The Comment Section with Drew Afualo - JAZZY LADYBUG Ft. EJ Marcus ｜ Episode 218

00:00:00.000 there would be like a glass like a window and you would see all of the like where the fish had laid

00:00:05.500 all of their eggs oh and then eventually you're like so grossed out i feel like i low-key have

00:00:11.040 trypophobia so i'm like imagining it it being a lot of dots and unfortunately it was a lot of 0.92

00:00:16.960 yeah i bet it was a lot of dots that's kind of that is kind of the vibe i bet i fucking knew it

00:00:22.100 and i'm so sorry um yeah cut cut this out um 0.80

00:00:26.280 hey everyone and welcome back to another episode of the comment section show starring me your

00:00:38.440 fave everybody knows me who cares about me on to the guest today we have another all-star

00:00:43.800 and icon a legend the hilarious ej marcus oh my gosh thank you oh my god welcome back king

00:00:52.620 thank you so much for having me oh my gosh I'm so happy to have you you're one of my favorite

00:00:56.880 people to follow oh that's really really nice and likewise of course yeah this episode is presented

00:01:02.960 by Sephora so what are you getting your mom this mother's day it's hard to find something that says

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00:01:37.640 say too recently i've been loving especially the um the videos you've been making with your partner

00:01:43.460 about like two people doing like they're like crowdfunding or they're like doing yoga yoga in

00:01:48.840 the park some of my faves they're very special to it's those are very rooted in like a deep

00:01:54.760 understanding of that culture um it's where your community lived in yes yes of course how have you

00:02:01.140 been king how's life going for you it's going okay yeah yeah i how is it being so adorable and

00:02:07.420 hilarious stop um it's good although i did on my when i was um coming here i this is like not that

00:02:15.600 interesting i just haven't talked to anyone about it i was trying to parallel park and they the

00:02:20.820 person behind me like wasn't letting me in and it was just like one of those moments where like we

00:02:24.580 were so physically close and i actually and it was kind of like i don't know i i guess you saying

00:02:30.620 that i'm adorable maybe made me think of this where i'm like i looked them in the eye and was

00:02:34.580 like please like i think they're like ah you know and they were just so mad still yeah your cutie

00:02:40.700 it doesn't work in those it didn't move them contexts so grappling with that currently what's

00:02:47.760 funny about that i have a similar story to that where i was like going to the gym and um my fiance

00:02:53.660 was driving so we were waiting like because there was about i don't know 10 or 15 spots that are

00:03:00.080 like 15 30 minutes but then once if those are all full you have to go behind the little barricade

00:03:05.240 thing and you have to pay for parking yeah obviously so there was someone in front of us

00:03:09.540 and we were waiting and they kind of are blocking both lanes so we were trying to go around them

00:03:14.280 but i think they thought we were trying to steal the spot they were pulling into and it was um

00:03:20.380 like they were so close like they were in the spot was angled like this that when she started

00:03:26.200 backing up like this she was going to hit our car because that's just how committed she was

00:03:30.840 to not giving us that spot which i wasn't gonna take it right um so then i i literally had to

00:03:36.740 roll down my window and i felt like i was in a movie like in new york i'm like i'm walking here 0.87

00:03:41.160 i literally was like are you fucking kidding me you're gonna hit my car yeah and then the girl 0.84

00:03:45.540 did not say anything she didn't roll her windows down she was in the car when we drove around her 0.94

00:03:49.640 going like this oh don't know what that meant okay don't know what that meant was it like a

00:03:54.360 like an emdr tapping thing yeah i think it was like her going everybody's yelling at me that's

00:03:58.560 what it looked like everybody's yelling at me and i'm like because you're about to hit my car over

00:04:02.380 a spot right it's so wild when people act fully crazy and then are like why is everyone upset

00:04:08.160 and i we drove around and went and parked and then i was like that girl better have been late

00:04:14.980 for work or i swear to god yeah i was like i really hope like i was like telling myself i hope

00:04:19.920 there was a reason she needed to do that but she almost hit my car it's so crazy though almost i

00:04:24.900 know because people really i don't know if it's an i feel like it's a little bit of an la thing

00:04:28.700 just like crazy drivers but like people will it's like a threatening like they're like i'll do it

00:04:32.780 yeah and it's like whoa no you shouldn't want that it's like a posturing thing it's like a big

00:04:38.000 dogging like i'm like please don't that would actually suck for both of us i agree it's uh

00:04:45.300 it's actually yeah the driving here is pretty nasty awful terrible but i think like it sucks

00:04:51.380 too because you have to be an aggressive driver also like you also have to big dog which i don't

00:04:56.260 want to do that no it puts you in such a weird headspace and i also like like so my car is bright

00:05:03.440 orange um any particular reason or just so i did that on purpose um i thought i thought it would

00:05:14.200 be cool like um it didn't really occur to me that was like anything but cool actually like i just

00:05:19.060 kind of was like this is gonna be awesome and i thought it looked really nice it like it didn't

00:05:24.600 really occur to me that it would be anything except for cool until i was telling people about

00:05:30.240 it and slash showing people the car and i got a lot of responses that were like okay orange wow

00:05:37.480 you know and so interesting we love orange here i mean listen i love i love orange and that's

00:05:42.900 actually a problem too because then i'm like wearing orange often and i'm getting into the

00:05:46.140 orange car and i'm like oh i've become this person the lorax yeah like whoever this is it's now me

00:05:53.240 yeah um just my thing just clearly my thing but um but yeah my partner will often like if i'm

00:06:00.280 driving kind of crazy they're like you need to be careful like you're it's not like you're subtle 0.85

00:06:05.380 like it's like you've got a bright orange car they're like yeah and that dumbass orange car 0.98

00:06:09.220 like it makes i do think it makes people actually angrier so maybe it wasn't your cutie patootie 0.96

00:06:14.480 face maybe it was your orange car i made that parallel parking situation a little bit more

00:06:19.220 difficult it might have been tense because of that i also go to a place where i think the orange is

00:06:22.960 so cool i'm like people are jealous and that's okay you know why because that is it's essential

00:06:29.560 to gaslight yourself sometimes yes i think so i'm a huge proponent of that you have to that actually

00:06:34.940 reminds me though when your partner was saying maybe you should chill because you're driving

00:06:38.180 an orange car i one time for halloween my partner and i were um the hulk and she hulk which did

00:06:45.460 weren't a lot of comments of like um they're cousins to which i said oh they're also not real

00:06:51.240 right so we can go off that i didn't know they were cousins neither did i believe it or not i

00:06:55.640 wasn't a big dork right didn't know a lot of us here i was right that's not your business you

00:07:01.360 were just dressing up as a fun costume like it's all right and um cousins still marry often i think

00:07:07.300 so it's all right definitely either way we were we were the hulk but when we originally got painted

00:07:12.740 because like my mom's like friend at the time recommended this woman to me and god bless her

00:07:19.740 i hope she's doing well but that painting experience was was less than favorable i gave

00:07:26.220 her a lot of pictures i sent them to her ahead of time i like asked her like can you do this and i

00:07:30.480 told her to because she was like oh do you need like beauty makeup on the face because obviously

00:07:35.000 when you paint one color you just look really flat yeah and i was like no honestly i don't um

00:07:39.880 my cousin's gonna help me like glam up the face i just need the like body paint like and the neck

00:07:44.540 more than anything yeah she's like okay great and then i said and my fiance and she's like okay

00:07:49.980 great and when she paints i'm actually gonna look for a picture i'm not even kidding i'm scared i'm

00:07:54.620 gonna look for a picture because this picture is actually still the contact photo of mine and my

00:08:00.500 cousin adam's and his phone it's amazing that's how you know stays the contact yeah when he's like

00:08:05.920 i'm gonna make that your contact photo it was actually so um god awful but either way when we

00:08:12.500 left i there was a part two in the middle of her painting me where she was like i wasn't facing a

00:08:18.260 mirror either yeah which is also probably on me but she was like painting and it just didn't feel

00:08:23.000 great like i was like i feel like i look terrible like i just had the feeling you can feel it yeah

00:08:27.620 and then she at one point she goes close your eyes close my eyes i've had makeup done many

00:08:35.540 closed my eyes like i thought she was gonna show me something so i went okay so i closed my eyes

00:08:40.360 like that and then she goes um and and literally flex of like glitter going on my lips like

00:08:49.220 her her breath and the glitter all over my like you can hear that asmr and i was going 0.55

00:08:56.060 flinching and she was like well even before that when she said close your eyes she goes

00:09:02.700 now my favorite part oh but that wasn't for me that was just to herself 0.97

00:09:07.080 oh no and she blows that glitter on my face either way i looked a fucking mess when i left 0.96

00:09:16.500 when i left yeah that place i was at both my fiance and i looked insane like we looked 0.96

00:09:24.260 awful and terrible is the glitter a part of hulk oh yes she put it on my lips so she made my

00:09:30.780 lips like almost like an aqua green teal and then blue silver sparkles onto my lips but obviously

00:09:40.020 there's no way to like accurately aim when you're going like that so it's just all over my face

00:09:46.360 it's just glitter it's all over my face right so i'm giving low-key blue man group but also i was

00:09:51.460 like giving elphaba with no green paint on the face just the lips oh and so when we left um we

00:09:58.060 were driving and we were sitting in silence because we both were like we looked terrible like both of

00:10:03.620 us were like oh and then um my fiance was driving and then he had to kind of like flip around like

00:10:10.000 make a u-turn really fast and then we cut a couple people off and had to get over just because it was

00:10:14.480 the traffic was weird at the time and he was like oh that was a close one and i go yeah and then he

00:10:19.180 goes i probably shouldn't be driving crazy when i look like this yeah i was like yeah

00:10:23.480 they're gonna have us arrested if we get pulled over and they open we roll down the window and

00:10:30.000 that's what we look like driving crazy and yeah because i mean the assumption would be i mean i

00:10:34.920 don't know i guess substances would be involved i guess would be sort of what i would assume i

00:10:38.780 would arrest us yeah if i saw how we looked at that moment i would arrest i'd be scared yeah

00:10:43.640 i'd be a little frightened i would do you love halloween i do love halloween what's your what's

00:10:49.280 your favorite halloween costume that you've done you say i i gotta say i think my favorite was when

00:10:56.600 i was dobby i really felt because i love when i'm in i love when i have a costume that requires a

00:11:05.280 little bit of like like you're embodying the character i get you character yeah a pageantry

00:11:10.740 yes yeah and it's like dobby you know like i was wearing a pillowcase of course yeah and um

00:11:16.520 and like had the ears and like the bald cap and everything and it felt like i was just like

00:11:21.020 like running around the part like i had to be like running around the party like

00:11:24.680 you're really getting into the character really getting into had to sell it yeah i get it and

00:11:30.600 then i was also i was donnie from the wild thornberries did you ever that's a great one

00:11:35.080 and did you speak gibberish the whole night yeah i mean i had moments you know i would i would

00:11:40.300 switch but yeah like they were like we need to get get you away from that the costume you're

00:11:46.240 just can't let it go yeah like too hyper you're austin butler and elvis like you still have that

