Latest / Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald / Stand-up Comic Rachel Feinstein on Firemen, Musicians and What Not To Wear
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- 0:58Speaker 2: Heather MacDonald. Juicy Scoop.
- 1:02Speaker 3: Hello and welcome to Juicy Scoop. I have such a fun,
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- 1:38Speaker 2: So many others.
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- 1:42Speaker 3: do not miss out on those fun shows. And now
- 1:45Speaker 3: for a funny lady. Hello and welcome to Juicy Scoop.
- 1:51Speaker 3: I have a hilarious woman here that has never been
- 1:55Speaker 3: on Juicy Scoop before. I'm sure some of you have
- 1:58Speaker 3: heard of her, love her, follow her. Rachel Feinstein, welcome
- 2:01Speaker 3: to Juicy Scoop.
- 2:02Speaker 2: Thank you, Heather. Thank you. Big fan. I never met
- 2:05Speaker 2: you before.
- 2:06Speaker 3: Because you're like the East Coast girl comic.
- 2:09Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know where I am when I'm out here.
- 2:10Speaker 2: And I'm a West Coast girl comic. Yeah. Did you
- 2:12Speaker 2: grow up here? Yes. I grew up in Woodland Hills.
- 2:15Speaker 2: Woodland Hills.
- 2:16Speaker 3: Then bought the house next door to my parents and
- 2:18Speaker 3: right now my audience is like we've heard all your
- 2:20Speaker 3: fucking stories heather shut up i'm trying to learn about
- 2:24Speaker 3: you i've.
- 2:24Speaker 2: Been staying with my aunt in woodland hills so that's
- 2:26Speaker 2: where i've been and now i'm moving to my brother's
- 2:28Speaker 2: house yeah Well.
- 2:30Speaker 3: Do you need to go home to Woodland Hills after this?
- 2:32Speaker 3: Because you could just come home with me.
- 2:33Speaker 2: Yes, actually, I do. And we can charge your phone. Oh,
- 2:36Speaker 2: my God. Yay. Yes, I'm going back to my aunt's
- 2:40Speaker 2: house in Woodland Hills. Oh, my God. Amazing. Okay, that
- 2:43Speaker 2: would be great. Yeah. Because I'm always in a parking
- 2:45Speaker 2: lot trying to figure an Uber out. I don't know
- 2:48Speaker 2: where I am. I'm so New York when I'm here.
- 2:50Speaker 2: People think I'm a lot. I always come in just
- 2:52Speaker 2: like too hard and they're like, whoa.
- 2:54Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 2:56Speaker 2: And then I'm always going in the wrong direction. So
- 2:58Speaker 2: I'll be at the store and somebody will be like,
- 3:01Speaker 2: did you mean to walk into that parking lot? That's
- 3:03Speaker 2: a parking lot. Do you know that? People could also
- 3:05Speaker 2: tell that I'm doing the wrong thing. So I'm always
- 3:07Speaker 2: crouching and hiding my mistakes here. Well, you'll be just fine.
- 3:12Speaker 3: How long have you been doing stand-up for? Because you
- 3:14Speaker 3: started young.
- 3:14Speaker 2: I did. You got into it right after high school. Yes,
- 3:20Speaker 2: I've been doing stand-up over 20 years. I moved to
- 3:23Speaker 2: New York when I was like 17 with this guy
- 3:25Speaker 2: and his band at the time who kept dumping me,
- 3:28Speaker 2: and I just kept staying after he dumped me.
- 3:29Speaker 3: Sweet. Okay, now I know some of these stories, but
- 3:32Speaker 3: my audience does not know the stories.
- 3:34Speaker 2: Yes.
- 3:35Speaker 3: And it really is a unique stand-up origin story because,
- 3:40Speaker 3: I mean, I love you. You do your mom a lot,
- 3:43Speaker 3: and your mom is a very different mom than mine.
- 3:46Speaker 2: She was like the opposite of mine. Mine's like.
- 3:49Speaker 3: Irish Catholic, you know, go to college, don't have sex
- 3:52Speaker 3: before you're married, make your own.
- 3:54Speaker 2: Money, have a career, da-da-da-da.
- 3:56Speaker 3: But your mom was like, it sounds great that you're
- 4:00Speaker 3: leaving for this.
- 4:01Speaker 2: She had no follow-up questions when I moved to New
- 4:03Speaker 2: York with a guy and his band called Dick Sister.
- 4:06Speaker 2: My mom was, like, outside in a dashiki. Like, it
- 4:08Speaker 2: sounds terrific. So it's Dick, the word Dick. Dick Sister.
- 4:11Speaker 2: And then how did they come up with that name?
- 4:13Speaker 2: I don't know, but their shirt was, like, supposed to
- 4:15Speaker 2: be somebody that was born with a vagina and... A dick.
- 4:19Speaker 2: So it's not. It's intersex. Intersex. You say intersex. I
- 4:22Speaker 2: shouldn't say any of this because I'm going to get
- 4:24Speaker 2: it all wrong. No, it's okay. Okay. It's okay. Can
- 4:26Speaker 2: I start the sentence again so I don't get scolded
- 4:28Speaker 2: in the comments? Well, I mean, this really did happen. Yes,
- 4:33Speaker 2: it did. Like 20 years ago. And this was the t-shirt.
- 4:34Speaker 2: And I can't remember the name. There really was a t-shirt.
- 4:36Speaker 2: We can't erase all history, people. You're right. Absolutely. So
- 4:39Speaker 2: it was someone with two. A penis and a badge
- 4:43Speaker 2: next to it. And it was called Dick's Sister. Dick's Sister.
- 4:46Speaker 3: But it was a person or just a dick and
- 4:49Speaker 3: a badge?
- 4:49Speaker 2: It was like a cartoon with a dick and badge. Oh,
- 4:50Speaker 2: a cartoon. Okay. It wasn't like a person being utilized.
- 4:53Speaker 2: That would be sad. How did you meet this delight
- 4:55Speaker 2: of a musician? He was five years older than me.
- 4:59Speaker 2: I think I met him at like a DC like
- 5:01Speaker 2: hardcore show. I was by all means going to be
- 5:06Speaker 2: like homelish at best if I didn't figure something out.
- 5:09Speaker 2: I got very bad grades. I barely graduated. Barely graduated.
- 5:13Speaker 2: I mean, yeah. But your mom was educated. She was
- 5:17Speaker 2: a therapist. Yeah, she was a social worker.
- 5:19Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 5:20Speaker 3: So then what was her attitude about the fact that
- 5:22Speaker 3: you were not excelling in school?
- 5:25Speaker 2: She was just like kind of watching me. There was
- 5:27Speaker 2: a lot of analyzing. There was a lot of overly
- 5:29Speaker 2: testing me to figure out my issues. So it wasn't
- 5:32Speaker 2: so much as like pushing me hard because they knew
- 5:35Speaker 2: that there wasn't chance in hell that any university was
- 5:38Speaker 2: going to want me. I think it was just like,
- 5:40Speaker 2: there was a lot of overanalyzing of why I was
- 5:42Speaker 2: doing so badly in school and like no boundaries. My
- 5:45Speaker 2: mom always just had like a leg up, just like
- 5:47Speaker 2: straddling the bed, just trying to get to the bottom of,
- 5:50Speaker 2: you know, my pain and my darkness. And then there
- 5:52Speaker 2: was also sort of like a vague, so it was
- 5:54Speaker 2: being like always re-scanned, a lot of scanning. There was
- 5:57Speaker 2: a lot of scans going on in my childhood. And
- 6:00Speaker 2: then when it, but it wasn't like because they wanted
- 6:02Speaker 2: me to go to Harvard. I mean, everybody knew that I, I,
- 6:05Speaker 2: I wasn't going to get into any school, um, And
- 6:08Speaker 2: I think that it was like analyzing for the sake
- 6:10Speaker 2: of analyzing, wanting me to do a little better in school.
- 6:13Speaker 2: And then when I went to New York, I think
- 6:15Speaker 2: she just applauded any decision that was sort of not traditional.
- 6:19Speaker 2: So she just sort of loved to talk about her
- 6:22Speaker 2: daughter who was going to the Big Apple. She loves
- 6:26Speaker 2: to mention if she has gay friends. She'll be like,
- 6:27Speaker 2: did I tell you that Art and his partner– went
- 6:30Speaker 2: to a play in Greenwich village. I'm like, that's not
- 6:32Speaker 2: a story. There's just a, so she's one of those.
- 6:35Speaker 3: Women that is very proud to have non white straight friends.
- 6:40Speaker 2: Oh yes.
- 6:40Speaker 4: Yes.
- 6:40Speaker 2: Nothing would make my mom happier than like the person
- 6:44Speaker 2: in any story can't, they can't be white. They need
- 6:46Speaker 2: to have something else going on. That's not, It's just
- 6:49Speaker 2: got to be like a cocktail of things that either
- 6:51Speaker 2: somebody she can analyze and get to the bottom of
- 6:53Speaker 2: their pain and they can't be white. Also, they cannot
- 6:56Speaker 2: be white. No, why is that? She's white. She's as
- 6:59Speaker 2: white as the day is long, Karen. Yeah, she just loves,
- 7:02Speaker 2: she's a bleeding heart liberal. She's like, and then I
- 7:04Speaker 2: married like, you know, I talk about it in the special,
- 7:06Speaker 2: an Irish Catholic Brooklyn fireman, you know?
- 7:09Speaker 3: Well, I love that you married an Irish Catholic fireman
- 7:13Speaker 3: because my grandfather was an Irish Catholic fireman and he
- 7:16Speaker 3: was the fire chief.
- 7:17Speaker 2: Yeah. In Long Beach, Long Island. Oh, really? Yeah, New York.
- 7:21Speaker 2: So you come from a firefighter family.
- 7:22Speaker 3: Yes.
- 7:23Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 7:23Speaker 3: My dad didn't do it, but my grandpa did.
- 7:25Speaker 2: Yeah. So, okay. So you, so, okay.
- 7:29Speaker 3: There's so many things to talk about. You have a
- 7:31Speaker 3: special first, let's just say. The special is available May
- 7:34Speaker 3: 21 on Netflix.
- 7:35Speaker 2: Yes, it's available May 21, Netflix, and it's called Big Guy.
- 7:38Speaker 3: Big Guy.
- 7:39Speaker 2: And that's because you married a big guy. Because he
- 7:42Speaker 2: calls me big guy. That's why. Oh, okay.
- 7:44Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 7:44Speaker 2: I know. I saw that clip, but I don't want
- 7:46Speaker 2: to do that. So he calls you big guy. Yeah.
- 7:49Speaker 2: When did that start? He even has a song that
- 7:51Speaker 2: he sings. He follows me around the apartment and goes,
- 7:53Speaker 2: she's my big guy. She's my big guy. He just...
- 7:58Speaker 2: How long has it been going on for? A very
- 8:00Speaker 2: long time. I think he sort of called me big
- 8:03Speaker 2: guy very soon into our relationship. He likes to brush
- 8:05Speaker 2: his mustache, follow me around. the house and just be
- 8:08Speaker 2: like hey big guy hey come back he knows i
- 8:12Speaker 2: hate it so he's gonna do it more and more
- 8:14Speaker 2: and more now that the specials called it he's even
- 8:17Speaker 2: more proud of it he'll be like look come on
- 8:20Speaker 2: it's big it's a special it's awesome i'm like no
- 8:22Speaker 2: no but it's working because it was so awful you're
- 8:24Speaker 2: just charted you're like this is just not a sexy
- 8:26Speaker 2: name to be called yes and people are always like
- 8:29Speaker 2: how does he feel about you talking about him on
- 8:31Speaker 2: stage and the answer is proud of all the shit
- 8:34Speaker 2: he says to me. It only makes it all worse
- 8:36Speaker 2: because the more I'm infuriated about something, the more I
- 8:39Speaker 2: want to talk about it on stage. And then when
- 8:40Speaker 2: I do and he sees it, he's like, that was
- 8:42Speaker 2: my thing. That was awesome. And then irony is not
- 8:44Speaker 2: getting back to him. And if it is, he doesn't care.
- 8:47Speaker 2: It's still his thing. How did you guys meet? We
- 8:49Speaker 2: were set up. I was hanging out at steakhouses because
- 8:52Speaker 2: I heard men hang out at steakhouses. Did Patty Stanger
- 8:55Speaker 2: tell you that?
- 8:55Speaker 3: Yes!
- 8:57Speaker 2: I got it from Patty Stanger! You're the first person
- 9:00Speaker 2: that knows that I got it from Patty Stanger. I
- 9:03Speaker 2: did everything Patty Stanger told me to do. Okay, wait.
- 9:07Speaker 2: Hold on a minute, because Patty Stanger... Everyone wants to.
- 9:10Speaker 3: Say Patty Stanger doesn't have good advice, and she's out
- 9:13Speaker 3: of touch, and she's a woman who's 60 years old,
- 9:15Speaker 3: who's never been married, so who.
- 9:16Speaker 2: Is she to say how to make it work? But
- 9:19Speaker 2: I did... But after her show ended.
- 9:24Speaker 3: When she had like her original look, now she has
- 9:27Speaker 3: never looked better.
- 9:27Speaker 2: And she would say, you know what, guys? You know what?
- 9:32Speaker 2: Rich guy, they're at a steakhouse. Make friends with the
- 9:34Speaker 2: bartender and bring a book. And bring a book. And
- 9:37Speaker 2: all these millennials were like, what? Nobody has a book.
- 9:40Speaker 3: And she was like, well, have a book.
- 9:41Speaker 2: Well, I thought that.
- 9:43Speaker 3: That was good advice. So tell me your steakhouse story.
- 9:47Speaker 2: Now, I did not meet my husband at a steakhouse.
- 9:50Speaker 2: Who did you meet at the steakhouse? I still think
- 9:52Speaker 2: it isn't bad advice. Okay. I could have easily met
- 9:54Speaker 2: my husband at a steakhouse.
- 9:55Speaker 3: When you would go to the Mastro's or wherever you
- 9:58Speaker 3: have in New York, I would say- for California steakhouses...
- 10:02Speaker 3: There's like a tier, okay? So Mastro's, I think, is
- 10:07Speaker 3: like the most expensive. And then there's like Larson's and
- 10:12Speaker 3: like Fleming's.
- 10:15Speaker 2: And then Ruth Chris, we just got a new- I'm
- 10:18Speaker 2: still taking Uber Xs.
- 10:20Speaker 3: We got a new Ruth Chris in Woodland Hills, okay?
- 10:23Speaker 3: And I really love Ruth Chris. My husband loves that
- 10:25Speaker 3: one the most.
- 10:26Speaker 2: Okay. Because he likes that sizzly, buttery crust, okay? That
- 10:29Speaker 2: sounds good, yeah.
- 10:30Speaker 3: Okay. And then I think it's like a Black Angus
- 10:34Speaker 3: or whatever it would be like next.
- 10:36Speaker 2: So... So what's the Australian one with the blooming onion?
- 10:40Speaker 2: Does that count as a steakhouse? I don't know which
- 10:42Speaker 2: one you're talking about. Alpac? Yes. I don't know if
- 10:45Speaker 2: it does.
- 10:45Speaker 3: Maybe.
- 10:46Speaker 2: Maybe not. It's a California pizza kitchen kind of vibe.
- 10:50Speaker 2: But I think I was, by the way, at someplace
- 10:52Speaker 2: like that. I think it was like Del Frisco's or
- 10:53Speaker 2: Keene's is actually pretty good. Del Frisco's is pretty nice
- 10:55Speaker 2: in New York. Del Frisco's or Keene's I was at. Actually,
- 10:58Speaker 2: they're not bad. So you go alone as a single lady.
- 11:01Speaker 2: How many years ago was this? This was in 2016. 2016. Okay.
- 11:06Speaker 3: And because you saw Patty Stanger interview somewhere. And now
- 11:12Speaker 3: do you bring the book or are you just looking
- 11:14Speaker 3: at your phone the whole time? Because looking at your
- 11:15Speaker 3: phone will not get someone talking to you.
- 11:17Speaker 2: I didn't bring my book. I brought a hot friend
- 11:20Speaker 2: who was really hot, who always knew she was hot
- 11:22Speaker 2: and just had confidence.
- 11:23Speaker 3: Okay.
- 11:23Speaker 2: Because I'm like, I'm not going to actually talk to strangers.
- 11:26Speaker 2: I'm going to just be sitting at a steakhouse throbbingly lonely.
- 11:29Speaker 3: Okay.
- 11:29Speaker 2: However, sit at the bar and sit at the bar.
- 11:31Speaker 3: Okay.
- 11:31Speaker 2: You have to sit at the bar because there's big
- 11:33Speaker 2: groups of men and.
- 11:34Speaker 3: Nobody's going to approach you at a table. Nobody except
- 11:37Speaker 3: for the waiter.
- 11:38Speaker 2: No, somebody had to be like, yeah, like the guy
- 11:39Speaker 2: that's going to approach you at a table when you're
- 11:41Speaker 2: sitting there with your friend is going to make a
- 11:43Speaker 2: suit out of your skin. Like that's like some, you know,
- 11:45Speaker 2: dear John kind of shit.
- 11:46Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 11:46Speaker 2: Like that's the guy that's, uh, Dr. John. Is that
- 11:49Speaker 2: the name of the show? You know what I mean?
- 11:50Speaker 2: Dirty John. Dirty John. Dirty John. Dr.
- 11:52Speaker 3: John.
