WE’RE ANIMALS THAT CAN GIGGLE Ft. Ilana Glazer | Episode 149

It’s true… the one and only Ilana Glazer is on the show this week!! Drew and Ilana talk about Ilana’s new comedy special, Human Magic, and the mind-bending experience of childbirth from spinning your baby in the womb to feeling your milk come in. They also unpack the timelessness of Broad City, the “Manisphere”, babies who love Tim Burton, guys vs. men, withstanding silence onstage, birth weights, and so much more. Watch Ilana's new comedy special Human Magic on Hulu starting December 20th! Ilana IG: https://www.instagram.com/ilana/?hl=en Ilana Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ilanaglazer?lang=en Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 1:01Speaker 02

  And the next day, I had like a false alarm, went to the hospital, and got a sonogram, and it had worked.

• 1:06Drew Afualo?

  Wow.

• 1:06Speaker 02

  Yeah, dogged style for 20 minutes, spun my baby into the correct position. It's like, thank you, babe. Thank you, Google. I Googled it and found spinning babies, and I was like, we lit.

• 1:22Drew Afualo?

  Hey, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of the Comment Section Show, starring me, your fave, everybody knows me, who cares about me. Onto the guests. Today, we have the iconic, the hilarious, the unbelievable, Alana Glazer.

• 1:38Speaker 02

  Hello. Thank you for having me. I'm thrilled to be here.

• 1:40Drew Afualo?

  Oh, my gosh, it's an honor to have you.

• 1:42Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 1:43Drew Afualo?

  Living icon, living legend.

• 1:44Speaker 02

  Oh, my goodness, did you see my mic work?

• 1:47Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 1:47Speaker 02

  That was a bit I prepared for you. Yeah, super misogynist.

• 1:50Drew Afualo?

  It's groping you. I'm sorry about that.

• 1:52Speaker 02

  I thought I was groping it. I mean truly, I thought it was actually feminist what I just did.

• 1:57Drew Afualo?

  You're right. That's so true. I don't want to silence women.

• 1:59Speaker 02

  Thank you.

• 2:00Drew Afualo?

  I'm so, I'm so happy to have you.

• 2:01Speaker 02

  Anyway, thanks for having me. You're so smart and cool and beautiful and funny.

• 2:05Drew Afualo?

  Thank you. I feel the same about you.

• 2:07Speaker 02

  Thank you.

• 2:07Drew Afualo?

  And I think you're just a living comedy legend, first off. I want to say a huge, huge Broad City fan.

• 2:14Speaker 02

  Thank you.

• 2:15Drew Afualo?

  And more specifically, I love that it was an online series that got bought and then turned into a very successful.

• 2:21Speaker 02

  That's right.

• 2:21Drew Afualo?

  TV show.

• 2:22Speaker 02

  Like a web series that was on YouTube and Facebook. That was like how it first was like so, like most shareable. It was like, that was the thing at the time. When, when Facebook used to be, I don't know if you know this, it used to be just for college kids.

• 2:35Drew Afualo?

  Oh, yes. Cause I've seen the social network.

• 2:37Speaker 02

  Right, right. That historical piece.

• 2:42Drew Afualo?

  Moment in time.

• 2:42Speaker 02

  Yes. Um, so it was like, yeah, all that you say is true and resonating with me.

• 2:50Drew Afualo?

  I think that's, I think that's really, truly very inspiring for someone like myself also. Just because obviously, obviously I'm a dickhead online currently. But I love the transit, the ability to transition and like be able to utilize a medium and be able to turn it into like traditional entertainment. And I just, I admire you a lot for being able to do that jump. Like you, Issa Rae, Quinta Brunson, y'all are incredible.

• 3:15Speaker 02

  Thank you, sister.

• 3:15Drew Afualo?

  Fantastic and amazing. And you've been in comedy for a long time. I'd love to know, obviously, well, you have a new special coming out?

• 3:22Speaker 02

  That's right.

• 3:23Drew Afualo?

  Very exciting.

• 3:24Speaker 02

  That's right.

• 3:24Drew Afualo?

  Please tell us all about it.

• 3:25Speaker 02

  It's called Human Magic. It's on Hulu and Disney Plus worldwide, starting December 20th. And it's my latest hour of stand-up. I toured it around the country with my tour manager, Madeline Kim. There she is. My tour manager, Madeline Kim. Um, 52 shows, 48 cities.

• 3:43Drew Afualo?

  Damn.

• 3:43Speaker 02

  Stretched out across, um. Like nine months, instead of like jamming it, we were just talking about mental health.

• 3:49Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 3:49Speaker 02

  Jamming it into two or three months where I'm like a horrible monster. Um, it was stretched out over nine months and I was a wonderful human.

• 3:56Drew Afualo?

  That's nice.

• 3:57Speaker 02

  And it was like the first time I learned that and I had so much fun. Oh my gosh.

• 4:02Drew Afualo?

  That's so cool.

• 4:03Speaker 02

  Um, I think you can see in human magic how much fun I had. It was transformative for me.

• 4:08Drew Afualo?

  How do you like tour? Obviously, it seems like you've figured out a way to tour.

• 4:12Speaker 02

  Yes, the way I did it, I love it.

• 4:14Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 4:14Speaker 02

  And instead of like making it, um, a, okay, so I have a three and a half year old.

• 4:18Drew Afualo?

  Yes.

• 4:19Speaker 02

  So if I'm gone from her, Noel, your mom would know this, if I'm gone for more than two days, I'm like, why am I on a planet? Get me off this planet. I don't want to be on this planet. Get me back to my planet.

• 4:32Speaker 02

  So I would only go away two nights a week and Thursday, Friday, so that I could be with my family on the weekends, which is a very important connective time.

• 4:39Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 4:39Speaker 02

  And, um, yeah, and then I would take weeks off, the third week off, and just did it in seasons. Summer season, fall season, and, um, late winter, spring season. And it was just like, the way that it was spaced out, I had more time to keep, you know, crafting the material, the notes would like come up, and also like really hear what the audience was vibing with.

• 5:01Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 5:01Speaker 02

  Instead of just be like, I don't even remember one show to the next.

• 5:04Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, yeah, because they're all blending together and you do them one after the other.

• 5:07Speaker 02

  And I really like, also, I, I felt so, um, so blessed to have the opportunity to connect with people at such a divisive time and be like, people want to get together. I, I really, um, my audiences are incredible. I am so grateful for these like cool, funny, beautiful people, but also, you know, maybe it's just me and my own little world, but I do feel like people, um, the majority of people want to connect.

• 5:37Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 5:38Speaker 02

  And vibe.

• 5:40Drew Afualo?

  Totally.

• 5:40Speaker 02

  And not worry about.

• 5:43Speaker 02

  Their basic needs.

• 5:44Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, impending doom.

• 5:46Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah.

• 5:47Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, sometimes they want, they want an hour to laugh.

• 5:49Speaker 02

  Yeah, and like really can laugh at the same shit, even if it's not their body, their bodied experience there, whatever, like, just wanna laugh at dumb shit.

• 5:57Drew Afualo?

  And that's a good comic, honestly, one that can reach anybody, like, at, at any point in their life. I think that's what makes, cuz I've loved stand-up forever, well before I did this. That's the one thing I've ever done in this job that truly makes me nervous, like, nothing else ever, I never get nervous, I never get stage fright cuz I love attention, so I'm like, yeah, love that, love that, I'll, no, I'll go on a stage, I don't care. Um, but stand-up, like, I've only done stand-up one time so far, um, and I did a type five, and I was sick to my stomach nervous.

• 6:26Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 6:26Drew Afualo?

  I haven't felt like that ever.

• 6:28Speaker 02

  Girl, I've been doing stand-up, uh, okay, I'm thirty-seven, let's do math, help. Um, I started when I was nineteen, eighteen, okay, eighteen years, I've said this like, cuz also because my movie Babes came out earlier in the spring.

• 6:38Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 6:38Speaker 02

  I've been talking about how I've been doing stand-up for eighteen years, like, I've said it maybe three hundred and twenty-seven times, and every time I'm like, what's the math?

• 6:46Drew Afualo?

  It's like eleven years.

• 6:47Speaker 02

  The numbers, I start to panic, eighteen years, I've been doing it eighteen years and I still get nervous. And at my, my, um, uh, like, pre-show routine was to talk to myself out loud for four hours.

• 6:59Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 7:00Speaker 02

  And out loud makes it not like, bing bong, bing bong, bing, around my head.

• 7:04Drew Afualo?

  That's a really good point.

• 7:05Speaker 02

  But rather one thought stream.

• 7:06Drew Afualo?

  Totally.

• 7:07Speaker 02

  And for two hours, I'm like, uh, stacking it up, I call it, I'm just talking about like, objective reality, validating my feelings as my reality, but that's not objective reality.

• 7:17Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 7:17Speaker 02

  Um, and then two hours to, um, talk through my set, just like, I'm nervous too. I had Broad City, I had, I've, I've done a stand-up tour, I've done a stand-up special, still that nervous.

• 7:27Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, that's why I like, I don't, and it was a completely different feeling of like, hearing them laugh at shit I wrote, like, like purposely with the intention to hopefully make them laugh.

• 7:38Speaker 02

  Beautiful.

• 7:39Drew Afualo?

  And so like, I remember, I opened for my friend Caleb Heron.

• 7:43Speaker 02

  Yes, I'm meeting him and, and doing his pod next week, I believe.

• 7:47Drew Afualo?

  Love him, you're gonna love him. And you can tell him I hate him when you go.

• 7:51Speaker 02

  Yeah, and, okay, I hear you, and Brittany Broski told me to tell him, he's a gutter hooker? I was reading her text, I was like, what are you talking about?

• 7:59Drew Afualo?

  You can tell him that I said he owes me money, yeah.

• 8:02Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 8:02Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, and I will come to collect it soon, um.

• 8:05Speaker 02

  Uh, you owe her money and she's coming to collect it, and then Brittany Broski says you're a gutter hooker, okay, I got it.

• 8:11Drew Afualo?

  Thank you very much, Alana.

• 8:12Speaker 02

  I had the assignment.

• 8:13Drew Afualo?

  Let me know how he receives the message.

• 8:14Speaker 02

  I will. You're gonna be like, who is this? You're gonna be like, me, following up.

• 8:20Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, it's, it's, uh, I opened for him and, uh, Chris Fleming. Chris Fleming was his other opener. And I did a Baby Five and I was so scared. I, and Caleb was telling me like, that's exciting, that's a good thing. That means you're, you're gonna enjoy it. And after I finished, I was like, I felt so like, different than when I do other things that make people laugh. Like, when I'm just telling random off the cuff jokes, it's very different from like, writing them out physically. Cause I hadn't written shit like that. Like, it felt so kinda silly when I was, cause Caleb, he helped me so much with my set. And he was telling me, it's gonna feel stupid, but write them as if you're talking. Like, write them down as if you're talking and then like, say them out loud so you can hear how your cadence is, how you talk.

• 9:03Speaker 02

  Right.

• 9:03Drew Afualo?

  And that will help you kind of formulate it.

• 9:06Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 9:06Drew Afualo?

  And I was like, okay.

• 9:07Speaker 02

  I love him. That gutter hooker. I love him.

• 9:10Drew Afualo?

  I love that broke gutter hooker.

• 9:14Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, he's a, he's a genius, but.

• 9:17Speaker 02

  Can you describe the difference? I want, I wanna hear like, what it, what it means to you.

• 9:22Drew Afualo?

  I think the difference is like, when I'm, when I make TikTok videos or when I'm like, doing talks and just cracking jokes, that feels like, that's just how I talk and how I think. But what I think when I was telling jokes that I specifically wrote, like, my goal was to actually reach people and hope that they could relate to it. Whereas when I feel like I'm just kind of talking, I'm just saying shit I find funny.

• 9:46Speaker 02

  Nice.

• 9:46Drew Afualo?