00:11:51.840 that like months after everyone's like so we can't understand you yeah they're like we can't

00:11:57.920 understand you and you need to stop so how do we get there so that is so funny but with the hulk

00:12:04.460 like did you you got to a place where it was amended or oh yeah i literally had when we got

00:12:10.640 back to the house i had my cousin like because i had texted him and i was like while it was 0.95

00:12:16.240 happening and i saw myself for the first time i said yeah and then i text him i said bitch that's 0.92

00:12:21.000 what i text him first and then he goes oh my god i'm so excited send me a pic i go no that's a bad 0.98

00:12:28.460 bitch yeah that's a bad that's a bad intro yeah and then i sent him this picture and this is the 0.97

00:12:34.120 picture that's yeah yeah i don't know if you guys can see this it's i mean do you see the glitter 0.96

00:12:42.820 on my lips i definitely i see the glitter is that your favorite part that was mine that's why i

00:12:50.060 literally was like oh it's very it's so interesting because looking at that photo i'm realizing like

00:12:56.640 there's so many subtleties in green characters like because i see that and i guess the green

00:13:03.520 doesn't feel quite hooked to me I feel like that's a deeper green no it's giving this is

00:13:08.700 that green is a little I'm gonna say Shrek I feel like it's giving Shrek which is different yes a

00:13:15.380 different kind of green person different green vibe of course but it's wasn't going for that

00:13:20.060 no that would be different and like literally this one was even funnier because oh my because 0.99

00:13:25.000 my fiance has very prominent eyebrows already and she drew even more prominent eyebrow on top 0.97

00:13:32.420 of big eyebrows why not big eyebrow eat little eyebrow like that's really where she and then we

00:13:37.900 got in the car my fiance was like i don't think i've ever looked worse i was like even like when

00:13:44.700 we got there he was like i look like a monster this was us driving home oh my god oh my god

00:13:51.060 it's like it's so bad for those who have never had the experience of having full body paint

00:13:59.020 that is a really intense experience in and of itself like yeah it is really bad like it's

00:14:06.020 genuinely so terrible and awful and i don't know where like she just drew darker green lines on

00:14:11.620 us too like i know i'm like what are the i think it was meant to be dimension like i think it was

00:14:16.080 meant to be like contour almost like oh my goodness and i literally that's what we looked 0.65

00:14:21.940 like while we were driving he's like i should probably fucking chill i said yeah if we get 0.60

00:14:25.360 pulled over something bad's gonna happen yeah people are just you know and this is where it 0.90

00:14:29.620 ended okay you see how different it looks isn't that wow i mean and this is your cousin yeah this

00:14:35.520 is my cousin fixing amazing so he really had to rework but when he saw us he went oh no and it

00:14:43.000 was funny too because we were like like my fiance goes i look like a monster and we were laughing

00:14:48.720 that's technically speaking the hulk is monster i guess yeah but then my cousin goes no you don't

00:14:53.780 look like a monster you look like those green pigs from angry birds okay i said oh oh perfect

00:14:59.320 okay i was so worried it looked bad right i was i was worried for a sec yeah yeah but that's great 0.93

00:15:05.620 i mean perfect i feel gorgeous yeah perfect that's what i was going for i was going for

00:15:08.960 angry birds i needed that really badly wow you ever had bad costumes bad costumes or ones that

00:15:15.420 were embarrassing looking back well that's really the only time i looked like awful awful i would

00:15:21.680 say i i'm trying to think i mean this is like different but the the thing that came to my mind

00:15:29.760 was like i was i transferred into a new school district basically when i was in sixth grade

00:15:37.280 and i remember the halloween of sixth grade i well first of all i was like um like not the coolest

00:15:45.520 sort of kid i was really i was really passionate and i had a lot of zest for life but gotcha in

00:15:54.240 terms of middle school like not super like um not super successful there so that's a preface but

00:15:59.520 when i transferred into this new school you know there were like the cool kids and i started like

00:16:04.440 learning the landscape and for halloween i for some reason got fixated on being um a jazzy ladybug

00:16:11.980 it was just some i think it's like was like things that i found around the house like a ladybug that

00:16:17.520 loves jazz like a ladybug that loves jazz and also like really specifically not like playing

00:16:23.560 jazz music but just like a lover of jazz just a lover of the art yeah like i think it's because

00:16:27.440 i had like these ladybug wigs wings and then i also like found like a top hat and i was like

00:16:31.860 perfect like i have a vision i don't know i was just like i felt i felt gorgeous right so i was

00:16:36.600 And that's all that matters.

00:16:37.980 And when I came to school, like.

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00:17:03.200 But they had like.

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00:17:05.180 but this was the crazy thing was like and this is like i don't know maybe cut this maybe i don't

00:17:12.460 know like but i like you know middle school is a really interesting time i will say like their

00:17:18.220 costumes were like from the like sexy halloween section got you got like they were doing like a

00:17:23.340 sexy thing which feels insane to say but it's like that is when that kind of starts happening

00:17:27.100 right right right right and i got you it was just like like optically like very different costume

00:17:33.580 contest and they're like they're all there's a bunch of ladybugs this year but like one is like

00:17:37.540 really different but one loves jazz jazz and is like really like like not just fully clothed like

00:17:45.360 extra clothes like all the clothes like as many clothes as possible like very layered ladybugs

00:17:50.960 could wear all the clothes yeah that's and love jazz yeah you got your guy yeah so that was kind

00:17:56.160 of my vibe and i just remember so it was like one of those moments that as a kid you're like

00:17:59.520 i like i didn't have the language for it but i was like something is happening here like a dynamic

00:18:04.980 that i'm like i feel like this will come up again i don't know what it is but i'm just gonna

00:18:08.180 something's going on this is gonna be one of those moments in my life i'm gonna come back

00:18:14.120 for better or for worse i was just talking about um that was something similar to that with my

00:18:22.040 fiance last night because we have recently been re-watching the high school musical movies

00:18:26.240 were you a fan of those movies i wasn't at the time but i have since come to appreciate grown

00:18:32.280 in appreciation i i'm a musical theater girl so i love i was a high school musical girl down but

00:18:39.300 like we've been watching we've been re-watching the movies and i like remember so much about like

00:18:43.860 when they premiered and stuff so i've been like obviously i'm talking during the entire movie

00:18:47.540 giving my fiancee all the backstory the lore on everything and as we were talking for some reason

00:18:52.980 like because we were talking i think it's because we were talking about movies filmed

00:18:55.400 like based in high school and then Grease came up and I was like yeah Grease is so funny because

00:19:01.000 Grease is like everybody's at least 42 yeah and they're all playing um high schoolers which is so

00:19:07.200 funny and then he goes really I go yeah they were all so old and then he was like I don't know I've

00:19:12.120 never seen Grease and I went are you fucking kidding and the only reason that is like shocking

00:19:17.820 to hear to me not that my husband hasn't seen it like it's more so the fact that he like he hasn't 0.92

00:19:23.120 seen a lot of things like like many many many many things that are like pop culture-y but um i had a

00:19:30.200 very intense grease phase when i was in middle school i was so cute i was so balls deep in that

00:19:39.640 movie i have told stories on this pod many times about like listening to the the deluxe cd that my

00:19:45.040 parents got me and like belting every single day in the car with my dad because at the time my

00:19:50.280 sister was in a different school because she was older than me so my she would go with my mom and

00:19:53.920 i would go with my dad and i said this too last night but i was like i also was that was the first

00:19:58.300 time i ever listened to a book on tape was with my dad and the first time i ever did it was the

00:20:02.940 da vinci code which is kind of heavy material for like a sixth grader but you know my dad was like

00:20:09.220 we're gonna listen to this and we listened to the entire thing so when people tell me have you read

00:20:13.160 the da vinci code i always say yes even though i can't remember a goddamn thing because it was like

00:20:17.580 on the way to school you were listening yeah i was listening to it yeah i was just absorbing it

00:20:20.960 into my brain i was just like wow wow what a way to wake up in the morning i know and my dad like

00:20:26.660 if you knew my dad too that also is kind of strange that my dad wanted to listen to the

00:20:31.160 da vinci code but you know yeah so one of the things though was like i when i got a cd player

00:20:36.040 i was like oh i'll listen to my music in the car and then my dad could listen to the radio and that 0.85

00:20:40.320 was like i would belt grease songs all the fucking time and then one time my dad my dad would sit in 0.87

00:20:46.000 traffic and like listen to that at the same time god love him and then one time my dad reached over 0.95

00:20:50.360 and he's like hey i can't do it today bud i can't do it today can you sing a little bit i can't do

00:20:54.620 it today yeah and i was like oh my god and it's so funny because when i told that story to my

00:20:58.940 fiance we were laughing about it and i go i think the funniest part about that memory in my head is

00:21:03.360 that i distinctly remember it happening and it and i remember at the time even though i was like 10 0.86

00:21:07.940 or 11 yeah i was like that's funny as fuck that you would ask me that like it didn't hurt my

00:21:13.060 feelings at all i was like oh word my bad yeah and he was like yeah i just i can't i can't do it 0.78

00:21:17.660 today i can't do it yeah you're like recognizing like this is a funny situation that you had to

00:21:21.620 tell me that that's what i was thinking i was literally telling him last time i was like i 0.99

00:21:25.060 really do think i was like that's funny as hell but you're like hey can you shut the fuck up just 0.96

00:21:28.680 for one day yeah well because it's just for one day teachable moment like you know like you remember 0.95

00:21:33.780 that and it was also probably for you a little bit of like oh boundaries like oh like morning

00:21:39.300 time maybe not screaming singing right maybe my dad's going through a lot like i was thinking my

00:21:44.780 dad's sitting in traffic going to a job he hates my dad's like 28 no no at the time i think my dad

00:21:50.580 was like in his 30s like early 30s yeah oh man i can't even imagine i i know being a parent i'm

00:21:55.800 like you oh my god do you want to be a parent i don't know i really am like fully fully undecided

00:22:02.680 well that's good you have time yeah i'm young yeah you're so young i also feel like if i did

00:22:07.700 i don't think it would be for a while anyway like i feel like i feel like i could be 40 having my 0.98

00:22:13.360 first why not why not fuck it like if i was going to because i'm like yeah well i'm not ready anytime 0.92

00:22:18.420 soon for sure yeah financially or otherwise yeah yeah absolutely i i actually don't want kids 0.99

00:22:24.680 you're hard now yeah and i found that out i i found that out like i would say officially in

00:22:30.540 like 2020 but i was always kind of on the fence i was kind of like i guess but it was never a like

00:22:37.300 yes that sounds awesome yeah which now i know for me was was my answer yeah like because i'm so

00:22:43.960 convicted about every single thing that like for that to be like i guess i i'm never like middle

00:22:49.980 of the road on anything totally especially something as serious as that i also feel like

00:22:54.220 with like women in particular there's like like people i'm sure obviously you've gotten so many

00:23:00.100 different responses about it but like there's the thing of like oh you're unsure now but one day

00:23:05.180 no yeah honey just you wait you're gonna wake up and say give me a baby and it's like so which is

