WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:09.199 Molly May, will you come out and play your smile takes the day? 2 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:17.160 And this is Molly May a bad pass pod another nice stuff with me, 3 00:00:17.559 --> 00:00:30.679 Molly you take me guy, guys, guys, guys. Hello, Hey 4 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:40.960 there, Chibish and Molly May and you're listening to uh Mollie May the pod. 5 00:00:41.719 --> 00:00:47.399 But yeah, hey there, uh, today I'm gonna talk about finding 6 00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:54.600 my laugh. A reminder that I'm at home in the room of one's own. 7 00:00:55.840 --> 00:01:00.560 Um, you may hear the dog, you may hear the toilet flush, 8 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:06.760 and we're gonna accept that. That's fucking life. So yeah, today 9 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:14.480 I'm gonna tell you about finding my laugh. And I can't I can't tell 10 00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:18.359 you when I specifically found it. Clearly I found it. I can't stop 11 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:26.319 fucking giggling. But I remember very vividly when I tried to find it and 12 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:30.560 when I firmly believed that I didn't have it, like I just I didn't 13 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:38.079 have a laugh. Um. But first some joy, we love joy. 14 00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:49.480 In Quarantine, my dear friend Tye Taylor has started singing with his lifelong friends 15 00:01:51.439 --> 00:02:00.120 Laura Jane Jones and Maya Sykes, and they film Acapella. Medley's maintaining social 16 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:07.640 distance and like a tunnel. It's like an underpass. Yeah, that type 17 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:14.560 of an underpass. A bye, they're in a tunnel, and so the 18 00:02:14.680 --> 00:02:28.039 acoustics are heavenly and they're medley curation cure a creation curation that's a choir warm 19 00:02:28.120 --> 00:02:35.680 up cura creasian. The way that they're putting these medleys together is just like 20 00:02:35.719 --> 00:02:42.479 an unrivaled brilliance, and their harmonies are like okay, okay, so I 21 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:47.240 FaceTime to tie the other day because as like guys, I had goosebumps so 22 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:57.879 hard after watching these videos that my nipples were like like not a part of 23 00:02:57.879 --> 00:03:05.759 my body is mean, okay, be on that. Like you know when 24 00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:09.800 you shave your legs and you get the goosebumps and then you can like feel 25 00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:16.840 your leg hairs prick out or like they're they're even more effective when you get 26 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:22.039 goosebumps on your face, which is like I feel like that's a little more 27 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:25.719 rare, but like that's the sign of a really good performance when when you 28 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:34.039 get goosebumps on your face. But this was like straight fucking nipples. It 29 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:37.199 was so weird. It just got all the goosebumps. My apples were so 30 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:42.680 hard and I don't know, like I've never noticed that before. So that's 31 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:50.400 that's our joy. Oh my god, I'm gonna get fired. Um the 32 00:03:50.520 --> 00:03:54.280 joy is the medley's, not my nipples getting heart. That was just an 33 00:03:54.280 --> 00:04:02.919 expression to share how joyful an amazing this trio is. So the song of 34 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:06.919 the week. Um, let's keep it going on the theme of this trio 35 00:04:08.280 --> 00:04:14.599 and get off of my nipples. They recently did a medley then included love 36 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:20.160 Train by the OJ's People of the World. You know that one join hands 37 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:25.519 but also like don't touch and stay six feet apart. Please. You can 38 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:34.160 watch their medley's on each one of their respective instagrams because they're just creating together 39 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:43.160 in this weird ass time of quarantine and using their sweet, just pure magical 40 00:04:43.399 --> 00:04:49.279 talents. Thank you, guys, Tye Taylor, Maya Sykes, and Laura 41 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:54.519 Jane Jones. What I can't take off this week is sunscreen. Let's all 42 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:59.920 wear more sun sun skun screen. This is your reminder to also drink water 43 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:06.399 and where sunscreen cool? Okay? Thanks? No. Sunscreen has come very 44 00:05:06.439 --> 00:05:10.920 far since we were kids, and you know, you're like really had to 45 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:14.519 rub it in and slather it on there and it was such a chore done 46 00:05:14.639 --> 00:05:19.600 by our mothers. No, you don't have any