The Commercial Break - The Best Of The Guests!

Episode Date: June 11, 2024

Bryan & Krissy reminisce about our guest journey so far…we’re sorry, Vir! Producer Christina takes you through an audio journey of some of our very best guest moments and interviews. LINKS: Send us show ideas, comments, questions or concerns by texting us   212.433.3TCB text or leave us a voicemail Watch TCB on YouTube Creator: Bryan Green Co-Host: Bryan Green Co-Host: Krissy Hoadley Producer: Christina A.  Producer: Gustavo B.  Download & Listen on the Audacy app To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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And I'm like, it's like that's just when you haven't it's like there's no way a woman would ever have done that. I'm like, no! You know, and they have some deal with the local place, which means like, here's where you can murder Rachel. The next episode of The Commercial Break starts now. Oh yeah, guys and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green.

This is my dear friend and the co-host of this incredibly dumb podcast, Kristen Joy Hodley. Best to you, Chrissy. Best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Thanks for joining us on a TCB infomercial day. We're doing a best of today, Chrissy. Yes, I like it.

We thought we'd take a little breather. We take a beat for one week. And while we have a little break in the interviews, we thought what we'd We thought we'd take a little breather. We'd take a beat for one week. And while we have a little break in the interviews, we thought what we'd do is we'd put together some clips from some of our favorite guests over the last, I don't know, what have we been doing this for, like eight months now? Seven months, eight months? When? October, November, December, January, February,

March, April, May. Add the three, carry the one, plus two. Yeah, it's about 17 years we've been doing it. So started all off with our good friend, Vir Das, who was on the show, followed up by Heather McMahon. Bless our hearts. Yeah, bless our hearts.

Bless his heart, bless our hearts, bless everyone's heart. You gotta start somewhere. Unfortunately, Vir was the one we started with, not unfortunately for him or us, unfortunately for him. Yes,er was the one we started with. Not unfortunately for him or us, unfortunately for him. Yes. Yes, that was the one we started with. We love Veer and he'll never be back again, but thanks, Veer, for putting up with us for 40,

putting up with us nervously asking you questions. Popping our cherry, basically. Oh yeah, we did pop our cherry with Veer. I'm sure we'd love to hear that. So then we went quickly to Miss Heather McMann. Oh, that, I mean, and I didn't know that much about her before we did the interview and I read up on her, decided I loved her from the get-go.

So then when we interviewed her, I was so excited. And then she blew up after that. Absolutely blew up one week after we had her on. Just everywhere. She was everywhere overnight. Not because of us, let's be clear of that. But she had things in the works. Yes, I think we'll be relatively assured

no one has blown up because of the commercial break. Except for maybe the commercial break. And that's debatable. Some people debating in our reviews right now. And then we went to Steve-O. Steve-O was while you were out of town. I was out. You were out, so Tina and I did the Steve-O, Steve-O was while you were out of town. I was out. You were out, so Tina and I did the Steve-O interview.

Poor Tina had never been on a microphone, let alone interviewed anybody. It took us three years to get there. It took us three years to get there. And I just said, hey, can you come help me interview Steve-O? And she's like, Steve-O, you want me to come with you? And she did a great job. She did.

By making sure that she didn't say anything that would stop the interview from being a train wreck. Anyway, so, but Steve was great. He was very forthcoming, told us about Mike Tyson and his couple hours in a bathroom locked in a cocaine induced haze with Mike Tyson. I still say, of all the stupid shit that Steve-O has done, of all the ball stapling and anus related tricks and being dumped inside of a porta potty,

concussions and spoken shoulders and nut related accidents, being in a room with Mike Tyson, in a bathroom, locked in a bathroom in Vegas with Mike Tyson and an eight ball of cocaine is still the wildest stunt Steve has ever done. Unfortunately, it's the only one that wasn't taped. But then if you recall, we, I think, hit our stride a little bit with Felicia Day, who was just so easy to talk to and so wonderful. And while I knew of Felicia Day before she came on the show, I had no idea what a big deal she really is. She's a huge deal. Like people are wild about Felicia Day.

Felicia Day. As are we now. As are we. She's a gamer girl. She's been in a lot of sci-fi related content. She's made her own sci-fi related content. She is huge. She's one of the people I would really, I mean, I think they have a lot of these people back. They'll probably never come, but I'd like to have a lot of them back. They probably said once is enough to their agent. I would imagine a think they have a lot of these people back. They'll probably never come, but I'd like to have a lot of them back. They probably said once is enough to their agent. I would imagine a few agents have gotten fired

after coming on our show. I'm just taking a guess, but I bet I'm right. So we enjoyed our time with Felicia. Then we went right into Blair Saki. Ooh, love Blair. I think her, listen, she's got a unique voice and there's a lot, she always gets a lot of commentary about the California girl. Yeah, she's a California Valley girl. She got a very

high voice. It makes her unique in the sense that her voice stands out. But I'm, it doesn't bother me one bit. And she came on and she was fucking hilarious and her shit is really funny. And now she's doing very well for herself also. Loved Blair, another one that I'd love to have back. And then we moved into Rosebud with her incredibly dark sense of humor, which just tickles me in the right places. I watch her Instagram constantly because she puts clips up and I know it's going to be something twisted, fucked up and funny.

So Rosebud also one of the head writers on SNL, in case you were wondering. Then we took a chance on a young lady, took a chance on a young lady, we took a chance on a young lady named Joanna Hausman, who is a writer, a producer, and a well-known Latin American, Latina. Her Instagram is hilarious, too. Oh my gosh, she is so funny. She talks a lot about the differences

and the co-mingling of Caucasians and Venezuelans and how we all kind of interact with each other. This was an interview where I really feel like I've resonated, a lot of the stuff that we talked about resonated with me because I am married to a Venezuelan, like an actual Venezuelan. But Astrid was really excited about us having her own too.

Astrid and all her family were like, Joanna Hausman, oh my God. And I'll say this, on the back of that Joanna Hausman interview, listen, here's a little secret, in case you don't know. Probably you probably don't, because you've never been there, because we would have more people following us if you did.

