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Lara Ricote: Mitchell and Webb Eat Sandwiches, Alone in Miami, Bridge Bins & Clown Invasion — TalkBox | Ep. 38 · Rich Fulcher's TalkBox

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  Hello, It's me, Rich Vulture. Welcome to Rich Vultures talk
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  Box. My guest today is Laura Ricotta.
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  She is a wonderful comic. She's also a writer, and you
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  probably seen her on Mitchell and Webb's new sketch show and a
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  lot of other things live at the Apollo.
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  We sit down and we talk. She sits right there and
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  literally she just left. Come back.
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  That's a little joke. But listen, sit back, relax and
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  watch and don't forget, like and subscribe right below because
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  that way we can provide you with more fun things to do throughout
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  the year. Bye.
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  Hello, London. Hey, you sleeping?
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  Oh hey, no, I was like sleeping with my.
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  Eyes. Oh, hi.
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  Hi, how are you? Thank.
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  You for having me no problem. Have a seat.
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  I said no problem for no reason. You.
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  That was unnecessary, no? Problem unnecessary, but I
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  caught myself so that nobody knew something I didn't.
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  OK, why did you hide the water? I just hit a water.
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  Because it's plastic water bottle.
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  Oh, OK. I thought it was like product
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  placement you think? That I mean, I don't know about
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  this sourcey. Oh, sorry.
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  Oh, sorry, sorry. You've met Kenny.
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  Just now in the back over here. He's great.
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  Yeah. And you talk as well, Kenny,
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  during it went on the lamps then.
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  OK. And you're not allowed.
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  You're not. Just then he wasn't allowed.
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  Now you can talk. OK, OK, great.
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  Yeah, yeah. And, and you get to know when
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  you're allowed and when you're not allowed by something like a
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  sign. Oh, it's a wig.
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  And it's not just a wig. That's the Kenny wig I.
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  Understand. I normally, I'm going to tell
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  you this confess, I research my guests.
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  No, I have researched you a little, but I probably know less
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  about you than most of my guests.
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  Nice. Is that good about?
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  You a little bit as well. I have to say I read your entire
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  Wikipedia. Page OK.
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  I think you must. A little bit, yeah.
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  A. Little bit.
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  So you are living in London and you were born?
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  Yes, I'm I'm here for the long haul.
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  My wife's British. I'm living here.
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  And And you love it here. Yeah.
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  OK, yeah, it's cold today though.
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  Yeah, I don't like that. No.
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  But also it's kind of whatever that part.
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  No. Yeah.
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  Do you feel like you you think about it all the time or do you
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  you forget you think about it all the time?
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  Yeah, I forget. I forget I go.
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  Yeah. I mean that part of the it's
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  like the baseline is like the weather is.
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  Bad. It's okay though.
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  It's okay. You get used to it.
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  Yeah. Are you used?
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  Were you born in a warm climate? I was born in Miami, FL.
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  Oh, OK. Wow.
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  Imagine that. Yeah, so.
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  But my family lived in Mexico, so we I didn't live in Miami for
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  the beginning. Like for whatever.
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  I lived between Mexico and Miami for most of my life.
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  And then at some point it was like full Miami and then I
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  stayed in Miami. OK, so then what?
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  Age were you when you stayed in Miami?
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  13. Oh, that's a good age.
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  Thank you. Well, no, It's like the years
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  where you're just growing up. Yeah.
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  Yeah, it was the last time that I went to Mexico and then, yeah,
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  but we did like, so I went to maybe 5 different schools before
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  I was 13. My dad was in the Air Force, so
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  we moved around to different schools.
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  What? Was that like?
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  Yeah, well, sometimes you make friends, like say in the 1st
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  grade and then in the 5th grade you'd need them again because
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  you're in a different base. Yeah, like in Arizona or
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  something. Wow.
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  Yeah. An Air Force, what do you do?
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  Fly. Really.
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  No, no, you just stay on the base.
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  So what? But what?
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  It was his. Job bowling.
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  Oh, my dad. He did lots of stuff on the
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  base. One time he was a commander of
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  the base. Yeah.
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  And. What does it mean?
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  Wow, you're really throwing me with all these Air Force
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  questions. No, he just makes sure that the
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  base is running properly and you know.
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  And everybody sleeps on the base, no?
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  Everybody sleeps on the base and my dad would go go to sleep.
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  Are you asleep? Yet and wake up and wake up.
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  In the morning, Ding, Ding, Ding, really bang a pot.
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  Yeah, like camp. Yeah, but it's Air Force.
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  Yes, but it's sort of that was his job that one time, but then
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  he had other jobs too. Yeah, Yeah.
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  But he was a pilot, yeah. That's cool.
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  Did you ever want to be a pilot? I did, and then I, I didn't.
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  Yeah, I think he was a little disappointed.
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  Yeah. So.
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  Are you named Richard Junior? No, OK, no, I'm.
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  Not that's it. That's my last question.
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  The stress, The stress. Now I know what it's like to be
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  a guest. Welcome.
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  Oh my God, I put you guys through the ringer.
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  So when you were in Miami and you're 13, you were living
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  alone. Yeah, that was my own pad and it
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  felt amazing. I could do anything I wanted.
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  Oh yeah. And in Miami, it's like
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  everyone's Latin American, so you so you get to like have your
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  own apartment with Latin American people all around you.
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  Really. Oh yeah.
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  You know what's weird? Yeah, is.
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  I've been to every state in the US.
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  Except. Except Alaska.
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  And Florida. Wow.
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  Yeah, isn't. That weird.
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  It's like a a moral decision you.
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  Want. No, no, it just so happened,
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  right? I mean, you'd think I'd go to
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  Florida. Yeah, for interest reasons,
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  yeah. And Alaska maybe also could you
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  go what's going on over there? What's?
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  Happening. Also, that's the US and it's
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  like that, yeah. It's different.
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  Yeah, well, I'm gonna go to both of those places.
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  OK, OK. OK.
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  All right. OK, sure, sure.
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  But when that's what I'm gonna ask you, What's Florida like?
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  I think. It's like it's all different,
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  like the it's very long that you've heard about.
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  And I think that the top is very different from the bottom.
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  And I think Miami is like now I'm being for the first time,
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  you catch me in the first time in my life where I have kind
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  eyes towards Miami. I just went back now and I was
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  like, it's not bad. I mean, it's bad in a million
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  ways, but I used to just like feel only negatively towards.
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  But it's high tech now. Miami's gotten high tech.
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  And it's like something like you, you forget about, it's
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  completely different than other places because like, I mean,
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  just the fact that it's summer all the time, I think it's like
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  fucked up. And like, am I allowed to curse
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  on this podcast? Yeah, Kenny, Yeah.
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  OK, I think it's fucked up the way that it's summer the whole
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  time. We can only say. 5 bucks OK so.
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  We've already and I said 1, so that's.
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  Three. OK, OK.
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  So I think it's fucked up that it's summer.
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  We've got one more. God damn it, can I say that OK?
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  That's not bad because that's about God.
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  Yeah, yeah. So it's effed up that it's
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  summer the whole time because you just, you get disconnected
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  from like from like change. Yeah, Yeah.
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  And change is good. It's an essential part of being
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  alive. You need to have seasons.
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  You need to have seasons and you need to age.
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  You need to age, you need to be allowed to age.
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  And in Miami, no one's allowed to age.
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  So everybody's stiff and also like hot.
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  But then at some point it gets like scary and then everyone
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  thin but also like, also like big and like their tits.
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  Yeah, they. Get surgery.
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  And they get surgery and they got big butts and everybody's
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  like. Well, I was in Los Angeles, the
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  same thing. Right.
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  Yeah, you can't age over there. You can't age over there, but
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  it's like Miami. It's like you can go to the
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  beach every day of the year, every single day.
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  LA, you can't. You got to stop at some point
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  'cause it gets cold a little bit.
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  Yeah, that's true. January.
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  February. January, February, for example,
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  one of the cold months. But in Miami, it's just like
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  it's just a little bit more. So are you a beach person?
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  Yeah, Yeah. Do you have to go to the beach
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  every year? Yeah.
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  Yeah, but I think it's awesome at the beach.
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  Yeah, it's great. You a beach person?
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  Yes, well, I mean, but I, I if I don't go one year, I'll I'm not
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  gonna cry. Right, right, right.
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  Yeah. I'm not gonna cry.
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  Yeah, but I'll be like, oh, I wish I wanted this year.
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  You'll have a fit I'm. A small fit, some sort of fit.
