Turning Chaos Into Comedy W/Rachel Aflleje

This week on Ladylike Rejects, Bree Real sits down with the hilarious and resilient Rachel Aflleje for a conversation that is equal parts laughter, honesty, and real life.

Rachel opens up about her journey into comedy, how life experiences shaped her voice, and what it takes to keep showing up even when things get hard. We talk about her day to day life, the chaos that somehow turns into punchlines, and the moments that built her into the comic she is today.

Of course, we couldn’t keep it serious for too long. We laugh, we joke, and we lean into the kind of unfiltered conversation that makes this podcast what it is.

We also talk about our upcoming show at the McMenamins Spanish Ballroom on April 1st. This one is a big deal and we want you there. Grab your tickets here: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/51461664/the-laughing-elk-seated-event-tacoma-mcmenamins-spanish-ballroom-elks-temple

Follow Rachel Aflleje: @rachelteachescomedy

Reject of the Week goes to Sondra Jutte, a woman who turned adversity into something powerful and created a beautiful life despite the odds stacked against her.

If you have ever felt like you didn’t fit the mold, this episode is for you.

Welcome to Ladylike Rejects, where being the “reject” is exactly the point.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Welcome to Ladylike Rejects, highlighting women who flip the script. I'm Bree Real, and around here, different isn't a flaw. It's the flex. Yeah. Let's get this podcast started. What is up, everybody? It is Brie Real, and we are on episode number five. That's crazy. Five. I've done five things five days, five weeks in a row. Um, it's been an interesting week, but here we are, and I'm super excited to introduce my guest that I've been trying to get on this fucking podcast for so goddamn long. Anyways. She is one of my dearest friends, and she is uh my road dog, uh, one of the biggest supporters of females in comedy. She's also a teacher, a mom, probably has the worst bad luck of all time, but she turns that shit into gold. Uh, please welcome my friend Rachel FJ. What's up? What's up, everybody?

SPEAKER_02 1:23

Okay, I feel like I feel like you came at me a little hot there. It's episode five, girl. I've been trying for so long.

SPEAKER_00 1:29

Um, I feel like it was longer than episode five. I was trying to get you on episode one, and then Well, then you didn't. Then you broke your kneecap, and then you all of this is paid assassin to arsenate your arsenate.

SPEAKER_02 1:43

I think that's a new word that you just made up.

SPEAKER_00 1:45

I did, and but it's very technical.

SPEAKER_02 1:48

Love it. Love it. Well, I'm glad to be here. Honored, truly.

SPEAKER_00 1:52

Uh, how was your day today?

SPEAKER_02 1:54

It was a good day today. Uh, I worked and I dealt with children.

SPEAKER_00 1:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:00

And there was no indoor recess. Nobody hit anybody. And it was raining now. Yeah. I was walking around with like little like extendo hand pointers all day and just being stupid with those. That was really fun. That's amazing.

SPEAKER_00 2:14

Yeah. Rachel is a fifth grade teacher, uh, which is crazy that we allow her around children. I'm just joking. Okay. Okay. That was too far. That was even too far for me. No.

SPEAKER_02 2:25

She would get me called into HR again.

SPEAKER_00 2:28

Yep. Lady like rejects. HR. Oh, you're a fifth grade teacher. How long have you been teaching for? Nine years. That's been yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:37

This is my ninth year, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:38

That's crazy. You do you started right out of high school, right?

SPEAKER_02 2:41

No. No, I got uh no, I I got my bachelor's and my master's six years of college before I started teaching. Six years of real life. You don't have to do it that way. Um do you recommend doing it that way? I do because I wouldn't have gone back for my master's degree. So I'm glad I just did it before I even started. Yeah, because there is teachers that like to do their master's degree during yeah, because they'll like get their bachelor's and teaching certificate and then they'll just start. But then they're like at the bottom of the pay scale. And then if you want to add your master's to like get over on the pay scale, you have to go back and do it while you're working.

SPEAKER_00 3:14

That's terrible. You don't even get paid for that. So you're getting paid minimum wage. I'll just say minimum wage. Minimum wage to watch these. What happened? My left ear went out. Is that just me? No, that's just me. Okay, that's fine. You're very tinnitus. Okay, so my left ear went out. It just stopped, okay? It's ringing. I'm like, uh, high pitch, what's happening? It's fine. Uh, anyways, so you are making minimum wage and then expect you go to you go and try to get your master's degree. That sounds fucking terrible.

SPEAKER_02 3:51

And you can't even like take time off to work on it. And you don't get back to paid or anything. No. Uh no. I mean, go teachers. I wouldn't go back to college now, so I'm glad I did it. Yeah. When I had it in me. Yeah. So you got it in me.

SPEAKER_00 4:04

You'll you'll never go back to school. Never. Never. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:07

The first time someone handed me money for comedy, I was like, fuck school.

SPEAKER_00 4:12

That's true. Yeah. Agreed. Agreed. All right. So yeah, you so you've been doing that for nine years. And how long have you been doing comedy for? Also, nine years. Wait. Wait, ten years. Maybe ten years. Oh, so you were going to school when you started comedy. I was. I was in grad school. I don't think I knew that.

SPEAKER_02 4:28

I was finishing up grad school.

SPEAKER_00 4:30

Oh, that's a lot of trauma to unpack.

SPEAKER_02 4:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:33

That's a good way to do it.

SPEAKER_02 4:34

Yeah. Hey, if I got anything, I got trauma.

SPEAKER_00 4:37

That's crazy. So you started and they still hired you as a comedian.

SPEAKER_02 4:40

Mm-hmm. I wasn't like good yet.

SPEAKER_00 4:42

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 4:42

Or like notable yet. That's true. I just didn't tell them.

SPEAKER_00 4:45

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 4:46

And I like locked down my Facebook account for like two months while I was getting hired. And also there was like a teacher shortage at the time.

SPEAKER_00 4:52

Oh, so is the options, dude.

SPEAKER_02 4:55

Not to brag. I had options.

SPEAKER_00 4:57

Oh, why did you start comedy?

SPEAKER_02 4:58

I started comedy. Okay, I remember. Uh, I was in college and I was working at Domino's on the in the evenings. Um, and one of my coworkers, Michael Timont, shout out. He told me he was a comedian, and I thought it was like the coolest thing ever. I was like, I always thought I was like not cool enough to hang out with funny people, but I always thought funny, I was like fascinated by funny people. I never like intended to become a stand-up comedian. I never intended to like pursue it. It never was like a childhood dream of mine. Nothing. I it didn't even cross my mind that I could do it, that it was an option for me. Um and he told me he was a comedian, and I was like, you suck. I'm kidding. No, he's he's he's delightful. Uh but I was like, you're just a regular guy like me. What do you mean you're a comedian? Um, and so he took me to Vomity, the open mic in Olympia. And I went, yeah, I went, uh, I went to Vomity when Sam Miller was running it. It was it was a nice, um, nice little production. And it was, I think it was every Wednesday, and I would go and I would watch, and then I would hang out, and I would just like riff with the comedians on the street. I'm like, oh my god, this is so cool. I'm making friends, look at me go. Uh, and then Sam Miller came up to me and he was like, dude, nobody comes to this many open mics. Like, you want to get on stage. I know you do. And I'm like, I don't, no, I don't. What do you mean? No, I don't. And they're like, You're funny, like, you're funny, you need to get on stage. And so I did, and then I hated it. And I was like, I'm never doing that again. That's the worst thing I've ever done. And then I did it again because someone asked me, and then I did it again because I was like, Well, maybe if I just move it this way, it would be um, and then I I've gone through times too where I'm like, I'll stop doing stand-up as soon as people stop asking me to do shows. Never happened.

