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Laughs Unlimited _ Week 5 _ Comedian Mary Upchurch(MP3_320K) · Mic Drop Comedy

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  Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to the Good to Know Sacramento version
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  Speaker 1: of the Laughs Unlimited podcast. We are, I'm Jennifer, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: owner of Laughs Unlimited. We are here today with Mary Upchurch. Hello, Mary.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Mary.
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  Speaker 3: Hello. Hi, Jenny. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm good. How are you doing? I'm so good.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so happy to talk to you.
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  Speaker 1: I know. I know. We've known each other for quite
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  Speaker 1: a few years now. It's so funny because I always
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  Speaker 1: think in terms of like, how old was Jalyn when
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  Speaker 1: I met you? I know.
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  Speaker 3: This many Jalyns and then now we're at this many Jalyns.
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  Speaker 1: I know now she's, now she's so old. She's sharing clothes.
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  Speaker 1: Like thanks for the dresses. Cause I love, I always love,
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  Speaker 1: look at your style. It's great. Bright and colorful. And she's,
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  Speaker 1: she wears them all the time.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: I love clothes in general. And I do love this
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  Speaker 4: brand called New Works. They make really fun, unique prints.
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  Speaker 4: They're limited edition. And sometimes when I'm kind of done
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  Speaker 4: wearing them, or if I've been photographed or worn them
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  Speaker 4: a couple of times, I, you know, I don't need
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  Speaker 4: them anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Not to sound wasteful, but like if I can find.
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  Speaker 4: A person who like likes it as much as me,
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  Speaker 4: it brings me so much joy to like, please give
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  Speaker 4: this a good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And she, she loves it. I'm telling you, she wears
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  Speaker 1: specifically the, that one that we've talked about, she wears
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  Speaker 1: all the time. It has like the jagged stripes and yeah, they're,
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  Speaker 1: they're perfect. It's they're great. Cause it's, they're very unique
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  Speaker 1: and you know, it takes a unique person. She's unique.
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  Speaker 1: You're unique. I love it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know it's not something you got at
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  Speaker 4: like Target or Old Navy like that everybody has.
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  Speaker 3: Like it is kind of special.
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  Speaker 1: Right, right. And thanks to, you know, somebody like you
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  Speaker 1: because if it was up to me, I have no style.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm a black on black kind of girl.
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  Speaker 1: So it takes somebody very cool like you to introduce
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  Speaker 1: her to fun stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that is so nice.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah, so you're based out of Vegas now?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm celebrating my third year here in Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, loving it, getting better, having fun, except for the heat, obviously.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I came from Phoenix, so it's almost a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of a break of the heat. It's a little
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  Speaker 4: bit cooler, not much. But yeah, I felt like home
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  Speaker 4: here from just as soon as.
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  Speaker 3: I moved here. Because I had been coming to Vegas
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  Speaker 3: to do comedy for a couple of years, and I
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  Speaker 3: was just like finding ways to get here more often.
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  Speaker 3: So when I got here, I was like, yeah, this
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  Speaker 3: feels like home. And Vegas really.
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  Speaker 4: Feels like a mixture of like Orange County, California and Phoenix.
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  Speaker 3: Like if you blended those two, I think that's kind
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  Speaker 3: of Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Like when you take the best parts of a
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  Speaker 1: couple of places and throw them together, there's Vegas for you, huh?
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  Speaker 1: Do you get out to, I know you do shows
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  Speaker 1: a lot. Do you get out to shows much? Do
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  Speaker 1: you see like, Not necessarily comedy, but Vegas is all
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  Speaker 1: about entertainment. Do you ever go?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Do you?
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  Speaker 3: Yes. It is my favorite thing to do.
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 3: I saw Magic Mike for the second time this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: It is such a good show.
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  Speaker 4: And I know you're thinking, oh, Mary, you're just there
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  Speaker 4: for the dudes and the body.
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  Speaker 3: And yes, that's true.