But our Instagram is miserable. No one follows us. I mean, no one. We have a few people that are following us of note, but really I don't care about, I mean, I care about those people, but I care more about the listeners following us. But no one follows us. No one. Please go follow us on Instagram. Please. You know, we've got like just under 5,000. And we got to that almost 5,000. You know how we got

there? Joanna Hausman. Joanna Hausman brought like 2,000 new followers to our Instagram just by showing up. That was amazing. Love Joanne. We've been trying to get her on ever since and she just... Well, she's busy at Disney, right? Yeah. She's busy doing that Disney cartoon, Hamster and Gretel. Brad Williams came on. Brad also is very popular. He is selling out like arenas and theaters, small arenas, but arenas and theaters all over the place. He's on like a 300 night tour or something like that. Go check out Brad Williams. Reggie Watts came in, talked to us about ayahuasca and everything. You know, I got to be honest, Reggie was like one of those I got a

little nervous about because I really like Reggie and he's a very brainy and cerebral and well thought out human being. He does not answer questions quickly. He takes a beat to think about it. But when in doubt, talk drugs. When in doubt, ask him about LSD, and then we went off. And then he wanted us to try some opium-related, I don't know, some kind. Which, by the way, is at the local head store. I should get some. We should follow up on that. And next, unbelievably, Hannah Berner decided she would join us with her massive social media following. She's also an incredibly famous comic now and she does a...

Yeah, she really segued, right? Because she was on the TV show and then... TV show and then she went into... Segue into comedy. Into online, like doing... And she was a tennis star first. Yeah, that's right. She almost went pro or she was pro

for like a couple of years, wasn't she? I just saw, I think this is correct. Don't ever think that anything that I say is 100% true because it probably isn't, but I think she did a man, like a girl on the street interview with Oprah. Oh wow. If I'm not mistaken. This girl's on fire.

She's all over the place. Love Hannah. Hannah gave us a lot of love back. She's wonderful. Tom Papa came in to talk to all over the place. Love Hannah. Hannah gave us a lot of love back. She's wonderful. Tom Papa came in to talk to us about bread baking. Tom Papa. Tom Papa. I've loved him for a long time.

I love you a long time. He was amazing. He was amazing. And a true professional in the sense that he didn't really show that he could hear blue. Barking the entire interview. This instated a new policy here at the house where the studio is, which is anytime a guest is on,

blue has to go somewhere else. In the dark corner of your closet on the way other side of the house. By the way, the closet is big, we give it water, and there is light in there. Okay, I just want to make sure, because people always give me a hard time about shitting on blue, but blue shits on us all the time.

And that's literally shits on us all the time. So there you go. Next, Lunel came in, very famous comic. Loved her and her, just her unique style and sense. She had those sunglasses on, and she just, I loved her whole vibe. She was no holds barred. No holds barred. Lunel was.

She told us that she didn't appreciate that Madonna came on late. She then went to the Madonna concert that night. And she went with like Paris Hilton and Kathy Griffin, and like the most eclectic group of people I didn't think would hang out together. She is always with like very famous people. Like so Lunel is a big deal. She's also, by the way, if you follow her on Instagram, you'll get a notification every 13 minutes that she's

going live. She lives her entire life. The legendary Margaret Cho came in and spoke with us. I loved Margaret. Here's the crazy thing. I was nervous about that one. Yeah, because it's Margaret fucking Cho. Because it's Margaret Cho. She was named one of the top 50 standup comics of all time by Rolling Stone magazine. And you know what? She's broken a lot of molds for a lot of different reasons,

but she could not have been more, she was one that ignored the fact that she was talking to two fucking buffoons in Atlanta, Georgia, and just decided to be sweet about it. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, she rolled with it. And I have to say something. You and I did a bit with, we did a bit, not a bit, but a segment with Margaret, and she told a story. And it sounded like that story that she had told was because of the line of conversation that we were having, like an off-the-cuff

story. That story that ended up recently in a Netflix special. Now, it could have been something she had already been planning and she just decided to break it out while she was here on the commercial break. But I thought it was very interesting, like word for word almost, what she had said. So what part was it? I'll have to go back and look, but Astrid and I were watching it. We're like, wow, she told that same story right on the commercial break, like we have anything to do with it. Paul Scheer came in to promote his new book. Which I just downloaded and listened to on audio, because it just came out. It did just come out, and now it's like a number one bestseller. He's so good.

He's all over the place. It's really funny. I think Vogue did like something about it. It's really funny. Yeah, he is amazing. If you don't know Paul Scheer, just Google the name and you'll know you know Paul Scheer. And so I just want to shout out one more time, what was the name of the book? Lessons from a Sunny Day or something like that? No, no, no. Recollections, like, shoot, I'm so... Hold on one second, I've got it. Painful... Painful recollections. No, no, Joyful Recollections of Trump. Painful recollection of trauma.

It sounds like a real funny bone. Oh, I'm so sorry, Paul. Sounds like a real uplifting noir that you can read lazily on your summer vacation. That's a peach read. All right, joyful, joyful recollections of Trump. Jared Siffman It's a quick, fun read. You're going to love it. Yeah, absolutely painful recollections of your childhood by Paul Scheer. I actually downloaded the book too. I'm going to listen to it on my summer vacation. Neil Brennan came in and talked with us. Of course, Neil is one of the two brains behind the Dave Chappelle show.

Beth Dombkowski And his standup on Netflix is hilarious. Jared Ranere It really is. Beth Dombkowski But I really have it laughed out loud at most everything on a special in a while, and I did with his. Jared Ranere And I will say this about Neil. I will say this about Neil. Neil is very much the same, like he has a persona on stage. That's not a persona. That is Neil. He is through and through. What you see on the stage is what we got here in the studio. And so we loved having Neil in here. Preacher Lawson, one of my favorites. I loved

Preacher. Preacher came in. Preacher is taking the world by storm. He is also all over the place now, too. Kyle Kinnane, one of my favorite comics of all times. He's an epic storyteller. He's a comic who does not tell punchline jokes. I mean, he does. There's a punchline somewhere, but he takes like 10 minutes to get there with many intermingling stories and words. And I love it. I love his brand of humor. And Kyle is going to come back in. Also, Leslie Liao, the former HR manager at Netflix now has a Netflix special. I love her story so much. I just saw her on, was it Heather's podcast?

I think maybe. Then we had Henry Hall and Daniel Thrasher from the, if you remember the Friday night dinner remake that they did on Freevy, now available on Freevy, watch dinner with parents. That's free with Amazon, by the way, free with commercials with Amazon. Freevy. Well, I mean, nothing's really free. You got to watch commercials, but you listen to our commercials anyway too, which we're going to take it here in just a minute. Mo Gilligan showed up. He's a- Oh, he's from England.

Yeah, he's from England. He's a comic and he's- He was really fun. He did like, he parlayed a little bit of viral fame into a long and sustained career. He does multiple shows over on BBC. He's really funny. So we have a chance to check him out. Rachel Feinstein, legendary Rachel Feinstein. I mean, she's got a huge special right now on comedy, on Netflix too. That's right. So we had her and then we also had her aunt came on. Yes, she popped in too. That was fun.

That was fun. So, and thank you, Rachel. Listen, I want to say this, and I totally understand the game here. And I don't expect anyone with a million followers to follow the commercial break for any reason, share our content. That's not how it goes. You don't do some tit for tat. You just do it because they come on, they promote something. We have an interesting conversation, we have content, and we get to meet cool people that we admire in some way, shape, or form.

