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When an Eva Derrick, he was 12 years old, his bicycle broke and he was left to walk the streets of Columbus, Ohio.

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You can hide The hook.

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A Delfonics line turned upside down when taken out of the hands of men, Fight

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Welcome to unhappy hour. The show where we bitch about, oh, the things we love to hate every single week.

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I'm your host, Matt Bella side.

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I'm

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here

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in

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the

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studio

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right

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across

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my

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producer,

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Barry. Thank God. Hi.

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Hey Matt. I miss you.

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Well, you know, I, I discovered that I actually really need on happy hour every week, because if I don't have this space to just like, get things off my chest, I end up fully screaming at people on the streets.

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I

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mean,

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to

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be

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fair,

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he

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deserved

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it. I was biking.

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I was right at the end of my block.

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I was not paying attention. I went through a red.

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Totally. My fault. A guy was stepping off like a, like a middle-aged white guy, smaller than me.

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So I think subconsciously, I was like, I could take him if I needed to, he was stepping off the curb.

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I went behind him. I didn't cut him off in front.

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I went behind him and I was like, oh.

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And he was like, you went behind Him.

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I didn't even cut him off. I wouldn't be behind him.

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And he was like, it's a red light.

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And I was like, oh yeah, sorry. I, I apologize.

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It was my fault. It was my bad.

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And then he went bitch and I said, Hey.

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And then he said, bitch again.

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And then I fully became the Chevelle and I got off my bike and I was like, who the fuck do you think you are?

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Like, no. Really? Who do you think? And we kept going at it until he actually physically ran away from me calling me white trash.

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So you chased a man down the street?

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I did. I did. But I was like, no. If he had said bitch, it was a red light.

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That would have been fine. But the fact that he won, I didn't cut him off too.

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I apologized immediately.

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And then he called me a bitch.

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I was like, oh no, no, no, no, not today. And it was like seven years of being yelled at on the street, just like, and never doing anything about it.

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It just all came out. But also it was the same week that we didn't have an unhappy hour according.

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So I think it was that pent up aggression.

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I'm able to get off my chest and I'm able to really just get out there.

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It's why it's important to compose so that you don't keep it bottled inside.

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And then, I mean, but the man deserved it.

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I did then immediately I went back and I apologize to all the guys at the bodega to Midwestern for my own good.

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Then I was like, I'm really sorry about it. Then they were all like, no, you were in the right.

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We would have done the same thing. And this other guy was like, people suck.

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And then I started biking away and then I started sobbing and I went home and was held by my boyfriend.

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So it's fine. I'm fine.

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Number of emotions that you have bottled up inside.

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Glad we're back. Hopefully we won't be repeating that this next week.

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Are you doing my week while I was in the bike lane and this girl rode through and I called her a bitch, she, she chased me down the street.

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So it wasn't crazy.

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Yeah,

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my

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week's

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fine. I dunno. I was in a bad mood today, but then I ate a sandwich and I think that was the problem.

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It's amazing. My Alex always is like, you just need to carry around snacks because nine out of 10, when you get angry, it's because you're hungry.

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And if you just have a snack, you're going to be fine.

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And it's, it's upsetting how true that is.

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Yeah. Anyway, I'm also in a good mood because I have some shows coming up.

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I'll be in Denver at the comedy works there.

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Comedy works south to be exact, September 23rd, 24th and 25th.

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I'm doing five shows there and I'll also be in Delaware.

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Yeah, I'm going all the way back to the beginning.

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Folks. First state baby Bat

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is November 12th.

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So we'll put the link, just map lsi.com/tour.

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And

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yeah,

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I'm

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going

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to

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be

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adding

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more

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shows

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all

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over

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the

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place. Love it. Yeah.

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So that's exciting.

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And what else is exciting?

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Today's episode.

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Cause what do we got coming up?

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We're kicking things off as always with horse things.

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First I shot about the stupidest most ridiculous worst news of the week.

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After that we're diving deep into skin care.

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We got creams, lotions oils.

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There's simply too much and I want to rant about it.

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And finally we have got one of my favorites, Emmy award winner, comedian TV, fricking producer writer, Ashley, Nicole Black, as a returning guest complainer.

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We've had Ashley on the pop before.

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We're so happy. She's back to bench with us.

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We'll get into airline travel, feeling old stalking people online so much more so let's get into it.

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Let's do it. Let's start the show.

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Oh

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right. Course things. First. Let shout about let's stupidest.

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Most ridiculous. Worst news. Oh, an 80 pound Cougar.

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Okay. Legend Was

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removed from an apartment in New York city where it was being kept illegally as a pet.

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The idea of having even a large dog in New York city is unfathomable to me even though fat cat, I think is a little, it's pushing it a little bit.

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An 80 pound wild grown jungle.

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Cat is a Cougar. A jungle cat.

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No, it's like a mountain Mountain

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lion.

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I don't think it should be in any apartment.

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No, absolutely Not. Especially New York.

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No, I also just w does it, did it say where, what neighborhood this was in, for some reason I'm getting like upper east side vibes.

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Sure. Like I'm taking my Kruger for a walk today.

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Yeah. I got to put on my pearls. Got to put on my Tiara.

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Cougar has a matching Pearl. Pearl collar.

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Yeah. No, it did not say, but the Cougar it's named Sasha was just 11 months old.

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I

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don't

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know

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if

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they

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gave

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the

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nickname

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Sasha

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after

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it

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was

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surrendered. It seems weird.

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Yeah. It's like 11 months old.

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She's probably as a name.

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She's headed to a wildlife refuge in Arkansas now.

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But yeah, the, the humane society, they quoted this guy who was like, yeah, it's always sad to see Cougar, as you know, in cages.

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That's not where they belong, but really it's sad for the owners who have to who it was like, grew to love them as pets.

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And now they don't have them anymore.

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And it's like, well, they knew they were fully adopting a wild animal, A

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cat, just like a Regular cat.

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It's like, you adopt a dog.

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And it like turns out to be an asshole.

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It's like, you fully knew that this, this Cougar was going to grow up to be a Cougar.

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But

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yeah,

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he

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was

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like,

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I've

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also

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seen

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a

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heartbreak

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of

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owners,

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like

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in

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this

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case,

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after

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being

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sold,

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not

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just

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a

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wild

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animal,

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but

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a

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false

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stream

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that

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they

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could

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make

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a

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good

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pet. Who has this dream.

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Oh, no. It makes no sense.

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It makes No sense.

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The owners. Yeah.

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I guess the owner was like sobbing while they took this big cat away.

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And it's like, guess what? You knew this was going to happen.

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Folks. I empathize. I understand.

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I was in like a pretty similar situation because when I was little, my grandma told me that I adopted Anastasia, which was this tiger at the Brookfield zoo.

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And I was like, oh my God, she's my tiger.

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She's my, now it was just like a donation thing where then like, you get a picture of the tiger, but I took it very seriously.

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And I went to the zoo and I, I, there was like a kid next to me.

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And I was like, I'm a kid.

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I was like, no, it's not like we all own this tiger.

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And then I, I felt the absolute heartbreak.

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So like, I understand where this person's coming from.

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But like Anastasia was at the zoo in my home.

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I also love that they quoted a department of environmental conservation commissioner named basil.

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Sagos great dam.

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And Bazell clarified that cougars may look cute and cuddly when they're young, but these animals can grow up to be unpredictable and dangerous To

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reframe that or a slight edit.

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It's not that these animals can grow up to be unpredictable and dangerous it's that these animals will grow up.

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What do we not understand That?

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I mean, I've seen born free. I get it. But like the beginning of born free is a lion attacking.

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So I don't remember that at all.

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That's the beginning of the film Born

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free, free.

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I know the song I've seen the Prego commercials.

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Okay. Maxed love the story of, we might've talked about this before actually, but this is the resolution it judge in Michigan ordered a couple to pay $30,000 to their 43 year-old ground son for getting rid of his pornography collection.

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Wow. $30,000, $30,000 and $441 to be exact.

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Wow. So yeah, this was like eight months ago, the son sued his parents.

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He said that they had no right to throw out his collection.

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It had films, magazines, and other items don't know what that means.

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Exactly. I'm assuming, I don't know.

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Blue rays, cassette tapes.

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Disks. Yeah. So this guy, he, he he'd gotten a divorce.

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And

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so

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he

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moved

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in

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with

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his

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parents

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for

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10

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months. And, and I guess in that time they, they threw away.

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I don't know if he brought all of his porn with him to their house Or

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if it was there. And then like, he like moved in with his wife and didn't bring it, you know, like my rock collection is still at my parent's house.

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And if dad, if you throw that out, you better be ready to pay me $3 for that rock collection.

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Your dad's a lawyer I'll represent you in court.

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Oh, he'd be a great Lawyer. I also love that.

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So the judge, the value, the $30,000 value was set by an expert.

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Yeah. I just love that this expert had to go through all of the porn and like give it a monetary value.

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How great for him or her.

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They were having a beautiful time.

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Yo, where do you even go? Like, I don't know.

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Or you watch antique roadshow and like, you know, these people are like expert appraisers, but like how do you know how much porn is worth?

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Okay. Now I absolutely need an antique road show after dark edition with just people bringing it.

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Oh, Radhika.

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And

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finally

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love

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this

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story. So heartwarming and ultra conservative Bishop in Spain.

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So who has been a proponent of conversion therapy and I guess has carried out a number of exorcisms resigned his post as Bishop abruptly and the Roman Catholic church cited strictly personal reasons with, without going into detail.

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And now Spanish media is reporting that he resigned because he fell in love with a woman who writes satanic erotic fiction, sheer, sheer rock.

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Oh my God. Give this woman a standing ovation.

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Yeah. What a win for her. Really?

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You spend your life writing satanic erotic fiction, and then you'd NAB yourself ultra conservative.

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This is a powerful Woman

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taking down the Catholic church from inside.

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Yeah. She's written a number of books, including the hell of Gabriel's lust.

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Oh, damn.

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And a trilogy called amnesia.

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And

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I

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guess

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a

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blurb

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for

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one

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of

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her

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works,

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promises

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the

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reader,

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a

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journey

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into

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sadism,

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madness

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and

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lust,

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and

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a

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struggle

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between

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good

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and

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evil

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God

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and

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Satan

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with

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a

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plot

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to

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shake

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one's

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values

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and

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religious

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beliefs,

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The person who that was shaken to his goddamn core.

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So this guy, he became, he was the youngest Bishop ever, ever, ever.

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Bishop me say like seven.

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He was like 40.

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Anyway. So this guy became a Bishop in 2010 and he was kind of seen as like a rising star, but he decided to resign with the Vatican's approval.

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It came as a shock that he had fallen for this, this woman, also a divorce, a scandal.

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This should be the next, remember when the church like split apart?

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Cause king Henry was like, I want to divorce my bedroom.

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And

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then

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he

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like

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created

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his

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own

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religion. This is, this is the next, it's what she's going to do.

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I'm really getting like a millisecond Dre vibes from game of Thrones.

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This is Melisandre me. It's Anne Boleyn.

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So this guy is according to religion, digital great website.

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I read it constantly.

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I have notifications on for religion.

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We own digital. According to that site, the former Bishop is looking for a job in the Barcelona area as an agronomist, which is a soil scientist.

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So

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right. Remember, remember kids, whenever you think your degree is worth nothing.

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You never know when you resign your job as Bishop at the age of, I don't know, 52, because you fall in love with an erotic Satanics sex.

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Yes. You can always fall back on, on your expertise, soil, scientist, you know what else he soils the word of God?

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No, not actually.

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Anyway, best of luck to them also fuck that guy because yeah, he's still a proponent for conversion therapy, but have fun with, through a little wife and that's it for this week.

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So first things first, you can head to my Patrion patrion.com/map LSI, where you can see video of bonus, worst things for our stories.

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It's basically a bonus episode that shows up right in your podcast app with all of our bonus content.

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So a head to Patrion, patrion.com/map LSI, great way to support me, support the show, et cetera.

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Now we're diving deep into skin care.

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We're diving deep into these pores.

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Deep

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dive,

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deep

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dive,

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deep

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dive,

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deep

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dive,

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deep

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dive. Yeah.

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Deep, deep ties.