00:23:12.180 insane on so many levels because it's like right like you're saying it's like well if you're

00:23:16.520 undecided i think you should listen to that right right and like or if you're at least give it pause

00:23:20.740 yeah like even if you're kind of like i don't really know how i feel it's like well it's a

00:23:24.920 it's gonna change your life forever and ever right right and it's kind of something you can't

00:23:28.580 opt out of yeah so it's a forever thing yeah and fundamentally changes like all your relationships

00:23:33.700 how you structure like it's like it's it's yeah the biggest decision one could make right i agree

00:23:38.360 and i i literally think the same i always think too to myself i'm like you know it would be

00:23:42.460 i think in everyone's best interest overall for people to be very fucking sure they want to be a

00:23:48.960 parent i think that would benefit everybody greatly especially children yeah yeah especially

00:23:54.540 them especially them yeah they're sort of the recipients of those complicated feelings i think

00:23:59.900 I think it's a beautiful thing though when you're like actually even if you're not sure you're like

00:24:05.080 I need to focus on me right now I think that's a beautiful thing it's actually to me a really

00:24:09.220 selfless thing to do because you're you could procreate and that could you could really really

00:24:13.920 really if you really wanted to like and you weren't that sure like emotionally you could

00:24:18.940 always just do it but when you choose not to because you're like I'm just unsure I think

00:24:23.000 that's a really beautiful thing to do because you're like I want to be able to give a child

00:24:26.160 the wonderful life if i do decide to have a child thank you yeah i think that that is kind of my

00:24:30.980 vibe with it because it is like i also think there's like so many people have kids and actually

00:24:37.660 expect to be able to control what like how that goes right right yeah like what they do how they

00:24:44.880 turn out how they turn out who they are like people want like a mini me or whatever and it's

00:24:49.280 like that is so wild right i agree because it's like you can't you can't like control anything

00:24:56.560 in life right and you shouldn't want to either you shouldn't want to but like let alone like

00:25:00.720 another human being i'm like yeah i don't know who the kid's gonna be they could want like i don't

00:25:05.760 know you know like so you could do everything right and they could turn out to be a murderer

00:25:09.460 absolutely you could do everything wrong and they could turn out to be awesome like it's really it's

00:25:13.260 really not up to you ultimately it's really not and that's terrifying obviously yeah that's 0.75

00:25:17.800 extremely horrifying and i am contributing to the world by putting pee pee poo poo time on the 0.55

00:25:22.840 internet that is my contribution to this world you i mean i feel like a lot of people would say that 0.51

00:25:27.620 you actually have many children that's true i am mother you every day i am giving mother

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00:26:16.600 We'll do a pivot to comedy, to stand-up.

00:26:19.600 How is stand-up going?

00:26:20.740 You're one of my favorite stand-ups, but how is it going?

00:26:22.920 Thank you.

00:26:23.540 I know you've done a lot of really cool things in the last year.

00:26:26.720 I've been trying.

00:26:27.740 I've been trying out new stuff.

00:26:28.840 I mean, I think, like, I sometimes take a break.

00:26:33.040 Like, I'm coming off a bit of, like, a break from stand-up because I feel like sometimes

00:26:36.320 you just gotta and you don't have time.

00:26:38.880 But also, like, I try to remember why I love it so much.

00:26:43.220 Yeah.

00:26:43.480 You gotta refill the cup a little bit.

00:26:45.280 You do.

00:26:45.520 and then there's also like I was just talking about this with someone like there's also the

00:26:49.920 like crazy vulnerability of like like because I'm kind of like building a new hour right now

00:26:54.020 and it's so crazy when you start to do that and you're like okay what am I going to talk about

00:26:59.720 and then you have to like look at your life and be like oh these are the things that are sort of

00:27:03.100 coming up continuously it's like a weird like self-exploration kind of moment oh that's so

00:27:07.680 interesting that's so true especially at different phases of your life too yeah like you're seeing

00:27:12.020 how things are shifting and evolving that's so interesting it's it's interesting it's also like

00:27:17.120 kind of humiliating too because it is like at the end of the day like certain themes just prevail

00:27:22.260 like no matter how new I think material is it's like I don't know like I'm I'm going to talk about

00:27:29.080 like how people perceive me as being like much younger than I am like that's like something that

00:27:32.940 like always always comes up because it is like a theme in my life that feels like it relates to

00:27:37.000 other things yeah totally and then it's like it's consistent it's consistent it's just like

00:27:42.280 yeah i don't know but it's it's kind of funny like what yeah what feels like it always comes out and

00:27:47.320 i know you wrote for i love la i did yeah and how was that it was awesome oh my gosh first of all

00:27:51.860 congratulations how fucking cool thank you but how was it like how was the experience of writing and

00:27:56.460 writing for the show and everything it was so fun i mean i really really i love writing and being in

00:28:02.100 a writer's room being in a writer's room is so fun you're like basically just like talking all

00:28:07.320 day long and especially because i was like it was my first room and i was like i was a staff writer

00:28:14.600 so that meant that i'm like the baby writer basically yeah my job was just like essentially

00:28:19.000 to come in and be like uh what if they do this today like what if they go to the beach and then

00:28:24.440 like kind of like bye like it's like this sort of like you're like invested in there but also you

00:28:29.300 like don't have to deal with all like the heady things that like the upper levels do yes um so

00:28:33.760 it was awesome i mean it's so fun and like you know met great people i love other writers and

00:28:40.520 knowing them and so it was really it was great i know your picture in front of your tv with your

00:28:45.700 name on there is so fucking cute yeah it was really fun it's like yeah writing's awesome what

00:28:51.360 would you say is your ultimate goal i feel like you would do so well writing a show like for real 0.64

00:28:55.760 like a broad city or something like that or even like what's another one oh like abbott

00:29:00.560 like something like that like what is your what's your like dream and in the writing world my dream

00:29:05.220 in the writing world i mean i i do i love tv i feel like right now my heart is a little bit with

00:29:11.700 movies honestly really i love that which i don't really i mean maybe it's also like you know the

00:29:18.200 industry's like in the toilet or whatever but like i think it's also like movies the space of like

00:29:23.760 indie film right now is just like such an exciting place especially with like queer stuff and like

00:29:29.260 stuff that I think is like you know hard to sell but for some reason no one wants to sell 0.85

00:29:35.020 yeah whatever like I think it's like a really exciting place to be because it just feels like

00:29:38.720 there's a little bit less of like like guardrails of what you're supposed to be writing about to

00:29:42.340 make it interesting to bigger audiences or something right right totally um so yeah you

00:29:47.360 don't have to cater or pander really yeah exactly or even like you don't have to like

00:29:51.880 like i think for many reasons writing for tv consists of like there's so many people at

00:29:57.580 different levels that are being like this works this doesn't or you know whatever networks and

00:30:01.500 all those things that's true and a lot of times i mean hollywood is like in the stone ages like

00:30:09.740 it's like kind of crazy how behind a lot of things no you're actually so right it's actually

00:30:14.440 fucking insane it's really crazy because i think yeah i assumed and i feel like many people assume

00:30:19.240 that it's like you know progressive I mean progressive and it is in some ways but it's also 0.98

00:30:24.420 like truly I think people are still like I don't know like can you have two gay characters is that

00:30:31.020 like too much is that too much then it's the gay show you know okay but then gays everywhere right 0.52

00:30:36.160 like that just feels like I don't know if people are gonna quite get what we're doing here like 1.00

00:30:39.440 it's like truly those conversations are happening well if there's two then they're gonna get them

00:30:41.960 confused right right and you're like well they look completely and then their stories are gonna 0.95

00:30:46.820 to be like the same because they're both just I mean well they're just gay and all gay people do

00:30:49.920 the same thing they do the same and they're gonna be at the same I don't know bar like it's like

00:30:53.960 wait what it's so crazy um so I feel like lately I've been kind of dreaming of like um yeah in the

00:31:00.480 movie space and like I don't love yeah I think that's amazing do you have any like current

00:31:05.860 projects that you're kind of working on you don't have to spoil anything if you don't like to but

00:31:09.840 this is the place you manifest if you really want to get something okay off the ground let's talk

00:31:15.420 about it baby okay okay i'm gonna manifest um because i did actually just finish writing my

00:31:20.820 like first real feature oh my god how cool congratulations thanks that's so amazing thank

00:31:26.220 you um it was really fun it's like so hard too i don't know writing a movie no i'm fucking sure

00:31:32.720 i can only imagine it's really interesting what your brain can do in those situations

00:31:38.120 how like you can sort of like over complicate things and whatever right um but yeah it's

00:31:43.760 basically about um this uh a trans guy who gets a job working at a senior living facility okay and

00:31:53.840 um puts on a play with the residents there oh my god okay um and there's a lot of you know there's

00:32:01.140 like a sort of like other like sort of um you know there's like a rom-com element with him and like

00:32:05.820 this other person but like I I do feel like I'm like truly I am manifesting like I feel like it

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00:32:43.760 made i believe that i believe it it will get made absolutely i say it now and in this chair that's

00:32:49.420 the chair you manifest absolutely yeah i am so excited to see it i can't wait to see it did you

00:32:54.280 write yourself into the starring role because that's what i do yes yes i did i know i call that

00:32:59.180 my lin-manuel miranda angle yeah i'm like you can have it i'm just i'm principal talent you have to

00:33:05.060 yeah yeah unfortunately you can't make it without me yeah no absolutely and it's like and it's like

00:33:10.600 you know it's already your voice so it's like no like truly you can't right absolutely i there

00:33:15.300 can no one else can play that role it has to be you do you have stuff you're working on have you

00:33:18.860 yeah well i'm writing um my next few books so i'm writing two books two more books right now but

00:33:25.060 they're fiction books so i'm writing more like a fantasy romance kind of book oh my god yeah very

00:33:30.780 cool honestly awesome i know i'm super excited about it i literally got back into like fiction

00:33:37.280 reading a couple years ago and like i used to love reading like fiction romanticity dystopian stuff

00:33:45.180 like i loved the hunger games i loved twilight like i loved those books so like as an adult you

00:33:50.040 just kind of stop reading or you or you only read memoirs which i was like what or like things that

00:33:54.300 help grow your brain which i have been doing as an adult when i wrote my my book like the one that's

00:33:58.940 already out i stopped reading like any sort of feminist theory or anything um so that nothing

00:34:04.060 because i have a photographic memory so i always like live in fear that it will imprint in here

00:34:08.580 and then i'll just like write it without realizing that it doesn't belong to me so there were certain

00:34:12.900 things i was like googling to make sure that i didn't belong to anyone i was like okay no that's

00:34:16.120 my thought yeah because sometimes i just absorb shit so i'm like i need to be chill which i feel

00:34:20.140 like is good to just be doing in general right but like i yeah that would be stressful yeah and

00:34:24.660 like during that year that i stopped reading like non-fiction i started i was like well i still want

00:34:28.960 to read something so i started reading fiction yeah and like it's so fun like adult fiction so

00:34:34.000 fun yeah loving it and i know the girls go crazy for it on tiktok the book talk girls take that

