The Comment Section with Drew Afualo - ASHBY SAVED A WOMAN'S LIFE | Episode 242

Episode Date: October 7, 2026

It’s Halloween again in the studio and Ashby is here this week!! Drew and Ashby, sweating in their wigs, talk about the double standard of men vs. women in comedy, the San Diego Zoo safari park, getting mistaken for a beekeeper at Legoland, saving a woman’s life while working as a dental hygenist, realizing a 4-foot drop can kill you, and so much more. Follow Ashby on IG: https://www.instagram.com/ashby/?hl=enFollow The Comment Section on IG: https://www.instagram.com/thecommentsection/?hl=en Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Well, I see you didn't come in costume. Nope. I also did not realize this costume only has like three fingers to us. Right. You're not familiar with the Thing One Anatomy. No. Thing Two anatomy. Yeah, well, both of us are.

One in the pink. Oh, I'm sorry. Two in the thing too. I love a good one in the pink, two in the stinger. Right, me too. But thank you so much for coming to the show. Thank you. Yes.

Welcome. How does it feel? Feels good. This actually really cozy. I feel like that's like my symptom because I put this on and I was like, I feel very calm. Yeah, you're like, I'm feeling protected. When like a certain type of clothes. thing makes me feel calmer. I'm like, ooh, I should get tested. And you know what? If you talk about

it on camera, it's okay, they'll diagnose you for you. Oh, 100% too. You don't even need that. On my way here too. Um, I every now and again, I have like spiritual psychosis. You know what I mean? Yes. And I'm like, God, send me a sign. I'm not even kidding. I look to my right, autism is beautiful sign. Oh. Oh. Well, oh, maybe. God, can you send me another sign? Maybe you got me mixed up with someone. Wait, hold on. Maybe I saw someone else's sign. Yeah, maybe I read the wrong sign. It was like so like genuinely clear as day. I'm like, no, it is. But maybe that's not my sign. I don't know. No, that can't be my sign. It cannot be my sign. Look at me. It can't be my sign. I don't know. I'm like, there's no way. There's no way. It would not make sense.

Well, well, speaking of besides signs, how have you been? I've been good. Life has been crazy. Yes. But good crazy. Yeah, amazing crazy. Yeah, amazing crazy. How are you? You just got married. I did. I did just get married. Oh, you can't tell. Does it feel crazy to say husband? It does, but it also feels kind of, it feels better because I was getting over fiancé. That's fair. I've been a girlfriend for nine years. Well, I was a girlfriend for seven and a half before I got engaged. Okay. So I get that. You get it. Yeah, I get like, well, first of all, not rushing, first of all, because there's nowhere to go. Nowhere to go, baby. If we know no reason to rush, that's how I feel about it. But also,

Sorry, I have, please. Well, I'm glad to hear you were in a long-term relationship, too, just like me. Yes, exactly. Well, we started at 16, too. So everyone's like, when are you getting married? I'm like, well, pipe down. You know what I just got here. I know, I feel the same way because we got together when I was 21, like freshly 21.

Right. So I'm like, I didn't want to get married at 24. Yeah. No way. No. Well, I'm happy to hear that. I'm sure you'll be happy to move to the next phase of title. We're at, like, play thing.

I call them play thing. You know what I mean? That's nice. Right. No, why not. Because partner, he's like, people are going to think you're gay. Like, maybe that's not why they think I'm gay. That's the least of their concern.

That's the least of them. I know. I started saying husband really early, like, because I was engaged for two years. Because next year we'll be together for 10. So I was like, start calling him my husband, like, last year because I was like, I'm over it. Right. Whatever. Whatever.

And the people were like, you got married? And I was like, who knows? My three fingers. Pipe down. But I want to talk about you. I want to talk about how you first got into social media. I obviously know your lore with the lore acts specifically. But I would love to know how you got into it,

like what you really wanted to do, where you started all of that fun stuff. Yeah, it was last August. It was August 1st. I posted, I was like super sick. I posted the Hamilton trend. I don't know if you saw. Which one?

Lin-Manuel Miranda. Yes. Nice to be Spanish. And it was like the sneaking out the window. Oh, yes, yes, yes. So I did that. And then that blew up. And so I kept cosplaying basically as Lynn as Hamilton.

And then I was like, oh, I don't want to only be known as Lynn and Mom. Body double. And so I was like, I'm going to quickly, you know, do a costume gag. And so all the while I was working my full-time job as a graphic designer remotely in Virginia. Right. And so literally on my lunch break, so I would go live as Hamilton and like address the allegations of me cheating on my own wife. It was a hoot. And then to kind of avoid getting stuck in that trend, I dress up as like Pitbull.

I did Alive as Him. Nice. And then to avoid getting stuck as that, because people love that, I did the Lorax. And that was like, the big thing. That was crazy. And yeah, I did that for maybe like two months of like lives and videos as him. And then, again, same strategy that I just started to do like surprise character lives and dress up. And then slowly like introducing Ashby.

into it. And thank God, could you imagine they're like, eh, put the costume back on. She's actually funnier when she's in right. I like how most of them were men. You're so me. The gag is, I just had some introspection with white girl introspect. First time in the shower and I was like, I think I'm always so frustrated that some of my jokes that would work if a man said it, don't work if I say it, just because they're a man. It's very annoying. But then I'm like, oh, why do I always dress up as men? Because I think I'm funnier as a man. that's one of those where you're like

I'll come back to it No it was scary I'm like And that's one of those where you're like And I'm going to come back to that thought I hear you I hear you Not now

I'm butt naked in the shower Yeah I'm going through a lot right now So now it's not the time We're not going to dissect that So maybe maybe we'll get there Interesting Yeah I feel that

I mean that's fair I recently said something that I was like I shouldn't unpack that Where I was like I talked about how Sometimes when I want to articulate different thoughts that are more serious. I like to write them because I feel like

if I say them, there's a prejudice that happens first. So I'm like, you guys will actually listen to me if I write it because, and I write it on something blank with nothing to inspire you to feel judgmental of the thought. Does that make sense? Yeah, totally. So that like I'm sorry, I didn't make sense to me. I'm sorry, I lied. I'm so sorry.

I like, well, basically I really just feel like they take it more seriously because it's not coming out of my face. they can like read it and then they'll take me more seriously by proxy because they already know me as someone. I mean, I'm sure that's like their psychology behind. Like if it's your inner voice reading it or whatever. You know what I mean? Yeah, that's one of those where I'm like, I'm dyslexic. So I'm like, what the fuck did she just say? That's one of those thoughts I have where when I'm like, ooh, I shouldn't unpack that. And then I and then part of me goes, that's probably a man's fault. And then I feel better. Right, that part. Yeah. I'm like, mm, someone did it and wasn't me. So I do want to know about your history. Obviously you said you. you're a graphic designer. But I'm curious, did you do theater? Did you, like, really want to be in entertainment? Was any of that in your kind of dreams?

Yeah, I grew up. I grew up in Washington, D.C., huge theater scene, and I grew up training for, like, Broadway. That was, like, the thing. Very cool. And that's just hard, by the way. Like, aside from, like, the orgies in theater class, like, because that's a thing, by the way.