SPEAKER_00 6:41

That's a good way to look at it.

SPEAKER_02 6:43

Yeah. Um, and then that was also I was going through a ton of trauma in my personal life too. And so uh my sister passed away very suddenly in a car accident, and she was the first person I ever knew who died, and I was living by myself in a one-bedroom apartment, and there were nights where I was like, I just couldn't be home alone, and like I'd gotten dumped, like all my friends, it was like a whole slew of things in true Rachel FJ fashion, just chaos. Um, and I just needed a place to be. And comedy gave me a place to be. So I would leave my house, I would find the open mic, I would go to freaking Shahalas. Like, I'm going centralia, I'm going deep, deep in the in the you know, in the weeds to find open mics to go to just so I don't have to sit alone in my apartment.

SPEAKER_00 7:25

Yeah, yeah. That's amazing. Yeah, and here you are now, here I am now. Freaking just killing it, headlining, making tens of dollars, tens of tens of tens of dollars, pennies, tens of thousands of pennies. If there was such a thing as pennies still. Yeah, that's amazing. Yeah. Uh, is there a show that you like probably is one of your favorites? Like, you walked off and you were like, that was by far the greatest moment of my life, and I'm gonna like frame it. Just like you wanna you wanted to take that time in.

SPEAKER_02 8:01

Um, I remember when I opened for Tim Meadows and I think it was Olympia, it was like 700 people in the audience, or sorry, maybe it was Everett, 700 people in the audience, and that was the first time I'd performed for a crowd that big, and I walked off stage and I was like, that just changed my brain chemistry. Like I and like they're laughing, and like you with a theater that big, you're like, there's no possibility. And then for days I had messages coming and comments on Instagram of like people like, I was at the show, or like people would message me and be like, My friends were at the show, and they said it were so funny, and they said it was so good. And I was like, I like compiled all of the little screenshots because I couldn't believe it. It was like that's that show. I don't think I've ever had anything like of that magnitude afterwards, like the reviews were literally rolling in. Um, anytime I get to open for uh Tim, it's it's phenomenal.

SPEAKER_00 8:50

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_02 8:51

Same with Drew. I like opening for Drew a lot. Uh, we did the comedy store together. Yeah, we did. That was so freaking cool.

SPEAKER_00 8:56

That's so it was insane.

SPEAKER_02 8:58

Yeah, every weekend, every weekend that I've done with Drew, we I think we've done six cities uh since September. Yeah, since September we've done I think six cities. We did Spokane, Tacoma, Eugene, Portland, Austin, San Diego. And then we're doing Seattle in May.

SPEAKER_00 9:18

And did you say California?

SPEAKER_02 9:20

I said San Diego. Oh, you did it.

SPEAKER_00 9:21

San Diego. Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:22

Um, but all of those shows are are also like I feel like I'm like cosplaying, like this is what it could be like all the time. And it just it's made it seem like like within reach.

SPEAKER_00 9:33

It it is really freaking weird when you're out on that side of life. Yeah. It's like you're you're like a normal mom just going to the airport. You get to the airport and then you land, and it's like a different life.

SPEAKER_02 9:48

Yeah. You're like, okay, I have no responsibilities. I have a sparkling clean hotel room. I can go flop on the bed. I'm gonna take a nap. And then I'm gonna go, I don't know, wander around, find some dinner. You know, I'm gonna go to the show where I'm gonna get free food, I'm gonna get free drinks, and everyone's gonna be really nice to me. Please.

unknown 10:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:05

This time they're gonna be nice. No, and then you do these like killer shows, then afterwards you just get to like hang out with your friends. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:13

If you're I mean, if you're doing comedy, people recognize you, and then it's you get this crazy, like it's it's so crazy. It's a high. Like, it's like it is a total high. And then you come back to real life and you're like, Yeah, people wanted to hang out with me just so you know kids.

SPEAKER_02 10:28

Yeah, exactly. You're like, you don't even know how cool I am. Yeah, my kid measures my success by the amount of snacks I can take from a green room. When I tell her I'm going to show you, Shout out Bark Entertainment! Entertainment! Making me cool mom and cool teacher. Uh yeah, but she'll be like, like, if she's bummed I'm leaving for a show, she'll be like, Is there a green room? Does the green room have snacks? So if you want me to do a show where I won't feel guilty for leaving my child alone, just yeah, get her snacks and then I'm allowed to go. Exactly. Just throw out, yeah, that's really smart.

SPEAKER_00 10:59

I know game plan. It's cheap that way too.

SPEAKER_02 11:01

And when I go on the road, I I get her souvenirs to that's how I like smash down that mom guilt.

SPEAKER_00 11:05

Yeah, that's the same. I was uh in San Diego running through the airport, um, trying to figure out what the hell to bring home for Kai.

SPEAKER_02 11:12

Yep, that's what I did too. I got uh an axolotl thing from the airport.

SPEAKER_00 11:16

Oh, I I saw that axolada. I've got a not even gonna try to say it, but it's the um day of the dead. Dia de los muertos. See, I knew she would nail it. Yeah, uh I got that for a little stuffed animal. Amazing. Because that was the furthest from a Hispanic trip possible. I mean it's close. San Diego's close to Mexico. It is, but yeah, I felt closer to Mexico in Canada.

SPEAKER_02 11:43

Yeah, it was a lot of white people.

SPEAKER_00 11:46

A lot of white people, a lot of white rich people.

SPEAKER_02 11:48

Yeah. La Jolla. La Jolla. It was so fun though.

SPEAKER_00 11:54

What is um a time where you I don't know, that's a really dumb question, too.

SPEAKER_02 12:00

All your questions are dumb.

SPEAKER_00 12:02

They are, they're really dumb. There's no good answers to terrible questions. I can I can make it happen. Um, how how have you been healing since you threw your body in front of running cars and down up steps?

SPEAKER_02 12:18

Up the steps, let's be clear. I know, I almost uh that's been a journey. That's been a journey. It's it happened in September. It was the 21st night of September. Kill me. Uh the 21st. Do you remember?

SPEAKER_00 12:30

I'll never forget. Never forget.

SPEAKER_02 12:32

21st night of September. I was at the hospital. Uh yeah. And so, God, I've been back to work. I think I counted for 10 weeks now, which is crazy.

SPEAKER_00 12:45

It does not seem like 10 weeks already.

SPEAKER_02 12:47

I know, but I went back in January. It's almost 100.

SPEAKER_00 12:48

And also, September seems like yesterday, but not.

SPEAKER_02 12:51

Yeah. Yeah. It's been 10 weeks. I'm I've been terrible about going to physical therapy because they keep canceling on me. So I'm just like doing it on my own, uh, which is kind of what they told me too. They're like, you don't need to pay $30 to come every time.