But Rachel was quick to follow us back on Instagram, and I thought that was very nice of her. Gianmarco Sorosy, who it only took six months for us to get his episode up. Poor Gianmarco. By the way, Astrid came in yesterday and we were talking about this, how we're going to do this special episode, and trying to figure out who exactly we would take segments from. And she goes, Brian, ever since Gianmarco came on the show, I followed him on my personal Instagram. And she goes, I find myself lost in his Instagram sometimes because I find him so fucking funny. So my

wife, a huge Gianmarco Sorosy fan, Wendy McClendon Covey, the legendary Sergeant Clementine from Reno 911. Lauren Riegel 911. She's got a new thing coming in the fall. She's just hilarious. Jared Sarkissian Yes, she does have a new show and I will, St. Dennis Medical. I will say it correctly this time, not St. Patrick's Hospital, whatever I called it. Lauren Ruffin Painful Hospital. Joe Dumbbrowsman Yes, and then most recently,

the Painful Hospital of St. Dennis. And then most recently, of course, we had on Joe Dumbbrowsman. Lauren Ruffin Oh, Joe. Joe Dumbbrowsman Lovely. Him and his boy are getting married. Lauren Ruffin Yeah, that's right around the corner. Yeah, because like a week and a half from now, they're getting married. I thought about getting him something from his registry. But then number one, I don't have any money. And then number two, Astrid thought that might be creepy.

So I'm sure if Joe's listening to this, he'd be like, no, no, no, go ahead. Yeah, please. I'm like, go ahead, give me more stuff. So say congratulations to Joe. Joe was hilarious and also the person who brought it to our attention, the great division in the commercial break audience right now, the possum.

So we're gonna leave the possum alone for now. I don't wanna rub in salt. There's only so much you can say about a possum. I mean, it's not like we have them in the studio talking with us. So- I need to send you my picture of the baby. Maybe you can put that on something.

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Put it on there, it's gonna be our new cover art. It's gonna be our new cover art. So here's what we're gonna do, our intrepid producer and wonderful human being Christina is going to pick some segments from some of these that we thought were, that she thought and we agreed were good, we're gonna let her kind of take the reins here, and then we're gonna mash those together in a super best of infomercial for you. So we'll take a break, and then when we get back, Christina will take over. She'll give you some best of content from our infomercials.

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Wow. Yep. So our first clip for this episode is gonna be Miss Heather McMahon, my queen, your queen. We know her, we love her. She's a star. Tiramisu bitch.

Here we go. So you come home, you play your hometown crowd here at the Fox Theater, which when I know that your other special was filmed in Kentucky, I was like, why didn't she do this at the Fox Theater? Like this would have been perfect. But of course, you know, sometimes you got to do what you got to do before you head to the Fox Theater and sell out for two nights.

You have an after party, someone shows up pantsless. We were just listening to your podcast and I swear this funny story is so funny. It is a trend, but only with people that look like, you know, Hailey Bieber and Kylie Jenner. Not everybody. Yeah. I'll tell you right now, not my fat ass. Not me. So the trend became popular to buy, I think it was like Prada or Miu Miu, one of those

fabulous Italian brands, had this look where everybody just kind of wore essentially a Speedo with tights and that became a look Yeah, very few people like you said can pull that off Well a young woman somehow snuck into my after party and we thought that that was a look she was going for She ended up emailing my team on Monday and I read it aloud on my podcast She's like by the way, I was not going for that look. I just lost my pants somehow at the Fox lost my pants somehow at the Fox Theater. I heard that. How did she fucking lose her pants at the Fox Theater?

She said she, I think she took like an edible and had drank way too much. And then it just went pantless. And I said, that is concerning. Was this at the Terrace? Was this across the street at the Terrace? Yes. And she had on like a bodysuit. So, you know, a lot of women wear. And she had on like a bodysuit.

So you know, a lot of women wear like these, you know, tight bodysuits underneath a great outfit, but it was a thong bodysuit. So when she walked into the party, I just thought, oh, she's got like a leotard on. And then when she turned around, I said, that's badass. Yeah, that's badass. Yeah. You got some wild fans. I love it. I do.

They never cease to surprise me. I am always on my toes. I'm like, what's gonna happen today? Women don't get out of the house enough, is what I learned. And they're all getting crazy. You gotta go check out Heather's podcast, which is fucking hilarious.

I know how hard it is to do a show, like a podcast by yourself. I did exactly two of them at the very beginning of this program. Now we're like 600, 1000 episodes in or something. But did exactly two of them at the very beginning of this program. Now we're like 600,000 episodes in or something. But I did two of them by myself and it was terribly unfunny. I started talking about I was a father, I'm a son,

I'm a pragmatic pragmatist. I don't even know what I was talking about. I was so nervous. You like jumped the matrix. Totally. You were in another dimension. Totally. And the funny thing is, I don't know if we'd get into it,

but that's probably one of our more popular episodes at first. But is it difficult to do that podcast on your own or is it just because you're used to kind of musing into the camera by yourself, you feel like you can carry it on your own? I'm just curious from like, I don't know, like it's just a minutia question. Is that difficult to carry the podcast on your own? I'll tell you what, every week I surprise myself. I'm like, I can't do it today. I will. And I've had the podcast for four years where we only recently started doing video elements to it.

And it was such a safe space for me to sit in this basement office and literally just let it rip for an hour. And it was just so cathartic. But now I have to be on camera and kind of like pay attention to whether or not like, you know, my bronzer isn't smudged. Right. And that takes it a little bit out of it for me but I know if again I need

to see some sort of like medical professional but for some reason for an hour I can just let it rip and it's very fun and cathartic for me. There are days where I'm like well what the fuck did I just talk about? We do the same thing. We do the same thing. Yeah. We do the same thing. Some people listen. Yeah. They do. They listen. We do the same thing. Yeah. We do the same thing. Some people listen.

Yeah. They do. They listen. We cannot believe it. We are beside ourselves that anybody chooses to listen, let alone the amount of people that listen. It's just insane to me. The podcast is really fucking hilarious.

You have to go check it out. Absolutely not. But here's another question I have. You were, and it makes me laugh to even think about this. You were telling a story about how you had to record two nights for your special, because of course that's what you do. You gotta do pickups and you gotta make sure

that you get hit the lines and you don't want flub-ups and stuff like that. But you recorded the first night. And you had to reprimand the crowd the second night. Love it. Get into this a little bit, because I think it's too funny. So it is a little different when you go to see a taping

for a special because there's cameras everywhere. So I always like, you know, I tried to warn my audience, hey, just so you know, like, if you're talking about something illegal, the camera can pick it up, right? I didn't think this would be a problem. I still had a great time. Like I still perform, like I'm doing my regular stage show.

