All The Things I Don't Wanna Tell You

This week, special guest Becky Veduccio joins Eileen Kelly on the show. In an instant these two reconnect through invisible threads and shared memories.
"All The Things I Don't Wanna Tell You" is an episode that pulls out the dark, the ugly, the embarrassing, and the traumatic parts of our lives in an effort to find ourselves and become human once again.  Often discovering that the part we REALLY don't wanna say out loud, is the part that needs to be heard the most, and in our case the punchline for all our jokes.

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Becky Veduccio is an established stand-up comedian, an award-winning writer and a professional Joke Fluffer.

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Transcript

Becky Veduccio (00:00)
he goes, you got to look under the car before you like unlock it and get in. And I'm like, why? He said someone could be under the car. He goes, they're going to cut your Achilles. You're to go straight down. And I was like,

Eileen Kelly (00:05)
I always thought it was the back seat.

Becky Veduccio (00:12)
I literally go, I'm eight.

Eileen Kelly (00:33)
Hi, I'm Eileen Kelly. Welcome to Strangers with Kittens. I am so glad you're here because today I'm interviewing the very funny Becky Veduccio She's a comedian, an award-winning writer, a comedy teacher, and my favorite of all her titles, Joke Fluffer. She's a Gen Xer and a mom, and ⁓ we met years ago performing stand-up and then kind of lost touch and have just recently reconnected. So

I'm excited to connect with her some more, and I'm really excited that you're here to join us.

Becky Veduccio (01:09)
The countdown of it all.

Eileen Kelly (01:11)
The countdown, hello. I'm so happy to see your face finally. we've been trying to make this happen for a while. For so long. Well you're worth the wait. I'm excited.

Becky Veduccio (01:13)
I don't know, I mean...

for so long. I'm so happy to see you.

Thank you.

We'll see. We'll see. We just started.

Eileen Kelly (01:30)
How are you, Becky Biduccio?

Becky Veduccio (01:28)
How could you know? Jeez.

I

don't even know, I'm so tired. I don't sleep. This is my new thing. I used to be so good at it. Do you have a problem sleeping?

Eileen Kelly (01:35)
Are ya? Yeah, I feel that.

I have a problem sleeping. I've been sick this week. I really don't need it anymore, but I'm still drinking ⁓ mucinx nighttime from the bottle because it it just knocks you out. I'm like, I'm still a little congested, just so I can just so I can justify being like glug glug glug.

Becky Veduccio (01:54)
Right?

I know, the Benadryl and the NyQuil, I know, it works.

Eileen Kelly (02:04)
The night well apparently the Benadryl gives like senility, early senility or something, right? They came out with? Yeah, yeah. Like i Ixnay on the Enadrill Bay. It's like and I was taking that every night during COVID just to like just to shut the anxiety switch off.

Becky Veduccio (02:19)
Right? So...

If you get addicted to Musinex, that'll be a very sad thing.

Eileen Kelly (02:29)
I can beat so clearly. Glug glug glug. It's good stuff. One more night. I might I'm I might give it one more night and then I'm gonna put it on the shelf for the next cold.

Becky Veduccio (02:46)
Just that's what

all the addicts say one more time. One more hope.

Eileen Kelly (02:49)
Yeah, right? One more. One more. I can control it.

Becky Veduccio (02:54)
Tell me, I know you told me this

before, but what? Remind me of the strangers with kittens name.

Eileen Kelly (03:01)
⁓ yeah, so it's actually a story from my life from a manuscript that I've written and now I'm put putting out in the world to sell. and it's, you know, the Gen X rite of passage of being lured by child molester with kittens. It it it's very literal. ⁓ yeah.

So I I feel like that happened to so many people. when I tell this story, I talk about how we grew up wat watching film strips of Stranger Danger. Like like I don't know about you, but like we watched a film strip called Patch the Pony. And Patch the Pony says fr nay nay from strangers stay away. And but Patch the Pony had a very specific

Becky Veduccio (03:38)
Yes.

Eileen Kelly (03:53)
situation that you needed to be aware of. And it was a guy in like in like a Lincoln Continental. It was all very shadowy and you know it was all just sketched, but it was like a guy in a Lincoln Continental with like a gangster hat is gonna like open up his car door and offer you a candy bar. Do not take it. So I was like Lincoln Continental candy bar got it. But nobody was like

Somebody might need say they have kittens that are lost and they need your help. Like no one ever said to Gen X, adults don't ask kids for help. Like that is the thing that I pounded into my kids' heads. Yeah, since they could understand. I'm like, and I would put them as like I would quit I would try to like quiz them. I'm like, what if somebody I'd come up with like all different situations? Like, what if someone was just driving down the street and they were like, Where's Forest Avenue?

Becky Veduccio (04:18)
Okay.

you

Mm-hmm.

Eileen Kelly (04:46)
And

they were like, ⁓ 'cause like they knew where it was. And I was like, Adults do not ask children for help. Do you drive a car? And they were like, No. I'm like, why would they ask you? And they were like, yeah. You know, like I would just try to come up with different scenarios so that they knew that it just doesn't make any sense no matter what, you know? but we were never told that.

Becky Veduccio (04:52)
Yeah!

Yeah, my daughters like

grown men should not be asking you a question. If they're asking you question, even if they don't mean anything bad by it, they're so dumb. Like you don't go up to a teenage girl if you are 40 years old and ask her anything, especially at night, like choose someone else. You have Google.

Eileen Kelly (05:09)
Anything.

No, and

I know exactly and and I know that men not like men sometimes don't think of it. Like I've had to remind my husband, like y you're you're b being a creep right now. You know, like that's like don't talk to her. Don't you know, like don't

Don't say some like little chuckley comment that you think is entertaining because you're just a f creep. And he's like, my god, you're right, you know, like just doesn't realize how I'm like, You're a six foot one, like two hundred something pound man, and she's a eighteen year old girl or whatever. Like, no. Just no.

Becky Veduccio (06:01)
Just know, just know. know, I

know some will be like, is that Ava? Like their friend. And I'm like, just don't yell out your car.

Eileen Kelly (06:07)
Mind your

biscuits

Becky Veduccio (06:11)
I actually, and I don't mean to brag, but I saw three adult male penises by the time I was 13 that I did not ask to see. And all three of them, and maybe I should have watched your pony show, all three of them were when I was walking to my friend Tina's house and a car pulled up next to me and rolled down the window and it was just there. And I was like, like it.

Eileen Kelly (06:13)
Yeah.

Wow.

⁓ my god.

Becky Veduccio (06:40)
Three! Three! Yeah. Horrifying!

Eileen Kelly (06:42)
Three. ⁓ my god. That is horrifying. And yet

it's horrifying and yet almost par for the course for Gen X women. Like I I don't know anyone our age who doesn't have more than one story of something like that or worse. You know?

Becky Veduccio (07:01)
Yeah.

And my grandfather was a policeman and he scared the shit out of me. He told me stories I didn't even know. I remember this one thing in particular he'd tell me about, he'd warned me about. And he's like, he's like, all right, when you go to your car at night,

he goes, you got to look under the car before you like unlock it and get in. And I'm like, why? He said someone could be under the car. He goes, they're going to cut your Achilles. You're to go straight down. And I was like,

Eileen Kelly (07:21)
I always thought it was the back seat.

Becky Veduccio (07:29)
I literally go, I'm eight.

I was like, why are you telling me this? I'm eight years old. Like, he told us so many scary things that I know. And I'm like, how do these people even think of this? But he scared us a lot. Like, you can't, nothing good happens after midnight. Yeah. And so I was super careful. I felt like I was very alert and aware and afraid all the time. And then I was like, my God, like this guy would, these guys would pull up.

Eileen Kelly (07:34)
For real.

Right.

my god.

Becky Veduccio (07:58)
⁓ I know.

Eileen Kelly (07:58)
Yeah, you

had the inside information on psychos and you still were not safe.

Becky Veduccio (08:03)
Yeah, yeah. Unreal.

Eileen Kelly (08:06)
Unreal. ⁓ my

god. It's so tough. such a hard job because you wanna help people, but then all this stuff has to live in your brain for the rest of your life.

Becky Veduccio (08:15)
Yeah, yeah. And he never told us stories about stuff. He didn't want to talk about it. But he just instilled fear in us. And he wouldn't let us go anywhere. That's what was interesting. It was like, keep them home, keep them safe. keep them close, keep them safe. So like all my friends would go, I was, know, Italian family, all my friends would go to camp over in the summer. He's like, you know what, I got a camp. He's like, all those crazy people. And I'm like.

Eileen Kelly (08:21)
Yeah.

Right.

Becky Veduccio (08:43)
And then he would tell me the food was going to be bad and I was like, well, I don't want to go to camp. He's like, stay. Because I remember once somebody was like, stay here with me. I'll let you drive the Cadillac. We'll go get donuts. And I was like,

Eileen Kelly (08:43)
Hey

Ha ha ha.

Camp donuts in the Cadillac. my god. It's Italian day camp.

Becky Veduccio (08:58)
Yeah, I was driving a powder blue Cadillac, eating donuts with my grandfather. Yeah, I would

sleep over their house. And this is why I think I ended up doing comedy. I'd sleep over their house and my grandfather would come and get me after my grandmother went to bed and he'd be like, come on downstairs. And we would eat cold spaghetti out of little bowls and watch Carson, Benny Hill, ⁓ Phyllis Diller, Joan Rivers, like all these.

Eileen Kelly (09:27)
my god.