SPEAKER_00 13:04

Yeah, it's really dumb. But I I I would not want to go.

SPEAKER_02 13:07

Yeah. I don't I don't want to go. My physical therapist, Mario, my sweet man who would massage my knee, he moved. So what's the point?

SPEAKER_00 13:15

I don't have Mario, I don't want it. Yeah. And Luigi, that's second-rate citizen. Don't even, yeah. Don't even straight Luigi her ass.

SPEAKER_02 13:22

If you come at me with Luigi, it better be Mangioni, okay? He can massage my knee. Uh yeah, no, it's been good. It's been good. I'm bending. I have full range of motion back. I just have no quad straight. The muscle atrophy has been so bad. Um, and my knee is like really like poppy. It sounds like gravel a little bit in there. Gross. Um, so going upstairs, I can bend without weight bearing. But if I'm weight bearing, like when you're walking downstairs, uh, I I can't do that yet.

SPEAKER_00 13:54

Do you have PTSD walking up the stairs at your house? Oh yeah. Yeah. Have you walked up those backstairs? I have. Yeah. I have. I've I've braved it, but I do it like a granny every time. I'm like, okay. Oh, for sure. Yeah. I pissed on it once. Oh yeah. Take that, bitch.

SPEAKER_02 14:09

Everyone else peas in my alley. Why not me? You know?

SPEAKER_00 14:12

Why not me? That's right. And um, speaking of the alleyway, you have been uh arsenified. I arsenated. You arsenated your thrice thrice on your arborvitis?

SPEAKER_02 14:25

Yes. And you cut the most of them down like a badass.

SPEAKER_00 14:29

I know. I still I I still have them in the back of my truck.

SPEAKER_02 14:31

I saw that. I was like, triggered.

SPEAKER_00 14:33

Yeah. Like I still need to get those bitches.

SPEAKER_02 14:36

I thought I smelled, I swear to god, I pulled up and I was like, it smells like arson. Like I I like smelled it. That was the propane truck. Oh, yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense. There was a propane truck in your yard. Oh my god. Uh yeah, that's been that's been a trip too. The arson thing. They got the guy though. They got the guy. He has um an arraignment on my birthday.

SPEAKER_00 15:00

Oh, are we gonna go? I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 15:02

I don't think we should go. I feel like I can't miss more work. I'm gonna get in trouble if I miss more work. Um I'm not gonna miss work. But then April 23rd, you should go. You should go. You should go. And I should go to the picture of your burning bush. Yes, you should go. You should go. You should go. Okay, and then on April 23rd is his jury trial. He's got a full jury trial this time. Oh he had been in jail for 19 days, got out, he was out for five days, and then went on the burning spree where there was 44 fires over one weekend.

SPEAKER_00 15:31

All arson. And this guy wreaked havoc on us before because on Tori's birthday, we went to Boise and we're we got up at O Dark 30 to get back. Get back in time. We flew, made beautiful time, and we were like a hundred feet from your house, it felt like. Yeah. And the street was or the highway was closed down because some jackweed Perry, claw. Perry. That's his name. Gosh, Perry the platypus.

SPEAKER_02 16:02

Uh allegedly, I guess, innocent until I was like, Yeah, yeah, that's true. That's true.

SPEAKER_00 16:06

But whatever. If the shoe fits, you must not acquit.

SPEAKER_02 16:12

That's that you just made that up. You just made that up. That's kind of a bar. Okay. Nice to you.

SPEAKER_00 16:19

Okay. Okay. I mean, it's whatever. Um, yeah, I pride myself in that. So yeah, so you're what are you gonna put in your bush area now?

SPEAKER_02 16:32

Your mom. What's my mom's birthday today? Oh, happy birthday, mom!

SPEAKER_00 16:36

Are you gonna plant your your ass in the uh no?

SPEAKER_02 16:39

I my idea is like I want to go full university place and just put daffodils so they'll grow every year or whatever. And then people would fucking take a flower, okay? Don't light my shit on fire. Take a flower. Uh so I think that's kind of the vision, but we gotta get the stumps and everything out, and it's not a good time to plant right now. So maybe I'll find something better.

SPEAKER_00 16:57

You know, the nice thing is, uh, or the um I'll have to comment on the amount of um packaging for um pre-rolls and uh this hill top. Your cans in there were impressive. There was a vape. There was a whole ass vape. There was a vape, yes. Whole ass vape, just uh, you know, I don't know what screams Arborvita, throw it here.

SPEAKER_02 17:25

My trash can. Yeah, and also it's like I look, I get it. Sometimes you're whatever. If you're gonna drink at my bushes, fucking invite me. Like, I want a twisted tea from the seven.

SPEAKER_00 17:39

Right.

SPEAKER_02 17:39

Yeah, just gonna throw it and then I have to see it chart. Like, I can still see. There's also like a lot of like hospital bags because we're by the hospital. I should just tell them my whole address, shouldn't I? Uh we're by the hospital, and so people get like the patient belongings. Yeah, yeah. Uh good Sam. By the uh patient belongings bags, and so there's a couple of those that were in there.

SPEAKER_00 17:59

I'm actually surprised we didn't have any of the socks.

SPEAKER_02 18:01

Yeah, true. Maybe they burned up that they do.

SPEAKER_00 18:05

Maybe they burned up.

SPEAKER_02 18:06

I did find out, and I'm pissed about this. The embers from the um trees burning, they because the wind was also blowing, which like perfect storm, uh, got onto my like outdoor furniture, my couch, like my outdoor couch, and burned big holes in every single cushion. Every single cushion.

SPEAKER_00 18:25

You can't, and now you you didn't bring that up to the insurance guy. I didn't.

SPEAKER_02 18:29

And so I'm like, I could maybe amend the claim and be like, hey, also this happened. I just noticed it. I don't know if it'd be worth it though. Like the cost of it. Yeah, and they'll be like, okay, here's 200 bucks giving cushions. The like the structure of the couch is fine, it's just the just the cushions. But I usually buy new ones every year anyway, because I am not the kind of organized person that puts their cushions away in the off season. So they just get wrecked by the elements.

SPEAKER_00 18:57

Well, you know what? The cushions just couldn't hang it, anyways. How do you know they would hang? You know what, you probably would have put them away and then like a rat would have gotten in them to them anyway. So honestly, you saved yourself energy.

SPEAKER_02 19:07

I really did. I really did. The dogs needed a soft, wet place to sit at in the winter.

SPEAKER_00 19:12

What dog doesn't? Yeah, period. And whatever homeless person.

SPEAKER_02 19:18

They they do let themselves in every once in a while.

SPEAKER_00 19:22

True story. True story. Cool. And what else do you have coming up, Rachel? Um, coming up. Like shows? Shows.

SPEAKER_02 19:32

Oh, I'm glad you asked. Uh April 1st. Yeah. Spanish ballroom. Tacoma, Washington. The Laughing Elk. No way. What? That's amazing. Oh my god. I thought you were gonna be like, I have that show too. Oh, I mean I have that show too. Oh my gosh, I poked you on it. Uh we are we'll both be there at the Spanish Ballroom. I am headlining it and I'm so stoked. We doubled our ticket sales overnight last night. Okay. Almost doubled, almost doubled.

