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Talk Line: Bad Momz of Comedy founder Orly KG talks comedy at the Dixon theatre · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: It's now nine to twelve on your Thursday morning, and
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  Speaker 1: as promised, we're back with more talk line and I'm
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  Speaker 1: joined by for the first time in the studio for
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  Speaker 1: me as well. It's Orly kg, founder of the Bad
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  Speaker 1: Moms of Comedy, here to tell us all about her
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  Speaker 1: upcoming performance at the Dixon Theater. Orley, how are you?
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  Speaker 2: Is that all that in one breath? I'm really impressed, Brandon.
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  Speaker 2: You need to be a scuba diver.
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  Speaker 1: I you know, I maybe I could. I went. I
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  Speaker 1: went snorkeling on my honeymoon with my wife, and I
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  Speaker 1: was doing good for like two little destinations, and then
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  Speaker 1: by the third one, I was pretty c six. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, maybe we'll scratch that, but just so you know,
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  Speaker 2: you've got good lung capacity. Or maybe be your opera singer. Hi, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: we have a show coming out tomorrow in Dixon. I
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  Speaker 2: has a gorgeous historic opera the theater. We're so excited.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a It's a fantastic space and just so
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  Speaker 1: so perfect for what you do. And I love anytime
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  Speaker 1: we get comedy in this area. But I want to
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  Speaker 1: reel it back a little bit. You when did you
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  Speaker 1: found Bad Moms.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I founded it in twenty twenty two, sort of
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  Speaker 2: because I was doing comedy at a lot of Open
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  Speaker 2: my Lies in a lot of places downtown. But I
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  Speaker 2: didn't see quote unquote my people, meaning where are my
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  Speaker 2: married people? Where are my people with kids? And so
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  Speaker 2: I started Bad Moms with comedy and he just took
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  Speaker 2: off and it was It's been wonderful. And what I
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  Speaker 2: really love about it, Brandon, because I'm talking to somebody
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  Speaker 2: who was not the same ovaries as me, is even
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  Speaker 2: men do like this show. You are allowed to come.
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  Speaker 2: You will have a good time. Please just see the
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  Speaker 2: other perspective. It's super funny. And I have brought headliners
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  Speaker 2: for you. You have Leslie Mitchell, you have Lindsey Porter,
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  Speaker 2: you have Mo Good and you have me. Let's have
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  Speaker 2: a good time. Come on, you got to come see
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  Speaker 2: this theater. You got to come see comedy that's not
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  Speaker 2: on your phone. Put pants on, let's go.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. Absolutely, Put your pants on and get
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  Speaker 1: on out out there. Enjoy it. Quit watching comedy thirty
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  Speaker 1: seconds at a time on a reel. It is not
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  Speaker 1: the same thing as going to see these a performance.
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  Speaker 2: Live, especially laughing with your friends and your family, and
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  Speaker 2: then looking at the stage going, oh, my gosh, I
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  Speaker 2: thought that was just me. I thought that, Oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 2: thank you you're seeing me. It's the best, and then
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  Speaker 2: looking at your husband going, see, it's not just me,
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  Speaker 2: it's not see it's every woman.
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely love that, And you're right, it works for
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  Speaker 1: both sides. And I love stand up because it is
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  Speaker 1: you know, not only does it make you laugh, but
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  Speaker 1: it brings it brings us together and sharing these kind
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  Speaker 1: of viewpoints where we're like, yeah, you know, she's got
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  Speaker 1: a point.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and not just that. Everybody in that audience is different.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone came from a different background, different religions, whatever, and
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  Speaker 2: they're all laughing at the same thing. Kind of nice
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  Speaker 2: to know that we all have more in common than
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  Speaker 2: less in common sometimes. So yeah, absolutely, And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people are like, oh, it's just gonna
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  Speaker 2: be all mom jokes. Uh uh, I think I talk
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  Speaker 2: about my kids for like ten seconds, like this is
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  Speaker 2: my time, Like I am, We are telling jokes, we're
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  Speaker 2: having a good time, and we all have different perspectives
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  Speaker 2: because we all have different marriages or different divorces and
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  Speaker 2: things like that. So it's really a great time, and
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  Speaker 2: you come on, you get to go to a theater
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  Speaker 2: and you have cocktails.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go right, It's a beautiful space, I mean perfect
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  Speaker 1: for this. Like you said, you grab a cocktail, come
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  Speaker 1: sit with your friends. By the time you leave, you're
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  Speaker 1: just buzzing from all the laughing.