But at the end, then I'll have to do pickups, which is you just come out. You might, if you flubbed a line or kind of chewed on your words, you'll resay stuff just to get a clean take on camera. Well, Thursday night, we're going back and we're replaying some of the video. I can literally hear a woman turning to her friend

at some point, just being like, you want to do ketamine in the bathroom? I'm like, what is happening? What is happening? Who goes into a K-hole on a comedy show? On a Thursday night. Who does that? I mean, I understand taking mushrooms,

eating on an edible. Ketamine is probably the last thing I'd want to take and then have to sit quietly for two hours. Exactly. But it was wild. And so then Friday we came out, my director, Jen Zabrowski, she directed my first special. She came out and gave like, you know, it's like a packed house, like 5,000

people. I think she put the fear of God in them. She was like, do not mess this up. We have one shot. Hilarious. I came out, everybody was sitting like crisscross applesauce, like perfect children. I'm like, all right, I know how to handle this. So it was wild. Where are you picking that up? Is it because you have microphones in the crowd to catch the crowd noise and then they're just like super sensitive? So they're picking up conversation.

It just so happened that these two rambunctious ladies were sitting right next to one of the cameras. So yeah. Thousand bucks, it's the two people I knew that went to the show. Thousand bucks, it's the two people I know. They are, I have problems. I wouldn't have thought it was the lady who didn't have pants on, but she came on Friday

night. So, you know. I only do ketamine under therapeutic circumstances, Heather. I'll have everyone know that. And under duress. A K-hole is not where I want to be during a comedy show or any other public event for that matter. I try to tell people it's really different. Like if you're going to see Harry Styles, if you're going to go see Drake at State Farm Arena, like get as messed up as you want. But coming to see comedy, it's so wild to me.

I'm like, I, you know, premium for a good ticket. I would want to hear what people have to say. A thousand percent. Yeah, you would want to make sure that you actually understand the material that's coming at you. You're there to laugh. Yeah.

Chrissy and I reviewed this video. Heather, it's so fucking funny. I don Chrissy and I reviewed this video, Heather, it's so fucking funny, I don't know if you've seen this on TikTok or Instagram, there's a guy, he's at the Raiders game, and there's not much context to the video, it comes on, you literally see a guy, he's kinda laughing and giggling, and then the camera pans down toward his lap,

and he is taking a fucking bump of cocaine in the stadium, in the end zone, packed house, Sunday night football. He is just sitting there doing blow and I'm like, you're ruining it for the rest of us. Stop it. What are you doing? I mean, it was Vegas. It was. Yeah, it was Vegas. Fair enough. Was he picked up on like, like the main broadcast or just somebody on TikTok picked him up? His shithead friend recorded it and then posted it to Instagram. First of all,

he's probably divorced without children right now, so it has no job. And he's also, the NFL has banned him from everything. Right. For sure. But my only thought was not about the poor bastard who just got videotaped and put up there or breaking all rules of drug etiquette is that I don't want to be stuck somewhere sitting with thousands of people and I'm high. I just don't. I want to be at home like normal people do. Normal paranoid people.

I'm right there with you. I mean, I'm only 36, but I now have like in my little clutch, you know, when I go to a concert, I've got like electrolyte tablets. Yeah, yeah. You know, my biggest advice is I have a couple drinks that I love, like a vacation cigarette. You know, I'm like, you only live once.

Who's got a menthol? We were at a party in the Hamptons, my restaurant, Ray and I were at this place called Surf Lodge in the Hamptons this summer and I already felt like I was too old. I was like, it was a day party. I'm like, it's loud. Oh my God, where can I sit? I need a drink. And we asked for a cigarette from somebody.

So somebody passes over a cigarette and this young girl, and this shows how different the generations are. This young girl is like, how are you going to light that? And I said, what do you mean? And she said, well, like, where does it plug in? And I said, you mean a cigarette? I said, we're going to use fire. We're going to use a match.

We're like, you know, somebody else has a lighter. And I was like, these kids just plug everything in and they hit the dates. They don't even know how somebody else has a lighter. And I was like, these kids just plug everything in and they hit the dates. They don't even know how to light a real cigarette. I know. Have they never seen a movie? You gotta light a cigarette to be cool and only do it when you're drunk

because that's the only time it really matters. Yeah. That is the only time to put the cigarette is when you've had 45 dirty martinis. Right. Because that's the only thing that's gonna keep you from throwing up. This is so true.

I feel like cigarettes and alcohol, just they're made, they were made in some kind of heaven together. It's like milk and cereal, peanut butter and jelly. I agree. You just know in that moment, Brian was absolutely desperate to say cream and cereal. But then he remembered, Heather doesn't know that I'm weird. Heather doesn't know that I'm a crazy person who has cream in his cereal.

But he was desperate to say it and you and I both know it. Anyway, we are moving on. We are moving in a chronological manner. That's just the kind of girl I am. You know how it is. Next up, I have our little Venezuelan angel, Joanna Houseman. This is a very cute and fun convo, so enjoy. Was your brand of humor like spurred on by kind of this, I don't wanna say identity crisis,

but this weird lumping in, everybody thinks everything about the same about Central Americans and South Americans are all the same and they just kind of lump everybody together. So many misconceptions and it must feel uncomfortable sometimes to be in those situations where you could derive a lot of humor. Yes. And I mean, I need to be fully honest here. I do know Paco from our account. This is a little awkward, but having said that- I owe him 60 bucks. I'm not going to tell you what for, but just tell Paco to calm down.

Calm down. Okay. Okay. I'll talk to Paco. I'll text him on my WhatsApp chat after this. Yeah, for sure. I mean, I think what sort of shocked me as I was making comedy was how many people felt represented in someone like me being like, hey, like I'm also, I'm from Venezuela and I am also Latina in my own way. Like, you don't know how many people were like, yeah, man, I am an Afro-Nicaraguan and I totally get you. I'm a Korean, a Peruvian, and I totally understand. It's like, I didn't realize that me being like almost so unapologetic on how specific my identity is actually would make people feel like relieved. Like, oh my God, someone's doing it. Someone's telling these people that we're not all Sofia

Vergara copy pasted. We are very different. And I do think it's changed. I think that when I started doing internet comedy, dude, that was like, I hate saying this, I was 10 years ago, okay? I couldn't even say it. It was 10 years ago. And that era of the internet was really different. And even the barriers to entry to make content on the internet was very different. Now you have editing software on your freaking phone.