- 11:53Speaker 2: That's the guy that's going to wear scrubs when he's
- 11:54Speaker 2: going to a bat mitzvah. Yeah. Because it's a Halloween
- 11:57Speaker 2: costume that he bought at the Halloween store. Yeah. No,
- 12:01Speaker 2: I feel like that guy that walks up to a
- 12:02Speaker 2: table where two people, yeah, no. At the bar and
- 12:06Speaker 2: with a hot friend. And I still feel like even
- 12:08Speaker 2: though I didn't meet my husband at a steakhouse, I
- 12:10Speaker 2: do think it's good advice because we didn't really finish
- 12:13Speaker 2: it out fully because I was meeting my friend a lot.
- 12:15Speaker 2: And a lot of times, like, you know, The guys that,
- 12:20Speaker 2: two guys hit on me at a steakhouse. One of
- 12:21Speaker 2: them was like osteoporosis old, like not like, oh, he's
- 12:24Speaker 2: a little older, like a curled elder. So I might
- 12:27Speaker 2: not have got caught a lot of dick at steakhouses,
- 12:29Speaker 2: but I still feel like it's a good idea. I
- 12:31Speaker 2: just got diverted because I was out with my friend
- 12:34Speaker 2: and she texted her husband. Rachel's been trying to find
- 12:36Speaker 2: men at steakhouses. Do you have a firefighter for her?
- 12:39Speaker 2: Because she's married to a firefighter. So he gave us
- 12:42Speaker 2: a fireman. He gave me his Pete.
- 12:44Speaker 3: The only problem about going alone, though, which sometimes they
- 12:47Speaker 3: say you'll get hit on more if you go alone.
- 12:50Speaker 3: In certain places, I was at a very nice steakhouse situation.
- 12:57Speaker 2: Just observing, yeah.
- 12:58Speaker 3: And this woman was there having her wine. And it
- 13:03Speaker 3: was like, remember that scene from Leaving Las Vegas where
- 13:05Speaker 3: he lifts her up from her ass and throws her
- 13:08Speaker 3: out of the casino?
- 13:09Speaker 2: So it wasn't that bad.
- 13:10Speaker 3: It was at the Montage Hotel in Laguna. But I
- 13:14Speaker 3: was watching the whole thing and they definitely were like, okay,
- 13:19Speaker 3: who are you waiting for?
- 13:21Speaker 2: Like, you need to go. They scolded her.
- 13:23Speaker 3: Yeah, they basically were like, you need to go. And
- 13:25Speaker 3: I'm like, oh my God, that's awful. And she's like,
- 13:28Speaker 3: I just listened to a podcast with Patty Steger.
- 13:30Speaker 2: I'm not a hooker. Leave me alone. Like, I just,
- 13:34Speaker 2: I heard there's rich guys.
- 13:35Speaker 3: In Laguna and I had a glass of red wine
- 13:37Speaker 3: and I'm sipping it very slowly.
- 13:40Speaker 2: By the way, I want you to know that what
- 13:41Speaker 2: I got from you just explained that to me says
- 13:44Speaker 2: so many things about me and they're not good. What
- 13:46Speaker 2: I got from that was that I was deeply flattered
- 13:48Speaker 2: that you thought somebody would mistake me for a prostitute.
- 13:50Speaker 2: I was like, oh, this is great. That somebody would
- 13:52Speaker 2: think that I was a sex worker was very flattering.
- 13:54Speaker 2: And also I was thinking like, hmm, like, I guess
- 13:58Speaker 2: I should have done that. I mean, I couldn't have
- 14:00Speaker 2: done that alone because the problem is it depends on
- 14:02Speaker 2: your personality. Okay. I don't, I can't talk to people
- 14:05Speaker 2: when I'm alone. On stage, I can talk to anybody,
- 14:09Speaker 2: but I need a hot friend. So I feel like
- 14:11Speaker 2: the answer to whether Patty Stanger, my personal hero, and
- 14:14Speaker 2: I just want to say thank you for your service.
- 14:17Speaker 3: And you got married without my pheromones? She's also pushing pheromones.
- 14:21Speaker 2: Is she really? She has a pheromone for a few. Okay,
- 14:25Speaker 2: like I will just say that Patty Sanger has some
- 14:28Speaker 2: good ones and some bad ones, okay? The idea that
- 14:30Speaker 2: you should bake a cake and bring it to a
- 14:32Speaker 2: man on your second date, that's not good. Was that
- 14:34Speaker 2: one of her advice? Yeah, she was like, bake a cake.
- 14:36Speaker 2: Stay in your feminine energy. Bake him a cake. If
- 14:39Speaker 2: you want to pay, instead of paying, she's like, just
- 14:42Speaker 2: bake him something. And I feel like that looks, it's
- 14:46Speaker 2: too much. If, you know, second date, you just bring
- 14:49Speaker 2: a cake. Yeah. It's not good. It's not a good look. No,
- 14:52Speaker 2: it looks mentally ill.
- 14:54Speaker 3: I remember one time this guy came over to my
- 14:57Speaker 3: house and we ordered some food and he sat down
- 15:03Speaker 3: and he like, I realized, oh, he wants me to
- 15:07Speaker 3: like make, put it on the plate for him. And
- 15:12Speaker 3: I don't know why I thought that was like such
- 15:15Speaker 3: a big deal. Like I was like, fucking make your
- 15:17Speaker 3: own plate. And I'm like, no, she's kind of right
- 15:19Speaker 3: about that. I don't think you have to make a cake.
- 15:22Speaker 3: You have to do something a little bit like that.
- 15:26Speaker 3: A little bit feminine.
- 15:27Speaker 2: I remember even working. Google me and learn the truth
- 15:29Speaker 2: about me. That's the problem with that. Like, I feel like.
- 15:32Speaker 2: So when, okay, so wait, what year were you on
- 15:34Speaker 2: the prowl? You said 2016. 2016. Okay. But wait, stay
- 15:38Speaker 2: with your advice though. So you.
- 15:39Speaker 3: Okay. So I do think, I do think a little
- 15:43Speaker 3: bit of taking care of a man. I mean, it's
- 15:45Speaker 3: why I think sometimes my single childless friends would be
- 15:52Speaker 3: bitter when a divorced friend with children would get a
- 15:57Speaker 3: guy so quickly and get married again so quickly. And
- 16:00Speaker 3: I always said it's because she's a mom and she
- 16:04Speaker 3: know it's her second nature to take care of other
- 16:06Speaker 3: people around her. Now that I'm a mom or whatever
- 16:10Speaker 3: and food comes, I would never just sit and, And
- 16:13Speaker 3: expect like my husband to put the plate together. But
- 16:16Speaker 3: when I was single, I'm like, why is this guy
- 16:18Speaker 3: getting his own plate? Anyway, I do think a little
- 16:22Speaker 3: bit of that.
- 16:23Speaker 2: Goes a long way. Yes, I do see. I do
- 16:26Speaker 2: see what you mean.
- 16:26Speaker 3: A little bit of like just not like, but just
- 16:29Speaker 3: being like a little domestic and sweet. And I was like, yeah,
- 16:33Speaker 3: we'll go a long way of them like seeing something there.
- 16:38Speaker 2: Yes, I do think you're right. And you have to
- 16:39Speaker 2: take things off somebody's plate too. Like you have to
- 16:42Speaker 2: make their life easier. You have to put it on
- 16:43Speaker 2: and you have to take it off. You're right. I
- 16:44Speaker 2: didn't even mean to do that. But you do. You
- 16:46Speaker 2: have to like make their life easier in some way.
- 16:48Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 16:49Speaker 2: And I think that what I did for my husband
- 16:51Speaker 2: was pretend to be like that. And then he slowly
- 16:53Speaker 2: learned the truth. So I did create an active lie
- 16:57Speaker 2: in the beginning. Like, you know, I wasn't like telling
- 16:59Speaker 2: him lies.
- 17:00Speaker 3: So after you didn't meet anybody except for the elderly
- 17:03Speaker 3: at the steakhouse.
- 17:04Speaker 2: Then my friend texted her husband and she's like, do
- 17:07Speaker 2: a firefighter for Rachel.
- 17:09Speaker 3: Had you ever thought about going by a firehouse?
- 17:13Speaker 2: That's Patty Steger's other advice. I always thought they were hot.
- 17:17Speaker 2: But it never even occurred to me that I would
- 17:20Speaker 2: end up with a firefighter. I was like, when am
- 17:22Speaker 2: I even going to meet them? And I also felt
- 17:24Speaker 2: like they probably had a surplus of ass, so I
- 17:26Speaker 2: wasn't going to stand out in that pile of ass
- 17:28Speaker 2: that was served to them every day. So that did
- 17:33Speaker 2: not even occur to me. And when my friend showed
- 17:35Speaker 2: me the picture of him at the bar, I thought
- 17:37Speaker 2: he was hot. But I was like, this guy is
- 17:38Speaker 2: not going to want anything to do with me. But
- 17:40Speaker 2: it alongs with some.
- 17:42Speaker 2: Nurse, the hot nurse Denise or something.
- 17:45Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 17:45Speaker 3: Mom always said nurses and policemen, they always get together,
- 17:49Speaker 3: but then they get divorced.
- 17:50Speaker 2: Yes. They'll use this clip against me one day for
- 17:52Speaker 2: a nurse. And I'll be like, she, she knew. And
- 17:55Speaker 2: it'll be me and my Paula Poundstone blazer, like just
- 17:58Speaker 2: I'm guessing the man my husband's going to leave me for.
- 18:00Speaker 2: The man? The man or the woman? Or the man,
- 18:03Speaker 2: and that's okay. A male nurse would be more interesting,
- 18:07Speaker 2: at least. That would be a fun-loving surprise. Oh, that
- 18:09Speaker 2: would be so funny. He left me for a nurse.
- 18:10Speaker 3: It was a male nurse, but Heather's mom was right.
- 18:14Speaker 2: One reward. Endless choice. Skip the hassle. Reward the easy way.
- 18:41Speaker 4: I'm Darman, and this is What Happens Next. Each week
- 18:44Speaker 4: on the show, I sit down with extraordinary people who
- 18:47Speaker 4: have faced tremendous setbacks, and yet somehow have found a
- 18:52Speaker 4: way to turn them into their greatest strengths.
- 18:54Speaker 2: Life is one long lesson of chaos. I'm heading to
- 18:58Speaker 2: the Emmys, and I have police complaints filed against me.
- 19:01Speaker 2: When your free will was about to be taken from you,
- 19:03Speaker 2: what would you do if it was given back?
- 19:05Speaker 4: Where did that need come from where you thought that
- 19:08Speaker 4: you had to succeed in order to feel loved?
- 19:11Speaker 2: He said, I have a work dad.
- 19:12Speaker 4: I need a home dad.
- 19:13Speaker 2: What happens next? When I came in, he started crying.
- 19:16Speaker 2: Everybody in life encounters hardships.
- 19:18Speaker 4: What defines them is not those hard moments that they
- 19:21Speaker 4: go through.
- 19:22Speaker 2: It's about what happens next. I decided to risk it all.
- 19:25Speaker 2: I realized how valuable every day was. You're worth the work. Listen, Dara,
- 19:29Speaker 2: I'm not going to pull punches. You can use your
- 19:31Speaker 2: voice even if it's shaped.
- 19:33Speaker 4: The stories are different, but the impact is the same.
- 19:36Speaker 4: Only one question matters. What happens next?
- 19:47Speaker 3: Okay, so you get the picture and you think he's hot. Now,
- 19:51Speaker 3: let's just jump back to being a female comic and dating,
- 19:55Speaker 3: because I really think it is the hardest thing on earth.
- 20:00Speaker 3: I used to say to myself, knowing I wanted to
- 20:02Speaker 3: be a comic.
- 20:04Speaker 3: I used to watch stand-up before I ever did it.
- 20:07Speaker 3: And I just thought, I know I could do that.
- 20:09Speaker 3: I would love to do that. But I want to
- 20:11Speaker 3: get married and have kids. And who would ever want
- 20:14Speaker 3: to marry a female stand-up comic?
- 20:17Speaker 2: I really said that. Yeah.
- 20:19Speaker 3: There was no example of like a happily married female
- 20:25Speaker 3: comic when we were coming up.
- 20:27Speaker 2: I'm sorry there wasn't. There wasn't. Roseanne got divorced. I
- 20:30Speaker 2: still feel there's a bit of a supply and demand
- 20:32Speaker 2: issue with it. I don't think guys are shopping for
- 20:35Speaker 2: a female comic. No, nobody wants one. Nobody wants one.
- 20:38Speaker 2: And it hurts.
- 20:38Speaker 3: Because it's like, who wants that sassy talking thing? Like, no,
- 20:43Speaker 3: it's like the most un-feminine thing, I think. So I
- 20:49Speaker 3: was like, well, I just want to do this and
- 20:54Speaker 3: I'll just have a child of my own and just
- 20:56Speaker 3: be a stand-up comic.
- 20:57Speaker 2: If nobody ever wants to marry me.
- 20:59Speaker 3: And I would get guys interested, but it was always
- 21:01Speaker 3: either ones that kind of wanted to do it themselves,
- 21:04Speaker 3: or they were like, well, how long are you going
- 21:05Speaker 3: to keep doing this?
- 21:07Speaker 2: Yeah, I got that.
- 21:07Speaker 3: Loser.
- 21:08Speaker 2: I got that a lot. And then.
- 21:10Speaker 3: Yeah, so what would they, and I never dated, I
- 21:13Speaker 3: didn't really want to date other comics or actors, so
- 21:15Speaker 3: it was hard to find someone that got it.
- 21:17Speaker 2: I wanted to date a real dude, a normal dude,
- 21:19Speaker 2: but did they want me? I always wanted normals. Yeah,
- 21:22Speaker 2: it's appealing. Like, I wanted to do like one of
- 21:24Speaker 2: us to like, there's something about a guy with like
- 21:25Speaker 2: a stack of headshots by his bed. Yeah, it's just like, yeah,
- 21:29Speaker 2: there's something about a guy. I was into the normal guys.
- 21:32Speaker 2: I like to, you know, like what I talk about
- 21:34Speaker 2: in this, but like just a working class dude, just
- 21:36Speaker 2: a thick neck, dusty guy. Um, and that's what I
- 21:40Speaker 2: liked and that's what I was looking for, but they
- 21:43Speaker 2: often don't want, but I will say this, here's the thing.
- 21:46Speaker 2: You can't decide anything in a list. So I'd go
- 21:49Speaker 2: into my therapist's office and I'd be like, I need
- 21:51Speaker 2: somebody that, you know, they have to accept my job.
- 21:54Speaker 2: So after I tried to get a normal guy and couldn't,
- 21:56Speaker 2: or this particular guy, like I was dumped a few
- 21:58Speaker 2: times by normal men, I'd be like, okay, so I
- 22:00Speaker 2: need a producer.
- 22:01Speaker 3: I think honestly, there's more guys that are open to
- 22:05Speaker 3: dating a sex worker than a female comic.
- 22:07Speaker 2: I think you're right. Can you guys let us know
- 22:09Speaker 2: in the comments? Because I'm kind of curious. I'm an
- 22:12Speaker 2: open mind. So what? She makes her money on OnlyFans.
- 22:15Speaker 2: She's a stripper. Who cares? But then she talks about
- 22:19Speaker 2: you on stage. That part he likes. That's why it works.
- 22:23Speaker 3: So I think with my husband, it's always been fine.
- 22:28Speaker 3: He won't admit this, but I think there's been times
- 22:30Speaker 3: in our marriage where there'd be other men That would sometimes.
- 22:37Speaker 2: Like give him shit for what I said. Interesting. I
- 22:42Speaker 2: don't think he he's not cared. I mean, he knows.
- 22:45Speaker 2: What does your husband do?
- 22:47Speaker 3: Well, when we married, he was in medical sales and
- 22:50Speaker 3: then he got into mortgage broker real estate.
- 22:53Speaker 2: And then.
- 22:56Speaker 3: The first year after I got my first I've done
- 22:58Speaker 3: this show, it'll be nine years in July. And after
- 23:01Speaker 3: the first year, it was a big nightmare problem with
- 23:04Speaker 3: the with the network and stuff. And he was like
- 23:07Speaker 3: looking at contracts and actually my first special I ever did.
- 23:11Speaker 3: He was like, this is the worst contract ever. You'll
- 23:12Speaker 3: never make a dollar off of this. And I was like, well,
- 23:15Speaker 3: I don't care. I've never done this to make money.
- 23:18Speaker 3: It was always like, well, how else am I going
- 23:19Speaker 3: to get a special?
- 23:21Speaker 2: Yeah. So thank God. Who cares? And he was right.
- 23:24Speaker 2: And he's right. He's a businessman. I never made a dollar. Yeah.
- 23:27Speaker 3: The only money I made is if I sold the
- 23:28Speaker 3: DVD after for $ 7 and I would get to keep
- 23:32Speaker 3: five of it.
- 23:32Speaker 2: That's it. This is helping me in a more profound way.
- 23:35Speaker 2: We'll talk about this on the way home, but this
- 23:37Speaker 2: is like, this is really, and you just solved my
- 23:39Speaker 2: life all of a sudden.
- 23:40Speaker 3: So then I was like, why are you like complaining
- 23:42Speaker 3: about my representation? Then why don't you Really read the
- 23:46Speaker 3: contracts and really, really help me. And so then he
- 23:49Speaker 3: started to help me and then he learned how to
- 23:50Speaker 3: do all the stuff. And then, you know, so now
- 23:52Speaker 3: he just kind of now he manages all my stuff
- 23:55Speaker 3: and manages my things. I mean, I still have William
- 23:58Speaker 3: Morris and stuff, but like. Sure.
