"FEELING THORNY!" w/ ERIN FOLEY!

which is where we did our draft picks. And the only reason I don't think we're gonna do draft picks for the season is because we know who she picks and then we know that tis coming and we don't know her batch of guys, so, you know, is the upside down. All bets are off. But it's the same theater that we did it at, and I don't know if you guys watched it, I feel like a lot of you were there. Um, they do such a great job making you know, what is essentially for most people

would be the equivalent of like a Zoom show. Actually, to me, I think I felt like I got to have a real life book launch. I feel like I was at a party with my friends. I felt excited that you guys were all there, and um, you know, I thought Lauren Lbkus was a delight. Brian Sofie, Debbie, Ryan Bachelor of the Yarra, Benedict, my brother, all of it. So it really meant so much to me. And but even bigger than that, just the support of everybody just

through this whole book process. And I bet a lot of you have them in your hot little pause right now, and it just means so much to me. I mean truly, just through this whole journey, I have not felt alone, even though I have not left my garage. And I hope you all love it. Please email him let me know if you guys have finished it and you liked it. I feel free to leave a review on Amazon or good Reads. That's helpful. And I'm thinking, I mean, look,

I'm such a psycho about COVID. I'm so afraid of it. I've really been socially distancing, but like I mean, I want I can't believe I can't go on tour. I can't believe I can't go meet every buddy. So my brain, you know, I was I've been trying to figure it out.

I'm like, there's got to be away. There's gotta be a way, at least in the southern California area like that I could do a small mini little miss, little Compton outdoor book tour, Like there's gotta be a way that I could go to like indie bookstores during the day. Do you like in the parking lot signing socially distanced or like a I could park my freaking car, put a little table out you guys do like a drive by book signing and then maybe like do a show

outside at night socially just I don't know. I don't know how that works. Um or do some reading. I don't know, but I'm like, there's got to be away that I could a not get COVID, be not get and spread COVID. Like there's gotta be a way to do an outdoor book tour because it's killing me that

I can't go see all of you. I don't know, or like anybody have like a nice driveway I can park in and we have we do a drive by thing like and like I do with drive by book signing, like that I park in your driveway and then performing year lawn doesn't really have any spacious law. Should we do five fans around southern California? Um, I don't know. That's just I'm just thinking out a lot. I'm spitballing guys. Another them an author another, I'm an authoress. This is

exactly what John Grisham does. Um, so that's a number one, number two. Uh. Just because the books out doesn't mean I'm not going to still give away freaking T shirts or totes or cat puzzles. And again, if I've called out your name, when we've gotten a bunch of emails, and just when I call you out, does emailing and be like, girl, I want a T shirt? Da da da da, everybody's entered here I am. That's just sounding me going through the bag. I'm gonna go deep in.

I'm going deep in. I'm doing give a give away three today. I'm gonna do And you just email me and you tell me girl. I want to tell girl, Katie Cat, I want a T shirt, my friend, I want a crazy cat puzzle. You tell me you're running low on cat puzzle. So if you want a cat puzzle, this is your chance. Obviously I'm running because they're fantastic. First winner is Kate little Broberg. You are the first winner of a tote or a puzzle or a T shirt. I don't know. I don't know what your journey is.

I don't know what you want, Number chiw number chio. Here we go, Here we go. Second person to get a pre order is oh, Kelly oh Rourke's friend Monica. So Kelly, you entered and your friend Monica is the one who won. So you tell me what Monica wants and tell me where to send it. Rose Podcast at gmail dot com. Third person and who won a total or a T shirt or a meet the author's puzzle as Catherine Oliver. All right, so that's Catherine Oliver, Katie

little Broberg and Kelly all work. It's the K, It's the I will not they're all case. I don't want to say triple K because it's not something that I want to support. But I want to support these ladies and support Katie, Catherine and Kelly. So thank you again. Rose Podcast at gmail dot com. Email at me tell me what you want. Also, uh, we really appreciate you guys have been leaving your reviews and stuff, all of that, your reviews on iTunes. Here's we got a couple of

great new ones this week. And I promised, I know you're like, girl, girl, girl, stop talking. Let me get to your episode. That's what's happening. But here's okay, here's a really fun one. And again again I asked and you delivered. You're like, I will give you what you want, my friend. Okay, this is from Ned Fletcher, five stars tool for your sanity. I have never watched the shows discussed by the hysterical host and her rotating panel of guests.

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I don't ever want you to watch an episode. I love that this is this is your podcast, and I'm I'm so thankful that we are of service to you and that you're a part of our journey. Like you are absolutely like front row members of the club. And that's the best thing is that I like to think visually you couldn't pick any of them out of a lineup.

Someday when we do a live podcast again, I would love to flash have some of you guys, there put on screen like four people, one of whom has never actually been in the franchise, and have you guess, or maybe have three people not in the franchise one person in the franchise. I think that's how we do it, and then you have to guess which person on the screen was actually in the franchise. I think that's a really fun game for our listeners to listen and don't watch.

Here's another here's another review that I loved five stars, five stars subject Feeling Thorny by A five one two. Y'all, this is the podcast. Now I sound like my my instatiable character Reginus and Claire. Y'all, this is the podcast. I'll listen to too many podcasts, ranging from true crime, self help, scripted dramas, but this is the one. I feel like artinism a friend and her honest and vulnerable. Oh, her honesty and vulnerability has helped me to open up

to That's nice. I even subscribed to the Patreon episodes because I just can't get enough. Here's the thing, though, these Feelings Thorny podcasts have been amazing. I've been wanting to pre order Ardent's book for a while, but this put me over the edge love this comedy troupe. My good thank you A five one two. I'm so grateful for all of the wonderful responses we've gotten to these. And this is the last one that we have recorded

right now, but we'll do more in the future. Um. You know, look, look, it's nice to like take a pause because guess what. In two weeks we're all getting back into that crazy hot tub filled with hairless people looking for love. But this time they're at the La Quinta Resort and it's a hundred and ninety degrees and it's like hairless horny stew and we're gonna watch them. And so this let's just keep it classy in honor of book release week. And you can get it, guys.

I saw an Amazon right now. If you order it today, you can get it in the mail tomorrow. Um, here's what I'm saying. It's nice to do. We're doing classy. So this this week's feeling thorny episode, which is our last one before they'll be a week off. So if you want to go to Patreon, if you're like I'm

Jones and honey, go to Patreon. Some people have emailed in about the Bachelor archive, like, make sure you just create an account if you're going to go watch The Bachelor in New Zealand or any of the Australia episodes, which some of those are on HBO Max. But create an account. You said to make a password and then

you get access. Okay, So this person some of our newer listeners who started during I Heart don't know this person, but this is o G. This was like my co host for the first year or two, um, and then she got a staff writing job on one day at a time. But she's gonna be with us in our premier episode coming up. It'll be up October with Paget Brewster and Rob Benedict. Aaron Foley is, for those of you who don't know, one of my favorite stand up comedians. She is such a smart joke writer. She's such a

hard worker. She's such a fun person. We have laughed until tears have streamed on our faces. We're both from Rhode Island. She is such a good friend and I've just I really have always. I really respect and admire her as a creator, as a talent and just as a person. And she is so freaking funny. I mean, this woman is fun me and I'm so excited for our newer listeners to get to know her, so you'll know who's joining us on the premiere and for our

o G people who've been with us through the whole thing. Guys, Aaron's back. Aaron's back, right, thank you, Pandemic. You brought me Aaron. So um, all right, that's it. We're not going to be here next week. I'm gonna miss you, guys, and I really really really appreciate again, like honest, like all of you showing up the support. I want to hear what you thought of the book. I really want

to hear. And that's partially what I want to go on torqu because I want to also be able to do readings and talk to you guys and have you guys asked questions like I want to do stuff and be near you, and I want to figure out a way to do it socially distanced outside because I am a psychopath, and I promise you I will be an eighteen mass and probably some weird advisor and gloves and and a licel bubble. All right, enough of me, blah blah blah. Here is without further ado my friend arent

