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Kevin Clancy
Hey, KFC Radio listeners. You can find every episode of KFC Radio on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube Prime. Members can listen ad free on Amazon Music. Get the crew together and head off.
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Jackie Feidelberg
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Kevin Clancy
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Jackie Feidelberg
Golf season is in full swing and.
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Kevin Clancy
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Jackie Feidelberg
On your face no matter how your scorecard shakes out.
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Kevin Clancy
It's another edition of KFC Radio on the Barstool Sports Network. It is kfc. And, and Nick's Kevin and Jack. Yeah, Jackie and what's the name of our show?
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Jessica Singleton
Oh, like the, the nickel.
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Kevin Clancy
The Nickel heads.
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Jessica Singleton
No, chicken heads and Nickelbackers. The, the KFC Whatever.
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Kevin Clancy
It's another edition of KFC Radio on the Barstool Sports Network. Feidelberg is on the out of order tour with Pabs. So it is me and Jackie. Jackie in for Feidelberg's spot while she also tries to produce and edit and camera work and audio work, which we all take for granted very, very much around here. If you, if you don't realize, we have the worst podcast equipment, systems, computers, technology in the world because we've been doing this for so goddamn long that I think we just have equipment from like 2012. So yeah, a little, little behind the curtain. How the sausage is made. Jackie's in, fights out. And so let's rip it. Let's start with Jimmy Kimmel. Jimmy Kimmel's been all the rage, all the talk for the last couple weeks. Made his return on Tuesday night and got emotional, issued basically not an apology, but just sort of like a explanation. And he's back on the air, teared up at one point and so now you know, the, the. Jackie, you asked me before, like what are people saying? And I, I don't necessarily know, but I can tell you that the left loves it and the right hates it because that's just pretty much everything. What I did see was some people being like, you're, you're not like, sorry, you just got in trouble, you're apologizing. First of all, he, I don't think he really like Actually apologized as much as he said. I never intended to, you know, disrespect him. That was not what I. My intent. But if, like, if you did, if that did happen, I guess I'm sorry for that. So some people are kind of criticizing, like, his. His reaction in that regard.
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Jessica Singleton
Wait, can I hear what you're. I. I know that you made a one minute man on it. Can you recap what you said on.
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Kevin Clancy
Yeah, yeah, we'll kind of talk all about it. So. So, I mean, when. When the Kimmel news first broke, my first reaction was just like, I don't really like Jimmy Kimmel. I don't, like, strongly dislike him either. But I. My thought is, I think that the people on the right often come across as aggressive or insensitive. And people. People on the left are, in my mind, kind of like snarky and hypocritical and phony and fraud. Those are two different types of unlikable things in my mind.
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Jessica Singleton
Okay.
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Kevin Clancy
It's like I always say kind of when we talk about the left and the right, in terms of when people are like, the left needs a Joe Rogan. Like, the right has all these comedians. And I think that it's. For a guy, it's quote, unquote, easier to be on the right. Yeah, I think most guys would rather be perceived as like an. Than a. And that's kind of the right. If you're going to generalize and stereotype, those are kind of the two. You know, you guys are, like, aggressive over the, you know, alpha male. And these guys over here are, you know, they, they're progressive and they care about people and rights, but they also do it in a way like. Like, that's my point with Jimmy Kimmel is that whereas the left's reputation, I think, is more, at least in their minds, they're very caring and care about others and all that. I think that he's just as much of a divisive person as some people on the radar. You know, it's a different style. It's like I said, it's not as aggressive, it's not as manly, whatever. So it's easier to, like, shit on that. But I think the people like Jimmy Kimmel, who are. They make everything about politics and are always calling out Trump and demeaning to the right are. Are just as much to blame for this divisiveness. You know, I don't think you can necessarily complain about, like, oh, wow, the world is so divisive, and everyone's at each other's throats. But then also be really pushing one side or the other. You know what I mean? Like, you're just, in my mind, you're just contributing to the problem. Okay, so when that first happened, I was kind of like, good. I don't like Jimmy Kimmel, like, whatever. But that's. That was when I didn't realize that the government was like a part of it. I think if ABC solely independently said, we have like a plan in place and you're violating that, you broke some of our rules, you're affecting our bottom line, our shareholders, whatever, I think they have a right to do that. It. That, you know, that that gets dicey where it's like free speech and freedom of expression and comedy and creativity. But at the end of the day, like, I think the reason I was so open or not appalled at that right away is like, that kind of has happened here, like at Barcelona. You have to operate kind of within certain rules. And there have been times where I've like broken those rules and I've either been in trouble, like legally or, or reputationally or business wise. So, like, you know, I love, I know people love to think of the idea of like, it's America and you can say and do whatever you want. But my thing was for a long time, I always heard you can say what you want, but there are consequences to your words.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
It's not cancel culture, it's consequence culture. And there are consequences for your actions. So that was where initially I was like, well, wait a minute, why, you know, why are we not playing by those rules right now? Just because it's gone from the left to the right, why is it right to the left? It's what. Why does that same logic not apply? And so I do think that would apply again if it was just an ABC decision or something like that. But once you find out that the FCC is either directly involved or, you know, the FCC basically said, here's, here's what we would like to happen. And then there's a bunch of networks that are like, let's give the FCC what they want because they're trying to do this merger and they need to, you know, make sure the administration's happy. That's where you start to get it to what in my mind is a black and white clear cut if you are going to support the government censoring speech. Yeah, you're crazy. I mean, that's like, you're crazy. So, you know, so I posted yesterday, Joe Rogan came back to his podcast. Ivy Run, of course, is waiting for what Rogan's going to say. And it's like, there's only. There's really only one take. If. If you acknowledge that the government was, like, involved in some way, you know, if you wanted to. If you wanted to debate me that, like, the FCC didn't influence them, okay, we can have that debate. I. But I think they were involved or, like, at least looming over it to the point that it would influence the decision. You know, I think once that's, like, established in any way, if there are people out there still being like, no, no, no, this was good. I mean, that's just, like, patently crazy.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah. I mean, it's. Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
It's just not good for anybody right now. What, What. What Rogan said that was. That interested me was. He was. He was saying this is bad. But then he. He also was, you know, further saying it's because, like, the reason why you shouldn't be down with this is they'll turn it around and use it on you. You know, so the people on the right who are like, hell, yeah, this is good. Well, people on the left are watching and being like, okay, well, when we're back in power or when we control things, we're going to do the same thing to them. And it just becomes this, like, back and forth, which is not good. But my. My takeaway from that was like, if there's anybody who doesn't realize that that's what's going on at this point, that's what's crazy to me. Like, nobody actually cares about the issues. Nobody really cares about the principles. Nobody cares for what their party stands for. And whatever argument they've been making for the last 5, 10, 12, 16 years, the second that they could benefit from flipping on that opinion, they will do it.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
You know, like, I think it kind of used to be, like, everyone in my party, like, we all kind of agree on these basic things. So, like, that's why we ride together, you know?
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
And they would stick to that, like, no matter what. So somebody on the right who is, like, anti. You know, we want less government, we want less control. But as soon as they see the opportunity to stick it to Jimmy Kimmel or stick it to the left by going against those things, they will do that. And I. I think that is, like, patently blatantly apparent in today's world and especially in the political world, like, if you don't see that, it's never actually about these. Nobody cares about the people. Nobody's trying to protect your rights. They're just Trying to get power or money or influence or popularity or whatever currency it is that they trade in. You know, like, to me, that if, that, if anybody's still surprised by that, you know, I, I like when people say, like, can you believe that the right is now being the snowflakes and the cancel culture? Like, how crazy is that, that it's flipped up and how hypocritical are they? It's like, yeah, no kidding. Because nobody is actually principled and like, is doing it for the right reasons anymore. And I don't know if they ever were. I, I don't know enough about like, you know, early politics of America to know if it was really rooted in issues and laws, rights, all that stuff.
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Jessica Singleton
But I mean, like, people in power.
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Kevin Clancy
Yeah, like, like at least it seems to me, like when I learn about history, I think they kind of romanticize government, the founding fathers and freedom and all that stuff. I wonder, you know, when, when did it really become corrupt or was it always corrupt? I feel like since the beginning of time, when you're talking about emperors and you're talking about, you know, back in cavemen times, if there's any sort of power structure or hierarchy, I think people are using it and abusing it as opposed to like doing what's good and right, you know?
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
I just can't believe that there's anybody in the world who doesn't know that at this point. You know what I mean?
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
Like, it's just, to me, it's, it's just human nature. It's not just politics, it's business. It's, you'll see it on like the Internet. You see like people flip flopping and just doing whatever, whichever way the wind is blowing. When it comes to trends, when it comes to who, like, it's, it just depends on which way the wind's blowing. Like, is it, is it, Do I benefit from talking this way or that way? You know, I, I, I. There are many examples, I think, of political pundits who are preaching one way and it's like, I can go back like 10 years and you were on a show or a platform or whatever. That's the exact opposite.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
It's just now, you know, you benefit from saying this, so I'll say that.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah, I was trying to like, even put my finger on like, what feels so different and like, I mean, I hate to like, divisive or whatever now, like, do you think it's more. I would you say. I feel like now it's people versus, like right versus left. Not like, right versus less ideology. Yeah, like, right.
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Kevin Clancy
No, we need, like, you need to.
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Jessica Singleton
Pointing fingers at like, the outliers too much.
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Kevin Clancy
It's also the people. It's like, I think there used to be a lot more. And what's crazy is, like, it's getting.
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Jessica Singleton
Kind of civil war.
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Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
And because people take it so personal and they are attacking the person rather than the idea or the speech or whatever. And I think that part changed. Like, I do think there used to be politicians on either side that would, like, disagree with your party politics, like, to my core. But they would be friendly.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
And civil and like literally behind closed doors, like our friends, you know. And then outwardly I have to disagree with you and we'll debate and we'll argue and. And my success comes at your failure and vice versa. So there's some inherent competition and whatever. But I really do think that they, like, behind closed doors would be like, yeah, that's just business, you know.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
I don't. I think maybe. Maybe that's been the. Maybe, you know, the founding fathers were actually.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
Trying to ruin each other.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
But again, that at least the. What we're taught or led to believe is that it wasn't that way. And so maybe that's changed, maybe it hasn't. But I do think it's worse now. I do think it's like when you hate somebody, like, everything else goes out the window. You know what I mean? Like, you will come, like, most people at least will compromise their, like, thoughts and beliefs if it means sticking it to someone you hate or not associating with them. Like, it's hard to. To stand up for someone you hate. You know, it's like Charlie Clark said a lot of, like, horrible, stupid, ignorant. So it's tough in that moment to stand up. And especially if you're in that world and you have a following and a fan base and all that, to be like, that was fucked up, you know?
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
Because the average person doesn't want to hear that. They just like, we don't like that guy. Right.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
But that's. That's like when you have to. If you're going to be in the world of politics and, and play that game, like, that's when you have to stand up for. It's easy to stand up for someone when they're doing well or everything's good. It's when tragedy strikes or when things are down or when it's bad for business. That's why I always kind of appreciate people who will, like, you know, Compromise their money or their business for their beliefs. Because it's like, it's one thing to talk about, it's another thing to, to be about it. And I do think that people have gotten so beholding to their political party or their fan base or their followers or their audience, their constituents, whatever, that they, when it really comes down to it, are like weighing the pros and cons.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah. Because if, well, no, you go, like.
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Kevin Clancy
When I do, if I talk about politics, like every time I do it, I'm like, all right, I'm going to like lose a bunch of followers for this. Like, that's okay. But then there are days where I'm like, I am working so hard to build this thing and then I'm going to speak out on something that's going to like chop it down a little bit, you know. And so, you know, there are times where I'm like, I don't care, I need to get this off my chest or I believe strongly in this. And there are other times where I'm like, it's just not worth it to fuck with my, you know, when people are like, you have a platform and you should say these things. It's like, I'm gonna use my platform how I want to use it because it took a long time to build it and it's, it could tear it all down and all that sort of shit. So even in just like little easy day to day circumstances, I think sometimes it's hard to like say what you believe or stand up for what you want to if it comes at a little bit of a cost. And then when you're playing at the highest of stakes with the biggest of jobs, the most money, and you're talking about something like murder and assassination where it's like, you know, everything is at the highest level it can be. It's, it's not easy to, yeah. To do those things. But the people who are in those positions, I think are the people who need to be able to do that. You know, it's like I don't expect the average Joe to, to, you know, understand all the nuance of this, but the really important politicians or even like the really important entertainers like, probably should be, you know.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah, yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
But I think that's also probably the kind of the problem with, I mean, I personally don't like all the comedians being involved in politics. We've said that before on here. Like, it just, I, I, I guess I can't say for sure. I don't want to like, speak on people that I don't necessarily know, but, like, I feel like in general, we know this world and we know that it's about selling tickets.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
Getting views, the algorithm, like, that's what those people are worried about, you know? And I think that for the last however many years, it's kind of aligned where it's like, if I talk about Trump and politics and I embrace these sort of things, I am, like, speaking on these issues and I am using my platform. Some people disagree with it, but some people agree with it. But either way, you're using it, but you're. It's because it's benefiting all the tickets and the sales. It's when those things don't align that I don't necessarily know if, though, if the comedians will or the entertainers or the influencers who are getting involved in the political world. Like, are you still going to do that when it doesn't necessarily benefit from you?
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
Because, again, it's easy to do these things when that is the good or the better option, and that's what you, you know, gain from. It's different when you lose because of it. And that's where I think the people who are in politics or make their content about politics, who are truly journalists and all that, are a little more inclined, or at least I hope they would be, to, like, do. Do it for the right reasons.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah. So do you think, like, are you saying that you think it's changed politics and people are, like, using it for, I think so media and, like, everything.
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Kevin Clancy
I think fueled it. And maybe I'm just not. Maybe I'm projecting because this is just how I approach the world. Like.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
My thought is sort of like, what is content? What's content for me today? You know?
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
And when it happens to be politics and it's like, oh, good. Like, I can. I can talk about, like, this Trump Tylenol thing and get a whole bunch of views.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
As opposed to. I need to talk about this Trump Tylenol thing because I, like, disagree with it or I agree with it, whichever side of it is. Are you talking about that because, you know, putting, like, Trump Tylenol, autism is going to get you 5x your views, or are you doing that because you're actually informed and educated and interested in talking about that topic and pushing, you know, it's either good or bad or whatever your opinion is. That's where I think it's like, what is your motivations and what is your intention behind it? You know?
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah. Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
Maybe some of these guys are, you Know, some of. Some of the comics seem to be really into it, but it's like, I also think that this is more like a wave right now. This is a trend almost.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah. And because then it feeds off of each other, and then it's like, then you just get more. Yeah, yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
I mean, the fact that it was sort of like if you're a creator, an influencer, and you, like, co sign Donald Trump, like, you're gonna get like, his rabid fan base, but then it's like, then he co signs you and he goes on your show, and I'll appear with him and. And get all these views, but then he appears with me and he gets all these votes, and it just becomes this very, like, mutually beneficial thing where I think it's easy to lose sight of, like, what's actually at the root of all that, you know, because it's just, I give views, you get votes, I get popular, you get power. I, you know, we all get money. No, those are like, the real motivators.
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Jessica Singleton
Because then I feel like the more that they. It feeds off each other, just pushes the, like, left and right far further and further apart.
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Kevin Clancy
Yeah.
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Jessica Singleton
To the edge. And now. And now I also feel like every. Both sides are, like, on the defense, and it's kind of like if you're like, drowning, all you're thinking, like, in water, the only thing is trying to survive. Where it's like, that's where I feel like everyone is on both sides is using, like, the ideologies that we were talking about, like, as like, defense.
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Kevin Clancy
Yeah.
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Jessica Singleton
And it's kind of like taking away from the integrity of it, I guess. Like, it's like if you're throw. You can take anything from both sides and thrown the other's face to be like, well, you. This isn't right.
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Kevin Clancy
Because, you know, there's always a. I'm not saying that well, but, you know, I know it's. It's. There's always a, like, gotcha moment or like, everyone's like, looking for that. Like, I caught you in a lie or I caught you being hypocritical and, like, can use it. And it's all very, like, you're not just having a discussion about the issues. It's like, how can I. It turns into, like a sport. You know what I mean? It's like, yeah, like debate. Like, when you debate somebody, there inherently is kind of. It's like a little sport. That's why there's like a debate team, and that's why there's, you know, when you're. You can, like, win a trophy, like, you can win the debate, you know, so there is like, inherently a little bit of competition where it's like, you have to learn how to argue and how can I turn my point, those points against them and all that. But when it becomes about that, rather than, like, about the actual topic, the issue, the.
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Jessica Singleton
The.
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Kevin Clancy
The substance, that's. I think that's where it all goes together. It's like you're doing. Are you doing it for the money and the. The success? Are you doing it for the ego of being right? Are you doing it because you don't like that guy and you want to put him down? Or are you doing it because it's like, I don't want information about autism, misinformation about autism to be spread? Yeah, yeah, those are. And that's where just. I. Again, I can't speak for everybody. I can't speak for anybody other than myself, but I just think I know enough about this Audi, this industry. In this world of, like, when you work so hard to become a success and either sell your tickets or sell your podcast or make your views, whatever it is that consumes you, it's just like, it just consumes, like, a lot of these people. And it's like. So I think that's ultimately what ends up being your. Your motivator, which is fine and only. Only human, but I think that's. Those are just not the people we should be turning to for our answers or our information or tell me how to think.
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Jessica Singleton
Because they have, like, an ulterior.
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Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
And that's where, like, so right now, this Tylenol thing is happening. I. I haven't, you know, I don't know all the details, but more or less, it just sounds like Trump and RFK and the administration is just being like, Tylenol causes autism. And, you know, a lot of people immediately are sort of like, okay, well, who's benefiting from this? Like, are, you know, are the. Are. Are the pharmaceutical companies, like, not playing ball with Trump and now he's like, you know, gonna put out this information about them so that people don't use Tylenol? Right?
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
And people right away are like, follow the money and follow. You know, that's. That's part of the problem with. With pharmaceuticals and vaccines and stuff. It's like, why do people have a problem with it? Because they're making billions of dollars if you take this vaccine, and people are willing to make that connection. And all the time, yeah, they're sort of like, oh, well, big business is involved and they're lining their pockets. They are corrupt or they are influenced or whatever. I don't know why that doesn't apply to content, where it's like the. I almost feel like the first line of thought should be like, oh, well, you're benefiting from some saying this.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
It's good for you to be Team Trump. It's good. You know what I mean? Like, why don't people make that leap when it comes to the content?
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah, yeah.
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Guest Comedian
I. I.
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Jessica Singleton
Like with the Kimmel thing, for example, I feel like him coming, like, the fact that there was even talk of the FCC being about the government being involved, it's like, if we don't preserve some kind of. I don't. I don't know. If we don't. Like. I don't know how to explain it, I guess.
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Kevin Clancy
What if we don't preserve?
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Jessica Singleton
Like, if. Like. I feel like if the government wants to really get involved in, like, they can do it through big money corporations. They can, like, find their loopholes or whatever. They're gonna be able to do that. I think once the. There's. The people know that, like, the government is involved, like, the illusion of free speech is important to preserve right now, if that makes sense. So it's like, if Kimmel was off the air and then we were like, oh, well, like, there's a lot of people think that the government was involved. That would almost be like, all right, well, now the foundation of American, Whatever, free speech, all that is, like, really starting to get. Now we're. Now we're blurring the lines too much.
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Kevin Clancy
Yeah.
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Jessica Singleton
I think that it's beneficial for both sides that Kimmel came back, had an apology, all that. Because if not, the lines are gonna.
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Kevin Clancy
Get the whole thing, like, the whole.
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Jessica Singleton
Thing starts to fall apart.
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Kevin Clancy
Yeah. That's why. That's why. I mean, you can do whatever. It's just like, you're crazy if you support this, because it just. Just opens up this can of worms that, like, you can't undo a lot of the stuff. If you really start to go down this path, you know.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
Now I think you could also, you know, you get a little tinfoil hat kind of conspiracy. It's like, I think the government's been controlling a lot of things for a long time and giving you the illusion of certain things.
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Jessica Singleton
But that's why it's like. But you need to preserve the idea that we have free freedom, you know, totally.
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Kevin Clancy
That. That for sure matters. It's like you live in a Free country. It's like, ah, not really, but it's freer than others. And. And you feel that way and it like. Yeah.
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Jessica Singleton
And I would like to at least.
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Kevin Clancy
Think that I'll keep up this.
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Jessica Singleton
Somebody said the other day that. Because we were talking about like why they keep talking about trains, you know, like fast trains being bullet trains being a thing. And then we're like, why haven't we seen a bullet train anywhere? And then they were like, well, all the big major fight or.
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Kevin Clancy
Yeah. Do not even get me. You know, the fact that we don't have trains in this country.
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Jessica Singleton
Oh yeah. Okay. Is this like a known like.
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Kevin Clancy
Yeah, I mean it's just like you look at every other country, especially Europe, like you can get anywhere by train.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
Super fast and super convenient. And. And then you look at a map of ours and we have like five railroads, like five major railroads. Like one over here, one this way, one that way and that's it. And, and yeah, I think it's because, you know, airlines and lobbyists and whoever are like the minute that you could just hop on a train and get to Florida instead of a plane, guess what you're going to do?
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
You know what I mean? Like that, that radically changes the airline industry, which is a multi probably trillion dollar thing. So like. Yeah, I mean there's that you can go down that road. There's trains, there's like. I'm pretty sure we have the technology and the understanding of like free and clean energy. But then you don't have oil money and you don't have, you know, so there's a lot of that. I think like the government either controls or suppresses that you don't even know about or think about. But it's when it starts to like creep into your television, you know, it's like most people aren't necessarily sitting around and really flipping out about trains, you know.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
But all of a sudden like your favorite comedian or your favorite late night host or something is being affected and it like brings it to an everyday level for the average person to scream and yell about.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
But it's, you know, the, the.
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Jessica Singleton
Well, I was gonna say I also like on Fishbowl we were kind of talking about, but like everyone should just go to Europe for a little bit. I mean, if you can. But like whenever I'm in Europe I, I mean I see a lot of problems with this country but like I'm always just like, I fucking love America.
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Kevin Clancy
Yeah, I'm. Well people take that shit for granted a lot. And they shouldn't. But I also understand why they do. It's sort of like, you know, when you're. When your parents are like, well, they're starving people in Africa, and it's like. Yeah, well, if you apply the, like, worst extreme. If your logic is to always just be like, well, hey, it's not the worst thing in the world.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
It's like, I almost think, like, taking it for granted is a little bit of the benefit of being in a free country like America.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [27:41]
Kevin Clancy
You shouldn't take it for granted, but it's like, you shouldn't have to wake up in the morning and worry about, like, your safety, your. Your clean water, like, all these things that there are people who do.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
But it's like, the. Not only do you. Do we. Does America provide that, but I think you should be able to, like, accept that as the baseline. You know what I mean?
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah, yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
It's like, boy, the. It's like girls dating, you know, like, the floor is on. The bar is on the floor here, you know?
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [28:08]
Kevin Clancy
It's like, you shouldn't have to worry about the absolute little basics.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [28:13]
Kevin Clancy
Should you be aware of it and cognizant of it and appreciative of it? Yes, But I. I don't think that you should necessarily apply, like. But it's true. Once you travel a little bit and you see how some of the other. And I'm not even. You know, you go to, like, a third world country. It's obviously. It's very apparent, but you go anywhere and it's like, oh, that's. That's not how we do things back home.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
It's much better my way, you know?
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Jessica Singleton
Well, I thought of it because, like, I. I feel like I started to love big corporations because I love the consumerism that. That occurs in grocery stores when you have a million different options.
- [28:45]
Kevin Clancy
Yeah.
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Jessica Singleton
Of something. And in Europe, it's just like, you get.
- [28:48]
Kevin Clancy
You get one. Get what? You get.
- [28:49]
Jessica Singleton
You get one. I want my options.
- [28:51]
Kevin Clancy
Yeah, yeah. What you're describing is just big American consumerism. Yep.
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Jessica Singleton
But it's like, if I want a sparkling water, I have a million different flavors.
- [29:02]
Kevin Clancy
Choose from, which is the. The proliferation of water is nuts. Yeah, yeah.
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Jessica Singleton
It's gone nuts.
- [29:08]
Kevin Clancy
Like, first of all, it's hilarious that it's like, rel. It's a. Water is, like, relatively new.
- [29:12]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, I know. I know.
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Kevin Clancy
Like, people just weren't drinking water back in the day. It's like, yeah, this is our fuel, man. You absolutely need this. But the fact that there's like a hundred different brands of just plain ass body armor. All you need is body armor with all the electrolytes and all the alkaline and all the, like, what. You know, there's a million different sodas, but they all. They have different flavors and different tastes and consistencies. Like, that makes sense, but the water is crazy.
- [29:41]
Jessica Singleton
It's. It takes up. It just like, takes up, like, the whole, like.
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Kevin Clancy
I mean, imagine, like, trying to think of another comparison, but I don't think there is anything. It's like if you. If you owned a. A store that specialized in, like, this type of food, and you went in and you had every flavor of it, sort of like whiskey. So you go to a bar, and I saw a whiskey bar the other day. It had. It was like a library with the. With the ladders, you know, like those type of libraries, you know, shelves to the ceiling wide. And it had every different type of whiskey. And there are people who love whiskey enough that they know all the different flavors and tastes and different styles. This one's sweet, this one's spicy, all that. But people do that. There's that level of. Of selection for H2O.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah. Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
But that's, you know, I think that all kind of ties into it. American consumerism and. And, like, wanting and desires and selection. It's like, all part of our way of life. And that all plays into what I'm talking about here, where it's.
- [30:41]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [30:41]
Kevin Clancy
You know, it's almost like it's just a luxury to be able to focus on those things where other countries are like, yeah, we're still, like, really focusing on free speech. Yeah, we take that for granted.
- [30:50]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
The Tylenol thing is interesting. It's like, as you know, what I can't believe is there are just a lot of people out there who are just like, okay, Tylenol bad. I'm seeing a lot of people being like, wow, I can't believe I've been taking Tylenol all this time. And it was bad for me, and it made me. It really crystallized for me. How many people, if you're deep in politics, they just believe what they're being told, you know, like, this one is. This one's so silly to me that.
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Jessica Singleton
It'S like, where did it stem from?
- [31:19]
Kevin Clancy
I. It just. I think Trump just, like, came out and had a press. I'm sure RFK started it because he's like, the czar of, like, health and consumer and FDA and all that, but I think Trump just kind of came out and said it. I mean, he. He couldn't pronounce a set of. I can't either. But I'm also not the president giving a speech on this. A set of. A set of fetamine. Oh, how do you say it?
- [31:40]
Jessica Singleton
I don't know.
- [31:40]
Kevin Clancy
Yeah, I can't say it either. But again, if I was the president going up to give a speech, I would be ready on that. You know, they just, like, came out and said, it will harm and it causes autism during pregnancy. And people were just like, oh, that's what it is. I took pregnancy, and that's why my kid's autistic. And it's just like anything that man says. And I'm sure if it was Biden or Kamala, anything that man or woman said, the other side would. Would just believe blindly. And, you know, I think it's funny in. In this world, I feel like there's like, there's Feidelbergs and there's Clancy's. You know, it's like John will kind of take things at face value and would be inclined. I don't think he would believe something like, crazy and silly like that. But, like, you don't want to be the nut who, like, questions every single thing. But also, I think it's a little crazy to just be like, oh, okay, you said so I will no longer buy that, consume that, use that, whatever. And then, you know, especially something with, like, autism, vaccines, pharmaceuticals, you can find any stat and any number in the world to argue whichever side you want. There was a big map. It said, like, do you really think. Do you really think this is, like, just genetic or something like that? And it had cases of autism and it had a map of the world.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [32:48]
Kevin Clancy
And it was like, the most cases are red, and the least cases are, like, blue. Whatever.