- 24:00Speaker 2: Yeah. And now and then it goes and ebbs and flows.
- 24:02Speaker 2: Sometimes he's more involved. Other times, whatever. It's amazing.
- 24:05Speaker 3: And it hasn't been amazing. It's very hard to work
- 24:08Speaker 3: with your spouse. And I've said it over and over.
- 24:10Speaker 3: And I've said it to him. And it can be
- 24:13Speaker 3: the best because nobody has your back like your spouse
- 24:16Speaker 3: and you have a family together. But you're also, like,
- 24:19Speaker 3: bitching about stuff you wouldn't be bitching about if you
- 24:21Speaker 3: didn't have a business together.
- 24:23Speaker 2: So you'd have less fights. Right. And so... But... I mean,
- 24:28Speaker 2: here's the thing. Like, my husband screams at me when
- 24:30Speaker 2: I want him to set up a ring light, so
- 24:31Speaker 2: it's not an option to me anyway. Like, he's like,
- 24:33Speaker 2: come on. Like, he doesn't have that, like, kind of.
- 24:36Speaker 2: But you're right.
- 24:36Speaker 3: I always listen to him stories about your husbands, and
- 24:38Speaker 3: our husbands are actually very similar.
- 24:40Speaker 2: Like, I have a pain in his ass, my husband.
- 24:42Speaker 3: Well, first of all, the whole reason I thought he
- 24:45Speaker 3: would be good for me is because he does and
- 24:48Speaker 3: likes everything I hate.
- 24:50Speaker 4: Right.
- 24:51Speaker 3: So he does all the finances, the taxes. He knows
- 24:57Speaker 3: how to fix shit.
- 24:58Speaker 2: Okay.
- 24:59Speaker 3: He knows like where that breaker or whatever is. He
- 25:03Speaker 3: knows how to do all the apps on the TV
- 25:06Speaker 3: and all the remotes. I mean, these are things I'm
- 25:08Speaker 3: telling you. He's like, what would you do? I'm like,
- 25:10Speaker 3: I would have to hire someone.
- 25:13Speaker 2: To live here. Me too. I would be it would
- 25:15Speaker 2: be a gray garden situation for me if I wasn't married.
- 25:18Speaker 2: Like I'd be homeless at best if my husband didn't
- 25:20Speaker 2: take care of like filling out forms. I said that
- 25:22Speaker 2: in our vows. I mentioned that he fills out forms
- 25:25Speaker 2: because you do need one person to fill out the forms. However,
- 25:28Speaker 2: that more in my experience, the more type a person,
- 25:31Speaker 2: which my husband runs a real military style ship around
- 25:33Speaker 2: the house. Is always going to be upset because you
- 25:36Speaker 2: don't do those things. So it's good and bad. You
- 25:38Speaker 2: know what I mean? I'm always in trouble with him. Well,
- 25:41Speaker 2: these are the things we have in common. Okay. Now,
- 25:44Speaker 2: the Costco love for Costco. Oh, my God. He loves
- 25:47Speaker 2: Costco so much more than me.
- 25:48Speaker 3: But I love going to Costco with him because if
- 25:54Speaker 3: I buy stuff without him.
- 25:57Speaker 2: He always is like, why would you get this? Why
- 25:59Speaker 2: did you do this? Why did you? And so then
- 26:01Speaker 2: I'm like, if we go together.
- 26:02Speaker 3: Though, then I'm like, all right, what about this new
- 26:06Speaker 3: lounge chair for the backyard?
- 26:08Speaker 2: Anything he brings home, I don't care. But it's like,
- 26:12Speaker 2: I don't know how to, you know, like. Very similar.
- 26:16Speaker 3: You know, I went to go get something done with
- 26:18Speaker 3: my car and. And then he's like, why is this
- 26:21Speaker 3: guy calling us? I go, because you weren't there. And
- 26:24Speaker 3: I felt like to get it fixed was, was too expensive.
- 26:27Speaker 3: And so now they're just going to get me a
- 26:29Speaker 3: new one.
- 26:29Speaker 2: And he's like, what? And I go, I don't know.
- 26:32Speaker 3: I just said, well, that seems like a lot to,
- 26:35Speaker 3: to get the checkup. I'm like, what about, and they're like,
- 26:38Speaker 3: you know, you're, you're only six months off of the lease.
- 26:41Speaker 3: Would you like us to talk to you about getting
- 26:42Speaker 3: a new car?
- 26:44Speaker 2: And I was like, Yeah.
- 26:45Speaker 3: I mean, I need my husband to be here, but
- 26:47Speaker 3: I'm like, that's like, but I'm like, I would have
- 26:49Speaker 3: just like, I would just got a new car. I
- 26:52Speaker 3: would have just been like, sure, I'll just get a
- 26:53Speaker 3: new car then. Like, but I'm like, but then I'm like,
- 26:57Speaker 3: but I wasn't going to do it without you because
- 26:58Speaker 3: I knew you had to look and do the math
- 27:01Speaker 3: of the miles and all that shit.
- 27:03Speaker 2: This is the funniest thing. To make it worth it.
- 27:05Speaker 2: You bring up cars because, okay, cars are a big
- 27:08Speaker 2: point of contention with us because I'm car dumb. I
- 27:10Speaker 2: can't find a car in parking lots. I don't care
- 27:13Speaker 2: about cars. When he discusses cars, I fall into sort
- 27:16Speaker 2: of a low-grade depression. You know, like my husband, when
- 27:20Speaker 2: we got a car, he researches things. He wants to
- 27:22Speaker 2: get to the bottom of things. I've always known that
- 27:24Speaker 2: I'm never going to get to the bottom of it.
- 27:25Speaker 2: I mock things. That's what I do. I'm like, I
- 27:27Speaker 2: make fun of them, and then I'm out. So he
- 27:29Speaker 2: was trying to figure out cars. And then he chooses
- 27:32Speaker 2: the car that we're going to get and then, you know,
- 27:34Speaker 2: does exhaustive research. And then he got so annoyed because
- 27:37Speaker 2: I didn't remember what kind of car we had. So
- 27:38Speaker 2: then we finally get it. And he's like, let me
- 27:40Speaker 2: just ask you one question. Do you know what kind
- 27:41Speaker 2: of car we have? And I was like, Toyota Corolla.
- 27:44Speaker 2: He's like, no, we got a Mazda. And he was
- 27:46Speaker 2: so angry. He's like, how can you not know? And
- 27:48Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't know. I just don't know. Like,
- 27:51Speaker 2: but to him, nothing excites my husband more. than being
- 27:54Speaker 2: able to tell me somebody else got the same kind
- 27:57Speaker 2: of car we have. He'll be like, hey, the Finnegan's
- 27:59Speaker 2: got a Mazda. You know, like that to him is
- 28:01Speaker 2: a finished story. Yeah. It's got a person in it.
- 28:04Speaker 2: Something happened to them. That's it. And if I want
- 28:07Speaker 2: him to connect to me, I have to go to
- 28:09Speaker 2: Costco with him because he loves nothing more than grocery shopping.
- 28:13Speaker 2: Like I could tell him, like I came home the
- 28:15Speaker 2: other day, there was a fireman in my kitchen. I
- 28:17Speaker 2: don't want to say who, but a firefighter in front
- 28:19Speaker 2: of my husband's kitchen. And I was like, they'd been
- 28:21Speaker 2: in there for hours, right? And the guy leaves and
- 28:24Speaker 2: I'm sure women have told this story before, like some
- 28:26Speaker 2: version has happened. I was like, hey, so how's he doing?
- 28:30Speaker 2: We'll call him John. How's John? He's like, oh, he's
- 28:33Speaker 2: really good. He got this car or whatever. I'm like, oh, great.
- 28:36Speaker 2: He's like, I think he's going to get a Mazda too.
- 28:38Speaker 2: He's like, I think he's really definitely going to get
- 28:39Speaker 2: a Mazda. Then I walk him out.
- 28:40Speaker 3: I go.
- 28:41Speaker 2: Oh, so you're getting the Mazda? He goes, yeah, well,
- 28:43Speaker 2: my wife left me. So I figured it'd be a
- 28:44Speaker 2: nice time to get it. I was like, your wife
- 28:46Speaker 2: left you? Oh my God. And I was like, do
- 28:48Speaker 2: you want to come for dinner? We'll do something like,
- 28:50Speaker 2: we knew them for a while. And I was like, Pete,
- 28:53Speaker 2: did he, did John tell you his wife left me?
- 28:55Speaker 2: He goes, nah, he never mentioned that. You know, they'd
- 28:58Speaker 2: been there for like four hours, hanging out all day,
- 29:01Speaker 2: never mentioned it. And I go, Pete, you got to
- 29:03Speaker 2: call him. His wife just left him. And he's like, yeah,
- 29:06Speaker 2: you know, I should do that.
- 29:07Speaker 4: You know?
- 29:07Speaker 2: And he's like, maybe I'll ask about the Mazda or something.
- 29:10Speaker 2: Never called him. And if he did, he definitely only
- 29:12Speaker 2: asked him about his like engine or something, you know? Well, I,
- 29:16Speaker 2: I did have a bit like that in my act,
- 29:17Speaker 2: but it was about golf. No, no. It was about
- 29:20Speaker 2: golf though.
- 29:20Speaker 3: Like you go out and golf for like, you know,
- 29:23Speaker 3: four hours, whatever. And I'm like, who'd you golf with?
- 29:26Speaker 3: And it would be like three guys and one was
- 29:28Speaker 3: Joe or whatever. And I go, okay, what's going on
- 29:31Speaker 3: with Joe and the divorce? Like what is happening? Like,
- 29:34Speaker 3: this is like a lot of juicy shit. Like the
- 29:36Speaker 3: woman had a drug addiction. Like she was fucking her trainer.
- 29:40Speaker 3: Like there was a lot that went on.
- 29:42Speaker 2: Okay. And he's like, Oh, don't talk about that kind
- 29:45Speaker 2: of stuff.
- 29:46Speaker 3: I'm like for four and a half hours, you're not
- 29:49Speaker 3: talking about the fact that That he's getting a divorce and.
- 29:53Speaker 2: All this shit is going on.
- 29:54Speaker 3: And I'm like, but here's the thing.
- 29:56Speaker 2: I can't relate. You bring home no juice for me.
- 29:59Speaker 3: But if I go out with my girlfriends the next day,
- 30:02Speaker 3: he's like, okay, so what's going on?
- 30:04Speaker 2: Really? Yeah, like, oh, what did they say? Oh, what's
- 30:07Speaker 2: happening there?
- 30:08Speaker 3: And I'm like, so you want the juice, but you're
- 30:10Speaker 3: not willing to bring it yourself. Like you're bringing literally
- 30:13Speaker 3: nothing to the table. You're gone for seven hours. And
- 30:17Speaker 3: you have like no scoop or it's like half. it's
- 30:20Speaker 3: like half bits of scoop.
- 30:22Speaker 2: Yes. That's every piece of information Pete gives me like
- 30:25Speaker 2: that is like that. It's always like a piece of something.
- 30:27Speaker 2: I'm like, wait, but what do you mean? Why? Like,
- 30:29Speaker 2: like I didn't find out that he was engaged before
- 30:32Speaker 2: he was married or we got married until like one
- 30:34Speaker 2: of his like relatives told me, like nobody tells me anything.
- 30:37Speaker 2: And then when I asked Pete, I get like a
- 30:39Speaker 2: third of the story, you know, I'm like, don't tell
- 30:41Speaker 2: me you're engaged before like everything, everything is like that
- 30:44Speaker 2: where I'm like, wait, what?
- 30:45Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 30:46Speaker 2: And I have to get, there's always like a team
- 30:47Speaker 2: of like, women in his family and writers that I
- 30:49Speaker 2: have to pull together to try to understand what happened. Right, yeah.
- 30:53Speaker 2: There's always like a writer's assistant that can tell me
- 30:55Speaker 2: all the notes that were taken and what actually occurred
- 30:57Speaker 2: in Pete's life.
- 30:58Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 30:59Speaker 2: Completely.
- 31:00Speaker 3: So when you started doing stand-up, so that you had
- 31:02Speaker 3: your boyfriend, you were like just the girl with the band,
- 31:05Speaker 3: and you guys lived together in New York?
- 31:07Speaker 2: Yes. And then he just kept dumping me and re-dumping me.
- 31:09Speaker 2: And I wouldn't take the dump because I just couldn't.
- 31:12Speaker 2: I was like, where will I ever be without him?
- 31:14Speaker 2: I just needed to.
- 31:15Speaker 3: Now, did you have any kind of little job or anything?
- 31:17Speaker 3: You're only 18 years old.
- 31:19Speaker 2: I had a job at this place called Fat Shoes
- 31:22Speaker 2: and Clothes on Broadway. Fat Shoes? It was like a. Fat?
- 31:26Speaker 2: It was like a sneakers, like P-H-A-T, fat shoes and clothes.
- 31:29Speaker 2: I was fired in like four hours.
- 31:30Speaker 3: I thought it was like a big and tall, but
- 31:32Speaker 3: for people who had fat feet. And it was like,
- 31:34Speaker 3: what are you talking about?
- 31:35Speaker 2: It does sound like that. No, it was like, I
- 31:38Speaker 2: thought it was like a Beastie Boy because I worked there.
- 31:40Speaker 2: I thought it was so cool. I was like, oh,
- 31:41Speaker 2: I've got a job at Broadway. I just kept getting
- 31:43Speaker 2: fired from like waitressing jobs and different things. But I
- 31:45Speaker 2: was trying to stay in New York. And he kept
- 31:49Speaker 2: dumping me and re-dumping me. And then finally the last dump,
- 31:52Speaker 2: you can only be dumped so many times. How would
- 31:53Speaker 2: he dump you? I'd be like eating a bagel in
- 31:56Speaker 2: the kitchen. And then I thought we were like having
- 31:58Speaker 2: a softer moment. He's like, so about this relationship. But
- 32:00Speaker 2: I'm like, no, no, no, no. I got to stay
- 32:03Speaker 2: with you because you're going to be a star. I
- 32:05Speaker 2: just like, I was just. You loved the music. The
- 32:08Speaker 2: music was terrible. I loved him. I just wanted to
- 32:10Speaker 2: get home to myself. You know, like I was just
- 32:13Speaker 2: sitting there swaying, pretending I liked the music. I was like,
- 32:15Speaker 2: if I was smarter, I'd be into this. Like, you know,
- 32:17Speaker 2: it was like, it was like thrashing hardcore, but I
- 32:20Speaker 2: was just like, okay. You know, I need to pretend.
- 32:22Speaker 2: I just like thought he was cool. He was in
- 32:24Speaker 2: a band. I was very I wasn't that smart, you know,
- 32:28Speaker 2: like I just thought it was really cool. And I
- 32:30Speaker 2: was just swaying and waiting for him to pay attention
- 32:32Speaker 2: to me again. And then at the end, he kind
- 32:34Speaker 2: of lift my chin up and then redump me.
- 32:37Speaker 3: OK, so then after so then you start you started
- 32:40Speaker 3: doing stand up.
- 32:41Speaker 2: Then I started doing stand up. I moved in with
- 32:45Speaker 2: this family that I met in the Greyhound. Finally, he
- 32:48Speaker 2: just like. But you were on a bus? I used
- 32:50Speaker 2: to go back and forth. So after I took the
- 32:52Speaker 2: final dump took. First, my dad picked me up in
- 32:55Speaker 2: like the Feinstein grocery getter, like some sedan. And I
- 32:58Speaker 2: repacked all my things into it when he told me, oh,
- 33:01Speaker 2: it was a dark day. You're packing your stuff into
- 33:03Speaker 2: your dad's station wagon.
- 33:05Speaker 3: And at this point, you're only like, what, 19 or something?
- 33:07Speaker 2: Yeah. OK. And then I ended up. deciding that I
- 33:11Speaker 2: would go back and forth to New York on the weekends.
- 33:13Speaker 2: So I started taking an acting class in New York.
- 33:17Speaker 2: It was a private coach and he was Florence Winston
- 33:19Speaker 2: and she was a marvelous acting coach. And she would
- 33:23Speaker 2: talk about the decisions you make as an actress and
- 33:26Speaker 2: what's vulgar and what's beautiful and real. And so I
- 33:31Speaker 2: found her because I was working at some other store
- 33:33Speaker 2: on Broadway. This actress came in and she was like,
- 33:35Speaker 2: I was like, I want to be, I don't know
- 33:37Speaker 2: what I said at that point, a comedic actress or something.
- 33:39Speaker 2: And she was like, You have to learn the classics first.
- 33:42Speaker 2: You should go to my coach. And then I'd go
- 33:44Speaker 2: to her coach, Florence Winston, and she would say, you
- 33:47Speaker 2: want to do comedy? Let me see one of your impressions.
- 33:49Speaker 2: And then she would just listen like this. And now
- 33:52Speaker 2: that's vulgar. There's a vulgarity to it. How old was
- 33:54Speaker 2: this woman? She died, I think, before she started coaching me.
- 33:59Speaker 2: She was already dead. She was older than shit. She
- 34:03Speaker 2: was so old. And she had a big bowler hat,
- 34:05Speaker 2: and she would just sort of look underneath and– But
- 34:09Speaker 2: like whenever I made a bad choice, you're like, that's foul.
- 34:11Speaker 2: That was a foul choice. There was a vulgarity to it.
