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guess what. Yeah, I'm alone in my house. Yes tell me,
Oh my god. You know what's so funny is rather than tell you like
about the exciting trip to New York, I think for a lot of moms,
I'm more excited for you. It's a very exciting, like just time
at home. It's crazy. It's harkening back to before I was married,
right and where I was like, oh my god, like I can watch
whatever the hell I want I feel like you put your ass in the middle
of the bed, in the middle of the bed, bread out with one
leg to the left and the other one to the right, like a starfish,
except for you know, I don't because I'm so used to it.
And I'm like, Peepo, come here, come get next to me.
Peepo's leaving John's side of the bed for John, and I'm like, hey,
here, get up here. But anyway, uh, it's it's so
okay. John left. The crew left on Friday. I drove them to
the airport and then they were gone. But Elbie didn't leave until Sunday.
Oh that's right. Albie is with her boyfriend and a bunch of friends.
Right, so my life has changed so much, and yours is going to
be. You're gonna be feeling this very not too long. Oh no,
okay, your kids are gonna be seventeen in June. Yeah, so you
got a little ways to go, because I don't think things started really heating
up for Elbie until she was eighteen, right, Okay, but oh my
gosh, this girl is so and you know what, Okay, the college
stuff that I talked to about was a huge blow, and she got real
sad for a little while, and we had and I was worried, genuinely
worried. But as as in Elbi fashion, she kind of bounced back.
She's like, I'm not gonna worry about that right now. I'm going to
Palm Springs with my boyfriend and my friends and like that. I'm on spring
break right right. I'm gonna just live life. Yeah, I'm gonna enjoy.
Clounces out, clounces out. Sit there and ask yourself, why is
that shit that bad? You can't hand yourself? People asking me where they
could get my hair. It's a synthetic, synthetic wig. I just bought
myself some shit. I mean, come on, living in Los Angeles,
just feeling good. Well, that's that's how Elby is. She's just like,
ain't nothing gonna bring me down right now. I'm living life. So
Elbie was still home though she worked Friday night. Oh okay, I do
have it. I have show for so, I have I have friends over
for poker right at night. Yeah. I was like, you know what,
everybody gone. Elbie's at work. I mean I planned this a while
ago. I knew that the family was going to be gone, and I
was like, I'm having people over for poker. Yeah. So Elbie was
so sweet. She was like, Mom, you want me to help you
clean the house. I was like, hell, yes, I do,
that's nice. I had to make her clean her bathroom because it hadn't been
cleaned in a really long time and people were gonna It was the closest one
to the living room. So she cleaned her bathroom. She helped me clean
like the whole house basically. Yeah, but let me say this, and
I don't think you have this problem, but oh my god, like my
house seriously needs to be updated. And I know I'm always saying that,
right, I'm always on a quest for a couch or I'm painting a room,
but at some point I need to just like fix the whole ship up
because I look around. Okay, remember a while ago I told you that
John painted a pop wall. Yes, I do. And it was like
kind of a red, kind of like a deep kind of a room like
yes, like a burnt red, like a like a farmhouse or yeah,
yeah, yeah, right, okay, And I didn't like it to start
with. I pretended I did a little bit because I didn't you know,
it was done right, So this sucks, like so I was like,
yeah, and then isn't there an orange room? Okay, so the orange
wall is in our bedroom, and honest to god, that one's fine.
It's kind of cool because it just sort of had some color to the room
and the walls are like a very pale gray and they look really nice.
That's our bedroom, but this is the living room and this pop wall is
just makes it look dated. And also, back when we first painted,
we did kind of like a greenish color for one wall. It's too many
colors, is what I'm saying. There like a beige, there's a green,
there's a maroon. And elbe is embarrassed by it. She's like,
this looks so bad. Yeah, and I had to take a good look
and I'm like, it really does we kind of fix this, but John
doesn't love gray, which I feel like is the only color that's gonna kind
of give it some cool, like make it look a cool, like a
cool tone. There's some blue grays that are out there, That's what I'm
thinking, maybe, but like really pale, yeah, really pale. Wendy
just painted that in her add on, Yeah, and it looks beautiful,
but we have that color in a lot of rooms. We have a big
The space is kind of open, so it goes I'll show you a picture
of it sometime. And there's the living room and then there's like a it
used to be a sliding French doors and those are out, so it's just
like an archway basically not Spanish style, like like a rectangular archway. It's
open. You can see into the back room, which is like, um,
gonna be sort of like a den m. It used to be our
office slash playroom, but now we don't it now anyway. Yeah, so
that room is all like a bluish, very pale, bluish gray. Okay,
so I feel like John's gonna be like our bedrooms are painted bluish gray.