- [32:53]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [32:54]
Kevin Clancy
The whole other rest of the world is mostly blue. And, like, America is like, red hot red, you know, and so some people will look at that and be like, oh, yeah, no, like, Tylenol is causing it. We use Tylenol the most. It's being. It's from vaccines. It's things, you know, whatever. But then there's also. And that might be true, I don't know. But there's also like, we have the best doctors in the world. We. We do, like, the most autism care. We have the most diagnosed cases. Bunch of countries where it's like, we don't even. We're not even taking you a doctor because we don't have these other freedoms and these other, you know, standard things. That we take for granted. So it's like, yeah, you could look at that and say, oh, yeah, America is, like, causing the autism. Or you can look at it and be like, America's doctors and programs and scientists and all that, like, understand it better and are diagnosing it more and all that. So it's like, yeah, there's higher cases. We're trying to. We're all those kids are getting diagnosed and getting care and.
- [33:47]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [33:48]
Kevin Clancy
You know, so you can. Especially in that world. I mean, the pharmaceutical companies, I think, have just made a living off of, like, okay, how do we fudge these numbers?
- [33:57]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [33:57]
Kevin Clancy
And change these things to make sure that we can sell this product or avoid the drawbacks or, you know, whatever. I was just gonna say that. That, to me, just feels like the most. Like, it's money related, it's power related. It's business lobbying. Like, I don't know, they just picked Tylenol and went after it. I'm sure there's a reason why, you know, they're not giving the administration what they want or, you know, they're everyone's. I could see a world where, like, every politician right now is like, all right, let's short the company who deals with Tylenol and we're going to buy the company, you know, stock company that does Advil or whatever the both sides of it are. And everyone makes a bag off it, you know, because this one just seems, like, so random and out of nowhere that there's got to be a reason.
- [34:40]
Jessica Singleton
I think that the pharmaceutical company, like, industry, we've just lost, like, just let them. Let them. Us. And, like, it's bro.
- [34:48]
Kevin Clancy
I mean, that we've lost it, truly. I mean, everyone knows about, like, the opioid crisis and the farm. Big pharma and there's movies and all that, like, people know about it. I. I still don't think people fully grasp the scope of, like, how insidious and, like, just downright morally depraved that was. Yeah. It was just like, this is gonna kill and ruin a ton of people.
- [35:14]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [35:14]
Kevin Clancy
And we don't care. We're just gonna, like, suppress that study. Push this one. Like, get the doctors to fudge it. And now you got a whole country hooked on it. It's like, yeah. Oh, yeah, the opioid crisis. Like, no, no, the opioid.
- [35:28]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [35:28]
Kevin Clancy
You know what I mean? And. And the fact. So it's, to me, in my mind at least, it's similar to, like, when people talk about Sandy Hook or the school shootings and they're like, if we never changed that day, we'll never change at all.
- [35:39]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [35:39]
Kevin Clancy
I kind of feel like if we couldn't all come together and like figure out a way to like stop the pharmaceutical crisis, I don't know, we never will. You know what I mean? Really can't I, it just seems like if, if I don't even know how you would go about that, how you, but it's, it's like controlling guns, controlling drugs. It's like there's just too much, too many people in this country, too much money involved to ever like expect that's going to change.
- [36:04]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah. And the, such like a, almost like taboo. Yeah. Like there, there's a lot around. Stigma. Too much stigma. Yeah.
- [36:16]
Kevin Clancy
Everything that's, Yeah. I mean I, I, I still think especially in like the drug world, you come from like a world of everything in pop culture and movies and television. It's always like a homeless person, it's always a dangerous person, a crazy person. And I think that contributes to people just being like out of sight, out of mind. That's not me and my people. So like I'm not gonna, I don't worry about that.
- [36:35]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [36:36]
Kevin Clancy
When you start to realize it's like affected the entire country and it's all because of politicians and pharmaceutical bigwigs and all that sort of.
- [36:42]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [36:43]
Kevin Clancy
It's like, I don't even know how you would go about stopping that, you know?
- [36:48]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah. Because it's, yeah. There's like too much money to ever.
- [36:51]
Kevin Clancy
I don't know how anybody changes anything like it. Sometimes I feel like the country is just, it's a snowball rolling down a hill and like you can't stop it. You know, like the, the two party system I think sucks.
- [37:04]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [37:05]
Kevin Clancy
I can't even imagine how we would change that.
- [37:08]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [37:08]
Kevin Clancy
Like the Independent party is always a joke. There's nothing beyond a potential like third party fake candidate. You know, other countries have like 10 people, five parties. All this. And I, I don't know, I, I, I, I don't, I don't, I haven't voted. I used to think of that as like a embarrassing like scarlet letter. I was like, oh, I'm one of those people who's like ignorant and don't care and, or at least that's how people are going to perceive me. And I still think there are plenty of people who would say you live in America, you have the right to vote and exercise, you know, your freedoms and you're not doing it, you're taking it for granted. I get all that. But more than ever, I now feel like, justified in that decision.
- [37:44]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [37:45]
Kevin Clancy
Where I used to be like, I don't, I don't like either party, I don't like either candidate. And people would be like, well, you still should pick one. And, you know, like I said, exercise your vote to write right to vote and all that. But it's reached a point where it's like, I think I am morally and logically, mentally, emotionally opposed to like, both.
- [38:06]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [38:07]
Kevin Clancy
You know, and it's like, I can't just, oh, pick your poison, or the lesser of two evils or whatever. I, I, I feel more justified than ever in abstaining. And sure, that's frowned upon, and I'm sure people disagree with that. But I think the argument could be made more than ever now because it's like, I really think both sides have deep, deep problems and issues that I can't really co. Sign.
- [38:32]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [38:33]
Kevin Clancy
You know, because of that. But what would it take to.
- [38:38]
Jessica Singleton
I.
- [38:38]
Kevin Clancy
Don'T know, like, neither Democrats nor Republicans would ever allow like a, a third party of legit competition or a fourth or a fifth, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, I, so, so some of those things just feel like.
- [38:52]
Jessica Singleton
Do you think it's a bubble that needs to burst or do you just can continue?
- [38:55]
Kevin Clancy
No, that's what I, I think, unfortunately. Like, you know what's interesting is when again to go back to like, what you learn in history, it's like, I think about like the fall of Rome.
- [39:05]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [39:05]
Kevin Clancy
You know, and it's like that just happened like that they used to run and they had it all and it.
- [39:11]
Jessica Singleton
Just fell and we're a quarter of like.
- [39:13]
Kevin Clancy
Yeah, right, right. And, and, but it's more so that it's like those things can happen, and I think they have to happen, you know?
- [39:22]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [39:22]
Kevin Clancy
Like, I think you either maintain control, like forever, you just become like this authoritarian, like dictatorship or some. Right. Or like, eventually it goes away. I just don't think anybody's ever, I don't think any country party politician, whatever is ever proactive enough to be like, we need to make some changes here. Even if it, like, lessens our power or we lose some influence, like, let's do this for the long term. I don't think anybody thinks that way. You know, it's like, I have my four years, maybe eight years in, in, in power. I'm gonna do what I want or at least, you know, try to do those things. And I, I, you know, it's weird because you think in the modern day, like, I Don't know. When I think of, like, the fall of Rome, I think of it being, like, medieval battles and, like, that. Like, you know, Rome got, like, sacked in a war, and that's why it fell. Right. And it's like, in the modern world, I don't know if that happens, but I think it's just a different version of, like, falling. You know what I mean? Where it's like, you lose some of your economic impact and you, you know, the Civil War type starts to occur, and, like, you. I don't know, your country's power and influence just falls that way. But I don't know, it does feel to me like you would need, like, a catastrophe to occur to enact any change, you know?
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I, I, I, it. John said something like, I think during the election that was fun. It was really funny. But, like, he was kind of saying that. He was, like, saying with the transgender and the transgender rights, he was like, we need to. We need to, like, focus on, like, we'll come back for you. But, like, right now, like, we can't.
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Kevin Clancy
Yeah, yeah, we can't.
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Jessica Singleton
Whatever. And I kind of think of that because, like, now it feels like it. I don't know. I didn't have a Whatever.
- [41:16]
Kevin Clancy
No, go ahead.
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Jessica Singleton
I just, I just, like, that is, like, how I think about politics now is like, we're kind of losing. Like, it seems like, again, what I was saying on the defense, like, now it's just like a survival. Like.
- [41:29]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
You're not focusing on those little things anymore because it's like we're in a war.
- [41:32]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Constantly fighting, and that's when I feel like it starts to break down. Is like, that's what feels like, kind of warish about it, I guess, is it reminded me of the fall of Rome. Is it's just like, all right, we'll come back for you in battle.
- [41:44]
Kevin Clancy
Like, all right, Right now we got bigger, bigger fish to fry. But it's like, not really. All these things are important. They're going to. You know, it's. It's like. It's like anything else that you put off and procrastinate. It's like, eventually this is all gonna hit you at the same time, and you're.
- [41:57]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's sad because I really do think that people are inherently good, but, like.
- [42:03]
Kevin Clancy
I never know about that again. It's like Fidalbergs and Clancy's, like, fights will always tell you that, like, he thinks people are good and happy, and he's probably right. Just because like on a day to day basis, for the most part, we're not killing each other and we're not at each other's throats. But I think more often than not, you will find people disagreeing and not like minded and, and yeah. Taking it personal. And I mean, you really just got to get back to like fighting arguments and not people.
- [42:32]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [42:34]
Kevin Clancy
But it does take a, like a special level of maturity and understanding and like empathy and all those words to be like, I really disagree with what you're saying. But like, we're still cool.
- [42:45]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
I think, you know, because when you're talking about like rights issues, it's like, I can understand if you really are passionate about gay rights, trans rights, abortion, gun control, whatever, all these like serious issues. When people disagree with that, that's not just like, oh, you root for one team and I root for another. It's like you're talking about like deeply entrenched, you know, feelings and like emotions and things that you've learned. I, I read the other day a psychologist was like the worst thing you can do is cut family out of your life over politics.
- [43:20]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [43:21]
Kevin Clancy
Like you need your family, you need your support system. Those are people that like, you know, you should at all costs try to keep a relationship with them, you know.
- [43:31]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [43:31]
Kevin Clancy
And yeah. To just like be like, I'm cutting my parents out of my life because we disagree on politics. It's just, I don't think something that ever happens like on a, on a wide scale.
- [43:41]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [43:42]
Kevin Clancy
And, and it seems to be happening a lot now. And that's crazy. I don't know. But it's equally as crazy to just be like turned a blind eye if, if you know, your parents disagree with some of the things that you believe like in your, in your core, you know.
- [43:58]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [43:58]
Kevin Clancy
So I think it's funny to, it's a weird spot where it's like, should you just kind of let that go unchecked and bury your head in the sand and have like a happy. That's what I like personally on a day to day basis. Like I disagree with my, with my mother at times, but like she's the most important person in my life.
- [44:14]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [44:14]
Kevin Clancy
And I will just be like, okay, yeah, agree to disagree or just lie to her and agree with her and whatever because I need her and want her in my life and other people don't make that decision. I think, like, I think you're gonna regret that. I think in, you know, what happens four years from now, the Democrats are back in, in Office. You know, it's like now you don't have a parent.
- [44:34]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [44:34]
Kevin Clancy
Like now you have done irreparable harm to your brother or sister, whatever. And, and I think the real, the real thing, like maybe I was wondering like what it's going to take to get people to like see the light or change. And I think since the Internet has really started cooking, we've only had a couple presidencies. I wonder if the ball going back and forth a few times where people realize that like their day to day life is really not changing that much. You know what I mean? Like, there is some up stuff going on and, and we, we are, you are losing some rights. And like, certainly especially with women's rights, there are, there are people in certain states where like their lives have definitely been drastically affected.
- [45:14]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [45:15]
Kevin Clancy
And that, you know, you sympathize with and you want to fix and change, but like on the whole it's not like, you know, you, all these things we've been talking about, that you still have your freedoms, you still have your safety, all that sort of stuff.
- [45:26]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [45:26]
Kevin Clancy
And I wonder if it's like right now, once the proliferation of social media happened and podcasting and comedians and all this, it's basically coincided with the Trump era, you know, So I think, I feel like a lot of people who disagree with that are like, we have to put an end to this. It's like, okay, well what if we put an end to it and now your team is back in power and you realize, well, there's still a bunch of like corrupt going on and life's still difficult and there are still good and bad and problems and, and benefits and like, and then it's like, oh, okay, well, so maybe. And then it goes back to the problems, back to, you know, if it goes back and forth a few times in this Internet era where you realize, like, okay, wait a minute, it's not the end of the world.
- [46:02]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [46:02]
Kevin Clancy
Or my team didn't save the day and change everything.
- [46:06]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah. You know, maybe it's not like Monopoly almost.
- [46:08]
Kevin Clancy
Yeah.
- [46:09]
Jessica Singleton
From one side.
- [46:09]
Kevin Clancy
Right, right. And maybe, you know, I mean, we had, we did a little bit of that. It's like I personally, the difference of Trump and Biden administration, like there are differences, there's some good, there's some bad, but overall I think it balances out generally the same. You know, I, I, I, I guess I shouldn't say that because if you're one of these marginalized groups, you'd be like, yeah, easy for you to say, you know, wealthy White man who's got no problems in the world. Like, yeah, you, of course you feel that way. I do understand that. I'm just saying on a very broad general sense, like, it's almost like recognizing your own, like, kind of insignificance. It's like when you think you and your party are gonna change everything. And maybe you do enact change, be like, oh, well, that was like an unintended consequence that's already bad. Or, or when you can enact change and you're just like, I don't know, this is just, yeah, it's not worth blowing up your family or radicalizing, you know, losing your job and like, all these crazy things.
- [47:04]
Jessica Singleton
Like, yeah.
- [47:04]
Kevin Clancy
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- [49:01]
Jessica Singleton
Even throughout life, like, as I get older, all the ups and downs, like, you know, when you're younger, you go through a breakup. You go through, like, getting rejected somewhere, and you're like, oh, end of the world. I like end of the world. And then as you. And then when you're on a high, then you go, oh, I'm happy now. I made it. And then a few months later, you come crashing down, and, like, the older you get, you're more just like.
- [49:24]
Kevin Clancy
But, yeah, you do that three, four times the breakup, and you're like, okay, I'll survive.
- [49:27]
Jessica Singleton
And then you recognize, like, that is Life is, like, up. It's never gonna be ever. And it's just like the wave. The same thing with politics. You're right. Like, it is just like, if, if, like, maybe we're just so young now that we're, like, feeling the ups in the.
- [49:42]
Kevin Clancy
Yeah. Right now that's also a big part of it. Like, you know, kind of. Usually the joke is like, you're born a Democrat, you die a Republican.
- [49:48]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [49:48]
Kevin Clancy
You know, but I think there's some truth to that where it's like, I, I, I really align with a lot of the ideologies of the left, but they are idealistic. A lot of the times, it's like, yeah, I don't know if these are plausible or pragmatic or whatever. And as you get older, that that is so true. I mean, I probably more than ever at this age, I'm realizing the value or just the effect of experience.
- [50:13]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [50:13]
Kevin Clancy
Because when you fail a test in middle school, it is the end of the world.
- [50:18]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [50:18]
Kevin Clancy
And, you know, we kind of roll our eyes at, like, you know, when I see a college kid being like, oh, it's midterms, I'm, like, so stressed, you know, Or a girl goes through a breakup, and it's like, you know, her high school boyfriend and she's acting like the end of the world. And as an adult, you tend to roll your eyes, but you. The. In that moment, that person is experiencing that for the first time.
- [50:39]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, yeah.
- [50:39]
Kevin Clancy
Failure, heartbreak, whatever bad thing they're feeling, they're feeling it for the first time harder than they've ever felt it. And so, like, I bet you've looked at, like, their brain activity. It's the same thing as, like a soldier at war, you know? Seems silly to think that, but it's like they are feeling that way because they don't have the experience to tell them this is not that big of a deal. Yeah, you just can't. You can't buy experience. You can't fake experience. You have to be 20 years older to look back and be like that. Midterm in, you know, 2004 did not matter.
- [51:09]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, yeah.
- [51:10]
Kevin Clancy
You can't tell that to somebody, you know, your boyfriend. You're going to have a million other boyfriends. Like, but I didn't. I had one. And I really told myself we were going to get married and now we're not, you know?
- [51:18]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [51:18]
Kevin Clancy
So. And like, I really. That, like, the phrase of, like, ignorance is bliss, I really think is so true. Because it's just like, the. More at least I think if you're, like a somewhat intelligent person who, like, cares if you are kind of a dummy and you just really can float through life, then, like, whatever. God bless you. Those people are the best. Yeah, I would love to be one of them. But it's like if you care and you think, and you, you know, whatever, when you. Once you start to learn more, it's like, I gotta worry about that. Well, now I'm worried about this, and now I learned about that and I disagree with that. And. And I added bills to my plate and I added relationships to my plate and I got a new job. And it's just like, you add all of that to your plate and that, you know, really changes. So you are. Because when you're. That when you're a kid, you just don't go through any of those things, you know?
- [52:09]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I. I might just be too, like, young and, like, ignorant and, like, stuff might start. But I feel like the mindset that has made me, like, feel the most at peace has been kind of like what we were talking about before, like, riding the wave. Like now when bad stuff happens to me, I mean, I'll be really sad, but I will, like, acknowledge, like, this is just a. Like, laugh at myself for being so human. Like, just be like, this is just a human emotion. Like, Some good.
- [52:42]
Kevin Clancy
I. I mean, I think that's a. Probably a little bit of, like, a defense mechanism, too. Like, I know it certainly was for me. I have done. I've gone through enough, like, bad stuff that I tell myself when I'm on my deathbed.
- [52:53]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [52:55]
Kevin Clancy
I've said this before. Like, I lived life.
- [52:58]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [52:58]
Kevin Clancy
I did it all. I had ups, I had downs. I. You know, extremes of love and heartbreak and failure and success and no money and money and popularity and not popularity. Likable, unlikable. All that. And do I wish that I just, like, kind of led, like, a more level, even life? I got a job, got married. Was any of it, like, fireworks? No, but I also never, like, hit any valleys either.
- [53:29]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [53:30]
Kevin Clancy
Would you rather live that life or one that was, like, loved hard and hated hard, Made money, lost money, like, did well, did. Failed, Like.
- [53:39]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [53:39]
Kevin Clancy
I don't know what's better. All I know is that having done one of the up and down versions, I am latching on to, like, yeah, man, that's just life. That's just being a human. Like, I feel like I'm like, Matthew McAn. That's just living your life, dude. Like, that's. That's what being a man is all about. It's like, maybe. Maybe I'm wrong, but I do know. I'm at least trying to believe that.
- [54:00]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, like. Like missing your flight is so inherently human that it's like, like, almost beautiful. Just like that. That whole, like, being, like.
- [54:09]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah.
- [54:10]
Jessica Singleton
Like, if you really.
- [54:12]
Kevin Clancy
If you attempt to experience, like, the feelings of sadness and failure and the bad feelings as, like, they're just. I think about that movie inside. Inside out.
- [54:25]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [54:26]
Kevin Clancy
There's all the emotions, right? And, like, they're all main characters. You know what I mean? Like, obviously Joy is, like, the big deal, and then, like, guilt or whatever is the bad ones, but if you just treat it as like, this is all a learning experience, this is all something to teach someone else with or feel and just whatever. You know what I mean? And, like.
- [54:47]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [54:47]
Kevin Clancy
Rather than trying to, like, avoid it, fight it, just like, yeah, man, that's. That's part of the gig. Because you really can't avoid it. That's the other thing is, like, I bet if I try to. I really, I think, like, the number one thing in the world, like, if we could all walk a mile in each other's shoes, it would make all the difference in the world. Because there are times where I'm, like, pretty stressed out about stuff, and I'm like, I think objectively I've got a lot on my plate.
- [55:12]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, you do.
- [55:13]
Kevin Clancy
I. I think so. And, you know, when I hear people like, you agree with that, I'm like, okay. I think I'm kind of justified in, like, freaking out a little bit, but, you know, I would love to walk a mile in someone's shoes and be like, oh, well, they don't have those issues, but the issues they do have make them feel the exact same way.
- [55:28]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [55:28]
Kevin Clancy
You know, so it's like, maybe your. Your life is just missing flights, but if it makes you feel the way I feel when I'm dealing with bills and divorce and the Internet and all that stuff, then, hey, like, stop complaining, because everybody. You know, it's like, if I were able to transfer into the body of someone who was living that very medium life.
- [55:48]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [55:49]
Kevin Clancy
And I realized that, like, they don't feel that much happier or they don't feel that much more relaxed or something, I'd be like, oh, all right. Well, yeah, then shut the up or whatever. You know what I mean? But you can't, like, it's empathy.
- [56:01]
Jessica Singleton
That's.
- [56:01]
Kevin Clancy
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I. I mean, empathy is. You gotta, like. I think it's a little bit, like, constructed. You can't, like, actually feel it. You have to, like, you leave space.
- [56:13]
Guest Comedian
Cosplaying.
- [56:14]
Kevin Clancy
Yeah, I'm holding space. Holding space for your experience.
- [56:17]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah. I. I think, like, I feel like I. The past few years, kind of, like, freaked out about, like, what am I gonna do with my life? Like, what? Like, job stuff. But then I. Then I kind of sit back and I'm just like, but what a blessing to, like, live it. Like, have the trope of, like, living in New York, trying to make it in New York.
- [56:33]
Kevin Clancy
Like, there are people who would, like, you're their dream.
- [56:37]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [56:37]
Kevin Clancy
You know?
- [56:38]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah. You shouldn't be. But, like. No, but, like, this.
- [56:40]
Jackie Feidelberg
It's.
- [56:41]
Jessica Singleton
It. I feel like playing out certain tropes in life is. Is so, like, funny and just such a blessing that. I don't know.
- [56:49]
Kevin Clancy
I think, like, stereotypes exist for a reason. Tropes are a thing because it. It garners a reaction from people. You bond over it. Like, you know, when there. It's like every time I walk off of a plane in, like, a new city, like, I have a song on, and I, like, walk out of the plane, and I'm like, I'm the main character, you know? And it's corny and, like, stupid, but it's like. But there's a reason why that evokes that feeling. You Know, it's like every time I'm like driving down the west side highway of New York, like, there are times it's like sunset, I got music blasting, I'm like driving on the Hudson. I can see the skyline or the bridge or whatever it is, and I'm like, this is cool, you know? And like. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, enjoy those things because I think there's. I think there's a reason why movies have those montages or have those songs and have those moments because it makes you, like, feel away. So when you can have those moments in your life, like. Yeah. Like, let it rip, you know?
- [57:45]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [57:46]
Kevin Clancy
I mean, there genuinely are people who are like, I would to be a 20 something girl living in the city, in New York City, in her own apartment, working at like a media company on the Internet. Like, that is my. I will kill someone to be that.
- [58:00]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [58:00]
Kevin Clancy
You know, and you're like, that's just my job and that's just what I do. And you're worried about that. You know what I mean? Yeah, but it. And that's totally like normal and natural too. But it's like there are people who want that and like, so embrace that a little bit. Don't take it for granted.
- [58:16]
Jessica Singleton
Even with like the Danny stuff, like, I can feel myself, like, being so, like, swept up in everything and like, talking about it with other people and like, I can hear myself just being like. But then I'm just like, just let, I don't know, just let yourself absolutely.
- [58:33]
Kevin Clancy
Get swept up in love. Like, if you're not going to get swept up when like, someone sweeps you off your feet.
- [58:40]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [58:41]
Kevin Clancy
What's the point?
- [58:43]
Jessica Singleton
Literally, what's the point?
- [58:44]
Kevin Clancy
Like now, should you be like, like, stupid and like, naive and like, I don't know, I. You let somebody walk all over you because you got, like, swept in love? No, but like, you know, obviously you still have to like, control the situation. But like. Yeah, that's the whole. That's the whole point.
- [58:59]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [59:00]
Kevin Clancy
Is to get swept off your feet by a person or a job or a moment or a thing. You know, it's like, if you're not doing those things, then like, literally what's the point of living?
- [59:08]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah. That being said, if I get too cringe or anything, you gotta reel me back. But like. Yeah, like that, bro, I'll tell you.
- [59:15]
Kevin Clancy
Right now, you're gonna marry Danny. You're gonna marry. You're gonna marry. You're gonna marry him one day. Not. Not saying soon. I'm just saying you guys are, It's a wrap.
- [59:25]
Jessica Singleton
Whatever happens, you're off the market, girl.
- [59:27]
Jackie Feidelberg
Just get swept.
- [59:30]
Jessica Singleton
I don't know, we'll see. Whatever happens.
- [59:32]
Kevin Clancy
But that is like, you know, I, it's also, that's a lot easier to do when you're younger, so, like, really enjoy those moments because, like, I don't know, there's, there's not like, sweep you off your feet moments, I think, when you get older and, or maybe actually I shouldn't say that because what I was going to say earlier about like, getting older is like, as a 40 year old, I look back on some of my decisions in like my 20s and some of the things I was thinking and going through, I'm like, boy, that was like stupid or ignorant or immature or whatever, you know?
- [60:05]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [60:05]
Kevin Clancy
But like, it also applies to like 35. Like, the difference between 35 and 40 is huge to me, but I feel like that 42 to 40 is going to be, you know what I mean? So, like, I do think it just keeps going, which kind of freaks me out.
- [60:20]
Jessica Singleton
What, what do you mean?
- [60:21]
Kevin Clancy
Like, I don't think you'll ever have life figured out.
- [60:26]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [60:27]
Kevin Clancy
You know, and that's a weird thought, but that's why it's better, I think. Just let yourself get swept up because it's like, you think, you know, and maybe two years from now you're going to feel the 100 opposite, you know, because whatever changed in your life, you know.
- [60:40]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [60:40]
Kevin Clancy
Like I, I, yeah. Even just from year to year, I'm like, I would not, I don't even worry about that anymore, you know, But.
- [60:49]
Jessica Singleton
I don't even know if life would be interesting if you did. Like, if you felt like you're like, all right, I made it, I'm good, whatever. And then you're just like, I have like 40 more years to live. 80, like, whatever. Like, wouldn't you kind of feel totally.
- [61:00]
Kevin Clancy
I mean, that that's also the.
- [61:03]
Jessica Singleton
But it is like an unsatisfying feeling to be like, I'm never gonna, like, feel there.
- [61:07]
Kevin Clancy
That's what I, I, I'm, I don't want to be complacent. I like to keep moving forward. I always want to, like, what's next? I'm a big believer in, like, there's always somebody more successful than you, richer than you, more popular than you, whatever. Like, you can always attain more, you know, but that, like, flies in the face of the idea of like, stop and smell the roses.
- [61:27]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [61:28]
Kevin Clancy
And I gotta, I gotta at least personally try to strike a Better balance of that, you know? Like, I don't know. If you had to be one extreme or the other, which would you rather be? The person who is a little bit complacent and, like, so maybe you don't reach your full potential because you're resting on your laurels, but every single day you, like, enjoy and. And you're like, this is good, you know?
- [61:52]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [61:52]
Kevin Clancy
Or. But then you look up when you're, like, 60, and you're like, man, I haven't really done much more than. Than this.