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Well,

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my

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skin

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has

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been

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not

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popping

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lately. As the kids say, as the kids, don't say the combination of, I don't know, alcohol, sugar, stress, humidity mask wearing means that my skin it's been breakout city and gas.

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Who's mayor this guy, I'm basically waging dermatological warfare on myself at all times.

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So I've been thinking a lot about beauty products, skin care, because everybody getting their mother has a skincare line.

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Everyone in their mother, I have a skincare line.

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And my question is how are there still new products?

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How have we not reached the, the, the edge of it?

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I don't understand that being said, we will be releasing the unhappy hour skincare lines.

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Yeah. And there we're all doing the same thing, which is to make my face look like the belly of a prize, winning pig, just smooth and a little wet look.

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But here's the deal.

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There are too many products.

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Why do we need a 50 step routine when you could just squeeze all of these magic ingredients into one bottle that I can jerk off onto my face with that makes it sound like I'm using the product to jerk off my deck instead of jerking off the tiny little pump.

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Yep. Yeah. Do You want to rephrase?

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No, I'll stand by it.

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I think it's a good idea.

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And I stand by it anyway.

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Let's talk beauty products fast.

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Shut the fuck up with the word.

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Serum is a CRM.

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This isn't an apothecary.

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Okay. You're not selling Romeo and Juliet poison so that they can kill themselves after hooking up.

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Literally once God, I just want an intense passion so that I can take poison that I bought from the local rich doctor.

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You're not, you're not some mad scientist.

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Also some of these places, they put their little serum in a bottle with a dropper.

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Like I'm supposed to feel like a little chemists, but I have places to be.

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I don't have time to manage an entire science lab just to get rid of my oily.

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T-zone also, why are there powders and creams?

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Can't we just decide on one medium for applying stuff to my face, dry or wet.

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I can't have both. I can't have both.

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And then some of them are, are literal liquids that I'm supposed to dab on with a little maxi pad or cotton ball.

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Do you know the little circle maxi pads that you use?

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Yeah. Here's how I feel about all makeup and skincare.

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You should just be able to apply it with your fingers.

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I think it's ridiculous to ask me to put it on anything else to then apply to my face.

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I'm like, no, what else are these boys for?

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I'm pointing to my hands.

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Yeah. Then there, there are those things. I mean, there's brushes obviously.

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And there's about a thousand different shapes of makeup brushes.

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And there are ones that like UV, like fucking clean themselves.

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Cause then you start thinking about like the, you have to clean the thing that cleans you.

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Yeah. You have a makeup brush sitting out on your sink in the bathroom.

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Guess what? Shit, particles all over that.

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And then they have those little foam butt plugs.

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So you can use to Yeah.

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Which of you apparently have to get wet first and then squeeze it and then use it.

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I don't know. No, man. I've watched like two YouTube videos.

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Yeah. Next what?

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Isn't a stringent even I will kill your entire family.

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You are making shit up.

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I swear to God in a stringent.

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Do you even know what that is?

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No, absolutely Not. I think it's like what?

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They, the hairdresser keeps all their instruments in out.

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Actually. It's what they spill on.

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Like maxi pads in the commercials and you're supposed to like rub it.

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I'm pretty sure witch Hazel. Isn't a stringent.

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And I remember when I was younger and I had like Acme in high school.

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Yeah. They were like, yeah, you just kind of rubbed some astringent on it.

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Definitely made it violently worse.

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There was not a help at all.

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It's supposed to be like witch.

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Hazel is what you use. I don't which he sold.

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It's just the weirdest name. I don't understand.

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Why are we calling things?

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What they called them in the 15 hundreds when they didn't know what anything was You

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bringing up? The high school acne treatment did remind me that like one of my dumbest moments of all time, it's like a moment that I it'll just come to me.

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Like once a month I'll be reminded of this memory, which is that I remember that like Neutrogena or someone put out one of those, they, they put out a face wash that was marketed as like waking your skin up.

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But I thought because of the commercials that it like actually makes you like feel more awake.

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And my friend saw it in my bathroom was like, oh, how was it?

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And I was like, I don't know. I like still feel just as sleepy Anyway.

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Yeah. That's almost a memory that I would keep to myself.

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That'd

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be

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sad. There is room in the market for a face moisturizer that literally wakes you up.

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I be like, at this point, they're like, fuck it.

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Rub coffee on your face. See if we get a shot also.

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Yeah. Speaking of high school, did you ever use Proactiv?

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I bet you did.

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I didn't. I wanted to though those commercials made me want to use.

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Yeah, there was a day. There was a time when you couldn't go a single day without Jessica Simpson reminding you that your face looks like the bottom of a dentist aquarium.

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And you know what Jessica Simpson never mentioned in those commercials that you would absolutely destroy your mom's entire collection of bathroom towels.

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I don't know. What is the, what is the ingredient in pro it's like benzoyl peroxide or something.

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It's a little acid that you're just rubbing on your face or burn off your acne.

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But it, it, it will die anything, but it touches us.

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Yeah. So we had that in my house and my mom gets so mad.

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Cause my brother and I would destroy literally every towel in the bathroom every time.

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Because even if you like completely rinse off and then just dry your face, it'll like, yeah, it fucks up towels.

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It fucks them up.

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Why don't you say that? Jessica Simpson maxed.

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Nobody knows what the hell toner does name one person who knows what toner and I'll show you a fool.

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Okay. Oh, you're eating it up.

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Aren't you? Aren't you folks who are out here robbing toner all over your face.

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Like it's paint primer. It's supposed to make a difference.

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When you lather on the rest of your shit, it's not doing anything grow up also.

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What is BB cream or CC cream?

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What are the difference between those two?

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I guess that is like tinted moisturizer.

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It's like a BB cream or a CC cream is a tinted moisturizer.

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I don't know. I've gone through phases of my life where I try to really get into skincare and like really learn about it.

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And then I'm just like, I retained zero information about it and it just makes me feel full of shame.

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So then the phase passes and I go back to just like, But

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that's what it's designed to do.

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I

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know

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it's

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to

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fill

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you

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with

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shame. That's why we're taking it back in this segment.

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We're saying, no, you, you can take our money, but you can't take our pride.

24:17

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Well, my guests today is returning guests, complainer the stunning, the groundbreaking, the Emmy award, winning Ashley, Nicole Black.

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You've seen her on a black lady sketch show, full frontal with Samantha bee, the Amber Ruffin show, and twice on this year's Emmy nominee list.

28:41

Welcome back, Ashley, Nicole Black.

28:45

I am so excited to be back. I feel like it's been years.

28:49

I know. I, I feel both like we were just in a room together and also like it was eight years ago Because last year took 10 years off of all of our lives.

29:03

They lasted three months.

29:06

Yeah. I was thinking back cause you were on, I believe it was in 2018 that you were last on the show and we recorded in the studio and we took a picture afterwards and I looked at it after and I had full under boob sweat, like down, down to my belly button.

29:26

It's literally what you said you reported in 2018.

29:28

I was like, I don't know what year it was, but I remember being very hot.

29:33

Yeah. So at the very least we're both hopefully in like air conditioned rooms right now, we'll be less sweaty than before or at the very least, you know, we're not in the same room to smell one another sweaty bodies.

29:47

So That is what COVID has given us.

29:51

That is true. Yeah. I am barefoot. I am, my thighs are out, you know, we're filming from the belly button up.

29:58

It's fine.

30:00

Well, we're going to start like we did last time with the question.

30:04

What is one thing you hate that everybody else loves?

30:09

Okay. I thought a lot about this because mine is very now specific.

30:12

I don't feel this way all the time, but right now, good airline travel.

30:18

I have gotten, I want to say four invitations to fly somewhere in the past week.

30:25

And I'm like, is this happening?

30:27

Right. I thought COVID was still happening.

30:29

You're Still in it.

30:32

You're like literally one was like fly to New York for dinner.

30:35

And I was like, you want me to sit in a tube of COVID for six hours for dinner?

30:43

You got that. That's like, you're flying me somewhere.

30:46

Expecting me to fly somewhere for dinner.

30:49

Like I'm going to need a private chartered plane.

30:55

Yeah. And then you're flying me right back. Yeah.

30:56

If we're flying for dinner people, we have to also be private jet people.

31:02

Right. Exactly.

31:03

And at that rate, you know, we might as well be going to Italy or something.

31:07

Let's not limit ourselves just to New York.

31:14

Yeah. I agree. I haven't been on an airplane since probably January or February of last year and people are going wild right now.

31:24

They're back there.

31:26

They're going all over the place. Yeah. And I get it.

31:29

I think like you have to understand human nature.

31:31

And there was only so long people were going to not live their normal lives, but I'm like, I just don't have to do it.

31:41

Yeah. Yeah. If you don't have to, then it's like, I'm not going to go out of my way to go on an airplane.

31:48

Yeah. I, yeah. Airplanes were already bad enough.

31:52

You know, this is well trod territory.

31:54

We know this, but even now I'm like, I remember even the last time I was on a plane, which was like, just as I, that was like the beginning of things starting to get bad.

32:06

And I was like, you just become intensely aware of everybody else's mouth in, in this enclosed space.

32:15

And yeah. I don't know if I'll ever get back to not being aware of everybody's mouth on an airplane.

32:21

Yeah. I actually in real life loved to travel, but now like, all I can think about is how many people have touched everything like that.

32:28

See, you're sitting in so many people sat in it.

32:30

So many people have touched it. Their skin cells are all over it.

32:34

Every inch of your hotel room is covered in skin cells.

32:40

I'm just not going to forget that.

32:44

Yeah. You know, there's something about like, you almost just have to embrace the fact that we are all covered in one another's filth at all times.

32:54

Yeah. Once you get past that hurdle, it's fun.

32:57

You have to make it safe. And you're like, we're all one.

32:59

We're all part of the human community to sharing droplets and skins.

33:06

Right, right. We're all absolutely disgusting or all, you know, gods horrific creations.

33:15

I don't know why I just got spiritual, but you get it.

33:18

You get it.

33:21

Yeah. Last time. Okay.

33:22

So how have you been now?

33:26

It seems like you have had a, a rather good year professionally, but also like it's been a shitty year all around.

33:36

So like what is the last year kind of look like?

33:40

Yeah. It's been crazy because I did.

33:45

So I worked on three shows last year, which is kind of crazy as a writer, but I did them all from my house on zoom.

33:54

So it's was like, I never left the house. So it doesn't feel like you're doing that much.

33:57

You're just like, oh, I'll get off this zoom and get on this zoom.

33:59

And, and then when like the Emmy nominations came out, it was just like, look, somebody literally tweeted how many jobs this bitch gonna have.

34:13

I do feel like you write for like every TV show.

34:17

I genuinely feel like I'm, I'm just waiting for your credit to pop up.

34:20

Like every TV show that I'm watching.

34:23

It's like the whole world is having an intervention with me.

34:26

Cause like at the time it seems very normal.

34:28

But then now I'm like, yeah, I guess I really like put all of my COVID anxiety into doing more and more work and I might need to work out, You

34:39

know what? It seems like it's working out and less.

34:43

Like you turn off the zoom and like stab your thigh before, because you can't take it anymore.

34:49

But it seems like it's working. Okay. He did one time and I was really tired.

34:52

I put the zoo like on my coffee table, on the couch literally.

34:56

Then when it was done, I like closed the thing.

34:59

I just went directly. It took that.

35:03

And that is what you can't do working in person.

35:07

Yeah. I feel like I'm, I'm inclined to ask the cliche question, which is like, how the fuck do you do at all?

35:14

But I feel like my, my, my version of that question will just be like, what is, what does your day look like?

35:20

You know? Like what do you do?

35:23

Are you an early morning person?

35:25

Do you wake up and like, do you have a routine?

35:27

Like what is the, what is the routine?

35:29

Yeah. Well, to answer the first question it was COVID.

35:32

I do feel like I'm getting too much credit.

35:34

There was nothing else to do. It's not like You're

35:40

not balancing like an entire family of children bustling socially, But

35:48

I have become an early morning person as I've aged.

35:54

And also because it is hotter in LA, you just wake up earlier.

35:58

Cause like it's just too hot to still be in bed by like 7:00 AM.