  Whereas when I'm writing, I feel like I wanna write something that I find funny, but also other people can relate to and also find funny.

• 9:53Speaker 02

  Thank you for articulating that.

• 9:54Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, there's a lot more thought process to it, as opposed to like, when you're just kinda riffing.

• 9:58Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 9:59Drew Afualo?

  And I was gonna ask you that question about like, the difference between writing for like, Broad City versus like, writing your own standup. Like, how was that for you? And like, what's the difference in feeling?

• 10:08Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 10:09Drew Afualo?

  Cause I feel like there's a lot of improv in Broad City too, I'm sure, but.

• 10:13Speaker 02

  There was, but it was like, so written. It was so fucking written. And we were on such a tight budget. It was important to be like, extremely prepared.

• 10:21Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 10:21Speaker 02

  And it wasn't even like, we had so much. Time to play. We were like really obsessed with the writing is um was our damn thing. I mean like we improvised and we did play but

• 10:32Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 10:32Speaker 02

  Um and like the difference, you know, I started in comedy. It was like a different world. There weren't smartphones. There wasn't the surveillance culture that we are oppressed under now.

• 10:44Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 10:44Speaker 02

  Um so people were less self-aware and it wasn't um better for women. You know what I mean?

• 10:52Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, the past.

• 10:53Speaker 02

  Yeah, the past wasn't better, but there was like a freedom, a general human freedom that um you know, it was more like in person. Like I used to go to just get up every night, sketch, stand-up, improv, sketch, stand-up, improv.

• 11:05Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 11:06Speaker 02

  And then when Broad City hit for Abby and I, just the web series, I'm just talking about Finding Your Voice hit.

• 11:11Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 11:12Speaker 02

  Um it was like, that was almost like where, yeah, that like forming my voice, that was where like, okay, this container for my ideas, rants, act-outs can be. Um and then I really started focusing like in season four of Broad City on stand-up again and focusing on stand-up. I was like, I've done sketch, I've done improv, but like I really like stand-up and it's kind of the same ingredients, but with like the dials turned up and down where you know, the um, I don't know, so it feels similar, but it's it's scarier.

• 11:51Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 11:51Speaker 02

  It's more naked.

• 11:53Drew Afualo?

  Mm-hmm.

• 11:53Speaker 02

  It's um, you have to be, it's it's more naked and you have to be like stronger in a way to like withstand absolute fucking silence.

• 12:06Drew Afualo?

  I'm not kidding. I was just about to say that's that was my greatest fear.

• 12:10Speaker 02

  I'd rather silence than like pity laughs is gross, you know what I mean? Or like um.

• 12:15Drew Afualo?

  Someone who thinks you're trying your best.

• 12:17Speaker 02

  Yeah, it's like, it's like, just don't even worry about it, you know what I mean?

• 12:21Drew Afualo?

  Please don't.

• 12:22Speaker 02

  Yeah, and like also, you know what it was also was like, um, Broad City was it was so such a like miraculous. It felt like we were, um, do you know the, the more you know star?

• 12:31Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 12:32Speaker 02

  It was almost like Abby and I were straddling it across the sky and the screen and we were like, holy fuck.

• 12:37Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 12:37Speaker 02

  Shit, you know, but like, um, stand up since I like returned to it and especially this, this tour.

• 12:45Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 12:45Speaker 02

  With the, um, pause of COVID, I paused for like a year or two with stand up. And then the reflective experience of having a baby and the distance from Broad City and doing therapy through all of that.

• 12:56Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 12:56Speaker 02

  I was like, this is a little service that I can offer people and to make it that, um, to, to draw the lines around it made it much like more containable for me and a lot less like, who am I? But more like, oh, here's like a dumb little thing. You didn't like it? Okay, that's totally fine. I get it. I won't say it again. And then like, okay, I'm gonna try this little thing, you know?

• 13:17Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, totally.

• 13:18Speaker 02

  Um, graspable, accessible emotionally for me.

• 13:21Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, and able to kind of build, like build a new foundation almost.

• 13:24Speaker 02

  Right, like brick by brick.

• 13:25Drew Afualo?

  I totally, I, I get what you mean. And it's also, you're right, like the, the landscape of comedy has like shifted drastically with the internet, with surveillance, with like, and it's also catching up, I feel like culturally.

• 13:38Speaker 02

  Surveillance and also, um, I just did, uh, you know Bill Burr?

• 13:41Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 13:42Speaker 02

  I just did Bill Burr's like video podcast, whatever, and

• 13:44Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 13:45Speaker 02

  We're just talking about like, you know, it's called, you can call it conspiracy theories as a joke, but really it's anti-capitalism rhetoric. Like that's the other thing that has heightened in the past few years of like, I would say Gen Z and millennials and other, um, you know, uh, other generations, but like Gen Z and millennials really honing in on like, we live in a, a design that is capitalist.

• 14:09Drew Afualo?

  Yep.

• 14:09Speaker 02

  And it's not the way things are. It's just the way this is right now. And that before, like Alana Waxler and Broad City, it used to be like, cookie rant. And now that's like very like kind of, I, I think like mainstream thought.

• 14:22Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, yeah. No, I get what you mean. It's, it's like the stream of consciousness has kind of, it's elevated almost. It's almost like, like you said, people are even more self-aware than they ever have been.

• 14:32Speaker 02

  Yeah, and aware of the system we're in, aware of the context, you know?

• 14:35Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, totally. Which is why I think comedians like yourself or like Caleb or like Chris Fleming. Do so well because it's first of all, you're living ahead of your time like a lot of people clip Broad City now and they're like this is living ahead of its time. Because of what you talked about then.

• 14:50Speaker 02

  God bless.

• 14:51Drew Afualo?

  But now people find it even funnier that it was existing back then.

• 14:56Speaker 02

  Yeah, it was like it was like it was like a secret.

• 14:59Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 14:59Speaker 02

  And it was like it was like a cult hit at the time compared to like Workaholics.

• 15:04Drew Afualo?

  Yes.

• 15:04Speaker 02

  For example, which was um, you know, which was really funny. Those boys are so silly and funny and.

• 15:11Drew Afualo?

  But in a different way.

• 15:13Speaker 02

  Oh, in a complete like completely different way existing almost on almost on opposite.

• 15:19Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I was gonna say and we can say it. It's smarter in Broad City and that's okay. It's not a dig. It's still funny. But it's straight guy humor versus different humor.

• 15:29Speaker 02

  Yeah, I would say like, you know, we we were um, uh, more marginalized voices.

• 15:35Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 15:35Speaker 02

  And they were more than mainstream and made they had like much greater views, you know what I mean?

• 15:40Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 15:41Speaker 02

  Um, Comedy Central held on for us and really, you know, Comedy Central was thriving at that time with all different kinds of um, shows and voices, but it's it's interesting.

• 15:53Drew Afualo?

  Well, and Broad City was huge on Tumblr at the time and I remember because I was big into Tumblr.

• 15:59Speaker 02

  Wow, that's crazy.

• 16:00Drew Afualo?

  And Broad City was all over Tumblr and I and that's. And that's because that's where a lot of women and gays are.

• 16:05Speaker 02

  That's right.

• 16:06Drew Afualo?

  And that's where it builds cult followings. That's where Lana blew up. Lana got really big too because she was on Tumblr.

• 16:12Speaker 02

  Right.

• 16:13Drew Afualo?

  So it's like it I made this joke when Rebecca Black was on my show not too long ago.

• 16:18Speaker 02

  How's she doing?

• 16:19Drew Afualo?

  She's doing great.

• 16:19Speaker 02

  Great.

• 16:20Drew Afualo?

  She's a pop star.

• 16:21Speaker 02

  I love it.

• 16:21Drew Afualo?

  Love her.

• 16:22Speaker 02

  We love.

• 16:23Drew Afualo?

  But she made a she made a joke. She made a joke about how she was like gay people have always been so supportive of me. And she's like, like when everybody was fucking hating me because of Friday, I was like gay people were like, she's fierce. You guys don't see it yet, but she's fierce. And now like you fast forward to now and now she they love her and they've so it's this I feel like it's the same thing like they. They always know like women and gays. They always know. They can tell.

• 16:47Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 16:47Drew Afualo?

  They pick winners, you know?

• 16:49Speaker 02

  And it's also like women and gays, not necessarily even like the bodies people inhabit, but like those who claim their power.

• 16:55Drew Afualo?

  Tea. Get into it and are smart and I get and have a completely different type of humor like. And I see like it's kind of like. Everyone who loves Broad City would get Workaholics, but not everybody who loves Workaholics would get Broad City.

• 17:11Speaker 02

  For sure.

• 17:11Drew Afualo?

  It's like all squares and rectangles kind of thing.

• 17:13Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 17:14Drew Afualo?

  That kind of thing, like all rectangles are squares, but not all squares are rectangles.

• 17:17Speaker 02

  Vice versa, but correct.

• 17:18Drew Afualo?

  Right, okay, tea.

• 17:19Speaker 02

  Yeah. I was just like, yeah, anyway. Um, okay, a little more tea, as it's like unfolding in my brain. It's like we are more aware of our social programming, social scripting.

• 17:31Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 17:31Speaker 02

  And it seemed like, it seemed like nutty rants of Alana's at the time. Or when Abby would finally gather enough strength, she'd explode about it, you know what I mean? But Alana was like carrying that weight all the time and, and then Abby would, you know, burst at the right times. Um, whereas that's the other thing that we're more aware of. I'm maybe being redundant, but I just found a different phrase.

• 17:53Drew Afualo?

  No, that's totally fine.

• 17:55Speaker 02

  You can delete whatever you want. It's snip, snip. It's edited, you know?

• 17:57Drew Afualo?

  Exactly. And it's my show.

• 17:59Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 17:59Drew Afualo?

  And if repeating yourself is a crime, take me away, officer.

• 18:02Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 18:03Drew Afualo?

  The amount of time, the amount of time, sometimes people are like, I loved you so much, but like she's told that story. Okay, first of all, most times, this is my first time meeting my guests and they haven't heard the story. Second of all, it's my show. I want to repeat myself. You try telling stories a hundred and fifty times.

• 18:15Speaker 02

  Right.

• 18:16Drew Afualo?

  You're gonna run out.

• 18:17Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 18:17Drew Afualo?

  Eventually. I'm gonna scrape the bottom of the barrel at the, at some point. But I do want to talk more about your stand-up, your new stand-up special. So I know it's based on motherhood, your journey with motherhood.

• 18:26Speaker 02

  Right.

• 18:27Drew Afualo?

  And how was that crafting that kind of set for your new special?

• 18:30Speaker 02

  It was really, um, fun because I had something, this experience of, um, creating a person in my body and pushing that out of my body, was so new and far from work.

• 18:46Drew Afualo?

  Mm-hmm.

• 18:46Speaker 02

  And the social scripting, it was so new.

• 18:50Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 18:50Speaker 02

  That it was like really fun to, um, to think about.

• 18:53Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 18:54Speaker 02

  In this way. And like, it was like, not like, I wasn't like, you know, like working to grind out the material. I was just like living, chilling and something would come up and I'm like, you know, writing it down.

• 19:04Drew Afualo?

  I love that.

• 19:04Speaker 02

  And then living, chilling, and then something comes out and I'm like, L-O-L. You know?

• 19:09Drew Afualo?

  That one's gonna kill.

• 19:10Speaker 02

  That one's gonna kill. Or not, and it's just for me. But like, um, but yeah, like it was really, uh, it was so nice to have that change from the years of comedy that I had, you know, performed and written and, and created and filmed before to like have this whole new experience was, I feel so, um...

• 19:31Drew Afualo?

  It feels like reinvigorating.

• 19:32Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 19:32Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, like your, your creative juices are flowing again.

• 19:35Speaker 02

  Yeah, and like I saw myself so differently, like also with Broad City and, and I wonder how you feel about this, like especially it's like a different thing and it's so sped up with TikTok, Instagram and YouTube.

