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The following podcast is a dear media

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production. Welcome

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to the Absolutely Not Podcast, where we do

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the most and the least at the same

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damn time. I'm your host, Heather

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McMahon. Hello

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ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to another

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episode of the Absolutely Not Podcast. I'm

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your host, Heather McMahon. Hope

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you all are doing fantastic. Hope you're having a great week.

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I'm very excited to get into our

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interview today. You know, it's rare

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when I have guests because everyone's insufferable to me,

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but I am so thrilled to

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have an incredible comedian, actress,

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just all around bad ass in the studio

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today. In fact, I was so excited when

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I did this interview that I never recorded

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an intro. So here I am recording an

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intro for the iconic Angela Johnson Reyes. She's

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an actress, a comedian, and I am

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so glad that our paths crossed in

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the comedy world. I've

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been a fan of hers for years and she's a

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new mom. She is a bad bitch,

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just taken over the world in comedy one

1:08

step at a time. And she's got some

1:10

great advice for anybody in business, any women

1:12

in business, and honestly, just breaks down what

1:14

it's like to make it in the biz. You

1:16

know, I always love picking brains and people who

1:19

are far wiser than I am. So

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this is an absolutely yes episode. I am

1:23

thrilled and honored to have. The incredible Angela

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Johnson Reyes, please welcome to the podcast.

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Y'all, I'm here with Angela. Angela, I love

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you. Okay. I really do. I've

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been a fan of yours forever. And then we met

1:37

a couple of years ago at the Netflix as a

1:39

joke festival, like two years ago and I was the

1:41

rookie. I didn't know anybody in the room. And when

1:43

I saw that you were on the roster, I freaked

1:45

the fuck out. No way. You don't

1:47

understand. I've been a fan of yours since Mad TV. I

1:49

adore you. Like, you don't understand. I am such a

1:52

fan and I'm not trying to like, you know, make

1:54

it weird. You are creepy right now. But you were

1:56

so kind to you were so kind when I met

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you and. I

2:00

just love supporting. Grade people in the days

2:02

and so I wouldn't worry about off camera. We're

2:04

just talking about. You. Know the specials of

2:06

at all about our audiences yeah and I as I

2:08

said is your. Audience: Predominately more female.

2:11

And you said yes, yeah, what you're seeing,

2:13

more guys come here says yeah. I'm very

2:15

excited about it because it used to be

2:17

either you know the woman made her husband

2:19

come with her yes or the gay guys

2:21

and that's it. That's all. who would be

2:23

at my show and it was just all

2:25

women to see a woman which I love

2:27

and then now I'm seeing more and more

2:29

men like this. Last weekend I did Comedy

2:31

Club in Oxnard. And that was like

2:34

a lot of men in the audience. Yeah

2:36

and then sometimes I'll get a little nervous

2:38

because I'm like are they not gonna have

2:40

fights? are getting my head like I like

2:42

and enjoy it Or there's gonna be like.

2:44

Below. Whatever it. but then you see them

2:46

and there's like cracking up and having a good

2:48

time as vanilla they are using it in my

2:50

mind about that you were that Okay I know

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that I build the audience with women as we

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obviously speed some a women's point of view. yeah

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that's when under arrest and then I used to

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do that too and I get it and it

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will be so annoying to win and a good

3:03

dm from I'm like I dragged my husband here

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like will do drag them yeah yeah you know

3:07

remain in a mean if you drag race you're

3:09

just being a girl brand and then the guys

3:11

coming they have a great time and I he

3:13

has like idea that these guys are. Like all

3:15

of whom are comedian and then I actually was

3:17

at a show. Do you meet? greet afterwards and

3:19

there is three guys have laughed as the meet

3:21

and greets and are that oh my god where

3:23

you're wise and they're like no we didn't get

3:25

the Vip tickets were years of bands that only

3:28

no. Way in Love. But

3:30

I hear you and it's so great. Like I mean

3:32

obviously you been. In his business for a long time. You.

3:34

Have. Six specials and your Bel

3:36

Air! I have oil knocked out

3:38

to and I thought it was gonna kill

3:40

me. Yes have longevity. I mean. I

3:42

really would love some expert advice

3:45

on a had longevity of with

3:47

with old this and just keep

3:49

writing and performing un keep. Writing.

3:52

To your audience. Yeah. You

3:54

know, I think that's where

3:56

I it. There. Is a

3:58

point where I started to try to prove myself

4:00

to other comedians. Yeah and I was getting known

4:02

as this girl who does the nail salon joke

4:05

right and like that was your baby down the

4:07

Us so match and I was aware of the

4:09

i had more material than that nail salon job.

4:11

I knew that but then it was like we're

4:13

on the series of my oh she just says

4:16

that nail salon job whatever whatever and this is

4:18

like within like the first like five years of

4:20

my career and then I got to this point

4:22

was like. All. Show them I

4:24

don't need that joke right? And so

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I started doing my show and purposely

4:29

not including that joke and I remember

4:31

the first time I did it it

4:33

was in San Francisco at Clubs Comedy

4:35

Club yes and I got a message

4:37

on Facebook afterwards and this one girl.

4:39

She's. Really kind about it but she

4:41

was like hey ah my mom and

4:43

I were at your show. We drove

4:46

all the way in from whatever city

4:48

and we were so disappointed that you

4:50

didn't do that nail salon job like

4:52

that. Something that her and I bonded

4:54

over and it's like the biggest there

4:56

and we were just so disappointed that

4:58

you didn't do it and I remember

5:00

those words hitting me so hard in

5:02

a minute was like a wake up

5:04

call for me and I was like

5:07

how dumb like I perform for the

5:09

Sands for the. People who love me

5:11

and love my show and love my

5:13

comedy. It's not for these idiots who

5:15

don't spend a dollar on my tenure.

5:17

If you don't care, About me

5:19

Then I like the post when I'd

5:21

ousted they are support me right They

5:23

do want to judge me because they

5:25

wish they were sitting in this spot

5:27

a mess. A: Why am I now

5:29

writing to cater towards them to prove

5:31

myself to them right after that was

5:33

like oh forget that and now I

5:36

I do This joke. For my

5:38

audience of a little the foods you

5:40

want to do the whole phone eighteen

5:42

he to those are the corner. the villain

5:44

this is that you on climate is like

5:46

my thinking like i love variety with me

5:48

for this long i l a lot of

5:50

you know of me because of this joke

5:53

and here it is this is for you

5:55

and and allow that i felt that way

5:57

a little bit too like especially if you

5:59

know I mean, women in comedy period, we have to kind

6:01

of come out the gate and like, you know, not

6:04

taking over an answer. But I felt because I

6:06

kind of doubled down and proved people didn't realize

6:08

that I'd come from stand up. When I popped

6:10

off on the internet, probably the same way you did with YouTube

6:12

with the Nail Joke, a lot of people are like, oh,

6:15

she's from Instagram. She's from Instagram. I'm like, no, no, no,

6:17

but I, my start was in stand up. And

6:19

then I just moved it to that platform. It's like these

6:21

people on TikTok now, there's plenty of comedians who are getting

6:23

platforms and they're like pissed about it. I'm like, no, but

6:25

they came from stand up. They just use that as the

6:27

platform. And so I felt like I

6:29

had to really prove to myself, especially other people in

6:31

our biz, like, no, I have, I come from stand

6:33

up. That is my love. I just decided to do

6:35

characters on Instagram because I thought

6:37

I was going to be on SNL. I'm

6:39

doubling down, you know? And now I, that's

6:42

kind of how I've focused on writing words. Like,

6:44

I'm just going to focus on what brings me joy and

6:46

what makes me giggle. And then the

6:48

audience is going to feel that because it's genuine.

6:50

Absolutely. So you started out, when did you get

6:52

booked on Med TV? 2007

6:54

was the year that changed my life. And

7:00

I had just started doing stand up, right? And

7:02

even when I did stand up, I didn't want to

7:04

be a comedian. I wanted to be

7:07

an actress. Like I moved to Hollywood and I was

7:09

like, I'm going to be this dramatic actress. I'm going

7:11

to play a rape victim on Law and Order of

7:13

the U. Always. That's what I thought I was going

7:15

to do. And then I was going to this church

7:17

and on Tuesday nights, they would do creative arts night

7:19

and they would have like a dance class and acting

7:21

class. Because they knew a lot of people at the

7:23

church go or in the entertainment industry. They offered

7:25

all these classes and I was in Scientology, is

7:28

it? No, no. I mean,

7:30

yeah. Because you know, there's a couple of

7:32

people in there. Okay, good. The Church of

7:34

the Lord. It's the Church of the Lord, Jesus

7:36

Christ. We love it. Yes. Amen. Yes.

7:40

Saved in the blood right here. Yeah. So I was in the

7:42

acting class and I would, they would play improv games and I

7:44

was funny in the improv games. And there

7:46

was a woman teaching a joke writing stand up comedy class and she's

7:48

like, do you want to come and take my class? I

7:50

was like, I don't know. I'm free. And she's

7:53

like, yeah. And I was like, sure. Yeah. I

7:55

had no desire to be a comedian at all. And I was like,

7:57

sure, I guess. And then I was like, you know what? I

8:00

do this like nail salon character that I think I

8:02

can make that into a joke. And

8:04

she was like, oh, nail salon jokes are so hacky. Just your

8:06

clear of nail salon jokes. You don't want to do that. And

8:09

I'm like, no, but I got to, I'm really good at this one.

8:11

I don't know if anybody does it like me though.

8:13

So I think I'm gonna still do it anyway. And

8:16

I took this free class at a church and

8:18

then our graduation from the class, we had to

8:21

perform at like a real comedy club and it

8:23

was at the Queen Mary in Long Beach and

8:25

everybody had to bring like 15 people. And

8:29

that was my first time performing and I never

8:31

wanted to be a comedian. And one of my

8:33

first jokes I wrote was a nail salon bit.

8:35

That is amazing. So how did

8:37

you get on mad TV from that? Right? That's

8:40

what your question was. At this

8:42

Christian comedy class, did it have

8:44

to be like super clean? Yeah.