fully Bye, see you in October. Welcome to will you accept this Rose? A production of I Heart Radio? Are You? Randy? Teams are so good, ranting, thank you, thank you, reach super you know what? I just no I that, which means still is there another easy? That's not just a fun rod. We're not fully in the mood yet. Get ready, get ready, I can't wait. I'm getting you know what time it is. It's time for hard to get a little close and a little thorny. Who well's gonna go

one on one. I'm gonna be high energy fon convos are gonna be super real. She wants to get with you and all the fields you feeling whoa feeling thol me, We're Marie. I'm like, can you handle that? Hi? Welcome to a very special feeling Thorny with art Marine, a little offshoot of We Except this Road. My name is Art Marine and it's a rainy day here in the clubhouse, and I am here with somebody. I'm so excited to be sitting with im. She's a virgo. So we're organizing

our corpse, and um, I missed her so much. She looks great. She's got a nice cowl neck on. She's got the bone structure. She talks about somebody else's bones structure. Let me say, we need to talk about Paget's bone structure. You're eliminating the fact that all you need to do is look right in the mirror. My friend, ladies, my platonic life partner, Eric Fallen, I've missed you so much, and I got it. We've missed you and we're here,

of course with Tanna and Katie. I don't know why Anna just drink, but something happened hot hot slow on the notes. So it's not so because I'm so a d d um Aaron Folly. First of all, I've missed you. Congratulate for those of you out there who don't know. Aaron Foley is now a staff writer on One Day at a Time One Again. Well, Gloria Stephen did the reboot of it and it's awesome. What was the original one? That's all I know. I want you to know that for this reboot I went into audition to play the

part of Schneider. No did I read that with you? Did I run it with you? No? You never told me that I went in. We ran. I ran with Jordan's they I got the sides, and I was like, surely there's been missed for those kids, kids, children out there listening. Back in the day, there was a show, an original version of One Day at a Time. There was this gentleman named Schneider who were like a denim jeans,

denim vest. He always had like a like a Burt Reynolds mustache and like a cigarette rolled into his sleeves and uh, I'm so sorry, I can't hand a hand the handyman and um and like. But he was like the epitome of masculinity. And I was like, why would you pass? Why why? Obviously I'm not going to book this, and they're like, well, we might go another way. And then I had to go in an audition to play Schneider and like, of course they cast a man. Well, I think I can't speak for them because I would

have cast you as the anybody thank you? Um uh. But the whole it was such a you know, hard right reboot that I think they were. You know, it went from you know, white people in the Midwest to a Cuban American family network park. So I think they were just trying to turn everything on its head. But it's Uh, it's been a dream and I'm gonna try to now right anything I can to get art and Marine on the show. Oh my god, thank you so much. I could play Schnider's like his twin his speaking of twins,

and we'll get so. For those of you who are like, why why are we doing this? Why why a side offshoot podcast art and why? Like, first of all, I like getting to know my friends more like I like, it's very rare in this day. It's very easy just to get hang and joke around, and like you get to know people as you go, but it's it's very rare that you get to sit and really have a one on one interview with somebody. And this is leading up to and you've been so supportive, but this is

leading up to the launch of my book. So excited, so excited called little Miss Little Compton and you can preorder it now on Amazon. And I'm begging you, please preorder it now, and and you're like, maybe I'll do that next week, Like, do it now, people, she wrote a book, wrote a book, and and like, think of it as like a present for your future self because you buy you order it now and then when it arrives, you can be like, oh my god, right, I ordered this.

You bring into any show that I'm at, I will sign it for you, Like truly, I am so grateful that you guys are buying it. Apparently my dream is to get on the best seller list, and apparently you need to sell eight thousand copies. I will rob a bank and buy eight Oh my god, thank you so much. I am. I am. I've always wanted to rob a bank safely. You know what. You've talked about that a

lot in your stand up. Well, here's so. Writing the book it was an interesting thing too, because I so I don't like normally to sit around think deep diving thinking about like childhood in school and family and stuff like that and like, but it was an interesting process, and I'm like, I'm fascinated by how all my funny friends came to be you aliens, straight up aliens. They came down right before I met. I am obsessed with your mom the best show. She doing good. No, we've

moved them to Texas. Happened, Yes, that happened a couple of months ago. For those people out there listening, tell us a little bit about your mom. Well, I always put them together barring Dick Foley. But Mary in particular is Mary Agnes Kathleen Foley's Irish name I've ever heard. Yeah, it doesn't get more Irish than that. I sometimes when I say her full name, I used to put her

maiden name in and then what was it? Oh? I can't say because she heard me say it one time, just like in passing, and she's like, people can then figure out and then take my money. And I was like, okay, sure. I mean if somebody's coming out a bachelor podcast to take your mom's money, right, they really want It made me laugh so hard. But now I dropped the her maiden name for security purposes and a dollar okay, great? Um? Yeah? OK? Anyway, did you um how much of your childhood I grew

up in Rhode Island. It's a lot of the book is about that. How much? How much of your childhood was in Rhode Island? Move? We moved there right before my twelfth birthday, so right before seventh grade. From where we went from New York to Connecticut to Rhode Island. First question, new York City, Uh, Nope, not New York City. I was born in Long Island. Dad is Brooklyn mom's Long Island. They met in Manhattan, lived in Manhattan for a while. Then she was like, I'm gonna get I'm

gonna have a baby. And then they moved back to Long Island because by that time my dad was like that very kind of famous merge of Long our Brooklyn people into Long Island, um whatever, families pricing neighborhood stuff. So there was kind of a big exodus and uh so, yeah, so they moved back to Long Island. Was born Long Island until four eight nine years in Kinnectic Hit then Rhode Island. But Rhode Island it's the best, right, It's the funniest state. So you were there watching patrise Woods,

you were watching Mario Hilario on the local news. You were there. You were there during the Seancy the Great. I talked about him in the book The Greatest Mayor of Problem. He was a convicted felon, got out and got re elected, got stuff done, dead bodies everywhere. He had his He had off duty police officer drive him over to his girlfriend lover's house and he beat him up with a fireplace and iron and put a cigar

out on his dick. Yeah, that's what I'm talking okay, Um, And then you were also there probably the Sonny von Buelo, the von Buelo, remember that was all in the news coma that that the all the coma and all the uh you know, great Gatsby being filled in the Newport mansions. We almost got to have they were they were trying to get Um, which is of Eastwick each a little compton, and I was like this, I'm going to get discovered.

And then the group the church women were like, no, there's sex scenes in the church, and so the Puritanical they shut it down and went out to Cohasset, mass And I was so I had such a grudge at Cohasset like for like fifteen years that like my chance was lost to like get to hang out with Share and Jack Nicholson is an awkward eleven year old. That was my time. Well it's still I mean right now to hang out with both of them right now. Right she looks amazing. I saw her on Dancing with the Stars.

But okay, so you grew up in Rhode Island. How was moving there in junior high because that's kind of a that's a tough state. Did you go to public school? Yeah, we went to UM. It was a real battle between Mary and Dick because and this is I just like to preface this next sentences. I did not know I was gay, Okay, But when we moved in seventh grade, I my mom scattered out the best public school district,

and that was South Kingstown. South Kingstown Public High School was a great high school, and the neighboring one was Narragansett. I wanted to go to Narragansett because it had fast pitch softball. Again, not gay, So I was pleading the case. My dad and I were like, it's fast pitch. It's fast pitch, better school, academically, one of the best in the state. Slow pitch so boring. Right, You're like, I want fast pitch, mom. One, clearly we went with academics.

