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Humor is a Super Power: with Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka · QUESTION EVERYTHING

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  Speaker 1: Big things happen when you're pretty, pretty bold, pretty clever,
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  Speaker 1: pretty strong. I'm Danielle Robe, and each week my guests
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  Speaker 1: and I have conversations that put a new spin on pretty.
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  Speaker 1: This is pretty smart. I have always loved comedy. My
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  Speaker 1: dad took me and my brother and my mom to
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  Speaker 1: comedy shows while I was growing up, and now that
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  Speaker 1: we all don't live in the same place, we still
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  Speaker 1: send each other fundy stand up bits from TikTok. I
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  Speaker 1: think my dad and I love comedy for a few reasons.
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  Speaker 1: Who doesn't love to laugh, right, But also I think
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  Speaker 1: there's an element of intellect and truth telling associated with
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  Speaker 1: the craft of comedy. It's the idea of if you
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  Speaker 1: can make them laugh, you can make them listen. And
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  Speaker 1: that brings me to our guest today. Otsko Okotska is
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  Speaker 1: always rooting for the underdog.
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  Speaker 2: She's a stand up.
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  Speaker 1: Commi writer who was named one of the top ten
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  Speaker 1: comics to Watch in twenty twenty two by Variety. Even
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  Speaker 1: if you haven't seen her stand up, you have definitely
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  Speaker 1: experienced her social media footprint. Otsgo created the viral drop
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  Speaker 1: challenge with her grandmother, a trend that amassed more than
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  Speaker 1: a billion and a half views on TikTok. Even Serena
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  Speaker 1: Williams and Carrie Washington got in on it, and now
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  Speaker 1: she has a new comedy special airing on December tenth,
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  Speaker 1: titled The Intruder.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I love writing these intros.
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  Speaker 1: After I interview people because I get to speak to
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  Speaker 1: what I felt from them. And spending time with Otsgo
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  Speaker 1: surprised me.
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  Speaker 4: Honestly.
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  Speaker 1: I knew she was going to be hilarious, which she is,
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  Speaker 1: but I didn't know she was going to have so
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  Speaker 1: much heart. She told me that comedy has helped her
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  Speaker 1: find community, something she was longing for for most of
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  Speaker 1: her life after she moved to the US at the
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  Speaker 1: age of ten from Japan. Comedy made her feel seen
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  Speaker 1: and now she's hoping to pay it for So we
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  Speaker 1: have something in common that is really funny. We both
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  Speaker 1: lived in garages.
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  Speaker 5: We did when we moved to La Garage Kindred sisters
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  Speaker 5: garage Sisters.
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  Speaker 2: Was it horrible or wonderful for you?
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  Speaker 5: You know at the time, it's kind of just like life,
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  Speaker 5: So I don't see it horrible. It's just that's where
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  Speaker 5: my childhood was adolescens.
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  Speaker 4: And about you, I.
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  Speaker 2: Actually loved it.
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  Speaker 4: You loved it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was so excited to be in La Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't mind.
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  Speaker 4: That's so wild. So for me it was ten to seventeen. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you lived in a garage for seven years.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah that's oh okay, okay, okay. What was yours? Like?
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  Speaker 5: Month to month? Was it your lease was up after
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  Speaker 5: three months or something?
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  Speaker 2: No, I had no money and I wanted.
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  Speaker 1: To move here, oh okay, yeah, and so it was
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  Speaker 1: all I could afford. No, Yeah, but I was there
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  Speaker 1: for like eight months.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, yeahah respect Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then I kind of like got on my feet
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  Speaker 1: with jobs and stuff. But you moved with your mom
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  Speaker 1: and your grandmother from Japan.
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  Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, so it was the three of us in
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  Speaker 5: the garage. Yeah, and you take what you take a discount,
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  Speaker 5: you know, whatever is available.
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: As I was researching for this interview, I was thinking,
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  Speaker 1: you moved here to a brand new country. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: probably barely know, like what is commonplace for food or
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  Speaker 1: for anything, let alone what's funny here?
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  Speaker 4: Right? Right?
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  Speaker 2: Did your humor translate?
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  Speaker 4: Gosh, my sense of humor?
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  Speaker 5: I think I was more physical back then, so yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I think so. I always love whenever I'm in a
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  Speaker 5: new culture, new country or something to see how I
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  Speaker 5: can learn enough of the language so I can start
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  Speaker 5: making people laugh. And I don't know if that's like
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  Speaker 5: a defense mechanism or what, but I love seeing people
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  Speaker 5: have a good time. The worst is when I can't
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  Speaker 5: communicate with someone because I don't know enough working right,
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  Speaker 5: And so, yeah, I think I quickly was able to
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  Speaker 5: pick up enough to be able to like have fun
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  Speaker 5: with people at least or laugh together about something.
