ACCOUNTABILABUDDIES Ft. Chris Fleming
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 28 minutes
Words per Minute
191.18909
Summary
Comedian Chris Fleming joins Jemele to talk about his love of coyotes, his relationship with his dog, and the time he almost got run over by a coyote. Plus, EJ and Jemele talk about the weirdest thing they've ever heard.
Transcript
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Also, your point about coyotes, I have a whole bunch behind my house.
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I have some that sing at 12, 17 a.m. every single night.
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Hey, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of the Comment Section Show, starring
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me, your fave, everybody knows me, who cares about me.
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Today, we have the iconic, the hilarious, the amazing Chris Fleming.
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I don't know why I thought it was going to be amplified.
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I thought I was going to hear myself amplified.
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It feels kind of au naturel without the phones.
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Chris Fleming is a very successful and hilarious stand-up comedian.
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I don't think I've been described as successful to my face.
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Well, you know, it's our first time hanging, so I gotta be nice.
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Well, I used to get so nervous that I would dry heave.
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And then I started thinking I had to dry heave to wake my body up to perform.
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So it's like vocal exercises, but it's just you violently gagging in the room.
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I imagine it's like when a seagull's swallowing a piece of fish.
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My therapist was like, how's that dog wearing out?
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And I look outside and he's throwing a sock up and then he unhinges his jaw and it just
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You're like, I actually have to log off really quick, but I will bring this up on the next
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He's old and dangerous and he tries to bite me every day.
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Does he know he's your dog or you're just kind of cornering him?
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Um, it's like a parole officer situation that I, yeah, it's, it's disrespect is keeping
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I would assume they came from an Ugg something or other.
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If that was supposed to be our little secret that I see Ugg on the back, I'm sorry.
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I saw your, I opened an episode and I thought I was having like an anesthesia flashback or
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Uh, Chris and I both opened for our good friend, Caleb Heron.
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Even when you're noble, hot, rich, all the things.
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I feel like he would have been huge in the nineties.
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Like, no, I mean like he would have had a talk show in the nineties.
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Like a talk show that all of our moms would watch.
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He gives horrible advice and is actually not a doctor, but.
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And he's always like switching his calf muscles with each, like, you know,
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And he's like, I just locked in another 10 years of that show.
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I thought this guy, Scott, uh, got calf implants.
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And I started a rumor that he got calf implants in high school,
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So every day he's working at the, so his calves were like.
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I get people, uh, I know I'm blowing up when people,
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when the David Koresh comments started coming onto my videos.
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That's when I've reached outside my, my audience.
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You're, you're, you're breaching Gen Z territory.
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Oh, I could, at a certain point in my life, I could have fallen prey to a cult.
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But now I think I respect myself enough to kind of run it.
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You'd be, I think you'd be like, you would be in charge.
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I'd be like handling sexual harassment, which would be my entire job.
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Putting them on probation, but they can't leave.
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They probably have that in like a PDX, in like in a Portland cult.
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They probably do have some kind of HR department.
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I honestly don't think I'd have any hand in naming it.
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I even, when I talked to Caleb about being in a cult though, I was telling him, I don't
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think I'm, I think I'm too smart to be in one because I genuinely don't listen when people
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You have the laugh that is just, that is really putting men across this great, once great nation
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You have, you, cause you have the laugh of several people.
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It's, and, and that's every man's fear is to have the community laughing at them.
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And so when you unleash that, it's like when Doug funny would like see all of his friends
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laughing at him, you know, like he'd have like a nightmare where, you know, like Doug
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And then every, like everyone's like, ha, ha, ha, ha.
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It's, I think that's, that's why you're such a necessary force in the, in the online world.
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I feel like even, uh, when I was telling him, I think I'm too smart when he had posted
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it online, a lot of people were like, smart people are always think they're too smart
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I mean, do you know anyone who's cult adjacent?
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I know a couple of Mormons, so I guess it's about the same, isn't it?
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Once we get in that lobby, we're not going, we're not getting out.
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If you're in a bobsled, I'm not going anywhere.
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And a beta blogger, so you just, you shouldn't drive.
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You got to wait 20 minutes before you drive or take the SATs after an Andy's.
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You pop an Andy's before you go take your SATs.
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They were just drugging them with Andy's mints.
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That's how Gerard does his, that's how he does all those 20-minute pregnant pauses.
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No, but anyone, I went into the parking lot of Scientology with my friend.
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It's like, like a guy who looks like, like a, what are the gondolas?
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Not the gondolas, but like the gondolas, like a gondola, like a chairlift type thing.
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I'm telling you, if I was alone, I may have gone in.
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Well, an accountability buddy was also in the echidna platypus family, right?
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Doesn't it sound like a, like a, like a egg laying mammal?
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It would have the tail of a beaver, like a platypus.
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You seem like someone that would be afraid of animals.
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Living off of people's emotional support animals.