- [61:57]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [61:58]
Kevin Clancy
And you regret it. It's kind of like. It's almost like one lifestyle is. Is hedging against and fighting against having regrets down the road.
- [62:06]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [62:06]
Kevin Clancy
And the other lifestyle is like, I'm not gonna worry about down the road. I'm just gonna enjoy right now. And which. Which is better. Which is, you know, I mean, that's probably a personal decision.
- [62:14]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [62:14]
Kevin Clancy
Obviously, a balance is the best idea, but if you had to pick one, which would you pick?
- [62:18]
Jessica Singleton
Probably the ups and down, like, the fighting just for, like, entertainment purposes. Like, it seems like a little bit more, like, entertaining to shoot for something all the time. Yeah, but I.
- [62:35]
Kevin Clancy
Yeah, it's the swimming pool, man. I go back, it's. Life is a swimming pool. It's like, when I was. There was a time where I was like, having a pool is the coolest thing you can have.
- [62:44]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [62:44]
Kevin Clancy
And then you get a pool, and you're like, I haven't swam in my pool in six months. You know? And it's like, yeah, because you're on to the next thing that you really think is the most important, you know?
- [62:54]
Jessica Singleton
You know, I think I always grew up with a pool. Pool, so, I mean, I grew up with one, but, like. And I never learned how to swim, but I always acknowledged I always loved that pool because I was like, I could learn how to swim.
- [63:05]
Kevin Clancy
It's like America. It's going back to, like, the free speech. Yeah. I can. You know, I don't need to fight for this. Right. I just kind of have it. Yeah. My pool in my backyard.
- [63:12]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, exactly. But. Yeah, so maybe if you could have some kind of, like, balance of that mindset of. I don't know.
- [63:20]
Kevin Clancy
Well, I also, you know, it's like, I. I go back a lot to, like, my early blogging days, and I used to say things with, like, such certainty and such arrogance, and it's like, you didn't know what the. You were talking about. And. But. But that's where it scares me that I'm like, my 50 year old self is gonna say that about my 40 year old self.
- [63:39]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [63:40]
Kevin Clancy
Like, I think I have some things figured out right now and I'm gonna learn. No, the. You do not. You know.
- [63:44]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [63:44]
Kevin Clancy
So. So then I go full circle. I'm like, well then just talk and say whatever you want because you're always a work in progress.
- [63:52]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [63:52]
Kevin Clancy
If you were to say, like, I'm only going to put out content and speak on issues once I have figured it out, you'll never do it because you never figured out, you know?
- [64:00]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [64:00]
Kevin Clancy
Like it's. Oh, you can always. You're always going to learn and evolve and change.
- [64:03]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah. I think I had like a friendship in high school and we would always fight like back and forth and like both of us were like so strong in our. Like, I could tell that she like knew that she. She really thought that she was right and I was like, I really think I'm right on this. But like, I almost feel like that reef did a good job of reframing mindset where like now I leave space for like that's.
- [64:30]
Kevin Clancy
That's what we're talking about with the politics.
- [64:32]
Jessica Singleton
Exactly.
- [64:33]
Kevin Clancy
It's. It's like people can't understand that. You know, Charlie Kirk said like, DEI hires are a bad idea. Whatever. Pick a topic. He did. And I think the problem comes in where it's like, do you actually believe that or are you just saying it like I said for all those other reasons. Money, fame, all that. Because if you're out there spewing like, dumb, and I know you're doing it because like, your podcast audience really likes you and you're gonna sell tickets because of that, then like you, you know.
- [65:04]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [65:05]
Kevin Clancy
But if like I, if you really feel like, like I really am passionate about like gun control, I really think we should do it. But if I could like tap inside someone's brain and they like genuinely feel like if we don't have the right to bear arms, like the government's gonn over and like the country's gonna fall apart. If you like actually feel that way.
- [65:25]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [65:25]
Kevin Clancy
You gotta kind of respect it, like, or not respect it, but like hold space for it or whatever the you want to say. Because it's like they think they're right. Even crazy fundamentalist terrorists. And it's like they. Those people believe this, so what do you expect from them? You know?
- [65:42]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, I think it's like when there's also people who believe it, believe stuff. Like maybe because they. Well, I don't. I might cut this but, like, because they might be, like, inherently racist or something. Yeah, no, like, that's when I'm like, like, again, I think, like, there are people who actually genuinely think, like, oh, if we, like, you know, it's gonna be a domino effect, but when people, like, use it, A, to get tickets, and B, also there's, like, people who use politics to, like, push a.
- [66:22]
Kevin Clancy
Push a up agenda.
- [66:24]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, exactly. Like, that's what I'm like.
- [66:25]
Kevin Clancy
No, totally.
- [66:26]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [66:27]
Kevin Clancy
But I think. I'm not saying you have to like it or just be like, oh, yeah, that's. That's your opinion. But I think you have to recognize that some people are saying those things because they really believe it just as much as you believe the opposite. And you can continue to argue against it and all that shit, but I think you. Your approach needs to change where it's just like, once. Once you realize that they really feel as passionately about one side as you do the other, it's going to change your argument, your debate, whatever it may be. You know what I mean?
- [67:00]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah. Yeah.
- [67:01]
Kevin Clancy
It's like, oh, wow, this is. I think you're just being, like, dumb and you, like, this is. Your brain is telling you. It's like. It's like that kid who failed the test. His brain is telling him that's the most important thing that's ever happened. It's like, I promise you it's not. But you can't just.
- [67:14]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [67:14]
Kevin Clancy
That's what's. You know, in relationships a lot, too. It's like, you can't tell someone their feelings are wrong.
- [67:20]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [67:22]
Kevin Clancy
It might be irrational. It might be illogical. It might be emotional and might be based on, like, an incorrect.
- [67:31]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [67:32]
Kevin Clancy
Fact or something, but that what they're feeling is. That's it. You know what I mean? Like, you can't. I always. That's why my. I have my. My long standing. I would love. If I could do one thing in the world, it would be to simplify breakups.
- [67:49]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [67:50]
Kevin Clancy
That's why if you just. I originally said pineapple was the emoji, and then that became pineapple just became the. The international sign for swinging. So it can't be pineapples. But, like, you're in a relationship with someone. If I send you the owl emoji.
- [68:03]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [68:03]
Kevin Clancy
It means we're done. Like, it means I. I've fallen out of love with you. I don't want to be in this relationship anymore. I don't want to hurt you, and I'm sorry I'm breaking up with you.
- [68:13]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [68:14]
Kevin Clancy
But Rather than go through this whole thing owl you go, I go, we're gone. And I know that's obviously not, like, healthy, and you can't do that, but I get a kick out of, like, I'm watching a show last night, and this guy's like, there's a breakup happening, and he's, like, arguing against her, you know?
- [68:29]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [68:30]
Kevin Clancy
Trying to, like, convince her to stay. And it's like, it's over, dude.
- [68:33]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [68:34]
Kevin Clancy
Like, you can't. No one's gonna be like, oh, you're right. I am back in love with you.
- [68:39]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [68:39]
Kevin Clancy
Because you argued your points. You know what I mean?
- [68:41]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah. Yeah.
- [68:42]
Kevin Clancy
Again, it would be something like, if you broke up with me because I cheated, and I was like, I didn't cheat. That's a different story. But if it's just like, I don't love you enough anymore, I feel like we're going in different directions. I feel like you're holding me back, whatever your reasoning is. And if someone's like, no, no, that's actually not true. Because of xyz. No one in the history of the world has ever been, like, you've convinced me. You're right. I am now back in love with you.
- [69:01]
Jessica Singleton
I don't know. I do feel like it's like, breakups. I feel like I've had a lot of friends who try and break up with people multiple times. So then it doesn't work because they're like, no, you shouldn't break up because, like, I'll, like, how'd it go?
- [69:14]
Kevin Clancy
You might, you might effectively keep the relationship. You might, like, win that argument, but no one's there. Yeah, that's why, that's why you break up on the second or third time, because the emotions don't actually change.
- [69:24]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah. You know, that's a good point.
- [69:25]
Kevin Clancy
I, I, you know, again, generalities. I'm sure there's a couple examples where, like, someone really didn't realize what they had, and, and then they do. And you're like, okay, you're right. But for the most part, once you've reached that point of no return, especially because it's usually like, I felt this six months ago, and I just built up the courage to say it now. You know what I mean? There's been problems, there's been issues. And I just think that the, the amount of strife and, and worry and hurt that breakups. Cause when it's, like, both people, by the way, it's like, you know, usually the dumper gets all the sympathy, but dumping someone's just as Shitty, you know?
- [69:57]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [69:57]
Kevin Clancy
In a different way.
- [69:58]
Jessica Singleton
And there's no, like, songs to help you through.
- [70:00]
Jackie Feidelberg
Very, very rare, you know, you don'.
- [70:03]
Jessica Singleton
Sorry for yourself.
- [70:03]
Kevin Clancy
That kind of goes back to what I'm talking about where, you know, when you really put yourself in someone else's shoes. If you could feel what they're feeling. You getting dumped, you're like, you're an. I'm the victim. This sucks the most for me. But if you could jump inside my brain, in my heart right now and feel that I am like, literally I'm agonizing over how much I'm gonna hurt you.
- [70:20]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [70:21]
Kevin Clancy
And I don't want to do it, but I do believe this is best for both of. And you could actually feel and understand that. I think you would breakups and the whole world would be a better place. You know what I mean?
- [70:31]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [70:32]
Kevin Clancy
That's why I just like, send a send Done.
- [70:34]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah. And also by that point, normally most people know, you know, it's not surprising, you know.
- [70:39]
Kevin Clancy
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [70:40]
Jessica Singleton
So I could see a world which. Whatever. Well, then that's also the whole point of breakups is like, you are being an. Like.
- [70:46]
Kevin Clancy
If you agree, whatever.
- [70:48]
Jessica Singleton
And like. But like, sometimes you got to be an. To, like, do what you gotta do.
- [70:51]
Kevin Clancy
I think also if I think, like, the notion of, like a soul mate or the one or thinking every. Your next relationship is your last because you're going to get married is like a very harmful way to go about it. If you went about work, if you went about relationships the way you went about, like, I don't know, something much more casual in your life where it's like, I do this sometimes, I do this other times, like, it comes, it goes, it's up, it's down, no big deal, you know?
- [71:16]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [71:17]
Kevin Clancy
I think we'd be better off. It's like dating is just something you do. And sometimes you do it for a week, sometimes you do it for a year, sometimes you go for five years, get married and break up. Like, all these things are just kind of like, it comes and it goes. I think people would be in a better spot, but I think they convince themselves that it has to be this person or they have to change this person or work on it. Like, I kind of think, like, sometimes I think if you're going to couples therapy, you just break up.
- [71:41]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [71:42]
Kevin Clancy
You know, if you have kids and extenuating circumstances and you really need to make it work or you're doing it, like, proactively, where it's like, there's a couple issues and we'd like to work on it before they become a big thing. Yeah, that's great.
- [71:52]
Jackie Feidelberg
But once.
- [71:52]
Kevin Clancy
It's like I need a mediator to try to work through the affair, the lies. You lost your job, you're an addict, you're dangerous, you're abusive. All these, like.
- [72:03]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, just be done. Yeah.
- [72:05]
Kevin Clancy
It's like you're just forcing a square peg in a round hole that's going to ruin your life.
- [72:09]
Jessica Singleton
I actually always think about the. There was. I got sent this multiple times because it's this train part, I guess, called a janny. Like a janny. Whatever. I forget what it's called, but essentially it's saying, like, the only reason, like, the reason that it's able to be so secure is because it's like, you know, I don't know how to at all describe it, but it's like basically attaching two cars, the thing that attaches two cars.
- [72:41]
Kevin Clancy
Okay.
- [72:41]
Jessica Singleton
And because it's so loose in grip with each other, like, that's why it's secure.
- [72:51]
Kevin Clancy
That's cool.
- [72:51]
Jessica Singleton
And I. And I think about that, like, with relationships is like, if you believe this is my soul mate, he balances me out in the exact perfect way, like we are yin and yang, then that's gripping too tight and that's like a little bit of fluidity deviate one way. Whereas if you're just kind of like. I don't know, like, I see, like, there's certain things that, like, I'm sure we don't agree on, but, like, nobody said we were perfect for each other. I'm happy.
- [73:17]
Kevin Clancy
That's a great. Yeah. It's like, you need to be able to bend but don't break.
- [73:20]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, exactly.
- [73:21]
Kevin Clancy
Because if you. If you expect someone to just stay on this track the whole time and if they just go a little off, you, like, freak out.
- [73:29]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [73:30]
Kevin Clancy
But it's like, I'm coming back.
- [73:31]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [73:32]
Kevin Clancy
And that, you know, you have to. You have to basically put guardrails on, literally and figuratively, how far you can go one way or the other. There has to be some general understanding. But, yeah, like, like, you know, when. When. When I hear about, like, people who, like, usually it's men, it's women to men. It's like I changed, like, your. Your wardrobe and I change, like, you don't hang out with the same friends anymore and all that. It's like, you don't love that person. You love the person you're, like, molding and creating. You know what I mean?
- [73:59]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, Yeah.
- [74:00]
Kevin Clancy
I. I think. Yeah. If you if I think, I think people just put too much weight in relationships. In a way. It's like you let it, like, define your. Whether you're a success or a failure, you. Whether to find whether you're happy or sad. And it's kind of like, I think of it more. I was like, work. It's like some people have a job that they, like, really love, but for the most part, it's like something you just do and you have to make some money. And sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, but, like, you find your happiness in other ways, you know?
- [74:28]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [74:28]
Kevin Clancy
I think it should just be, like, one of the ways you're finding happiness.
- [74:31]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [74:32]
Kevin Clancy
But it becomes, for a lot of people, like, the, the only thing, the way the, you know, the biggest and most important and only way to be happy. And it's like, well, you're putting all your eggs in that basket, and it's gonna evolve and it's gonna change and then what?
- [74:44]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah. Yeah.
- [74:46]
Kevin Clancy
I like that, though.
- [74:46]
Jessica Singleton
The.
- [74:47]
Kevin Clancy
Keep the train on the track by letting it, like, wobble a little bit, you know, you need some wiggle room.
- [74:52]
Jessica Singleton
That's why I feel like opposites attract, because it's like, well, this shouldn't even work out. So I, it's kind of a. Just a bonus when it does work out.
- [75:00]
Kevin Clancy
But I mean, the idea too, like, I, I, I think if you believe in, like, an actual soulmate or something, you're like, there's 8 billion people in the world and you stumbled into this person who you believe is, like, karmically attached to you.
- [75:20]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [75:21]
Kevin Clancy
Not just that you lived in the same town and went to the same high school.
- [75:23]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, exactly.
- [75:24]
Kevin Clancy
And like, or, you know, we work together and you fit what I like physically, and you're tolerable.
- [75:30]
Jackie Feidelberg
Like, that's really what it comes, you know?
- [75:31]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [75:31]
Kevin Clancy
It's like the thought that, you know, you have a soul mate and that you happen to find it. What if your soulmate lives in Australia? You're never going to see that person.
- [75:40]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [75:40]
Kevin Clancy
I think that that shit is so, so silly.
- [75:43]
Jessica Singleton
No, I, I think that's like, for some reason, Love island made me rethink this just because you could see the chemistry between two people. Like, it would be two really hot people talking to each other, but you could just see it just, like, wasn't working out.
- [75:58]
Kevin Clancy
Yeah.
- [75:59]
Jessica Singleton
And you could just. There's just different levels of chemistry with people that.
- [76:04]
Kevin Clancy
Well, Love Island's kind of the perfect example of the extremes. Like, I remember when Jeremiah and Hodo Were like fighting and I was like, these people have known each other for like five days and they're like ruining their lives over each other rather than just being like, peace.
- [76:18]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [76:18]
Kevin Clancy
What is it? I guess that's an ego thing or. I mean, I'm sure there's a million reasons why somebody is like, I'm staking my claim. It has to be this person and I have to convince them to like be with me or stay with me or whatever, rather than just being like.
- [76:32]
Jessica Singleton
All right, didn't work out cool. I'm.
- [76:35]
Kevin Clancy
That's why I'm telling you. If you, if you simplified the breakup, I think the amount of people who stay in relationships because they can't go through the breakup are. I bet you it's very, very high.
- [76:45]
Jessica Singleton
Oh, totally.
- [76:45]
Kevin Clancy
Like, I think about the divorce rate. I think, you know, people say it's like 56 or whatever.
- [76:49]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [76:49]
Kevin Clancy
It's probably another like 30 that wants to be divorced and is too afraid to do it or can't do it or religiously or family wise or whatever. Can't do it. So it's like, I think there's like.
- [77:00]
Jessica Singleton
15 of people are happily married.
- [77:01]
Kevin Clancy
I think the rest are either not married or want to be not married.
- [77:04]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah. I saw like an article or something that was saying that people like you shouldn't move in together until after marriage. Because if it's before marriage and before you've like made the final decision, like, I want to spend the rest of my life with this person. Now you're financially attached already and like now you have too much at stake. Stake where so many people are like, it's so much harder to break up with the other person because of the whole apartment living through this situation rather.
- [77:35]
Kevin Clancy
Than like, so, so their thought is like, stay independent because there's less stuff to get complicated.
- [77:44]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah. Like make the decision to spend the rest of your life with the person without any financial.
- [77:51]
Kevin Clancy
That I can understand. I don't know. I don't. I think I, I have to live with somebody before I marry them.
- [77:57]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [77:58]
Kevin Clancy
Because I, I think you have to live with somebody, have sex with somebody, and maybe that's really it that like.
- [78:07]
Jessica Singleton
You have to do first fight with somebody.
- [78:10]
Kevin Clancy
Yeah, I guess so.
- [78:12]
Jessica Singleton
Because I think that you need to know, like, how, how they fight. How they fight.
- [78:15]
Kevin Clancy
Yeah. But what if you just like have a really good couple years where you're not, like, you meet someone, you're not fighting and it's like, should you pick a fight? Should you wait for a fight?
- [78:25]
Jessica Singleton
You know what I mean? I don't like your hair today.
- [78:28]
Kevin Clancy
Yeah. Are you gonna, like, hit me if I say that?
- [78:30]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah, you gotta know.
- [78:31]
Kevin Clancy
Yeah, that, that's a good one. That I think most people will just, it'll just happen naturally. But if you were to, like, not end up fighting with someone, do you have to, like, hold off?
- [78:40]
Jessica Singleton
No. Then I guess, like, that's, that's good. That's really good.
- [78:43]
Kevin Clancy
It's just super probably not gonna happen and pretty rare and idealistic. But, but like, if, if you move in with someone and you are like, wait a minute, you eat this way, sleep this way, talk this way, act this way, like it's, none of it's compatible. Like you can't marry that person.
- [78:58]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, but I feel like it's like at that point you've probably gotten enough. Maybe, maybe not. But you probably, I don't think, you know, you would know.
- [79:05]
Kevin Clancy
I, I think a big problem with, like, a lot of my opinion of divorce, at least, is like, everything else in life, you get to like, do and practice and try and fail and then marriage and kids, there's none of that. You're expected to marry and, and, and, and stay married and you're expected to, like, have a kid and, like, know what you're doing. Yeah. Everything else in life you like. It was my first job and I like it up. That was my starter house. That was my first attempt, whatever. And you, like, learn from your mistakes. And the idea is, okay, that's why you date and that's why you do move in with someone first. Or that's why, you know, you, you basically do everything except like, the ring and marriage, because then you basically get like, a preview of it. I think that like 90 of the time does work, you know.
- [79:58]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [79:58]
Kevin Clancy
If you're living with someone day to day, all the time, sharing everything, you're basically married. Hopefully when you propose and you move in and you live, you know, you're married, you, you, it stays the same. But I think, you know, you just don't know. You only know that person as your boyfriend or girlfriend. Like, you think you know them as your wife or husband until you don't. Like, I, I, I, I, I feel like I've seen enough, heard enough, and lived enough where it's like the ring changed things, having a baby change things, moving to the burbs change things. Where it's like, wait a minute, this is, oh, interesting, you know, and so that's why I, I think the, the bigger, the bigger, more like, important thing is to find somebody that you know you can evolve with. But that I. Is a hard thing to. It's like, it's easy to identify someone. Like, we have the same sense of humor. We have, we like the same entertainment, we like to go out or not go out. We like music, we like these things that we do and we enjoy each other's company. We. We like the sex is great. The. All that, you know, you can live that and experience that and know I like this. And I think most people do that and they're like, I hope it doesn't change, you know.
- [81:13]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [81:13]
Kevin Clancy
But when it does change, then what? And I, I think it's hard to like, identify in a person when, when things go differently, you'll still be somebody I like, you know?
- [81:25]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [81:26]
Kevin Clancy
If you, if you meet somebody and you have a bunch of money, it's like, would they still love you and be cool with you if you didn't have money? You can like, feel that out and get a gauge for it. But you don't know until you know. You know what I mean? And like, I think you're the person that I want to have kids with, but when the day comes and you're. You're pregnant and irritable and you're fighting, it's like, well, wait, I didn't know that was gonna happen. You know, whatever. I think trying to identify, like, you're really down with me.
- [81:56]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [81:56]
Kevin Clancy
And like, we will figure it out together no matter what is the most important thing. It's just also the hardest thing to learn and identify, you know?
- [82:04]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah. I like, I think a big thing for me is because I'm such a people pleaser and like, I have such a good fear of being a burden.
- [82:15]
Kevin Clancy
Where what I am with you, by the way, on that, like.
- [82:18]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [82:19]
Kevin Clancy
Not burning other people drives like a hundred percent of my daily decisions.
- [82:23]
Jessica Singleton
Exactly. And so I, and I. And I think about that, like, the thought of marriage and kids scares me a lot because I think the thought of having a kid to me feels first in. This is a bad way to think, but it feel. I already have the fear that it's going to be a burden on my husband and that I'm gonna be like, no, no, it's fine. You don't have to like, do anything. Like, I don't know.
- [82:49]
Kevin Clancy
I'll take care of it all.
- [82:50]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, I'll take care of it all. So like my, I never was attracted to the bad boy because I was just like picturing my life down the road and being like somebody. Like, I, I need somebody who's Just like not gonna make me feel, feel like a burden.
- [83:10]
Kevin Clancy
Yeah.
- [83:11]
Jessica Singleton
And who's, who wants to do the things rather than like a bad boy? Like, I'd be like, oh, no, like I don't, like, I got you do whatever the, you want to please like him as much as possible. Whereas somebody like the, the most important factor like that I look for is are you like gonna be happy? Like, am I gonna. I don't know. I'm not explaining it well.
- [83:32]
Kevin Clancy
No, I mean that, that, that the people pleasing thing is a very good short term strategy and a horrible long term strategy. You know? Like, I, I feel like in my experience there was so many things that I bit my tongue on in this for the sake of like, I don't want to fight. I want you to be happy. I'll change, give in, whatever, you know. And in the short term that worked, but it all piles up, you know?
- [84:02]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [84:02]
Kevin Clancy
And you have to be able to say, like, if I don't speak up for myself now or establish that I want this to be different or tell you that this is the way I do things. Whatever it is, like in the short term that's going to cause a fight and maybe even a breakup. But then you probably should break up with that person. It's when you tell them that and they don't break up and they are cool with it, that it's like, okay, now you've learned a little bit that this is a person you can evolve with and grow with, you know?
- [84:26]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [84:26]
Kevin Clancy
And I, I learned that it's actually bad and immature to do. To do what I do. You know what I mean? It's sort of like love bombing. The same thing as love bombing. It's like it took me a while to realize that I was like, probably a love bomber. I don't think anything like crazy and extreme, but when I first met somebody and I like them, I would go all in, you know?
- [84:52]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [84:52]
Kevin Clancy
And I'm like being cute and we're texting and talking all the time and dates and sex and fun and attention, all that. In my mind I was like, that's a good thing. I'm like, that's what she wants. I'm being a good guy and being a nice guy and being a good boyfriend, whatever it is. But you realize you're just kind of like establishing some expectations and some boundaries and some like, ground rules that if you can keep that up, then like, great. You know what I mean? But when things like change a little bit, you have to kind of be prepared for that. Person to be like, what the dude?
- [85:25]
Jessica Singleton
Like, yeah.
- [85:25]
Kevin Clancy
Why, why are you so different right now? And it's like, oh, yeah. Like, I, I, I learned that that's, you know, actually detrimental to somebody.
- [85:33]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [85:33]
Kevin Clancy
And not just like, I'm being really nice and they need to figure out. It's like, no, be nice, but don't, don't establish, like, unrealistic standards for your relationship. You know what I mean?
- [85:41]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [85:42]
Kevin Clancy
And I think that's kind of the same thing, like, people pleasing where you're not picking fights or not like, speaking your mind is rooted in the idea of, like, I'm doing this for this person, but actually you're doing a lot of damage to that person because you're.
- [85:54]
Jessica Singleton
It'S going to come out at some point.
- [85:55]
Kevin Clancy
Right.
- [85:56]
Jessica Singleton
And it's going to come out in, like a way that blindsides them.
- [85:58]
Kevin Clancy
Right. And, and like, I, I mean, I did it in the worst way of, like, if you do it in a relationship, fine, whatever, like, not great. But it happens. Once you're doing with marriage, you do with families and kids. It's like, you know, you really have to take that seriously in the beginning because even things that you think are maybe good or right are actually maybe wrong. Or at the very least, like, you're making, you're gonna make it difficult down the road.
- [86:20]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, yeah, totally.
- [86:22]
Kevin Clancy
But that's, it's hard. You have to be like, a little bit selfish in life.
- [86:27]
Jackie Feidelberg
Like.
- [86:27]
Kevin Clancy
Yeah, sometimes being selfish is actually better for. And that's something that, like, a manipulative, like, narcissistic person would say and use that, like, to their advantage. But there is truth in that. Like, if you're not a piece of. You know what I mean?
- [86:39]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [86:40]
Kevin Clancy
If you're just being like, I'm, I'm not being selfish. I'm being, like, honest. And I, like, no, you're being a selfish. You know, but there are, there are times where, like, honesty is absolutely necessary and it's going to hurt this person and you have to do it because, you know, you have to figure out whether you're going to last or not. You know what I mean?
- [86:57]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah. Yeah.
- [86:59]
Kevin Clancy
But that idea of like, you know, you got to know, you got to know exactly what you're doing when you go into marriage, because it's supposed to be forever is kind of like, I don't know. That's why when I, when people get married early, like, but you just can't possibly. No, no, you're like 23, 24, whatever. You know, Jackpocket is America's number one lottery app, the best app and I believe the only app to sell official state sponsored lottery tickets. I'm going to open up the app right here and see what we're working with. We just wrapped up with that nearly 2 billion dollar Mega Millions jackpot. A Powerball jackpot. Jackpot. And now we're on our way to building it back up. So what are we at right now? Powerball is a paltry 127 million but mega Millions is getting up there. We're almost at half a billy for Mega Millions. They also have the regular smaller ones take five win four numbers day. If you're in certain states you can do the scratch offs where you can just do like a little touchscreen scratch and get your satisfaction that way. All available right here on your phone. All you got to do. I'll actually buy a ticket right now to show you how easy it goes. Let me go to Mega Millions. I'm going to click order. I'm going to go five dollar quick pick. I slide to order and that's it. I got myself $5 worth of mega millions in five seconds. So right now if you want to get $5 in free lottery credits, you can sign up for Jackpocket and use promo code KFC2. You click opt in to redeem it when you sign up and buy a ticket. $5 in free lottery credits. So that's a couple dollars. It's like two bucks for a Powerball ticket. So you can get two free Powerball tickets or you could put five bucks into any of the games you want, all for free. When you use promo code KFC2 when you download Jackpocket today, that's Jackpocket, America's number one lottery app. Jackpocket gambling problem. Call 1-800- gambler in New York. Call 877-8-HOPE and WHY or text HOPE and WHY. 18 or older, 19 or older in Nebraska, 21 or older in Arizona. Jackpocket is a lot of lottery courier and not affiliated with any state. Lottery eligibility restrictions apply. Void were prohibited opt in for $5 in non withdrawable lottery credits that expire in 168 hours terms at JKPT Co draw 5 scratch tickets subject to availability sponsored by jackpocket. The whole idea in general of like you're with this person forever. It's like you know you're going to change drastically over the course of 50 years.