• 19:47Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 19:47Speaker 02

  Watching yourself filmed and editing it, editing yourself is like a, a, uh, it's powerful and you can really control your own narrative, but like it's hard to control um, the personal growth that's happening.

• 20:05Drew Afualo?

  Totally, I get what you, I get what you're saying, yeah.

• 20:07Speaker 02

  You know, and it's like, um, I'll say this, it's like it doesn't necessarily impede upon or interrupt or diminish or ruin that self-actualization, it, it, it doesn't necessarily do that, but it does something to it.

• 20:17Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, totally.

• 20:17Speaker 02

  It's part of it.

• 20:18Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 20:19Speaker 02

  And you're not free from it.

• 20:20Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, totally.

• 20:20Speaker 02

  You're, you're, you're just not if you're choosing to do it. So this was so much freer in that way, I wasn't fucking filming the experience.

• 20:29Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 20:29Speaker 02

  You know, or like, I was like leggings and vintage t-shirts I'm gonna um, get uh, tailored to be crop tops. And that's what I'm gonna wear for like six months, you know what I mean, it like wasn't like, well, you know, I'd look better if I like sort of just lifted the waistline, it was like so, so just like function-based.

• 20:47Drew Afualo?

  I know what you mean.

• 20:48Speaker 02

  It was so real, it was so fucking real, it was really fucking cool.

• 20:51Drew Afualo?

  And it probably makes you fall back in love with what you were originally in love with, you

• 20:55Speaker 02

  That's right.

• 20:56Drew Afualo?

  Your well runs dry, I get what you mean, like when you, when you're having the same lived experiences, especially when you, your art becomes your job.

• 21:03Speaker 02

  That is correct.

• 21:04Drew Afualo?

  Not many people are lucky to have and, and luckily you've had that, now I get to have it too. But then once you commodify it, it

• 21:12Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 21:13Drew Afualo?

  The inspiration kind of stops because you're

• 21:14Speaker 02

  That's right.

• 21:15Drew Afualo?

  living in a bubble at that point.

• 21:16Speaker 02

  That's right, and it's um, a bit of a snake eating its own tail.

• 21:19Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 21:19Speaker 02

  And that's why I was like happy to hear you um, say you're taking a break from TikTok because that's like real, that's the currency of life is time.

• 21:27Drew Afualo?

  Totally.

• 21:28Speaker 02

  And if you can spend that time um, not being productive or um, producing or generative and

• 21:34Drew Afualo?

  Totally.

• 21:35Speaker 02

  simply stopping.

• 21:36Drew Afualo?

  Yep.

• 21:37Speaker 02

  It's like, that's the human magic, not to telt my own fucking stainless, but that is the human, that is human magic.

• 21:44Drew Afualo?

  That's true, you're right.

• 21:45Speaker 02

  Fucking blooms.

• 21:46Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, it's true.

• 21:47Speaker 02

  If you give it a little space and a little time, it just fucking blooms. And like I didn't know what it was gonna be like, and like just like hanging out with a newborn, newborn baby who's like

• 21:58Drew Afualo?

  Who's by and large useless in a lot of ways.

• 22:00Speaker 02

  Oh, absolutely helpless. Like I say in my special, pathetic, they're fully pathetic, helpless, you know, little like sort of jelly neck, you know, they just can't even hold their fucking heads up. And yet, like, totally wondrous. I'm like, I made your everything crazy, um, just in my lived in experience of, um, having the experience of pregnancy and the baby being, uh, my genetic baby. Um, but there are many experiences, which is like cool that we're learning about all different kinds of ways that people become, uh, parents.

• 22:30Drew Afualo?

  Totally.

• 22:31Speaker 02

  But that was my experience and I was like, grow your toe, mine.

• 22:36Speaker 02

  And then also she's growing now on her own, like that's fucking crazy.

• 22:42Drew Afualo?

  That is crazy.

• 22:42Speaker 02

  Day to day, you know, like going from like over here to like boom, actually can look in my eyes, like holy shit.

• 22:48Drew Afualo?

  Walk and talk and all that.

• 22:49Speaker 02

  Woo, magic.

• 22:50Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, that in your, and that's so true, cause I feel like, like you said too with mine, it's like with, you know, short form content, it, it speeds everything up a lot faster too. So it's like you're living a million lives in one.

• 23:03Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 23:03Drew Afualo?

  And so I did kind of start hitting like the, the bottom of the well, a while ago, like probably a year and a half ago. And I was telling my team, I'm like, I mean, I can only tell men to suck my dick so many ways. Like I, like it's, I don't, after a while, it starts to get repetitive and I'm getting bored, like, and I would say on TikTok, sometimes I would talk about that. Like I would say like, I don't really have much to make fun of anymore. Cause first of all, they're like roaches, they've scattered, uh, they're hiding in the walls. I can't see them. And then, cause they're afraid of me. And then on top of that, like, I'm bored. Like none of them can really compete with me. So it's boring. Um, and so I was feeling uninspired. Like you said, it starts to, it feels like Groundhog's Day after a while. You're like living the same life. So, I started kind of pivoting to different stuff and I think that's why stand up was so exciting for me.

• 23:48Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 23:49Drew Afualo?

  Because I get to pull from experiences. That's why I love this show and like my show with my sister because I get to talk about things in a longer format and get to kind of elaborate and then you can pull from other parts of your life, but you're right like living life is how you stay funny.

• 24:03Speaker 02

  That's right.

• 24:04Drew Afualo?

  In my opinion, like you have to keep living.

• 24:05Speaker 02

  And also like being mentally healthy, like as we we see, you know, it used to be interesting for like touch and men to touch everybody around them and make life a living hell and then that would be like somehow conflated with the immense talent and it's just like that that you know that lie has been like really revealed and it's like weak and not interesting actually like

• 24:30Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 24:31Speaker 02

  because it's not special. Everyone is in a lot of pain and everyone is suffering.

• 24:36Drew Afualo?

  Totally.

• 24:36Speaker 02

  And everyone deserves to have their basic needs met.

• 24:40Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 24:40Speaker 02

  Like on the planet, like a s- a standard for basic human rights.

• 24:44Drew Afualo?

  Mm hmm.

• 24:44Speaker 02

  Is like not that progressive. It's not that like big a deal lol, but it's like not that big a deal. That's that's something that we could achieve very quickly and

• 24:53Drew Afualo?

  Should agree on.

• 24:54Speaker 02

  Yeah, and isn't um, that's not radical.

• 24:56Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, it shouldn't be controversial to say that or believe it. Yeah.

• 24:59Speaker 02

  So it's just like everyone's really suffering and um, I've found, you know, conversely to all the like toxicity of online discourse, like I've also found um, that at least Gen Z and millennials, uh, you know, can speak to suffering and being like fucking sad and like thinking about death, like way more as a mainstream conversation than when I was in my twenties.

• 25:24Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, and it's more, it's like more access. It's like a beautiful thing and a curse all at the same time.

• 25:29Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 25:30Drew Afualo?

  But it's like I I what what it, the good it's brought to the world, I feel like outweighs the bad in a lot of ways for me personally, but I also feel like it's a good idea to keep an eye on the bad. It is pretty bad.

• 25:41Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 25:41Drew Afualo?

  Online, but speaking of your new inspiration for your special, your daughter is a huge inspiration of your special.

• 25:48Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 25:49Drew Afualo?

  What's she into nowadays? She into into anything special?

• 25:53Speaker 02

  She's really into Aladdin, which is a big part, not a big part, but it's like a moment in my special um. As she and I, I guess when she was inside of me, we're watching it. When she was, I tell this story in my standup special about my baby being upside down, which is right side up for you and I. But for fetuses, uh, right side up is upside down. They're supposed to have their head to your pussy. Um, as I say in my special, knock, knock, knocking on that pussy door like, hello mama.

• 26:23Speaker 02

  I say, here's Johnny.

• 26:27Speaker 02

  So, uh, she and I, while she was inside, watched Aladdin. While I, um, did this thing where I like, um, got upside down, uh, in doggy style, face down, ass up. To like, try to spin her around.

• 26:42Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 26:43Speaker 02

  Um, to get her head back down to my pussy.

• 26:45Drew Afualo?

  Gotcha.

• 26:46Speaker 02

  And it actually fucking worked. It fucking worked, bitch.

• 26:49Drew Afualo?

  You rolled her like a dice.

• 26:50Speaker 02

  Yeah, and I like, I, I, it was like, actually so interesting. I like felt, um, Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible energy. I swear to God, I was like, this thing, I didn't know what if she was a girl, but I was like, this fetus is like moving. Like, not only was I feeling the movement, but I was like genuinely, I swear to God, genuinely feeling dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, energy.

• 27:09Drew Afualo?

  Crawling in a circle.

• 27:10Speaker 02

  And she like, yeah, and the next day I had like a false alarm, went to the hospital and got a sonogram and it had worked. Yeah, doggy style for 20 minutes, spun my baby into the correct position.

• 27:22Speaker 02

  Thank you, Google. I Googled it and found spinning babies and I was like, we lit.

• 27:29Drew Afualo?

  And don't say I never did anything for you to your daughter.

• 27:32Speaker 02

  Uh, that's right. So, so now I'm, I'm realizing that connection. Now she's like so into Aladdin. And, um, we're singing it and we're dancing and I'm Aladdin, she's Jasmine.

• 27:42Drew Afualo?

  Obviously.

• 27:43Speaker 02

  She like also notices when Aladdin, uh, when Jasmine has her red look, when she's trying to like get Jafar or whatever. Um, she's into Aladdin, Oji, Moana, Coco, of course.

• 27:52Drew Afualo?

  Love.

• 27:54Speaker 02

  What else is she into? We're into anime.

• 27:57Drew Afualo?

  Oh, cute. Love that.

• 27:59Speaker 02

  Yes, and it's like really beautiful art for her to watch, which I like, instead of like shitty, bad animation. Like, she deserves to look at good, beautiful art.

• 28:07Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 28:07Speaker 02

  And, um.

• 28:08Drew Afualo?

  It's good enough for her.

• 28:10Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 28:10Drew Afualo?

  And which means it's good enough for everyone.

• 28:11Speaker 02

  Three and a half. You know what she's into? Nightmare Before Christmas. Tim Burton fan.

• 28:15Drew Afualo?

  I've been seeing lots of babies.

• 28:17Speaker 02

  Really?

• 28:17Drew Afualo?

  That love Tim Burton lately.

• 28:18Speaker 02

  That's so.

• 28:19Drew Afualo?

  I can't relate as a former baby. I can't relate to that.

• 28:22Speaker 02

  Cause it's too scary.

• 28:24Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I was ooky spooked. Like, as a child, I was a big scaredy cat. I was like, no. And also, if there's no women that I can be like, I need her to do this with that guy. If like, like Lion King, I was like, get the fuck out of here.

• 28:37Speaker 02

  Nice.

• 28:37Drew Afualo?

  Animals? Don't give a fuck. Humans? Show me girls. I wanna see girls.

• 28:42Speaker 02

  Right, right, right. I love that.

• 28:43Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 28:43Speaker 02

  Um.

• 28:44Drew Afualo?

  But she likes the spooky stuff.

• 28:45Speaker 02

  Bride and, and then also like she, it's interesting. She likes to conquer her fears. So it'll be like the scariest fucking thing. And she's like, no, no, no, no, no. And then she goes, go back. I'm like, oh shit, bitch.

• 28:56Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 28:56Speaker 02

  Okay, you know? Um.

• 28:59Drew Afualo?

  It's very interesting.

• 29:00Speaker 02

  Burton, that's so interesting that that's a thing. I wonder what that is.

• 29:03Drew Afualo?

  I just saw TikTok. It was the cutest thing ever, but it was a, it was a baby. He looked like he'd been like three or four. But he loves The Nightmare Before Christmas and he's memorized the whole intro and all the words of the song.

• 29:13Speaker 02

  Funny.

• 29:13Drew Afualo?