excuses were sunscreen? No. 47 00:05:20.879 --> 00:05:25.319 I want to introduce you to Grandma Barbe. I've tried to get her 48 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:30.759 on the pod a gajillion fucking times, and she's quite apprehensive about being on 49 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:35.439 the internet. The last time I talked to Grandma about being a guest on 50 00:05:35.480 --> 00:05:42.199 the pod, she asked me if she would have a dress rehearsal. She's 51 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:46.199 like a fucking die for. Like, Grandma Barbe is exactly the kind of 52 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:53.160 woman that is throwing herself a ninetieth birthday party, but like in the style 53 00:05:53.199 --> 00:06:00.879 of a wedding dance, so perfect and it's exactly how I'm going to do 54 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:04.959 it. So she's sent out invites, she sent out, saved the dates. 55 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:11.560 Let me be clear, the invites came later. This is tuthefold and 56 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:15.759 it's like mass at two, happy hour, at four, dinner at five, 57 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:23.160 dancing immediately following. It has been canceled twice obviously because of quarantine. 58 00:06:23.639 --> 00:06:29.360 And she yes, she has turned ninety. I'm not about the not going 59 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:32.560 to be the person that kills her because of COVID. So I really am 60 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:40.680 looking forward to the day when we can celebrate in this way because this her 61 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:47.000 throwing herself, this wedding dance vibe is precisely the energy of my ninety year 62 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:55.439 old beauty guru Grandma. She really loves to dance. So today and the 63 00:06:55.480 --> 00:07:00.160 pod we're harnessing Grandma Barb. I mean this woman. She makes her own 64 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:05.839 rolls water, she adds vitamin E oil to her store bought moisturizer. She 65 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:11.079 keeps fingernail polish in the fridge. She can't tell me why she does any 66 00:07:11.079 --> 00:07:14.199 of those things. I've asked so many times, but I guess I don't 67 00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:18.439 need a reason why. It's just it has always been perfect Grandma Barb behavior 68 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:25.279 to me. So I'll report back about her ninetieth birthday, maybe for her 69 00:07:26.279 --> 00:07:30.839 from my birthday. For her birthday, she'll do me the favor of finally 70 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:34.480 agreeing to come on. She's so rich with history. No, she'll never 71 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:39.800 do it. I'll just tell you about her. So I was at I 72 00:07:39.879 --> 00:07:46.079 was at a baby shower for a very dear family member of mine before baby 73 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:49.759 showers were thrown over video calls on the internet, and we could safely meet 74 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:56.879 in person, and it was it was the most perfect intimate gathering of women 75 00:07:57.160 --> 00:08:01.240 in our family, and I was very grateful to be seated next to Grandma 76 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:13.759 Barbe, very multi layered woman, and I take great pride in being able 77 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:18.360 to break through some of those layers because, as I said, she's rich 78 00:08:18.439 --> 00:08:22.399 with history, and in this time of quarantine, I've gotten even further. 79 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:28.319 And she's such I'm so obsessed with her. We've been facetiming at home. 80 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:33.480 It's amazing. She'll have a beer with me over FaceTime and we'll just laugh. 81 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:39.000 One thing that I learned about about me Grandma Barb and laughing is when 82 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:43.679 she tells a really funny joke and like can't get it out, she hides 83 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:50.200 her face in her shirt. And I've always done that since I found my 84 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:54.279 laugh anyway, I've delivered jokes like like I can't like I have to bury 85 00:08:54.360 --> 00:09:01.240 my face. It's like turtling behavior. Her laugh when she really gets going, 86 00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:05.039 it's from the bellows and like where she laughs in her body genuinely. 