8:47

Okay. Okay. All

8:49

right. I love that. But I was already

8:52

clean anyways. Like at the time I was super religious,

8:54

didn't say no cuss words. Like it was not, I

8:56

didn't have to try to be clean. So it was

8:58

fine for me. So anyway, that

9:01

was in 2006. And

9:04

around that time I had been doing stand up

9:06

for four months. I get a call. Hey, do

9:08

you want to come perform at the ice house?

9:10

There's this company. They're going to record it. And

9:12

this is before YouTube. They're like, they're recording it

9:14

and it's for flip phones. People can download a

9:17

comedy clip for a dollar 99 on Verizon flip

9:19

phones. So if you come, they'll pay you 25

9:21

bucks. And I was like,

9:23

hell yeah. You're like balling. 25 bucks. I'll

9:26

be there in 10. Top ramen. I started making

9:28

all my grocery lists already from that. I was

9:30

like, let's go. And

9:32

so I get there. I do my set. They

9:34

gave my 25 bucks. That was it. And

9:37

then next thing you know, YouTube comes out. They're

9:39

like, well, nobody's going to pay a dollar 99 for

9:41

comedy clips and they can watch it for free on YouTube. We'll

9:44

just upload it to this thing called YouTube. Right? So

9:46

that's how that that's happening on the background. I don't even know that

9:48

that's happening. Right. I just now it's January

9:51

2007. Now I start getting like

9:53

phone calls from people that are like, Hey,

9:55

I got an email from a

9:57

coworker and it was a video of. you

10:00

and I was like girl what video

10:02

we should talk about and then I bet yeah you're

10:04

doing like this nail salon joke and I was like

10:06

yeah that was just loose people's emails that's what I'm

10:08

saying and I was like it makes you panic a

10:11

little bit you're like no I know that I put

10:13

this out there but you're also like what is yeah

10:15

yeah and I was like what that's weird I started

10:17

getting these kind of phone calls from people and this

10:19

is when if somebody sent you an email with a

10:22

video you for sure watched it yeah you never thought

10:24

twice about clicking yeah exactly and there was no commercials

10:26

there's no ads it was just like oh a video

10:28

in my email head yeah so it was around that

10:30

time so then now it's

10:32

January this brand new thing called YouTube

10:35

comes out this is when my space

10:37

is popular so all the sudden this

10:39

video goes out and there's like 4

10:41

million views on this video in like

10:43

one month and then my myspace page

10:45

starts blowing myspace I just

10:47

got so triggered by the myspace yes

10:49

yes well so all the time I

10:52

get like just thousands of messages from

10:54

people and I don't know how to

10:56

be famous I don't know how to

10:59

be a celebrity I don't know etiquette

11:01

I don't know anything so I'm replying

11:03

to every single person every person and

11:06

then I'm like oh then I'm like let me just copy

11:08

and paste thank you for the support thank you for

11:10

this part I'm like just copy copy paste copy paste and

11:12

then I started getting repeat fans are like is this a

11:15

robot cuz you already said this to me I'm like

11:17

oh my god I'm so sorry I don't know how to

11:19

be famous like I'm just trying to reply everybody's overwhelming

11:21

I don't know what I'm doing like that kind of thing

11:23

and then I started getting messages

11:25

from like network executives assistants yeah because

11:27

nobody knew how to get a hold

11:29

of me I have an agent at

11:31

the time yeah so they're sending their

11:33

assistant to my space to message me and

11:36

it's like hey I'm the assistant to so-and-so

11:38

at CBS at Fox at wherever they want

11:40

to meet with you they saw your nail

11:42

slum video whatever whatever and I'm like oh

11:45

my gosh this is crazy I had

11:47

to go buy a calendar at Staples like I like

11:49

all of a sudden I had a lot of it

11:51

you know to me yeah and this

11:53

is at the time when I had no job

11:55

I had no agent I was on an employment my

11:58

unemployment checks had run out yeah it was like

12:00

the end the end and like the only

12:02

reason why I was still in Hollywood is

12:04

because my sister who is my biggest cheerleader

12:06

was sending me money to pay my

12:08

rent she would send me gift certificates to the grocery

12:10

store so I could eat. Shout out to every sister.

12:13

Yeah, yeah. My sister did the same. Don't give up.

12:15

I remember when I was out here and I was

12:17

like I she would just send me Chipotle gift cards

12:19

and I lived off Chipotle for a year. Yeah, yeah.

12:22

I love that. So I stayed I stayed

12:24

and then I remember I started getting all

12:26

these these meetings and then I remember

12:28

being on the phone with my sister and I was

12:30

like okay this is either like a little phase that

12:32

I'm going through or this is the beginning of the

12:34

rest of my life. Wow. And that's exactly what it

12:36

was. So it was January 2007 and then by February

12:39

I got a new

12:41

agent and new manager and then by

12:43

March I was auditioning for Mad TV

12:45

and then by May I

12:47

had booked the show and

12:49

I was now touring the country as

12:51

a headlining comedian and

12:54

so by the end of the year I was

12:56

you know on Mad TV touring the country and

12:58

it was 2007 is the year that literally changed

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16:21

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16:23

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16:25

a star. And I'm not saying that to blow smoke up

16:27

your ass. I always thought you were a star. I've always

16:29

thought you're so incredibly talented. I love all of your

16:31

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16:33

love hearing people's origin story. I know I'm sure you

16:36

probably told it a thousand times, but thank you for

16:38

sharing with us today because I just try to explain

16:40

to people. I always try to explain to my audience,

16:42

like people think everything's an overnight sensation, but it's like

16:44

it took you not even realizing that you wanted to

16:46

do stand up. You were doing it, but not even

16:48

realizing that that was the career you're going to go

16:50

down. And the church improv group

16:52

was like, this is your journey. Shout out

16:54

to the Lord. We love the Lord. Shout

16:56

out to the Lord. Did

16:58

you find, okay, so once you got

17:00

on Mad TV, you continued to tour

17:03

and then you just kept down that path. Did

17:05

you get there TV shows, post that? Like, did

17:08

you try? Yeah. Yeah. We're

17:10

all doing that right now, right? You didn't do the sitcom route,

17:12

did you though? Tried. Yeah. I

17:15

definitely, I went through a season where every pilot

17:17

season I was booking something. Like it was just,

17:19

I knew I was going to book, I was,

17:21

I was testing for at least three things. I

17:24

was booking something. And then all of a

17:26

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17:28

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17:30

then I was not booking anything. And then

17:32

if I even got the call that like, Hey, they

17:34

want to test you. I'm like, Oh, thank God. Finally.

17:37

And then it was like, that's where it would end,

17:39

like at a test. And then it

17:41

got to a point where I would book it

17:43

and then they're like, okay, the show got picked

17:45

up, but you didn't. They're recasting your part. And

17:47

it's like, cool, cool, cool, cool. That's what no

17:49

one understands there. Even when you think that you're

17:51

there, I like, I feel like,

17:53

you know, I've been trying to see the show picked up forever. I

17:56

won't feel like it's actually happening till we've got three

17:58

seasons under our belt. Oh yeah. Because

18:01

you just don't know. Oh yeah. You can go shoot the

18:03

pilot, you sign the contract and you're like, yeah, we actually

18:05

decided to go in a completely different direction. We're

18:07

like a petite Asian woman. Yeah, yeah. You're

18:09

like, okay. Yeah. Didn't see

18:11

that coming. Exactly. I'm usually

18:13

the, in case we go in another direction,

18:16

girl, like here's somebody else. But yeah, I

18:18

remember one time I went to Dave Chappelle's

18:20

show in New York and we

18:22

had the same agent at the time. And

18:25

so I was backstage with my husband and I'm chatting

18:27

with him in his green room and he goes, Hey,

18:29

I hear you just got a development deal. This is

18:31

a long, long time ago. He's like, I heard you

18:33

just got a development deal. And I was like, I

18:35

did. And he's like, congratulations. I'm like, thank you. And

18:38

he's like, just keep in mind, I had 11 development

18:41

deals before I got the Chappelle's

18:43

show and it was such

18:45

a humbling, but like, I'm

18:48

so grateful that he wasn't

18:50

trying to like knock me off a high horse.

18:52

He was just like trying to like help me

18:54

by like, Hey, perspective, keep this

18:56

in mind. If this doesn't go,

18:58

that's all right. You keep going. If this doesn't

19:00

go, you keep going. Don't worry. I

19:02

did it 11 times. 11 times. I,

19:05

that's why whenever like, you know, you get anything

19:07

that pops off and the Hollywood reporter, you know,

19:09

they want to put a little blur about, I'm

19:11

almost like, don't until we actually have that we've

19:13

got episodes. Yeah. Because again, you

19:15

had the development deal. I mean, it's, it's, they're

19:17

all hell. Yeah. I remember I had

19:19

a development deal one time with Kevin Hart and America Freire

19:21

as my producers. And you're like, how is this not going

19:23

to get picked up? And I'm like, who's going to say

19:25

no to them? Like sure. They

19:27

can say no to me, but then I got to find

19:30

out of them and we sold the show to

19:32

NBC. They

19:34

bought our script, but then they didn't move

19:36

forward with shooting it as a pilot. That's where I'm

19:38

at. Yeah. That's

19:41

listen, I've been to the, because I'm going to

19:43

find out the matter of weeks, whether or not they're going

19:45

to shoot this pilot. And I am just, call me

19:47

whether it's the answer. No, I am absolutely continue. I'm

19:50

so sorry. And I've had that

19:52

happen many times. And so here's,

19:54

they're like, okay, they're going to buy it. And I'm

19:56

like, okay, they're definitely not going to say no to these

19:58

two. Yeah. And they're like,

20:00

yeah, they're not moving forward. I was so

20:02

mad because I had the most perfect picture

20:04

to post. It

20:08

was for, yeah, it's like me, Kevin Hart,

20:10

our producing team, we did a table read.

20:12

I was just like, this is the way

20:14

I'm going to post that outfit on that

20:16

day. And they said, no.