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  Speaker 1: But.
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  Speaker 3: It's art, though. The dancing is so good.
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  Speaker 4: If you've ever watched that show, So You Think You
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  Speaker 4: Could Dance, I feel like it's like that, like really
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  Speaker 4: good modern dance, like talented people.
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  Speaker 3: There's a little bit of acrobat. It's not just a
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  Speaker 3: male review. It's like a show show.
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  Speaker 1: So that's one of my favorites.
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  Speaker 4: And then everybody comes here. I saw Chelsea Handler at
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  Speaker 4: the Cosmopolitan. And I've seen the Black Crows a couple times.
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  Speaker 4: So it's so fun to go to concerts and different shows. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: Absinthe is my favorite show.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. The last show in Vegas, I went and saw Six.
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  Speaker 1: Have you seen that? The musical?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I want to see that.
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  Speaker 1: It's so great. I think you would love it.
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  Speaker 4: It was, that was touring right when I moved here.
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  Speaker 4: And it's like the six wives of Henry VIII.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 3: I want to see it.
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  Speaker 1: It's like each of their stories. And it's like, it's,
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  Speaker 1: it starts out really, really dramatic. It's like beheaded. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Because like two of his wives got beheaded. It's crazy. Yeah. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: What a jerk.
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  Speaker 1: The reason I found out about that musical is because
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  Speaker 1: just like her clothes, Jalyn has an eclectic taste in music.
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  Speaker 1: And I always let her pick music, too. So we
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  Speaker 1: kind of do this combination. And I was listening to
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  Speaker 1: a song because I'm very lyric based. And I was like,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute. This song is about Anne Boleyn. What
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  Speaker 1: are you listening to? Like it talks about her being
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  Speaker 1: beheaded and, you know, all this. And I was like,
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  Speaker 1: what are you listening to? And so then we looked
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  Speaker 1: it up and she didn't even realize that it was
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  Speaker 1: part of a musical or, you know, like what the
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  Speaker 1: musical was about. And then we started from the beginning
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  Speaker 1: because obviously it tells a story and we listened to
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing and it was great. And I actually
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  Speaker 1: really enjoyed seeing that. It was it's great. It's an
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  Speaker 1: all female lineup. It's all female band. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a I say I'm not a feminist, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm not. I don't, I don't seek it out, but
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  Speaker 1: I love when it's done well. You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 3: Hold on for one second. My connection is, or something
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  Speaker 3: is like a little spotty. I got every other word.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, which part? Sorry. Are you back?
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  Speaker 3: Well, No, I get that, though. You know, you're listening
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  Speaker 3: to a song. You're like, wait a second. This is
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  Speaker 3: a historical pop song. What's going on here?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's a fun way to really get into theater.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, that's how I was introduced to Hamilton, too.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Mary is going to start touring. And it's going
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  Speaker 3: to play here at the Spitz Center, which is I
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  Speaker 3: live right.
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  Speaker 1: Next door to it.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm looking forward to that one, too.
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  Speaker 1: Nice. I've never even heard of that one. I'll have
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  Speaker 1: to look it up.
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  Speaker 3: Look it up.
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  Speaker 4: It's campy and fun and it's like such a big hit.
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  Speaker 4: And they use different stars like Bob the Drag Queen
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  Speaker 4: and it's by Cole Escola. And they use different people
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  Speaker 4: to play the Mary Todd Lincoln role.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay. I was trying to think if there's any
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  Speaker 1: funny stories of you at Laughs Unlimited. I mean, we
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  Speaker 1: have funny stories in general, but do you have anything
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  Speaker 1: off the top? Um.
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  Speaker 4: You know, one of my favorite memories, though, with Laughs
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  Speaker 4: Unlimited was the first year of the Sacktown Comedy Get
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  Speaker 4: Down Festival.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And it was kind of like early post-COVID.
