to be on a chat line and where
you call and you had to make a greeting and
I didn't want to say my name or whatever, so
I was just said hmmmmm for like years and this
just followed me. It became my email. So the Sherry
is just my handle on formerly Twitter and Instagram at
(25:10):
Sherry and that's my email.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Oh yeah that.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Yeah, but then you know, having to spell that out
for everyone to give it out, so it's.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Like mary m m h m m.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Yeah, that's a lot, but it's adorable. So once people
have it, they have it, so it's right. And I
saw it on Instagram, so that's fantastic. Well where you
headed too soon? You're on the road.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
I am not until September and October. In fact, that's
what I was doing today, was booking some shows but
September and going back down to Oregon.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
So they loved us down there and sayalem especially, so
oh great, well there, yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Enjoy enjoy the time of rest before that and causing
more stories that will end up on stage. That's always good.
I'm sure that scares the hell out of your husband.
I don't want to be in your act.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I've told him specifically, he's in my act. He doesn't
mind that, but I've told him don't watch diurbn Exo.
Just don't even watch it because it will just upset
you and it doesn't matter in our life now what.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
I say, like, just so he does not. Oh, he's
been to the live show.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
So that's so cool. Yeah, well, I know he's supportive
of all you do, and so we sent him kisses too.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Right, he's a very good sport because I do a
whole five minutes about him scratching his balls.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Oh yes, I did see them. Do you mind sharing?
That can be our out?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Okay, my husband has a bad habit of scratching himself
a lot. Like if he was murdered and they were
scraping under his fingernolse for evidence, they'd say his balls
definitely did it. And I'm sorry, but balls are ridiculous.
I told him that he accused me of ball shaving him.
I said, what have the common decency to be ashamed
(27:12):
of those things.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
On your own? Now?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
A lot of times right there, the men kind of
stop laughing, like they're starting to get a little bit offended,
and mine are pretty yeah, But I say, come on, guys,
there's never in the history of the world has anyone
ever said it's the third date. Can't wait to find
out what his balls look like. That doesn't happen. But
you know, I don't want to body shame anybody because
(27:37):
I get it. You know, I have vagina's like an eclipse.
You know, it causes a lot of excitement, but you
probably don't want to look directly.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
At it, but you have special glasses.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Balls are just wrinkled, bloated sacks, just hanging around, moping,
waiting for someone to pet him, like a parent neglected
bass of hounds. At least a penis can stand up
and be proud. But the balls are just like two
homely trolls hanging out with their friend. I think maybe
they're going to get some action because they just happen
(28:08):
to be in the right place. It's like the penis
is Dwayne the Rock Johnson. The balls are too little.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Kevin Hart's.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
You changed that one.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
The ending I.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Did it used to be James Franco with Seth Rogen
and Jonah Hill, and they kind of are out of
favor right now. So I was like, I need something,
especially because I would do it at Nate's Club.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
It's a black club. They're like, who the fuck is
Seth Rogan? What?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
I was talking about it to an old kind of
famous cleaning named Rodney Perry, and he helped me write
that new That's great.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
I love that so much. The visual, Oh woman, that
was hilarious.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
It's a fun joke. It's a fun bitch.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Yes, you are amazing. Well. I am honored to have
chatted with you, Sherry Hardman. And remember that we can
only be strangers once, and I invite you to stay
weird cool.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
I will do that. Thank you so much, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
This has been Stranger Connections with Lisa David Olson
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