- [89:23]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [89:24]
Kevin Clancy
How do you know that that, that that person is going to be cool with the new you and you're going to be cool with the new them. And I mean, that's again, you have to figure out the person that you can grow with.
- [89:34]
Jessica Singleton
But yeah, hard.
- [89:35]
Kevin Clancy
That's hard.
- [89:35]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [89:36]
Kevin Clancy
Everything else you're allowed to like, do and fail and up. I got fired, I blew my dream job. I whatever. And people are just like, ah, that's how it goes. But you do, you know, you do that with marriage or something and it's.
- [89:50]
Jessica Singleton
Like you, yeah, that's a good, that's a really good.
- [89:53]
Kevin Clancy
And then parenting, forget about parenting, is like everything in the world. You need a license, you need training, you need a degree, you need understanding. You could be the most, like, immature failure of a person. Can't provide, don't know what you're doing. You can pop out a kid.
- [90:12]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [90:13]
Kevin Clancy
You can't, you can't like, police it, you know, Then you, you can't tell people when they can and can't have kids. All of a sudden you're like China. But it does feel like there should be like, well, you can't do it yet. And there's a whole swath of the population. You shouldn't be doing this at all. You shouldn't be doing it yet.
- [90:27]
Jessica Singleton
You know, like, you like driver's license type thing.
- [90:29]
Kevin Clancy
Yeah, for real.
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Jessica Singleton
And, and they're so impressionable at such a young age when you're trying to figure everything out.
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Kevin Clancy
It's like that's when I'm stumbling through. It is when you need me the most.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah, yeah.
- [90:39]
Kevin Clancy
It's like grandparents should almost. You know what I mean?
- [90:42]
Jessica Singleton
Like, yeah, that's a good point.
- [90:43]
Kevin Clancy
I have the kid, you raise it, then I'll raise your.
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Jackie Feidelberg
Their kids.
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Jessica Singleton
I could say I'll pick it up after, you know, 18.
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Kevin Clancy
Well, you know, having a nanny is like, it's her job, you know, like, yeah, my nanny, like, takes it serious, like a job. And I always say to her, I'm always kind of like, you're, you're a saint. You know what I mean? She's like, but I get to go home at the end of the day. So, like, I, I take on this burden as my job. I get paid for it. I take it seriously, I work, I work hard and it's stressful, but it is my job that I go home at the end of the night and I don't have to worry about it, whereas you have to pick up the other side of things where. And so that kind of made me realize, but it's like, yeah, I think sometimes other influences in their life Are doing like the real raising. You know what I mean? Especially if you're going to be like, I gotta provide for you. It's hard to also be the one that's there every moment. And yeah, you know, it's like gotta wear many, many different hats.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
Not easy.
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Jessica Singleton
I've thought about what you said about like. No. When you want to have like serious conversations with your kids, but you're just.
- [91:42]
Kevin Clancy
Like, I mean, how many times have you pushed off a serious conversation with anybody? Right?
- [91:47]
Jessica Singleton
So many.
- [91:47]
Kevin Clancy
And now I, I can do that with an 8 year old. I can push that on. Yeah. It's hard enough to do it. It's easy enough to do it with like an adult where you're like, oh, we'll do that later. It's like when it's a kid where you, you decide literally what's gonna happen, what's not gonna happen. It's so easy.
- [92:02]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
Push it off, you know?
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Jessica Singleton
You know what I. A fun fact that I learned the other day is the. So when you're up until seven years old, something about like your brain, that's when you're most impressionable. And when you like absorb the most and it like builds your foundation right before you go to. It's like the theta brainwave. Some. I don't. Okay, I'm not explaining it well. But the theta brain something state right before you go to bed and right when you wake up, your brain is in that theta state.
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Kevin Clancy
Okay, wait, what is the theta state is when you're.
- [92:35]
Jessica Singleton
It's just when you're motion press.
- [92:36]
Kevin Clancy
Okay.
- [92:37]
Jessica Singleton
And like everything. It's like the subconscious is kind of building.
- [92:42]
Kevin Clancy
So. So at 7, your theta is like the most impressionable. But then even as an adult, mornings and night is when your theta is impressionable.
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Jessica Singleton
Like right before you fall asleep. So like if you say stuff like to yourself, like if you're just like, I am really good at basketball. I'm really good at basketball. I'm really good at basketball. Like right before you're falling asleep, right.
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Kevin Clancy
When you wake up yourself into thinking that.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah. Like then it kind of is the bet. That's when your brain's the most malleable. If you want to.
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Kevin Clancy
Like that makes sense. I think that makes sense. I, I feel like I. My night times are and mornings. So maybe this makes sense. Like I, I used to wake up in like the middle of the night in like a panic and I was trying to tell myself, I'm like, is that my honest brain talking or is that like I'm just Having a nightmare. And you don't need to worry about that. You know what I mean? Like, is, is. And I'm, I think, you know, you usually know the answer is like, I think this is my honest brain talking and I need to fix this problem. You know, but it's nice to be like, oh, no, that was just me, like, you know, at my most irrational. It's like, no, no, this is when you're really feeling it and thinking it, so you gotta address it. That, that, that makes sense to me. And did you see McConaughey's new latest thing? He, he went on the View and he said the key to his marriage is that he downsized his bed.
- [94:03]
Jessica Singleton
Oh.
- [94:03]
Kevin Clancy
He said, no bigger than a queen size bed.
- [94:06]
Jessica Singleton
Wow.
- [94:07]
Kevin Clancy
And there's, there's, I think, a couple reasons behind that, but the main one, and this makes total sense, is you don't have your kids in bed with you.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
People who have a, a king sized bed, their kids sleep with them. They sleep with them too long, they're in bed way too old, and then it's just a burden on you and your relationship and all that. Which, that part makes total sense because I think your bed is like your home, you know? Like, I think at night, crawling into your. If you can't, like, crawl into your bed and be like, at peace, I don't think you'll have peace in your life. I think that will permeate through, like, everything in your life.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [94:45]
Kevin Clancy
And, and I think so the idea of, like, if you have a smaller bed, your kids can't just jump in there with you. They don't want to sleep in there with you. And you. First of all, if you have like, kids in your bed constantly, you're not gonna have sex and that's gonna be a problem.
- [94:58]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [94:59]
Kevin Clancy
And then, but beyond that, it's like, I want to be comfortable, I want to be cozy.
- [95:04]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [95:05]
Kevin Clancy
I want to relax. And that's. I think when you, like, have conversations with your person, like, you know, like late at night, like, what's on your mind? Tell me. And you like, get it out. Or you, you know, have that conversation. You can't do that if you have kids running around or you're reading your book or you're even, you're on your phone or you put on your white noise or you put on the TV or whatever it is. Like you're in bed and it's good.
- [95:27]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [95:28]
Kevin Clancy
You know, and I think if you make your bed situation bad, I think it, like, will up everything they say.
- [95:35]
Jessica Singleton
Like, don't work in bed, don't eat in bed. Because it's, if you just want to.
- [95:38]
Kevin Clancy
Associate it with, with like relaxing. Yeah, I, I can definitely believe that. I mean, the kid thing is interesting. It's like. Oh yeah, yeah. Like I, I think what, what he's talking about and what I'm talking about here is like, when you have like a 12 year old in bed with you all the time, it's like, this is weird. There's a problem. You know, I, when you're in like the thick of it, when my kids weren't sleeping and like the only way I could get a couple hours of shut eye, it's like just coming back, you know, I would like, you go in there, you, you feed them, you rock them, you rub them, you sing to them. Hopefully that works. After a little while, if that doesn't work, we're going to bed, you know, that's just survival mode. I also like, my kids are 10 and 8. They sleep in their own bed, but every now and then it's like they want, it's almost like a sleepover. It's like going to camp, you know, like, can I sleep in your bed? It's like, yeah, fine. And usually I let them do that. There's, they're so big now that I tell them we're doing that and then I just like sleeping on the couch, you know?
- [96:35]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
But they get excited for it. You know, it's, the problem is when it's like almost a functioning adult being, like, okay, let's go to bed. They hop in with you. It's like that is going to affect a lot of things. So I, I, I agree with that. The other side of it though is I think the opposite. Like, I think when it comes to actually sleeping, you should have separate beds.
- [96:58]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [96:58]
Kevin Clancy
Separate rooms.
- [97:00]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [97:00]
Kevin Clancy
Like I am all for. I, I used to preach separate beds and separate dinner.
- [97:06]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, right. Yeah.
- [97:06]
Kevin Clancy
And then I ended up dorsed, so what do I know? But I do believe that like eating food and sleeping are like bodily functions that you need to take care of for yourself. You know what I mean?
- [97:20]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [97:20]
Kevin Clancy
I, I've been in relationships where it's like, what are we eating for dinner? And it's like we, for some reason we have to eat at the same time and eat the same thing. And it's like, what if I'm not hungry and what if I don't like this thing? You know, we can order from two different places where you cook yourself some chicken. I'm gonna make myself a Burger. And I'm not hungry right now, so I'll eat in an hour. Like, I don't think that's crazy. Yeah, you know, I do understand the importance of like eating to like sharing a meal, like all that. So like, you do need to do those things, but I just don't think you need to like. No, I totally force it or whatever. You know what I mean? Or even like, I'm not hungry. You are, but I'll like sit with you while you eat and we can talk, like almost have like a dinner table discussion. I'm just not gonna eat.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
You know, that's why I also hate when you're on like a date and it's like, oh, you're, that's all you're eating. Like I'm gonna feel like self conscious about what I'm eating. It's like, I'm not, I don't know, I'm not as hungry as you are.
- [98:07]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, you're hungry.
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Kevin Clancy
I'm not. Like, that shouldn't be a point of stress or contention, you know? Yeah, and kind of the same thing with sleeping is like if you like at a certain temperature, you like the bed a certain way. I like firm, you like soft, I like hot, you like cold. I want a lot of pills. You want no pills. Like go to bed together, snuggle, hang out, talk. And then it's like, okay, it's time to now go to sleep. I'm going to my bed. Or at least I'm going to the other side of a king size bed. Not like we live in a queen or a full and we're like touching each other still.
- [98:40]
Jessica Singleton
You know, there should be like some kind of bed that splits off like senses when you are fall asleep and then splits off or like, like a.
- [98:48]
Kevin Clancy
Partition, like shoom, like a wall comes up or something and then, yeah, the morning zoom goes down. Good morning.
- [98:53]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
- [98:54]
Kevin Clancy
I, I, I, I have since learned the importance of like, if you start eating dinner alone all the time, you start going to bed separately. Bad news, bad news. Not done. But it's just like you should, you should take a look at. Is that because you guys are just like very chill and everyone's, you can do their own thing. Or is it like I'm going to bed separately because I don't want to talk. Like I don't want to be around you. You know what I mean? Those are those two different things. But I have since learned that, you know, my, my crusade of separate beds and separate dinners comes with, with a little bit of a caveat where other things have to be in place and good. But I do find it funny that it's like, these are literally just, like, things your body needs to do.
- [99:34]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [99:35]
Kevin Clancy
At different times and different from different people.
- [99:38]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [99:39]
Kevin Clancy
Yeah. So. But that's all the stuff you, like, have to try to learn. That's why I think you have to live with somebody.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah, that's a good point.
- [99:45]
Kevin Clancy
If we're gonna. If we are gonna eat together all the time and sleep together all the time, that's like, how our. Our relationships, at least, like, in this world work. Then you got to know how that person sleeps and eats and all those things.
- [99:54]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
I mean, the cr. Have you seen the show on Hulu, the virgin show? It's called. What's it called? Do you know the name of it? Yeah, it's like, it's not. Are you the one? Because that's a different show. But it's like, are you my first? Or something like that. And it's like 20 virgins all on a show together.
- [100:12]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [100:12]
Kevin Clancy
And they all have their different reasons. One girl was like, medical. Like, there's a hot chick who's like. Has some sort of. Some sort of. I don't want to say disease, but like, a situation where, like, anything entering her vagina hurts her. She's like, I. I can't. I can't use tampons. I can't. Like. I don't know. I don't know what it is, but. So she's like. The thought of, like, sex is, like, scares me. So then there's. I think there's a guy who's just like, I just haven't gotten laid. You know, they're all different variations of why they're. Why they're virgins. I can't imagine. I just can't imagine being. If you're. If you don't have a medical problem and you are. You can get laid. You know what I mean?
- [100:54]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [100:55]
Kevin Clancy
Like, it would take a disaster of a situation for you to not be able to get laid. You know what I mean?
- [100:59]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
And you just, like, don't do it for religious reasons or whatever. Like, I just can't imagine that. That, to me, is so crazy.
- [101:08]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah. I.
- [101:09]
Kevin Clancy
And then especially get in a relationship with someone, be like, what if. Yeah, we. Okay, we got married. We live separately, didn't have sex. We got married. We move in together. We. We. Our living styles completely clash. And, like, you're terrible in bed. Now what? Yeah, now what the. Do you do?
- [101:28]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, I. I think. But I Think, like, as. Yeah. Wait, sorry, I missed the first part, though. Is this a show? That's.
- [101:39]
Kevin Clancy
Yeah. So there's a show. It's. It's my first. Are you my first.
- [101:42]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, got it. Okay.
- [101:43]
Kevin Clancy
And there. I actually. I only watched, like, the first episode or two, so I didn't really get into, like, what, like, the challenges are, how the voting works or any of that. But I do know I saw one girl on a podcast that the guy she linked up with just lied. And I was like, that was my first question. It's like, these guys are lying, you know, Especially if you think that. That this is going to be the next Love island and you could become famous or something. And it's like, all I got to do to get on the show, because I can't imagine the applicant pool was that big.
- [102:08]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [102:09]
Kevin Clancy
Like, okay, we have adult virgins who are.
- [102:11]
Jessica Singleton
They're all Want to be known.
- [102:14]
Kevin Clancy
Want to be known as that. And they're all, like, mostly conventionally attractive. Like, I'm sure you can go find a lot of versions who are horribly overweight or deformed or something terrible like that.
- [102:24]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
These are, like, normal people. Hot girls attract, like, guys who, like, of high enough value that women would want them, you know?
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [102:32]
Kevin Clancy
And they all were like, no, we just never had sex.
- [102:36]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [102:37]
Kevin Clancy
I don't think I believe any of them.
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Jackie Feidelberg
I don't think I believe any of them.
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Jessica Singleton
I feel like, for me, I don't have any interest in having sex until I am actively. Like, I need to be like. Like, it's like an engine where I need to be consistently having sex to have, like, normal, like, hormone okay levels. But if not, I could go long periods of time, like, not having sex. And like, even, like, I think in high school, it was more like a stigma thing, losing, I'm sure.
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Kevin Clancy
Yeah. Yeah. That's. That's where I think the experience for guys and girls is, like, wildly different, too, you know?
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
Like, that's what. When girls are like, I love sex, like, just as much as a guy. I'm like, sure, there are cases where that's the case, but, like, in general, I think there's a pretty big disconnect there. You know what I mean?
- [103:27]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
I think a girl, if she's not comfortable having sex with someone or doesn't want to, whatever, can just, like, stop, and it's fine.
- [103:33]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [103:34]
Kevin Clancy
Whereas a guy, even if, like, you don't, like, if you're not having sex, you're trying to change that.
- [103:43]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [103:43]
Kevin Clancy
You know what I mean? You might not succeed. And you might be like, oh, my God, it's been a year, but not for lack of trying, you know, Whereas a girl, I think in certain situations, you're like, I'm good. I don't need this. And I think that's a big. There's a big difference. Like, that's another thing if. If guys and girls can walk a mile in each other's shoes, where it's like sex dynamics and cheating and monogamy and relationship behavior and all that. It's like, I think if I could understand how you view sex and you could understand how I view sex, like, we would be on the same page a lot more.
- [104:16]
Jessica Singleton
I think when I'm on my period, I am like, oh, this must be what it feels like. Like, it's on top of mind a lot.
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Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah.
- [104:24]
Jessica Singleton
More.
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Kevin Clancy
And if that was every single day. And then you factor in things like the stigma of, like, if you're not having sex, you're not cool. You're not. You're not a value. You know what I mean? Then. So there's a lot of pressure and weird that goes on with guys, especially at their impressionable age. But my favorite story, I don't even know if it's real or not, but there's, like, an Internet thing goes viral every now and then. There's a girl who transitioned to a guy and took hormones and testosterone and changed her appearance and lived like a guy and went back. She was like, this is terrible. Like, she was like, I don't know how you guys do it. Like, you're walking around with a loaded gun. Your brain is all up. Testosterone is raging. People don't treat you this way. They expect this from you, like, at all. She got to, like, walk a mile on the other half. And she was like, this sucks.
- [105:14]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [105:14]
Kevin Clancy
And I mean, that's, you know, dramatic. And I know, like, at the end of the day, there is, like, no better position than to be, you know, a. An American white male. Like, you got so many doors open and so much opportunity, and all that shit's true. But also, if you, you know, jumped inside this house of horrors for a little bit, I think you'd understand, like, oh, that's why he did that or said that or believes that or acts like that, you know?
- [105:40]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
That's where I think a lot of differences inherently come from. It's just very hard to, especially once you live for a while, if you're not constantly putting yourself in positions to, like, learn more or be challenged or whatever. You just, like, fall into Your way of life. And I, and I think you expect everyone else to kind of feel that way too. You know what I mean?
- [106:02]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [106:03]
Kevin Clancy
It's like you just expect, if a woman just. I expect this guy to, like, treat me this way and, and be this and be that and when he's not, like, you can't wrap your head around why not? But it's like if you were to see things from their point of view, you would get it, you know, kind of, that's, I guess that's kind of the theme of the whole episode. To go back to politics and all that is like, you have to really try to see things from the other side, not just like, say it, like, do it and like, get it, you know?
- [106:30]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah. Like a trust that the person has their, yeah. Their, like, emotional connection to their. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [106:39]
Kevin Clancy
Right, right. So that is kind of, I mean, the, I don't know if the queen size bed is the answer, but it's, I understand that notion of like, you know what he's talking about there.
- [106:52]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, that's a, I, the queen size bed thing, that was, that makes sense.
- [106:56]
Kevin Clancy
I, I, I get it. For the kids, the rest of it, I'm. Give me a double California kid.
- [107:02]
Jessica Singleton
Fluffy pillows.
- [107:03]
Kevin Clancy
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- [108:59]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [109:00]
Kevin Clancy
Wait, Mr. Portnoy? Mike Portnoy. Cousin Mike has said a lot of things over the years. A lot of silly takes, crazy takes, whatever you want to call it. This might be the most bonkers. First of all, he said that he has not used his George Foreman grill since George Foreman died, okay. And he said that as if, like, everybody would have, like, retired their George Foreman Grill, okay. Because the inventor and the spokesman of it died. Which I just. I don't quite get that.
- [109:32]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [109:33]
Kevin Clancy
Imagine if you were just like, you know, like, Steve Jobs died. Steve Jobs dead. I can't do that anymore.
- [109:41]
Jessica Singleton
Sorry. He's out of respect for, I think.
- [109:43]
Kevin Clancy
So I only saw the clip, so I didn't get, like, the whole. But he was sort of just like, I haven't used it since he died. And. And the guys were like, should I stop using mine, too? And he was sort of like, yeah, he's dead now. As if that was a totally normal thing. And then he said. He said he doesn't use his George Foreman girl. Oh. And that he was just like, I thought George Foreman was never gonna die. I kind of get what he says. Like, I just thought he was indestructible and, like, so, like, strong that I can't believe he died. But the first statement was sort of like, I just. I never thought that man was gonna die. Everybody does, bro. It was. It was a truly great clip that I feel like, you know, obviously Mike Portnoy is very inside the barstool bubble. So I think barstool fans are gonna see that and love that. But that. I was like, this almost should be, like, viral. Viral where it's like this man retired his George Foreman girl because George Foreman died is one of my favorite.
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Jessica Singleton
Think that George Foreman was gonna die.
- [110:32]
Kevin Clancy
Just that all time. What a character that man is. He's one of my favorite.
- [110:36]
Jessica Singleton
Alligators like not die. Pretty sure they don't. They just get so hungry that they like.
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Kevin Clancy
I've heard that. I've heard that like no, it's an alligator or like a rabbit or some animal is like none of them have died from natural causes. They always, it's always just like from being too. I'm just gonna do. Alligators don't die. Let's see what happens.
- [111:02]
Jessica Singleton
Okay, wait, hold on.
- [111:02]
Kevin Clancy
Statement. Alligators don't die is a myth. No. No kidding. But let's see. Some alligators have reached a hundred years old. I don't know if I believe that. But yeah, that, that is, that is the, the thought is that alligators and crocodiles don't die of old age. But it's injuries or diseases or starvation. But I mean, okay, like that's. You could say that about like the vast majority of humans too. It's like, oh, you died of cancer. That's dying of old age. Basically.
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Jessica Singleton
Yeah. Yeah.
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Kevin Clancy
Like how many people truly are like, I'm 90 years old. I went to bed and I just didn't wake up because my, my body stopped.
- [111:46]
Jessica Singleton
Okay.
- [111:46]
Kevin Clancy
That's pretty rare, right?
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Jessica Singleton
I think, Yeah, I, I think that you actually have a good point on that. What, what I had heard the rumor, the alligator rumor I'd heard was and I, I guess that this isn't right. But like they eat so much and then they just can. They're like stretch their stomachs and then they continue to get hungry and hungry and hungrier until they just like can't find enough food to like satisfy them. So they just end up starving themselves and dying.
- [112:11]
Kevin Clancy
You know who that's going to happen to? John Feidelberg.
- [112:13]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah. Seriously? Yeah.
- [112:15]
Kevin Clancy
Feidelberg's eating, sleep eating to the point that he is raising his like body's like eating habits to a level he can't keep up with.
- [112:21]
Jessica Singleton
Sucking on brownies.
- [112:22]
Kevin Clancy
Sucking on brownies is crazy work. That, that the amount of people reached out to me being like this, that clip is crazy.
- [112:32]
Jessica Singleton
Might be one of my new favorite clips.
- [112:34]
Kevin Clancy
Deep throat in a frozen brownie. Just licking it. Yeah, that was crazy. Also at the barstool world last week, Ella made waves when she, she said that she spent $70,000 her like senior year of, of college because she had her parents credit card and we're Just putting, like, tables and bottles on it. Can't knock the hustle, man.
- [112:57]
Jessica Singleton
Can't knock. No. And she, she's like, sorry, I'm, I'm no, bro. She's the best.
- [113:03]
Kevin Clancy
I, I also, like, I mean, shout out to, you know, Papa, Ella, whatever his name is, cuz. He, he apparently has done well.
- [113:13]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [113:13]
Kevin Clancy
Like, I, I, I'm thinking, like, I've done pretty well for myself. Like, if I found out that Shay dropped 70 grand, like, I, I would be, like, livid, you know?
- [113:22]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [113:22]
Kevin Clancy
I don't know if he was just like, ah, please don't do that, honey. Or if it was like, I'm going to rip your head off, you know? But that, that is a wild one. I mean, 70 grand, like, if you're dropping, like, 10 grand in college, you're like a billionaire. You know what I mean?
- [113:34]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [113:34]
Kevin Clancy
If you're like, yo, tables on me and all that, I'd be like, you must be the richest person alive again.
- [113:40]
Jessica Singleton
Four girls. So it's like he's doing that. They all. Credit cards. They all.
- [113:45]
Kevin Clancy
I didn't know that part of it. That's crazy. Four daughters. God bless that guy.
- [113:49]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah. He might be the richest man.
- [113:51]
Jackie Feidelberg
He better be. He's either the richest of the poorest.
- [113:53]
Kevin Clancy
I don't know if all four of them are spending 70 grand a year on just partying. I, I don't know if there's enough money in the world. It's like alligators. They're like alligators.
- [114:00]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [114:00]
Kevin Clancy
They just keep consuming until you can't provide for them anymore. It's like, I don't have enough money to give you what you want, Ella, because you're an alligator with a stomach expanding.
- [114:08]
Jessica Singleton
Wait, so, but 70. Let me, let me think about this, though. So it's nine months, you're in school, right? 70 grand. I was trying to figure out how much.
- [114:15]
Kevin Clancy
Don't try to justify this. That's like 8,000 bucks a month.
- [114:19]
Jessica Singleton
That's, That's a lot. That's a lot. Does that include, like, rent?
- [114:26]
Kevin Clancy
No. I don't know. I took that as she was saying, like, when the, when the, when the crowd, when the friend group was down and bored and, like, not going out, I would be like, let's go to the club table on meat to, like, rally the troops. Yeah, I don't think that was like, I, you know, it's my meal plan and my rent and stuff. I think that was, like, strictly partying. I think she had, like, an emergency credit card, and then she was just using It. For partying and non emergencies, which is, yeah, a recipe for a disaster.
- [114:54]
Jessica Singleton
But that's.
- [114:55]
Kevin Clancy
But I mean, you got. Or. Or maybe, maybe, maybe, like, I. I feel like I could have, like, a billion dollars in. If I found out, like, my kid was just spending 70 grand on. On partying, that I would be like, hey, you can't do that. It's not really about the money.
- [115:07]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [115:07]
Kevin Clancy
Oh, I. I pulled them. I pulled a move last night with money. So the Mets are, like, killing me.
- [115:14]
Guest Comedian
Right.
- [115:14]
Kevin Clancy
And last night, when are they not? What?
- [115:17]
Jessica Singleton
Actually I said last year. Actually not. But I said, when are they not this year.
- [115:20]
Kevin Clancy
Yeah. Yeah. But this year specifically is, like, particularly stressful. They're about to blow it. Last night, like, off the rip, they're down 5, 1. And I was just beside myself. I was like, I can't believe how much this is affecting me. Like, it's really, really affected me. I'm, like, in a bad place.
- [115:37]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [115:37]
Kevin Clancy
Because it's not just like, it's the Mets, but then it just, like, triggers everything. It's like a floodgate that then I just start thinking about all my problems and I start fighting with people and, like, all that. Like, I am. I'm like, absolutely off of Twitter. Like, truly, really mean at this time, where I was like, I'm just never going back. There's just nothing but bad there, you know?
- [115:52]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [115:53]
Kevin Clancy
Because so all these things were, like, affecting me. So I was down and I decided I'm going to pay a bunch of my bills right now. Oh. Things that I've been putting off, things that I needed to pay were past due because I just, like, didn't want to do it. Couldn't do it. Couldn't bring myself to do it. So I was like, all right, the Mets are losing. I'm spiraling. Let's go all bad. Let's pay all the bills. Because either I'm already in a bad mood tonight.
- [116:22]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [116:22]
Kevin Clancy
I might as well just, like, get this out of the way when I'm already feeling bad.
- [116:25]
Jessica Singleton
Free logic.
- [116:28]
Kevin Clancy
So last night I paid $50,000 worth of bills. I had to pay taxes.
- [116:33]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [116:35]
Kevin Clancy
On my house and, like, property. I had to pay off the remainder of the tree removal company, which I had been putting off, like, quite a bit.