Do you think he would have come out early shattered my softball? Would you have come out earlier if you? I don't know, because I definitely slow pitch for another six years. Right, Still had no idea, But I mean, that's super gay. Did you have a bay friend in high school? Oh my god, hold on, something's coming up as a feeling. No, I did the thing where I pined after a dude, and then as soon as you like me, I was like, no, get away. I did that, Like I did that for a long I was kind

of like that, yeah, but I was gay rights. I think I also just had to touch low self esteem. I had a terrible dad, so I was like, I'm a monster. You can't see behind the valley. I'm only fun at a party. And then you get to know me, and I'm the worst of a garbage everybody knows it. Well, that's not even remotely true. No, no, now, I know that. I know that now, but at the time, I was like the stay away, I'm the worst. No, you have

a little Compton. I didn't have a high school, so we had I went to the public school in town for grammar school, and then there were the high school was Middletown, which was like an hour commune over the bridge, over the bridge, and it was like it was like got like a one star in academics, and so my mom was like, I don't. She was like, you know what, she had a bad education. She was from Long Island. She went to Bayside High and she was like, I didn't get an education, so I'm gonna she goes I

in my mind. High school it's where your brain is malleable. She's like, I'm going to run out of money for your college, but I'm going to send you to the

best high school, like in sent you to. And she sent me and she took like a third mortgage out and like sent me to boarding school where middle it's in Concord, Massachusetts, Middlesex School, which is super preppy, but it was it was great because no everyone was off playing lacrosse, which I wasn't, but no one was in this beautiful theater and no one was interested in it.

So I got to like write plays because they weren't my people, but like the beauty of that was I had access to this facility and I got to like basically go to college at fourteen. Wait, did you know that you wanted to perform and write? That? From from a little baby art and like four and five year old art. And there was a girl in in kindergarten that moved down the street who was from New York.

And I actually talked about this in the book, like I call her a different name in this in the book, but her name was Courtney, and she moved down the street, like and she lived in New York and she had a commercial agent and she'd been in like a serial commercial and I remember just like grilling her about it and being so jealous and like sending my parents on I mean, like you're holding back my career, like no, we gotta move. Now, change my diaper, get me out there.

And then my mom was like, I'm not moving to New York for a five year old, and so she was like, as soon as you can like live and not get like kidnapped, you can go be my cash cow and like take care of me. This is fascinating. This is why this is such a good idea to do this, because we've been friends forever, but it's so you know, we're always like we're doing this project. You know,

it's interesting. And I could get dropped off in the middle of like the desert and then would be like, hey, we've got a dance party at one Bottle of Water, but like it's nice to actually have a chat, share some I love you so much. I just want to like, I just love you so much. I never tired of you, I never not I always want to be like I always want to be around you, know, like you you make me crazy. You make myself crazy in a way

that's like I don't care how tired I am. If you're like I'm going dancing, it's like, well, obviously I'm coming with you. Like I don't hear where we are. Obviously it's hard to meet. It's hard to meet those

people as adults, you know what I mean? Like even when I don't know throughout the years, something something in Megan, my twin, she always like, you know, I'm always like I'm doing this or doing that, but I always like when I talk about you, she goes like my face goes up and go oh art and she goes, oh are like when she was when she first started hearing about you, and she's like, oh, your fun friend. The

fund is similar. There is something there's like a beauty you meet and Lisa d Larus are the all the exact same age of her, and I never see her at the dance party on Saturday. I'm in l A. I have a life and now I can actually start like taking care of more friendships. Yes, so hard, this stand up life is it just feels like I have

I'm like a chitty friend. I'm never home. My back goes like that we're gonna go all over the place, and I want to start with this now like you've been, and we're gonna come back to the high school stuff like you have been. You're one of my favorite comedians. Um. I respect how hard you work at it. I respect your work ethic with your jokes. And for those of you out there, She's got all sorts of albums you

can order and buy Deep Dive, that's the latest. But she I think you're such a talented stand up and but you have been on the road consistently how many years? Um? I would say consistently? Probably eight? That's hard. Eight, I

would say eight. Uh, actually maybe probably. I mean I've been doing stand up almost twenty Yeah, so I guess maybe like nine maybe nine, Like like I've always made it a living, but it's like been stand up, some commercial stuff, some writings whatever, but then stand up like on the road, stand up supporting. Um. Yeah, because I've been in l A twelve and it was the first couple of years trying to figure that out. So I would say like nine or ten consistently. When you were like,

I want to do this for a living? Was the dream? Like? Was the dream? Specifically? I want to be a stand up. Yeah, I think I I've always wanted to do stand up because I mean, when I got into it, it wasn't when I was in New York City. It wasn't like, and I'm not this isn't a shot on anyone that's

doing standford. You could do stand for whatever reason you want, But in New York when you started stand up, as you know, like you were a stand up and you wanted to be a stand up, I had no acting background. I didn't I've never to this day wanted to be in front of a camera acting. Ever, every when people are shoving me out the door with auditions, I'm like,

fucking kill me. So it's interesting. So I just started doing stand up to do stand up, and then all of a sudden I just kept going and and I've but the life around it has been difficult. That the stand up has always been fantastic. But my favorite stand up hard my favorite stand ups. I think that purely that was the main goal was to be just like because some you know, like I think the best stand ups like that was the dream was to most like the actual stand up part was that's what they wanted

to do. Yeah, and I think I think that the I'll always love and probably go back to, like the purity of stand up, of just doing stand up. But I can't. I could not. The last couple of years broke me as like a human. And that's when I was about, can't sustain this, the travel because it's hard, travel harder, and the money and then and not making it up. It feels like it's harder and harder unless you're at a certain like unless you have certain credits.

And I don't know if this has changed. I don't know, this is it's always been like this, but it feels like that's sort of like that. It's hard to make to put any money away, even as a headliner, unless you have certain like it's very very difficult. Yeah, you know what, And this isn't like woe was me in

any any way. I chose all these steps. But what you have for stand up such a clear path of Um, I've attained all my goals, you know, headlining of theaters, conent like you half hours, like it's albums like, it's all very extremely successful. However, what you have to pair it with his television right, so and and in the in the people, let's just say let's just say, uh, successful stand ups. Um, if you're how are people supposed to discover you unless you're literally at that club year

after year after year if you're not on TV. So I totally get that formula. But I never could fit into that formula. So the writing was on the wall. Maybe five or six years ago. I was like, well, if I don't want to be an actor, like, it's just gonna be me the money caps at a certain level, this is going to be my life. And that that never made me happy enough. So I was like, Okay, how am I going to figure out this? And that's

when I was like, okay, it's got to be with writing. Well, and I remember that's when we started doing our writer's group and um, and I can't tell you when I saw that you I know how hard you've worked on your scripts, and when I saw that you were because I know you've been staffed on pilots and stuff, like when I saw that you were fully staffed on one day at a time, I was so happy for you because I feel like you've crossed, like you've already had

enough bites and like you clearly have. You'd be such an asset in any room, and like now you've been vetted, and like I'm so happy that I know this has been your goal and that it will be fun for you and it's more stability and like that's awesome. Yeah, and you know how it is. It's like you have to do like so many different jobs. So like when I by the way listeners are and had a writing group because she's a fantastic writer. So by the book immediately you can please by the book and thank you

so much for buying the book. Oh my god, that's cool. They're both a Brian in Ohio Susan. Then how are you better for your sister and for your mom? You Baker keep car and Tampa. Thank you. I love your new tan and I appreciate it. Mary Folly trying to figure out where pauses and then asking someone to get the computer on to buy the phone up for you. Elephant Tits in Milwaukee, Wiscontin. First of all, you look great. I support your name change and I appreciate thank you.

