Today's guest has her own podcast, The Brosky Report. She's a comedian, a content creator, whatever that term means. She is a one of a kind. I'm thankful to spend time with her today, Ms. Brittany Brosky.

Shine that light on me. I'll sit and tell you my stories. Shine I'm on me, and I will find a song I've been singing. I'm on this stuff. Good to see you, Brittany Brosky.

Thanks for coming.

This is a dream, Mr. Vawn.

Oh, that's sweet of you to say that. Yeah, what's going on? How's your day going?

Man, I've been up since seven. Really? Doing a podcast tour today. Are you? Yeah. Do you know Cody Co? He's a YouTuber?

Yes.

Yeah, I know who he is. White guy. He's in the White guy Network. The funny White guy Network.

Wgn. That's him.

You got the WGN? Yeah, I filmed with him this morning.

Oh, that's great.

I was podcasting a lot. I've got my own podcast as well.

Yep, the Brosky Report.

You got it. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I was watching a clip of... I was watching an episode, actually, and you're singing. You're like a singer. Thanks.

That's nice. Yeah, that Céline Dion song.

That's it. Yeah, it was so good. Who are you? Yeah, did you have that skill? For some of my audience that doesn't know, I know you're from Texas. I am from Texas. Right. And I know you're extremely funny.Thank you so much.Yeah. Some of your stuff, the stuff where you're in bed and...

On the toilet.

Yeah, I'm on Secret Brittany, I guess, is the one I'm on.

You do not follow my account.

Is that yours?

Yes. Yeah. I'll freak out.

I like Secret Brittany and the... Yeah, just the It's just so...

I think it's called aggravated mental illness.

Okay.

That's, I think, the medical term. Is that what it feels like? It's what it feels like. It's like, you remember when they used to tour circuses of people?

Oh, yeah. You You mean the specialty guy? This lady can catch her ovary in her mouth or whatever?

Bearded woman. I feel like bearded woman sometimes like, But it's me filming it being like, Check this shit out. That's how I feel sometimes.

Yeah, sometimes it is weird because you're the subject and the director.

Exactly.

Yeah.

That's interesting. It's like found footage.

Yeah. Of yourself.

Of myself.

Yeah. My brother called me that. He's like, Man, I watch this video and it just This old comedy video, you just made me damn tear up. I don't know what he's talking about. It's like a clip somebody made or something. I'm trying to fucking get some Chick-fil-A. I'm like, I hate that when you're having a sentimental moment, you have to roll down the window to tell the Chick-fil-A person what you want. Yep.

You're like, One second. Yeah, let me get a six-piece grilled. You ever tried their grilled nuggets?

Uh-uh.delicious. Really? Yeah.

I would recommend.

You know, there's supposed to be a secret menu at McDonald's. Have you heard about that? Mm-mm.

I'm not in the secret menu club.

Can you look up some of these secret items that they have over there?

You mean seasonal? What is this?

Yeah, you can add an egg to your burger.

Now, what do we think is in a McDonald's egg? Probably not any egg. I don't know.

I mean, yeah, it's probably mostly... It's got to have some egg in it, huh? Yeah, I wonder if you raise a McDonald's egg to completion. Is Is that the term?

Okay, from fertilization to burger. Right.

From when grimace and whoever.

Can you look up who's the racist McDonald's guy? Isn't it the Irish one? You know about this Lord, the like, Seamus O'Sumpton O'Hanigan. He's like this forbidden McDonald's character that's like a raging... He fights for the IRA or something like that.

Oh, he does? But it's made up. For the Irish- Republican Army. Oh, that's Who it is, huh?

Irish Central. Here we go.

Oh, yeah, Irish Central. Who was Uncle O'Grimmacy? And was he really in the IRA? Wow. So this is a real... How the 1970s Shamrock Shake-toating McDonald's It's called Uncle O'Grimmacy- Uncle.

He diddled somebody.

Got mixed up with the IRA. They used to have some really intense story lines before America was like, We can't handle this.

Yeah, we need to lock this down.

With St. Patrick's Day season upon us, the legend of Uncle O'Grimmacy, as well as his cringy green Shamrock vest and diddly eye accent lives on in YouTube, thanks in part to the US-based nonprofit.

Is there a video?

No way. Here we go. Mcdonald's Shamrock Shakes. Mcdonald's everything looks green. Oh, green butterfly. I'm green footprint.

Uncle O'Grimmacy.

Hello, boys. I'm back, and I'm painting everything green.

Shabbat, be Shabbat Shakes.

Shabbat Shakes are back. Yummy. Let's celebrate at McDonald's.

Shabbat Shakes, they're a beautiful green.

They just have guns. Oh, yeah.

Shabbat Shakes, they're a beautiful green. Uncle O'Crimacy.

Oh, so they're trying to bring a new character, and I guess it just didn't stick, huh?

I guess not. I do love how these character shapes are just nut-sacky in general. They were both nut-shaped. Yeah. You know?

Yeah, I think they want to give you a comfortable... Hey, you could look like this.

This is the ideal male form.

Keep coming here.

Yes.

You could look. You could be one of us. What happened to that Uncle O'Sharon? If you look it up, brother. I do want us to get to the end of what actually happened.

Yeah, I don't know how his story ends.

Here we go. Introduced the new mascot, Uncle O'Grimmacy, in 1975. The Irish uncle of the Purple Mascot, Grimmacy. Oh, he was an actual uncle.

They're related. They did a 23 and me.

They did a blood line. They did a fucking… Oh, my God, I couldn't imagine me related to that guy, would travel from Ireland each year bringing Shamrock shakes to McDonald land. Uncle O'Grimmacy was quietly phased out of McDonald's marketing after a few years due in part to an alleged incident.

In Philly. In Philly.

Philadelphia. It always happens in Philly. In 1978, where the person portraying him—scroll up, please—made statements in support of the IRA and that British soldiers were better dead than alive. Wow.

That is crazy.

That's just some typical Irish banter, though. What do you expect out of a guy like him?

If you're expecting anything other than just patriotism, you're wrong.

Yeah, if you're expecting anything... First of all, this guy's obviously some I don't want to put him on blast, but he obviously- Big on milk.

Big milk guy.

To bring a bag of milk or a bunch of milk from Ireland Yeah, you brought your foreign milk into our country.

Get that shit out of my face, dude.

Yeah, that blows me away. Uncle O'Grimmacy. Dang.

I can't believe you didn't know that.

I didn't know that that happened. And some of them were mint-flaved, too, which is insane.

I don't like that. What is a Shamrock shake? What is the flavor?

That's a great question. Yeah, I guess I just thought it was just green flavor. You know, whatever that. Not lime, though.

How Kool-Aid is just red-flaved. Yeah. The shake was- Lemon lime flavor with a vanilla ice cream.

Lemon lime, surebe, and vanilla sugar. By 1973, the shake was merely a green-colored vanilla shake. It It is now mint-flaved, so I guess they still have a version of the shake.

When you were growing up, was Olive Garden like a treat?

Yeah. We had a We had a place, Larry's Ribs. We had a place. Was it called Garden Options, I think? It was like this salad area or whatever. Okay. Or salad...

Health Food?

Yeah, a place where somebody had Julian to carrot and people drive from 20 miles to see it or something. Olive Garden was nice. It was a prom destination. Yeah.

How old were you when you went to Olive Garden for the first time?

Oh, God. I don't know. I guess whenever I really started to get a palate for the world, probably-For Italian cuisine. Yeah. 17, I bet. Okay.

Those Andy's Mints?

Oh, they're good.

I thought... That's what made me think of it, the Shamrock shake being mint I remember because we used to do Olive Garden like a birthday or a really special event. I would always want to go and those Andy's Mints, my mom would fill her purse with them and we would snack on those. She'd put them in my lunch the next day for the next week or two. It was like a real specialty. Looking back, chocolate mint, really not good.

Yeah, not great, I don't think, but I thought they were pretty good.

Yeah. Or were we just kids?

I still sometimes Sometimes if I'm leaving a place, they got those. At first, I'm walking past them. I'm like, No, fuck them. But then I get two steps away. Make that loop around.

Yeah.

I'm like, Let me fucking- Make that Uy. Let me boomerang a little.

Pull that Uy.

And get me a little minting going on.

You've toured in the UK, right? Yeah, I have. You ever tried those nasty... Actually, you want to talk about fucking nasty, the orange chocolates they have over there? I imagine if you were to scoop diary out of a toilet and eat it, that's It's awful.

Oh, wow. Offshore work, huh? Offshore drilling.

There you go.

That's crazy. What do the British do? They're still very confused.

They need help.

Well, they only have a few flavors over there. Well, they don't care about... They didn't care about food. I don't think if you go to Britain, it's not, and you go to Scotland, Ireland, wherever else you can go over there, you can't... The food isn't. Nobody's like, Hey, They come here for... It's usually potatoes, beans, sausage.

Yeah. They eat like it's still... There's Germans flying overhead. You know what I mean?

It's very much a war meal.

It's a war meal. That's government rations. Yeah.

Yes, it's very much... Yes, and I don't want to say illegal immigrants, but our semi... Our new friends in America are eating way better than this.

They always talk about this online of the UK colonized everywhere, stole the spices, stole the artifacts, whatever, and you bitch a seasoned shit with salt. You couldn't figure it out beyond just salt.

Even then. It's true. Yeah, I wonder if some of that's a ruse, because if you think if they had done all that, they would have better music. I mean, they had the Beatles. They got great music. Yeah, they had Shanne and O'Connor. They've had The Pogues. They've had One Direction.

I was just about to say it if you weren't.

Thank you. They nailed it. And they've had- Bowie. Fred, again. Is he British? Yeah.

Hell, yeah.

I believe he is.

You're locked into DJ culture.

Skrillex.

Skrillex isn't British.

Okay, I just wanted to say it. Oh, damn, you're right. He's from Ball Ham. Yeah, dude, come on.

Ball ham.

Yeah, Fred again. I saw him perform a couple of weeks ago.

You could put him in a police lineup in front of me, and I would not be able to identify him.

Well, I think that's why they named him. That's why his parents, even they were like, Oh, it's just... Again. Yeah, we get it.

Yeah, that's bro.

Yeah. It's nice. He could probably blend. But especially now that his career is getting so big, that he could just blend in. Oh, What about you? So you start out, you're in Texas, because I just want my audience to know more about you.

Yeah, let's get into the lore.

Is it okay? Yeah. Some people don't like to talk about it.

Could you imagine if I was like, I'm not really... That derails an interview, too, right? It's like, What How are we doing?

Yeah, sometimes. Well, I think it's interesting with podcasting. It's like, sometimes I forget that my audience doesn't know people. I want to know more about... I have to make sure I do a good job of introducing them.

You want to know my social security number? Let's get to it.

Yeah. If you give me a little bit of it. We can figure out.

Pull up the rest.

I'll learn the rest. You're going to pull up.

Okay. Yeah, ask away.

That's a sexy line for somebody.

I'll learn the rest.

You give me two digits of that phone number, I'll learn the rest. I'll Google it.

You give me your grandma's name. I'm finding your whole family on Facebook. Don't worry about it.

Oh, my God. Yeah, so you started out in Texas. You went to A&M?

I went to A&M. Yeah, I graduated with a Lib Arts degree.

Oh, yeah? You know it.

With a minor in Spanish.

Oh, really? I speak Spanish. Do you? I do. That's beautiful. Thank you so much. And what made you want to learn Spanish? Was it just because there were so many people speaking Spanish in your state?

Yeah. I mean, it's like You start taking Spanish classes as early as sixth grade in Texas. It's like you have the beautiful option of learning a second language for free as a kid. If you follow that all the way into a collegiate level, it's like It's a life skill that you never lose. Ideally, you have to practice it, of course, but it's great. I feel like graduating, it gives you a leg up on, I understand a different part of the world that a lot of Americans never do. They just really don't care to learn not only a second language, but about other cultures. Spanish, obviously, it's spoken worldwide, but so many different countries, so many different cultures. It's not just one Latino culture. It's very beautiful.

Yeah, I got to learn more. I got to really- Because you got a little bit of it in you. Yeah, my father's from Nicaragua. He spoke Spanish when we were children, and he would call me names. I think I don't want to say we can beep it out. I think he called me F-A-G or whatever. But he was also very It was an old. So it wasn't like a young guy calling it. It was just like an old. I don't even know if he knew what was.

He said hard T. He said the F slur with a hard T. Yes.

I think he just thought I was some kid in his house bothering him. So it makes It's like- Neighborhood kid. You got to say something. Yeah. So that was pretty wild, I remember. But he would speak a lot of it to his friends, and he would have people over, and they would smoke cigarettes and fucking play What would they play? Dominoes and just be, and my mother then would just fucking make him sleep in the living room at night.

That sounds really prosperous for you as a kid to really grow in.

It was romantic, I guess, in some ways. Because you'd always go out there and he would be out there in the living room. And then when they got divorced, my dad would wait by the window. Some guy would drop him off for him to come see us. He's like 75 at this point, 78, maybe. So he'd come and we'd go get some pizza, and then he would sit by the window in a chair and wait for his friend to come back and pick him up. And his friend was always out on the town. And so his friend-Late. Always late. It was like four hours later, my dad would just sit by the window, and my mom would turn the light off on it sometimes. Because we had to save electricity money, so she just asked him if he was okay. And then he'd be like, yes. And then she would shut it down. But anyway. But yeah, so tell us more about you. Sorry.

Shout out your dad, though.