36:03

So I like to get up early cause that's like my only time to myself.

36:09

So I would get up early and walk the dog, go to the gym if I'm going to like listen to a podcast or I have like a ongoing text chat with girlfriends.

36:19

Like that's when I check in on all of those like fun things.

36:22

And then I usually, if I'm in a writer's room on zoom from like 10 to four, and then I usually am writing like a feature or a pilot or something else that I'll work on from like four to seven.

36:38

And then I like take my brain out of my head and put it in a jar because my brain is just like, it's like a husk.

36:49

Like all the moisture is sucked out all day.

36:55

I I'm exhausted just hearing that.

36:58

I like, I mean, I guess that is the root, like that is the work hours that most people have.

37:05

And, and me I'm just like, I'm out, I'm already out, But

37:10

only I write on comedy shows.

37:12

So even like the work is still like sitting around being like, what if this happened with like a fucking girl?

37:21

And I'm always like, what if they kiss? Like it's not, it's not ours risks.

37:27

Right? I guess so, you know, it's not like, you know, Hemingway sitting down trying to write the next great American novel.

37:34

Not that what you are doing is not Hemingway.

37:37

S I say this as a, you know, as another comedy writer.

37:45

I know sometimes we're just like, thinking about, okay, what if this elephant was on a unicycle?

37:51

Well, I also think like a lot of writers and some comedy writers are like invested in the idea that like writing is suffering and let's stay at work.

38:01

So two o'clock in the morning and suffer for our art.

38:04

And I do try to work with people who are just like, this should be a good time.

38:09

Like sometimes it's late and you may have to stay late.

38:11

We may have to rewrite something. Cause something went wrong.

38:13

It happens. But like, for the most part, we could have a good time while we do this Curie cancer.

38:21

Right. I do think that also like back in my, my Buzzfeed days when I was in like a room full of other people, you know, oftentimes like the best stuff is the stuff where it's like, you're just trying to make everyone else in the room, laugh.

38:37

Like that is the point. And that's like the best test for like, whether something is good and funny.

38:42

It's like, it's are people in the, in the room cracking up.

38:47

Yeah. Especially when you have that coworker, that's hard to make laugh.

38:51

And when you get them, like, there's nothing better than that feeling.

38:55

That's true. That's true. That is what I've been deprived of for the past year.

38:59

Because right now I'm just kind of working with the voices in my head.

39:05

So I have that person, I have the one that's hard to laugh, but that is just the voice in the back of my head.

39:11

But it's constantly dogging on me Should

39:15

have gone to school for science.

39:17

Yeah,

39:20

Honestly. Yeah. I have that, that, that voice is very present.

39:25

I also was reading. So you w D you watched all of the Marvel movies in the pandemic.

39:31

Me too. Yeah. I think a lot of people did.

39:34

It was very comforting, But

39:37

had you, you've never seen them before.

39:40

I really, I think I'd like seen one on an airplane.

39:43

My only memory was like, you know, you're on an airplane.

39:46

So you're like, I watch whatever. And at some point I dozed off and when I woke up, they were still having the same fight they had been having.

39:53

And I was like, this is not for me.

39:59

Yeah. I think like, towards the end, like the last couple of movies are the ones where it's just like, basically this entire movie is a fight.

40:07

And so if you haven't watched all of the first ones, it's like, why I'm not going to watch a four hour, Like,

40:16

Right. Yeah. Once you watch all the first one, it's like, all right, I'm invested now.

40:21

I'll see these people beat one another up.

40:25

Yeah. Yeah. I, I, there there's so much that I, that I sort of put off that I feel like the last year I was like, okay, now is the time where we're just going to watch everything, Everything that's on TV.

40:39

There are things that like everyone's talking about.

40:42

And I'm like, I'm just not, I'd actually, can't invest in that.

40:46

I'm just not going to get it to that dialogue.

40:49

And then during pandemic, it was like, well, I'm tired. I guess I'll watch all the Marvel movies.

40:52

And then I won't go when people post like Thanos, snapping I'll know what they mean.

41:00

Yeah. That was, I know. I feel like you have to kind of make the calculation.

41:04

Like, I am not going to understand everything.

41:07

Like there are everyone at this point, like the expectation is that everybody gets every reference and that like, you, you need to be able to weigh in on everything.

41:17

And I, it is freeing to be like, I'm out, I'm out on this one.

41:23

But there is a satisfaction in being like, I get that.

41:27

There is, but it's, it's so much like there's a meme going around.

41:31

And I, it went around so much. I finally was like, I have to find out what this is.

41:35

And it was like, somebody's nest video from their house.

41:38

And I'm like, I can't be expected to follow the narrative of a man's death to video from his house so that I can understand this is me.

41:47

Like, this is too much.

41:50

Yeah. I do have that like compulsion though.

41:53

Whenever I see, you know, it's always the like third wave of whatever the like outrage cycle is where it's like everyone, nobody is even like being specific about what the thing is anymore.

42:05

You're just like, fighting about the fight that followed it.

42:08

And I'm like, I need to follow. I need to do Sherlock Holmes my way back to the beginning and find out what caused all of this, Like

42:18

three paragraph long, like thick apology and all of the comments, which were my comments too, were like, we don't know what you're apologizing for us.

42:27

Like this is so far removed.

42:33

I love that the apology is just so vague that you don't even get.

42:38

Yeah, there's so much utuber drama that I am so uninvested in, but like they're hour long videos of YouTubers, like fighting with one another.

42:51

And it's fascinating to me. And I have no investment in the drama.

42:54

I don't know where the like feud started, but somehow I am like hours deep into these, these videos.

43:02

I, this is where I start to feel old.

43:05

Like the first time I felt old was when Snapchat came out and I was like, I just don't know what's enjoyable about this.

43:12

And this is what being kids is.

43:14

And now someone wants, I tweeted something that upset them and they made a 45 minute YouTube video about how much one tweet upset them.

43:25

And I was like the investment of time.

43:28

I can't even invest the time to watch this video.

43:31

And it's about me. Like, but you, the fact that you have 45 minutes to spend on one tweet that upset you just doesn't compute with how life works for me or anyone.

43:44

I know.

43:45

And, and that's the negative version.

43:48

The positive version is like Tik TOK. I see these amazing tic-tacs, but they clearly spent hours choreographing and learning dances and editing video.

43:57

And I'm like, I just can't fathom what it is to have this much time to invest in making 35 seconds of content.

44:04

Even though I love the content.

44:07

It's amazing. But like you, I've tried to learn to take, talk dance with once I spent like two minutes and I was like, I'm not learning a dance.

44:14

Nobody's paying me to do this.

44:18

Yeah. That is the difference where like the YouTuber thing, you know, they invest a lot of energy and making like these hour long videos and going like through the receipts where they fight with one another, but also it's like heavily monetized and they probably make like tens of thousands of dollars just on, on this video screaming at one another, as a viewer though.

44:41

You're like, all right, well, I just wasted two hours of my life and I actually lost money because I didn't do work.

44:51

But yeah, I'm with you. I'm like at no point in the last two years, did I even attempt a Tik TOK dance, which is for the benefit of, of the community.

45:03

So I admire you even for trying The

45:06

level of free time that I had during COVID even despite the three jobs, I did try to do a dance.

45:14

Yeah. I will also say I, one thing that I love about you is that there are so many, there are so many writers and, you know, performers that I love and admire.

45:24

And I always am like, their secret is that they're not on Twitter, but you are also on Twitter.

45:31

And I'm like, I don't understand how you're able to hold that.

45:34

Also in, in, in the things that you're capable of paying attention to, I

45:41

try to like remind myself that Twitter is free.

45:44

Like Twitter doesn't pay. So Twitter gets your, like, non-monetary sizable thoughts.

45:52

That is very true Thoughts.

45:55

Like, even when I'm like, there should be a movie about this and then like 15 people respond, girls, at least this dotes where your movie ideas and I'm like, you're correct.

46:03

You are correct. Yeah. You just gave out, you just gave out a money idea.

46:09

Yeah. I think it's mostly like, as, as like a, an audience member.

46:15

I don't know how to refer just as like a user.

46:19

I was a consumer, like going on Twitter.

46:21

I'm like, this is taking up too much of my brain energy because now I am like, I'll, I'll follow a rabbit hole and get invested in some drama that I didn't know existed 10 minutes earlier.

46:36

And yeah, before you know, it I've like wasted.

46:38

I've wasted my day. Yeah.

46:40

But it's, the drama is so fun.

46:44

It's just, I used to, I feel Like

46:47

we talked about this last time I used to work at Groupon.

46:50

I don't know if we talked about this and my job was I worked in risk management and it would basically be figuring out if someone was scamming Groupon.

46:58

And that was back when everyone was just posting everyone on everything on Facebook.

47:02

So literally be like, stole these groups.

47:05

Like the Facebook that's easier to do back then than it is now.

47:11

I don't know how people are doing this job now, but it would literally just be like following posts and like figuring out drama, like one time someone called in and said like someone stole my credit card because they use it to buy these Groupons and you look up the Groupon and it's like a romantic dinner for two plus fat flowers, champagne or whatever.

47:30

And then you go on Facebook and it's like, oh, your husband bought this.

47:35

And he didn't tell you, cause he went to it with another woman.

47:37

Like you could literally figure that out on Facebook.

47:40

And so I guess like the going down the rabbit hole, Twitter drama, like scratches that itch of like, if I could just get back to the original thing and find out how this happened.

47:52

Right. So, yeah, I guess I just have to find a way to like make money from my internet slew thing.

47:58

And there's a way For

48:01

Groupon. I don't know. I really wonder how they do that job now because people are smarter.

48:05

I hope about not just posting their crimes openly.

48:10

Yeah, I guess so. But I don't know.

48:12

I suspect that they're not, I sometimes scare myself and this is completely mean just telling on myself.

48:22

But whenever I match with someone on like a dating app, I am able to find them with minimal information.

48:30

And sometimes it's like, I shouldn't be able to do this.

48:34

This should be, it should be more difficult for me to find someone who's just put their like first initial.

48:40

But I'm like, I have, it's like a composer.

48:43

I like have to know. Yeah. I've become like that person in my group of friends.

48:47

Like, oh, this lady dropped her phone or whatever.

48:51

I'll text Ashley. She'll find her on the internet.

48:57

It's a skill. The skill is probably just like, has enough time to like the 20th page of the Google search results.

49:07

But you know, that's, that's just a secret.

49:10

We'll keep it.

49:12

Everyone can think that we're these, these amazing sleuth.

49:16

So I, I love Ted lasso.

49:19

One of my favorite shows right now, along with like everybody else, I don't know if I could, there was, there's also a lot of very attractive people on that show and which is probably true of like most shows because you know, hot people live in Hollywood.

49:35

That's what they do for a living.

49:38

But yeah, it, it, it is frustrating to me sometimes when it's like, oh, these people are hot and talented and cause what Brett Goldstein, that's his name, right?

49:49

Yeah. He's he also writes on the show also like funny and talented.

49:55

And it's like, you can't, you have to pick two, you don't get all of these things.

49:59

They're also all so sweet.

50:02

And it's like, okay, you just got nominated for 500 MES and you're super hot and you're wearing like vintage Versace or whatever.

50:10

And you want to be nice to me, what is happening?

50:14

Yeah. Yeah. No, it's something, it's something is off.

50:17

We're going to kill me at some point.

50:20

Yeah. I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop.

50:24

This is going to be a hard left turn, but there a tweet of yours about blending your coffee directly into a smoothie, which is dark side.

50:35

And I, I need, I need either an apology or, or defense.

50:41

This is the danger of having such a positive like group of followers coming from black lady sketch show and Ted lasso.

50:47

That's just very positive people.

50:49

Everyone's like, yes, queen save time.

50:53

This is a cry for help.

51:04

That is so true.

51:07

Right. There is, there is a downside potentially to having too much support people, just, yeah.

51:15

W what is, what is the like therapy word for it?

51:19

When someone is like supporting you in a, in a bad way, enabling yes.

51:25

They're, they're enablers.

51:27

They're enabling your, your horrible habits, but honestly, yeah.

51:31

Coffee directly into a smoothie.

51:36

It sounds on the surface.