Becky Veduccio (09:28)
And I was watching Benny Hill when I was really little. And he would be like laughing at all these comedians and he would laugh. I was like, why is this old man in the park looking at boobies? There so many boobies. Why do you think boobies are funny? But it was just like, that's what I would do all summer. I just slept at my grandparents' house and ate.

Eileen Kelly (09:36)
And all these inappropriate jokes. You're like, why is this funny?

Right.

And went to comedy boot camp, apparently. I love that. I actually used to sneak down and the stairs. There was a wall on one side of our stairs, and on the other side of the wall was this little our little TV room. And if I sat at the bottom of the stairs, I was hidden from my

Becky Veduccio (09:55)
Yeah, I think that's what it was like.

Eileen Kelly (10:15)
parents and I could watch late night without them knowing, although I did get caught a couple of times and my parents were pretty strict and it was pretty terrifying. But I would I was in like first grade and I would sneak down to watch the comedians and sometimes sometimes nobody would be up and I would just sneak down and turn the TV on and sit really close to it so I could control the volume with like my knees in my nightgown to watch Phyllis Stiller. I just thought she was like the greatest.

Becky Veduccio (10:34)
No, no, no.

Yeah. Yeah.

I remember watching Carson in those shows and I, when people would say like, do you want to be when you grow up? I was like, I want to be on Johnny Carson. And they'd be like, well, what do you want to be to be on Johnny Carson? I thought it was like a job to be on the shows. I was like, I just want to be a guest on the shows. Here I am, a guest on

Eileen Kelly (10:55)
Yeah.

Right. Yeah. A and

here you are, guest on a show. I'm Bill Carson, but I mean

Becky Veduccio (11:06)
I manifested this.

Eileen Kelly (11:08)
I'm so glad.

And I used to watch it thinking just being so mystified and enchanted by it all. I loved Letterman so much and and just feeling like these are my people, but never thinking, how do I do that? Or that's a that's a viable option. Just like I wanna live in this w I just wanna be here right now and it for as long as I can.

Becky Veduccio (11:20)
Yeah.

Yes.

Yeah.

Eileen Kelly (11:36)
That's all

I could I like, even as an adult, I didn't think of it as an option. I just thought I'm pretty good at public speaking and I like writing, so I guess I'll be a lawyer. Like that's what I intended to do. And then I took some law classes in undergrad and I was like, This is terrible. I think I would have liked it, but it was like business law and I wanted to

Becky Veduccio (11:51)
Right.

Everyone.

Eileen Kelly (12:00)
gouge out my own eyes. So I didn't pursue it. But I couldn't think of like I should go to a I don't know, like an Emerson College or some you know, it just it wasn't even in my consciousness.

Becky Veduccio (12:14)
It was not encouraged to be creative or like, no, every time, mean, I remember one of the shows in the eighties that used to get me, I was like, I want to do it. Do you remember the bloopers shows? I used to watch it and go, I felt so much envy for these. I was like, I want to do that. And people would be, that's what was so funny. I didn't know what it was I wanted to do, but I would see that or like being a guest on a show or see Carol Burnett and sketches.

Eileen Kelly (12:17)
Especially as a woman.

Yes.

Becky Veduccio (12:43)
And I would be like, I want to do that. And they're like, being actress, I'm like, I don't think so. I'm not sure what it is. But there was something about that camaraderie and the humor and what I also. Yeah.

Eileen Kelly (12:44)
Yes, said

And the live element too, like hearing the audience and

seeing the actors sometimes break and like that versus like the Brady Bunch or something. Like I never had any I was never like, I wanna be on a TV show. I never felt that way. It was just like I want to be with that audience.

Becky Veduccio (13:11)
Yeah.

Yeah, was it Harvey Corman on? And when they, yes, and their, their connection.

Eileen Kelly (13:17)
Yes, and Tim Conway.

Yeah, their chemistry together was magic. And it was just so funny, like Tim Conway could make him could make Harvey Cormann and just lose it. Like the s I'll never forget the slow fall. He went up the sta it was just like a physical gag, yik and he fell really, really slowly. And Harvey Cormann could not hold it together. And then Carol Burnett couldn't hold it together either. It was so silly, but it was just so fun.

Becky Veduccio (13:26)
I was like, I will.

Yes.

On the stairs?

Yeah.

It was, those were my favorite moments and here's the other thing that interested me. So I admired my grandfather who was like pretty stoic about stuff and like I said, a policeman and very overprotective. And the only time I ever saw him laugh, he'd laugh ⁓ at Lucia Ball and Carol Burnett and Phyllis Diller.

And I saw him laugh and I thought he admires these women. And these women aren't trying to be really pretty, even though they were. They're not trying to be attractive. Like it's okay to be silly as a woman and not try to, cause I remember like all the women in my life trying to be so attractive all the time. I'm like, not attractive. I was like a 12 year old chubby Italian girl with acne and a mustache. And I was like, well, I'm not going to be that. So.

Eileen Kelly (14:26)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Perfect. Mm-hmm.

Ha

ha ha

Becky Veduccio (14:47)
You know, maybe I could

be like the funny, wacky, you know, and I think...

Eileen Kelly (14:52)
Totally. And I was like

a a st an emaciated asthmatic with a giant head. And and I too was like, All right, what are my options here?

Becky Veduccio (14:57)
⁓ We should have been friends.

Yeah, like I gotta get, I looked around at my friends and I'm like, I better get a personality. Like I better get something funny. And I was telling someone this the other day, I remember, cause everyone's always like, ooh, were you always funny? I'm like, no, I was always weird looking. So I had to find a way to get, I was invisible. So I remember either I was invisible or being bullied. And I remember it was like ninth grade. And I remember exactly where I was in the hallway.

Eileen Kelly (15:09)
And

Mm-hmm.

Mm.

Becky Veduccio (15:31)
and this group of guys, the same group of guys, like these are teenagers, and they were making fun of my boobs for being big, and I was kind of big. I mean, I wasn't huge, but I was just like not comfortable.

Eileen Kelly (15:38)
Mm-hmm.

It was the

eighties, so if you weren't like rail thin.

Becky Veduccio (15:47)
Oh people would be like, my mother used to be like, you're looking a little fat. You look a little big boned. I'm like, big boned? I was like, what am I gonna do? Do you shave bones down? Like, how do you cure that? I was like, no, I remember this guy, he was calling me Big Mac, like something about Big Mac. And I don't remember what I said, which is interesting to me that I don't remember what I said.

Eileen Kelly (15:51)
It was so demented. It was so demented.

Yeah, do I do I do I grate my elbows? What do I do? Right.

Becky Veduccio (16:15)
But I remember zinging him back. I just couldn't take it anymore. And I never said anything back. I zinged him back in front of his friends. And all of the friends were like, whoa. And they like, they died laughing at him instead of me. And I remember thinking, wow, that was powerful. The things I'm saying can be powerful if I'm funny about it. And I remember thinking, maybe that's like, I gotta get some jokes.

Eileen Kelly (16:27)
Yeah.

my gosh. What a moment. Yes. Power.

Yep.

Yeah. Yeah. And and I and it you I feel like for a lot of comedians it ki and I remember the exact moment too when school moment, which was in fourth grade, after I just got I was sick a lot as a kid. My mother was a chain smoker, my dad was also a a pack a day. She was two packs a day of red palm alls with no filter. And s and I was an asthmatic, so it wasn't a great combo. And I wasn't

Becky Veduccio (16:45)
You

Yeah.

And they saw no connection.

They saw no connection there. Okay.

Eileen Kelly (17:16)
zero. Z it

was like I couldn't have a dog. That was that was the that was the culprit apparently. And they finally did get me dogs and it was like a blackmail thing because the the I would go to the hospital or go to the doctor's office reeking of smoke. Like you don't my house looked like a poker game at two AM. Like you it was like you could hardly see. And ⁓

Becky Veduccio (17:19)
you

You're like...

Eileen Kelly (17:41)
And we go, and I mean, we I I'm sure but there was just like a a s you know, an odor coming off of us the second we walked through the hospital doors. But they would ask if anybody smoked around me, and my mother would level her gaze to make sure that I answered correctly, and I would be like, No. And and then in second grade they finally got me two dogs, and that was kind of like ⁓ you know, understanding.

Becky Veduccio (18:00)
you

Is that so they can

blame the dogs for the asthma? Okay.

Eileen Kelly (18:13)
I don't know that it was blame them 'cause it didn't get any worse, but I

think it was I don't know, maybe maybe a payoff a little bit. And I was delighted.

Becky Veduccio (18:26)
Would you go into the pediatrician and be like, I don't know, doctor. I just can't breathe.

Eileen Kelly (18:29)
Now when I tell you my

mother would smoke as she folded the laundry and ash would fall onto our clothes. I got called down to the nurse's office because I thought I was being abused because I had like cigarette holes in my clothes and s they still were like, Does anyone smoke around you? I'm like, no.

Becky Veduccio (18:42)
of God.

No, that's

not, like what? Like my mother smoked Kent. My dad smoked Marlboro and my mother smoked Kent 100s. And we had a Pinto with the gas tank in the front and the windows would be rolled up and they're smoking and drinking Pepsi with no seat belts. I'm like, it's a miracle we're here.

Eileen Kelly (18:56)
Like no cigarettes here.

Nice.

Nice.

Uh-huh. I know, it's like let's roll

the dice with the family and get on the road. Yeah, my my parents, the youngest of six, so my two of my older siblings smoked as well. Then like my aunt would come over, she was a chain smoker, so it was like it was never ending. And they were like

Becky Veduccio (19:20)
⁓ Let's go.