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  Yeah. I mean, it's good there.
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  And you just get to lay down and read a book.
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  Play paddleball. So growing up in Miami, you had
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  this relaxed sort of lifestyle. I wouldn't say it was relaxed
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  like per se. I think it was stressful to live
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  in Miami. I think it's like a stressful
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  place to be a child. I wouldn't recommend it.
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  When did you get the the sort of comedy bug or performing?
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  When I moved to Amsterdam, because I moved to Amsterdam
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  eight years ago, OK, maybe 9 now I moved.
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  My Amsterdam from Miami. Because my dad had had a
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  girlfriend who when my parents are together, I swear.
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  Yeah, but they, my dad did have a girlfriend before from when he
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  was 21 to when he was 25, who was the Dutch lady who
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  everything that my dad did that was like, that is an awesome
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  thing to watch your dad do in terms of like, for example,
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  running up the bridge and then there's a garbage truck and the
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  garbage has fallen in the middle of the of the bridge.
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  So all the cars are like moving around the garbage.
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  Like did I say garbage? What are you talking about?
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  Yeah. Totally.
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  How did you get to a garbage truck?
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  I I wasn't following you. OK, Yeah.
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  So there's a garbage truck on a bridge, right?
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  I'm also on the bridge with my dad.
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  Oh, OK, we're. Running.
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  No, we're running on the side where there's sort of like a
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  pavement part that is little, not too little.
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  Maybe four people can walk next to each other like this.
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  OK, there's there's these cars going a garbage truck let's a
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  garbage bin. Let's say it fall onto the
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  bridge. Yeah.
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  And all the cars are going around like there's traffic now
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  on the bridge because of this bin that's in the middle.
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  My dad goes into the bridge, get the bin, moves it.
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  All the traffic is now. Free.
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  He's a hero. He's a hero.
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  I know, dad. That was awesome.
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  Say to him, I really like that you did that.
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  I love it. That's my dad.
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  I'm proud of you, he says. I learned that from Patricia,
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  this Dutch woman who I have many different examples, yes, of
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  things that for example, she one time was in Venezuela.
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  Every story has another story behind it.
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  You have to be careful. What?
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  You're all interconnected. Like, like being alive.
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  Yeah. So in one time they were in
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  Venezuela, where my dad is from, and there was a big rock that
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  fell in the middle of the highway and all the cars were
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  moving around. And my dad's like being in the
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  car. He's maybe 22.
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  Everybody's in traffic. And Patricia gets out of the car
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  and she starts just trying to move the rock by herself.
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  Obviously, she's a woman. Everybody gets out of the car in
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  a minute, and the rock is moved in a second.
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  And that's. How they became boyfriend and
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  girlfriend really. No, they were in the car
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  together. So they were in the car together
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  because they were already together.
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  But my dad saw her do that and that gave him a lesson, which he
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  then gave me a lesson and I thought, wow.
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  Pay it forward. Pay it forward, socially
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  responsible. Think of the other, maybe a
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  small nuisance for a big reward for the people.
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  If this podcast ended right now, that would be a good lesson.
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  Kenny cut it. Cut it, Kenny.
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  Yeah, cut it. Kenny, cut it.
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  I'm serious. Cut it.
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  Cut it. Cut the cord.
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  Cut the cord, Kenny, There's no more podcast happening in this
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  room. You went to Amsterdam with your
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  dad and his former girlfriend. No, these are all stories from
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  the past. Oh.
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  You went right to the bridge. From the bridge, I said, oh,
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  here's an idea. Light bulb moment.
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  Light bulb moment. Oh, de comedy.
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  I'm going to move to Amsterdam. And then once I was in
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  Amsterdam, then the light bulb moment of comedy happened.
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  What sort of comedies in Amsterdam?
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  Not that I there isn't any, right?
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  There is. Yeah.
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  There is, you know, boom. Chicago.
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  Yeah. OK, so then you know what sort
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  of comedy? Yeah.
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  Yeah. There is a big improv theatre
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  there. Because I was in Chicago and
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  then when that got started, they would they do that and they'd
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  come to Chicago and go. Who wants to do it?
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  And then and you didn't? I I didn't, I should have.
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  Really. What do you think about that?
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  It's a lesson learned. I should have gone, damn it.
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  Shit, I wonder how it was back then, because back then I think
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  it was more fun. I think it's fun now, but I
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  think it's hard. Well, it becomes more of a
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  system, an organisation, yeah. Right.
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  Yeah, they probably run it like clockwork.
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  They run it like clockwork. We're like a business.
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  Yeah, it's a business. Yeah, Yeah.
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  And like the improvisers come in and out and like and like they
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  all live, like together and they all, like, do stuff to like.
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  They perform together every night.
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  Didn't have to. Or what if he didn't want to do
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  anything with the group? I think you have.
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  To OK. Yeah, I mean extracurricular
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  activities, I guess you don't have to do those.
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  I don't know but but you definitely.
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  Didn't go for drinks last night. I didn't.
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  I Yeah. Oh, I didn't understand.
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  You have a. Boyfriend outside of the group.
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  I'm sorry you're out. You're out of this.
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  Yeah, I thought you were talking to me and I replied.
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  I didn't. No, so you so you saw a show?
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  No, there. No, you didn't even see.
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  A show. I didn't even see a show.
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  I went there. I went to study politic.
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  Politician, I was about to say, but I didn't study a politician
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  started. I'm talking like crazy.
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  I went to study politics, political theory, and then I was
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  like very serious I. I studied politics too.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  Wow. Yeah.
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  Did you like it? Yeah, I still like.
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  It I still like it. Yeah.
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  But. Comedy's different.
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  It's. Different.
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  Yeah, yeah. It's just different.
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  It's just different. That's gonna be a T-shirt.
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  Yeah, it's just different. And I, I was doing that and then
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  my little sister came. My little sister was into comedy
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  when she was 1617, already doing improv stuff.
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  She's kind of like, intense about like she.
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  Prods you to do. It she went to Amsterdam for one
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  month. She was like, I have to go to
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  improv. I was like, OK, OK, OK, OK.
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  It's the thing I got to do it. You got to go with me.
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  Yes, and I went and I went. Oh well, never had this much fun
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  before. Not once.
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  So I'm about to do this more. It was 5 minute bike ride from
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  my house every Sunday. At 12 started going then
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  actually. First, you weren't into it,
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  right? You got to go.
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  Oh. Immediately I said yes, please,
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  all the time. Yes, and.
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  And can I come again, please? Yes.
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  For example, so you got more into it than your sister.
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  Well, she kept doing it, but she lived in Mexico City, so it was
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  different like the I guess like I had like London.
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  Well I didn't even really I just started doing stand up because I
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  air like I used to like let my room and sleep in my roommates
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  room because my room was bigger and we could rent lend it, let
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  it out for like 2 people at a time on the weekend.
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  Yeah, to make money back so that we would not be poor.
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  So you Airbnb to nice and did you have a camera there to see
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  who was in there? OK.
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  But one time we should have had a camera because a group of
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  people came and we thought they were two and then we came into
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  the room because there was a lot of noise and maybe 7 people.
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  That's too many and they were all smoking weed.
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  Imagine. Yeah, in my house, this is what
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  I think about weed. Did you say something to them?
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  Get out. I said, guys, this isn't right.
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  This is not what you. Said you're right.
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  Sorry. Kind of.
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  And then I was like, you have to go now because you did this.
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  I'm 22 at this point. I'm going you got.
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  To go right I'm. Not going to be like I'm zero,
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  I'm not going to do that. But that's interesting you would
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  rent it out just for the weekend.
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  Uh huh. Because the Amsterdam's really
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  People loved it, that city. People want to go there all the
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  time. Because I know some places now
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  are trying to crack down on Airbnb.
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  They. Should it's bad?
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  Yeah. You shouldn't do that.
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  And it was really what I'm doing.
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  Yeah, but one time a group of American guys came.
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  When I say a group, I actually meant 2.
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  They were brothers and they stayed in the house.
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  The Cray brothers. Honestly, I can't remember their
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  last name. They might have been the Cray
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  brothers. So they come and they stay at my
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  house and then we hang out with them and they tell me you should
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  do stand up comedy. I said I don't know about stand
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  up comedy. They give me the book
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  Caddyshack. They're like, you got to read
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  this book. I didn't read it.
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  The book. Yeah, they give me the book
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  Caddyshack. That's the movie.
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  Yeah, they gave me the book. It's read.