I see Venezuelans in the middle of like the Amazon uploading videos with their capybaras. And their chigüeres. Yes. And so like, there was a time where it wasn't that easy to access the internet and publish and edit. And now I think there's like more variety out there. But right when I began these big companies like Buzzfeed and College Humor, they were making all these really funny sketches and sort of like no one was talking about like, oh, there's like other types of people that could be doing this and be very specific about their content. And I remember I made a video called the Venezuelan Birthday Song. And if you had told me a year before, like you're going to make an internet video.

Hold on one second, because my kid was born in July and Astrid's just finishing up the birthday song now. Oh, now? If you want, we can wait for her. It might be another two hours. Fucking unbelievable. Dude, the Venezuelan... Okay, I'm so glad you know this, Brian.

Of course I do. Okay, the Venezuelan... Christy, I don't know if you know this. I do not know about the Venezuelan birthday song. It is... I'm not fucking with you. It is, I'm not fucking with you. It is, I think, nine minutes long. It's crazy.

Can you imagine? It's insane. You sit there. You sit there. There's no candle that can outlast it. So don't light the candles until you're halfway through. Not the candle burns. Yes.

You sit there for nine minutes and people are screaming and clapping. It's not even like happy birthday. It's like you're being exercised. So if you had told me a year before, like you're going to make a video, you're going to hire opera singers, you're going to hire a cast and crew, and you're going to shoot a video called the Eternal Venezuelan Birthday Song. I would have been like, who would watch that though? No one's going to watch that. It had 8 million views in 24 hours because when you're on the internet, you do have your audience. The more specific you get, the better results you have.

So it sort of showed, I think a lot of, and many other Latino creators that came out in that era did the same, but I think it showed people like, oh, you don't have to be general market. You don't have to be, hi, I'm actually like the first, Ashley, the first internet video I did was called middle-class white chick that I made with my friend because I was like, I guess I can make fun of what I look like. And it didn't do well. And then, you know, obviously, because I didn't know what I was, I was like Uggs, what rhymes with Uggs? Let's make a song about Uggs. But I feel like that showed people that, you know, the audience is out there, it's very diverse, you can get really granular.

So there's riches and niches, bitches, that's what they say. And there's riches and niches. Did you just come up with that? I did. Well, I've been saying it for a long time, but I just said it out. So I also believe that while a lot of people probably identify very much with what you're saying, like they say, like, you know, hey, I'm Afro-Nicaraguan and, you know, thank you for sharing your complicated story because mine's complicated, or, you know, seems complicated once you get out there in the wild, but I also

think that there genuinely is a thirst by people to learn more about other cultures, like, hey, I'm just kind of dumb about this stuff. And now that I see it, comedy is the unified, it's a thread, it's an ability to, when people are laughing and learning, there's something really cool about that mix, I think. And that's why I really appreciate satirical humor and people who do it well. And I think you do it really well. I think you do it really well. And then there is Tacoma FD. I want to ask you about Tacoma FD. Let me tell you a story. I went to, asked her to Spanish, like a lot has, you know, her dad is Spanish, like a lot of Venezuelans are partly Spanish. So, we go to Spain often because that's where we have some extended family also.

So we went to Spain for, I don't know, a long time, a month in the last year in the summer. And we went to a series of Airbnbs that seemed like the world's most terrible Airbnbs that looked really pretty. You know what I'm saying? Like you show up, there's no internet, but they have an indoor pool and you're like, great, but I can't fucking call anybody. Like that kind of shit. Nicole Soule-Nagant

Weren't you out with the chickens, like trying to get internet? Jared Soule-Nagant Yes, then there was, I was on some Spanish hillside and I was trying, it was the middle of the night trying to get internet from the neighbor and there were chickens chasing me. I didn't even know they, I didn't even know chickens were nocturnal, but there you go. So in a, in a mad dash to get anything familiar that I could watch at night, when we had internet service, I downloaded one of the only things that was available to me, which was Tacoma. And I watched all of it and I loved it. It was so stupid and fun. I just loved

every minute of it. I thought it was great. How did you, you write, you have Hamster and Gretel on Disney Plus, you've written for Stephen Colbert, you've written for Tacoma FD. How did you get mixed up with those guys? Is it because you were part of Upright Citizens Brigade? Or... Nicole Soule Dude, I still don't understand. Because, I mean, I love those guys. So the broken lizard guys, you know, they've been around forever. They're, you know, icons in comedy. But like, you know, they're very different than me, obviously. Like they're dude comedy and there are shows about a bunch of firefighters in the rainiest city in America,

Tacoma. There's a bunch of dudes called Mike in the writer's room. I think there's more Mikes than women. But Steve Lemmy, who is one of those show creators, is actually from Argentina. They were looking for a actually from Argentina. And they were looking for a new writer. I think they were specifically looking for a female writer. And in the interview, I guess they read my sample and then in the interview, I started like making fun of Steve Lemmy because he's Argentinian. I was like, Oh, what now Steve, you think you're like all this shit, right? Because you're from Argentina. And he was like, Wait, why are you tagging

me? I'm interviewing you. I'm actually gonna be your boss. You realize that don't you? I was like, dude, Argentinians. And I started, you know, I started razzing him a little bit. And I, I don't know if that's the reason I'd like to believe it is, but ironically, it's actually, I think a lot of it was this sort of connection to Latin culture. A lot of people don't know that his dad is from Argentina and we talked about it and we still to this day is sort of like, you know, when we text, I call him boludo. So that is sort of like a secret in, I think I had, Tacoma.

Jared Ranere Yeah. What a fun show to watch. I mean, it is certainly white guy down the middle working class comedy, right? Nicole Sarr Yes. Jared Ranere It is also pretty funny at times. I found myself laughing out loud. Nicole Sarr And they're such nice people. I was like overwhelmed because that was out of my comfort zone in many ways. And they were just so nice and sweet. And I had a really great time working on that show. And I learned a lot. They really taught me a lot about structure and how to work in a writer's room. And we did this during the pandemic.

It was like, you know, it was all remote and we were able to make a show. And obviously they bore the brunt of it as the creators and executive producers, but they were able to make a show in the middle of a pandemic. Crazy. Following the rules. They're bad ass.

Yeah. And not to get too deep about Tacoma FD, but I do have to say this. It's very funny, but it's very sweet also. At the end of the day, I don't feel like anything is like... There's mean-spirited comedy out there, which can be good in and of itself. That can be a great deal of fun also, that dark, kind of mean, pokey in the belly kind of thing. But there's something very sweet about Tacoma FD, and I just found it to be great. Apologies for the abrupt cutoff there,

but you know what, those two literally could have yapped all day long and someone had to stop them, so let it be me today. Anyway, now we are moving on to Hannah Berner, our little giggling girly. If you know, you know, I'm a giggler. Brian's clearly not because he's a senior citizen. So enjoy this convo about dating old men.

