Mean but True with Suzanne Lambert

Summary

Absolutely Not Podcast: "Mean but True with Suzanne Lambert"

Podcast by Dear Media | Host: Heather McMahon | Guest: Suzanne Lambert | May 6, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this episode, comedian Heather McMahon welcomes viral political comic Suzanne Lambert to the studio. The two Southern women—both with deep Georgia roots—dive into their complex personal journeys through southern culture, politics, and comedy, unpacking topics from political pivots and social media fame to women in stand-up, online harassment, and current events. The episode is a candid, humorous, and sometimes biting reflection on how to reconcile past perspectives with present-day realities.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. From Southern Upbringing to Political Comedy

• Heather links up with Suzanne through Instagram, bonding over similar backgrounds and political pivots.
• Suzanne describes growing up in Kennesaw, Georgia, where “it is the law to own a gun” (01:31), and being president of the Young Republicans in high school.
• Suzanne admits to not understanding policy at the time, “I would just hear what I heard on Fox News and repeat it.” (01:57)

Notable Quote:

"If you're going to be insufferable, you need to be the most insufferable."
—Suzanne Lambert (01:55)

• Both Heather and Suzanne emphasize the importance of meeting people wherever they are on the political spectrum, shunning political purism (02:18-03:06).

Notable Quote:

“Minds can change, things can change, policies change. I didn't know about shit until I learned about it.”
—Heather McMahon (02:52)

2. Sorority Life, Image, and Identity

• They reminisce about their sorority days at UGA, discussing reputation stereotypes and fashion trends:
  • Kappa Delta (“the Barbies” at Georgia) vs. Delta Gamma (“not a strong chapter at UGA, but we still love”, 04:42–05:50).
  • Remembering Mumu trunk shows, Jeffrey Campbell shoes, Marc Jacobs bags.
• The topic shifts to body image and self-kindness. Both regret being hard on themselves:
  • “Why was I so mean to myself? I was so cute.” —Heather (05:38)

3. Navigating Political Comedy Online

• Suzanne’s “side quest” to Tampa, then moving to DC fueled her transition to political comedy.
• After the 2024 election, she channeled frustration into comedy, especially on TikTok and Instagram (08:57–09:55).
• Her appeal partially comes from subverting expectations: “Looking like a Republican helps because people aren't used to seeing people who look like me talk about politics the way I do.” (10:42)

Notable Quote:

“I’m an equal opportunist—making fun of, you know, people.”
—Suzanne Lambert (09:39)

4. Women in Comedy: Expectations & Criticism

• They discuss the double standard for women—being expected to be “brooding” or at “rock bottom” to be funny, but both claim their comedy comes from joy (11:01–11:16).
• They also riff on physical self-image, plastic surgery, and public scrutiny (10:18–10:35).

5. Current Politics & Pop Culture: Kristi Noem, AI, & Bimbification

• They unpack the viral drama around Kristi Noem’s husband and his “bimbification” kink (12:26–14:03).
• The hosts joke about falling for AI-generated political images: “You really have to check the watermark for the AI.” (13:58)
• Both express burnout and the absurdity of today’s endless news cycle:
  • “There was no point during evolution that we were wired to absorb this kind of news cycle.” —Heather (14:44)

6. Civic Engagement & the Importance of Voting

• Practical advice to listeners: "Every seat in the House is up for reelection this year. Google it. Make sure you're registered to vote." (16:01)
• Discussion about the true power of local politics.
  • “Your school board and your local elections matter, too.” —Suzanne (16:14)
• Calling out voter apathy:
  • “Then fuck you. Get your ass up and get to the poll.” —Heather (16:50)

7. Humorous Personal Stories: Encounters & Political Ads

• Suzanne has an embarrassing celebrity run-in with Senator Jon Ossoff after a spray tan (18:00–18:59).
• Heather’s mom unwittingly films a negative political ad against Ossoff (19:25–21:12).

8. Women in the Political Arena & Online Hate

• Both share stories of pivoting careers, facing hate and accusations online:
  • Suzanne: “People tried to say that I was embracing white supremacy when I said that I missed having blonde hair.” (36:13–36:28)
  • Dealing with doxxing, hiring security, and handling both left- and right-wing criticism (37:09–38:09).

Notable Quotes:

“I was a bitch. I wasn’t a bully. There’s a big difference.”
—Suzanne Lambert (41:05)

“Do you think my frontal lobe was developed enough to be aggressive, like, microscopically? What are you talking about, a microaggression in fifth grade, bitch?”
—Heather McMahon (41:16)

9. Audience Reactions, Touring, and Comedy Markets

• Talk about the best and most surprising comedy markets—Chicago, Atlanta, New York, Greenville—and stiffer crowds (Boston, DC), and the importance of reading a room (53:01–54:56).
• Stories about audience pushback after making political jokes, and their firm stance on not self-censoring, even if it means losing followers or deals.

Notable Quote:

“I would rather lose every follower, every brand deal, sponsorship, whatever, before I had people telling me what I could and couldn’t say.”
—Suzanne Lambert (43:32)

10. Women Supporting Women in Comedy

• Insight into the reality of stand-up: pay disparities, support networks, and women-led shows (59:15–60:59).
• They both strive for inclusive but strong female representation in comedy, and encourage male listeners to genuinely support women comics (61:07–62:03).

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Memorable Quotes and Moments

• On outgrowing old beliefs:
  “Here's everything. Like, I used to be a conservative. I thought all these things I don't think that anymore. That's actually really normal, and we should encourage that.” —Suzanne Lambert (03:37)

• On burnout and the news cycle:
  “You cannot tell me that you don't get up every day and even open your phone and want to throw it in the river and set your body on fire.” —Heather McMahon (14:44)

• On sororities and shade:
  “Stop calling Christine Ohm Ice Barbie. That is a compliment. All she hears is Barbie. Call her Ice Cabbage Patch. Or Garbage Pail Kid.” —Suzanne Lambert (06:12)

• On the state of politics:
  “It's being in a narcissistic, abusive relationship, and there's nothing we can do to escape.” —Heather McMahon (15:41)

• On the risks of political comedy:
  “I so appreciate that you brought politics more into the fold, because I don’t think people realize how risky that is.” —Suzanne Lambert (43:58)

• On female comics and male audiences:
  “For everyone. The joke's on everyone. We're all living in this, the cesspool together.” —Heather McMahon (61:07)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 01:31–03:37 — Suzanne’s origin story, growing up Republican
• 05:38–06:12 — Sorority anecdotes and self-image
• 08:57–09:55 — Origin of Suzanne’s online political comedy
• 12:26–14:03 — Kristi Noem’s husband’s bimbification play and AI political images
• 16:00–16:50 — Importance of voting and local elections; calling out apathy
• 18:00–18:59 — Meeting Sen. Jon Ossoff unexpectedly after a spray tan
• 19:25–21:12 — Heather’s mom accidentally stars in anti-Osoff ad
• 36:13–36:28 — Handling criticism about personal appearance and “white supremacy” accusations
• 41:05–41:16 — The difference between being a bitch and a bully
• 43:32–43:57 — On choosing integrity over followers or brands
• 53:01–54:56 — Stand-up crowds by region; “female comedian” intros
• 61:07–62:03 — Addressing men who complain about being “dragged” to women’s shows

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Tone & Style

• Humorous: Self-deprecating banter, Southern sarcasm.
• Candid and Vulnerable: Personal stories of political change and online harassment.
• Biting Yet Empathetic: Zero patience for political purism or voter apathy.
• Celebratory: Championing women in comedy, celebrating the power of changing one's mind.

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Conclusion

This episode is a whirlwind tour through politics, Southern coming-of-age, female friendship, stand-up life, and the exhausting news cycle. Heather and Suzanne are deeply self-aware, playful, and unafraid to call out both right-wing hypocrisy and left-wing sanctimony. For listeners, it’s a good laugh, a sharp dose of real talk, and a rallying cry to show up, speak up, and not take yourself too seriously along the way.

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Find Suzanne Lambert:

• Podcast: Mean But True (Tuesdays)
• Instagram and socials: @suzannelambert
• Tour: Mean But True Live — East Coast dates forthcoming

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Listener Reminder:
Get involved, vote, and support women in comedy. And thanks for listening to Absolutely Not!

Transcript

[Suzanne Lambert]

The following podcast is a dear media production.

[Podcast Announcer]

Welcome to the Absolutely Not Podcast, where

[Heather McMahon]

we do the most and the least

[Podcast Announcer]

at the same damn time.

[Heather McMahon]

I'm your host, Heather McMahon. Hello, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to another episode of the Absolutely Not Podcast. I'm your host, Heather McMahon. I'm so excited. I have a very special guest in the studio today. We're gonna get right into it. Turns out, no relation to Miranda. Ms. Lambert, how are you? Suzanne, thanks for coming.