Besides that incest that goes on in there? Yeah, kind of weird shit that goes on. People are, like, they train their asses off. Hell yeah. You can't just do, like, you know, ballet and jazz. You have to do, like, tap and stage. combat and like stage intimacy class it's the weird shit anyway so I was doing that whole thing my whole life and like skipping school my parents would drive me up to new york for like Broadway

auditions and then when I was like oh please let me go to college for this they're like erk um I know this was a hobby yeah what like you're just like that wait how what about this made you think it was a hobby psych and then so I went to school my first semester I went for criminal justice right Interesting. Right. No tap there. I was like, what the hell? Where is my tap?

Where is the stage combat? What do you mean? I can't tap in the courtroom. What do you mean? And I lasted a semester doing that and then I switched to graphic design. And that later developed. I got my degree in that later developed in working on sets as a production designer. Cool.

Like a PA. So I get to be creative. Yeah, it was still creative. Yeah. But I was definitely trying to inch my way toward being able to act again. Yeah, like in the industry. It's just so hard to break in. For real.

when you stopped, I stopped at like 17, everyone, you know, all your peers kept going. You know what I mean? So it's a train and they stayed on it. It's hard to get back on. That's cool, though, that you're trained in so many facets of art. So like when the door opened, I was like, oh, I can tap. Yeah. And you love character work.

Love character work. Which I think is really fun. It's so fun. What would be like a dream for you in terms of like, would you want to write your own kind of sketch show or would you want to be in a show or you just kind of like whoever will take me? Who genuinely horrible take me. And not even for a check. I'm like, I just need a room.

You know what I mean? I just need some water. 10 minutes of your time. Right. I don't know. I feel like I am in the faith. so many dreams and now I can kind of like bring them back up so it's kind of whatever sticks first I'd love to be in like a you know a sitcom show I'd love to be um you know in O'Mary on Broadway you know literally whatever oh it would be so good um or in like SNL and everything like that kind of would

like I think you would thrive I had the opportunity to audition for that you know a few months ago obviously you know it didn't pan out because I'm here in a thing too costume and on New York I said that all the time too I'm like when I make it big trust and believe you will not see me here See me. But yeah, it's just like it's so cool to be, I always thought I was going to stay a dreamer, which I was, you know, very happy to be because I think that's a very whimsical way to live. But it's a blessing to be like a working dreamer. Hell yeah.

Yeah, crazy. We feel like, especially, I feel like that's something I talk about a lot with online people especially, because as evil and twisted as the internet has been. They are insane. as evil and twisted as the internet has become, I also feel very thankful to the internet because I feel like for people like you and I, I've said this before,

I feel like it's given us the opportunity to pursue. Whereas like otherwise we probably wouldn't have found those opportunities if we didn't make them ourselves. Totally. So I think it's incredible that you were like, fuck it, I'm going to do character work. It's crazy. And it's so cool that there's a space being carved out for that.

And there is like more legitimacy behind it. Like I think, bitch, I'm the first one to be like, what do you mean you create content? Like, pipe down. Especially coming from the entertainment industry. Like I work, you know, as PA and on set and everything. So I'm like, okay, sure, you know, make videos. But now there is, there are, you know, I'm in rooms with executives that genuinely take me seriously.

Right. I'm obviously not dressed like. I'm like, all right, hear me out. Or are you? Right. And that's just the gag. And they're like, what the fuck? And the gag is like, they're still, you know, 80-year-old white men, you know, like, decrepit men making decisions.

And so, but it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, starting to change where they're taking a seriously. And I feel like people like yourself and like me are the reason why that starts to happen is because there is a lot of untapped talent. Yeah. That doesn't get recognized on a national stage unless you have a connection of some kind.

Yeah. And I think that's something I've said before too where I'm like, I really didn't like get to a point where they were like, you know what? I think this girl has something. It got to the point where we just get too big to ignore. Work. And they're like, well, there's something here.

There's something here. Maybe I should tell. Okay, fine. Fine, I'll hire the Lorax. Fine. Get her in the office. Fine. Sorry, guys. Had to ditch the turtle head.

I'm having a panic attack in it. Sorry, guys, had to ditch it. And I'm like, I'm sure Ashby's going to ditch that wig soon too, because she keeps going, what wig? Oh, easy's joke of the book. Okay, what, speaking of early career, what was like the first, like, a moment that happened where you kind of felt like, oh my God,

this is like maybe turning into something that I can, really like take this somewhere. I don't know. I mean, I feel like TikTok has changed into that like, I was watching Grace's episode and she commented on how, like views don't equal follows nowadays. You know what I mean? That's true.

And so the Hamilton videos that I was posting were going up in views, but also in follows. And I was like, oh, like people like, what the hell? People like me, what the hell? Maybe I won't come myself, right? Never kill yourself. No, and don't do it. You're too hot, you're too sexy.

Never, ever, ever do it. You're not asked of that. Just up as Lynn Manuel Miranda. Right. Right. Right. And so I was like, okay, there's something there in terms of like connection to audience. Yeah.

And then Disney reached out and they were like, we want you to work the press line, which I'm like, how do you know I won't say a slur? Right? Like, how do you know I won't say a slur? Me always. I obviously would never. Me every time. Okay. They hire me.

I'm like, okay, but you never know. But I really was like, interesting move. You know what I mean? Those like, they don't know me. I don't know them. And thank God I was good at it, you know, for both of us. Because it opened doors for me to do more press junkets and press lines and stuff. Very cool.

And also like mix in character comedy too. So I feel like I realized early on just because I had never seen that happen before. Right. But it was very, it was bad for the psyche. You know what I mean? Like not great for my mind and money. There are quite a few things that I've done in my career too doing this where I'm like, when I'm in the room, I'm like, you guys are crazy.

Yeah. I'm like, oh my God. You guys hear on your top right now? You guys want to hire me, okay. It's actually insane. I mean, but I never know what's real anymore because I, no one hates me more than me, you know? It's like no one thinks I'm-

Girl, we gotta work on that. I know. No one thinks I'm worse at what I do than me. And that's, I don't think that'll ever go away. Everyone got sad, what happened? We got a little depressing. I thought you're having a fun time. But so it's a lot of like impostor syndrome

where I will be in those, and I'm like, I can't discern whether or not I'm right and you guys are crazy and believing in me or I just don't believe myself. So, yeah, I got to work on that. I think they do believe in you. They clearly see something that's of value and obviously everybody does. So I think you are incredible and I think it is imposter syndrome. But I also think that's natural.

I think only women ever feel that minority people are the only ones who ever feel that in this industry especially. I feel like we're the only ones who doubt. Because we're always questioned about it. You know what I mean? And we have to try to prove it in a weird way. Well, and especially the way that we came into this industry, too, which is like we were living very normal lives. Right.

I say that all the time. I'm actually really grateful that I went to college, graduated, had a normal job, really. Because college, you know, college education or standard education is not necessary at all. Yeah, I agree. I saw the same thing. You need to be a developed person in any way. But for me, I valued so much of it. I took so much.

And I, you know, who I am, I think I needed those, like, added social skills and added, like, deadlines. and, you know, to be on time for things and just like the little things that you learn, not even like the curriculum. Yeah, I agree. And I definitely meet certain people where I'm like, I feel like you actually could have benefited from that.

Not, I mean, sometimes I'm like, you gotta read a book, you have to read a book. But other times, I'm like, especially in this industry. What do you mean? Yeah. Yeah, and so I, yeah, I'm definitely glad it happened when it happened.