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  And they gave me a, a hard copy book of Caddyshack and they said
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  we're about to do a Euro trip. When we come back, you should do
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  stand up and we'll come back and we'll stay in your house.
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  And then November 18th, you do stand up and I.
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  Say that just so they could stay back at your place.
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  I don't know, they never came back, but I did stand up and it
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  changed my life. It did.
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  I keep doing it the whole time. Where did you do it first?
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  At a place called the Mesrab in Amsterdam, where I ended up like
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  working for a long time and it was like a really special place
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  where I filmed my my shows and stuff.
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  And what was the what was your experience like?
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  It was very fun actually. I told stories about my family.
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  I just cut my hair really short when I went to India and I cut
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  my hair really short. Whatever.
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  Kind of almost, but with bangs, buzz cut with bangs.
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  It looked really bad. It looked really bad.
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  And I did that for a while. I think that helped me because I
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  would be like, I was like, I don't know who I am.
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  You know, you do something completely radical and then you
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  go, if I could do anything, I guess, because who's this?
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  Girl, once I've done this. Well, I look like a person I
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  never met before so. So you felt protected, almost
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  like you have a mask on. Yeah, almost.
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  But more than a mask, like, like I was sort of like BLOB, like,
• 19:29
  like something else. Like I was something else.
• 19:32
  Like I wasn't. So like this is how I felt.
• 19:36
  Yeah, maybe that was your pre stand up, you know, mask or
• 19:41
  BLOB, what they protect you from the audience.
• 19:44
  What, protect you from the idea that you have about yourself
• 19:47
  that don't let you do stuff? Yeah, I think, yeah.
• 19:50
  So then I was BLOB. And so it was like, fine, say
• 19:53
  whatever. Who even knows who this girl is?
• 19:55
  Not me, Right. And then I didn't know.
• 19:57
  I don't know. Yeah, she can do that.
• 19:59
  She can say that, no problem. I don't even know her.
• 20:01
  So it's funny, I ask us about their first gig and invariably a
• 20:06
  lot of them say it was a good experience, right.
• 20:10
  But their second gig, they are expect that, you know, their
• 20:14
  level of expectation is this is going to be the same excitement
• 20:19
  and then it it always goes a little bit down.
• 20:22
  Was your second one. My second one was kind of OK.
• 20:27
  Oh, OK. Only because I have to say, only
• 20:32
  because I started a comedy night that was like a like a
• 20:36
  university comedy night, like the second time already because
• 20:41
  my. You've got balls.
• 20:42
  Well, I was like, this is what I'm going to do.
• 20:46
  So and there was a guy that on that night that was like kind
• 20:48
  of, it wasn't just me by myself. It was a guy on that night that
• 20:50
  was like, I want, I'm thinking about this.
• 20:52
  And I was like, Yep, let's do it.
• 20:53
  And then so like the next time I did, it was in this night that
• 20:56
  we had started and it was like 100 people that hadn't paid any
• 20:58
  money that were all students and like we were all new and like it
• 21:01
  was just really fun. Yeah.
• 21:02
  So. You had to book a guest and get
• 21:05
  it all together. Yeah.
• 21:07
  But then that like inserted me in the scene really fast.
• 21:09
  And the scene was like this. There were three women and I was
• 21:11
  one of them. So I gigged a lot.
• 21:13
  A lot, a lot. And like, I did 15 minutes my
• 21:16
  third time, you know, like, bad. Really.
• 21:18
  Yeah. I mean, not good.
• 21:19
  It wasn't good, but it was 18. So then I had to write.
• 21:23
  Yeah. How long was your first?
• 21:25
  One exponentially you, you probably the stage time you just
• 21:28
  got better and better and better, yeah.
• 21:30
  Because because you have to have something that like, and it's
• 21:33
  scary when it's bad. It's so it hurts so bad, but.
• 21:36
  In Amsterdam. What would you say?
• 21:39
  I know. Yeah, I hate it.
• 21:42
  I had a really bad one last week, last week, the week before
• 21:45
  last. It sucks so hard.
• 21:47
  But a lot of times it's just the audience not gelling with.
• 21:51
  The audience was so good for me. They couldn't have liked me
• 21:54
  more. I was fucking it up.
• 21:56
  Every time. Yeah, I think it's because I
• 21:59
  made my New Year's resolution. Don't bomb, right?
• 22:02
  I thought. I thought like it would be a
• 22:04
  good idea to say to myself, it's a choice.
• 22:07
  Like you choose, the audience cannot like you, but you choose
• 22:11
  if you're going to suffer or not.
• 22:12
  Yes, that's what I thought. That's the way to do it because
• 22:16
  you're going to do what you're going to do, yes, and you can't
• 22:19
  control their reaction. No, Sir.
• 22:22
  Sort of, but a little. Yeah, a little bit.
• 22:25
  But you just have to. If they don't have the reaction
• 22:30
  you want, you just go. Tomorrow's another day or you
• 22:35
  learn from it. Right, or you go, this is not
• 22:39
  being enjoyable for you. But how do I find while I'm on
• 22:43
  the stage, find the way to make it enjoyable for me?
• 22:46
  Like there's a gear shift. I have experienced it in the
• 22:49
  past, which is why I know that I can do it, especially in my
• 22:53
  hours. Like that's a when, you know,
• 22:54
  like when you start and you suck and you're weird and you're out
• 22:58
  of tune and like you're not like everybody can tell you're
• 23:01
  uncomfortable, you're insecure, it's bad.
• 23:04
  And then you go, oh, what? I'm going to be like this for
• 23:06
  one hour. Everybody came out of their
• 23:08
  house. You've got to have fun.
• 23:10
  You've. Got to have fun so you go, how
• 23:12
  do I make myself have fun? Let me maybe sing a little song
• 23:15
  or something, switch it and just.
• 23:17
  Switch it around, yes. Yeah, make make their like a Now
• 23:22
  the energy is. Because I think about the times
• 23:26
  when it hasn't gone right, it immediately, it just becomes
• 23:31
  this downward spiral when you should be saying, let me turn
• 23:36
  this thing around. Well, I mean, have you ever done
• 23:38
  a clown workshop? Sort of as part of a another
• 23:43
  class, yeah. What?
• 23:46
  Does that mean? This is the politics class.
• 23:51
  Really. No, no, no.
• 23:55
  You know, just like today, we're going to study clown.
• 23:58
  Like different parts of theatre, Yeah.
• 24:01
  So just for like one day. Well, yeah.
• 24:05
  That's OK. Sorry.
• 24:06
  No, don't, don't apologise to me on your podcast, please.
• 24:10
  I'm going to join a clown class. You you might as well.
• 24:14
  That gallier one in France, I'm going to do that.
• 24:18
  Oh my God, that would be funny if you did that.
• 24:20
  That would be interesting. Just left.
• 24:25
  I have to do this podcast. 2 weeks.
• 24:27
  Yeah, family. I'm going away.
• 24:30
  For two weeks to Montpellier. Is that not?
• 24:32
  That's not where it is. It's not that's.
• 24:35
  Not a stamp. A dump.
• 24:37
  A dump? Yeah, that's true.
• 24:39
  So what were you saying about clowns?
• 24:41
  Well, clown, the whole thing is like, check, I do something, you
• 24:46
  take a risk, OK, yeah, do it. And then you check, you go.
• 24:49
  What did everybody feel about that?
• 24:51
  And then they go, or they go, and either way you have to
• 24:55
  change a little bit. But if they don't like it, you
• 24:58
  have to be sensitive. And then you have to just just
• 25:01
  change or drop and change. What do you not?
• 25:05
  What can you not like about a clown?
• 25:07
  Is it like can a clown go too over the top?
• 25:11
  Is this a serious question? Yeah, yes, OK.
• 25:15
  I think that you cannot like that they have a mask on like a
• 25:19
  like a like they're performing and they're not enjoying.
• 25:22
  You know, you can tell when someone's not enjoying
• 25:24
  themselves. OK.
• 25:26
  And you and they're doing a thing and it's like too much and
• 25:28
  you go. It's through to do the motions.
• 25:31
  Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
• 25:32
  And then you don't like it. Yeah.
• 25:33
  If you can sense that somebody's not enjoying themselves, your
• 25:36
  your switch goes. Please don't do that.
• 25:38
  You're rushing. You're juggling too many
• 25:43
  imaginary balls. What do you think?
• 25:46
  Have you been to a clown show? You've been to some
• 25:50
  contemporary. I go to so many clown.