00:34:39.060 shit serious i mean yeah also like oh i think so brilliant for so many reasons to be for you

00:34:45.380 specifically to be in like the fantasy romance space because i feel like first of all yeah people 0.54

00:34:50.100 love those books it's also like this market of like i i mean i haven't read a ton of them but

00:34:55.340 i also feel like you're so you have such a strong voice especially like as like with women yeah and

00:35:01.420 i feel like sometimes like the female characters in those books can get a little like forgotten

00:35:04.900 or something no underestimated yeah and it's very like i'm so small and human like yeah how am i

00:35:11.220 supposed to i know how can i always they're all so tiny and 17 why are they tiny and then it's 0.98

00:35:17.160 my 18th birthday and i have these huge tits ah like oh my god me as they're like bouncing their 0.98

00:35:23.520 tits crazy i know yeah the description of like you're like wait i saw is a whole paragraph about 1.00

00:35:27.480 her boobs yeah it's just a lot of motion in there yeah like her a young hoe she's bouncing her tits 0.98

00:35:32.340 yeah i literally was i said the same thing when i was like i think maybe i could write fiction 0.99

00:35:37.020 because i read a ton of them i read them all across the board different spanning different

00:35:41.340 kinds and genres of romanticity specifically and so my book series is going to be based on like

00:35:47.800 like the inspiration for it is coming from like polynesian like mythological like lore so there's

00:35:53.100 like so many like legends and fables about how they explained like the wind and the trees and

00:35:58.520 the sun like they were polytheistic prior to being colonized so I'm like kind of pulling from that to

00:36:03.620 write something because I haven't read anything like that yeah and then um also I was like I made

00:36:08.120 my girl 30 my main girl absolutely and I and she looks like me yeah who are we gonna cast yes oh

00:36:16.660 oh my god i'm so excited to read it and i have like uh i also also have a trans character in my

00:36:25.400 cast and i also have a lesbian in my cast so look at that yeah but see i'm having two gays

00:36:31.640 and i don't think anyone will confuse them no i don't think so there's many types at the end of

00:36:36.780 the day there's many different types yeah so i'm very excited i think it's it's gonna be really fun

00:36:41.240 but i i remember when i was meeting uh with publishers about it there was one that i met

00:36:45.700 with i can't even remember the name but um the girl had asked me on the on the meeting she was

00:36:51.040 like oh i'm like love it love the proposal thought it was wonderful super interested just curious

00:36:56.200 like are you interested in making her 23 stop i said no and she's like the main girl are you

00:37:03.320 interested in making her 23 and i go no i'm not she's 30 and it's funny too because she's actually 0.92

00:37:08.980 um a fucking fairy so like she's actually 700 so it's really all relative isn't it 0.75

00:37:14.640 like it's all relative isn't it like and the way we wrote it too was very like 0.99

00:37:19.480 she is 700 or 70 i don't even remember me not even remembering she's like 700 years old or

00:37:25.080 some shit so like she just looks 30 that's like what we wrote right so no i don't want to change 0.82

00:37:31.240 that to she looks about 17 years old yeah yeah would you mind having her be as tiny as a little 0.99

00:37:36.980 what about we make her tiny and can she just be so petite 1.00

00:37:41.980 i know i literally was like no i have zero interest in that she's 30 yeah and technically

00:37:48.780 speaking she's 700 and everybody else is older than her so i think it's okay yeah i think it's

00:37:53.060 yeah like her mate like like the one of the dudes i met he's only like a he's like a couple hundred

00:37:58.040 years older than her i think it's all right yeah i think that age gap yeah they're not real and

00:38:02.920 it's all fiction and then there's a lot of magic so i think it's okay the most unbelievable part

00:38:07.500 is that she's 30 and hot and and young and turnt oh my god not not the fact that they have magic

00:38:13.300 in the world that's not the most unbelievable part but it's of course of course that's the 0.93

00:38:17.540 note though but that's why it reminds me what you were saying earlier about like it being they've

00:38:20.780 been like them being stuck in the stone ages it's a very completely she's not like yeah how's anyone

00:38:26.480 gonna read it i'm like mostly women read these so it's gonna be fine most i know that's the

00:38:31.100 interesting thing about that genre is it is like the fan base is largely women and yet i'm like

00:38:35.600 what is going yeah it's very i said i saw that hole in that market i'm gonna plug it yep so and

00:38:40.820 i i made her older and everybody's brown perfect there you go and i was like and if any white 0.99

00:38:46.060 people show up i'm gonna kill them i'm gonna kill them off that's what i'm gonna do yeah i'm gonna 1.00

00:38:52.560 give them a walking dead death like when they when they what was that what was that guy's name 1.00

00:38:56.140 when they hit his head with the bat was it glenn did anyone watch him uh the walking dead i didn't 0.98

00:39:01.660 wow my whole crew nobody's seen the walking dead i i've never seen it i was like are you a huge fan 0.98

00:39:08.380 i'm talking all that shit i've also glenn i was right glenn a lot of people okay walking dead 0.94

00:39:13.560 fans will laugh at that but like they were so pissed off when he died and they like beat the 0.98

00:39:17.300 fuck out of him like with his head so anywho yikes i forgot my what my point was that's what 0.98

00:39:24.620 you're gonna do to every white person yes if they do show up on the island dead yeah yeah i guess 1.00

00:39:30.080 that's kind of my point but i'm very excited yeah look at us two worker bees yes manifesting yeah 0.92

00:39:36.360 we're manifesting writing ourselves roles yeah and you know what that's that's actually i'm so

00:39:40.560 glad that you did that because one of my a lot of my friends too who are also in the same business 0.93

00:39:43.960 as us they've been like honestly you got to write your own shit yes especially if you're not if you 0.99

00:39:48.980 don't look or appear as jacob lordy or sydney sweeney yeah you got to write your own shit you 0.98

00:39:54.220 do yeah like and it's gonna be so much more interesting than what someone would try to write 0.94

00:39:59.200 for you as well like like different perspective different perspective like i'm like i mean i have

00:40:03.960 and i am happy to play like the roles that go out to me which are like you know like gay barista or 0.53

00:40:11.260 whatever like or like you know like crazy friend who's like kind of dumb but along for the ride

00:40:16.800 like i'm like literally like i have fun in those roles and will play them and also i'm like i just

00:40:22.540 know that i have to write though if i want to play like a complicated yeah complex character

00:40:27.080 anybody like that yeah just like it is like that exists in the universe that um the powers that be

00:40:33.060 sometimes don't know that it exists absolutely or that it will work yeah like with audiences which

00:40:38.460 i'm like you're you're so real for that too where it's like i gotta write my own stuff because

00:40:43.220 for better for worse like they they don't see the vision no so you have to like create it yourself

00:40:48.360 and get it funded and I believe in you.

00:40:51.000 I am so excited.

00:40:52.500 I can't wait to, I imagine your movie looking like

00:40:55.660 the movie Sorry Baby.

00:40:57.640 Like I imagine it looking like that.

00:40:59.860 I feel like I loved that movie too.

00:41:01.440 I thought it was wonderful.

00:41:02.360 Gorgeous.

00:41:03.200 What other movies are you loving?

00:41:04.600 I know you said you've been really into movies lately.

00:41:06.400 I am, I am an AMC A-lister, not to ride.

00:41:11.140 So is my friend Carrie, she does love her AMC A-list.

00:41:14.120 I mean, I love it.

00:41:15.100 Honestly, most like, I mean, I love it for a million reasons.

00:41:17.980 A big one being that it is like, well, okay, no,

00:41:20.980 two big reasons.

00:41:21.800 One, when I'm like at my brokest

00:41:24.340 or like not wanting to spend money,

00:41:25.440 it's always like the thing that I keep

00:41:26.900 because I'm like, okay, what,

00:41:28.100 it's such a great way to still hang out with people,

00:41:30.800 go out, you know, you're like, it's the thing.

00:41:32.740 They raised the price today.

00:41:34.220 They raised the prices today.

00:41:35.440 They raised the prices today.

00:41:36.740 I did just say that.

00:41:37.660 To what?

00:41:38.500 $30.

00:41:39.340 $30.

00:41:40.180 Now it's $30.

00:41:41.100 And I will say like,

00:41:42.520 it makes me worried about what movie pass.

00:41:45.940 Like, I wonder if they're in a similar kind of like

00:41:47.760 movie past situation do you remember what the hell it lived and died and it was like such a moment and

00:41:53.600 i'm they're trying to take your guys's baba which is amca list it's like literally they're trying

00:41:59.460 to take baba i was an early adopter like it was like kind of the anyway but but it also is the

00:42:05.520 kind of thing where like i'm seeing movies that i never would have seen otherwise because i'm like

00:42:09.100 why not you know yeah that's true that's a really good that's a good point um that being said the

00:42:15.820 movie that i'm gonna now name drop is not one that i saw at amc um because sometimes they don't show

00:42:21.620 the really interesting stuff yeah but um this movie it's called griffin in summer okay or

00:42:28.120 griffin in the summer do you know it it's amazing to me okay it's film buffs it's a beacon for many

00:42:34.520 reasons one it was made very cheaply and then it premiered at tribeca i think and then now it got

00:42:40.820 you know distributed and whatever but it's like a beautiful beautiful sweet movie it was inspiring

00:42:46.660 for my movie as well where it's like about this like really cute little kid putting on a play in

00:42:51.500 his mom's house basically but there's like other elements no spoilers but it's just it's so sweet

00:42:58.280 it's so well written it's so well acted very cool and it just makes me excited for the world because

00:43:02.600 i'm like that movie got made and people are now watching it yeah hopefully it just only leads to

00:43:06.660 more no absolutely I love that I that's how I felt when I watched sorry baby I was like this is such

00:43:12.440 and I'm someone too like who can't trigger warning it is about assault I'm someone who cannot watch

00:43:18.500 stuff that depicts assault in any regard because it truly will haunt me it'll give me nightmares

00:43:23.680 it'll make me throw up so I like I literally cannot watch anything like that which is why a

00:43:27.420 lot of times I'll have my sister watch stuff ahead of me and let me know if I if I'm fearful that

00:43:33.540 something bad might happen in it and then she'll be like no nothing happens in it I'm like okay

00:43:37.180 but that one I knew the way that a lot of people online were talking about it I was like I feel

00:43:42.340 like she is able to talk about it in a way that's not harmful to people watching and it's true it

00:43:47.460 was it was done in such a beautiful respectful way and like allowed her to tell the story as

00:43:53.140 she experienced it which allowed me to not get too like scared watching and enjoy the film and

00:43:59.580 It was such a beautiful film.

00:44:01.160 Yeah.

00:44:01.560 And it was so well written and well acted.

00:44:03.860 Like it was honestly amazing.

00:44:05.260 It was beautiful.

00:44:05.880 10 out of 10.

00:44:06.540 So I get your perspective of like wanting to watch movies like or amplify movies that more people should go watch.

00:44:13.500 Yeah.

00:44:13.860 Because they're so fucking awesome.

00:44:15.460 They're so awesome.

00:44:16.080 I mean I just love going.