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  Speaker 2: Oh thank you. Yeah, you might peel little, you might
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  Speaker 2: laugh so organized. I don't know if I can say
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  Speaker 2: that on your television, but you can't say we're we
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  Speaker 2: are close to four hundred tickets sold. Let's get there,
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  Speaker 2: let's have a good time. And yes, I know it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be it's gonna be too cool on Saturday to
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  Speaker 2: go out, it's gonna be like sea or on Friday
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  Speaker 2: to go out, it's gonna be like sixty degrees. Go inside,
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  Speaker 2: grab a swetter, come inside the jickson.
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  Speaker 1: Let's have them get out and left. Stand up comedy
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  Speaker 1: is such a special, special thing, and to have it
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  Speaker 1: in our area into this level, you know, a performer,
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  Speaker 1: And I got to ask, what, how did you you know,
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  Speaker 1: get this this collective group of comedians to you know,
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  Speaker 1: to be part of Bad Moms.
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  Speaker 2: That's such a good question. So I had to do
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  Speaker 2: a lot of research. I had to find out where
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  Speaker 2: all these amazing women were, and because they don't get
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  Speaker 2: on stage as much as men do, I really had
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  Speaker 2: to dig. And these women, I'm telling you, I do
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  Speaker 2: not understand why not each and every one of them
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  Speaker 2: are not famous and have their own Netflix special. They
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  Speaker 2: are incredible comics and they're so fun to work with.
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  Speaker 2: See Leslie Mitchell, who's from Iowa, who is exploding. She's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: I mean not exploding, like she's tiny and little, but
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  Speaker 2: she's like a firecracker. She's awesome, and I mean exploding
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  Speaker 2: meeting her career, not herself. She's with me. And then
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  Speaker 2: Mo Good just finished her hour special at Daney's. She's fabulous.
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  Speaker 2: Leslie Porter's been traveling in the country with us. She's
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  Speaker 2: awesome and I'm not too bad and good. Yeah, my
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  Speaker 2: own there.
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  Speaker 1: You got to you got to toot your own horn
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, you know, especially just as well as
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  Speaker 1: have you been doing. And I got to ask what
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  Speaker 1: first pushed you into comedy in the first place. Did
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  Speaker 1: you always know this was going to be your path?
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  Speaker 2: No, it was not on my radar, dude, not at all,
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  Speaker 2: not even close. Do you have kids?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we got a little Army.
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  Speaker 2: How old are they?
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  Speaker 1: They ranged from twelve to twenty three.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, twelve to twenty three. So you know, when that
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  Speaker 2: twelve year old becomes a teenager, suddenly no one's going
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  Speaker 2: to need you anymore in that house, all right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: And so I realized when my kids became teenagers and like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I have more time for myself. This mirred. When's the
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  Speaker 2: last time I said that? It's been eighteen years or
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  Speaker 2: seventeen years. I happened to go to a comedy club
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  Speaker 2: called the Lincoln Lodge in Chicago. It's super fun, and
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  Speaker 2: I saw a sign that said do you want to
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  Speaker 2: take a stand up comedy? I'm like, oh, sure, we're good,
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  Speaker 2: and then I went and I fell in love with it.
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  Speaker 2: And because my background is a journalist and doing public relations,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, there's a lot of low hanging
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  Speaker 2: fruit here. We have a really good time with this,
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  Speaker 2: and so I just did it and I've been I
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  Speaker 2: have over eighty women a master around the country that
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  Speaker 2: are fabulous and funny, and we use them for different
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  Speaker 2: shows so every time. So if we come back to
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  Speaker 2: Dixon next year, you'll have a totally different lineup of moms,
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  Speaker 2: which is awesome women.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. That's got to be a regular thing.