[Suzanne Lambert]

I'm so excited to be here.

[Heather McMahon]

Oh, thank you for coming.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Oh, my gosh.

[Heather McMahon]

Now we linked up on the interwebs as most mature adult relationships. That's where they begin on Instagram. And you have really blossomed into a. I mean, you have such a wonderful, wonderfully smart comedic take on what's going on in the political atmosphere right now. And I found you originally because of your MAGA makeup videos.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yes.

[Heather McMahon]

Which truly iconic. I mean, I've been talking about MAGA mamas for quite some time. And I think one of the reasons why we connected is we both are from Georgia, have Southern roots, and have obviously, now in this day and age, taken, like, a hard pivot in, I don't know, an unexpected pivot into who we are politically. So totally talk to us about your origin story. You grew up in Kennesaw.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yes, Kennesaw, Georgia. Y' all might have heard of it, because it is the law to own a gun in Kennesaw, Georgia. It's the law in Kennesaw, is our slogan. If that just kind of gives you an idea of, like, what do you

[Heather McMahon]

mean it's the law.

[Suzanne Lambert]

It's literally the law to own a gun, but you have to own a city ordinance. It's not in for.

[Heather McMahon]

Right.

[Suzanne Lambert]

But, like, it is. That law is still on the books. Just to give people an idea of, like, where we're at politically.

[Heather McMahon]

Okay.

[Suzanne Lambert]

I was president of Young Republicans in high school.

[Heather McMahon]

Yes.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Thank you. Because if you're going to be insufferable.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

You need to be the most insufferable. That's really important to me. Campaigned for Romney in college. But honestly, for me, politics was one of those things. Like, I liked the back and forth and, like, the drama. Honestly, I didn't really understand a lot of, like, the policies. What was actually true. I would just hear what I heard on Fox News and repeat it.

[Heather McMahon]

I don't think any of us knew anything about policies till about 15 minutes. I think this whole idea that, you know, in this day and age, and especially, like, on, you know, the Democratic side, it's like, you have to be this purist, and people are like, if you ever swayed, if you were ever once a Republican, if you ever grew up in a Republican House, that somehow you're tainted. It's like, no, let's meet people where they are now. That is why this, I think, political spectrum has just gotten so out of control. It's like, meet people where they're at now. Minds can change, things can change, policies change. I didn't know what. I didn't know about shit until I learned about it.

[Suzanne Lambert]

You know, of course, I hate to

[Heather McMahon]

sound so stupid in phrasing it that way, but it's like this whole purist idea that you had to, like, be born into a blue family or even on the other side, you had to bleed red since the day you were born. Like, that's simply not how life works. No.

[Suzanne Lambert]

And I think that. That really, it's always a. From Connecticut saying that, first of all, no shade to Connecticut, but also a little shade to Connecticut. Because I'm like, if you have that perspective, it just shows how ignorant you are to, like, the propaganda machine that exists. I mean, the football coach was. The history teacher was the FCA Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

[Heather McMahon]

Shout out to fca.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Shout out. Fca.

[Heather McMahon]

Not an fca.

[Suzanne Lambert]

And I was a cheerleader.

[Heather McMahon]

I was a cheerleader and a golfer, and I was. I was a part of fca.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Like, if you weren't in fca, you were a freak.

[Heather McMahon]

You weren't a part of fca. You definitely weren't getting fingered on the weekend.

[Suzanne Lambert]

You absolutely were not. You were not, like, hooking up with any of the cute boys from the lacrosse team. And that's why I was there. I was like, really? Really? And that's how it starts, right? Like, they create these spaces for these ideas to kind of blossom and fester, really. And then I think that that just shows, like, an ignorance. I'm like, you don't understand what it's like to grow up when you're just. That's the only perspective that you're surrounded by. And then I moved, you know, I moved to D.C. and I started doing comedy, and I was like, oh, like, everything I thought was wrong. Right. And I think that that resonated with a lot of people when I started building my platform, because it's like, I was very upfront about the fact I used to be a Republican, because people will pull it out and try to cancel you later. So I was like, here's everything. Like, I used to be a conservative. I thought all these things I Don't think that anymore. That's actually really normal, and we should encourage that.

[Heather McMahon]

Right.

[Suzanne Lambert]

And I think that that's helped.

[Heather McMahon]

Now, you grew up in Kennesaw. You went to the University of Georgia.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yes.

[Heather McMahon]

Did you take the typical sorority? What sorority were you in? Kappa Delta Kappa Delta. Shout out to my KDs out there. I was a Delta Gamma.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yes.

[Heather McMahon]

Which not. Not a strong chapter. I have to say this all the. Not a strong chapter at uga, but we still love.

[Suzanne Lambert]

But we. And we know that that's an outlier.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

You know, like, that's an outlier. And honestly, the worst chapter at UGA still beats the best chapter at a lot of, like, random. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But no, it's funny. I was a Katie, and that Mumu was not even, like, really a big thing yet, but there was a ton of older girls who were, like, plugged in with Cami and the Mumu team.

[Heather McMahon]

Oh, yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

So mumu used to come to Katie and do, like, trunk shows. I don't even think they had a website yet.

[Heather McMahon]

No, they didn't have a. And they only had two tops.

[Suzanne Lambert]

The peacock.

[Heather McMahon]

The peacock.

[Suzanne Lambert]

And I love. I still have it.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah, it was the peacock. Regular mumu. And then they had, like, a longer one that you could wear that they'd wear out with, like, a thong underneath, and that was a full outfit.

[Suzanne Lambert]

And Jeffrey Campbell's and Jeffrey Campbell's.

[Heather McMahon]

And that's what you wore. And maybe, like, a gladiator sandal. And you had a hobo bag. Everybody had the Marc Jacobs leather bag in college, and we were thriving.

[Suzanne Lambert]

And we were. And we looked good.

[Heather McMahon]

We looked. We looked so great. You know what? I really get angry. I really am trying to be kinder to myself. I. I get so angry when I look back, and I'm like, why was I so mean to myself? I was so cute. Now, college, my freshman year was rough.

[Suzanne Lambert]

I wasn't cute. Yeah.

[Heather McMahon]

But then after I got to, like, junior year, I was like. I pulled it together. Like, why wasn't I kinder to myself?

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yeah, that was me, too. Like, I had a real rough go there sophomore junior year, but really pulled it together senior year. But, yeah, I was a. I was Acadia, Georgia. We were like, the Barbies. That was kind of our, like, reputation. And people tried to say it as an insult.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah. You're like, who doesn't love Mattel?

[Suzanne Lambert]

Like, the beauty standard. That's why I always tell people. I'm like, stop calling Christine Ohm Ice Barbie. That is a compliment. All she hears is Barbie Call her Ice. Cabbage Patch.

[Heather McMahon]

Yes.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Or Garbage Pail Kid.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah, Garbage Pail Kid. That's the. That's where you need to go. The fine muse at our school at Ole Miss were the Barbie girls. And everything was pink and they were gorgeous.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Everyone's a Barbie at Ole Miss.

[Heather McMahon]

That is true. I mean, I was truly, like. I was truly the troll. I was Pumbaa. I was. I was bad. I. There. I was the black sheep of my sorority, but I was funny, so they kept me around.

[Suzanne Lambert]

See, I would.

[Heather McMahon]

I would throw parties. Like, I would invite everybody out. I. I hustled, I wheeled and dealed. But every year, I'd be like, guys, can I run for homecoming queen? I know I could get the vote. And they were like, no. Can I be president? They were like, no. Can I do this? They're like, yeah, no, sweetie. We need somebody from, like, Born and Rise, Mississippi, who's from Jackson. I was like, I would just be in the back cheering Everybody on.

[Suzanne Lambert]

No, 100%. But I got to write the skit every year, which they got rid of because Kappa was racist, and then they yanked Skid. But we were funny, so we got Kappa wrote.

[Heather McMahon]

That's all we needed. And we're not blaming Kappa for everything, but all you needed was one sorority to do one tiny racist thing, and you ruined the skit for the rest of us. Talented black sheep in the sorority.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yeah. You really did.

[Heather McMahon]

Josh, how do you feel about this?

[Suzanne Lambert]

He's like, real problem.

[Heather McMahon]

Josh is like, I'll tell you what, Kim.

[Suzanne Lambert]

People are dying.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah. I literally tell Josh all the time, like, he has to listen to my white girl bullshit all the time. Yeah. That's where we thrived. I can tell that you and I had a very similar college experience. And so then after that, you move to D.C. you start getting really involved with politics. Or was it just you started performing, you know, obviously doing comedy. But what made you take the leap into such a. A hard line in politics with your material?

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yeah. Yeah. So I had a little side quest in Tampa for a few years, and then I moved.

[Heather McMahon]

Everybody's needs a Florida side quest.