That room is it can't all be gray, right, So I'm thinking
maybe that's what I'm gonna try to talk and I have the same taste.
I'm gonna try to talk him into it. I'm thinking like a blue gray
for the for the wall that's now maroon and blue gray over where all the
green is and then the rest white. Yeah that's good because you know,
I think it would open it up and make it feel bigger too, like
yes, like yes, because the maroon just makes it look like, yeah,
it's a little crated. I get it very dated, yeah, yeah,
yeah, I want it to be look more modern, like you more
pretty calming and anyway. But so you know what you're having people over,
That's all you see is the fly right right. And I was like,
oh my gosh, like this is just but but in general, like I
like my house, it's just it's just dated looking, right. And then
we have this dining room table that is so gross, and Elbie was like,
are you really going to have people like sit? Oh? So it's
a it needed it needed to be opened up. It's only like, um,
it's it's very small, but there's a big leaf you can put in
the middle. Okay, well the table is so old we've had it since
we moved in like eighteen years. You can't open up the leaf anymore because
I think the wood gut swollen. Oh. So John tried to do it
before he left. We could not do it. And I was finally literally
like, just forget it. I'll cramp people around. So at one point
we had nine people around a little table. Really it was fine. So
I had over my friend Stanley, I had over Brian Dunkleman. Oh yeah,
American idol mmm mmmm had Naomi Bob Odenkirk's wife. Okay, Bob was
out of town, so he didn't come. M probably thank god. I
don't want I don't need my paint. Can't be hanging out He's gonna walk
away like, yeah, that the paint is horrible. What's with that dated
green? I don't need that out there? Right? Yeah, Bob just
starts telling everybody, Yeah, is that this girl's house? Your name is
Stephanie. Um, I love him. I love him. No, he's
really nice. Uh. And then anyway, and so some more people and
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Okay, okay, So the anxiety of having people. So so I
get anxiety about every ordering pizza. I'm like, people are coming over.
I need to clean the house. Remember my story about Gene Smart coming over
to my house and I knew that, and she went into the bathroom and
it was all clean. There was no hand towel. There's no towel.
Oh yeah, yeah yeah. And I only was embarrassed about it later because
I realized, oh god, right, there's no towel in the bathroom.
Well, same thing. I was like, I have to I mean,
same anxiety. So I was like, I have to make sure there's a
towel bathroom, right. I had to make sure. Anyway, I got
everything in order, and it's just a bunch of old juice over to play
pokerge the matter, right, But then I was having pizza anxiety because I'm
like, I don't know how many how many pieces together and what kind?
And I don't want to order from Dominos, right, Bob Odenkirk comes over,
you know, I'll be ridiculous. You never know, there's an off
chance he's coming. The probably didn't say, but like, I don't need
that you had that anxiety on top of it. I wasn't all that worried
about it, because it's like if he was he was, I don't think
he's gonna care. But but I did have the pizza. It was like,
I don't want to be having the Dominoes guys show up or pizza hut.
Yeah. So I asked my neighbor the what I walk with, like
where he gets pizza when he orders delivery. Again, I've lived in my
house for eighteen years. I think I know like alternative pizza places I've tried
anyway, So I go to this one website. My neighbor has a place,
but I didn't. I looked at that one and I was like,
it's all too precious for like these guys. So I go to the I
look up this place and I'm going to order from them, and I get
the whole order ready and I start inputting it. But then I'm like,
well, let me call them, just to make sure no one answers the
phone and then it finally picks up, but it's a weird. It's like
enter your code, and I was like, okay, so they don't even
this is not I don't know if this is a real business, right.