• 25:52
  Shows. Yeah, yeah.
• 25:53
  Who have you gone to? Doctor Brown, OH.
• 25:58
  Yeah, yeah. That's a good one.
• 26:00
  But so you studied clowning and no, you didn't.
• 26:05
  I did it. I did it, but at some point, at
• 26:08
  some point like the I started doing comedy here during the
• 26:11
  pandemic. I signed up for a competition
• 26:14
  and then I got yeah, OK, like an online 10.
• 26:17
  Nice. But like it was like online only
• 26:19
  because it but of the pandemic. Yeah.
• 26:21
  So everybody did their sets online.
• 26:23
  I think the audience is up to speed on the pandemic.
• 26:26
  So during the pandemic, everybody did their sets online
• 26:29
  for about a year. Some guy had sex with a bat and
• 26:34
  never mind. That, and that's all we're going
• 26:36
  to say here. But some, Yeah.
• 26:39
  And he shouldn't have. And that was very bad.
• 26:42
  What happened? So bad kind of pandemic, a lot
• 26:44
  of stuff happened. Yeah.
• 26:46
  And then we just kind of were like, whatever.
• 26:49
  So what was the online competition like called?
• 26:51
  Funny women. OK.
• 26:53
  And then we did it. Did it, did it.
• 26:55
  And then it came to the Bloomsbury Theatre and the
• 26:57
  final. And then I won it.
• 26:59
  And then then I got an agent. Thank you.
• 27:02
  Slow clap. It was awesome because I didn't
• 27:05
  think that I was going to like, I was doing it and I really
• 27:07
  liked it, but I didn't think like, I didn't even really know
• 27:09
  how. Like I lived in Amsterdam.
• 27:11
  I was like, I'll just sign up to this.
• 27:13
  Why you were just doing it? I was just doing it.
• 27:15
  Yeah, it was nice. And then after that happened,
• 27:17
  then it was like, oh, I guess I can do this for a living now.
• 27:19
  Yeah, great. I'll just finish my career and
• 27:23
  like, I'll do my my study and finish that.
• 27:25
  And then like, I'll just do comedy now.
• 27:28
  I did do that and. You moved to London.
• 27:31
  No, I didn't move here at all because my I had an ex-boyfriend
• 27:34
  who moved to the Netherlands to be with me from Argentina when I
• 27:38
  studied abroad in Argentina. And then he we fell in love and
• 27:40
  then he was like, I'm going to move to Amsterdam.
• 27:42
  And I was like, that sounds like the best thing I could ever
• 27:44
  want. So he was your ex, went to visit
• 27:47
  you, you fell in love? No.
• 27:50
  But I really like it when you read tough stuff, you don't like
• 27:54
  it. I really like it 'cause
• 27:55
  everything's off. You were born in Miami.
• 27:59
  You studied clowning in Miami at the beach.
• 28:02
  Your dad was there, his Dutch girlfriend there too.
• 28:04
  She she got a rock, It's big and she brought it to the clown
• 28:08
  workshop. OK, I'm not good with fats.
• 28:10
  No, it's good not to be good with fats.
• 28:13
  I think that's good. You met this guy in Argentina?
• 28:18
  Yeah. Oh, you did.
• 28:19
  Yes, OK, I was over there. I went, I studied abroad 6
• 28:22
  months. But you broke up.
• 28:24
  We broke up. Something happened.
• 28:25
  Something he didn't. Pick up a boulder or something.
• 28:29
  He did not pick up a boulder. Yeah, that's for a certain.
• 28:32
  You went your separate ways. You're in Amsterdam.
• 28:34
  You get this call from him. No e-mail.
• 28:39
  Text, e-mail. I'm coming to Amsterdam, right?
• 28:43
  With my friends, OK? Was he?
• 28:46
  No. Oh, I'm coming then.
• 28:48
  Go on, go on. He said I need a place to crash.
• 28:53
  Can I crash at yours? We're still friends, right?
• 28:56
  Yes. Yeah.
• 28:57
  OK. And then?
• 29:00
  One thing led to another, you go, Oh my God.
• 29:03
  I realised why I went out with this guy.
• 29:05
  He was good. Yeah, he was a good guy.
• 29:07
  And then? Then you became boyfriend and
• 29:11
  girlfriend again. And then he said because you
• 29:16
  just said it because oh, he's going to go away.
• 29:19
  So I can say let's be boyfriend. He goes.
• 29:21
  I'm going to stay here, right? And I go but.
• 29:26
  My sister's here. What are we going to do?
• 29:30
  I have a budding career. Uh huh.
• 29:33
  Yeah. But I said fine, do it.
• 29:36
  What am I going to say? No to love, right?
• 29:38
  What am I not alive so? You're saying I want to be
• 29:41
  accepting? Open.
• 29:43
  Yes, and. And please.
• 29:45
  And so then he got his stuff from Argentina, which was a lot
• 29:50
  of stuff. One whole luggage.
• 29:53
  OK. And then?
• 29:56
  So then he lived with you and you had to kick your sister out.
• 30:00
  You did. Yep, my sister was actually in
• 30:04
  Mexico during this whole story. Damn.
• 30:07
  It you tell me what's wrong with my story, okay, It's a good quiz
• 30:12
  show. It's kind of interesting.
• 30:15
  Yeah, I wonder if people love it or hate it.
• 30:17
  And what about? Write in people.
• 30:19
  Write in people. Yeah, kinda.
• 30:25
  I mean, kinda. And then he ended up living
• 30:27
  there for five years. So I didn't come to London when
• 30:29
  that when that happened, when I was like, oh, I could go there.
• 30:33
  But then I was like, but this guy just moved and I love this
• 30:35
  guy. And we stayed and and then we
• 30:37
  built a relationship and then we broke up in July.
• 30:39
  And then now I was like. This past July, yeah.
• 30:43
  And so now I'm here. So you wanted a clean break from
• 30:45
  Amsterdam? I had been wanting that.
• 30:48
  Yeah. Although it's awesome over
• 30:49
  there. It's really good.
• 30:50
  And the fact that I stayed there for so long made me grow in ways
• 30:53
  that I wouldn't have grown here, probably.
• 30:55
  But like, when people go to. Yeah.
• 30:57
  And I started bringing clowns over because I wanted the scene,
• 30:59
  the alternative scene, to grow because it wasn't.
• 31:01
  So then what I would do is I would bring clowns over.
• 31:03
  I ran this all night. And then they would come and
• 31:05
  they would give a workshop. Yeah, only clowns.
• 31:09
  They would give a workshop, then they would perform and I would
• 31:11
  host them and then they would like do this whole like thing
• 31:13
  where they would do five day like 5 day classes.
• 31:16
  So that I took a lot of them there, but also a lot of people
• 31:19
  from the comedy scene took them and then the the alternative
• 31:21
  scene started like. So you started like invading
• 31:26
  England with clowns, Little by little.
• 31:28
  They're here now. I I started invading the
• 31:31
  Netherlands with them. And we're worried about COVID.
• 31:34
  Look what's going on. There are clowns everywhere.
• 31:37
  Be careful. Get them.
• 31:39
  Out. Be careful.
• 31:40
  They're coming, Yeah. And if people don't watch out,
• 31:44
  they're going to stay. You got to watch out for the
• 31:47
  clowns, yeah. And there's many of them.
• 31:49
  People don't even know how many there are.
• 31:51
  You guys, yes, go to the Penn Theatre.
• 31:54
  And do they procreate these clowns?
• 31:58
  Oh my God. And.
• 32:00
  They make stupid little babies. I'm serious.
• 32:06
  So you are now running a night here, uh.
• 32:11
  Uh, this is all over there, OK. And then I, when I came here, I,
• 32:15
  I said it to my friends, I went, this is your night now.
• 32:17
  And now they are running it and it's still going.
• 32:25
  This is your night, Yeah. And so then when you came to,
• 32:35
  when you came here, you knew people, though.
• 32:37
  I know some people. You didn't just get off the boat
• 32:39
  and go. Hello, London.
• 32:43
  I went what's going on, everybody, because I already
• 32:46
  knew some people. Yeah.
• 32:47
  And they were there when I got. Off, so you hit the ground
• 32:49
  running. It was kind of nice.
• 32:51
  Yeah. Yeah, that part was good, Yeah.
• 32:54
  But also I haven't been here that much because I've like been
• 32:56
  going and going and coming, but now my base is here.
• 32:59
  Now you're really stuck into London.
• 33:02
  I want that which is great. I think it's good here.