[Suzanne Lambert]

It's essential to have a Florida side quest. And I love Florida. Like, it's like the. It's only okay when I make fun of it. That's kind of how I feel. I'm like, you can make fun of it, but watch it, you know?

[Heather McMahon]

And I feel, as a Southerner, I, who spent every waking moment of their spring break in Florida, who is a family at one point, at a timeshare in Florida, like you. I'm allowed to do that. Even though we're from Georgia, we're allowed to shit on our younger brother.

[Suzanne Lambert]

That's what you do. Yeah. Our younger might be like a half brother stepbrother situation, but it is our brother. It's still family.

[Heather McMahon]

Right.

[Suzanne Lambert]

I think it's by marriage. You know, it's like dad's third marriage. It's like your random stepbrother who you've met twice. But like. But I love it. Yeah. And I. So I have. I had like a job in finance. So I was like a corporate girly. Yeah. And I was doing stand up on the side like super consistently. And then I'd kind of stop and then I would do it more and I would post online here and there. But I was still kind trying to find my footing and it was actually around the. It was right after the election, the first one.

[Heather McMahon]

Which one?

[Suzanne Lambert]

2024.

[Heather McMahon]

2024.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yeah. Because previously I didn't really talk about politics online, like in videos at all. Only because I'm like, I'm going to get canceled for the way I want to talk about shit. Because I mean, people are real touchy. Right?

[Heather McMahon]

Right.

[Suzanne Lambert]

And we lost. And it was a week after my birthday, we just lost the election. And I'm like scrolling and it's like, we're going to get through this with love and kindness, whatever. And I was like, you know what? Fuck that. Who's we? Because that's. You're not talking about me.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah.

[Ad/Promo Voice 1]

I'm a year older and things have gotten worse.

[Suzanne Lambert]

No, literally, I'm like, you can't. Because if I had done kind of my flavor of comedy, which is like, you know, kind of making fun of Republicans, but also I make fun of everybody.

[Heather McMahon]

Right.

[Suzanne Lambert]

I'm an equal opportunist making fun of, you know, people. It was after the election that I started kind of channeling more of my frustration into political comedy online. And it just like really took off because I think I was meeting the moment in a way that not a ton of voices online were.

[Podcast Announcer]

Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Because people were too afraid.

[Heather McMahon]

And also I. I will say that you're attractive. Like, it's. It's a lot.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Thank you.

[Heather McMahon]

It's a lot less jarring to look at somebody who's so spitting absolute fire facts and with such, you know, well intended humor. And then you're also attractive. So that does help, you know, to be able to absorb what you're saying. They're like, well, she's got a great set of tits, so yeah, can't Fault her for that.

[Suzanne Lambert]

And they were better before. I got them reduced twice, you know, but, like, they were really something. And they're back now. I'm like, damn it.

[Heather McMahon]

I know. That's the thing with the reduction. Sometimes you're gone. I've had my neck done twice, and I'm. There are days where I go, we should go in for a third.

[Suzanne Lambert]

No, literally.

[Podcast Announcer]

Literally.

[Heather McMahon]

Removing is sometimes harder than people realize it is.

[Suzanne Lambert]

And now I'm like, I kind of want them back. You know, it is what it is. Ship sailed. But, yeah. And I think that, like, looking like a Republican.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Helps, you know, because people. I don't think people are used to seeing people who look like me talk about politics in the way that I do.

[Heather McMahon]

Right.

[Suzanne Lambert]

And, like, also be funny.

[Heather McMahon]

Right, Right.

[Suzanne Lambert]

And you've talked about that. I think it was an episode you did maybe with Becky Robinson, where you're like, people don't want you to be funny and pretty and happy.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

And it's like, it's. It's different.

[Heather McMahon]

It. It is a weird. I don't even want to say, like, a tightrope to walk, but in comedy, it's. It's either you've got to be really brooding and. And, you know, at your rock bottom, but I've always. My comedy has always come from joy.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Totally.

[Heather McMahon]

That's.

[Podcast Announcer]

That's how I get up every morning.

[Suzanne Lambert]

No, me too.

[Heather McMahon]

And then I'm always the butt of my own joke, and now I'm, you know, dabbling more into politics and really just kind of what it's like to be a outspoken woman. And, like, the last thing I want

[Podcast Announcer]

to do is talk about politics.

[Heather McMahon]

I think that's what people don't realize is, like, no, I don't want to get up every day and then have to write these jokes about how insane the administration is, but it's there. It's also like when you're a comic, you're like, this is just.

[Podcast Announcer]

This is.

[Heather McMahon]

It's right in front of me. What are we doing here?

[Suzanne Lambert]

Christine Owens, husband. We got to strapping on some.

[Heather McMahon]

We got to his boobs.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Looks like mine before I got reduced.

[Heather McMahon]

Yes.

[Suzanne Lambert]

I'm like, hey, brother, that's stolen valor. Then you don't have the back pain to match.

[Heather McMahon]

Then you had some weird nipples, though, because the nipples were not that. We had one going to the left, one pointing down. So I.

[Suzanne Lambert]

10 and 2. Like, I don't know what. What that was.

[Heather McMahon]

I was on a shoot yesterday, and I really hadn't been on my phone all day, and Then I finally sat down, poured myself a glass of wine, and I'm opening my phone. I'm like, what the fuck did I miss in the news cycle yesterday? It was like the fire of. Of Summer House. And then Kristy Noem. Okay, so this is what I don't understand about the Kristi Noem situation. So what I watched was that her husband has a kink for. It's called bimbification.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yeah.

[Heather McMahon]

So it's not even. He's cross dressing for, like, a sexual thing. He, like, is. He's. He's being a misogynist, making fun of women in that bimification. I didn't fully understand it.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Oh. I'm going to be honest, I couldn't look too much into that aspect of it. When people. We don't kink shame. I'm like, I do. Speak for yourself. It's a little. I don't listen. Especially if you're, like, terrorizing the world with your beliefs and then, like, being very hypocritical with them. That's what I have a problem with.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yeah. I think it is a sexual thing, though.

[Heather McMahon]

Okay.

[Suzanne Lambert]

But he likes to dress up as Tina.

[Heather McMahon]

You have a. You have a fact check. Yes. Okay. So it's considered a practice or kink and fetish that involves role playing and transport, transforming oneself into stereotypical portrayal of a bimbo. But that is Crush. Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Okay. Yeah.

[Podcast Announcer]

Oh, interesting.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Okay. So he just. But that's. I guess it stops and ends there. Like, he just straps them on. I did appreciate that he matched his top to his little tight biker short.

[Heather McMahon]

I did like that.

[Suzanne Lambert]

A matching set girly. Who would have thought?

[Heather McMahon]

And I said, you know, if I ever came home and I caught my husband cross dressing, I would honestly be like, Jeff, thank you for stretching out these shirts. You know, these. Ted, these sweaters were getting tight. Thank you for stretching these out for me.

[Suzanne Lambert]

So skims baby tees. Forgot Spanx. Can only do so much. And we love Spanx on this podcast, but you know what I'm saying, You can only do so much. Sometimes you need a man to stretch them out for you. No, that was. My friend sent it to me. And my reaction, I was like, oh, my God, I cannot believe she would send me this AI crap. Like, you have to be smarter with your. You know, I'm like, oh, my God,

[Heather McMahon]

you really have to check the watermark for the AI. You got to do your due diligence.

[Suzanne Lambert]

It got me. Oh, it got me.

[Heather McMahon]

Same gets me all the time.

[Suzanne Lambert]

A photo of the Pope. Like, it was the new pope from Chicago kind of dripped out in some chains. He looked like future. He literally looked like future fur coat. I was like. I retweeted. I'm like, yeah, cool Pope. And then everyone's like, that's AI. Yeah.

[Heather McMahon]

Did you reverse Google image this?

[Suzanne Lambert]

I'm like, damn it.

[Heather McMahon]

Oh, don't tell me that's wishful thinking, though, because, honestly, I feel like he would show up in that. He's the. The Pope of the people.

[Suzanne Lambert]

He's awesome.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

And he's an American pope. He's a cool dude. So, like. Exactly. I'm like, I don't want to wake up every day and talk about politics, but, like, I want to wake up every day and hang out with my dogs.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah, that's it.

[Suzanne Lambert]

I genuinely just want to sit with my dogs on the couch. Like, I would love to just do that every day, but we, like, have to talk about these things.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah. It does feel some days that we're living in a completely dystopian society, and it's almost like how. And I say this in my hour now, I'm like, our brains were not ever wired. We were never it through. There was no point during evolution that we were wired to be able to absorb this kind of news cycle, this amount of information. That is why everybody is so burnt out. Whether you are politically involved or not, you cannot tell me that you don't get up every day and even open your phone and want to throw it in the river and set your body on fire. No.

[Suzanne Lambert]

No one's having a good time.