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  Speaker 4: And a lot of us were staying at that beautiful
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  Speaker 4: haunted house.
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  Speaker 1: The hostel. The hostel.
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  Speaker 3: The hostel.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And it was beautiful. Victorian. I still think about it.
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  Speaker 3: That's the haunting. It stays with you up here. I
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  Speaker 3: think about that house all the time. And again, it
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  Speaker 3: was gorgeous, but it was so creepy. And I couldn't sleep.
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  Speaker 3: I think Jack Jr., he showed up. He had a
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  Speaker 3: room there and was like, nope.
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  Speaker 1: And he went down to the holiday inn. Yes, that
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  Speaker 1: is what happened. Yeah, it was cool, though, because they
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  Speaker 1: couldn't be open as a hostel because it was so
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  Speaker 1: close post-COVID. So they were renting it out like BRBO style.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not like we could ever rent it again.
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  Speaker 1: But at the time it was, yeah, it was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: It was a fun time. Oh, she froze.
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  Speaker 4: One of the times too, when I was featuring for
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  Speaker 4: Big Irish J, I got on stage and realized, or
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  Speaker 4: I think I realized it when I got dressed or whatever.
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  Speaker 4: I brought two different black shoes. Like it was like
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  Speaker 4: the same type of shoe, but they were different, different heights.
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  Speaker 4: And I was on stage hoping nobody would notice, but
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  Speaker 4: there was a girl in the front row and I
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  Speaker 4: could see her looking at my feet like this.
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, don't look.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. That's hilarious. That's funny.
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  Speaker 3: I'll never make that mistake again.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, yeah. It's kind of different. Like, if
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  Speaker 1: it was two socks, you could at least, you know,
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  Speaker 1: fake it to make it. But two shoes, that's harder
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  Speaker 1: to get by with.
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  Speaker 4: They were both black strappy kind of heels, but one
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  Speaker 4: was higher and one was a platform.
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  Speaker 3: So I was like.
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  Speaker 1: That's so funny. And did you even think about coming
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  Speaker 1: out on stage just barefoot and just be like, you
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  Speaker 1: know what? I'm in touch with the earth this time.
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  Speaker 3: I would never.
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  Speaker 1: Which is funny. I would wear two different shoes, but
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  Speaker 1: I would never come out barefoot.
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  Speaker 3: I need a little height. I'm short. I'm like stocky,
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  Speaker 3: I guess. I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: So I wear heels to give me a little elongated look,
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  Speaker 4: you know.
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  Speaker 1: See, that's a short girl problem. I never would have
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  Speaker 1: thought about that ever.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You've never worried about that.
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  Speaker 1: Never.
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  Speaker 3: Jenny, how does it feel to be able to see
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  Speaker 3: every concert you've ever been to or every baseball game
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  Speaker 3: you've ever played?
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  Speaker 1: It's very nice. I have no complaints whatsoever.
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  Speaker 3: People behind you, not so much.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, people behind me. Well, you know, tall people matter too.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I say. You do. You do. I love
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  Speaker 1: when I have customers come who are taller and they'll
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  Speaker 1: be like, you know, can I not sit in the
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  Speaker 1: front row? Cause I'm tall. And I always tell them,
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  Speaker 1: I go, forget that tall power. You know, you sit
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  Speaker 1: where you want. You forget these short people. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to acquiesce to them and just really talk them
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  Speaker 1: up at the door.
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  Speaker 3: Tall people get so much though.
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  Speaker 4: Tall people have so much privilege. Like, um, Did you know, like,
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  Speaker 4: a huge majority of CEOs in America are over six
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  Speaker 4: feet tall? But a very small, like, population of men
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  Speaker 4: are actually six feet tall. I'm not saying that quote
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  Speaker 4: the right way, but you get the idea. Like, we
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  Speaker 4: just assume you're a great leader. You know, you're a.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I was invited to a tall club once. There's
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  Speaker 1: a Sacramento tall club. And I was invited to it.