I always tell myself

like like to be like this before we knew and I'm like, how do you know? ⁓

Eileen Kelly (19:40)
I know. I'm like, I'm sorry.

You suck on a cigarette, you cough, you feel sick. You know it's not great.

Becky Veduccio (19:46)
Yeah,

like we don't know certain things in our food, but we eat and we know eating is like, we're supposed to do that, but who said, I think I'm gonna put smoke in my lungs. who said, who started this? That's so-

Eileen Kelly (19:50)
Right.

I don't

know, but my dad started when he was eight years old. Eight years old. They would pick up cigarette butts. He said that, you know, actors in movies, like the cool actors, would smoke, so they wanted to smoke. And and and athletes. People like Joe DiMaggio. I don't know if they actually smoked, but they would smoke in public to like tobacco companies would pay them, I guess. And so my dad said the best butts were at the bus stop.

Becky Veduccio (20:04)
HAAA!

Eileen Kelly (20:28)
Because somebody would light one up and then a bus would come and they'd have to toss it so it would be like a whole almost a whole cigarette. So they would smoke the butts they at the bus stops whenever they could. The best bus. The best Halag big butts at the bus stop.

Becky Veduccio (20:37)
love the best butts. The best butt with the butt dot. That is so clever.

I don't understand because also it doesn't

do anything for you, like drinking affects you, weed affects you in some way that people like, but I don't understand, I guess maybe a caffeinate, I don't really, but.

Eileen Kelly (20:53)
Mm-hmm.

It does. Nicotine does.

I yeah. They it really does. It it like it's it's this it has a stimulating and calming effect. I think the deep inhale and exhale is the calming part and the nicotine is like caffeine. it's very addictive 'cause I've asked my siblings and my parents, I would act because I was just like, it made no sense to me. Like my mom

Becky Veduccio (21:07)
No!

Eileen Kelly (21:22)
had a brain aneurysm when I was in seventh grade. She was in intensive care for a month all through Christmas. She couldn't smoke, you know, the whole time. And then she got out and started smoking again. And I was like, why? You are over the physical addiction. Why? And she was like, I love it.

Becky Veduccio (21:27)
God.

Yeah.

My, it's, I think if you have an addictive personality, there's something like, you have to give it something, feed it something like my dad smoked and gave up. He was a cold turkey gave up and everyone was so happy for him. And then he went to drinking and then drank it.

Eileen Kelly (21:49)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Feed it something.

⁓ My mom

went in the other direction. I mean she didn't do she smoked and drank, but then she gave up drinking and then I think smoking became her last, you know

Becky Veduccio (22:13)
Yeah,

that's what I mean. it's part of a chemistry which needs to be fed something. So it's not a thing, right? So he went, he gave up smoking, started drinking, and then he got too fun. And we were like, you're too fun, dad. And he was like, all right. And like literally the next day, gave up drinking and we're like, wow, that's amazing. Started smoking cigars. He's like, cause you know you're not inhaling them. And we're like, yeah, but no one wants to be a bad girl.

Eileen Kelly (22:20)
Mm-hmm.

Hmm. ⁓

Yeah.

Oof, those are terrible. That's the worst. We are.

Yeah, and we are, by the way.

Becky Veduccio (22:44)
Yeah, and then he started inhaling the cigars. And I remember saying to him, I go, look, you get addicted to everything you do, you're addicted to it. I go, why don't you get addicted to apples? Like, why is it never anything healthy? You're never like, I can't stop eating these macintoshes. why can't you choose something? I don't care if you choose it.

Eileen Kelly (22:57)
Right. ⁓

Great, like fill that

void with something halfway positive. Anything.

Becky Veduccio (23:11)
Yeah, anything else. Some fiber.

Yeah, I don't know, but I guess.

Eileen Kelly (23:15)
Remember Kojak

had the ⁓ had the lollipop? Yeah, like even that, I know it's sugar, but it's better than a cigar.

Becky Veduccio (23:18)
Lollipops.

I don't know, it's a guy. Gross.

Eileen Kelly (23:26)
So gross. ⁓

Becky Veduccio (23:29)
I was going to ask you, I'm going to interview you, Eileen.

Eileen Kelly (23:32)
Absolutely. Yeah, whatever.

Becky Veduccio (23:34)
I just, how did you start doing comedy and do you do it anymore? Do you do it at all?

Eileen Kelly (23:41)
⁓

so I started I was I had graduated college, I was working full time in a job that made me wanna walk in front of a bus. And I had I felt like I had no joy in my life and I used to have to go through I was working at a film publicity firm and I had to I had to collect all the clippings about our actors and movies and I'd have to go through all the daily

Becky Veduccio (23:51)
Mm-hmm.

Eileen Kelly (24:07)
newspapers and any magazines that came through and I was going through the village voice and I saw this ad for a stand-up comedy class and I literally I saw it and it felt s so magical that I thought I was hallucinating and I shut the page and opened it again because I was like that can't be a thing and

Then I looked at it again and I was like, my God, this is real. And I called the number and, you know, this is like before caller ID and everything. I called the number from my office phone and a woman answered and I hung up. And then I just like thought about it and thought about it. And then I called probably the next day and I might have hung up again. Like I I don't remember how long this went on, but I was like very in my head about it.

And then I spoke to her and she told me how much it was. And I think it was $250, which was a lot of money for me. And like I was really, I didn't have any wiggle room at all I paid my dad rent. I paid for my bus ticket into the city. And on Fridays I could get a slice of pizza. Like that was how little I was making. And I saved up and saved up.

And it took months and then I called back and I signed up for the class and then I canceled. And then I signed up for the class again and I canceled. And then I signed up again. And she's like, and and I was like feeling like I'm so anonymous. And she she knew my name and she's like, I didn't she was. She was like, I mean, are you gonna do it this time? And I was like, God damn it. So I I was like, Well, yeah, because now I'm embarrassed. And then I went to the class and I was like, This is the best thing in the world.

Becky Veduccio (25:42)
like I leave.

Yeah, I remember you being so good. I mean, I think we only did one gig together. was that one gig. Do you remember this? was, cause here's the crazy thing that you have been on my mind for years and you didn't know it. Because we did, it was, I don't know how you became aware of me. It was a mother's day or a mom's,

Eileen Kelly (26:02)
⁓ you're kind.

I do.

Moms yeah.

Mom's

day out or something in the city, right?

Becky Veduccio (26:27)
Yes, and it was, I don't remember if it was at a church or what it was, but it was like, people could bring their kids.

Eileen Kelly (26:33)
Right. I remember that.

Becky Veduccio (26:35)
And you, so I was pregnant. I didn't have a kid. I was hugely pregnant though, doing comedy hugely. And you had your twins in a stroller and we were doing comedy and there was like kids crying and people everywhere.

Eileen Kelly (26:43)
Yeah.

People were like on mats and kids are like crawling

around. It was pandemonium.

Becky Veduccio (26:55)
It was pandemonium and I remember you were so nice to me and you were so funny and I remember thinking, oh, it's possible to have this baby and do comedy and you know, it's just, you'll figure it out and everything. And then we had a tragedy, which was, I had a full term stillbirth, which you remember. he, so my baby died the day before he was due.

Eileen Kelly (27:02)
No.

Mm-hmm.

Hm.

Becky Veduccio (27:23)
hard to like process that, that he died the day before he was born. And people don't know this, but you still have to go through labor. And I had never been pregnant before and I'd never given birth before. And I just lost my mind, became so incredibly depressed. It was a really scary time. Obviously stopped doing everything. Stopped, I was in touch with friends.

Eileen Kelly (27:30)
Mm.

Right.

Becky Veduccio (27:53)
I couldn't stand the things that people would say to try to make you feel better. I couldn't deal with anything. So I wasn't in touch with anyone, but we sent an email blast. We were going to announce the baby's birth. So we had put together this group, like we're going to announce the baby's birth to this group on an email. so instead we basically had to tell everyone that he died because everyone started writing like, had the baby yet. And I had met you once at that show.

I did not know you and there are, I think there are, I got over a hundred letters and notes from people. I have them all still. And there are three that I will, everyone appreciated everyone's thoughts and prayers and sympathies so much. Like the volume of it was really moving to me, but there are three that I never ever forgot.

Eileen Kelly (28:34)
Mm.

Becky Veduccio (28:50)
that for some reason, like just knew what to say and surprised me so much and you were one of them. You me an email and I won't say what it said, but I was like, I don't even know her. And she said everything I needed to hear in this moment in time. I never forgot that too, cause you didn't have to do that. We really didn't know each other. And another one was from,

Eileen Kelly (29:00)
Hmm.

Mm.

Becky Veduccio (29:20)
a production assistant that I worked on a movie with and he was young, 20s, single, no kids. He wrote me a handwritten note. His name is Ben. I will never ever forget that he did that. And what he said was so, I was like, how does this guy know what to say? ⁓ And you're one of those people. for years, I was like, we live in the same town and we didn't see each other and

Eileen Kelly (29:35)
⁓ wow.

Yeah, yeah.

Now.

We didn't then, but we do now.

Becky Veduccio (29:51)
Yeah, well, was the next town over. I was in Bloomfield. You were in Montclair.

Eileen Kelly (29:56)
I was in Glen Ridge and then I moved to Ohio for a while, a short while. and then I moved here. So yeah, so we were like not neighbors.

Becky Veduccio (30:01)
Okay.