20:20

And then you already had the caption saved. You're like, I

20:22

did it. My dreams, follower dreams,

20:24

don't give up you guys. Never

20:26

give up. You guys, God is so good. He is

20:28

always still good. But either way, like, and then

20:30

the next caption has to be, so guys,

20:32

like you crying at Earth Cafe. When

20:35

God closes one door, he opens a window.

20:41

Just pick up the show. Please pick

20:43

up the show. I

20:45

feel like, though, you have a good head on your shoulders

20:47

because I think in comedy, obviously

20:49

you have to work a different we

20:51

take a different route than everybody else. It's funny. I

20:53

don't know if you've ever experienced this, like being on

20:56

set. I'm very I mean, I like to say I'm

20:58

easy to work with. Give me 10 years and I might

21:00

be a monster of a

21:02

diva. But like I get things

21:04

myself. I'm you know, I go to craft

21:06

services myself. I do all the things. And

21:08

it's so funny because P.A. is always like,

21:10

no, no, we'll get it. I'm like, no,

21:12

no, please. Like I'm easy. And they're like,

21:14

oh, it's because you're a stand up. I've

21:16

been doing it a lot because we know

21:18

how to do it ourselves. We're schlepping through

21:20

airports by we're, you know, we're running to

21:22

comedy clubs. Like I think a meeting just

21:24

because we come from a different background is

21:26

completely different than dealing with like just actors.

21:28

Yeah. Well, it's funny because I would

21:31

say I'll definitely do a little bit of both.

21:33

I love to be walking down the craft service

21:35

line. What do I have to pick? I want

21:37

a little bit of this, a little bit of

21:39

that. And then there's times I'm like, oh, we'll

21:41

just go get it for you. And I'm like,

21:43

I think. Sure.

21:45

They're like, what do you want? I'm like, what do you have? Right.

21:47

And then it's just like, yeah. And then they bring me all these

21:49

treats and I'm like, oh, I wouldn't have picked this. But thank you.

21:52

You know, I do remember one time

21:54

I brought my dad to set of a movie that I

21:57

was doing and I was like so

21:59

proud to like bring. him to set because

22:01

my dad is like the

22:03

toughest critic for me. My mom

22:05

is that way for me. Oh my god. He

22:07

was on Superstore and my dad came over

22:09

to see it to watch it and at

22:11

the end he's like that's the only part

22:13

they gave you? Yeah. Oh

22:15

yeah. He goes they didn't give you no funny

22:18

parts. And I'm like that's kind

22:20

of the vibe of the show. It's not like what

22:22

a- What's the news? Yeah. And so he's like- He's

22:24

like that's all you got? Yeah they gave me no

22:26

funny parts. I'm like okay dad. I'm like I'm going

22:28

to do this movie and my dad comes to set and I'm

22:31

already there so he was driving to come meet me and he's

22:33

going to leave right? And so I

22:35

remember the PA, we're like giving him a tour

22:37

and we're like okay this is the craft service

22:39

area and I'm explaining to him like there's all

22:41

these snacks you know for the whole crew and

22:43

everybody when you're hungry because you're here all day

22:45

whatever and he's just like a kid in a

22:47

candy store like all this stuff

22:49

and you know growing up poor he's just

22:51

like what? You know my dad's like super

22:53

frugal. Frugal like picks up coupons he

22:55

finds on the floor. If you find a coupon he

22:57

may use it. So I'm

22:59

with my dad on set and then all of a

23:02

sudden I'm like okay got to go back to work

23:04

and he's going to leave and I'm like right the

23:06

PA will walk you back to your car and he's

23:08

like okay cool I get home and

23:10

I open the refrigerator. Why

23:12

is it stuffed with food from the

23:15

craft service? Like 25 uncrustables. Why?

23:19

Is there a full-on sandwich that was

23:21

made with all their bread and deli

23:23

meat and they had a full-on sandwich? Not even

23:25

eaten but it's in there because

23:28

my dad made the PA stop by craft service

23:30

so he could stock up. Of course he did.

23:32

And take some home. He was weighing down the golf

23:34

cart that the PA had to drive him back to his

23:36

car. My mom's like I take my mom on the road

23:39

sometimes and people get very upset that I don't take her

23:41

to all of my shows because she's kind of like a

23:43

focal point in my life but people don't realize I'm like

23:45

you understand my mom grew up with nothing as well but

23:47

now that she's been accustomed to like a nice life she

23:50

expects to be wind and dine driven around

23:52

in a white limo. You know hoards everything

23:55

from the rider and I'm just like I'll

23:57

walk off stage like where we going to dinner? I'm like

23:59

mom it's 11. You couldn't have, you know, like

24:01

you couldn't have put in an order. Yeah, yeah.

24:04

I just, it's overwhelming some days with my mom and

24:06

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24:08

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24:10

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24:12

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when you're on the road, what's your like

27:51

process? Do you write on the road? And

27:54

then who goes with you? What's it

27:56

like? Because I know you tour just as much as I

27:58

do. And also your

28:00

new mom and I want to get into that. But what's your

28:02

process on the road? I have

28:04

a handful of comedians that I work with, that

28:06

I feel comfortable with. I like to bring people

28:09

on the road who are like family, because if

28:11

I'm gonna be away from my family, I want

28:13

it to feel like family on the road. And

28:16

so I've been working with the same comics for years. That's

28:19

great. Mal Hall is like my main guy. I've known him

28:21

longer than I've known my husband. I've been married for my

28:23

husband almost 13 years, and I've been working with

28:25

Mal longer than that. Ron Hortman, probably

28:28

at least 10 years and

28:30

Ron Hortman, Kristen Seville, I work with her

28:32

sometimes. I just started, I rarely introduce like

28:34

a new one to the crew because I

28:37

just stick with my guys. I

28:39

just started working with a new guy named Neri Signs

28:41

out of Miami. And I like

28:43

to work with people who are a fun

28:45

hang, because we're spending so much

28:47

time together, and somebody who I can write

28:50

with. Somebody who can watch my set.

28:53

And when I come off stage in

28:55

between shows, they're like, okay, what if you try it

28:57

like this? Okay, what if instead of

28:59

this say this? And somebody that

29:01

I can riff with in between shows, and then

29:03

the next day we go to the coffee shop

29:06

that's like closest to the hotel, and then we

29:08

sit there, we go through our notebooks, and then

29:10

we talk about our material, and then we go

29:12

back and try it again the next night. I

29:15

like to work with people like that. And

29:18

so yeah, so then I just started this

29:20

year, last weekend was my first weekend

29:22

for the year, and this is my

29:24

year to write my new hour because

29:26

I just released it last year. So

29:28

now I'm writing my new material. And

29:30

it is an adjustment going from. So

29:32

daunting. In your performance mode. Especially

29:35

when you have an hour that you super love, and

29:37

you're like, I'm loving this material, I'm having so much

29:39

fun with it, and then you have to start taking

29:42

it out and adding in the new stuff. That's so

29:44

hard, I'm like, oh, I love this joke, okay, whatever,

29:46

and getting back into writing mode.

29:49

Getting back into being observant and

29:51

making notes. Because I personally am

29:53

not always on. I'm

29:56

not always, that's gonna be funny, writing it

29:58

down. I love to turn it on. that

30:00

brain off and just enjoy my life. Good

30:02

for you. And that's healthy. That's a healthy

30:04

balance. Yeah, it is healthy. But then I

30:06

have a hard time checking back into work.

30:08

I'm like, I feel you on that. I kind

30:10

of do like it's like a perfect storm or a

30:12

little bit like an episode of Homeland like two weeks before

30:14

I'm about to go on the road. I like take a

30:16

bunch of Adderall and I like lock myself in the basement

30:19

and it's like, you know, my husband comes down and like,

30:21

make sure I'm showered. I'm like, I got ideas, you

30:23

know, and it's a little like all over the

30:25

wall in my office. But then it's

30:27

like, then it clicks. I mean, you have to get up on

30:29

the stage. Give me your husband. Actually, in a gay bar in

30:31

New York City. Stop. Yeah. No,

30:34

I sure did. I sure did. You know,

30:36

and there's a lot of gay men who hate me because

30:38

of it. No, he was out with his two gay cousins

30:40

and I was with my best friend Christina who works with me

30:42

now and they were like, Oh, Jeff, we want you to meet

30:44

Heather. She's at the bar and it just happened to be this

30:47

gay bar in Hell's Kitchen where I lived. And he walked

30:49

in the bar and I said, that's who I'm going to

30:51

meet. I said, sorry, that's who I'm going to

30:53

marry. Yeah. Literally, I just said it out loud.

30:55

My girlfriend Christina was like, Jeff? And I'm like, you know him? She's like,

30:57

yeah, I grew up with him. And I said, I'm going to meet her.

30:59

I told her to come meet us. And that was it.

31:01

How do you meet your husband? He's a Christian rapper. He

31:03

was. He was. Okay.

31:06

Now he's doing real estate. Yeah. I

31:08

love it. I've been following all the ventures online. We're getting

31:10

the real estate game because you know, everybody could get canceled tomorrow. So

31:12

you guys have a back to follow back plan. Exactly. That

31:15

was my husband. He was like, listen, we have to have a

31:17

way of making income that does not rely on people liking us. Yes.

31:20

Oh, that's a good idea. Yeah. And

31:22

also like eventually, you know, and I'm sure we would

31:25

being a new mom, it's like being on the road

31:27

is so physically taxing. And you're

31:29

like, I think like COVID probably taught us a

31:31

lot. Like obviously it's the boom now where everybody's

31:33

out and it's great, but it's like you got

31:35

to have something to also that like makes money

31:37

while you sleep. Right. So how did you

31:39

guys meet? They're mutual friends. I

31:42

had a roommate. She was getting married. I went

31:44

to her wedding and

31:46

her husband's best friend was

31:48

there and I thought he was

31:50

hot. And I was like, who's this guy? Somebody

31:52

needs to introduce me. But then nobody introduced me.

31:55

And I was like, I'm not going to introduce myself. And so

31:57

then I went home and I cyber stalked him on the internet.