51:38

Like, it would be a horrible idea, but I could see it not being horrible.

51:45

It wasn't horrible because it was like a Berry smoothie and hazelnut coffee.

51:51

So it was giving like peanut butter and jelly vibes.

51:53

So it wasn't horrible, but it was a hundred percent a wake up call of like, I need to get my life together because it's truly like me every morning rushing to the gym and I have to have coffee.

52:04

Cause I haven't slept enough. And like, I want to have this movie.

52:07

So I have something in my body when I'm at the gym and I don't have the five minutes.

52:12

It would take to truth them separately.

52:16

Like I need to get my life together.

52:19

Don't support this. Call me to the right table.

52:25

Okay. I would be remiss if I did not talk about the fact that you are nominated for two Emmy's in the same category, you're competing against yourself.

52:35

Okay. New York times profile of, you know, you are your own competition.

52:42

Yeah. I mean, I'll, I'll just ask the like basic question, which is like, what is it like, how does it feel?

52:51

It it's weird because, well, so what's exciting about that is a black lady sketch show, all black woman writer's room.

52:59

Those writers are all being nominated for the first time.

53:03

The Amber Ruffin show extremely diverse writer's room.

53:06

Most of them being nominated for the first time.

53:08

So it's like, I'm so excited for my friends.

53:11

But once again it is COVID so everyone doesn't get to go to the Emmy's and it's just like, oh, like, you're like, oh my gosh, this person got their very first TV writing job.

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They worked so hard. They got to show me during COVID and then some fucker won't get vaccinated.

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So now they don't get a part, their fancy party.

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And it's like, that's not the most important thing that's going on right now is whether or not my friends get to a party, but I do want them to go.

53:41

Yeah. Yeah, no, it's true.

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I do feel like, especially for the, the like writing category, especially for one that is like a group of writers, all working towards something like TV writing is so collaborative.

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So I imagine those types of things, it's like, you want to celebrate with everybody.

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You want to be in the same room and like, yeah, I don't know.

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I get it. That sucks.

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And it is so collaborative. The cool thing about those late night categories is that the whole, the whole writing team is nominated together.

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And I sort of wish they would do that in every category.

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Cause for the scripted shows, they nominate like the person who wrote that script, but on both types of shows, every single person is helping write every script and you know, writers, most people don't know writers' names.

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So it was like one time a year where we all go like, look, look at you.

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You're the one who did it. So it's very cool.

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But it would be cooler if everyone gets to participate.

54:41

Yeah. Well, you know, hopefully everyone gets vaccinated and by next year, the next STEMI is everyone will get to celebrate that Next.

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Every, his word we're on COVID Delta varies all the variant or whatever.

54:58

Right? Right. So some tweets where you express your, your hatred of some things, there was actually a pet peeve tweet that you sent today.

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I'll allow you to explain it. What, what was your gripe?

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Well, it came out of there's two, I think in Florida and in Texas schools that have had to shut down completely because they have COVID outbreak because they're not allowed to mandate mass.

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And it's like, we know that if a bunch of people are, are endorsed, not wearing masks, they're going to get COVID.

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We we've known that for like a year now, but you still put a bunch of people in a room without masks and they go, oh my God, surprise.

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A lot of them got COVID and it's like, this has been my pet peeve.

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This is what I tweeted since I was a very little kid when something has a very predictable outcome and people pretend that it's not going to go that way.

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And even the example I use is like, when you have a, like a relative who always behaves badly and your parents is like, I'm sure it'll be fine this time.

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And it's like, it won't we know that it won't, it's gonna be bad.

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Let's just plan for it to be bad. That doesn't mean that we like kicked that person out of our lives or do anything like, let's just go into this, knowing that it's going to end up the way it is.

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Ended up the past 15 minutes Or

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yeah. Don't, don't be shocked when it, when it turns out the same exact way as it always has at the very least, let's not be surprised You

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can plan for it.

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It's just like, and it's not even just with things that are that big.

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But like, if you have that friend who gets too drunk every time you guys go out and you ended up having to deal with them, let's just go out, knowing that that's going to happen.

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You know, like let's not act like let's go somewhere that, that serves alcohol slower.

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Let's bring a bucket. Like whatever the plat is.

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Let's just not act surprised that this person is going to behave the way they've always been.

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Right? Let's not go to the place with the heavy pour and the strong drink, a lighter one.

57:07

You tweeted. I really hate to say it.

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But planking is the best stretch.

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When my back gets mad about setting, I didn't expect there to be a plank apologists on the podcast, but here we are.

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I hate to be this person. But if your back hurts, a plank will help.

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And I never thought I would be a person who recommended that anyone do a plague ever, but we've gotten to that age where our backs hurt and it helps Are

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we talking a plank where like your elbows are elevated and you're like engaging the abs or just like a lie flat on the ground.

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Okay. So an active we're engaging the core because I, you know, remember when like planking was like an early internet trench where you just lie on the ground.

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Yeah, yeah. Park core light.

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Yeah. At first I was like, maybe that's what she means, but no, we're okay.

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I I'll, I'll give it a shot.

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Just laying on the floor might help. I've tried some friends of mine aren't really into there's like this map that you buy that has like a bunch of spikes on it.

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And it's like, if you, if you lay on the mat for 15 minutes, experiencing the pain of the spikes will like clear your mind and you'll be so rejuvenated.

58:33

And I was like, yeah, but if you just lay down for 15 minutes, you're going to feel free.

58:39

Just take a nap.

58:45

That being said, both of us were just talking about how we like are injecting coffee into our veins in order to feel awake.

58:51

So maybe they're the ones doing it.

58:57

Right. Well, I feel like we've talked about all the places that people can see or work, but if, if people really need to find you and they should, where, where can people find your work?

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Yeah. Ted lasso is out now.

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It comes out. Well, it comes out on Fridays, but pro-tip, that's like 9:00 PM.

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Thursday, Pacific time.

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If you want to spoil it for the internet, you can.

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And yeah, I'm on Twitter. I'm on Instagram.

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If you like a chunky dog, there's lots of pictures of my chunky dog on it.

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Beautiful. Well, thank you so much. This was so much fun.

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I can't wait for the next time.

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Also sweat check. How are we doing?

59:40

Pretty good. Better than last time. I would say we made it well, thanks again.

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Oh, right. We're almost there. We're almost at the end of the show, but burst our chasers chasers are the good stuff that helped all the bad shit go down, easier.

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Starting with do better white people where we highlight some anti-racism resources and other actions we can take to make our world a little bit better.

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Barry, what are we highlighting?

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Since our last episode, there was a horrible law that passed in Texas.

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And I noticed that a lot of people were posting really great resources during that week.

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And since then, it's kind of teetered off.

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So I just wanted to remind people that just because that news cycle might be over, doesn't mean that the people who are in Texas are suddenly having access to abortions.

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They're not. And so I wanted to just shout out a couple of organizations, there's abortion funds.org, which helps you find abortion funds that are local to you.

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You could also volunteer with them or donate.

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There is also an act blue link that we will put in our show notes, which specifically goes out to Texas funds.

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And then I wanted to also shout out an organization called SisterSong, which is a Southern based national membership organization.

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That, that is led by 16 organizations of women of color from, for many communities.

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So native American African-American Latino and Asian-American.

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So those are just a couple of different organizations that you can reach out to volunteer with, donate to, and yeah, just wanted to shut those things out.

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Beautiful. All right. Let's get into some TV.

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We've been watching this week. What have you been watching?

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I'm watching a lot. There's a lot on right now, but I just wanted to shout out that what we do in the shadows is back.

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So I watched the first episode.

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I know the second one's out. I think the third will probably be out by the time this podcast comes out.

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I loved the first episode of the third season.

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Oh my God. It's so good. So I'm so happy.

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That's back. It's on Hulu. If we've got Hulu, I also finished the second season of sex education and I know you told me about this show long time ago.

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I'd finally just got through the second season and that it is, it might be like one of my favorite shows now.

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I, I just love those characters and like everything about it.

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It's like made me cry.

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It made me laugh and the third season comes out very soon.

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So I'm excited about that.

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And then lastly, it's actually not even the last thing I'm watching, but I just, I won't get into all of the things this week.

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There's a docu series on HBO, max called small town news, which is about this, this Nevada Nevada news station.

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And it, the way that someone described it to me is it's like a Christopher guest movie, but real, and that is exactly the vibe.

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And it's only six episodes. They're half hour episodes and I love it.

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And I don't even, I don't love documentaries all that much.

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Honestly, my hot take is most of them should just be podcasts, but this it's so good.

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And it's just about these, like people who fucking love local news and like small community coming together.

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And it's really like funny and good and great.

1:03:00

So those are all the things I'm watching. What about you I've

1:03:04

been watching? Well, my favorite show at the moment is the other two, which I don't know if I've talked about the other two.

1:03:10

I need to watch the new season.

1:03:13

Yeah. Season two is on HBO.

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Max. It is one of the few shows that I, one of the only shows actually, but I think is about like the internet, like internet culture and internet stuff, and makes reference to all of that without being like completely cringy or like it's an, it's genuinely funny and ridiculous.

1:03:36

So I love that also so many people are in that show, but then I spent labor day weekend, literally binge-watching in treatment, which you've mentioned before in treatment.

1:03:49

I mean, it's from 2008.

1:03:52

It's literally like, yeah. More than a decade old, but they had an, the new season that was out in the last year.

1:03:58

But I, so I haven't seen that yet.

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I started from the beginning.

1:04:04

Yeah. And she's like a hundred Episodes

1:04:06

each, Literally

1:04:07

43 half-hour episodes in season one.

1:04:10

And I watched all of them day weekend, which actually I it's basically a 22 episode, like our drama series.

1:04:18

That's the same amount of time, but yeah.

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It's so cool. I didn't expect watching two people just talk And

1:04:26

throttling. Yeah. It's so good watching A

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play. Yeah. It's like You're in the theater.

1:04:32

Yeah. Briefly it's every episode is a therapy session and yeah.

1:04:38

They made it so that I actually care about what is happening in other people's therapy and the way, what is your non TV chase?

1:04:46

My non TV chaser is something that I'm looking forward to, which is that after this recording, we're going to go see, and I'm so excited.

1:04:54

I've seen it before you haven't you did text me last night being like, what if I hate it?

1:04:58

And I was like, it would destroy me. And it absolutely would, but I'm just so excited.

1:05:03

I've been counting down the days. So that, and then also tomorrow as of this recording, Kacey, Musgraves film, an album come out.

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And so I'm also just like those two, the excitement leading up to those two things has just kept me going.

1:05:17

So yeah. What about you? What's your non TV chaser?

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Yeah, I'd say Sam, I'm looking forward to Hades town.

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My expectations are absurdly high.

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So if it sucks then yeah, you're going to have a lot to atone for that's it for today's show.