I have to tell you something that has been on my mind for the last couple of days. Or the last day or so. I completely agree with you. The last five minutes. Yeah, since I just checked her Instagram. That sounded way more important than I am. I have to agree with you about something because I do this.

I think more men should cry in the shower. I think that should just be a thing. We should be allowed to just let it out. Whack off, cry. The shower should be our place of solace and then we can meet up with our bros as your Instagram does and say, what's up dude? Just jacked off and got a good cry in. No, I definitely have been thinking a lot about the male emotions, the woman emotions,

and my husband will joke with me because he's like, men are hormonal, as hormonal as women just in such different ways. And I'm like, and we don't talk about that. Sometimes men are just having a PMS moment and they need to deal with it differently and we should just talk about it. Or they just channel it all into anger because it's more socially acceptable. So I'm out here trying to figure stuff out for everyone

because we're all coping with emotions we don't want to deal with. And yeah, jerk off and cry at the same time and maybe that's how you become Gandhi. Been there, done that. I think. I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid. I'm just a different kind of boy. That's iconic. I'm built different. I'm built different than most boys.

You are. And you love your showers. Most people think I'm on the down low. I'm really not. But most people think I'm on the down low. Let's just be real about it. I love it. I think it's a great idea. Are you into The Crown? If you watch The Crown, this little show, read Hastings to it. I watched some of it. I haven't watched, oh, he did. Okay. So, the other night, Astrid, my wife and I are watching The Crown, and there's a gentle scene between William and Prince Philip, and they're talking about Charles or whatever. This

scene, it's about five minutes long, my wife fell asleep during, and I literally wept like a baby for 15 minutes after the episode had concluded. And so Astrid wakes up and she's like, what's wrong? And I'm like, Prince Philip, you're so great in that moment. And she's like, what the fuck are you talking about? And I'm like, great. And my wife was like, you're such a girl. You are like such a girl. What are you doing crying over the crown? And I'm like, it was just a moment. It was a touching moment. I had to do it. I gotta be honest, crying makes me feel better. It does. It does.

It's a thing. You shouldn't cry more. I love that. I love that so much. My husband is not a crier, except like we can't watch Love on the Spect spectrum without him sobbing the entire time. That's a great show. Like when he sees the parents be like, I never thought my kid would be able to like find a connection with someone and the kids hugging, you know, the guy, girl, guy, guy, his body starts shaking.

I'm like, what are you shaking for? And he's sobbing and And I find it hot. Yeah. Not the person necessarily. It's him just like being in touch with his emotions. I find it so fucking hot. Because then a second later, you know, he's jerking off Chris about the meds.

I like a full spectrum. I love all that. No pun intended. Yeah, no pun intended. Yeah. No. So, your husband is quite the thing too. I have to say, I am an admirer of your husband's. I think he's really funny. Well, he's having a moment right now. He is also having a moment. Yeah.

He's a huge comedian in Ireland who when we met during COVID, it was because he wanted to spend COVID in Long Island where he has a place. And he we met we fell in love. And then he's like, I guess I'll like, stay in America and build a comedy career here. And he's like, I guess I'll just he plays at the cellar all the time. He's like, I guess I'll put out an a special on YouTube. And it's kind of popping off right now and yeah I love him I just think he's great I think he's so funny I think his comedy is so up it's like

observe he always has an angle on something there's like always an observation there that makes me laugh and he is from across the pond and I just am jealous of everybody from across the pond I don't know why I'm into British comedies not into their food but I think he like, men from the UK make me cry. So he's actually from Queens, New York. I know, I read this. And then he moved. Yeah, when he was...

Look at me just like, I'm his spokesperson. Go for it. But he was really naughty when he was 14. So his parents just sent him abroad to go to like a school in Ireland. You're an asshole Like I don't want to deal with you The mom had like three boys and she was like you're like voted off the island Ireland and he just stayed there and then became like an

Incredible comedian in Ireland speaking of kind of that like fish out of water type thing and now he's like kind of that like fish out of water type thing. And now he's like, has a thick Queens accent, which not a lot of people still have, but then he'll say words like bloody and quite and like lovely, which like, when trick guys don't say lovely in America, he's just like, yeah, he's very fascinating. He's an interesting person.

He's a very, he's very interesting. Go check him out. We actually wanted him and we got Hannah instead, but she's his spokesperson. You, my wife, and Chrissy all have something in common. You're all attracted to senior citizens. So I'd like to applaud, us senior citizens would like to applaud you too. I like an older gentleman. He's a silver hair fox.

Yeah. He is. But it's funny because I never never was into older guys growing up. I never had a crush on a teacher, but he was a random... I actually had a psychic tell me I was going to fall for someone who wasn't my type. No way. Really? Oh.

Wow. I met this guy. He's older. At first, I wasn't sure, but then I now have all these comedy bits about just how I love an older man because they're tired. Yeah. They're not even going to fight with you. now have all these comedy bits about just how I love an older man because they're tired. And they're not even going to fight with you. They're exhausted. They're just like, yeah, whatever you want, I'm going to take a nap and can you hand me my Advil? And I'm like,

yes, babe. And it's a simple, beautiful life that we live. You are so right about this. I'm too exhausted to fight with my wife about anything. I'm glad that my wife and I met as I got a little older and I had children as I got older because I think that I now know which hills not to die on, which is almost everything. Anything that my wife could possibly be upset about. I'm like, no problem babe, I got you. I'm an asshole, gonna go hide in the corner,

gonna take the kids out for a couple hours, go do your thing, manicure, pedicure, what do you need? Because. Literally, because you've been pre-trained. That's right. You've had previous relationships that just fucking pummeled you to the ground to be like, I've done this fight and it doesn't end well and I don't care. So it's like, I don't know if we're even compatible, but you're just like tired. I'm the person who's decided to rest his tired head on my shoulder.

But I also like, I learned things from him, which is cool. And I just feel like young guys, like they have so much, I always compare them to like a young puppy. Like they're cute, but they're just like untrained, peeing on everything. Every time you touch them, their little red wiener pops out. And you're like, it's a Tuesday at like 2 p.m. Like what are we doing?

So I love an older man. And I think like older men are like, yeah, they're just, they know who they are. And I think that's nice. Yeah, we're trained. And you're so right about this. We've been, not, I would say, beaten to submission, but probably beaten to submission. And then also, we've just learned our lessons that time and time again, knocking our heads in the wall, our wieners don't work like they used to. I'm not getting a fourth grade boner at the chalkboard. You know what I'm saying?

Like, I have some measure of control over my own body parts. I'm not getting poked all the time. And also, he's seen enough boobs. He's like, I got it. Yeah. Yeah, so you're saying, I don't attack my life. I personally am not a caretaker. You know some girls who are like, well, he basically went from his mom to me.