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  Speaker 1: To have you come back each time and to bring
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  Speaker 1: a fresh lineup, that would be fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: Oh please, you dare me.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go.
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  Speaker 2: I'll take that challenge. Let's have a good time, and
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  Speaker 2: we're going to stay in this cute little farmhouse right
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  Speaker 2: outside of Dixon. So the five of us city girls
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  Speaker 2: are gonna be caared.
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  Speaker 1: At night.
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  Speaker 2: There's no light.
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  Speaker 1: Crazy, Just tell the children of a corn a couple
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  Speaker 1: good jokes. You'll, they'll, they'll, they'll go back, smile, and
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  Speaker 1: no sacrifices.
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  Speaker 2: See, it's funny in Chicago. You know, you smell skunk
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  Speaker 2: all the time, but it's because weed is legal and so,
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  Speaker 2: but I think there the skunk is real.
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  Speaker 1: You've hit something with your car? You haven't. You haven't.
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  Speaker 1: You haven't performed a vehicular violation? Are Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Thanks thanks for setting that up for me to do tonight.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I absolutely love the fact that you were
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  Speaker 1: a journalist transitioning into this space. I'm a former journalist
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  Speaker 1: and I know the I and I can appreciate the
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  Speaker 1: scope of view that you have on life. So the
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  Speaker 1: fact that I'm sure this has to in some way
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  Speaker 1: maybe I'm being presumptuous, feeds into the filter of your
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  Speaker 1: comedy just excites me all the more.
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  Speaker 2: That's so funny, because you know, we have to have
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  Speaker 2: a big filter in journalism. You just have to deliver
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  Speaker 2: the facts. Yeah, and so I definitely use humor behind
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  Speaker 2: the scenes to get myself through some really you know,
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  Speaker 2: you don't it's sent to the best stories all the time,
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  Speaker 2: and so you know, you have to think about your
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  Speaker 2: humanity and your humor and all of that. And I
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  Speaker 2: really love journalism. I love what I did. I love
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  Speaker 2: the friends that I made in it. And then I
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  Speaker 2: went into public relations, which is what the journalists called
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  Speaker 2: going to the dark side. So I got up at
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  Speaker 2: nine o'clock in the morning instead of to be a journalist.
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  Speaker 2: But then this, this just fills my heart and my
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  Speaker 2: soul and making people laugh, bringing people together. It is
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  Speaker 2: just and it sounds so Pollyanna, but I when I
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  Speaker 2: know people come in and they're like, oh, I have
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  Speaker 2: said a day, Did I really want to calm here?
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  Speaker 2: Do they really want to put a bra on for this?
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  Speaker 2: And then they leave and they're so invigorated because you're
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  Speaker 2: filled with all the laughing and doorphins, and they're just like,
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  Speaker 2: I needed this so bad. I'm like, I know, that's
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  Speaker 2: why we're here.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, yeah, that's the way it is. Every time, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a crowd leaves a comedy shows, you can tell everybody
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  Speaker 1: they look charged.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes they leave a little dispoyant.
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  Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean not from it. Not for me
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  Speaker 1: to say I'm not a professional, but yeah, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: No, oh no no, not our show. Oh let me
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  Speaker 2: let me be very clear about that. No one leaves
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  Speaker 2: our show disappointed. People leave other comedy it's disappointed. They're like,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't think that was going to be that way,
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  Speaker 2: But ours, it's it's just just coming, just coming, and
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  Speaker 2: just do it. I don't want to give too much away.
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  Speaker 2: These women are incredible. They're so funny. I am laughing
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  Speaker 2: backstage and I have heard some of these jokes seven
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  Speaker 2: eight times and it is just it is just hysterical.
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  Speaker 2: Let's have fun.