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  Speaker 1: Would you say that your comedy is more typically American
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  Speaker 1: or typically Japanese humor?
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  Speaker 4: Gosh, for a long time I thought, oh my Japanese.
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  Speaker 5: Sensibilities were still coming out, because Japanese comedy is very slapstick,
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  Speaker 5: it's very physical comedy. I feel like a lot of
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  Speaker 5: cultures outside of American is like that. You know, if
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  Speaker 5: you watch variety shows or talk shows in other countries,
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  Speaker 5: it's usually more physical comedy.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like, like skits are like.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, like stand up comedy isn't huge in non English
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  Speaker 5: speaking countries, maybe for a reason, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: So then you go to another country.
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  Speaker 5: I just did a whole month in Scotland, and while
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  Speaker 5: I was there, I was like, I am more American
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  Speaker 5: than I thought interesting, and I was like, I'm such
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  Speaker 5: an American.
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  Speaker 4: I became like a Patriot almost.
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  Speaker 5: While the people in UK have terrible sense of humans.
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  Speaker 5: They watch commedations like like like who died?
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  Speaker 2: It's funny who say that?
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  Speaker 1: Because as I was researching, I was looking up the
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  Speaker 1: difference between Japanese and American humor. And this travel consultant,
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  Speaker 1: his name is Mark Johnson. He said, Japanese humor.
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  Speaker 5: Is all on you took advice from a guy named
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  Speaker 5: Mark Johnson about Japanese culture versus American culture.
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  Speaker 2: So he's married to a Japanese woman.
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  Speaker 4: What else? He also speaks Spanish fulwly and.
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  Speaker 1: He cooks Italian film Yeah, but he goes. Japanese humor
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  Speaker 1: is often a bit dry, very obvious and slapstick, especially
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  Speaker 1: on TV or films. People tend to take everything quite literally,
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  Speaker 1: which is why British humor can be difficult to grasp.
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  Speaker 1: So there's something about British and Japanese humor that don't mix.
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  Speaker 4: Oh interesting, it seems.
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  Speaker 5: So maybe I am still like Japanese sensibilities, you know,
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  Speaker 5: who knows? I feel they're still like behind to in
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  Speaker 5: diversity in the UK. Yeah, so also seeing someone like
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  Speaker 5: me go on stage, you know, I already have to
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  Speaker 5: disarm them to be like, no, I'm not like an
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  Speaker 5: international student here, No, I'm actually the comedian.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that's not good.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's not nice.
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  Speaker 2: You shouldn't have to do that.
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  Speaker 4: Right, you know, not to like bash them so much.
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  Speaker 5: But I'm saying being away from America really made me
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  Speaker 5: be like, wow, I'm like, actually very American.
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  Speaker 2: When did you start doing stand up?
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  Speaker 4: I started twelve years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you just got up on stage at like
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  Speaker 1: a comedy store or something.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no, that's twelve years That's how you go missing. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: if you're a woman twelve years ago, you just go
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  Speaker 5: by yourself to comedy store. Shows are late, right, all
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  Speaker 5: the people there's alleyways. That's how people go missing. I
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  Speaker 5: started by so I took a class online. I found
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  Speaker 5: a class on Craigslist, which is so much safer to
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  Speaker 5: just trust that it's actually going to be a class.
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  Speaker 5: Like it said, nothing makes sense, nothing in the world
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  Speaker 5: makes sense. But anyway, I found a class for women
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  Speaker 5: online called Pretty Funny Women. And then so I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 5: this would be a safer way for me to practice
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  Speaker 5: stand up and cool, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you were the start of the class
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  Speaker 1: and they were like, now you go to the comedy store.
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  Speaker 5: Well, everyone got to do the show at the end
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  Speaker 5: of the class. It was like, you know, twelve weeks
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  Speaker 5: or something. Yeah, and then.
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  Speaker 1: Who were your early influences for your career? Because I
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  Speaker 1: saw Chelsea Handler comment on every one of your.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, I love her too. I grew up
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  Speaker 5: watching her in the garage.
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  Speaker 2: Me too.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's what you watch in the garage.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah something. So you were up late too, Yeah, garage
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  Speaker 5: makes you stay up late. It's not like you have
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  Speaker 5: a great night's sleep, you know. So you're just kind
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  Speaker 5: of staring at the ceiling and then the door and
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  Speaker 5: that's about it.