• 33:05
  Because I look upon London as one of the best places to do
• 33:09
  stand up. There's so much.
• 33:11
  Going on in the United States of America, who?
• 33:14
  You. Oh, you.
• 33:17
  I started doing sketch and improv.
• 33:20
  Yeah. I I I'm came late to the scene
• 33:23
  of stand. Up and what do you feel about
• 33:24
  stand up? I love it.
• 33:26
  It's hard. I mean it, it's not like an easy
• 33:31
  transition. I thought, oh, I do, you know,
• 33:34
  I'm used to being on stage, but stand up is a whole other beast.
• 33:41
  Yeah. And it's just you.
• 33:44
  That's definitely the truth. One of the things I like though
• 33:47
  is you don't need anything usually unless you're a prop
• 33:50
  comic. Sometimes I do have a prop.
• 33:52
  OK, Kenny, let's cut right now. Cut the cord.
• 33:57
  You didn't tell me she had props.
• 34:00
  Interact. Sometimes I'll have something on
• 34:02
  my back that I'll have during the show and then I'll just
• 34:05
  reveal. That's fun to me.
• 34:07
  Yeah, it's just one. It's fun.
• 34:10
  It's fun. Guess what's in my home?
• 34:14
  And then you give a prize. Sometimes.
• 34:16
  Yeah, OK. That's fine.
• 34:18
  Yeah. Sometimes if I wrote a Riddle or
• 34:20
  something, then if I write a Riddle, then you get a prize if
• 34:22
  you guess it. But also, like, you don't have
• 34:26
  to organise rehearsals. Like, can you do Thursday?
• 34:30
  No Friday? How about next when you just do
• 34:33
  it and it's just you? Yep.
• 34:36
  Yeah, yeah, that part is really cool.
• 34:39
  Yeah. But also that means that there's
• 34:40
  nobody pushing you to do it. So either you do it because you
• 34:43
  want to, or you don't do it at all.
• 34:45
  I know. And then they either don't push
• 34:48
  you and then they expect you. Like sometimes I'll get a call,
• 34:52
  could you do this at this night, blah, blah, blah.
• 34:55
  It's like, oh, I'm not ready. Yeah.
• 34:58
  Yeah, yeah, you're supposed to have 15 minutes for a bunch of
• 35:00
  people. Yeah, those 15 minutes you
• 35:02
  should have been working on for the past 6.
• 35:03
  Months you should have been working on.
• 35:04
  Yeah, Rich. Yeah, Come on.
• 35:06
  Yeah. You have to.
• 35:09
  Yeah, you have to. I know I've I've like not.
• 35:11
  I've been working on an hour now and it feels like every time I
• 35:14
  do 15 I go so much harder to do 15 actually than an hour.
• 35:18
  Like a good 15 for like a because for an hour.
• 35:22
  It's concise. Yeah.
• 35:23
  And also it's like it has to, I don't know, Also sometimes when
• 35:27
  you do like alternative stuff, you get away with not doing sort
• 35:30
  of you, you can be really loose with it if you're like being
• 35:33
  crazy or whatever. And you're more like getting a
• 35:36
  feel for things. And I like that.
• 35:38
  Because you know what? Churchill said.
• 35:40
  What? If I had more time, I would have
• 35:43
  written a shorter letter, right? It's easier to bad things, but
• 35:49
  to really cut them into concise elements.
• 35:52
  Wow. Yeah, that Churchill, huh?
• 35:55
  Huh. Yeah, I mean.
• 35:56
  I don't know what I think about him, but I think that that's
• 35:58
  very good what he said. But I also was thinking the
• 36:01
  other day about brevity and stuff and like how that's the
• 36:03
  thing that we think like is a great, it's a, it's a great
• 36:06
  thing to be able to beat. Who is brevity?
• 36:09
  A woman. OK, she was in the 70s.
• 36:12
  Yeah, she was in the 70s. She's got the big hair and this
• 36:15
  tiny little waist. But brevity is good.
• 36:22
  It is in stand up, yeah. It's in stand up, yeah, but also
• 36:25
  in like as a as a value brevity. I don't know.
• 36:31
  That's how I. Feel as a value.
• 36:32
  Yeah, like that. You like that we should value
• 36:35
  brevity. OK, that's it for the show,
• 36:40
  right? You know what I mean at all or
• 36:43
  not at? All wait give an example.
• 36:45
  So people go, people go. It's better to be concise.
• 36:49
  Yeah. Then it's better than than to
• 36:51
  like, stretch things out for a million years and like, not.
• 36:54
  Oh, like tell the a lot of times that's just telling the truth.
• 36:57
  Yeah. Or being like like exact like
• 37:00
  brevity, like there's like in, isn't there a thing like in
• 37:03
  search of brevity? What is that?
• 37:04
  Yeah. Is it a plan?
• 37:08
  He'll look it up and then it'll go.
• 37:10
  Underneath really fast, it'll go like.
• 37:13
  Yeah, like a ticker tape from the.
• 37:15
  Stocks, but we make it really fast.
• 37:19
  I think that, yeah, there's like the thing about like in if you
• 37:22
  can, like there's a, there's a higher value.
• 37:24
  Like we value brevity higher than we would value with the
• 37:27
  opposite. That would be like the word of.
• 37:30
  That would be the opposite of brevity.
• 37:33
  Link thingy, Eddie. Yeah.
• 37:38
  So if you can't make it to something, don't say, well, I'll
• 37:43
  tell you tomorrow, just say, oh, I can't make it.
• 37:48
  OK, RIP the Band-Aid off. So I actually wonder about this
• 37:53
  and I don't it's like like even saying like, like you get closer
• 37:58
  to something that is realer by saying like than by not doing
• 38:01
  that at all. Right.
• 38:04
  And you are not being there have to be a noun sort of Brev.
• 38:09
  But it's not. You're not being Brev.
• 38:12
  I'm not Brev at all. Yeah, I'm not.
• 38:14
  I'm. I'm extending stuff in order to
• 38:17
  say one thing. I'm saying a bunch of things to
• 38:19
  say that one thing. But I think that it's more
• 38:21
  truthful to say a bunch of things in order to say one thing
• 38:24
  than to just say that one thing and RIP the Band-Aid off with
• 38:26
  that one thing. Do you know?
• 38:27
  What I mean, well, it doesn't always give the whole story.
• 38:30
  Yeah. But a lot of times we think too
• 38:34
  much about what the other persons going to think.
• 38:37
  If you can't make it, you can't make it.
• 38:41
  They don't need to know why. Yeah, Oh, my sister's coming and
• 38:45
  I blah blah blah. Yeah, I guess I do think in this
• 38:48
  particular scenario that you have made.
• 38:51
  I've created this scenario you've.
• 38:52
  Created it and you're right in it.
• 38:53
  Yeah, you are right in. It but there's another scenario
• 38:56
  where. Where you are, where you're
• 38:58
  explaining. For example, with Winston
• 38:59
  Churchill, he's writing a letter and like he, he thinks that it
• 39:02
  would be better if it were shorter.
• 39:05
  So he's like this and he's writing a letter and he thinks
• 39:13
  it's better if it's short. Yeah, because for a while he
• 39:16
  goes on Britain, which was invaded in 12th century.
• 39:21
  I mean, I agree with that. I agree that it's better if it's
• 39:24
  short in his letter. As well.
• 39:25
  Yeah, yeah. You know what?
• 39:26
  Maybe I didn't have something I wanted to say yet.
• 39:28
  Right. Maybe I'm right all the.
• 39:30
  Time back in a year, I was in the really concise that I'll say
• 39:34
  and and it'll be about brevity. Put her down for a year from now
• 39:38
  I think. You're going to say put her
• 39:39
  down? Put her down.
• 39:45
  OK, next. So Speaking of getting an hour,
• 39:49
  yeah, are you thinking are you going to go on tour soon?
• 39:53
  When? Thank you.
• 39:55
  Yes. I'm going on tour, I start in
• 39:58
  March, I start in Melbourne and then I go to Edinburgh.
• 40:01
  You going to the Comedy Festival?
• 40:04
  It's so good. It's so good, huh?
• 40:06
  You went before. I went twice.
• 40:09
  It's awesome. Yeah, it's the best.
• 40:11
  For one, it's just comedy because you go up to Edinburgh,
• 40:17
  you got all this drama. You got drama there.
• 40:20
  You don't want any drama, you. Got people on on sort of ropes.
• 40:24
  Yeah, you got trapeze. Trapeze is what I meant.