32:00

I love that soft cyber stock. Yeah, yeah I went

32:02

to her Facebook page and then I clicked on her

32:04

new husband and then I went through everything one of

32:06

his friends Until I found that afro that I seen

32:09

at the wedding. I'm like boom. There it is. Got

32:11

him Yeah, and then I like looked at everything about

32:13

him. I found out he was in a band like

32:15

he's touring Woo-woo this and

32:17

that and I was like, oh well

32:19

man snoozy lose You should have met me and

32:22

then closed the computer and then I never looked

32:24

him up ever again. I didn't message him I

32:26

didn't tell my friend. Hey hook me up with

32:28

that guy. I didn't do nothing I just stopped

32:30

him and I was like, you should have met

32:33

me you missed out. Sorry, sir Bye,

32:35

and then I went on with my life for

32:37

two years Yeah

32:41

And then left and then I didn't even plan with me I just did

32:43

my Your brain this wasn't

32:46

you didn't reach him to say like oh

32:48

you should have met me bye and then

32:50

like block That

32:52

was all self-confidence. I love that all just

32:54

me talking hyping myself up being like well,

32:56

he snooze he lose When

32:59

I was my life two years later I get a

33:01

text message from my friend that got married that day

33:03

She was like, hey, I hadn't even talked

33:05

her in a long time at this point and she was like, is

33:07

this still Angela's son? I'm like, yeah And she's

33:09

like I want to hook you up with somebody and I was

33:11

like kind of annoyed because I just got out of like a

33:13

Stupid relationship and I was like dumb like who do you hook

33:15

me up with? She's like, well, I don't

33:17

know if he's your type but look him up on Facebook. His

33:20

name is Manuel Reyes I knew like

33:22

girl You don't know my research came loading

33:24

back. Let me go to my file cabinet

33:26

and get out the receipts the timelines. Yeah

33:28

Yeah, I was and I played it course

33:30

like I'll look I'll check. Yeah, I guess

33:33

and groggy knew I was like, okay Let's

33:35

do this and I keep saying Facebook Everybody's

33:37

listening because I'm showing you the time frame

33:39

that we were in when Facebook was the

33:41

only thing that we had because that's how

33:44

We were doing remember a poke when you

33:46

got a poke from alert on Facebook now

33:48

It's like actually I think would be considered

33:50

a salt You on Facebook you were like,

33:52

oh, oh I got it. Okay.

33:55

All right Tyler. Thank you. Okay. Yes.

33:58

I love this Long

34:00

into the relationship did he know about

34:02

you doing the cyber stalking? I think

34:05

I didn't tell him until We

34:07

might have been married. Yeah, yes smart smart

34:10

Ladies who are watching you have them and then

34:12

once they're legally bound to you and especially if

34:14

you get knocked up when you're legally Bound to

34:16

you, then you let them know what a psychopath

34:18

you are. Yeah. Yeah, I waited till I had

34:20

him on a lock And yeah, I told him

34:23

the truth. I didn't even tell my friend. I

34:25

didn't tell her for I tell anybody for a

34:27

long time but yeah,

34:29

we moved very quickly we

34:31

met in when was it August and We

34:35

were like officially boyfriend girlfriend by October

34:37

on October 4th was our boyfriend

34:39

girlfriend And I remember it because

34:41

we used to go Tim for Idiot

34:46

I love it. I love it so much

34:49

Idiot so much and

34:51

then we were engaged by Christmas Eve and

34:54

then we got married the following June and I

34:57

hadn't even known him a full year before I married him

34:59

see I think that works out I mean, I know the

35:01

moment I went on my first day with my husband. I

35:03

was like, this is it Yeah, and it was just easy.

35:05

I try to explain to people they're like, oh, what's good

35:07

like relationship advice? I'm like if

35:09

it's easy, I think it's

35:11

like yeah when when I see my friends is

35:13

like dramatic. They keep going back I'm like, no

35:15

if it's the right one is supposed to be

35:18

easy in the beginning because it's only gonna get

35:20

harder from there Yeah, it's hard in the beginning.

35:22

It's we're not set up for success. Yeah. Yeah.

35:24

I love that you moved fast And

35:27

how is he with and obviously I know he's

35:29

so supportive but I'm just like did it ever take

35:31

an adjustment period? But he's a performer because he's

35:33

a musician ever take a Like

35:36

adjustment period for him to like see

35:39

you in in stand-up light or was he

35:41

ever are there everything's like you you don't

35:43

talk about on stage this was

35:45

like how we were such

35:47

the perfect couple because He

35:51

had always said he wanted

35:53

to be a cheerleader to his

35:55

wife I love that he wanted to be

35:57

like uplifting her. He never wanted

36:00

wanted somebody to be like his arm

36:02

candy at home. He always

36:04

wanted to like boost her up.

36:07

And so when he met me, he didn't know who I

36:09

was. He wasn't, he'd never seen

36:11

the Nails on video, but he did say

36:13

that all his girlfriends around him, they were

36:15

all quoting Bonkwee-Kwee and he didn't know. Iconic

36:18

Bonkwee-Kwee forever. He didn't know it was me.

36:20

He thought it just his friends were funny

36:22

and they made up this funny like, you

36:24

know, things that they said. And then

36:26

he found out that they were quoting me. And

36:28

so I think that kind of impressed him a

36:30

little bit. He was like, oh, wait, people

36:33

know of her. I don't know who she is.

36:36

And I remember we went, we met up. So

36:38

he flew into town because he was living in

36:40

Florida at the time. So he flew in to

36:42

come and meet me here in LA and we

36:44

went to lunch with our mutual friends. And

36:47

he was so impressed that I drove up in my

36:49

little sporty Lexus that I had. And

36:51

we'll Lexus, we love it. We stand. And

36:56

he was like, okay, this girl's like doing

36:58

her own thing. And I feel

37:00

like it was something like different for him.

37:02

Like he didn't have to like, he didn't have to take

37:04

care of me. I didn't need him. You

37:07

know, it was just like, hey, here

37:09

we are. Is this going to work

37:11

or not? And we have a different telling

37:14

of the story because he says I

37:16

was cold to him. I

37:18

was like mean. And I

37:20

say that he's just used to girls fawning all

37:23

over him. He's been so good looking and I

37:25

wasn't doing that. And I

37:27

was very like, what's our first FaceTime call. I

37:29

had no makeup on. Yeah, my hair was up

37:31

in like a messy bun. I was in my

37:33

hotel room and I'm packing up my suitcase to

37:35

go to the next city. And I was

37:38

like, what's up? Yeah, what's

37:40

good? Hi, I keep coming on and off screen

37:42

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37:44

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37:46

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recently became a mom. Yeah. And

39:31

I really want to talk to you about this because I'm

39:33

in this weird position in my life. I'm turning 37 in March. So

39:36

young. So

39:38

young but I've gone through a

39:40

wide assortment of different fertility stuff and I

39:42

know that the clock is ticking. I got

39:44

to get on it. But it's so scary

39:46

and I don't think, I was talking

39:49

to Whitney about this a little bit. She

39:51

had so much success before she had a baby. And

39:53

you have too but I'm at this point where

39:55

I'm like, it's like we're coming over the mountain. Like

39:58

all this stuff we built. And I'm I want to be

40:00

a mom and I know that I got to get on it. And I

40:02

mean, my mom had me a 40 and that's probably why I

40:04

turned into a stand-up comedian. But I

40:07

don't want to have two old eggs, you know. But I

40:09

also know I'm going to probably have to do IVF again

40:11

and all this stuff. So it's just, how's it been, you

40:13

know, being a mom, being back on the road? Because I

40:15

know you just had your beautiful baby girl and now you're...

40:17

So this is your first time. This isn't your first time

40:19

away from her on the road. Is it? No,

40:22

we started last September. Okay. But

40:25

really quick, I just want to touch on something. For all

40:27

your listeners who are listening who may not know this because

40:29

you've done IVF and I'm sure you've talked

40:31

about it with them. But I don't know

40:33

if people understand how hard

40:35

IVF is and then for

40:38

you to go on the road

40:42

and tour and make people laugh and show

40:44

up and give them your energy when you

40:46

just got the call that's like, hey, this

40:49

embryo is not viable. You only got one.

40:51

You only got this. That was me. I

40:54

was on the road driving from one city to the next city getting

40:56

the call from my daughter. I was like, oh, I'm a doctor. Hey,

40:58

none of you. I'm real. It's a

41:00

revival. Yeah. because

41:03

you love what you do. And you

41:05

know, everybody paid their harder money to come and

41:07

see you, but then you're also like dealing with

41:09

this and you have your hormones that you've been

41:11

injecting and you have all this going on. So

41:14

just for all your listeners who are listening, so

41:16

they have a better understanding of what you go

41:18

through, how much you show up for them. Just

41:20

for you. Yeah. For

41:22

you, queen. Right back at you. Because so how many...

41:24

If you don't mind me, I talk about it a

41:26

lot. About and especially on stage, I found

41:28

the only way to talk about it was to talk

41:30

about it on stage was just because I went

41:33

into egg freezing IVF because

41:35

I was trying to do... I was lucky that

41:37

I did it during COVID. I

41:39

was like, well, then if I have a little downtime, we're going to do

41:41

it now. But I had to do three rounds to get one embryo. You

41:44

know what I mean? And I know that if I got to

41:46

do it again, I mean, it's... We're already... I

41:48

got to roll up my sleeves and get dirty with it.

41:50

You were doing it while touring. God, I don't

41:53

know how you physically did that. It was hard. Traveling

41:55

with the needles, traveling with the drugs. So

41:57

it was hard and stressful.