- 34:14Speaker 2: Do it again. Be more truthful. And then she would wait.
- 34:19Speaker 2: She was all I had, you know, like I was
- 34:21Speaker 2: just that was what that was. My connection to New
- 34:24Speaker 2: York was Florence Winston. OK. Florence Winston said, you must
- 34:27Speaker 2: not move back to the suburbs. It would be a
- 34:29Speaker 2: vulgar choice at this point in your life. You have
- 34:31Speaker 2: to stay here. This fella Dick's sister. No, he's not good.
- 34:35Speaker 2: It's not good. keep coming back, become more truthful. I
- 34:39Speaker 2: would write a letter. When I wanted an audition, she'd say,
- 34:42Speaker 2: I would write a letter to the director because I
- 34:44Speaker 2: thought the business was foul and it was vulgar. So
- 34:48Speaker 2: I would put on a lovely dress and I would
- 34:50Speaker 2: write a letter and deliver it to the offices and
- 34:53Speaker 2: bring a fucking cake probably. She probably, what if it
- 34:56Speaker 2: all loops back to Patty Stanger's advice? It's a pheromones. Pheromones.
- 35:00Speaker 2: And so I just kept going back on the weekends
- 35:03Speaker 2: because Florence Winston was so strict and she said it
- 35:05Speaker 2: would be vulgar if I moved back to Bethesda. So
- 35:08Speaker 2: I just kept coming up in the weekends and I
- 35:09Speaker 2: found a friend that had moved to New York and
- 35:11Speaker 2: I stayed with him on the weekends and I would
- 35:12Speaker 2: take my acting classes and study my theater and it
- 35:15Speaker 2: would be study great plays. She would say, you need
- 35:17Speaker 2: an education. You have to have some sort of education.
- 35:20Speaker 2: So we would study a great play and then we
- 35:22Speaker 2: would play a piece of music and we would analyze it.
- 35:25Speaker 2: And I would always be like a half an hour late.
- 35:27Speaker 2: I was in the shame cycle with Florence and she
- 35:28Speaker 2: would be like, it's disgusting. And I would lose something
- 35:30Speaker 2: or leave a debit card there or just I was
- 35:32Speaker 2: a mess, you know. So slowly I sort of learned
- 35:35Speaker 2: to discipline myself a little bit, you know, and I
- 35:37Speaker 2: just kept coming back to Florence. And then finally I
- 35:40Speaker 2: listened to her and she was like, rent a room,
- 35:42Speaker 2: find a way to live in New York. And I
- 35:45Speaker 2: was on the Greyhound going back to Florence and I
- 35:47Speaker 2: met a Bengali lady who shared her little bagel with me.
- 35:50Speaker 2: And then she invited me to live with her family
- 35:52Speaker 2: in Queens. And so I moved in with my Bengali family.
- 35:55Speaker 2: Of course, my mom loved it. A person that's not
- 35:57Speaker 2: white that I'm going to live with. She had no
- 35:58Speaker 2: follow-up questions. She was like terrific. You have your own room?
- 36:02Speaker 2: I had my own room. I remember it was such
- 36:04Speaker 2: a mess because I was such a mess that there
- 36:06Speaker 2: was just like you could barely walk in it, you know.
- 36:09Speaker 2: And I remember her coming in one day and she
- 36:11Speaker 2: was like, Rachel, this room. She was like, how do
- 36:13Speaker 2: you not dream of snakes and serpents every night with
- 36:16Speaker 2: a room like this? How do you not dream of
- 36:18Speaker 2: snakes and serpents? I still think about that. How did
- 36:21Speaker 2: you live with these people? Like I was like a
- 36:24Speaker 2: member of their family. I wore their saris and I
- 36:26Speaker 2: went to all their weddings with them. And that was
- 36:28Speaker 2: just my Bengali family, you know, like and. And my
- 36:31Speaker 2: mom loved it. She was like, it's terrific. So you
- 36:33Speaker 2: had free rent for how long? I think I paid
- 36:36Speaker 2: like 300 bucks a month. Yeah, it was pretty cheap.
- 36:39Speaker 2: But I ate with them and, you know, and I.
- 36:42Speaker 3: Did you ever like go out and spend the night
- 36:44Speaker 3: at a guy's house and then she'd worry.
- 36:45Speaker 2: About you like a regular mom? Yes, she was like
- 36:47Speaker 2: my mom. Yeah, she would yell at me. She tried
- 36:48Speaker 2: to get me jobs too. She tried to get me
- 36:50Speaker 2: a job selling vitamins with her at Vitamix or something.
- 36:53Speaker 2: I was fired immediately. She was like, Rachel, sell. You
- 36:56Speaker 2: have to learn to sell in this life. She was
- 36:59Speaker 2: very mad. I was always losing their keys. You know,
- 37:01Speaker 2: I was a mess. But she wanted me to be
- 37:04Speaker 2: back home and she took care of me. I mean,
- 37:06Speaker 2: she really did. If it wasn't for my Bengali family,
- 37:09Speaker 2: I would not have stayed in New York for sure.
- 37:11Speaker 2: But I didn't have friends yet. So I just didn't
- 37:14Speaker 2: know anybody. I wasn't in college. I only hung out
- 37:16Speaker 2: with this like, I was 22. I was hanging out
- 37:19Speaker 2: with like this 46-year-old married Bengali woman, you know. Her
- 37:22Speaker 2: kids were going off to school. That was it. That's
- 37:24Speaker 2: all I had. Her kids were going off to college.
- 37:26Speaker 2: And sometimes they'd bring me to Bengali weddings and stuff
- 37:28Speaker 2: like that. But it wasn't really enough of a social
- 37:30Speaker 2: life that I was going to meet somebody. I dated
- 37:32Speaker 2: a Bengali man that was maybe 22 years older than me.
- 37:36Speaker 2: It was the saddest dates. I just remember us sitting
- 37:38Speaker 2: in like Contact, that movie. I mean, I couldn't think
- 37:41Speaker 2: of anything to say to Mamoun. I was kind of
- 37:42Speaker 2: a gold digger, too, because, like, he could get me dinner.
- 37:45Speaker 2: But he didn't have that much money. He worked at, like, Kodak.
- 37:47Speaker 2: So I would just meet him at Kodak and then
- 37:49Speaker 2: we would just go sit. Just like a one-hour photo? Yeah,
- 37:52Speaker 2: he worked at, like, a one-hour photo place. But I
- 37:54Speaker 2: was the wrong guy.
- 37:56Speaker 3: Is it a gold digger?
- 37:57Speaker 2: That's like if a tree falls in a forest. Are
- 37:58Speaker 2: you digging gold if the guy only makes, like, $ 8
- 38:02Speaker 2: an hour at the time? I'm not sure. But he
- 38:04Speaker 2: had enough money to get me dinner. So we would
- 38:06Speaker 2: go and we would watch like contacts and yeah, maybe
- 38:08Speaker 2: he'd put his hand on my thigh and then I
- 38:09Speaker 2: would go back home again, like just rocking with loneliness.
- 38:13Speaker 2: And so, okay.
- 38:16Speaker 3: So when you start, once you started doing standup.
- 38:19Speaker 2: Then yeah, sorry. No, no.
- 38:21Speaker 3: When you started doing standup and it started to get going,
- 38:23Speaker 3: like how far along into doing it did you start to,
- 38:27Speaker 3: I know you're, you, I've done a lot and worked
- 38:30Speaker 3: with Amy Schumer and you guys have done a lot
- 38:32Speaker 3: of things together and then you had a lot of
- 38:34Speaker 3: things on your own and like, When did it start
- 38:36Speaker 3: to pop for you a little bit? Where you're like, okay,
- 38:40Speaker 3: this is a real thing that I can see a
- 38:43Speaker 3: real career from?
- 38:44Speaker 2: The thing when I started to be able to finally
- 38:46Speaker 2: quit my day job, and I was a very late, late,
- 38:49Speaker 2: late bloomer. So if you're doing anything, keep doing it.
- 38:51Speaker 2: Because I feel like I've just been doing stand-up forever.
- 38:56Speaker 2: But I was a nanny, and I got on that show,
- 38:59Speaker 2: Last Comic Standing. Oh, you did that? What season were you?
- 39:03Speaker 2: Season seven, I believe. Yeah. Season seven. Okay. I don't,
- 39:06Speaker 2: I don't.
- 39:07Speaker 3: Yeah. I, I, like, I remember Amy. I remember the
- 39:10Speaker 3: first one. I remember when Eliza was on.
- 39:12Speaker 2: It was like Tommy John again was on it. And, um,
- 39:16Speaker 2: I made it to the top five.
- 39:18Speaker 3: Was this one of the last seasons? I feel like
- 39:19Speaker 3: it didn't go on.
- 39:20Speaker 2: It didn't go on. It was one of the last seasons.
- 39:22Speaker 3: Okay.
- 39:22Speaker 2: So tell me what happened. So I made it to
- 39:24Speaker 2: the top five in last comic standing. So I was
- 39:26Speaker 2: like the last woman on the show.
- 39:28Speaker 3: This season, they were not living in a house together.
- 39:32Speaker 2: Were you living in a house together? No, thank God.
- 39:34Speaker 2: A lot of times they made you go on like
- 39:35Speaker 2: a boat or something. I don't have to go on
- 39:36Speaker 2: a ship or anything. Okay. But this time that you
- 39:39Speaker 2: were not living there. Before my season, it was like
- 39:41Speaker 2: the ship season. So I wasn't on a boat. I
- 39:43Speaker 2: could still keep my handy job. And then I just
- 39:45Speaker 2: like went out and I did got to be the
- 39:48Speaker 2: last woman. So I was made it into like the
- 39:50Speaker 2: top five and last comic standing. And I was the
- 39:52Speaker 2: last broad on the show. So that enabled me to
- 39:56Speaker 2: and that level of exposure on NBC. And what year
- 39:58Speaker 2: was that? I think that was 2010. And then I'm
- 40:01Speaker 2: not sure, but I think it was about 2010. And
- 40:03Speaker 2: then that enabled me to quit my day job. I
- 40:06Speaker 2: started headlining because I was opening for anybody at that point. Right.
- 40:10Speaker 2: I started showing up. The way I started stand up
- 40:13Speaker 2: was just doing open mics. And that enabled me to,
- 40:16Speaker 2: and I started featuring. But when I was featuring, you know,
- 40:19Speaker 2: I was staying at like $ 46 hotels, like holes in
- 40:22Speaker 2: the sheets, just like, you know, wherever I could. Nannying, featuring,
- 40:27Speaker 2: and then going back to my job. And what was
- 40:29Speaker 2: your dating life during those years? You know, it was
- 40:32Speaker 2: like I'd meet a guy. I would like him a
- 40:34Speaker 2: little too much the way I do. And then he
- 40:36Speaker 2: would kind of get a kick out of me. And
- 40:37Speaker 2: then it was like, wait, you're going to be in
- 40:39Speaker 2: Des Moines on New Year's? Like, hmm. Then he would
- 40:43Speaker 2: meet a woman who didn't have to be in Des
- 40:44Speaker 2: Moines on New Year's, you know?
- 40:46Speaker 3: The other thing I was thinking about as I was watching,
- 40:48Speaker 3: you know, Travis, Kelsey, Taylor Swift again. And he's like,
- 40:54Speaker 3: like dancing and everything, dancing.
- 40:56Speaker 2: And all that. And I'm like, here's the thing. They
- 41:00Speaker 2: can't go to our show for 18 nights in a row.
- 41:05Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 41:05Speaker 2: They can't. It's different than singing.
- 41:08Speaker 3: Just like a girl rocking, like, same thing with men.
- 41:12Speaker 3: Even though it's easier for a guy to hook a woman,
- 41:16Speaker 3: she still doesn't want to go and see his stand-up
- 41:18Speaker 3: every night.
- 41:19Speaker 2: She doesn't. Right, she doesn't.
- 41:20Speaker 3: So it's not, it cannot, it's not the fun, it's
- 41:24Speaker 3: not the same as musicians, what we do.
- 41:26Speaker 2: No, no. And there's, again, there's a real supply and
- 41:29Speaker 2: demand issue. A lot of guys that they, you give
- 41:31Speaker 2: a list, the number one thing is not funny.
- 41:33Speaker 3: Right.
- 41:34Speaker 2: So but I'll tell you that. Yeah, it's low on there.
- 41:38Speaker 2: But my I think like a lot of guys, they
- 41:41Speaker 2: got a kick out of it at first. And then
- 41:42Speaker 2: then I remember one guy took me to dinner and
- 41:44Speaker 2: he was like, you're not going to do stand up
- 41:46Speaker 2: for the rest of your life. I think it's funny
- 41:47Speaker 2: that he took me to dinner first because like I
- 41:49Speaker 2: kind of thought he was going to propose. And then
- 41:50Speaker 2: it was just like, hey, how about you ditch that career? Wait, wait,
- 41:54Speaker 2: how long? So you're dating him for a while?
- 41:56Speaker 3: Mm hmm. And he took you to dinner to say,
- 41:58Speaker 3: and he really said, I think you should stop doing this.
- 42:01Speaker 2: Was this before Last Comic? Let me try to think
- 42:04Speaker 2: of exactly when this was. No, this was after Last
- 42:06Speaker 2: Comic Standing. Oh, so you already have like a career. Yeah,
- 42:09Speaker 2: I had a career. And how did he say it?
- 42:12Speaker 2: He said, he's like, you're not going to do stand
- 42:14Speaker 2: up for the rest of your life, are you? You know,
- 42:16Speaker 2: and I was like, yeah. And that was kind of
- 42:18Speaker 2: the end. And he was able to say to me,
- 42:21Speaker 2: which I do respect, that he's like, I don't like
- 42:24Speaker 2: your job. Like he was just like, I want you.
- 42:26Speaker 2: But I think it's a little rude to be like,
- 42:27Speaker 2: stop doing it. I wouldn't do that, you know. But
- 42:30Speaker 2: he was basically just like, this is too much. But
- 42:34Speaker 2: I also think it's a little bit arrogant to think
- 42:36Speaker 2: that he thought I would be like, well, let me
- 42:38Speaker 2: get rid of that for you. You know, like he
- 42:40Speaker 2: really thought that this would be the dinner was going
- 42:42Speaker 2: to end pleasantly. That I would say, oh, the stand up. Well,
- 42:45Speaker 2: then I won't do it anymore. And let's go home
- 42:47Speaker 2: and I'll put out, you know, like he really thought.
- 42:49Speaker 3: I always think if I would have met somebody before
- 42:54Speaker 3: really getting into it or that was like the frat guy,
- 43:00Speaker 3: because I was like the sorority girl and I liked
- 43:03Speaker 3: the normie frat life type of guy with the nice
- 43:07Speaker 3: parents and we have the house in Newport Beach. I
- 43:11Speaker 3: sometimes think if I would have met somebody like that,
- 43:13Speaker 3: like if I would have fallen in love in college,
- 43:17Speaker 3: I think I would have gone on to like get
- 43:19Speaker 3: married and never do this and be like extremely frustrated.
- 43:26Speaker 3: Anytime I saw someone do it or whatever. And I'd
- 43:30Speaker 3: probably just be a real housewife on OC.
- 43:32Speaker 2: Yeah, you could do that and just be hysterical anyway.
- 43:34Speaker 3: Because it would have been like, oh my God, here's
- 43:36Speaker 3: an opportunity to skip all these steps and just be famous.
- 43:39Speaker 2: Honestly, now this sounds so much better than what I
- 43:41Speaker 2: had to do. I'm like, oh, this is great. I'll
- 43:43Speaker 2: get like a bottle thrown at me in Tampa. Yeah. Yeah.
- 43:46Speaker 3: But luckily nobody liked me that much in college. I
- 43:50Speaker 3: didn't have any serious boyfriends or whatever.
- 43:52Speaker 2: I don't know what it was too for me before
- 43:53Speaker 2: I started getting into it.
- 43:54Speaker 3: And then once I found it, I was like, oh, well,
- 43:56Speaker 3: I'm never giving this up. But I knew, I looked
- 43:59Speaker 3: back at certain guys, and I'm like, there's no way
- 44:02Speaker 3: this guy from this Pasadena family, where they go to
- 44:07Speaker 3: the Jonathan Club and this all that, would have been
- 44:09Speaker 3: okay with me doing the belly room at 26 years
- 44:12Speaker 3: old on a Friday night when there's a charity event.
- 44:15Speaker 2: It would have never worked. It all worked out the
- 44:19Speaker 2: right way.
- 44:21Speaker 3: And then with my husband, I found out later, years later,
- 44:24Speaker 3: that he told his sister- that he said, I think.
- 44:27Speaker 2: I want to marry this girl. She's just so fun. Really? Oh,
- 44:31Speaker 2: that's so sweet.
- 44:32Speaker 3: I'm like, well, it would have been nice to have,
- 44:33Speaker 3: I would have liked to have heard that at the time.
- 44:35Speaker 2: I know, I'm jealous because I've never even heard him
- 44:37Speaker 2: say those things about, people are always like, your husband.
- 44:39Speaker 2: I know. They always say, your husband really loves you.
- 44:41Speaker 2: I'm like, he doesn't say it to me. Oh my God,
- 44:43Speaker 2: that's what.