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  Speaker 1: And they... And like they have the heights printed on
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  Speaker 1: their business card. And it's like to it for a female,
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  Speaker 1: you had to be like over five, seven. And for
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  Speaker 1: the guys, you had to be over five, 10. And
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  Speaker 1: I was like, that's not that tall. Cause I'm six too. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that was the first time. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: obviously being the tallest in most rooms all the time
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  Speaker 1: told me something, but it was the first time that
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  Speaker 1: I was like, wait, what's the average height for a man?
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Do people use that as like a dating thing or
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  Speaker 3: was it just a hangout?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a hangout. I know a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: them are married. They were kind of in an older generation.
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  Speaker 1: I felt like I would be very young, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they just go around and recruit tall people just to
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  Speaker 1: hang out. They've, They've come to the club quite a
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  Speaker 1: few times. They come through. Oh, fun. Yeah. It's just
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  Speaker 1: this like a group of tall people that come through.
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  Speaker 1: And like I said, they've given me, I think they've
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  Speaker 1: given me their business card like twice. And I'm like, thanks.
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  Speaker 1: I love that people assume I have a life. I
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  Speaker 1: don't have that. I have Laughs Unlimited. That's my life.
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  Speaker 1: I hang out every weekend, Wednesday through Saturday. Yeah, seriously.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 4: And when you're not there, you're creating like W2s and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Right. When I'm not there, I'm doing all the business
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  Speaker 1: side of comedy.
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  Speaker 3: When I get my text forms, I'm like, hey, Jenny,
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  Speaker 3: how's it going?
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  Speaker 1: You're like, Jenny did this all by herself. Yep, I did.
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  Speaker 1: Can I interrupt you real quick? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to just, because I find this very interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Mary Upchurch has a really fun algorithm. And I always
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  Speaker 2: talk about how she turned me on to some lady
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  Speaker 2: that made like beads and things with bracelets or key chains.
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  Speaker 2: The key chain lady where you would go on TikTok
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  Speaker 2: and she would like make a whole bunch of key
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  Speaker 2: chain things on your. She had to go. You said
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  Speaker 2: you wanted to do it at one point.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about? No.
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  Speaker 2: It was like this lady had a whole bunch of
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  Speaker 2: drawers and she would put like she would go on TikTok.
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  Speaker 2: She's on TikTok. OK, there we go.
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  Speaker 1: OK, yes. No, it's.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know who, a lot of people do this,
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  Speaker 4: and I haven't seen these videos for a while, but
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure they'll come up.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, pack this order with me.
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  Speaker 4: And it's like 10 things, and then they go to
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  Speaker 4: their little drawers, and it's like a self-defense.
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  Speaker 3: Keychain they build. And it's really just crap, honestly, but
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  Speaker 3: they do it like, it's all purple. And so it'll
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  Speaker 3: be like the.
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  Speaker 4: window breaker the kitty knuckles a pom-pom a lipstick case
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  Speaker 4: and it then it makes this this fat keychain that
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  Speaker 4: like kind of like the girls in high school would
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  Speaker 4: be like making all this noise with like like i
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  Speaker 4: don't know i never bought.
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  Speaker 3: One i should go get.
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  Speaker 1: One you're like i did show.
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  Speaker 3: You that whole thing it was mesmerizing carlos.
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  Speaker 1: That's so funny the best it's funny how different people's
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  Speaker 1: algorithms are like have you ever JC at the club
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  Speaker 1: and I did this one day where, you know, cause
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  Speaker 1: you're both scrolling on the phone. And so we just
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  Speaker 1: put our phones side by side and it's like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: what is your video? And what's my video? And they
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  Speaker 1: couldn't have been more different.
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  Speaker 3: What's on your algorithm, Jenny?
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  Speaker 1: Um, not surprisingly food. I get a lot of recipes. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I love, I love to get recipes. Um, What else?