42:00

And I had booked this job and

42:03

I had to cancel some tour dates because

42:05

I booked this and we were gonna be filming and Then

42:08

come to find out after I canceled those tour

42:10

dates Then I got fired from the job and

42:13

all this while I'm doing like the shots

42:16

and so are you hormonal? So you're losing

42:18

your damn mind and it's just a stress

42:20

is not helping right body create, you know

42:22

I mean, yeah, so I actually went through

42:25

it twice and I

42:27

got minimal eggs. Yeah both

42:29

times and I ended up with

42:33

For embryos only three of them made

42:35

it through the testing and then at the

42:37

end of that none of them were viable

42:40

So they're like, okay, you're gonna have to do it

42:42

again. I was like, oh my gosh, this

42:44

is so hard I don't know if I could do it again then

42:46

could never and I was is that it? Yeah

42:52

So I'm like, all right this I

42:54

have one month off in November this

42:56

is a 2020

42:59

when I have a be 23 says 2022 and this

43:01

is how we as as road comics is that we

43:03

think I'm like Okay, I've got the month of August

43:05

off. Yeah, I don't have to be in Vegas. All

43:07

right. Okay. All right We get we get inject ourselves. We

43:10

have a two week window where we don't have to be

43:12

on an airplane. Yeah, Ernest Sky Club Yeah, so this is

43:14

what I can do it. All right. I'm juicing myself up

43:17

Sorry Exactly. And so I'm like,

43:19

all right I will do it in November because that's

43:21

my one month that I have off and I was

43:23

touring I had just come out with my book. It

43:25

was like a whole thing and So

43:27

I'm like, all right since I'm not gonna be

43:30

doing anything with you know IVF this

43:32

summer I'm gonna take the time to

43:35

work on Myself

43:37

and get snatched for my taping in

43:39

October. I have a tape in October

43:41

1st in Nashville. Yeah I am just

43:43

gonna work out. I'm gonna eat healthy.

43:45

I stopped drinking alcohol I

43:47

stopped eating after like 8 p.m. Cuz

43:49

you know in the comedy club. Yeah,

43:52

I'm like, give me those chicken tendies

43:54

when I come off Hey, I midnight

43:56

tendy Brock's me to sleep I

44:00

need a tindy platter with some shitty

44:03

club fries and a ranch that

44:05

has been sitting in the back of a pantry That

44:07

is what I need and then creamy and then I'm

44:09

out Okay,

44:12

I told myself I said I'm not gonna do

44:14

none of that. Yeah, and I'm gonna eat healthy

44:16

and no alcohol I'm gonna get snatched. I'm gonna

44:18

work out in all these holiday in yeah, and

44:20

I have like three free weights and I'm

44:23

like, I'm gonna work it out and by the

44:25

time October 1st comes I'm gonna get snatched right? Okay, so

44:27

I'm spending this time working

44:30

on my body making my body

44:32

healthy for my taping Yeah brain

44:34

thinking you're making it for your

44:36

taping. Mm-hmm. Really. I had no

44:38

idea I was preparing my body

44:40

to get pregnant because I

44:42

ended up getting pregnant Naturally the week

44:44

before my tape got us good. God is good.

44:47

I feel a spirit coming through me way. Yes You

44:50

got pregnant the week before your taping.

44:52

Yeah. Now. Did you feel

44:54

pregnant during your taping? You weren't sick right? Yeah,

44:59

yeah, yeah. Oh my gosh. God.

45:01

It's so good. I love you I had no

45:03

idea I was pregnant and then the like week

45:05

after my taping or like a few days later

45:08

then I went to DC with

45:10

this whole Latina group we went to

45:12

the White House and then we had like a safter party

45:14

and I was yeah Yeah, thanks again And then I went

45:16

to go visit my cousin who lived in DC and then

45:18

we did a whole tequila tasting and his bar Like I

45:20

was living up. I spent all summer Let's

45:24

while out and

45:29

then That next weekend.

45:31

I didn't start my period and I

45:33

was like, that's weird cuz I've been

45:35

like on time All right And

45:38

so I'm like, okay next day and I still don't start

45:40

a period and then next day So now we go on

45:42

the road and I went to

45:44

I was in Atlanta Oh and I'm there and

45:46

I have a brother who lives right outside of

45:48

Atlanta. We'll talk about Okay, I know that side

45:50

of Atlanta. Let's talk. Yeah, so I I'm at

45:52

Atlanta and I'm doing my show

45:54

and I remember being like You're having

45:56

a straight away period yet and then a couple of thoughts

45:58

like what are you pregnant? Yeah way wild,

46:00

can you imagine? And then

46:03

the next city, then we're in like Ohio, I

46:05

think it was. And then by the time we're

46:07

at the end of this weekend, I hope you

46:09

didn't find out you're pregnant in Ohio. No. Plenty

46:12

of people find out they're pregnant in

46:14

Ohio and don't want to be pregnant

46:16

in Ohio. Shout out to Ohio. This

46:18

is my favorite city. But regardless, that's

46:20

a dark place to find out you're

46:23

pregnant. No, I didn't

46:25

find out, but it

46:27

was my fifth day of not getting my

46:29

period. So I was like, you're sweating a

46:31

little something is up. I'm Googling

46:33

like, if you're not pregnant, why else would

46:36

you not start your period? And like, and

46:38

then it's like perimenopause. And I'm like, Oh,

46:40

please. And they always, when

46:42

you're going through IVF, they're always telling me, they're like, okay,

46:44

well, yeah, you may be perimenopausal. Like it may just not

46:47

happen for you. And so you're always that's only in the

46:49

back of your mind. Right. So when people tell you what

46:51

if you're pregnant, you should probably take a pregnancy test. You're

46:53

like, no, I probably just quit my period. And I'm like,

46:55

my kids for children are just completely out

46:57

the window. Yeah. Okay. So it's

47:00

our last show. And I had

47:02

previously asked for some shamps, like just

47:04

bring me some tobacco. And we're

47:06

going to take it back. We had this fly Airbnb

47:08

that we were at was so nice.

47:11

And I was like, let's just bring some recycle. Let's just have

47:13

some drinks and enjoy our night. And so now

47:15

I'm in my brain going, wait, should I

47:18

not have this drink? Right? What if I'm

47:20

pregnant? And so I was like,

47:22

I'll just like drink half of it. So people don't

47:24

be like, why are you drinking? You're the one who

47:26

requested this. Right. So I'm like, I'll just like drink

47:28

half and like, I'll sip it slowly. And I knew

47:30

the next day, I was landing back

47:32

home. And I had a pregnancy

47:34

test in my drawer. And I'm gonna take this test when I

47:37

get home. And I remember Danielle, my road

47:39

manager, she dropped me off. And I remember she was taking

47:41

so long to leave the house that day. And I was

47:43

like, I wasn't telling anybody

47:49

as soon as she leaves, I

47:51

go and I'm videotaping everything because I wanted to document

47:53

all my emotions, whether it was yes or no, whatever.

47:55

So I put my camera and it's me and my

47:57

dog. And I'm just like talking to the camera. and

48:00

talking to my dog. Just like, what if

48:02

I'm pregnant? Like talking to Bonzo. Like what

48:04

if this is? And I'm like, no, this

48:06

is dumb, stupid, whatever. And then so I

48:08

pee on the little stick and then I'm waiting and

48:11

then I'm like, oh, and I have to catch flight

48:13

the next morning. It was like a 24 hour turnaround.

48:15

That's all we live. We live for a 24 hour

48:17

turnaround. Yeah, so I'm like

48:19

trying to like repack my suitcase while I'm

48:21

taking a pregnancy test at 41. Then

48:24

I come over to my little test and I'm like, okay,

48:26

talking to my phone. I'm like, all right, I'm gonna look

48:28

at it. Whether it is, yes or no. And

48:30

I remember look at it and my

48:32

heart like dropping and

48:35

I'm like shaking. I'm like, what?

48:38

And then I'm looking at the instructions to make sure. I'm like,

48:40

hold on, wait a minute, wait. They do make

48:42

it very confusing. If it isn't the digital one that just

48:44

says pregnant, you're like, even if it says not pregnant, you

48:46

still keep pregnant and you're like, what does this mean? Yeah.

48:49

Like it's very confusing, okay? And I actually had

48:51

one of those and I forgot that I had

48:54

it. So I go digging through my drawer and

48:56

I'm like, let me try this one that is

48:58

not gonna be confusing. And it said pregnant. And

49:00

I was like, you've got to be kidding.

49:03

It was the only person I could tell is my dog. And

49:06

was it just really like this? It was clearly like so

49:08

meant to be, because I've gotten a false positive before where

49:10

it's like half of the line. And they usually say it's

49:13

almost impossible to get false positives. You'll get a false negative

49:15

but we're gonna get a false positive. But I went for

49:17

like a 24 hour span where I was like, oh

49:19

my God, I'm pregnant, I can't believe this. And then it was,

49:21

I don't know. I don't know

49:23

if maybe, you know. Too many chicken titties. Too many

49:25

chicken titties, you know. There's enough

49:27

hormones in the chicken to give you a

49:29

false positive. But yeah,

49:32

you have to get the digital one where it's just like,

49:34

you're pregnant. Bitch, it needs you to say bitch, you got

49:36

a baby. Yeah, exactly. Oh

49:41

my gosh, and you know, obviously with age, and I feel like

49:43

other people don't wanna talk about it, but it's like, no, when

49:45

you're in that window, everything's geriatric

49:47

pregnancy above like 32. And

49:50

so you were 41 when you got pregnant. Were you 42

49:52

when you had your daughter? Was I 41 or 40?

49:55

I was 41 when I gave birth, so

49:57

I don't remember. Okay, but either way, you're

49:59

like. You know, I mean essentially you

50:01

could say honestly like, you know an older

50:04

mom and what? Yeah, I mean was

50:06

this just like the wildest experience too?

50:09

Yeah, and especially because I had said I didn't

50:11

want kids. I See

50:13

somebody like I know this about you that you didn't

50:15

want kids and you were kind of like staunchly like

50:18

I'm not That's not my journey. That's not my journey

50:20

and that's fine. And so what made you gonna change your mind? 2020

50:23

Oh, were you just like horny and

50:25

like let's go No,

50:28

I was fearful is what well,

50:30

so here's the thing that happened. My career has

50:32

always been my baby It's been

50:34

the thing that I've held dearest to me that

50:36

I've worked so hard for that was always in

50:38

the forefront of my mind It was what I

50:41

dreamed about at night. I never dreamed about being

50:43

a mom. I dreamed about being honest to you

50:45

Like that is what I wanted You

50:48

will never unless you're an actor you'll never

50:50

understand just this year just the need to

50:53

be honest to you Yeah, yeah, listen Mariska.