- [116:44]
Jessica Singleton
That was. Yeah.
- [116:45]
Kevin Clancy
A long time ago now. I had to pay Shay's dance bill, which, by the way, her dance is, like, $10,000. It's like. It's insane.
- [116:54]
Jessica Singleton
Kids. Yeah.
- [116:54]
Kevin Clancy
Add all that up and it was like, 50 grand. And I am not. I'm still Like, I, I. I made my money with barstool, but it's still, like, just new to me.
- [117:08]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [117:08]
Kevin Clancy
I mean, so, like, again, like, Like, I just said, if I had a billion dollars, I still would be like, hey, you can't spend 70 grand partying. Like, dropping 50 grand. Just be like, here's bills.
- [117:17]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [117:18]
Kevin Clancy
Is still something I'm not really.
- [117:20]
Jessica Singleton
Especially on bills. It's like seeing there's no value.
- [117:23]
Kevin Clancy
Taxes and a tree that I didn't even. And the, the thing with the, With Shay is, like, there's value out of that. Like, I think it's insane how much your dance costs, but, like, I never want to be. I would never want to be, like, you can't do that because it's too expensive.
- [117:35]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [117:35]
Kevin Clancy
She's having a great time. Whatever. Mets came back and won.
- [117:40]
Guest Comedian
Oh.
- [117:41]
Kevin Clancy
Didn't care about my bills anymore. Oh, my plan worked.
- [117:44]
Jessica Singleton
That's brilliant.
- [117:45]
Kevin Clancy
Brilliant. It was either like, I'm gonna be pissed, so just be pissed and, like, sit in it and wallow in it.
- [117:51]
Guest Comedian
Or.
- [117:54]
Kevin Clancy
I was like. And I really never even considered they were going to come back and win. They win 9 to 7. Big home run at the end. I'm cheering, I'm excited. I'm texting the boys. We're happy. Doesn't even matter. They lost 50 grand last night.
- [118:07]
Jessica Singleton
Wow.
- [118:09]
Guest Comedian
Maybe it's because.
- [118:10]
Jessica Singleton
Maybe it's because once you paid off all the bills, you as a fan had so much, you know, a weight was lifted off your shoulder that there is a part of that the fan base can feel that the team can feel that.
- [118:21]
Guest Comedian
Oh.
- [118:21]
Kevin Clancy
Oh, okay. So you think that. Actually, I. I might have. Maybe the wind was on me.
- [118:24]
Jessica Singleton
The win might have been on you.
- [118:26]
Kevin Clancy
Oh, okay. I. I was thinking it was more. There is a. Like, you know, these are some bills that I've been putting off and, like, getting, you know, getting rid of it, paying off your credit card. Like, there is a weight, you know, off your shoulders whether or not that actually impacts my favorite baseball team. I mean, last night there was a good piece of evidence, but it does.
- [118:45]
Jessica Singleton
Evidence to prove that it does.
- [118:47]
Kevin Clancy
That might be my new system.
- [118:49]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah. You just keep paying off bills for no reason.
- [118:51]
Kevin Clancy
Okay. And then the last thing from the barstool world was the. The Big T contract situation, where it pretty much boils down to there's some nuance to it, but more or less, Big T said to Dave Portnoy, if Nikki smokes and Mincy make xyz, I should make at least that. Or. Or I should make more than that or whatever his exact argument was. He then went on. So it was an unnamed person. Dave put it out there anonymously. Big T owned up to it and said it was me. And then he went on to explain the further story of he. He asked Dave, can we talk about my contract? And Dave said, no, I don't have time right now. And that's when Big T should have just shut it down. But in an effort to try to, like, do it quickly and expedite it, he was like, okay, it'll only take two minutes. If this guy. If these guys make this much, I should make that much, too. And that's his reasoning for it, at least. This is not a good idea. I would. I would recommend against this in almost any situation, but, like, certainly here, it's just you never. You can't compare yourself to other people, really, unless, you know, there's, like, a direct, like, correlation. I can understand using that as, like, a negotiating tactic or like a. You're just asking for clarity or what's my role? Or, you know, we do the same exact thing sort of thing, but, like, at barstool, like, can you quantify Mincey's value that every, like, six months he's gonna do something.
- [120:16]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [120:16]
Kevin Clancy
So boneheaded that it. It creates, like, a. A memorable joke storyline, a day worth of content for Dave and all that. Like, there's some value in that. I don't know.
- [120:27]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [120:27]
Kevin Clancy
Like, I don't know how to quantify that. It's like you work hard every day and you write blogs and you post this and you do that and it's all good. But you. But once or twice a year, you don't have this moment that everybody latches on to.
- [120:39]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [120:39]
Kevin Clancy
And Mincy does it unintentionally, but he does.
- [120:43]
Jessica Singleton
He does.
- [120:43]
Kevin Clancy
It's like the time people talking, the time that he opened up that. That present, that bobblehead in front of the. When he's sitting courtside and, like, Styrofoam was just going everywhere, and it was, like, stuck on his face and in his hair. Like he wasn't trying to be funny.
- [120:56]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [120:57]
Kevin Clancy
But it was.
- [120:57]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [120:58]
Kevin Clancy
You know, and. And the Nikki Spokes thing, I don't really get. Nikki Spokes was front and center all summer.
- [121:02]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [121:02]
Kevin Clancy
On one of the biggest shows we.
- [121:04]
Jessica Singleton
Did, he, like, produces his own stuff.
- [121:07]
Kevin Clancy
Like, when. His own content he does, like, work hard at. And he even said it himself, he's like, I haven't, like, found success yet. I haven't sold anything yet. Like, so, like, that. That. That still is there, but, like, he's part of Beach House. He's always in the mix. Again, that's almost a little bit unintentional, too, because sometimes he's just like, I was the. Like I said something. Like, I was. I was a douchebag. And now Dave is saying I'm a douchebag or whatever it is. But it's like you're making things happen.
- [121:33]
Jessica Singleton
Intentionally or unintentionally happened because of him.
- [121:35]
Jackie Feidelberg
That.
- [121:36]
Kevin Clancy
Yeah, that. That one I give him full credit for. But just there are other times where it's just like, he said something young, dumb, stupid, whatever, and it. And it becomes a talking point. And then there's content. Did he mean to do that or was that, like, his content? No, but he inspired that or was a part of that. And, you know, same thing. Like, Nate is a great example of, like, he does his work. But then, like, the spider monkey sagas are what, like, Nate's true memorable moments are, you know.
- [122:01]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [122:01]
Kevin Clancy
And there are just different ways that people provide at this company. And it does get a little bit hairy and it does get a little bit convoluted and hard to understand where it's like, so he. He's just, like, unintentionally funny, but makes this much. And then I have to, like, bust my ass. But it's like, I don't know, kind of. Yeah, it's the same thing as, like, sports. It's like, that guy does not. I'm. I'm first in and last out, and I practice hard and I do all these little things. Like, I don't know, that guy's got, like, a better jump shot than you and can run and jump faster, so you work harder. But he, you know, so there's talent, there's luck, there's unintentional consequences. Consequences. There's different ways to quantify value. All that goes into the mix. And then on top of it, life's not fair. Like, throw all of that. And then also. Yeah, there's always going to be someone at your work where you go, that guy makes more than me. Like, what the. That's just a universal thing that happens. I do think this is also an example of why, like, almost everybody needs an agent, though. Because if an agent comes to you with comparables, that's just like business. That's negotiation. Like, here's the market standard. Here's your. What other employees doing something similar make. This is what he deserves. That's his job. When you do it, now you're throwing a co worker under the bus. You're presuming that the boss. You know more than the boss.
- [123:17]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [123:18]
Kevin Clancy
All that. An agent does that. And Dave says, I hate that agent.
- [123:21]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [123:22]
Kevin Clancy
That's his gig.
- [123:23]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [123:24]
Kevin Clancy
So that's where it. But I told Gaz this and I don't think we. We could do this or. I don't know who would sign up for it or if we're allowed to. But like, if there was a show called like Contract Renegotiation. Yeah. Renegotiating contracts with Dave Portnoy.
- [123:38]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah. Yeah.
- [123:40]
Kevin Clancy
It'd be the most watched thing. If you had watching like Clemmer and Nate and people come to me and like talk about their contract and like the preparation that goes into that conversation and then that conversation happening and Dave's reaction and other people's reaction and whether or not you get it in the end would be one of the most watched shows on the Internet. Once people. Because I think people are just interested in the inner workings and the mechanisms of Barstool. Anyway. Once you learned how scared people are, how stressed people are, how. How much they care and want and like the arguments they make and the negotiations they bring to the table, like, it's all very fascinating, but especially here, it's crazy.
- [124:20]
Jessica Singleton
That might be the. Actually you so right. The most watched things. And then I could see like confessionals after being like that didn't go well.
- [124:26]
Kevin Clancy
That be so funny if there was a moment like Rico Bosco like, I need a 25 raise. And Dave being like, you're. You're getting a pay cut.
- [124:33]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [124:33]
Kevin Clancy
And then it just cuts the Rico being like that. Well, that didn't go well. Like, that would be unbelievable.
- [124:38]
Jessica Singleton
And everyone in front of Dave, like, no matter what you think going in, whatever you like, he's so scary and intimidating that like I feel like everyone breaks down. Like the difference of the confessional before being like, this is my plan. I'm going to say this, this, this.
- [124:52]
Kevin Clancy
And then, you know, it'd be like those things where it's like, this is me before the party and me after the party.
- [124:56]
Jessica Singleton
Exactly.
- [124:56]
Kevin Clancy
This is me going into my negotiation. You're like smiling and afterwards you're like, oh, my God.
- [124:59]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, yeah.
- [125:00]
Kevin Clancy
But you could also catch Dave like on a day where he like won a bet and like the Internet likes him and he's like, yeah, okay, fine. You know, you never know what you're gonna. Now if it was he was doing content around it. That's the other part is he would make content out of it. So you would never get an easy negotiation, because he'd always be. But I'm telling you that that's a billion dollar. Yeah, it's a shark. Shark. But for your. For your human value.
- [125:21]
Jessica Singleton
It's like sharks in your family.
- [125:23]
Kevin Clancy
How about you give me $500,000 for, like, 50% of me is a human?
- [125:27]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, yeah. You also need, like, a Barbara Walters, I guess, or whoever is the nicer one of this. Like, you need Dave, but then you need.
- [125:36]
Kevin Clancy
You need a good cop, bad cop. That's part of the dynamic is that, like, how many places have, like, the CEO owner handle, like, every negotiation like that. Like, you sign off on some things, but to be like, you got to go to the table, you know, if you were at Apple, you had to go to Steve Jobs. If you're at J.P. morgan, you're talking to Jamie Dimon. You know, you're going to, like, major. Not many people have to do that. So it is a fascinating little wrinkle within the barstool world. I. And I. Now I'm interested. Like, what happens with Big T. Like, yeah, did. Did he get his ask by doing this? He just created value. Like.
- [126:10]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, yeah. It was almost like a miny.
- [126:15]
Kevin Clancy
So maybe now you deserve mincing money because you got. You. You just minced yourself. Yeah, there's. There's all this place. There's always, like, a leak. There's always. People always know everybody's salaries. Like, there's one person upstairs who tells somebody in content, and that person goes. I mean, people used to know everybody's numbers. And, hey, she's making that. How come he makes that? And vice, you know?
- [126:38]
Guest Comedian
Really?
- [126:39]
Kevin Clancy
Oh, at least for a little while now I. I'm pretty, like, checked out. But I. I guarantee you, you know, some of the gossip queens out there for sure know it. I think during the pen years, it was very, like, I'm negotiating with Penn.
- [126:52]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [126:52]
Kevin Clancy
Some people were, like, throwing out their numbers and, like, I think it was a little easier to talk when it wasn't, like, you talk directly to Dave or, like, you felt it was more of a secret, you know?
- [127:03]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [127:03]
Kevin Clancy
And I think some of those numbers were, like, inflated because Penn was in growth mode and they were just, like, throwing out. One of my biggest, like, regrets is I signed a contract before Penn and then had to renegotiate right after.
- [127:12]
Jessica Singleton
Oh, really?
- [127:13]
Kevin Clancy
I never got a pen deal.
- [127:14]
Jessica Singleton
Damn.
- [127:14]
Kevin Clancy
Where I. Because if I sit down with Dave, I'm like, I want to be fair. I want to get paid, but it's got to, like, make sense. If I Sat down with like, someone like Pen, I think I'd be like, yeah, $5 million a year. Yeah, maybe.
- [127:28]
Jackie Feidelberg
Are you gonna say yes?
- [127:29]
Kevin Clancy
Like, you know what I mean? Like, I just throw whatever against the wall. I never got the chance to do that, I think.
- [127:33]
Jessica Singleton
But I think Minty and Nikki make like 100, maybe 100. I'm sure it's more by now. I'm sure.
- [127:40]
Kevin Clancy
Like that. I don't know. I'm not. I'm not totally sure on that one.
- [127:43]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah. And then I think that I thought that I was. I don't know, I. Then I thought that somebody said, big T makes 100.
- [127:50]
Kevin Clancy
You know, it's interesting too, is like 100 grand is still has this like, six figures has this, like, value in America, you know, and for sure, I mean, you make 100 grand, you're making like, way more than 99% of the people and all that. But it. It also doesn't go the distance like it used to. You make 100 grand in new York City, like, you're not.
- [128:11]
Jessica Singleton
You're not.
- [128:11]
Kevin Clancy
You're not killing it.
- [128:12]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [128:12]
Kevin Clancy
You're not doing well. You're not even, like, comfortable.
- [128:14]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [128:15]
Kevin Clancy
So that shift almost needs to occur where it's like, six figures is good, but if you're living in like, a major city and you're doing major work, like, it's really not.
- [128:25]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [128:25]
Kevin Clancy
What do you. What you think it is with inflation and all that sort of too, so.
- [128:29]
Jessica Singleton
Well, I was just saying, like, I think that they are actually all on par with each other. Yeah. It makes it a little worse that he. He. Cuz I was like. I was like. I could see myself, like, kind of sounds like he's flustered and he's like.
- [128:42]
Kevin Clancy
He'S got to be twice me. But it's like, if you're all like, in the 100 range, why are you throwing these guys under?
- [128:47]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah. Like, it sounded like. Well, I don't know. I didn't. I. I don't know. I actually didn't hear his apology. And apparently his apology was good. Made sense.
- [128:53]
Kevin Clancy
I also just. It's very difficult. Like, you know, Dave has openly tweeted things like, about Miny being like, this is the most selfish piece of. I've, like, ever employed.
- [129:02]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [129:02]
Kevin Clancy
And it's like half a joke, but half real. And then so when it's your turn to like, talk about your value and your worth, it's like, all right, well, let's start off. I'm not the most selfish piece of you've ever employed. You know what I mean? It's like when those kind of things are made public, it's hard to not, like, use them.
- [129:17]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [129:17]
Kevin Clancy
In your negotiating. And that's why I think this show of, like, if it was all public, like, if you had to negotiate your value in front of. Imagine if there was like a live chat. Oh, my God. This is like saw.
- [129:26]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [129:27]
Kevin Clancy
If you were, like, making your case of why you deserve the money and like the, the Internet could see and comment, like, actually, she doesn't deserve that. Oh, why don't you give that money to this person? It's like what Big T was doing, but, like, the Internet would do it for. Oh, it would be terrible.
- [129:40]
Jessica Singleton
That'd be terrible.
- [129:40]
Kevin Clancy
But it would be the most entertaining.
- [129:42]
Jessica Singleton
Thing in the world.
- [129:43]
Kevin Clancy
Like, maybe you're. If you, if you want to create a new vertical, that's it. Like, Dave, I'll, I'll, like, I'll film this and, you know, I'll produce this. All you got to do is do your job, but it's going to be on camera. Maybe we should delete this. I don't want people. I don't want this to go into practice. All right. Anything else? I think that was really all the main things I wanted to talk about. All right, cool. We'll see you guys on Thursday. Sax is the original pouch underwear. Changing the game since 2006. Damn. I was about to say, how do we know that they are truly the original pouch underwear? Because everybody's got a pouch. At least trying to replicate the pouch. Not for Sax. Oh, gee. 2006, they patented their ballpark pouch technology. The most comfortable underwear for men, period. If you take a look at their. At their pouch, it really is like new technology. There's like a mesh lining and it, like, it's all symmetrical. It just sits there, very comfortable, made out of that soft material. But it's not like dry fit. Like, it's. It's a. It's a good blend. It's like soft and cottony, but also stretchy in performance gear. It's a very good, very good setup by saxophone. And think about it. See underwear. You wear underwear every single day. Change them every single day. They can make or break your day in terms of how good or bad your underwear might be. And that's where Sax gives you breathable fabric with no right up legs and a pouch that keeps everything in its lane. There's no chafing, there's no riding up. There's no weird adjusting midday. That use that thing where you put your hand in your pocket. You think you just, oh, I got my hand in my pocket. You're actually, like, readjusting. You don't need to do any of that with sacks. The kind of underwear that you notice when you first put them on, you're like, oh, this is comfortable. But then you never think about it again the rest of the day because it's just that comfortable. Once you try sax underwear, you realize how bad your old underwear really was and you'll never go back. So upgrade your drawers. Upgrade your day with sax. That's sax.coms a xx.com to upgrade your comfort. Today you.
- [131:38]
Jackie Feidelberg
Have you done any shows today?
- [131:40]
Guest Comedian
Today? No.
- [131:41]
Jackie Feidelberg
Like. Like podcasts. Oh, no, no.
- [131:45]
Guest Comedian
Thank God.
- [131:46]
Jackie Feidelberg
I didn't do the classic 11am comedy show.
- [131:48]
Guest Comedian
I've done it on a brunch show and been like, we. Nobody wanted this.
- [131:52]
Kevin Clancy
Yeah.
- [131:53]
Jackie Feidelberg
I've actually seen Soder do. Was it at. What was Bert's thing called Fully loaded on the Fully loaded.
- [132:04]
Guest Comedian
Oh. And during the day, soda came like.
- [132:06]
Jackie Feidelberg
Soda was like an early. Early. Had an early spot, which surprised me. Sod soda. And he, like, came out and he was like, he's like doing comedy in the daylight. No one ever asked for this, you know. But then when he does wet, like, obviously he kills.
- [132:20]
Jessica Singleton
I mean, he crushes and.
- [132:22]
Jackie Feidelberg
And like. Well, this is the funniest thing I've ever seen because you have to perfectly bright out. Yeah.
- [132:26]
Guest Comedian
Yeah.
- [132:26]
Jessica Singleton
You're just.
- [132:26]
Guest Comedian
Everyone.
- [132:27]
Jessica Singleton
What do they say is like the prime. The prime time?
- [132:30]
Jackie Feidelberg
I think I've heard Saturday first show, the best show.
- [132:35]
Guest Comedian
You know what? Usually. But sometimes you get wild cards. I've been. Lately, I've been. My late shows have been better. They've been selling out faster and they've been better. And I'm like, what's going on?
- [132:47]
Jackie Feidelberg
Really?
- [132:48]
Guest Comedian
Are all of my fans math addicts? Like, I want to go to bed because I'm like, what if instead of a late show, we do a 4pm and the late shows keep selling? And I'm like, why are you like this? Why? But usually, yeah, Saturday, they're. They're resting, they're primed. Not the Friday, a couple of drinks.
- [133:03]
Jackie Feidelberg
But not too many.
- [133:04]
Guest Comedian
Yeah.
- [133:05]
Jackie Feidelberg
Like, I, I again, I'm. I'm far from an expert in this, but I, I've heard it said, like, the Friday evening show is everyone's trying to get drunk too fast beforehand.
- [133:15]
Guest Comedian
Oh, yeah.
- [133:15]
Jackie Feidelberg
And then the Friday late show, they're already too drunk.
- [133:18]
Guest Comedian
They're. Yeah, they're blacked out. They're tired from work, but they're still. It's. It's people who are in their 30s who are like, I can still hang, and they cannot. They absolutely cannot.
- [133:29]
Jessica Singleton
Like, what a funny lady.
- [133:32]
Guest Comedian
And you're like, what? Why? Why Put your shirt on. It's the worst.
- [133:36]
Jackie Feidelberg
When I would drink a lot and go to, like, late comedy shows, I was the hardest laugher in the room. And I'm like, why can't everyone just do that? Why are you gonna start yelling?
- [133:45]
Guest Comedian
Yeah, well, it's. The Internet has made it worse, too. Clips. People are like, I'm heckling. You're like, what? Put me in your stick. My stick?
- [133:55]
Jackie Feidelberg
Everyone wants to be in.
- [133:56]
Guest Comedian
Like, yeah. They're like, ask what I do. You're like, I don't. Or it's. Or it's the opposite. Where I've been in clubs where the show doesn't sell out and it'll be close to sold out, and the only seats not sat are the front. Because everyone's like, please don't pick on me, dude.
- [134:14]
Jackie Feidelberg
That bothers me.
- [134:15]
Guest Comedian
It makes me sad. Because it's better the closer you are.
- [134:19]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah. And I feel like sometimes clubs do it where, like, they, like, we're reserving these tables.
- [134:23]
Guest Comedian
They try to charge more.
- [134:24]
Jackie Feidelberg
And it's like, just put people, like, why don't want every other seat here filled except the ones I see?
- [134:30]
Guest Comedian
Start them in the front. Yeah. I don't want to look out and be like, is there anybody out here?
- [134:34]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah.
- [134:35]
Guest Comedian
So bad. And I'm not even.
- [134:37]
Jessica Singleton
Oh, sorry. Though we saw you at. If I'm remembering, there was a lot of people, though, that were, like, trying to be funny, trying to be the star of the show, which was.
- [134:44]
Jackie Feidelberg
That was like, chiming in.
- [134:46]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [134:46]
Guest Comedian
That don't tell show. Yeah, those are. Yeah, it's. Those are always, like, 20s. A lot of 20s bros were like, yeah, I'm fans of comedians. I get it.
- [134:56]
Kevin Clancy
And you're like, all right, I have a question.
- [134:59]
Jackie Feidelberg
And obviously, this is incredibly weighted on where I work and who I hang out with. I feel like everyone in the world is a mid-20s bro. Like, everywhere you go, it's just like. It's kind of a bro crowd.
- [135:10]
Guest Comedian
Yeah. In your world, for sure.
- [135:12]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah.
- [135:12]
Guest Comedian
That's your audience. It is funny watching different audience because I've gotten to open for different comics, like, before I started headlining, and the difference in. When I've opened for Theo, and it's all like. It's all bros that look like Theo or, like, Southern.
- [135:29]
Jackie Feidelberg
Well, you know what? I think that's what it is. I think Bro is used so widely. It just means guys.
- [135:35]
Guest Comedian
It's. Yeah. Well, yeah. Now I'm trying to think, what is a guy that's not like.
- [135:38]
Jackie Feidelberg
I would never describe Theo as a bro.
- [135:40]
Guest Comedian
No, no, me, I wouldn't describe him as a bro. But his crowd is. I think bros are just fun, so they go out more. I don't know.
- [135:48]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [135:48]
Jackie Feidelberg
If you're having a good time, there's probably bros around.
- [135:50]
Guest Comedian
Yeah. But then when I used to open for Ari, I'm like, oh, there's a lot of guys in black T shirts. And those will be, like, my trickle down fans. So now the people who come out for me, it's such a mixed bag of. There will be women, but then there's guys sitting alone. Yeah, yeah. I got a lot of fans that don't have friends.
- [136:12]
Jackie Feidelberg
I'm there for it. We had a show in Philly last night, and I. I forget the woman's name, unfortunately, but she was like, this is my first show I've ever come to alone. Like, this was so much fun. And we were like, hell, yeah, that's.
- [136:23]
Guest Comedian
It's better alone. I wish I could announce that, because sometimes you go to a comedy show, especially if it's a date or someone you're not super close with, and there's maybe the comics making kind of inappropriate jokes and you want to laugh. Be like, I didn't think I'm a piece of.
- [136:36]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah, I do really like racist jokes. I forgot to mention.
- [136:42]
Kevin Clancy
I forgot.
- [136:43]
Guest Comedian
I love it. Oh, do a Chinese accent. My favorite. Yeah, it's. It's kind of better. I wish more people would just do it. I think people get afraid to go out alone, and I'm like, no, dude, go out.
- [136:56]
Jackie Feidelberg
Do you think accents are coming back? Cuz I'm getting that feeling.
- [137:01]
Guest Comedian
Feeling. I think. I think they are. I do think it's messed up that only certain accents have been cancelable. Like, yeah, it's like, don't. Don't be Asian at all. But then French or Italian people can go themselves. Just like anyone can go up there and go, oh, my God, it's great.
- [137:18]
Jackie Feidelberg
And Jamaica, Jamaica. We're like, well, that one's too good. We're keeping Jamaica.
- [137:21]
Guest Comedian
You have to. That's such a hard accent to do. And I have Jamaican family. Step family, obviously, but that's one I couldn't crack. I always try to do Jamaican accents, and I become like, an old Indian man.
- [137:34]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah, Jamaican. You like. You get Irish fast. I went Australian fog. They're all of that same, like, tone.
- [137:41]
Guest Comedian
Yeah.
- [137:41]
Jackie Feidelberg
But I think, I think they're coming back because I think people are doing them more accurately. Like. Like I've done accents lately that I felt good doing. And no one got mad about you since.
- [137:53]
Jessica Singleton
On stage.
- [137:53]
Kevin Clancy
On stage.
- [137:54]
Guest Comedian
On podcast montage.
- [137:57]
Jackie Feidelberg
No, I've done them on podcast and like, because I'm like, I'm actually trying to sound like this person that's my. Not like a vague Asian person. You know what I mean?
- [138:06]
Guest Comedian
I. I think you're onto something. I have always felt like it should be okay if it's accurate.
- [138:11]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah.
- [138:11]
Guest Comedian
If you can nail it, you should be able to do it.
- [138:14]
Jackie Feidelberg
Like, we have Les Mascots a show.
- [138:17]
Guest Comedian
Great show. I want to talk to you about it for hours.
- [138:20]
Jackie Feidelberg
But when we first put it out, we were. We were going over the. The pilot and Tommy does an Asian accent in it.
- [138:26]
Kevin Clancy
Yeah.
- [138:27]
Jackie Feidelberg
And we were like, ah, I don't know. Like, do people get mad about that these days? Like, it's funny and. And. But he's doing everything everywhere, all at once. He's doing.
- [138:36]
Guest Comedian
Yes.
- [138:37]
Jackie Feidelberg
Trying to do that voice, that character not doing like a. A vague.
- [138:41]
Guest Comedian
You know, like, it's very clear. He's like trying to. Oh, and in the scene. I saw it.
- [138:45]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah.
- [138:45]
Guest Comedian
He's like trying to channel the actor.
- [138:47]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [138:49]
Jessica Singleton
Why?
- [138:49]
Guest Comedian
Also, also just at this point, like, anyone who's been canceled for that is so successful.
- [138:57]
Jackie Feidelberg
Put more people who have been canceled are very successful.
- [139:00]
Guest Comedian
Do a whole show just doing the accent. You'll be so rich.
- [139:04]
Jessica Singleton
It's.
- [139:05]
Guest Comedian
No, I agree. It's like, why can't we. It's weird that actors are supposed to be limited into what they can impersonate. I go. I mean, I know it's. I'm sure there's something taboo about what I'm gonna say or someone will get mad about it. But there's some people who think like, straight people shouldn't play gay people, but then gay people can play straight people. We're acting. The whole thing is like, don't be yourself. I don't know.