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Like, you know, when you see a coyote during the day and you're like, no, I'm supposed to
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That's how people look at me when I'm walking around like Beverly Hills.
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There's something off about seeing you in the daylight.
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Those are my hours where I'm, where I should be.
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I have very, very, I believe rational fears about lots of animals.
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I know everyone's going to be like, whales are so.
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I just don't, I don't think anything should ever be that big.
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And the only threat they really pose is if your kayak is right above the blowhole and
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Other than that, they're just kind of existing and that bothers me.
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Also watching like that SeaWorld documentary, Blackfish.
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I, I, I, I, it was crazy, but they are just way too fucking smart too.
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Well, and according to those documentaries, like those whales would like study like your
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patterns, like where you would, you know, they do the little shows and they like would
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pose at a certain place and throw a fish or whatever.
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So the, the main whale that was like fucking everybody up, he was like studying them for months and learning where they went.
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Cause he would catch them when they were vulnerable.
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Like they noticed that he was studying his, the patterns of humans.
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Just like a whole fish, you know, tossing them.
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I mean, you would know you, you gulp them down all the time.
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They would throw me a Brenzino in the green room in the Brad's, in the Brad's green room.
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No, that was on your, uh, your, what's your writer.
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And I've been making, I've been humiliating myself in some emails.
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Oh, he doesn't even think of, he just pantses me.
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He doesn't even, he doesn't even care enough to hate me.
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Sometimes they sound, they sound like women screaming.
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So I've spent a lot of money on dog care, if you couldn't guess, by the breed that I chose
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I think sometimes my, my first Frenchie, his name is Squid.
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And so he goes and eats something life threatening.
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I literally had to do that the other day because he chose to step on a bee.
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You're sitting outside waiting and getting struck by lightning.
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And then my foster Frenchie is going to, he just turned one.
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And he, he, he'll go to the vet and then he will refuse to leave.
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And they're like, no dog has ever not wanted to leave the vet.
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And he tries to bite them when they try to put, and me, when I'm trying to pull him
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That's why I said, I don't think he knows he's your dog.
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I wake up with the wind of his breath and he goes.
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But the sounds of a dog who does hate you, in fact.
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My dog, Squid, is allergic to literally everything.
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Like, when we first got him, he was totally fine.
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We couldn't figure out it was, like, what it was to.
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And we switched his food a billion fucking times.
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And then one night, he had diarrhea literally every, like, 30 or so minutes.
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Like, my boyfriend and I stayed up all night, kept letting him out.
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And that poop was shooting out of him like a flare gun.
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And then I had to take him to a fucking specialist.
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And even then, like, he was kind of pacing in the waiting room when I was, like, filling
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And my boyfriend was, like, I think he has to go to the bathroom.
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Mind you, where we're at, there's no grass really at all.
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Literally, there's, like, these three fake flowers, like, right in front of the fucking
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I love how they need a David Attenborough screenshot to relieve themselves.
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I was trying to walk him over there, and he just, he had to go so bad, and he sprayed
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Like, and then my boyfriend goes back, and he goes, it's so bad.
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He's the destroyer of all things that are beautiful.
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You're saying that he did this all over the flowers.
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Like, what you would imagine a Bulldog Specialist is like, that was what he was doing.
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Well, first off, the office itself was built, I think, in the 1950s and had not been updated
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So, the little table they put him on looked like those ones they would strap women to
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And then, also, as he's talking to us, he's like, oh, okay.
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He just immediately starts putting shit up his ass, like, his fingers.
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Well, that feels a little off book, but I got a lot going on.
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I was like, I'm going to table that for now, and I'll come back to that later.
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I just need you to tell me if my dog's going to die.
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If it doesn't work, then we'll have to read this.
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And then me and my boyfriend were running fucking hospice for, like, a month.
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For, like, every six hours, every nine hours, every 12 hours, every 24 hours.
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For a dog that doesn't care if I live or die, so...
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I feel like Long Beach is just bulldogs on skateboards now.
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It's just a dystopia of bulldogs on skateboards going around.
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Do you only have the one dog or do you have more than one dog?
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Nightly, I believe that I have four dogs when I only have two.
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And so imagine me roaming the land looking for two dogs that...
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Until I eventually figure out, oh, that's right.
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I used to sleep talk when I was a kid a lot more, but...
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I think Caleb may have told me that he conducts business in his sleep.
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Do you ever see, like, TikToks with Jordan Belfort?
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Like, he's always getting himself into new messes.
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Or at least noticing that you were sleepwalking?
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I had to stay in Times Square for a couple days.
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And for some reason, my goal was to go to the Ugg store.
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I was trained to put hands on shoulders and talk to them in the mirror.
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What the fuck are you doing in an Antelope Loft?
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I'm telling you, I've never been better at a job in my life.
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I open it up 5 a.m., hit play on the Gwen Stefani, and they are blasting Gwen...