50:55

We're right here right here. We are watching

50:57

this Benson. We love you Even

51:00

if we're like just give us like the two

51:02

party girls that are coming out of the bar

51:04

that find the dead body in The beginning but

51:06

we don't remember anything from the club. It's so

51:08

loud. They never they never see anything Okay,

51:10

I'll let you know right now. I see everything.

51:12

Okay, we're comedians are the most observant people on

51:14

the planet I'll be like yeah, the body was

51:17

here. The knife is there Okay

51:21

So you're of course having this like existential

51:24

moment where like your career has always been

51:26

it and I'm in that position now and

51:28

when Especially in comedy when it takes so

51:30

long to get your footing It's like well,

51:32

of course you're not gonna take yourself out of the game

51:34

Yeah Cuz what people don't understand too is I fans all

51:36

the time like a baby look good on you a baby

51:38

look good on you Like one you understand like fertility issues

51:41

and two People don't realize

51:43

like okay, if you get pregnant have a baby

51:45

it actually takes you out for like I don't

51:47

want to say a year but especially if it'd

51:49

be on camera or if you're on the road

51:51

like just You know, you want to be with

51:53

your baby you want to be home or your

51:55

body, you know You can't book rolls unless they're

51:57

for pregnant people if you're showing. Okay, so yeah,

51:59

COVID may Do you have this aha

52:01

moment? Yes, so it was when everything

52:03

went away. Nobody's touring. Nobody's auditioning nothing's

52:06

being filmed anything and I

52:09

used to like watch TV and movies

52:11

and be like I could have played

52:13

that why didn't I get that? I used to

52:15

like watch it like that. Oh, when is it my turn? I

52:17

can't wait for my turn like I would watch it like that

52:19

And then I started watching it and not

52:22

caring about that and I didn't need it

52:25

I this was the first time

52:27

that I was like if I never book

52:29

another roll Whatever

52:31

if I don't go back on the road This

52:34

is I enjoy my house This is my first

52:36

time enjoying the fruits of my labor right I'm

52:38

typically touring touring touring. I never go swimming in

52:40

my pool I never even put furniture on my

52:42

balcony to look at the beautiful view that I

52:44

had Mm-hmm, and I finally in 2020 put some

52:47

furniture on my balcony and I sat there and

52:49

I was like wow This is nice when you

52:51

actually stop and be present

52:53

and be present in in your

52:55

space around the garden Okay,

52:58

now when I lost her mind, okay? Yeah, it

53:00

was a whole thing I was like I like

53:02

being home and I'm like if I

53:04

never hit the road like I did then I'm

53:06

okay with it And this was the first time

53:08

I had ever Said

53:11

to myself that my career that I thought was the

53:13

most fulfilling thing in the world to me It was

53:15

actually not so fulfilling because here I was saying I

53:17

don't really need it anymore Whatever

53:19

yeah, you know and it was in

53:21

that moment that I was like oh shoot Should

53:24

I have had kids because I remember

53:26

all of my friends telling me that

53:28

kids are the most fulfilling thing It's

53:31

more fulfilling than this that and whatever and

53:33

I'd be like okay. Yeah, and

53:35

you do your trapped with your kids Exactly

53:38

and so I was like oh my gosh did

53:40

I mess up well I don't even know

53:43

if I have any eggs left So let me at least

53:45

start looking into this and seeing if I do and I'm

53:47

like 38 at the time and so I was like Okay,

53:50

I'm gonna start. I'm gonna go to the doctor and

53:52

at least like get tested however that happens draw blood

53:54

whatever and My friend had

53:56

done IVF before so she sent me to her doctor to

53:58

at least just like Check out the situation.

54:01

Yeah, and she was like, okay, you do have

54:03

some eggs But you don't have a lot so

54:05

if you want to do anything about it, you've

54:07

got to move quickly So

54:09

same with me they were like we're gonna eat I

54:11

mean I was on testosterone for like three months like

54:13

juicing up Wow WWE Rob Because

54:15

I said it like girl you got nothing.

54:18

It's tumbleweeds down there and you gonna have

54:20

to get on the illegal stuff About

54:24

Mexico I

54:27

feel yeah, that's where I get my goods. Yeah

54:30

So I did I did that and they're like you

54:32

gotta move quickly and in still I was like I'm

54:34

just gonna be saving my eggs. Like I still wasn't

54:36

convinced. I wanted kids. I was like, alright

54:38

Let's just save my eggs just in case. Yeah,

54:41

right then Every

54:43

appointment that I went to after that when it

54:45

was more bad news and more bad news like

54:47

okay It was six eggs. Just kidding. It's actually

54:49

four. Okay, actually this one

54:51

didn't whatever Okay, and

54:53

it was like bad news after bad news and

54:56

it was starting to sound more like hey, this

54:58

might not be For you

55:01

and when they were telling me that then that's

55:03

when I was like, oh no, I want it

55:05

so I had the exact conversation

55:07

with my doctor and After

55:10

I'd done two rounds of it and she was

55:12

like my eggs just weren't developing in order for them

55:14

to extract them And she said I

55:16

know it can feel like a death I

55:19

I learned just popped up in the

55:21

chair. They go who died? I'm so

55:23

confused She was like I don't

55:25

think this is for you and I remember I

55:27

sat in my car in the doctor's office

55:30

in the parking garage and I wet and I

55:32

was just like no I am gonna be a mom I

55:34

got to figure it out the timing may not be now But

55:36

I'm gonna figure this out and then I went back

55:38

and was able to do one more round and they

55:40

went into it and For those people who are listening

55:43

who don't understand like you go to do a retrieval

55:45

and they told me they're like we only see one

55:47

Egg the likelihood of getting one egg out of it

55:49

them doing the genetic testing it being viable making it

55:51

to the petri dish The whole thing is like point

55:53

one percent and I just said well, let me just

55:56

try it I'm gonna just try it and then they

55:58

went in they were able to find three So

56:00

then when they sent it off to the lab one

56:02

of those ended up being viable. So my statistic my chances were

56:04

So I have a baby girl I know I have a daughter

56:07

which is wild that they can tell you that I have a

56:09

daughter on ice So I'm like, I know I have one but

56:11

I feel like I'm gonna have to do it again You know

56:13

to get more but having that conversation when they say this

56:15

may not be for you is so

56:17

wild That was the wildest

56:19

feeling I'd ever felt and I was like, no, of course. I

56:21

want to be a mom So I hear you

56:24

on that that was it and I was like no

56:26

That's what I want and then it became a conversation

56:28

with my husband because we were both on the same

56:30

page We didn't want kids right and all that he

56:32

he paints a picture like this He's like imagine we're

56:35

both driving on the freeway and we're like zooming fast

56:37

in life And then all of a sudden you just

56:39

took an exit and went yeah, and he kept going

56:41

and was like wait What we're having kid now

56:43

We want kids because it became something that

56:46

was so like no we have

56:48

to and then he was more like the finances

56:50

about It's it's very expensive as you know, right?

56:52

He's like, okay Well, you know, how many

56:54

times are we gonna do this? Like what's our budget? We have

56:56

to like set a limit So and I was like no,

56:59

right, right we go until I'm tired

57:03

We we didn't see eye-to-eye in the beginning

57:06

and so then that felt lonely and then

57:08

you have all hormones and everything and Then

57:11

eventually he did get on board and

57:13

of course we love we're in love with our daughter

57:15

now But that was a journey that was a real

57:17

journey for us to go through What a

57:20

wild experience to thank you are on one path

57:22

and then all of a sudden you're like no

57:24

and and like when you get That urge you're

57:26

just like this is it. Yeah, you've got to

57:28

go full steam. That is so beautiful. I mean You

57:31

know and it's wild too because I when I talked to

57:33

other like real like big career moms are

57:35

always like yeah You're gonna figure it out. I

57:37

met this wonderful woman in the Sky Club in Atlanta

57:40

and She she

57:42

was a fan. She'd come to a show. She's bigwig at

57:44

this fortune 500 company and We

57:47

were both taking a red-eye. We're on the same flight

57:49

to London. We got delayed So we start chit-chatting having

57:51

a drink. She was like, yeah, I do crazy business

57:53

over in the UK I was like I'm flying over

57:55

there to like shoot a show or whatever and she

57:58

was like, yeah I have my daughter's second mother birthday

58:00

party today and I'm like whoa whoa whoa I was

58:02

like how do you balance all this and she's like

58:04

Heather you're a comedian you've been bone-chilling tired on the

58:06

road she's like you're gonna be the motherhood would be

58:09

easy she's like you know what it's like to be

58:11

spread thin she's like you just figure it out women

58:13

figure it out she's like don't let that stop you

58:15

and I had this woman who I'd seen who I

58:17

met and she was so successful in her career and

58:19

I'm like here she is catching her red eye you

58:22

know to go kick ass and take names on

58:24

a Monday afternoon she's still throwing a party for a

58:26

kid she's like you just figure it out and

58:28

I was like when she told me she's like I

58:30

know you can do it I was like I know

58:32

we've had seven margaritas in the sky club but

58:34

I can't do it and I was like that

58:36

I gotta get on it so now how does it

58:39

feel to be back on the road good hard

58:41

all of the above it's more

58:43

I've always had like anxiety mental

58:45

health issues you know and I

58:48

think there's another layer

58:50

to it that is like

58:52

I want to be present with my daughter

58:55

but then I have to like turn that

58:57

brain off to turn off write a joke

58:59

brain right and go perform and so this

59:01

last week we started in September and I

59:03

was doing like fly away just theaters like

59:05

I would fly for 24 hours and fly

59:08

right back and so I just stay one

59:10

night away and then now I did

59:12

eight shows at this comedy club

59:14

just back to back to back and

59:16

it was hard leaving

59:19

her and turning the mom brain

59:21

off to turn comedy brain on

59:24

like I had anxiety all day

59:26

yeah until I walked up on

59:28

stage once I'm on stage mm-hmm

59:30

forget it right everything goes away I'm

59:32

in my zone it's like oh yeah

59:34

I remember how to do this oh

59:36

yeah I'm funny yeah you know what

59:38

I mean you start like

59:42

improvising with audience a little bit you're like oh

59:44

yeah I can say stuff that's

59:46

you know what I mean like oh yeah this brings

59:48

me so much joy usually it's the dread

59:50

going up do it where you're like I always tell myself

59:52

like right before I'm about to walk out for a big show

59:54

I go why why am I doing this who

59:57

signs up to do this this is insane

59:59

I am it's sociopath and then literally as I

1:00:01

walk out my glitter I'm like this is the

1:00:03

best moment of my life every time Doesn't

1:00:05

matter if I'm where I am. I'm like,

1:00:07

yeah, it's the greatest feeling in the world. Yeah.