It's like no one answers the phone and there's no voicemail saying hi, you've
reached Milano's Pizza. So I'm like, I feel Postmates or anything. Well,
there's so many pizza every places. So finally I decided on this other
one. But then I was having like, well, what toppings do I
get for that time? But but I know what I like, you know,
so so then my brother gets over first. My brother was coming too,
so I ask him like he's gonna know yeah, and he's like,
well, I don't know. I like like Hawaiian. I was gonna say
I like the Lion too, but all right, like I guess I could
do Hawaiian. And then he's like, I mean also olives and I'm like,
well I hate olives, yeah, Veggie, no, I don't really
like either. And he's like, well, you could do like pepperoni and
sausage, and I'm like, well what if people don't like eat meat every
single thing? And then you get too much of one, and then everybody
eats the cheese, and now you're add of cheese, and now all you
got is the meat lover's pizza, and everybody's a vegetarian right now. That's
the kind of anxiety. Yeah, yeah, you would have thought that I'd
never in my life order I mean, I have fifteen year olds and an
eighteen year old. I've ordered so much fucking pizza in my life it's insane.
All of a sudden, I'm paralyzed with indecision and I literally sat there
going, I don't know. My brother says, well, me, I
could just wait till people come over and like ask them what they want on
their pizza. And I'm like it'll be too late, I know. I'm
like, and then it's gonna be like what if the place is like,
oh, it's gonna be an hour and a half for delivery. I was
like no, And then my brother goes, then, just order some pizza,
like justa some toppings, and I was like, okay, I know
that, I know that plane. I know. Oh like okay, okay,
I'm gonna order. Well, I'll just you have cheese. You can't
get wrong with that. So I ended up. I ordered three extra large
pizzas, and I just whatever I chose. I was an artichoke cards and
tomato on this part. Anyway, it ended up totally fine, right,
it was a perfect amount of pizza. Also, I'm calculating, I'm like,
okay, at one point there's gonna be nine people. At one point
there will only be seven, but then there'll be eight, and then that
person might leave, but then a ninth one. This was my brain was
doing. Right. Something is so wrong. No, I and you would
do the same thing. I know you're That's why I'm dying right now,
because I know how you feel. Yeah, I've been there so many times.
I gotta ask. You were debating and wrestling with the various pizza toppings
for that long and then you settled on artichoke hart. Yeah. I was
just gonna say, that's a bold choice. It was real good. It
got e I did Pepperonian mushroom, okay, I think on like one whole
pizza. Then I did half artichoke hard and mushroom and half cheese okay.
And then I did one I think Hawaiian or how like half Hawaiian and half
and it all got demolished. Yeah, but there was enough, like some
people have like four slices and some people had one. But it was it
was did you did you see pizza is perfect because then you don't have to
get out the utensils and shit like exactly, and you and use you know,
paper plates, paper plates. Just had some pizza. Then I had
got some chips and I made some dipion, but nobody ate it. Yeah,
see, nobody usually eats that. I always get like poker game.
I would get like, you know, the the veggie plate with the carrots
and then whatever. Ain't nobody eating that? Nobody eats that now? And
this was like like yeah, it's never never gets eaten. And then everybody
just goes for the food food. Did you get a salad too? I
didn't get a salad. It's just like a bunch of dudes eating pizza.
So I had and I had told everybody to bring cookies or chips. That's
good, and so everybody brought like dessert. So people were kind of eating
cookies, some people eating some chips. You serve alcohol. I told people
to bring their own. I actually had some beer in the house that had
been John's, but but a couple of people brought like a six pack of
beer and then honestly, I just told him take it, take it home
with you. Yeah, nobody drinks that much. And driving home getting here's
some beer for your trip. Everybody here, you go else else. It
was. It was funny. And then so Naomi brought over, so funny.