But yeah, he had that a little bit of like... He liked telling stories from where he grew up and stuff like that. So there was some culture around, but not a ton.

Okay. That sucks. I feel like you could have really connected in a different life. My dad is in the Air Force.

Oh, he was?

Yeah. And he's retired now. But he flew A-10s for a while and watched Top Gun and really was like, That's it.

Instead of going in. That'll do it. Instead of going in. God, so many men that happened to, huh? Yeah.

I think for a lot of men, and correct me if I'm wrong, Tom Cruise is like, you all's Taylor Swift.

I think he was. And then he got so rich and weird or allegedly weird.

The scientology of it all.

Yeah. What did you get so known that Then the media shapes whatever they want people to think you are. You don't have any real... Sure. Who are you going to tell?

Yeah, I think Tom Cruise, for a lot of... Specifically Tom Cruise and Top Gun, for a lot of men, it was like, That's the coolest thing I've ever You know what I mean? Yeah. Really changed a lot of people's lives. My dad was in the Air Force. He does contract work for the government now, but he really loved it. We moved around a lot when I was a kid, and I lived in South Korea for a bit. No. I did. Then we moved back to the States. I've lived all over the Southeastern United States, anywhere from Arizona, Texas, Alabama, all the way up to Virginia. Then I ended up at A&M, and I loved it. I loved A&M. I really did. Yeah, it was great.

Wow. So living in South Korea, do you even remember living in South Korea? Mm-hmm.

I was in sixth grade. It was crazy. I remember. I was old enough to remember. I moved back to the States after... We were there for a year, and it was just like some red neck middle school in Wichita, Falls, Texas. In South Korea? No, when we moved back to Texas.

Oh, I thought it was like Korean red neck. I was like, How would that even be like? She's Bobby Lee. The day, the current day. That's what it... Oh, shit.

Yeah.

What would an Asian red neck sound like, I wonder.

I don't know what they sound like, but I imagine it's just eating chicken and Dumlins with those cool ramen spoons. You know what I mean? That's probably... That's it. We were there for a year, though, and I remember we lived in Seoul, in the capital, and the smells were crazy. I had never in my life, first of all, been outside the US. That was culture shock at first, too. But it's a whole different... When you walk down a market, the fresh fish market and the spices, and it's just a different... It was crazy as a kid. It was scary. But then you live there for a year and it's like, I might be Korean.

You get in, you start doing some of the cultural stuff. You start like- We would bow to each other as we would because it's a cultural thing.

It was crazy. It was a lot of fun. Looking back, crazy experience is a 11-year-old, 12-year-old?

Yeah. Oh, I bow. Anytime I walk in any Chinese restaurant or anything, I bow right out the gate.

They're like, You don't have to do that, man.

I'll fucking triple bow. I'll fucking see a bitch in the distance and fucking crack her off one day.

With curtsy?

If I'm flexing, yeah. I'll fucking...

This poor man, he's got some condition. I don't why he ticks like that. All we do is pray for him. You know that's one of my favorite clips on TikTok? Really? All we can do is pray for.

About the people at Vineyard Vines?

Is that what your clip was about? Yeah. I didn't know the full... What's the context of that clip?

Yeah, somebody was selling the illegal Ozempic at Vineyard Vines in Charlotte.

That's right. I have seen it.

I was worried that it was going to come into some of the communities I live in. I was like... Right. Yeah, somebody had called in about it, and I was like, this shit is just... All we can do is pray for him. It's in his hands. That's it, man. Well, fate goes in. I was talking to a girl out in LA, and every time I saw her, there was less and less of her. She was literally disappearing.

Withering away.

I'm not even joking.

Good for her.

Yeah. I mean, good for her. She can still work.

Good for her. Yeah.

But it just like... And then here was the kicker, though. One day she's like, Oh, I'm going to be out of town for a few days. I was like, Oh, what's going on? She's like, I'm driving down to Mexico to get some O'Simpic.

Some zemmi. Yeah.

Some Some Ozempika.

Ozempika. That is... Yeah, you got it.

I'm like, Well, we can't. What are we... If we're taking Mexican Ozempic... Look. What can you say? No, I'm glad I'm glad that I'm glad we are still getting drugs from Mexico instead of just China or wherever we're getting from now.

You're like, Look, I'm not complaining. She's just withering away.

But it was just she seemed like an addict. That's what I'm saying. Oh, okay. That's what this whole thing's about. Right, right, right, right. Yeah, she seemed like an addict.

You know anything about kratam? Kratam?

Yeah, kratam?

It's scary.

Yeah. Why? Have you talked to men that are using it?

I've got young gentlemen that are off the crate. No, I've got some friends who have accidentally been like, You tried this shit? I'm like, That's an opioid, I'm pretty sure. It's like a synthetic opioid, and they just sell it.

Oh, yeah. It's crazy. You can get it at the gas station. It's crazy. My nephew totaled so many of his vehicles on that. That's bad. Very alarming. What does Cratum, a tropical tree native to Southeast Asia? That sounds, first of all, fictional.

Willy Wanka.

Yeah, they could write anything. Consumption of its leaves produces both a stimulant effect and sedative effects and can lead to psychotic symptoms and psychological and physiological dependence.

What is the point?

I'm not sure.

Is it a treatment for something?

I know Brennan Schaub was It's taking it for a while. He's a podcaster and comedian. I know Bobby Lee, I guess, manufactures it. I mean, I have no idea if it's his people doing it or who brought it. It's over. Can we get a video of someone on it? I'm just curious to see the effects. I've never really sat around with someone dealing with a- Yeah, me neither.

A flare up. What you should know. Okay. It's awful. It's like a drink. It's like a smoothie. Wellness shot. That's what What do we sell?

Let me see someone under the effects of Kradam.

I always wonder, whoever you got googling back here, are they just like, Every day I want to quit?

I think they're just doing that. They don't fucking know. Every day. If they had an idea, they would already have brought something up.

Right.

That guy's on Kradam withdrawal. First ever death by Kradam.

Oh, no. It's like crack a little bit.

Yeah, I would just love to see someone under the influence.

Yeah, that's crazy. I've always wondered, what were we talking about before that?

Asia, your Korean experience. Dude, I remember the first Asian we ever had, or there was a Somebody said there was one, right? So people are like, What in the fuck are you talking about? Liar. Yeah. People were fucking beating each other and drinking Dr. Pepper and just fucking furious about it. And so me and two of my buddies, we got a taxi cab to go see where this alleged Asian guy was because it was in Slidel, Louisiana. It was 17 miles. And you can't just tell your mom, I want to go see an Asian, and they're going to bring you. It wasn't that time. And so next thing you know, we get a taxi over there. It was Pizza Hut. Remember Pizza Hut? Bring up those unique rooftop.

The combo.

No, remember the Pizza Hut had those unique rooftops?

The brick? Oh, yeah. There you go. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. A Pizza Hut had burned down, and that roof was snug on the ground. And somebody just said that Asian people were living in that. And that was the rumor that took over the area.

Do you remember? What's the pizza place that's combined with another one?

It was $17 to get over there. What's the one that combined? Oh, I think that's- You know how they'll have Baskin Robbins and Duncan?

Yeah. The combo, Double Whammy. They had a pizza. Pizza, talk about, Yeah. Bring this back.

Yeah, you like that?

I think there's something so... A patriotic tear comes down my cheek when I see that. Look at this one.

Look at this fucking arterial gang bang over here.

I was going to say for people.

Dude, this will change the pH balance in your body.

It will. It will. It's very yeasty. You show up here, yeasty.

It seems very intense.

Yeast infection. Oh, God. It's that and then an urgent care. You know how CVS and Walgreens are usually on different corners? It's this and an urgent care.

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Well, you can't handle it.

Well, if you see a Long John Silvers in a K... Do they really get along, the colonel and the fish? You just wonder if the masc are they...

Yeah. Who's the Long John Silvers mascot? Is it a fish or is it What's going on?

I think it's...

Oh, it's a pirate.

No, I think it's Mercury poisoning. To be honest, I believe my friend Billy, an RIP, he's not dead, but he ain't doing well.

Okay. He's off to Mercury.

He's got some flare up still, but he's going to be fine. Love you, dog. Shut up. He's a sweet guy.

Yeah. Long John Silvers. I could not tell you a single person in my life that I have ever known that has eaten at a Long John Silvers. Really? And they used to be with A&W. Remember that?

That's what it was. People were shook when that happened. Yeah. Long John's Overs and A&W combined. But then what happens? The kitchen combines? What happens inside?

It's the same hormonal 17-year-old slinging fish and root beer floats.

See, that's the I don't want- That was a bodily reaction. I don't want fish near my ice cream.

Near your milk?

Yeah. You want fishy milk?

Come on. What's wrong with fishy milk?

You're right. I guess I... Yeah. I said, I'll have a little. Just a bite.

Do you ever used to do the, if you don't like it, spit it out in my hand? Does your mom ever used to do that?

No, dude. My mom never saw us. My mom would drive by and yell for us to brush our teeth out of the car window.

Okay, well, I had that. I'm kidding. Okay, what happened to me?

Sorry. No, you're kidding. Yeah, why am I having this weird day where I'm just saying I'm just making it about me. Thank you for coming in. Of course. Yeah. What does it feel like? Because you didn't start out in comedy. You started out as an entertainment. What was your first way of entertaining people?

Arguably, My parents' divorce was, I have got to be the center of attention. That'll do it.

Really? You think that did it? Yeah, for sure. Wow, that's so interesting.

Yeah, I need people to look at me. I like to make people laugh from a young age, but that's every fucking funny person is like, I always just had a neck.

Shut the fuck up. Yeah, but it also is like, why? It's interesting. Yeah, why? Do you ever really think about it and think about why?

Yeah, I think it's just an innate joy to have everybody look at you and be laughing with you. You were able to create that response in a room. It's a real pat on the back feeling, but it's also insatiable. Once you start, you can't stop.

That's a good point. There's some addictive tendency to it. I never thought about that.

Yeah, it's a high.

Yeah, because then you see it's an effect. It's almost like a wizardry, I think, when you're... I'm just thinking as a kid, yeah, it's Kratum.

We got our own brand of Kratum. Yeah, it's that. I for me as a kid, and I was a theater kid as well.

Oh, yeah.

That did it. Then in college, I don't know, I did improv in college, but it was like, Improv at Texas A&M? What are we doing?

It was like-Well, that's your whole cheerleading team, it seems like. That whole thing. You mean the Yell leaders? Is this little Abner? I was like, What? I don't even know what's going on.

Yeah, the Yell leaders are going to be a point of confusion for a lot of people.

You know what? It's a point of confusion. If you don't know about it, and there were links going around like last year, two years ago, something had happened. What? There was a big video that went around.

From A&M?

A&m. And it was making... And that was the first time you saw that there was a male...

They're not cheerleaders. They're yell leaders.

Yell leaders. That's what it was. People didn't know what was going on.

Yeah, it's a lot. Because when you think about it, and it's a weird thing for me as a woman.

I respect A&M, man. Of course. My god cousin or somebody went there. James.

Somebody.

He's doing pretty well. Divorcey, but he's good.

He went there or he's there now?

He's already gone.

Okay. Yeah, he's gone. Because the history of A&M, which I don't know if you… It was a military school for the longest time. It's Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College. So women weren't allowed in until the '60s, '70s. I'm not joking. And minorities were not allowed in until the '60s, '70s as well, which is fucking late to let in.

Women then minorities?

Yeah.

Let me think if that's how I would do it.

No, I might be lying. I think it was minority men, and then they let in women in the late '60s, early '70s. Regardless, it's fucking embarrassing. But the culture at A&M now, I would argue, is very progressive. I wouldn't have gone there if it wasn't. But it's weird because they still have some of those hyper-masculine traditions like the Yell leaders. We're not going to have cheerleaders. We have, yeah. There you go. There's five of them.

Oh, there's only five each year?

There's five, yeah. There's two juniors, three seniors.

Oh, my God. There's five men each year. They must have tryouts.

Oh, yeah, it's serious.

And they show up.

It's a political race. You run for your leader.

No. And they get voted in? Oh, my gosh. I didn't know this shit.

It's crazy. And there's so many... I mean, after a game, You throw them in the pond and all this, they're in all white. It's real slutty if you think about it.

Oh, they throw these men in?

They throw the men in the pond in all white. Wet T-shirt contest, all men.

Okay, so- And we don't do cheers, we do Yele.

Okay, got it. And for different plays during a football game, we do different gels accordingly. That's really involved. It is because the crowd, you don't sit for an A&M football game, which I think is common in SEC football.

I want to go.

We should go to an A&M game. I'd love to take you. It's so much fun.

I would love to go. I love that they're in the SEC now. I think that's really fascinating. I'm trying to think of what else I know about them. I've never been to where the school is up there in College Station. I wanted to go, but I just haven't gotten to go.

Well, it's the only thing there. I mean, there's not...

I would like to go. What else does it say about the Yele team? Is there anything else? It's just such an interesting thing about the leaders, about the group. When did it start?

Do Yele leader history. There you go.

The tradition of Yele leaders began during a football game in the early 1900s. The Aggies were losing badly and the audience was growing bored. Shit. Wow. The upperclassmen ordered the freshmen to find a way to entertain their guests, many of whom had been invited by Texas Women's University. Wow.

It was separate.

But women had a part in it. In the crowd. They're like, We need to entertain these ladies.

We need to entertain the women.

Women still want to be entertained.

It's true.