  I send it to my mom, cause she loves watching babies love things.

• 29:16Speaker 02

  Yeah, aww.

• 29:17Drew Afualo?

  It's like, when babies love things, my mom loves to watch them.

• 29:19Speaker 02

  Oh, you miss your baby?

• 29:20Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 29:21Speaker 02

  Oh my god.

• 29:22Drew Afualo?

  My brother was, cause my brother, my sister and I are two years apart. My brother's nine years younger than me.

• 29:27Speaker 02

  Wow, three total?

• 29:29Drew Afualo?

  Yes.

• 29:29Speaker 02

  God bless.

• 29:30Drew Afualo?

  Cause we, we weren't planned. He was. So that's why the age gap's a little big.

• 29:34Speaker 02

  Neither of you were planned?

• 29:35Drew Afualo?

  No.

• 29:35Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 29:36Drew Afualo?

  And my mom said, and I, and my mom tells me to this day, she tells me, and I was on two forms of birth control with you.

• 29:41Speaker 02

  Dang.

• 29:42Drew Afualo?

  And I said, well, it worked out.

• 29:44Speaker 02

  Yeah, man.

• 29:45Drew Afualo?

  You needed me, turns out.

• 29:45Speaker 02

  That's right.

• 29:46Drew Afualo?

  I was essential to the timeline, turns out.

• 29:48Speaker 02

  Fertile, fertile woman. We love. God said, no, girl.

• 29:53Drew Afualo?

  Said, no, you need to have this one, trust me.

• 29:55Speaker 02

  Yeah, that's right. Got past the second gate, we're in. We're in.

• 30:00Drew Afualo?

  We're in.

• 30:00Speaker 02

  Incredible.

• 30:01Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, so.

• 30:02Speaker 02

  So your bro's nine years younger.

• 30:04Drew Afualo?

  Yes, so I like, he was like our baby. Cause like we all.

• 30:08Speaker 02

  Are you older than Jason?

• 30:09Drew Afualo?

  No, she's older than me. Yeah, she's two years older than me.

• 30:12Speaker 02

  So he's eleven years younger than you?

• 30:14Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, so he was like our first ba- like he was all of our baby.

• 30:18Speaker 02

  That's so, that's such a blessing.

• 30:20Drew Afualo?

  Right, and I was like, for him it probably sucks, but for us it was awesome.

• 30:23Speaker 02

  No way, he's like mommy, mommy, mommy. He loved it.

• 30:26Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, it's funny, cause my, my fiance has a younger brother. He's like six years younger than him. And, um, but he's older than my brother and like, when we talk about him, I'm like, oh, so do you know how to like change diapers and stuff? He was like, no.

• 30:38Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 30:39Drew Afualo?

  And I was like, oh, must be nice. I was like, no, I know how to change a diaper. I know how to do bottles. I know how to burp. All that stuff.

• 30:48Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 30:48Drew Afualo?

  I'm real good.

• 30:48Speaker 02

  Shout out to Brian Duhan. This is a guy that you would think is like just some guy who'd like s- put you to the side, but my friend who's like Long Island as hell. He had three younger brothers and like changed their motherf-

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• 32:04Speaker 02

  Fucking diapers.

• 32:05Drew Afualo?

  Love that, love that.

• 32:07Speaker 02

  Yeah, and now he's like the dad of three kids. He's spinning them like basketball.

• 32:12Speaker 02

  Yeah, he married one of my best friends, Jen and.

• 32:15Drew Afualo?

  Oh, that's so cute.

• 32:16Speaker 02

  They're killing it. Do hands. Long Island. I'm loving you. Miss you. Talk to you soon. They're not watching this, no offense, but um, they're too busy with their three children.

• 32:24Drew Afualo?

  That's alright, I don't care about you guys, whatever. Just kidding.

• 32:26Speaker 02

  It's just because they're busy.

• 32:27Drew Afualo?

  Just kidding.

• 32:27Speaker 02

  But that's all.

• 32:28Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, three kids, okay.

• 32:29Speaker 02

  Yeah, you know something about that?

• 32:32Drew Afualo?

  I know, I do, I, I feel like, kids are so fun, like, they're a lot, but they're, they're funny as hell, like, my brother, my brother was one of the funniest kids alive, but that was just like, I don't know what it was about him, it was just something, he is a real like, cartoony personality. Like, so, I remember when he was a kid once, we picked him up from Pee Wee football, and, when we picked him up, like, it was my sister too, it was me and my sister, and he was like telling my sister something, he goes, "Okay, I need to tell you guys something, um, grandpa can't come to my football games anymore." Mind you, my grandfather only went to like a few, he would go to like the big ones, and then, we were like, "Why?"

• 33:16Drew Afualo?

  And he goes, "Well, remember how I missed like, the game the other," he missed a game and we like, Jason was telling him like, "Hey, like, if anyone," and he's like, "What do I tell people?" Because like, we, we ditched it so we could do something fun. And he's like, "What do I tell?"

• 33:28Speaker 02

  With him?

• 33:29Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, with him, we took him, yeah. So, he was like, "What do I tell my teammates?" I'm like, "My coach." And we were, we were saying, "Just say you had a family emergency," right? And he was like, "Okay." So a kid asked him, it wasn't even a coach, because it's Pee Wee football, doesn't matter, doesn't mean anything. And he was like, the kid asked, "Why'd you miss on Saturday?" He's like, "Oh, I had a family emergency." And then, he said, "Well, what was it?" Mind you, my brother's like nine, so he could easily be like, "I don't know." But he goes, "My grandpa fell and broke his leg." Which is not true, my grandpa's never fallen and, nor has he broken his leg. And he goes, "He literally can't come to any more of my games, they're gonna find out I was lying."

• 34:05Speaker 02

  So funny, oh my god.

• 34:06Drew Afualo?

  And I was like, "It's, it's alright, it's not a big deal." I'll break the news to grandpa, but I'm sure it'll be fine.

• 34:11Speaker 02

  And also like, it was the other grandpa?

• 34:15Drew Afualo?

  Like, he can't think that far.

• 34:16Speaker 02

  Oops, sorry.

• 34:17Drew Afualo?

  It's alright, no worries.

• 34:20Speaker 02

  For continuity, I'll put it back.

• 34:24Speaker 02

  It's not gonna work. Santa was here.

• 34:28Drew Afualo?

  Does she like anything else that's kind of strange?

• 34:31Speaker 02

  Um.

• 34:33Drew Afualo?

  It feels like it would make sense that your daughter likes Nightmare Before Christmas.

• 34:37Speaker 02

  Love it. I'm a scaredy. I'm oaky spooky. Like you said, I'm scared. So I'm like, okay, go, girl. Uh, I don't know. I, I, I, I, maybe I'm not, maybe I'm not judgmental enough, but I don't find anything strange for a three year old to like. She's, you know, everything's poopy, obviously. I'm like, what are you eating? She's like, poopy? I'm like, um, what's, how was school? And she's like, poopy. Okay.

• 35:05Drew Afualo?

  Alright.

• 35:05Speaker 02

  Um.

• 35:06Drew Afualo?

  She got that funny gene from you.

• 35:07Speaker 02

  Oh, she's so funny. Um, poopy is like really big right now.

• 35:11Drew Afualo?

  Was she a big baby when she was born?

• 35:13Speaker 02

  Yeah, she was seven pounds, eight ounces.

• 35:15Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 35:15Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 35:15Drew Afualo?

  Love that.

• 35:16Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 35:16Drew Afualo?

  I was a large child when I was born.

• 35:18Speaker 02

  How, how, how?

• 35:19Drew Afualo?

  I was nine pounds, eleven ounces.

• 35:20Speaker 02

  Oh my god.

• 35:22Drew Afualo?

  Thirteen ounces. Okay, chill out, mom. My mom goes thirteen.

• 35:26Speaker 02

  Wow, god bless you.

• 35:28Drew Afualo?

  My, my brother was ten, one. Yeah, ten, ten pounds, one ounce.

• 35:33Speaker 02

  Oh my god.

• 35:34Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, big babies.

• 35:36Speaker 02

  That's incredible.

• 35:37Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, big babies. My dad's six, six, so that's why. We're a large family.

• 35:41Speaker 02

  Oh my god. I'm like, I'm an Ashkenazi Jew and we tend to be shorter, so, um, seven pounds, eight ounces was like

• 35:47Drew Afualo?

  Enormous.

• 35:48Speaker 02

  Really big for us. I was like, this baby's huge. Six, six, that's why you're...

• 35:54Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, my, my fiance was eleven pounds, like thirteen ounces when he was born.

• 35:59Speaker 02

  Girl.

• 35:59Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, you should, I will show, I'll show you pictures after of what my fiance looked like as a toddler. That's a grown man.

• 36:07Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 36:08Drew Afualo?

  Like, he was wearing like Tommy Bahama button nose. I wish I was waking that up. I'm not making that up.

• 36:12Speaker 02

  Hilarious.

• 36:13Drew Afualo?

  He didn't fit into shit. He didn't fit into anything.

• 36:15Speaker 02

  That is insane. That's so funny.

• 36:17Drew Afualo?

  I remember when my mom was having her baby shower for my little brother, she was like, no clothes. Like, please don't buy me any clothes. And it's because she knew my brother was gonna be enormous. So he came out and he was wearing like, what age clothing? Six to nine months?

• 36:30Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 36:31Drew Afualo?

  That's why, that's why she was like, don't buy... Me any clothes cuz none of them are gonna fit. Don't buy me any clothes.

• 36:36Speaker 02

  It's so cute that you have those memories. Babiness and we're like a part of it and such a helpful.

• 36:41Drew Afualo?

  He was such a beautiful, a beautiful baby, like genuinely such a beautiful baby, but um.

• 36:47Speaker 02

  That's so sweet.

• 36:48Drew Afualo?

  Oh, I know. I'm gonna talk shit on him right now. Don't worry. Um. When I, I used to like pack his uh diaper bag and stuff and like.

• 36:56Speaker 02

  Oh my god.

• 36:57Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, all the time. My sister and I would switch off, like sometimes someone would do the backpack with all the clothes and then someone would do the food.

• 37:03Speaker 02

  So sweet.

• 37:04Drew Afualo?

  Right. My poor mom was just like, they were both so busy, even both my parents. So we were like enlisted, but we loved it cuz we, I felt like I had a baby. And I remember my brother's was the pickiest eater ever, like he only ate three things forever.

• 37:18Speaker 02

  Dang.

• 37:18Drew Afualo?

  Even when he ate apples, the skin had to be peeled off.

• 37:21Speaker 02

  Of course.

• 37:21Drew Afualo?

  Like it was just insane. Pear's skin off has to be. And I was, I would like tell him like, when you were a baby. Why am I dicing carrots, Julianne, for you?

• 37:32Speaker 02

  Yeah, that's.

• 37:33Drew Afualo?

  You're a useless baby and here I am, carmy in the fucking kitchen.

• 37:37Speaker 02

  Right, right.

• 37:38Drew Afualo?

  You know what I mean?

• 37:39Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 37:39Drew Afualo?

  Shouting at my line cooks.

• 37:40Speaker 02

  That's right.

• 37:41Drew Afualo?

  Because my shit's not rare enough.

• 37:42Speaker 02

  Years old.

• 37:43Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, literally. I was like, I'm not even in 10th grade yet. I'm in 5th grade. I was 10, I think, at the time. So I was like, well. But I, it sounds like your baby's awesome. I'll be honest.

• 37:53Speaker 02

  Yeah, she's so cool. You can like see in my special how cool she is.

• 37:59Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 38:00Speaker 02

  I'm like lit up about it cuz I fucking love her. She's so cool.

• 38:02Drew Afualo?

  How was the process of giving birth? I'm curious.

• 38:05Speaker 02

  Um, I had a, I mean, I'm like, let's just, I'm an optimistic person and I'm like so grateful to be alive in a weird baseline way.