I hope she doesn't listen to this episode, but it was really funny
because Naomi brought over. She was like, well, Bob's out of town
right now, so I just brought some of his snacks. So she brought
like three bags of like weird chips, like one was like a lapeno like
lentil chip, like maybe clean eating that like yeah, but also they were
all open, they're all half to eat some chips. So we were kind
of making fun of her after she left, and we're like, everybody wants
to eat, like Bob's leftover, like Bob sitting and watching TV like eating
some plopeno chips. And then it's like she steals them all from the pantry
and like takes them to my house. So that's open. It's so weird.
You were like some kettle pot some kettle popcorn, but it was open.
It was like right, like how do we know he doesn't have colvid?
So unsanitary. It's hilarious. She's really really nice. Did you win
money? I did not win money. I lost money, and I and
I paid for all the pizza. It was like eighty bucks. Like by
the time I order three extra largest plus tip plus the delivery fee, it
was freaking eighty bucks. So it was under one hundred dollars to host the
party. It wasn't bad at all exactly, and people brought It was fun
and I will do it again, and I want to make it like a
once a month thing. Yeah you should, Yeah should, that would be
fun. It was so fun. I felt like a grown up now.
And then was it weird when everybody left and you were alone? Uh no,
because so Elbie came home. So Elbie worked. But then she came
home and I felt kind of bad because like she's right on the other side
of the wall from where like the poker was happening. But she was fine.
She came in and said hid. Everybody went in her bedroom, and
then everybody was gone by like twelve thirty. She came without like eleven eleven
thirty, and then everyone was out by twelve thirty. And then I just
like straightened up and and so now you're you're alone. Huh. So then
I was alone. So then the next day, Elbie was still home,
so I was like, hey, like, do you want to go to
breakfast? I think Friday No. Friday morning, Elbie and I had a
super bonding day. We went to the breakfast and then we went to like
I don't know, TJ Max or something, and then we cleaned and then
like hung out and then she went to work. So then the next day
I was like, oh, Elbie, you want to go to breakfast?
And she's like, oh, mom, I'm so sorry. I made plans
with my friends something like you when they say they're sorry. She was so
sorry. She was like I felt I feel bad. I was like,
it's fine, I'm happy to be in the house. Right. So then
she was home. I wanted, oh, okay, sorry, I feel
like I'm monopolizing this. I'm enjoying it. So Saturday night eight, oh
my god, Lynnette, I had the best time with Elbie. She stayed
home with me because she knew she was going to see her boyfriend the next
day, and like the last three nights, she was like, I'm just
going to stay home with you. She came and laid in my bed and
we watched TV. I have I watched TV with her in years. Yeah,
she wanted to watch some like house flipping shows, so I never seen.
I guess it's is it called homemade? What's the one with Chip and
Joanna Gaines? Oh? I don't know. There's so many of them.
It's a it's a home or something. I don't know. Yeah, they
have Magnolia brand or something. Yes, so they've had a show for like
forever, right, which and for some reason I thought that they broke up.
I thought they were divorced at one point, but I think that was
another couple. There's another couple, another couple. Aren't they going to jail?
Isn't somebody going to jail? I don't know, but there was definitely
a house house flipping couple that Oh is that them? Yeah, that's them.
That's Joanna Gains Oh it is Okay, what's the can you look up
the home makeover show where the couple the couple like got divorced but they still
do the show together. Oh, they still they like broke up and got
a divorce, but then they still were like, we're not going to stop
doing our show, all right, so we flip or flop? Yes,
yeah, yes, I never even heard of the Anstead and Terek Elms,
Yes, exactly. Okay, So I was getting confused. So I was
watching what's the first one called pix Her Upper, and I'm like, I
think these people got divorced, and always like, well, then I guess
they got back together because he together now and where I was watching it and
I'm like, I don't know, I don't get it. And here's the
thing. I only like it when they're they're making over like a whole house,
right. I don't want to see like just a bathroom right over.
That seems like a real waste of my time for like the hardcore people that
love, you know, home decorating, you know what I mean. Yeah,
I don't so, but I was still smarting from how embarrassed I am
about the paint colors in my house. So I was open to watching these
shows. But I'm like, oh yeah, but then okay, so we're
watching one of these and I was like, you know, I just don't
agree with this, like they did one where it was like a fight.