I think they really needed it. Thank you. The phones are lighting lighting up. You guys changed my light. Um, okay, so you're writing group, Yes, I say the arden. I wanna, you know, start writing. I did punch up on a on a bunch of shows through other comics. Join your writing group, and the greatest about the writing group is I met Jordan's Jordan's Jordan took a pitch out last year. It was like this safe, wonderful space. But you're like,

I don't know this. I don't know. Like you can try, you know, you can try your jokes and if they go off, you go, Okay, that wasn't funny. But how do you know with the writing? Dude? How about the book did you have? Did you send Piano read it? Anna did my millennial past to make sure I didn't write anything offensive. Um, my friend Lisa read it. Um, I ran some. I ran particularly it's weird is an

interesting thing? And then this is going to sound. When I wrote the proposal, my mom was alive and the deal closed on the day of her funeral. I got the email. They were like, I hope you're having a great week, like you know so truly too in a weird way, right this book, no one's alive, but I'm nervous for my brother to read it. I'm not gonna lie like like there's a weird but you do like there's a weird freedom in that, like like and yet and it turned a lot of it is sort of

a tribute book. I think to my mom, Yeah, it's like a tribute. It's like a tribute. Yeah. I think she's in it much more than she would have been like in that I had. I've had like an insane amount of people email me funny stories about her, And I think I didn't realize what a unique I just thought everybody's mom was like that. Like I didn't know that I had like sort of a different mom, and so I think it actually completely changed the book. But

like that's kind of that's wonders. I actually do think the timing of it is amazing, Like it's a different book and like, but it's picking and choosing who to show it to so that you are like making sure you there's an editor that's helping me, you know what, the publishing company, but like, um, he has an interesting thing of like showing you to enough people that you're getting outside eyes, but not so many that like to

eighteen people, they are going to give you eighteen different opinions. Yeah, you really have to trust. So it's it's like more of a one on one relationship with your editor in a way, in a way yeah. And then of course, you know, I was like people, when I if I do stand up stuff, Someone's like, oh, do you go through your your manager who I love? But I'm like, no,

I go through my funny friends. Oh god, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's an interesting I've had my friend Jacob, I read it through twice with we read it out loud just to hear it, and like, I would recommend reading it out loud twice. Reading it out loud really was very helpful. Awful, you know, but helpful. Did you when you read it out loud? Did you try different accents? I did? I

was like, I am in did Cometon Road Island. Oh wow, nice to look like Bob from strange thing, you know, like that, Hello, come from little company as your mother who fed it? Hey? Then about the New York City and I lived in because this closet. Oh my god, that's yeah, that's good. I was wondering if that's how I can't wait to record a book on tape. I was like, no, that's how I speaking. I like that. Hello, my butter boo. I don't know about you, but things are getting so hot in you I think I gotta

take I'll pe your break question. Who are your comedy idols growing up? Who are you? Who are your influence? Who are your like little north Star lighthouses in the out there? Um? Well, I think Pre not knowing that any of this was going to happen because I was just you know, a sports crazy person. I never performed. What did you think you were going to be? What

did you want to be? Um? I just thought I would teach because I loved school and I everybody in my family teaches basically, So I was like, what did you need? Going American Studies which I loved, and I thought I'll do that. I like standing in front of people, and I like reading. I mean a great teacher. So I don't know. And then I and then I moved to Manhattan, and I was you know, I just was like, oh, I'll just like lounk around for a bit before I go to grad school. And then you know, I'm in

your house. Okaya moved to Manhattan? And what happened? And had that happened? What happened? Well, Pre, I'll just say the only like influence was it was just it was my parents were so funny and they watched UM. You know, as as a family, we watched Carol Burnett Show. We were obsessed, and my dad loved UM Laurel and Hardy and we will watch Laurel and Hardy and try to get out of Sunday mass all the time. So we

watched that. I watched a lot with my dad. But then when I was probably college years late, high school college years, my mom and I would watch every Woody Allen movie to the state. Now I know I problematic, but I watched him his movies are I watched him and my brother. It was nice having an older brothers Monty Python, and we watched all the Steve Martin movie. Yeah. Yeah, so mel Brooks, mel Brooks, you know what I mean,

Like so Airplane, I've seen Airplane seven. You know my parents, Like I watched Airplane with my mean I always I do think having a funny family helps. My family was funny, well,

of course, I mean, I can't. And the good thing about my parents too, is like they weren't like stage funny like I had no there was no perform like they were just like my dad in particulars He's seriously one of the funniest, Like that's my brother, he I think I told this, but to this day, I mean, he's like, it's it's not everybody goes, you know whatever.

He's very sick, and he's the last time when we were in the hospital, he's in his little gown and he's you know, it's so hard to obviously stop through. So the doctor goes, you know, through this checklist and I'm standing right next to him trying to like grab my leg to not to be strong, and he's like, Okay, do you have this? Do you have this? And he's like do you have doctor goes do you have a

hearing aid? And my dad goes what? And I literally like I'm about to like laugh so fucking because it's my favorite, Like I get I get my sister in my partner on what four times a day, And the

doctor goes, um, do you have a hearing aid? And I was like, my dad goes what like and I just I was like, you know, he's like eighties, he's got a little cancer, a little girl like thing on and I am fucking losing My d and I were looking at each other like who the hell is that's I mean, you know till his to the day, he moment he dies, he's gonna be fucking hilarious. That is truly, that's the and there is I like there is even

a gallows humor. I would say, like even my mom's funeral weekend, like the worst fucking thing had just like and my brother and I it was we would alternate between crying to heart and then laughing like because it's so when we went to because we didn't go to church and there's no place to hold the funeral and me to go beg the church to let us hold there's no there's no public places in Little Content and in March is too cold to do it outside there

was nowhere to hold it. So we had to beg to get let into the church and they were like okay. And then when I was like can we play music, They're like, of course, you can't play music. I was like, can we play the single Ladies? But Beyonce is her

favorite song? And then my brother and like my brother Believe was like I'm no, no, you can't play that, and like my brother and I were fucking dying after like that, like we were we were laughing so hard my mind, it seemed like a reasonable request, like like we were dying, you know, and you're like just sitting there because you're like crazy. But there is something about we will build the city. I've gone lady, Okay, some question. Do you think having a being a twin has made

you funnier? I find twins fascinating. I think my twin, you know, I know, I have like a bigger personality. She's quieter, but she makes me laugh so hard. Um, and she just and sometimes I don't expect it, but I honestly think she's one of the funniest people I've ever met my life. So I don't know, probably she's made me funnier because I just but I think you talk about being a twin in your stand up ever rarely.

I mean sometimes if twin language we have, we have. Um. I think we have like a like a lot of hands signal. I'm kidding. UM, we can stab your twin in the leg? Are you feeling you know what? We should? Totally we should. Let's wait. There's a garden hose right there trying to strangle I see if she sounds great, text R give her my number, text her, give me my number. Stand by you and I see how you are you driving? See how you're breathing. Yeah, are you now?

Tell me if you feel like you're gonna be underwater in the next thirty seconds. What did you when you moved to New York? How did you pay your rent? And what was the first time you did stand up? Um? When I moved to New York City, I moved in with both my sisters, Terren Meeks, and I thought I was getting a like sharing a bedroom with Megan, but they had taken in a straggler, Chris for a couple of months before we all realized he was doing blow like I think in our bathroom. In anyway, Love, it

was New York City, it was a different time. Um, there was a lot of blow around that I remember. There was a club called Coke's in Brooklet. Yeah, I lived the only drug I've never I haven't done. I've never done cokey there, but I saw and Andy Dick showed me coke and I was like, that feels appropriate, that's like perfect kicker bell, that's right, I feel. Yeah, I've been in parties where I'm passing plates of coke. But it was the Lenn Bias Boston Celtics first round

draft pick. Anyway, I never did that's the thing. It's like people like, okay, you as advertised, you're gonna show me coke. Okay, um, and I just passed me coke cocaine kick kickaine coffee. What do the young people say? What powder of dreams? Powd of dreams? I'm not young?