- [139:27]
Jackie Feidelberg
And the funny thing about that is, like, if you talk to an actor about it, they're like, I'm not doing anything wrong. I remember we. When that was when that debate was really kicking around, I remember we. I asked two guests specifically about it. I asked Eric Stonestreet cuz he played Cam in Modern Family. And then I asked Brian Cranston cuz he was doing. He was promoting a movie where he was playing a quadriplegic. And like, neither of them even really.
- [139:53]
Guest Comedian
Had like long laughed Sorry, I did not see that movie.
- [139:57]
Jackie Feidelberg
It's actually a great movie.
- [139:58]
Guest Comedian
It's just the effects of that must be.
- [140:01]
Jackie Feidelberg
What was the movie? It's Cranston and Kevin Hart.
- [140:05]
Jessica Singleton
Oh, I know. Yeah, I know.
- [140:07]
Jackie Feidelberg
It's a remake of a French movie that people consider like a classic. I. I don't think this one really did that well, but I liked it. But he, like, they both, like, neither of them had this extreme answer that you would expect.
- [140:17]
Jessica Singleton
Your mic.
- [140:18]
Jackie Feidelberg
My mic.
- [140:19]
Jessica Singleton
The upside follows you.
- [140:20]
Guest Comedian
Oh, no.
- [140:22]
Jackie Feidelberg
Good, good. All right. So it's called the Upside is the movie.
- [140:26]
Guest Comedian
But why did I laugh?
- [140:27]
Jessica Singleton
Okay, you keep laughing.
- [140:31]
Guest Comedian
But yeah, Kevin Hart's like, I wish I wasn't so short. And then a quadriplegic goes by and he's like, I'm fine.
- [140:36]
Jackie Feidelberg
But they were both like. It wasn't like. I feel like someone who felt like they were doing something wrong would have a bigger answer where they were like, actually it's okay because yeah, they'd over explain. They're just like, no, I'm pretending like, oh, yeah. I don't know why we're all freaking out about this.
- [140:51]
Guest Comedian
That's literally what it is.
- [140:52]
Jackie Feidelberg
Understand it pretty well.
- [140:54]
Guest Comedian
Yeah. You're not. He. Brian Cranston didn't after the movie pretend to be quadriplegic still and go on disability. Let the man act also. You do a better job. You think they didn't try to get a quadriplegic and they're like, well, Brian Cranston, what are we going to do? He's going to sell tickets. Not Joe, the guy with no legs.
- [141:15]
Jackie Feidelberg
It's just this guy who lost to doing a fucking ied.
- [141:18]
Guest Comedian
Yeah.
- [141:18]
Jackie Feidelberg
Why is Cranston got the job?
- [141:20]
Guest Comedian
He's taking all my roles.
- [141:23]
Jessica Singleton
I think after the. The Snow White thing, were they that one.
- [141:26]
Guest Comedian
I got mad at the whole Dwarves.
- [141:28]
Jessica Singleton
But then didn't they just do like digital dwarves?
- [141:31]
Guest Comedian
And I just feel like there's so few roles for dwarves for little people. But Brad Williams got screwed.
- [141:37]
Jackie Feidelberg
You know what I mean?
- [141:38]
Jessica Singleton
It's like, yeah, that one actually, I could get behind.
- [141:40]
Guest Comedian
That was. That was his chance.
- [141:41]
Jackie Feidelberg
And I remember Peter Dinklage saying basically the same thing where he's like, you're taking jobs away from little people. They're taking our job where we exist and we need jobs and. And that would be a perfect job for us playing a little person.
- [141:54]
Guest Comedian
I mean, I think Disney just wanted that movie to sell tickets on outrage at this point. I mean, yeah, there was so many things a. Not white. Snow White. I'm like it's in the name. Come on. Any other role, fine, but you supposed to get an eastern European lady. Some pale, pale woman. Yeah, just a Gothic.
- [142:14]
Jackie Feidelberg
By the way, I, I didn't we introduced. Introduce you before you come on. But Jessica Singleton. Do you go by Jessica Michelle Singleton?
- [142:19]
Guest Comedian
It's Jessica Michelle. It's like a long white trash.
- [142:21]
Jackie Feidelberg
Jessica Michelle Singleton?
- [142:22]
Guest Comedian
Yeah. A double first name.
- [142:24]
Jackie Feidelberg
I wasn't sure, so I wanted to.
- [142:26]
Kevin Clancy
Talk to you about it.
- [142:26]
Jackie Feidelberg
But Jessica Michelle Singleton, where are you from?
- [142:29]
Guest Comedian
That's a loaded question. I. Okay, so I was born in Germany and then moved to southern Mississippi when I was three. And then in sixth grade my mom drove us from Mississippi to Alaska. And that's where I did high school and all that.
- [142:39]
Jackie Feidelberg
That because I couldn't place you.
- [142:41]
Guest Comedian
No one can.
- [142:42]
Jackie Feidelberg
Makes perfect sense.
- [142:43]
Guest Comedian
Just very different white places. It's basically just a lot of culture shock.
- [142:49]
Kevin Clancy
But what was the way.
- [142:50]
Jackie Feidelberg
Where'd you grow up in Alaska?
- [142:51]
Guest Comedian
Anchorage.
- [142:52]
Jackie Feidelberg
Anchorage?
- [142:52]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah. You say Alaska when shorthand you wanted to say like where you're from?
- [142:56]
Guest Comedian
Yeah, usually, yeah, Alaska. But then I feel like there's things about me that people go, she seems kind of like a redneck sometimes. But that also is very Alaskan. I guess it's just northern redneck slednecks.
- [143:09]
Jackie Feidelberg
But is that what they call it?
- [143:11]
Guest Comedian
That's, that's what they call. There's like a. I don't want to call it a gang. It's like a group of.
- [143:16]
Jessica Singleton
They.
- [143:16]
Guest Comedian
Are they snow machiners? And like that's like their brand.
- [143:21]
Jackie Feidelberg
So are like I'm, I'm from Massachusetts, so I'm from the north, but not as north as that.
- [143:25]
Guest Comedian
Yeah, grow up.
- [143:28]
Jackie Feidelberg
The like, like where, where I grew up, I consider those. Any kind of motor vehicle like that, like that's white trash. Like if you're, if you're, if you're room rooming. If you're on a jet ski, if you're on a ski do. If you're on an atv, that's white trash.
- [143:45]
Guest Comedian
And that's how I know I'm white trash. Cuz I just hear an engine like that and I get a little wet. I'm like, oh yeah, look at the guy in the helmet. You never want to see him without the helmet. It's always so upsetting. You go, man, I was really excited when you hit. Oh, the smell of Mountain Dew in the summer. Talk dirty to me.
- [144:02]
Jackie Feidelberg
Mountain Dew in a parliament?
- [144:03]
Guest Comedian
Yes. Oh God, take me back.
- [144:07]
Jackie Feidelberg
But was that like in Alaska? Was that, was that white trash or was that like kind Of a way of life.
- [144:12]
Guest Comedian
I mean, I think both can be true. I think it's like, do they do what? Do most people who are white trash know they're white trash or they're just like, I'm fucking cool. Surprise. Somewhere in between, I had more than one friend that was sponsored by an energy drink. You know, just for snowboarding or snow machining. Just like. It's just how it is. It's sort of. There's. There's a lot of different people, but there's definitely, like, the hunting. Hunting, Fishing. Yeah. Vroom, vroom.
- [144:36]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah, yeah, yeah. What was. What would you say is like, the most redneck thing that you regularly saw or sledneck?
- [144:45]
Guest Comedian
I mean, probably just that we did a lot of camping. There was just a lot of drinking in the woods.
- [144:52]
Jackie Feidelberg
But that's awesome.
- [144:53]
Guest Comedian
It is. It's crazy how much I camped in high school and I don't know that I've camped since. Yeah. That I'm just like. We would just go in the winter time. That was our, like, we're all staying the night at each other's house sneak out thing and just go. I mean, I've nearly started a forest fire once. And that someone tried to put out with vodka. Very cheap vodka, which might as well have been gas.
- [145:15]
Jessica Singleton
The number one thing that you're not supposed to do. Yeah.
- [145:17]
Guest Comedian
Yeah. And I was like, we're all gonna die. The lake's gonna. We're right. I think we were camping either right next to or on a lake. That's it. The lakes freeze over so much. People have houses that you have to take a boat to in the summer, but you can drive in the winter. It's crazy. And people just be. I don't know. I dipped in high school. I was a red man.
- [145:37]
Kevin Clancy
You chewed.
- [145:38]
Guest Comedian
I played ice hockey, and I would have Copenhagen long cut. I was a small man, dude.
- [145:42]
Jackie Feidelberg
The. So the school I went to, we had girls hockey teams, and the girls hockey team was always. It was just like. They were just the bros. Yeah, the bros.
- [145:50]
Guest Comedian
I was a bro.
- [145:51]
Jackie Feidelberg
They would have, like, they did. The girls would have more disgusting dip stores than we had. Where, like, the girls, like, you know, because we. We around each other's locker rooms and like that. And you'd be like, what is this sock? And you're like, ah, that's Kelly's sock. For practice. Why is it all brown? Like, we put dip in our toes for practice.
- [146:09]
Guest Comedian
Okay. I did not do that. Girl crazy.
- [146:12]
Jackie Feidelberg
Girls would it look. Who knows?
- [146:13]
Guest Comedian
I did not wash my socks until we would Lose.
- [146:16]
Jackie Feidelberg
I did not watch my gitch my entire high school career.
- [146:19]
Guest Comedian
I stunk up my home.
- [146:21]
Jessica Singleton
Just for good luck reasons or just.
- [146:24]
Guest Comedian
For like, I did it for good luck. We were good though. I was like, well, I'm not gonna break the streak. We're winning. We kept winning. I was like, what am I gonna do? Wash? Absolutely not.
- [146:33]
Jackie Feidelberg
It's crazy you believe those things. I'm just gonna wash away all the victory.
- [146:37]
Guest Comedian
Yeah. Just putting on a, just crunching into my gear. Just. Let's go, girls. That's not what Shania Twain mint at all. Just spitting on the ice like, my God, you're disgusting.
- [146:53]
Jackie Feidelberg
We used to, we had like a rink on campus and we used to like play whenever we had free periods and stuff like that. And they would always be like, who's been out here dipping all over the place? Like, the girls, dude, I spit over the side of the boards.
- [147:06]
Guest Comedian
We have a bottle. Yeah.
- [147:08]
Jessica Singleton
Private school girls.
- [147:10]
Guest Comedian
Disgusting. Disgusting pigs.
- [147:13]
Jessica Singleton
And I love it.
- [147:14]
Guest Comedian
Oh my God, it was the best. And I, I was such a fraud though. I couldn't handle it. I dip and then five minutes later I'd be like, Barb, just spit it out and be like, no, I'm having fun.
- [147:25]
Jackie Feidelberg
The very first time I ever dipped was a high school football game. And it was like, we had, it was a public school game. So I had like a McDonald's cup with a beer. Just the full, like I, I, we put the can in the cup. So then you put the straw into the can, you drink it like that. So I had like probably five beers and then I had my first lip and they had to carry me out of the stands. I was like, I was like, God, I can't even move.
- [147:47]
Guest Comedian
I can't stand up. Oh my God. I'm just having like taste bud flashbacks to high school. Just dips the apple flavored vodkas.
- [147:57]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah. Yeah.
- [147:58]
Jessica Singleton
I feel like biggest square that I can't even relate. Really good.
- [148:03]
Jackie Feidelberg
I get it.
- [148:04]
Guest Comedian
It just means you respect yourself.
- [148:06]
Jackie Feidelberg
Jackson. La so or no, San Francisco. I'm sorry, college.
- [148:10]
Jessica Singleton
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
- [148:12]
Guest Comedian
Way different.
- [148:12]
Jackie Feidelberg
It's actually like crazy far apart and really different. But as far as I'm concerned, it's the same. It is a different coast.
- [148:17]
Guest Comedian
It is crazy that people will just love California as all one place. It's such a difference in the the bay versus la.
- [148:24]
Jackie Feidelberg
And you pointed yourself in the bay. You're in la.
- [148:25]
Guest Comedian
No. I mean, yeah. No. I don't know why. I just, in my mind there was an imaginary map. I was pointing the bay. I'm in la. It's fine.
- [148:32]
Jackie Feidelberg
You don't like it?
- [148:33]
Guest Comedian
I don't. I like the weather. It's good for, you know, comedy. And now I'm finally trying to do others, like acting and more writing and stuff. So it's good for that. But I'm just. I don't know. I love stand up in New York.
- [148:45]
Jackie Feidelberg
I. I've had three good sets since.
- [148:47]
Guest Comedian
I've been here in a row and now I'm like, I got a mood in here.
- [148:50]
Kevin Clancy
I need this energy.
- [148:51]
Guest Comedian
Every time I come here, I'm like, I'm alive. And then I just get like spit on by a person looking for Harold in the trash. And I'm like, okay.
- [148:59]
Jackie Feidelberg
We actually. I did a video on Saturday with Stuff island and their, their producer Josh was there and it was his first time. He's a younger guy. It's his first time ever in New York. He's from Iowa.
- [149:11]
Guest Comedian
Oh, wow.
- [149:11]
Jackie Feidelberg
And he's a great kid. I love Josh. And he was like, I love it here. And I was like, oh, yeah? Like, what, what, what do you like about it? And he goes, just nothing matters. And I was like, I pat him on the back. I was like, really proud of him. I was like, you got that fast, dude. Good for you.
- [149:24]
Guest Comedian
That's so funny. That is what's great about New York. Like, who cares if there's a booger on my face on the train? We're all gonna die. It's so insane.
- [149:34]
Jackie Feidelberg
We were talking more about it. He's like. He's like, there's just like this feeling of depression. And I was like, yes, everything is attached to a sadness. But like, it's then that makes everything more fun. Is that like acceptance? Yeah, yeah. Like, yeah. I don't know. Everything's not going to be great.
- [149:49]
Guest Comedian
It's not gonna get better. Who cares? Just eat the pizza. Yeah. And then in la, it's like the opposite, where it feels like everything matters, even though it also doesn't matter. But it's just like, same rules every. I walked on the street and I'm like, is everyone judging everyone? My headphones. Like, what if they find out what I'm listening to? It's crazy.
- [150:09]
Jessica Singleton
The last time I went to air, just the last time I went to la, I went to Erwan and it was literally such a epitome was I saw three people with their tik toks up with the Haley Bieber smoothly. It's pretty good, actually. The exact same sentence. And I was like, oh, la is like, it's the worst no, but like.
- [150:25]
Guest Comedian
It'S, I mean it just is what it is.
- [150:28]
Jessica Singleton
Exactly.
- [150:28]
Guest Comedian
Yeah. You go, you, yeah. You have to just accept it. The other day I like, I moved into a new place and I walked out on my balcony and there was absolutely a girl across the street on her balcony either doing a TikTok. She might have been trying to film something for only fans outdoors at the same time. And she was like twerking and I just stood there knowing I was in the background, just far away, like, I hope I ruined this. I hope people go, I hope it gets engaged. Because they're like, who's that weird lady staring? She was just fully going for it. It's, it's a weird thing to see influencers. Like, fine, do your thing. But you're not like a little embarrassed?
- [151:05]
Jackie Feidelberg
That is, that was the, the hump I could never get over.
- [151:10]
Guest Comedian
No. Because I've had to make like front facing videos but someone comes by and I go, I'm so sorry.
- [151:16]
Jessica Singleton
They're just like, I'm here on the.
- [151:18]
Guest Comedian
Streets of Silver Lake and I'm like, oh God, what happened to shame?
- [151:26]
Jackie Feidelberg
It's. I don't know what we're going to do about that. It's got. I reached the level where I genuinely. And I'm going to put a little bit of asterisk on genuinely. I believe phones should be banned in public. I actually believe that.
- [151:37]
Guest Comedian
It's, I mean people will run into you. It's.
- [151:39]
Jessica Singleton
We're all just like when I, when.
- [151:41]
Jackie Feidelberg
Like walking down the streets in New York. Exactly what you're saying. We're like, I have to dodge people. Just pick your head up and look where you're walking.
- [151:51]
Guest Comedian
It's so annoying. Yeah. I become such a cartoon of a New Yorker so quickly. When someone's on their phone in front of me in the subway, I'm like, hey, get out of the way.
- [152:01]
Jackie Feidelberg
You.
- [152:02]
Guest Comedian
Yeah, I'm gonna push you in the tracks. It's just crazy, crazy. There's the self awareness is gone. We're all addicted. I'm not even excluding myself. I'm sure I've been that person where I'm just like, I have to finish this. I have to watch the video.
- [152:15]
Jessica Singleton
See somebody on Tick Tock walking, like that's. We don't need to be doing that.
- [152:19]
Jackie Feidelberg
But what, what are. When you're walking, what are you looking at?
- [152:23]
Jessica Singleton
I'm, I'm. This is why I'm kind of almost like. I don't know if anybody could even try and mug me because I, I'm aware Of my surroundings at all.
- [152:32]
Jackie Feidelberg
So you're not on your phone.
- [152:32]
Jessica Singleton
I'm not my phone.
- [152:33]
Jackie Feidelberg
Oh, okay, perfect.
- [152:34]
Jessica Singleton
But I see other people on their phones.
- [152:35]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah.
- [152:36]
Jessica Singleton
And I feel like such a boomer being like. Or then I feel like such a New York or being like, I am walking here.
- [152:41]
Guest Comedian
Like, yeah, Literally walking.
- [152:44]
Jessica Singleton
And then I think, I'm so not California anymore.
- [152:46]
Guest Comedian
Like, I am officially. Yeah, I know I'm usually not on mine because I'm looking around and. But I. I also creep people out doing that. People are on their phone so much that I feel like now I feel crazy. If I'm phone down, I make eye contact with someone, I'm like, yeah, yeah.
- [153:02]
Jackie Feidelberg
I have been looking at you. It looks ridiculous. You're sitting like a shrimp. You're all folded weird, hunched.
- [153:09]
Guest Comedian
Like the few times I've caught my own reflection in my phone, I'm so hyper aware of it now that I'm like on the train. I'm not making a video. I just don't want to hurt my neck. I'm doing business. It's insane. It's so insane.
- [153:24]
Jackie Feidelberg
It's. I. I don't. I don't know what we're gonna do about it, but we'll figure it out. Yeah.
- [153:30]
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- [154:46]
Jessica Singleton
What are people in Alaska like? Are they.
- [154:49]
Guest Comedian
I mean, they're. They're behind the. They're not as, like, addicted to social media, that's for sure. It's. Yeah, it feels real small town when I go home. Even though it's a big city.
- [155:01]
Jessica Singleton
How big is.
- [155:02]
Guest Comedian
Anchorage is the biggest city in the state. It's 250,000.
- [155:05]
Jackie Feidelberg
Oh, really?
- [155:06]
Guest Comedian
It's teeny tiny compared to L. A or New York. Yeah, but, you know, 50.
- [155:10]
Jackie Feidelberg
Still big, though. Like, I'm from a quote unquote city. It's not a major city, but, like, it is a city and that's like a hundred thousand. So 250.
- [155:18]
Guest Comedian
Yeah, it's not bad. It's just a lot of. It feels almost Midwestern. You know, it's its own place in a way, because Alaskans. I can't even explain how Alaskans are weird. We just like the fashion sense in Anchorage. People wear extra tufts, which are like rain boots. That's like. But it's like, you don't have extra taps. Oh, it's like uppity about weird things in high school if you don't have a North Face in Doc Martens, it's like, do you even know about fashion? It's like, we all look like lesbians. Why are we judging each other? What's going on, dude?
- [155:54]
Jackie Feidelberg
Can I tell you about extra toughs I have recently? My dad has a pair now. And because my parents, like, kind of far. They live in the country and he. He wears them all the time. And I always think I'm like, damn, that actually looks pretty cool.
- [156:08]
Guest Comedian
Yeah, they're Northern Crocs. No, me too. I go home and I go, I should get some. And I'm like, you live in la?
- [156:14]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [156:15]
Guest Comedian
You can't just wear extra tufts in the middle of summer in Los Angeles.
- [156:18]
Jackie Feidelberg
Can I buy some extra toughs to leave at the house so I can feel cool when I come home? Like, I want to hang around in the mud with you.
- [156:24]
Guest Comedian
It's crazy. It's a lot of hockey. All my friends are hockey moms now. It's crazy. Everyone my age in LA is getting, like, too much work too fast. So they look like they're on a roller coaster. And then all my friends in Alaska, it's just like pants getting higher, slowly getting shorter. Like, these kids. I'm like, oh, you got. You're turning.
- [156:42]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah. Nice to meet you, Mrs. Palin.
- [156:44]
Guest Comedian
I know. It's crazy because they, like my hometown people, all had kids in their early 20s. It's like, that's what you do. You get married, you have kids, you get divorced. Husband is now with your neighbor. You're like, we're all having fun here. You swap top husbands. Yeah. It's the best thing.
- [157:00]
Jessica Singleton
You were gonna end up like that or did you always know? Like, no.
- [157:02]
Guest Comedian
You know what? I feel like there is like a small alternate universe where I could have, like, I had a boyfriend when I moved to college, where I'm like, the first week of college, I wasn't really vibing with anyone yet, and I'm like, oh, what if I had gone home? I for sure would be married to that guy and probably 40 pounds heavier. And he'd be pretending he still found me attractive. And I'd be screaming. I'd be like the parent who took their kids work too seriously. I'd be the annoying PTA mom. That's what I do. I get too involved. I can't have kids. They'll be pieces of shit. I know, based on how I treat my dogs. Like, she's so special and smart. She's like a regular dog. She's not very smart. I love her. Most people hate her. She barks at everyone. And she's got a snaggle too, so she looks like a little, like, she's just the past. So my kids would be assholes.
- [157:51]
Jackie Feidelberg
I'm. I think you're right. And I think there's something about the dogs. Is it a Pitbull? A French.
- [157:59]
Kevin Clancy
French bulldog.
- [158:00]
Guest Comedian
I mean, thank you for. That's a bold assumption, but I have French bulldog energy. Thank you.
- [158:04]
Jackie Feidelberg
I just feel like French bulldogs, they.
- [158:05]
Guest Comedian
Always got the snack snaggle. No, she's just a rescue from China. She's like a Pekingese mix. Got her in October 2019. Did I single handedly bring Covid to the United States? We'll never know. Is she the bat? Maybe she's just this black. She. She. Do you remember Falkor from the Neverending Story? The big white thing? She looks like a tiny black version of that, like, to a T. Her face looks. She looks magical. I named her Moki, which is one of the Muppets. The Fraggles from Fraggle Rock.
- [158:33]
Jackie Feidelberg
Oh, yeah.
- [158:34]
Guest Comedian
Very niche.
- [158:35]
Jackie Feidelberg
Fraggle Rock.
- [158:36]
Guest Comedian
Old reference. But because she just looks like a Muppet I have.
- [158:41]
Jackie Feidelberg
She sounds like a very cute dog.
- [158:42]
Guest Comedian
She's very cute.
- [158:43]
Jackie Feidelberg
Okay, that's good, because I think you're.
- [158:45]
Guest Comedian
Biased, but yeah, yeah, I was. I think she's objectively cute. Nice is another. Anyway, you go on.
- [158:51]
Jackie Feidelberg
But the. Like. I feel really bad saying this. I think I have less tolerance for ugly dogs than I do for ugly humans.
- [159:00]
Guest Comedian
Really?
- [159:01]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah. I think, like, I'm like, if you're an ugly person, I'm like, all right. Like, I get it. You got it. You had a tough road here. If you're an ugly dog, I'm like, figure it out.
- [159:09]
Guest Comedian
I think you're the minority.
- [159:11]
Jackie Feidelberg
Absolutely the minority.
- [159:12]
Guest Comedian
I think people can, like, find something cute about ugly dogs. And people were just so mean to ugly people. They're like, how dare you be near me? Yeah, I think.
- [159:20]
Jackie Feidelberg
And I think that's why I think I'm trying. In my head, I'm trying to make up for how most people treat people, that I'm like, I'll be nice to the person. I'm gonna. I don't want to pet the ugly dog. Like, there was back when we were, like, early blogging, there was always. I'm sure it still exists, but it wasn't. It's not as big a deal like, the world's ugliest dog competition. And people would, like, a tongue. Yeah. People would, like, be like, oh, he's so cute. I'm like, that thing is the most disgusting looking creature.
- [159:45]
Guest Comedian
It shouldn't be alive. It barely is. Yeah, it usually is. Like, an old dog that's like, if.
- [159:51]
Jackie Feidelberg
We put some helmet on that dog that could allow us to hear its thoughts, it would be like, kill me. Get me out of here.
- [160:01]
Guest Comedian
My bones hurt. Just squeeze me and make it end.
- [160:05]
Jessica Singleton
I saw a dog yesterday, two days ago, with, like, like, the worst hemorrhoids I've ever seen.
- [160:11]
Guest Comedian
Oh, no.
- [160:12]
Jessica Singleton
It's like, because its tail was up, its butthole was just, like, coming out of itself. And I had to switch streets because it was too gross to be behind.
- [160:23]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah.
- [160:24]
Jessica Singleton
Like, that dog, like, it doesn't even have, like, thumbs to be. I don't even know, like, how you deal with.
- [160:32]
Guest Comedian
Thumbs.
- [160:34]
Jackie Feidelberg
You scratch your ass. I'm not saying that.
- [160:38]
Guest Comedian
I'm just saying, like, don't you want to get. Get it out?
- [160:42]
Jackie Feidelberg
He's like, you can't even shove a thumb up his ass if he wants to.
- [160:46]
Guest Comedian
But you. You gotta tuck your hemorrhoids in. Sometimes you just gotta pop them.
- [160:49]
Jessica Singleton
I really don't know why.
- [160:50]
Guest Comedian
So the thumb, I, I get it.
- [160:54]
Jackie Feidelberg
But like, it, I had to switch sides of the street the whole time. I was like, I'll do it, buddy.
- [160:58]
Guest Comedian
I gotta get in there. Let me fix it. I can do it. I can fix. You.
- [161:05]
Jessica Singleton
Don'T know why I said the thumbs thing. I also, like, have never had hemorrhoids. So, like, I don't even know if that's how you deal with it. But anyways, I just felt like the dog, the dog just has to kind of like you can't even treat it, live with it.
- [161:18]
Guest Comedian
He couldn't even butt scratch him off. That's crazy. Yeah, I feel like you would be able to.
- [161:23]
Jackie Feidelberg
I don't know, I, I, I have no hemorrhoid knowledge myself either. It is a more common thing than I think. Like, I've never even heard.
- [161:30]
Guest Comedian
I had one once. Didn't come back. They say they come back. I don't know where it came from. Probably pushing too hard. Just, you know, I really want it sometimes.
- [161:40]
Jackie Feidelberg
I have a buddy who says that's how you get it. It's been pushing too hard.
- [161:44]
Guest Comedian
That's what everyone says. And it was years ago anyway. Why did I say that?
- [161:47]
Jackie Feidelberg
No, no, but he has, ladies. He's got a hemorrhoid. Hemorrhoids non stop.
- [161:53]
Guest Comedian
I have a friend like that too. That's always like my hemorrhoid. And I'm like, can't you have that surgically removed?
- [161:57]
Jackie Feidelberg
But I'm like, stop pushing so hard, dude. If you know what the thing is. Stop pushing so hard.
- [162:05]
Guest Comedian
Yeah, just wait. Just wait 10 more minutes. What are you trying to like, oh, I gotta get it out. Just go for a walk.
- [162:14]
Jackie Feidelberg
Go sit on the couch a little longer. Like, what, what are you doing?