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  Speaker 2: The TV in my garage was so old. It had
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  Speaker 2: a cable connecting the remote.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, go to the TV.
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  Speaker 2: I'd never seen anything.
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  Speaker 4: Like what like a like a Nintendo, like.
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  Speaker 2: An old school It must have been from the sixties
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  Speaker 2: or something.
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  Speaker 4: That's so wild, I know.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, But I watched Chelsea lately.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah I would too, And I feel like, I mean
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  Speaker 5: props to you. Changing locations as an adult is harder.
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  Speaker 5: It's hard, you know, because especially by yourself, so I
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  Speaker 5: had at least, you know, adults with me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But also when I was reading about it, it sounds
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  Speaker 1: like your adults were like chaotic in the house too.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: They were not great adults, they were not. Yeah, of
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  Speaker 5: course I'm a comedian, right, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like it all came from somewhere.
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  Speaker 5: Uh huh of course, yeah, yeah yeah, but yeah, So anyway,
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  Speaker 5: Chelsea lately.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna get back to your family because your
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  Speaker 1: grandmother's a huge party of your videos. But so, Chelsea,
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  Speaker 1: you're friends with, which I'm very jealous about. Who else
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  Speaker 1: did you look to?
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  Speaker 5: I was watching Margaret Choe Robin Williams too. Actually he's
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  Speaker 5: very physical, and I think that still spoke to my
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  Speaker 5: sort of physical comedy sensibilities at that time.
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  Speaker 4: And then Tignotaro. I don't know if you know her.
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  Speaker 5: She's more dead pan because she's all words, you know,
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  Speaker 5: and that's more classic American stand up comedy.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like, Yeah, so those were some of my influences.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad you mentioned Tick because they directed your
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  Speaker 2: HBO stand ups.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, which.
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  Speaker 2: Is pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I also read you toured with Mike. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how to pronounce his name, Barbiglia.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, you crushed it, he did, Yeah, Mike Barbiglia, Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I think you're getting all the points from the the
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  Speaker 5: White What was the guy.
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  Speaker 1: That Mike Johnson, Mark Mark, Mark Johnson, Yeah, why Mikelia.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And so your HBO special is coming out soon?
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  Speaker 2: When does it come out?
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  Speaker 4: December tenth?
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  Speaker 1: Already you said, I wrote this special when I realized
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  Speaker 1: that all the things that made me feel like a
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  Speaker 1: freak growing up were actually my superpowers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what are your superpowers?
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know, I it's and by the way I
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  Speaker 5: feel that way about everyone I do too. You know,
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  Speaker 5: everything that ever made you feel like, oh gosh, I'm
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  Speaker 5: so different cause I talk like this or I look
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  Speaker 5: like this, that's actually your superpower, you know.
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  Speaker 4: And it's actually what's gonna draw y other people to you.
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  Speaker 4: It's what's going to not just disarm.
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  Speaker 5: People, but I feel like make other people feel singing too,
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  Speaker 5: you know, growing up I didn't feel great about was
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  Speaker 5: the way I talked.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I have a weird cadence. It's not my
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  Speaker 4: first language.
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  Speaker 5: I make up words sometimes and just hope it means
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  Speaker 5: what it means, you know in my head.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think that's you know, and so I
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  Speaker 4: so in a way I talk slower than.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe most people are a lot of people, especially for comedy,
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  Speaker 5: but I think that makes it so that you're okay.
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  Speaker 5: For example, if you talk slower, if you're a more
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  Speaker 5: dead pain kind of delivery kind.
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  Speaker 4: Of person, people are forced to lean in and really
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  Speaker 4: listen to.
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  Speaker 5: You, you know, right, instead of all the other noise
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  Speaker 5: that's happening. It's no I would need to hear what
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  Speaker 5: are they saying? Maybe they talk quiet. That's a superpower,
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  Speaker 5: you know that. I think that draws attention, and more
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  Speaker 5: so then you're able to use your body as the
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  Speaker 5: vessel of the messages that you're actually trying to get
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  Speaker 5: out into the world, and also making it so that
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  Speaker 5: other people feel seen too. Maybe other people also have
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  Speaker 5: like not a quote unquote normal way of speaking or whatever,
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  Speaker 5: or are quirky and offbeat, and that's okay. You know,
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  Speaker 5: it's there's more of us out there. I think that's
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  Speaker 5: what I mean by superpower. It's fel like I'm fighting crime.
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  Speaker 1: You did a relief money video about how Natalie Portman
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  Speaker 1: was discovered in a pizza parlor. I had always heard
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  Speaker 1: that Channing Tatum was discovered walking down South Beach.