They're everything that they say that this woman Joanna Gaines says, she says the
same thing to everyone. She's like, okay, and then we're gonna put
in like recess lighting, and then we're gonna put in like Floria ceiling windows.
I'm like, okay, that's not perfect for every house. Though every
episode we watched it was the same thing. We're gonna, Oh, we're
gonna update this with some floor to ceiling windings. I'm like, all right,
already, I like that. Elvie likes that stuff. She does,
she likes it. And then they made this fireplace where they do this thing
where they pile all the wood all the way up one side of the wall.
Do you know what I'm talking about? Yeah? Yeah, And I
was like, don't like that. I mean, sure it looks cool into
your eye, but like that thing is going to attract so many spiders,
say in there thing, Yeah, think about all the dust and spiders know
what's going on in that wood. That's just scutt it's closs. I was
like, that's really great for like one day, and you're like, what
is living what's gonna be living in there? Right? And you're never gonna
get through all that wood, right, and how are you even going to
get the firewood out if you're actually using it for a fire. When you
get like a huge floor to ceiling ladder, climb all the way up there
to get like the top head throwing down this wood, this log move people
out of the way. So then I got tired of that show and I
was like, and Elbie goes, Mom, let's watch Impractical Jokers. Time
saying of that. So we started watching Impractical Jokers. That show. I
was laughing, They're hilarious, gut laughing. I want them on our shells
so hard. I could not stop laughing. We were peeling our pants at
old We went back to like season three, right and we were watching old
episodes and then I was like, oh my god, Elby, let's find
the Bingo episode. Bingo Bingo Bingo. We went back and we watched that
and we were laughing so hard. So then and then I got tired and
I was like, you gotta go. I gotta go to heads like you're
welcome to fall asleep in here. I was like, but I'm so what
happens when I know when you're watching When I watched TV with Sunny, sometimes
I just like I'm like, and he's like, Mom, you're sleep,
Mom, you missed half the movie, you know, Yeah, I totally
I'll watched the second half tomorrow night with you. He's like, I finished
it. Yeah. I was like, I felt so excited to be like
with Elby, and I thought like, this is going to be more exciting
than being with John for sure, stay awake. But I was like,
no, I know. Then he hit a wall at some point. Yeah.
So and so then and then the next day Elbe left, she stayed
home with I know. And then I've been writing working on my book,
uh like a lot, because it's overdue, my rewrite. I'm almost done.
Um, and so I've been taking the time that I have, like
by myself to just work, work, work, because I don't have any
distractions, right right, Yeah, So I feel I feel really good.
I feel really productive. And then they get home tomorrow night. Really that
was fast. Well, they left Friday, so they Friday night, Saturday
night, Sunday night, Monday night, and then they're going to come home.
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hey, we're having a blank sighting, and it was like these these
were his family literally walking down the street in New York. Dude. The
same thing happened to us when we were in New York. We ran into
an old family that the kids used to go to school with and now they're
teenagers, back when they were in second grade and haven't seen them in a
few years. And the mom was like, hey, Lynette, and I
was like, oh my god, Like that's so weird. It's like such
a weirdly small world. How do you ru? I mean, you in
New York. That's bizarre, I know, but I guess it's spring break.
So so well. So John says that they're having the time of their
lives. Sadie and Xander want to move to New York. The culture they
love. They've been having like pizza and uh, you know, like late
night pizza, They love the fact that nothing ever closes. You know,
we live in Encino. Everything is eight thirty. You better make call first
to make sure places are still open. Yeah, same, you know New
York. One in the morning. They're like, yeah, we're just doing
our second seeding. I now, I know, isn't it. They're loving
that. And then John said, so, John sent me this video or
of Zander like in Washington Park, like doing a dance off with people dancing
and like live in his best life and having a great time. And then
John told me, and I just thought this was so sweet. I wrote
to John, like, Wow, he's really feeling himself, like you know,
and he's like, this kid is loving New York because he goes everywhere
we go. At every Starbucks, they're flying like trans and LBGT you know,
lgbt q q I A plus flags, right, and it's like he's
like so diverse. Yeah, there's all all different types of people walking down
the street. It's just like so accepting and different and thriving. And he's
just really feeling that kind of like wow, like there's another world out there.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, So he's just he's really really loving that.