- 44:44Speaker 3: Everyone says to me. I literally, everywhere I go, they go, wow,
- 44:48Speaker 3: your husband. And I'm like, wait, do you know which
- 44:51Speaker 3: one is my husband? Because we kind of go by
- 44:53Speaker 3: different last names. So I'm like, Like, I'm like, oh,
- 44:56Speaker 3: maybe there's a, you know, a John McDonald or something
- 44:59Speaker 3: because my husband's name is Tobias. And, you know, I mean,
- 45:03Speaker 3: I have Tobias on my license, but I go by McDonald.
- 45:06Speaker 2: Yeah. And then they're like, no, we know Peter. And
- 45:09Speaker 2: he just brags about it. And I was like, That's
- 45:12Speaker 2: what they claim. It's funny. My husband's name is Pete too,
- 45:14Speaker 2: but I'll be like, do I look okay? And my
- 45:16Speaker 2: husband goes, there you go. Like, that's his answer. I'm like,
- 45:18Speaker 2: that's not an answer. I'll be like, I made a
- 45:21Speaker 2: video once for him and it was for him of
- 45:23Speaker 2: like our life and me being pregnant and COVID and
- 45:26Speaker 2: having the baby. And it was like this lovely video
- 45:30Speaker 2: of him being on the job and all we'd gone
- 45:31Speaker 2: through to have this kid. And I gave it to
- 45:34Speaker 2: him and, and my friend was like, he's going to cry. Like,
- 45:36Speaker 2: this'll be the thing that makes like, he's going to cry.
- 45:38Speaker 2: And he was like, solid. Like, that's all he said.
- 45:41Speaker 2: It just walked out of the room. Like, they're not
- 45:43Speaker 2: going to hear it from him. But I don't know.
- 45:45Speaker 2: Maybe there's a reason they can't say it to us,
- 45:47Speaker 2: but I don't hear it from him.
- 45:49Speaker 3: This is what my advice is after 24 years, May 27th,
- 45:52Speaker 3: 24 years.
- 45:53Speaker 2: Wow. You just have to get the love elsewhere. In
- 45:58Speaker 2: other ways. Yeah, that's what I do. And that's why
- 46:00Speaker 2: I put guys on the road. No, I'm just kidding.
- 46:03Speaker 2: You just have to give head in Des Moines.
- 46:06Speaker 3: No, I think you just have to recognize... That that's
- 46:10Speaker 3: not the love language.
- 46:11Speaker 2: No, that's not his style. That's not his love language.
- 46:12Speaker 2: It's just not his style.
- 46:13Speaker 3: And it's like, you can beg for it and ask
- 46:15Speaker 3: for it. But it's like, yeah, I don't get, wow,
- 46:20Speaker 3: that dress is banging.
- 46:22Speaker 2: You look hot. I never, ever hear that.
- 46:25Speaker 3: No.
- 46:26Speaker 2: And I wonder if it's because.
- 46:28Speaker 3: They know that we do get accolades in so many
- 46:33Speaker 3: other ways.
- 46:33Speaker 2: Maybe that is part of it. From other people.
- 46:35Speaker 3: Like, he knows that I know that I can look
- 46:39Speaker 3: good when I'm all done up.
- 46:40Speaker 2: Yeah. I put it, I post it, and everyone else
- 46:42Speaker 2: tells me I look good. And then, you know, I
- 46:45Speaker 2: do stand up. I'm kind of like, maybe he doesn't
- 46:47Speaker 2: feel like I need it. That's what Pete always says.
- 46:49Speaker 2: He's like, but they told you you did, right? Like,
- 46:51Speaker 2: they told you you could, like, I'll show him a special.
- 46:53Speaker 2: And I'm like, did you think that was good? Well,
- 46:54Speaker 2: what would the audience say? They liked it, right? Like,
- 46:57Speaker 2: he just always defers back to whatever the masses say.
- 47:00Speaker 2: But like, I think that, yeah, I think it's not
- 47:03Speaker 2: their love language. But if I go to, if I
- 47:06Speaker 2: want my husband to do something or be nice to me,
- 47:08Speaker 2: I go to Costco with him or go grocery shopping.
- 47:10Speaker 2: He wants to talk about what I bought at Costco.
- 47:13Speaker 2: He would so much rather talk about, you know, this
- 47:15Speaker 2: thing that we got. Did you enjoy this? He wants
- 47:18Speaker 2: to talk about like frozen salmon. He wants to talk
- 47:21Speaker 2: about shrimp from BJ's. Like that's what he wants to
- 47:23Speaker 2: talk about. That or lawnmowers. I had got him a
- 47:26Speaker 2: book about sheds. How could there be a book about sheds?
- 47:29Speaker 2: How much can you say? He sat on the toilet
- 47:32Speaker 2: and read that for days. And he like treated me
- 47:34Speaker 2: better after that. He like, I gave him a book
- 47:37Speaker 2: about sheds and he like face raked me. He's like, thanks.
- 47:39Speaker 2: That means a lot. It really does. You're supposed to
- 47:42Speaker 2: talk about property, his property. You know, that's it. But
- 47:45Speaker 2: that's how he connects. So like I he empties the dishwasher.
- 47:49Speaker 2: There's a lot of women that would love a husband
- 47:50Speaker 2: that empties a dishwasher. I feel like the dishwasher is
- 47:53Speaker 2: like a serving tray and like you can just pluck
- 47:56Speaker 2: whatever you need.
- 47:57Speaker 3: My dishwasher wasn't working and I had to call him
- 48:00Speaker 3: and I'm like I'm FaceTiming.
- 48:02Speaker 2: I'm like I'm pressing it. And it's just the same thing.
- 48:07Speaker 2: I was like, it's so funny.
- 48:08Speaker 3: Okay.
- 48:08Speaker 2: So after last comic standing.
- 48:10Speaker 4: Yes.
- 48:11Speaker 3: So then things start popping. The guy breaks up with you. When,
- 48:16Speaker 3: what else, what were some other like monumental moments in
- 48:19Speaker 3: your career?
- 48:20Speaker 2: Um, so then, uh, he, yeah, so he dumps me, um,
- 48:25Speaker 2: Last Comic Standing. I do know that I was eliminated
- 48:27Speaker 2: from Last Comic Standing, which was really devastating.
- 48:29Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
- 48:29Speaker 2: Explain that. I didn't expect it to happen that night.
- 48:32Speaker 2: You know when you're a little cocky in the show?
- 48:34Speaker 2: I don't know if you've been on a reality show,
- 48:35Speaker 2: but I was kind of like. I've never been on
- 48:36Speaker 2: a reality show. Thank God for you. I did try
- 48:39Speaker 2: out for Last Comic Standing. Really?
- 48:42Speaker 3: Last Comic Standing is what got me back into stand-up. Really?
- 48:45Speaker 2: I started to watch it.
- 48:46Speaker 3: I'd done stand-up from 23.
- 48:49Speaker 2: Well, no.
- 48:49Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 48:50Speaker 2: No, no.
- 48:50Speaker 3: Sorry.
- 48:50Speaker 2: Like 21, 22. Right out of college.
- 48:54Speaker 3: When I started and I also did Groundlings and I had,
- 48:59Speaker 3: you know, a couple of pilots and things like that.
- 49:01Speaker 2: And then I got I got married. I got a
- 49:04Speaker 2: deal like for my own show.
- 49:06Speaker 3: And I remember my agent or manager at the time said,
- 49:09Speaker 3: maybe don't do stand up right now in L.A. Because
- 49:12Speaker 3: if you bomb, it's going to look like why the
- 49:14Speaker 3: fuck did they give her this deal? And I really
- 49:17Speaker 3: never bombed. I really I mean, not to say I
- 49:19Speaker 3: just really overreacted. kind of like did decently like i
- 49:21Speaker 3: always had a plan i always started out with the
- 49:24Speaker 3: tried and true maybe something in the middle but i
- 49:27Speaker 3: never like lost my way whatever so i was kind
- 49:30Speaker 3: of like all right fine i'll be lazy i won't
- 49:31Speaker 3: do it so then when the thing didn't go um
- 49:36Speaker 3: Then I just kind of was like, I live in
- 49:37Speaker 3: Woodland Hills, comedy store is so far away. I still
- 49:40Speaker 3: wasn't like a regular. And I honestly was like, well,
- 49:45Speaker 3: now I have to like write a whole new act
- 49:46Speaker 3: because it's all about dating and now I'm married.
- 49:48Speaker 2: So I just kind of stopped doing it.
- 49:50Speaker 3: And then after I had my second child, I have
- 49:55Speaker 3: a stepdaughter, but I had two boys. So after I
- 49:56Speaker 3: had the three kids, I was like, I really think
- 49:59Speaker 3: I should like talk about this now. Like this is
- 50:01Speaker 3: really funny stuff that.
- 50:02Speaker 2: I've been observing. I give you a lot of material.
- 50:05Speaker 3: And it was Last Comic Standing that made me like
- 50:07Speaker 3: want to do it again. So then I got a
- 50:09Speaker 3: little bit act together and I was able to go
- 50:11Speaker 3: get an audition.
- 50:12Speaker 2: And Ant was the person. Wow. Ant was the judge. Interesting.
- 50:17Speaker 3: And he told me that I stole his joke.
- 50:21Speaker 1: What?
- 50:22Speaker 4: Yes.
- 50:23Speaker 3: I tried out at the LA Improv. And my joke was...
- 50:29Speaker 3: I was watching.
- 50:29Speaker 2: Something like this.
- 50:30Speaker 3: I was watching Oprah, and she has incredible women on
- 50:33Speaker 3: the show, and they, you know, lose all the baby
- 50:38Speaker 3: weight within 10 days of giving birth, keep a spotless house,
- 50:41Speaker 3: always keep up with all the scrapbooking. That's to tell
- 50:44Speaker 3: you how old the joke is when you people scrapbook.
- 50:47Speaker 3: And I'm watching it going, why is Crystal Meth getting
- 50:50Speaker 3: such a bad rap?
- 50:51Speaker 2: That was the joke.
- 50:53Speaker 3: And it was really because they had an episode of
- 50:55Speaker 3: Crystal Meth Moms And each woman that said she was
- 50:58Speaker 3: suffering from crystal meth addiction was saying some of the
- 51:02Speaker 3: results were like her being up all night cleaning and stuff.
- 51:05Speaker 3: And I really thought, God, I wish I had a
- 51:07Speaker 3: desire to clean and be organized.
- 51:10Speaker 2: So that's where the joke came from.
- 51:11Speaker 3: So then when he said, I'm going.
- 51:14Speaker 2: To stop you right there. That's my joke. And I'm like,
- 51:20Speaker 2: I mean, first of all, why would you do the
- 51:22Speaker 2: joke to them on purpose? I just did that to Heather.
- 51:23Speaker 2: Everybody knows that it wasn't on purpose. You're just saying
- 51:26Speaker 2: a similar thought. A similar thought. Like, if it really
- 51:28Speaker 2: was your joke, you wouldn't say it to the person.
- 51:30Speaker 2: And I go.
- 51:32Speaker 3: And it wasn't... And even our thing was different.
- 51:34Speaker 2: It was different. Whatever. But it was just a similar thought.
- 51:37Speaker 2: It's a similar thought. And he wanted to, like... Yeah,
- 51:39Speaker 2: that's not nice. And I go.
- 51:42Speaker 3: I remember just standing there like kind of shaking, like
- 51:44Speaker 3: I couldn't even get the mic back on. And I
- 51:46Speaker 3: was pretty new to getting back into standup. So I
- 51:48Speaker 3: was like, first of all, I've never seen your act. And,
- 51:53Speaker 3: I know the origin of where the joke, there literally
- 51:55Speaker 3: is an episode. Like, I just, because I was accused
- 51:59Speaker 3: of stealing a Star 69 joke by somebody else years ago.
- 52:02Speaker 2: Do you remember Star 69? Yes, I do. You call
- 52:04Speaker 2: someone back?
- 52:05Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 52:05Speaker 2: Again, a very common premise, okay? Yes, I had a
- 52:08Speaker 2: joke like that, too. Almost the same joke. You can
- 52:10Speaker 2: come up with very similar things.
- 52:12Speaker 3: Because, and it's those easy one-liners that aren't specific to
- 52:15Speaker 3: your own life.
- 52:16Speaker 2: To your own life, right.
- 52:17Speaker 3: Which just was the lesson to write about your own life.
- 52:19Speaker 3: Write about your own life. I know the Tinder joke.
- 52:22Speaker 3: Might be the one that everyone laughs at the hardest,
- 52:25Speaker 3: but everybody has a Tinder joke.
- 52:26Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Like, it's like, but anyway,
- 52:29Speaker 2: so that was it. I didn't make it.
- 52:32Speaker 3: And, um, but he did write me years later and apologize.
- 52:35Speaker 3: He was going through AA and he's like, wow. Somehow
- 52:40Speaker 3: the story got back to him and.
- 52:43Speaker 2: Oh, that's nice that he acknowledged it. That's pretty cool.
- 52:45Speaker 2: That's good.
- 52:45Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 52:46Speaker 2: Cause I would feel bad about that too, to call
- 52:47Speaker 2: you out. Like, that's cool though, that he was able
- 52:49Speaker 2: to say. But I totally thought I was going to
- 52:50Speaker 2: get picked.
- 52:51Speaker 3: I thought, I'm going to be the mom that came
- 52:54Speaker 3: back from doing stand-up and da-da-da-da.
- 52:56Speaker 2: Okay, so go back to your thing. So you're at—
- 52:58Speaker 2: So I was on Last Comic Standing, and then each
- 53:01Speaker 2: night when they do the elimination rounds, they say, comics,
- 53:04Speaker 2: please step forward. And then I said to Tommy John again,
- 53:08Speaker 2: wouldn't it be funny if when we step forward, because
- 53:10Speaker 2: it's a serious reality moment, we do a shimmy? And
- 53:14Speaker 2: then he agreed to do a shimmy. And I was like,
- 53:16Speaker 2: which dance is funnier? This dance, if we do it,
- 53:19Speaker 2: we're told to step forward or a shimmy. And we decided,
- 53:21Speaker 2: I think, that a shimmy would be the best choice
- 53:24Speaker 2: for both of us. And we could get in unison
- 53:26Speaker 2: that way. So they were like, comics, please step forward.
- 53:29Speaker 2: And I shimmied. Okay. And then was immediately eliminated. So
- 53:33Speaker 2: half my texts were like, that was so sad. They
- 53:37Speaker 2: robbed you. And the rest of them were like, what
- 53:39Speaker 2: dance were you doing? Did you just do a shimmy?
- 53:42Speaker 2: And I'm like, yes, I shimmied. Obviously, I was getting
- 53:45Speaker 2: a little cocky. I didn't think I was going anywhere.
- 53:46Speaker 2: So I was shimmying up a storm. And it was
- 53:48Speaker 2: so dumb to be at that moment eliminated mid shimmy.
- 53:52Speaker 2: So I was like, and then they were like, hey,
- 53:54Speaker 2: you get the hell out of here. And I was like,
- 53:56Speaker 2: God damn it. And then I went to the green room,
- 54:01Speaker 2: which would trailer. And I remember I was wearing this
- 54:04Speaker 2: dress that I really liked that they lent me. And
- 54:07Speaker 2: I was trying to sneak out set in the dress.
- 54:09Speaker 2: And I think they said Barry Cass to, like, remind
- 54:11Speaker 2: me that I needed to give the dress back. He's like,
- 54:14Speaker 2: they really need the dress. And I was like, all right.
- 54:16Speaker 2: I've tried to take clothes from the shoes. I put, like,
- 54:19Speaker 2: a big jacket over it. I was treating it like
- 54:22Speaker 2: it was Supermarket Sweeps. I was just, like, throwing everything
- 54:25Speaker 2: I could on the way out in the back. I
- 54:27Speaker 2: was like, I got to get it all. And they
- 54:29Speaker 2: asked for everything back. And that is really my– that
- 54:33Speaker 2: is my career in a nutshell. We need the dress back.
- 54:36Speaker 2: We'd like you to leave the building and please don't
- 54:39Speaker 2: use the vending machines up front. Like I don't just
- 54:41Speaker 2: get told to leave. I usually get scolded a few
- 54:44Speaker 2: times on my way out. And that is kind of
- 54:46Speaker 2: how it goes down for me.
- 54:48Speaker 3: I always knew that a deal wasn't going or they
- 54:52Speaker 3: didn't want me or something wasn't going any further. When
- 54:54Speaker 3: they were so insistent and asked me over and over again,
- 54:57Speaker 3: is my parking covered? Did you get your parking validated?
- 55:02Speaker 3: Did you get your parking– I'm like, what does it matter?
- 55:05Speaker 3: I'm going to get this show.
- 55:06Speaker 2: I'm going to be a star. Yeah, get off my dick.
- 55:08Speaker 2: Who cares about parking?
- 55:09Speaker 3: We're making $ 100, 000 an episode.
- 55:11Speaker 2: Like, relax. I'm like, I want to be in the pictures.
- 55:14Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 55:15Speaker 2: I know. Yeah, that's how you know. And then also,
- 55:18Speaker 2: what was the other thing that I would– one time
- 55:19Speaker 2: I was out here in an audition and I accidentally–
- 55:25Speaker 2: I was supposed to be a serious role. I was
- 55:26Speaker 2: in the middle of the monologue. And all of a sudden,
- 55:28Speaker 2: this lady's dog started sniffing my vag. It was like
- 55:31Speaker 2: the dog in my crotch. I'm like, there's no way
- 55:33Speaker 2: I'm going to get this if this dog is like
- 55:34Speaker 2: eating me out mid-audition. Also, fucking... Don't bring your dog
- 55:39Speaker 2: in an audition.
- 55:40Speaker 4: All right.