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  Speaker 4: Oh is that right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that never happened to me.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, walking downside. Yeah. Chris Hamsworth was this covered.
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  Speaker 5: Getting off a bus you're kidding, Yeah, from like Australia
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  Speaker 5: or something. So he came to Australia like walked off
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  Speaker 5: a bus or something like that, and then they were
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  Speaker 5: like hey, soor or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: However it happened, Yeah, like twenty mil here you go.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, wild yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But you would go to this pizza parlor but near you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, but I call the pizza parlor. It was
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  Speaker 4: Papa John's. Yeah. Papa John's would be like, oh, that's
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  Speaker 4: so nice. We're parlor now. I think parlor.
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  Speaker 5: Sounds fancier, right, he does fork a knife eat the
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  Speaker 5: pizza like that. No, it was the Papa John's. But
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  Speaker 5: I was like, little dude, it's walking distance from my garage.
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  Speaker 2: It's perfect.
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  Speaker 5: What I mean is you have to be careful what
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  Speaker 5: you tell kids, right about success stories. Oh, Chris Rock
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  Speaker 5: worked at McDonald's before he became famous.
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  Speaker 4: Chris Rock worked out how long did he work there? For?
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  Speaker 2: Three weeks right.
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  Speaker 5: Before I get me a job at McDonald's. And next thing,
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  Speaker 5: I know, I'm being promoted to manage and I've been.
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  Speaker 4: There twenty five years, you know what I mean. Oh
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  Speaker 4: but Chris Rock worked here too, you know what.
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  Speaker 5: Natalie Poortman was discovered by a producer at the pizza parlor.
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  Speaker 4: She was like twelve. I don't know, I have questions
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  Speaker 4: for the adult.
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  Speaker 5: Male producer that went up to a twelve year old
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  Speaker 5: while she was just trying to have dinner. But no,
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  Speaker 5: I know, it's like, well, you want to be in.
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  Speaker 4: A movie girl, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 5: But as a girl growing up, I was like, I
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  Speaker 5: want that to happen to me. So that's why I
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  Speaker 5: started going to Papa John's and all I got was
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  Speaker 5: customer of the week.
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  Speaker 2: So how did you get discovered?
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  Speaker 4: How did I get discovered? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: How did you get discovered? What was your moment?
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  Speaker 5: So I got off of so I was on the
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  Speaker 5: big blue bus, right, No, I mean, gosh, it's you know,
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  Speaker 5: it comes in waves, you truly, I feel like keep
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  Speaker 5: getting discovered.
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  Speaker 4: Over and over and over again.
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  Speaker 5: There are many comedians, for example, that get rediscovered in
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  Speaker 5: many different ways. Because I think that's why it's good
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  Speaker 5: for you to have like sort of a wide spectrum
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  Speaker 5: of things that you do. I think what really propelled
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  Speaker 5: because I've been doing stand up for twelve years, but
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  Speaker 5: you know, there are moments that sort of you know,
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  Speaker 5: whether it's like going viral from something that. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 5: think the big one for me was when I did
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  Speaker 5: a stand up set, stand up set during an earthquake.
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  Speaker 4: That was that was viral. Yeah that so.
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  Speaker 2: Tell everybody what happened.
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  Speaker 5: So I was at the ice House Comedy Club in
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  Speaker 5: Pasadena and it was like its twenty nineteen July fifth,
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  Speaker 5: I remember because July fourth there was an earthquake too.
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  Speaker 5: It's Los Angeles every day or you know, we talk
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  Speaker 5: about it, it's coming and it does. Right July fourth
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  Speaker 5: there was an earthquake. And then July fifth, I was
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  Speaker 5: on stage and seven point one magnitude earthquake hit while
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  Speaker 5: like I was going up, but I was d I
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  Speaker 5: I I was going up like dancing, so you know,
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  Speaker 5: at first I thought and everyone was screaming woo or
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  Speaker 5: I thought it was screams of.
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  Speaker 1: Sa I was like, oh stop it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I was like, oh my god, this this move. And
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  Speaker 5: then I realized there were screams of terror. Right, everyone
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  Speaker 5: going ah cause they were scared cause the earth was shaking,
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  Speaker 5: but in my head, you know, when I realized it
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  Speaker 5: was an earthquake, because people started going, it's an earthquake, earthquake,
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  Speaker 5: you know, right in my head, I still want to entertain.
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  Speaker 5: So my first I was, oh shit, sorry, I thought
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  Speaker 5: I was making that happen with my moves, you know whatever,
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  Speaker 5: and still getting them laughing.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, so that happened. And then and then when.