Well, I remember

one time, so I was like, just starting to leave the house again. One of the things I did was go to the Y. I'm like, I'm going to go start to not work out to be like fit or anything. Just get out and move. Because I was on the couch. I went from my couch to my bed for seven months without exaggeration, without.

Eileen Kelly (30:21)
Mm-hmm.

I don't

know how you're not still on the couch like ⁓ the amount of courage and strength that it took to get off that couch is like superhuman.

Becky Veduccio (30:36)
I don't feel like I had it. Like I was like, I now I've learned my limit. Like this might break me. I'm not sure that I even want to be here to be honest. ⁓ But I remember I started to get out and went to the Y and I was like, just get out, just go to the Y, just walk on a treadmill or whatever. And I go and there is this woman and she, I know who she is. I'm not going to say, you probably know who she is. Nine months pregnant, running full speed, huge incline, talking on the phone.

Eileen Kelly (30:44)
Yeah.

my god.

Becky Veduccio (31:06)
And I was like, I literally was like, why? Like, why is this the first thing I'm seeing? I'm like, stay out. And it just upset me so much. bad, friend. You're kidding me? And then I remember another time when I was starting to be like better, I starting to be better, time was passing. I got pregnant again. And then I was at a red light.

Eileen Kelly (31:10)
No.

Yes.

Of course. Like a fucking cosmic practical joke. ⁓

Becky Veduccio (31:35)
And I don't know if you were jogging or what, you had, it was you and you had your twins in stroller and you crossed in front of me. And I remember it was like that moment in Madison, Bridges of Madison County where she's like, should I get out of the car? ⁓ that's it. I was that's woman I've seen. And I was like, I haven't seen her since that, that gig before when I was pregnant. And I was like, should I get out and say hi? And I didn't, but you've out for years and then.

Eileen Kelly (31:50)
Yeah.

my gosh.

Becky Veduccio (32:05)
I have to tell the people listening, there's so many people listening, I have to tell them that my oldest daughter, Sophie, gets into Northeastern. You you announce it. Everyone announces it, thanks, cool thing. And you wrote to me out of nowhere, not remembering who I was, which makes sense. You met me once. And you were like, my kids go to Northeastern.

Eileen Kelly (32:07)
Hehehehe

Yeah.

Becky Veduccio (32:35)
if you need any information and I was like it's Ireland!

Eileen Kelly (32:38)
There's this

invisible thread between us.

Becky Veduccio (32:43)
So

it's just bizarre. And I was like, I must tell this woman how much she affected my life in such a positive way. I was like, and here she is again, like offering help. So, I'm serious. Like you'd have no idea the effect that you've had on me over the years really quietly.

Eileen Kelly (32:59)
Right back at you, sister.

⁓ wow. I'm I it really yeah. I'm I'm glad that I could offer even a modicum of comfort in such a dark, dark, dark time. ⁓ 'cause I've been on my knees several times in my life and I know what it's like and I know what it takes to get up and I applaud you because it is fucking superhuman.

Becky Veduccio (33:09)
One little moment. Yeah.

Yeah, you did. You did.

Mm-hmm.

You have no choice really. Like people are like, my God, I could never do that. You're so strong. I'm like, yeah, you do it. You have to do it. I mean.

Eileen Kelly (33:44)
that's the worst. I I I

know people think that they're being complimentary, but people would say to me, Guy, I have a son who's on the spectrum and he's very high needs, and I don't talk about it much, but it's been very, very challenging for a number of years. And people would say, It's you're just so strong. I can't, I could never do that. You're just so strong. It's like, if I

could pick behind door number two. ⁓ I do it. I'm no saint. Believe me. Like, make no mistake. You know? So

Becky Veduccio (34:17)
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, there's, there's the only

choice in some scenarios is to not be here anymore. You know, and

Eileen Kelly (34:29)
Yeah. And I have

been in that space. I really have. And I and and the thing too is I feel like when people say that, I think it I think they think it's a compliment or a comfort. But what it actually does is it creates distance between you and them. It it's like you're not you're different than me, you're over here, and it just makes you feel more alone.

Becky Veduccio (34:34)
Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, yeah, and you don't... It's not strong. It's just, you just, it's survival. You have no choice. What do you want me to do? Yeah.

Eileen Kelly (35:04)
Have no choice. Yeah. You have no choice. What do you want me to do?

I have no choice. I actually said that to someone. My son was acting out and they were saying that they wouldn't put up with it. And I said, should I shoot him? Like I just I was in such a dark place and I was I was so tired of it, like from teachers, from principals, from whatever, that I was just like, should I shoot him?

Becky Veduccio (35:34)
What did they say? What did they say?

Eileen Kelly (35:34)
Think I should shoot ⁓ They were like

no, they were like speechless. And I just turned around and walked away.

Becky Veduccio (35:39)
Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, like, I would do that differently, you know.

Eileen Kelly (35:47)
I wouldn't put up with that. ⁓ I I encourage it actually. This is how I like to live. Thanks.

Becky Veduccio (35:52)
Yeah, you're like, I'm thinking

of for ice cream after this. Like, what do you think I'm doing?

Eileen Kelly (35:57)
I like being I like being stared at on the school front lawn and everyone moving away from us like we're the skunks in the yard, you know, like thank you. I I I've achieved my goal. I know.

Becky Veduccio (36:05)
Yeah.

don't know. You don't know. You don't know what

anyone is going through.

You don't know. And then the more like I didn't talk about it very much. There's no place to talk about it. No one's asking you like about it. But when people would find out about it, there's probably not one person who didn't say like, I know someone or my that happened to my mother that happened to me or that happened my friend or you know, so once you start, you know, I was pretending to be okay all the time. I'm like, let's just start telling each other shit like, because there's gotta be someone who experienced it.

Eileen Kelly (36:43)
I know.

You make a connection.

Becky Veduccio (36:47)
Yeah, yeah, and here's the incredible, thing, I think. I told this in a storytelling and...

It was really powerful. I mean, I won't tell the whole thing, but ⁓ after we had the loss, like I didn't want to see anyone or do anything, but my husband was like, we should go to a support group. And I was like, I don't know. And we like tried a few and they made me feel worse. And he's like, I found this one, it's in the city. And I was like, I don't want to do it. I can't do it. And so we ended up going. It was so organized. It was so amazing. ⁓ I mean, grief altering, life changing. There was a couple who

Eileen Kelly (37:23)
Wow.

Becky Veduccio (37:25)
It was all couples and there's a couple across from us every week they'd sit in the same spot and I'd be like, I really like that couple.

And then anyway, every week that we would meet, because it was eight weeks, they would rush off and be like, we have to catch a train. We have to catch a train. And then we would drive home because we're killing the environment. And at one point I go, where are you catching a train to? And they go, Montclair. Because this was in city ⁓ in 2005.

Eileen Kelly (37:44)
Yeah.

What Yeah

Becky Veduccio (37:53)
And so I was like, we live in Montclair. And they're like, and I go, you drive home with us. So they got in the car. They drove home with us. The first time we drove them home from the Pregnancy Law Support Group was the first time I laughed in a year. I in that car. First time I laughed in a year. And so we started to be friends, but I was afraid to be friends because I thought, I need to get pregnant again and I cannot.

Eileen Kelly (38:08)
my god.

Wow.

Becky Veduccio (38:21)
It doesn't matter who it is. can't have a journey with someone. She's going to get pregnant first or I'm going to get pregnant. It's just going to be complicated. So I try to keep a little distance, but I really liked them so much. And my husband really liked the husband. So we started having coffee. We started hanging out. ⁓ Her name is Catherine. And so one time after a few months, we're having a walk in a park. And she goes, ⁓

Eileen Kelly (38:30)
Mm-hmm.

Tot their husband, yeah.

Mm.

Becky Veduccio (38:52)
She stopped, she goes, I have something to tell you. And I was like, here it is, here it is, here we go, here we go. And she goes, I'm pregnant. And I said, I am too. I'm at the same time. She had had a full term ⁓ stillbirth with a girl and I had a full term stillbirth with a boy. And she ended up having a boy and I ended up having a girl. And unbeknownst to her, she named her boy the name that we had picked if he had lived.

Eileen Kelly (39:01)
⁓ my gosh.

my gosh.

Becky Veduccio (39:22)
She didn't even know. Okay? This is, I'm not exaggerating any of this. So then we're in the park again, strolling the babies. Now we're like, got the babies, right? We're being moms together. We got the families. We introduced each other to everyone. The grandparents are all involved in our life. And then we're in the park and I go, Catherine, I go, I have something to tell you. And she goes, I go, I'm pregnant. And she goes, me too.

Eileen Kelly (39:24)
⁓ my gosh.

⁓ my gosh.

Becky Veduccio (39:52)
So we both have these girls. So now we got the four babies. And this is like a year after, like these were very close together. So now we got four babies and we're all hanging out and we're so close we started to like joke around that we combined our last names. Like it was like a joke. ⁓ And then a couple of years later, I was like, I have something to tell you. And she goes, I don't. So I'm like, okay.

Eileen Kelly (40:02)
Yeah.

my gosh.

Becky Veduccio (40:21)
So I had another, and then when my son was a year, she had another. And I'm not making this up. They're all these three kids, our best friends, and our oldest kids went to the prom together.

Eileen Kelly (40:39)
⁓ my gosh.

Becky Veduccio (40:40)
Stop it, stop it,

isn't that the craziest? And they're all best friends and they all know how we met. yeah, and then I told my son, only two years ago did I tell my youngest ⁓ how we met them. And I said, he was asking something about it. He's like, you met them at a party, right? I'm like, ⁓ it really a party. ⁓ And I was going to get them, it was a sad party. ⁓

Eileen Kelly (40:43)
The craziest and most awesome.