SPEAKER_00 19:58

It helps that I sent the correct um link.

SPEAKER_02 20:02

You did. You did my people because you sent a like weird resale link with $60 tickets. I do not think I'm that fancy.

SPEAKER_00 20:11

It's like, I mean, it's whatever. And it was not $60. No. Um thank God no one bought. Thank God. Yeah. Which I saw all of my true friends where they're like, bitch, I ain't buying those $60 tickets. Yeah. Rude. They're gonna tell you they didn't. No, the response was, oh, good. I haven't bought them yet. Hilarious.

SPEAKER_02 20:32

Hilarious.

SPEAKER_00 20:34

That's fine.

SPEAKER_02 20:34

Yeah. Um, yeah, so that's on April 1st, 7 o'clock. I was super stoked. I'm coming straight from student-led conferences. It's gonna be really fun. Um, and then what else do I have coming up? I don't know. I'm gonna be at the camp bar tonight, but that's gonna be over by the time this is out. Where's the camp bar at? Um, it's downtown by um uh uh kind of by like uh kind of by like Go Philly. Oh in that area. I think on that street.

SPEAKER_00 21:04

Oh, I know where you're talking about.

SPEAKER_02 21:04

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. They have like a big skeleton outside.

SPEAKER_00 21:07

Yeah, it's you, Doris, and Kylie. Kylie. Yeah. Why did I feel like somebody else was on there?

SPEAKER_02 21:13

I don't know. I don't know. It's like an also like an open mic thing, but so it's not uh, you know, not just us. There'll be more. Yeah. I'm doing 10 to 12, not to brag. 10 to 12. I think I'm gonna talk about my experience. Um I want to work out arson jokes, obviously. I also want to work out jokes about my experience at the border.

SPEAKER_00 21:34

Yeah, I think that you need to. Yeah. I think so. My experience at the border is priceless. And I Oh, it was there was a price.

SPEAKER_02 21:41

Was there it was $500.

SPEAKER_00 21:44

Um for me it was priceless. Uh yeah. Uh I learned that I will never complain about what line I I choose ever again. And I'm never gonna follow Rachel in what line she chooses.

SPEAKER_02 21:56

And I'm never gonna bring oranges across the border again. Okay. Those orange sniffing dogs don't play around, dude.

SPEAKER_00 22:03

Yeah. The cuties ain't cutie.

SPEAKER_02 22:05

They were mad I was on my period, too. They're smuggling blood.

SPEAKER_00 22:12

I need to taste your pad. They made me take out my diva cup. They did?

SPEAKER_02 22:18

No, I'm joking.

SPEAKER_01 22:19

I was like, what?

SPEAKER_02 22:20

You're like, Rachel, I think you have a case. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:23

Holy shit. That was a joke. It was a bad joke. But it was a joke. It was, it was, you should be a comedian there. I'll think about it. Okay, speaking of that. What is the worst thing about being a comedian? Like the like something that's like annoys the out of you.

SPEAKER_02 22:38

Ooh. Um.

SPEAKER_00 22:40

Either what a comedian does or like how much time do you have?

SPEAKER_02 22:45

I have so many grievances to air.

SPEAKER_00 22:47

Yeah. Actually, the last night when the poor new guy gets up there. I don't even know if he's new or not. I don't even know what his name was. Yeah. Good, keep it that way. And you're like, the mic is to be talking to.

SPEAKER_02 23:01

I did shut that up.

SPEAKER_00 23:02

Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_02 23:03

I was grumpy. I was grumpy. I'm so sorry.

SPEAKER_01 23:09

And it's to bring up on her.

SPEAKER_02 23:12

I also just like I taught kids all day. And so like I had like sassy teacher mouth on and not like be demure in the comedy club.

SPEAKER_00 23:21

Typically, you're like super supportive, like, yeah, yeah. No, less than a little bit. Like the microphone. I will put that microphone up your ass. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:28

It was like we can't hear you. So what what are you you had in front of me on here? Um, I was gonna say open mic is is probably my biggest grievance is necessary. Uh running an open mic, that that's a choice I make. Um uh I the reason is the reason is let me tell you about it. Uh you just you deal with so much of like the general public who like think they're funny, and then they come on stage and they're just like racist or homophobic or talk about like sexual assault or like it they it's just like the the shock jock type open mic thing, and then they get egos that are so big, too big for for like where they're at, and they treat you like shit. So that's that's that's an annoying part. Also, um people touching you after the shows, like when they're taking pictures and stuff, like a meet and greet, audience like touching a lot of like the the the men, like the small of the back rub.

SPEAKER_00 24:29

I've never gotten the small of the back rub.

SPEAKER_02 24:31

That's because you're a lesbian from a woman.

SPEAKER_00 24:36

Not even from a woman, not even from a woman. I've never I've gotten hugs, I've gotten the shoulder, like yeah, but never small of the back. Never the small. Or maybe I just can't feel it. Maybe I have no sensation in the small of my body. Um, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:52

The other thing is like balancing like day job with comedy because all I want to do is comedy. I want to have so much more time for it, but I cannot pay my bills if I do not go to work. Yeah, so having to balance that it's like a lot of being tired.

SPEAKER_00 25:04

Um yeah, you do a lot. You're you are you are insane.

SPEAKER_02 25:10

Yeah, I I think it's a trauma response. If I slow down, the thoughts are gonna get to me. You stop doing stuff.

SPEAKER_00 25:17

That's when this thing starts popping interested.

SPEAKER_02 25:20

That's fair. I think about like when I broke my knee, I was 10 days post-surger, and I was opening for Drew in Tacoma. Like, it was insane. Yeah, that's insane. Girl, lay down. Yeah, I'm glad I did it. And and I would do it again, honestly, I would. Uh, but like that's not what you're supposed to be doing right now. No, you're on crutches. Yeah, pee in your pants at the comedy club because you can't get to the toilet.

SPEAKER_00 25:43

Yeah, she did ruin that night. We were having a great time.

SPEAKER_02 25:46

You had to, you had to like walk me on to the bathroom. You had to help me on the stage, you had to help me. And then when we were on tour, Drew, like he they they would like pull the rental car up and drop me off the front, and someone would have to wait for me. Someone was my designated ice skitter. Uh it was I needed I needed some support, but my my homie stepped up. Yeah, we did.

SPEAKER_00 26:06

I mean, it I actually benefited from you injuring your knee. Those coattails were strong. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:12

I was like, she's my personal nurse, my personal ER tech. No, that was that was so clutch because I knew that I could bring you with me, and you're hilarious, you're super funny, you crush on stage, and you you will protect me if I get hurt. You know how to you know how to wrap a wrap an injury, you know.

SPEAKER_00 26:31

There was a couple times I was like, God damn it, Rachel, sit the fuck down. I don't remember what it was. It was something you were doing, and I was like, no, wait, where were what were you doing? You were jumping. I don't know. You wanted to jump. Why were you jumping?