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  Speaker 5: I realized the danger of this situation, I wanted to
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  Speaker 5: make sure everyone was okay.
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  Speaker 4: So I like called out for the.
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  Speaker 5: House manager and like, you know, suddenly you're in control
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  Speaker 5: of two hundred people and you have no skills.
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  Speaker 2: That were you surprised at your own courage?
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  Speaker 5: Not so much, No, because stand up comedy already requires
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  Speaker 5: you to think quick on your feet. Yeah, and I
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  Speaker 5: see stand up comedy as a service.
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  Speaker 4: It's a service industry job.
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  Speaker 5: Say more, Well, some comedians treat it like its therapy
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  Speaker 5: for them. You should not do that. People bought tickets.
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  Speaker 5: The jokes should be good. You should have worked on them.
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  Speaker 5: You shouldn't.
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  Speaker 4: You know. Sure, it's okay to try new jokes. You should.
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: That's part of a job.
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: But you know, just I'm not my philosophy isn't to
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: use the stage time to be like, I had a
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: terrible day and I don't need to find a joke
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: in this because I'm.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: Just talking out how I feel.
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: So this happened, and there's you know, some comedians do that,
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: but I think it's a very very much a service
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: industry job.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: You're there to entertain and make.
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: Sure everyone else walks out having a better time than
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: you are. So with all of mind when an earthquake hits,
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: of course, I'm already service and like service oriented, where
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: it's like are you guys, okay, you're okay, everyone's safe,
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: okay now boom jokes, jokes, jokes, jokes, because we're still
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: at a comedy.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: Show, you know, I think, and that was amazing. Oh
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: thank you, thank you.
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I know, I again, like twelve years of comedy,
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: you know, I'm it might stand up pretty good.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: It's pretty good.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: But it's really good.
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: Apparently, you know, during an earthquake, it's out of this world,
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: you know, and that's the way it went viral.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: But that's so interesting to me because that's not something
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: that's in your control, you know, like you just had
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: to like you could have been going on for years
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: being as great as you are, and no one would
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: have seen it had it not been for this earthquake.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: Right right.
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: That's why you have to always be filming, always be
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: filming abs because if I didn't have if the club
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: wasn't filming that set, they just happened to be filming it.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: It's just stories. I'll tell about this earthquake that.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: I did a show, right, but I have footage proof.
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: It's so wild that in this moment, you really have
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: to have cameras.
• 18:10
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  Speaker 1: get over to really start killing it on stage?
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: I think it's definitely self doubt of do they really
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: want to see me and hear my thoughts?
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: You know?
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: So sometimes you'll do all these wild things to avoid
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: letting honoring that part of you, letting you be you.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: Like I created a whole as Japanese game show that
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: I would do a monthly show of where I do
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: a little bit of stand up in but mostly I
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: was hosting this game show with rules and contestants and
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: all these things that I built because I wasn't sure
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: if I could just do an hour of stand up
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: and tour with it and people would want to see it.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: I was avoiding that, and.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Now you're specialist, gonna be on HBO.
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: An hour of stand up that I was touring with,
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: you know, But like, sometimes you do have to do
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: other things to realize, No, you're just hindering yourself.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: You know, it's procrastination, right.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: So when did it switch for you? You just woke
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: up one day or did someone say something to.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: You, Oh there was this thing, the pandemic, the pandemic head.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: I haven't heard of it.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, should we tell her?
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: It was like asleep for two years.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm so glad. I wish I was.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, And it actually was positive for you.
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: I mean I was able to look more in words
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: and realize what I really wanted to do with my
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: craft and you know why I'm on this earth and
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: stuff like that, right that I think a lot of
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: us went through. And then I was like, why am
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: I hindering myself from doing an hour of stand up?
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: I've been working so hard at it and so yeah,
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: so that's.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: When I really finessed and wrote out my hour found
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: at the structure and I was ready to tour, you know,
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: but I had to also garner the audience too before
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: I could do that. So I also was able to
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: do that during the pandemic, just by speaking my truth
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: to camera and being the silly self that I am
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: that you've seen on social media.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, your videos make me laugh so hard.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: You did one with your husband, Well, you did a
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: ton with your husband, and then I saw you post
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: one where you were like, my husband has asked me
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: to stop being in my videos.
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that's kind of in the hour actually that that's.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Sort of from us.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you do mind telling it cause it is so funny.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: Oh sure, yeah, I think it's that.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: Right, because I I you know, I was a cheerleader
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: in high school. I love synchronized choreographed dances with other people.