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My retail fold, you wouldn't believe how tight I fold.
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The one training is you speak to them only through the mirror.
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And women who are real estate agents after the age of 40.
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Just a summer, and then I left, and my boss cried when I left.
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I was like, Christian, you knew this day was coming.
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I went to New York to do stand-up, and then I was like, you know what?
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I think I'm just going to work at the Ann Taylor Loft.
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I assume it's, like, all sorts of multicolored footwear that's, like, European and fuzzy, but, like, big.
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And then I saw it in theaters, and I was, like, ruined for, like, two years.
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All my hopes and dreams under that movie being good.
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Jennifer Lawrence is doing, like, a Groundlings character in it.
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I feel like they have a Groundlings at LAX now.
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How do you feel about signing the TikTok thing?
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I got an email that said, would Drew like to have **** as a guest?
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I've been meaning to tell you, you've got to get ****.
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It's going to be rough for an hour and then you have gold.
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I say, yeah, but I'm not having any approved questions.
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First thing I'm going to be like, you ever thought about putting a dick in your mouth?
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In order to stay young and successful, I had to sacrifice another lamb.
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Then they get too strong, like Planet of the Apes.
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When you see another animal riding a horse, that's when you.
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Like, that to me is way more realistic than, like, a fucking Walking Dead situation.
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There was this video I saw recently on TikTok, and it was, like, this full-grown male gorilla.
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But it was, like, these, the zookeepers that were feeding him, they got stuck in there.
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But I was, like, you're literally watching that gorilla decide whether or not it's worth it.
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Like, he's looking and he's going, I could rip both of your heads up.
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And the way he's moving, I love how, like, he's so smooth, like, he's running, but his
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Watching them make decisions is horrifying to me.
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I, like, if the monkeys take over, I'm yielding.
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I feel like if it weren't for what MJ did, then more people, more celebs would have monkeys.
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Like, Bradley Cooper obviously has a secret monkey.
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How did you feel about the maestro thing when they were like, you spent six years learning
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to conduct it, and then they show him just conducting like you or I would conduct it.
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Sometimes I feel like I see art, whether it's a movie or a painting.
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And I'm like, am I the dumbest bitch alive, or does this not make sense?
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I have really bad reading comprehension, and I can never understand anything I'm reading
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There was something recently where I saw it, and I was like, oh, yeah, I'm not part of this
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You're like, I don't even know what's going on anymore.
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I mean, or like, yeah, people, the way people are emotionally connected to things now, like
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people would be like, oh, you got to hear this Chapel Rhone song, and they're like, oh,
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And then it's just called, like, who's going to eat you out when I'm forging upstate?
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I'm either a million years old, or I'm just the dumbest bitch alive.
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I feel like that sometimes about the Oscars movies.
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Oh, I watched, or I tried to watch Zone of Interest.
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The one where they're next door to a concentration camp?
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And you just, you're watching the family live a really normal life next to awfulness.
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My parents didn't get it, and they were very vocal about that to me.
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I never saw it, but they were like, Chris, it's a lot of sounds.
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There are some movies I watch where I'm like, I wish I had the piece of your brain that's like,
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Oh, I wish I could pick this apart and dissect it.
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Nothing but monkeys riding bareback on my horses and my fucking head.
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It's kind of all I can take is put into the apes' trailers.
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I mean, I'm at a point where I'm just re-watching the episode of Breaking Bad where Walt lives
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Where he's just, like, warming himself by a fire, and his glasses are, like, shitty.
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And that's because you feel represented on screen?
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That's another thing that I never understood is, like, people see themselves in things,
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I think I'm, like, missing a crucial audience muscle.
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That's why I was like, I don't know if I'm just not creative at all.
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Like, one time I was talking to someone, and they were like, oh, I mispronounced.
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I was talking to her, and she was like, I mispronounced your name once.
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I said it, and she explained the context to me.
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Something funny is I had no idea that you did that because I was waiting for you to stop
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So, like, the bit was going in my head, and I was like, man, when she's done, I'm going
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No, and I was like, so that's, like, what's turning on a wheel in my head is, like, just the
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But that aware, no, but that's, that is the brain of an artist is just a bit factory.
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Yeah, when I watched The Bear, I was like, that's literally me.
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After everything's kind of cooled down, I'm like...
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I watched the same shit over and over and over again.
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And then, like, three years after everyone likes it, I'll watch it.
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I'm waiting to do cocaine and watch The Sopranos until I'm, like, in my 80s.
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I tried to get through the pilot episode of Mad Men, like, 30 times.
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Or in, like, a broke-down pad, like, a foreign jail.
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If I'm in, like, a foreign jail, if I'm in, like, Italian jail, and I'm like, please,
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Like, I can't even get the phone call, you know?
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They're, like, they're just pointing at the TV.