The tradition of Yele leaders, the freshmen found white coveralls and began leading the crowd in Yele. They had so much fun and received so much attention from their audience that it was decided that only upper class would be allowed to participate in leading Yele in the future. Wow. So they made the younger people do it, saw that it was awesome, and then like, you can't do it.

Yeah. Actually, never mind. Give it back. It was very that. When they're going for... You got to help me out. When they're going for a field goal or for a... What's the conversion called? Two-point conversion. Two-point conversion. When they're doing that, the Yell leaders will squat on one knee under the field goal post, and it's called squeeze them, Ags, and they'll squeeze their nuts. Oh, yeah. Which is like they're bracing for them to make It's so gay. I love it.

Yeah. Oh, look at that. It's true.

That's fucking- Squeezing eggs.

Squeezing eggs, baby. We used to do it every time we passed by this town because my dad was always like, Do not ever knock anybody up in that town. He would make us, even when we were kids, he got that in us.

That chastity belt.

He's holding you nuts when you drive through there.

Protect the goods.

Yeah. You do not want to- You know what else I want to talk to you about? Knock anything up around there.

I need Caleb Presley biblically, and that's your best friend.

Just texted with him today. Special guy.

I have a crush on him that's like, it's bad because he's another SEC boy, right?

He He went to- North Carolina. Yeah, he went to North Carolina. You're kidding.

Why is he... He's like a volunteers fan.

But he is a volunteers fan. He says he played at North Carolina. He didn't.

But- He's a liar and a cheat.

True, but he's handsome.

It is true.

And he is extremely unique. You guys are similar, I think. You guys would have a really nice time. We do look alike. You think?

We look a little related.

I think maybe it's true. You guys both have blue eyes. Yeah. You have blonde hair. Yeah. Yeah.

I have the same facial hair as him.

I'm just kidding. No, look, I think it's just... Yeah.

Because he's been on your pod a lot of time. Yeah. And I've seen all your stuff. You went hunting with him and stuff like that?

Yeah, we went turkey hunting together. It was interesting because I had never been hunting, and then I don't think he'd been hunting. But some people were eating... There were some children out there eating mushrooms, and they were making everybody nervous. But Yeah, we had a great time. He shot a turkey. I didn't.

That's sad.

Yeah. Yeah. The turkeys were... Some of them, yeah. Some of them looked like they had been, I'm going to say using. But some of them were not doing that good.

Mercury. Yeah. They're off the merck.

Yeah, they were off the merck. It was like...

Off the merck.

But yeah, when you were singing When I was on that show, it was like, it's so magical. You can sing really good.

Thank you so much. It's the theater kid. I can't.

What was your first play that you did?

You're a Monty Python fan?

Yes. John Kleiss.

I did spam a lot. That was the first one where I was like, This is a lot of fun. Yep. Damn, you had that locked and loaded.

Did they? Monty Python spam a lot.

And guess what? They had me cross-dressed. They did? I didn't play a woman a single time in the whole No. They had me in a beard. What? Yep.

And did you feel... Did your parents write a note or anything? I guess, yeah, you just play what you get, but it's weird. It's interesting to have a woman just play the man in a high school or something.

It is. It's something to be said about the director looked at me and was like, Get her in a beard. Let's see her in a beard. And it worked. I did it. But I think it's a compliment to me, if you think about it, that there was no one manly enough to do it the job except for me.

You could pull it off. I can pull it off. Wow. That's fun. Was it a good time? It's really special.

Oh, it's so much fun. Because any Monty Python, it's so not PC today. You could not do it today. But they edited it down for a high school production to do. So it was It's funny. It's funny. We did Adam's Family as well. Oh, you did?

Yeah. What's one of the songs from spam a lot?

I could not tell you if you held a gun to my head. Really? Forgot it all.

Damn.

Yeah.

I remember I was a theater kid, too.

What did you do?

I did- That doesn't shock me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think I... Well, I didn't like to ride the bus home a lot of times because it was the poor kid bus or whatever. So I wanted to stay at school to do stuff. I would be like, I'm staying. I'm involved in something.

I'm in the fucking- Extracurriculum. Yes.

And I got in Key Club. No, I got Yeah, theater. And we did Sherlock Holmes. Oh, fun. It was fun. And I was doing... I was Watkins, right? And so I come out- Watson? Watson. It was a heavily urban. We had a lot of black characters, so I was Watkins. But I come out, right? And for some reason, I just did a Mexican accent for my character, and it wasn't any of the ways we'd ever rehearsed it. And so everybody is like, What the fuck, dude? Now Watkins is fucking Mexican.

Creative liberties were taken.

Yeah. And it was really selfish looking back, because Everybody was just shook and they didn't know what to do. But I kept being like, What's up, Holmes? I did it all just for that joke. And I bet it killed. It killed for a little bit, but then it was like...

You hadn't learned the rule of threes yet and all that.

I didn't have any plan. And it got old fast. Then you couldn't not be Mexican. So for the next hour and 10 minutes or whatever, you were Mexican.

You made your bed, you got to lie in it.

Ms. Porcio was so furious.

Man, I say a silent prayer for theater directors every night. High school theater directors are like God warriors. They're soldiers.

Yeah. I don't want to say that they are very similar to Who was that sergeant that helped during Katrina, that guy everybody loved?

Joel Oesteen. Can you pull a picture of Joel Oesteen?

Did he not open the church up? No. The Lord's not working during this storm. No, it's not really Joel Oesteen. It is Petraeus. It was General Petraeus. Anyway, that joke took too long. That's all right. That brain should have been better at it. Yeah, were we talking about Brittany? You were a theater kid.

Yeah, I was a theater kid. Yeah. Yeah. It's always been... But I didn't go to school to be like, I want to be a comedian. It was never on my roster. I mean, my friends in high school were like, You should audition for SNL.

So people said that to you. So you were entertaining, you liked it.

Yeah. I liked it, but it's also like, first of all, not how that works. You don't just audition for SNL.

Yeah, people don't understand it. No. They're Now, what you doing, man? You going to get you over there, do you a little something? On a Saturday night. Yeah, what's Gwyneth Paltrow doing? People text me that on a fucking Friday, bitch.

You're like, I could not tell you. Don't know. Could not tell you. Yeah, that was It's like, You need to be on SNL. I don't know. It's also, I don't know, it's a very interesting conversation because I feel like with what you do and with what I do, there is a path to success in comedy that's not... You don't have to do SNL anymore.

No, and it could derail you.

Arguably, yeah.

Would you be able to tell some of your stories and antics and have some of your same energy? Would you know each week that even something you wrote was going to get on there? It's a nice- Not at all, yeah. Yeah. I think you're totally right. Yeah.

And to be able to connect with an audience on a very personal level. You can't do that when you're always playing a character. And also on top of playing characters, having to fight for your spot every week. Why would... It can't be the only way to make it in comedy as a young person. So I feel very fortunate that... I graduated college, started working a job. I used to be an insurance agent.

Oh, you did?

And then I worked at a bank.

And then-Oh, I love going to the... I used to love going to the bank. It's a great experience.

Wasn't it so much fun? Be like, Can you make change for this 100? And they'd be like, Yeah, I can do you do that?

And you'd sign in and you knew somebody that worked at the bank. And so you'd be like, Yeah, just put my work check in. It made you feel good.

Yeah. Remember those pins that were attached to the desk? Yeah.

Bring those back. And every time one of you be missing, like, Oh, what happened here? A crime.

Okay, do we get that on camera?

Yeah.

You want to know something? I figured out from working at a bank and the doorway of every bank. So if you're the teller and you're looking at the door, there are lines that go up the vertical of the door so that you can identify if someone robs or whatever, how tall they were. No. It really is like a... Yeah. Holy- Isn't that crazy? Holy smokes. It's how you identify. So you can get like a... What's that called? Suspect Description.

Oh, Suspect Description. They just had three children robbed a bank.

Oh, good for them. Good for them.

Yeah, Houston's Little Rascals.

You're joking.

Three Texas juveniles, dubbed the Little Rascals, aged 11, 12, and 16, accused of bank robbery. The boys allegedly walked into a bank and showed a threatening letter to the teller before fleeing on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash.

Wow.

It sounds like they're bank robbers. The FBI has arrested three miners in connection with a bank robbery in Houston, and they have been dubbed the Little Rascals.

Love it. You know the 16-year-old is the ringleader, and the other two were like, Yeah, boss.

Yeah, we'll do it. Yeah, we got to work.

Yeah, boys.

Yeah, when we doing it, and they're like, Oh, we doing it next week. But then the day came and like, Oh, I thought we were just getting some candy or something.

Boys, I don't know about all this. Yeah.

Oh, wailed a little. But This is what has happened now. It's like you do a crime, you get somebody to write an article, and now they're going on tour. They're going to fucking...

They're in the billboard top 100 right now.

They're going to be They'll have a song out in two months.

Featuring Fred again.

Yeah, the Little Rascals.

Good for them.

Yeah, and that's so interesting to write a letter. What would you put on a letter? Oh, I remember, dude, one time, I was trying to flirt with the girl at the bank. And so I wrote this note.

That said what?

It was like, Hey, great to see you today at the bank. I've seen you before.

At the bank.

Would love to connect sometime, right?

Okay.

So I'm walking over and I slide it into the dish, and you can see immediately people are like, This is a robbery tactic. And one of the managers came and got it. She couldn't go to that branch anymore.

Banned from the facility.

It was ashamed.

Man. Oh, you mean like you personally couldn't, you wouldn't go there anymore?

Oh, yeah. Sorry. I wouldn't go anymore. Yeah.

I thought you meant they- Just embarrassed. They went ahead and walked you out of that building.

No, I knew. The second I'm sliding under, I realized, Oh, I see what's going on here. Yeah.

I'm sorry. Right.

They think I'm a robber, and it's just very scary to them. Yeah.

That's the plight of being a man, huh? All you want is just some love, and they're like, Get him.

Yeah. Yeah.

I feel sorry for you guys.

I wonder if it is.

You guys have it so rough.

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Mm-mm.

She's too pretty. She was going to shave her head. There you go. Iza Gonzales claims she missed out on the movie roles because she's too pretty.

Oh, God bless her.

And thought about She's shaving her head to make herself less attractive. I remember being told for so many projects, She's too pretty for the role. She's too hot for the role. Then I just be like, What is Margot Robbie? She's the hottest beautiful woman ever I've seen in my life. Even though she doesn't believe any of this is really about her. I had an identity crisis for so long time, she says. I was like, Do I shave my head?

She's changing the grammar to make it more racist.

What did she to do? Change her grammar?

I said, You're changing the grammar to make it more racist.

Am I? I don't think it's racist.

The lady- It's a perfectly beautiful English sentence, and you're skipping words because she's Latina.

Oh, no. I'm trying to make it so it makes sense to people. Because I feel like if you just say it like a white person, do I make myself less attractive? But if I'm like, do I make... It gives it like the...

I can see You're painting a picture.

I can see it coming from her. Do I make myself less attractive?

There you go. Okay.

That's wild, though.

That is a problem I never have had to think about. I'll be totally for real with you. She is beautiful.

I know. She looks very nice. Did you have thoughts like that growing up? I remember like- That I'm too pretty?

No.

I had thoughts like I was just always listening I was worried about how I look or just felt. Anything that I could feel bad about, I would find a way to feel bad about it. Oh, yeah.

You ever do the thing when you... I mean, now that like, Fame, you ever look for it online? You seek it out?

Seek out.

Like, hate or people talking about you in a negative way?

Sometimes you see stuff, and sometimes it's so accurate. It fucking makes you laugh or it's like, yeah, that's real. You damn. Sometimes you're like, oh. But I have, what do I have? I have paranoia a lot of times. I get paranoia I'm annoyed about my hair a lot of times. My body, sometimes the way my body was shaped.

I think you're beautiful the way you are.

Thanks. I'm just trying to think of things that people think. I guess everybody has things, huh?

Yeah, I was always told I looked like the yellow M&M.

Which one was she?

It's a he.

It is a man? It's a he.

Go ahead and pull up yellow.

It's up. Put him in spam a lot. That's all I'm telling you.

He would kill in spam a lot.

Cast that guy. Oh, wow. I think he has nice legs. What?

Thank you so much. I see that. I think that is the ideal body type.

Look, it's where we're all headed, I feel like.

Circular. Yeah, I got the yellow M&M a lot, and I got Mr. Incredible.

Katie Perry, I see some.

I get Katie Perry. I get Adele sometimes. That's when people are feeling nice. I see that. When they're trying to get me, I'm like, Fuck. Yellow M&M is pretty funny. I can't argue yellow M&M.

That's hilarious. Oh, Yellow M&M is nice. If something's funny, if you like to be funny and something is funny, it wins. Yeah.

Whoever has commented that on my shit, you won.

It always wins.

You look like Morgan Wallen, too.

I look like Morgan Wallows in Mud, I feel like. I used to have this joke. I would say, I look like somebody that It looks like they might have matches on them. I always thought that that was a fair description.

Yeah, that's so specific. You look like Morgan Waluigi.

I don't even know who that is. That makes you laugh.

Look up Mario and Waluigi.

Oh, yeah.

He's like the evil one. Oh, yeah. He's the evil version of Luigi.

Oh, okay.

You're the evil version of Morgan Wallen. Oh, okay.

I'll take it.

Unless Morgan Walan is also evil.

I think he's probably not.

Just to say.