SPEAKER_02 26:42

Oh yeah, I did want to jump. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 26:45

Yeah, I don't know. I I'm I'm an idiot. Yeah, that's valid. I'm a ding-dong dum dum. I will say for our relationship, usually I start out with the origin story, but Rachel wouldn't know that because she hasn't listened to the four other episodes. But um our True true true. True true true for uh our origin story started uh when I started doing comedy. Um I had uh put in to do the open mic at uh Nate Jackson's on Hosmer or what I like to call Hosmer. Slay. Um and I had posted it on my social media, a bunch of my friends were like, Bray, no, that's like the worst place to go. And I was about to back out, and I was like, okay, yeah, no, that's un that's dangerous. I'm putting myself in dangerous ways. And then I was I watched uh Gabriel Glacius's um um special on Netflix, and at the end he started crying and talked about how all the things he had to endure to get where he was at, and I was like, Yeah, I'm gonna fucking go. So I went to endure hostile. I'm gonna I'm gonna take on the hookers and the blow. Hell yeah. And I went and I did my set. I got off. First thing I saw was this lady right here who was like, Oh my god, you're so funny. And ever since then, you've been like such a huge supporter, um, just a a supporter of comedy in general. Um, and yeah, so nice. I don't remember that at all. You truly uh I well I say that to everybody. I do say that. I I do hear it now.

SPEAKER_02 28:18

No, but I only say I only say it when I mean it. I only say it when I mean it.

SPEAKER_00 28:21

Okay, so everybody is going to be professional.

SPEAKER_02 28:25

No. Within a year. Narp. Nerp, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Nope, nop, nop, no. Let's be so clear on that. That's fair.

unknown 28:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:35

No, I do I do remember you having a really, really strong first set. I was like, who the fuck is that? Where did she come from?

SPEAKER_00 28:41

Yeah, and it was it was uh a great time, and then um and I would see you at open mics and that kind of thing, and then I had the chance uh to host, and it's gonna be almost a year, I think, for you in Spokane, right? Yeah, that's where we started road dogging it.

SPEAKER_02 29:01

Yeah, I think.

SPEAKER_00 29:03

Right? It was like April time frame.

SPEAKER_02 29:06

Yeah, I think it was because um Monet Exchange canceled and then I got to go headline.

SPEAKER_00 29:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:11

When the it's always the drag queens when they cancel, they like they're like, get Rachel after you in there. What are we gonna do?

SPEAKER_00 29:16

She's the closest.

SPEAKER_02 29:17

I mean, Father Drag Queen, Monet Exchange, both of them. I was like, okay. Get the other, get the other weird-looking girl.

SPEAKER_00 29:25

I'm sure at some point she had a dick. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 29:27

Yeah, that's possible. It's possible. Yeah, and I I remember you messaged me and you said you put in for it. Yeah. And I was like, I will like, we can share a hotel room. Like, let's go. Yeah, let's freaking go, dude. And it was the oh, it was the best. I remember so much fun. Yeah, we had so much fun together. And I was like, I haven't like really hung out with her on extended, but like, you know, if she's gonna help drive, and like we're gonna, and it was like that was like yeah, done instantly signed, sealed, delivered.

SPEAKER_00 29:53

Well, and I went to Spokane uh like a few weeks prior, and I opened for um Stephen Ho, and it was fun, like it was a great experience, but it was like hotel club, hotel club, like that was it. Yeah, no, we full on We painted the town, dude. We painted the town, we did poll tabs at um Lucky's Lucky's. We um went to the the uh what is the under the underground bar? The underground bar. Oh, we went to the vault. Vault, yeah, yeah. I think it's called the vault. Trust. No, the trust.

SPEAKER_02 30:24

It's called Trust, you're right. There's a vault in it.

SPEAKER_00 30:26

Yes. It's a big old vault. Yes. Um, but yeah, no, that was that was so much fun. And we like, yeah, we did the bre it was just every it was gotta see a side of the spoken comedy that was so much fun. I freaking love it. Who featured? Um that guy from Jokers. Oh, you're right. I don't remember his name. I don't either, but he wanted me to use two of his names, and I was like, God damn it.

SPEAKER_02 30:52

Oh yeah, because he went up as a character in one of the nights, didn't he?

SPEAKER_00 30:54

Yeah. Both the nights. Both the nights. Yes. And then um uh Charles got it as the last feature for you.

SPEAKER_02 31:02

Ugh, I remember that. Amazing. Yep, incredible. Um, yeah, that was that that it really just like locked down.

SPEAKER_00 31:11

Oh yeah. And then from that point on, uh, I have ridden your coattails like motherfucker.

SPEAKER_02 31:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:17

And it's been great.

SPEAKER_02 31:18

Anytime, girl. As long as you cut down my bushes.

SPEAKER_00 31:21

Well, good, Daniel.

SPEAKER_02 31:22

She earns it. She earns her keep.

SPEAKER_00 31:24

The best part is I bought my chainsaw from one of her bar buddies.

SPEAKER_02 31:27

That's true. The dive bar endures, okay? Yep. The dive bar is the hub of the community, and that is that is the gospel truth.

SPEAKER_00 31:36

If you've never been to home plate, you need to go to home plate.

SPEAKER_02 31:38

That actually, yeah, this is a great time to plug the home plate tavern on spray in Tacoma. You you have to park in the back and then you walk in the back, or you could park. The parking's a little weird, which is why I didn't go for so long, even though it's right by my house. And excuse me. It was uh suggested to me by one of my female friends. Like, this is like a like this is a fun dive bar, they have pull tabs. Like, you can go there. It's it's fine. And I was like, okay, I'm gonna go by myself. And I like went in.

SPEAKER_00 32:04

It's great.

SPEAKER_02 32:04

And it was like, and the first thing I see is a sign, it's like, stop, like, no harassment, no hate, no blah blah blah blah blah, whatever. Like, this is a safe space. If you feel uncomfortable, tell your bartender they'll take care of you. And I I've been going there for a while now, and I can say that is the absolute truth. Um, they don't they don't put up with anything there. Uh, they got your back.

SPEAKER_00 32:21

You got Gilly, you got Gilly and Cooter are the only ones that I've really dealt with. I know there's other bartenders.

SPEAKER_02 32:26

Megan is delightful, JP is delightful, uh, and that's that's the whole crew. And then Roger.

SPEAKER_00 32:31

Cooter, you just have to interact with because he's just he's just a staple.

SPEAKER_02 32:35

He's a prickly, he's a prickly pear.

SPEAKER_00 32:37

He's a staple of Tacoma.

SPEAKER_02 32:38

He is. He is, he's the troll. He's the troll you have to solve the riddle at the dive bar.

SPEAKER_00 32:43

He's the Fremont troll, but he is the home plate troll.

SPEAKER_02 32:47

Yeah, just just he he's like a you just gotta let him warm up to you. Yeah, he's fine.

SPEAKER_00 32:52

Yeah, uh yeah, just let him play golf on the the thing, and yeah, it's great.

SPEAKER_02 32:58

And the first time, the first time I went to home plate, I actually won like $350 in pull tabs. Did Gilly pull it? No, Gilly didn't work there at the time. It was I think it was Cooter. Really? And now I know how much he hates doing pull tabs. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:12

Yeah. Gilly pulls, like, if you want to win, Gilly has the magic hands. Gilly's your guy. He is your guy. Gilly's the guy. Yeah. Yeah. And then you have the claw machine to buy um little beanie babies for your kids to make up for you not being there at bedtime.