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Yeah, even Breaking Bad, like, I started watching Breaking Bad, and then it got to a point where
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I was like, well, it can't get any worse than that.
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And then I was like, I can't do the show anymore.
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It's more so, like, it depends on the level of severity.
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You know, at some point, some shows, you're like, okay, well, now we're dragging it.
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Like, let's kill everybody off, and let's put an end to all of our misery.
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That's what I felt about Sons of Anarchy when I watched Sons of Anarchy.
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Like, now it's, like, a lot of guys that just, you know, like, it's better for guys to know
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nothing about male grooming than a little bit about male grooming.
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So it's just these guys showing up with beard oil.
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And that, like, you know the Sons of Anarchy haircut I'm talking about?
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It's like they're, I mean, they're, like, drug mules, essentially.
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So, like, biker gang, but really, like, the cartel almost.
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Bikers have ignored me my whole life until I got this mastiff.
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And then they come up and they go, you got a beautiful boy.
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I'm having a hard time, like, imagining you interacting with, like, a true biker gang.
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Although, I did go, you know the Rainbow Room in?
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It's, like, roadies and stuff from, like, the 70s.
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I think they put their hand on the small of my back.
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It's because you were in an Ann Taylor Loft blazer.
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Whether it's your fave one, a recent one you watched.
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I watched that movie, I think, not too long ago for the first time ever.
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It's just so funny because he keeps being like, we're going to have a great time.
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Like, he keeps telling his family how fun it's going to be.
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I mean, when he's chasing Danny around, I'm just like, this is it.
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It's funny because when I first watched it, I think I was like in college.
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And my little brother, I think, tried to watch it, but he got too scared and he left.
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And my mom was like, there's a part in this movie that fucked me up so bad when I was a
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It's like it was a weird random moment in the movie.
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It's just kind of like, and there's all those topless models on the wall and it's like a
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That's when I go and get a drink and I come back and it's only like a little bit further
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Well, I actually don't know if Shelley Duvall was in the scene.
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I don't think she was, but it's it's the part with the old lady when she's naked.
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And she's just walking like, oh, my mom was like, well, you think it's a you think it's
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a hottie and then it turns out it's a dead old lady.
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And Nicholson's like, oh, I mean, it's the original.
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Um, I think one of my favorite movies of all time is Uncle Buck.
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I just know he does the shovel flapjacks, right?
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I watched it recently, like during the holidays with my family.
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I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I've never seen it in my life.
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I only recently started watching horror movies because I really don't like horror.
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I mean, it's like, it's like, I'm so anxious and it's like, it's like, it's like, it's
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like I can be anxious about what's happening there and not worry about everything.
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That's to this day, probably the scariest movie I've ever seen.
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But the context in which I saw it was horrible too, because my sister was like, let's go watch
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When you find out that she had it coming because she was a demon, that makes it a little bit
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But in that period where you're like, wait, I don't think I'm ready for anything.
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When it got to the, like after, like she dies in the movie or whatever, spoiler alert.
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I remember my heart was like in my fucking throat, like the entire time.
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And I was telling my sister, I was like, dude, how fucking long is this movie?
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And that was like one of the first movies I had watched in so long where I like, I could
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I don't know what I'm going to do when I find, when I find a guy.
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Your sleepwalking is probably freaking them out a little bit.
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You ever think about people that might, oh no, I don't want to say this to
00:45:53.360
There's a theory that there are some houses where there's people like that live in your
00:46:04.660
It's like, it's not a good quality of life though for them.
00:46:25.420
And it's like, this lady gets hired to be a nanny.
00:46:29.880
And then the parents are like, okay, here he is.
00:46:35.740
And she's like, you want me to take care of the doll?
00:46:40.040
And they're like, you have to do all of these things.
00:46:50.220
And then the doll starts like moving on its own.
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Turns out, spoiler alert again, it's their son.
00:47:08.640
And he watches her through like, little people everywhere.
00:47:11.340
Like, he has all these little holes drilled everywhere.
00:47:19.580
He has like, little secret passageways that he built.
00:47:25.760
That seems like you would hear that someone having that job in LA.
00:47:51.140
I was just, well, I don't know if it's weird, but it's surprising.
00:47:57.740
And people get really bummed out when they hear that.
00:48:00.920
When my fan base found out that I ski, they're like, this is not what we eat.
00:48:29.300
But I was teaching like three to five-year-olds for a while.
00:48:33.080
Which is mostly just them just kind of falling over and then me picking them up.
00:48:51.720
Is that like year round or did you only go like.
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My weirdest job was probably the job I had like right out of college where I worked
00:49:10.060
Like it's public relations, but basically outreach.
00:49:12.220
And it's fancy schmancy words for like I had to give people bad news about construction.
00:49:18.020
So I get to tell them like your community is going to suck for the next 15 years.
00:49:27.400
Like you would tell people in an area like, oh, they're going to build.