[Heather McMahon]

No one's having a good time.

[Suzanne Lambert]

No one's having a good time.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

I live in D.C. i'm surrounded by people who work in the administration, and, like, we cross paths, of course, places. They're not having a good time. Yeah, well, you know what I mean? Not that I feel bad for them, but, like. I mean, everything's so expensive. Who can afford to? Like, gas is like $5 a gallon where I live. I mean, some people it's like, six, seven.

[Podcast Announcer]

Oh, no.

[Heather McMahon]

It's insane.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Dollars. It's crazy.

[Heather McMahon]

I think it's truly being with this administration. It's being in a narcissistic, abusive relationship. Right. That. That is. You know, the. The little therapy work I've done. I'm like, oh, this is the biggest red flag. It's being in a narcissistic, abusive relationship, and there's nothing we can do to escape.

[Suzanne Lambert]

There's really not. But at the same time, it's like, there are things we can do. Like, there's.

[Podcast Announcer]

Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Every seat in the House is up for reelection this year. Y' all make sure you're voted or registered to vote. Just Google it.

[Heather McMahon]

Like, register and look through the fine print, because things are changing every other hour. Just make sure your shit is up to date.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yeah. And I wish that I had realized how important local politics are you going to be. So. So, for real, I didn't even know that, like, states had their own Senate and House. Like, there's, like, a mini government in each. I didn't. I didn't know that. You know what I mean? And those matter, actually, a lot more like your school board and, like, your local elections matter, too. Like, make sure you're voting and everything, not just the presidency.

[Heather McMahon]

When folks now say, like, oh, no, you know what? I can't be bothered to vote. Or it's like, this is so overwhelming. All sides are his. I'm like, no, no, no. Actually, you need to. That's some bullshit. I will call you out so quick on. On saying, well, I'm overwhelmed. I can't do this.

[Podcast Announcer]

I don't.

[Heather McMahon]

Then fuck you. Like, truly, no. Get your ass up and get to the poll. Yeah, I'm.

[Suzanne Lambert]

So am I. I have 80 overwhelming ADHD.

[Heather McMahon]

My bones are brittle. My brain is done.

[Suzanne Lambert]

My shoulders hurt.

[Heather McMahon]

My shoulders hurt.

[Suzanne Lambert]

And I take my Adderall and I make it happen every day. And you can vote. And if your right to vote wasn't so important, there wouldn't be so many people trying to take it away. So if it can't be empowerment that gets you to the polls, just know that someone wants to take it from you and be petty about it.

[Heather McMahon]

And I feel the amount I travel and the way that I. I feel so richly blessed that I get to travel so much and see other parts of the world and other different types of political atmospheres. And I'm like, other. You know, you go a lot of other places in the world, they don't have the luxury to get up and just drag themselves. Drag their ass with a mocha Frappuccino, stand in line in their fucking aloe yoga and wait an hour to vote. Like, quit your bitching car and get your ass up.

[Suzanne Lambert]

You're bitching, Carol. And, in fact, you might be able to vote absentee. You can. In Virginia. Can I tell you a funny story?

[Heather McMahon]

Tell me.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Oh, my God. This is actually crazy. And it has a Georgia tie. George is taking over, by the way.

[Heather McMahon]

Georgia is taking.

[Suzanne Lambert]

We're just taking over. And I'm obsessed with it. So I. I Flew Delta here, obviously.

[Heather McMahon]

Obviously.

[Suzanne Lambert]

And I decided to splurge for the Delta One. I just, like, wasn't like, I've had a lot of flight anxiety because, you know, they're underfunded and understaffed at all these airports. I was like, I'm just going to go for it. And I got a spray tan that morning so that I would have it for this week. And I'm like, well, I'm in Delta 1 and I'll have my sweatpants on and it'll be totally fine. And I usually try to dress up to travel.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

But I didn't this time. This one time. So I look like shit. I get off the plane, it's like 10:30 on Monday. I check into my hotel, I turn around, the first person I see, Senator John Ossoff.

[Heather McMahon]

He's a.

[Suzanne Lambert]

From Georgia, the hottest member of Congress. Yes. No, he is. Yeah. Like, Martin Heinrich, also a senator from New Mexico.

[Heather McMahon]

Hot. Hottie.

[Suzanne Lambert]

But John Ossoff is hotter. And I say this with all the love and respect, like, totally professionally.

[Heather McMahon]

Right.

[Suzanne Lambert]

His wife is a. Like, a bad bitch.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

OBGYN in Atlanta. Like, they've been together since high school. Like, they're adorable. So I say this, like, totally.

[Heather McMahon]

You know, you have straight and melting through your sweat.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Melting.

[Heather McMahon]

Smell like teriyaki chicken.

[Suzanne Lambert]

I smelled like teriyaki chicken. I looked like actual shit. Like, my sweatpants are still stained at that point. You know, all the things. And I was like, hi, John. Like, what's up? And I was like, what the hell? Like, what are the odds?

[Heather McMahon]

But the days that you have a perfect blowout, the lashes are crisp, you're never going to run into the people that you need to run into.

[Suzanne Lambert]

I'm gonna. I want to walk around LA today and just kind of. I won't see. I. No one will look at me. They'll actually avoid eye contact.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah. And that's the thing is when you put in an effort in la, they really don't know what to do. Like, you came, you put yourself together today, you look gorgeous. People in LA don't know how to make eye contact with that. In New York, they will. They're like, oh, she's fucking going places, she's doing things. But in la, they don't know how to absorb that. I actually have a funny story about John Olsef. So my mom is the easiest person to. She's the most gullible, easiest person to get to do anything. So this is probably, I don't know, like, 15 years ago. I can't even Find the ad online. My mom comes home one day, and she's like, I just did some political commercial. And I go, what do you mean he did a political commercial? My girlfriend paid me $200 to do this commercial. I go, who? What? Like, my. Like, my throat is in my asshole. And I said, what do you mean? She goes, I don't know. It's against this. I was for this guy, John Ossif. So I'm thinking, oh, okay. My mom's on a political ad, Jonas. It comes out. I'm not even kidding you, Suzanne. My mom got paid $200. She was so excited to be in a commercial, she didn't even know what it was, what political party was it was involved with. And, like, my parents, like, oh, like, old good. We're good Republicans, sure. And. But literally, it's my mom in a thick Boston accent going, john Ostaff. He's not even from here. And I'm like, you're. You're not from here, Robin. She didn't. Wait.

[Suzanne Lambert]

I'm obsessed with that.

[Heather McMahon]

She did an anti John Ossif ad. And I'm like, what? They. They skimmed the bottom of the barrel. They could not get it because John Ossif is so loved in Georgia. They could not get anybody. And they're like, you know who's desperate for some attention? Robin McMahon.

[Suzanne Lambert]

That's so funny.

[Heather McMahon]

So it became the biggest thing in all of our friends. I mean, I would have, like, my attorneys, my financial advisors, everybody. And this is years ago, before I was doing any of this, and they would just randomly send me a link, and they're like, is this your mother? I'm like, yeah, sure is.

[Suzanne Lambert]

So. I mean, it's very. It's giving, like Melania Trump being against immigrants 100%. Like, it's literally that. Oh, that's so funny.

[Heather McMahon]

She didn't know who he was, you know, who was running against him. She's like, I don't know. I got paid $200, and they put me in a commercial.

[Suzanne Lambert]

And you know what? That's kind of how our government running right now.

[Heather McMahon]

Amen. They.

[Suzanne Lambert]

They want to be on TV and commercials. I mean, Kristi Noem spent hundreds of millions of dollars on her Little Ice commercials.

[Heather McMahon]

I gotta be honest with you. I would have loved to have been a producer in Yosemite national park, watching her on a horse with the spray tan melting and the filler migrating. I would have loved to have been a part of it as a. As a. Almost like an Undercover Brother situation.

[Suzanne Lambert]

I know.

[Heather McMahon]

Secret Shopper.

[Suzanne Lambert]

No, Genuinely, I mean Undercover Boss. I would love to see how that set went.

[Heather McMahon]

I mean, what is the conversation at the Water co or by crafty, you

[Suzanne Lambert]

know, can you even imagine, like what is she telling the makeup artist? Do your worst.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah, do your.

[Suzanne Lambert]

She means it and she means it.

[Heather McMahon]

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[Heather McMahon]

You know, I was talking about this on Instagram and I got so much shit for this, but I felt so deeply about this, you know, the whole. The whole bullshit with Cash Patel in the men's hockey locker room after they won. And I was like, women, you know, yes, we can be catty guns, but if Pam Bondi or Kristi Noem would have shown up outside of the US Women's hockey locker room after they won gold, they would have been like, no, bitches, get the fuck out of here. They would have immediately said, hey, girls, we're good, we're good. No, thank you.