00:44:18.400 I love going to the movies and just being in like a fully different world for that little period of time.

00:44:24.540 And just like like I went.

00:44:26.440 Okay.

00:44:26.620 Also Train Dreams.

00:44:28.680 Oh yeah.

00:44:29.000 haven't watched train dreams yet i went alone and watched that movie and literally sobbed from

00:44:34.280 two minutes in until the end um but it was like me it was like a weird like middle of the day

00:44:40.320 screening at this theater and i was like everyone was that was there was seeing it alone like it was

00:44:45.300 all of us were like unemployed and seeing and i but it was so beautiful because i like you just

00:44:51.300 feel connected to all these people but also that movie i mean that was such an the epitome of like

00:44:55.600 leaving and being like I am changed from those two hours and it's just awesome I know and you

00:45:02.000 know what I love the fucking movies in fact Carrie and you have now inspired me to do the AMCA list

00:45:07.900 I haven't been to the movies in a while because like where I lived for a long time the it was 0.97

00:45:13.380 a smaller town and the there was only like two movie theaters and every time I would go to the

00:45:18.440 movies it would be a lot of like if you're the movie or you're me in the movie and I'm a person

00:45:24.180 sitting in front of you this it was a lot of this no no i think that's her i think that's her oh god

00:45:31.080 nightmare and there was a lot of churning and staring right at me during movie that's guys

00:45:37.760 okay psa that's inappropriate behavior that's also not very good movie etiquette movie etiquette

00:45:43.780 life etiquette that's just like that's not how we should be doing right i was like i want to enjoy 0.59

00:45:49.300 the movie and i was like also this is how to train your dragon it's fucking fine yeah you guys don't 0.85

00:45:53.480 need yes i went to the movies to go see how to train your dragon god forbid i did yeah god forbid 0.97

00:45:58.040 a girl wants to experience whimsy god for fucking bid no yeah yeah no you won't have that issue at 0.97

00:46:03.560 amc i know the nca list honey they don't play about my god no that would not fly at amc well 0.99

00:46:10.420 now i know about the 30 up charge what the hell yeah that does suck that they know they know they're

00:46:15.940 they're on to us that everybody's enjoying it it's that or they're like going bankrupt because they 0.97

00:46:20.240 also raised the prices like not that long ago i think it was like maybe 10 or 11 months ago damn

00:46:25.840 they raised the price up two dollars like because when i started i think it was 24.99

00:46:29.740 so times are tough times are even the amc is experiencing it i never thought i'd see the day

00:46:36.200 okay i do have some fun facts about you oh if you'd like to go over them we have yeah we have

00:46:43.080 we have switched it up a little bit since the last time we were here okay okay so this first

00:46:48.620 one says growing up EJ went on school field trips to fish hatcheries oh my god yes what the hell is

00:46:57.300 a fish hatchery uh okay well they're honestly amazing I didn't appreciate them enough at the

00:47:02.900 time but um because I grew up in Portland Oregon and so PNW yes you know salmon like we were very

00:47:12.340 much and I think this is awesome like I feel like we learned a ton about salmon in school obviously

00:47:17.280 because they're really cool fish but also like because that's just kind of i don't know if

00:47:23.360 there's a state fish but i feel like it should it would be salmon not sure but it might be salmon

00:47:28.780 yeah that's an untapped um market but um branding for i don't know state fish i don't know what i'm

00:47:34.820 talking about um but yeah so we would go to the fish hatcheries basically okay now there's gonna

00:47:40.600 to be like i'm gonna get some of this wrong but my memory of it is like we would go and it was

00:47:48.040 usually near or a part of a dam in like a river okay okay and and that would be and there would

00:47:55.660 be like a glass like a window and you would see all of the like where the fish had laid all of

00:48:01.180 their eggs oh and then eventually you're like so grossed out well i'm imagining i have i feel like

00:48:07.640 i low-key have trypophobia so i'm like imagining it it being a lot of dots and unfortunately it 0.89

00:48:13.580 was a lot of dots yeah it was a lot of dots that is kind of the vibe i bet i fucking knew it and 0.66

00:48:19.380 i'm so sorry um yeah cut this out um you like bleep out everything that i'm saying um but yeah 0.78

00:48:27.020 it was like a lot of fish like eggs and then um if yeah depending on what time of year you would

00:48:31.740 come it would like depend on like when what stage the eggs were in like hatching and stuff and now

00:48:38.800 I'm like I should like do like google this and figure out like actually what was going on because

00:48:42.000 like my memory is them being like okay here are the eggs and then we're all like standing in front

00:48:45.760 of the eggs and they're like this is really important but like you're a kid so you're like

00:48:50.160 how could this possibly be important okay I saw the eggs I saw the eggs now what but the whole

00:48:55.560 thing about salmon is that they leave where they are born and then they swim downstream yes and

00:49:04.500 then i think they lay their eggs no no then i don't know what they do downstream but then they

00:49:09.020 come back to where they originally were born they know the exact place of it oh and that's where

00:49:15.320 they lay their eggs gotcha so you you did that several times throughout school definitely more

00:49:21.460 than once i want to say yeah my i want to say three at least interesting and it was kind of

00:49:28.160 like because we had a lot of field trips that were sort of in that vein where it was like

00:49:31.600 i in retrospect it's like adults being like we live in this really really interesting

00:49:35.880 place like the environment is very fascinating it's like a rainforest essentially yeah like

00:49:41.660 there's all these like interesting things that animals do here that they couldn't do anywhere

00:49:44.600 else and then we were kind of like dragged along to be like okay i appreciate it all the time yeah

00:49:50.360 filming tiktoks now like oh my god that's what they're doing then yeah yeah when i was a kid

00:49:57.420 we went to this um on this field trip because i grew up in southern california but we went to this

00:50:02.140 place called the kellogg house which like when i think about it now i like genuinely don't

00:50:08.920 know why we went there like it was just like a fancy old house like it's just an old house like

00:50:13.700 it was a house built from like the 20s i feel like i've heard of it yeah it hasn't really been

00:50:17.940 updated now you can like get married there and stuff like it's like one of those places but we

00:50:22.260 went on this field trip and like I just loved being on a field trip yeah so fun obviously

00:50:26.900 everyone's like yay we get to leave school yeah and I remember my mom had gotten me these like

00:50:32.180 shirts and I wore like these shirts I loved it was like a sweater vest with like a collared shirt

00:50:37.860 built into it oh and then I had like I had like a flare pant on and my mom had got me two of them

00:50:43.640 and I wore one for picture day and the other one I was like I'm saving that for the Kellogg house 0.87

00:50:47.220 so i wore that outfit and i was like look at my fucking outfit like i felt so tea i was like oh 0.96

00:50:53.520 my god how fun we walked through this house i don't remember shit like at all really i just 0.97

00:50:58.300 remember them this this is old so just like these are eggs and you'd be like awesome great and then 0.63

00:51:03.680 there was like these parts where they're like oh they were taking like photos of us and they had

00:51:08.640 these old-timey phones and i have that itis about me where like if i see a phone or a button i have

00:51:14.520 to press it like if it doesn't explicitly say you should not you don't press this I will go press

00:51:19.340 it so I'm like like I just have to go I have to go touch and then they had these old phones and

00:51:23.980 I loved old phones don't diagnose me I know someone's gonna diagnose me yeah don't I already

00:51:29.700 know do you have like a prediction of what the diagnosis would be autism probably yeah probably

00:51:33.220 yeah if I had to guess yeah that's typically what they give me every time I tell them about

00:51:36.600 me my whimsy as a child they're like I had that too and now I have okay so hey I know um so like

00:51:43.680 I'm aware trust me um so I like loved phones and they had these old-timey phones and they had ones

00:51:49.120 that were like on different levels so you and your friends could like go like someone would bend down

00:51:52.500 and like use one and then they were like taking pictures so I was bending down a lot to like use

00:51:56.720 and press all of the buttons that I could and then I remember they printed out the photos and they

00:52:02.060 put them in these little like uh almost like organizers when we got back to the school the

00:52:06.580 next day and we went to school the next day um they were like oh if you guys want photos like

00:52:10.800 just take them they're from the Kellogg house which is I thought was really sweet they like

00:52:13.620 developed all of them girl in every single photo of me uh where i was like my back was in the

00:52:21.460 picture like i was like bending over to like use the phone with the exception of me facing forward

00:52:24.620 in one of them you my underwear was sticking out of my pants in every photo in every single photo 0.60

00:52:31.600 i was like bending down and my big ass chonies were sticking out and they were also like a magenta

00:52:37.300 pink and i remember this so distinctly because i remember going oh because i was thinking i was

00:52:42.420 bending over and pressing buttons and not one person told me that's what i mean that is a moment

00:52:46.980 that i think as the adult the teacher comes over to you normal way just says hey sweetie

00:52:52.400 like i'm like come on what because the alternative is you're gonna find out they're taking photos

00:52:59.200 yeah for real and honestly that's how i found out my underwear sticking out the whole day and

00:53:02.760 what's even funnier about that is like what someone could have told me but i was so concerned

00:53:07.840 about pressing the buttons i didn't hear anything so i was just yeah like just like eyes wide like

00:53:13.220 and then they were like well let's not ruin her i told her about the underwear thing but she needs

00:53:17.460 to go she's clearly focused on something else i think it might be autism and now i'm thinking

00:53:23.200 i don't think that helps my case of beating the autism allegations i don't think that helps my

00:53:28.140 case tunnel vision well that and just like i didn't care that my underwear was out because i really i

00:53:32.040 really feel like someone might have told me yeah i i at the time i was like i i think none of you

00:53:37.700 guys told me but now when i think back i'm like well someone might have told me and i might have

00:53:42.000 not heard it because i was like buttons buttons buttons buttons buttons buttons i mean it's like

00:53:46.440 god being a kid is so crazy like you literally weren't used to having a body yet like you just

00:53:52.400 find shit out and you're like oh you're like oh my god i didn't realize that that's what i was 0.99

00:53:55.880 feeling like maybe there was a little more error like on your butt and you're like oh no like that's 0.99

00:53:59.920 just how it feels i know you're just you trial and error yeah like i'm trial and error a bunch 0.99

00:54:03.840 humiliating shit that's happening to me okay okay more more fun facts okay it says that you used to 0.93

00:54:10.460 work at a preschool as your day job yes oh my gosh how was that job i'm sure so difficult it was 0.97

00:54:17.480 difficult it was honestly so fun i mean i love working with kids that was like before being

00:54:23.260 whatever i am now i was like um most of my resume was like being a barista and working with kids

00:54:29.560 and um which both of them i love yeah um honestly being a brisa is really fun but um yeah working

00:54:37.660 at the preschool is really awesome it was the kind of job where like i have no degree in child

00:54:43.620 development or anything like that i um my degree is in creative writing i was 24 and i was kind of

00:54:52.560 like i'm a human body that can sort of supervise what five-year-olds are doing and they're like

00:54:57.640 perfect they were like great we're gonna pay you 18 an hour to like really take care of people's

00:55:02.720 children um sorry i don't even know sorry about that to like people sending their kids to preschool