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it just like falls down a rabbit hole. For
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  Speaker 1: a minute there, I was getting a lot of like
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  Speaker 1: fights and stuff. But I think that they were sent
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  Speaker 1: to me and then I watched them for too long.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, I got to watch less
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  Speaker 1: than this. And sometimes I get. Mine tend to be
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things that you have to read because
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  Speaker 1: I'm a reader. And it's not that I'm interested in
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  Speaker 1: that thing. But if there's words on the screen, I
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  Speaker 1: have to read it. It's a compulsion.
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  Speaker 3: That's a great, like a great habit to have because
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  Speaker 3: when I see words, I don't want to read them.
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  Speaker 1: That's true for a lot of people.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Mine is dachshunds.
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  Speaker 4: I love dachshunds and I'll get a lot of dachshund
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  Speaker 4: videos and then food recipes and then stuff. They get
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  Speaker 4: me all the time with stuff to buy. I bought
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  Speaker 4: my outfit the other night was all bought on TikTok.
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  Speaker 4: Like skincare, hair care. adidas i've been buying a lot
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  Speaker 4: of shoes yeah shoes always fit um um a lot
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  Speaker 4: of hair stuff too but i can never like i
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  Speaker 4: do everything and i can't get that kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Hair yeah my my other thing is travel like i
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  Speaker 1: did get a lot of road trip stuff i like
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  Speaker 1: like have you ever been to this random place in
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  Speaker 1: illinois it's great i'm like might be but then i
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  Speaker 1: i save some of them and i'm like what if
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  Speaker 1: i go there What if it's, what if it is great?
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  Speaker 1: What if it's the best thing I've ever seen?
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  Speaker 4: Jenny, there was one like that. A couple like that
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  Speaker 4: had made me want to travel and I want to
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  Speaker 4: go to Maine now that I saw somebody's thing. Cause
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  Speaker 4: I never thought about Maine, but it's really neat. This
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  Speaker 4: one girl went into a stationery shop and then had
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  Speaker 4: lobster and a coffee shop.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, that's all I want to do.
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  Speaker 1: There was a, I think I saw a thing the
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  Speaker 1: other day where you can stay in a, is it
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  Speaker 1: a library or a bookstore? Yeah. you like stay in
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  Speaker 1: the bookstore and you can like rent books. You get
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  Speaker 1: a discount on books or whatever you, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: you get 50% off and then you like work the
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  Speaker 1: bookstore for a couple of days. And I was like,
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  Speaker 1: that sounds kind of cool. I would do that.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: That'd be perfect for you.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So random.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: It is nice that we can get everything customized to
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: like what we want now.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: Right. Yeah. But, you know, do you look outside enough
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: to see other things, to like find new interests? That's
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: always the question, right?
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah. But I trust my algorithm to introduce me to
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: new things.
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: Well, like some of my friends right now, they're into,
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: because it evolves. It was like friendship bracelets or even
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: those weird key chains.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: And then now I'm seeing stuff that people like to
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: junk journal.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: And I don't have the patience for this, but I
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: like to watch it. And it's, like, taking little things
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: and scraps, receipts, tickets, a coffee, you know, sleeve from
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: whatever experience and then making a page of, like, this
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: was my weekend.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Or this was my life right now. Yeah, it's, like,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: scrapbooking for 2026. Yes. Now it's called junk journaling.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: And then they're also doing, like, a lot of planners.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: I bought a Hobonichi planner, which I didn't think I
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: needed and I still haven't used.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: But I needed it. And it's just a way people
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: are like journaling their every move.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: Like I had this many glasses of water and I
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: read this many pages and I don't know, I don't,
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: I'm not good at following through, but I am very.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Attracted to that kind of stuff. Yeah. The follow through
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: is the problem. I got, I have a book it's
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: behind me actually. It's called 52 lists and you're supposed
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: to do a list each week and And it has
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: like prompts or whatever. And I was like, oh, I could,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: you know, it's not quite journaling. I could do a list. Yeah,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: I think I did three weeks and then I fell off.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: This is my Hobonichi planner that I bought and I
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: needed it so bad.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: And it's a nice shape. I just haven't really used
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: it because I need to put everything on my phone.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. And that's the convenience of the phone, the
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: up and the down.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: So I got to stop buying stuff online.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Well, there's that. We're not here for that, though. We're
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: not here to better ourselves. We're here to talk about
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: all the fun stuff.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: I want to enjoy myself. Yes.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: You ready to do some trivia? Okay.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that sounds good.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: You want to try some trivia? We'll see.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: If it's my topic, I'm good at it.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: It is a variety of topics, so don't get disheartened
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: because your topic might be in here. Okay. I think
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: you got it, at least a few of them. Ready. Okay.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: We've got a little scoreboard here at the bottom. Don't
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: let it intimidate you. Yeah. What city did the Lakers
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: play in before LA?