• 40:27
  Yeah, yeah. In in Melbourne.
• 40:30
  It's just comedy. Yeah, yeah.
• 40:32
  There may be some other stuff but I never heard about it.
• 40:35
  But I think it's the best for that if that's what you want to
• 40:39
  do and it's in Melbourne. It's nice so.
• 40:43
  You can work stuff out. Yeah, I'm really excited about
• 40:47
  it. I have like I've been writing
• 40:49
  it. I did a work in progress for
• 40:50
  like 6 days in in Edinburgh last year.
• 40:53
  And so now I have, I've probably done like 6 more since then and
• 40:57
  now I have like 11 more and then I'll go to Melbourne.
• 40:59
  So you're going to be ready when you go, you're going to hit the
• 41:02
  ground running. I hope so.
• 41:03
  I mean, I think it will change a little bit in between Melbourne
• 41:06
  and then Edinburgh a little bit. Where are you In the town hall?
• 41:10
  In No, I'm in Acme. So the Wiley Coyote is going to
• 41:15
  be there and you know, in the cartoons he always has Acme
• 41:21
  products. I guess that I don't.
• 41:24
  I guess that I don't. I guess that that's not
• 41:28
  something I can pull up in my brain.
• 41:30
  So and then you do New Zealand. No, I'm gonna, no, I'm not gonna
• 41:34
  do that. I'm only gonna do 2 weeks 'cause
• 41:35
  I have a friend who's getting married, my first friend's
• 41:37
  getting married so then I have to go to her wedding to.
• 41:39
  Your Argentinian ex. Imagine.
• 41:43
  Which is so weird. Yeah, that's fine, I think.
• 41:45
  It's fine. I think people you, you gotta
• 41:47
  he. Wasn't meant for you.
• 41:49
  Guys and whoever you meet, yeah, that's who you meant.
• 41:52
  Exactly, Yeah. So how about that?
• 41:55
  What am I gonna get in the the way?
• 41:56
  Well, does it bother? Have you seen Sleepless in
• 41:59
  Seattle? No.
• 42:01
  Does it bother you when two people don't meet?
• 42:04
  Yes, that are destined to meet. Yes.
• 42:06
  How you've seen that video of the people that are looking down
• 42:08
  at their phone and then they're and they don't hit each other.
• 42:11
  Yeah, because they weren't looking up.
• 42:13
  And then you see what their life could have been like.
• 42:14
  Have you? Ever.
• 42:16
  Does that bother you that. Bothers me man.
• 42:18
  That's why when you're say you're in an airport, because
• 42:22
  that's like people coming from all over.
• 42:25
  You should always look around. I look around a lot.
• 42:28
  At the airport you go, I look. Around me when the, when the.
• 42:31
  Hot dog? No, you're looking at people
• 42:36
  rich. Yeah, you're looking at people,
• 42:37
  right? Oh, yeah, yeah, sorry.
• 42:38
  But also, you can get excited by anything, and I think that's a
• 42:41
  good trait. Yeah.
• 42:43
  When the train is passing, it's going slow, slow, slow, and then
• 42:47
  it's about to start going fast. That's a perfect moment to
• 42:50
  really look. Did you see sliding doors?
• 42:53
  Is it? It's a movie.
• 42:54
  Yeah, with Gwyneth Paltrow, Right.
• 42:57
  Was it Gwyneth Paltrow? Kenny.
• 42:58
  Kenny. Kenny, where are you?
• 43:03
  When we need to, we only ask for like, one thing.
• 43:07
  A podcast? No, it's got Gwyneth Paltrow.
• 43:11
  Yes. So sliding doors is when your
• 43:15
  life can change. Yeah, sliding doors moment.
• 43:20
  I've heard of the concept but I didn't know about the movie.
• 43:23
  Yeah, so you're and then you're going to do Edinburgh.
• 43:26
  And then I'm going to do Auk tour my first time.
• 43:28
  That's so good. By the time you get done by
• 43:32
  September, you are just going to be totally brev.
• 43:39
  I think I might be Brev. Yesterday I did it and I was an
• 43:41
  hour 10, which was not Brev. It was long, but I think it was
• 43:46
  good. Hour 10's not too bad, you can
• 43:49
  shave a little. You can.
• 43:50
  I definitely can shave. Yeah, you have to shave before
• 43:53
  the show. Yeah, I have to shave.
• 43:54
  No, no, no, no, definitely. I have to shave before the show
• 43:57
  because because it can't be an hour 10 in Edinburgh and it
• 44:00
  can't be an hour 10 in Acme. Because there's another act
• 44:03
  right after you. They're going to be going like
• 44:05
  this. They're going.
• 44:10
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 44:12
  So you have to be really careful.
• 44:14
  One time I actually just remembered when I was in
• 44:16
  Australia in Acme, I went and I was doing my show last year or
• 44:21
  the year before, I think it was the year before and there was a
• 44:23
  man standing outside of the of the venue.
• 44:26
  You know what you sound like? What?
• 44:27
  One time at band camp, that's what you sound like?
• 44:31
  Yeah, kind of. Yeah.
• 44:32
  Yeah, Well, one time I was in Australia and Melbourne, I was
• 44:36
  about to do my show and then these, it was maybe 6, 12, OK
• 44:40
  And these, there was a a little cathedral and the bells were
• 44:44
  like really intense. What next door?
• 44:48
  Yes. 612 I'm like what could this mean?
• 44:51
  This isn't a specific hour. I turn to the guy next to me and
• 44:53
  I go, what's this about? This is a guy, regular guy, I
• 44:57
  think I go, what's this about this belt?
• 44:59
  He's. It's your ex from Argentina on
• 45:03
  a. Water to be a Canadian, I go.
• 45:07
  What are you doing here right now?
• 45:10
  You live in the Netherlands. Go back, go back.
• 45:13
  I go and he, and so then he becomes somebody else.
• 45:16
  There's this real guy, OK, other guy.
• 45:18
  He's a guy. And I say to him, what are these
• 45:20
  bells about? And he said he, he's like, and
• 45:24
  I'm like these bells, like I might keep going and he's like
• 45:26
  not answering. And I'm like, have you, 'cause
• 45:29
  it's 612, whatever. I really have to explain.
• 45:30
  By the time he goes, oh, I don't know, I don't know.
• 45:33
  We start chatting and I tell him about to do my show and he goes,
• 45:37
  can I come? And I was like, yeah, of course.
• 45:40
  And he goes, can you leave me a ticket?
• 45:41
  And I was like, sure. At this point I noticed he's not
• 45:44
  wearing shoes. OK.
• 45:47
  And and then I go, Oh well, he's a homeless man and I invited him
• 45:54
  into my show. Right.
• 45:56
  And then it was interesting because I got a little bit like,
• 45:59
  I was a little bit like, I, my shoes are hyper personal.
• 46:04
  Yes, I'm telling a lot of stuff about myself.
• 46:08
  And I mean, I don't really know what I'm going to tell you why
• 46:10
  I'm telling you the story, but I just remembered that I did this
• 46:12
  And he, so he came and he watched the show and then he was
• 46:17
  like, he waited around by my show for like a couple of days,
• 46:20
  but then he didn't anymore. And then it was fine.
• 46:22
  But it was kind of terrifying when I did that.
• 46:24
  And I told the people in the front of the of the building, I
• 46:27
  said, I just invited this man. A homeless guy.
• 46:30
  Yeah, I told them I invited a homeless guy into the show.
• 46:33
  Like I he's going to come in, right and he's not wearing shoes
• 46:36
  and you have to let him in, but just know that he's homeless.
• 46:39
  Sometimes this happens. Yeah, it was.
• 46:42
  Usually the shoes are a telltale.
• 46:45
  Yeah, I would look down. I was looking at the cathedral.
• 46:48
  Always look down when you talk to somebody, yeah.
• 46:52
  OK. But he was also like, I was
• 46:54
  like, oh, this is good. You know, when you're like, this
• 46:56
  is good, but also a little bit like.
• 46:59
  Oh, but you know what? Yeah, this guy sounds like he's
• 47:03
  asked other people because can you leave a ticket?
• 47:06
  Sounds like. He but he was young, Yeah, he
• 47:09
  was young and he was kind of like cool looking.
• 47:11
  I thought he could have been either like a cool man or a
• 47:14
  homeless. Man, I did Adelaide sometimes
• 47:18
  before Melbourne and we befriended this clown and he
• 47:22
  would come to our shows and he would always, he'd smell like
• 47:27
  Patchouli, right? And he was real.