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  Speaker 1: Let's on Nixon, let's go, let's go Dixon. Tickets are
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  Speaker 1: still available, you know, when's the uh is there a
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  Speaker 1: cutoff for when they can get tickets? Do you know?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? I think you can play them at the door.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to say you.
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  Speaker 2: Say that with a big old questioner at the end,
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  Speaker 2: like one of those big miler balloon question marks. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know because I'm not in charge of that. Spencer
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  Speaker 2: is and he's awesome. I would call the theater or
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  Speaker 2: I would go online and get your tickets now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would just do it now, Like.
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  Speaker 2: No, I just want to pay cash. Just call them.
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  Speaker 2: I think you can again my large question mark.
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  Speaker 1: Nope, going over to the Dixon Theater website. You can
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  Speaker 1: get that information there. You'll be able to secure the
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  Speaker 1: tickets well that way as well. What time is the show?
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  Speaker 1: I know we might have said up, but I want
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  Speaker 1: to make sure we cover it again.
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  Speaker 2: So folks, no, because you need to do you have
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  Speaker 2: time to get home, chill, maybe go out to dinner,
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  Speaker 2: grab your girls and your dudes and just pack those
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  Speaker 2: seats and then have and then just get there early
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  Speaker 2: because this is this is the lesson I have learned
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  Speaker 2: at my shows. If you didn't I get there early,
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  Speaker 2: the line at the bar is insane. You how to
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  Speaker 2: start the show like fifteen minutes late. So many times
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  Speaker 2: because they're like, uh, we did not expect as many
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  Speaker 2: people to have cocktails. I'm like, yeah, it's a bad
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  Speaker 2: mom show. They've had a week. Let's let's go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, me and my wife only get away
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  Speaker 1: with with coming a not so early because she sends
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  Speaker 1: me to the drink line. Oh but you are absolutely
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  Speaker 1: you are an absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Good man, and you go without complaints.
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  Speaker 1: I go without complaint. I absolutely do happy wife, happy life.
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  Speaker 2: So no, it's just give her the minute. She has
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  Speaker 2: been serving all week, hasn't she She has having dinner
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  Speaker 2: all week, He's been doing the lunches all week. She
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  Speaker 2: deserves one night of you getting a cocktail. Totally fine.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, you know what, I think you need to
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  Speaker 2: make that a reg Monday through Sunday. Just let her
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  Speaker 2: sit down, bring your a cocktail on the couch.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. I'm going to tell her it's an
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  Speaker 1: order from orally or really anything else you wanted to
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  Speaker 1: share about the performance or your comedy in general. Where
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  Speaker 1: can folks follow you?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, please follow us. Oh on all the socials,
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  Speaker 2: because that's where all the bookers look. It's bad Moms,
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  Speaker 2: B A, D, M O, M Z of comedy and
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  Speaker 2: we're on everything Bad Momsocomedy dot com, on Instagram, Facebook,
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  Speaker 2: all of it. Bad Moms with the Z of comedy
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  Speaker 2: for bad.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, go out follow them better yet, get
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  Speaker 1: your tickets, come out and have a laugh with us. Orly,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming on the show and
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  Speaker 1: for coming to Dixon and bringing laughter. I absolutely love
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  Speaker 1: what you do and I couldn't be more appreciative that
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  Speaker 1: we're getting more stand up in this area.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I hope you get a nap on Friday, and
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  Speaker 2: then you get to come to the show and you
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  Speaker 2: come say hi to me, because I only know you
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  Speaker 2: by your voice, so you come say hi too, and
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  Speaker 2: everybody else who heard us this morning on the radio,
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  Speaker 2: come say hi, because we're gonna be h outside staying
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  Speaker 2: hello after the show. And then to just be like
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  Speaker 2: I heard you on the radio. Absolutely, you have to
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  Speaker 2: stay with that voice. Of course too.
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  Speaker 1: I'll the radio. I don't know I got quite as
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  Speaker 1: close as to you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. All right, we're excited to have some fun.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, I'm gonna go. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, Orley, We'll see you tomorrow night.