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Well, you know, I I discovered that I actually really need unhappy hour every week because if I don't have this space to just, like, get things off my chest. Yeah. I end up fully screaming at people on the street. Great. I mean to be fair he deserved it. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. I was biking. I was right at the end of my block. I was not paying attention. I went through a red. Totally my fault. A guy was stepping off, like, a, like, a middle aged white guy smaller than me. So I think subconsciously, I was, like, I could take him if I needed to. He was stepping off the curb. I went behind him. I didn't cut him off in front. I went behind him. And I was like, oh, and he was like, you went behind him? Yes. I didn't even cut him off. I went behind and he was like, it's a red light. And I was like, oh, yeah. Sorry. Like, I I apologize. It was my fault. It was my bad. And then he went bitch. And I said, hey. And then he said, bitch again. And then I fully became the sheep hog, and I got off my bike. And I was like, who the fuck do you think you are? Like, no, really. Who do you think? And we kept going at it until he actually physically ran away from me, calling me white trash. So you chased a man down the street. I did. I did. But I was like, no. If he had said, bitches was a red light, that would have been fine. But the fact that he one, I didn't cut him off. Two, I apologized immediately. And then he called me bitch. I was, like, oh, no. No. No. No. Not today. And I was, like, seven years of being yelled at on the street just like -- Yeah. -- and never doing anything about it. It just all came It just all came out. But also, it was the same week that we didn't have an unhappy hour recording. So I think it was that pent up aggression. I'm able to get off my chest and I'm able to really just get out that I'm able to get off my chest. Yeah. And I'm able to really just get out there. It's why it's in horton to complain so that you don't keep it up bottled inside. And then I mean, but the man deserved it. I did then immediately I went back and I apologize to all the guys at the bodega to Midwestern for my own it. I did then immediately. I, like, went back and I apologized all the guys at the Bodega because I'm too midwestern for my own good. Then I was like, I'm really sorry about that. And they were all like, no, you were in the right. We would have done the same thing. And this other guy was like, people suck. And then I started biking away and then I started sobbing, and went home and was held by my boyfriend. So, you know, it's fine. I'm fine. There's a number of emotions that you have bottled up inside. So I'm glad we're back. Hopefully, we won't be repeating that this next week. Yeah. How are you doing? My week while I was in the bike lane and this girl rode through and I called her a bitch, then she she me on the street, so it wasn't great. Yeah. My week's fine. I don't know. I was in a bad mood today, but then I ate a sandwich and I think that was the problem. It's amazing. My Alex always is like, you just need to carry around snacks because nine out of ten when you get angry. It's because you're hungry. And if you just have a snack, you're going to be And if you just have a snack, you're gonna be fine. And It's it's upsetting how true that is. Yeah. Anyway, I'm also in a good mood because I have some shows coming up. Yeah. I'll be in Denver at the comedy works there. Comedy works south to be exact. September twenty third, twenty fourth, and twenty fifth. I'm doing five shows there. Damn. And I'll also be in Delaware. Yeah. I'm going all the way back to the beginning folks. First state. Yeah. That is November twelfth. So we'll put the link just map LSI dot com slash tour. And, yeah, I'm gonna be adding more shows all over the place. Love it. Yeah. So that's exciting. And what else is exciting? Today's episode. Oh. Because what do we got coming up? We're kicking mings off as always with horse things first, where I shout about the stupidest, most ridiculous, worse news of the week. After that, we're diving deep into skincare. We got creams, lotions, oil. There's simply too much, and I wanna rant about it. And finally, we have got one of my favorites, Emmy Award winner, comedian, TV, freaking producer, writer, Ashley Nicole Nicole Black as a returning guest complainer. We've had Ashley on the pop of four. We're so happy she's back to pick with us. We'll get into airline travel, feeling old, stocking people online. So much more. So let's get into it. Let's do it. Let's start the show. Alright. Course things for a snapshot about the stupidest most ridiculous worst news. Oh, the week first, an eighty pound cougar Okay. Skinny Legend Was removed from an apartment in New York city where it was being kept illegally as a removed from an apartment in New York City. Where it was being kept illegally as pet. The idea of having even a large dog in New York City is unfathomable to me. Even though fat cat, I think, is a little is pushing it a little bit. An eighty pound Wild, grown jungle cat. Is a Kuga, a jungle cat? No. It's a it's a mountain cat. Yeah. Mountain lion is That's what I don't know. As I don't think it should be in any I don't think it should be in any apartment. No. Absolutely not. Especially in New York. No. I also just does it did it say where, what neighborhood this was in? For some reason, I'm getting, like, upper east side vibes. Sure. Like taking my cougar for a while. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I've gotta put on my pearls. I've gotta put on my tiara. And the cougar has a matching pearl pro collar. Yeah. No. It did not say. But the cougar, it's named Sasha, was just eleven months old. Definitely upper east side. I don't know if they gave the nickname Sasha after it was a surrender. That seems weird. Yeah. It's like eleven months old. He she probably has a name. Yeah. She's headed to a wildlife refuge in Arkansas now. But yeah, the, the humane society, they quoted this guy who was like, yeah, it's always sad to see Cougar, as you know, in But yeah, the the humane society, they quoted this guy who was like, It's always sad to see Kooker as, you know, in cages. That's not where they belong. But really, it's sad for the owners who have to who was, like, grew to love them as pets. And now, they don't have them anymore. And it's like, wow. They knew they were fully adopting a wild animal. Like, they've kind of gotten cat. Just like a regular cat. It's like you adopt a dog and it, like, turns out to be an asshole. Yeah. It's like you fully knew that this this Kooker was going to grow up to be a Kooker. Right. But, yeah, he was like, I've also seen a heartbreak of owners, like in this case, after being sold, not just a wild animal, but fall stream that they could make a good pet. Whoa. How's this dream? Oh, No. It it makes no sense. It makes No sense. The owners yeah. I guess the owner was like sobbing while they took this their their big cat away. It's like, guess what? You knew this was gonna folks. I I empathize, I understand. I was in like a pretty similar situation because when I was little, my grandma told me that I adopted Anastasia, which was this tiger at the Brookfield zoo. And I was like, oh my god. She's my tiger. She's mine now. It was just like a donation thing. Where than, like, you had a picture of the tiger. Yeah. But I took it very seriously and I went to the zoo and I I there was, like, a kid next to me and I was, like, That's my tiger. kid. I was like, no, it's not like we all own this was like, no, it's not. Like, we all own this tiger. Right. And then I I felt the absolute heart break. So, like, I understand where this person's coming from. But, like, Anastasia was at the zoo. She wasn't in my home. I also love that they quoted a department of environmental conservation commissioner named also loved that. They quoted a Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner named Basil Sagos, great name. Love it. And basil clarified that cougars may look cute and cuddly when they're young, but these animals can grow up to be unpredictable and dangerous. I would like to reframe that or slight edit. It's not that these animals can grow up to be unpredictable and dangerous. It's that these animals will grow Yeah. We know what we need to understand about that. Okay, basil. I mean, I've seem Bari I get it. But like the beginning of born free is a lion But like the beginning of born free is a lion attacking. So don't remember that at all. That's the beginning of the film. I don't know. Born free. Born free. I know the sign. I've seen the Prego commercials. Okay. Maxed love the story of, we might've talked about this before actually, but this is the resolution it judge in Michigan ordered a couple to pay $30,000 to their 43 year-old ground son for getting rid of his pornography Next. Love the story. We might have talked about this before actually, but this is the resolution. A judge in Michigan ordered a couple to pay thirty thousand dollars to their forty three year old grandson for getting rid of his pornography collection. Wow. Thirty thousand dollars. Thirty thousand dollars and four hundred and forty one dollars to exact. Wow. So, yeah, this was like eight months ago. The sun sued his parents. He said that they had no right to throw out his collection. It had films, magazines, and other items. Don't know what that means. Exactly, I'm assuming, I don't know, blue rays because that takes laserdiscs. Yeah. So this guy, he he he'd gotten a divorce. And so he moved in with his parents for ten months And and, I guess, in that time, they they threw a I don't know if he brought all of his porn with him or I didn't know if it was there. And then, like, he, like, moved in with his wife and didn't bring it, you know. Right. Right. Right. Right. How do I My rock collection is still at my parents house. Mhmm. And if dad, if you throw that out, you better be ready to pay me. Yeah. Three dollars for that rock collider. Your dad's a lawyer I'll represent you in dad, the lawyer. I'll represent you in court. Thank you. He'd be a great lawyer. I also loved that. So the judge the value, the thirty thousand dollar value was set by an expert yet. Who I just love that this expert had to grow through all of the porn and, like, give it monetary value. Yeah. How great for him? He her. They were having a beautiful were having a beautiful time. Yo, where do you even Where do you even go? Like, I don't know. Or you watch antique roadshow and like, you know, these people are like expert appraisers, but like how do you know how much porn is you watching antique roadshow? And, like, do you know these people like, x for appraisers, but, like, how do you know how much porn is worth? Okay. Now I absolutely need an antique road show after Bari edition. We just keep bringing in a rhodica. Yes. And finally, love this story, so heartwarming. An ultra conservative bishop in Spain. Who has been a proponent of conversion therapy and I guess has carried out a number of exorcisms. Sick. Resigned his post as Bishop abruptly, and the Roman Catholic church cited strictly personal reasons without going into detail. And now, Spanish media is reporting that he resigned because he fell in love with a woman who writes satanic erotic fiction. Shehiro. Shehiro. Shehiro. Oh my my god. Give this woman a standing ovation. How are you? Win for her. Real? You spend your life writing satanic erotic fiction, and then you'd nab yourself ultra conservative. Bishop. This is a powerful woman. Taking down the catheter churns from the inside of his ass. Yeah. She has written a number of books including the hell of Gabriel's lust Oh, damn. And a trilogy called Amnesia, and I I guess a blurb for one of her works promises the reader a journey into sadism, madness, and lust, and a struggle between good and evil God and Satan with a plot to shake one's values and religiously. Well, we know one person who goes shaken to his goddamn core. So this guy, he became he was the youngest bishop ever ever ever. Bishop me say like bishop. Why is he like seven? He was like -- Eleven. -- forty. Anyways, so this guy became a Bishop in two thousand ten. And he was kind of seen as like a rising star but he decided to resign with the Vatican's approval. It came as a shock that he had fallen for this this woman also a divorcee scandal. This should be the next. Remember when the church, like, split apart? Cause king Henry was like, I want to divorce my because King Henry was, like, wanna divorce my bitch of a one. Yeah. And then he, like, created his own religion. Yeah. This is this is the next It's what she's gonna do. I'm really getting, like, a melisandra vibes from givirones. This is melisandra Meets and Boyland. Yes. So this guy is According to religion digital, great website. I read it. One of my points. One of my favorite. I have notification Amazon for religion, digital. According to that site, the former Bishop is looking for a job in the Barcelona area as an agronomist, which is a soil According to that site, the former Bishop is looking for a job in the Barcelona area as an agronomist. Which is a soil scientist. Okay. So back up the plan. Right. Remember remember kids. Whenever you think your degree is worth nothing, you never know. When you resign your job as Bishop at the age of, don't know, fifty two. Because you fall in love with an erotic satanic sex. That's counts. Yes. You can always fall back on on your expertise as a soil scientist. You know what else he's soilants? The word of God. No, not actually. Anyway, best of luck to them. Also, fuck that guy. Because, yeah, He's still a proponent for conversion therapy. But have fun with your little wife. And that's it for this week's worst things first. You can head to my Patreon, pay on dot com slash map LSI, where you can see video of bonus worst things for our stories. You also get a special separate podcast feed. Let's face a bonus episode that shows up right in your podcast app with all of our bonus content. So head to patreon patreon dot com slash map below site. Greatly to support me, support the show, etcetera. Next. We're diving deep into Skin care. We're driving deep into these pores. DBWP deep dive, deep dive, deep dive, deep dive, Yeah. Deep, deep ties. Well, my skin has been not popping Well, my skin has been not poppin'ly, oh, as the kids say, as the kids don't say. The combination of, I don't know, alcohol, sugar, stress, humidity, mask wearing means that my skin it's been breakout city. And guess who's mayor? This guy. I'm basically waging dermatological warfare on myself at all times. So I've been thinking a lot about beauty products. Like with skincare -- Yes. -- because everybody in their mother has a skincare line everyone their mother does I have a skincare a skincare line. And my question is, how are there still new products? How have we not reached the the the edge of science on this. I don't understand. That being said, we will be releasing the UnhappyHour skincare line. Yeah. And they're all doing the same thing. Which is to make my face look like the belly of a prize winning pig, just smooth and a little wet look. But here's the here's the deal. There are too many products. Why do we need a fifty step routine when you could just squeeze all of these magic ingredients into one bottle that I can jerk off onto my face with. That makes it sound like I'm using the product to jerk off my day. Yeah. Instead