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Like Minneapolis.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Holy cow. I would never have known that one.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: The Lakers.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Oh, is that why they're the Lakers? Yeah.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Well, is Michigan land of a thousand lakes or is
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: it Minnesota? Either way. I know it's Minnesota.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Anyway, you got it. It's Minneapolis. You are 100% correct.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Look at that. One for one already. All right. We're
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: going two for two because I think you got this. Ready?
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: What is the capital of Nevada?
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's Reno. Carson City.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: What is your final answer?
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: There's only like two cities in there.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: I'm going to say Reno. I'm going to say Reno.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, no, pick the other one.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: It's Carson City.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. Yeah, I know.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: If you grew up in a state, then you learn
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: all that state's history.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: So I kind of learned that for like, I think California,
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: but not.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: So what's Sacramento? Shoot.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: Sacramento is the capital of California.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Also, I gave it away.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Okay. On to film. What film did Robin Williams win
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: an Oscar for?
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: Good Will Hunting.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Yes. Look at you, three for three. Okay, okay. All right.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: I have a funny story after you answer this question.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Name three of the Allied powers in World War II.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Is it like Great Britain, France, and the United States?
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll take that. You said, yeah, USA, China, France, UK,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: and Soviet Union.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'll take it.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: I didn't pay attention very much in history, and now
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: I wish I had, because I guess it's repeating itself.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: So my niece is a trivia person, so she was
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: previewing the questions. So I said, name three of the
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Allied powers, and she goes, Germany. Now she said it jokingly,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: but then I said, well, I guess I didn't ask
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: for which side.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Which side?
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah. so technically I guess you could have been right
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: it didn't say allied with.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: The US or allied with someone.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah right alright you're 4 for 4 you're killing it
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: what is the main organ in the circulatory system in your.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Body circuit is it the brain oh.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: So close it's the other one the heart yeah.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: That's fine.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: He said, yeah. But what runs the heart? Okay. How
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: many herbs and spices does KFC's original chicken recipe contain?
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: Is it 11 herbs and spices?
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: It is. It is. Yes. Look at you. Five for six.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: That's what really runs the heart.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Okay. right or stops it depends on who you ask
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: uh what is the city of pittsburgh's.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Nickname brotherly love.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Oh that's no that is somebody's but it's not.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: I thought it was yeah because pittsburgh is where um
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: mr rogers.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Was from i think carlos what city is the brother
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: was is the city of brotherly love uh philadelphia Philadelphia.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Oh, no, I knew that.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Shoot.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: And you know what?
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: They're going to be so mad at me because Philly
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: people are so passionate. And if you say, oh, Pittsburgh,
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: they're like, that's not the same, you dummy.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: And it's, oh, I should have known that.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: Carrie Gallagher lives in Philly now, and she taught me
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: everything about Philly.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: She's going to be disappointed. See, no, that's why it
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: was on the brain. That's why you were like, oh,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: forget Pittsburgh. You were like, I'm Philly-centric.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: I've been watching The Pit. That's why, too.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, I love The Pit.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Here's something really funny. KFC, you said 11 Herbs and Spices, right?