• 38:13Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 38:13Speaker 02

  Um, but I had a great time. I had a great birth and.

• 38:16Drew Afualo?

  Oh, that's good.

• 38:17Speaker 02

  So your birth um typically or, yeah, tends to typically like mirror your mom's.

• 38:23Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 38:23Speaker 02

  So I asked my mom what my brother Elliot's, what, what giving birth to Elliot was like because that's her first birth experience and this is my first birth experience. And um she was in labor for thirty six hours and pushed for like twenty minutes and that was pretty much my experience.

• 38:40Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 38:41Speaker 02

  But like I was like really informed, um. More informed than she was at the time. Oh my god, when I was a baby, it wasn't an option to know the baby's sex.

• 38:50Drew Afualo?

  Really?

• 38:51Speaker 02

  Crazy.

• 38:52Drew Afualo?

  So you couldn't know at all, like you would just find out once you were born?

• 38:55Speaker 02

  We chose, we chose not to know.

• 38:57Drew Afualo?

  Okay.

• 38:58Speaker 02

  No choice back then, crazy.

• 39:01Speaker 02

  So I labored at home for twenty-four hours and I was like kinda partying. So you have to get to like ten centimeters, like your pussy opens up to ten fucking centimeters. Which is like fucking crazy.

• 39:11Drew Afualo?

  It's enormous, yeah.

• 39:12Speaker 02

  Nuts.

• 39:13Drew Afualo?

  When you look at it in the diagram, it's crazy.

• 39:18Speaker 02

  You're like, yo, ten fucking centimeters?

• 39:21Drew Afualo?

  Like that sandworm on dune. You know, like, oh, there's all those teeth in there.

• 39:26Speaker 02

  Don't know it, just watched it like over my husband's shoulder.

• 39:28Drew Afualo?

  If you Google it, you'll laugh.

• 39:29Speaker 02

  Okay, cut it out. Um, you couldn't remember the um, sandworms in Beetlejuice, anybody? Great, okay, great.

• 39:38Drew Afualo?

  Girl, hello?

• 39:39Speaker 02

  Still here.

• 39:42Drew Afualo?

  That one, no.

• 39:43Speaker 02

  Oh god.

• 39:45Speaker 02

  So, uh, oh yeah, Beetlejuice was rebooted, you would know it. Anyway, so um, so within that twenty-four hours, I only got to two centimeters, which is why I was like pretty chill at home. Um, if it had gotten open, if I had opened up even more, I'd be like, ah, you know what I mean? So like, so the twenty-four hours, I was like, I'm just gonna take it easy and chill. And I was like, I couldn't really sleep because I kept waking up with these contractions, but like, it was nice to be home, it was nice to eat. Because you know, when you get to the hospital, you can't eat.

• 40:12Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 40:13Speaker 02

  Based on like weird, like nineteen twenties hysteria, his hospital shit.

• 40:18Drew Afualo?

  And then you gotta poop.

• 40:19Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 40:20Drew Afualo?

  When you give birth?

• 40:20Speaker 02

  Yeah, I think I pooped a little, but it wasn't like as big a deal as um.

• 40:24Drew Afualo?

  It's real normal, that's all, it's real normal.

• 40:26Speaker 02

  You're like using your, all the force you have in your pelvic floor, of course you're gonna poop a little bit.

• 40:29Drew Afualo?

  You're gonna poop, yeah.

• 40:30Speaker 02

  Um, but then after twenty-four hours, I went to the hospital and got an epidural, scariest part of the birth. I was like weeping.

• 40:38Drew Afualo?

  Really?

• 40:38Speaker 02

  Shaking, my husband's like hugging and holding me, I'm like, so I was so scared, it's like, ah, a needle in the.

• 40:46Drew Afualo?

  In the spine.

• 40:46Speaker 02

  Base of my fucking spine.

• 40:48Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 40:48Speaker 02

  Liked it. Um, but okay, I got past that and then um, twelve hours later before, before I got any like shit to open it up like I opened up to nine centimeters over those twelve hours. But wasn't feeling all the pain that would have come if I hadn't gotten the epidural.

• 41:04Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 41:04Speaker 02

  And then it was like seven in the morning, we gave me a kiss of pitocin to be like, okay, let's go to the tenth centimeter. And it was like fifteen minutes. Four pushes. So there's like space, you know, minutes.

• 41:16Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 41:16Speaker 02

  I'm, I'm sure you know this um, more than I did. But like minutes between, it's like one minute of a contraction and the opportunity to push, but then these breaks of like four minutes in between.

• 41:26Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 41:27Speaker 02

  So it was like four pushes. The first push, shout out to Dr. Chaw, Dr. Laura Chaw, fucking bad bitch. First, first push, she spun my baby um, upward. So her head and like nose were down by my anus, my anus. And she twisted it up so the nose was up toward the clit, honestly. And um, where the head's supposed to be and then, you know, got the head out and my baby was like, she's like her fucking head out of my. I mean, I didn't see it. I'm just like imagining and then um, and then got one shoulder out on the second, on the third push out of four. And then the fourth push, it was like, here we go, boom. And she was like such a little athlete, this like petite.

• 42:08Speaker 02

  Like woman, she was like, come on, go, go. You know, it was like so, I was like, I don't do sports. This is like miraculous to me. It was like really fun.

• 42:15Drew Afualo?

  Oh, that's so good though. I'm glad you had a, a good experience.

• 42:18Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 42:19Drew Afualo?

  That's great.

• 42:19Speaker 02

  I'm really lucky because maternal care uh, varies wildly in this country and

• 42:25Drew Afualo?

  I know.

• 42:25Speaker 02

  Black women are the most at risk.

• 42:27Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, totally.

• 42:28Speaker 02

  Like crazy at risk.

• 42:29Drew Afualo?

  And it is a like truly risky process, having a child bearing, like giving birth to a child is so inherently dangerous to, for anyone who gives birth.

• 42:40Speaker 02

  That's right. Do you know Serena Williams's birth story?

• 42:42Drew Afualo?

  No.

• 42:43Speaker 02

  It is so crazy and it highlights the, the uh, systemic dangers created for black women to give birth.

• 42:50Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 42:50Speaker 02

  The greatest American athlete.

• 42:54Drew Afualo?

  In our lifetimes, in several lifetimes, yeah.

• 42:56Speaker 02

  Ever, fucking ever?

• 42:57Drew Afualo?

  Truly.

• 42:57Speaker 02

  Um, was like not being heard, not being listened to about blood clots. And she had not only, she had experience, but the instinct, she was like, no, I'm definitely experiencing this right now. They're like, Serena Williams, why would you know anything about your body? She was like, no, give me, she told them the medicine to give.

• 43:13Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 43:13Speaker 02

  She told them the procedure to do, you know, she, she told the medical professionals how to care for her. And she otherwise could have died if she didn't speak up for herself like that.

• 43:21Drew Afualo?

  That's fucking insane.

• 43:22Speaker 02

  It is fucking insane.

• 43:25Drew Afualo?

  It's crazy. I feel like it's such a, um, it's so normalized too, where it's like, well, you don't know. Actually, I think I would, cause I'm in the body you're looking at. So like, you would think. You would think, listening to women, when they tell you, hey, this hurts, or this is wrong, you'd be like, well, maybe I should look into it.

• 43:45Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 43:45Drew Afualo?

  Instead of just assuming every, every woman, especially women of color are fucking stupid. Yeah.

• 43:50Speaker 02

  Yeah, it's nuts. It's, that's why it's so valuable that you had that experience, um, with your baby brother.

• 43:55Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 43:55Speaker 02

  And like, I babysat, as in my special, I talk about, um, I got like, big titties young, so I looked older. And I was babysitting at nine. I was like, nine years old, I was like, I can do this. I was like a busboy at 11, fully. Um, it was like, off the books, if you don't believe it. And, uh, and it's really useful to have that experience because you're so told that you don't know. So to get that experience young, you can like be confident early.

• 44:19Drew Afualo?

  Totally. Especially like, my mom is so, um, my mom is a huge advocate for like, no, something's wrong, check again. Like, I've like, watched my mom do that.

• 44:30Speaker 02

  Beautiful.

• 44:31Drew Afualo?

  Our entire lives.

• 44:32Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 44:32Drew Afualo?

  When I was a kid, I-

• 44:34Speaker 02

  You, and assess, these strong women.

• 44:36Drew Afualo?

  When I was a kid, I went through like, a phase where I was really sleepy and I bruised really easily. When I was a baby, which is a sign of leukemia, uh, especially the sleepiness.

• 44:45Speaker 02

  How baby? How young were you?

• 44:46Drew Afualo?

  I was like, probably like five. So I was like, four or five.

• 44:50Speaker 02

  Oh my gosh.

• 44:51Drew Afualo?

  Looked ten though, I was huge.

• 44:52Speaker 02

  Yeah, I believe it.

• 44:52Drew Afualo?

  I was a ginormous child, I can't stress that enough. I was a very large child, uh. But my mom, like I would bruise very easily and I was always tired, like I was sleeping all the time.

• 45:01Speaker 02

  Ooh, I'm like getting nervous, honey.

• 45:02Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, and then my mom took me to the doctor and they were like, I think she's fine. And then my mom was like, check again. Like she just kept to check again. And then when they checked again, I'm, I was severely anemic, so that's why I was just low on iron, thankfully. And I'm still really anemic to this day, however.

• 45:17Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 45:18Drew Afualo?

  Do I take care of it? Well, that's a question for another time.

• 45:20Speaker 02

  That's the, what you're gonna do while you're not making TikToks? Is check on your anemia?

• 45:24Drew Afualo?

  Manage my anemia.

• 45:25Speaker 02

  That's right. Can I ask like mom guidance? When Drew tells this story, is it within the same session where you're like, you check that again? Within the same session or you came back? In same session, wow, cool.

• 45:36Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 45:37Speaker 02

  Ugh, you didn't read the fucking meter, right? The first time? What the fuck are you talking about? Great, I really appreciate that.

• 45:44Drew Afualo?

  Well, that's what makes me laugh, cuz my mom is not a doctor, my mom just knows her child, so that's why my mom's like, no, just check again.

• 45:50Speaker 02

  Right.

• 45:51Drew Afualo?

  What's it gonna cost you, check again.

• 45:52Speaker 02

  I love it.

• 45:52Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, so.

• 45:53Speaker 02

  Wow, wow.

• 45:54Drew Afualo?

  Uh, it's actually so important, I think, like you said, to be exposed to other women, and like women telling their stories about advocating for themselves in those moments. Especially, and that's also why it's important to have women in the medical field.

• 46:06Speaker 02

  That's right.

• 46:07Drew Afualo?

  Of all different ethnicities, because then you can work with someone who makes you feel more comfortable. I feel more comfortable working with women.

• 46:13Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 46:14Drew Afualo?

  So, that's why sometimes when I hear that some women, or anyone who has to see a gynecologist has a male one, I'm always kinda like, no.

• 46:22Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 46:23Drew Afualo?

  Hmm, no.

• 46:24Speaker 02

  It's different.

• 46:25Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, it's different. I feel more comfortable, I was like, I don't even feel comfortable talking to a strange man. Let alone getting in stirrups in front of one.

• 46:31Speaker 02

  That's, yeah.

• 46:32Drew Afualo?

  I ain't doing that.

• 46:33Speaker 02

  I feel ya.

• 46:34Drew Afualo?

  But that's good, I'm glad your birthing experience was so.

• 46:36Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 46:37Drew Afualo?

  Positive.

• 46:37Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 46:38Drew Afualo?

  That's so wonderful.

• 46:39Speaker 02

  Very, um, lucky that it was that way.

• 46:42Drew Afualo?

  How was the aftercare? Was that part, was that experience, I know you talked about that in your special too, was that experience?

• 46:47Speaker 02

  It was.

• 46:48Drew Afualo?

  New?