of jerking off the tiny little pump. Yep. Yeah. Do you wanna rephrase. No. I'll stand by it. Right? I think it's a good idea and I stand by it. Anyway, let's talk beauty products. First, shut the fuck up with the word serum. What is a serum? This isn't an apathetic. Okay. You're not selling Romeo and Juliette poison so that they can kill themselves after hooking up literally once. Goals. God. I just want an intense passion so that I can take a poison that I bought from the the local rich doctor. You're not you're not some mad scientist. Also, some of these places, they put their little serum in a bottle with like dropper. Like, I'm supposed to feel like a little chemist. But I have places to be. don't have time to manage an entire science lab. Just to get rid of my oily t zone. Also, why are there powders and creams? Can't we just decide on one medium for applying stuff to my face, dry or wet? I can't have both. I can't have both. And then some of them are are literal liquids that I'm supposed to dab on with a little maxi pad or cotton ball. Do you know the little circle maxi pads that you use? Mhmm. Yeah. Here's how I feel about all makeup and skin care. You should just be able to apply it with finkies. I think it's ridiculous. So you asked me to put it on anything else to then apply to my face I'm like, no. What else are these boys for? I'm pointing to my hands. Yeah. Then there there are those things I mean, there's brushes, obviously. Yeah. And there's about a thousand different shapes of of makeup brushes. Oh, yeah. And they're ones that, like, UV, like, fucking clean themselves. Because then you start thinking about, like, the You have to clean the thing that cleans you. Yeah. You have a makeup brush sitting out on your sink and the bathroom guess what? Ship particles Oh, really? Toothbrush now. And then they have those little foam butt plugs that you can use to dab stuff. Yeah. Which I apparently have to get wet first. And then squeeze it and then use it? I don't know, man. I've watched like two YouTube videos. Yeah. Max, What is an astringent even? I will kill your entire family. You are making shit up. I swear to god, an astringent Do you even know what that is? No. Absolutely not. I think it's like what they the the hairdresser keeps all their instruments in. They're like, well, not actually Okay. It's what they spill on, like, maxi pads in the commercials, and you're supposed to, like, rub it. I'm pretty sure which hazel is an astringent. And I remember when I was younger and I had, like, acne in high school, yeah, they were, like, yeah, you just kind of rub some astringent on it. Definitely made it violently Definitely made don't know. There's not a help at all. It's supposed to be like which hazel is what you use. I don't which hazel is just the weirdest name. I don't understand. No. Why are you recalling things? What they called them in the fifteen hundreds when they didn't know what anything was? You bringing bringing up the high school acne treatment did remind me that, like, one of my dumbest moments of all time. It's like a moment that I it'll just come to me, like, once a month, I'll be reminded of this memory -- Mhmm. -- which is that I remember that, like, Neutrogena or someone put out one of those they they put out a face wash -- Mhmm. -- that was marketed as, like, waking your skin up. Mhmm. But I thought because of the commercials that it, like, actually makes you, like, feel more awake. And my friend saw it in my bathroom was like, how is it? I was like, don't know. I still feel just as sleepy and just making yours so dumb. Anyway Yeah. That's almost a memory that I would keep trying to listen. That being said, there is room in the market for a face moisturizer that literally wakes you up. Yeah. I should be like, at this point, they're like, fuck it, rub coffee on your face and see if we get a shit. Also, yeah. Speaking of high school, did you ever use proactive? I bet you dead. No. I I didn't. I wanted to though. Those commercials made me want to use. Yeah. There was day There was a time when you couldn't go a single day without Jessica Simpson reminding you that your face looks like the bottom of a dentist inquiry. And you know what Jessica Simpson never mentioned in those commercials, that you would absolutely destroy your mom's entire collection of bathroom towels. I don't know what is the what is the ingredient in pro it's like benzoy peroxide or something. It's a literal acid that you're just grabbing on your face to burn off your acne. But it it it will die anything that it touches. Oh, good. Yeah. So we we had that in my house. And my mom gets so mad because my brother and I would destroy literally every towel in the bathroom every time because Even if you, like, completely rinse off and then just draw your face, it'll, like, yeah, it fucks up towels. It fucks them up. Why don't you say that? Jessica Simpson. Next, nobody knows what the hell toner does. Name one person who knows what toner does. And I'll show you a fool. Okay? Oh, you're eating it up, aren't you? Aren't you folks? You're robbing Toner all over your face? Like, it's paint primer. It's supposed to make a difference when you lather on the rest of your shit. It's not doing anything. Grow up. also. What is BB cream or CC what is cream? Or is c c cream? What are the difference between those two? I guess that is, like, tinted moisturizer. It's, like, a Bari cream or a CC cream is a tinted moisturizer? I don't know. I've gone through phases in my life. I try to really get into skin care and, like, really learn about it. And then I'm just, like, I I retain zero information about it, and it just makes me feel full of shame. So then the face passes and I go back to just like But that's what it's designed to do. Face wash it. To wash your shame. I know. What's to fill you with shame? That's why we're taking it back in this segment. We're saying no. Yeah. You you can take our money, but you can't take our pride except you you you normally do also take pride. Yeah. And finally, those masks that make you look like a low rent Hannibal Lecter. I don't like it's like they're not just wet. It it's like there's some kind of viscosity. Yeah. I don't know. It just makes me feel like there's a slug of it crawled across my face. And there's a trail of fucking mollusk jizz that is just all over my forehead. I don't like it. I don't like it. Okay. Anyway, that's it for this week's deep dive next. We got Ashley Nicole Black on the pod right after this commercial break. Barry question for you is your, but in its current state cleaning up to sit on the couch question for you. Is your butt in its current state cleaning up to sit on the couch naked? Okay. Super normal question to ask Supernormal question to ask me. But here's the but here's the thing. Yes, it is. And you know And you know why? 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I eat Osman and I do the hard work of exploring the intersection between entertainment, culture, and politics with guests like Billy Porter, Catherine O'Hara Ronan Farrow, Francesca Ramsey, and more new episodes of keep it drop every Osman, and I do the hard work of flooring the intersection between entertainment, culture, and politics with guests like Billy Porter, Catherine O'Hara, Ronan Faroe, Francesca Ramsey, and Borg. New episodes keep it drop every Wednesday. Wednesday. Listen on Odyssey, apple podcasts or wherever you get your on Odyssey, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. podcasts. my guess today is returning guest complainer, the stunning, the groundbreaking, the Emmy award winning, Ashley Nicole Black. You've seen her on a black ladies sketch show, full frontal with Samantha Bee, the Amber Ruffin show, and twice on this year's Emmy nominee list. Welcome back, Ashley Nicole Black. Hi. I'm so excited to be back. I feel like it's than years. years. I I know. I, I feel both like we were just in a room together and also like it was eight years ago Because last year took 10 years off of all of our I I feel both like we were just in a room together and also like it was eight years ago. Yeah. Because COVID time is meaningless. Because last year, it took ten years off of all of our Yeah. But somehow it only lasted three months. Yeah. I was thinking back because you were on I believe it was in twenty eighteen that you were last on the show and we recorded in the studio, and we took a picture afterwards. And I looked at it after, and I had full under boob sweat. Like, down. It was down to my Bellassai. Like literally what you said you reported in twenty year. Like, I don't know what year it was, and I remember being very hot. Yeah. So at the very least, we're both hopefully in, like, air conditioning rooms right now will be less sweaty than before. Or at the very least, you know, we're not in the same room to smell one another sweaty body. Yes. So I am barefoot. And that is what COVID has given That is true. Yeah. I am barefoot. barefoot. I am, my thighs are out, you know, we're filming from the belly button am my thighs are out. Yes. You know, we're we're filming from the the belly button up. It's fine. Well, we're gonna start like we did last time with the question, what is one thing you hate that everybody else loves? Okay. Okay. I thought a lot about this because mine is very now I thought a lot about this because mine is very now specific. I don't feel this way all the time, but right now Okay. Good. Airline travel. travel. I have gotten, I want to say four invitations to fly somewhere in the past I have gotten -- Okay. -- I wanna say four invitations to fly somewhere in the past week. And I'm like, it's COVID's happening. Right? Right. I thought COVID was still thought COVID was still happening. You're Yeah. We're still in it. You're, like, literally, one was, like, fly to New York for dinner. And I was like, you want me to sit in a tube of COVID for six hours for dinner? dinner? God. That that's like it. If you're flying me somewhere or expecting me to fly somewhere for dinner, like I'm gonna need a private chartered plane. Yeah. Yeah. And then you're flying me right back. Yeah. If we're flying for dinner people, we have to also be. Private jet people. Right. Exactly. And at that rate, you know, we might as well be going to Italy or something. Yeah. something. Let's not limit ourselves just to New not limit ourselves just to New York. A Italian restaurant, Igor. Yeah. I agree. I haven't been on an airplane since probably January or February of last year. Yeah. Same. And people are going wild right now. They're back they're there. They're going all over the going all over the place. Yeah. And I get it. I think, like, you have to understand human nature and there was only so long people were going do not live their normal lives. Yeah. But I'm like, I just don't have to do it. Right. Yeah. Yeah. If you don't have to, then it's like, I'm not gonna go out of my way Yeah. -- to go on an airplane. Yeah. I yeah. Airplanes were already bad enough. You know, this is well trod territory. territory. We know this, but even now I'm like, I remember even the last time I was on a plane, which was like, just as I, that was like the beginning of things starting to get We know this. But even now, I'm like, I remember even the last time I was on a plane, which was like just as I that was like the beginning of things starting to get bad and I was like, you just become intensely aware of everybody else's mouth in in this in close space. And, yeah, I don't know if I'll ever get back to not being aware of everybody's mouth on an airplane. Yeah. Yeah. I actually in real life loved to travel, but now like, all I can think about is how many people have touched everything like actually in real life love to travel, but now, like, all I can think about is how many people have touched everything. Like, that c you're sitting in, so many people have sat in it, it. So many people have touched many people have touched it, Their skin cells are all over it. Every inch of your hotel room is covered in skin cells. I'm just not gonna forget that. Yeah. Yeah. You know, there's something about like, you almost just have to embrace the fact that we are all covered in one another's filth at all know, there's something about, like, you almost just have to embrace the fact that we are all covered in one another's filth at all times. Yeah. Once you get past that hurdle, It's fun. If you have to make it sad, you're like, we're all one. We're all part of the human community, just sharing droplets and skin cells. Right. Right. We're all absolutely disgusting. We're all, you know, god's horrific creations. I don't know why I just got spiritual, but you get it. You get it. Yeah. Last time, Okay. So how have you been? Oh, are you it seems like you have had a rather good year professionally. But also, like, it's been a shitty year all around. So, like, what does the last year kind of look like? Yeah. It's been crazy because I did so I worked on three shows last year, which is kind of crazy as a writer. Yeah. But I did them all from my house on Zoom. So it's like, I never left the house. It doesn't feel like you're doing that much. You're just like, I'll get off this Zoom and get on this Zoom. And and then when, like, the Emmy nominations came out, it was just, like, somebody literally tweeted how many jobs this bitch gonna have. have. I do feel like you write for like every TV feel like you're right for, like, every TV show. Yeah. show. I genuinely feel like I'm, I'm just waiting for your credit to pop genuinely feel like I'm I'm just waiting for your credit to pop up on every TV show that I'm watching. It feels like the whole world is having an interface with me because, like, at the time, it seems very normal. But then now, I'm like, yeah. I guess I really, like, put all of my COVID anxiety into doing more and more work. And I might need to work on that. You know what? It seems like it's working out unless, like, you turn off the zoom and, like, stab your thigh before because you can't take it anymore. But it seems like it's working working. Okay. He did one time and I was really one time and I was really tired. I put the zoom, like, I'll buy coffee table on the couch. Literally, literally. Then when it was done, I like closed the when it was done, I, like, closed the thing. I just went directly into a bath. Like, And that is what you can't do working a person. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like I'm, I'm inclined to ask the cliche question, which is like, how the fuck do you do at I feel like I'm I'm inclined to ask the cliche question, which is like how the fuck do you do it all. But I feel like my my version of that question will just be like, what what does your day look like? You know, know? Like what do you what do you do you are are you an early morning person? Do you wake up? And, like, do you have a routine? routine? Like what is the, what is the what is the what is the routine? Yeah. Well, to answer the first question, it was COVID. I do feel like I'm getting too much credit. There was nothing else to do. It's not like You're not balancing, like, an entire family of children in social, bustling social. But I have become an early morning person as I've aged. And also, because it is hotter in LA, you just wake up earlier. Because, like, it's just too hot to still be in bed by, like, seven AM. Okay. So Interesting. I like to get up early because that's, like, my only time to myself. So I'll get up early and walk the dog, go to the gym, if I'm gonna, like, listen to a podcast or have, like, a ongoing text chat with girlfriends. Like, that's when I check-in on all of those, like, fun things. And then I usually if I'm in a writer's room on Zoom from, like, ten to four. And then I usually am writing, you know, like, a feature or a pilot or something else that I'll work on from, like, four to seven. And then I, like, take my brain out of my head and put it in a jar. Because my braid is just like it's like a husk. Like, all the moisture is soaked out all day. day. I'm exhausted just hearing that. that. I like, I mean, I guess that is the root, like that is the work hours that most people like, I mean, I guess that is the root like, that is the work hours that most people have. And and me, I'm just like, I'm out. I'm already out. Only I write on comedy shows shows. So even like the work is still like sitting around being like, what if this happened with like a fucking even, like, the work is still, like, sitting around being, like, what if this happened? Was, like, a fun girl. Right. Right. Right. And I'm always, like, what if they can kiss? Like it's not, it's not ours it's not it's not our dress work. Right? I guess so. You know, it's not like, you know, hemingway sitting down trying to write the next great American novel, not that what you are doing is not Hemingway esque. I say this as, you know, as another comedy writer. writer. I know sometimes we're just like, thinking about, okay, what if this elephant was on a I know sometimes we're just like thinking up. Okay. What if this elephant was on a unicycle? Yeah. Well, I also -- Completely valid. like a lot of writers And some comedy writers are, like, investing in the idea that, like, writing is suffering. And let's stay at work till two o'clock in morning and suffer for our and I do try to work with people who are just like, this should be good time. Like, sometimes, shit's late and you may have to stay late. We may have to rewrite something something. Cause something went something went wrong, it happens. happens. But like, for the most part, we could have a good time while we do this Curie for the most part, we could have a good time while we do this. We're curing cancer. Right. I do think that also, like, back in my my buzzfeed days when I was in, like, a room full of other people, you know, oftentimes, like, the best stuff is the stuff where it's like, you're just trying to make everyone else in the room laugh. Yeah. Like, that is the point. And that's, like, the best test for, like, whether something is good and funny is, like, are are people in the in the room cracking up Yeah. Especially when you have that coworker that's hard to make laugh. And when you get them, like, there's nothing better than that feeling. That's true. That's true. That is what I've been deprived of for the past year. Because right now, I'm just kind of working with the voices in my head. So I have that person. I have the one that's hard to laugh, but that is just the voice in the back of my head head. But it's constantly dogging on me is constantly dogging on me. Shit. It's an interesting honestly. For science. Yeah. It's that. Honestly, yeah, I have that that that voice is very present and real. I also was so you you watched all of the Marvel movies and and the pandemic. Yeah. pandemic. Me Me too. Yeah. I think a lot of people did. did. It was very comforting, was very comforting. But But had you, you've never seen them you you've never seen them before? Not before. I really, I think I'd like seen one on an I think I've, like, seen one on an airplane. My only remembering was like, you know, you're on airplane too, like, I watch whatever. And at some point, I ghosted off. And when I woke up, they were still having the same fight they had been having. And I was like, this is stop for me. Yeah. Yeah. I think like, towards the end, like the last couple of movies are the ones where it's just like, basically this entire movie is a think like towards the end, like Bellassai couple of movies the ones where it's just like basically this entire movie is a fight. Yeah. And so if you haven't watched all of the first ones, it's like, why I'm not gonna watch a four hour five. Yeah. But I don't even know the first one yet. Right. Yeah. Once you watch all the first one, it's like, alright. I I'm invested now. I'll see these people beat one another app. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I there's so much that I that I sort of put off that I feel like the last year, I was like, okay, now is the time where we're just gonna watch everything. Yeah. Same. I feel like Anything that's on TV? There are things that, like, everyone's talking about, about. And I'm like, I'm just not, I'd actually, can't invest in I'm, like, I'm just not I actually can't invest in that. I'm just not gonna get into that. Dialogue and the enduring pandemic is like, well, over time. I guess I'll watch all the Marvel movies. And then I will know when people post like Thanos snapping. I'll know what they mean. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was, I That was I know. I I feel like you have to kind of make the calculation, like, I am not gonna understand everything. Like, there's everyone at this point. Like, the expectation is that everybody gets every reference and that, like, you you need to be able to weigh in on everything. everything. And I, it is freeing to be like, I'm out, I'm out on this And I it is freeing to be like, I'm out. I'm out on this one. But there is a satisfaction in being like, I get that. There is, but it's it's so much, like, there's a meme going around And I it went around so much I finally was like, I have to find out what this is. is. And it was like, somebody's nest video from their it was like somebody's nest video from their house. And I was like, I can't be expected to follow the narrative of a bad, bad video of his house so that I could understand this meme. me. Like, this is too this is too much. Yeah. I do have that, like, compulsion, though. Whenever I see you know, it's always the, like, third wave of whatever the, like, outrage cycle is where it's like everyone nobody is even like being specific about what the thing is anymore. You're just like fighting about the fight that followed it. And I'm like, I need to follow follow. I need to do Sherlock Holmes my way back to the beginning and find out what caused all of this, I need to do Sherlock Holmes my way back to the beginning and find out what caused all of this. Right. Like, three paragraph long, like, thick apology, and all of the comments, which were my comments too, were like, we don't know what you're apologizing. For. Like, this is so far removed. I love that. The the apology is just so vague that you don't even get yeah. There's some much youtuber drama that I am so uninvested in, but, like, there are hour long videos of YouTubers like fighting with one another. And it's fascinating to me, and I have no investment in the drama. I don't know where the, like, feud started. But somehow I am like hours deep into these these videos. videos. this is where I start to feel old. Like, the first time I felt old was when snap chat came out. And I was like, I just don't know what's enjoyable about this. And this is what being of this. And now someone once I tweeted something that upset them and they made a forty five minute YouTube video about how much one tweet upset though. And I was like, the investment of time. I can't even invest the time to watch this video, video. And it's about it's about me. Like, what you the fact that you have forty five minutes to spend on one tweet that upset you, just doesn't compute with how life works for me or anyone I know. And -- Right. -- and that's the negative version. The positive version is, like, tikTok. TOK. I see these amazing tic-tacs, but they clearly spent hours choreographing and learning dances and editing I see these amazing TikToks, but they clearly spent hours choreographed and learning dances and editing video, and I'm like, I just can't fathom what it is to have this much time to invest in making thirty five seconds of content, even though I love the content, It's amazing. Right. But, like, you I've tried to learn a TikTok dance once and I spent, like, two minutes and I was like, I'm not learning a dance. Nobody's, hey, can you do this? What did you say? Yeah. That is the difference for, like, the YouTuber thing. You know, they invest a lot of energy in making, like, these hour long videos and going like through the receipts where they fight with one another, but also it's like heavily monetized and they probably make like tens of thousands of dollars just on on this video, screaming at one another. As a viewer though, you're like, alright. Well, I just wasted two hours in my life. And I actually lost money in this because I didn't do work. But, yeah, I'm I'm with you. I'm like, at no point in the last two years did I even attempt a TikTok dance, which is for the benefit of of the community. I did. Why why are you even for trying? I that's the level of free time that I had during COVID even despite the three jobs. I did try to do a dance. Yeah. Yeah. I will also say I, one thing that I love about you is that there are so many, there are so many writers and, you know, performers that I love and I will also say I one thing that I love about you is that there are so many there are so many writers and, you know, performers that I love and admire. And I always am like, their secret is that they're not on Twitter. But you are also on Twitter and I'm like, I don't understand how you're able to hold that also in in in the things that you're capable of paying attention to. I try to, like, remind myself that Twitter is free. Like, Twitter doesn't pay. Nice. So Twitter gets Yeah. -- your, like, non monetizable thoughts. Same. That is very true. Your monetizable thoughts. Like, even when I'm, like, there should be a movie about this, and there's, like, fifteen people respond girls to lead this. Don't tweet your movie ideas. And I'm, like, you're correct. Yeah. You are correct. Yeah, you just gave out you just gave out a money idea. Yeah. I I think it's mostly like as as like a an audience member. I don't know what what how to refer. Just as like a user, user. I was a consumer, like going on as a consumer, like, going on Twitter, I'm like, this is taking up too much of my brain energy because now I am, like, I'll I'll follow a rabbit hole and get invested in some drama that I didn't know existed ten minutes earlier. And, yeah, before you know it, I've like wasted wasted. I've wasted my wasted my day. Yeah. But it's the drama is so fun. fun. It's just, just I I used to, I feel Yeah. Sometimes I feel like we talked about this last time. I used to work at Gorkan. I Groupon. I don't know if we talked about this and my job was I worked in risk management and it would basically be figuring out if someone was scamming know if you talked about this. And my job was I worked in risk management, and it would basically be figuring out if someone was scamming group on. And that was back when everyone was just posting everyone on everything on Facebook. So it literally be, like, stole these group ads. Like, I'm a Facebook ads. So much easier to do back then than it is now. I don't know how people doing this job now, but it would literally just be, like, following posts and, like, figuring out drama Like, one time someone called in and said, like, someone stole my credit card because they used it to buy these coupons. And you look up the group on and it's like a romantic dinner for two plus flowers and champagne or whatever. And then you go on Facebook and it's like, oh, your husband bought this and he didn't tell you because he went to it with another woman. woman. Like you could literally figure that out on you could literally figure that out on Facebook. Facebook. And so I guess like the going down the rabbit hole, Twitter drama, like scratches that itch of like, if I could just get back to the original thing and find out how this so I guess, like, the going down the rabbit hole Twitter drama, like, scratches that itch of, like, if I could just get back to the original thing and find out how this happened. Right. Right. So, yeah, I guess I just have to find a way to like make money from my internet slew yeah. I guess I just have to find a way to, like, make money from from my Internet slew thing. And and there's a way. Yeah. Working for Groupon. I don't know. I I really wonder how they do that job now because people are smarter, I hope, about not just posting their crimes. Hopefully. Yeah. Yeah, I guess guess so, but I don't know. know. I suspect that they're not, I sometimes scare myself and this is completely mean just telling on suspect that they're not. I sometimes scare myself, and this is completely me just telling on myself. But whenever I match with someone on like a dating app, I am able to find them with minimal information And sometimes it's like, I shouldn't be able to do this. This should be it should be more difficult for me to find someone who's just put their, like, first initial initial. But I'm like, I have, it's like a I'm like, I have it's like a compulsion. I, like, have to know. Yeah. I've become like that person in my group of friends. Like, oh, this lady dropped her phone or whatever. I'll text Ashley, she'll find her on the Internet. Like, It's a skill. skill. The skill is probably just like, has enough time to like the 20th page of the Google search skill is probably just, like, has enough time to go, like, the the twentieth page of the Google search results. But, you know, that's that's just a secret. secret. We'll keep keep it famous. Everyone can think that were these these amazing sloot. So I I love one of my favorite shows right now, along with, like, everybody else, I don't know if I could. There's there's also a lot of very attractive people on that show. And which is probably true of, like, most shows. Because, you know, the hot people live in Hollywood and that's that's what they do for a living. living. But yeah, it, it, it is frustrating to me sometimes when it's like, oh, these people are hot and talented and cause what Brett Goldstein, that's his name, yeah, it it it is frustrating to me sometimes when it's like, oh, these people are hot and talented and because what Brett Goldstein, that's his name. Right? Yeah. He's he's also writes on the show. Also, like, funny and talented, and it's like, you can't You have to pick too. Like, actually, don't pick all of these things. They're also feeling so sweet. And it's like, okay. You just got nominated for five hundred Emmys, and you're super hot, and you're wearing, like, vintage or Versace or whatever. And you wanna be nice to me. What is happening? Yeah. Yeah. No. It's something is something is off. We're gonna kill me at some point. Yeah. So I'm just waiting for the the other shoe to drop. This is gonna be a hard left turn, but there was a tweet of yours about blending your coffee directly into a smoothie, which is dark sided. side. And I, I need, I need either an apology or, or I I need I need either an apology or or or defend. Well, see, this is to date Europe having such a positive, like, group of followers coming from Blackledge SketchUp and Ted Laseko, lasso. That's just very positive just very positive people. Everyone's like, Yas queen, save time. I was like, oh, this is a cry for help. I