[Suzanne Lambert]

One of them probably would have beaten her ass and I would have paid their bail or at least made a generous contribution. And like, the thing about that is, so regardless of politics, if I'm being totally objective, Imagine winning the Olympics. And you're like, someone call the FBI director. Who wants to party with the FBI director? That's actually the last person I want to party with after I win the Olympics or any time. Like, yeah, who does that?

[Heather McMahon]

I don't. Also, it's like, he had a lot of other things that were top priority on the list that week. Like, I don't know, finding Ms. Guthrie. Okay, what the hell? Get on it.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Like, literally, it was giving. Like, the kid who is only a part of the group because his parents let him have parties and he doesn't

[Heather McMahon]

see it, and it's in his eyes, and everyone knows.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Everyone knows about him. It's like, you're only a part of our friend group because your parents are cool about letting us drink at your house. But, like, everyone.

[Heather McMahon]

And they have a pool, and it's salt water, and we want to hang out there. And they. They're not really home because they're surgeons, and so they look the other having

[Suzanne Lambert]

affairs, and each of them is visiting the person they're having an affair with every other weekend. And we all just kind of pretend like it's not happening. And, yeah, you're able to have parties and, like, they don't have any cameras at their house. Dude, aren't you glad that we didn't grow up where there were cameras and everything was trackable? There was one time I told my mom I was spending the night at a friend's house, and I was at Lambda Kai at Auburn University.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah. And for folks who don't know, the drive from Kennesaw to Lambda Kai at Auburn University is about two hours one night.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Like, I'm like, they can't do anything these days.

[Heather McMahon]

No. And we would have, like, field parties and do all this crazy shit. I would go down to Georgia Tech, party at the fraternities, and I still had braces. Okay. It was not. It was very suspect, the fact that we got away with any of the shit that we got away with.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Insane.

[Heather McMahon]

Insane. Honestly, it's not even what we got away with. It's. How are we still alive?

[Suzanne Lambert]

That. That thing. Yeah. Because it's like, my parents knew I was, like, drinking and stuff, but I wasn't doing drugs. And I was friends with, like, good kids. There were some of the bad kids that would intermix, but I wanted nothing to do with them. But I'm like, oh, my God, we absolutely could have died. There, there, there, there, there. Like, what?

[Heather McMahon]

I could have died at a Regal Cinema from giving a hand job by the dumpster. Like, it was just everything was sketchy that we got our hands involved in.

[Suzanne Lambert]

That's a hell of a way to go, though.

[Heather McMahon]

It really is.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Be honest. Wait, that's Nicole Kidman is amc. What is it? Yes, she's amc Memories or Magic is Made Here.

[Heather McMahon]

Hand job. Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yeah.

[Heather McMahon]

Okay, so you. You did a little. I love a little side quest in Florida, and then you moved it to D.C. so when you moved to D.C. were you immediately involved in politics or what was. What was the journey up to D.C. yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

So I've never worked in politics. So I moved to D.C. because I met a guy on a bachelorette party.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

As one does in New Orleans. And I was like, I'm obsessed with him. I'm in love with him. Like, we're gonna be together forever. I moved there. He promptly ghosted me. Sure.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah.

[Podcast Announcer]

As one does.

[Suzanne Lambert]

But I had always wanted. Because I lived in there. I lived in Virginia for a little bit when I was younger, before we moved to Georgia. So I always knew I wanted to get back. And it was like I got a promotion at the same time. It all kind of worked out. But, no, I was. I've never worked in politics up until November 2024. I had, like, zero Hill connections. I knew more Republicans working on the Hill.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Just from being from Georgia than I did Democrats, which I don't think people really. I think people think I have a political background. And I don't.

[Heather McMahon]

If you went to a school in the SEC, you know, 40,000 different people on the Hill.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yes.

[Heather McMahon]

Every single person, every Sigma Nu from the University of Mississippi would leave and then go. Either be a lobbyist or they'd work on the Hill in Washington. I mean, for every administration. That's just what you did.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's. And they make no money. Like, all of my friends working on the Hill had to have second jobs or they had rich parents. Like, one of the two. And I didn't want to work a second job, and I don't have rich parents. So I was like, okay, I guess I'm not going to do that. Which I'm so glad I didn't work in Republican politics. Holy shit.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Thank you, universe. But no. I started doing stand up, and then I would, like, talk about politics. But again, like, wasn't super involved with, like, local politics. I wasn't super informed past, like, the reading the headlines. Yes. You could say I like that.

[Heather McMahon]

You said earlier that you like the fight. That's what they do. You like the argument.

[Suzanne Lambert]

I think that, like, the art of an argument is just really exciting. I like people who are good at arguing. Yeah, I do. Even if I don't agree with your perspective, if you make good points. I, I, I find, like, debates and things fascinating.

[Heather McMahon]

Right.

[Suzanne Lambert]

It's, it's cool to see how people go back and forth and like, how are you going to outsmart them? I mean, it's kind of like comedy in a way. It's like you have to anticipate what's going to work and you have to have a response for it. But no, I, it wasn't until, I think my first time on the hill was January 2025, really. So, like, very shortly after, my audience kind of exploded online and they invited me to a Medicare briefing. Oh, my God, this is so funny.

[Heather McMahon]

I can only imagine how lame is a Medicare reason.

[Suzanne Lambert]

I'm like, googling, what is Medicare? I mean, honestly, like, I'm like, I don't know. I've always, like, just been on.

[Heather McMahon]

Can I tell you, just as a blanket statement, the, the meta Insurance, how you get insured, how you pay for it. None of it makes sense.

[Suzanne Lambert]

No, it doesn't.

[Heather McMahon]

And it's all very convoluted and confusing.

[Suzanne Lambert]

It's designed to not make sense. Exactly. So they can suck as much money out of you as possible. And if we had, like, some kind of standardized health care, that wouldn't be the case.

[Heather McMahon]

Case. Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Like deductibles and things like prior authorization.

[Heather McMahon]

Get out of here.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yeah, like this.

[Heather McMahon]

You're like, my leg is dangling off and I gotta get somebody at this doctor's office to, to authorize.

[Suzanne Lambert]

I'm like, they already proved it by prescribing me this medication. What? That doesn't happen in other countries. But I went to this Medicare briefing and like, I didn't, I had no idea. I didn't bring a microphone. I didn't bring a tripod. I had, like, I didn't know what the I was doing. It's just something that I've, like, I've learned, you know, the more I do it. But I also never want to be like, a buff. Like, I'm not trying to be a political expert. I look at myself as a stepping stone for people who might otherwise not really give a about politics. And I want to make it just, like, more entertaining.

[Heather McMahon]

So you get invited to the Medicare convention, essentially. But you were supposed to bring your microphone. What did you think that you were there to do?

[Suzanne Lambert]

Honestly, like, I didn't really ask a ton of questions. I think they just, that's how I,

[Heather McMahon]

that's how you thrive early on in your business is you just show up. And. And that did get me into. That's gotten me into trouble now. I started to ask more questions.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Me too. Probably not enough advice I could give

[Heather McMahon]

you is ask the questions.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yeah, no, that's. So it's good to, like, Google who the person is interviewing me before. I agree. I, like, you know, gotten in trouble a few times with that. I'm like, oh, I didn't know that. Thank you for letting me know. Yeah, I didn't know what to expect. But you're just essentially, like, asking the members questions about, like, what's happening on the Hill and stuff. But they enjoy. A bunch of people were like, oh, this is Lauren. I'm like, hi, Lauren. We're talking. I'm like, oh, my God, you're such a spring. Just like I did with Tina when I got here. I love, like, analyzing people's seasons and when they're wearing the right color. I'm like, yeah, like, my OCD's like, yes, yes. This is very pleasing to behold. Like, oh, my God, you look so great. And then I get an email a few days later that's like, congresswoman Lauren Underwood wants to invite you to be her guest to the State of the Union. And I was like, oh, cool. And I look her up, and it was the woman in the green coat. She was a member of Congress. And I literally had no idea. Like, I was just chatting. They just said, lauren.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah, yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

I'm like, hi, Lauren. Hey, girl. And I think that's.

[Heather McMahon]

You look like a strong winter, literally,

[Suzanne Lambert]

as one does on the Hill. That's why I'm there. Everyone's in black. And, like, I was wearing this, like, pink and purple plaid coat, you know, Like, I think it's important to be yourself in those spaces. And I think that sometimes, like, I'm just, like, the personality hire of the. Of the group, which is fine with me.