• 46:48Speaker 02

  Uh, what do I talk about in my special? In my special, I guess I talk about the anxiety, growing as my love grows for this baby and that being fucking insane. And then I wanna like put her back into my pussy. Like sometimes I'm like, you wanna just go back the fuck in and like, cook a little longer?

• 47:03Drew Afualo?

  Let's do it again!

• 47:04Speaker 02

  I miss being one. But my after experience was good, I just took it slow and easy and I really planned for myself to have many, as many months as I could before like re-entering work and, um.

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• 48:22Speaker 02

  Taking great care of myself. I was in a diaper. I was like pissing myself, you know, for a while, for like a couple of weeks.

• 48:28Drew Afualo?

  My question for you was gonna be, what was the silliest thing you've noticed after? Either while you were pregnant or after? Shocking, silly, hilarious?

• 48:36Speaker 02

  Yeah, okay. Because when you said shocking, I was like, um...

• 48:40Drew Afualo?

  Thinking of something not silly, not funny.

• 48:41Speaker 02

  It, because, because I was like, I'm excited to tell you this because it was shocking. I tried to work out this bit so many times. We were talking about the process of stand-up. And I really tried so many times to include the following bit in this hour, but it just didn't work. And I'm gonna do it as, like, a video, as an Instagram reel. Because also I was incorporating, like, pictures on a screen. I just didn't even want to deal with that.

• 49:04Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 49:05Speaker 02

  The milk coming in was shocking. A shocking, hilarious, only in retrospect.

• 49:18Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 49:19Speaker 02

  So fucking funny and absurd and absurd, like, nearly sci-fi, with these titties, too.

• 49:25Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 49:25Speaker 02

  Nearly sci-fi level of comedy that audiences were confused.

• 49:31Drew Afualo?

  So wasn't hitting right.

• 49:32Speaker 02

  And also it was like cartoon titties. It looked, I looked like Jessica Rabbit. And, and they were like.

• 49:38Drew Afualo?

  On your tiny frame is crazy too.

• 49:40Speaker 02

  Yeah, and it was like, is this hot? And I was like, no. You know, like I, I just couldn't understand. I like would ask, like, is this sexual, you know, it was bizarre.

• 49:50Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 49:51Speaker 02

  Like, um, basketballs, cantaloupes, like nuts.

• 49:55Drew Afualo?

  Like two mixing bowls on your chest.

• 49:57Speaker 02

  Yes, exactly. And it was like, so, you know, the systemically being, um, uh, removed from our own knowledge about our bodies and our own process of giving life, how we got here.

• 50:08Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 50:09Speaker 02

  Um, I didn't know about milk coming in and, and my, in the middle of the night, my, um, I like can't breathe and my heart is racing and I'm like, I guess I'm having a postpartum heart attack. But just a typical American postpartum heart attack. Like, I'm like, this is definitely a thing that no one talks about.

• 50:27Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 50:28Speaker 02

  And then I have a, I, I, in the morning, I can't sleep. I, I have a huge migraine. And thank God, my best friend Eden came over and was able to explain to me and my husband. My husband's a scientist. He's a PhD in biology.

• 50:43Drew Afualo?

  He's like, neither I haven't figured it out.

• 50:45Speaker 02

  Neither of us knew what the fuck was going on. My milk was coming in to my milk ducts in my titties. And at first, it's like a more, um, more solid thing before it becomes like thin, drinkable milk.

• 50:59Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 51:00Speaker 02

  And you have to like massage it out of your titties, under hot water with like a washcloth.

• 51:04Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 51:05Speaker 02

  And before I knew that, it was like literally caving my heart, my work. It was like, my chest was like being, the, the weight of these titties was crushing me. Crushing me, Drew.

• 51:17Drew Afualo?

  By your only ti- by your own tits.

• 51:18Speaker 02

  Crushed by my only titties.

• 51:20Drew Afualo?

  You said, et tu, Brute?

• 51:22Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 51:25Speaker 02

  And I was like, okay, well, that helps. And then like getting it out and like making the milk. I was like, well, that was crazy.

• 51:31Drew Afualo?

  I can't even imagine.

• 51:32Speaker 02

  Thank God for Eden, who had already had had a baby and is a medical professional and a woman.

• 51:38Drew Afualo?

  She was able to walk you through it.

• 51:40Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 51:40Drew Afualo?

  Thank God.

• 51:41Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 51:41Drew Afualo?

  And my best friend was like that too. I'd be like, get your ass over here and explain this to me.

• 51:46Speaker 02

  I know. It was like just luck, but I like really would have um maybe had a had an issue.

• 51:51Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, an actual heart attack from fear.

• 51:54Speaker 02

  That's what I'm talking about. But then I was like, should I not say it? Cause of, I don't know what, like, I don't know. But um, yeah, that was the most shocking thing that I actually had to cut from this hour.

• 52:02Drew Afualo?

  I can't even imagine. Yeah, especially having like, especially when they balloon like that too. They just get enormous.

• 52:09Speaker 02

  It's like kind of like obvious what's happening, but it's also like, you just don't realize like the function and how to get it out.

• 52:14Drew Afualo?

  Well, yeah, and the feeling probably doesn't feel like what you would imagine, however you could try to imagine it.

• 52:20Speaker 02

  Sheer panic was the feeling. Yeah.

• 52:22Drew Afualo?

  Sheer panic.

• 52:22Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 52:23Drew Afualo?

  Immediately. How was breastfeeding for you? I know it's very mixed across the board for people.

• 52:27Speaker 02

  Yes, it it can be like super traumatic, super upsetting. Um.

• 52:33Speaker 02

  You know, again, I'm an optimistic person. It was fucking lit.

• 52:37Drew Afualo?

  That's good. I'm glad to hear it.

• 52:38Speaker 02

  Incredible. I was like, holy shit. You know, my whole, as I say in my special, my like, when my baby was laid on my chest, I said those three magic words to her. Holy fucking shit. That was my, that's been my experience. I'm just like, holy fucking shit. There's milk coming out of my titties and you're eating it? That's crazy dude. And it's like helping you not get sick. Like this is fucking cool.

• 53:01Drew Afualo?

  I saw a TikTok recently where a girl was talking about, she's a um, like a birthing coach, like a doula and stuff like that. But she was saying the, the number one thing she always gets calls about is the smell. Like she was like, and I don't mean like from the afterbirth, cause like that smells gnarly too. But she's like, but your body just emits these odors that are foreign to you. She was like, like, and I get mom, new moms calling me all the time being like, is something fucking wrong with me?

• 53:27Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 53:28Drew Afualo?

  And I talked to someone recently, I forget who's mom, and she was telling me, yeah dude, my pits were nuts. Oh, it's my hair extension girl.

• 53:35Speaker 02

  Hysterical?

• 53:36Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I love her. She is, she's a new mom. Yeah, but she was telling me, like, she goes, my pits, like, I would put on deodorant and be like, this thing's broken, like, I need another one.

• 53:45Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 53:46Drew Afualo?

  And she was like, but then you find out it's because your baby needs to scent you, like, so it's to help your baby find you, essentially.

• 53:52Speaker 02

  You're just like a bear. You're just like a dog.

• 53:53Drew Afualo?

  I know, it's just the most, it feels so animalistic, but it's also so natural.

• 53:57Speaker 02

  Yes, yes. We like, we try to separate ourselves from the animal kingdom so hard, and it's like, we're pretty much mostly animals.

• 54:04Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 54:04Speaker 02

  Who like, can like giggle.

• 54:05Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 54:06Speaker 02

  You know what I mean?

• 54:06Drew Afualo?

  That have cognitive thought.

• 54:08Speaker 02

  Yeah, we like dance, we giggle, um, I mean dolphins fuck for pleasure. It's like, we're not even alone in this.

• 54:15Drew Afualo?

  We're not even unique in that sense.

• 54:16Speaker 02

  No, um, our evil may be unique, but other than that, um, you know, so, um, yeah, I don't really remember the smell of afterbirth being gross. I definitely remember like sweating my balls off.

• 54:30Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, I think she's just like hormones, just like your hormones change, like, it's like, and it's

• 54:34Speaker 02

  It was cool.

• 54:35Drew Afualo?

  Purely for your baby to find you.

• 54:37Speaker 02

  Yeah, your baby's like, in her little pits, and she's like, doing your hair?

• 54:41Drew Afualo?

  Do you like new baby smell? A lot of people love baby smell, like their heads and their breath.

• 54:46Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 54:47Drew Afualo?

  Seen that too.

• 54:47Speaker 02

  Yeah, I, I love it. I love new baby, everything. It's like scary. I don't really yearn to hold other people's new, new newborn babies. I find it a little scary, um, unless I'm like seated with a pillow, like, it's, it's nerve wracking.

• 55:02Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 55:03Speaker 02

  With your own baby. And like, also like, um, my best friend lives two doors down from me and our babies are best friends.

• 55:09Drew Afualo?

  Oh, I love that.

• 55:10Speaker 02

  We went to Hebrew school together and camp together, and she was, um, her son is a few months, uh, younger than my daughter. Um, so when we brought my baby home, we were all, she was really pregnant and we were all like, ah, ah, ah, oh, oh, oh, like very nervous. It's like a new, new baby thing.

• 55:29Drew Afualo?

  So exciting that you're doing the journey together. How fucking cool.

• 55:32Speaker 02

  Yeah, I'm very lucky.

• 55:33Drew Afualo?

  I love that. My uh, my manager and his fiance, they just had a baby too. They're first time parents. And when I got to meet their baby, who's I call my nephew. That white baby is my nephew for sure. He is. But when I met him, I met him a few months ago in person for the first time. And I was holding, he is so fucking cute, like just the most adorable baby. But he was looking at me real like, like you know what I mean? Like he was just staring at me so intensely before he started crying.

• 56:02Drew Afualo?

  And I was like, they were like, I'm sorry, he's, I don't know why he's looking like that. Cause he was like. Very like pensive looking at me. And I was telling him, cause I was the first one to hold him. Cause like my fiance was there, my sister, my cousin. And I was like, am I the first brown person this baby has met? And then they were like, um, I think so. He's like, not that old. He's only like, he's like six or seven months. I said, that's okay. I only ask, cause. Believe it or not, this is not the first time this has happened to me. I have held a white baby before that was a ver- very afraid of me.

• 56:32Speaker 02

  Who's like, who you?

• 56:33Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, he was just like, you don't look like the other ones I've seen. And he's just curious. I told him, don't worry, he'll send me, he'll, he'll know.

• 56:43Drew Afualo?

  Just get in there, I promise.

• 56:46Speaker 02

  You just need a little more time with them. He'll be obsessed.

• 56:48Drew Afualo?

  But now, now he likes me. Now he loves me. I make it my mission for all babies to love me. Yeah, and then I, I buy them fun stuff. I feed them things their parents don't give them, and then I send them home.

• 57:00Speaker 02

  It's similar to an online following. You know?

• 57:04Drew Afualo?

  Absolutely.

• 57:05Speaker 02

  Sort of like loving them, making them like you, giving them what they can't get elsewhere, and then being like, goodnight.

• 57:10Drew Afualo?

  Okay, goodbye.

• 57:13Drew Afualo?

  Go back home to your mom and dad. Okay, so I'll do one TikTok if that's cool with you.

• 57:19Speaker 02

  Do whatever the puck you want.

• 57:22Drew Afualo?

  But we are talking about like awful men online who like believe everything having to do with raising children, having children is all solely. Falls on the, uh, on the mother, which is, uh, not surprising, but it is what it is, right? This first video, in this video, a clip from a man on a podcast says, if you're a dude, you need to make money. If you're a female. You need to nurture and support. Is it a father's job to come home and make sure the kids are fed? Well, no. And that's it. That's the end of the clip. Uh, thoughts on that advice?

• 57:55Speaker 02

  Well, first I wanna um say that you have uh, a strength in being able to confront

• 58:03Drew Afualo?

  Hmm.

• 58:04Speaker 02

  this kind of vitriol.