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: So I was making my husband do these with me
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: where we would learn a dance together. I would shoot
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: it posted online. I'm making match with me. Same outfit,
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: same hairstyle, everything.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Right, Like you had wigs for him, it was you
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: were decked out.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: My a wig of my hair I would put on him,
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: and at one point he broke down and cried because
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: I was being a terror, you know, I was like
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: five six, seven eight, get it right, keep your wig
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: on you, and that was me.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: Get a do it again, do it again? That was me.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: So he's crying and he said to me, I hate
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: doing these with you. I'm never gonna do this with
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: you ever again. And he goes because you always wanna
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: make us look like we're sisters.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: And that kills me.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: I you understand why.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: I was like, oh my god, I I have been
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: trying to make him.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: I was an only child and I've always wanted a sister,
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: and I was trying to make my husband that.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: It is so funny when you see the footage of it,
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: like with the wings. I was crying in bed.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: I feel bad for him. Yeah.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: So fortunately for your grandmother, your husband's out of most
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: of the videos. Some still he makes appearances, but your
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: grandmother's in.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: My grandmother a star, she's a star.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: How did you start putting your grandmother in videos?
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: She's you know, she's always been a caretaker all her life.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: She raised three kids on her own and then raised
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: me too, and still takes care of my mother, who
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: has mental illness. And so she's never gotten to like
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: play around much. She was always like working you know,
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: working long hours so that her kids were fine, you know,
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: and me.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: That I was fine and planning.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: Moves to America, and so she never got to play much.
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: I never really saw her laughing when I was growing
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: up at all. And so when I found the platform
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: online to just sort of be silly and have fun,
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: you know, she saw how much fun I was having
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: and one day she's like, hey, like, can I maybe
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: get in on it too? And I was like really, okay, yeah,
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: And so I was like, okay, so we're doing this dance,
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: you just do this, and she's like okay, and then
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: we would do it and we would laugh and laugh
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: and laugh.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: It was cool.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: It was kind of her way of letting loose, and
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: it was our way of sort of having a good
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: time and decompressing.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: So does this make you her favorite grandchild?
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: We've talked about it. It's hard for her to say,
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: I have a cousin who lives with my grandma and
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: it's also my grandma's granddaughter. But in my heart, yeah,
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: I would s I I think I'm the favorite.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: So you're how could I not be with me?
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Look at that face with me?
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: In Yiddish, we say Shane up on them. What does
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: that mean like beautiful face?
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: Oh, Shane yea. Yeah, so m I like to think that.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Your name actually means sincere kind child. I thought that
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: was so pretty.
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, my father chose my name. It's a lot of pressure. Yeah, right,
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: sincere a kind child. I think I am those things?
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: Do you think?
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: I always think people live up to their names.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: Interesting, what's your name?
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Danielle means only God can judge me?
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: Okay, that's hard to like decide if it's like, really
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: you live up to it? I mean actually you can
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: because it's like, well, it's up to him, so you
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: really can't tell.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Think people like, are there other people in Is that
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: a common name?
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: Osco? Not as common? It's not as.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Consonant because it seemed really unique.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, what the equivalent of that?
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: Maybe like a barber.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it's my idol Barbara Walters.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, you're speaking my language.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Okay, So you mentioned that you were able to allow
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: your grandmother to play. She now has eighteen thousand Twitter followers, Yeah,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: which I love.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I've created a monster she now She's always like,
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: what should I say to my followers? What should I
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: what should I say?
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: Nothing?
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: You don't need to say this all day? What do
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: you think should I say this? Oh you're eighty seven,
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: just live your life? But yeah, eight boom, she's just
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: over not eighteen thousand followers.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: I think that's amazing.
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: Do you know how long some comedians spend on Twitter
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: for years trying to get eighteen thousand follows.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Their whole lives?
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: There's now My grandma is just a regular.
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: Person, no interest in entering any industry, art, industry.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: Nothing she entered.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: She's in.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: I think it's.
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: Because she's a kind presences like Paddington Bear.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: You know, do you know Paddy?
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: So Paddington Bear has a huge following right right, and
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: it's like why he's not real, But it's because he's kind.
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: On Twitter every day he just says really nice things.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: Sometimes they're really funny and cute. Yeah, and Grandma's like
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: that she is, and I think people want that.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: What other experiences have you been able to give your
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: family or friends because of your success.
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: When we shot the HBO Special, yeah, we were able
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: to fly first class. I we never yeah, oh my god, never.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: I've only locked eyes with the first class people while
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: I had to walk to my real seat.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: You took your whole family. That's amazing, just.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: My grandma and my husband.