Yeah, we had... I'm trying to think of any other draw. When I was a kid, we did the vampire thing one time. Dracula we had to do. A play? That was fun. It was always in theater class, you were always around some of the kids who were probably gay or closeted, too. Sure, yeah. It was just interesting because you always knew those. You got close with those guys.

Some of the funniest people you'll ever meet, arguably.

Oh, yeah. But at that time, it wasn't like... When I was in high school, it wasn't people wouldn't really say if they were gay. So I think back then you got to be around some of the kids or just kids that were maybe questioned or something. But theater was always like a hodgepodge group. I loved it. It was always the misfit. Absolutely. Was it the misfits?

Yeah. And it was the kids who got kicked out of band. You know how fucking weird you have to be to be kicked out of band? Man, the freak weirdos. Oh. Yeah. My theater group in high school was some of the weirdest fucking people I've ever met to this day. Wow. As a child, I remember being like, You're weird. As an adult, I'm like, God. It's sad, too, because it's like, What did you end up doing with your life? Usually not much.

Those kids, you mean? Yeah. I don't know. It was also we had guys that low-key could sing but didn't want to We're afraid to sing in front of other guys. So it was always that crazy night at school where you were like, We have a chorus or a choir or whatever. You had no clue you had a choir or a choir. And then it was like one week at school when you were a junior suddenly the chorus is going to perform. Everybody was dressed like they worked at a Chinese restaurant, and they would come out and fucking sing. You're like, Ricky sing?

It's beautiful.

It's fucking beautiful. Then you would see in the next scene, he would act like he had never done it, dude.

That's the thing. You got to act like he's not a star. Yes. You didn't have American idol at your school.

That's a great point. Yeah. Yeah. They had like, Yeah, I remember this one kid named... I don't even know what his name. I don't even know if he had a fucking name. It was like Caramel or something. And he sang Jules.

Like the singer Jules? Yes.

And people didn't know what to do. And the curtain closed and the world had changed. People were like, fucking Caramel did it. Never the same. Yeah, it never was the same. And yeah, you saw him and you were like, God, that guy, I didn't know. Yeah.

And you never would have known.

Yeah.

That's the beauty.

I think- That is cool. That's the talent. It was a talent show time of year when that happened. Yes.

Did you ever do the talent show?

Yeah, I emceed it one time.

You DJ? Yeah. Oh, no, you hosted it?

Yeah, just like the... Yeah. Okay. Hosted it with this funny girl at school named Rebecca.

Did you do stand-up?

No, I didn't. Once I got out of 24, I think I started doing it. Okay. Yeah. I mean, stand-up, it's been great. I don't know if I would have found another avenue to be entertaining. I don't know. Once I saw a standup, I was like, Oh, I couldn't believe it was a real job.

Period. Yeah.

You were like, I remember in college, we won tickets. They would always call you every day. I'm like, You won tickets? To what? Every day. It's all right. Usually, we just hang up or somebody would call them a name and then hang up. Then one day we were like, We'll go, and it was to a comedy show. I remember when we got there, and we knew what it was going to be. But sometimes until you see something, you don't really know what it is.

Like the Blue Man Group. You don't really know what it is until you see it.

Yeah. Did you go?

I love the Blue Man Group.

Oh, is it good? Yeah.

You've never been? We'll go there after we go to an A&M game. Okay. Sorry, continue.

No, I don't know.

Hell, yeah.

Oh, wow.

Could you pull up a video for Theo?

Yeah. You know what? I have no concept of what this is. It's like, Shane Yon or whatever.

I was going to say Shin-Yun.

Were you going to say?

I was going to say Shin-Yun.

Oh, definitely. This could literally also be a political national convention. I'll just say that. I would not be surprised.

This one, I imagine they were doing at Jonestown. In Jonestown, I don't know what was going on, but... Fast forward to where they get to the paint. They'll put me on paint.

This is Rufus DeSol, isn't it? They put paint on themselves?

They'll put paint on the instruments, and then they turn a black light on, and they'll play the drums, and it goes everywhere.

I had no idea they even music. I thought that they ran around and hid from each other.

Okay.

I literally that's what I thought Blue Man Group did. This is crazy. If you would take in this style, I would be like, No way. This is Blue Man Group. Wow.

Yeah, I saw it in Vegas with my family. Think about this. I took a family trip to Vegas with my family at the ripe age of 15, and we saw the- What is that trip like for a girl?

Because a lot of girls go on this trip with their family to Vegas at that cuspy age of like...

Yeah. I'm reading One Direction fan fiction, but also I'm afraid of men. It was terrifying, but it was a lot of fun. I thought the Bellagio was the nicest place on Earth.

Because it is. I like it.

I really like it. I like the Bellagio. Where do you stay when you go to Vegas?

Oh, God. I stay... Last time I went, I stayed at the Wind.

Wind's nice.

Because that's where I think I had a show at, and I really liked it. My friend Jasmine works over there.

Okay, cool. You had a little hookup.

So a couple of friends that work there. The people that I see, and I see them repeatedly, and I feel more at home.

Okay, period. Yeah, I like the Bellagio. It makes me feel like I'm in Italy. That's for people who have never been out of the country.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I remember the first time that we went to Rainforest Cafe.

Oh, that's a great example.

I used to take my girl there all the time.

It's a nice facility.

Well, I kept promising I was going take her to we're going to do a Caribbean cruise and get fucking...

It's just Rainforest Cafe.

I would hope, subliminally, it would help our relationship, I guess. Or she would remember, Oh, yeah, we're going to do that one day.

And? We didn't. Never did. There's nothing more romantic than going to a place where children are running around at your feet. Screaming kids. Yeah. Throwing poop like monkeys. Yeah. What? What's up?

Oh, you were in a very realistic rainforest, Catherine.

Yeah. I don't know about the one you were going to. You ever been to... This is so specific. Have you interviewed Post Malone? No. Really?

I would love to. I've met Post Malone one time.

He was groovy. He was groovy. Yeah.

You've interviewed him?

I've not interviewed him, but I've met... He's a sweetie. He's from where I'm from. Well, he's from Grapevine, Texas, which is in the Dallas Metropolitan area. I used to go to the Grapevine Mills Mall, and there's a rainforest cafe there. I did one time witness a toddler. Someone had left on the floor unattended, and they had taken off their diaper and were playing. They were going to play with the poop. That was what happened. Oh, yeah.

Oh, it's BYOB right there. I feel like for a kid, there's no other... I'm not showing showing up in a rainforest.

Yeah. With an empty diaper, dude. I'm not showing.

Yeah, it was just a child? Oh, I'm not showing up in a rainforest and just playing with something strange.

I brought my own toys.

Yeah, I brought my own toys, man. Dude, the first time I ever learned about theater and stuff, I never really thought about this, but in the apartment down from us, they had a married couple, right? And they were I believe they were gay. But both of them would always, when one of them wasn't there, when the wife wasn't there, the husband wasn't there, I would always sit there with their son. And the son, now I know something's probably wrong with him. At the time, I just thought he just was complacent. The other parent would always complain about the other one, but it would always be that they Everything they complain about it was always just like, Well, that's what a husband is, or that's what a wife-I don't like that he's got a penis. Yeah. It would be like, Yeah, I wish she used a comb. And he'd be like, Well, then you can't be upset But they would both watch musicals all the time on television. Interesting. And I would always watch... Yeah, there would be newsies, different stuff like that, different theater stuff. Okay. So it was the first time I ever saw that stuff, I remember.

That's crazy.

Then I dated a girl that worked at a Renaissance Fair for a little while.

Oh, that's fun. I love a Ren fest.

Were you a competitor? What are they called? No. Performer? Performer, yeah.

No, I wasn't. But I did enjoy... I love Game of Thrones. I'm a big G-O-T fan.

Yeah, I've seen some of you. You have a lot of references that- Yeah.

Well, I've got a show that we're trying to get. A Royal- Yeah, I got Royal Court. Royal Court. Got a bunch of...

Would love to have you on. Yeah, is it for... Do guests come on it? I haven't seen it.

Yeah, it's a celebrity interview show that we write the show around them. You just had Drewski on. We're trying to get Drewski on. He's just the busiest motherfucker alive. That's true. He rolls with like 45 people with him. So we're trying to get him on.

We had to get him a bunch of sausages and stuff when he was coming.

So what do you mean by that?

Just food items. Oh, okay. Some people want certain stuff.

The writer is just full of John Jimmy Dean sausage.

Yeah, they wanted sausages. Hell, yeah. I know. I respect it. Can't hate it. That's true. Pretty good.

Yeah, we're trying to get Drewski on. We love to have you on.

Thank you.

Backtrack. Renfest. I've only been to a Renfest. I've never performed there. But I imagine that that is crazy because you know how at a bar, all the bartenders usually are having relations with each other? Yes. Renfest is worse.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. The girl that I was dating, She ended up leaving me for a guy who was a... Did the Horses shoes or whatever. It's called a- Tossed them or cleaned them? Yeah, a farrier, the guy who reputs them on.

How do you spell that? Farrier?

Farrier. I watch a lot of those videos. I love those.

Sometimes it makes me feel weird, though.

Sometimes it's like, Hey, guy.

They'll get too deep in there. I did not know that was the word for it.

A farrier is a specialist in equine hoof care, including the trimming and the placing of horses' hooves and the placing of shoes on their hooves, if necessary. My sister married the son of a farrier.

Farrier. Yeah, farrier. Sweet talking son of a farrier. Preacher man. Yeah, it makes me feel a little weird when they get way too deep in there because I don't know if it's bone, and I don't know if it's... Is it like what our nails are made of?

Right. You don't know, and you're like, Hey, and the horse doesn't have... You almost want the horse to a person next to it who speaks horse. Right. Who can be like... That's far enough.

Yeah. Time.

But yeah, the girl I dated, she was like a little Yeah, Renaissance Fair, it's home of the white tit.

It's home of the mammary.

Oh, the girl I dated.

Mammary gland.

She was just a beautiful little boiled egg of a lady. Because it It was more of a Reuben-esque woman's world because the skinny girls, they would make them all be in the malaria area or whatever. Exactly.

Or the plague.

The plague area. The skin's coming off or whatever.

Sourisus tent. Yeah.

If you had no tits, you were in the scurvy stable or whatever. Or the pile. You have a pile of three people.

You're going to be dead body number four in the pile.

That's what they would do.

You have to be well-endowed to work at the Rent Oh, she was a fucking little...

Oh, my God.

That is crazy. Look at her. That is crazy. I love the dress, too. I mean, like, boob aside. I agree. It's just beautiful period pieces.

A lot of people by us would do Civil War reenactments, Renaissance fairs. It's where, yeah, a lot of children could get work.

Chimney sweeps.

I don't know what they had, do you think?

I was just thinking work for children.

But, yeah, dude, that Renaissance That's fair shit. That shit was fucking... And then I remember she actually auditioned years later because she stuck with it for six or seven years. She got really into it.

Yeah, it's a lifestyle.

Yeah, I guess so. Because she even flew to Dallas to audition for Medieval Times or whatever. I love Medieval Times. And didn't get it.

How do you get rejected from Medieval Times?

I don't know. I guess it's tough to get in.

There's only one woman slot, by the way. It's the Queen. Medieval Times is a sausage fest.

Oh, that must be why.

It's all the nights.

I don't know. Yeah, look up the Dallas Medieval Times. See how many stars it has.

I've frequented that many a time. Really?

Yeah. You know what's what I'm talking about? Yeah.

Oh, that's right. I used to live in Louisville, Texas, which is in Dallas. 4.7. We know about that. If people don't know what Medieval Times is, you've been, right? Yeah. Okay. It's a dinner theater. Yes. That is in the middle is a big sandpit where it's literally they'll do equine jousting. They'll do hand-to-hand combat.

It's crazy.

And then each section of this big auditorium is like, you get a color and you cheer for your night.

You cheer for your color. The bad part that happens is people start abusing drugs, usually in the evening, and that somebody gets too fucking crazy.

When you fall into the horse pit.

There's a lot going on. I mean, you're sitting there, it's supposed to be this fine dining experience, the animals. It's some people, they don't want to be around it.

Then don't go. Is what I would say. That's true. More for us. There's a part, which I don't know if you remember this, with the Falcon. You remember this? There's a guy that comes out and they're like, The Royal Bird Whispers. And they come out and it's that guy with the glove and the Falcon.

I think the bird was off when I went.

Oh, he was off-duty.

It might have been an off week. Oh, there he is. Here we go. Oh, yeah. And this guy. Oh, I think maybe I have then. But this thing will eat a bread off someone's plate.

Sometimes, yeah. I mean, you're fucking with nature here. You know what I mean? Look, and he'll send him around. He flies through the whole stadium.

Oh, that thing will fucking steal a sister's wig out there, I bet.

It'll steal a small child. Happy second birthday to Amelia. It's got Amelia and it's Clinton. It's just real unfortunate. I love medieval times. It's one of my favorite places on Earth. I think it's one of the best things that America has come up with.

Yeah, there's not as much dinner, theater, I feel like as there used to be, probably.

You used to live in Nashville.

Yeah, I still live in Nashville. Oh, that's right. I thought you moved to Austin. I'm going to go to them tomorrow. No? I think about it sometimes. Just, yeah, I think about it.

Do you remember I met you in Nashville? Oh, my God. I should have had the picture pulled up. I met you. I think it's in the gulch at that breakfast spot. Hold on.

No, let me think for a second. We can put the picture in later.