• 58:05Drew Afualo?

  Oh, thank you.

• 58:06Speaker 02

  And stomach it in a way that I don't, I don't have the that's not part of my skillset.

• 58:13Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 58:13Speaker 02

  So I wanna commend you on having that um

• 58:17Drew Afualo?

  The time.

• 58:18Speaker 02

  The time and yeah, there's a, a brute force you need to do to confront that.

• 58:25Drew Afualo?

  Absolutely.

• 58:26Speaker 02

  Um, second of all, I, you know, uh, I don't know, I think I don't know, I, I'm not mad, I'm like, you know, this person's worldview is limited. They haven't been exposed to different kinds of family setups, it sounds like.

• 58:43Drew Afualo?

  Yep.

• 58:44Speaker 02

  And um you know, I also I'm like, I, I, I'm finding compassion, but not like forcing it, but like I'm feel, I'm, I'm feeling compassion.

• 58:55Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 58:55Speaker 02

  And it's like, I have compassion for uh us poor little humans who are knowing and seeing more than we're really meant to.

• 59:07Drew Afualo?

  To.

• 59:08Speaker 02

  And having trouble making sense of it.

• 59:10Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 59:10Speaker 02

  So it sounds to me like someone who's having trouble making sense of the world that is naturally unfolding.

• 59:16Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 59:17Speaker 02

  And doesn't have the resources.

• 59:19Drew Afualo?

  That's not nineteen fifty's Mad Men the show?

• 59:22Speaker 02

  Yeah, and it's like rude and annoying and like not cool and I

• 59:25Drew Afualo?

  And it's so boring.

• 59:26Speaker 02

  It's boring and I'm like, I don't wanna inter, uh, you know, this is not somebody I wanna hang out with.

• 59:31Drew Afualo?

  Exactly.

• 59:31Speaker 02

  Um, which is what is the loss for them that they're actually feeling.

• 59:37Drew Afualo?

  Tea, yeah, that's very true.

• 59:38Speaker 02

  And I'm sad, I'm sad for this and like also somebody just said manosphere yesterday and I was like, the what? And then I was like, oh, yeah, and it's just like, you know, I don't, I mean, again, I'm optimistic, but I just don't think, I think that's a minority of um, people who identify as men.

• 59:56Drew Afualo?

  No, you're actually so right. That's actually very true. I've, I've talked about that online because sometimes people will ask me things like Um, are you just like this all the time? Like, do you just act like this all the time? And I always am shocked to get that question cuz I immediately say no cuz I don't hang out with people I fucking hate.

• 1:00:13Speaker 02

  Right.

• 1:00:13Drew Afualo?

  I've never seen people like that, like to that extent. Have I met misogynists in my life? Of course I fucking have, um, cuz I'm, I wasn't born literally yesterday, so I obviously I've experienced that in the wild. But I don't spend a lot of time with people like that, so.

• 1:00:30Speaker 02

  And they're struggling with that loss.

• 1:00:31Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:32Speaker 02

  And they're watching you, even if they're doing like hateful shit. It's like, mm, but you're like watching me.

• 1:00:37Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, it's, yeah, it's very.

• 1:00:39Speaker 02

  It's like you're.

• 1:00:40Drew Afualo?

  Exactly.

• 1:00:40Speaker 02

  You're here, aren't you?

• 1:00:41Drew Afualo?

  It's very similar to like when, when people, when I'm like, I, if you're a bigoted person, I don't want you to follow me, right?

• 1:00:48Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 1:00:48Drew Afualo?

  And they're like, we can't be friends? I don't know why you wanna be my friend. I don't wanna be yours. Like, that's where I'm like, I see like, I don't want that, but for some, it's like what you said, they want that for whatever reason, like.

• 1:01:02Speaker 02

  And I really think that if people like that who follow you, who really agree with you, think you're beautiful, think you're funny and wanna spend time with you, but say hateful shit, I'm pretty sure they don't have access, they don't, their basic needs are not being met.

• 1:01:17Drew Afualo?

  Totally.

• 1:01:17Speaker 02

  And they're taking it out on an easy target being that the script says that young women are worthless.

• 1:01:25Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:25Speaker 02

  But it's like, I, I think it's just that their basic needs aren't being met.

• 1:01:28Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:28Speaker 02

  And I really blame it on the growing wealth gap.

• 1:01:31Drew Afualo?

  Yep, the system.

• 1:01:32Speaker 02

  I really blame it on the system, which is getting worse.

• 1:01:34Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:35Speaker 02

  Like the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer.

• 1:01:37Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:37Speaker 02

  It's, um, I have this bit in my special, I talk about my husband is like a good guy. He's such a fucking good guy. PhD, can't buy a shirt alone. Unable to purchase a top alone. And if he watches this, which he doesn't consume a lot of content, so no offense.

• 1:01:55Drew Afualo?

  Add it to the list then.

• 1:01:57Speaker 02

  Of busy parents, don't take it personally, but like, I have to say, the last time he, he bought some clothing, I was like waiting outside with our napping child. So like, I consider that support, you know what I mean? I wasn't in there like buttoning it up.

• 1:02:08Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:09Speaker 02

  But, um, yeah, there's like, I have this bit about guys versus men, like, um, guys help you move, men stand in your way getting a job. You know, um, guys wear gray sweatpants to get groceries.

• 1:02:23Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:23Speaker 02

  Men wear jeans to the gym.

• 1:02:26Speaker 02

  And I'm talking about like guys as like good guys who are like, yeah, I'll get down with it.

• 1:02:29Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:29Speaker 02

  Versus men as an institution, you know?

• 1:02:31Drew Afualo?

  T, yeah, that's so real.

• 1:02:34Speaker 02

  Like, most men are just like, I think, at least they're guys. And then a lot of them are good guys.

• 1:02:41Drew Afualo?

  T, get into it.

• 1:02:41Speaker 02

  But then the men are like, wah, wah, wah. Okay, you don't feel heard?

• 1:02:49Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:49Speaker 02

  You're represented in every fucking commercial, TV show, movie.

• 1:02:53Drew Afualo?

  Girl.

• 1:02:54Speaker 02

  You're, you're not only the hero, but you're the underdog. You're getting girls who are way hotter than you that you'd never get in real life.

• 1:02:59Drew Afualo?

  Girl, you're telling me.

• 1:03:00Speaker 02

  Without the money. Like, you as a, like, not money, get the fu- you know, it's just like-

• 1:03:04Drew Afualo?

  It's, it's very like, oh, oh, yet another reason I gotta think about you added to my growing tab.

• 1:03:09Speaker 02

  Well, that's right. And it's like, it's forced, whether it's like forced through sexual force or simply airspace. Get out of my fucking brain, girl. I don't need you in my fucking head. And that's why I'm like a happy person. Cause I, I just don't even, I'm just like, ah, I don't, like, I don't even consider it real. The manosphere is not real to me, you know?

• 1:03:28Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, too.

• 1:03:29Speaker 02

  It's, um, but I, I also feel compassion where I'm like, man, people are confused and are not having their basic needs met and, um, being tricked.

• 1:03:37Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, into finding, fighting a different enemy. It's like, they're distracting you from the real enemy, kinda thing.

• 1:03:42Speaker 02

  Right, right.

• 1:03:42Drew Afualo?

  That's actually so, it's so funny you say that, cause literally yesterday I was talking to my fiance about that because I forget what we were talking about, but it was something along the lines of like, when he gets up, like, let's say we're hanging out in mixed company, right? And he gets up-

• 1:03:58Speaker 02

  What the fuck does that mean? What is it, the eighties? What's mixed company to you?

• 1:04:03Drew Afualo?

  Mixed company to me is like, it's like besties, family, it's like very random assortment of people. There's just a bunch of people.

• 1:04:08Speaker 02

  I didn't know if you meant politically mixed, culturally mixed.

• 1:04:10Drew Afualo?

  I meant like, just-

• 1:04:11Speaker 02

  Just like different levels of closeness?

• 1:04:13Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, exactly. Like a party setting.

• 1:04:15Speaker 02

  That's like something like a Republican says when, like, a progressive person comes over.

• 1:04:19Drew Afualo?

  I think mixed, yeah, well, yeah.

• 1:04:20Speaker 02

  We're, tonight, we're gonna be among mixed company. I was like, what?

• 1:04:23Drew Afualo?

  If I was, if I was white and I said that, I would, I would believe you.

• 1:04:25Speaker 02

  What are you talking about? You're saying like, close, besties-

• 1:04:29Drew Afualo?

  Just like other adults, everyone's kinda hanging out.

• 1:04:33Drew Afualo?

  Exactly, and he gets up to get something and he asks like, hey, do you wanna drink while I'm up, right? Like something simple like that. And I go, yeah, that would be great. And he brings one, or I don't, he doesn't even ask me, he just brings me something.

• 1:04:44Speaker 02

  I love him.

• 1:04:45Drew Afualo?

  Stuff like that, he, my, my fiance was saying, I think that's what makes a man. Like what these men wanna be perceived as.

• 1:04:52Speaker 02

  That's right.

• 1:04:53Drew Afualo?

  It's little shit like that. It's, it's thoughtfulness, like mindfulness.

• 1:04:56Speaker 02

  Pleasing a woman.

• 1:04:57Drew Afualo?

  Exact, it's like being kind is, is like what, where it's at for me. And I think that fits in your guys versus men debate. When they wanna talk about what women need, they almost always talk about protect, like physically protecting women, like they would kill someone, to which I'm like. I've seen other strange men be around me when I'm getting objectified and do nothing, believe it or not, I don't fucking believe you. That you, you won't protect shit. You don't even do that.

• 1:05:21Speaker 02

  That's right.

• 1:05:22Drew Afualo?

  You bang on about protection and you can't even do that, right?

• 1:05:25Speaker 02

  Because they think that taking sex makes them real.

• 1:05:27Drew Afualo?

  Exactly.

• 1:05:28Speaker 02

  Giving a woman an orgasm.

• 1:05:29Drew Afualo?

  Exactly, exactly.

• 1:05:31Speaker 02

  You know, and like talking over a woman rather than like hearing her and

• 1:05:35Drew Afualo?

  Exactly.

• 1:05:35Speaker 02

  You don't even have to agree. But just like, let's have a fucking conversation. I don't wanna just listen to your dumb shit, like, I wanna talk back and forth, like two people. You know?

• 1:05:44Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 1:05:44Speaker 02

  Like, so, yeah, so guys versus men for me is like good guys versus like men as an institution, but yes, a real man is a totally different thing.

• 1:05:51Drew Afualo?

  And like, I thought, the other thing I thought of was like, when, for example, if I'm not home and I'm like working and my sister needs things moved, like, my fiance will just go to the house and move it for her. Like, he's like, well, I can do it. Yeah, like, or like my dad and my fiance, it was funny cuz my cousin and his husband, they got these like their furniture things from Diptyque, I don't know how the fuck, they were just like, they said we could have them. They're free and you guys can have one too if you help us move.

• 1:06:20Speaker 02

  Said we could have these?

• 1:06:22Drew Afualo?

  Girl, don't even get me started. That's a whole nother story that we don't have time for.

• 1:06:25Speaker 02

  Diptyque said we could have these. You know Diptyque?

• 1:06:30Drew Afualo?

  Mr. Diptyque? You know him?

• 1:06:32Speaker 02

  Anthropomorphized Mr. Diptyque. Hilarious, okay, okay.

• 1:06:36Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, like he.

• 1:06:37Speaker 02

  Three question marks.

• 1:06:38Drew Afualo?

  Exactly. They basically were like, if you come with us, they're gonna, they're changing out the store, they said we could have the furniture, whatever.

• 1:06:45Speaker 02

  Oh, I love, that is a scheme.

• 1:06:47Drew Afualo?

  Right, exactly. And my. My fiance and my dad are like the biggest dudes ever and they're

• 1:06:53Speaker 02

  They sound huge.