00:49:30.620
Like when they were expanding the 405 and all that.
00:49:34.080
My sister and I trekking up and down those neighborhoods telling everybody.
00:49:38.880
They're going to be power drilling behind your house for the next two and a half years
00:49:55.140
And then I'm sure they yell at you like you are the one making the choice.
00:50:00.340
I'm like, well, clearly I'm the one who makes the choices because I'm wearing a too
00:50:18.780
Like we would do these things called neighborhood meetings and I don't know if you all know
00:50:29.900
You say neighborhood meeting, free coffee and donuts, a thousand old people outside, like
00:50:34.340
immediately they're outside and they would, they would come in and they would sit down.
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They would be there 15 minutes early picking everything and they'd sit down and they would
00:50:56.440
Like my sister and I, we joke about it all the time because I was like, why were we doing
00:51:14.500
Trying to get people to, uh, I would find a house that needed to be painted like a decrepit
00:51:19.760
house and I would knock on the door and I'd be like, you should get your house painted
00:51:32.120
Cause I'm just like, I'm just like walking around.
00:51:34.100
It's like looking for like paint that's crisping.
00:51:42.720
I, especially now I feel like with ring camera doorbells and all that, like they didn't
00:51:49.480
And if a good thing, because I was complaining on the job, God, I fucking need this job.
00:51:59.320
And I knock on the door and I feel even at those neighborhood meetings, like the amount
00:52:03.960
of times my sister and I were screamed at by old people.
00:52:07.460
And one time this guy was like just yelling at my sister about it.
00:52:11.320
Like he was like, ah, like this fucking freeway, blah, blah, blah.
00:52:14.380
And then he goes, my sister goes, I know I'm so sorry.
00:52:20.100
I can give you a phone number to call, you know, to tell them your grievance.
00:52:23.040
And he was like, what's, what's your citizenship?
00:52:27.160
Like he just immediately was like, what country are you from?
00:52:33.600
She's like, he's been talking to her for 15 minutes.
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That's a good way to give yourself a second to think.
00:52:56.300
Like this is the Russians who want to improve at the freeway.
00:52:59.780
He's like, yeah, you know, yeah, they have, yeah, they have an illegal alien giving you
00:53:12.180
And he was like, I even went up and I was like.
00:53:26.820
And he was like, I want to know what country you're from.
00:53:37.180
And so he was like, I want to know what country she's from.
00:53:48.240
No, that was actually at a neighborhood meeting.
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That was at one of those fucking neighborhood meetings, dude.
00:53:55.280
One time my sister was like, I have to play this voicemail, dude, that I got.
00:53:59.240
And she got a voicemail from a guy talking for, I'm not kidding, 20 minutes.
00:54:03.720
And he needed to know what type of gravel they were using on the 405 freeway.
00:54:15.900
And my sister had to call an engineer, talk to them, call someone else, approve it, then
00:54:44.280
So now she knows what kind of gravel is on the 405 freeway.
00:55:12.480
I think the things old people find to complain about.
00:55:18.380
Do you ever have a job where you worked with old people?
00:55:22.840
I was a health club front of like a front of front of house greeter.
00:55:33.740
Well, I guess I guess it was old people for the water aerobics.
00:55:44.420
It's just, you know, it's that kind of a thing.
00:55:53.600
Because it was me and a bunch of older ladies who worked the desk.
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I say the same thing, especially because I'm a dickhead on the internet.
00:56:38.360
Like whenever I meet other people from the internet, they're like, oh, I'm 21.
00:56:42.760
And I'm like, oh, they're like, how old are you?
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They're like, oh, my God, you're like almost 30.
00:56:58.660
It was you and Caleb talking about how Caleb trying to get set up with a 36 year old.
00:57:05.720
He's like, what am I going to set me up to do what?
00:57:22.740
But I was like, I was joking about that, though.
00:57:25.080
But I was like, plus, I know your blood pressure needs to stay low.
00:57:33.240
And it's funny, too, because in the context of the clip right before that, we were talking
00:57:36.940
about being fucking old compared to everybody on the Internet.
00:57:40.120
Like, we're a million years old compared to everybody.
00:57:47.440
I think when we hit 40, I do think our phone should be taken away and we're given like
00:58:12.820
I was flitting from one flower to be like, meet me here.
00:58:20.960
My boyfriend has a brother and his brother's like, what, 23?
00:58:40.300
But I remember he called us once and he was like asking us something about like he was
00:58:47.740
And then he was like, what are you what are you making?
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And he was like, oh, I'm making a dish for this party I'm going to.
00:58:54.660
And he goes, what fucking party are you going to at 23?
00:59:02.220
I bring nothing but vibes and like a half drinking handle of Captain Morgan.
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Like, that's what the fuck I'm showing up with when I'm 23.
00:59:10.980
You're bringing, you're bringing Franzia in your hands.