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: But it was cool where we were like laying down flat,
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: you know, Oh my god, we were you know what
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: I mean, being like we went from a garage to
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: being able to lay down flat on an airplane while
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: eating beef.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: Incredible. It was really cool. Yeah.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: So I reached out to interview you because I found
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: your profile through Ava Duverney.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she follows you.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Yes, And I found you and I thought you were
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: so talented. And then I while I was researching, I
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: learned you invented the drop challenge.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Oh I had no idea.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't know either.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: You are a viral sensation.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: Sure. Yeah, it's for.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Anybody who doesn't know. It's like the and you dropped
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: down to the ground.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, give me some and that's the beat. That's
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: the beat drop.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Thank you for that.
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: Oh it sounds like that.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: How did you put this together? How did the drop
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Challenge begin?
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: I've always been like really into like that. I feel
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: like every process for me, it takes years.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: So that song is an older song Beyonce's partition. It's
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: been around for a while. But when it first came out,
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: I was obsessed with that ooh that bass drop?
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: What is that called? Like the who? You know what
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: I mean? Right? And I was like gosh that.
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: I was just obsessed with it, and then I kept
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: thinking about it. I was also like a choreographer when
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: I was a cheerleader in high school. I kind of
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: have a dance background and and then so that song
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: was just in my head. And then one day me
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: and my grandma were in Little Tokyo, were go a lot,
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: and we were just hanging out and I think I
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: was just trying to make my grandma laugh. We would
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: be like, oh, okay, we had to hit a bunch
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: of stores, but on the way to get to the stores,
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: I was just like just my knees.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: I was just you would drop drop out of nowhere.
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: And she would laugh and laugh, and I was like, wait,
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: there's a song that has a drop like dropy every
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: like three seconds, that Beyonce song.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: And so I just.
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: Decided to like edit it together where it's just us
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: like shopping in little Tokyo, and right when you don't
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: think anything's gonna happen, I just kind of give up
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: and drop you.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Know, and then nearly every celebrity re enacted it.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: It went so it went super viral.
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that was why, because it's so easy
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: to recreate, you know.
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: And yeah, it's weird and funny.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: I read an article yesterday the title was TikTok Ate
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: the Internet, and it made me laugh because.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: It kind of did. TikTok did eat the Internet.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: It changed your life too, Like, you have a huge
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: amount of followers on there.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: How do you think about it?
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: It's so silly, you know, it's I mean, but that's
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: why I got into comedy, so that other people can
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: have a good time.
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: So I love it. Yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 1: For you because you and your husband are really cute together.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: You look comfortable. The first time I moved in with
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: a man, I was tear because I was like, where
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  Speaker 1: where do I poove?
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: Like?
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: I can't with somebody a man especially, I love living alone.
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: Now you do? Yeah, no, that's great.
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: You're like you you're an autonomous, independent person.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Right, But for you, how did you feel moving in.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: With the man?
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: That's so the premise of that joke is actually about
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: how getting married is the childlike thing to do. Why
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: because it means you can't be an autonomous, independent person.
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: You know, married people say things like I found my
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: best friend. You know, we're very childlike everything we own.
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: Split it in half that way, it's half and half.
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: You know, it's actually a very childlike mentality. We do
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: everything together all the time. We can't be alone. Being
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: alone and single, that's more adult, that's very adult. Do
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: not need someone to hold your hand through it to
• 32:55
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• 32:56
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• 32:58
  Speaker 4: everything with them, you know what I mean.
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you have to find an apartment by yourself.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: You have to get to places on time.
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: You don't have anyone telling you, hey, honey, like you
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: need to get ready.
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  Speaker 4: No, you do it on your own.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: You need to see me emotionally stable, way more than
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: if you're married.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: You already have someone, right, they're locked in. Yeah.
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: So yeah, that's what I mean by it's funny.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: You know, we're comfortable, but I think it's because we're
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: childlike and we the partnership was very important. We needed that.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Where did you two meet?
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: We met in.
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: La through a friend like a setup. No, just like uh,
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: it was like a project that we were working on.
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: It's kind of a boring story. I wish it was epic.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: You shouldn't.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: You could make one up. You met during the earthquake.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he was in the audience.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: I saved his life.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: He thought it was so cool the way I handled it. Yeah,
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: m okay.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: So one of your videos ultimately laugh where you said
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: you've been using the wrong emoji, like the hug emoji.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, this one.
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's I didn't know that was the hug emoji cause.
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: It doesn't look like a hug.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: He looks like spirit fingers.