And then Sadie's finding it really exciting. And you know they're just out
and about, like all, they've done so much stuff. They went on
a like a cruise around Statutson Bay where the Statue of Liberty is, the
Hudson Bay, the Hudson River, yeah, where wherever the Statue of Liberty
is. They went. They took a boat island from Staten Island. Yeah,
so they did like a cruise around there. Um. And then they've
just been to all these restaurants. Oh and then they went to see six
the musical and apparently they all absolutely loved it. They said it was like
the greatest show ever. John was going on and on about it. The
kids love Love loved it. And my friend who is a theater producer,
she's like the person who produced um, rock of Rock, not Rock of
Love, Rock of Ages. Oh yeah, one with the originally with a
guy from American Eros. Well he wasn't Tom Cruise in the movie. And
then and then there was the play Okay, yeah, so I saw that
my friend and neighbor. I was the one I went and saw that in
New York by myself. Oh okay, Yeah. It's like a lot of
eighties songs yeah, yeah, it's fine, Yeah, yeah, okay.
So my friend was one of the original was like the original producer of that
show, and she's my neighbor. She's like, you know, you have
you ever have these neighbors that like have the hook up for everything? Yeah?
Remember when I did that peel, that facial peel. She's the one
who hooked me up with the dermatologist who got me that peel um. And
then I put on Facebook that I was looking for the tickets and she wrote
me and was like, hello, you have a friend who produced this is
Broadway like right, hit me up right, And I was like, oh
okay, And so she hooked me up with producer seats wow, which are
you still pay for them, but you pay face value for the ticket right,
So they were I mean they're pricy. They were like one hundred and
eighty dollars a ticket, right, but on the like Ticketmaster, they were
like two fifty plus fees for good seats. And then these were like sixth
Row Center, Wow, Batways show on Saturday night. So so they that
was for the six for six for six yes, so they love that and
then like right now, John just texted me a picture. They're at a
pizza place because Sander wanted to go back to his He has a favorite pizza
place in New York. Now they're just now I'm so happy for I know,
I know that I knew they were gonna love it. I knew it
because it's so you know, especially when you take your kids out of their
little bubble and you put them in New York City, They're just like,
Wow, there's a whole world out there. Yeah, and it is very
diverse and very you know, like and there's always something to do. There's
place you just walk, you know. Yeah, sending it. I love
New York. I can't wait for them to even be sixteen though, so
that they could. I really want to take them. I wanted John to
take them to a comedy club like in the city. I just thought that
would be really fun, would be fun. Yeah, but they're too young.
Oh yeah, they're only fifteen. Yeah, you have to be sixteen
to get in. You have to be eighteen to go to a lot of
these clubs, but some places you can be a little younger. But you
know, it's inspired me, like I want to take them to more stuff.
Like wasn't it fun when you took Sonny to the Led Zeppelin show.
Oh that was so much fun. Yeah, I want to do that again.
I want to take the kids to see UM. Patton Oswald, well,
he does a show, Patton and Friends. I think I told you
about this the last time I went. There were so I went with Robin
and there are so many good people that were guests on his show. There
was Bo Burnham didn't appearance. Oh my god, he's so. I thought
about you this weekend because I was watching UM. And I'm sure you've seen
it, but it's on Showtime. It's a documentary on the Comedy Store.
Have you seen it? Oh yeah, yeah, that came out about last
year. It came yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna watch. I
feel show watches Stevy. I thought about you Showtime. Yeah, I'm gonna
watch that tonight. You should. And there's a bunch of it's like six
episodes or something. Oh it's really good. Okay, it's really good.
Yeah, I'm gonna watch that. I kept meaning to and I kept forgetting
to watch. Everybody's in it, everybody, all the comedians. When I
first moved to Los Angeles, you know, and I really was going to
stand up. I used to go to the comedy store just to like watch
and I remember Sam Kinison. I think I've told you this story before.