am hate it. That is that is so true. Right. There is there is a downside potentially to having too much support, which is people just Yeah. What is what is the, like, therapy word for it when someone is, like, supporting you in a in a bad way? Enabling. Enabling. Yes. They're they're enablers. Yes. They're enablering your your horrible habit. Yeah. But honestly, yeah, coffee directly into a smoothie. It sounds on the surface surface. Like, it would be a horrible idea, but I could see it not being it would be a horrible idea. But I I could see it not being horrible. It It wasn't horrible because it was like a Berry smoothie and hazelnut horrible because it was like a very smoothie and hazelnut coffee. So it was giving, like, peanut butter and jelly buds. So wasn't horrible. But it was a hundred percent a wake up call of, like, I need to get my life together. So it's truly like me every morning rushing to the gym and I have to have coffee because I haven't slept enough and, like, I wanna have movies. movie. So I have something in my body when I'm at the gym and I don't have the five have something in my body when I'm at the gym. And I don't have the five minutes minutes. It would take to truth them would take to drink them separately. Which is like, I need to get my life together. Don't support this. Call me to the right table. Yeah. Okay. I would be remiss if I did not talk about the fact that you are nominated for two Emmys in the same category. You're competing against yourself. Okay? Okay. New York times profile of, you know, you are your own New York Times' profile of, you know, you are your own competition. Yeah. III mean, I'll I'll just ask the, like, basic question, which is, like, what is it like? How does it feel? feel? it's weird because Bellassai, so what's exciting about that is black lady's schedule, all black woman writer's room room. Those writers are all being nominated for the first writers are all being nominated for the first time. The Amber Ruffind show, extremely diverse writers room, most of them being nominated for the first time, So it's like I'm so excited for my friends. But once again, it is COVID, so everyone doesn't get to go to the EVs. And it's just like like you're like, oh my gosh. This person got their very first TV writing job. They worked so hard. They got a show made during COVID. And then some fucker won't get vaccinated. So now, they don't get apart. They're a fancy party. And it's like, that's not the most important thing that's going right now. It's sheherhers not my friends get to a party, but I do want them to know. Yeah. Yeah. No. True. I I do feel like especially for the the, like, writing category, especially for one that is, like, a group of writers all working towards something. Like, TV writing is so collaborative. collaborative. So I imagine those types of things, it's like, you want to celebrate with imagine those types of things, like, you wanna celebrate with everybody. You want to be in the same room and, like, yeah, I don't know. I I get it. That that sucks. Yeah. And it is so collaborative. collaborative. The cool thing about those late night categories is that the whole, the whole writing team is nominated The cool thing about those late night categories is that the whole the whole writing team is nominated together. And I sort of wish they would do that in every category because for the scripted shows they nominate, like, the person who wrote that script, but on both sides of shows, every single person is helping write every script. And, you know, writers, most people don't know writer's name, so it's like one time a year where we all go, like, look look at you. You're the one who do it. So it's very cool, but it would be cooler everyone gets to participate. Yeah. Well, you know, hopefully everyone gets vaccinated. And by next year, the next emmys, everyone will get to celebrate. Right. Next emmys where we're on COVID, Zelda variant or whatever. Right. Right. Right. So some tweets where you express your, your hatred of some things, there was actually a pet peeve tweet that you sent So some tweets where you express your your hatred of some things. There was actually a pet peeve tweet that you sent today? Yes. I'll allow you to explain it. What what was your grip? Well, Well, it came out of there's two, I think in Florida and in Texas schools that have had to shut down completely because they have COVID outbreak because they're not allowed to mandate it came out of There's two, I think, in Florida and in Texas schools that have had to shut down completely because they haven't COVID outbreak because they're not allowed to mandate mass. And it's like, we know that if a bunch of people are are indoors, not wearing masks, they're gonna get COVID. We've known that for like a year now, but you still put a bunch of people in a room without masks, and they go, oh my god, it's a prize. A lot of them got COVID. And it -- Yeah. -- it's like, this has been my pet peeve. This is why I tweeted, since I was a very little kid when something has a very predictable outcome and people pretend that it's not gonna go that way, and even and the example I use is, like, when you have a, like, a relative who always behaves badly and your parents is, like, sure only find this time. And it's like it won't. We know that it won't. It's gonna be bad. Let's just plan for it to be bad. That doesn't mean that we, like, kick that person out of our lives or do anything like, let's just go into this knowing that it's gonna end up the way it has ended up the past fifteen times. Or yeah. Don't don't be shocked when it when it turns out the same exact way as it always has -- Yeah. -- at the very earliest And you can Let's not be app surprise. We can plan for it. It's just, like and it's not even just with things that are that big, but, like, if you have that friend who gets too drunk every time you guys go out and you end up having to deal with them. Let's just go out knowing that that's gonna happen. You know, like, let's not act like, let's go somewhere that that serves alcohol slower. Let's bring a bucket. Like, whatever the plan is. Let's just not act surprised that this person is going to behave the way they've always behaved. Right. Let's not go to the place with the heavy pour -- Yeah. -- with a strong drink. A lighter one. You tweeted, I really hate to say it, but planking is the best stretch when my back gets mad about sitting. I didn't expect there to be a blank apologized on the podcast, but here we are. I hate it. I hate to be this person, but if your back hurts, a plate will help. And I never thought I would be a person who recommended that anyone do like ever, but we've gotten to that age where our backs hurt and it helps. Are we talking a plank where, like, your elbows are elevated and you're, like, engaging the abs or just, like, a lie flat on the ground? Around. No. On your four hours. Okay. So in active, we're we're engaging the core. Yes. Because I, you know, remember when, like, blanking was was, like, an early Internet trend when you just lie on the brand. Parkour. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Parkour light. Yeah. At first, I was like, maybe that's what she means. But no, we're Okay. okay. I I'll, I'll give it a I I'll I'll give it a shot. Just laying on the floor might help. Our friends so friends of mine aren't really into. There's like this map that you buy that has like bunch of spikes on it. it. And it's like, if you, if you lay on the mat for 15 minutes, experiencing the pain of the spikes will like clear your mind and you'll be so it's like, if you if you lay on the mat for fifteen minutes, experiencing the pain of the spikes will, like, clear your mind and you'll be so rejuvenated. And as a gout, if you just lay down for fifteen minutes, you're gonna feel free to do it. Just take a nap. Yeah. That's just laying gout. nap. being said, both of us were just talking about how we like injecting coffee into our veins in order to feel awake. So maybe they the one that's doing it right. I need to pull out the side you mad. Well, I feel like we've talked about all the places that people can see your work, but if if people really need to to find you and they should, where where can people find your work? Yeah. Ted Lasso is out now. now. It comes comes out well, it comes out on Fridays, but ProTIP, that's, like, nine PM Thursday. PM. Thursday, Pacific Pacific time. If you wanna -- Yeah. -- coil it for the Internet, you can. Right. And, yeah, I'm on Twitter. I'm on Instagram Instagram. If you like a chunky dog, there's lots of pictures of my chunky dog on you like a chunky dog. There's lots of pictures of a chunky dog on Instagram. A beautiful well, thank you so much. This was so much fun. Thank you. My apologies. For the next time. Also sweat check, how are we doing? Pretty good. Better than last year. I would say. We made it. Well, thanks again. Thank you. Oh, right. We're almost there. We're almost at the end of the show. But first, our chasers. Chasers are the good step that help out the batch shit go down easier, start with do better white people where we highlight some anti racism resources and other actions we can take to make our world a little bit better. Barry, what are we highlighting? highlighting? Since our last episode, there was a horrible law that passed in our last episode, there was a horrible law that passed in Texas, and I noticed that a lot of people were posting really great resources during that week. And since then, it's kinda teetered off. So I just wanted to remind people that just because that news cycle might be over, doesn't mean that the people who are in Texas are suddenly having access to abortions. They're not. And so I wanted to just shout out couple organizations. There's abortionfunds dot org, which helps you find abortion funds that are local to you. You could also volunteer with or donate. There is also an act blue link that we will put in our show notes, which specifically goes out to Texas funds. And then I wanted to also shout out an organization called Sister Song, which is a southern based national membership organization that That is led by sixteen organizations of women of color from four mini communities, so native American, African American, Latina, and Asian American, So those are just a couple different organizations that you can reach out to, volunteer with donate to And, yeah, just wanted to shout those things out. Beautiful. Beautiful. All Let's get into some TV we've been watching this week. What have you been watching? I've been I'm watching a a lot. There's a lot on right now. Mhmm. But just wanted to shout out that what we do in the shadows is back. So I watched the first episode. I know the second one's out. I think the third will probably be out by the time this podcast comes out. Mhmm. out. I loved the first episode of the third I loved the first episode of the third season. I haven't watched it. Oh my god. It's so good. So I'm so happy that's back. It's on Hulu. If you've got Hulu, I also finished the second season of sex education. And I know you told me about this show long time ago -- Mhmm. -- I'd finally just got the second season and that it is if I feel like one of my favorite shows now, I -- Yeah. -- I just love those characters and, like, everything about it. It's It, like, made me cry. It made me laugh. And the third season comes out very soon, so I'm excited about that. Right. And then lastly, It's actually not even the last thing I'm watching, but I just I won't get into all of things this week. There's a docu series on HBO Max called small town news, which is about this this Nevada, like, Nevada news station. Mhmm. And it the way that someone described it to me is it's like a Christopher guest movie but real and that is exactly the vibe. And it's only six episodes episodes. They're half hour episodes and I love half hour episodes and I love it. it. And I don't even, I don't love documentaries all that don't even don't know. A lot of documentaries all that much honestly. Uh-huh. My hot take is most of them should just be podcasts. But this it's so good and it's just about these, like, people who fucking love local news and, like, small community coming together and it's really, like, funny and good and great. So those are all the things I'm watching. What about you? I've been watching, well, my favorite show at moment is the other two, which I don't know if I've talked about. The other two, I I need to watch the new to watch the new season. Yeah. Season two is on HBMax. Max. It is one of the few shows that I, one of the only shows actually, but I think is about like the internet, like internet culture and internet stuff, and makes reference to all of that without being like completely cringy or like it's an, it's genuinely funny and is one of the few shows that I one of the only shows actually that I think is about like, the Internet, like, Internet culture and Internet stuff and makes reference to all of that without being, like, completely cringey. Mhmm. Like, it's and it's genuinely funny and and ridiculous. So I love that. Also, so many people are in that show. But then I I spent labor day weekend literally binge watching in treatment, which you've mentioned before. I have. In treatment. I mean, it's from two thousand eight. It's literally, like, yeah, more than a decade old. But they had a the new season that was out in the last year, But I so I haven't seen that yet. I started from the beginning. Jeez. Yeah. And She's like a hundred episodes each day. Literally forty three half hour episodes in season one, and I watched all of them really everyday weekend. Which actually, it's basically a twenty two episode like our drama series. That's the same amount of time. But yeah. It's so good. I didn't expect watching two people just talk. it's enthralling. Yeah. It's like it's like watching a play. Yeah. It's like you're in the theater. Yeah. Briefly, it's a every episode is a therapy session. Mhmm. And, yeah, they made it so that I actually care about what is happening in other people's therapy. Anyway, what is your non TV chaser? My non TV chaser is something that I'm looking forward to, which is that after this recording, We're gonna go see Hades Town, and I'm so excited. I've seen it before. You haven't. You didn't text me last night being, like, what if I hate it? And I was, like, it would destroy me in it. Slowly would, but I'm just so excited. excited. I've been counting down the been counting down the days. So that, and then also tomorrow as of this recording, Casey Musgrave's film and album come out. And so I'm also just like those two the excitement leading up to those two things has just kept me going. So, yeah, what What about you? What's your non TV chaser? Yeah. I'd say, Sam, I'm looking forward to Haiti's town. town. My expectations are absurdly My expectations are absurdly high. So if it sucks, then, yeah, you're gonna have a lot to a tone for her. Back it for today's show. Thank you for listening to hour. If you want more on happy hours, If you want more UnhappyHour shit and obviously you do, you can head straight to my Patreon page where you'll get video of bonus worth things. First stories that were cut from this week's episode, video of our extended guest complaints interview and an entire separate podcast feed of all the bonus stories every single week. So it's like a second day of unhappy hour stuff that you get. 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