SPEAKER_02 33:29

That is also the gospel truth. Uh, I haven't done that. I was thinking about like my kids gonna figure this out someday. She'll like wake up and she'll be like, Oh, how is your show? And the the autumn is just covered in beanie babies. And I'm like, that's fine. I stopped at the store for you.

SPEAKER_00 33:47

Kai's always like juggling freaking beanie babies now. So funny. Beanie baby thing. Yeah, that was a brilliant thing. Whoever thought of putting beanie babies in a freaking claw machine.

SPEAKER_02 33:58

Yeah, incredible.

SPEAKER_00 33:59

Brilliant decision. Because who wants a beanie baby?

SPEAKER_02 34:03

Everybody, everybody. Well, what I want is a little freaking egg. There's a little plastic egg Easter eggs in there, and if you get it, you get like you get like precious metals. Yeah, or silver, or a a wind-up radio.

SPEAKER_00 34:15

Yeah, we're ready for an emergency. If an emergency works, it's true.

SPEAKER_02 34:20

I also got I got a like a tactical flashlight out of that thing one time, too. Tactical, tactical, step, step, step. It's one of the ones that like does the and I probably spent like 50 bucks trying to get that thing out. I looked it up on Amazon. It's a $20 flashlight. It's the satisfaction.

SPEAKER_00 34:37

Oh, it's so nice when it's like you know exactly.

SPEAKER_02 34:41

Yeah, oh, the best, just the best. Go to home plate. Go to home plate.

SPEAKER_00 34:45

Get um get a get a awkward cheeseburger.

SPEAKER_02 34:48

Oh, they're so bad.

SPEAKER_00 34:49

Pepperoni sticks. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:50

Pepperoni sticks, a little Doritos.

SPEAKER_00 34:52

Oh, and you could drink for so cheap. Oh my god, rock.

SPEAKER_02 34:56

It's the best. It's the best. Highly recommend. Yeah. Um, but don't go if you're gonna be annoying.

SPEAKER_00 35:02

Also true. Also true. Good times. Um, okay. So here's a question for you. Okay, hit me. All right. So when I started doing foster care, I had uh this lady that I met. She is like ingrained in the foster care system, has had thousands, I feel like thousands of children. I feel like that's a lot of numbers, but a lot of kids, but I've I'm pretty sure it's up there. She's been doing it for so many years. But when I met her, I was like, oh my god, you're like a total legend. Yeah. And she was like, I don't want to be a legend. Like when I die, I want to be a legacy. So my question to you is the bars. Would you want to be at the like when you take your last breath? Do you want to be a legend or a legacy? Leave a legacy.

SPEAKER_02 35:51

Wow. I feel like if I say legend, then I'm an asshole. Uh I think that I think that poor canolo's dose. Why not both?

SPEAKER_00 36:01

What did you just say?

SPEAKER_02 36:02

Porque enola's dose. Oh, I just speaking Spanish. No. Um, I think that I think my work I do through teaching, that's legacy right there. And I see that when like my kids come back and like I have their little siblings and they're like, oh my god, I know what this happened. Like um I I had also hoped to leave like a legacy in the comedy community too, of like of of like trying to like lift up people and you know like create paths, create like doorways, gateways for people to get in. Um open up gates instead of shutting them. Yeah. Uh or shutting them on the right people. Um I think I think I would go I would go legacy. Legacy? Yeah, I would go legacy. What about you?

SPEAKER_00 36:51

I would go legendary. Why? Because you're a douchebag. Self-centered. No, I just no, I would go legacy. I know you would. Yeah. I know you would. I would go legacy. Legacy. Legacy, baby. Okay. Well, that's all I have on that end. Now we're gonna come to the next part of our podcast here. What is that? This is kind of scary for you, and you're willing to accept it. Okay. Um I'll take my lashings. Yeah, get your lashings. Okay, this is my part. This is I bring on people on my podcast that mean something to me. And this segment is called If I Never Get the Chance to Say. Working in the emergency room, I have seen that life can change like that. You personally have seen that life can change like that. Um, so to ensure that I say everything I could potentially to you, I just want to say that I absolutely adore you. Okay. Okay. That uh you are most definitely one of my best friends, that I am so grateful to have you as my mentor, which is weird because you're younger than me. I'm a baby. Um, but you have held my hand through this whole life. Um, I appreciate that you truly keep shit real all the time. And I um I'm just grateful for you.

SPEAKER_02 38:24

Thanks, friend. Yeah. That's so nice. I agree. I agree. The feeling is mute. Uh you're right. You you're right. I did hate that. I loved. I mean, I secretly loved it, but you're like my ride or die.

SPEAKER_00 38:39

Like it's it's there's very little people that I could put up with in my car.

SPEAKER_02 38:43

Yeah, for that long. For that long. I agree. I agree. Uh, I feel like you like it.

SPEAKER_00 38:47

Didn't make it stop to get a lububoo.

SPEAKER_02 38:49

Didn't make you stop to get a laboo boo. Actually, it was a lofufu. Oh my gosh, what do we got? Thank you, Malachi. You're so sweet. And a sandwich for mom. Amazing.

SPEAKER_00 39:00

Uncestable.

SPEAKER_02 39:00

Incredible.

SPEAKER_00 39:01

Thanks, son. You're a good kid. Still in a lot of trouble for coming in. Coming in hot. Oh, that was a cold one. Oh, how about I'm you straight up shook that shit. He was like, I'll show this bitch. Yeah. Valid, I get it. I get it. Um be like head.

SPEAKER_02 39:16

I love um so stupid. I I agree. You have been like quickly, it's like you and Jackie are are two that are up there of like like just like soul friends, is what it feels like. It's like right off the jump. Um, and like I believe in what you're doing on stage, and I believe in like what you're doing in the black room. I don't want to know what happens when the cameras turn off, but I just I and like with your family and um you are just like so I just remember we're in Spokane, and I was like, we were looking out the window at the parking garage. You're like, do you think we could get down there? And you just like, no question that's you just fucking took off. You took off, and I'm sitting there, like, do I have her phone number? Like, how am I gonna and and you were like waiting, and then you go, I'm here, and I look out and you're like jumping. And I that's your contact photo in my phone. Oh, that's amazing. That's so funny.

SPEAKER_00 40:18

That was a good time.

SPEAKER_02 40:19

But but I was like, this girl is like the perfect amount of like impulse impulsive chaos. Yeah, that makes me feel like I'm not insane.

SPEAKER_00 40:25

Yeah, I well, I like that you allow me to be chaotic. Like some people like present you with things, and you could tell that they're not really wanting to present you with it. Yeah, but with Rachel, no, when she presents me with something, I'm like, fuck, let's go. Boom. What do we uh um Vancouver? Vancouver. Just relax legitimately driving to pick up my kid for school, and I get, hey, Akeem and I um think that you should come up here. We have an extra bed and we have an extra ticket. And I was like, done. Done.

SPEAKER_02 40:58

She literally got in the car. Missed my set. But you got Drew set. Um, and then she just like you just like hung out. You did the same shit with Austin.