00:59:23.900
There was one girl that used to hang out with my friends in college and I, and we, we sniffed
00:59:28.320
her out like her little strategy out well into her coming and hanging out with us all
00:59:32.800
But we used to be like, it wasn't ever potluck, but it's like, if you come and you bring your
00:59:37.520
own liquor kind of thing, and we all kind of share, right?
00:59:41.400
We found out pretty late in the game that she was bringing the same bottle of wine that
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was half drinking that she would keep in the trunk of her car.
01:00:06.740
I would normally bring, my friends and I would bring like a 30 rack of like rolling rock or
01:00:28.120
They come in these like liquor bottles and they're like the brightest.
01:00:50.240
It's a, what do they call when you, it's like, um, the liquid that you drink so that
01:01:09.720
The first time I had, uh, the MD 2020, it's like the neon liquor.
01:01:15.780
Uh, these two girls, they drank them, like drank the entire thing.
01:01:19.440
I only had a couple of drinks that they drank the whole thing and they were so fucked up.
01:01:25.320
So my, my buddy was like, Hey, you guys got to go.
01:01:27.300
Cause we were like at a house party and they were like, I have to use the bathroom.
01:01:35.580
They threw up everywhere, but the toilet then left.
01:02:03.580
Cause it wasn't my house and I didn't have to clean it.
01:02:05.820
That was always when, yeah, we, we, we stopped throwing parties in college when, when seeing what happened in the bathroom once like that, which is a sign of it.
01:02:16.800
But like, when there's, when there's blood in the bathroom, you're like this.
01:02:30.940
What's the, the, like, what was kind of your vibe in college?
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Like you guys can go to the parties, but like no drinking or anything like that when I was in high school.
01:02:54.920
I was weirdly responsible and articulate as a child.
01:02:58.660
Like my mom told me once she was like, well, she actually, she's told me multiple times that I used to kind of scare her a little bit as a child.
01:03:10.640
Like one reminds me of that trip that you and dad went on in the 1960s.
01:03:20.940
She just said I was weirdly articulate as a child.
01:03:38.240
I was really good at, I loved, I loved the school part because I liked being the best at that stuff.
01:04:04.900
I, I, I mean, I, I, I found alcohol at that age.
01:04:08.320
I think when, I think the Irish in me, like waiting that long, it did feel like what I
01:04:17.560
I'm just like at home, you know, it's like having like a bird's eye view.
01:04:36.440
I just kind of, because my original path in college, I was trying to be a journalist.
01:04:42.920
I know a comic who went, who tried to be a journalist too.
01:04:52.960
Well, I mean, it's all about communication and to communicate a joke, you have to know
01:05:01.800
No, actually I wanted to be like a sports journalist.
01:05:04.200
So I wanted to be like, like a long form narrative journalist.
01:05:07.960
Like I wanted to follow people for like months and then put together a story and then, but
01:05:12.380
when you're in journalism, like I did journalism and communications as like a double major.
01:05:15.600
And so my journalism course, like course, I had to film myself a lot and do like stories.
01:05:21.580
And that's how I started talking in front of a camera, learned how to edit, all that
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That means you're destined for people that did premiere.
01:05:36.600
It's us final cut hags that not quite the same.
01:05:41.980
I even, even though when I did a lot of my journalism stuff, like I just felt there were
01:05:48.640
certain things that happened and I was like, maybe this isn't the path.
01:05:52.240
Cause I felt like I was a little too silly because sometimes my teachers would get annoyed
01:06:14.540
One time I, um, one of my professors, she, uh, told me like that I should try less hard
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on the story and try to focus more on just being pretty.
01:06:30.880
She was like, you should just try to lean into being pretty.
01:06:44.760
When you hear something funny though, years later, now I do this, have this show.
01:06:48.300
She like reached out to me and asked me to talk to my old class.
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And she was like, I feel like you give them a lot of good tips.
01:07:22.740
So I was just like, it's actually no worries at all.
01:07:30.520
She tried, she tried really hard to make me like quit that class.
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I was like, I'm leaving here with that journalism degree one way or another.
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If I have to hold one of you at gunpoint, so be it.
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It's good to threaten gun violence on professors.
01:08:03.080
They don't, you can call them by their first name.
01:08:17.300
I think, my friends and I were like the theater outcasts because we, it was like a very serious
01:08:21.440
theater program and they were like, fuck, you guys are not being, yeah.
01:08:31.140
Is that how you got into, like, stand-up itself?
01:08:43.820
I'm like, and you said you moved to New York to pursue stand-up.
01:08:47.780
Well, I went to school in New York upstate and then in the summer I would go there to
01:08:51.400
work at the Ann Taylor Loft, even though I thought I would try to, I would be like,
01:08:55.240
I'm going to do stand-up, but no, I'm just going to work at the loft.
01:09:01.320
When did you feel like you were really, like, really starting to hit your stride in stand-up?