Yeah, I'll send you the picture. Okay. I saw you come into this place, and I was there with my friend Forrest, and I go, I think that's the Yvonne. You walked in, you were just getting breakfast. And he was like, Holy shit, it is. And we sat there and we were like, Do we bother him?

Do we whatever? Oh, wait, I do it at Finwix.

Is that what it's called?

Bring up Finwix.

It's like a breakfast spot. You go up to the counter in order, and then you go sit down. Look, let me see the inside. I should have had the picture locked and loaded to show you.

Yeah, I don't think that that's it.

No, that's not it. Anyway, I met you in 2021 before any of this happened for me. Oh, wow. Crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, I was going to say dinner theater. Dolly's got her thing there in Nashville.

Dolly Parton? In Pigeon Forge. Has a dinner theater? Yeah. My sister went to Pigeon Forge for her anniversary. Oh, fun. I got to spend some time over there. I haven't spent that much time over there. So, yeah, what's it like for you? Because you weren't a comedian then.

Not really. I was a TikTokeer.

Right. But I wonder if that's just the new... Something's happening in comedy right now, too, where there's a lot of videos that are being put up or crowd work. Yes. And it's not a lot of material. There's people doing crowd work tours. That's crazy. It's crazy, right? Because it just makes me think And I'm not judging it. I'm just looking at it. But it's like- Isn't it sustainable? Right. And then are we getting to the point where things are liquidating, where it's like you don't need material anymore? Because I hear from some people It's like, Oh, I'm tired of seeing crowd work. And it's like, well, but that's also a masterful art. If you can do it well.

If it's done right. A lot of the crowd work I see on TikTok is like, What do you do? Bro is a banker. And that's the joke? What are you talking about? What's funny? You know what I mean? Yeah.

But it is interesting. I had a guy say the other day, he's like, One guy, I love him, but he doesn't post anything with any material anymore. But then also, it's like you have to save your material for when people come out to see your live show.

Yeah, like when you go on Fallon or whatever and you have to burn bits, it's like, I guess that's part of it. But how else are you going to get people to want to come? I don't know. It's a difficult thing, but at the same time, if you're talking about someone like a Matt Ryfe, where it's like you're doing crowd work, but half of the gag is that people want you. I mean, he's fallen from grace now totally. Has he? Oh, absolutely. Oh, my God. Did you miss all this?

No, I know that people accused him of something, but that seemed That seemed ridiculous to me.

His whole comedy special was basically him saying, I don't like having a primarily female audience. I want dudes to like my comedy. And the whole 30 minutes of his special are like, I hate women. Don't you hate it when bitches? It's horrible.

I didn't know that.

Why would you alienate your audience like that? And that's what I think happens when it's like, you got famous from your and people liked you and women liked you. Why would you alienate the women? They're the ones that really support you. They buy merch. They show up to the meet and greet. I don't know. It was sad.

Oh, it's interesting. I didn't know that. Is that a thing that people are... Is this a thing going on, nick?

Look, he called his fucking thing problematic. He's making a joke out of it.

Is he topless?

Oh, yeah.

Wow.

He's nips out.

I didn't know that there had been this fall from grace.

It's bad.

Oh, gosh.

And to do that whole rampage of like, I want men to think I'm funny. Well, they don't, brother. So what now? You know what I mean? You lost your woman audience and your man audience. But he's still selling out dates, so I don't know.

Maybe it's- So then did he really then? Right.

How effective is canceling? Or is this just...

Right. Oh, I don't think... I think the best thing you can probably do is get canceled if it's for something that really means something to you. But if it's just somebody writing an article on But yeah, I don't know. I didn't see the special.

I didn't either.

Oh, you didn't even see it?

I saw clips. I saw the first five minutes. No, I didn't watch the full thing because I was like, This isn't funny. You know what I mean? Yeah, it's not. I'm not rocking with it.

Well, I feel like we should see. I'll have to see it. But I didn't know that there was this fall from Grace in the... Why has Matt Wright turned against his female audience? Have you been TikTok, you probably had Matt Ryfe pushed on you. But it's just people found him that he's entertaining. There's a lot of entertaining stuff, man. He's got a lot of great stuff. That's the whole thing.

It's like, we're all entertainers. I think it's just about highlighting people who are genuinely very funny and are very original and very creative and should have a Netflix special. If your whole thing is predicated on controversy, boring, don't care. I want to tell me a joke.

Yeah, that's interesting. I think is there a lot of... Some people, it feels like they create, it's more about... I'm trying to think of people that it's more about controversy. What does that mean when you say that?

Well, for him. I mean, coming off of all the drama on TikTok, that was when he was like, And here's my special.

Oh, I see what you're saying. I missed, I think, a lot of that boat. I just knew that he was just on tour and that the ladies loved him. And we were talking five I remember talking about how he was like, There's not a ton of that handsome of a guy who gets to also do comedy.

It works against you in comedy. Being hot, it doesn't help you out.

I needed you to look over at me. So If I'd have fucking just had a fucking... Oh, God. If my mother would have fucked somebody with some cheekbones, I wouldn't even fucking worry about this shit. If she'd have fucked one guy with a dimple in our town. Please.

I know.

Yeah. And look, I know that guy didn't have dimples. I know it was an incident with a fucking can opener, but still, mom, bang that guy out.

Come on, yeah.

But no, I didn't know that Matt had that fall from grace. But I guess if he's still selling out, does he even care? What's even going on?

That's the thing, which is just like, what are we even talking about? Because evidently it just doesn't fucking matter because he's going to make money regardless. I do think that TikTok has become a breeding ground for... It's very democratic in nature of comics probably never would have gotten discovered are having a renaissance. So it's a really cool thing, too. And it's also cool for people.

Yeah, I mean, a lot of people find you and me on there.

Exactly. Where they never would have found us before. And also, I have such a different path than you. I have no interest in stand-up. But I like, obviously, this setting. I would say I'm well-endowed comedically, probably, thanks to my dad. But I don't want to take it on tour or anything like that. So what do you do? And you do the internet, and you can do it.

But don't you think eventually that could evolve where you may want to?

Yeah.

And not to even... I respect totally what you're thinking, but I thought about that, too. It's like, I'm always somebody I never wanted... I'm always like, No, I won't do that. And then a lot of times I end up being like, Oh, yeah, this is okay.

Yeah. You got to force me to do it. And then I'll be like, It's fun. I'm worried. Yeah, I'm worried about that when it comes to stand up because I feel like once I start, I can't stop. It's going to be addicting.

Start doing it?

Yeah. I can't bomb, though. I'll kill myself. I have to spit.

The spit, I don't care about it. It's the death. It's fucking someone losing their life not to opiates in America.

If I bomb, I'll kill myself. At least once.

Oh, well, then you're going to need some extra lives, dude. The craziest part, dude, I remember one time just bombing so hard. What do you do? You're Well, my brain was like, I'm not staying here and hanging out with you. My brain left in the back of my body. And then I just remember a bunch of sweat started pouring down my throat, which had never happened. You can sweat inside your body. And I was like, Oh, this is going so bad. And I still have 20 minutes left. Oh, fuck me. It hurts so bad. It hurts so bad, man.

Do you think it was a combo of material wasn't strong enough, audience blew ass. What happened?

I had to perform at a college. It was lunchtime, right after lunch. It was a lot of derelict children who... It's the kids who would come to that thing. It's like, I'm in college. I could be playing video games or just laying in my bed, touching my beautiful young body. But instead, I'm going to walk... Instead, I'm going to walk over to the student union because I saw a flyer up somewhere.

Let me go see this red neck. Tell me a joke.

So first of all, it's complete derelict. Who would even do that, right? Okay. Or adventurous people. Or people that came strictly to fucking judge you and ruin your day. Sure. Well, you haven't gotten up on stage yet. You have or you haven't.

I've done one standup set.

Did people know you were going to be there?

It was at this like, My friend's doing a thing at his house, one of those things. And it was 22 comics on February second of 2022.

It was like a two, two, two. Oh, that's what you're saying, Groundhog's Day.

Exactly. It was St. Patrick's. Actually, I think it was on 9/11. February 22nd.

Yes, 9/11. Groundhog, baby. That forgetful venison, they call it in some cultures.

Bermon. Yeah. That is crazy. That's an American tradition only, right? Can you look up the history of Groundhog Day?

Well, the natives probably had something to do with it, I would guess. And shout out to the natives, and sorry about everything, but I believe that they had a lot to do with it, dude. The Groundhog Who's going to fucking look at a Groundhog? Some perv, probably.

Some perv that was like, And if he comes out of that hole and goes back in the hole?

Hey, look, I ain't saying nothing, but I believe this animal's got a little thing for me. So if he comes out.

He got a thing on him.

What does it say? Go back to it. Groundhog's Day. The Pennsylvania Dutch were immigrants from German-speaking areas of Europe. The Germans had a tradition of marking February second as Badger Day.

Candlemas?

Of marking Candlemas, which is February second as Badger Day, Dockstog, on which if a badger emerging from its den encountered a sunny day, thereby casting a shadow, it heralded four more weeks of winter. Wow.

So it's a badger. We got it wrong. Also, where the fuck does that even come from? I'm even more confused.

Candle Must is a Western Christian festival observed in the Roman Catholic and Lutheran churches. In folk religion, various superstitions continue to be linked with the holiday of Puntzitanie beginnings. The first reported news of a Groundhog Day observance was arguably made by the Puntzitanie spirit newspaper of Puntzitanie, PA, in 1886. Up to the time of going to Press, the Beast had not seen its shadow. God, first of all.

The mark of the beast. It's just the ground.

This is how they think of us entertainers. This animal is coming to fucking entertain you. And they saying, Oh, this beast ain't even showed up yet.

It just goes to show- He missed his call time.

It goes to show the pain you even have to go through to win over an However, it was not until the following year, in 1887, the first Ground Hall considered official was commemorated there with a group making a trip to the Gobbler's Knob part of town. Okay.

Okay.

I'm not saying it was a great little- Right, right. This is a real fella's hanging, I bet. People have gathered annually at the spot for the event ever since. I would like to go to that one day. We could add it to our list of things to do.

It's on the to-do list when we do our Great American Road trip. Yeah. That'll be a real beautiful time.

I think that would be really nice.

You think he's still alive?

That guy right there? Yeah, I'm sure.

The marmot.

Oh, that animal? Yeah. He looks chill, huh? He looks like, Let me do another take. You got it wrong? If you've been in there all year, what if you come out and just fuck it? I'd be like, Fuck.

That's so embarrassing. He bombs.

You're like, I got the news wrong.

He comes out of the hole and The little turd comes out and he's real embarrassed. He's going to do it again.

He's kicking it back in with his foot.

He stepped in it.

What do you think about the TikTok ban? Did you see it?

Yeah. Here's the thing. Just do it. I'm tired of this edging. We're going to do it. Oh, we're not going to do it. I think that it's a red herring for, Oh, you really want to ban an app during an election year? Where arguably, it's a very democratic app in nature, but I think that the timing is intentional.

Oh, you do. Because who passed it, that Congress or the Representatives? Tiktok, Congress, years long case against bite dance.

It was 50 to zero that they're passing this shit along.

What are you saying, Zack?

It was both sides, and it was Congress.

Oh, wait, both? But it hasn't passed the Senate yet.

But Biden promised to sign it if it hits his desk.

So the House of Representatives, the House Committee voted unanimously last week to advance bipartisan legislation that would force bite dance. That's the Chinese ownership, right? To divest its TikTok ownership within 165 days.

I think it's just a shame because TikTok, we've seen, it's launched so many businesses, and it's a way to share information, and it's a way that I mean, not to get too socio-political, but the more we're on social media and the more that we don't interact with each other, we've lost the concept of third places, like public parks and coffee shops where we can go to talk to each other. Tiktok is that third place. When you ban that, was it people are going to go to Facebook? It's like, you can't really have a community. It's just sad. We found a way to actually connect with each other and see cultures and things that we never probably would have seen, and now we're going to ban it. Because why? Because of security and privacy. Brother, my social security number and parents address has been on the internet for years. Our credit cards are there. What are we actually talking about?

That's part of it. I agree. Why? You don't think there's so many other sites that have our information? I don't trust Facebook and Instagram to have our information. A hundred %. Just as much as I don't trust a different company. But they're saying since this is a Chinese company, that some of the argument is that China would never allow us to have a company over there. But I'm more scared of our information already being completely monopolized. Exactly.

If it's not bite dance, it's going to be name the winner. It's just what's done is done.

But it's forcing someone to own it. And I think there's a lot of people that say they don't want… There's a theory out there that they don't want information from Israel, Palestine, from the war, that stuff. It's censorship, for sure. They want censorship. And people want to be able to have there be a big three who owns what you can see.

You can control it.

And so this is something different. So that almost makes me feel like that could be the reason.

It's overall just very sad. It's launched so many careers for so many people. It's, I think, been an overall net positive for, I don't know, my life, specifically, but also just like, I don't know. It's fun.

Oh, there's no doubt it's fun. I mean, I find myself getting more like in my downtime. It's so interesting because each moment is a new, what is this? Even if you have your own algorithm, sometimes you forget that you do and you're just like, What is this? And then sometimes something flies in from totally out of left field and you're like, Wow, that's so... I never would have seen that. That's interesting.

I didn't know I was rocking with this.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Didn't know I was fucking with it like that.

You're like, Damn, I didn't fucking know I was like that.

I discovered Caleb Presley on TikTok. Really? Yeah. He had that clip go viral with Post Malone, actually, where he was like, always tired of being a Cowboys fan. I was like, that's hilarious. Who is this guy? I need him.

