Good morning, Ni. Hi. How are you today, by the way,
and where are you calling me from. We're in Los Angeles, California.
How's your weather there today? It's so nice. I think it's what's
going to be seventy five. Definitely a little jealous, although it's really beautiful
here in Connecticut. Stay all right, ladies, two moms and I might
tell us about all the exciting stuff coming our way this weekend and celebrating Mother's
Day with two moms. Yeah, So we created this stand up comedy special
called Two Moms, One Mike. It's a half hour comedy special. Selena
and I each do fifteen minutes. So we talk about having our babies,
we talk about married life, and we talk about just what we're going through
in everyday life, you know, motherhood. If you don't laugh, I
think it could become overwhelming. So whose idea? Whose brain child was this?
Yeah? It was actually my idea. I was pregnant at the time.
I was nauseous like every day for nine months of my pregnancy, and
you know, my husband was trying to help console me but doing the best
job. But Selena had been through it, and she kept checking in on
me and asked me how I was doing, and I would let her know,
and we just kept making each other laugh about having a child, and
we ended up writing material and then I said, let's fillness and make a
common special and call it two Moms, one mic hilarious. Selena, what's
your story? Yeah? No, So basically I had been doing stand up
for a bit and I was doing some shows with Kayla. This is before
the pandemic, and so we kind of met through there and then eventually,
you know, the pandemic happened. Everything shut down. I had my baby,
and then Kayla got pregnant and I was checking in on her and when
she asked me if I wanted to do this special, I thought, yeah,
this sounds amazing. This is exactly what I would want to do.
I feel like motherhood is hilarious and there's nothing more relatable than laughing about what
it's like to be a mom. So I was super excit. I did
about the idea, and we actually would call each other every week. We
were doing like five shows a week. We were checking in with each other
on jokes and coming through each other's shows. It was a very intense process
actually, but we refine a lot of things and I think we made something
really great that I'm really excited about to share with everybody. Two moms,
one Mike. You can catch it prime video. You can even catch it
prime video direct starting on Oh that's so so ironic Mother's Day. We're did
you plan it like that? But it's being released Mother's Day something special for
mom. So treat mom right all day on Sunday and then and the night
with a laugh. Now, are we going to be seeing some of your
traditional, you know, material that you both have done personally, but all
real life relatable to our mothers for this weekend. Yeah, I mean I'm
doing a lot of material. We do a lot of material about our babies
and like everything that happened to us in real life. And I'm also talking
about our husbands and and then we also talk about some stories, some jokes
that we had workshops that had nothing to do with having a child. And
so that's why I think this special will also be really relatable for men and
single women and single men. I think it really is a special for everyone.
Yeah, you know, let me ask you this because I am I
am a dog mom. Okay, so I do not have human children.
I am I am a dog mom. But I often wonder because we you
know, this weekend with Mother's Day, and you know, try to be
sensitive to all moms out there. Moms we've lost people who have been like
a mother to us or people you know in my position where you know,
I don't have children and that's not going to be in my future. But
I oftentimes wonder if the best gift to give mom is to make her forget
that she's a mom and do just have a weekend not talking about any mom
stuff. So when you just said that, that inspired that because I know
it's called two Moms and Mike obviously, but do you like just for a
little while, even if it's for an hour, like to forget about the
mom stuff. Yeah, well, you know, my brothers are actually coming
over for Mother's Day, and my parents are coming over. My brothers are
coming over, and I thought, maybe I'll just pull my mom aside and
we'll just go for a walk and then my brothers can watch the baby,
my husband can watch the baby. So yeah, having two hours of a
lone time is also nice and needed and fun and so now and I think
laughing too is so yeah, you know, through all of it, Well,
that's so, Actually, tell me a little bit about that laughter,
Selena. Tell me about how important that is, because I would imagine there
are days and times when I like if you didn't laugh. I know,
I just spoke about the moments ago, but how important is this part of
your life for both of you? Selena, start with you and then and
then of course Kay, theyll go to you. But you know, tell
me a little bit about what laughter means. Well, I think to me,
I think gets you know, and everything right. But I think,
especially when you're a mom, there's so many things that can worry you or
can stress you out or I mean you're literally it's like your heart is walking
outside of your body and you have no control over what it's going to do,
you know, and that could be really exhausting if you don't find the
moment to like, you know, lower the tension and laugh and figure that
things are not so serious. And I think even a lot of times when
your kids do things that are things they shouldn't be doing, a lot of
times they're funny, you know, and I think it's okay to laugh,
and it's okay to know that you know they're going to be better, they're
working it out. A lot of things they're not doing to bother you,
they're doing because they're in discovery. Like my child right now is almost three,
and he loves doing experiments. He's in this big phase where he wears
an experiment jacket and everything's an experiment to him. So he will literally take
anything and without of a can put it into something else and mix it with
something else, and it's you know, disgusting. I mean, it's like
the growthest thing you'll ever see. But it's also like his brain is just
you know, firing on all cylinders. Then you have to be able to
laugh because if not, I think, uh, then you don't enjoy everything
as much. So I think laughter is everything. Yeah, I think laughter
is so important. Like Selena saying, I mean, you're constantly anxious as
a mom, and I think in general we're all anxious people. So you
have to find the funny in every aspect of your life. I mean,
my daughter right now only says dada, but she calls everyone data like like
dada, and I'm like, you know, that's the barista. Like see
every she's calling everyone dada. It only calls for mama when she's like crying
and wants out of her crib like then it is mama, But everything is
data and it's hilarious and you just have to fund the funny and everything.