01:09:11.860
I know, there's, like, moments where you're like, oh.
01:09:18.320
I felt really good right out of the gate, honestly.
01:09:21.780
Yeah, and I was, yeah, and I was, yeah, I had an affinity for it when I was young and
01:09:27.080
then I was like, and then it got harder for a little while and then it gets easier.
01:09:33.080
You've got, like, a crazy relationship with it.
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Where you think, right when you think you've kind of cracked it.
01:09:38.500
You just are, like, sometimes you're on stage and you're like, wait, what's funny about
01:09:49.000
Well, that's what, like, just before we keep being fucking silly, I do want to tell you
01:10:06.340
Because it's, like, it's the most, like, niche, like.
01:10:11.120
The nichest takes on things I find so fucking funny.
01:10:15.320
And obviously, I'm not going to tell your jokes on here that I saw, from your set that
01:10:25.100
We were talking about your set the whole way home.
01:10:29.440
So we were talking about Chris the whole way home.
01:10:37.840
Yeah, well, that's what happens when you are part of the insurrection, so.
01:10:48.440
That's his work from home, was the insurrection.
01:11:02.520
I was like, I was telling Chris, when I did my first five literally ever, I was fucking
01:11:10.440
I'm never, I'm really never, like, nervous about work stuff.
01:11:14.340
And I, sometimes people are like, you're not nervous about this or whatever.
01:11:21.760
Especially when I, because I've done, like, carpets and stuff.
01:11:23.980
So I worked the Oscars last year and a lot of people were asking me if I was super nervous.
01:11:30.300
And I was like, because famous people, I feel like you, you would know this too, but like,
01:11:44.900
Because we're all theater geeks at the end of the day.
01:11:53.800
They spend a lot, a lot of time in the parking lot of Scientology buildings.
01:12:06.840
You ever talk to an actor, you're like, are you going to cry right now?
01:12:12.640
Because it's like, the recall's there, and like, their face just is so expressive, and
01:12:16.900
you're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
01:12:20.460
Yeah, I have talked to actors where I was kind of like, like, doing my best to not say
01:12:28.060
Like, Jamie Lee Curtis, when I interviewed her at the Oscars, she was wonderful.
01:12:31.620
But she takes very measured pauses before she answers.
01:12:35.120
So like, when I would, I asked her a question, and she was like, yeah, she's on a Palm Pilot
01:12:42.160
She was literally like, for like, what felt like 20 minutes.
01:12:46.640
But it was like, and I was like, I thought maybe I offended her or something.
01:12:58.900
I found you can do that in written, when you're being interviewed in press.
01:13:03.340
They're not going to be like, long ellipses, you know.
01:13:10.960
It's one of those, like, even, there was one girl I talked to.
01:13:17.200
And she would do this thing where every time she would ask me a question, and I would answer
01:13:30.280
Yeah, like, she would just stare at me with her mouth open, and then I would feel the
01:13:37.120
That's how you started admitting the crimes you didn't even commit.
01:13:51.400
And then I would keep talking, and I'd be like, you know, because she was like, no,
01:13:59.700
Well, this is a really taxing conversation to have, so I'm going to move on.
01:14:07.040
I feel like I just keep talking, which is annoying.
01:14:09.600
Like, I could talk for like 30 minutes by myself.
01:14:16.940
If that was a job, and they could source me, I would make a killing.
01:14:22.320
I'd just go up there and talk about anything for 45 minutes.
01:14:25.840
Sometimes when I work with people, they're like, oh, you just kind of need to vamp for
01:14:31.880
You're going to have to tell me to shut the fuck up if I'm being honest.
01:14:38.400
I didn't talk until I was three, and they thought like something was seriously awry.
01:14:42.180
And they took me to doctors, and my sister would answer the questions for me.
01:15:00.840
Like, you know, I got my blood drawn recently for this thing.
01:15:03.860
And I was like, to not freak out, I would just, I would start running my mouth.
01:15:18.160
I was like, what time did you get to work today?
01:15:32.200
I'd love to see what he says, if you were there or not.
01:15:36.120
I was like saying stuff like, oh, it must be crazy to get here at six when it's still dark out.
01:15:51.560
He doesn't want to do it if he doesn't have to.
01:15:54.240
And the first time I took him to get his hair done by my hair girl.
01:16:21.020
When I took her there, took him there to get his hair done, I sat in there, too, but like next to him in the chair.
01:16:28.720
When we left, I was like, well, how do you feel?
01:16:32.720
I just didn't know there was going to be that much talking.
01:16:40.040
And if your hair is long, because he has an undercut, so like he'll go.
01:16:49.100
Like if you have it shaved underneath, but your hair is long.
01:17:04.580
And he was like, I didn't know there was going to be that much talking.
01:17:08.320
And I was like, yeah, because obviously when you go to a salon and you get your hair dyed or whatever, it's like hours.