The white candy. So I lived in Cornelia Street between a fourth and Bleaker in Greatest Block, in an illegal sublet where I had a mattress and I push it under the dining room slash living room table at night and sleep under the table and single tress for the first four months. I was twenty two, having the time of my life. That's the thing. I slept on a mattress underneath the dining room table. Mattress, beautiful mattre. I slided it, which is under then we'd slide the table

out and then slide the table back. The four of you in a one bedroom, four of us in a in a two bedroom. It was kind of a glorified one bedroom with like a crappy wall. Yeah. Then Tara took the went to the summer she um theater by the Sea Tunic Maternic. That summer she was at grad school. She had the summer off, She's like, get me out of Manhattan. Bartended at Theater by the Sea. I got her bedroom. Okay. Uh waited tables. I waited tables. That's where I made a living where that's hard. I waited

tables too. Is the world waiting tables hard? The great thing is I had some crappy jobs, but then I got into the Ark restaurants. So I worked at Ernie's and that was kind of changed my life because that's where I met s the Corey when she started dating town Papa. I just did his radio show with Fortune. Yeah, it's such a great show. Um, so that was I got insurance. I worked there for four years. Yeah, because it was Ark Restaurants and they had it was like

corporate amy, but the restaurant wasn't that corporate. It was all like m f A grad people from Yale. They'd like sing and dance on the shifts. It was the greatest job ever. I had a blast. And then Stand Up New York I was right there, that's right. I think that's the first. I think Boston Comedy Club is the first placed up. Oh my god, I I was. I don't know how we didn't overlap I might have been stand up New York, but I didn't met with Carrie Hoffman. That's that's him, that's stand up New York.

I lived right up near there. I lived on Columbus, So the restaurant was seventy ninths between seventy ninth and eightieth on Broadway. Cynthia was doing stand up at the time, and I would be on the shift and if I couldn't, if I had a spa, I would run in my uniform, I take my apron off, do a set. They would cover and run back to the restaurant. There when I was like eighty miles and started and John Cockerell and John Viner and then it was like the like the

next level up. It was like Sue Costello. And then there was that guy she was dating who was Italian that opened the Gotham Comedy Club, Chris Chris what's his last name? Uh miss Cilly. Yeah. So I started at Gotham doing six thirty pre shows and I'd bring three people, and Sue was there all the time, and now I can she was so scary, scary and she's warmed up a lot. She was totally yeah. She because she was also fairly good. I mean she she was remember she

development deals? Oh she was it then? And then I remember going to the bathroom and I came out. Now I don't know she's dating Chris. She was cleaning up the sink Carrea, and I just seen her on stage. I was like, why did she clean up the sink area? And then with that Boston accent, Chris is my boyfriend. We got a clean up the clot like, I was amazing. I was so nervous around her. So we're your first set ever was at the New York Comedy New York Comedy Club. How did you do it? Was? I think?

Probably terrible. I just I just remember being like I did it a couple of times that it didn't go well. But I remember being like, I love this and I just need to take some time and learn about stand up. But I would do that. What I did was I just wrote, and then I followed Judy Golden Jim gaffickin around New York City and I'm not kidding. I went to so many different clubs and the lineup those are

two are my favorite. Just watch and I would just watch them and watch them and then uh yeah, just watch a lot of stand up, and then I came back like five months later, did a set at New York Comedy Club and when passed away Judy Gold, No no no, no, there's another Gold. There's a different woman. Remind no, no, no, no, no, there's another one. No God, there was another woman who my friend wrote a show about that he was friends

with her. She was she was also a groundling and her name was either Judy or last name was Gold. And I was getting Okay, it's not the same person. So sorry, sorry Judy, Sorry jud fans, I'm sorry everybody I would think better than ever. I mean, she's she's amazing. She is. So you follow them around and you're like, Okay, that's that's my that's what what's possible, What's that's a

great thing about? I mean, I mean you went through it. Yeah, look at those shows that we were on and I was like, oh my god, these are the greatest comedians in the world when I look back on and again, I do talk about this in the book, But like when I got to Chico, I started before New York.

I was in Chicago when I was nineteen, and I had never had any desire to do improv, but I landed at this place, the Improv prov Olympic Theater, and like the house team at the time was Adam McKay who went on to go Right Anchor Man and won an oscar for like you know, the Big Shore Um, and then it was future UCB founders Matt Besser and Ian Roberts, and then it was um. Like the people that were there, it was like Ali for a knock. It was just it was just Laura Kraft who went

on to go Horatio saying Horatio Stand. It was Rachel Drafts. It was just like this. Everyone was so good and it was all before they went to Second City, so like it was it was like they were at the height of their powers, but nobody, like the second thing got to Second City. Then they all got picked to go to New York to either be on SNL or like The Daily Show or whatever. But like watching who was there when I was nineteen, seeing what was possible, it was like wow, look at them go, look at

them go. But it's so inspiring. I mean in New York you would just go from club to club and and then when I started doing pre shows at Carolines, um you have to bring like ten people on a Monday night. You know Andy Angle those shows, Um, you know it went really well and I would always bring people so um he let me just come into Carolines And when my favorite people came into town, I watched them go in the back and watched like Brian Reagan still those day, one of my favorite comics. I watched

him extensively every time. He's so bad that he's amazing. Who was that guy? That Dustin? Who is like dust I loved Dustin Chafin, Justin Chaffin for the last ten years. Um is uh with Leah um Banama, but they never remember how to pronounce her last name. I've gotten to know her through her trips back to l A and I'm obsessed with her. She's wonderful. They've been dating ten years. I can't believe we did not know each other. Who was your comedy buddy? Who is your comedy Jessica Curson?

Jessica Curson, who was just funny? Well this is going to air later, but check out her. Bill Berb produced her Comedy Central special That's amazing came out, but it came out last night. I got great reviews. She's amazing. Um, I mean she should have had that special ten years ago. You know, isn't it kind of interesting? Like she's been doing comedy probably twenty twenty plus years and like kills every single time she's on stage, but she's not on

television and just got a special. That's what I mean. You know what I mean? You know it's Yeah, it's a possible of followers. I think it's also um, oh guy, yeah, some of the people who you're like, oh, I don't want to go aft, don't make me go after them. Don't make me go after them, they're too good. It was Karen Bergreen marrying Growdan, Jessica Kerson. Um, those were like, yeah, buddies. And then when I started doing uh this guy, Ron

Pool had a show called Pool Party. That was a real game changer for me because that was every Friday and Saturday in Midtown and that's where I met a bunch of gay comics. So that was a game changer. When did you come out? Um, so I remember hearing about this. I didn't come out on stage until maybe

eight years in. I remember you say that like you were working with people who knew who you were working at a restaurant and you like, oh, the girl, Oh the you were talking about this wing was how you were working on Like there were people like they were like waiting for you to come out, and oh yeah,

everyone was waiting for me to come out. I had no idea but the but like the third day in Manhattan, my sisters worked at Garage Restaurant is no longer, which is such a shame um, which was you know, heart of West Village, and there was a bartender Mary. Remember this. I sit down. This is like literally my third day in Manhattan. I sit down. Now, I am the gayest, but I have no idea. I had an inkling at that point in time. I had an inkling. But when

i'm I'm not. This is not exaggeration. She said, we're talking and she goes, oh, you play for our team. Remember this, And you don't know what she was talking about. And I had no idea what she was talking about. And I literally said are And I said, oh you have Garage has a softball team. Oh my god, this is the cutest. That's the cutest. It makes me love you even more. And I already loved you. Had to eleven on the skip in to ten and now you're like af is off the chart. I was like, two,

you're adorable. I was so excited to play softball. May I as gonna say back in the day, no one, no one I grew up with, came out so much later, like it wasn't a thing. I feel like now people can come out much younger. People are coming out. When they fly out of the wall, it's like nothing. It feels like God, thank God, it's like not a thing. But at the time we didn't have people were coming out like it wasn't it was. It was, it was. It just wasn't as common. Now it's like not a thing.