[Heather McMahon]

That's great, though. I mean, and you really did explode online. And I think. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like, like, the tipping point for you was the MAGA makeup videos.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yeah, it was the MAGA makeup video. And then I. I did a video where I talked about, like, being a Regina George liberal, and I talked about, like, being an ex sec sorority girl. I'm like, we have a lot of retired mean girls, kind of, and we need to channel some of that energy.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

And I honestly, it was one of those things where I'm like, I think this will resonate. Resonate with the right people. It might also, like, blow up in my face because people are so sensitive online.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah. What is the wildest. And listen, I. I will get a fair amount of hate just for even the dumbest. Like, somebody get pissed about my highlights the other day. You're like, can a bitch.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Oh, my God. Someone. Someone tried to say that I was embracing white supremacy when I said that I missed having blonde hair. And, like, my black friends in this space were like, you're being crazy. Yeah, we like her with the blonde hair. It's again, it's always a From Connecticut.

[Heather McMahon]

The from Connecticut that you cannot please.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Really need to unpack. I'm like, you need to read. Read fewer books and go to the club.

[Heather McMahon]

When somebody stop reading, unpack. I go. I stay. Packed my bags. My bags are packed. I'm not unpacking shit. Because you have too much time on your hands.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Nope. And I have a carry on, and I have a checked bag, and it's heavy and overweight, and I don't want to hear shoes.

[Heather McMahon]

Okay. We both walked in with nice pink leather bags, so shut the up, Connecticut Carol.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Literally, shut. Shut up.

[Heather McMahon]

Oh, my God. Yeah. But, I mean, obviously having a very strong stance. I'm sure you've had the craziest of crazies, and if you don't feel comfortable sharing.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Oh, no, I love it.

[Heather McMahon]

But what is the wildest reaction that you've gotten even behind the scenes? Like, oh, oh, anything scary? Anything crazy?

[Suzanne Lambert]

Oh, definitely scary. Like, I had people kind of geotag, like, my address and things like that. I had to, like, hire a security team to kind of walk through my house and, like, point out where things were not secure anymore. These, like, services to remove my information.

[Heather McMahon]

And you're, like, starting to stare at the microwave a little funny.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Like, is it? No, literally, I. I got rid of, like, a lot of, like, my, like, Alexas and things like that.

[Heather McMahon]

No, I never. Never. See, I never dabbled.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yeah, you were always like, don't have your laptop in your.

[Heather McMahon]

In your lap. I'm like, she's frying your.

[Suzanne Lambert]

I'm like, you know what? She might be cooking with that because I do have endometriosis. So, like, I don't know. Yeah, the craziest thing. So it's usually from people on the left, honestly, that make me laugh my ass off. So I did a video. Oh, my God, this was so funny. I did a video last year, and it was, like, kind of corny, but I was basically like, this trope that the cool kids in high school Grow up to be like, absolute flop losers is not actually true. And that's like a coping mechanism that a lot of you, I think, need to, like, work through as adults. Because I think that's something your parents told you in high school.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

To make you feel better. And it's like, essentially weird to like, like, still be hanging on to that because there's so many videos where it's like, the person from your high school. The person from your high school. Like, I was just presenting an alternate perspective. Like. And actually a lot of the kids in high school who were like, not the cool ones were like the meanest once and they grew up to be the Connecticut Carols who were just like,

[Podcast Announcer]

there was nothing worse.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Suckers.

[Heather McMahon]

There was nothing worse than somebody who wasn't in. In the honors program and was a total nightmare.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Total. Yeah. And I was in the honors program and I was not. AP classes.

[Heather McMahon]

I was not.

[Suzanne Lambert]

And they didn't, like, think that I deserved to be there. Isn't it funny how we can always feel like we're. We're not. We're not supposed to be in stand up comedy spaces. We're not supposed to. I'm like, where do you want me to be?

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

You want me to be at. At the January 6th. Is that where, like. Cause that's where women like me go if I wasn't doing comedy or like in my AP classes.

[Heather McMahon]

I tell you, you know, I'm doing new bits about, like, how I could have seen myself ended up on Epstein island. Just. Cause the party sound like I would have done no research. You know, I love a pizza party. I would've been like, pizza? Oh, great, okay. But I also feel like if somebody would. I mean, Tina's birthday's January 6th. Somebody was like, hey, we're meeting. We're all dressing in camo. It's a themed party. And, you know, and I've had a couple white wines. I could see myself. Next thing, I'm like, like, we're going in. I think they've removed the red velvet rope. I'm like, guys, we're going in. You know, I wouldn't be at the front of the line, but if. If I saw people going in, I'd be like, this is awesome. They're letting us in. Like. Like, it's bergain. The night in Germany.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yes. Like, night at the museum. Vibes, you know, and we're going to steal the Declaration of Independence.

[Heather McMahon]

I can't believe they're letting us in. Let's go.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yeah. No. And the funniest part about that is, like, the security at the Capitol is so lax. It's, like, not even as. As complex as it is at, like, the airport. I'm like, y' all didn't have to do all that. You could have just walked in.

[Heather McMahon]

You could have just walked in.

[Suzanne Lambert]

It's, like, actually really easy to get in there.

[Heather McMahon]

I've been in the White House a couple times, and not to touch on the security of the White House, but there were moments where I'm like, this is like. I see rats running around like. Like there. I mean, I am not supporting the ballroom, but I was like, we could have done a fresh paint job. I'm not gonna lie.

[Suzanne Lambert]

No. 100. It's not as nice you think, but sorry. Long winded. So I made that video, and people, like, lost their minds at that video. And then this girl from my high school made a video and was like, now that I've seen that video of Suzanne's, I want to talk about, like, she was the cruelest person I've ever had the misfortune of meeting. I'm like, who is this chick? I'm, like, texting people from high school. I'm like, do you know who this is? Whatever. And the. The terrible, terrible thing that I did to her was that she was, like, kind of pissing us off at a football game. And I get, allegedly, this does sound like me, and it's hilarious, and I stand by it. I offered her a spray tan coupon in the hallway because she came to a whiteout game with, like, paint all over her, and she got paint all over all of her clothes. So she tried to say I was just, like, terrible bully. And I wasn't a bully at all. I was a bitch. I wasn't a bully. Yeah, there's a big difference.

[Heather McMahon]

Big difference.

[Suzanne Lambert]

And, like, hot take. I think young women, like, should be a little bitchy. I think it helps you kind of grow up in a world that's not designed for you. Like. Like, I have a daughter. I hope she's a little bit of a bitch.

[Heather McMahon]

I had someone once comment, this girl who I didn't even never knew I had beef with. And I. I grew up in a very small, like, kindergarten through 12th grade. She told me that one time in the fifth grade, I had. I had done a. I don't even know how to. To. To set this up. She said that I had a fifth grade microaggression. I said, hey, I'm gonna change her name. I'm just gonna say Lindsay. I said, lindsay, do you Think anybody in the the fifth grade knew what a fucking microaggression was? Do you think that my frontal lobe was developed enough to be aggressive, like, microscopically? What are you talking about, a microaggression in fifth grade, Bitch? Yeah, I was eating the. The funfetti animal crackers and like, ready hoping I didn't shit my pants on the playground. What are you talking about? A fifth grade microaggression?

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yeah. Like, okay, I had a fifth grade microaggression, and you are a 35 year old macro loser. We're still thinking about it. And I also already said I was like, I used to be a. Like I said I was very upfront about all my. I'm like, you're not gonna cancel me later. And it totally backfired. Even people who don't like me were like, girl, I was really prepared to be on your side, but this is like, nothing.

[Heather McMahon]

This is nothing.

[Suzanne Lambert]

And then she deleted it. Another really funny one was I was holding a photo of a fish that I caught, was very proud of my fish, and someone accused me of speciesism.

[Heather McMahon]

I'm sorry, come again? Speciesism. And I'm like, that's kind of like the bimbification thing. Like, I don't. We don't know what that is.

[Suzanne Lambert]

And I'm like, do I think that humans are better than fish? I'm gonna say, yeah. I'm gonna say, yeah, I love a

[Heather McMahon]

nice Alaskan salmon or a good grouper. But I'm gonna say, I think we're at the top of the food chain.

[Suzanne Lambert]

I do think that. And if that makes me problematic in some way, I'll wear that badge with honor, I guess.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah, you can't please everybody, you know, And. And. And that is. Obviously, I've had fans that have said, oh, God, you know what?

[Podcast Announcer]

Actually, I kind of want to say this.

[Heather McMahon]

It. I'm going to say it after my Fort Worth show. And I love performing in Fort Worth. And they were a great audience. And I had like two MAGA jokes. This one woman who was hammered came up to Christina, and I think my

[Podcast Announcer]

husband was Jeff standing right there.

[Heather McMahon]

No, it was like the manager of the bar. The manager of the bar. And she grabbed the man, the manager of the bar, and she goes, you need to tell Heather. She's got it. She's gone too political. I'm like. Because I had two MAGA jokes. I was like, like, you need to calm the down. And also, do not ever tell me

[Podcast Announcer]

what I can and can't say.

[Heather McMahon]

Sorry.