01:17:15.000
I think that hair people are like their level of conversation.
01:17:21.720
I've never had such wild conversations and with hair people.
01:17:31.940
Like the way he was immediately like, I can't do that.
01:17:46.860
I love when someone, you know, like punks who cut their own hair.
01:17:56.080
If I could do literally everything at home, I would.
01:18:04.080
I cut my, I did cut my widow's peak once because I hated it.
01:18:07.660
And then lived to regret that decision for like at least five years.
01:18:33.140
It almost like got darker and went deeper on my forehead like Eddie Munster.
01:18:37.800
I was like, okay, well, I definitely didn't have that before and now it's even worse.
01:18:41.300
And it's funny because I tried to lie to my mom and say I didn't do it because she was
01:18:46.780
Mind you, like my widow's peak obviously is right here.
01:18:53.540
Like I literally cut it and then tried to shave it with a razor.
01:19:17.740
It has like five o'clock shadow because I just shaved it recently.
01:19:23.440
Like she was kind of buying into my lie a little bit just to see if I would tell her on my own.
01:19:27.540
You could say you got stuck in a fence or something.
01:19:32.380
I took a little too long in the bathroom and I came out with a new haircut.
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That's the only time I've ever like cut my own hair.
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It was like the worst quality video I've ever seen in my life.
01:21:00.620
It was Mary Martin in a live thing of Peter Pan.
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And that's exactly what I look like when I cut my hair.
01:21:17.580
My dad, whenever I see him, whatever I'm wearing, and I land down in Boston, he sees me and goes, oh, Jesus.
01:21:38.100
Everything you tell me about your childhood, it sounds like you were found in a forest or something.
01:21:50.120
A little forest boy that doesn't speak English.
01:21:52.340
I did grow up in a very rural, surprisingly rural.
01:21:55.340
People, when they would visit from college and stuff, every single person would get lost.
01:22:05.120
Like one time an Uber driver was like, I don't like this.
01:22:09.280
Well, with you sitting in the back and you're all, I'd be a little nervy too.
01:22:23.020
Between you and me, I may or may not have sent in a self-tape for that.
01:22:33.120
Actually, I think several comedians were in the running.
01:22:39.120
I mean, it was obviously going to go to Peter's.
01:22:43.340
I think they were just looking for a laugh, you know?
01:22:46.820
You're like, oh, so you don't want an actual creepo.
01:22:49.580
You want one that people want to have sex with.
01:22:57.540
Why did they need to make the Jeffrey Dahmer movie?
01:23:15.820
It was this British guy, and he goes to the scariest places in the world.
01:23:21.720
And so the first episode, he goes to the Suicide Force in Japan.
01:23:26.260
And then the next one, he goes to this abandoned prison in South America.
01:23:41.520
He went to Dahmer's, the bar in Milwaukee or whatever.
01:23:56.580
Like, weird, like, culty fans, and, like, he goes and he spends time with her.
01:24:01.900
Those people should probably not be allowed to be fans.
01:24:12.060
I mean, they let us be out amongst other people, so.
01:24:15.020
Well, we talked about literally just a bunch of nonsense the whole time.
01:24:20.480
The amount of maxi pads in the bathrooms here, I would describe as alt-left.
01:24:29.180
These liberal snowflakes putting pads in every bathroom.
01:24:45.740
Because I genuinely, like I said earlier, I love your comedy.
01:24:52.080
I would love to know if you have any advice for any aspiring stand-up comics.
01:24:57.820
I mean, yeah, just to do it as often as you can.
01:25:06.200
I wish that someone had told me to not be afraid of doing new material more.
01:25:09.280
I kind of started truly in, like, the Johnny Carson model of, like, have a good five to seven.
01:25:14.320
And so, like, there's this thing of trying new, like, if it's, like, a Friday or Saturday night, like, at the club, like, make sure you're going to kill.
01:25:23.620
But then you get stuck in these, like, ruts of just doing the same material.
01:25:27.080
So, like, I would say always be pushing yourself to try new stuff.
01:25:34.140
Obviously, always be listening not just to the crowd but to yourself and what feels good.
01:25:43.820
And also, please, everyone, go watch Chris do stand-up.
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I think that's how you locked eyes with me when you said the cock.
01:26:04.820
It's important to make eye contact in those moments so you feel safe with me.
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You can find me on WeBuyUglyHouses.com and Joe Biden's TikTok.
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And make sure you all go watch Chris Fleming's stand-up on Peacock.
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That's using so much data, I'm sure, on your phone.
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I'm sure it's like, I'm sure your phone is piping hot if you've watched all.
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Go for, that's a way to go from 100 to 0% watch one of these episodes on Spotify, right?
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Make sure y'all go follow Chris on Instagram and watch all the things that he does, whether
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it's his stand-up live or his special on Peacock.
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