Okay.

It's the opposite of a party, actually.

Becky Veduccio (41:08)
And then when I told him, he goes, ⁓ and he goes, this all makes sense. And I was like, it does. And he goes, yes, yes, this really makes sense now that that's how you met. And then he goes, I don't want to hurt your feelings. And I was like, boy, what you sure he's going to hurt my feelings. And he said, but isn't it amazing that something so wonderful came out of something so horrible? And I was like,

Eileen Kelly (41:25)
What?

my god,

from the mouths of babes.

Becky Veduccio (41:37)
I mean, he was 12 when he said that. And I was like, that's what I said. That is number one lesson of life. Like you don't know what's going to happen. Yeah.

Eileen Kelly (41:45)
You don't know. And you just

have to keep keeping on because you don't know. And it feels like sometimes the longest hallway with no light and no door and you just have to keep t putting one foot in front of the other.

Becky Veduccio (41:49)
Yeah.

Okay.

Yep. I know that was long, sorry. But I, it's such an, it's such a, I hope it's like a hopeful story.

Eileen Kelly (42:03)
No,

it's

a it's such a hopeful story. And I I think when I wrote to you, I ⁓ I told you about going through six and a half years of infertility to have my twins. And I really it was our last IVF. it wasn't covered by insurance. We had had a bunch, it was taking such a toll on me. My mother was dying and then died of cancer and

It was just like such a bad time. You know, it was so bad, just relentlessly bad. And ⁓ I remember getting the transfer and they were frozen, and frozen embryos don't have as high a success rate. So I I used to and I was doing stand up because, you know, nothing no one brings the funny like a infernal woman with a dying mother.

Becky Veduccio (42:38)
Yeah.

hahahaha

Yeah

Eileen Kelly (43:00)
So

I was performing like six nights a week, getting shots and all sorts of stuff in the morning. It was really like a special circle of hell. And there was zero time. I'm like, so five minutes ago. ⁓ so I would joke though that s so I think there were like twenty-eight embryos at one point and when they freeze them and they thaw them, like a lot of them don't.

Becky Veduccio (43:08)
You know, it's supposed to be tragedy plus time.

You're not.

Eileen Kelly (43:29)
make it and and ⁓ but meanwhile we're we're paying an exorbitant amount of rent. We ended up we moved into the city, we sold our house, we moved into the city near Cornell Weil where I was gonna get infertility treatment, right? And then we're paying an exorbitant amount of rent. We're paying for a garage for our car and now we're paying for storage for the eggs.

And I'm like, I'm paying for I got rent for eggs! Rent for me! Rent for my car! ⁓ so I would joke. Somebody's gotta go. And then we'd get like they'd give us a sonogram of the eggs and

Becky Veduccio (43:56)
Forge for the car!

Eileen Kelly (44:16)
But it wasn't a viable thing yet. But we would be getting these newsletters from friends. Remember when newsletters were a thing, like family newsletters, which you know, it was like, let me pull out my own fingernails. and it's not that I didn't wish other people well. It just becomes too much. It's like you want everyone to be happy, but I can't go to this baby shower. It's been six years. I just can't do it. And so

Becky Veduccio (44:24)
yeah.

No, just, yeah.

No!

Eileen Kelly (44:43)
I we would get these newsletters that were like, and Bobby's doing this and you know, Sophie's doing that and da da da da da and so I I drew like Santa hats on the eggs and I was like I was like I didn't send it, but I wrote this whole story about what the eggs have been up to.

Becky Veduccio (44:56)
my-

You didn't say that, you should have said that.

Eileen Kelly (45:06)
I didn't I felt like it was too dark. But but I was like, I'll I'll write a motherfucking newsletter. I was like, here's my newsletter. ⁓ my it was cathartic but I didn't actually send it to anyone.

Becky Veduccio (45:09)
my god, I love it.

Yeah. That's amazing.

that's the thing about, that is the thing about comedy. Like I at one point taught kids comedy and I was trying to teach them to like bring me their struggles. even though there's...

Eileen Kelly (45:23)
Yeah.

Yeah, me too. I have

too. And they would like they bring in jokes and it's like, No, I wanna know what you're afraid of, what you're struggling with.

Becky Veduccio (45:39)
Yeah,

and it's hard to do this. It's hard enough with adults to be like, bring your struggles because everyone's trying to be funny. Just tell me the truth. Tell me the truth. And I had, once they understood it, I had the most amazing experiences with these kids. I had a kid who...

Eileen Kelly (45:43)
Yes.

Becky Veduccio (45:59)
this is like the best. I said, I want you to tell me something unique about you, something that maybe people know or they don't know, but that makes you unique. And this kid goes, oh, so some kid was like, I collect rocks. And I was like, I was like, I can't wait to write a joke about that.

Eileen Kelly (46:12)
Pass. I know

you have to be encouraging and it's like we

Becky Veduccio (46:20)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then

I got a lot of the rock thing and I like going to Target and I'm like, oh, excellent, excellent. And then this kid gets up and he's eight years old and he said, I had a kidney transplant. And I was like, and the whole class was like, what?

Eileen Kelly (46:30)
Yeah, I know.

Now we're getting somewhere.

Becky Veduccio (46:42)
And I go, and I was like, don't show just poker face, poker face. So I was like, ⁓ and I was like, so, ⁓ like, whose kidney was it? Like, no big deal. And he's like, my mom, my mom. So I was like, okay. So I asked him a few questions and then I'm like, I don't know if he's going to go home and the mom's going to be like, you're making. So I wrote to the mom who I didn't know. And I was like, he's talking about this. And she said, this is amazing. He's never talked about it. Okay.

Eileen Kelly (46:53)
Holy shit.

Yeah, yeah.

Becky Veduccio (47:11)
So let him do whatever he wants. said, I promise you, we're not gonna make fun of it. We're gonna find like the humor. This cat, this cat, we wrote jokes. I mean, I kind of wrote the joke, but he gave me the information to write the jokes. And like.

Eileen Kelly (47:12)
My god.

Right.

Right. Yeah. I'm already

writing jokes in my head right now about it.

Becky Veduccio (47:30)
I know and I was like, wait, wait, so like you have like a piece of your mom like inside you that you carry around? He's like, yeah, I it make you like do things that like you wouldn't normally do?

Eileen Kelly (47:39)
Yeah, that's

exactly where my mind went.

Becky Veduccio (47:42)
So he's like,

one of his jokes was that, I don't know, the thing of my mom like living inside me, sometimes I find myself just eating chocolate and watching Bravo. And so that was like, ⁓ but we broke this down and we talked about this. And so the show for these kids was Mainstage Gotham Comedy Club, New York City. This kid's eight years old.

Eileen Kelly (47:53)
Totally.

Becky Veduccio (48:08)
He's wearing a t-shirt that has like a tuxedo, ⁓ like, he tells these jokes and he gets applause breaks and a standing ovation. His grandmother came up to me after the show crying and was like, you don't understand. He, she said he almost died. If I show you pictures of him, he almost died. And he's talking about this on stage in New York city.

Eileen Kelly (48:12)
⁓ cute, yeah.

my god.

The healing that happened right then?

Becky Veduccio (48:38)
and he's never talked about it. the whole point of this is that's what comedy can do. it can take the bully, the thing that bullies you privately. And if you laugh at the bully, you can't be afraid of it anymore. You can't laugh at the bully at the same time.

Eileen Kelly (48:53)
Exactly.

Exactly. That's exactly it.

Becky Veduccio (48:57)
So it's like you

with the eggs, you're like, you know what? Fuck Bobby and his, you know, it's just like, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, yeah, I'm gonna think like, I think it was Nora. Yeah, Nora Ephron said, if you slip on a banana peel and fall, people laugh at you. But if you tell people you slipped on a banana peel and fell, it's your laugh.

Eileen Kelly (49:03)
Ha ha ha.

Yeah. The most painful thing.

That's right.

Becky Veduccio (49:27)
And so you take control of how we're gonna laugh at this thing that is like haunting you. And I, my God, you gotta, that's so great.

Eileen Kelly (49:32)
Yep.

Yep.

Well, the moment that I made the decision, like you talked about the boy teasing you, I was in fourth grade. I was always leaving. I was sick a lot. I was in intensive care sometimes. So I'd be in intensive care for a week, then I'd be in pediatrics for a week, then maybe I'd be home for a couple days to regain my strength, then I'd go back to elementary school. Yeah. And

Becky Veduccio (49:58)
Was this asthma? Okay.

Eileen Kelly (50:02)
Every time I came back, I was like skinnier and weirder than I was before because I'm like, you know, I'm whatever. Eight, nine, I'm I'm shy anyway. Now I haven't been here for three weeks. I drop down ⁓ to a different, weirder lunch table. You know what I mean? Like everybody just keeps going and you're left behind. And I don't know the the the latest scuttle butt on the playground. Like I'm just, you know, trying to get my bearings and

Becky Veduccio (50:10)
I'm sorry.

God.

Yeah.

Eileen Kelly (50:32)
I someone said a a boy said, like, where do you go? What why are you always gone? Where are you going? And I remember thinking, this is it. I am drowning. If I'm gonna stay with the pack, I have to make this funny. And I say I I made up a song on the spot to this to the

To the song Locomotion, but I made it suffocation. And I was I made up a song about asthma on the spot. And this group of kids gathered around me and they were all laughing. And it was just like, ⁓ okay, this is it. This is how I this is how I deal with this and this is good. You know, like I because before I just I was embarrassed about it. I didn't want to tell people, people would be Why are there bruises all over your arms? Cause I'd always have like IVs and

Becky Veduccio (51:14)
Yeah? Yeah?