That's not me. I was never that person. I'm not doing your laundry. I don't do my own laundry. I don't know what's going on. So I think I had to find someone who was really independent on his own. And I think when two people live two independent lives, it's healthy unless you find your perfect fucking match and you

grow together from like childhood and just like more into one human, which we're not. We're just like two people who happen to both be like messy and enjoy similar things. I think that's such, I think you're, I think you found the one. I think you found the one and you can tell him I said so. We'll see, it's pretty early on. It's early on? You guys only been married for what, a year and a half, two years? And so romantic. Call me in six years when you're finding us nursing homes. That's what I felt. Well, we don't have that much longer to last. No, you don't. I think I could do it. I think I can outlive him. I think I can outlive him.

Also, he's 48. I'm not talking about like a 72 year old. No, no, no, no, no. He's 48. He's a young guy. I'm not talking about a 72-year-old. He's 48. He's a young guy. I'm 32. I really think anytime you're over 26 and your brain is fully formed and you're independent in your own way, it could be fun to... I recommend an older man, maybe. When you're younger, I think there is a weirder power dynamic because you don't know what's going on. Right.

He has money, you don't. You're 22. Yeah. That could be weird, but I... Dating in your 30s, I'm like, let's see you guys in their 40s. Yeah. Oh, man, you can always count on Brian to have someone on the show

who loves an age gap relationship. Moving on, we're... Okay, sorry, was Moira Rose in the building? Excuse me. Moving on to Kyle Kanane, who had me slapping my Kani. Sorry about that joke, but I had to do it. I couldn't stop. I couldn't stop myself. Anyway, like Kyle will say, you got to have someone who keeps you in check, and sometimes that's me, and sometimes that is our reviewer, PossumLover54, who I have a lot of deep respect for and I don't appreciate PossumSlander either. That's... this is beside the point, but here's Kyle. a lot of deep respect for and I don't appreciate possum slander either.

This is beside the point, but here's Kyle. The special I did before, I talk about how my mom will just say these things that seemingly come out of nowhere, but then two weeks ago I woke up, my girlfriend woke up, I was already up and apparently the first thing I said was like, so I've been putting a lot of thought into these barrel saunas. And that's the first thing, she didn't know that I'd been laying awake for an hour and a half looking up barrel saunas on my phone.

Just waiting for her eyes to open, so I'd be like, anyway, I've come to a conclusion on the barrel saunas. I was looking into those things too, they look pretty cool. Yeah, that's not necessarily what you to hear about when this is the first time you open your eyes to greet the day. Good morning.

Yeah. This is, I know this is what you were dreaming about. It's like, I wonder if Kyle's come up with a decision about barrel songs. How does she call you out? Like, what is, like, is she just like, Hey honey, honey, listen, it's too fucking early for the rambling. Can we just like put it away? Let me get a cup of coffee and we'll get back to it.

Yeah, or if it's, you know, if I've been on the phone with my mom or something, like, gosh, she just says stuff. And she'll just be like, well, yeah, barrel saunas. Like, all right, touché. Appreciate it, it's keeping me in check and I value that. Exactly. Well, now I have a question.

What is a barrel sauna? Cause I did like the actual barrel that you just like heat up. Yeah, it looks, it's, it's, it looks like a giant wine cask on its side. Oh. It's a little door on the end and you just sit in there and yep, it's a sauna.

Yeah. I got real into them being in Portland and we had a gym membership. Or they had a nice sauna and the winters here are pretty gloomy. I can imagine. So it was like some sort of body warming effort, hot tub or sauna. Probably going hot tub, even though the other week I was pretty stoked. Probably going hot tub, even though the other week I was pretty stoked. Hot tub's just more, it just lends itself to that polycule lifestyle. I agree with you.

I try to achieve so much. I'm picturing people with wine. But I've taken a stance as of late and that is I only want to go into a hot tub where I understand the chain of ownership. It's like kind of, I don't know. It's like DNA evidence inside of a courtroom. I wanna know the chain of ownership. Who owns it?

It's like a Bitcoin. That documented history. Validation. I wanna see your ether ledger. Do you get into Bitcoin? No. No? No, by the time somebody explained it to me, it was up and down and gone already.

My buddy who knew about it 14 years ago, or 12 years ago or whatever, I wish I would have listened to him. Yeah. I know it just seems too late now to figure it out. My little brother had this kid that we grew up with. He was like, derelict would be a nice word to say, but he's a very nice human being.

I think he means well, but I'm not sure all the cylinders fire. And so he would do stupid shit like, you know, take a pound of heroin from one state to another with a gun because someone told him to do it and make a thousand dollars, right? He would do stupid shit. I'm like, oh yeah, wacky, hijinks, little powder heroin.

I know, I didn't expect that. Yeah, felony trafficking? OK. Murder? Murder for honor. This crazy ragamuffin and his hijinks. I know. When he said heroin, I was like, what?

He's spying for the Iranian government. That's silly. Yeah. He's always up to something. And he would just get himself in these like, okay, criminal situations. I call them what they are. Criminal situations. But, you know, he was dumb. He was just like, and I don't say dumb. I want to, I don't want to make the guy feel bad if he's listening, but he was just a little like, yeah, he couldn't really put all the things together sometimes. So he moves out to California.

And then, because he had a warrant, in California, he runs down to one of the islands. I can't remember, one of the Virgin Islands. And in the Virgin Islands, he meets a guy who is setting up a server farm inside of one of the houses in this location where he lives, in this neighborhood where he lives. So they're at the pool or at the bar or whatever,

and he says, hey, what are you doing? I see all those big boxes showing up at your house with all the electronics. He says, I'm mining Bitcoin. And he goes, he's like, what the fuck is Bitcoin? This is years ago. He goes, what the fuck is Bitcoin? So he explains it.

And then this guy, on the advice of his next door neighbor, whoever lives, wherever he lives, he says, get the advice of his next door neighbor, whoever lives, wherever he lives, he says, get yourself some of these servers and start mining and I'll even front you the money for you can give me whatever 30% or whatever it is. So the guy is now, he sold a lot of that Bitcoin. He got in very early, he sold a lot of that Bitcoin

and he now never has to work another day in his life. I swear if you would have looked at him 25 years ago, you would have been like, I just pray he makes it. I just pray he makes it. He's not doing, he's doing stupid shit. I just hope he makes it. Is he still in the islands? And now he's living in the castle.

Yeah, he's got a house there and he's got a house here and he's got a house everywhere. What happened to the warrant? He paid an attorney to go take care of it. He got my attorney cash. Money, money took care of the ward. Money, money, money. But-

That's kind of odd. But you think about like, it is the people that gamble or would take a risk on some wilder ideas that, you know, nine out of 10 of them are foolish and don't work, but it's the fortune favors the bold kind of scenario where everybody else just doing what you're supposed to do and not taking any risks.