- 55:40Speaker 2: It's not cute. I was supposed to be crying. I
- 55:43Speaker 2: worked on crying and I'm finally crying in this lady's office.
- 55:46Speaker 2: And this is the moment that fucking your dog has
- 55:50Speaker 2: to eat me out. It's not good. The dog started
- 55:52Speaker 2: going down on me. I'm like, nobody's going to. After that,
- 55:54Speaker 2: it was that I was like, like pushing the dog
- 55:56Speaker 2: away from my vag and I was like, forget it.
- 55:58Speaker 2: Then I accidentally took the bathroom key with me. That
- 56:02Speaker 2: was so embarrassing. And then like home. And did they
- 56:05Speaker 2: call you? Did they have to call your agent and
- 56:08Speaker 2: your agent had to call you?
- 56:10Speaker 3: Yes.
- 56:11Speaker 2: For just a regular audition or were you close to
- 56:13Speaker 2: getting it? I think after the dogs started going down
- 56:17Speaker 2: on me that I wasn't going to get it anyway. Oh,
- 56:19Speaker 2: this was all the same audition?
- 56:21Speaker 3: Yeah. You were so aroused that you were like on
- 56:24Speaker 3: a high for an orgasm that you took the bathroom
- 56:26Speaker 3: key home?
- 56:26Speaker 2: To make it clear, he wasn't really going down on me.
- 56:29Speaker 2: He just had his face in my crotch and that's
- 56:31Speaker 2: what it looked like. Very distracting. I need people to know.
- 56:33Speaker 2: But I think... I believe it was the same audition.
- 56:37Speaker 2: It might be smearing these two profound rejections into one.
- 56:40Speaker 2: Either way, neither people wanted me and one of them
- 56:42Speaker 2: wanted their bathroom key back and they wanted it back
- 56:45Speaker 2: pretty badly. I think it was the same place, but
- 56:47Speaker 2: they had a big piece of bark on that. It
- 56:49Speaker 2: was like, It was like one of those like earthy
- 56:51Speaker 2: looking bathroom keys. So not only did I accidentally take
- 56:53Speaker 2: this bitch's bathroom key. It was huge.
- 56:55Speaker 3: It was huge.
- 56:56Speaker 2: So she had every right to be furious at me.
- 56:59Speaker 2: Like we made it big enough so that people did
- 57:01Speaker 2: not take it with them.
- 57:02Speaker 3: Yes.
- 57:02Speaker 2: That was the whole point of that. I took like
- 57:04Speaker 2: a piece of driftwood with a key on it. It
- 57:08Speaker 2: was important. And then like my manager called me and
- 57:12Speaker 2: he was like, she was also confused about like why
- 57:15Speaker 2: you would have taken it in the first place. And
- 57:17Speaker 2: I'm like, she's like, cause they said that it was
- 57:19Speaker 2: really big. I'm like, can we not have this conversation?
- 57:21Speaker 2: The point is I did. And these aren't the conversations
- 57:24Speaker 2: I pay you to have.
- 57:27Speaker 3: Okay, I pulled up this other photo because this is
- 57:29Speaker 3: like a really cute dress.
- 57:31Speaker 2: Oh, thank you.
- 57:31Speaker 3: And you have hot pink heels. Is this your other
- 57:33Speaker 3: special from before?
- 57:34Speaker 2: This is only whores wear purple, and I always feel
- 57:37Speaker 2: like I dress like a, I don't know, like a
- 57:40Speaker 2: whore in like a real estate agent porn or something here,
- 57:45Speaker 2: but I'm glad you think it's okay. I feel like
- 57:47Speaker 2: it's a little crazy.
- 57:49Speaker 3: I want to talk a little bit about female comics
- 57:52Speaker 3: and what we wear.
- 57:53Speaker 2: Because it is... It's confusing. It has been.
- 57:57Speaker 3: I have never liked what I've worn on stage. No
- 58:01Speaker 3: matter what I put on.
- 58:02Speaker 2: Yeah. Then I come home.
- 58:04Speaker 3: I think I did a great set. I think I
- 58:06Speaker 3: did great meet and greet. And then I look and
- 58:09Speaker 3: I'll see that someone took a photo like from the
- 58:11Speaker 3: audience like at the end of the night.
- 58:13Speaker 2: And I'm like. Because we're trying to take care of
- 58:16Speaker 2: so many things at once. So like. You need to
- 58:18Speaker 2: be respected, but you want people to think you're hot
- 58:20Speaker 2: or at least attract or fuckable at least. And then
- 58:23Speaker 2: we go into the comment section, or at least I do,
- 58:26Speaker 2: and I'm trying not to anymore. I had to give
- 58:28Speaker 2: birth to get out of the comment section because it's
- 58:30Speaker 2: just like there's not that many hours in a day.
- 58:32Speaker 2: And then some guy puts in the comments, your arms
- 58:34Speaker 2: look fatter than last week. And I'm like, someone's tracking
- 58:36Speaker 2: my arm fat? Then I have to get a blazer
- 58:38Speaker 2: like this so they can't keep tracking my arm fat.
- 58:41Speaker 2: So it just goes on and on and on. And
- 58:43Speaker 2: it's such a weird balance, and I have not figured
- 58:45Speaker 2: it out. I tend to dress very corporate. But look
- 58:48Speaker 2: at me. I have like a 49er. What is this?
- 58:50Speaker 2: A 49er shirt to look relatable. I can't even name
- 58:52Speaker 2: a player. Like what a dumb hole I am that
- 58:54Speaker 2: I'm wearing. I call myself a dumb hole. Yeah, like
- 58:59Speaker 2: I can't even name a player. I got this at
- 59:01Speaker 2: Forever 21. Oh, my God. My last guest bought his
- 59:04Speaker 2: shirt at Forever 21, too. Really?
- 59:06Speaker 3: They do have some good.
- 59:08Speaker 2: Shirts there, by the way.
- 59:09Speaker 3: So, okay, my outfit history is right away I was always, like, wearing, like,
- 59:16Speaker 3: the first time I ever did it, I had, like,
- 59:19Speaker 3: a black pantsuit with, like, palazzo pants and, like, a
- 59:22Speaker 3: little blazer, and it was fitted.
- 59:23Speaker 4: Cute look.
- 59:24Speaker 3: And it was cute, but, like, I was 22 or 23, like,
- 59:29Speaker 3: Why was I dressing like an executive? But I thought
- 59:32Speaker 3: all female comics were always dressing more conservative.
- 59:35Speaker 2: So then I.
- 59:38Speaker 3: Never, ever thought I should wear a skirt because I
- 59:40Speaker 3: thought like my legs would be like distracting.
- 59:45Speaker 2: And now you have a hot body. Yeah. You do
- 59:48Speaker 2: cover yourself up. You got to tarp it up.
- 59:50Speaker 3: But now I'm kind of bummed because now I'm coming
- 59:53Speaker 3: to the end of my time here to look hot.
- 59:56Speaker 3: And I just now started to wear skirts on stage.
- 59:59Speaker 2: Just now. In both my specials, I wore jeans. Really?
- 1:00:03Speaker 3: And I'm like, and I saw like, you know, I'm like, wow,
- 1:00:06Speaker 3: Nikki Glaser dresses so hot. And you dress hot. And
- 1:00:09Speaker 3: Amy wears dresses. And Allie wears dresses. And I'm like,
- 1:00:12Speaker 3: why was I not wearing dresses?
- 1:00:15Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess. And even like Hannah Byrne dresses up.
- 1:00:18Speaker 2: She wears like sparkly stuff. Yeah, she does. She's a
- 1:00:20Speaker 2: cool style. And I'm like, where the fuck am I?
- 1:00:22Speaker 2: Why am I just wearing like.
- 1:00:25Speaker 3: Jeans and a wedge and like an average top that
- 1:00:28Speaker 3: still doesn't look good on stage.
- 1:00:30Speaker 2: Well, personally, for me, it's confusing. So I don't know
- 1:00:32Speaker 2: how to dress. I look at Hannah Burner has some
- 1:00:34Speaker 2: really cute outfits. I'm like, she can kind of she
- 1:00:36Speaker 2: can pull it off. She kind of rocks it. Yeah,
- 1:00:38Speaker 2: she rocks it. She's got a good. But I need
- 1:00:41Speaker 2: I don't have. Personally, I tend to run very corporate
- 1:00:44Speaker 2: because I don't have like a good style. So I
- 1:00:46Speaker 2: always look like the outfit like some woman's wearing when
- 1:00:49Speaker 2: she's about to fire you or something. Meanwhile, it's like
- 1:00:53Speaker 2: I'm the fun loving girl that's getting fired. Come on, guys.
- 1:00:55Speaker 2: But I need people to help me. Like I need
- 1:00:57Speaker 2: somebody to tell me what to do. I don't know
- 1:01:00Speaker 2: how to put it together. I see an outfit and
- 1:01:02Speaker 2: I try to mimic it and it just looks suspicious,
- 1:01:04Speaker 2: even with necklaces. Like, I don't know, the layer, they're
- 1:01:06Speaker 2: always kind of mangled. Yeah. And I've just come to
- 1:01:09Speaker 2: terms with the fact that I need to delegate. Otherwise,
- 1:01:11Speaker 2: I'm going to be wearing a 49er shirt.
- 1:01:13Speaker 3: I have an idea for my outfit for, I'm doing
- 1:01:17Speaker 3: four shows at the Comedy Works in Denver.
- 1:01:19Speaker 2: Your nails look really cute. Thank you. And I have
- 1:01:22Speaker 2: a new idea for an outfit. What is it? I
- 1:01:25Speaker 2: don't know if I should announce it or not. Well,
- 1:01:26Speaker 2: can I just say that when you said palazzo pants,
- 1:01:28Speaker 2: I was like, she's had a sister because I don't
- 1:01:30Speaker 2: even know what that is. Like you're five steps ahead
- 1:01:31Speaker 2: of me. It's like a wider leg. It's like a
- 1:01:33Speaker 2: wide leg trouser. But you know the words. You know
- 1:01:37Speaker 2: more than I do. Like I don't even know what
- 1:01:39Speaker 2: that is. Like I would, I mean, look at me.
- 1:01:40Speaker 2: What the fuck? Come on.
- 1:01:42Speaker 3: So I thought about it. I came from La Quinta,
- 1:01:45Speaker 3: which is like a three hour drive this morning. So
- 1:01:47Speaker 3: I was like thinking about outfits and I'm like, I
- 1:01:49Speaker 3: think I got it. Mm hmm.
- 1:01:51Speaker 2: We'll see.
- 1:01:52Speaker 3: Now it's two shows, so I have to wear it
- 1:01:54Speaker 3: around a more comfortable shoe. So I have these boots
- 1:01:58Speaker 3: that aren't, they're not flat, but they're not high and
- 1:02:01Speaker 3: they're pretty comfortable.
- 1:02:01Speaker 2: Okay.
- 1:02:02Speaker 3: So then I want to wear a show of the leg,
- 1:02:07Speaker 3: but I bought very sheer black nylons, which I haven't
- 1:02:10Speaker 3: worn in 30 years. But I think it's time I
- 1:02:12Speaker 3: start to bring back some nylons. I think even though,
- 1:02:17Speaker 3: you know. And then it's, like, a really cute Alice
- 1:02:20Speaker 3: and Olivia black, like, romper shorts.
- 1:02:24Speaker 2: Ooh, that is cute. With, like, a little collar and
- 1:02:27Speaker 2: sleeve and detail. That's very cute. I have a romper.
- 1:02:30Speaker 2: So I think that could maybe work. I think the
- 1:02:33Speaker 2: point is you have to be able to– I have
- 1:02:35Speaker 2: a few rompers. I think rompers are very cute. The
- 1:02:39Speaker 2: name for the item of clothing sounds a little silly,
- 1:02:41Speaker 2: but it's very functional. And also you can blaze a romper.
- 1:02:44Speaker 2: Tell me if I'm wrong. You can put a blazer
- 1:02:46Speaker 2: over a romper. We always need a cloak in case,
- 1:02:48Speaker 2: female comics. We need to be able to cloak ourselves
- 1:02:51Speaker 2: really fast.
- 1:02:51Speaker 3: Right. And also you might start with the blazer, but
- 1:02:53Speaker 3: you gotta, you gotta be okay with the blazer coming
- 1:02:56Speaker 3: off because you might get really hot.
- 1:02:58Speaker 2: Yes.
- 1:02:58Speaker 3: So you don't want like, you know, a top that's
- 1:03:00Speaker 3: too tight. Now you have like a squirt of fat
- 1:03:02Speaker 3: coming out or whatever. Like, so then you have to
- 1:03:04Speaker 3: think about the underlayer.
- 1:03:05Speaker 2: So much. And I'm like, guys don't have to think
- 1:03:07Speaker 2: about this. Squirt of fat is the best phrase I've
- 1:03:08Speaker 2: ever heard, by the way. That's cool. I'm taking that.
- 1:03:11Speaker 2: Speaking of stealing, I will be taking that. And speaking
- 1:03:14Speaker 2: of the winter of my life, I'm taking that to
- 1:03:15Speaker 2: the end. Squirt of fat. And I love that you
- 1:03:18Speaker 2: just breezed past it. It's exceptional. Yeah. I mean, I
- 1:03:21Speaker 2: usually measure fat in different, like, it's more of like
- 1:03:24Speaker 2: a Jew's whisper. Just a tiny bit. I'm a Jew.
- 1:03:26Speaker 2: I can say that. But it's more of a tiny
- 1:03:28Speaker 2: bit of, I would say, Jew's whisper of fat. But
- 1:03:30Speaker 2: squirt of fat is terrific. Anyway, sorry. Let's get, let's refocus.
- 1:03:34Speaker 3: So anyway, so I like that you, like, wore a dress.
- 1:03:38Speaker 3: What did you wear for this special that's coming out
- 1:03:40Speaker 3: on May 21?
- 1:03:41Speaker 2: Is this one, are you wearing a pink dress? I'm
- 1:03:44Speaker 2: wearing a red top. And this is Cynthia Rowley. And
- 1:03:46Speaker 2: then she put me in, like, a black cargo skirt.
- 1:03:49Speaker 2: So she updated my choices. So, you know, so she
- 1:03:53Speaker 2: took like- What's a cargo skirt? A cargo skirt is like,
- 1:03:58Speaker 2: it's like a skirt with like bigger pockets on it. Oh, okay.
- 1:04:01Speaker 2: Like cargo pants. Cargo pants, yeah. But in a skirt form. Okay.
- 1:04:05Speaker 2: So I feel like she like updated me a little bit.
- 1:04:07Speaker 2: Like she took like some of my more slovenly impulses
- 1:04:10Speaker 2: and she's to streamline them, which is what I feel
- 1:04:12Speaker 2: like they used to do. Remember that show, like what
- 1:04:15Speaker 2: not to wear or whatever? Yeah, yeah. Like I need
- 1:04:18Speaker 2: people to work with like, Like, I tend to run
- 1:04:20Speaker 2: a little- Remember that lady? She had, like, that strip
- 1:04:22Speaker 2: of gray hair. It was very aggressive, but she was
- 1:04:24Speaker 2: very good. What happened to her? I don't know where
- 1:04:27Speaker 2: Stacey London is these days. I would- But I need-
- 1:04:30Speaker 2: By the way, that's the kind of woman I need
- 1:04:32Speaker 2: in my life. I need somebody that's like, uh-uh, here's
- 1:04:34Speaker 2: what we're doing. Nothing else. Like, I need somebody- Well,
- 1:04:37Speaker 2: you gotta.
- 1:04:38Speaker 3: Definitely, like, shop for your bod. Because, like, I was
- 1:04:40Speaker 3: with my sister. And we were at Saks. And there
- 1:04:43Speaker 3: were these silk cargo jogger pants cream pants. With a
- 1:04:49Speaker 3: longer cream silk blazer. And then a little bralette top. Now,
- 1:04:56Speaker 3: that outfit is the worst for my body ever. But that,
- 1:05:00Speaker 3: if you have like a good stomach and like tinier tits,
- 1:05:06Speaker 3: that is a great stand-up outfit.
- 1:05:09Speaker 2: That is pretty cute.
- 1:05:09Speaker 3: So I'm putting it out there for my other female
- 1:05:11Speaker 3: stand-ups that have tiny tits and a flat tummy.
- 1:05:13Speaker 2: That's the look that you should get. Won't work for me. No,
- 1:05:16Speaker 2: I can't go braless. It's a mess. Will not work
- 1:05:18Speaker 2: for me. Yeah. So you have your daughter three and
- 1:05:22Speaker 2: a half years ago.
- 1:05:22Speaker 3: Yes.
- 1:05:23Speaker 2: I have a daughter.
- 1:05:24Speaker 3: And when you were pregnant, did you think here is
- 1:05:26Speaker 3: a new hour? She's going to give me so much material.
- 1:05:29Speaker 3: Or did you just think I'm happy to be a mother?
- 1:05:31Speaker 2: I was unprepared for how funny it is. I was
- 1:05:34Speaker 2: really unprepared for how funny it is. I was worried
- 1:05:36Speaker 2: about all the practical aspects. I was like, will I
- 1:05:38Speaker 2: be able to do this? What if I do that?
- 1:05:40Speaker 2: What if I lose this? I didn't think about how
- 1:05:42Speaker 2: funny it was going to be. So that was a
- 1:05:44Speaker 2: delightful surprise because you have a kid and they just
- 1:05:46Speaker 2: like walk into your room and say things. It's hilarious.