[Suzanne Lambert]

That. That I would rather lose every Follower, every brand, deal, sponsorship, whatever. Before I had people telling me what I could and couldn't say.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah, yeah, it's, it's crazy. And Tina, Tina was ready to fight. And Tina, I was like, dina, we gotta wrap this.

[Suzanne Lambert]

And the theater manager's like, yeah, no, we're having her back. This is a great sold out show. Like, you're an idiot. And I do just want to say, like, I so appreciate that you brought politics more into the fold because I don't think people realize like, how risky that is.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

For an entertainer and with someone with your audience, like, you didn't have to do that. And I really appreciate that you have because that's sweet.

[Heather McMahon]

But also I'm like, that is what is going on in the world, you

[Suzanne Lambert]

know, and people still aren't doing that.

[Heather McMahon]

And there's some comics who are like, oh, I don't say anything, you know, and I'm not getting up and lecturing people. I'm talking about, like, what has happened from my perspective. And then the judgment that people have on me. The joke is always back on me.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yeah, totally.

[Heather McMahon]

And you know, I don't think you get a gold star in comedy for not saying anything. And so be like, well, I'm not political. I don't say this, I don't care. I'm like, you get a gold star for that. I'm confused. So, I mean, and obviously, like comedy, when people come to my show, I want them to disassociate and have a fucking laugh and to giggle and have a sense of community for 90 minutes. But also, like, we have to keep our feet a little bit in the water and like, like, or like on the ground, grounded a little bit because you're still going to leave and open your phone and the shit's still happening.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yeah. And I don't think, I think that's such a lame way for a comedian to be. To me, it's. I'm like, I'm like, you're fearful. Yeah, comedians are fearful. If comedians are fearful, who do we have left? And I'm with you. Like, I'm not lecturing people. Like, do what you gotta do.

[Podcast Announcer]

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But Chrissy Noem's husband doing bimbification.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Give me a break.

[Heather McMahon]

With fake titties on. That is. I mean, that's the other thing I do feel like, we are living in an episode of Curb every day. And Veep was one of my favorite TV shows of all time. And I've been rewatching it for, like, the 10th time. And I'm like, this was already written. Like, this. We are living in an episode of Curb meets Veep. This is truly the world that we're living in.

[Suzanne Lambert]

It's not real. I was like, clear my schedule. I have jokes about fake TV tits to make. Like, I'm not this. I'm locked in on this all day. It's better than anything that we could ever invent.

[Heather McMahon]

I mean, did Christy. Did Christy gnome. No. Like, did you think she ever woke up? And one day I was like, God damn it.

[Suzanne Lambert]

The tea on them. And I don't know if, you know, this is, like, she's, like, very much having allegedly an affair with Corey Lewandowski.

[Heather McMahon]

I heard that. Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

And, like, this is, like, well known. Like, he was photographed taking out the trash at her house.

[Heather McMahon]

Oh, that's how they get. Did nobody watch House of Cards? You have to have somebody else take out the trash.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Right. Like, hello. Don't get your real name on the Starbucks cup. Like, there's all these guardrails in place. Yeah. So I. The timing of it all is very suspect. I'm wondering if she and Corey just, like, want to be together for real. So she. But apparently it was an immigrant that Corey or Kristi Noam's husband had been messaging that leaked the messages. So it all. It all comes back around. But I think that she just wants to be with Corey. So she leaked it so they. So she can divorce him.

[Heather McMahon]

Oh, yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

They can live a happy life.

[Heather McMahon]

He was. He was a freak in hot pink bike shorts. Look at this. Living a double life. And now I have an excuse in the eyes of, like, the super religious right to divorce.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yeah. She said he was shocked. I'm like. Or she was shocked.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah. Honey, you ain't shocked.

[Suzanne Lambert]

No, you're not.

[Heather McMahon]

You're not shocked.

[Suzanne Lambert]

And also, what kind of, like, government employee are you if you're, like, in charge of security and you don't know that you're. You don't know that your husband is strapping on two pairs of H cups. Yeah, those were H cups.

[Heather McMahon]

And. And I. I've often thought, like, you know, if you're gonna dabble in that, if you're gonna cross dress. Like, if you're. Guys, if you're out there and you're ever thinking about transitioning or cross dressing, please call me first, because as a woman, with large shoulders and enormous breasts. I want to make sure that you're set up for success. I will walk you through. Maybe we don't start with H. Maybe we go heavy seat. I think we do a custom, and then we lean in under the muscle. Under the muscle. Always just call me. I'm happy to consult because I am, you know, I get called man all the time. Misgendered online. That's what people do.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Oh, no, I get that, too.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah. They love to say because I have a strong voice and very broad shoulders, that that's their favorite insult. And I'm like, I'm happy to go shopping with you. I'm happy to make sure the sweaters are fitting, you've got the right bra, and you feel comfortable. Call me. I'll go with you anytime.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yeah. And don't look to your wife Christy for help with makeup and hair. The dollar tree hair extensions are just not doing it. It's bad not doing it.

[Heather McMahon]

They're not doing it. Since you started touring, now you're doing shows all over the country, correct?

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yes.

[Heather McMahon]

And let's talk about some of your favorite markets, because we were talking off camera, like, I. We were saying we love Chicago. Chicago is one of the best comedy cities. It. And I have had very mixed audiences there where I. I've said things and I've. You know, people have had a very strong opinion one way or the other, but they get it. They're down to sit in a melting pot and just have a fucking conversation and to giggle.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yes. And I feel like they don't take things super personally. Like, they're just a fun crowd. I love Chicago. I love performing in Atlanta.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

I love New York City.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

I mean, I think some of the smaller markets, like, I did Greenville, South Carolina, and that was super fun.

[Heather McMahon]

Like, really, anywhere that you've been that surprised you?

[Suzanne Lambert]

Oh, that's a great question. Boston was interesting.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

They took a little longer to warm up. Up, like, even more so than D.C. like, D.C. people aren't going to be as engaging with some of the. Some of the jokes because people are, like, nervous to be seen laughing in D.C. yeah. Especially these, like, that's a good government employees. And like, even if. Even if you're not, like, who here smokes weed? They don't even want to laugh about a joke where you talk about weed because it's like they have seven security clearances. Right, right. And I'm like, well, I'm past, like, gainful employment at this point, so I can just say whatever.

[Heather McMahon]

Right?

[Suzanne Lambert]

Those days are long gone behind me. Right. So I would say, but Boston, they were, like, a little stiffer, actually. This was so funny. And this wasn't a show that I was headlining. This was. I was on the lineup for it, but I was featuring, and they introduced me as a female comedian. And they weren't being funny. They were like, next up, we have a female comedian. No, you're feature.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah, a female comedian.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Female comedian. And I. And I got them and I was with Warm Blood.

[Heather McMahon]

And I'm like, what does this mean?

[Suzanne Lambert]

And I was like, let's go. Like, it just really fired me up. And I, like, grabbed the mic and I was like, as opposed to a real comedian. Like, so sorry. You should have gotten discounts on your ticket. You know what I mean? Yeah. But I would say Boston, like, they took a little longer to warm up, but they were still, like a good natured audience.

[Heather McMahon]

Boston is also. They're just 24 hour drunk. That's what you need to know. And when you start doing the theaters there, you need to understand it's such a strong union town. The best piece of advice is you go in, you bring donuts to the guys, the stagehands, you maybe show them like, a little nip slip or a little leg.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Oh, I'll do it. Yeah.

[Heather McMahon]

I still will do that.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Oh, yeah.

[Heather McMahon]

I'm like, sorry, guys. Oh, my God, my bags are so heavy.

[Suzanne Lambert]

I'm not that woke.

[Heather McMahon]

But like, little lady, we got you. Oh, yeah. Treats. And then like, what do you need? And they'll.

[Suzanne Lambert]

And they'll die for you. Yeah, they'll die and they'll kill for you.

[Heather McMahon]

Honestly, they will.

[Suzanne Lambert]

You want them to?

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah, I mean, it's very, very much so. Like, I need your help with something and you can't ask questions kind of vibe. Like, it's. It's. It's definitely Ben Affleck. Is that from the town? When he's like. When he asked Jeremy Renner, he's like,

[Podcast Announcer]

I need your help with something, and

[Heather McMahon]

you can't ask any questions. I feel like it's from the town. But yes, just so Boston once. I mean, my mom's from Boston. My family's there. Once you lean in and you give them what they need, they'll always be behind.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yeah. And I think it's fun to just like, learn the different crowds and learn what they laugh at and what works and, you know, winning them over.

[Heather McMahon]

So you've had enough of the cuckoos online. Anybody done anything crazy at any of the shows?

[Suzanne Lambert]

No, And I wish a Would.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

God, I wish I would. But also, we.