• 47:31
  He just wound up hanging out with us.
• 47:34
  Yeah. And eventually we couldn't.
• 47:38
  Get rid of him. Yeah, yeah.
• 47:40
  But he had a house. I wasn't mean enough to send.
• 47:43
  Me neither. And I'm never going to say that
• 47:46
  I'll come here and I'll be like, I was kind of scared.
• 47:48
  But definitely to him I said thank you for coming, man.
• 47:51
  It was nice that you were here. Yeah, no, he was actually.
• 47:56
  All in all, it was a great experience for you.
• 48:01
  With this man to be with. This guy, yeah.
• 48:03
  Mr Pachuli? Yeah.
• 48:05
  And he was nice, but he was just smelly.
• 48:07
  He was nice. And it's.
• 48:10
  Fun, you know, you get, you get immersed in your own world, you
• 48:14
  go. I got to deal with the clown.
• 48:17
  Yeah. Yeah, you do.
• 48:19
  You say it in a deceptive way. Is that the word in English?
• 48:22
  Deceptive. What Clown.
• 48:24
  No, no, I I didn't mean that. I didn't mean it like.
• 48:27
  Excuse me, perspective. Is it kind of?
• 48:33
  So then you're going to do so how long is this tour going to
• 48:38
  be? 23 dates.
• 48:40
  So you've. It could be more though.
• 48:42
  It could be, yeah, if people want me to do that.
• 48:45
  My rooms are like 100 seaters. So I think that maybe it's
• 48:48
  great. I think it's good.
• 48:50
  I've never done it. You've you've toured.
• 48:53
  What is it? It's perspective, yeah.
• 48:55
  Look down upon. No, no, I don't look down upon
• 48:58
  Cologne. OK, no.
• 49:00
  Now, but you've also done ATV gig since you've been you've
• 49:06
  done loads of TV thanks since you've been here.
• 49:09
  Kinda a little bit. How did that happen?
• 49:11
  That just sort of. Yeah, that just sort of happened
• 49:14
  this last year. I did a good amount of stuff
• 49:16
  with. I did the Sam Campbell series.
• 49:18
  That's going to be really good, I think.
• 49:20
  He's been sitting where you are. He's awesome.
• 49:23
  He's great. Yeah, he's funny and he's smart
• 49:25
  and. He's a clown.
• 49:27
  Yeah, you know that he kind of is.
• 49:28
  Smells like Patchouli. That's why, well, it's not bad.
• 49:34
  You smell like Patchouli. If you're bringing a lot of
• 49:35
  other stuff to the table, it's fine.
• 49:37
  It's. Fine, and what about Michelin
• 49:42
  Webb? Michelin Webb, I did that.
• 49:44
  That was really fun. I wrote on that that.
• 49:45
  Was fun, but you were also in it.
• 49:48
  I was also in it. Did you go?
• 49:50
  I would be good in this. I what?
• 49:53
  When I was writing this picture? Yeah.
• 49:55
  I mean, a couple of them. Yeah.
• 49:57
  They only picked 2 of mine. I think they picked 2 of
• 49:59
  everybody's. Maybe they picked 3 of Stevie
• 50:01
  Martin. She's really good.
• 50:03
  She's great. She's an excellent writer and
• 50:05
  she's an excellent actress. And what were Mitchell and Webb
• 50:08
  in the room with you? Wow.
• 50:11
  They're awesome, they're nice, they're funny.
• 50:13
  They always say bad ideas first so that everybody feels really
• 50:15
  comfortable saying bad ideas. They laugh at everything and
• 50:19
  they and they make everything better.
• 50:20
  What do they like to eat? I think they just ate the
• 50:25
  regular stuff that everybody else was given.
• 50:27
  Are you sure, kind of, Are you sure they didn't put that under
• 50:31
  the table? And then it's like.
• 50:32
  I saw the meat sandwiches a good amount.
• 50:35
  They eat sandwiches. I saw them eat bananas.
• 50:37
  Headline This is going to be in there.
• 50:40
  Look at fat meat sandwiches. Fast, though, really fast at the
• 50:43
  bottom. What's the fun thing to do in a
• 50:47
  podcast that put really fast stuff in the bottom?
• 50:49
  Yeah, Rev Rev Bro, what now? What was it like?
• 50:57
  So how long was that whole process?
• 50:59
  That process was like a year and a half in writers room.
• 51:03
  Like every two weeks we would meet up and then we'd have like
• 51:05
  a four hour writing. Room they go.
• 51:07
  What do you got? Yeah, the producer would say an
• 51:10
  idea and then people would. Start.
• 51:11
  So this guy is ringing a bell and I got to do a shut Nope.
• 51:16
  Somehow that I've heard that before.
• 51:18
  Yeah, we don't like it. I go.
• 51:20
  He's not wearing shoes, but he's cool.
• 51:23
  I'm listening. I'm still listening.
• 51:26
  Yeah, they they really would let you for a while.
• 51:29
  And other people would be in the room too.
• 51:30
  There were other writers, other comics, a lot of like new comics
• 51:33
  were in the room. The people that I'm going to
• 51:34
  write. Down Here's the thing about the
• 51:36
  writers room now is sometimes you got to sell it.
• 51:39
  Uh huh. Because if you don't, even if
• 51:41
  it's a great idea, yes, you know, if you don't, do it with
• 51:45
  energy. Yeah, I know I'm not very good
• 51:47
  at that. I don't think I'm made for those
• 51:49
  things. But I also really, really
• 51:52
  appreciated being in there. But the.
• 51:54
  More you're in it, the more you get.
• 51:57
  Yeah, but also we were all like put together.
• 51:59
  We didn't know each other before.
• 52:02
  Many people from different groups squish in.
• 52:07
  I get it. Yeah, you.
• 52:09
  Understand we? Were all put in together and
• 52:11
  then we were made to talk for the first time about the stuff
• 52:13
  that was funny. So it was like.
• 52:15
  What a great experience, yeah. It was really good and helpful
• 52:20
  and then also we got to like play around after which was
• 52:23
  really fun. And you got to eat with them.
• 52:25
  And I got to eat with them pretty much a lot.
• 52:28
  What sandwich are you eating, David?
• 52:31
  He was funny. Yeah, he's funny.
• 52:33
  And Robert's funny. Robert's funny.
• 52:35
  Robert's like singing songs, very playful.
• 52:38
  OK, now that's annoying, all right?
• 52:43
  Now, this is a portion of the show where it's called fill in
• 52:46
  the blank. OK, Yeah.
• 52:48
  So I read a It's not that funny. I read a sentence with a blank.
• 52:53
  You fill in the blank. You don't have to be funny.
• 52:56
  And this is tailored to you. OK.
• 52:59
  I hate clowns. No, no.
• 53:02
  Why can't I blank anymore? I used.
• 53:08
  To Oh my goodness, why can't I freaking even for what?
• 53:12
  Can it be long? You're just filling in the
• 53:16
  blank, yeah. Why can't I freaking even once
• 53:20
  stand stand around anymore? I used to.
• 53:24
  Yeah. You mean like waste time and
• 53:26
  stuff? Yeah, that's good.
• 53:28
  Thanks. Wow, I can't do that either.
• 53:32
  Blank is the best kind of party. Inside.
• 53:37
  Inside parties because people can sit down and relax, take
• 53:42
  their shoes off. Yeah, if you want.
• 53:44
  Yeah, I love it. But don't go to a show
• 53:46
  afterwards. Don't.
• 53:48
  No, I'm serious. Yeah, you're doing well.
• 53:52
  Thanks, I feel. Really good #3 There's only five
• 53:56
  of them I'm cooking, but I need that special ingredient of blank
• 54:02
  to make it taste great. Tomato paste.
• 54:06
  That helps in everything. Could be.
• 54:08
  Yeah, that's good. You sound like a really good
• 54:12
  cook. Sometimes I can do something
• 54:15
  that's amazing. And would you ever cook for
• 54:18
  Michelin Webb? Yeah, if they wanted that, I
• 54:21
  don't think so. I don't think they want that.
• 54:23
  They might want it. Yeah.
• 54:24
  Maybe Robert and David would like you'd cook for them today.
• 54:29
  I. Guess I would.
• 54:29
  I guess I'd make some sort of like.
• 54:31
  I'd probably put some sort of filo pastry underneath whatever
• 54:34
  I make. OK.
• 54:35
  Just in order to make it delicious.