- 1:05:49Speaker 2: Like it's still whenever I see her like bend around
- 1:05:51Speaker 2: a corner, I'm like, this is so funny. She's like
- 1:05:53Speaker 2: three and a half and she comes in with demands
- 1:05:55Speaker 2: and stuff. She's a little condescending. It's hilarious. Like in
- 1:05:59Speaker 2: the middle of the night, this is how my daughter
- 1:06:00Speaker 2: wakes me up. She goes, oh, that's cute. What's that?
- 1:06:02Speaker 2: Like she wants to get in the bed. She kind
- 1:06:04Speaker 2: of like works me. I'm like, you don't think like
- 1:06:06Speaker 2: a black scrunchie is cute. Like she'll be like, I
- 1:06:09Speaker 2: like that, you know. And then she's already climbing in
- 1:06:12Speaker 2: the bed. It's just funny. Like she's like a little.
- 1:06:15Speaker 2: What's her name? Her name's Frankie. So Frankie just. Yeah,
- 1:06:19Speaker 2: she's funny. Like she. And I don't think I was
- 1:06:22Speaker 2: really aware of how hysterical. And also because when you're
- 1:06:26Speaker 2: a parent, you have to do a lot of things
- 1:06:28Speaker 2: that you hate and that makes for good stand up.
- 1:06:31Speaker 2: So the thing with stand up is like you. It's
- 1:06:32Speaker 2: like this bin that we place everything that, you know.
- 1:06:35Speaker 2: doesn't make sense or that makes us angry and you
- 1:06:37Speaker 2: have to put a lot of things in that bin
- 1:06:39Speaker 2: and then your bed is full because you're a parent
- 1:06:41Speaker 2: you're always doing something i mean you know and out
- 1:06:44Speaker 2: of your element i just remember one.
- 1:06:45Speaker 3: Time my stepdaughter was like this is like years ago
- 1:06:49Speaker 3: like 10 years ago so she's 24 now so yeah
- 1:06:52Speaker 3: she's like 14 13 and she says to my son
- 1:06:56Speaker 3: she's like don't worry she's mad now but in two
- 1:06:59Speaker 3: weeks it'll be in her act.
- 1:07:01Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, my God. That is our lives.
- 1:07:06Speaker 2: You know, it's like and it's true. And it's and
- 1:07:08Speaker 2: then it's like, oh, well, two weeks, it'll be good.
- 1:07:10Speaker 2: He's right. I mean, he's completely right. Like the thing
- 1:07:12Speaker 2: with my like now that my husband's a chief, I
- 1:07:15Speaker 2: talk about this a lot in the special. Like I'm
- 1:07:16Speaker 2: always like an FDNY, like Staten Island dinner dance, you know,
- 1:07:20Speaker 2: and I'm always like, oh, my God, we have to
- 1:07:21Speaker 2: get another like FDNY function. And then you're just going
- 1:07:23Speaker 2: to glare at me like I'm about to say twat
- 1:07:24Speaker 2: the whole time. I'm always like in trouble with him.
- 1:07:26Speaker 2: He's always in his like class A's looking at me like,
- 1:07:28Speaker 2: can you for one minute? moment, behave yourself.
- 1:07:30Speaker 3: But like, do the other like fireman wives, are they
- 1:07:32Speaker 3: kind of like fanning out? Do they like enjoy that?
- 1:07:36Speaker 3: Oh my God, we follow you now and you're so
- 1:07:37Speaker 3: funny and we like you.
- 1:07:39Speaker 2: I think finally just now, I don't think people knew
- 1:07:42Speaker 2: what I did and I wasn't really well known enough
- 1:07:45Speaker 2: at all. So I was always like out in Staten
- 1:07:47Speaker 2: Island and like, I would tell them like, you know,
- 1:07:49Speaker 2: like somebody would be like, oh, I met a Jewish
- 1:07:51Speaker 2: person once or something. And I'd be like, I'm a
- 1:07:53Speaker 2: comedian too. Like, you know, like I wasn't, there wasn't
- 1:07:56Speaker 2: a lot of crossover until recently. But now that I
- 1:07:59Speaker 2: talk about being married to a firefighter, it's almost like
- 1:08:03Speaker 2: this special was my way to get my husband to
- 1:08:05Speaker 2: pay more attention to what I do. So the whole
- 1:08:07Speaker 2: crowd at the audience in my special was all like FDNY.
- 1:08:10Speaker 2: I mean, amazing. So it was like a ton of firefighters.
- 1:08:12Speaker 2: I think it's so... Like genius marriage choice. I mean,
- 1:08:17Speaker 2: for the material, it is pretty good. It's really great.
- 1:08:20Speaker 3: It's really reliable. It's salt of the earth. Who doesn't
- 1:08:23Speaker 3: love a fireman?
- 1:08:25Speaker 2: And they're loyal, too. Like everywhere I am on the
- 1:08:27Speaker 2: road now, it's like half firefighter families and they come out.
- 1:08:30Speaker 2: And so now now that I'm talking about what he does.
- 1:08:34Speaker 2: And the world now they're into it. And like people
- 1:08:36Speaker 2: will ask me questions about it. But like the first
- 1:08:38Speaker 2: two seasons of being like just the chief's wife or whatever. No,
- 1:08:41Speaker 2: it like kind of it was like nobody knew who
- 1:08:44Speaker 2: I was. They just probably thought I was a little
- 1:08:45Speaker 2: bit vulgar and jarring. I was just like, they had
- 1:08:49Speaker 2: to be nice to him because like he's their captain. Right. Yeah.
- 1:08:52Speaker 2: So it's a little tricky, too, because like he's the captain.
- 1:08:56Speaker 2: So now he's a chief. But when I started dating me,
- 1:08:58Speaker 2: he was the captain and we would go out in
- 1:09:00Speaker 2: bars and I would like take his phone and text
- 1:09:01Speaker 2: everybody at the firehouse like dumb shit just to make
- 1:09:04Speaker 2: him laugh. You know, I'd be like, I'm thinking about you. Like,
- 1:09:06Speaker 2: you know, I kind of like hit on some of
- 1:09:08Speaker 2: the people that he was their boss. And then later on,
- 1:09:12Speaker 2: I'd be like, he wouldn't do anything about it. That's
- 1:09:14Speaker 2: how that's how funny he is. He would just put
- 1:09:15Speaker 2: it back in his pocket. Meanwhile, I just like hit
- 1:09:17Speaker 2: on half his firehouse, you know. I'd later on be like, oh,
- 1:09:20Speaker 2: that was me. Pete's not gay or whatever. They don't
- 1:09:23Speaker 2: even call him Pete. They call him Kip, you know?
- 1:09:25Speaker 2: Is that his last name? No, it's Captain. So they
- 1:09:28Speaker 2: call him Kip. So I'd be like, oh, it's Kip's wife.
- 1:09:32Speaker 2: They try to show respect. Oh, okay. But it's fun
- 1:09:35Speaker 2: because I'm kind of in this position where I can
- 1:09:37Speaker 2: like say some nonsense, but I still can then go
- 1:09:40Speaker 2: hide under the cover.
- 1:09:43Speaker 3: Have you ever talked about or said anything that was
- 1:09:46Speaker 3: a problem to him or his family on stage where
- 1:09:49Speaker 3: you're like, OK, I won't do that bit again or
- 1:09:51Speaker 3: got back to them or anything?
- 1:09:53Speaker 2: It's a ticking time bomb before that happens. You know,
- 1:09:56Speaker 2: like it's not. Has there been that one big thing?
- 1:09:58Speaker 4: No.
- 1:09:59Speaker 2: But I will say this. The firefighters can take a
- 1:10:03Speaker 2: fucking joke. and they're not woke, and they don't care
- 1:10:07Speaker 2: what you say, and they're a good crowd. So that
- 1:10:11Speaker 2: is the major benefit to being with a firefighter, I
- 1:10:14Speaker 2: feel like, on top of all the obvious safety and
- 1:10:17Speaker 2: that he is a technical hero. I don't know why
- 1:10:21Speaker 2: I said it in that voice, but I'm a twat.
- 1:10:23Speaker 2: But I mean, there's all the obvious benefits, but in
- 1:10:25Speaker 2: terms of our two careers going together, they get a
- 1:10:28Speaker 2: kick out of it. And I think like, They can
- 1:10:31Speaker 2: take a joke. They're firefighters. People stop and thank them
- 1:10:33Speaker 2: all day. You know, like they love their jobs. And
- 1:10:35Speaker 2: that's the one that's the other thing that does work
- 1:10:37Speaker 2: about the two combined careers is that like he's super ambitious.
- 1:10:42Speaker 2: They did like article in Bloomberg about like the happiest
- 1:10:44Speaker 2: workers in America and like firefighters are up there. I
- 1:10:48Speaker 2: don't know if they run the tightest ship like emotionally.
- 1:10:50Speaker 2: Like that's more like that's like a whole other thing
- 1:10:53Speaker 2: being married to a first responder, which is like a
- 1:10:55Speaker 2: lot of what I talk about in the special too.
- 1:10:57Speaker 2: But they love their jobs and they get a kick
- 1:10:59Speaker 2: out of like they need to laugh. They need a release. Yeah.
- 1:11:02Speaker 2: So in that way it works.
- 1:11:03Speaker 3: I mean it is a really interesting combination because I
- 1:11:06Speaker 3: mean I think about first responders a lot and I'm like,
- 1:11:09Speaker 3: oh my God. Or even like FBI or anybody that's
- 1:11:12Speaker 3: like invest like a heinous crime or whatever. I'm like
- 1:11:15Speaker 3: look at their job and then look at mine.
- 1:11:18Speaker 2: I know. Meanwhile, I'm such a dick face. We were
- 1:11:23Speaker 2: going on our honeymoon and I was like, we're going
- 1:11:25Speaker 2: to Bora Bora, which she bought through Costco, of course.
- 1:11:28Speaker 2: So we were on our way to Bora Bora. Yeah,
- 1:11:29Speaker 2: he loves it. He's like, Costco travel.
- 1:11:31Speaker 3: I've gotten a lot of jewelry from Costco.
- 1:11:34Speaker 2: They do have good jewelry.
- 1:11:35Speaker 3: This gold necklace is from Costco.
- 1:11:37Speaker 2: Wow. That's pretty cute.
- 1:11:39Speaker 3: It's 18 karat gold. And it might still be there.
- 1:11:43Speaker 3: It's solid gold, so I never have to take it off.
- 1:11:45Speaker 3: And it's in the $ 500 range.
- 1:11:47Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:11:48Speaker 3: And I've gotten earrings. I have a diamond necklace.
- 1:11:53Speaker 2: My friend said that he should get the diamond, my
- 1:11:55Speaker 2: engagement ring from Costco because Pete wanted to. And at
- 1:11:57Speaker 2: first I told him not to, but now I kind
- 1:11:58Speaker 2: of regret it because my friend was like, they got
- 1:12:01Speaker 2: good diamonds. You should have told him to go to Costco.
- 1:12:03Speaker 2: It's solid. It's solid. Solid.
- 1:12:06Speaker 3: And I just saw a really funny bit like on
- 1:12:09Speaker 3: TikTok or whatever with this woman. surprised her husband at
- 1:12:12Speaker 3: Costco for a surprise party where she just they were
- 1:12:15Speaker 3: just going to Costco for something. And she told all
- 1:12:18Speaker 3: of his friends to go there at that time and shop.
- 1:12:20Speaker 3: So like and she's filming it. So every aisle he
- 1:12:22Speaker 3: goes to, he's like.
- 1:12:24Speaker 2: Hey, buddy. Hey. And then finally he's like, wait, what
- 1:12:27Speaker 2: the fuck is going on?
- 1:12:28Speaker 3: Like everyone I know and care about happens to be
- 1:12:30Speaker 3: at Costco at the exact same time. And then they
- 1:12:32Speaker 3: went and got like Costco hot dogs and like had
- 1:12:35Speaker 3: a party.
- 1:12:36Speaker 2: And now, yeah, that's because that's his love language. It's
- 1:12:38Speaker 2: shared activities and it's Costco. And by the way, you know,
- 1:12:41Speaker 2: if you want to meet a fireman, a lot of
- 1:12:43Speaker 2: people say go by the firehouse with a car seat.
- 1:12:45Speaker 2: Go to the grocery store. They're always in grocery stores
- 1:12:48Speaker 2: because they all go grocery shopping.
- 1:12:49Speaker 3: One of my favorite true crimes. I mean, it's sad
- 1:12:52Speaker 3: because someone died in it.
- 1:12:53Speaker 4: This woman.
- 1:12:54Speaker 3: But this woman got a job at Costco giving out samples.
- 1:12:59Speaker 3: And this hot young firefighter, his job was to go
- 1:13:02Speaker 3: to Costco to get all the food. And they started
- 1:13:06Speaker 3: having an affair. And then the young firefighter ended up
- 1:13:10Speaker 3: killing her husband. And she went to prison for it.
- 1:13:14Speaker 3: But I don't think she had anything to do with it.
- 1:13:16Speaker 3: It's the secrets of Silver Lake.
- 1:13:19Speaker 2: Keith Morrison.
- 1:13:20Speaker 3: It's one of my favorites. And she's still in prison today.
- 1:13:23Speaker 2: Oh, and you don't think she did it?
- 1:13:25Speaker 3: No, I think she was really, really dumb. And I
- 1:13:27Speaker 3: think because she was blonde and a woman and married,
- 1:13:30Speaker 3: I don't think any, I don't think her defense attorney
- 1:13:32Speaker 3: ever thought.
- 1:13:32Speaker 2: To have her IQ tested.
- 1:13:33Speaker 3: Oh. And the other reason I don't think that she
- 1:13:37Speaker 3: did it is because the night that he- It's a
- 1:13:39Speaker 3: really good excuse that he didn't murder somebody.
- 1:13:40Speaker 2: I'm too dumb to have done that.
- 1:13:43Speaker 3: But also, she was a mom of two kids, like
- 1:13:46Speaker 3: 10 and 12 or something, or 10 and 8. And
- 1:13:49Speaker 3: the murder happened the day before- The first day of school.
- 1:13:53Speaker 3: And I said, no mom would choose the day before
- 1:13:55Speaker 3: the first day of school.
- 1:13:56Speaker 2: That is a really stressful day.
- 1:13:58Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:13:58Speaker 2: To try to fit in a murder is really not
- 1:14:00Speaker 2: a good idea. That's like too tight. You would not
- 1:14:02Speaker 2: do it that day. No, that's when you're running around
- 1:14:04Speaker 2: getting like folders and stuff. And yeah, no, there's too
- 1:14:07Speaker 2: big of a list. I'm telling you, I don't think
- 1:14:08Speaker 2: she knew. No, she was getting like a frozen backpack
- 1:14:11Speaker 2: or something. She couldn't have done it. I know I'm
- 1:14:13Speaker 2: busy the day before I go to school like that.
- 1:14:15Speaker 3: It's my favorite date line because it also involves they
- 1:14:18Speaker 3: were kind of swingers.
- 1:14:19Speaker 4: Are you?
- 1:14:19Speaker 2: I'm really into it. This is all. It's called Secrets
- 1:14:22Speaker 2: of Silver Lake. It's one of my favorites. This is
- 1:14:24Speaker 2: all I watch and listen to.
- 1:14:26Speaker 3: And because it involves firemen, Costco, free samples, swinging a lake.
- 1:14:32Speaker 2: Pete would love the fact that it involves Costco especially.
- 1:14:35Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:14:35Speaker 3: Yeah. And he was like kind of hot and she
- 1:14:38Speaker 3: was hot.
- 1:14:39Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:14:40Speaker 3: And.
- 1:14:41Speaker 2: I love crime stuff. Like tan. I don't know what
- 1:14:44Speaker 2: it says about me, but like if like I can't
- 1:14:46Speaker 2: go to sleep until I've seen like a wise with knives,
- 1:14:49Speaker 2: like a few wise with knives. Yeah.
- 1:14:51Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:14:51Speaker 2: I love. I love it. I like it a lot, too.
- 1:14:54Speaker 3: Did you ever try to do SNL because you do
- 1:14:57Speaker 3: such good characters?
- 1:14:58Speaker 2: I did. I sent my tape into SNL a bunch
- 1:15:00Speaker 2: of different times and I. tried so hard to get
- 1:15:03Speaker 2: on SNL and have them audition me. I never made
- 1:15:05Speaker 2: it to the auditioning point. This was years ago. So
- 1:15:09Speaker 2: I don't know. I haven't watched my tapes. Maybe they
- 1:15:11Speaker 2: weren't that great, but I gave it a good shot.
- 1:15:13Speaker 2: I did. And I do think like at this point,
- 1:15:16Speaker 2: maybe I would love to do more things on some
- 1:15:19Speaker 2: sort of sketch show. There's so many now, but maybe
- 1:15:23Speaker 2: do something where I could use my characters in more
- 1:15:24Speaker 2: of like a talk soupy kind of style. That could
- 1:15:27Speaker 2: be fun for me. Like where I could do a
- 1:15:28Speaker 2: little bit of characters, a little bit of running my
- 1:15:31Speaker 2: My yap, which we know I'm good at. That's what
- 1:15:32Speaker 2: my husband said I do for a living. He said,
- 1:15:34Speaker 2: I run my yap for a living. He's like, that's
- 1:15:38Speaker 2: what you do. You run your yap. But yeah, so
- 1:15:40Speaker 2: I would like to do something with characters, but I
- 1:15:42Speaker 2: didn't ever end up having that thing. You know, that
- 1:15:45Speaker 2: one big moment. And this is, it took me a
- 1:15:49Speaker 2: long time, but this is my first hour. And it
- 1:15:51Speaker 2: really took me marrying a firefighter to get an hour
- 1:15:54Speaker 2: on Netflix because he gave me, he says the most
- 1:15:58Speaker 2: infuriating things and it's really a fun world. So between
- 1:16:01Speaker 2: his emotional unavailability and me now being just this loud
- 1:16:06Speaker 2: comic in this world of, you know, Staten Island Firewives,
- 1:16:09Speaker 2: I feel like it definitely, you know, you never know
- 1:16:12Speaker 2: what the thing is, but that helped me at least
- 1:16:14Speaker 2: to get the special on Netflix. Yeah.