87 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:09.639 When she laughs genuinely, it's it's deep and not in the meaning of sound 88 00:09:09.799 --> 00:09:15.840 or gravel, but like it comes from her diaphragm, from deep in her 89 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:20.480 billy and you know that there's you know there's a difference between a genuine laugh 90 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:30.240 and pleasant trees, and this this is the woman who exclusively operates with princess 91 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:35.720 hands. I've talked about princess hands before, and I mean she invented princess 92 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:46.320 hands. It's her mannerisms, and I just she's like chacous, like oh, 93 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:54.200 and she's very she can be very Dorothy Gale about a situation. And 94 00:09:54.279 --> 00:09:58.399 that's, you know, likely a reason that I continue to fall in love 95 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:01.960 with her many many layers, because she is my Wizard of Oz. She 96 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:05.879 just has the single best hands in the world. I know this is a 97 00:10:05.879 --> 00:10:09.559 podcast and I talk about visuals so often, but I need you to know 98 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:16.120 that I'm just standing here doing princess hands and they just like perfectly punctuate everything 99 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:24.600 she's saying with that oh. It's all very involved her hands. I love 100 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:31.320 her hands, and they're they're always perfectly manicured, a shiny pink. But 101 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:37.360 she'll do that that hand movement and that oh that comes out of her mouth. 102 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:45.799 It's like it's like I'm saying the most interesting thing that she's ever heard 103 00:10:45.799 --> 00:10:50.399 in the world. She drinks Miller sixty four and serves Planters peanuts on crystal 104 00:10:50.399 --> 00:10:56.919 trays. It's very obvious that I am hers. So I was sitting next 105 00:10:56.919 --> 00:11:00.639 to her at this baby shower, and I don't remember what I said, 106 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:07.159 but she did the laugh that I adore, and I just watched her and 107 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:13.679 after like her exhale of relief, you know that, I was just like, 108 00:11:15.639 --> 00:11:18.720 I love that. I love that so much. I'm so obsessed with 109 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:22.480 your laugh. I just I want to make you laugh all day long. 110 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:30.159 And my sister granted me one of the largest compliments of my life and saying 111 00:11:30.360 --> 00:11:39.039 that that's my laugh, to which I was absolutely shocked because I remember not 112 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:46.240 having a laugh, and saying that my laugh is synonymous with the trumpets from 113 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:50.679 the bellows of Grandma. Is like, I don't sound like a feat of 114 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:56.000 strength. So I'm at this baby shower, and I went on to describe 115 00:11:56.360 --> 00:12:01.360 in great detail to the partygoers the story of how I tried to find my 116 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:07.320 laugh because as a kid, very vividly remember that I didn't think that I 117 00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:13.080 had a laugh. I was like six or seven, probably like six. 118 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:20.320 I remember wanting to laugh, but nothing would come out. I was just 119 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:24.879 like silent. I had a silent laugh. Maybe I didn't laugh. I 120 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:28.960 don't really like remember the ins and outs of it, but I remember having 121 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:35.039 a full fucking complex about my laugh and the lack of sound that it made. 122 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:37.440 You know, I mean like I was tickled as a kid, but 123 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:41.960 I don't think I laughed. I like remember it as like screaming, like 124 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:46.679 stuff fucking touching me, but I didn't laugh. So, like all six 125 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:50.759 or sevent year olds who want to find their laugh, I went into the 126 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:56.919 stash of greeting cards that were kept in a closet in the kitchen, is 127 00:12:56.960 --> 00:13:03.960 like a super skinny, tall like door cabinet, because you know, you 128 00:13:05.080 --> 00:13:09.120 see people all the time reading greeting cards and then sharing a Google like, 129 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:15.480 yeah, that's a good one. So I'm like, Okay, this will 130 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:20.159 make me laugh out loud, and then I'll know what my laugh sounds like. 131 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:26.600 Greeting cards are funny. This will work. So, sitting cross legged 132 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:31.960 in my kitchen with my face buried in the cupboard, I pull out each 133 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:39.799 card one by one, careful to put it back with its envelope, because 134 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:45.840 that's a cardinal fucking sin if you fuck up the envelopes and what greeting card 135 00:13:45.879 --> 00:13:50.480 goes with what card? So one by one I'm pulling them out, reading 136 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:56.639 them, not