And two moms in one mike obviously a tribute to the podcast as well.
So people can follow you and get inspired by you, or laugh and cry
with you, or be anxiety ridden with you anytime they want to. So
please us shout out your social messaging and where we can find you. Yeah,
so mine is at Selena Ringel s E l I m A r I
n g E L. And like you said, we do have a podcast
too for anyone who's interested on how we put this all together. We have
a podcast that's out on YouTube, and we will also be pre releasing this
comedy special on YouTube on Friday if anybody wants to watch it earlier than Mother's
say. Oh, hey, I did not have that in my notes.
You just dropped a little something for me, thank you. Well, yeah,
you just put in two moms one mic into YouTube and will come it
up on noon on Friday. Ladies, I'm going to put links to everything
about the both of you. I you know, I have to be honest.
I didn't know much about you before I got the proposed, you know,
the request to do this interview, and then I saw it just the
name alone. I'm like, oh my gosh, this is great. It's
some Mother's day weekend, two moms and one mike. And then I had
seen some of your humor elsewhere this so it's like I knew, but then
that the whole thing, the way you put it together to two moms and
one mic. I mean even for someone like me, like I said I
have I'm a dogma, you guys are just funny. You're just funny ladies.
You're beautiful ladies. You're inspiring ladies. And I love that it's just
real. I think that maybe that's just the best way to put it,
because everything is so ridiculous and over the top right now. The fact that
you two are just bringing it down to being real. I mean, if
that makes any kind of sense to you, I appreciate, yeah, totally.
I mean we talk about everything in this special, so I really think
it's going to be relatable for everyone. I talk about how before the pandemic
everyone called me myths, and then after the pandemic everyone called me ma'am,
like age and that's an a session. I think everyone will find something making
really too. And then of course you're bringing in your ethnicities as well,
obviously Selena too. I mean there's got to be some difference, you know,
So you're talking about culturally and being a mother and what the expectations are.
You know, I'm an Italian and this Sicilian, and you know,
my mother in law's convinced that one day I'll get a good job so I
can be home to make dinner for her son. But you know there's gotta
be like different things you can bring up, right, Yeah, for sure,
definitely. All right, Well, we're going to be watching you two
moms one mic for those who can wait for Mother's Day of course Amazon,
and if you want to get a little sneak peek, it's YouTube tomorrow at
noon. I'll have all the details up. But I really appreciate you both.
And lastly, just really quick, because I know you're on a radio
tour right now, but if you could each both answer this question. Kayla
will obviously Kayla Crawford will start with you first, but how do you find
balancing this with being a mom or is it just coming to you naturally?
And then Selina, I'll ask you the same question about how your phone,
your fame, your podcast, this comedy special. You know, big things
are coming your way. How are you doing balancing that with your life?
Yeah? So, for me, I have an amazing husband. Both of
us are home during the day, so we are both watching our baby.
I also have amazing parents who are here when I need them. And then
at night. You know, my baby goes to sleep around six thirty pm,
and so she deentually doesn't know when I'm gone. When I go to
shows. My husband is watching her if she wakes up, but she's a
pretty good sleeper, so the nice thing is right now, it's been a
great balance of doing stand up a night and being home during the day so
I can see all these amazing moments with her. Yeah, I mean,
for me, my parents are back at home in Mexico, so unfortunately I
don't have so much family here to help me out. But I do have
my incredible husband and then incredible nanny, which is very helpful on. My
husband and I have a production company together, so we actually make movies together
as well, So there are a lot of times where my husband and I
need to go into a meeting together at which point that you know that incredible
nanny is hugely, hugely helpful. But we do work from home as well,
so we have a home office which helps a lot in terms of keeping
the balance and spending quality time with our son. And he's starting to go
to preschool as well, so that's giving us a couple of hours here and
there to get some things done. So that's kind of how we're handling it
right now. And would you both agree that it's it's okay to ask for
help because some moms feel like they have to take on everything, right,
Oh, yeah, you have to ask for help. You're brave when you
ask for help because you're admitting you need it, and it's helpful for everyone.
Yeah. And I think also help is yeah, we all need a
community, right. We used to live in community and now we don't.
Um and I think that we all need it. So it's finding your community,
finding your people, finding your tribe, whether that's your family, your
nanny, or your friends. You know, but we all need a little
help. I really enjoyed chatting with you, and I wish you nothing but
continued success and maybe more babies or maybe not. I don't know. Maybe
dogs, cats, whatever, Yes, thank you, thank you so much.
All right, Happy Mothersday weekend, you guys. More, Happy Mothersday weekend.