- [162:17]
Guest Comedian
Jog around, chug some tea. What are we doing? It's, I mean, I don't know. We live in a push your shit out culture. I have a friend that has them so often that it's like, it sounds like she has a conjoined twin. The way she talks about it, I'm like, stop.
- [162:34]
Jessica Singleton
What exactly is it? It's, I honestly, honestly don't know.
- [162:38]
Jackie Feidelberg
Something out of your asshole, I imagine.
- [162:40]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, but it's something like falling. Because I get that confused with not hemorrhoid. The hernia.
- [162:46]
Guest Comedian
Hernia, yeah, which I also don't know what that is. Yeah, but it like protrudes.
- [162:52]
Jackie Feidelberg
My brother used to get him when he's a baby, hemorrhoids or hernias. He was so fat. It was like, when he. No.
- [162:59]
Guest Comedian
Is that what happens? You're fat. Your body's trying to escape.
- [163:04]
Jessica Singleton
By the fat.
- [163:04]
Guest Comedian
It's just a bone.
- [163:06]
Jackie Feidelberg
I, I actually, I, I misspoke there. He was so fat that when he rolled, he would roll his shoulder out of his socket. So, like, as a bait, he couldn't walk, he couldn't talk. We had to be like, he's too.
- [163:16]
Guest Comedian
Fat to be a baby.
- [163:18]
Jackie Feidelberg
My mom would be like, I'm gonna leave Ben here. Don't let him roll. I would be like six. I'd be like, I don't. I'd pin my.
- [163:25]
Guest Comedian
Am I supposed to stop me as a boulder?
- [163:28]
Jessica Singleton
Because I actually always wonder if there's a level of fat that you can get to where you're kind of indestructible because you could just like, throw yourself on the floor and, like, you're just too fat, where you can't break a bone.
- [163:38]
Jackie Feidelberg
I, I would.
- [163:39]
Guest Comedian
That's a good question.
- [163:40]
Jackie Feidelberg
Like, have you ever seen that, that.
- [163:41]
Guest Comedian
Image when you have to be. You must be strong under. If you're like, very big. I mean, you're carrying along a lot of weight. It's like constantly doing weighted vests.
- [163:49]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah. I could see your joints being at serious jeopardy, but your actual muscles and.
- [163:54]
Guest Comedian
Bones have to be like, Bones.
- [163:55]
Jessica Singleton
They're, like, pretty protected.
- [163:56]
Guest Comedian
Yeah.
- [163:57]
Jessica Singleton
Kind of like an umpire now. They have all the padding and.
- [163:59]
Guest Comedian
Yeah.
- [164:00]
Jessica Singleton
You know, like, can you be so.
- [164:01]
Guest Comedian
Fat you don't need padding?
- [164:02]
Jackie Feidelberg
How many?
- [164:03]
Jessica Singleton
Yes.
- [164:04]
Jackie Feidelberg
Obviously, that's an incredibly fat person.
- [164:08]
Guest Comedian
This can't be real. This. I mean, that's so wild.
- [164:13]
Jackie Feidelberg
It's insane.
- [164:15]
Guest Comedian
700 pound man and that skinny little. The fact that, dude, your skeleton doesn't get even a little bit bigger.
- [164:26]
Jackie Feidelberg
Just that leg of the chair. Come on, guys.
- [164:29]
Kevin Clancy
Come on.
- [164:30]
Guest Comedian
That's crazy. That's so insane.
- [164:34]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah, that's. That's probably the level of fat where it's like, you're indestructible.
- [164:38]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah.
- [164:39]
Guest Comedian
You're like, nothing can hurt you.
- [164:40]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah. Yeah.
- [164:41]
Guest Comedian
You can't hurt me.
- [164:43]
Jackie Feidelberg
700 pound man. Goodness gracious.
- [164:46]
Guest Comedian
Sometimes it feels like it would be fun just to be like, who gives a.
- [164:51]
Jessica Singleton
That would be if, like, I was supposed to die in, like, I would eat so much food, dude. Yeah, like, whatever.
- [164:59]
Jackie Feidelberg
Do you, so you, like, actually, like, you monitor your eating?
- [165:05]
Guest Comedian
What are you, a woman who's alive, you said? That's so foreign. Oh. Do you think about what you.
- [165:14]
Jackie Feidelberg
I'm like, kind of genuinely. I like. You have a diet. You have a diet.
- [165:18]
Jessica Singleton
I don't have a Diet. But, like, I just definitely am. Like, you think about, like, I want to go nuts on this cake right now. And I'm not like, I can't be doing that.
- [165:25]
Guest Comedian
Yeah. Yeah. There's food I look at and I like. I twitch. Nobody respects a food addiction in our culture either. Everyone wants to, like, yes, queen you. That's. Just have the pizza. Have a burger. You earned it. You. You would never say that if I was like, I'm addicted to heroin.
- [165:40]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah.
- [165:41]
Guest Comedian
Just one little. Just shoot up once. You. You had a good week.
- [165:44]
Kevin Clancy
Yeah.
- [165:44]
Jackie Feidelberg
Long day.
- [165:46]
Guest Comedian
Yeah. Because you want to go wild on it sometimes, folks.
- [165:50]
Jackie Feidelberg
It's the foreplay.
- [165:51]
Kevin Clancy
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Jackie Feidelberg
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Kevin Clancy
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- [165:59]
Jackie Feidelberg
Whether that means using the old hand wedge to escape the bunker or just.
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Kevin Clancy
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Jackie Feidelberg
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Kevin Clancy
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- [166:30]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [166:31]
Jackie Feidelberg
What is your.
- [166:32]
Kevin Clancy
Your.
- [166:33]
Guest Comedian
You want me to pick one?
- [166:34]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah.
- [166:35]
Guest Comedian
I don't know.
- [166:36]
Jackie Feidelberg
Like. Like one. Like. Like, I'm like sweets.
- [166:38]
Guest Comedian
If.
- [166:38]
Jackie Feidelberg
If you put me in a room with candy, I'm eating all of the candy.
- [166:41]
Guest Comedian
It's a real candy. I'm more of a savory, honest.
- [166:43]
Jackie Feidelberg
Really.
- [166:44]
Guest Comedian
Yeah.
- [166:44]
Kevin Clancy
I don't know many savory people.
- [166:45]
Guest Comedian
I could house a whole pizza if I let myself.
- [166:49]
Jackie Feidelberg
Just like a burrito that I used to be able to do. I. I can't really. Like, I used to. I get large pizza hammer, no problem. Now I kind of just get full.
- [166:57]
Guest Comedian
I do get embarrassed now, thank God. But then also, I have a problem where I think some of it is just poverty brain because I grew up poor where, like, I'll be full before the meal is done. But I'm like, yeah. And I'm just, like, stuffing myself to the point of, like, I don't want to be alive anymore just because, like, I paid for this. Just like, shoving french fries in, like, it's like, the end of days. You're gonna eat every. Like, I'm Bruce from Matilda.
- [167:28]
Jessica Singleton
Bruce Bulk Tart.
- [167:29]
Guest Comedian
Or just every. Every last bite.
- [167:31]
Jessica Singleton
That's what I think of if I were to do one thing, I would do cake fork.
- [167:35]
Guest Comedian
Yeah.
- [167:36]
Jackie Feidelberg
Really?
- [167:37]
Guest Comedian
That's.
- [167:37]
Jessica Singleton
Go icing first.
- [167:38]
Guest Comedian
Yeah. I want to be clear. Like, I also do love sweets. It's really hard to. It's Sophie's choice. Pick your poison. Just any. I love food.
- [167:45]
Jackie Feidelberg
The. The Louis CK joke, when he was like, I think his doctor asked him how much he eats, and he said, I don't understand what you mean. What's the question? And he said, how much do you eat typically until you feel full? And Louis replied, the meal doesn't end when I feel full. The meal ends when I hate myself. Yeah.
- [168:05]
Guest Comedian
Philosophic. Honestly, it's so real. And then even trying to be. I've gone through, like, eating clean and stuff, and I'm. I can do it, but I'm mean, like, I don't think I'm a nice person. I think I'm, like, a little bit high on sugar all the time.
- [168:20]
Jackie Feidelberg
I agree. I'm the same way.
- [168:22]
Guest Comedian
Yeah. When I eat healthy, I. And honestly, I'm really great at setting boundaries and saying, no, get the. Away from me.
- [168:30]
Jackie Feidelberg
I. I eat healthy until a point in the day when I go, you need sugar, brother.
- [168:35]
Guest Comedian
I tap out. I start so strong. It's like, salad, smoothie.
- [168:39]
Jackie Feidelberg
I go, I start with a fucking yogurt, then a salad. And then it's like, now we're gonna have 20,000 calories of candy.
- [168:45]
Guest Comedian
Yeah. You're like, now a dozen donuts.
- [168:47]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yes.
- [168:48]
Guest Comedian
Because I earned it. Yeah. It's a sickness. It really is.
- [168:53]
Jackie Feidelberg
We were talking before the show, and you had mentioned that you used to be a mascot.
- [168:58]
Guest Comedian
Yeah. I have to talk to you about this because I'm obsessed with this. I was my high school mascot.
- [169:04]
Jackie Feidelberg
No way.
- [169:05]
Guest Comedian
Yeah.
- [169:06]
Jackie Feidelberg
What mascot?
- [169:07]
Guest Comedian
First of all, we were Cougars.
- [169:08]
Jackie Feidelberg
Cougars is a good mascot still, in.
- [169:10]
Guest Comedian
Theory of the mascot of the high school. My right, boys. No, I'm a state champion mascot. I am a competitive mascot. Oh, yeah. I mean, it's Alaska, so there was, like, two other teams, but. But I took it very seriously.
- [169:26]
Jackie Feidelberg
So what is. What is, like, competitive mascoting even entail?
- [169:29]
Guest Comedian
I mean, it's just. You have to do a routine at state championship mascot. But, like, I did it when I did it was like 2005. And so it was way before. There's so much technology now for, like, mix and making music. I had to make my own track of, like, mashing up like, Lil John. Yeah. And then, like, I did, like, a voiceover cheer, and I was, like, bouncing around. It's a very good thing for anyone who's small and very physical. Like, my comedy is very physical, but I just did it as a. Originally, I went out. I. I tried out for the cheerleading squad, and they're like, we love your energy, but you're not. Your stunts aren't really great.
- [170:08]
Jackie Feidelberg
No way.
- [170:09]
Guest Comedian
But we want to do something with you. And I was like, what about mask? And they were like, we do have. It was like, a dusty old uniform hidden in a closet. Like, no one had been a mascot for years. Like, actually, we do just blowing dust off of it, going, like, here we go. And then it was just. My senior year, it was the greatest. I was homecoming queen as the mascot. It was. Which was really upsetting, I think, for a lot of the other women. They had to get a football game. They, like, lined up the homecoming royalty and everyone and their nice outfits. And I come out of the porta potties sweating, and I just ripped off the mascot. I'm like, hey, everybody.
- [170:43]
Jessica Singleton
Happy to be here.
- [170:45]
Guest Comedian
But, like, I just did it to be silly. But then it accidentally led to a chain of. I've been several costume characters.
- [170:53]
Kevin Clancy
Get out of here.
- [170:54]
Guest Comedian
Including, by the way, Elmo.
- [170:56]
Jackie Feidelberg
Really?
- [170:56]
Guest Comedian
Yes. Where were you, Elmo? At Bush Gardens when they did Sesame Street Live. What if. Actually, I just brought. I pulled out papers. I'm, like, actually here to serve you for copyright.
- [171:06]
Jackie Feidelberg
No, we've been. We've been worried about that. I think, ultimately, we decided that PBS has bigger problems on their hands.
- [171:11]
Guest Comedian
Absolutely. Also, you're doing. You guys are wearing knockoff characters, which I think is allowed.
- [171:16]
Jackie Feidelberg
I think. Yeah.
- [171:17]
Kevin Clancy
We're also.
- [171:17]
Jackie Feidelberg
We're not like, Elmo and Cookie Monster. You're just people who are being them.
- [171:21]
Guest Comedian
Yeah. Yeah.
- [171:21]
Jackie Feidelberg
It was definitely something. We were concerned about putting the show out, and it seems like PBS's lawyers are busy.
- [171:27]
Guest Comedian
Yeah.
- [171:27]
Jackie Feidelberg
Hoping PBS continues to exist.
- [171:29]
Guest Comedian
Yeah. Honestly, at this point, you're helping them.
- [171:31]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah.
- [171:31]
Guest Comedian
It's free advertising. Like, what are they gonna. There's no budget. It's the People's Broadcasting System. You're going to take my tax money to sue this show? Absolutely not.
- [171:40]
Jackie Feidelberg
We were honestly, like. I was. Part of. Me was hoping.
- [171:44]
Guest Comedian
It's good press.
- [171:44]
Jackie Feidelberg
It's the greatest you could possibly have. Like, pbs. If you want to see India, I'm fucking begging.
- [171:51]
Guest Comedian
No, I was so. I was actually devastated because I went to the amusement park. I went to college in Tampa. Usf.
- [171:57]
Kevin Clancy
Okay.
- [171:57]
Guest Comedian
And they were auditioning for, like, singers and dance dancers for the amusement park. And I was like, I'm gonna go audition. I'm gonna sing and it was these group auditions where they would make people. You go up and you sing one song. And, like, if they. They kept sending people out after one song, and then I saw them have another. Like, one guy. They're like, okay, do you have a second song? He sang a second song. They asked him to do a monologue. He did a monologue. That's what they tell you to prepare. So I was like, okay, that's what happens if they want you. And I'm watching all these people go up, and they have me go up, and I sing, and, like, do you have another song? And I was like, I do. And I sang, and then I did a monologue. And they're like, go talk to that lady over at that table. And I was like, like, I'm gonna be a singer at an amusement park. Which now is like, wow, this was the heartbreak. But at the time, I was like, I'll show you, world. And then I go over to the table. She's like, how tall are you? And I was like, 4 11. She's like, great. We desperately need someone to play Elmo for Sesame Street. And I was like, does Elmo sing? She's like, no. I'm like, does he talk? In fact, he doesn't make any noise. In fact, if you. You'll be in trouble if you make. And I was like, I'm in. How much? $9 an hour. I'm rich. And then I just nearly died most nights.
- [173:03]
Jessica Singleton
How many.
- [173:03]
Jackie Feidelberg
How many nights did you do it?
- [173:04]
Guest Comedian
I would do. I think it was, like, three or four nights a week. But it was Florida summer.
- [173:10]
Jessica Singleton
Oh, my God.
- [173:12]
Guest Comedian
And just in his heat, there was rules on how long you could stay out based on the heat. But then I would always be paired with someone who wasn't part of our department, and they would, like. For. Forget to, like, keep track of the time. And there'd be lines of, like, Brazilian tourist groups coming up and, like, tossing me in the air, and I'm like, I'm going to die. Just, like, passing out in the costume. It was crazy.
- [173:33]
Jackie Feidelberg
Did you. Did people. Like, when they came out to you in costume, did they.
- [173:38]
Kevin Clancy
I guess.
- [173:38]
Jackie Feidelberg
Did they respect you as a person, or were you Elmo? Like, were you an entity?
- [173:42]
Guest Comedian
I was an entity, but I think because it was Elmo, they respected Elmo.
- [173:46]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah, this one's all right.
- [173:47]
Guest Comedian
Yeah. Yeah, I know.
- [173:48]
Kevin Clancy
Because after the Sesame street bluey, we'd have a problem.
- [173:51]
Guest Comedian
I mean, they asked me to stay on after the Sesame street because it was, like, a contractual stint, and they just had these generic costume characters for the park that they're like, you now. You're Hilda the hippo. Nobody respected the hippo. I was getting punched by kids. I was like, this is hell. I gotta. I gotta get out of college quick. I need a degree. People were just spitting on me. I'm like. And it was this fat costume. Well, it was, like, so fat. You. The hippo. It had, like, a hula hoop built in, and it was actually supposed to be for a really tall person, but they didn't have one. They're like, I'll just make it a short fat hippo, but I'm so small that it just, like, only my hands came out instead of, like, full arms. It was just like me stuck in a fat costume, being like, yay, I'm an actor. So sad.
- [174:37]
Jackie Feidelberg
Would you have wanted the people to. Excuse me? Like, like, would you prefer them to treat you like a person and talk to you like a human, or treat you like Hilda the Hilga the hippo?
- [174:48]
Guest Comedian
Treat me like Hilda the hippo. Make me come. You know, I'm not a human. I think it would have been weirder, honestly, for someone to go, like, what's. What's really going on in there? I didn't need a psychological evaluation. Half the time. I was so hungover. It was college, so it's just, like, half drunk, dressed as a hippo, being.
- [175:07]
Jackie Feidelberg
Like, take your picture. Move on.
- [175:10]
Guest Comedian
Yeah, I know. Like, don't make me talk. Huh?
- [175:12]
Jessica Singleton
Do you get tips?
- [175:13]
Guest Comedian
No, they wouldn't let us take tips, which, now that I say that, it's so embarrassing how. Seriously, I did take it a lot of times where I was, like, really posing, and it's like, who cares?
- [175:23]
Jackie Feidelberg
We were talking about that with. With these mascots where, like, we take pictures and we're like. We're smiling big and, like, why are we smiling?
- [175:29]
Guest Comedian
You can't.
- [175:30]
Jackie Feidelberg
You can't see my face. The. The face is smiling. I can do whatever the hell I want back here.
- [175:35]
Guest Comedian
Yeah, you could just be asleep. But then in my mind, I'm such a dork. I'm like, they can feel it.
- [175:39]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah.
- [175:39]
Kevin Clancy
Yeah.
- [175:40]
Guest Comedian
They feel me smiling on the end of the line. On the end of the line. What am I talking about? Inside the mask. Whatever.
- [175:46]
Jackie Feidelberg
The. We did a video or kind of more of an experience with some mascots in Columbus recently with Crew Cat, who is the mascot of the Columbus Crew.
- [175:56]
Guest Comedian
Oh, my God.
- [175:57]
Jackie Feidelberg
And then with Stinger, who's the mascot of the Columbus Blue Jackets. And I asked about the human versus mascot thing because they Were there. And obviously they were being very professional. And like, I don't know if they're their bosses, but superiors, people they work with are there. So while we're trying to talk to them, they were, like, trying to mime to us rather than talk. And we'd be like, no, you can talk. And they were like, no, no.
- [176:18]
Guest Comedian
It's like that. That's the one thing where it's like, you're done here. It's so serious. One beep and they're like, you're out of the park. Pack your bags. You're stuck on the stilts. Now.
- [176:28]
Jackie Feidelberg
It had to be like a special thing. Like, are the cameras away? Okay, they can take their helmets off.
- [176:32]
Guest Comedian
Yeah, yeah. It was like, you'll ruin the experience.
- [176:35]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah, yeah.
- [176:36]
Guest Comedian
You'll ruin a child's life if you utter a peep. And I'm like, as a hip, this hippo doesn't exist. Who cares?
- [176:43]
Jackie Feidelberg
But we were at an empathy stadium. So I was like. I was like, yo, bro, there's no one around. You can talk. And they would be like, you're good. You can talk. It's literally just me and you right here.
- [176:52]
Guest Comedian
And I think about it now, and I'm like, every. Who's in those? And I was one of those people. I'm like, how mentally ill to be so serious about a costume character? But, you know, whatever.
- [177:05]
Jackie Feidelberg
Did you ever consider, like, going again? The crew, Cat and Stinger, both of them had gone to, like, mascot college and stuff like that. Were you. Were you. You were at Bush. Universal Studios or Bush Gardens?
- [177:17]
Guest Comedian
You say Bush Gardens.
- [177:18]
Jackie Feidelberg
You were at Bush Gardens. And you were like, this is where this ends from me.
- [177:21]
Guest Comedian
I wish that's where it ended.
- [177:22]
Jackie Feidelberg
Oh, no, no.
- [177:25]
Guest Comedian
I didn't ever think about, like, going to mascot college, but probably more because I was like, I don't think I meet the real height requirements. No, college. College mascots, those are built big people.
- [177:35]
Jackie Feidelberg
Honestly, guys, I think college as a whole might should have a five foot.
- [177:38]
Guest Comedian
I mean, they should.
- [177:39]
Jackie Feidelberg
I. I think you're coming on campus, be. Be normal heights around us.
- [177:44]
Guest Comedian
Yeah, don't creep everybody out, you weird munchkin. Because we had run Rocky the Bull at usf. And I'm like, I feel like that's someone who maybe just barely didn't make the cut of the football team. But now that I'm thinking that, I'm like, oh, maybe that's just a costume. There's probably just some string being.
- [177:58]
Jackie Feidelberg
I feel like most mascots in my head under the costume, homosexual men, which you're probably right. And I think I'm basing that solely on the New York Liberties mascot, who's just very fabulous.
- [178:11]
Guest Comedian
I would tell you that every man I worked with at Busch Gardens was the gayest man I've ever met. Yeah. My supervisor, who taught me, no, you have to walk. You're Hilda.
- [178:18]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah.
- [178:20]
Guest Comedian
They made you learn the, like, character moves, and they had, like, certain signatures, and. Which was ridiculous because I was, like, signing things like this. But, yeah, they're like, it's about the attitude. They. I don't. It's like, are you really taking it seriously? Or you also. Like this? It's just a job. Who cares? But, yeah. No. Just the gayest man I've ever met. Thank God.
- [178:38]
Jessica Singleton
Like, a drunken man, you know, who kind of, like, wants to. Wants to get close to girls.
- [178:43]
Guest Comedian
That Times Square mascots and, like, Hollywood Boulevard mascots. That's what I think. Burping in your ear, and they're like, you want to take a picture with me? No.
- [178:53]
Jackie Feidelberg
You want to come back and suck Deadpool's dick? Jesus Christ.
- [179:00]
Guest Comedian
Come to daddy.
- [179:01]
Jackie Feidelberg
Just a picture, if you don't mind, bro.
- [179:03]
Guest Comedian
Do not touch me. Yeah, I. I moved to LA right after college, and there was a casting call. There's this movie that came out in 2011 called Hop. It was an Easter movie with James Marsden that has. It was, like, him mixed in with CGI bunnies. But this is so embarrassing. To promote it, they had, like, costume character bunnies at Universal and, like, going to movie theaters and, like, for their premiere. And I was like, I mean, whatever. It was work. But I was like, this is how I get into universe. Like, I thought it would be a Steven Spielberg story where, like, yeah, I was the bunny, but then they saw my natural talent, and they were like, get her a sitcom. No, they were like, never take your mask off. Like, James Marsden was there for one, like, press appearance. Like, do not talk to James. And I was just like, oh, this is. This is sad.
- [179:56]
Jackie Feidelberg
This isn't Hollywood, it turns out.
- [179:58]
Guest Comedian
Yeah. Or it really, really is. Yeah.
- [180:02]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah, I've noticed that. That, like, I. I think, like, just when you're a kid, you think all the bright lights and all the spectacles and stuff like that. And then, like, we were talking about it with the Emmys the other night, where we were like, people. You know how people feel about the Hollywood elites and all that.
- [180:17]
Jessica Singleton
We.
- [180:17]
Jackie Feidelberg
We had Michael Chickas on, and he was like. He was saying how most people aren't rich. And I was saying. Yet, like, I was saying, that the theater that that's at is like 3,000 people.
- [180:27]
Kevin Clancy
People.
- [180:27]
Guest Comedian
Yeah.
- [180:27]
Jackie Feidelberg
And maybe 200 of them are crazy wealthy.
- [180:30]
Guest Comedian
Yeah. There's Steve Fillers there.
- [180:32]
Jackie Feidelberg
Most of Hollywood, if people like trying to get into Hollywood.
- [180:36]
Kevin Clancy
Not.
- [180:37]
Guest Comedian
Yeah. Or even people who work a little. It's like you get a little moment or you're a small part on something that it's gone and it's not life changing. And maybe in your small town they go, he was on two episodes of Big Bang Star. But like, yeah, it's crazy. It's a lot of people trying to make it and then small amount who have.
- [180:56]
Jackie Feidelberg
And then.
- [180:56]
Guest Comedian
And it smells like piss everywhere you go in the like actual Hollywood, you were like, I'm going to put my hands in Marilyn Monroe's. No, do not touch those. They're filled with feces. It's. It's gross.
- [181:07]
Jackie Feidelberg
I also was surprised. I had like a very small roll on tires and I was, I was surprised. Like it's men who put like, who are. Do Hollywood.
- [181:19]
Guest Comedian
Like you were surprised by that.
- [181:21]
Jackie Feidelberg
But not like, no, like, like, not. Not men in the sense. Like James Marsden. I mean like union guys.
- [181:27]
Guest Comedian
Oh yeah. All the people running everything.
- [181:29]
Jackie Feidelberg
Everything. It was. And I don't even mean men in like a men term. I just mean like union people and. Oh like there's five people who are Hollywood people here. There are 300 people who are union workers.
- [181:43]
Guest Comedian
Like blue collar union. Like, I mean you look at those guys, it's like, yeah, these are just like when you pictured dads as a kid.
- [181:51]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah. That, that always really surprised. I was like, oh yeah. Obviously they need a lot of people to move and like. And I. Whenever I'd heard that like Hollywood is an industry that is not elite, that is not built on that. I was. I kind of be like a little.
- [182:06]
Guest Comedian
It is.
- [182:06]
Jackie Feidelberg
I'm like. But not really. And then seeing that I was like, oh, there's 40 times as many regular people here than there are stars.
- [182:14]
Guest Comedian
That's just not what you think about. It's like they're so surviving off of the glitz and glamour and the press that gets to get the money, I guess.
- [182:19]
Jackie Feidelberg
Right. Right.
- [182:20]
Guest Comedian
Yeah. It's like most people are just working class and most people are in LA are faking it. It's just smoke and mirrors. The amount of people that it's like, just say you have a day job. Just tell me. So I stopped comparing myself to you and going, why am I not. Why are they doing so well? And it's like, just say, just tell me you Have a trust fund. So I'm like, yeah, I can go to do that, too. Yeah. It's just. It's such a wild, wild world.
- [182:48]
Jackie Feidelberg
How when you're comparing yourself when you're not again.
- [182:51]
Guest Comedian
And I do.
- [182:52]
Jackie Feidelberg
Everyone did. I don't mean that in, like, a negative way. Are you looking at people who are at the same level as you? Are you looking at people who are more advanced than you?
- [183:04]
Guest Comedian
It's like, sometimes there's times where I'm like, I don't even know what level I'm at. Like, I go through moments where I'm like, I don't even know who people would say my peers are, but then I do. But everyone, like, has moments where they pop, and then things fizzle in a way that varies. But I try to look at people who are a little further along or doing a little better than me because I'm like, okay, if I'm going to be reaching for something, like, I only finally learned to stop asking advice from some. From people who aren't doing better than me.
- [183:34]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah.
- [183:35]
Guest Comedian
But it's like, why am I asking my friend who dresses like shit how my clothes are? Why would I ask career advice from someone who is not even as far along as I am? Yeah, but it's.
- [183:45]
Jackie Feidelberg
I think I also like looking at the people who are old. Not even necessarily older. But further is like, it's not really comparing.
- [183:52]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [183:52]
Jackie Feidelberg
You know what I mean? Like, when you're, like, looking at people who are, so to speak, on your level, I'm comparing. Whereas, like, when I'm looking at people who are better than me, I'm like, oh, that's an interesting way. Like, maybe I could.
- [184:03]
Guest Comedian
It's learning. It's like strategizing. It's like, okay, well, they, you know, oh, they did this, this, and this. So maybe, like, what's my version of that? Or even going especially with stand up. It's nice to look at those people because most of them. Most of the people who are, like, really big now, a lot of them didn't even start to pop till they were in their 40s.