What do you say? That's a good- To people who say... He's so funny, man.

That's a good impression.

He's a wonderful guy. I feel lucky to know him. Yeah. It's so funny. Like, yeah, some of the people you'll get to meet or know, that's true.

Yeah. All the friendships you made. It's also as what we do, where we make content online, that's a major platform going away that you can't promote on.

Well, yeah. I mean, it would be it would be really a travesty. Then you would really have to go through. I wonder if there's more to it because I just feel like China has as much of our information as they want.

That's a done deal at this point.

It's like everybody goes to T-Mu or something. Everybody's buying like shovels or whatever they're getting.

They're buying shovels, rope, duct tape, whatever. I'm just spitballing here.

Frigidaires. Do you like living here in LA? How long have you lived here for?

I moved from Dallas in early 2020, right before.

The Pandy? The Pandy.

So I was paying LA prices to not enjoy LA, which was so much fun. It's all right. I like it. I think it was culture shock for me at first. I don't know if you experienced that, too. Being from the south, I was like, You bitches are weird out here.

Well, there's fast. There's so much going on. There's people on bikes and stuff, and you just don't know what's going on.

Yeah, those scooters.

Well, yeah. There's just so many little... There's just a lot more happening. It's a lot busier. Even when I go back to Nashville, it's another...

It's so quiet. When you're there, it's like, I got to go get my kids from school. You're hanging out with celebrities, and it's like, I got to go. It's 3:30. I'm like, Damn, you all have real lives here. Here, it feels like a different It's like not... Especially in entertainment. It's like, I don't know what... We're all just tweaking. It's not real.

Yeah. It doesn't see... Yeah. You're like, What is going on? And I just wonder what it's like if you don't have comedy, well, I guess now you started your podcast. If you don't have the stage. Yeah. It's just interesting to see, is the stage in doing stand-up still a viable way where people feel like they can get an audience? It's probably changed.

It definitely has. I mean, especially when you talk about selling tickets, how do you get people to care?

Where are you going to post it? Right. So you have to be able to have stand-up or have some a live show that's good, and then also have people see you.

You have the discoverability. Because on Instagram, it's like, you can't... People who follow you will see your tour dates. If they don't follow you, who gives a fuck? They don't know about you. So it's like that's the beauty of TikTok is that it's anything can go on anyone's For You page, and that's going to go away, maybe. I mean, that sucks. But YouTube, a competitor will rise when reels came out on Instagram or YouTube Shorts now where people just need short form content, or maybe a new app. I'm hoping for a new app, but we'll see.

Yeah, it always evolves. What else do we have in the news, nick? Anything else? A sons of OnlyFans model admits he films her content for her.

No.

Son of OnlyFans model admits he films her content for her. Wow. While most teenage sons can't be bothered unload the dishwasher for their mothers, this one goes above and beyond.

Oh, I don't like that.

Andressa Urach is a successful OnlyFans content creator and boasts over 3 million followers on Instagram. Wow.

That's really all you had to share with us? That was the best of the best you had to share.

Wow. Arthur is the one who does it.

Man, Arthur is going to... That therapy bill is going to be crazy.

I mean, but it was...

Do you think he gets a cut?

I mean, he used to live in there. So I'm not saying that makes it fair, but it's like... It's familiar. What's that Miranda Lambert song?

The house that built me.

The house that, you know they say, can't go Home again.

Yeah. There you go.

I just had to come back one last time. One last time. Wow.

Ma'am, I know. You don't know me from Adam. You like Tyler Childers?

But these handprints on The front steps are mine. If you're filming your mother's vagina, this has a hole.

I think this might be the first time anyone's ever thought about it from that perspective, what Miranda was doing when she wrote that.

Well, I'm just saying it has Yeah. But is it getting to that where people don't have jobs anymore and they're like, everybody is... You have somebody driving DoorDash and filming their vagina at the same time just to make- Ends meet. Seriously. You start to wonder if people keep losing jobs. Is that how dystopian it ends up? Because then what, Brittany?

Then what is, I think at some point We're all just going to have to sell postpicks, even men. You got to figure out a way to sell postpicks.

I think you'd fold your nuts into something romantic or something. I don't know what you would do.

Origami nut?

Or a thing. Wow, that's cool.

Origami nuts, yeah.

Something you'd put on a pillow at a night, a fucking nice hotel. Right.

A little trinket.

Something you'd set on the toilet roll at a nice hotel.

Yeah.

God, man, that's unfortunate. Any other news? Sorry, that was a lot. We'll get you out of here in a few minutes, Brittany.

Oh, you're good? Here we go. Do we have any that aren't fucking life-altering?

Well, hold on. This is important. And I thought since you were an insurance agent.

Surely you'd understand this.

Taiwan man persuades friend to get legs amputated for $1.3 million.

Now see, if it wasn't a scam, do you think it'd be worth it? $1.3 million?

Would you do it? No.

No, I don't think I would.

You think you know somebody that would, though? You could call. Yeah. What if this were that new phone a friend show, and it's like…

Sharks? Sharks? I've got a crazy business proposal for you. University student? Oh, he's so young.

Forced himself to have a W invitation after he put his feet in a bucket of drives for more than 10 hours, which caused frostbite.

I was thinking it was going to be more like saw style. Like someone is there with a comedically large saw.

Oh, yeah.

That's actually… God, I bet that hurt.

Claims that on January 26th... Scroll up, please, brother. Zane got frost by while riding a motorbike with his friend. That's what they said. The prosecution said that a few days before the incident, he filed for life, health, and accident insurance. The sum of the policies was 1.3 million. He was taken to a nearby hospital where medical personnel thought his wounds were fake. According to the release, the medical staff reported that although the patient's feet were frostbitten, they were neat and symmetrical. Injuries and no socks or shoe marks. No fucking way. So how did they get the amputation then?

It's nowhere close to freezing. They're saying he did it to himself.

Oh, so they're saying he needed the amputation, but he did it to himself. Oh, also, they said in Taiwan, a subtropical region, cases of severe frostbite requiring amputation are unheard of. Yeah, that makes total sense.

The plastic bucket that was used to freeze things, fee insurance papers. A white polystyrene box contained dry ice. Eight cell phones and electronic devices were discovered by police during the investigation. So they were running a scam.

Oh, yeah. If you have eight burners, dude. Man. And yeah. Wow.

That is, I can speak from personal experience. Really? Insurance companies do not give a shit if you live or die.

Are you serious? Absolutely.

I believe it. Because I worked at a call center for an insurance company. It was like a brokerage. People would call in and they'd be like, I'm in a car wreck. I'd be like, Let me pull up your policy one second. Put them on hold for 30 minutes. They'd be like, My leg. I'd be like, One second, sir. Listen to the hold music. I'm pulling up. I'm taking a bathroom break. I'm like, All right, got your policy right here. How I can help you? I'd be like, I just got hit by a semi and my fucking whatever and my dog, my dog was in the... Please. And I'd be like, I would have to pull up their policy and see where they selected, I don't want that coverage. And I'd have to be like, Are you sitting down. We cannot help you.

I was like, I am now in a wheelchair.

Now I'm forever sitting down. I literally had to be like, On this day at this time, and I quote, You said, Fuck you all. I'm not paying for that shit. I had to quote it back to him and be like, You rejected this coverage. It's not covered. I'm so sorry. Well, what the fuck do I pay for? Fuck, you all are scammers. It's like with insurance, the more you pay for, the more it's worth it. Because when that shit happens, not that, but when shit happens, you're going to be thankful that you pay for it.

You're going to have people yell at you?

All day, every day.

And call your names? Oh, yeah.

Nuh-uh. Yeah. I got called a bitch on the phone more often than not, I would argue. Yeah. It was a good time. We used to get angry voicemails from people, and we used to play them for each other and laugh. Because you have to laugh at a certain point because it's like, you're mad at the situation, not at me. I had to realize that because I used to cry. I used to cry. Would you? Yeah. People are mean.

Oh, yeah.

I used to cry. Because I was like, I thought they were mad at me. No, they're mad at themselves for- Yeah, you fucking give me my money.

Yeah.

Literally, I have gotten that message verbatim. I was 21 when I graduated college, and I'm sitting there in this desk like, Is this the rest of my life? Is that me with Thank you for calling to the insurance.

And did you have a lunch break, too, or not?

Yeah, I had a lunch break, but I would always try to go over. And so at the end of the lunch, I'd be like, I'm going to go take my dump. And I'd go in the bathroom and I'd hide. And I'd just be on my phone. And they'd, oh, my God, this company was so micromanagey that I would be in the bathroom. And it was one of those bathrooms where the lights were like, motion activated. And I would sit in there for so long that they'd go out. People would come into the bathroom and literally knock on the stall door and be, Brittany? It was awful. It was awful. I hated every fucking minute of it.

Dude, at one time, I was going to do a number two somewhere in Seattle, right?

Poop Capital of America.

Yeah. Is it what? Coffee capital? Poop Capital.

Is it? Well, it's the coffee capital, so poop checks out.

Yeah. And yeah, I went in. I go in, and when I go, there's a bathroom attendant in there. There's a guy working in there, right?

He was just handing you a pair of towel. Right.

So I go sit in the stall and the dude comes and knocks something to me. He was like, Don't worry, bro. I got you, right?

I'm like- Was he going to wipe me?

I don't know what he means. I'm like, What do you mean? You fucking... I don't need anything, right? So now I'm wondering, how much does it cost? Was I supposed to It's like a tariff or something. How much does it cost to shit in here for a few minutes to be in here defecating? And am I running up a tab now? I'm all concerned.

It's an hourly rate.

So then here's what happens. The guy, somebody else comes in and knocks on the door. They have to use the bathroom. This guy, the bouncer, the shit bouncer, whatever, starts yelling at the fucking dude knocking on the door. He's like, Hey, leave my boy as is, right?

Well, you mean? He was defending you?

Yeah, the bouncer is like, Hey, leave my boy as is, right? And I'm like, I don't know either one of these out here.

But he's riding for you.

Yeah, that guy's riding for me. So they actually ended up getting a little bit of altercation.

And you're just pants around your ankles.

Yeah, I'm just like, Why did I pick this place?

You're hole out.

Yeah.

You ever been walked in on while you were shitting? Like someone opened the door?

I did it at a woman's restaurant the other day. Apparently, it was a gender, sex, uniform restroom. And I didn't know. I mean, I guess I did know. I went in there, and it just said it was in somewhere, and I opened the door, and it was a woman sitting right there. She had forgotten to lock the door. Man.

Well, that's not necessarily your fault. I mean, that's like, if you're not locking it...

Yeah, I wonder if she likes that.

Probably not. But what can you do at that point? And then you got to stand outside and be like, You done? She's going to walk by you as you walk in.

That's the weirdest.

No, just leave the restaurant at that point.

Yeah, I think that's weird. If I'm in a bathroom, so I won't even come out until the bathroom is empty, usually.

That's the way to do it. Really? Yeah. Well, yeah. I don't want to look that person in the eye. You just saw my gooch.

Or even if you're just in there, yeah, you're probably right. Any other good news, guys? Speaking of your royal court.

There we go. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaking of your royal court, Buckingham Palace confirms King Charles III is alive after Russian media reports his death. Russia.

Classic Russia.

Oh, man. That's Princess Diana's husband, huh?

Yes.

Yeah. After a report surfaced in Russia media that the monarch, who was recently diagnosed with cancer, passed away, Buckingham Palace put an end to the speculation, telling news agency TASS, We are happy to confirm the king is continuing with official and private business.

That's right. He's the king because Queen Elizabeth died.

He's been the king for what? Maybe a year now? Maybe. Wait.

When did Queen Elizabeth die? Do you know that meme of... Damn, two years, almost two years ago. You know that meme of whenever someone dies, they'll split the face and put XXX Tintassian with that person? Have you seen this? Look up, look up, Ex Tintassian, Queen Elizabeth. It's like, anytime any public figure died. What? I'll post this would be like, RIP, Queen Elizabeth, you would have loved September ninth, 2022.

And what's that? The day after she was- It was the day after she died.

She'll never see it.

Yeah, I remember when Princess Diana died, I was at my friend's house, and he was Homosexual Prize fighter, right? One of the toughest fighters that they had in our area. And he invited me over there.

In the gay weight class? Or what is that? What does homosexual have to do with it?

No, they didn't have it.

He was the only fighter?

Yeah. Okay. But he was the toughest guy around, but he was also gay, but people were like- Period. So they just didn't even have a guy like him. Okay. And he sold a bunch of weed to the kids, but he was awesome.

Yeah, He sounds awesome.

Oh, yeah.

You should have him on the pod.

He's deceased. But- Damn it. Yeah, he drove into an embankment, actually. But before that, we were at his house getting high over there, and he's like, Yeah, Princess Diana dying. He started bawling, crying. And I didn't know Princess Diana was. And I thought it was our mayor's wife or whatever in our town.

You thought her first name was Princess?

Well, I just didn't know. It was such a big deal. And he had all these Beanie Babies, these Princess Diana Beanie Babies.

Wow. It literally... I mean, akin to if Jesus had come down and gotten shot.

Yeah. People were heartbroken. Yes. My best friend's mother has statues They have Princess Diana in their home.

Yeah, she's like a saint.

What does the Royal family even do, though?

That is actually a great question.

What do the king do? Regrettably, a number of the king's forthcoming public engagements have been re-arranged or postponed. He sounds like he's dead. His Majesty would like to apologize. But what does he do?