• 1:06:54Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, they're huge and they can pick things up very easily. When I tell you this furniture, Atlas stone bitch, I don't, that thing was three thousand pounds.

• 1:07:02Speaker 02

  Wow, wow, wow, obsessed.

• 1:07:03Drew Afualo?

  There's eight of us.

• 1:07:04Speaker 02

  Like incredible.

• 1:07:05Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, there's eight of us, half of us are women, right, identify as women, and then my little brother who's, he's strong but not as strong as them.

• 1:07:11Speaker 02

  He's like, I'm the baby.

• 1:07:12Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, and then my, my cousin and his husband who like, they were like, well, like while we're there. And at one point, it was just my dad and my fiance, carrying everything. And they were like, it's actually faster if you guys just get out of the way.

• 1:07:25Speaker 02

  Right.

• 1:07:25Drew Afualo?

  It's actually faster if you just open the door.

• 1:07:26Speaker 02

  I talk about this in my special where I'm like, it's so uneven for like the first two years, it's so, um, mother focused in opposite sex couples.

• 1:07:33Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:33Speaker 02

  But dads can carry shit.

• 1:07:35Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 1:07:35Speaker 02

  And you just load them up like a mountain dog, you know, a rescue mountain dog and they're like,

• 1:07:40Speaker 02

  and you're like, good daddy.

• 1:07:41Drew Afualo?

  I know, that's why, that's what I said. That's the type of shit to me that makes a man.

• 1:07:46Speaker 02

  Hundred percent, and I'm like, go man.

• 1:07:48Drew Afualo?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:48Speaker 02

  Go, you fucking male-bodied individual.

• 1:07:51Drew Afualo?

  I'll cheer you on all I want.

• 1:07:53Speaker 02

  Yeah, I love it, I love it, carry my shit, carry me. Yeah, I love it.

• 1:07:57Drew Afualo?

  I love that, but.

• 1:07:58Speaker 02

  Shout out to your dad and fiance, uh, your fiance sounds wonderful.

• 1:08:01Drew Afualo?

  He is, he's fantastic.

• 1:08:02Speaker 02

  Thrilled.

• 1:08:03Drew Afualo?

  He's, he's really.

• 1:08:04Speaker 02

  How gorgeous.

• 1:08:05Drew Afualo?

  One of my first video, well, the first video I ever made that went viral, I was talking about him. But I was saying how for Valentine's Day, he bought me, um, six months worth of nail appointments with my now private nail tech. Cause I, well, I had never said I wanted that, but he.

• 1:08:22Speaker 02

  Bitch, I'm dying.

• 1:08:23Drew Afualo?

  Yeah, he did all the research on his own.

• 1:08:25Speaker 02

  I'm dying, like this. Incredible, that is the girliest fucking gift.

• 1:08:30Drew Afualo?

  Right.

• 1:08:31Speaker 02

  Obsessed.

• 1:08:31Drew Afualo?

  And it was like.

• 1:08:32Speaker 02

  Obsessed.

• 1:08:33Drew Afualo?

  He took pictures of my nails, like he zoomed in on pictures of my nails and like pictures of me and was showing them to me.

• 1:08:38Speaker 02

  Dying.

• 1:08:39Drew Afualo?

  And he was like, she likes this shape, she likes this, these kinds of designs.

• 1:08:42Speaker 02

  What's his name?

• 1:08:43Drew Afualo?

  His name's Peely.

• 1:08:47Speaker 02

  You know what I think also is the mark of a real man? Is a man who can genuinely laugh with a woman.

• 1:08:54Drew Afualo?

  Tea. That's so true.

• 1:08:55Speaker 02

  There are a lot of men who are like, uh, uh, please, I'm confident. I'm confident about my fucking comedy. I'm a funny fucking bitch.

• 1:09:02Drew Afualo?

  Amen.

• 1:09:03Speaker 02

  And I know when I'm being fucking funny and there are men who are like.

• 1:09:07Drew Afualo?

  Like they're fighting the urge.

• 1:09:09Speaker 02

  Not even fighting, not, not even fighting. They're confused, they're horny. They do think it's funny, but they don't, you know, if, if they receive it, then that's a feminine role.

• 1:09:19Drew Afualo?

  Laughing, laughter.

• 1:09:20Speaker 02

  Fully, it is.

• 1:09:21Drew Afualo?

  So feminine to laugh.

• 1:09:23Speaker 02

  To receive. Like, and I, and I'm, it's not even like, you know, it's, it's, but when men who, who can like crack up, that is like, oh my God.

• 1:09:31Drew Afualo?

  That's actually so true.

• 1:09:31Speaker 02

  My husband fucking rocks.

• 1:09:33Drew Afualo?

  I love that.

• 1:09:34Speaker 02

  We are like, we're like lately and like, you know, this silent fucking shoulder laugh, like as we've been together for 12 and a half years and like eight, how long have you guys been together?

• 1:09:45Drew Afualo?

  Uh, eight years. We're going on eight years. Yeah.

• 1:09:47Speaker 02

  God bless you. You're so sweet.

• 1:09:50Drew Afualo?

  And we've known each other like over 15 years.

• 1:09:53Speaker 02

  I'm just deceased. I'm thrilled. Like God bless my little baby YouTubers. I'm obsessed with you and I'm proud of you and God bless you. Okay? Oh, Peely.

• 1:10:08Speaker 02

  Love him. So you've known each other for a long time and like as like, as the sort of layers of time stack on top of you and you're just like surrendering to them. Like David and I lately, we have just been doing, I, my grandma Harriet used to have giggle fits and then it got passed on to my dad and to me sometimes like uncontrollable. Where I'm like, I don't know what's gonna happen after, like you might have to wheel me out of here, but like grandma Harriet like giggle fits. My husband and I just like laughing silently and like shaking. And it's just like, that is a real fucking man. I love it. I love him.

• 1:10:38Drew Afualo?

  That's so true. I, I want to, to that same point, I know I have to wrap soon. To that same point though, I went to a Rams game this past weekend. They asked me to come and I was like, sports. Yeah. So I took my fiance and we took our friends who are a couple too, and they love the Rams. And so we went, had a blast.

• 1:10:54Speaker 02

  Dope.

• 1:10:54Drew Afualo?

  Uh, but they. Put me on the Jumbotron. And the first time they did it, they told me to dance, and so I did. And I was dancing my ass off, because they told me to. And then they thought it was funny, so they kept coming back to me to film me. And then the last time they filmed me by myself, and they just told me to dance as hard as I could, like. However, I wanted.

• 1:11:12Speaker 02

  Love it.

• 1:11:12Drew Afualo?

  So I was dancing my ass off and then in the clip that they took, because so many people recorded it, and the Rams ended up putting it on their Instagram. But it's a clip of me dancing my ass off and my fiance's laughing his ass off. And when I say, I was like, when I tell you I got that bitch giggling, I mean that shit.

• 1:11:30Speaker 02

  I love it.

• 1:11:31Drew Afualo?

  Lapped him right out of those pants, you know what I mean?

• 1:11:34Speaker 02

  I do, it's like my main, um, my main.

• 1:11:36Drew Afualo?

  That's my favorite, when I really get him good, I always laugh, like, I'm like. I got, I get him so good, sometimes I get him really good, and I'm like, yeah. And then sometimes he gets me and then we laugh together.

• 1:11:49Drew Afualo?

  Lately, we've been.

• 1:11:53Speaker 02

  Shoulder giggles, oh my god, that's my main in to the pants. You know what I mean, that's like what I got.

• 1:11:58Drew Afualo?

  You and me both, girl? You and me both, oh, uh, like to that last one, for real this time. When I was first dating my, my man, this was before we were. Official and before we said I love you, so it's probably like a couple of months in.

• 1:12:12Speaker 02

  Precarious.

• 1:12:13Drew Afualo?

  I was hanging out with him and his friends at the time, like it was like these dudes at the time and. He, they're not friends anymore, uh, because they suck, but like at the time they didn't, so we were all hanging out. And my man likes to do this thing where he does word association. So if you say some, like something that reminds him of something else, he'll just say it out loud.

• 1:12:33Speaker 02

  Love.

• 1:12:34Drew Afualo?

  And he finds it funny every time, my family and I have done that forever and. For some reason, we were like, oh, love that, right, like we both do it. And someone said the word leash. In the conversation, and then he goes leash maniasis? Uh, out loud, right?

• 1:12:51Speaker 02

  I don't know what that means.

• 1:12:52Drew Afualo?

  Your husband might, cuz he's a scientist.

• 1:12:54Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:12:55Drew Afualo?

  Well, see, get this, I do know what leishmaniasis is.

• 1:12:58Speaker 02

  How?

• 1:12:58Drew Afualo?

  I don't know, but at the table, this is again, two months in.

• 1:13:01Speaker 02

  There's a smart girl.

• 1:13:02Drew Afualo?

  He goes, leishmaniasis, and I go, did you say leishmaniasis? And he goes, do you know what that is? I go, yeah, it's a flesh-eating disease you get from a spider? And then he goes, I knew I liked you. And I said, yeah, laughed out of those pants, bitch. Cuz he was laughing and he was like, I, I knew you were the one.

• 1:13:19Speaker 02

  I'm thrilled, I'm fucking thrilled.

• 1:13:21Drew Afualo?

  Big nerd alert.

• 1:13:22Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:13:22Drew Afualo?

  Let me know if your nerd husband knows what leishmaniasis is.

• 1:13:25Speaker 02

  I'll text him right after this.

• 1:13:28Drew Afualo?

  Well, thank you so much for coming on the comment section.

• 1:13:31Speaker 02

  Thank you for having me.

• 1:13:31Drew Afualo?

  You are truly an icon and a legend.

• 1:13:33Speaker 02

  Thank you so much, and I'm just like, so pleased, thrilled, and inspired by your feminism.

• 1:13:40Drew Afualo?

  Thank you.

• 1:13:41Speaker 02

  Thank you for it.

• 1:13:42Drew Afualo?

  Thank you so much.

• 1:13:43Speaker 02

  You are so smart and powerful, and I'm so into it, and I thank you.

• 1:13:47Drew Afualo?

  Thank you, and I, I really do, that means a lot to me, especially coming from you. I truly admire you, like, as a comic, as an actress, just in general, an entertainer. I think you're wonderful and fantastic, and I'm honored to have had you on the show.

• 1:14:00Speaker 02

  Thank you, sister. Thank you, sister, I'm, uh, I'm here, bitch.

• 1:14:05Drew Afualo?

  Well, thank you so much for coming on the show. Thank you all for watching, for those who maybe were born yesterday and don't know you, and don't know where to follow you, where can everybody find you?

• 1:14:15Speaker 02

  You can find me at Alana, I-L-A-N-A, on Instagram, AlanaGlazer.com, I-L-A-N-A-G-L-A-Z-E-R dot com.

• 1:14:21Drew Afualo?

  And make sure you check out Alana's new special, it comes out this week.

• 1:14:24Speaker 02

  That's right.

• 1:14:25Drew Afualo?

  Yes.

• 1:14:25Speaker 02

  Human Magic, on Hulu and Disney Plus worldwide, see you there.

• 1:14:29Drew Afualo?

  Period, we love it, thank you so much for tuning into this episode, thank you so much for my amazing guest, Alana Glazer. Don't forget, new episodes of the comment section drop every Wednesday, you can stream the audio on all streaming platforms, but the video is for free and exclusively on our favorite platform, Spotify. Make sure y'all check out Alana Glazer, and check out her new special, which comes out December 20th on Hulu and Disney Plus. It's gonna be hilarious, it's already so hilarious, I can't wait to hear it. Like, full, in its full form.

• 1:14:55Speaker 02

  Thanks, Emile.

• 1:14:56Drew Afualo?

  And thank you so much for joining us, thank you all for watching, and I'll see you next week, bye!

• 1:15:00Speaker 02

  Bye!

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