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: On their Twitter page, they only follow 11 people, and
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: they're all named Herb, and they follow the Spice Girls.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I've either seen or heard that.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: I love these companies and their Gen Z marketing team.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: They are crushing it.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right? Okay, so the city of Pittsburgh's nickname is
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: the Steel City.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes sense.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: All right, we're back to movies now. Who directed Oscar
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: award-winning Hurt Locker and Point Break?
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: Catherine Bigelow.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Yes, okay.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: You know, she used to date James Cameron or Spielberg
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: or something.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she was married to him.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Take Mary out for trivia is what I'm learning. Okay.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: I'm the one that's, I'm just there to write the answers.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: That's all I'm there for.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: By the way, I don't want to define Catherine Bigelow
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: by her marriage to what's his face. Like she has
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: her own accomplishments, but I feel like during that, there
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: was a campaign after the Hurt Locker to like, you know,
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: for your consideration.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: And I don't know, that's just what my brain goes
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: back to.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Okay. It's a little, little history. Who shot Abraham Lincoln?
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Aaron Burr. No, that was Alexander Hamilton. It was John
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Wilkes Booth.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: There you go. There you go. You got it. Aaron
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Burr is going down for everybody at this point.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: Carlos, maybe you remember this too.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: There was a really good commercial.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: I think it was. Milk.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Was it milk?
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: It was milk.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: And it was before Hamilton.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: And this guy was in a Hamilton or an Aaron
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: Burr museum.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: And that's all he did.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: And then he's like on the radio getting this trivia
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: and he takes a bite of like peanut butter toast.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: He goes, who shot Alexander Hamilton? He's like.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: And that's kind of how I remember that forever.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: I love that you barely said three words and Carlos
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: was like milk. He was tuned in.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: We share the same, like not algorithm, but like real
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: life algorithm.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah. All right. This is the final answer. Do you
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: want to wager any of your points? How many points?
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: Oh, I have seven.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: You have seven for like, it's like final jeopardy.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: So I'm one of those people who says, let's do
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: it all.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Let's do it.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: And then I'll lose them all. But also like, who cares?
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Right. Right. Right.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Let's do, well, let's do it all. Let's wager.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Okay. All right. Seven. It is. All right. Are you ready?
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Who is the current host of jeopardy?
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: What's that guy's name?
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Max.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: Um, I, I can see his face. He's the guy
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: who like won the most and has the record. Is
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: his name Max? Um, Kevin, wait, Shoot, I don't know
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: his name.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: And, like, Mayim Bialik was so mad because she didn't
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: get the permanent job.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Ken Jennings.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: There you go. Yay! 14 points for Mary.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Oh, that worked. I wagered.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the most points I've seen. So we're on
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: week five, and that's the most points I've seen so far. So, hey.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Across all podcasts.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Yes. Every podcast ever. Definitely take Mary out for trivia night.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: She knows it all. Well, we'll be seeing you at
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: LAF soon.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Yes. The 20th and 21st. 20th and 21st.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: So excited. I know. I'm excited to have you back.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: It's going to be great.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: We always have a good time there. The crowds are
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: so good. The people are so fun. There's always like
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: hot people on date nights.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Yes yeah and laughs does seem to be do you
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: know how many times people have come in and they're
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: like we had our first date here it's so adorable
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: because laughs has been there for so long it's been
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: 45 years that people are like we've had our first
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: date here or we came here when when we were
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: in high school i've had people bring in like old
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: passes because they used to print them on cardstock with
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: the with the little jester with the the jester yeah
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: And they're like, are these still good? They were, you know,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I've had them. I got them when I was in
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: high school. I was like, yeah, absolutely. Come on in.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Oh, I love that. You know, that is really something.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: If you think about it, like how many businesses have
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: been in the same place for so long. And if
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: you think about just like what that business means to
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: so many people, you know, they might.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: And I think that with comedy.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: Too, it's just, it's so nice when families, loved ones
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: can get together and laugh together and, you know, I
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: did a show at Mic Drop a few years back
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: and it was so fun.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: A bunch of people I knew went. And I remember
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: going back the next year and like there was people
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: who weren't with us anymore who were at that first show.