Me too. I agree. You could not catch me at Charlie Demilio time in my life. No, no. I would have been a shooting star bitch. She followed me. I just put three fingers in my mouth by the way. Dixie D'Eemillo followed me for a while and then unfollowed me.

I don't know what that was. Dixie, I'm so sorry if I offended you in some. Sometimes I just want to be happy. Maybe that's why she unfollowed me. We were doing two different things. We were both workshopping two different bits at the same time. I feel the same way about that, especially meeting people in this industry. And you're like, you could have benefited from college.

I think the same thing. Yeah. You could have benefited from college and a real job. Right. Before this happened. Right. Because you working press lines and stuff, I'm so curious. I'm sure you've noticed there are some celebs I talk to where I'm like, I don't think

you've ever spoken to a human person ever. Yeah. Or they're just so PR trained that they're like plasticy. And I'm like- Yeah. Like I say lobotomized. Yeah. They feel like robots. But like I've met specifically the men, which is so interesting.

Yeah. I feel like the women are a little more plasticy, but the men are, like, overly charismatic to the point where I'm like, do you know you're here right now? Like, they'll be saying things and they're like, you know, what you're doing is amazing. I love what you're doing and you seem so incredible. And I'm like, eh, you're scaring me. Whereas like the women are more like composed and a little more lobotomized. Yeah.

But the men are almost like scarily charismatic to the point where it feels strange because it doesn't feel real. Yeah, I don't know what that is or what they, what they're teaching them over there. Yeah. Yeah, I've met a few, like, more famous men, I'll say, than women who have been very strange and weird where I'm like, it feels like skin walker shit. Like, it feels like you googled how do humans interact? Yeah. And then you memorized it.

And then you got in here and you're like, yes, hello, yes. But it works. I'm like, yeah, well, hell yeah. Whatever you're doing, it's working on me. It's like, freaks me out. I don't like who it turns me into. I don't know. Did you talk to anyone that you were surprised they were awesome?

Like, you were glad. You know who's awesome? John Sina. He is awesome. Yeah, he's awesome. He is awesome. He's so nice. He remembered my name.

Okay, the bar's low. No, but for men of that caliber, it's true. That's like, that's rare. He just repeated my name back after I said my name's Ashby. But he did remember and he was just so kind, like eye contact, but you could tell he was listening. And that's the difference. Like a lot of people look me dead in my face and they were not processing what I was

saying. He's so, he's so kind. That's cool. He is. I talked to him, I talked to him at a premiere once and he was very nice and very fun. And like, I love when they're a little bit silly. Yeah. Like, you don't have to be crazy.

But like, like, I, obviously, like, we, as interviewers, we're like, we provide most of the silly. Right. I'll, like, lob you. Yeah, exactly. They're layups more than anything. Right, right, right. But when they're not fun, like, or they're, you could just tell that they're like, it feels like almost like torture for them to be there. You're like, okay, I don't want to be here either.

I was like, I'm so sorry. Especially like when I'm dressed, I did the Ted Lassau premiere with Apple TV. And I was, I was dressed as Ted. And there's one person that, you know, just retired, probably overworked, whatever, overpaid. Oops. And I was sitting there looking the way that I did. And I felt so bad. Because I'm like, you shouldn't have to deal with this right now.

Sorry about that. Truly the last thing. They approved the mustache. Sorry about that. Right. I'm so sorry. They put this on me. I was asleep when they did it.

And so I do feel bad sometimes, but the people who get it, they get it. Yeah. They appreciate it. One time I interviewed someone and it was like I was in costume because it was Halloween. But I was like, I was asking them like, oh, are you big? Obviously it looked like this. I was in a big costume, whatever. I was like, do you love Halloween?

And they were like, no, I actually hate Halloween. Oh. Well, what did you say that? And then after that I was like, okay, well, unrelated. if you were wondering why I'm dressed this way, I just like really need to do laundry. So I fucking hate Halloween too, me too. That's crazy.

I'd fucking hate Halloween. That's crazy. Yeah, I'd say it's hard. Like, have you ever had, you don't have to say who, but have you ever had like an interview where you're like, God, oh my God, oh my God. I mean, okay, I have multiple different schicks that I can do. You know what I mean?

Like with Trixie, it's a little like catty. You know, we try to jab at each other. Right. Because she's fun. You have to know your audience. Of course, there's always going to be that like 12 year old that's like, that was very nice. I'm like, girl, like, what do you mean?

You know who we're talking to her right now? Right. But then, like, sometimes I'll pick a stick and it doesn't work. I was doing like a press junket thing with this very notable actress. And she took the mics. I had like the little DJI on the stick and with the foam cover like this on it. And she took it off to see what was underneath. And I made a joke like, ooh, don't eat it.

Or something. Careful. It's not edible. I tried. And she went like this. she went, and I was like, all three fingers. That was a joke. It was so scary.

And I, and it wasn't, you have like, you know, 30 seconds to then ask your question. So I couldn't spend 30 seconds being like, I am so sorry. I knew you were going to eat it. I was kidding. I'm sure they feed you really well. She said I would never fucking do that ever, idiot. I'm sorry. I was like, okay, awesome.

So, sorry, where's the rope? I need the rope. I need the rope. Sorry, how high does this building go? Great, right. Just curious. Did you know more than three feet can kill you? I did not know that, but I would assume.

I feel like four feet, though, is not that high. Right, three feet. I didn't like, I didn't like, I didn't like Google this. It was something I learned in, it was something I learned in class, unrelated to. Was it in the period of criminal justice? Right. That three feet, if you fall off a ladder or three feet tall, you can die. That's crazy.

Right. I didn't know that either, but it feels like not that high, like four. Again, the vibes got a little weird. Yeah. I'm with you. I saw you. I was right there with you. That's why I said, really, four feet.

That's crazy. Everyone else's about weird. It's like, I mean, you can good. It's sucking all the brain power out of me because we're having attacks. Right. Because it's so like, I feel so good and you feel so. Do you know what I almost? I know we're doing an opposites thing right now.

I literally almost bought, but it's, okay, I almost bought one of those like people cocoons. Oh, the ones that hang. Bitch, you know what I'm talking about. I saw the autism is beautiful sign too, so. Yeah, I know, yeah, I know all about that. And I almost bought it, but it was one of those things where it's so big and it has to be like in the like on a beam, like on a supportive beam. Right. Then I'm like, everyone will see that. And they'll know. They'll know. And if I'm being honest, like my big ass like, I'm going to rip that shit off the ceiling. Like I don't want to find. Like imagine me. Imagine me trying to calm myself down. Could you imagine having a hard day. Yeah. Imagine I'm having an attack and I get in that thing and it rips off the ceiling of my rental home. Oh, no. Then I have to text my landlord. Sorry, I was trying to calm myself down. Sorry, I was trying to regulate my.

Sorry, my, yeah, I'm sorry, my autism swing ripped out the drywall, my bad. I'm not doing that. I really, really do want to be tested. But apparently it's like four grand. No, same. Likewise. And then I have to be tested for like, you know, being too poor. Well, yeah, well, then that's one of those.

Okay, so the test came back negative for autism, but positive that you actually couldn't pay a bill. Yeah, yeah. We're going to need to put this on a credit card, multiple cards. I feel that way about it too because I'm like, it is so expensive. And then it's also just a yes or no. which makes me feel like when I took my dog I was like my second dog that we adopted

we fostered and I took him to the vet and the guy who I fostered him from told me towards the end of our meeting that he thinks he might be deaf I said huh? And he's had him for over a year and I said you think and he goes well I didn't want to get him tested

because I had a feeling but then when I took him to the vet they said it's like $600 and it's just a yes or no the man thought he was deaf oh no no no the dog What the hell does the dog have to do with this? My dog, got it got it got it So that's how I feel about the autism tests.