- [184:19]
Jackie Feidelberg
Right.
- [184:19]
Guest Comedian
So going, oh, I'm not behind.
- [184:21]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah. Yeah.
- [184:22]
Guest Comedian
Like this. It takes longer.
- [184:23]
Jackie Feidelberg
There's.
- [184:24]
Jessica Singleton
There's.
- [184:24]
Jackie Feidelberg
I. I always think myself, like, the. I always think everyone achieved everything when they were 20.
- [184:30]
Guest Comedian
Yeah. That. It's like.
- [184:31]
Jackie Feidelberg
And I think because I achieved nothing at 20, that I. I'm always like, well, they're just so funny. Far ahead of me right now.
- [184:36]
Guest Comedian
Yeah.
- [184:37]
Jackie Feidelberg
But most of the time that's not true at all. It's just in your head.
- [184:40]
Guest Comedian
It is just in your head. And it's like even like the people you look at, like people like Tom Segura and Bert Kreuther, who are so big now, but when they were my age, it's like they were in clubs and not always selling. They had their fans, but they weren't, you know, super big.
- [184:54]
Jackie Feidelberg
And they'll tell you that. They tell you that, but it's easy.
- [184:57]
Guest Comedian
To invent a story like, well, that person's at this club, they must be crushing it. And it's like they sold three tickets.
- [185:02]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah.
- [185:03]
Guest Comedian
Life is a struggle, but it is. It's a. It's a weird. It's weird. I try not to compare. I try to be like, eyes on your own paper. Focus on being funny.
- [185:13]
Jackie Feidelberg
Right.
- [185:13]
Guest Comedian
Because it'll drive you crazy.
- [185:16]
Jackie Feidelberg
It's just like, I don't know. I'm not trying to be their kind of funny. Yeah, I'm trying to be my kind of funny.
- [185:21]
Guest Comedian
Exactly.
- [185:21]
Jackie Feidelberg
I was reading an interview with Josh Brolin the other day and he had a quote that I like, loved and was like. Like, that is he. It was the. The back page of Vanity Fair is like just real quick interviews with the celebrity.
- [185:33]
Kevin Clancy
It's awesome.
- [185:33]
Jackie Feidelberg
It's a really fun onepage thing to read. Back page. And they had Josh Brolin and it was like the question was like, what are your regrets? And he. Because everything is so quick, like, I don't know what he said leading up to and all that, but all that was on it was the time I spent trying to be someone else or the try the time I spent trying to be someone else.
- [185:52]
Kevin Clancy
I'm.
- [185:52]
Jackie Feidelberg
I wasn't. And I was like. I was like, oh, I never thought I had regrets. But now that you say that I do.
- [185:58]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [185:58]
Jackie Feidelberg
Like now it's like, oh, yeah, I same.
- [186:00]
Guest Comedian
Because you spend so much time. At least I did in comedy, you know, especially out in la, where you kind of feel like the industry is more just prevalent and it gets in your head, like, what is the industry looking for? And there were times, there have definitely been times where I kind of pull back on what is my natural, my funny and what's true to me to go even subconsciously, like, well, this is the kind of stuff that does well. So maybe I should be more like that. Not. It's not like a conscious, fully forward thing, but there have been times where I go like, yeah, that wasn't. Or I've pulled. There was. I. I became a pussy for a few years where I was like, cancel Culture. I love Rebel. I'm nice. I love everybody. And I do love everybody, but it's like, not at the sake of. Make a joke about something. Who cares? Yeah. And then I just hit a wall where I was like, what am I doing? I'm a comedian. This.
- [186:48]
Jackie Feidelberg
I'm going start doing Asian accents again.
- [186:50]
Guest Comedian
Yeah. Immediately I just like, go in full Asian face, go on the road. I blow up.
- [186:56]
Jessica Singleton
I do love the quote. That's like the. You could, like chase butterflies, but if you, like, grow your own garden or whatever, then the butterflies come, which is just like.
- [187:03]
Guest Comedian
I love that.
- [187:04]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah. But it's like, then if you stay in your own lane, you focus, you're just like, all right, I'm just going to do my own thing. I do think that, like, things. Things come to you.
- [187:10]
Guest Comedian
Yes.
- [187:11]
Jackie Feidelberg
Cranston had one too that was cool. Like that, where it was like, he. He said everything started getting easier for him when he realized that auditions aren't doing what we were just saying, where he's like, not trying. Like, I spent so much time trying to do what I thought the industry wanted me to do. And he was like, I finally one day accepted. Like, I'm just gonna show them how I see this role and. And if they like it, I'll work with them. If they don't, I'll. I won't. And I remember when I heard that, I was like, oh, yeah, that's. Just do it the way you see it. And if it works, fucking perfect. And if it doesn't, we'll find someone else.
- [187:44]
Guest Comedian
Yeah. No, because it's like, you're never gonna know. That's so funny. Because my manager slash my boyfriend. Yeah. I sleep with my manager. So what? Yeah. You want me to take this high paying job that's shitty. You go down on me. But maybe he was sharing that quote with me. He said something very, like, similar to that. And it shifted the way I auditioned it.
- [188:09]
Jackie Feidelberg
Like, totally like that one.
- [188:12]
Guest Comedian
Granted, I haven't booked anything since. It's shifted, but I'm still over.
- [188:16]
Jackie Feidelberg
But I'm having more fun while I'm doing it.
- [188:18]
Guest Comedian
No, because it's like, you don't know. So you might as well do it the way it makes sense to you instead of going, what are they looking for? Because also, they never know what they're looking for.
- [188:26]
Jackie Feidelberg
Right.
- [188:26]
Guest Comedian
I've auditioned for things and gotten callbacks where they're like, yeah, this. And then I see who they cast and I'm like, well, why were you even talking?
- [188:34]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yes. Yeah.
- [188:36]
Guest Comedian
If that's what you wanted I was never gonna be the part.
- [188:38]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah.
- [188:39]
Guest Comedian
Why'd you waste all of our time? They don't know until they see it and they just go, aha.
- [188:43]
Jackie Feidelberg
Seth Rogen was talking about the studio and he was saying it was his first time. I guess it was my business first time, like watching the audition tapes and he was saying how, like, it him up and he felt really bad watching it because he was like, everyone was doing so good. It just wasn't what I was looking for.
- [189:00]
Kevin Clancy
Yeah.
- [189:01]
Jackie Feidelberg
And then I heard that and I was like, that's probably how most people watch it. Like, oh, yeah, this is pretty good. He doesn't do what we want, but, like, keep an eye on that guy or whatever that, you know, they say.
- [189:10]
Guest Comedian
Yeah, that's what I look at auditions as now is that like, I just want the casting director to remember me for something else when I won't think of me next time. Because you have to think. Especially when you start going out for bigger roles and like big shows, big movies. It's like, probably everyone they're looking at is going to be decent.
- [189:25]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah. Yeah.
- [189:25]
Guest Comedian
It's not going to be a nut job, which is like, I'm Walter White, you know, it's like, so just do your thing. It's hell. There's so much you can't control.
- [189:36]
Jackie Feidelberg
Right. That. And then I think that, like helps with auditioning and life where you're like, I don't have any control over this. I'm just gonna. I'll do my thing. If you like it, you like it. If you don't, you don't. And I'll probably never see you again either way.
- [189:47]
Guest Comedian
Yeah, it's like, try. It's a weird balance of trying to still have hope but then also not give a shit.
- [189:52]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah.
- [189:52]
Guest Comedian
It's like, because once I'm done with a self tape, I'm like, I don't care. I'm just gonna assume I'll never hear about it, dude. And if I do, I'll go me. And then I'll bomb the callback.
- [190:03]
Jackie Feidelberg
Pavs.
- [190:04]
Kevin Clancy
Who?
- [190:04]
Jackie Feidelberg
One of the producers here, director Les Mascots. He helps me out with a few things I've tried and he always sends it to me, like, once he's done and edits the. Not edits it, but just clips it.
- [190:13]
Guest Comedian
So it has to be.
- [190:15]
Jackie Feidelberg
And he sends me. And I do do not ever look, I'm just like, put that off to whoever needs to see it. But that is not my business.
- [190:21]
Guest Comedian
The fact that some people can go back over any of their footage Having to make clips for social media has slowly eaten away at me. I never want to see myself doing comedy because I'm, I'm disgusting. I'm like. I'm like, oh, well, they're not coming to my page for my look, so I'll just keep humping the stool or whatever, keep bumping the stool because you're always going to find something. It's so easy to be critical of yourself. We're our biggest critic. So yeah, no, I never want to watch back. Cuz I'll probably not send in the tape. Never mind.
- [190:51]
Kevin Clancy
Screw it.
- [190:51]
Jackie Feidelberg
That's. I'm like, this is someone else's problem. They got to watch this every single time.
- [190:56]
Jessica Singleton
Like, I edit the podcast. I would just like joke with myself cuz I would be like, all right, I'm not going to pull up a Botox like, like plastic surgery page this time. I go, I'd edit. And every single time I'd be like, no, I'm getting, I'm getting more Botox. I'd go to the page, I'd see how expensive it was. I'd be like, never mind, I can't afford it. Put the phone down. Every single time I go to the page.
- [191:16]
Guest Comedian
No, I'm right there with you. I just had a clip come out and I have done Botox a couple times and now I'm like, I guess I'm the kind of person who is going to do Botox, but it's been a minute and I have a clip just yelling at someone on their podcast and it's just haunted. It's. It's just shitty as a woman. Like, especially now, it's like everyone's filtered and everyone's perfect and then.
- [191:40]
Jackie Feidelberg
But I see most people probably aren't.
- [191:41]
Guest Comedian
Even noticing, but you're like my crochet feet or whatever.
- [191:45]
Jackie Feidelberg
I think that. I think the filtered and, and the fillers and stuff like that. Like, I think the guy version of that is teeth. Like, a lot of my friends have gotten new teeth and.
- [191:55]
Guest Comedian
Oh my God.
- [191:56]
Jackie Feidelberg
I think the. I think that has kind of like made me realize what I think about the other stuff where it's like, I was like, dude, you guys all have the same smile now. You guys all look like you have the same exact smile.
- [192:07]
Kevin Clancy
And it's creepy.
- [192:08]
Jackie Feidelberg
It's creepy like, like three of my best friends have like the same smile.
- [192:12]
Guest Comedian
And when they go too big and too white.
- [192:14]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah, yeah, I think the same thing. I think the same thing happens in my brain to like, women who've gotten work done. I'M like, you guys all just look the same age. You know what I mean? Like a 26 year old who's gotten Botox looks like a 40 year old who's gotten Botox.
- [192:26]
Guest Comedian
That's what's crazy is that, like, you're not younger, you're just sort of like in a weird mesh. Well, but I think it's when you get a lot of work done, I think a lot of men don't realize that there are women. The amount my boyfriend's been like, well, look at this actress. Because I'll have breakdowns. But he goes, and she's perfect, naturally beautiful. I'm like, you think that this woman has never had Botox? Yeah. She has over a thousand dollars worth of product on her face. I remember being on a date with a guy who we went to see Wonder Woman and he's like. And I said, oh my God, she was so beautiful. And he's like, I can't believe. Yeah. And without any makeup. And I was like, I like, found an article about her makeup and I sent it to him. And he's like, he didn't even remember saying it. I was like, don't you understand? You don't know what we go through. I almost went and got professional makeup for this because I was like, I'm gonna, I'm on a camera. Just being a woman's a nightmare.
- [193:14]
Jackie Feidelberg
But I, I think the. So I'm obviously just as dumb. And I think the same things where I'm like, yeah, she's not even wearing makeup. But I think that's because growing up, girls would always say, I'm not wearing makeup when they were wearing makeup. Yeah. But so now I see a face of makeup and I go, actually doesn't have any makeup on. Because my whole life people told me that wasn't makeup.
- [193:35]
Guest Comedian
Really?
- [193:36]
Jessica Singleton
That's fair.
- [193:36]
Guest Comedian
I don't believe people actually saying that.
- [193:38]
Jackie Feidelberg
I mean, like, it wasn't like this. It sounds like in a clip, it sounds like it happened much more often than it did. But like one girls would pretend like, no, I'm just not. This is me.
- [193:49]
Guest Comedian
Oh, I gotta set the expectations away. I. When I'm not wearing makeup, I say I'm wearing all of it just to set the expectations way lower.
- [193:55]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [193:55]
Jackie Feidelberg
So when you're wearing makeup, I'm just kidding.
- [193:57]
Guest Comedian
I won't actually do that. But it's just like, I'm just saying I would do the opposite. It's like, why would you line so you're not wearing makeup because then when someone sees you Actually, without makeup, they're gonna think you're like a war. They're gonna go, do you have cancer? Like, that's what. Dude.
- [194:08]
Jackie Feidelberg
Like, young people. Like, I was a kid. I don't mean like when I was in college. I mean, like, like through, like teenage years, through high school. I feel like girls were.
- [194:15]
Guest Comedian
You don't think that there's a chance maybe they were in fact not wearing makeup?
- [194:19]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [194:20]
Guest Comedian
Wait, maybe some of them weren't. I wasn't even trying to be.
- [194:22]
Jessica Singleton
Like, they didn't say that.
- [194:24]
Guest Comedian
I'm just surprised to hear that.
- [194:25]
Jackie Feidelberg
Again, it wasn't like the girls weren't kicking in the door. Be like, no makeup today.
- [194:29]
Guest Comedian
But, oh, we didn't wear the same.
- [194:31]
Jackie Feidelberg
School, but like, it would just come up like, oh, like, you look nice. Again, no makeup today. I don't. Obviously. Maybe this is a smaller situation than.
- [194:37]
Kevin Clancy
I thought it was.
- [194:38]
Jessica Singleton
I've definitely done that here where I'm like, I didn't even wear makeup today. And then I have concealer, eyeliner.
- [194:43]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah. It's like, oh, I. I like to.
- [194:45]
Guest Comedian
Do it as a bit when I have full makeup on. I just woke up like this. Yeah, yeah. No makeup. Makeup, by the way, is such a skill.
- [194:53]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [194:54]
Guest Comedian
People who can really do their makeup in a way where they just look fresh face and you. You aren't sure. I wish. I. I'm either. I'm either actually no makeup or Mrs. Doubtfire. Like, it's.
- [195:06]
Jackie Feidelberg
What would you think about if your boyfriend or a guy, you know, started wearing makeup? No, no, genuinely, like, if you were with a guy and he was like, I think I'm gonna give makeup a whack, would that be a turn off?
- [195:22]
Guest Comedian
I would just like to see him do it. I go, go ahead. Let me see how easy you think this is. Yeah, no, give yourself. But men, you men could just grow a beard and that's contour.
- [195:32]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah.
- [195:33]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [195:33]
Guest Comedian
Like, I don't know. I think it would weird me out.
- [195:36]
Jackie Feidelberg
But I remember there was a. There was a men's makeup brand that started somewhat recently in the last five years or so that they had reached out and they're like, do you want. They want to advertise. And we were like, no, because I forget why. I forget if, you know, whatever. But it was like, it was called, like, war Paint. And I remember just seeing it and being like, if a guy's gonna use makeup up, he's not going to use like. Like, you know what I mean? Like the kind of guy who is going to bridge that gap to be like, the kind of guy who's going to go, you know what? I'm going to try makeup. It doesn't. It's not going to, like, Like, I'm. I'm that guy. Like, I.
- [196:12]
Guest Comedian
You don't need to manly it up.
- [196:14]
Jackie Feidelberg
I. I've never done it, but if I were to try, I'm. I'm probably one of the guys who are like, you could convince me.
- [196:19]
Kevin Clancy
You're like, ah, all right, I'll give it a whack.
- [196:22]
Jackie Feidelberg
I would not use war paint. Like, I. I would be like, I'm going to get a better one.
- [196:26]
Guest Comedian
Maybe like Laura Mercier. Yeah. I'm gonna get one with a good reputation. Although isn't that, like, a thing that people used to like some. That women would call it that it's my war paint?
- [196:36]
Kevin Clancy
Is that what. Really?
- [196:37]
Guest Comedian
Yeah. No, I feel like I don't know who, but that was, like, a thing.
- [196:41]
Jackie Feidelberg
I can definitely see that.
- [196:42]
Guest Comedian
Yeah.
- [196:42]
Jessica Singleton
I don't know if men have the patience for makeup.
- [196:45]
Guest Comedian
Yeah.
- [196:45]
Jessica Singleton
Because sometimes when I put on, like, you know, setting spray, and then you gotta, like, wait a minute, you gotta do the eyeliner, and then if you mess it up up, you have to do it again. All that you. I don't. I don't think you would last past foundation.
- [196:58]
Jackie Feidelberg
No, I completely.
- [197:00]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [197:00]
Guest Comedian
Yeah, it is. I had to. I got a lesson. I paid a makeup artist to teach me because. And I'm still not very good, but miles better. And I would think I was putting makeup on like I believe a man would. And then when she taught me about. Yeah, like, setting spray, and you have to let this dry moisturize, but you have to wait. And then doing the eyes first, it was just like, oh, this is. This is hell.
- [197:24]
Jackie Feidelberg
Were you, like, in high school, like, the orange face, like, to hear kind of deal?
- [197:29]
Guest Comedian
No, but we definitely had those. We had girls with, like, the orange face, like, the white lips, and then they had square hair. Like, they would tease it. And I was like, you look in the mirror and go, yes.
- [197:41]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah. Yeah.
- [197:42]
Guest Comedian
I was very. I wasn't allowed to wear makeup till I was. Was 16 because I. My stepdad was just a misogynist pig. But then I was just eyeliner, mascara, and like the jizziest looking lip gloss, like glitter. Just like, it looked like I had frosting on my face all the time. I'm so hot.
- [198:03]
Jackie Feidelberg
Is it crazy, like, what the brain does? Like, like, because you genuinely believe that in that moment. And I have plenty of times where I look like a idiot and I like, in that moment I was like, I am killing this. And somehow like 20 years later, it's like, what the fuck did you think you were doing?
- [198:19]
Guest Comedian
Why did I do that to me? Yeah. I'll take big swings on outfits. Sometimes I go, oh, my God, am I an icon? And then later I go, I'm a clown. I'm literally a clown.
- [198:30]
Jackie Feidelberg
I have decades of pictures where I'm like, are you wearing like, nylon shoes that are hot pink? What the.
- [198:38]
Guest Comedian
And you like, chose that. And you go like, God, I'm cool.
- [198:41]
Jackie Feidelberg
And then 20 years, I'll look back at what I'm wearing right now and I'll go, what the do you think you're wearing, dude? You think that's an outfit? You look ridiculous.
- [198:48]
Guest Comedian
It never ends. It's like, we're never.
- [198:51]
Jackie Feidelberg
You're never going to be content. You're never going to be happy. You're just going to.
- [198:54]
Guest Comedian
No, I'm just going to. You're never going to get banks. It's a never ending battle. It's hell.
- [199:01]
Jessica Singleton
I think I'm going to dye my hair dark.
- [199:03]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah.
- [199:03]
Guest Comedian
Yeah, you are.
- [199:04]
Jessica Singleton
I've never done Always move.
- [199:05]
Guest Comedian
I think it would make your eyes pop. Thanks.
- [199:07]
Jessica Singleton
What?
- [199:07]
Jackie Feidelberg
When are you gonna do it?
- [199:09]
Jessica Singleton
Okay, well, here's the thing is like, I was gonna do it, and then Brie got her hair dark, and so now it kind of looks like a copying Brie and about to go on tour with her. So then it.
- [199:16]
Jackie Feidelberg
So after tour, I, I, perhaps when you dye your hair, I don't want to steal your thunder.
- [199:23]
Guest Comedian
So you can also dye your hair.
- [199:25]
Jackie Feidelberg
A solo thing. You can have it. I've been always flirting with shaving my head.
- [199:28]
Guest Comedian
No, no, you can't.
- [199:31]
Jackie Feidelberg
I mean, everyone's really.
- [199:33]
Guest Comedian
I just threw up in my mouth.
- [199:34]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [199:35]
Jackie Feidelberg
And unfortunately, that makes me want to do it more.
- [199:37]
Guest Comedian
So you know how your head is shaped?
- [199:39]
Kevin Clancy
Huh?
- [199:39]
Guest Comedian
Do you have any idea how your head is shaped?
- [199:41]
Jackie Feidelberg
No.
- [199:42]
Guest Comedian
Oh, I bet you have like a really.
- [199:43]
Jackie Feidelberg
I'm not gonna like it. I just mean, like, take a buzzer and go short.
- [199:46]
Jessica Singleton
Go, go like this.
- [199:47]
Guest Comedian
You. Well, if you're gonna do it, you have to let us do it. Like on the podcast.
- [199:50]
Kevin Clancy
Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course.
- [199:51]
Guest Comedian
Oh, are you gonna get headshots while it's shaved?
- [199:54]
Jackie Feidelberg
I don't think I have headshots. No, no, I do have. No, because I'm not gonna shave it and, like, keep become like a shaved head guy.
- [200:00]
Guest Comedian
Why not? What if it looks cool and you're like.
- [200:03]
Jackie Feidelberg
I guess if it, if, if I'm surprised and I'm like, oh, that actually works.
- [200:07]
Guest Comedian
What if you shave your hair and it doesn't grow back?
- [200:09]
Jackie Feidelberg
Well, so I've asked my stylist, shout out Erica Fleischman many times. It's the only thing I ask every time.
- [200:16]
Guest Comedian
She's like, stop asking.
- [200:17]
Jackie Feidelberg
I'm like, am I going bald? And she's like, what are you talking about? And I'll be like, I don't know. Like, this part here looks a little weird. She's like, you have a perfect hairline.
- [200:24]
Kevin Clancy
Shut up.
- [200:25]
Guest Comedian
Let me tell you. She's not going to say it until it's a little bit later than it should be.
- [200:28]
Jackie Feidelberg
You're not going bald, Erica. Erica would take care of me. Erica would tell me one way or the other. And I, I. Because I do. I. It's been like five years where I'm.
- [200:36]
Kevin Clancy
Like, I should shave my head.
- [200:38]
Guest Comedian
Why though?
- [200:39]
Jackie Feidelberg
I don't know. Just kind of do something different.
- [200:41]
Guest Comedian
That's bangs for man. It's like, what's really going on? You're like, this will fix me.
- [200:48]
Jessica Singleton
Are you going to go shaven? Dye, like bleach? Blonde?
- [200:50]
Guest Comedian
Dyed Slim Shady?
- [200:52]
Jackie Feidelberg
I know. I didn't have any bleach plans.
- [200:55]
Guest Comedian
Grow up.
- [200:56]
Jackie Feidelberg
Bleach with a red beard would look insane.
- [200:59]
Jessica Singleton
But, you know, that's the whole point is, like, it's kind of too look insane.
- [201:03]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah, that's true, too.
- [201:04]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [201:05]
Jackie Feidelberg
I was say, like, I'm. I'm easily. It's just going to grow back.
- [201:09]
Guest Comedian
So that's the thing. It's also, as a guy, like, you could just put a hat on and you're fine.
- [201:13]
Jackie Feidelberg
I'm not like, in, literally in like a month, it'll be normal looking again. It's not that big a deal.
- [201:18]
Jessica Singleton
Fast.
- [201:19]
Jackie Feidelberg
My hair grows pretty fast, I think. I don't know. I. I don't get it cut very often. So it's kind of just. I don't. I don't really pay that much attention.
- [201:25]
Jessica Singleton
Wait, let's do it together. We just show up one day, both shape.
- [201:29]
Guest Comedian
Dude, men are lucky. Yeah. You just wear a hat and people. It's like a negligible difference probably if you don't like it as a woman. Like, if I get a pixie cut and it doesn't look good, my life is ruined for at least a few months. And even after that.
- [201:40]
Jessica Singleton
But even, like you have a.
- [201:43]
Jackie Feidelberg
Even that in the grand scheme of things, a few months, it's just gonna be funny in a year. Like, it's not that. It's.
- [201:49]
Guest Comedian
When I have a bowl cut, we're Back.
- [201:52]
Jackie Feidelberg
Everything bad is only bad for, like, a few weeks at most. And then.
- [201:56]
Guest Comedian
That's Buddhism. Everything passes. Yeah.
- [201:59]
Kevin Clancy
Yeah.
- [201:59]
Guest Comedian
Everything arises and passes. The good doesn't last. The bad doesn't last. Whatever.
- [202:04]
Jackie Feidelberg
It doesn't. And it's not even Buddhism. It's just history. You're the way the world works.
- [202:09]
Guest Comedian
I want to shave my head right now. No, it's true. It all, like, it eventually comes to an end. It fixes itself. You'll be fine. Yeah, you're going to be fine.
- [202:17]
Jackie Feidelberg
I remember talking about, like, quotes and stuff. I remember seeing a visual representative representation of time heals all wounds. It, like, changed my life. I was like, it's. I'll pull it up for you. It's a. It's. It's the coolest, like, video where I was like, oh, yeah, that's exactly how it works. So who gives a.
- [202:38]
Guest Comedian
You just have to let time pass and just be wounded for a while. Yeah, sure, you're bleeding out, but you won't. Eventually, you'll run out of blood.
- [202:47]
Jackie Feidelberg
But as you're bleeding out, doesn't it feel good to know, like, it's gonna clot? Yeah, it will clot.
- [202:52]
Jessica Singleton
Oh, that's. Whoa.
- [202:54]
Jackie Feidelberg
Well, not. Not every. Not every bullet wound will. But like, most of the.
- [202:58]
Guest Comedian
Sometimes when you're in the thick of. Of it because. No, that is something that helps me to go like, oh, I'm not going to feel like this forever. But there's moments where I'm still so usually irrationally upset, where that's just barely helpful, where I go, well, I won't always feel like this.
- [203:11]
Jessica Singleton
Yeah.
- [203:12]
Jackie Feidelberg
Yeah, right. You're like, I'll just watch a movie and then in a week, I'll feel better.
- [203:17]
Guest Comedian
I'll just stay on the couch.
- [203:19]
Jackie Feidelberg
The. Oh, I don't know what time it is. God, time flies whenever.
- [203:21]
Guest Comedian
Oops.
- [203:25]
Jackie Feidelberg
Whatever. I'm gonna text this to you. I forgot.
- [203:26]
Guest Comedian
Okay, great.
- [203:27]
Jackie Feidelberg
I have a meeting at 3. That's not here, so.
- [203:28]
Guest Comedian
Oh, no.
- [203:30]
Jackie Feidelberg
But thank you so much for coming on.
- [203:32]
Guest Comedian
Oh, my God. Thanks for having me.
- [203:33]
Jackie Feidelberg
Jessica Michelle Singleton. Yeah, it's been an absolute blast.
- [203:36]
Guest Comedian
Oh, my God. Thanks for having me.
- [203:37]
Jackie Feidelberg
Thank you.
- [203:37]
Guest Comedian
Oh, my God. This is great. I appreciate you having me go to your website. Oh, just go to my. Anywhere. Any social media at JMS Comedy and the link in any of those bios. I have a new special called hi, y'.
- [203:46]
Jessica Singleton
All.
- [203:46]
Guest Comedian
So check that out.
- [203:47]
Jackie Feidelberg
Fantastic.
- [203:48]
Guest Comedian
Yeah.
- [203:48]
Jackie Feidelberg
Thank you very much.
- [203:49]
Guest Comedian
Thank you. This was really great. Thank you.
- [203:51]
Jackie Feidelberg
And also, don't give up on that.
- [203:52]
Guest Comedian
Mascot Dream Season 2, baby.