It was not encouraged, even remote, No mean shameful, it was terrible. It was just a non issue. It's like, oh, nobody's gay, but not really like it just was like a non things. Friend in high school, Becky second base shagging the shortstop two years older. I knew, but I had no I have since probably apologized seven hundred nine times in my life because I knew, but I had

no vocabulary. But I didn't have a vocabulary. If she was shagging the shortstop and it was a guy, you know what I mean, So just Irish Catholic push it down till your ankles exposes. So she said, so she said, you played for our team. You're like, you have a softball team? And I said, and she goes and then and then she goes, oh, oh um, yeah, you'll figure it out. Was she cute? I mean, oh, yeah, like okay, but I you know, I, I and I and I said oh, And I remember going, huh, there's not much

to figure out. You either have a softball team or you don't. Please tell me. You say this on stage. You don't talk about this. I don't. But I was like, what am I going to figure out? I'm either That's what I said, what I said before I went out, and I was like, I had I thought. I said to her, I said, oh, do I have to work at Garage to be eligible for the team? I can't even. I was literally trying to get information. Yeah, you were like,

how do I stand out? Do I? I'm not because I'm not gonna work year, but if you need actra I remember saying if I'm not gonna work here, but if you need extra players, And then she said, oh, you'll figure it out. And I can't figure it out until you give me the information. You either have a team or you don't. You're like, where's that way? I'm ready to go to this or not. I want to play for your team. Why are you not letting me play for your team? I mean? And then what happened?

And then a couple of years later I made out with a lady who worked whose brother worked at the garage, who initiated it. Yes, we it was the clearest. I can't remember how I even put my pants on yesterday, but I remember this moment for the rest of my life. Still at the garage, going to see some friends band um, I had twenty eight Gin and Tonics just around them, out of gin loving it. We I grabbed her and I said, oh, let's go over to this place. I know she's gay it. We go to the band place,

my sisters are there, all our friends are there. I go to the bathroom. She follows me into the bathroom, pushes me up against the bathroom stall. We make out, come out of the bathroom gay. That's the best, and that was it, with no one to tell Hammered. I was like, uh, like, I just I went into the bathroom straight, came out gay. No one available for talking. Who did you evente? How? Who? Who? Just was like, and so I lived in Brooklyn with my best friend Carrie.

Still didn't tell her, didn't do anything for like a year. Then started sort of hanging out with this woman and then I was like, I have to tell her. And I said, Carrie, I've I've been making up get I'm get Becky maybe gay. She goes, you're the guest. Okay, great. I was like okay. She's like, yeah, God, I've been waiting for you to tell me. It's so annoying. So what do you like? Her like, what's going on? And I was like all right. And then I called my

other really good friend Adrian. I said, I've got something to tell you, like and I was shaking, and I go, I'm I'm gay. And her reaction was she screamed and she goes so excited. Had nothing but good news, nothing but good news. And then I could tell my sisters. How is your how are your how is your parents? Less than thrilled? But but fine. I just knew it was going to be super, super awkward. The most Catholic of all cathol Right, okay, but my mom asked me,

Mary fully asked me if I was gay? And I rerouted the conversation was eight am, wed, I've been home for a week, and I was taking an Amtrak train from Rhode Island back to New York at maybe ten thirty eight am. I'd been with her. That's too expensive any um. Yeah, And so I kind of rerouted the conversation and she asked you. I mean, she probably knew the whole time, and she wanted to make it okay

for you. Okay, that's my mom dinging. No, that was I'm gonna try and that I was just in case Padget arrives, I should just tell her, will you text her to text you? That's what we'll do. Is she joining know she's in a half an hour, but sometimes she shows up early and the thought of Paget holding up, Paget out blocking her out. Okay, we're back, so I'll try it anyway. Yea. So it was awkward and she

was like you know, broad kids stuff. Then she's like, well, I'm devastated, and I was like, I know you would be. And then two seconds later she's like, we have to return the movie at Blockbuster. Blah blah blah. Okay, keep it moving. When moving turned, the movie went home, light and polite, walked through the door and I was shaking, like what is she going to say? And she's like, cut out an article on Billy Crystal and how from my a RP magazine about how he does. And I

was like, all right, this team probably be it. And then nothing. And then two months later I was dating someone. I was like, can I bring Chilly home for Thanksgiving? And she goes, yeah, of course. And that was it. And you never talked about with your dad, never spoke

about it with Dick Foley, This is amazing. He loved that he was traveling so much for he was like literally on a on a fishing boat out a Rhode Island at a point you And the day I moved in with my girlfriend Karen, I said, He's like, what are you doing today? I said, Dad, I'm moving in with Karen. Didn't moms tell you? And he goes right, yes, yes, right, yeah, yeah, right right right yeah, uhh uhh uhh yeah, And it went and it went on for like a minute and a how And I was like, I think I think

he's trying to be cool to you know what. When I watched that movie The Queen about Princess Diana's death and then people were all mad at the Queen and how she's always like let's go for the walkies, at the quirkies. Like my family is so listening, and I kind of there's a certain appreciation to like, Okay, we're good. Like it's so not this world of like like like, look,

it's it's important. I'm glad that in my real life I could talk about things with my friends and my like, but like there is something to be said for like, Okay, who are good everything, Okay, let's do we never gonna talk about this guy. Now we're good. Okay, okay, Like so like that's just that was your family as well. Oh yeah, yeah that's New England, New England. That is full New England. Yeah, New York. I think it's Irish.

I think it's Catholic. Push yeah, like keep it down, you just keep it moving, keep it polite, a little bit formal and and and just change the subject and go to t J Max. Whether Yeah, we're gonna go to Michael's Crafts. We're gonna go by a blue gun. We're gonna get some pomp pomps, let's get some mournaments for the tree. You're gonna get a new how was your year. My entire year was great. My hear my year was so good. It was my year was so good. You know it is, uh yeah, it's really I I appreciate.

I appreciate when nobody like there is something to it, like some I you know, I think it. The troublesome is now in the romantic area. Like my partner is always like I need more, and I'm like it. That's how it's been better as I've never dated anybody that needed more. Think I actually I did date one guy, but he sucked and he didn't think I was open enough and and he was also awful. So if somebody needed a lot for me, I don't think i'd be the right Pass my river. Two ounces of fluid and

you're a sixteen ounce cup. This is this is how much water is in there. I can't give you more. Oh my god, they did not know. They did not. Oh yes I did. Can I ask you a question, and I know you can just tell me when we have a half hour. When writing the book, what was the one thing that you didn't plan on talking about that you talked about it or like the biggest kind

of discovery. I will say there was two things one they they publisher requested a chapter on how I got from a town with a general store to being on television at the age of twenty two, like how did I what happened? What did I actually do? Like to have go from stars in my eyes to actually having a job on a show. And I found it to be so uncomfortable to write because it's like to hear the voice in your head of like who cares? Like who the fund? Do you think you like? Okay, Merl Streep?

This is how here's how I didn't you want to like, you know, you two want to be covered in cat like but I'm but I have to say re reading it and like reading it back, like as I've been like you know, readying it um to see like oh if I was if I was little me and somebody had grown up in the little town, I would want to know the nuts and the bolts of this led to this, led to this, led to this, led to that chapter. Physically, I kept blacking out when I was

writing it, like it would like take me. The voices in my head were so loud of like who do you think you are? Like who? Oh? Okay, Jennifer Lawrence, like this is how you got to be the number eleven on the call sheet. Honestly, you know what I mean? It was like very very I felt very braggy. It was very antiiny Nglan like not flashy, like not braggy um.

And then I think the other thing that's like I never and I mean, the book is very funny, but like I never in a million years again when I sold, when I wrote the proposal, like I act think I've written a comedy version of like the Year of Magical Thinking.