1:00:09

Yeah Yeah, so it's been hard transitioning and going

1:00:12

back and forth and eventually I'll

1:00:14

learn a balance. Yeah of it I don't have

1:00:16

it right now. I still am I was trying

1:00:18

to explain it to my husband that I'm like

1:00:22

It's really hard because I'm thinking about What

1:00:25

I'm doing right now what I just did

1:00:27

with her was that the right move what

1:00:29

I'm about to do with her Five steps

1:00:31

from now. I have to

1:00:33

pack her suitcase in two days and

1:00:35

I'm always thinking about everything my daughter

1:00:37

But if I don't then I'm afraid I'm gonna

1:00:39

forget to feed her, you know, like I'm mental load

1:00:42

I saw a bunch of tiktoks on it and I've

1:00:44

been talking to my husband about like how we

1:00:46

balance the mental load He's like, okay. So you

1:00:48

found a couple ticktocks if I hear mental load one

1:00:50

more time But I was like, this is the

1:00:52

best way I've ever heard it described for women.

1:00:54

It's the mental load It's the thinking for people

1:00:56

outside of yourself then having to also think for

1:00:58

yourself It's constantly like what is the next thing

1:01:00

on your plate? Because if you don't have a

1:01:02

million balls in the air, you know, one of

1:01:04

them is gonna drop and it's just constantly like

1:01:06

I That's why I explained to my husband We

1:01:08

like I to sit down at Christmas like I

1:01:10

need you to understand the mental load that I

1:01:12

feel I'm out there on the road I am

1:01:14

trying to entertain and give a hundred percent 120

1:01:16

percent to my audience and my people But I'm

1:01:18

also then worried about what's happening at home worried

1:01:21

about you Am I a good wife and

1:01:23

by doing this and I don't want to say

1:01:25

that guys have it easy But they don't think

1:01:27

and carry the weight of how we feel at

1:01:29

home with them It's like how guys can fall

1:01:32

asleep in like three seconds, you know me Jeff

1:01:34

puts on a breeze ride strip He's he's out.

1:01:36

I'm up doomsday prepping on yeah, I'm writing jokes.

1:01:38

I'm sweating in the bed. My hormones are crazy

1:01:40

Yeah, so I've got to like change the sheets.

1:01:43

I mean it's like unbelievable Yeah, it's

1:01:45

just the way we have more on

1:01:47

our brains to carry Absolutely, and I'll

1:01:50

my husband be like, oh, how'd you sleep?

1:01:52

I'm like I think I'll bet to like one or two.

1:01:54

He's like why I'm like cuz I was researching I

1:01:56

was researching how to large I'll

1:01:58

yeah, keep the lights Yes, I

1:02:00

was researching so then I can tell you what to

1:02:02

do. Yeah, yeah. I

1:02:05

suffer with anxiety too and I never really

1:02:07

had it until things really started to pop

1:02:09

off in my career because then I started to feel

1:02:11

the pressure for myself. And I

1:02:13

mean like I would have a panic attack before

1:02:15

a show and I was like, I

1:02:18

never experienced this before. I wasn't

1:02:20

nervous to perform. Performing is the one place like you

1:02:22

said where you feel in the zone, in the pocket

1:02:24

comfortable but it was almost like I felt like the

1:02:26

weight of the world on my shoulders. And then I had to

1:02:28

like finally have a moment with myself where I'm like, this

1:02:31

is comedy. Nothing matters. Yeah, yeah,

1:02:33

yeah. How do you do with anxiety on the road?

1:02:36

I have my tools. Yeah. Yeah, what are you

1:02:38

doing with your toolbox? Because I'm an action steps

1:02:40

kind of person. I love to hear this. So

1:02:42

first is gratitude. And

1:02:44

when I was struggling real bad with my

1:02:46

anxiety, it was something I would make my

1:02:48

whole green room do. Whoever

1:02:51

was there. I love that. My

1:02:53

road manager, my opener, whoever was in the

1:02:55

room, we would go around the room and everybody would

1:02:57

say five things that they're grateful for. Beautiful. Because

1:03:00

when you say it out loud, you hear

1:03:02

yourself say the thing that you're

1:03:04

grateful for. So it's like you're

1:03:06

raising your vibration and then you're hearing it. So you say

1:03:08

it, you speak it into existence and then it comes back

1:03:10

in. It's like a big circle. And

1:03:13

so you're like raising your vibration with gratitude. It's

1:03:15

gorgeous. So we would go around the room. We'd

1:03:17

say five things that we're grateful for. That's one

1:03:19

thing. My breathing techniques.

1:03:22

I had a doctor teach me this

1:03:24

one time where it's just you plug

1:03:26

one nostril, inhale, and then exhale

1:03:29

and then go back and do that. It's

1:03:32

kind of like choking yourself out a little

1:03:35

bit. You just plug one nostril and you

1:03:37

just you realize you're more anxious about figuring

1:03:39

out how to breathe than you are about

1:03:41

the panic attack. It's about relocating

1:03:43

your anxiety. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah.

1:03:47

Yeah. Yeah. It works

1:03:49

for me every time. Uh-huh. Yeah. I

1:03:52

feel like I'm at a longer pressure and I'm

1:03:54

constantly doing this a lot. I got into the

1:03:57

tapping. Like literally I'll just start tapping doing the

1:03:59

around my feet. Everyone's

1:04:01

like, what are you doing? I'm like, guys, I

1:04:03

feel anxiety coming on. And I just started tapping all

1:04:05

these different points on my face. But it just, it

1:04:07

kind of like, I don't know, it like recirculates the

1:04:10

nervous system. Yeah. And then this

1:04:12

one's a weird one, but it's helpful. I

1:04:14

put on Law and Order SVU in the background. Oh,

1:04:16

yeah. And there's

1:04:19

just something about that noise,

1:04:21

that white noise of Law and Order SVU

1:04:24

that I just chill out.

1:04:26

I love that. Like it reminds me of

1:04:28

a lazy Sunday. It reminds me of a

1:04:30

whatever. Like, no, you're not in the green

1:04:32

room getting ready and like super anxious. It's

1:04:34

like you're home doing laundry with SVU in

1:04:37

the background. Like, I don't know what it

1:04:39

is. But when I put on... Hearing party

1:04:41

girls being like, we saw nothing. Minds

1:04:44

up. People are always like, what do

1:04:46

you do before a show? I'm like, it is

1:04:48

so fucking grandma. I listen to a very specific

1:04:50

playlist called Cocktail Jazz on Spotify. And it makes

1:04:52

me feel like I'm at the

1:04:54

Carlisle Hotel in New York at the Ben Mlements Bar.

1:04:57

Like you said, not about to do a show. I'm

1:04:59

relaxing. It's my night off. I'm with

1:05:01

my husband. I'm having a nice burger and a dirty

1:05:03

martini. That is what I listen to. I don't... And

1:05:06

then like 20 minutes before the show, if I'm feeling good and I'm doing my

1:05:08

makeup, I'll put on like my high playlist. But it's

1:05:10

like, that's... Your SVU is my cocktail

1:05:13

jazz. Yeah. And then my

1:05:15

one last tip. This is for like

1:05:17

when I have anxiety leading up to

1:05:19

something. Whether it's going on the road,

1:05:22

you're filming something, you have a big

1:05:24

meeting or whatever it is. I'm

1:05:27

going on the road on the 26th of the month.