Yeah?

Eileen Kelly (51:29)
blood tests and I was always covered in bruises and and I was ashamed. And instead of carrying that, I decided to make a joke out of it and it changed everything.

Becky Veduccio (51:34)
Yeah.

Yes, I just saw this, I don't know if you follow this, it's a different podcast, won't say, but it's a comment.

Eileen Kelly (51:48)
I've listened to many.

Becky Veduccio (51:50)
It's a comedy podcast. like they interview a lot of professional comedians and there's a comedian named Pete Lee and he was interviewed saying like, you know, it's always like how you come up with your stuff and your bits and your material. And he had this point that I just thought is so good. He's like, you know, because I'm all about, and I'm sure you are like the truth, the truth. What's the truth? You start with the truth. The truth is usually funnier than the thing you're trying to make up. And he was like, you start with the truth and you just like

Eileen Kelly (51:52)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. Always.

Becky Veduccio (52:20)
tell this stuff and it's about your struggles because people want to hear you being vulnerable. So and he's like, and then there's that thing that one thing that you're holding back that one thing where you're like, you've talked about the thing and it's funny and you're so embarrassing and this is true. And then it's like that one thing you're holding back. And he said, you got to ask yourself, what do I not want them to know? Like what part of this do I not want to tell them? And he's like, that's probably the best funny

is part. that's the part we talk about, that truth, because that exists like in them too, like someone else's feeling that or thinking that, you know.

Eileen Kelly (52:52)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Right. Or

it might not be the same thing, but there's something that feels big and scary to someone else that might be totally different. But when they hear you're big scary, they're like, ⁓ it's okay to address this.

Becky Veduccio (53:13)
Yeah, yeah,

you're not trying to connect with the same experience. You're trying to connect with the feeling that they're having in that experience. Like I felt that not at the store, but here, you know, it's that's where the connection is between the audience and the comics, I think.

Eileen Kelly (53:24)
Yes.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah. And and I have found that that's something I can through my life almost always fall back on. But in the times when I couldn't, and I think when you were on the couch, you were probably in this place,

For the most part when I was going through infertility, I could ⁓ find funny. And I was performing a lot and so it was forcing me to just deal with stuff like in the moment. Like even I remember going to therapy because I went to a friend a comedian friend's birthday party and she had a tarot reader there. And I didn't even really want to go to the party, but I liked her so much and I I knew I was a mess. So I was a little like

felt like I'm not safe to be in public, but I liked her so much and I we were kind of new friends and I was like, let me just make myself go. And then there was a tower reader and then everybody was like, get get, you know, get a card. Like just get get a reading. And I was like, no, like there's nothing good coming up for me. I don't need to be told that. Right. Like I know what's coming down the pike and it ain't good. And

So anyway, that for some reason everybody at the party got involved in like making me get a tarot reading and it was a terrible feeling. I was like getting bullied into this. And finally, the tarot readers just one card, one card. And I was like, fine. And it was the death card. It was the death card. Yes, it sure was. Yes, it was. And my mother died within the month after that. And I

Becky Veduccio (54:53)
It's like a guy with a sight. It won't! No! And then did she tell you how

⁓ no!

Eileen Kelly (55:08)
I mean it wasn't a s you know, she was battling cancer. I knew it was happening. But I I threw the card down and I was like, say like I spoke to this tarot reader like she was killing my mother with her bare hands. With her bare patchouli soaked hands. I was like, this is why and like I turned around and like got my coat and walked out and I was like, I might need to get into therapy.

Becky Veduccio (55:33)
my god. that's awful. Sometimes when the teller people pull up that card, they're like, no, no, it's a good thing because there's some ending that maybe you don't like, and you're like, okay, there's a guy. There's a guy with a sickle or whatever, with a hood. There's a skeleton with a hood. Yeah, yeah.

Eileen Kelly (55:36)
And then I I went to therapy. Yeah.

I know.

Is true that really is true sometimes, but

Yeah. Not looking great to me. Yeah The Grim Reaper is in my midst. Yeah,

and sometimes like it doesn't literally o ⁓ it doesn't always mean the death card, or most of the time it probably doesn't. It does mean an ending. But I knew for me that's what it was and that's why I didn't want to do it to begin with. But ⁓ but then I went to therapy and

I go to this therapist who's like, I don't know, 30 and like trying her best. And she's like, So, how can I help you? I'm like, Well, I've been trying to have a baby for six years and my mother's dying of cancer. So unless you have a spare baby lying around or the cure for cancer, I don't really see what you can do. And she was like,

Becky Veduccio (56:37)
Yes, I did. You know what? did the

same thing. Same thing. Went to therapy a week after the baby died. I went to therapy and she was like, you know, what, how can I help? She knew what she, she knew what was going on because my husband told her, but I was, she was, and I just sat there and I go, you got to bring them back or not. If you can't, then you can't help me. That's what I said. Did the same thing. Poor woman. ⁓

Eileen Kelly (56:42)
Ha ha ha.

I know. I

know. I'm like, this woman must dread my appointments. Cause I held nothing back. and then what I started doing was like making her laugh. And it did help me, right? not in the traditional sense, but it kinda helped me get back to that mentality, you know?

Becky Veduccio (57:20)
Yeah, this woman was my punching bag for many months, many months. I was like, you know what? I don't even like your face. You know why? Because you're associated with this event. I will never have met you if this hadn't happened. So forever, your face is going to trigger me. And she was like, okay.

Eileen Kelly (57:28)
No

Right.

Becky Veduccio (57:38)
And then I would see her, I would see her around town. I saw her in ⁓ like a soup place. And I was like, hey, name of therapist. And she was like, no. And then she was like, yes.

Eileen Kelly (57:43)
Ha ha

She was like, Bye. She's like, I'll take it to go.

Becky Veduccio (57:58)
next the next session she's like the reason I didn't say hello to you is because of patient privacy and I was like well you should have told me that because you're a therapist if you don't even say hello yeah I was like wow even my therapist is rejecting me this is these poor people oh my god

Eileen Kelly (58:02)
Mm.

Yeah, it's like a real rejection. It really cuts deep.

I know. I know. They're real they're real heroes. But I fully support you getting it out however you needed to.

Becky Veduccio (58:31)
I did. Yeah, over time I did. Yeah, there was one where I was analyzing her. I was like, you know what? Never mind me. This is so terrible. Oh my God. What a bitch. was like, was I a griefer? Was I a bitch? Like, she was like, trying to like analyze the situation. I'm like, there's nothing to How about I analyze you? I don't know anything about you. I can tell you everything about you. And she was like,

Eileen Kelly (58:34)
I'm glad.

Ha ha ha.

Becky Veduccio (58:59)
go ahead and I did and she was like, swear.

Eileen Kelly (59:07)
That's

the last time she ever invited that!

Becky Veduccio (59:09)
I know.

was like, let's not. I was like, that'll be $200. Oh my God.

Eileen Kelly (59:17)
I I actually told another therapist, a couples therapist actually, that he was a a ⁓ what did I say? I said, you're like a joy tick on my neck, just sucking all the joy out of me.

Becky Veduccio (59:38)
We should write apology notes. That was a dark time for me.

Eileen Kelly (59:39)
We really should. I know. I was

in a bad place. You're not a tick.

Becky Veduccio (59:47)
I was in a bad place.

⁓ God. But you know what? You're paying them for it, so...

Eileen Kelly (59:51)
And they have training in how to deal with this and they go to therapy to unload all the garbage that we heap. But yeah, I mean that's like major, major, major, major leagues. And I am sure she understood. You know?

Becky Veduccio (1:00:07)
I'm not sure. I don't know. I don't know.

I've seen her a few times and I'm like, around town. I was like, she's still alive. she seems okay. I think I was like, it was bad. Yeah, it was bad. But you're so angry. That's the thing. You're so angry when this stuff happens.

Eileen Kelly (1:00:14)
Did I break her? D did I break her soul?

And you have nowhere to put it and you have no one that understands and they don't even understand and it just makes you just rageful.

Becky Veduccio (1:00:34)
Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, she told me to stop driving, which I did do for a while, because the rage in the car was like, I mean, I'm like, look, I live in New Jersey. What do you want? This is normal? She was like, he is getting out of your car at a red light to confront someone not safe. Not safe. Not a good idea.

Eileen Kelly (1:00:51)
I

My god, I did the same thing.

I did that on seventy-ninth Street 'cause he beeped No, it was a guy behind me and he beeped at me and he beeped while I was sitting at the red light. And I got out of my car and strolled over and now it was green. But I mean I was in a place where I'm like, come at me, bro. I want you to.

Becky Veduccio (1:01:07)
Was that you? No.

Yeah, I want you to kill me. Like literally.

Eileen Kelly (1:01:26)
Yep. And

I had there was that. Then a woman was pulling out at the end you know what street parking is like in New York City. Like it's life or death. I have driven around for two plus hours trying to park my car and get into my apartment. And I put my blinker on. This woman was pulling. ⁓ I pulled forward because she was pulling out and she was

Becky Veduccio (1:01:38)
yeah.

Yeah.

Eileen Kelly (1:01:53)
the last spot on the street and then there was like space behind her and but you couldn't park there. And I said, Are you leaving? And she was like, Yeah. And I said, okay. And I put my blanket on and I pulled ahead so she could get out. And somebody pulled behind. And this so this woman's like, we're in a standoff. And the woman who said I'm I'm leaving, right? Like, she's like, What's what's she doing?