I had loved Sam Kinison. My brother and I were like obsessed back when
I lived at home teenager watching him, watching Sam Kinison on UM I Can't
Danger Fields. There was a special I think it was like Danger Fields,
like live from Danger Fields and they clips of that, so okay. So
I remember watching that show and seeing Sam Kinison for the first time and going
like, oh my god, this guy is like so funny. And then
so when I moved to La, I was like, you know, I'm
like, oh my god, you can just like go see these people.
Like I could just go to a club and see so Sam Kinison had was
there. Every Sunday night was like his night, so you could. You
didn't have to. It wasn't a crapshoot. You went on Sunday night and
you saw him and there were some people open for him. Anyway, though,
as time went on, like he just his act got just harsher and
harsher. I think he was just getting it very deeply in addiction, you
know, and then it was all like so angry at women to the point
that it won. One night, I felt scared for my life, like
because he was making all the men stand up and call women horrors and he
got so riled up about somebody's ex girlfriend. They were like calling someone's ex
girlfriend and going, yeah, fucking you know, he wants to kill you.
And it was like all the guys and it was all this like rape
jokes and like rape culture, and I was like, oh my god,
like I don't want to walk to my car by myself, right, And
then that was the last time I went. But that, like the Comedy
Store just has some there's a bit of darkness to that place. You know.
You gotta watch the doc Yeah yeah, yeah, But I used to
perform there. When I first started performing, I could see the hard room
to perform in. Oh my god, I don't know how you people do
it. Then it I've performed at the main room in the main room and
the original room and the belly room there, and it is I mean,
those were some scary sets. You know, I kind of want to go
to the Comedy Store now. It's fun, I wouldn't be improv is also
really fun and has like yeah, I don't know, I would like yeah,
different energy. I've never been to the Comedy Store either. I would.
I would like, No, I've never been to that one. I've
been to a lot of most of the improvs and then Flappers in Burbank,
but no, never, I've never been. I would like to do this.
Stop, let's go see stand up. Yeah, I would do it.
To me, it used to be. I mean back when I was
a comedian many years ago. I would I would go hang out at the
improv like every night. It was not a fun thing to me because I
would just pop into the room to see who I wanted to see leave,
or if I was working, I was seeing the show. I would watch
the shows like every night because you'd have to make sure you see who's doing
what jokes. I don't like repeat any of the same premises. But then
it's been so many years that I could see like really enjoying it. Yeah,
now enjoying it. Yeah, it's been enough time away. Yeah,
yeah, it would be fun again. Yeah. It's just an interesting story
because Mitzi Shure she getting a divorce in the seventies and it was Ciro's Nightclub,
which was you know, like where like Sammy Davis Junior and Dean Martin
and all the celebs, and then there was like a little room for comedy
and that's her husband, Sammy Shore started I guess and then you'll see.
But they got divorced and it was a bitter divorce and she said, I
don't want any of your money. I just want the store. I just
want the comedy Store. And then they built out and it became, you
know, it became what it became. Did they talk about it being hunted?
Yes, okay, I'm halfway through. I still have like two more
episodes to watch. But like it starts off with like, hey sawy on
Johnny Carson last Night. I think it's like the name of the first episode
because like how Johnny Carson the Tonight Show was so connected to the Comedy Store.
He talked about it all the time, and he would have comedians on
and and then of course if you got the call to sit on the couch.
Yeah, I can't believe I did. I was on the Johnny Carson
Show. It's a mighty at Carson art player. You believe that? That
is so crazy? Isn't that crazy? See clips of I need to find
that episode. I know the guests were it was lufering know um Tony Randall
and Melissa um Ethyridge or not Ethridge Melissa, she was a singer, um
Melissa Melissa. Oh you'll light of fire in the morning. Melisa Manchester.
Thank you, You're welcome. There you go ding ding ding ding ding.
But yeah, you'll love it. It's a great doc. Okay, I'm
gonna watch it tonight. I'll report back next week. Comedians are fucking nuts.
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