SPEAKER_00 41:05

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 41:05

Last minute, you were like, I'm going, let's go.

SPEAKER_00 41:07

No, we I said we were going too. She were like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 41:10

And I was like, I wait to be asked, and you're like, No, we need to buy now. And then sure enough, like, we did end up going. Uh San Diego, same thing. Yep. You're like, I'm coming.

SPEAKER_00 41:19

Yep. Buying my chainsaw last minute.

SPEAKER_02 41:23

Incredible.

SPEAKER_00 41:24

Yep. But it's great.

SPEAKER_02 41:25

Did the even like with my injury and shit, like coming to the hospital when I you just like hung out for a little while, and uh you watched my kid while Richie picked me up from surgery because surgery took longer than they expected. And everyone thought it. When Richie couldn't get a hold of me when I went home sick and I was throwing up. Oh my gosh, yeah. And he he's like, I was hembry to you. I'm so sorry. I couldn't get a hold of you. I was like, I told you I was sleeping. He's like, I thought your sist ruptured and you were like bleeding out.

SPEAKER_00 41:50

Yeah. True stories. But that's uh that's that's friendship. That's what you do. I like being able to, I like being able to do that kind of shit because it's life is super boring if you plan it out. It is, honestly. I hate planning so much. And then by the time it shows up, I'm like, don't even want to. Don't even wanna. Yeah, but just winging it is alright. Clip that. Clip that. Now, now here we go. This is the other phase of my show. Reject by fire. Ooh. I'm gonna presenting you with two options. Okay. I don't know why I hit that button, but oh and you have to decide which one you are going to reject. Not the one you want. The one will reject. Okay. And it's gonna be burnt in fire. Okay. Okay, you ready?

SPEAKER_02 42:41

I'm freaking stoked, dude. Let's go.

SPEAKER_00 42:43

Okay, alright. Be known as the funniest comic or the most respected comic.

SPEAKER_02 42:50

Ooh. I'm gonna say most respected because like you could not be the funniest, but you could still be pretty funny. So you're gonna burn respected. No, no, no, no, no. I'm gonna burn the funniest.

SPEAKER_00 43:01

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_02 43:02

Burning the funniest.

SPEAKER_00 43:03

You know, that is true.

SPEAKER_02 43:04

Yeah, because like you don't have to be.

SPEAKER_00 43:06

No.

SPEAKER_02 43:06

And it's subjective too. So like really, you can get booked because you're just a fun hang. Yeah, exactly. I would rather be respected. Yeah. I don't want to be like the asshole that's like like super successful, but nobody wants to be around.

SPEAKER_00 43:19

That's fair. A class full of kids on a sugar high, or a class full of kids that keep asking why nonstop?

SPEAKER_02 43:27

I'm burning the sugar high. You're burning the sugar high. I can I can tune kids out so well. Okay. So well.

SPEAKER_00 43:34

I just hate when they ask why and they like you answer and they don't compute what you were saying.

SPEAKER_02 43:39

Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_00 43:40

That's horse cocky. But I I I could totally see that.

SPEAKER_02 43:42

I also didn't have to raise like a toddler that that was ever in the why phase. Like I I skipped that part of parenting. Uh makes it sound like I just went on a bender. Yeah. Um, I wasn't a parent when my kid was a toddler. So that's confusing too.

SPEAKER_00 43:58

Yeah, I probably should have brought that up too.

SPEAKER_02 44:00

Adopted. We adopted her when she was seven, so like I didn't have to do the toddler stuff. Um, so I maybe I just have more capacity.

SPEAKER_00 44:06

And prior to that, you were the fun aunt. I was the fun aunt, so like that's that's like a huge transition. Oh, crazy. Uh clean comedy or unhinged late night. I'm burning clean comedy. Yeah. Suck a dick. I had so much fun at that R-rated show. I don't know what it was. It just felt like it was just like there was no holds bar, just go bigger, go big. Just go bigger.

SPEAKER_02 44:30

Yeah, and you crushed. Well, and and I was so jealous, like sitting back there, because I had done nine sold-out shows with Dustin Nickerson, not a victim. That's amazing. I had so much fun. Uh, but I had to be clean.

SPEAKER_00 44:40

Yeah, that's rough. So you should have you should have just gotten the opportunity just so you can get that, yeah, you can get that dirty out. I know. I could have, I probably could have to take a guess set, but I was like, I'm so tired. I'm so tired. That's fair. Well, that who the feature Jordan Jordan. Yeah, he did a not three-minute set. I'm just gonna say that.

SPEAKER_02 44:59

Yeah, he did. He's like, I just want three minutes. And I was like he's up there, I'm like, he's saying every bad word he knows, and it's been six minutes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 45:05

I'm like, okay.

SPEAKER_02 45:07

He had fun with it.

SPEAKER_00 45:08

Okay. Um fun parent or respected parent.

SPEAKER_02 45:18

I'm I mean, I have to burn fun parent.

SPEAKER_00 45:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 45:22

I have to. Yeah, because if not if you don't have respect from kids, your your life is miserable.

SPEAKER_00 45:26

You're fucked, yeah. Yeah. 100%. I agree. Um no voice for a week or no recess ever.

SPEAKER_02 45:38

No recess ever. I'm burning it. Burn it. Burn it in fire. No, get out of my classroom. Go. My kids tried to come in for recess today, and it was like recess ends at three o'clock. It was like 2 57. And they're like, Miss Afta, can we hang out here? And I go, nope. I got three more minutes of no contact time.

SPEAKER_00 45:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 45:58

Certified child free time right now. Get out my face.

SPEAKER_00 46:02

Okay. Always be 10 minutes late or always be 20 minutes early.

SPEAKER_02 46:08

I'm burning 10 minutes late.

SPEAKER_00 46:10

Really?

SPEAKER_02 46:11

I'd rather be early. It's the ADHD in me. Like I have been late so often that I would much rather be early than late.

SPEAKER_00 46:19

If I care about it, I would be 20 minutes late.

SPEAKER_02 46:21

Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_00 46:22

If it's something that I don't care about, i.e. a doctor's appointment, I will be 10 minutes late. Really? Yeah. I can't do that to a doctor's appointment. Yeah, no, I can be 10 minutes late. Because it's a 15-minute period where they get canceled.

SPEAKER_02 46:34

I see the fact that you even know that tells me so much about you're like, no, I came at 16 and they kicked me out.

SPEAKER_00 46:41

Because if you show up 20 minutes early, then they're gonna make you sit in the waiting room for even longer.

SPEAKER_02 46:46

True, but I have AirPods and I have an iPhone.

SPEAKER_00 46:48

So Yeah, but even then, it's still annoying.

SPEAKER_02 46:51

It's still annoying, but I the anxiety of being late, I cannot. I cannot. That's crazy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 46:57

Uh lose your phone or lose your keys every day.

SPEAKER_02 47:01

Mmm. To be honest, I I haven't known where my keys are in like two months, three months. Yeah. Uh Rich Richie is the keeper of the keys in my marriage.