• 54:37
  And then a little tomato paste, a little you.
• 54:40
  Know so a little tomato paste in the middle and a big amount of
• 54:45
  filo paste in the bottom. There you go.
• 54:47
  There you go. Good luck Mitchell.
• 54:49
  Good luck, Wade. Enjoy it.
• 54:52
  Dig in dig. In.
• 54:55
  Stop singing, Robert. Seriously, you don't like that
• 54:58
  one bit? No, but I mean how can he be
• 55:00
  singing while he's eating? Good.
• 55:02
  I think it's good. In my house they would say
• 55:04
  whoever sings and eats goes crazy.
• 55:06
  There's a song in Spanish and it's like what?
• 55:11
  What? What does that mean?
• 55:12
  You wake up crazy if you sing while you eat.
• 55:15
  Oh OK, you shouldn't sing while you eat.
• 55:18
  Because you wake up nuts. Nutty, if I ever blank I will
• 55:24
  have to leave the room immediately.
• 55:27
  Sing a sing a fart. Yeah, if you sing your own
• 55:31
  farts. Here's the thing about farting.
• 55:35
  Yeah, say it. Say.
• 55:35
  It if there's a loud noise and you fart, you think no one's
• 55:39
  going to smell it. Yep.
• 55:41
  Isn't that true? Yes, you're, it's basically
• 55:44
  you're confusing the senses. So yeah.
• 55:49
  You can also obviously there's a loud noise and you fart.
• 55:53
  You can say anything afterwards and nothing will be taken at
• 55:59
  face value because there's something else going on now and
• 56:02
  there's a smell in the room. If if Churchill farted, nobody
• 56:06
  would care how short his letter is, right?
• 56:09
  Yeah. You're right, yeah.
• 56:11
  It's hard to be right all the time.
• 56:13
  Last question, the best secret I never told anyone was blank.
• 56:21
  That. So maybe it's that, well, maybe
• 56:29
  it that the best secret that I never told anyone was that one
• 56:34
  time that I went at one time, then I found something and I
• 56:40
  something and I found it and I never wanted one.
• 56:42
  And then it felt like I said seek and I didn't want.
• 56:46
  And then everybody went, what? Are you serious?
• 56:49
  And I went, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
• 56:52
  They said, are you going to say that again?
• 56:54
  I said no, I promise I would never say it again.
• 56:56
  And then everybody pulled me. They cord in my arm.
• 56:58
  They grabbed different horses, pulled me in different
• 57:01
  direction. My body never broke.
• 57:06
  Good night everybody. Good.
• 57:07
  Night, everybody. Thank you.
• 57:10
  No, that was great. That was quite you just told
• 57:14
  that now. Wow, I'm glad you got that off
• 57:18
  your chest. OK, now usually what we do now
• 57:24
  is this is your chance to plug because you've already told
• 57:28
  about the store, but you can plug again anything you want to
• 57:32
  plug. Can I please plug two things?
• 57:35
  Yeah. So I would like to plug my work
• 57:37
  in progresses so that people come to that stuff.
• 57:39
  If you thought that's important. Because it's right.
• 57:43
  It's important. Where are you doing?
• 57:45
  That tomorrow I do one, but that's going to be too soon.
• 57:48
  I do next. I have them at the Pleasant.
• 57:50
  I have them at They're all on my Instagram.
• 57:54
  I had a burp. What's your OK?
• 57:57
  OK, well it. Wasn't a loud burp.
• 57:59
  No, no. What's your Instagram handle do
• 58:02
  you make? Full name Lada Ricote.
• 58:05
  Lada Ricote. And then I'm doing at the
• 58:08
  Pleasants. I'm doing one at a little place
• 58:10
  called Excise Malarkey, so that's in Manchester.
• 58:15
  I think I'm doing one in an island called Jersey.
• 58:18
  What is that? I'm going there, Yeah.
• 58:26
  I'm next Friday or something. That's great.
• 58:28
  Yeah, they're paying me to go there.
• 58:30
  Oh, excellent. Yeah.
• 58:31
  For working do it. I mean I am, I never heard about
• 58:34
  this island. Yeah, but go.
• 58:35
  Yeah, I'm go. Yeah.
• 58:36
  Anyway, But if anybody wanted to come to that, that would be
• 58:38
  awesome. I read a mystery book.
• 58:40
  Yes, somebody was murdered on Jersey.
• 58:42
  Island. But it's fictional.
• 58:44
  Yeah, Yeah. Is that what you read a lot of?
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  I'm starting to miss one of those, yeah.
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  You think you're going to write 1?
• 58:52
  Yeah, maybe. Yeah.
• 58:54
  Wow, and who's the protagonist? Coming up.
• 58:57
  Just say the name of the protagonist.
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  An Argentinian guy, yeah. Pretty good.
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  No, I don't. Know.
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  I don't know. It's sort of a a woman.
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  OK, sort of. I haven't worked it out yet.
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  I'm workshopping yet I've. Got the head of a woman and the
• 59:21
  body of an oyster and she walks real nice.
• 59:25
  What if you did a work in progress and it was a book?
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  It's like I'm thinking about kind of a woman.
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  What do you guys think? It's good.
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  Yeah, you could. You just start typing.
• 59:39
  Yeah, you probably should have a scribe.
• 59:41
  Yeah, you're doing a work in progress.
• 59:42
  You can hire a scribe the. Scrivener so.
• 59:48
  Yeah, my work in progress is and also then I think everybody
• 59:51
  should watch make that movie when it comes out in May.
• 59:54
  So keep that in your or whenever it comes out that Sam Campbell
• 59:58
  show. It's a comedy series, but.
• 1:00:00
  Where is it coming? Out Channel 4.
• 1:00:02
  I can't wait to see that I love Sam Campbell.
• 1:00:05
  He wrote something really funny. Yeah, and I'm in it.
• 1:00:08
  Helen Bauer's in it, Aaron Chen's in it.
• 1:00:12
  And David Hargreaves, who maybe you don't know, but a
• 1:00:14
  Shakespearean actor who's 85 and is amazing.
• 1:00:16
  I don't know him, but very sure he's funny.
• 1:00:19
  He's funny. Yeah, it's really good.
• 1:00:21
  Well, anyway that I think everybody should go.
• 1:00:23
  But also just come to my shows. That would be the best thing
• 1:00:25
  that you could do for. Me every show.
• 1:00:27
  Every single one. OK.
• 1:00:29
  Thank you. Thank you, this was fun for.
• 1:00:31
  Me. Yes, it was good.
• 1:00:33
  Let's see it in a year. OK.
• 1:00:35
  See how you progress. I will.
• 1:00:37
  OK, bye. Bye.
• 1:00:40
  Thank you. Wow, that was Brev.
• 1:00:49
  I'm going to watch it again and if you want to feel free to
• 1:00:54
  leave comments and stuff because I do read them and I will answer
• 1:00:59
  them in blood. No, I, I will.
• 1:01:05
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• 1:01:10
  Patreon subscription. So you're welcome to support us
• 1:01:14
  through that and you'll get a lot of special things.
• 1:01:18
  Now here's a a reader, but not a reader listener, Seth Futrall,
• 1:01:27
  who has a question for me which I'm going to answer.
• 1:01:31
  I've always wanted to know how you came to be involved in
• 1:01:33
  Disenchantment. Good question.
• 1:01:36
  I'd also like to hear which character you played as was your
• 1:01:39
  easiest, not too good on the grammar and which was most
• 1:01:44
  difficult? Love everything you do, Rich,
• 1:01:46
  keep it up. I shouldn't have criticised the
• 1:01:48
  grammar because I like your question.
• 1:01:53
  I knew a lot of the people in Disenchantment and you know
• 1:01:56
  what? I knew the showrunner too, who I
• 1:02:01
  worked with, Josh Weinstein, who worked with me and Matt Berry,
• 1:02:06
  because we were trying to push some sort of show to do with
• 1:02:11
  Snuff Box. And my favourite character and
• 1:02:16
  easiest was called Turbish. He was very dumb and he talks
• 1:02:20
  like this. And then probably the hardest
• 1:02:24
  character might be Cloyd, who sounds a bit like William F
• 1:02:28
  Buckley. It's like, aw, how are you
• 1:02:31
  today? I'm just winging it.
• 1:02:38
  Anyway, thanks. I hope that answers your
• 1:02:41
  question and talk to everybody and we'll see you in the new
• 1:02:48
  week. Bye.
• 1:03:05
  Rich vultures talk box.