At the very end, I never thought that I would be an expert on grief or like for my own like and I would never thought I would a growing up in a house where people never talk about things that I would actually like if somebody else is going through something at the very I have like here's things

that have helped me. It's never what I ever would have imagined that any book that I would have anything to do with it would be like how to deal in a real way, in an honest way, like that was certainly not what I ever thought I would be writing about. Ever, it sounds awesome. I'm really I love that I really read Island. I mean, grief Island, dude, it was d one of grief. I write it. Actually

it's funny like so there's unfortunately to death chapters. It's like my dad and then people want you know, I can't wait to read. But I talk a lot. I'll talk a lot of how the podcast very much so has been surprisingly a large part of like putting Humpty back together again, because this thing, this seemingly silly thing that's about hairless people falling in love, you know, like that in the strangest way, has helped me to get

to know people. I've never played sports before, so it's given me like a sport and a team, something that's sort of meditative when I'm watching the bats and taking my obsessive notes like a serial killer like that. That this has been very much been a large part of putting Humpty back together again. Well that's fantastic. How are

you dealing with your dad? Um? Yeah, it just doesn't it's it's it just seems like the summer was kind of brutal, but we had I'm just very lucky that we had that small window where he was okay to move them into my sisters. I know there was a long time coming. That was really it was a really a rough couple of months because I didn't think we could physically get him on a plane. How did you do that? He came out of the hospital healed enough

to literally physically got him on a plane. I went back to Florida, like every couple of weeks, moved, Megan took a week off. We got the literally put them on a plane, clean the house, put the stuff in the you all put the stuff in the car and drove. You drove it. We drove from Florida to god a moving van. But the rest of the stuff we like gave away, we sold, We put in a car and mean and I moved drove the car from Florida, Texas. Because you're quiet about it. You're quiet about it. I

just I it's it's awful. It just sucks. And also, like the state of the Union, life is hard for everybody. I'm gonna be like, let me tell you you know what I mean. Um, now, it's the I always have to like try to stay positive. But the wonderful thing is like my sisters there, they're safe, they're in a house. Like he's back in the hospital. But um, you know, we're coming in ten days for the hot holidays, Like he's where he's supposed to be. Are they in Waco?

They're in Waco, Okay, I drove there. I drove to Waco when I was filming in Dallas because I'm obsessed with Fixer Upper, so Rebecca remain also obsessedive Fixer Upper. And Jerry O'Connell rented like f one fifty and we drove a gigantic truck. This this is when I did that horror movie Satanic Panics. We drove off. We had one day off. We'd been shooting nights, so we slept till like three pm. Rented enough one fifty, drove to Waco to look at to go to the Magnolia Silos.

I gotta tell you. We were driving all over Waco and we're like we could live here, Like it's it's really really cute, and just in the four years Haterror has been there feels like it's been transformed. Chip and Joanna Gains are nailing it every else. And I'm even such a psycho that I went online and I got like a driving man of like this was this house?

This is so like we stopped. We drove from house to house and I was like like I found, like we found like the Shotgun house that they bought for like thirteen thousand dollars and then like renovated, and I'm like, I'm like, why don't I'll just move to wall Like when I took my partner there when we were I was doing she was in Austin. She came to me and Austin we drove to wait for the Best. I loved it. It's very religious, but that's the only things

very It's very conservative. But we met, you know, Sarah's like I want to I want let's buy a house. You can buy how like I know you can buy a palatial estate for like three grand. And they're so cute. They're so cute. Chip and Joy and Gains really a nailed it. I thought I have to say this silos again.

They were closed, but Rebecca Remain and Jerry Cuttle and I were one of like twenty people outside of the closed silos, like taking selfies in front, like and they were so much I thought they were going to call, Like those two should have called Chip in Joanna like open it up. Yeah, they should have come on, come on you if I can Super Molly, if you wore in the wings you can get in. I will say that like it was it was less. It was like less kitchen. It was like so cool and cute, like

it's loved it. Yeah, so your parents must be happy there they are. And you know what since Tara I think that's her name, righte slash. You know she's a professor, so Baylor. So they have gone to like the orchestra a Baylor, uh you know, acchoir a base. But like the facilities, Yeah, that's awesome, the Philharmonic, like Baylor's amazing. So what we're holidays like growing up in the fully household,

give me Christmas morning? Oh well, first of all, most people I feel lucky that Like everyone's like, what are you doing for the holidays? I'm like, can't wait because I love Christmas. I love any holiday. I love lights, I love I love whatever. I love a holiday party. I love it all. I love the weird, like all the cloth, Mocha's that, like any kind of anything. I've been killing it in my office, bringing in all the office decorations because I've never had an office. YEA discovered

the store. Oh that's where I get so many of my big holiday party every year. And I get a lot of it at the day. It's the best way if you don't out there guys, if you look, you're probably listening to this. It's probably mid May. But if you are like for whatever holidays coming up. If you're like I want to start a uh whatever, collection of Fourth of July, collection Day, Labor Day, Halloween, f start flight,

you get whatever whatever. You go to the n nine cents to get a nice base, and then you can pick and choose some booge from like anthropology or whenever on sale on sale or appeer one good appeer one, get it on sale. You're nice. Base at nine store is my full base. Um, I load up stick it on the office walls. That was my full base for years until I started throwing a birthday slash Christmas party. Not for but I'm just saying for the office. By the way, it's like you can get like fifteen silver

balls for a dollar. The best is I kept looking at the back of the items for a price that's right, and then I was like, I think you're beautiful is a good thing? You're beautiful? Can I just say I've traveled with Aaron Folly and I've said this before, and

I've gone out numerous times. You were like a magnet for straight lady who like they have like one glass of shibilis And all of a sudden, who wasn't We were at like some casino and new that was not on the strip, and like the manager was like, let's just say someone was maybe Olivia Month could throw me on the desk and make out and that like like she was dating the man that like ran the casino. But she kept playing a fun game with Aaron and I like, let's just say you made out with Yeah,

what's the problem, Let's do this. It was crazy. And then she ran away and then she basically was throwing yourself and she's like we're gonna do this, We're gonna do this. You're like okay, She's like, how how dare you? That was an You got so drunk and you were like you I'm friended everyone on faceboo. I can't even we can't talk about that. Yeah, and then you and I did everything that you've done. It was a disaster. It was in the right. I didn't even know you

that well. It was like you mean Marylyn rice Cup? Yes? Was it was it? You? Me and Orsi Also funny both funny um and so eron fully big dream? What do you? What would your dreams for twenty twenty? The dream for is I want to continue writing on a show. Yeah, hopefully on one day at a time. If it gets it airs well, it'll be airing when this goes out, because it will air in the spring, start airing March.

I'm hoping. The dream is that it gets picked up for season five and I get hired for season five. So it's been an amazing experience so far. And and uh, are you still touring? Nope, I've stopped. I've just doing local shows for stand up. But now I'm going to take a nice long break because it's exhausting having a full time job. I wake up at sixty morning. My life is just kind of and I have never taken a break in twenty years. And I'm taking a break.

So I'll resume in a couple of months. That's fine, And I take a break. I canceled all my shows this year. I was like, I'm gonna give myself one full year. From my mom, I can't do it. You're working around the cloth. I was like, I can't do it. I was like, I'll give myself one year and then I'll get I'll do live podcasts and stuff like that. But um, one year and then I'll get back back on the horse. I can't do it. Yeah, well that's just you being healthy and taking care of yourself like

I can't. I can't. It's it's just this weird shift where your my whole identities stand up and now I'm like, who am I? But it feels totally great just to take a breather. Um. Yeah. And then I moved in with my partner for February. First when to force her into marriage because that's romance that keep writing and to be healthy and to be uh with Sarah's one, that's my goal. Final two questions. Were you popular in high school? I was? I knew you were. Of course you were.

You were in a just popular and Wells was popular. Yeah, I bet you, Lauren, but like but not mean girl pop. I mean you well like I was fun and I played sports, and I like queen prom Queen. I was not prom Queen. I was. It was Becky and I was. She was second base. I was left field and we were vice president president four years, so we ran the school. No, I knew it. I knew it. We have so many like we've the people. We've done a few of these so far, and everybody's been popular. I was socialt okay.