00:55:09.940 i don't know um but no i mean we had we had a lot of i was i was basically like an assistant

00:55:14.280 to the teachers like i would kind of float around to different classrooms and like the teachers would

00:55:18.380 be like i'm going on lunch and i'd be like totally and then i'd be like there with the kids

00:55:21.760 um but it was awesome i mean kids are so fun they are and they're hilarious they're so funny and

00:55:28.160 they're also unintentionally funny oh my god they just yeah they're living in especially like when

00:55:33.660 they're like five years old like they will enter into imagination they'll enter into a different

00:55:38.440 universe with you like at the drop of a hat like it's like you can be in and out of conversation

00:55:42.820 oh my god it's like everything is you're like oh my god and did you know the floor is all snakes

00:55:47.640 and they're like yup yeah i did and they're like miles ahead of you somehow in this thing that

00:55:52.280 you're like i thought improv improv it's all yeah i guess actually yes and yes and very you're

00:55:57.720 you're workshopping improv while you're in there truly i need a place i need a place yeah come on

00:56:02.920 who's got a word what's our job what's our job yeah yeah it's awesome that's so funny i know i

00:56:08.680 love when kids do that when they're like they're like they do a cartwheel and then they come up

00:56:12.760 up and they're breathing hard and they're like my dad's got a divorce and then you're like oh

00:56:17.060 okay and they're like yeah and then they flip away yeah yeah it's i love when kids just say 0.96

00:56:22.460 shit because it's like at our core like are we ever did we ever actually evolve from that 0.98

00:56:27.840 we are actually all still that but we're like just masking it really yeah we're just able to 0.98

00:56:33.080 mask yeah that's the only difference my my brother um is a running like joke honestly

00:56:39.980 like machine because he just does things that make us laugh so hard constantly like my younger

00:56:45.220 brother he's nine years younger than me and 11 years younger than my sister but when he was a

00:56:48.920 kid he was the most like imaginative like colorful child so even like something he would just add so

00:56:58.340 much pageantry to where it did not need to be and um I remember one time he like got in the car

00:57:05.220 after football practice like it was like peewee football so he's young and he was like okay just

00:57:10.460 so you know like to my sister he's like grandpa cannot come to my games anymore my grandpa who

00:57:15.000 had only gone at that point to like maybe a couple of them because he's 100 so she was like what and

00:57:21.080 he goes he just can't he just can't and she was like why because he had missed practice earlier

00:57:25.400 that week for like a family thing and then when he was going to practice he goes what am I supposed

00:57:30.520 to tell the coach and the teammates when they ask me like and then my sister's like just say we had

00:57:35.360 a family emergency like that's it that's it and he was like okay okay okay so after that practice

00:57:41.040 he was when he's like he can never come back to my games and she was like why and he was like well

00:57:46.060 because one of the kids asked me and then I was like oh I had a family emergency and they went

00:57:50.800 okay and then he's like I guess there was just too much silence so then he was like my grandpa

00:57:54.980 broke his leg he slipped in he broke his leg and then my dad had to go pick him up and then I had

00:57:59.500 to go there to like help like he created this entire story with like characters and plot points

00:58:05.580 oh my god drama and then he was like so like if he does come he has to like pretend to have a

00:58:10.220 broken leg and my mom my sister was like he's not gonna do that like we're not doing that and he was

00:58:15.080 like i'm just saying i'm just telling you that's what i told him he has to have a broken leg for

00:58:18.360 the rest of his life and at least until i'm off this team yeah it's just like what will people

00:58:23.600 say oh my god that's so awesome yeah it's like there's but that is also like i'm like i feel

00:58:29.700 like my partner does that when they lie too like like sometimes i'm like you don't no one is asking

00:58:36.020 follow-up questions like if you're like oh yeah like i i was late like you know whatever you're

00:58:40.840 running late or something it's like because my car's tire flew off it flew off and it was and

00:58:48.440 then we stopped and it's like no one actually really cares but now they do you like you snared 0.98

00:58:55.080 them with this hook that you created to care now they're kind of fucked up if they don't care 0.97

00:59:01.300 at the way you described that they're gonna remember it now forever 0.97

00:59:04.800 that's actually my brother-in-law my my fiance's brother he is the most colorful storyteller in the

00:59:14.440 history of time he's also the most dramatic person i've ever met in my life and even like uh

00:59:19.760 my mother-in-law like there were two peas in a pod like my fiance's brother and her they're the

00:59:25.200 exact same person and like i always joke like her name's lisa shouts out lisa i love telling her 0.94

00:59:31.140 things like anything at all because she'll be like you're kidding me you're fucking kidding me drew 0.99

00:59:37.840 you're lying to me that's how she anytime i tell her anything she'll be like you're fucking lying 0.98

00:59:43.080 to me yeah and i'm like if you can believe it no no that's the truth that's why sometimes i'm like 0.98

00:59:48.660 i can't wait to tell your mom this story she's gonna freak out it's so epic when people are like

00:59:54.180 amazing audiences yes you know they give you exactly the reaction you want you're like

00:59:58.980 thank you yeah it is that big of a deal and you know what's funny is on the flip side of that like

01:00:04.340 i obviously love to talk and i love to tell stories especially one time on my other podcast

01:00:09.880 with my sister um a fan wrote in and asked Celeste like what are your favorite stories to tell like

01:00:16.820 crowd-pleasing ones and I'm like oh my god what a fantastic question I have a Rolodex yeah I have

01:00:21.440 so many but I remember there's there's a few stories I have about dogs I've had growing up

01:00:26.240 um and like they're I would say objectively funny but like if you do love dogs to a point where like

01:00:33.840 it's almost clinical it may not be as funny i love my dogs that way but like this story i've

01:00:40.520 told this was the first time i ever went out to dinner with like my fiance's family and like his 0.96

01:00:46.660 family it was it was kind of shocking to me because my family will sit and fucking yap at a 0.98

01:00:51.460 meal like we will chat a bitch down we love to talk yeah and that's like half the fun of going 0.98

01:00:57.440 out to eat that's what is chatting the point of food is to to gather upon it yeah exactly so i 0.98

01:01:03.440 literally like we love to chat and this is my first time ever going out to dinner with them

01:01:07.300 they don't really chat like they talk a little but then they mostly just eat which is kind of

01:01:12.760 strange tough for me so of course for me i'm like this audience needs a performer yes you're like

01:01:18.120 give me the mic give it to me so i was like i need to tell a story of course so i was like going down

01:01:24.540 my list of all my heavy hitters and i was telling one about a dog and like normally you know you

01:01:29.040 like when you workshop a story so many times that you have all your your points where you hit yeah

01:01:34.280 and you're like this is where they die then i close with this like that's how i like measure

01:01:38.300 a story and i get to the point where typically people are are busting at the seams i'm gut

01:01:44.500 busting everybody yeah not one laugh and i was like i was so shocked by it that i literally was

01:01:50.160 like and he lived and everything was fine so i just like wrapped it up after that normally it

01:01:54.300 goes for another 10 minutes were i cut it short they oh my god i have so many questions okay well

01:01:59.360 first of all were they like looking at you like was it like silence like they were just kind of

01:02:04.680 like eating not really reacting or was it the kind of thing where they were giving you like uh

01:02:08.520 were they like concerned they were concerned about the story so they were all listening yeah so they

01:02:13.280 were listening they were just like oh they were having like that's like i the worst noise i can

01:02:18.980 here when i'm doing stand-up is the audience going oh oh my god just take me out back and

01:02:25.700 shoot me like i'm like no no no i can't do it i cannot do that like it's so when you're waiting

01:02:31.620 for a laugh and people go oh i'd rather you not laugh i'd rather you not laugh at all i'd rather 0.81

01:02:38.500 be stone cold silent i'd rather you call me a song i'd rather you be a bigot towards mad at me

01:02:47.400 for something like i'm like anything that's actually so real anything but i'd feel the same

01:02:52.100 now i'm bummed out for the rest of the night no no no no i'm okay yeah i if i'm laughing you

01:03:01.060 should be laughing please laugh yeah if i'm saying it yeah please laugh yeah um and they were

01:03:06.200 concerned why because the dog died or something no the dog in the story so i'll give you the

01:03:10.700 truncated version essentially my sister had a bulldog okay um r.i.p he is passed now but he did

01:03:16.640 lived to like be like 11 years old so which is a very long time for an english bulldog yeah so

01:03:21.520 basically in this story my dad tried to take him on a walk but it was too hot so he didn't even

01:03:27.720 really get that far before he was like i gotta take him back yeah so when he started walking

01:03:31.060 back he actually didn't want to walk anymore so my dad picked him up and was like walking him back

01:03:35.420 and my mom was with him and my mom was like hurry we should go like cool him off because i think he's

01:03:40.000 just hot yeah as he's like walking um a neighbor comes out on the lawn and is like hey like what's

01:03:47.300 up guys my dad's carrying my the dog that's like yeah you know what i mean like like yeah like kind

01:03:52.800 of needing an emergency help kind of situation and so he's like oh my dad stops to talk right 0.74

01:03:58.760 is holding the bulldog like this the my bulldog started like shitting himself like like incontinence 0.80

01:04:04.900 like like literally he's releasing his bowels because he's about to die yeah and it's black 0.99

01:04:08.460 tar shit oh just going down my dad's white shirt my dad's holding the dog still talking oh he 0.99

01:04:14.600 doesn't notice or he doesn't no no no he knew you could smell it to the neighbor he's being polite 1.00

01:04:18.540 my dad is so afraid of like perception and hates being talked to so like when he's being talked to

01:04:23.420 he's like locking in so he's like mind you the dog's like two x's over the eyes like a cartoon 0.96

01:04:29.140 character and and literally black shit going down my dad's white shirt my mom goes i'm so sorry we 0.97

01:04:34.160 have to go like my mom literally had to interrupt and be like we have to go because they were two 0.99

01:04:38.380 steps from the house oh my god so then they they take him inside they put him in a in a little pool

01:04:42.900 that's the part where i lost them when i said he released his bowels okay that's where i lost

01:04:47.980 they're too worried yeah yeah because they went oh and i went but it's okay because he they laid

01:04:53.140 him in cold water and he came back to life it's okay yeah he's fine now oh it's also like i mean

01:04:57.060 yeah this story would be really different if he had fully died yeah that's why i was like i wouldn't

01:05:01.240 I wouldn't be telling this story with such fervor if, like, the ending was he ended up dying.

01:05:06.040 Oh, my God.

01:05:06.700 But it didn't matter because I lost the room.

01:05:08.500 So I literally was like, well, and then you know what?

01:05:10.360 He came back to life.

01:05:11.380 And by the way, I love animals.

01:05:13.660 I think they are so special.

01:05:14.460 I love them.

01:05:14.980 I love them.

01:05:15.960 I love them.

01:05:16.820 They're family members.

01:05:18.700 Found family, chosen family.

01:05:20.560 That's one of them.

01:05:21.460 Who rescued who?

01:05:22.640 Yeah.

01:05:24.680 Oh, my God.

01:05:25.300 I know.