Like, I'm like, they're just going to give me a yes or a no. And then it's kind of like, well, then I spend all that money just to confirm something I kind of already knew. They're just going to say, have you ever put on a onesie and how did you feel? Right. And I'm going to say, right. Have you ever thought about buying this swing? Right. Has God ever sent you a sign?

It's so obvious. Are you familiar with this billboard? And they show me that sign. And I say, oh, what hell? And that's the funny thing is I think I know what sign you're talking. Like, literally. It was on the way here. I'm like, I think I've driven past that sign as well.

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um but we just like finalized the deal of it so I'm very excited how exciting oh my gosh I'm so happy for you I'm very excited it's just another like outlet for me to do funny things and um you know so yeah it'll be really exciting but then other than that like just auditioning and um doing that whole thing and yeah I've been doing a lot of additioning too. Do you like it? I like it. I feel like I low-key wish that it was back in the day where you would do more in-person stuff. I do feel like I do better in person than I do on self-tapes. There's also like so many more layers because I grew up in theater and that was all in person. Now it's even more digital than it's ever been. I know. That's what everyone tells me.

You lose like I don't know. I light up a room and I'd love to light up a room. You're so me because that's how I feel. I feel the same fucking way. My smile has booked me. Wait, multiple times. Listen, give me five minutes. It's going to be hard for you not to want to cast me and everything after. I pop my embis line out real quick. No, but like it does get rid of like that level of personality. I think so too.

And I just feel like I don't shine the same in self-tapes. How do you feel about self-tapes? I like them. I like doing them. But also like, okay, sometimes I feel like how will they feel bad for me? Because sometimes like every known again. They're not going to know how much I need it. Like in person, I would like walk in a little, you know, not great posture, maybe a little slower,

maybe something just happened. Maybe my mom just, you know, got sick or something. You're trying to sympathy them into the cast? Like I'm already acting. I'm method. You know, and so, you know, maybe they feel a little bad. Maybe, like, let's throw her a bone. Maybe it was on the edge. It's like, we feel bad. Why not? That doesn't come across in a cell. I've tried. It doesn't have crossed. They're like, look at the wig she has on. Just put her. It's okay. Just put her in there. Just throw her in there. So yeah, I feel like it gets rid of a little bit of That's a good point. Mine's kind of the opposite where I'm like,

I'm just so incredibly amazing and awesome. And also intimidating in a physical aggressive sense. So maybe that's working my way in too. Or they're kind of like, oh, okay, yeah, fine. Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, that's fine. Down girl, down, girl. No stomping. Yeah, we're attacking them from two different angles.

You know what I mean? I think we're cornering, we're triangulating. I think what would be a dream, like a show that's on the air right now, what would be a dream? Oh, every single one. I mean, like, truly I am. You're so many.

Oh, what? Like, that's so bad. Okay, bitch. What's new? Like, genuinely, I, every single tape I get sent from my team. I'm like, I just want you to let them know how badly I want to. This is a fucking dream of mine. You literally said that last time.

And it's always true. Right. And they're like, maybe it's a Toyota commercial. I have never heard a car or more. I would fucking kill to be in this piece of media. I'm like, I don't know. Not the point. Not the point.

the point. But yeah, it's, I don't know. Again, I would love like a, you know, Abbott Elementary. Love. You'd be great in that. Thank you. You'd be fantastic. You know what you would be great?

Oh my God, I'm so insecure. I thought they were talking about me. They're just whispering. I'm like, they hate me. They hate me. They're like, let's wrap this up. She thinks she can be an avid elementary. Yeah.

You know what you would be great in, but it's not comedy-based at all, really. But there is comedy in it, the pit. I think you would kill. Do you think? I think so. Do you know what's crazy? I see that in you. I played, did you just hear me gulp?

That's a joke. I was on investigation discovery. Okay. As the dead body. So I actually could eat out of that body. It's one of the things where it's like, okay, at this point, it's like, you're typecasting me. Of course, it's always like the 15-year-old blonde white bitch that always dies.

And it's true. Yeah. Oh my God, they do. Literally they just do. You're an SVU victim every time. Right. Every single time. That's crazy.

Right. I got like a 250 day. That's not bad though, just to lay there. Sure, no, Maryland. Fine. I think you would do so great in the pit, like as like one of the nurses or something. Sure.

Ooh, that'd be awesome. Night shift. Okay, we're manifesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Give me the pit. I think. I'm fin of be in the pit. Yeah, well, honestly, if you do get cast in the pit,

I would love if Laura could clip that and stitch it on the front. Oh, they'd love it. They're like, wait, what the fuck? This is the place to manifest. Honestly. No, 100%. I've joke about this a lot, but I put three dolls on Broadway from that chair. Okay. Listen. From that chair to God's ears, hello. Amen. Amen. Amen. Sister. God was like, I just told you you have autism. So I don't know, I don't know if we're speaking the same language. That's neither here and are there.

Right. God doesn't give with both hands. Right. So you get that and the role in the pit. Right. It's a win-win either way. You know what? I'd love it. You know what, fine. I'd say. What would you, what would you say, kind of a different pivot? But what would you say has been kind of the hardest part about now kind of doing this career. Because obviously we talked about being very normal before this. And it's a very different transition. So I'm curious. I think, I mean, I share every part of me on the internet. Yeah. But not because I want to only because like I don't think it's that interesting. I don't know. I feel that way too. I'll just be like, yeah, I picked my nose today. And I was like, that's so real. I'm like, oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. I shot a little bit too.

Yeah. We love that. I'm like, oh, that's awesome. They're like representation is so important. I don't know. I think it does get to a point where I haven't been good at like stopping work and starting life. Like there's no line there. It's all kind of like my career. Because it's, again, when that door opens and it's only been some 13 months,

if we're talking baby terms. But it's like I don't want that door to close. I'm always thinking about it. And when I'm always thinking about it, I'm always thinking about what everyone thinks about me. And literally if I see one comment about a 12-year-old who has epilepsy and I made a joke about epilepsy

where I flickered a light, which was very funny, by the way. I cannot sleep. Genuinely, I get nauseous and I do not eat for a day if I hurt one person's feelings. Or if I'm, like, misunderstood. Listen, I tell you. Listen, I get that, mama. It's hard. But again, it's, you know, everyone's like, care less.

Like, okay, bitch, well, I've tried. God, why didn't I figure that? Right. Genius. God, what great advice. You should go be a therapist. But I also don't want to. I don't want to care less.

I really, really do want to care about everyone and how I make people feel. and, you know, what I give into the world and the energy and how I leave a room and I always want to leave people better than how I found them. Right. And my intention always is to make people laugh. And if I'm not doing that, tell me and I'll scrap it. Like, if I'm not achieving what I went out to achieve, then fuck me, I guess. You know what I mean?