SPEAKER_00 47:14

Well, even when we when you fell and hurt your knee, I dropped you off. Wait, no. Yeah, I dropped. I don't remember what I couldn't get into your goddamn car. And your keys were so I don't I don't know. It was a process. Yeah, it was a whole thing. It was a whole thing. It was a whole thing. It was a thing. Always be slightly too hot or slightly too cold.

SPEAKER_02 47:36

Ooh. I mean, I would always be slightly too cold.

SPEAKER_00 47:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:41

Because you can put more on. You can't take more off. Thank you. You can't take more. And the swoobies don't even. I can't.

SPEAKER_00 47:46

Yeah. That's the great thing, also, with her, is when we get to the hotel. 62. Boom. Boom.

SPEAKER_02 47:52

62, dude. I want it, I want it to be frigid. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 47:56

Wasn't it Drew?

SPEAKER_02 47:56

Were you there when Drew Drew was like, Drew was like, he was like, unacceptable. He was so upset. He was like, it's gotta be 60, 68 or 60, 70 degrees or something.

SPEAKER_00 48:07

No, because you can only take so much off and then it's sweaty.

SPEAKER_02 48:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 48:10

And then things rub. Oh god.

SPEAKER_02 48:13

And I don't like, don't refrigerate me, please. Yes. I would like to be refrigerated.

SPEAKER_00 48:17

I just want to be able to kick my toe out to cool down and then put it back in.

SPEAKER_02 48:23

Amen. I I'm not gonna make it. That's what she said. Joke.

SPEAKER_00 48:27

That's what she said. Always be tired or never be able to sleep.

SPEAKER_02 48:34

Um always be tired. Wait, I'm burning never being able to sleep.

SPEAKER_00 48:43

Never being able to sleep? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 48:45

I'm always tired anyway.

SPEAKER_00 48:46

I hate being tired. Like it makes me so angry. I get so violently angry. If I had the energy when I'm tired to beat up tired, I would beat it up.

unknown 48:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 48:56

Um I feel that. Have your life narrated or have background music everywhere you go.

SPEAKER_02 49:05

Ooh, these are fun ones. Um, I please don't narrate my life. I'm burning that. I don't you don't need to say what I'm doing out loud.

SPEAKER_00 49:13

But it'd be so funny.

SPEAKER_02 49:14

And then Rachel went into the bathroom. It would just be a lot of like, she just put her phone down and she's gonna forget where it is immediately. She got her copies from the copy machine. Watch her leave them behind.

SPEAKER_00 49:29

Rachel continues to guess with her farts and burps. Period. Um, known by everyone or deeply known by a few.

SPEAKER_02 49:38

Deep I'm burning known by everyone. I would rather be deeply understood by a few.

SPEAKER_00 49:43

Yeah. Uh yeah, because it's always the worst is when you know you're known by everyone, and then you see people that know you, and then I don't know who you are. Yeah. And then it's awkward.

SPEAKER_02 49:53

It's like, uh, that's uncomfy.

SPEAKER_00 49:54

Uh get taught caught. Oh god. Okay, try again. Run it back. Get caught talking to yourself or sending a text message to the wrong person.

SPEAKER_02 50:07

I'm burning sending a text to the wrong person. 100%. Yeah. 100%. I'll own being a weirdo and talk to myself. I'll own that every time.

SPEAKER_00 50:15

Well, nowadays, when you have your eye airpods in, you can pretend like you're talking to I'm on a FaceTime. Yeah. You're like, I'm talking to somebody. Yeah. So shut up. All right. That uh ends our reject by fire. Slay. Yeah. I thought the RBF button standed for resting bitch face. Disappointed in that. I am. Alright. And now is our next phase of this lovely podcast.

SPEAKER_02 50:44

Are we going on an adventure?

SPEAKER_00 50:45

Yes. Is the reject of the week. This part of the show is where we acknowledge a true ladylike reject. A woman who's doing things her own way when it doesn't fit the mold. Uh, this week's ladylike reject is Sandra Jewett. Sandra was nominated by Charlotte Ness Hale. Sandra Jewitt was has been th through it all, raised three kids on her own, survived a house fire with three kids. She beats you. I know. I was like, damn. Lost her dad, became homeless, got clean and sober, became a store manager at the Dollar Tree, met an amazing guy, got married, and he even adopted her youngest. Got a degree in drug and alcohol counseling, worked her behind off, is an amazing woman to three girls, best grandma to eight grandkids, is always there for Charlotte when she needs a shoulder. She has changed the future of her family by being a strong woman who is willing and is still will who is willing and is still willing to do the work on personal growth. Um, according to Charlotte, she is the best person she knows. And that is why Sandra is this week's Ladylike Reject. And Sandra, ladylike rejects, will be sending you a little gift basket basket to acknowledge you being an absolute reject.

SPEAKER_02 52:06

Cute. I love that. Do people like submit that? Yeah, that's so cute.

SPEAKER_00 52:11

Isn't it cute? I love that.

SPEAKER_02 52:13

Thanks.

SPEAKER_00 52:14

I love that. And that's that's the end of my podcast. We did it. We did it. We podcasted. We podcasted together finally. Finally. And it went shwimmingly great. So good. So good, so good. Sweet Caroline. Um Yeah. So we have uh, if you didn't figure it out, uh we have the show on April 1st. Uh so this this is coming out on Sunday, and April 1st is Tuesday, so you have plenty of time to April 1st is Wednesday. Are you fucking kidding me?

SPEAKER_02 52:46

No.

SPEAKER_00 52:48

April 1st is Wednesday.

SPEAKER_02 52:51

March has 31 days, my guy. Uh son of a birthday. I know that because my birthday is on the 30th.

SPEAKER_00 52:56

Okay. So um, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 52:59

Also, if you're listening to this, wish me a happy birthday because it's my birthday's on Monday.

SPEAKER_00 53:02

Yeah. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Period. Um, it's your birthday, girl. Um, and uh what else? How old are you gonna be? 64?

SPEAKER_02 53:13

I'm gonna be 30, 33.

SPEAKER_00 53:15

God damn it, 33.

SPEAKER_02 53:17

My students asked when I was born. I said 19, and they went, 19!

SPEAKER_00 53:22

Dinosaur! That's a personal attack. I know. They call me unk. I watched I watched a show on uh, I don't know, something. It was from 1999, and I was like, why is the quality so poor? 1999 was not that long ago. Oh yeah, that was 27 years, that was almost 30 years ago. Yeah, that's so gross. You were like three. I was six. Okay, you were like six. You're six. I was this many side. I was this many. Okay. Um yes, so uh we have that coming up. Uh I will be in post falls uh competing for the Quincy Belt on the fourth. Exciting. That is exciting. And uh also I have this art up here, brandylepointart.com. You could legitimately purchase this picture right here and get our fingerprints on it sent to your house. Uh, and there's uh multiple different pieces of art that she has because she's such a badass. So um go to there. Um also I don't remember what else I was gonna say. So we're just gonna end like is there anything else I was gonna say?

SPEAKER_02 54:32

I don't I don't know. You didn't tell me.

SPEAKER_00 54:34

No, I didn't tell you anything.

SPEAKER_02 54:36

No, I think we're good.

SPEAKER_00 54:36

I think we did it. Well, stay real, stay rejected, and we'll see you next time.