- 1:16:16Speaker 3: It's really interesting, you know, to see sometimes where, you know,
- 1:16:19Speaker 3: you were always in the zeitgeist, you were always working,
- 1:16:23Speaker 3: you're always the headlight, like, you know, and then this
- 1:16:26Speaker 3: thing just is like, oh, wow. Yeah, this is the
- 1:16:30Speaker 3: thing that's super related. I'm still waiting for that.
- 1:16:32Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know. This is my hour special.
- 1:16:34Speaker 2: I don't know. We'll see what people, we'll see if
- 1:16:35Speaker 2: people like it. Who knows?
- 1:16:37Speaker 3: So now, we were talking a little before because you
- 1:16:40Speaker 3: were like, you saw my video of Brandon talking about
- 1:16:44Speaker 3: going on the road. He knows how much guilt I
- 1:16:49Speaker 3: have about being gone during their childhood. And, um, And
- 1:16:57Speaker 3: there's times where I really was like, I don't know.
- 1:17:02Speaker 3: You know, I mean, I, it was, I was on
- 1:17:04Speaker 3: Chelsea for eight years. So that was, that was a
- 1:17:07Speaker 3: lot of time. And then when there's opportunities to stand
- 1:17:09Speaker 3: up on the weekends with her, I never wanted to
- 1:17:12Speaker 3: turn that down. You know, I mean, and my husband
- 1:17:15Speaker 3: never made me feel.
- 1:17:16Speaker 2: Ever not to do it. He never was like, never.
- 1:17:20Speaker 3: Say that, you know, he was always fine taking it.
- 1:17:23Speaker 3: But then I would be like, but I do I
- 1:17:25Speaker 3: wonder if, you know, it did affect them in some
- 1:17:28Speaker 3: way or whatever. So that's why that speech to have
- 1:17:31Speaker 3: him say that speech at 18 and know he's going
- 1:17:35Speaker 3: off to college and he is so nice and so great.
- 1:17:38Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:17:39Speaker 3: Do I think it would he have been a different kid?
- 1:17:42Speaker 3: Maybe like but the final result is great.
- 1:17:46Speaker 2: I think it helped me so much to watch that video.
- 1:17:49Speaker 2: You have to be yourself. It's like that quote, like
- 1:17:51Speaker 2: be yourself. Everyone else has already taken. You have to
- 1:17:54Speaker 2: be yourself. And that's probably what you'd like them to
- 1:17:56Speaker 2: do too. So I feel like so many like women
- 1:18:00Speaker 2: must relate to this so much, even if it's not
- 1:18:02Speaker 2: through standup. But I was really struggling this weekend because
- 1:18:06Speaker 2: my husband was supposed to come. He didn't get hurt bad,
- 1:18:08Speaker 2: but like tweaked his neck in a fire. They put
- 1:18:11Speaker 2: him on medically so he can go to some more PT.
- 1:18:13Speaker 2: So he's home with my daughter. So like, But I
- 1:18:15Speaker 2: felt really guilty because I was like going to have
- 1:18:17Speaker 2: to be away from her on Mother's Day, you know,
- 1:18:19Speaker 2: and I was just horrified by that. And I've been
- 1:18:24Speaker 2: spending so much time. I was like on the phone
- 1:18:25Speaker 2: sobbing with Rosebud Baker, who like made me feel like
- 1:18:29Speaker 2: I'm not a war criminal for having to be away
- 1:18:31Speaker 2: this Mother's Day, you know. And she's like, she doesn't
- 1:18:33Speaker 2: even know what Mother's Day is. Like it was her birthday, maybe,
- 1:18:36Speaker 2: you know, but like and I'm. Sending out her little
- 1:18:39Speaker 2: birthday invites while I'm here and trying to figure it out,
- 1:18:42Speaker 2: get the e-vite. It's two weeks before her birthday and
- 1:18:44Speaker 2: I'm trying to get it right. But like, I feel
- 1:18:47Speaker 2: like that, seeing that, I saw it at the perfect time.
- 1:18:50Speaker 2: because I was feeling really bad about realizing about a
- 1:18:55Speaker 2: few in the last few weeks that Pete wasn't going
- 1:18:56Speaker 2: to be able to come. And he'll be back at
- 1:18:59Speaker 2: the firehouse probably within a week, but they have to,
- 1:19:01Speaker 2: he has to stay home and do his PT. She
- 1:19:03Speaker 2: has to be with him because I can't rely on
- 1:19:04Speaker 2: some random babysitter. But just like feeling much better about that. Like, well,
- 1:19:09Speaker 2: maybe one day this will inspire her to do what
- 1:19:11Speaker 2: she wants to do. You know, like he was into
- 1:19:13Speaker 2: it and he got a kick out of it. And yeah,
- 1:19:18Speaker 2: it's very hard.
- 1:19:18Speaker 3: I remember being he clearly thought it was so cool.
- 1:19:21Speaker 2: Yeah. And I was like, he knew.
- 1:19:23Speaker 3: But also he knew me and he knew what I
- 1:19:26Speaker 3: needed to hear. So that's what I also got. I'm like,
- 1:19:29Speaker 3: you know me so well, you know, this is exactly
- 1:19:31Speaker 3: the gist of what I wanted. You know, I, I
- 1:19:34Speaker 3: knew he was going to speak that day. I, I
- 1:19:36Speaker 3: was like, I don't care. It could be the greatest
- 1:19:38Speaker 3: thing or it could be quite simple. I'll be thrilled
- 1:19:40Speaker 3: with whatever, you know, just that he knows that I,
- 1:19:42Speaker 3: that I wanted him to do it. And so it
- 1:19:45Speaker 3: was great. He was the only one that didn't read
- 1:19:47Speaker 3: from anything. Not that the other kids weren't fabulous, but
- 1:19:50Speaker 3: I mean, that is kind of nice that he just
- 1:19:51Speaker 3: like got up there. But I remember being at, when
- 1:19:56Speaker 3: the kids were younger, I agreed to take a chance.
- 1:19:59Speaker 2: Also, that's from you, too. They didn't read from anything. Yeah.
- 1:20:02Speaker 2: Because he knows how to do— he' s watched you do public
- 1:20:04Speaker 2: speaking your whole life, probably. You know, like, he went
- 1:20:07Speaker 2: up there, like, he had confidence. He was enjoying himself. Like,
- 1:20:10Speaker 2: we can teach them how to have fun. I'm sorry,
- 1:20:12Speaker 2: but that's pretty important. Yeah. We can teach them how
- 1:20:15Speaker 2: to have fun, you know?
- 1:20:16Speaker 3: But I was— I remember there was a Mother's Day that
- 1:20:18Speaker 3: I was doing, like, three nights or whatever in someplace
- 1:20:22Speaker 3: in Phoenix, whatever.
- 1:20:23Speaker 2: And I accepted it way before I even looked at
- 1:20:26Speaker 2: the calendar to see that it was Mother's Day.
- 1:20:28Speaker 3: Because I could only, it was during the Chelsea years,
- 1:20:30Speaker 3: and I could only go, you know, if we had
- 1:20:32Speaker 3: like a break or once in a while, whatever. And
- 1:20:35Speaker 3: I remember seeing the brunch at the hotel and like
- 1:20:39Speaker 3: all the mothers and dressed up and I was just
- 1:20:44Speaker 3: so sad. And it's like, but then to like cry
- 1:20:48Speaker 3: to Peter about it, he's just kind of like, again,
- 1:20:51Speaker 3: He was like, it's fine.
- 1:20:52Speaker 2: Who cares? He doesn't care at all. Yeah, he's like,
- 1:20:54Speaker 2: it's fine. It's fine. The kids are fine. I'm taking
- 1:20:56Speaker 2: the kids.
- 1:20:56Speaker 3: Like, why don't you just go, like, get a massage
- 1:20:58Speaker 3: or something before your show?
- 1:21:00Speaker 2: You know, like. Yeah. And I'm like, yeah. And when
- 1:21:02Speaker 2: the kids were little, I really enjoyed that hotel. Yeah,
- 1:21:06Speaker 2: because I don't sleep because my daughter wakes me up
- 1:21:08Speaker 2: every night. When the kids are little, enjoy your work trips, ladies.
- 1:21:11Speaker 2: That's the only time I sleep is at work because
- 1:21:13Speaker 2: she's in our bed sleeping in between us every single night.
- 1:21:15Speaker 2: Like I said, she rounds around the corner. It's hilarious.
- 1:21:17Speaker 2: And she just comes climbing and she knows she's getting
- 1:21:19Speaker 2: in the bed. There's no question. So she sleeps with
- 1:21:21Speaker 2: us every single night. So those are the only few
- 1:21:24Speaker 2: days that I do sleep. But, you know, my mom
- 1:21:26Speaker 2: was a workaholic. I mean, she worked a lot. My
- 1:21:28Speaker 2: mom worked too. Yeah, see, we usually are raised by
- 1:21:31Speaker 2: people that love their job, that worked a lot. My
- 1:21:32Speaker 2: mom was a social worker. Like, you know, like everybody,
- 1:21:36Speaker 2: I have plenty of mom issues, but it wasn't about
- 1:21:38Speaker 2: how many hours she worked. Like, I don't remember having
- 1:21:40Speaker 2: any thoughts about that at all. So, like, she worked
- 1:21:43Speaker 2: a lot, but it's only about, like, your connection to her.
- 1:21:47Speaker 2: And right now she's with Frankie. So she's up there
- 1:21:49Speaker 2: helping Pete. And she's with my daughter. And they were
- 1:21:52Speaker 2: all together on Mother's Day, you know. But and so
- 1:21:56Speaker 2: it's like, yeah, those sometimes those holidays, like after this,
- 1:22:00Speaker 2: we're going to go. I'm going to come home after
- 1:22:01Speaker 2: I'm done with this press tour leading up to Netflix.
- 1:22:04Speaker 2: And then we're going to go on a family vacation
- 1:22:06Speaker 2: for a week and do a bunch of other stuff.
- 1:22:09Speaker 2: So he doesn't question it, you know, like when he
- 1:22:12Speaker 2: has to go to work. So I know a man
- 1:22:14Speaker 2: never is like.
- 1:22:16Speaker 3: Oh my God, I feel so guilty for providing for
- 1:22:19Speaker 3: my family and missing the poetry reading. I'm going to
- 1:22:22Speaker 3: go meet my friends and we're all going to sit
- 1:22:24Speaker 3: around and have wine and cry about all the moments
- 1:22:28Speaker 3: that we missed as working dads.
- 1:22:31Speaker 2: That's never, ever, ever going to happen. You're right. But
- 1:22:34Speaker 2: I've been at many a dinners.
- 1:22:38Speaker 3: Where I've been with other working moms of all professions
- 1:22:41Speaker 3: and we've talked about stuff like that. And then I've
- 1:22:43Speaker 3: had moms that are like, I'm so jealous because I
- 1:22:47Speaker 3: didn't pursue.
- 1:22:48Speaker 2: A career and now I'm at a little bit of.
- 1:22:50Speaker 3: A loss what to do with my life because the
- 1:22:52Speaker 3: kids are getting older. There's just no way to do it.
- 1:22:56Speaker 2: There's no perfect way to do it. I feel like
- 1:22:58Speaker 2: I beat myself up no matter what. And, and then
- 1:23:01Speaker 2: my aunt who I'm, I'm staying with out here, like
- 1:23:04Speaker 2: my aunt was like yelling at me. She's like, cause
- 1:23:05Speaker 2: then I started thinking, well, if I can just get Pete,
- 1:23:07Speaker 2: if he goes to his PT, then he could, he
- 1:23:09Speaker 2: could fly the next day and then he could come
- 1:23:11Speaker 2: see me, right? Like, I'm like being such an asshole.
- 1:23:14Speaker 2: Now I'm trying to get my fireman husband to like fly, right? Why?
- 1:23:17Speaker 2: Five hours with a bad neck? That's a great idea.
- 1:23:20Speaker 2: Now I'm a complete asshole. Like, now I've turned into
- 1:23:23Speaker 2: like a really bad mother because he needs to be
- 1:23:24Speaker 2: at home resting and he needs help, you know? So
- 1:23:27Speaker 2: it's like... So, like, I was talking about this to
- 1:23:29Speaker 2: my aunt. I'm like, if we can just get her
- 1:23:30Speaker 2: here and then you can bring her. And then she's like,
- 1:23:32Speaker 2: you're screaming at everybody. You got a Netflix special coming out.
- 1:23:36Speaker 2: You're being insane. Sleep, you psychopath. Like, she's just yelling
- 1:23:40Speaker 2: at me. She's like, no. Enjoy the time. She's like,
- 1:23:42Speaker 2: enjoy what's happening. Sleep. She's having fun. She's at Costco
- 1:23:45Speaker 2: with Pete. Yes.
- 1:23:47Speaker 3: Mothers, enjoy the uninterrupted meals.
- 1:23:51Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:23:52Speaker 3: The hotels, all that stuff. If you are a mom
- 1:23:55Speaker 3: that works outside of the home.
- 1:23:56Speaker 2: Or that has to travel for your job.
- 1:23:59Speaker 3: Just take advantage of those times of just having that
- 1:24:02Speaker 3: down time because there's nothing you can do. Yeah.
- 1:24:05Speaker 2: And I do feel like it makes me go back
- 1:24:07Speaker 2: to her so much better. So if I've had a
- 1:24:09Speaker 2: night of rest- And she was like, you're doing this
- 1:24:11Speaker 2: to yourself. You're on like this press tour, like leading
- 1:24:14Speaker 2: up to a Netflix thing. And you're trying to get
- 1:24:15Speaker 2: your wife, I mean, your daughter and wife, because I
- 1:24:18Speaker 2: need a wife. You're trying to get your daughter and
- 1:24:21Speaker 2: husband out here like this craziness. Like, so I think
- 1:24:24Speaker 2: sometimes we do it to ourselves. Yeah, I don't know. Like,
- 1:24:27Speaker 2: she's yeah. Like every time I FaceTime her, she's zooming
- 1:24:30Speaker 2: around with like she's got directions and demands around the house.
- 1:24:33Speaker 2: You know, she wants a certain kind of pop for
- 1:24:34Speaker 2: her birthday. She just stops and looks at me sideways.
- 1:24:37Speaker 2: She goes, she was like, Mommy, I need Princess Peach
- 1:24:39Speaker 2: Super Mario Brothers costume. You know that, right? Like, I'm like, yeah,
- 1:24:42Speaker 2: all right. I'm not your secretary, but I've got it. Yeah.
- 1:24:45Speaker 2: She's like, Princess Peach for the birthday party? She's like,
- 1:24:47Speaker 2: we're good on that? Okay. And then she just like
- 1:24:49Speaker 2: went off to get a Popsicle. So she doesn't care. Basically,
- 1:24:51Speaker 2: you're just her personal assistant. Pretty much. That's what it
- 1:24:54Speaker 2: feels like. By the way, she hasn't asked me to
- 1:24:55Speaker 2: do stuff by saying, go do this. She goes, you
- 1:24:57Speaker 2: can get that for me. Like, I don't have the
- 1:24:59Speaker 2: confidence to get her a bottle.
- 1:25:01Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:25:01Speaker 2: She's like, you can get that, right?
- 1:25:02Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:25:04Speaker 2: So they're OK. But that really I really needed to
- 1:25:06Speaker 2: watch that when I watched it more than you could
- 1:25:08Speaker 2: ever know, like how much I needed to watch that. Oh,
- 1:25:11Speaker 2: that's so sweet. Thank you. I appreciate that. It's hard
- 1:25:13Speaker 2: to like and I always feel guilty and like, you know,
- 1:25:17Speaker 2: every two weeks I just like like cry in a
- 1:25:19Speaker 2: bathroom and, you know, and nobody's juggling at all. perfectly,
- 1:25:23Speaker 2: but I feel like as long as they're feeling loved
- 1:25:25Speaker 2: and there's somebody there to get them popsicles and stuff.
- 1:25:28Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:25:28Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:25:29Speaker 3: So everybody watch Rachel Feinstein's big guy special, May 21.
- 1:25:33Speaker 3: It's streaming anytime after on Netflix. Tell them we have
- 1:25:37Speaker 3: your right here. You see it right here on YouTube,
- 1:25:40Speaker 3: but it's Rachel.
- 1:25:41Speaker 2: Feinstein underscore is my Instagram page. My website is rachel-feinstein.com.
- 1:25:47Speaker 2: I also have a page on punch up live which
- 1:25:50Speaker 2: is another website I use for my tour tickets. They're
- 1:25:53Speaker 2: all linked on my Instagram and my Facebook, which is
- 1:25:55Speaker 2: just Rachel Feinstein as well. So go see her live. Yeah,
- 1:25:58Speaker 2: come see me on the road.
- 1:26:00Speaker 3: Yes.
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