I'm not going to die on a hill that's hurting people. So, ooh. It's like that. It's like. Preaching. That's crazy. It's like that balance. Like you do have that balance because then there's also like there is.

there is the bean soup of it all too, which the internet has become. And that's the only part that I think has made the internet some unbearable is kind of refusing to acknowledge who has historically been good. And also there is a line between comedy and like actual harm. And like you were saying earlier, if I gave this joke to Shane Gillis, I always joke, if I gave this joke to Shane Gillis, he'd sell out Madison Square Garden. He's literally always my example too. The shit that man has gotten away with and still has a, oh, you're kidding.

And revered as one of the most hilarious men in the entire world. Like that's why I said like, I always, that's so funny you do that because I'm like, he would sell out Madison Square Garden. It's crazy. And it, if I started ghostwriting for comedians, you would have no idea where we could go. And it's like, and then, like, no, T, no, shade, a little bit of both of, like, the Kevin heart roast. Yeah.

Like, those white men were just edging and say the N word. Yeah, they were so excited. They just, like, they just. Couldn't wait. But then every single time in one of those examples, it's always the women that get bashed. Right. In that stark of an example of like,

that's an extreme. Like, why are we joking about this? Is this even funny anymore? Even then it's the women that get bashed. So I'm like, there's something there. And even me as a person in society, I'll view men funnier than women. And that's just an automatic thing that, like,

when I'm watching a show, I'm like, oh, that's so funny. But then I have to check myself and be like, well, if a woman said that line, or if this was a woman, like a female character. Right. And it's interesting because I'm, you know, I'm a, it's subconscious.

Yeah, well, it's subconscious in a lot of ways. And I think women are constantly policing themselves. Like, in addition to being police, they're also policing themselves. So it's like men are just given a far longer leash, like, especially in comedy. Like, they're allowed to push boundaries. They're allowed to make really off-kilter jokes as long as it's done correctly. Like, whereas women kind of have a one-shot only thing. And then if you factor the TikTok into it,

it's a whole other. I also truly do have a theory that because a lot of men don't think women can be funny, they don't take what they say as a joke. So I'll say a joke. That's actually a really good point. About like if someone's like, my dad died and I'm like, what? Like his hair? A joke.

Right. People who do not think women can be funny, take that as like a literal statement that I was making fun of this girl's dead dad. Then that's a good point. And it's, I can't really blame them for it because it is so sub-concline. It's so like ingrained and I think how we view women still and it's like a one. long road to iron those things out. Yeah.

But it is one of those things where I genuinely just think it's because there's a disbelief that women can even make a joke. Yeah. No, that's such a good point. Because then it's like, oh, she must have meant that. Right. And it's like, or I'm just being hilarious. Like, there's that too.

Or the comment, I'm sure you got this a lot where it's like, she's so unintentionally funny or she's so effortlessly funny. I'm like, do you know I'm sweating my fucking ass crack off trying to make a joke here? That's me trying my hardest. I'm trying my fucking hardest. So yes, it comes across funny because I meant it to be funny. But then Shane Gills was like, ooh, the meticulous way that he can. I'm like, oh, you're kidding.

That was planned. That was like a layered joke. Well, and that's the worst part is like even as women, we can, I know a funny joke when I hear one. So I can give credit where it's due. And I set it up 10 minutes ago. It's not, it's not. I think there is too an art of coming off as like sporadic or like, ooh, she's so crazy. It's like, I think that is a funny persona.

And I think I get that a lot too, like whenever I go live and, you know, I read comments. And it's improv. It's not that crazy. But then there are those comments of like, Wow, she has no idea. Like, huh? What do you mean? Yeah, like everything you're doing is just by accident

or you're just, you're going insane and wanting to put on costumes. Like, they're acting like, nothing about it is intentional. Right, right. Because they find you funny. Right. So they're like, this can't be intentional. She's hilarious.

But again, I love that. I think there is such a sweet spot in there because I want to be known as a funny person. Sometimes it bites me in the butt where like, I'll be doing my makeup on live. And everyone's like, mm, not funny. I'm like, oh, I wasn't trying. Hold on, mom.

I'm trying to be funny. You're just living life and they're like, get back to the funny stuff. Okay, well, sometimes I'm not trying to be funny, baby. But, you know, I think I would much rather be known as a comedic entertainer rather than like, you know, an influencer or like, I agree. You know what I mean? Because there is more validity behind it. And I think I do want to put in the work that it takes to be that person. I agree.

You know? Yeah. And I think that's something that you've probably noticed since when you start meeting people who went up the traditional. way and they've been in this industry for a long time. They can appreciate, like a lot of the standups I'm friends with, like, they can appreciate that I respect the art, so I'm not asking for, oh, give it to me because I have a lot of followers. Right, right, right. So they can appreciate that, and I think that makes them less averse to the blending of the

worlds because- You have to be aware. Yeah, to some extent. Yeah. But I also think, too, I'm like, Hollywood as a whole stands on the shoulders of nepotism. I don't have a famous fucking dad, so I had to go up a different way, bitch. Right. I just start getting in the ass of it. every man that's awful and that's how I got in here.

So funny. You had to put on Lynn Manuel's ponytail and I had to do that. I had to get in drag. I had to be in drag, mama. I literally, I have, okay, so I'm also working on getting diagnosis of OCD because I have rumination. It's like, okay. I also have OCD. I got diagnosed with that earlier this year. Really? Oh my God. Dad ass. Look at us. Um, and I genuinely, I've been telling myself, you have a famous dad. You're an Epo baby. Right. I don't.

I literally don't. My dad's in sales. Like you're living in fear that you maybe have. My dad's in security sales for banks. Right. And genuinely, like, over the past month, I'm like, you have a famous dad and you're an epa baby. And I'm like, oh my God, I am.

And they're going to find out. And I have proof, by the way, that I don't have a famous dad. Well, your dad, yeah, you could ask your dad. And everyone's going to find out. And you're going to, like, what the fuck am I cooking up here? That's crazy narrative. Honestly, though, I think that's really good self-awareness. Yeah.

There are quite a few white girls that are being outed. Right. That lefty girl. that whatever the fuck that girl's name. Yeah. Hello. They're popping up out of nowhere. So maybe that's why you're like, you're getting paranoid.

Yeah, I'm like, do I have a famous? Maybe at like Deloite. He's a fucking famous man. I better never find out I have a famous dad. If I do, you best to believe I'm going to nepo baby the fuck out of that thing. 100%. Oh, then why am I doing all this by myself? I need help.

Never blame the baby. I never blame the baby. If I was baby, I'd nepo baby all the way. I hope my baby is a baby. Bitch, I literally told The Rock because we were joking about it. I was like, oh my God. nepotism was at play here. I'd be telling people you were my dad.

I would be telling people right fucking now, you're my dad. And as a white person, I'd believe it. Yeah, they're looking like that. And that works. That works. I'd literally be like, yes, that's my actual dad. And I need a role in the next movie franchise ASAP, please. Thank you so much.

I'd be like, yeah, you, Brettman, both kids. Yeah, I don't see any difference. I know, me and Brettman's sisters and also both children of the rock, obviously. He's full Filipino. No worries. For sure. I don't even know what that means. They can tell.

No worries, not a big deal. Filipino. Okay. Do you remember a clip? Who the fuck said that? Philippina. Oh, Cameron Diaz. Little doble.

I know a lot of Filipinas. Philippines. I love that one. Oh, my God. I love that one. I love clips like that when you just whip them out in conversation. I have like the crazy kind of brain rot where like I'll just say it. And sometimes I forget that not everybody's in this industry.