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: And I was like, we really had a good time,
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: you know? And so like, I'm glad we were able
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: to celebrate.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: So I don't know, people do comedy when it's something
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: important or they need to get away or they just
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: need to laugh. And I think that's what makes it
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: so special. And it's neat that Laughs Unlimited is, kind
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: of a cornerstone of that for Sacramento.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: I love, I love when people come in with stories
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: and they, they, you know, have things and, you know,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: or they bring their kids for the first time and
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: they're like, you know, it's, it's fun.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: Um, and it's just in such a special place too.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: I love the candy store next door. I love running
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: over and getting candy. And even just the feeling right now,
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: I'm thinking about the, the wood planks, you know, like,
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: and that's just part of the experience. Um, yeah, I'm
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: nervous too. I'm scared, but I think that always energizes me.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: I'm like, well, I'm always like, what if they hate me?
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: What if they throw things?
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: But it certainly happened.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Is it normal for every, it's for every show you
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: always think that, or you just think Sacramento in general?
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: You're like specifically Sacramento. Yeah.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: It kind of, yeah. You know, actually we've had so
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: many like fun, energetic, great shows. So I don't know
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: why I worry, but I do.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: I feel like you're a little bit of a worrier.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: So I'm not surprised by that. Plus, plus it means
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: you care.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah. You know what I've been saying?
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: You know, it's my motto lately and it's not good
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: that I say this, but I say, I stay scared.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: So I stay safe.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Like that's not good.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: But it is, it is amazing. I think, um, left
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: unlimited is the first club to have me headline. And, um, Oh,
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: I also want to share, hold on, hold on. Don't
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: look at me. Um, I've had a lot of firsts there, too.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: You know, it was the first club. Don't look at
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: my messy apartment. The first club that let me headline.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Oh, yes. Yes. Look at that.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: I don't know if you can still get this.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Yes, they're available on our website in the store. 45th
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: anniversary album featuring Mary Upchurch.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And then look what Carlos is on here.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Yep. jared jackson nate jackson yep tony baker.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: Lance kalia my favorite by the way drew dunn did
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: you see him on the late show um late night oh.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: He was so funny he's so yes he makes me
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: want to quit comedy.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: He's so funny and i'm just like oh he's pretty nice.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: He's very nice he's very nice i i really like
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: It's so funny because I love a comic with a
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: different perspective. And everything he says is so, I just,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: it's not, I can't see where he's going. So it's nice.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: Carlos is pretty nice, too. He's a pretty cool guy.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's all right. He's all right. We don't have
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: to say nice things just because he's on here.
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: I opened for him in Chattanooga and he just treated
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: me so well. He just made, I was, I think
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: he just made me kind of feel at home and
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: comfortable and like, you know, a lot of times like
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: headliners don't want to hang out with me.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: I'm just not cool, you know?
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: I'm not like cool enough.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: I think, you know, like I'm not.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: I think that you think that. I think that you gotta, girl,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: you're cool. You gotta own it. We went to the diner.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: We had cake.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: It was like your anniversary. Yeah. It was like just
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: a really special time.
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: So, so yeah, I have great memories of like a
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: lot of these comics and Sacramento.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: It feels like a kind of a second home.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: That's awesome. That's awesome. Well, we look forward to having
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: you back and thank you for your time today. Thanks
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: for taking your time out.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. Thank you so much. It was really
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: good to see you and I'll see you soon.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: See you in a couple of weeks. Yeah.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Bye. Oh, that's great.