And I was like, she's trying to steal my spot. And she's like, I'm not gonna let her. I go, you gotta go live your life. I go, you pull out, I'll I'll take care of it. So I back as the woman's back like going front ways in, I back my car. And so now we're like this. And ⁓ we're sitting there and she beeps her horn and I beep my horn and I'm like, I'll fucking live here. Like, I'm not leaving, right? So we we sat there for quite a while and then I got out of my car and I said

Becky Veduccio (1:02:24)
I like that though.

Yes!

Eileen Kelly (1:02:44)
I have a knife in my bag and I'm gonna slash your tires unless you move. And she was like, I I did. Yeah, I go, I'm gonna go. I did. Small one, but it could do the job. And and I always kept a Swiss Army knife on my keys. It's so handy. There's like a little a tiny scissor and a nail file, and it was all for practical reasons. It wasn't like a switchblade. But

Becky Veduccio (1:02:48)
Did you say that right? Did you really say that? Did you have an eye on

Wait, why did you have a nice little bag?

Tiny file, mail file.

Eileen Kelly (1:03:13)
The

knife but the knife blade was like that big that's enough to puncture somebody's tire. I could do it. And ⁓ so I was like unless I see you pull out, ⁓ I'm going back to my car now and I'm coming back with my knife. And she pulled out and I got my spot. And again I was like, I better keep going to therapy.

Becky Veduccio (1:03:18)
or an artery.

zero.

Yeah,

yes, yes you should.

Eileen Kelly (1:03:36)
Nobody

told me not to drive, so

Becky Veduccio (1:03:41)
I love that you

would use anything on that Swiss Army knife other than like, you're like, yeah, you know, to open with the corkscrew.

Eileen Kelly (1:03:49)
I'll file

my nails and puncture your tires and have a good night.

Becky Veduccio (1:03:53)
And that nail

file is like a tiny metal, like, ⁓ yeah.

Eileen Kelly (1:03:59)
it's like a it's like a file that you would use, I don't know, to file off an a a license plate or something, but it works in a jam.

Becky Veduccio (1:04:01)
Bye.

They should make like more useful stuff from that Swiss Army knife. They should be able to pull out. Yeah. I don't know what.

Eileen Kelly (1:04:10)
We should make like a women's Swish Army.

Yeah, we

we should invent that. Make it really useful and a good emery board, like a glass yeah, we should do that.

Becky Veduccio (1:04:23)
and like a little

flask with some and whatever. What do we need? What do we need? Yeah. It should be a women's army knife. We should meet that up. We should market that. Oh my God. Someone else is going to steal it.

Eileen Kelly (1:04:26)
Right? In case of emergency. Yeah. A little life kit.

We should. I think this is our million dollar idea.

Every g there are so many multi-tools, I think they're called. Like guys, you know, people fathers get for Father's Day. They like fold out and have a million Allen wrenches and whatever. Like we could do that with everything you need in your purse in one fat little foldable thing.

Becky Veduccio (1:04:54)
No.

I think it would be good. think it would be excellent. Done.

Eileen Kelly (1:05:02)
I do too. I think we need to pursue this. Who

knows? I can always I always have these big ideas and then I think of executing it and I'm like, who do I know who could like make a model of a knife?

Becky Veduccio (1:05:11)
I know. I know.

I'm like an ideas person. Best idea.

Eileen Kelly (1:05:17)
I'm an ideas

person. I'm like, I just gotta hand it off to someone who gets things done. I can only think of things. I'm not doing any of the actual creation.

Becky Veduccio (1:05:21)
I'm doing nothing. Yeah.

My

dad used to invent things in the basement that had already been invented. A lot of them. yeah, like it's a little square piece of paper with like a sticky on the back. like, that's a post-it. Like we have that, you know? Like it's a bin where you put everything, all your recyclables. I'm like, that is a recycle bin.

Eileen Kelly (1:05:34)
That's exciting.

in a better way.

Nice ⁓

Becky Veduccio (1:05:58)
And then one time I went in the basement and I'm not making this up. There was a bag of hair. There was a bag of hair and it said 60 year old man one week.

Eileen Kelly (1:06:01)
Awwww

Becky Veduccio (1:06:16)
And I go, what is that? He's like, I'm trying to invent something for the drain in the shower.

Eileen Kelly (1:06:17)
Who

Like a like a Draeno or a liquid plumber.

Becky Veduccio (1:06:27)
Like a thing that would pull hair out of the drain and I go, whose hair is it that bad? He's like, that's mine. And I was like, ⁓

Eileen Kelly (1:06:31)
Or a snake, yeah.

No We're getting into Hoarders territory here.

Becky Veduccio (1:06:40)
What is going

on? I was like, why is there a bag of your pubic hair?

like packed to a court board with a label. Is it true? It really is. He had all sorts of stuff. He had all sorts of inventions that the, you know, the umbrellas with the, ⁓ now they have them because they blow over, they have the, the flaps with a

Eileen Kelly (1:06:50)
That's like this is like the beginning of a horror movie.

Flap

or whatever to let the vents, yeah.

Becky Veduccio (1:07:10)
Yeah,

he invented that.

Eileen Kelly (1:07:12)
Really?

Becky Veduccio (1:07:13)
invented that. I think he invented that before that was an invention, but that's the thing is it all stayed in the basement so he never. ⁓

Eileen Kelly (1:07:17)
⁓ yeah, how do you execute it if you don't have a factory or something or

a model maker? I don't know. My dad would invent stuff simply to save money because he was so cheap. So like I wanted Do you remember Zim Zam? Do you remember it was a metal pole with a coil and a tennis ball and a rigid like a rope, but like a

Becky Veduccio (1:07:31)
No.

Eileen Kelly (1:07:40)
petrified rope so the ball stuck out and and you would like you could play pra practice tennis and it would stay on this coil right and you could practice tennis. So I had I I asked for it for my birthday or Christmas or something. My dad took a tennis ball, put it in the foot of one of the legs of my mother's pantyhose and tied the other leg to the clothesline and he's like, there's your Sim Sam.

Becky Veduccio (1:08:03)
Oh my God, that's so funny. You gotta love a

dad in a basement with some tools. I went down there once and there was, oh my God, I went down there once and there was a chair, right? And there was a circle of mirrors that were hung up facing the chair. Like, sit and there's mirrors all around you in a circle.

Eileen Kelly (1:08:11)
Ha ha ha

He

All around you.

Becky Veduccio (1:08:32)
And I was like, I was like, like you starting a cult is this like a thing? And I was like, what is with the chair and the circle of mirrors? And he goes, well, I got to cut my own hair and I can't see the back. And I'm like, he's like, my barber shop. I'm like, to save money.

Eileen Kelly (1:08:34)
What is going on?

Yeah.

I'm so tired.

My God.

love your father? Why couldn't

he get a haircut?

Becky Veduccio (1:09:01)
I'm

like, just get a haircut, dad. It's not. And he's like, no, why would I do that? I can cut my own hair. I'm like, you have a mullet. You have a mullet. He's like, you know.

Eileen Kelly (1:09:11)
My dad

bought clippers and decided to try them out on me. I was in kindergarten. My hair was almost as long as it is now. And he was just like Yeah, I have pictures on the it wasn't shaved. It was really, really short. Like shorter than a Dorothy Hamill. Like very weird for the time period. It was Boys! Two boys! Two boys! And

Becky Veduccio (1:09:24)
Did you just shave her head?

You had five of his siblings he could have done that to. You must have had them. Yes!

Why little I knew!

Eileen Kelly (1:09:41)
Instead the girl in

the in the barettes, he's like, Let's let's try this out. there's pictures of me on the Strangers Kittens website, before and after my father's got my father bought clippers.

Becky Veduccio (1:09:50)
It's like let's choose as the girl

with the big head. Let's try it on her, she doesn't have any friends anymore. That's so sad. That's so sad. Where are you from? Where did you grow up?

Eileen Kelly (1:09:54)
Try it on her. Totally. Hey Exactly. What's the harm? I love her. Jersey.

I grew up in ⁓ in Bergen County in Waldwick. How about you? Aww

Becky Veduccio (1:10:13)
Okay. Boston. Well, I

say Boston, but it was like a she she suburb, Newton, Massachusetts.

Eileen Kelly (1:10:23)
I know Newton. Yeah.

Becky Veduccio (1:10:25)
Yeah, so I'm from there and Really?

Eileen Kelly (1:10:28)
I did a show there actually.

I feel like yeah, I did a ⁓ a fundraiser for like a very posh private school and it was a real experience for me because I did a bunch of shows up in the Irish Catskills the weekend before that and I killed.

They were my people, right? It was a bunch of blue collar Irish people. So, you know, when I talk about cigarette holes and ho holes in the car floor, everyone's like, Yes, I also had that. ⁓ and then I went to this fundraiser show, and everyone was in Manola Balonics, and I had never been around old money.

Becky Veduccio (1:10:52)
Yeah.

there.

Eileen Kelly (1:11:15)
Ever. Well, I mean, I was like a cater waiter in college in Westchester. So I guess I had been, but I wasn't interacting with them. So I didn't have to know how it worked, you know? And now I'm on stage and I'm having a conversation with them, and it is like wires are crossed. Like they did not connect with me at all. And

When I talked about marriage and I had like a bunch of material on my husband and married life and the women would look at their husbands for permission to laugh. And it was freaking me out. Like I could see it and I was processing it and I was like, What the fuck is going on? Yeah, it was really it was it was

Becky Veduccio (1:11:57)
out.