I wanted a piece of it way too late, but. I unfortunately am not bold. So I take a lot of risks, but it's on the dumb side. I'm a buy low. Buy high, buy a buy low. Buy high sell low. That's right. Buy low. Lose proof that you own the shares in the first place. Forget about it. Call it a wash.

I think that's how I get. Yeah. You know, I used to have Disney stock. My grandparent, my grandma would buy Disney stock for us for our birthdays and for our Christmases for like, I don't know, the first 12 years of my life. They would buy Disney stock, buy Disney stock. And back then you would get like a piece of paper in the mail and be like, hey, Disney stock.

Chairs, can't for the life of me find that paper. Can't for the life of me find that paper. But I am almost sure that I would not be four episodes a week on this. I was going to say, man, I don't know how much Disney might pay off like a new Nissan Sentra. I don't know what you got. Yeah, that's kind of what I got. That's the level of podcasts we are. Damn y'all can afford Nissan Sentra's.

It's tough out here for a podcaster. I know you know. I only go once a week. I'm not buying Nissans. I'm not getting Japanese made off of it. Dear Brian, if we have a Nissan Sentra for use, I would like to use it. Thank you. Love Christina.

Now, on to Rachel Feinstein. I loved this interview. I'm sure you guys did too. She is so wonderful. And honestly, the story she's about to tell is absolutely nutso. So if you did not catch this interview, you should absolutely go back and listen,

but give this little preview a go first and see how it is. And this is our last clip, so have fun, enjoy. What is the, if you, back when you went out and you hung out with the other comics or just went out on the town, I'm sure there was at first at least a level of excitement about getting to travel around the country and seeing new places. Tell me about the most dangerous situation that you've been in while traveling. You've got to have one of those stories. Oh, a bunch of those stories.

I mean, which one should I pick? There was one time I would stay when I was opening for comics, when I was still like a nanny and bartending, I was staying in like $46 hotels. I was like, oh, look, this one, I could get this for $46. Yeah. I could get a cocktail of diseases for $46. It comes with free syphilis. get this for 46. Yeah, get a cocktail of diseases for it. It comes with free syphilis, like actively dangerous hotels. But one of the times I know that somebody from the audience one

place I played they would announce on the website of the of the hotel of the comedy club. We put our comics and you know, this hotel like Hinta. Yeah. And I'm like, it's like, that's just when you haven't, it's like, there's no way a woman would ever have done that. I'm like, no! You know, and they have some deal with the local place, which means like, here's where you can murder Rachel. Yeah.

That's true, I didn't think about that. They're like announcing where all of the comics are going to be. Right, and they have like a deal with them that here, if we give you the information so that you can finish your whatever your criminal aims are in a more organized fashion, your stocking will be less laborious for you. So one time I was in, I was in, where was I? It was in California.

I can't remember. I don't want to say the name of the comedy club, but it was probably about an hour or two out from LA. Okay. And I was, look, I'm still protecting them. Yeah, that's true. But I had a room with an outside entrance. And I just like, my friend, another funny comment, Kelly Price, she was over, spent in the night and she came and opened for me and she lives nearby, but she came in and she was like, oh, I was like, you could just stay here at my hotel if you wanna like get away, she has five kids. So if you wanna get away from your massive family.

So she came over and all of a sudden, there's just this like drunk guy from the audience outside the door. We got out to go use the machine or something and I was like, that's the guy. We came back in and we shut the door. We were just sitting there trying to plan. And then she's like, just come to my house.

I think we just have to get out. Yeah, he just wants to stay at my house. So we called downstairs and he was just kind of sort of swaying in the hallway as we ran by with our suitcases. Oh my God. And then I just went to go live with Kelly and I think I slept in her son's bunk bed that night.

Yeah. And I told the club the next day, they just kind of watched my story. Like it was an amusing night for us. And I'm like, so again, the guy from the audience is outside. They're like, oh, that's crazy. I'm like, it was not a wacky fun tale.

I was almost murdered. They're like, oh, that's Ed. He murders all of the comics that open up for the big names. Don't worry about it. He was just like swaying and pointing and we were like fleeing in the night. Oh my God. Wow, that's scary. I think that's a double room.

Another time a guy came into my room that was in Vegas. Oh, into? Well, halfway in because he opened up at the top. Oh, yeah, yeah. That was in Vegas when I was staying at one of the towers for, I think it was Harris Casino. Yeah. So then he follows me. So he worked for the casino, I think it was Hera's.

Pretty sure. So he worked for the casinos. This comedy club is no longer in this specific casino, but he worked for the casino. So he was worked in maintenance. And so my room key thing didn't work. Like it wasn't, yeah. So he was trying to fix not the key,

but the thing itself the apparatus on the door or whatever it's called yeah yeah so that so he came over and I just flown across country you know the fatigue you have when you're just like you absolutely yes you're swollen you're tired all you want to do is just lay down and take an uncomfortable nap yeah yeah and I was just like resting on my suitcase, which I have a name for. That's not a good sign if you have to have a name. What is the name? What is the name?

The Red Dragon. And so I was resting on the dragon and so waiting for him to fix the thing. And we were just having a chat, you know, like I was talking about being on the road and he was asking me questions and da da da. And so like I was like oh what a lovely man and then the next night I was fast asleep and then my boyfriend at the time thank god flew out and stayed with me the next day and like and like finished out the week with me in Vegas but even working before I never had locked the top lock because I just wouldn't think about it I was like

oh it's like they have security it It's a casino, whatever. Yeah. So he locked it. Yeah. Then and then in the middle of the night in the middle of the night three in the morning, he's tries to open the door to the room. And I was like, oh my God. So so my boyfriend jumps up and then and then he's like, what are you doing, dude?

And he's like, oh, sorry. I thought there was a call for this room. It's like if there was a call wouldn't you have called the like this doesn't make any sense. So then, so it's like, even if somebody called and said that their toilet was broken or whatever, like you would knock first. Yes, then you just walk in.

Did you report this to Harris? Yes, I reported, I kept explaining and talking about it. And again, they looked at me with the same expression. Like I was telling a crazy tale. They're like, well, I'm sure it was an accident. I'm like, no, it it was an accident. I'm like Like don't flatter yourself bitch, he wasn't trying to know like I was giving myself a compliment or something, you know, that's fucking insane That's fine. I mean I

Tried and tried and talked to everybody at the hotel the comedy club I feel like a lot a lot of times, like, I don't know, they just they didn't. I did report it. I hope eventually I finally got a woman to give me the call logs of the other of who called, who did call then, you know? And it wasn't even in the same tower. She said she was going to she's like she was the one who just looked at me in the eyes like, I can't say everything right now, but I'm going to do something about this, you know?

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