01:05:25.620 And I also felt like, well, I guess that's kind of on me.

01:05:28.780 i did pick quite of a doozy of a story to open with at my first dinner with this family but you

01:05:34.560 felt good about you'd gotten good responses you know you've been workshopping for a while typically

01:05:39.120 i've been making the rounds with the story so i thought maybe my bad yeah bad read on my part

01:05:44.280 that's you and i think it's because i didn't really know uh my fiance's mom that well and like

01:05:49.260 she lives and dies by dogs like dogs are like her favorite animal that's her favorite so i should i

01:05:54.300 should have known there to my credit though his brother was laughing oh okay but then he stopped

01:05:59.180 laughing when he sensed the like air gets sucked out of that room that's on him yeah stick to his

01:06:04.240 guns i was like yeah right i was like okay no loyalty yeah like all right thanks for you want

01:06:09.400 to laugh and you're not going to yeah there are there are those people that like that love dogs

01:06:15.100 in a way where it's like if you even like mention truly that like a dog died or something it's like

01:06:21.020 they can't handle it exactly which is kind of fascinating to me on sort of like a I don't know

01:06:25.820 like a scientific level or something like a psychoanalysis but like a neuroscience level

01:06:30.540 it's very interesting animals do die yeah that is that is one of the things unfortunately that

01:06:35.640 they do do not great but it's not awesome I'll tell you that you know what's funny is speaking

01:06:40.160 of animals like I have two Frenchies and one of them is deaf and my other my other Frenchie 0.92

01:06:46.480 has alopecia but only on his butt okay and like okay just his butt i'm not kidding like it's all 0.76

01:06:52.600 both sides of his butt bald it's like his butt cheeks if there were no not even it's like the 0.98

01:06:57.320 sides of his butt so it's like his flanks if you will sure yeah so he's got he's got bald flanks

01:07:02.640 and we recently took him to the vet just to check on it would just give him like a physical

01:07:07.500 yeah my alopecia dog his name is squid so i was like we took squid to the vet get him a little

01:07:12.880 check on the alopecia make sure everything's cool and uh the doctor was like honestly like

01:07:18.620 unless you guys care like aesthetically he's fine and we were like i don't care i just want

01:07:25.080 to make sure there's not something else going on in there like i do have to tell people

01:07:28.160 like he has alopecia it's a thing like unless you guys care aesthetically they're like 0.98

01:07:33.520 so your dog's butt ugly yeah it looks really bad cosmetically gross to look at yeah but you guys 1.00

01:07:40.800 don't care because you're freaks then fine if you're cool with this ugly bitch living in your 1.00

01:07:45.720 house i mean i can't stop you i guess everybody's happy they also told me too that they're like 1.00

01:07:50.840 she said he could lose a little bit of weight which like i will say like my frenchies are

01:07:56.540 massive like they they are and i don't mean fat i mean like they're huge like i don't know why

01:08:01.340 every time i see a frenchie in the wild yeah i'm like that one is so much smaller than mine i don't

01:08:07.060 know why mine are enormous long legs or something they're just like very long boys and they're like

01:08:12.560 thick so they're heavy like they're heavy to carry okay and so my dog squid is almost 50 pounds which

01:08:18.420 is fucking huge i did not know they got that big that is that they don't that's what i'm saying

01:08:25.200 like he's about 47 pounds so they she said he could lose a little little bit of weight and we 0.99

01:08:31.140 like okay she goes if he loses like gets down to maybe like 43 42 he'll be good and we're like okay

01:08:38.120 so we're we gonna have to kind of work on that with him okay so you're like on a diet or something

01:08:43.000 yeah we just cut back his wet food a tiny bit because he gets kibble and wet food both my 0.65

01:08:47.200 dogs are on vegan kibble if you can fucking believe it i can't and and is that like your 0.51

01:08:52.860 preference or yeah i'm raising them in a in a like preservative free house that was gonna be like 0.97

01:08:57.900 really i would be like okay yeah you look at me again and i'm miss goop yeah

01:09:01.520 yeah i see your shirt is like a pita shirt yeah oh yeah i'm like sponsored by goop kitchen yeah

01:09:08.840 no he's there they have vegan kibble because my dog squid has um this like stomach thing where

01:09:17.140 basically he's allergic to protein but he you need protein to survive squid yeah so i had to

01:09:22.940 take him to six different specialists i found one that finally took me seriously and prescribed him

01:09:28.460 vegan kibble and it's literally something you cannot get anywhere except online with an updated 0.73

01:09:34.520 prescription which is fucking crazy that's so wow i mean i'm so glad that he is living in this day

01:09:42.720 and age right and that literally to get what he and he's living in la no better place no truly 0.94

01:09:47.860 to eat vegan kibble than here in la la in 2026 he is i mean he's exactly where he should be

01:09:54.760 he's exactly he's where his feet are okay okay more fun facts about you um it says that you

01:10:01.760 submitted to be a writer on i love la and then randomly ran into rachel senate on a walk around

01:10:06.960 your neighborhood that is true you talked and then got the job soon after yeah look at you

01:10:12.140 i love that i do feel like it was yeah the universe like being kind to me or something

01:10:17.000 it was that was meant to be yeah oh my gosh i love that i love that she was vibing with you

01:10:22.440 yeah it's crazy because i was being really weird like i was like i was kind of i mean i think i

01:10:28.740 was like evidently not as weird as i felt like i was but it was like one of those walks where

01:10:33.100 you're like i really hope i don't run into someone like i was just in a weird headspace

01:10:37.620 i was wearing a weird outfit it was summer it was like a million degrees like i was just like

01:10:42.560 let me just walk in peace and then of course i ran to rachel and she's delightful and you know

01:10:47.240 it was like normal and fine but in my mind i'm like just just don't be weird just like it was

01:10:52.580 like i couldn't be cool i could yeah be cool just be normal just be normal and then i walked away

01:10:57.360 and i was like well i don't even know what i said but i'm sure it was weird and hopefully it hopefully

01:11:02.580 it stays with her yeah whatever weirdness i put up hopefully it stays i guess i'll be top of mind

01:11:07.480 either way and did you mention having submitted i didn't show i didn't oh look at you that's

01:11:14.420 wonderful i you know i thought about it and then i was like i kept it chill i was like congrats

01:11:19.840 by the way sort of vaguely ominously on whatever it is on whatever you're doing or not that i know

01:11:26.820 anything and sort of faded into in my mind i yeah evaporated you just like backed away slowly and

01:11:33.620 disappeared okay last fun fact uh it says that your club penguin username was jazzy jazz three

01:11:42.520 and he played the jazz saxophone in real life or as a penguin wow jazz is a recurring theme for you

01:11:49.040 wait that's so awesome jazzy ladybug jazzy penguin oh god it's so funny because in my mind

01:11:55.760 i i know that i've spoken to people about jazzy jazz three it's but i'm like it's amazing that

01:12:02.480 it is findable out there um yes that is amanda's gonna find it um i that's so amazing like

01:12:09.540 beautiful um yes my name is jazzy jazz three yes i think maybe he did play a saxophone but i also

01:12:18.600 did play the alto saxophone in real life um that's the gay instrument it really my sister

01:12:24.880 played the saxophone she's a lesbian yeah yeah it is the gay instrument i mean i think the brass 0.84

01:12:29.280 section was definitely for the like you know i wasn't gonna fit in with the girls who played

01:12:33.740 flute and i played the flute and okay i was gonna say straight girls play the flute straight

01:12:38.680 beautiful like honestly like they were they were gorgeous and so just like they were like little 1.00

01:12:44.800 fairies like they were playing the flute and i was like that's so awesome i actually could never 0.86

01:12:48.280 physically i don't know again it was the kind of thing that i think this was like fourth grade

01:12:52.920 where i was like i don't know why but it's just not gonna work for me yeah just that's not my

01:12:58.020 if i tried um so i couldn't do flu i would say the more like the girls that played clarinet were

01:13:04.420 like similar to flute girls and that they were like very like like doing femininity correctly 0.98

01:13:11.040 but like they were a little bit more like um i don't know like they were more like uh hardened

01:13:18.640 or something right they had like more life experience more edge yeah they had a bit of

01:13:23.540 edge to them yes and then the brass section was for i guess you could say the misfits

01:13:27.620 um at least at my school it was sort of where we found one another found family speaking of yeah

01:13:33.560 and i yeah i loved playing the saxophone i would sit out on my front lawn and play it

01:13:41.780 and that's such a portland thing a pnw thing take your brass thing and go sit in the grass and play

01:13:49.780 i am like why was i doing that i'm also the neighbors are like oh great here we go again

01:13:54.760 oh my god the kid is back with the saxophone again were you good um no i mean i never really

01:14:03.400 like like i feel like i stayed in the zone of like doing the doing the things in the book and

01:14:09.860 like playing the songs i was learning at school but i never like took off in a different direction

01:14:14.920 yeah you just kind of clocked in when you needed to yeah but i really liked the identity of it i

01:14:19.660 loved that I was playing the saxophone I loved that too when I when I played the flute I loved

01:14:23.940 like carrying my instrument to school yes I loved like the thought I think it's probably because

01:14:28.800 like naturally I'm not like musically inclined like I don't I can't sing and I don't really

01:14:33.380 play instruments at all like I can play maybe two songs on a piano but like I cannot play an

01:14:38.280 instrument at all really so I think the flute gave me I like wanted the performative aspect of it

01:14:43.220 yeah I want to be like oh my instrument right you're like trying out an identity kind of and

01:14:47.940 yeah is this mine yeah no not really like well i like i like like the weight of the case and i

01:14:54.260 like i feel like it makes me look like i have like serious hobbies yeah yeah i think it's because i

01:14:59.160 at the time i didn't know that i i wasn't i don't really have that many hobbies i'm working on it in

01:15:03.840 therapy yeah but because i think because i've been so like um result driven and things that i do

01:15:10.220 outside of like school work sports whatever so i think that's why the instrument gave me a lot of

01:15:16.480 power because i was like this is like my hobby right this is like the random like quirky thing

01:15:21.320 yeah this makes me different yeah is it are you the kind of person that's like you only like to

01:15:25.800 do things that you're really good at yes kind of yeah or that procure result that will prove i'm

01:15:30.420 the best at something yeah that's like really how i i choose so like if if when i've like gotten a

01:15:35.660 journal i've already announced on the show and i'm still not for real actually about it yet but i got

01:15:40.520 a journal because i was literally like i am gonna do a junk journal okay and i'll be honest like

01:15:44.800 i've seen junk journals many times but like i was never really moved and then i saw this girl i

01:15:49.160 follow showing her junk journal and she had like a page for popeyes and she just cut up a popeyes

01:15:54.840 order and like decorated it and i was thinking i should get a journal like i literally bought a

01:15:59.000 journal i swiped out of that video and i went and i bought a journal and now i have it and i haven't

01:16:03.860 used it yet but you know i'm getting there and can what is a junk journal can you define that

01:16:09.480 for me is that crazy no i'm just laughing because you're like hmm now what is i was waiting for it