So they don't get a lot of those references. Every single time someone. cuts me off in conversation. I go, oh, so you don't want to talk about 9-11? And I was like, if you want to talk about 9-11. I guess you can talk about 9-11. I'm like, no, like, the video. You guys know the clip?

No way. No, but yeah, you can't go in strong with those if it's like, if it's heavy talk. Literally like my husband's birthday is in October. And last year, like, obviously it's around Halloween. And like we went to something for his birthday last year. We had this like safari thing at the Sandy you go safari park shuts out.

I went there. Do you love it? Did you do the, the Roaring snore? Oh my God. Ashby, we've literally, we're the same person. It's gorgeous. Wasn't it so amazing? I felt like I was in Africa.

Oh my God. I truly felt like I was like, this is the coolest thing. Literally, it's exactly like Africa. Literally it's exactly like Africa. That when I did that tour with like my whole family, there's like 11 of us, like a friends and family, that like at least three or four times, all of the guides we had were go, no kids, huh? Okay, yeah, no worries.

Like there's no kids. No, I was like, you guys don't go with your adult friends to go bond at the zoo? Okay. My boyfriend I went to Legoland, which we'll never do again. It's kind of not great. Well, it's one of those things that you, I guess, are required to have kids or else you're like there for the wrong reasons. Yeah.

There's no right reason, I guess, to be there alone as an adult. And we knew that. We knew that because we did like a Costco Lego Land Day. Okay. We're white. I don't know if you knew it. Right. Yes.

And so we hit Costco, got a dog, went to Lego Land. And we walk in, rope dress. up by the way. Barricade at L. L'O.L.A. Oh, my goodness. I'm gonna kill a six rolled out of the way. And so we're walking to the ride and we're in like a crowd of, you know, well, kids and

their parents. And an employee, like three employees grab my boyfriend and say, okay, right this way. I'm like, oh, this is nice. And they're like, okay, so the B issue is over here. We're like, B issue. And mine, you, we dress for the, we look like little. Fari people, like, we're dressed in tan, he's wearing a hat. He thought he was a fucking beekeeper.

They had a B-keeper. They literally, the only reason we could have been there was to tend to their B problem. To this pest control? To this fucking rampant bee colony that there's no other reason. I guess I was maybe his assistant or I don't know what I was in that story. Beakeper? You're the sous chef. You're going to hold the smoke pump.

Right. You're going to smoke them out. And I was baffled. I'm like, I'm never coming back here again. I must have a kid right now. And they were like, oh, we're so sorry. I know, we have a bee problem. And sure enough, we saw the beekeeper.

Doppelganger. Looks just like a boyfriend. They said, you can't blame me. You do look like a beekeeper. Right. I'm like, oh, fuck, they were right. There is this joke. Did you ever watch the new girl?

Like the show? Did you remember that episode where they, they, there's like a rival bar? And then when Nick and Schmidt go over there to sleuth, the lady who owns the bar goes, are you the walnut wholesalisman? Oh, yeah. What? And then he goes, what? And then he goes,

Who sells Walnuts wholesale? And she goes, you just kind of look like that. And then when the actual guy comes, he looks exactly like. It's so funny. That was your boyfriend. Like sometimes you just have to be like, yeah. They're like beekeeper, right? Yeah, you were right.

What do you do, keep bees? I bet you keep bees for a living. You big beekeeping fan? That's crazy. Yeah, it was insane. Ridiculous. Yeah, when we were at the safari park, essentially, it was obviously around Halloween. They had like Halloween stuff up.

But like me and all of my friends and my family, we kept going, Pumpkin. Every time we saw pumpkin, pumpkin, and then it would echo at least three or four pumpkins. Yes. So we kept doing that like for days. Like we did it for so long that my mom goes, is that from something?

Like what is that from? What are you guys saying? Like, I love moms. They think everything has like a nice place. What are they're like, oh, it's just, it's this thing on, it would take longer for me to explain. Then you showed the video and they're like, oh, do you know them from school?

Or I'm like, no, I. That's so my dad core too. Like when I show my dad, it a funny, video. My dad's like, who is that? Do you know them? My dad will send a video of me to me and be like, who the fuck is that? I'm like, right. Right. Well, my dad will see things like seven months later and be like, did you hear about this? Oh my God. I'm like, yes, I did. I saw it. Quite a while ago. You're like, uh, yeah. Did you know? Obama was just elected. This is huge. This is huge for us. Okay. I do have some fun facts about you.

Oh. Yeah. Don't know if you know. But I do have some fun facts about it. Well, you'll let me, I always say, you'll let me know if they're fun. Okay. And if they're not fun, I'm going to fire Amanda. So no, no pressure.

Okay, so first one. Parents are divorced. Okay. You have autism. Right. Okay. No, not super fun, right? Okay.

This first one says you played Brooke Windham and Legally Blonde the Musical. Is that true? Yeah, that's from my mom's Facebook. Which, by the way, I just. I literally just, I literally just, like, had a company be like, we can erase you from the internet. I'm like, hell yeah. And they gave me like a whole report on everything that was online. Bitch, my, my asshole was up there.

Like, literally everything was on there. Everything was, the apartment I live in right now and the best way to enter the building was on there. And I just moved. So yeah, go ahead. That was crazy. And then they gave that report to Amanda and then she used it to make your fun facts. You played Brooklyn. Okay, legally blonde the musical is one of my favorite musical.

calls of all time. It's so good. And mind you, I was cast, the girl that was meant to play Brooke Windham had to get like bone surgery. I don't know which bone, but like she had to get one of them fixed. And, ooh, okay, hell yeah. And anytime I get a laugh. And I had to step in like two days before. I mean, I was 15. Did you do the whole jump roping? Yeah. And I'm asthmatic. Damn. Right. Look at you, bitch. That is truly a Peloton workout when I see that as you're belting at the same time. Right. That is one of the best songs. on the soundtrack too, I'm jealous. Oh, it's so good.

That's fucking awesome. I think that's so sick. Okay, this next one says, you used to have a job doing print production on Walking Dead comics? Yes. That's crazy. Yeah, I worked at Skybound.

Very cool. They do Invincible Walking Dead Transformers, Lego, all that stuff. Yeah. That is so cool. And pretty successful. So, I don't know if you heard about me. Yeah, just one of my many accolades.

So, also right here, it says you worked as a dental hygienist for days. Yes, I did. What are you doing playing in people's mouths? You should not be doing that. And I actually was. And do you know, I actually saved a woman's life twice. Because hold on now, pipe down.

Because, okay, so I found this, I was, well, confused. And I was like, I don't know what I want to do with my life. So I literally just Googled highest paying job for lowest amount of school time. That was the exact Google search. And no tea, no shade. Dental hygieness was the first one. Right. And I mean, albeit still like six years of school.

Yeah. But they were like, you could be a dental assistant. for no school, I think. Maybe it said probably not. And I found a private dental practice across my street. So I went over and me and my tight ass. I was like, hey, like, do you guys take like, you know, like interns or whatever? I don't like it.