laughing, and then all of a sudden, I'm faced with 137 00:13:56.679 --> 00:14:01.360 a happy birthday card with the biggest dick I have ever seen on it, 138 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:09.519 like biggest, biggest dick I've ever seen, first dick I've ever seen. 139 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:15.519 We could call this up biggest dick I've ever seen, but Twilight will have 140 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:22.480 an aneurysm, and I feel, I feel just like the angle in which 141 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:28.720 it was like shot or photoshopped, I don't know. I mean it was 142 00:14:28.799 --> 00:14:33.080 like late eighties, so I don't really think it was photoshopped. I don't 143 00:14:33.080 --> 00:14:35.879 know, biggest dick, first dick I've ever seen. I just I can 144 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:46.159 I'm seeing it. I didn't laugh. It said it's that happy birthday with 145 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:50.000 this guy, like with his hands are on his hips, and the angle 146 00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:54.159 was like from below camera work. Um, So I opened it up because 147 00:14:54.200 --> 00:14:58.480 you know, why would I stop there? And I think the copy read 148 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:05.399 something to the effect of two heads are better than one, and it's two 149 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:16.360 dicks. It's two giant dicks with men attached, twins twin men. I 150 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:22.080 thought I thought that it was like a part of like the remember those doublemint 151 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:26.159 gum campaigns like where they have these twins running around San Francisco and they're like 152 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:35.039 naked, giant fucking dicks. I just I put the car back, and 153 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:39.639 I'm very I oh my god. I very specifically remember its lemon yellow envelope. 154 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:46.879 I remember that very vividly. And it wasn't this card, like wasn't 155 00:15:46.879 --> 00:15:50.600 in the back. It was like, not the last card. It's like 156 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:56.840 legit hidden in plain sight in the fucking cupboard next to the garbage can cupboard 157 00:15:56.120 --> 00:16:03.240 in the kitchen. I don't know why that card was bought. I guess 158 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:10.480 I guess it was funny because grading cards are supposed to be funny. And 159 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:15.440 I don't know who ultimately this card was gifted Tom, but I hope that 160 00:16:15.480 --> 00:16:23.440 it brought them as many joyful memories as for me, because for years later 161 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:30.519 this card was my party trick, like sleepovers show the dick card. I 162 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:37.279 don't have cable, but I'll show you this fucking dick card. In the 163 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:42.759 first time then I had ever told that story was at this baby shower, 164 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:49.879 sitting right next to my grandma. And I may not have found my laugh 165 00:16:51.559 --> 00:16:57.080 the day that I saw my first dick, but I fucking found it later 166 00:16:57.240 --> 00:17:03.319 and I I hope it never runs out. So here's to finding our laughs 167 00:17:03.359 --> 00:17:11.559 and letting them boisterously fly. If it's an old, dirty joke, a 168 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:18.519 greeting card of double mint dicks, or like the episode where Kevin spills the 169 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:22.440 chili on the office, like let a fucking flyman, And if you need 170 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:29.240 to spit laugh, spit laugh like god nothing. So it's like holding in 171 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:33.599 his knee nothing. It's fucking stupider than holding in your laugh. Nine times 172 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:38.079 out of ten you won't be laughing alone. Find your laugh and love her. 173 00:17:38.960 --> 00:17:48.359 Here's to all the fucking giggles in the world. Rabbish smoochy and if 174 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:51.759 you got this far in the pod, I'm impressed as book. I'm really 175 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:55.319 grateful to have you listening. If you want to know more information about me 176 00:17:55.680 --> 00:18:00.000 or the show, check out the show page on Matriarch dm dot com, 177 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:03.480 where we host all of the what I can't take off, our progressive Spotify 178 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:07.000 playlist from the songs of the week, and obviously the reminder of who to 179 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:11.240 follow for the week, all in a nice little fucking Matriarch Digital Media bow. 180 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:17.000 Theme song is Molly May by Ben Karen. I'll never get oversang that 181 00:18:17.119 --> 00:18:21.920 it's so good right, Thanks for listening. You're so cute.