01:16:15.740 i was waiting for it to click in for me to be like oh i know what a junk journal is but then

01:16:19.100 i'm kind of like the things you said i'm like well actually i don't it's essentially like a lower lift

01:16:24.540 scrapbook okay so you just have a journal that you can carry everywhere because the idea is to

01:16:29.000 like you don't need all the bells and whistles that you need typically to scrapbook but you can

01:16:33.180 do it inside a journal and so like you just put like essentially just like things you like and

01:16:37.480 you like glue them to the pages and like just like scrapbooking that's fun but it's like lower lift

01:16:42.160 and then I saw this girl say like oh like I do it for like memories like I do it for like oh this

01:16:47.760 was like a a pivotal memory for me I really want to take like mostly trash or like things around

01:16:53.640 and like make a memory of it so it's like scrapbooking that's awesome I love that I thought

01:16:58.400 so yeah and like it's one of those things I feel like one of those people where I'm like I just

01:17:02.260 want to be known as someone who loves something like that but I like I just like haven't been

01:17:06.700 move to actually follow through it's that's all it was so hard yeah do you have hobbies you like

01:17:12.600 do you have any hobbies i was trying to think i mean i do i guess this counts like my partner and

01:17:18.900 i do like camping oh that's nice which is kind of like that makes sense from you for you being

01:17:23.800 from the pnw too yeah outdoorsy i do feel like in a way because like i grew up around like a lot of

01:17:29.580 rich kids but i wasn't rich like we didn't really have much money but the culture in the pacific

01:17:34.680 northwest is very much like the rich people hike in camp and so interesting it's very there's a lot

01:17:41.480 to there i'm sure people have written um thesis theses about it um but it's like yeah the way

01:17:47.100 you kind of like display your wealth is like the nicest hiking boots and like the nicest like

01:17:51.380 i guess that makes sense yeah that makes a lot of sense for organ yeah and they love like a north

01:17:56.200 face yes yes it's very much the aesthetic and also it's like it is interesting because those

01:18:00.820 like you know sort of like like simplistic like you know back to nature kinds of things like they

01:18:06.860 do there a lot of the like gear and stuff around them is really expensive like camping is expensive

01:18:13.720 if you want to do it in a way that like the gear is like nice gear whatever yeah for real anyway so

01:18:18.240 I grew up in this setting where like I felt like my family did not camp oh my god did not hike like

01:18:23.760 that was not our vibe at all because it was like it was just not that kind of thing we would do

01:18:28.420 and um but I went to school with all these kids that were like doing it constantly and I wanted

01:18:32.820 that to be my vibe so badly but I was also getting slightly traumatized by the fact that like

01:18:37.700 when we would do those things like with school or whatever like I didn't know how to do it and like

01:18:43.000 I did not have the right gear and it was so embarrassing and so I feel like in my I know

01:18:48.920 it's actually it is really there are like moments where I like remember something from that period

01:18:52.800 of time and it's like I'm sure you have this with your fiancee where like I'll bring it up and be

01:18:56.120 like oh my god I just had this memory of like everyone had like you know the newest like nicest

01:19:01.280 sleeping bag for the overnight trip and like I brought mine in like a trash bag or whatever

01:19:06.960 like literally you know and my mom was like it's fine it's a bag yeah you know like what do you

01:19:10.560 and I was like but it's like those memories where you just like remember being like oh I've done

01:19:14.100 something so uncool like this is so embarrassing and I like bring it up to my partner Ru and they're

01:19:19.720 like crying literally they're like no no no and I'm like oh I guess that's not a funny story you

01:19:25.060 you're all that great okay well yeah yeah and i'm like oh yeah sorry i didn't mean to upset anyone

01:19:29.840 yeah like no it's okay but um but i feel like now as an adult i'm like kind of it feels like a

01:19:35.880 little bit of like a reclaiming kind of thing where i'm like yeah that's so beautiful because

01:19:40.000 i love being outside yeah it's like a way there's a way to do it that's like fun and not annoying

01:19:44.460 yeah yeah yeah yeah um so yeah we know that's that's real because my sister went to the

01:19:49.840 university of oregon so she she lived in eugene for a long time and she um stayed up there a lot

01:19:55.200 and i remember she was like everybody has fucking bikes here everybody bikes everywhere and so my

01:20:00.320 mom was like oh like i'll i'll like you can take your bike next time you come home and my sister 1.00

01:20:04.700 we only had beach cruisers because we're from here and my sister was like i was humiliated 1.00

01:20:10.960 riding that fucking bike and it was like a bright yellow orange oh so like back to your orange car 0.95

01:20:16.840 yeah that was her orange car yeah she was like i need a new bike like i can't i can't ride this 0.98

01:20:21.400 thing anymore like she was literally like i'm it's so crazy too because it's like that was

01:20:26.600 probably so awesome to have down here so cool it sounds like really cute and yeah for it's this

01:20:33.440 weird like the yeah they are very close ranks up there about like the outdoorsy stuff they have a

01:20:39.680 very specific vibe like even um days what was the name of that water bottle you got me this

01:20:44.760 nalgene yeah yeah like dayson was like oh like she had a nalgene bottle and like i lived in hawaii

01:20:51.300 because that's where i went to college and she was like oh i'll get you one of these like

01:20:54.440 and everybody puts stickers on it and it's like the most and honestly it's a kick-ass water bottle

01:20:59.080 like especially for camping but i took it to the beach one time in hawaii and when i i went to the

01:21:05.340 water came back i was probably gone for like five minutes my bottle steaming hot it felt like all

01:21:11.080 the water inside was so fucking warm i was like oh okay so yeah no this is for up there insulation

01:21:16.680 yes that's so funny because yeah exactly that does not come up in oregon so i was like okay 0.59

01:21:22.940 so this is a pnw water bottle yeah yeah we're like temperate um 60 degrees all the time yeah

01:21:28.960 no for real where it's raining constantly and cool and but the air is so i know fresh and clean up

01:21:35.540 there that's one actually crazy that like as an adult because i have a lot you know it's a very

01:21:40.760 complicated place that place right but the the air and the water are the things that i think back on

01:21:46.780 and i'm like okay that is something that like as an adult i'm like that's really special yeah my

01:21:51.820 god the water thing especially because i remember when i'd visit my sister at school she'd be like

01:21:56.040 you just drink out of the sink it's so clear and it tastes amazing and it does taste amazing i

01:22:00.160 literally it does i was like really because i saw her doing it she goes no dude that's what i do i

01:22:04.040 fill up my water bottle like that yeah because most places you don't want to be doing that you

01:22:08.200 should not do that in most places yeah unless you want to get sick yeah well you know what i'm so

01:22:14.120 glad to hear that you're reclaiming camping i think that's a beautiful thing and honestly a 0.94

01:22:18.260 really kick-ass hobby that shit's hard it's hard to camp it is hard to camp and i will say like it 0.71

01:22:24.040 is not fun all the time like let it be known let it be known like it's not all like people are 0.98

01:22:30.560 listening are like yeah obviously that's why i don't do it no it sucks a lot of the time but

01:22:35.240 like it is one of those things that like i think especially living in la where it does feel like

01:22:39.160 sometimes you know things can it can feel like it's coming from all angles no totally nature

01:22:44.980 like you need to get out you need to get out and so landlocked and truly just be like okay like i'm

01:22:51.200 alone out here or like there's nothing to do except for like sit yeah and with myself and

01:22:56.340 my own thoughts yeah which is horrifying sometimes really scary stuff which is why we need to do it

01:23:00.280 more yeah and also the trees do you love the trees i love i love the trees i love i talk to

01:23:05.780 the trees all the time oh my god and they do listen absolutely that is true i mean they are

01:23:10.240 older than you could ever imagine girl that's what i'm saying that's why i'm like the trees

01:23:14.700 listen and they hear if anything that would make camping worth it yes to me is getting to be with

01:23:19.100 the trees have you been to sequoia no i haven't is it like unbelievable it is magical oh my god

01:23:26.460 those trees i got chills thinking about those trees i mean it's so to be among those trees it

01:23:32.900 is like it's the most humbling experience yeah and it is also you're like you can't be next to

01:23:37.720 a sequoia tree without just grappling with all that's come before you no seriously you're so me

01:23:43.680 you're so me i feel so connected to the earth especially when i'm around things like that in

01:23:48.480 nature it's so important it's because it's unnatural for us not to be i know we should be

01:23:53.080 around we should be around more nature yeah less halogen lights more more trees yes that's what we

01:23:58.260 need yeah that's what we're rooting for in 2026 yes well i am so unbelievably happy that you came

01:24:05.000 back thank you for you're one of my favorite creators and i mean that so literally and you

01:24:09.420 are one of the funniest people on the internet thank you so much i am rooting for you so hard

01:24:13.900 and i'm stamping my card now before you like my card of i was an ej fan before you have a hit show

01:24:20.800 hit movie and all of the things like I am so fucking excited for you and the future for you

01:24:25.940 thank you you're amazing and I can't wait for everything that you've ever wanted in this 0.74

01:24:30.760 industry because I really do think you have such a unique perspective in comedy especially

01:24:34.560 and it's like it's especially hard now I think in comedy or writing or all of it to be funny in a

01:24:41.520 way that's not harmful be funny in a way that's not reductive right and it's not punching down

01:24:46.400 like you're so funny in a way that is like welcoming accessible and hilarious so i want to

01:24:54.080 thank you that's so nice yeah and i really want to like i want to fill i want to give you flowers

01:24:59.460 but i want to fill your cup because i know that whatever it is that's coming down the pipeline

01:25:04.060 for you is going to be like amazing and i'm so happy for you you deserve it thank you deserve

01:25:08.840 everything you've had now that's why i was really excited to see you were part of i love la

01:25:11.820 because it's the first of many and i'm so happy to have you back thank you yes of course i'm so

01:25:17.680 excited for your romance novel oh my gosh thank you i'm obviously i'll invite you to the premiere

01:25:22.340 where i will be the star inevitably yes and then you have to invite me to the premiere of yours

01:25:26.300 maybe i'll do carpet stuff on the premiere of your movie oh my god i would be honored i would love

01:25:29.920 that amazing and then you'll come back again when you're a star in a movie and then we can talk 0.88

01:25:33.620 about that yay but thank you so much for coming back to the show i fucking love you i love you 0.93

01:25:37.480 You're the best. 0.58

01:25:38.700 And for maybe the 10 people that don't know where you are and have never heard of your

01:25:42.400 genius, where can everybody find you?

01:25:44.140 You can follow me online.

01:25:45.940 My name on Instagram and TikTok is EJ having fun.

01:25:48.580 Yes.

01:25:49.060 And EJ is always having fun.

01:25:50.360 Always.

01:25:50.820 So you got to clock in.

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01:26:07.100 okay thank you so much to my amazing guest ej marcus please make sure you guys check out

01:26:10.640 everything he's doing he's incredible and amazing and so talented and thank you so much for tuning

01:26:14.420 in i'll see you next week bye

The Comment Section with Drew Afualo - April 22, 2026

JAZZY LADYBUG Ft. EJ Marcus ｜ Episode 218

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