And he was like, I, you can tell me how much you want to be paid. And I will pay you that hourly if you can make it two weeks training under me. And I was like, hell yeah. I bought 10 scrubs. What a $1,000, by the way. What kind of movie ass deal is insane. I'll give you the job of a life. time. And guess what? If you survive. I didn't. And I was like, that's why he offers the fucking bank is because no one makes it. It was rigorous. It was boot camp. I had to memorize how many teeth are in the mouth. Whoa. That's a lot of information. I still don't know, actually. And I think it's 32. Sure. And you had to like lay out these like certain trays for certain operations and stuff. But there was one time he was taking a crowd, doing the suction and water stuff. Felt super illegal, by the way. And he was removing a temporary tooth from this old.

woman's mouth and it fell down the back of her throat and he didn't notice. And so I went in there with my fingers. I'm not even kidding. I went in there. That's crazy. Three fingers into this woman's mouth. And yeah, she was gagging, but, you know, whatever. And so I had taken out, saved her life. And he was mad at me, of course, because apparently, you know, I didn't have gloves on or

whatever. There was something I missed in the protocol. But she's alive. Well, maybe not. She's old. But I don't know. It was a couple years ago. She was probably like 90 something.

Anyway, she lived for a little bit after that. Imagine imagine she died from whatever germ you put in her throat grabbing that too. Just full pneumonia. Just killed it day after she's dead. He's like, actually, made it a lot worse. Made it a thousand times worse, actually. Right, right. But my intention was there, and that's all that matter. But you did save someone's life.

Right, for a short time there. Good for you. Thank you. That's what I would be telling people. I'd be leading with that. Right. And I do one podcast. Maybe not the other stuff.

I lead with that. I did save someone's life. Yeah, I should do that. I shouldn't have been in there. Have you ever saved anyone's life before? Have I ever saved anyone's life? No. My life has been saved a couple times, though.

Wow. Yeah, I was a big choker when I was a kid. That's just something about me. Right. But I literally got to the point where, like, peppermint candies, like little hard candies, they got banned from me. Like, my mom was like, she is not allowed to have those because every time I had one, I would choke.

You swallowing it whole? I guess. I mean, I don't know. I don't know if I was just an avid sucker and it just flew down there. Right, for sure. But I remember when I was a kid, I literally. was my sister's birthday party. I couldn't have been older than like two or three.

There was like, you know, pinatas. They have a bunch of candy, but in like Mexican pinatas, they also put like peanuts in there, like full-sized peanuts. Like, big ones you get at the circus. Like, they're fucking huge and they have the shells still. I like opened one. Yeah. And I just ate the whole thing, shell and all.

Obviously got lodged in my throat. I started choking. And then my godfather's dad was a firefighter for like years. So he literally three fingers down. my throat scoop that bitch out. That's crazy. And it scratched my throat and everything. I had to go to the hospital and all that.

And then now, to this day, my family still calls me peanut. That's honestly really cute. I wish I had a nickname. If anyone wants to give me a nickname. I don't know. Yeah, so I was a big choker. You did? Or one by one, my bad.

Yellow. And it went to the back of my throat. I was trying to weird history with Legos today. This is crazy. And I was like trying to, you know, taken apart from another Lego and it shot down the back of my throat. Were you a child? I was a child, yeah.

Okay. Well, I was 16. So I guess. So a minor. So I was getting there. I was getting up there. And so, you know, well, there's three fingers on her here. And so three fingers, of course, down my throat and I had to scoop it out.

But if it was any centimeter down, deeper down my throat, I would have died. You did it yourself? Uh-huh. You love singing fingers and throat. Come and save you. You have to save yourselves. Yeah, sometimes. You're going to have to do it yourself.

Not a man is going to come and save you from a one-by-one Lego. Down your throat. Sorry, one-by-one. Sorry. Yellow. That's a crazy way to choke. That would be a crazy way to choke. Yeah, it's insane.

You ate a Lego on accident. But now I have the machine. Oh, the one that suction's it? Yeah, the life vac, this one. And I got two, one for my car and one for my apartment. Because, of course, I'm like, well, just my luck, you know, I get in the car and now I'm choking.

And I accidentally swallow a Lego again while I'm driving. Unless be real, I only eat in the car. Like, I'm not eating at all. What are we doing? It's 2026. You eat while you drive? Right. I feel you.

Well, you know what? I love that you're, I feel like we're going insane, low-key, the way that we're talking. I feel like I'm hallucinating. 100%. 100%. I'll go on to your next one. Okay, your last one.

It says you used to skip school. and your dad would drive you from Virginia to New York for Broadway. That's right. That is, I think that's really cool that your parents were letting you skip school. It's so weird because they were so supportive,

but then they rug pulled. I'm like, whoa, what the hell? All that money? They were like, we're not supposed to be doing that, I guess. But my tap class, it's like, I, like, truly, I know I sound so butt hurt about the fucking tapping, but like, that's a weird thing to be good at now. You know what I mean?

And now my mom's like, you should go into criminal justice. Okay, well, now I know how to do a butterfly fucking kick. And I can't use that mama. It's like, I don't know. So, yes, they were very, very supportive until they had to pay that. I thought it was a joke. I thought you were kidding. Yeah, I'm like, what do you mean?

So, yeah, but now they're very supportive. I was going to say. Because you're like, see it all worked out in the end? I'm like, okay. Before you tried to make me go into criminal justice. What was your plan going into criminal justice? I wanted to be a detective. Just for the pageantry?

For the coat, maybe? Well, for the hat. And then also for the... And the magnifying glass. Well, I grew up watching Pink Panther. And when I told them that, they're like... You have to be a cop for 10 years. You know that, right?

I'm like, no, no, no, I don't have to be a cop. No, no. Well, Steve Martin didn't have to do that. Yeah, and also A-Camp. And then also, no, I don't want to be a cop. Which criminal does. It's not cop class number one. You're like, I want to be a silly detective.

I don't want to be a real one. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And they're like, no, next semester, you have to take a class. It was literally, I was at the best. very back of the room and they were like okay so like prerequisite for you know for being a detective 10 years of cop being I guess and I was like what of cop stuff and I literally went up like oh you know down the steps to get to the professor I was like hey just quick question like is everyone needed to like be a cop at like some point or like can me maybe like is there a different route?

Can I be audible and maybe do something else? Maybe like the desk for you know a couple years um they're like no you have to be a cop and I was like I can't for 10 years because I'm then I'll be dead. Yeah yeah that's cool. felt far away. I was like, I can't be 30. I cannot. I can't be 30 and doing this. I won't be able to move.

I'll be bedridden. What if I don't fit in the trench coat at that point? Right, I'd be too big. I'd be way too big. I'm too tall. What if the hat doesn't fit? The hat will not fit. Oh God, I can't do this major.

I won't have a nicotine addiction. The pipe won't work. So, yeah, so I changed to graphic design. That's good for you. Because you don't have to be caught. By the way, for that. That's true. You don't.

And thankfully, thank God for that. I get there, re-enroll as a graphic designer, and they're like, okay, so you have to be a cop for 10 years? So you've been a cop for 10 years, I assume? Right. Before you get hired here, I assume. I'm like, what? When I was in college and I was like, I wanted to go into journalism, I wanted to do sports journalism. So I wanted to-you-give that, by the way.