I think they just eat beans on toast and- Be They be royal. They be royal, and they be racist sometimes.

Yeah. For fun.

Wasn't that it was a big thing that Queen Elizabeth fucking hated Megan Markle?

Did she really? Yeah.

Oh, wow. It's like blatant racism for fun. Oh.

These meetings are completely private, and no official records have kept what is said. He receives daily dispatches from the government in a red leather box, including briefings out of important meetings or documents needing his signature. The King is the UK head of state, but his powers are largely symbolic and ceremonial. He remains politically neutral. Interesting.

There's something so silly about all that garb.

I wonder if you didn't have it, though. Would it be too much of a loss of tradition?

Have you seen the coronation chair? It's like a graffedied ugly. Yeah, look at King Charles coronation chair. It's like the most unassuming... It's like the the most important throne in all of royal history of the UK. Oh, wow. It's just ugly and it's like wood and it's got graffiti on it.

It looks like the birthday chair at a Texas roadhouse where my sister used to work at.

It does. It does.

It literally.

Yeah, there's like ash, ash marks from cigarettes. Yeah, yeah. There's peanut shells on the floor.

It just has some Conway twitty lyrics or something chisled into it. Oh, Oh, wow.

Happy anniversary, Mark and Carol.

Yeah, that's what my sister used to bring out all the time.

God, I love a Texas roadhouse. She was a waitress?

Yeah, she was a waitress.

I bet that was fun.

She did a pretty good job of it, I think. I think people enjoyed her energy. She's a nurse now.

Period. Yeah, that Texas roadhouse to nurse pipeline is pretty common. It is. It's really common.

Yeah, where are all my Texas roadhouse to Fucking Nurse Bitches at? Where are the nurse hos at?

Texas Roadhouse.

Are you excited having a podcast? How long have you had yours?

I launched mine May.

Oh, dude, your video with that fucking shirt collar? Show that video, dude. Tell me what happened. That shit.

Okay, so you know what a dicky is. You're familiar with a dicky. There you go. Yeah, I'll let you play it. Fake collars from Amazon, so I can wear a sweatshirt and not have to put a collar shirt under it. And, girl, that's stupid as fuck.

So bad. You look like every character from Harry Potter in one person right there.

You know who I look like? Fucking Chris Farley from that one, the Chippendale sketch. Look it up.

That's what I look like. No, angel, baby. You do not look like that.

That is your imagination.

I put the top for mine.

I remember my mother showing me this skin.

Oh, my God.

I really was like, this is about to be a fashion moment.

I can't believe it. How much How do they charge you for those?

That'll run you about 4.99 at pop.

You don't think China has our information? They know the width of Brittany Brosky's neck.

They know my neck cup size.

Well, she's got some Ds on her.

It's a girthy. It's a D cup neck.

Hey, look at the 12-inch neck she's riding on.

That is. It's a good diameter. Yeah, that It was real humbling.

What else, nick? Anything else good in the news? I feel like they were negative from... We had an Uber driver attacked in Chicago, New York City squatters, Uber is leaving Minneapolis. Yeah, that's crazy. What's that about? Yeah, I saw that Uber is-Wait, Uber is no longer going to be working in Minneapolis? Uber is no longer going to be working in Minneapolis. Uber and Lyft, right? Excuse me. Very fair. You can audition for the Yele team. Thank you so much. It's only guys. It's only guys. Damn. Why don't they have a women's one? No.

Tradition. It's horrible. There will be one day when there's a woman Yeleater, God willing.

After the Minneapolis City Council voted 10-3 to override Mayor Jacob Fries' veto of a ride, hailing pay raise ordinance on Thursday, Uber says it will pull out of the entire Twin Cities Metro starting May first. Uber, we are disappointed the council chose to ignore the data and kick Uber out of the Twin Cities. Oh. Putting 10,000 people out of work and leaving many stranded. But we know that by working together with all stakeholders, drivers, riders, and State Leaders, We Can Achieve Conference of statewide legislation. I don't trust Uber. What's going on?

What are they supposed to do? Cabs?

Oh, the new ordinance aims at guaranteeing drivers earn minimum wage in Minneapolis. It requires ride healing companies to pay driver's rates equivalent to the city's minimum wage of 15.57. Amen. I think they should have to do that.

They definitely should.

So that's why they don't want to pay them $15.57..

They'd rather ban both companies. That's crazy.

They didn't ban it. Uber and Lyft voluntarily pulled out because of a lot. I see. So they're saying, If you want to work here, you have to pay them that much. I think that that's fair. I think that... I was just in Australia, and they have there, it's a livable wage, right?

I can't imagine that.

So people can get $30 an hour just for so many jobs. What is it? Look it up, nick, so I know what I'm talking about. But you know what? First of all, 23, 23 per It's a minimum pay rate provided by the Fair Work Act of 2009.

That's what I was making with a full bachelor's degree. I worked my ass off to make $20 an hour.

That's crazy. And so the crazy part was you would see... So then everybody was happy in their job. It's like everybody knows that they're going to be able to survive. They're going to make it through. So there was this total energy. Australia's minimum wage is, go back, is Let me just go back. Is Australian 23, 23 per hour for adults over the age of 21. Actually, they're Australian. It's the same amount as US, though. It's $15.23 US.

Is America How much does that? Well, I guess it depends on the state.

Yeah, what's our- I can tell you.

I used to work at Baskin Robbins. I made $7.25 an hour.

California, it's $16 an hour.

But the cost of living in California is so much higher than everywhere else.

It's unbelievable. The federal minimum wage for covered non-exempt employees is $7.25 per hour.

Do you ever work in the food industry? Yeah. Yeah.

I used to sell Mexican food for a living. And What else? Yeah, I worked at another Mexican spot. And then, yeah, I was a waitress or whatever, waiter.

You were not a waiter. You were a waitress.

Oh, the waitress. Which one did you work at?

Baskin Robbins.

Oh, you did? I worked at Baskin.

I was slinging cream.

Were you? Yeah. Praise God, mama.

I was slinging cream at the age of 16. I worked there 16 until I turned 18.

Oh, really? Now, did a lot of guys come in there to flirt? Because I feel like it- No.

Really? It's old people who go... To physically go into a Baskin Robbins, it was old people being like, I'll have the regular. Sir, I just started working here. What's your regular? And that's going to be a large milkshake Imagine a large at one of those places. Butter, pecan, praline, milkshake. And that shit's delicious. Is it? I can't lie. Old people, they love pistachio, they love butter, pecan, praline, whatever, all those. It seems nasty, pretty good. I would have to make these grown men who own companies their milkshake.

Oh, wow. They like it. It is an old-fashioned place, Baskin Robbins. It is. It seems like it's predominantly, is it a white clientele, mostly?

It's a white clientele, yeah.

Because I worked at... What was the one? Cold Stone Creamers.

Oh, that's where they do the scoop and the chop and the- Yeah, we were fucking...

Yeah.

You did that?

Oh, I chopped the shit with a credit card. I'm looking at Hucky. Getting weird, boy.

You're dipping it in that water That murky water.

I'm like, I'm raging in that bitch.

Two AMXs. You're doing it with your hands.

Yeah, God, it was fun.

Cold Stone was a culinary experience.

Oh, yeah. Cold Stone was a vibe, man. What's your order? I like cake batter straight up.

You didn't do any mixings?

I would throw in a little bit of sprinkles, but nothing crazy. I don't like it where it infects the ice cream so much and it gets colored out. So I just put it in a certain area and eat it fast. Almost like put a little mustache of sprinkles on it.Right. Get that in me first.

A ribbon. Yeah.

I liked it, though. Yeah, what else? Well, the Uber drivers. Well, in Australia, so everyone makes a little wait. So You don't see a gorgeous woman working construction.

Period. What's wrong with that?

Nothing. You don't see it. We need more of that. We need more. Yeah. It's just like you would see I'll put it like a supermodel. I'll put it like that. You would see a supermodel working. You'd be walking by the construction site. Damn.

She's got calling you.

Oh, my fucking God. I will let that lady fucking just build a two bedroom, two bath in my heart.

Yeah. Crown molding. I trust her with my life.

Yeah. So I guess that was interesting. I think that just the minimum wage is too low, but I don't know enough about economics to learn about that.

And I'm in the same boat with you.

I should have somebody on to talk about that with.

Yeah. You should see if Caleb's available.

Yeah, he doesn't know. Tennessee could be in marriage between first cousins. Wait, Tennessee- No. Yeah. Oh, come on. Dude, my buddy Justin is going to be pissed. I'm not even joking, dude.

Come on.

Well, here's the thing. Here's why Why they're even- What do you mean? I'm not saying it depends on where you live. Here's the thing. If you don't have any gas money, your parents don't have a car, you live in an area, how far will you walk for love? That's the question.

For Gooch. Yeah, why? What would you do for Gooch?

Well, at a certain point, if your family lives rural enough, how far are you going to walk to make love? How far would you walk to make love? Me? Twelve miles.

You're capping it at twelve?

Yeah. I'm not walking. After that, I'm like, who's within this area? Yeah.

I just do it myself if it's over twelve.

Oh, yeah. But I think... Yeah, it's just interesting, I guess.

I will admit I did not know that it was already legal to begin with. First cousin, that's your parents, siblings, kid, right?

Yeah. Now, I'll say that that is a little too close to home, I think.

That's for real inbreeding. That's not even like, Oh, it's your third cousin on your mama's side. She got divorced three times. That's your for real blood. Yeah.

Why buy the cow when you can just smash your cousin? That's that thing. I feel like it's like... But House Bill 2041, initially filed for introduction by Representative Darren Jernigan, prohibits marriage between first cousins.

What does that say about Dan and Shay? Dan Dan and Shay are supporting- The video, Dan and Shay surprise... Oh, I thought that was related.

Are they surprise the voice fans downtown? Never mind. Yeah, that's actually crazy that it's legal. I know. Gosh.

Are we supporting Bill?

I think that at this point, especially with Uber, now, if you live in Minneapolis.

You could be fucking your cousin.

But with Uber, I think you got to figure that out.

In this scenario, I mean, Tennessee, That's already pretty. That's red neck.

Some places get pretty rural. If you get it out of East Tennessee.

If you remove Uber and Lyft from Tennessee, we're dealing with something major. A pandemic, an epidemic.

I wonder what would happen if all those things went away. We would go back to almost a different time, really.

That's what I'm saying. I was talking about third places earlier. What if we have to leave our houses? What would we do?

Where would we go? Because I guess Yeah. You're more of a culture where everything is really on social media, whereas my life has been split, where that wasn't really the case. So it's a different time. It's just more, I will say this, there's more room for imagination, and you used to leave things up to chance more. Sure. It felt like if you saw somebody or ran into somebody, then it was like, Oh, the world has some purpose in this.

Yeah. Yeah, it's gone now. I feel like everything you hide behind a screen, what's there to risk? There's no spontaneity.

Yeah, right. Yeah, there wasn't as much like, Will I see them again? And if you do, it meant there was so much value and build up. What if I ever see them again? What if I never see them?

You're talking about potential partners or friends?

Yeah, potential partners. If you saw a girl, then you would just pine over her until the next time you saw her, you're like, When I see her, I'm to say something. Then you wouldn't say anything. You're like, But when I see her next time. Exactly. Then it would be 20 years later, she would be married, and you'd be like, But when I see her- Things are going to be different.

If I just would have seen her.

Oh, if I just would have seen her.

Now you can find her address and show up to her house, or send her a DM and say, Just your penis. I see you.

Yeah, I see you.

I see you. I'm outside your house. Yeah.

I saw you went through some love issues recently. There was a guy you had met and it fell off?

Yeah, I had an Irishman. When you're talking about the Irish, I had an Irishman that I met on a Christian dating app that I did a brand deal with. I was like, They gifted me premium, and then the premium ran out, and I went ahead and paid for it myself. Amen, girl. 34.99 a month.

Get your life.

I got it. I found this beautiful young gentleman, and he was-In Ireland or in US? He's going to be in Dublin. He's in Dublin. I was in Nashville at the time. So we were he was still awake because that's Eastern time. So they're only five hours ahead, but back here, it's eight hours ahead. So it just slowed down. And then he was responding me every three to five business days. And I was like, this isn't very romantic. You know what I mean? He was so funny, though, because I'm always worried when you talk to people from other countries, it's like, you're going to get my sense of humor. And he did. And he was smart. And he went to college, and I was like, Okay, okay. But I'm going to Ireland in July.

You'll see him then, you think? I'll see him. So were you guys FaceTime and stuff, chatting like that?

No. Not one voice message? No.

No way. Not even a voice message from an Irish. You got to get it.

He did tell me, though. He said, I need to tell you something. And I was like, there's nothing you could say. Because I've built him up in my mind. I'm like, there's nothing you could say. He said, I've got some fucked up teeth.

Does he?

And I said, It can't be that bad. He sent me a photo.

Just of the teeth? Yeah. It's bad. It's not that good?

It's not that good. And I don't really have dental insurance I can offer him. We're self-employed entertainers.

You can get him a package. There you go. Her nose looked like... Yeah, if your teeth look like the ones you see in the bones of a skull or whatever, that's always bad.

A Victorian skull. Yeah.

That usually feels bad to me.

Yeah. You got teeth that belong in a museum. Yeah. That's what that is. He sent me that photo and I said, Oh, what is that?