Yeah.

Eileen Kelly (1:12:05)
It might have been the worst show of my life. I'm not kidding. it was packed, but I never had a show, even for two people. And I literally have done like, you know, shows and little clubs where there were two people there. I had better shows than this. Like people were just like, I would say things that had people on the floor laughing the weekend before, and here they covered their mouths and were like, my God.

Becky Veduccio (1:12:31)
my god that's

so interesting when it's like the same material, and it totally kills and then another show, could be the next day. You're like...

Eileen Kelly (1:12:43)
There

was nothing about me that was f familiar to them. I'm talking the things that were being auctioned off were a week on someone's yacht, like I'm talking money, like old, old money, like some of these people maybe never worked. And for me to be talking about being the youngest of six kids and like a janky car and smokers and they were like, We have no idea what you're saying.

Becky Veduccio (1:12:55)
I'm home.

They had no struggle

to relate to. They're like, haven't struggled. Talk about something else. But like, what?

Eileen Kelly (1:13:13)
None.

Yeah. And even

marriage, I left that material. I left off a bunch of stuff because I was like, this isn't flying. And I went on to relationships and marriage and I'm like, well, this is universal, right? But it it was I mean that they laughed, but the weird delay of watching the women look at their husbands and see if it was okay for them to laugh at the husband stuff freaked me out. Yeah.

Becky Veduccio (1:13:29)
Yeah.

my god, that's crazy.

What is this? ⁓ What are they called? Yeah.

Eileen Kelly (1:13:44)
Yeah.

Stradwife, like

yeah, it was it was a whole nother world that I And even when I

Becky Veduccio (1:13:51)
Were they wearing bonnets? You look so little, you all have these red

dresses with bonnets.

Eileen Kelly (1:14:00)
I I

was I was well they weren't the they weren't the red-bonneted ones, they were the affluent ones, right? Those were the handmaidens, these were like the women who enslaved them. And I I remember commenting this woman had on these burgundy monolobotic Mary Janes, which were like very coveted and very rare back then.

Becky Veduccio (1:14:08)
⁓

Eileen Kelly (1:14:23)
And I called her out to compliment her and tell her how fabulous her shoes were. And that apparently was like, really bourgeois or something of me and did not go over well. And I was like, my God. No, I couldn't have been lovelier. Like I was like, look at you in your wine manola blonde Mary Jeans looking fabulous. You know, like I was just like that. Like I was like, are those?

Becky Veduccio (1:14:35)
Did she just drop me off or something?

Eileen Kelly (1:14:49)
Burgundy, Mary Jane Marnox. You know, like I was just like giving her props and sh she was mortified, her husband was mortified, it was clearly a social faux pas. I was like, I don't know how to be around you people at all. I I there was nothing about me that was right.

Becky Veduccio (1:15:04)
Yeah.

I knew someone who had like a really big, really big engagement ring. Huge, like huge. Yeah, and I was like, ⁓

Eileen Kelly (1:15:18)
Yeah, I've seen one before. They're crazy. It's like you can't

you get dazzled by them. Every time they move their hand, you're like, What is going on? I'm hypnotized.

Becky Veduccio (1:15:28)
And anytime anyone would comment

on it, she'd get like annoyed. Like, oh yeah. Yeah.

Eileen Kelly (1:15:35)
It's like, well stop wearing it then.

You chose the disco ball. I mean, what do you want me to do?

Becky Veduccio (1:15:41)
It's like if you wear any, if you wear a weird hat, I'm going to talk about it. Like what's, what?

Eileen Kelly (1:15:45)
Yeah, Amelia

Bedelia. Like you can't just walk out of your house like that and not have people notice. And clearly you wanted to be noticed. So don't pretend you didn't.

Becky Veduccio (1:15:50)
Yes, yes, I always say it.

Yeah, no comments on mine. No, but you know what? Yeah, you know what people say? I'll lend you this. Yeah.

Eileen Kelly (1:16:01)
Yeah. I can just live my life just fine.

A and Exactly. We could

switch if it makes you uncomfortable.

Becky Veduccio (1:16:15)
don't

need diamonds, I have love.

Eileen Kelly (1:16:17)
You bring your own fabulousness. You dazzle naturally. My God. I could talk to you all day long. And we gotta we gotta get you on the books again, because this is just more fun than anyone should be having.

Becky Veduccio (1:16:21)
Yes! my god.

I know!

I

know. It's so fun. I'm so glad. This is how we visit. We do it. ⁓

Eileen Kelly (1:16:36)
Yeah. I know.

Right. I know. Well we'll say that next time.

Becky Veduccio (1:16:41)
That's all the stuff we didn't say. Like, let's

do like a really, let's do like an R rated really like edgy one next time. I don't know what I mean by

Eileen Kelly (1:16:54)
Okay. Well

I'm on board with that. I don't know where we're going, but I'm up I'm up for the ride. All right. Well it has been yes. my gosh, let's have a boozy episode. That would be fun.

Becky Veduccio (1:17:01)
I'm up for it. Love some cactails.

Wait, what's your drink?

Eileen Kelly (1:17:16)
What's not really? Did I mention them eilish? No. No, I I I had moved into the Scotch Arena for a while and then I I backed way off of that because I was like, this is getting too comfy. but if I'm going out to have fun, I'd say tequila and soda with three limes.

Becky Veduccio (1:17:19)
Wow, okay, wow.

⁓ so

specific with the fruit.

Eileen Kelly (1:17:41)
Yeah, one lime isn't enough. Two maybe, but three really hits at home.

Becky Veduccio (1:17:45)
Okay, all right, that's all you saw. Unfortunately, my favorite and only drink is bourbon and I've been encouraged to like find another one because that's not something you can like throw down to relax every day. you can't, my friends are very rosy and I'm like, pink perrier. I'm not, it's not, it's not my thing. I'm not a feminine person. I've tried to be, why?

Eileen Kelly (1:17:47)
Yeah, what about you?

He

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I

Becky Veduccio (1:18:14)
I've tried to make

all of Rosanna's salad, but I'm more like, me some steak and some bourbon.

Eileen Kelly (1:18:19)
I

drink Ye I'm thinking of that Taylor Swift lot. I drink that brown liquor. You're like, I'm drinking with the big boys.

Becky Veduccio (1:18:25)
That's

kind of what I'm like, like I'm kind of a dude. have friends who think they're like, but then I have an alter ego called whiskey Becky, which she was super fun. And the sad thing is she comes out after shows. So I do shows. never, ever, ever, ever have drunk anything before a show. After the show, we all relax. We're like in a mode and

Eileen Kelly (1:18:31)
I love that. I could drink scotch with you all day long.

Yeah, I don't either. No.

Becky Veduccio (1:18:54)
The saddest part to me is that afterwards all the comics will be like, why don't you bring Whiskey Becky on stage? She's hilarious. And I'm like, what are you talking about? Yes, I'm like, no, Becky's fine. She's holding back. She's holding back. They're like, we want Whiskey Becky on stage.

Eileen Kelly (1:19:05)
Do you not like sober Becky? Yeah.

Yeah.

I can't say I'd never ⁓ drunk. I d I will have something light, you know, but I am strict about making sure that I'm on point, you know? 'Cause I've gone up after people that were not in their right mind and it's r rough. Like you gotta really make the audience feel okay again because they did not feel like a

Becky Veduccio (1:19:24)
Yeah, you have.

Yeah.

Eileen Kelly (1:19:37)
a pilot was flying the plane, you they felt like they were going down and you gotta be like, We're all okay. It's all right. Yeah.

Becky Veduccio (1:19:43)
Yeah, yeah, the only person

who thinks, the only people who think they're, that someone drunk is funny is like the person who's drunk.

Like, ⁓

Eileen Kelly (1:19:51)
Who's drunk totally?

yeah, I seriously could talk to you all day. I can't wait for whiskey Becky. I'm gonna bring out Whiskey Eileen and they're gonna play and we're gonna have such a fun, like happy hour episode. We'll release it at like four o'clock on a Friday.

Becky Veduccio (1:19:56)
I know!

Eileen Kelly (1:20:11)
Yeah, that would be fun. No net Well, thank you so much for being here. It it's been so much fun. And ⁓ my gosh, I I can't wait to have you back. It's so great. And

Becky Veduccio (1:20:27)
Thank you for having me.

I know, it'll be great.

Eileen Kelly (1:20:35)
I'm gonna tell everybody about your upcoming shows.

Becky Veduccio (1:20:37)
I don't remember where the shows are, but I have a lot of shows in July, which is unusual because it's summer. I will say that my follower on Instagram gets very lonely. So if anyone wants to follow me on at Becky Veduccio that would be awesome.

Eileen Kelly (1:20:41)
Okay.

Ha ha ha.

So

Becky Veduccio (1:20:57)
website. have a comedy coaching business. ⁓ I do zoom coaching comedy. write jokes with people. I love it. It's called the joke fluffer.

Eileen Kelly (1:21:08)
I love it.

Becky Veduccio (1:21:10)
So that's

BeckyViduccio.com. Everything's just my name. Just fucking look it up and follow and like and share and whatever you

Eileen Kelly (1:21:18)
And share and enjoy.

Yes. And get your jokes fluffed. Get fluffed, man. Get fluffed and come have whiskey with us next time. Thank you again for being here. And I cannot wait for the next time. Yay!

Becky Veduccio (1:21:34)
Yay, thank you, Eileen.