Thank you. You're welcome. I appreciate that. I wanted to do sports journalism, I think because I grew up an athlete and then my dad was an athlete for a long time. My parents were both athletes. I was like, well, this naturally feels like the next step, because I think entertainment didn't feel like an option to me.

me. Like I was like, well, I feel like they don't hire people who look like me, so I guess I'll go this way. And in my head, I was always thinking, and then I'll be on air and it'll be so charming and hilarious. They'll be like, let's get this girl her own show. I like literally was thinking, I'm like, oh, they'll probably give me my own sports show, and then I'll be able to do it. And then I'll work my way in that way. And that's kind of what I thought. But then when I got there, I remember when I was working at the NFL, they wanted me to literally, like, target women. They wanted me to get women more interested in football, they wanted me to like get women to like engage more because women spend more money than men and female demographics just pay off more. And they're like, we have this idea

and it's a naked Sydney Sweeney on top of a bag. I'm thinking tits and football's thoughts. And then I would go in there when I tell you I would go into those meetings with the dumbest, like silliest ideas because I thought that they would be like this would engage women. Right. You know, because that's what I do now. Right. And every time I did, they'd be like, what if we went back to the doggo thing? Like, what if we, they were big fans of like doggo jokes and like golden retrievers

and like, whatever the fuck that means. I was like, you're talking about the average woman, right? Not like the worst woman alive. You're talking about the average woman? Okay. And I remember one time, this is when Baby Yoda was huge. Everybody thought he was adorable and awesome. Still is in my house.

Right. Right. Right. Russell, like, changed his profile picture to, a picture of him. Like, it was like his jersey on Baby Yoda. Okay. Obviously he's with Sierra.

Right. I was like, okay, you know, it would be hilarious as if I made one of Sierra. And I don't know how to use Photoshop, even though it said I was proficient in the Adobe suite on my resume. I don't know what that means. Okay. I didn't think that meant I knew how to use the programs. For sure. I just know what the suite is.

So then I'm on Photoshop. I'm teaching myself Photoshop actively, like as I'm working at the NFL. I spent, when I tell you I spent hours photoshopping Baby Yoda with like her, her job. like a shirt of hers like earrings like hair like all that stuff and I was like oh my god hilarious I slack it to my manager I'm like hey I'm thinking I put this as our profile picture and tweet it and then maybe she'll engage right blah blah blah blah blah she goes I don't understand this don't don't charge for this oh I spent four hours on that so on my time card I was only there for three hours that's interesting don't pay I don't get this don't post it and don't charge for this

that's actually insane. That's crazy. And speaking of the Lorax, right? Were we? The, well, when I look at you. Great segue. When I'm looking at you, I'm thinking Lorax. Right.

The head coach of the Chiefs looks like the Lorax. Like in real life, he looks like him. He's just not orange. Oh, yes, he does. He does. Andy Reid. So that was another idea. I go, you know, the Lorax is not big at the time,

but I'm like, you know, he looks like the Laura. And I could make the players the trees. And like he loves the trees. You know what I mean? And so I had this whole pitch to her, and she was like, I don't understand anything you fucking said to me. I don't get this.

No one will get this. No, so we'll see like, the internet will love it. Like I was like, women are gonna love, they're gonna think this is so funny. They didn't deserve me there. I was pitching ideas like that constantly and they were like, this bitch is annoying. They didn't see who you were trying to be.

Yeah, and honestly, shockingly, it was hard for me to make friends. I literally just discovered that too at my big age where I was like, I don't think I was gonna make it friends. At that company, I was not. good at making friends. I, and I will say, I'm like you said, I'm a delight. I'm a hoot. Right. I'm really easy to get along with. When I was there and I was like, I'm making jokes like,

nobody wanted to be my friend. Right. Which is like, at what point are we the problem? Really like, and I remember thinking like that was like the only environment where I felt like nobody really fucked with me at work. So when I would go to lunch and stuff, they had like big cafeterias like on the work campus that you could go to, everybody's sitting together and all the lunch ladies were like, Hi, Drew. I'm friends with all the lunch ladies. I'm friends with the security guy. I've always been my whole life.

I was like, you know, invited into, you know, teachers' rooms for special lunches and stuff. They love me. It's like, they're like, I just want extra time with Ashley. You know what? We have this closet where you can take your test.

I'm like, they love me. They can't get enough of me. They're giving me special treatment. All right, indoor recess. Let's do it again. I couldn't get enough of me. Can't get away from them. I know.

I was, I really at the end of all. that's how I felt. I was like, I should have known. Honestly, I shouldn't know it wasn't going to work out for me because nobody thought I was hilarious there. And everybody finds me hilarious. Which is funny.

I feel like I didn't unlock like a level of funny. Because at my last job, everyone genuinely was so shocked that this happened to me. Because I never talked. Like I learned my lesson. Talking bad things happened when I talk. People do not laugh when I talk at work. Because they're, you know, time and a place. And they're also like all 40 and 50 years old.

Yeah. And so I kind of learned. And so this was like a very shocking turn where they're like, what the fuck have you been doing during life? That's crazy. You're like, yeah, I have a life. And it's you dress as Lynn, Manuel Miranda. Duh.

I have a life outside of this job. What you didn't have been doing? You didn't give me a raise. One you're in. Thank you. Thank you. Have you showed you before on an accident? On accident, no.

But I will say, literally this happened to me two days ago. I was on FaceTime with my sister. And I was, I was bitching to her about something. I don't even remember what it was, but I was in a bad mood. And I was like, and I was like, dude. And I was like, ranting to her. Mind you, I just got out. of the shower so I was in a towel. And it was like my phone was propped up on my bathroom

counter. And then I went to go take my towel off, but then I was like, wait, I'm on FaceTime. So then I tilted it up so that you can't see me. And so I took off my towel. I forgot about that fucking face tracking bullshit. They put on face time. They're like, hold on we're tracking the bush. They're tracking my big fat penis. Like literally, I get on the camera. It tracks down. I'm standing there top list. I'm still talking. My sister goes out of the frame goes, hey dude and then I go I know I know I know I know I just saw I just saw me being and then she was like I didn't want to embarrass you so that's why I got off camera oh my god I'm standing there ranting tit swinging and then I literally was like I'm so

embarrassed that I can't even remember what I was looking at I was I literally shocked myself out of anger I was like oh my god oh my fucking God that's crazy it was horrible and then live on that call she taught me how to turn off that face tracking shit I didn't even know that was a thing girl, that camera is falling you everywhere. Right. I tilted it up and it tracked my face, showed my tithies. Crazy that I thought your tits for your face, though. Right.

I think that the internet is a better place with you in it. And I think it's amazing that you are continuing to lean into what it is that brought you the platform, but at the same time that you're growing past it and you really want to keep, I do think you are so funny and you are so talented. Character work, I think, is rare for women, too, especially now online. So I think that's amazing and commendable. And I'm so happy that you have a platform. Thank you.

And to kind of wrap us, I would love to know if you have any advice for any aspiring actors or performers in any way, because you are a performer at the end of the day you're an entertainer. Thank you. So if you have any advice for them. Leave people better than how you found them. Period. And be nice to yourself. Well, no, I don't do that. But you should.

But you should. And you want, and you're working on it. You and I are going to work on being nicer to ourselves. Exactly. Right. I'm not going to pull my weight. but I hope you do. So hopefully you'll be carrying most of that water.

I'm a hypocrite, but you know. Well, thank you so much for coming on the show. I fucking love you. I'm sorry that we went insane in these costumes. I feel great. You're watching you, itch like. Crazy. Thank you so much for coming on the show.

You're a hoot. And thank you all so much for tuning in to our very first episode for spooky season this year. Thank you so much to the amazing guest. Ashby, don't forget, we'll all say, for the maybe two people that don't know who you are. Where can everybody find you? At Ashby, ASHB-Y.

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