I wonder, because there is something about you meet people online. It just feels so tough. It's like, does this mean what's going on here? And then you'll spend so much time in this fantasy world of your own. You see their pictures, you think about this, you've seen them from so many angles. You're like, God, it's- You think you know them. You don't know that person. No, you don't know them at all. And you have all these judgments already about them without any of their own real energy.

It's very true. I'm filling in the blanks with what I want them to be. Oh, yeah. She could be a fucking perv loser. But I'm like, in my head, we're married. We've been happily married. We have some tips sometimes, but we're married. And it was in the church, and we have two kids. But it's scary to think I'm going to his country, a place I've never been before.

And so if you told him, Hey, I'm coming there. And did you do it to go see him? I wouldn't care if you did. Yeah. We've all done things like that.

I mean, hello. You've Have you flown across the world for a dick appointment? You're lying.

I've flown some places.

Domestically?

Oh, yeah. If you add them up, yeah, it's definitely an international flight.

Yeah, you got some delta points from those.

I've heard at least a free flight, probably.

You had a diamond medallion.

Or flown somebody in.

That's crazy. I want to get to that level. I want to start flying dudes out.

But it's just what he's doing. You're going there or just the girl coming to see me.

Yes. But you front the bill, right?

I think that that's fair if they're spending their time to do it. Right.

Yeah, I'm going to start doing that for men.

I think that's... Yeah.

I'm going to get some dudes flued out.

Why not? Why not? Oh, I see it. Well, that's the thing. It's just interesting. It's like, yeah, how do you find... Because a lot of relationships are online these days. I just saw an article the other day. See if you've seen anything, nick. And then we'll get out of here, Brittany. The place people meet now is online. It used to be an actual real place. Yeah. But if that's over now.

Oh, it's a graph.

How couples meet in the US.

Whoa.

And this...

Work was the number one under friends?

In 1980, this is an example, through Friends was 33%, work was 25%, a bar was 22%. Through family was 18%. Grade school, first of all, pedophile, I'm going to say that, was The School Yard. Why did you say that? Nabors was 8%. And online was 0% in 1980. Now, does this say just actual numbers? So I don't have to go through all that again.

That's 2020, over 50% of all relationships.

Yeah.

Wow. That just makes me sad.

But I think it goes into what you're talking about. It's like, how do you get back? What are the percentages, nick? Just find them for us in a little graph, not a graph, but in just a list, if you can, brother. Yeah, because I wonder what things do you miss by not having that old-fashioned thing. It would just be like, I remember you'd see a girl. I saw a girl go by on a school bus one time, and I saw her through the window, and I fell in love with her, of course. Yeah, of course. And then I told people she was my girl for a couple of months, right? She was We're seeing each other on the weekends and shit, and there was no- Just lying. It was so sad. I was just at my apartment just being sad. Yeah. And then I never saw her again.

She might have been the one.

She might have been. You think about her? Yeah, I still think about her sometimes.

Man.

Nearly 45% of survey responses reported online dating apps to be the place. Wow. Making it the most popular spot.

I feel like it's more than that.

That's crazy, though. Yeah, and girls always have to do so much to get ready for a date, I feel like.

Yeah, dudes just barely even shower, barely show up. They left half of them at home. It's just pitiful. There's this picture of just the difference of the effort that men and women put into a lot of things. There's this picture of Beyoncé and Ed Sheeran at the same awards ceremony. Beyoncé's in this beautiful, Thierry Mugler, vintage gown, just like, glamp, thousands of dollars. Ed Sheeran's in jeans and a button up. And they're side by side. They perform together. He's in fucking... That's it.

Oh, that's the most Ed Sheeran vibe ever. He's always like that.

You cannot blame him. He said, She's in jeans and a T-shirt. I love it.

Yeah. Wow. That's crazy. She looks dressed like a beautiful ovary something. He looks like somebody who fucking donated a sperm bank.

Who's banned from a sperm bank.

Yeah. God bless you, Ed.

We definitely- God bless Ed. He's one of the greatest musical minds of a generation, but we have got to get you in a suit, brother.

He's one of a kind.

Oh, that is really special.

He's one of a kind. I shouldn't meant fallopian, too, but that's what I meant.

Fallopian, too. Happy International Women's Month, by the way.

I'm always an inch away from what I really mean.

We can get you there. You Yeah, I love this photo. It's crazy.

Yeah, that is pretty wild. I saw him perform one night. I was watching who the Change Smoker is in Las Vegas, and he came out and performed.

He's amazing.

So good. Yeah. And at first, just do part of your song. He's like, none of my songs, it's I have ballady stuff. Yeah, heart-wrenching. Yeah, and you guys are DJs. But then, so they did a little bit of one of them, and then another. And then next thing you know, it just became his show.

I'm in love with the shape of you. That song goes crazy.

It was fucking hype, dude. People were just lonely, but also feeling something at the same time.

It makes me very like, if Ed Sheeran can find love, beautiful love, I can. You know what I mean? He gives me hope.

Is he married?

Happily.

Oh, wow. I didn't know that he was married. Yeah, it's interesting, figuring it out, finding somebody. Yeah, what if you had to move to Dublin? Oh, that's where... What's her name's from? Shaneid? No, the other lady you said looks like you guys look alike. People tell you sometimes.

Adele? Adele.

She's British. Oh, she's British.

Yeah, she's from London, South London.

Oh, that's nice.

Yeah, Hosier is from Dublin. Oh, he is? I need him desperately. Yeah, dude. Yeah. In the most biblical sense that a man and woman can need each other. I need him like that.

Yeah, there's something real interesting about that Hosier.

He's about 6'7, and that's not a joke.

Oh, God.

Big monster of a man. Love him.

That's a long boy. If you're stretched God, imagine being that long and just long and around everywhere and you can't even hide. That would break my heart.

But at concerts, I bet it's nice. You can look over everybody.

But then people meet up at you at fairs and stuff.

Yeah. Meet at the big Irish guy. Yeah.

Just meet at Danny at 11. People are like, Danny's like, What the fuck, man?

Wherever Danny's going to be, you got to trust him.

Danny just gets all fucked up and he's never there.

That It's crazy.

I know. It is crazy. Anything else, man? I thought there was one other thing I was going to ask you about.

Yeah, let me hear it. We didn't even get into... I had questions for you, too. You did? We'll have to do a part, too. Okay. I had questions about God and about... But you've talked about that a little bit before.

Not that much. I think about that a lot. I've been trying to have a better relationship with God.

I was going to say because you did not grow up in the church.

No.

But it's been a journey for you, especially with sobriety and just getting older. The more you realize about the Earth and the world and people, where have you landed?

Yeah, I think I need a faith.

Love that. But does it have to be nominal, like Christian?

No, I think I prefer. I don't know if I prefer is the word. I use Christianity because that's the thing I'm most familiar with. Sure. So I think I use a lot of those symbols. But I think, yeah, it could be any way you use to find faith and build a relationship with a higher power. I just find that I just need it more and more. It's just too much strain. I just can't handle it. That's real. Unless I like... I've been just trying to say, that I will be done more often and say that as much as I can. It's just suddenly everything is not my responsibility. Because that's how I get to feel. I'm like, that everything in the world is my responsibility.

Yeah. Weighs heavy.

Oh, it's just this weird stacking weight that you don't even realize is happening.

Yeah. It's also self-inflicted. You did that to yourself. Right.

And it used to be a good skill when I was a kid because I felt a lot of self-responsibility. I have to take care of myself. So then it made sense. It was like, everything is my responsibility, it feels like, so I need to do that. But then as I got older, it's not It's like you're not a kid anymore just trying to get their little life done. Now you're an adult. Everything is not your responsibility, and it shouldn't feel that way all the time. I like that.

I like that it's outside the It's like the bounds of the church, but it's still familiar.

I like that. Yeah. What do you feel about it?

Oh, man, I'm ex-Christian.

You are? Yeah. Oh, you're a Christian?

I was. I was raised in the Baptist Church.

Oh, really?

It's like, well, Baptist on my mom's side and Pentecostal on my dad's side.

Pentecostal, they get wild. They skirt it up.

They skirt it up. It's almost like Amish sometimes. It's speaking in tongues and fire and brimstone. So I feel like I have two extremes on both sides. And that's a weird way to come up because it's like, especially as someone who's funny and has success, which I'm so grateful for, and I'm so fortunate, to accredit that to a God and not me and what I've built is where I struggle, where it's all glory to this other thing. But I did the work, and so much of it, I think, is chance. Tiktok happened at a certain time that I happened to be posting videos. I'm not more deserving than any other person. We just got lucky. So I struggle with it sometimes of I've been told that you need to look at the world this way, but I don't. So what do you do? I sometimes have trouble sleeping the night over it, but I don't miss the church.

Yeah. Did you meet any men in the church?

They're very judgmental.

Are they?

Yeah. Christian men are the first to shame you.

Yeah, the church can be like that. Even Kat Von D was here, and she's a Christian. She's turned her life over to Christ recently. She was just talking about how, yeah, some of the first to judge so often are like, that you're not doing it the right way. All that shit to me seems ridiculous. It is. Everybody's just trying their trying, and they're trying to figure out. And I think it also, some of that relationship evolves over time. Definitely. Yeah. I think I got to the point where I just feel like the gods are up there doing their fancy stuff and having a dinner and doing things. And then a crum of creativity falls off of their table, and it hit me in the fucking back of their head or something when I was a fucking kid. Sure. Left that dent. Yeah.

I was wondering what that misshaping dent was.

So I think I feel like that. I just feel lucky that sometimes that I get to be a conduit. Everybody's a conduit at different times for joy. I love that. Somebody can even just hug you, and they can be like that. Some people have the best hug, some people have the best. They make the best…

Squash casserole. Yeah.

And some people make the best or great art.

Yeah. Vessel is a great image as well. Just like a conduit of joy. I love that.

Yeah. I'm just like a radio station for the Lord. It's like everybody is.

Fmjc.

Sometimes it's fucking rattly bullshit, but every now and then you catch something, it's like, All right, it's all right.

Yeah.

I know you help a lot of people, too, who have similar Yeah, we got a lot of people. We got a lot of people going through it.

You got a lot of broken fans.

We are a meetup of really fucking some real beautiful fucking animals.

Yeah, I got My audience is incredibly gay and female and also non-binary, but also very mentally unwell. Yeah. And I love it.

Yeah.

You got to have a little flavor.

Well, yeah. I think people are trying to It's tough to figure it all out.

It is. It's hard.

Yeah. And I think it's got to be really tough if people, especially when it comes to people being non-binary or a lot of that stuff, I can't even imagine. My friend is a comedian, and then he transitioned to a woman. And it's just been interesting to see what that is like for him.

I watched your video you posted I loved it when someone called in and asked for advice on being a man.

Yeah, a lady called in.

And I thought your response was so beautiful.

Oh, thanks. Yeah. Her name's Theo, too, actually, this lady. It was interesting. Yeah, you just try to give somebody some pointers.

Yeah, and just grace.

Red Rover. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I can't imagine. Dude, if I went over to being a woman, I don't know, the first thing I would do when I would get there. Probably close and be like, What are we in it now? This is a lot.

What's going on down here?

Or just all of it. Gosh, I couldn't even imagine. Imagine all of the new things you would have to do, especially if you go. I'm imagining it. I wonder which way is easier, if one way is easier than the other?

I would imagine, well, I won't even try to speak to it, but I do think that there's like, I think women know more about men than men know about women. Men, because we've had to figure out how to live in a man's world. You all have never had to figure it out. It's a good point. I'm not saying it would be easier. I'm saying that there is more knowledge that we know.

Yeah.

Does that make sense?

Yeah, I would probably think that about men, you mean? Yeah. Oh, definitely.

Because we're always wondering, what do men think? What do men like? What did this? And I know men think the same thing, but it's also like, Especially when you talk about religious communities or in the south where it's like your whole life expectancy is like, you get married to a man, you have his babies, that's your life. It's not really career-driven the way that it is in maybe New England or the West Coast. It's very traditional.

Do you think one is really better than the other, though? Because I've thought about that. Because then I have friends that just work forever, and then they achieve all their goals and work, but then they don't family, and they feel some type of way about it.

I think to each their own. I don't ever want kids.

You don't? No.

Never, never. We're not going to have any little yellow M&Ms running around.

Damn. What about some Irish ones?

What about some what?

Some Irish M&Ms. Some Irish M&Ms, maybe. Dude, if you could have a little fucking Irish kid, there's no way you couldn't imagine that. Hey, Mom.

I think that having little ginger babies around me would freak me out. Yeah. What are you all doing?

Oh, definitely. Why do you look like that? They won't even allow you to donate ginger semen anymore at the sperm bank.

They banned Ed Sheeran from the sperm bank.

That's crazy. Brittany Brosky, thank you so much for hanging out. If you guys don't know about Brittany, check her out. I know a lot of you guys do, but yeah, just nice to be able to talk to somebody. Big fan. Thanks for having me.Thank you.It's been a I appreciate it. It's very sweet of you to come and spend time. I look forward to seeing what you want to do with your talent.

Probably porn.

Yeah? Yeah.

If this doesn't work out, we're going to...

Hey, well, hopefully you have a son to film it. I think you just... Look, you're going to need cheap labor with these wage rates. Brittany, thank you so much.

Thank you. Let me know about Caleb. Go I will. I will send me my number.

I will. I'm going to send him that picture that we all took. All right.

Love it. Now I'm just floating on the breeze and I feel I'm falling like these leaves. I must be cornerstone. Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this peace of mind I found I can feel it in my bones. But it's going to take.