[Heather McMahon]

We were praying for safety.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Heather McMahon]

I mean, because it is scary times. Oh, no, totally. But yes. But yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

I mean, no, no one has. And they'll always threaten it. I'm like, come on over, babe. You got a bunch of drunk white women drinking doubles of tequila who are ready to pop off at a moment.

[Heather McMahon]

They're all on a sharp GLP1. And Alexa Pro. You have no idea the mood swing in this room.

[Suzanne Lambert]

They are not on earth. They are levitating somewhere above it.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

So much Adderall and angst about the state of the country. I'm like, come on over. But no, no one ever tries anything. And like, honestly, a lot of it has subsided. Yeah. I would say. Which is good.

[Heather McMahon]

And I do think, like, when you're doing a forward facing video online and you have a very quick, quick thought and a very pointed point of view. Obviously, like, when you're doing comedy, it's more well rounded. Like stand up is a more. Well. Or it's just. It's, you know, you're telling a longer story. It's a. It's a different situation. Anybody can click on anything and get angry about it.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yeah. And I'm like, a lot of these people, I'm like, I think if you met me and had a conversation with me, you'd actually like me.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah. You know, like, I don't know. Huge, huge nightmare as far. That's the vibe I'm getting.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yeah.

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[Suzanne Lambert]

I'm like. I'm like, they'll accuse me of all these things, like, weird things, like, you're being paid by the dnc, whatever. And I'm like, I just learned that there's a state Senate.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

A few days ago. If I'm a secret operative, that's really concerning.

[Heather McMahon]

Also, I've been doing so much free press for the Democratic Party. Please send me a chat. Please. I'd love my reparation.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yeah, right. We, as white women, God, we understand

[Heather McMahon]

we need checks from the Democrats.

[Suzanne Lambert]

It's hard to be a white woman.

[Heather McMahon]

You know, we are putting ourselves out on the line right now, and we are not getting paid. Kamala, this is. This is why.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yeah. Right.

[Heather McMahon]

Ms. Harris, this is what happened. If you would have paid me, I maybe. You maybe would have won.

[Suzanne Lambert]

And that's what I'm saying.

[Heather McMahon]

They don't get it. What is your. I always love to ask performers, what is your. Your moment of Zen before you go out or when you're even doing Stuff on the hill. How do you. What do you do to focus and get ready?

[Suzanne Lambert]

Something that's really important for me. Yeah. I need quiet. I usually will go to a coffee shop. It's always a coffee shop. And I'll just kind of like, organize my thoughts and just kind of like. Like sit there with headphones in. Sometimes I don't even have music on, but just like, kind of get in the zone. And I love, like, a solo ride to the venue if I can. Like, that 15 minutes to just kind of lock in and get in that headspace for performing is really valuable if I can get that.

[Heather McMahon]

Do you have any, like, pre show playlists?

[Suzanne Lambert]

Oh, yeah, I have this playlist. It's amazing. It's called betchy and catchy.

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

And it's all just like, I'm a badass. It's like the playlist we play too.

[Heather McMahon]

Like, and it's just Bruno Mars.

[Suzanne Lambert]

It's Megan the Stallion. Not gonna lie. There's. There's a lot of Nikki on there I haven't taken off. I'm having a really hard time parting from her. Yeah.

[Heather McMahon]

Can I tell you, we were talking about this yesterday. I'm like, we should have known Nikki was gonna teeter Roman's Revenge. She did an entire album where it's like a dungeon dragon. Like, she had a manic episode on an entire album, and we didn't think she was one day just gonna, you know, pop off. Like, what did we think was gonna

[Suzanne Lambert]

happen in real time? And we were like, guys, be nice. She has multiple persons. See, we got too woke there for a second. I'm like, listen, let's.

[Heather McMahon]

We got a king shame. We're like, hey, Nikki, are you Roman today or are you Nicole? Because we gotta figure out what you're doing. You're scaring everybody in the room.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yeah. What are we. What are we doing here, girl?

[Heather McMahon]

Yeah. And as somebody who loves to wear wigs and be characters, I too, some people, my friends, will be like, you're being a little. You being a little cuckoo today. And I'm like, guys, I just need to put the wig on and feel something. But, yeah, nothing scarier than a Roman's Revenge hard pivot.

[Suzanne Lambert]

No, it was. It's crazy. Yeah. So I listen to just, like, some uplifting music, and then I try not to, like. Like, I try not to like, scroll or anything like that. Just, like, try to be present, like, chat with, like, you know, the other comics, like, in the green room.

[Podcast Announcer]

Yeah.

[Suzanne Lambert]

You know who comes, which is always.

[Heather McMahon]

That's a Roll of a dice. So they're like, here. Here comes. Here comes the female comic. I can't, dude.

[Suzanne Lambert]

It's crazy. But that's also why I love to be able to, like, now headline and produce my own shows, because there's power in that. There's so much power in that. I can hire who I want. I can pay what I want. Because the amounts that venues have suggested that I pay to talent is, like, shockingly low. I mean, like. Like, they were like, oh, yeah. For a host, we typically recommend you pay them 75. I was like, $75 to work for, like, three hours. Like, you're working really hard. Their Uber probably costs that.

[Heather McMahon]

Like, no, I don't want you to say this, though, because I don't want my. Anybody who opens for me to think that they're getting paid more than 75. I'm kidding. Y'. All. Y' all know I pay the most in the business.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Yeah. And I actually had someone, like, it was. It was interesting. She was like, you know, people, like, you're paying a lot more than what people normally pay. And I'm like, like, no, I know. And she's like, just don't pay the white guys this.

[Heather McMahon]

Josh agrees. We got Josh back on her side,

[Suzanne Lambert]

and she was like, just don't pay the white guys this. And I'm like, okay, valid. But I am having a white man host my show at the Improv later this month. But he's gay. He's gay, so it's fine. You gotta have something in there.

[Heather McMahon]

I travel. I travel with one white and one. Ray's half Chinese, half Mexican, but he really does love to let me know that he got the Irish in him. And I'm like, well, then you're white, right? So I'm just saying. Got a little white in you, so I don't want to hear it. And I. There's nothing better in my life than watching Andrew and Rhea just bicker back and forth in a car. And it just brings Tina and I so much joy. If they don't even realize it's actually a social experiment. We're just sitting back because we need that. But I like to keep the men around me. Obviously, I'm always supporting other female comics, but I just. I love to watch the gays and the straights just duke it out on the radio.

[Suzanne Lambert]

It's so fun.

[Podcast Announcer]

It's cathartic.

[Suzanne Lambert]

And I think you and I both have comedy that, like, still resonates a lot with men, too. Like, a lot of, like, male listeners.

[Heather McMahon]

And I Always say what? I want all the guys to come to the show. Like, for everyone. The joke's on everyone. We're all living in this, the cesspool together. And. And we. And also I always say when the men come to the show, it takes so little to support the wife. I used to get so fucking pissed and I would. I'd be at the meet and greets afterwards and a guy be like, yeah, my wife drugged me, but I had a great time. Damn, I didn't know who you were. My wife drugged me here, but I had a great time. I said, you don't need to be drug anywhere. This sounds like you're here against your will. I want you to be here consensually, but also, how many fucking Raiders games has she been to and didn't want

[Podcast Announcer]

to fucking go to?

[Heather McMahon]

We support your sports. You can sit here for 90 minutes and take. Give her a night out. And then. Yeah, imagine that. A female comedian can be fun, right?

[Suzanne Lambert]

I like, do you know, and also, how many dudes have I listened to perform comedy willingly? And I never had to be like. Like, my husband drove drug me here. My boyfriend drug me here, like, ever. It's like, dude, you should be able to laugh at women.

[Heather McMahon]

Just laugh at women. Because honestly.

[Suzanne Lambert]

And you're. We are funny.

[Heather McMahon]

We are because we're also sad. And that's really what it comes down to. Suzanne, when can everybody find you? Are you on the road?

[Suzanne Lambert]

Right now I will be announcing the leg of my Mean But True live tour.

[Heather McMahon]

Love it.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Very soon it'll be east coast first, but they can find me my podcast, Mean but True. Yeah, every Tuesday.

[Heather McMahon]

Great.

[Suzanne Lambert]

Would love if they hit us up. Subscribe. I'm on all platforms. Suzanne Lambert.

[Heather McMahon]

Perfect. I love it. From one sorority girl, you know, doing the Lord's work, now to another, thank you so much for being here. I really appreciate it. Good luck with everything. And hey, keep fighting that good fight. And remember, you can find us always at the Absolutely not podcast. Call into the hotline [phone].

[Podcast Announcer]

I will see you on the next episode. Ciao, Bella.

[Heather McMahon]

Thanks so much for listening to today's episode. Don't forget to subscribe, rate us and leave a review. And as always, follow me on Instagram at heatherkmcmahon.

[Podcast Announcer]

See you guys soon.

[Heather McMahon]

Sat.