1:05:32

By the first, I'm already anxious

1:05:34

about it. I'm already thinking about it. I

1:05:36

started doing this thing where I would

1:05:38

tell myself, I'm going to

1:05:40

allow you to feel anxious, just

1:05:43

not yet. I'm going to allow you,

1:05:45

if you're leaving on the 26th, by the 23rd, I'm going

1:05:47

to let you

1:05:50

start feeling anxious. So don't worry. I'm

1:05:52

not going to rob this feeling from you. Anxiety, I'm going

1:05:54

to let you come. I'm going to let you do whatever

1:05:56

you do and work through my body. I'm going to let

1:05:58

you do it, but not yet. And

1:06:00

I would bring it into check because I

1:06:02

would otherwise I have anxiety the whole month

1:06:05

So once I told myself like oh, no, there's a time in

1:06:07

a place and I'm gonna get it It's almost

1:06:09

like telling a kid like okay. I'm gonna

1:06:11

give this to you, but after you Right

1:06:15

clean your room after you blah blah blah No

1:06:17

I'm gonna give you that time to get anxious

1:06:19

and go through the motions and do whatever you

1:06:21

got to do Just not yet. I

1:06:24

like that helped me. It's like

1:06:26

bargaining. You're bargaining with yourself Yeah, lie self-talk

1:06:28

lie. So thought a lot of self-talk that

1:06:30

for me It was so like when I

1:06:32

would get anxious It was wild because I

1:06:36

always felt like I've been pretty level-headed and for

1:06:38

it to be a physical mine was such a

1:06:40

physical anxiety I'd be like why am I able

1:06:42

to think clear but my I feel like my

1:06:45

heart is racing I feel like I'm gonna be

1:06:47

sick. My throat is closing, you know, and then I'm over

1:06:49

here in the corner in front of me just Clogging

1:06:52

up my nose and my husband's like well, you're about

1:06:54

to black out like mine was always

1:06:56

such a physical manifestation for me Like right before a

1:06:58

show I do like a really nice physical warm-up. I

1:07:01

am in these glitter suits I am doing jumping

1:07:03

jacks backstage Like I actually have to like move

1:07:05

the energy through my body and then

1:07:07

I get super tired Like I will you know, I'll

1:07:10

be in the wing at a show and the security

1:07:12

guards like are you do you want to do this? I'm like,

1:07:14

no, no, this is what I do I look so

1:07:16

sleepy and tired and yummy right before I am about

1:07:18

to go out and perform for people And

1:07:20

then all of a sudden it's like my body just shuts down

1:07:22

and like right now it's go time Yeah,

1:07:25

I used to put a pillow and a blanket

1:07:27

on my writer Yeah Because I would get tired

1:07:29

So I'm like I just need to lay down

1:07:31

and then I said realizing it was like

1:07:33

like a nervous tick like an anxiety Tick and

1:07:36

I was like, oh I'm not actually tired. It's

1:07:38

just when I get anxiety The

1:07:41

sleepies come right and I would be I would

1:07:43

get cold So I was like always put a

1:07:45

blanket there because I wasn't doing jimmy jacks in

1:07:47

the room So I would always put like a

1:07:49

blanket in a row that was in the beginning

1:07:51

of my career when I was super anxious and

1:07:53

nervous About things but um, yeah, I get that

1:07:55

getting sleepy We

1:08:00

got a surprise a surprise. I feel

1:08:03

nervous. Hold on. I have weird feeling I

1:08:05

know what it is. Yeah Okay.

1:08:08

Hello girls. Can you hear me? Oh Hi,

1:08:13

hello, it's Emily I'm live listening to you

1:08:15

both right now from Bob you love us

1:08:17

Oh Emily we love you I

1:08:20

had to call in cuz I know there's no

1:08:22

voicemails, but I have to give a absolutely yes

1:08:24

and a not but I'll be nice

1:08:26

Okay, great. Okay, so the absolute yes

1:08:28

is obviously to both of you Letting

1:08:31

me be on your team as I think

1:08:33

the youngest member of both Young

1:08:36

and useful we hate you Emily. Yeah It's

1:08:40

a great thing is you know for you

1:08:42

Millennials can be hard But I want to

1:08:44

give a shout out to you to specifically

1:08:47

have gone out of your way to Give

1:08:49

me a presence on your team in this industry.

1:08:52

It can be really Oh You

1:08:55

know to find a voice or get an opinion out

1:08:57

there and you both Empower me and

1:08:59

always like no I want to hear Emily's take Emily

1:09:03

honestly the only one I trust

1:09:10

My absolutely not in

1:09:13

regards to both of your Instagram. Hey you Both

1:09:16

of you struggle with two things which

1:09:18

are one the font Hey

1:09:21

Heather you like your 3d

1:09:23

like black gray white slanted. Oh,

1:09:25

yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

1:09:28

so it pops so my other

1:09:30

elder Millennials can read it Emily

1:09:34

Okay, it's giving 3d

1:09:37

and Angela, you know that you like

1:09:39

the comic fans you address that yeah,

1:09:41

I like it's legible It's legible. We're

1:09:43

surviving Emily Yeah,

1:09:46

well, okay. Okay. Now my second thing

1:09:48

is why do you both when

1:09:50

you have a picture that you're gonna upload feel

1:09:52

like you Need to like shrink it a little

1:09:54

maybe give it a little twist do

1:10:00

that sometimes. What do you mean? Oh I

1:10:02

have evidence both of like in your stories

1:10:04

you swipe up and you put the picture

1:10:06

but then you like squeeze it to make

1:10:08

it smaller and like type something on the

1:10:10

side maybe. Or you like let it spill

1:10:12

the whole screen. Oh yeah because I'll tell

1:10:15

you why because sometimes if I'm wearing like

1:10:17

a colorful outfit and then you try and

1:10:19

put the thought over it you can't read

1:10:21

it. Yeah and sometimes in the background you

1:10:24

can see that there's a messy house and

1:10:26

I don't want you to see it so

1:10:28

I zoomed in please. You

1:10:30

know what Emily we love you

1:10:32

but I just feel like you're also coming for

1:10:34

us right now and we're very upset about it.

1:10:38

You know I had to start off nice I

1:10:40

gave you my absolutely yes I praised you for

1:10:42

being amazing team leaders but I did have to

1:10:44

give you a little you

1:10:46

know a little tip of maybe let's fill the screen

1:10:49

let's go for that you know straight

1:10:51

no background font. Listen I appreciate it

1:10:53

I appreciate all your wisdom yeah we

1:10:55

do all your opinion that you give

1:10:57

it I really I do rely on

1:10:59

your opinion a lot I'm so grateful

1:11:01

for you and my favorite is when

1:11:04

like I'm gonna post something I'll be like Emily what

1:11:06

do you think my caption should be and then she'll

1:11:08

talk about this like beautiful caption I'd be like nah

1:11:10

let's just say this. Literally

1:11:13

my response is always chicken tinnies in the in

1:11:15

the club and she's like this is so embarrassing

1:11:17

I was like but my audience knows I mean

1:11:19

chicken tinnies in the club. Yes

1:11:22

yes. Oh well Emily listen we love

1:11:24

you I'm so glad

1:11:26

that you're on the team too I'm so glad

1:11:28

that you brought us together and

1:11:31

you know what cheers to bad

1:11:33

bitches getting stuff done. Yes. Heck

1:11:35

yes okay I love you both. Love you. Bye

1:11:37

honey. I love her and I say I hate

1:11:39

you to her like 10 times a day. I

1:11:41

do too she's fired she absolutely Emily have you

1:11:44

heard this your first absolutely fired

1:11:46

just drug me on my own podcast.

1:11:48

Let me tell you I can't tell

1:11:50

you how

1:11:52

many times I text her you're fired like regularly

1:11:54

I text her that she's like are you gonna

1:11:56

fire me again and I'm like yes you're a

1:11:58

fire. Yeah, she's

1:12:00

so funny like I tell her at least once a

1:12:02

day. I'm like oh my god she'll send me a

1:12:05

photo and it was very hard for me

1:12:07

to like relinquish control because I Instagram

1:12:09

is where I thrive, but now I like feel archaic

1:12:11

on the tick-tock Yeah, like well, how do I get

1:12:13

this in the algorithm? Yeah, and she's like well, just

1:12:15

let me do it But every day I was we

1:12:18

were going through Emmys photos today No, it's so nice

1:12:20

to be able to like Emily you you find it

1:12:22

and post it cuz I that's an again the mental

1:12:24

loads Too much. Yeah, and every day I text I

1:12:26

go Emily you're not gonna understand this but I'm I'm

1:12:28

you know I'm in my late 30s. I was like

1:12:30

I gotta get this neck done. She's like no, it

1:12:32

looks fine I'm like no, no Emily we got to get the neck

1:12:34

done and today she didn't argue with me. She's like, yeah, okay I

1:12:40

love her though. She keeps me young and youthful. Yeah

1:12:43

She sent me an entire PowerPoint presentation on

1:12:45

the things that I needed to buy to

1:12:48

to stay cool Wow,

1:12:50

you did not so she's fired. Well, I

1:12:53

did ask for it, but you're already cool right now

1:12:55

Like you're cool. You've already got the matching sweats and

1:12:57

the clothes. It was like you're you know, I mean

1:13:00

you already Thank you. I thought

1:13:02

I was cool until I met Emily Yeah,

1:13:04

and then she'll knock you down real quick

1:13:06

and she'd be like, hmm. Oh my god

1:13:08

First of all, I speak gift really well,

1:13:10

like if we're gonna text each other Well,

1:13:12

first of all, we need to be gift friends Yeah,

1:13:14

because she told me when she told me that we

1:13:16

couldn't give yeah, I just started doubling down on the

1:13:19

gas. Yeah I was so mad. I was well

1:13:21

at first I tried to abide by it I

1:13:23

was like I was like it was like biting

1:13:25

my tongue. I really wanted to send this gift.

1:13:27

I'm like, nah Emily's in the chat Yeah, I

1:13:29

like I want to be cool I want to

1:13:31

abide by the cool rules and then I was

1:13:33

like, you know what rebellion Let's just and now

1:13:35

it's just gifts all day when she started sending

1:13:37

me links to like iTunes links

1:13:39

to songs I'm how to feel

1:13:42

she's like, no, we don't sing gifts. We

1:13:44

send links to songs. So that's too much

1:13:46

work No, no, no, no, I want to

1:13:48

be able to see Larry David like going

1:13:50

like really? Yeah, that's how that's the response

1:13:53

Yeah, I think that Williams Larry David like

1:13:55

just kind of confused that that lady who's

1:13:57

confused with like, you know All the numbers and letters around her

1:13:59

head I send that one all the time. I

1:14:01

send all the random screenshots from TikToks that you've never

1:14:04

actually seen the TikTok You just know the guy's face

1:14:06

like yeah this yeah, you know

1:14:08

what we get I always say this stay

1:14:11

in your lane I know what I'm good at you

1:14:13

know what you're good at yeah, she can help us stay

1:14:15

cool online But you know what I'm gonna stay in

1:14:17

my life. Bye. I'm a gift card. Angela

1:14:19

I love and adore you I'm not gonna keep you any longer, but

1:14:21

I just want to say it's so

1:14:23

nice to meet other really phenomenal Obviously

1:14:25

you're so talented We're really kind and

1:14:28

wonderful people in the days and I am so

1:14:30

rooting for you And I adore you and I really think

1:14:32

we should pitch something together and get in some 10-year

1:14:34

development deal But like long enough for us to have

1:14:36

a couple more kids or whatever we want to do

1:14:38

And then we like shoot this when we're

1:14:41

50 you know my gosh yes And yes,

1:14:43

and also lawn order SVU the two girls

1:14:45

walking out of the club who find the

1:14:47

dead body Right here. We're

1:14:49

ready Tell everybody where they can find you

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and anything you want to promote your new

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1:14:55

find my tour dates on my website Angela

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