Last question, opening night, you're getting out of the limo as as a contestant on the Bachelorette, what do you wear? Full football outfit? And I do an aggressive forward roll batchotball, spike it and I go, let's do this and I can take the helmet off. And you've got black hair, black hair, longer hair, Yes, I got black under my eyes. Yeah, and uh yeah, I'll have to come up with some sort of Yeah. I love it, like spiking the ball. Hopefully don't hit her when I know what if you do,

you do though, I love them out it. Then I just give her like a buddy nose and I like that. I like that you keep haired tight capris or the other thing would be full center night fever. You know the jacket adder, you know, the staying alive is on. Just dance my wayes. I picture myself obviously, we know I'm in the I'm in this short in the front, long in the back, I'm in the mullet dress. And then I'm now picturing myself doing like a barrel rolled

like like that head like the Sonic Hedgehog. Like I roll, like I roll up with like sparks, like I figure out how to have like sparks goases. I'm like rolling so hard and that I attempt to do a split, but I'm really inflexible so that I'm just kind of like stuck in my mullet, like stuck there. And then I'm like, can you give me a hand? I like it? Right, I like it. It's like and then it's like and then it's like, oh, she's human. She's not just awesome

like a hedgehog. She's also human because she needs because she's stuck. That's what I like it. Another thing now that you're talking, which is, um, you get out of the limbaum and then you look at him and you go do you love dirty dancing? Yeah? Yeah, and be like let's do the lift a sprint in the corner and then you sprint at him and then I jump and you jump, and you just hope it works out.

I just hope it works out. And then like we fall and like my snooche falls right in his face by action, and I'm like maybe and then like she's had a control and like she's not even drinking. Yeah, she has had a thimble. She's had hammered the peanut greene. She's had one thimble the peanut greene, and she's hammered um. In conclusion, I know this will be airing later. I know we're doing draft picks next week. Yes, how excited

are you for Peter's season? You know, I had gotten a fairly busy, thank god, the last couple of months. But when I walked into this company, got excited. Clubhouse of Drinks, you got excited. I thought, oh god, I'm getting pumped. It just gets fast. That's Sunday at four. Fly in that morning. Come do it with me and Paget and Rob. Just come do it and then go back that night. Maybe come and do it. I mean, I want if it was Saturday, it would be no brainer.

This Sunday stuck there you get stock. But it is so close, it's so close, you're not gonna get stuck. All right, let me think about that. We'll fly you up and everything. Right now, I just get nervous about like the job and stuff. I get it. Why don't we just make sure that you leave the stage by five? Like well, this you just leave if I could take like a flight back in the burbank. I actually think this could work. You gotta calm, you gotta calm. Patch

is going to be there one podcast at time. Yeah, um wait, Patge is gonna be Yeah, Patch is gonna be there. In conclusion, Katie Anna, what would you guys wear? What would you wear? Um a really really long gown that people need to let carry handlers? Are you gonna bring handlers like children? Or you have like like like like four like six four year olds dressed in like

foot like foot servants, like like like mice fancy mice. Yeah, clear, like immigrant children that I'm like, I'm giving them opportunity. Oh yeah, they would love that. That would be That would make ABC look woke and also not woke. Katie, what are you doing out of the limo for Peter? I've never thought of that. I have to think of it.

What are you going to work for Peter? Peter? You have to dress us an airplane, I would or a sexy stewardess, a se actual airplane, like I have wings, because remember like he was pretending to be an airplane in that one scene in the last season, like they're going down the jet weight, He's like, I would just dress us a fucking airplane. Yeah, I would piss you off. I would come in after you and I would him

glide in and knock him over. I would like start from some other house in Calabasas and have somebody like a touch a cord to me and drive me down pc age like on the back of a homer trying to get and then I would release that like the clip that would attach me to the homer, and then I would just like dive bomb in and like and like like short shorts and like like a real titty top and like a cape a cape, and then I would write sexy Stewart as alert and then I would

like come dive bombing in and then and then put my snooch nearest face. I'm gonna revise my answer and go as the person that cleans the plane right after the plane lands. I'm gonna go in a full onesie that's right, just like just with a couple of garbage bags and be like, everybody off, We're gonna get this wet this next flight. Okay, I'm gonna revise mine. I'm gonna revise mine. I'm gonna be the guys like out

on the flight char Mac. I'm gonna have the glow thing and but I'm gonna have to go right to my crotch right my crash it does kind I'm gonna wave it in. I'm gonna go right to my crotch and then and then at my crotch, I'm gonna have attached like when Katy Perry would tour to shoot whip creamer moves. I'm gonna have a windmill and it will say like knock knock, butter coll. I'm just gonna split around and then it's gonna have like a video screin

of his mom cheering for him, fucking on my legs. Yeah, okay, I'm gonna revise. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna be dressed and I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna drive up in the gas oil tankers that refuel the blames come out with the hose. Are my vagina going back to the gas tanker? Feel like? Are you ready to take a spell?

I don't know you, guys. I'm gonna come in as a present day val Kilmer flooded like and I'm gonna be topless and my chips flying my like like almost dcomes flying and I'm gonna go, are you hey, eight, are you ready to play? Are you ready to do the blue scene with me? But like beach ball version, and then to be like volleyball. I'm gonna volleyball and like a sand pit. And then I'm gonna be like, tell me about is stud and I'm gonna and I'm gonna play both the part of Meg Ryan and and

present day fat Val Kilmer. And then I'm gonna have I'm sorry cruise and right and then and then I'm gonna be like then I'm gonna be like, you're my You're my goose man. And then I'm gonna and then I'm gonna tackle them. Feel the need the need for speed? All right, last revision, I'm gonna get out of the limo and go I'm get back to the limit and then just keep it moving, keeping a little bit. You keep it moving, guys. I don't know what else you

want from a bonus podcast. You aren't expecting this. I don't know what you're waiting for. And your payment could just be one purchase by by the boat, by the book, by the boat, by the best little contented I'm not gonna lie to paid like fourteen dollars to write it, so like at least make me look popular. Everybody gets the book. Just get the book. I'm gonna rob a bank. I'm gonna buy eight thousand copies. I'm gonna go straight

to number one. I'm gonna rob a bank next to and then I'm gonna go to jail and they'll be like, you can't have your earnings because you robbed a bank. The City Bank on Glendale Boulevard. I'm coming for you. I'm giving your head, I'm grab robbing. I'm robbing the Chase Bank at the corner of Lost Les Boulevard and Hillhersh I'm coming for you. Sad Credit, Ferrero Union in Bank. I know where you are. Apple Bank on the other read side in Manhattan on seven or third or Broadway.

Even though you're small bank, I'm still gonna rob you. Uh oh yeah yeah, sal Santander Bank in the Commons and Little Cops and Rhode Island. I'm gonna come to a book signing, but before I do that, I'm gonna rob you. And I'm gonna buy myself a four thousand of my own books. And I've already read Bill and Ann's gas station off the Core fourth in Maine, in

Rhode Island, I'm coming firm. We're gonna rob you at that point, and then we're gonna buy artist books and maker number one seller, and then I'm gonna go, hey, hey, it's me, knock knock, knock, knock, butter cop. You have a horse, your mom in a windmill. But I'm gonna have like a stocking on my head, but I'm gonna have great hair. I am sweating and enjoying what I really feel like. We went to Nationals on this wests we passed State. We went right to Nationals and guess what,

we had four clear eyes that we couldn't lose. We left it on the field. We left it on the field, and we left it on the field. You leave it on the dance floor, and you leave it on the field, like, I know you all the better. So when I meet you on my dance floor next week, you're gonna know I mean fucking business. I'm gonna look at you. Our eyes are going to connect and be like, we're gonna leave it on the dance floor and we're gonna rob a bank. Happy you're here. Thank you guys, for listening.

Aaron Folly, I love you, love you right back, I see you in San Francisco by Oh Yeah, I want to get all up tonight so good. I just gotta one of the questions where you reach this role, roles in your world, rules into your world. Will you accept this Rose is a production of I Heart Radio. For more podcast on iHeart Radio, visit the I heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.