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  Speaker 5: You should never hug someone like that. People would think
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: you're a murderer. They would be like, oh my god,
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: I'm it's a serial killer.
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: It's a serial killer. What are you doing. I'm trying
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: to give you a hug.
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: But I've been using it like to present new information
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: gently gently, yeah yeah, gently.
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: It's like, oh, excuse me, I'm having trouble understanding the
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: language and paragraph four you know like that, yeah, or
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: like girl, you've been telling everyone we're best friends, but
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: from my understanding, we haven't had that talk. You know
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: that kind of that's when I use it, not to
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: give hugs.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Also, have you seen the water emoji? If you
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: type in water for the moment.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Is it the drops.
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like so thirsty looking. I'm not sending that
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: to my family.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: No, it feels sexual.
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: It's sexual. It's three drops.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like people, do you use it? They don't use it.
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: My poor aunts and uncles are using that emoji just
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: to be like, make sure to break water.
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: It's gonna be a long hike. And it looks like
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: they're sexting me, you know.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: So embarrassing.
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll school drink drip, drip. You know.
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: It's hot today, make sure to drink water. I'm like, man,
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: it looks like me and uncle Paul are having an affair.
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: It's messed up.
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: Oh, I gave you to do.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: Some rapid fire.
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Your tour merch includes food, jewelry. You're not wearing any today?
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: Your yes, I do.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: What's your favorite meal?
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: My favorite meal? Oh my gosh, I have so many?
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah right now. It's usually when I'm craving.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Okay, give me what you're craving now?
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: Oh gosh, at this moment, I really love like Japanese curry.
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, when I'm hungover, I am. I'm a noodle girl.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Your favorite follow on Instagram Johanna Enough.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: Who is that Swedish dance hall queen.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Okay, oh, that's probably great. The best thing you've ever.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: Quit basil planting.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: It's eleven counter you'll never forget.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: Went on a writer.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Can you collaborate on that one?
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: We were went out with. This was like independent film
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: festival days. I was in independent films and stuff, and
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: we won an award at a award show. Yeah, and
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: a bunch of celebrities were there, so we got like
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: just like fifteen thousand dollars.
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: But they give it in the big check. Yeah.
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: And I saw one on the writer and I wanted
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: to buy her a drink, so I went ran up
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: to her with a check, but it was covering my
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: face so it looked like a check with legs.
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: Why no, no, why no.
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: I said, let me buy you a drink, girl, And
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: all I heard was her screaming, And then when I
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: took the check down, she had run away.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: What's your best public speaking tip?
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: Oh, public speaking tip? I think, just like, what if
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: you think you're scared, I just know that that's the
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: same part in your brain that's where you're excited, So
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: you're actually excited.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: A book that you think should be required reading, something that.
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: A book actually haven't read a book in a long time.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: No way.
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, how do you get TikTok TikTok Twitter?
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: Grandma Instagram?
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah you have an eighty seven year old woman with
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: all you people? Tell what does a life well lived
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: look like to you?
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: You have to be your sincere, authentic self. Don't be
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: living trying to be cool or you know. I think
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: the worst thing you can do is try to be
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: cool in a way everyone supposedly wants you to be cool.
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: You'll be unhappy you're already cool.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: I A leads do a pretty smart question.
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah is this? Yeah?
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: Pick which everyone?
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: Okay, okay, what do you need help with most right now?
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: Probably like organization?
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, well you have a lot going on. It's hard.
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but people figure it out. People figure out. Yeah.
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: I think I'm that kind of person that needs to
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: get so rich just so that I can an organize.
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: Someone can tell me, hey, pick that up? What is that? Well?
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Chelsea Handler actually said that she forgot how to do
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: things because everybody was doing it. So finally she was like,
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: I have to fire everyone so I can remember how
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: to be a person.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: See, I don't know what that kind of life is like. Though,
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: that's like rich, rich, I need like what is that?
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: Like a life coach, not a life coach, someone to
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: yell at me, hey napping again?
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: Like I want that? Who's that a mother in law?
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: I just need thats So, what's the smartest decision you've
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: ever made?
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: The smartest The smartest decision I've ever made was to
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: the thing I was hiding about myself and go, No,
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: running a game show isn't your interest. Sometimes that key
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: in life is knowing what you're not into, right, And
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: why are you doing the thing you're not into so much?
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: And are you procrastinating from the thing you actually want
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: to do?
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to thank the people that make the
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: show possible.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: Colleen O'Neill, Jill Salama.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Karrie O'Keefe, and Phil speed Tech. Okay, you know what
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: time it is. Today's a good day. To have a
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: good day.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: I'll see you next week.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: There's no