TCB Infomercial: Dulce Sloan

Summary

The Commercial Break — TCB Infomercial: Dulce Sloan

Episode Date: July 23, 2024
Hosts: Brian Green, Kristen Joy Hoadley
Guest: Dulcé Sloan
Podcast Description: A self-described “Cheesecake Factory of comedy podcasts,” TCB brings wild, unfiltered humor, pop culture takes, and off-the-cuff interviews with comedians and eccentric personalities.

Episode Overview

This lively, energetic episode welcomes standup comedian, actress, author, and Daily Show correspondent Dulcé Sloan. The conversation dives into Dulcé’s origin story in comedy, the unique cultural fabric of Atlanta, her experiences as a Black woman in standup, industry gripes (especially about social media pressure), dating/dating apps, and the hustle of modern comedy. The trio weaves jokes, stories, and real talk about the business and personal realities behind show business and dating—always with tongue firmly in cheek.

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Major Discussion Points

1. Opening Banter & Dulcé’s Atlanta Roots

00:00–05:50

• Dulcé jokes about PBR beer (“60% trailer juice, 40% unfiltered water”) to set the episode’s irreverent tone.
• Brian and Kristen introduce Dulcé’s impressive background: Daily Show regular, Variety Top 10 Comics, "The Great North" voice actor, author, and touring comedian.
• Reflections on Atlanta as a city with a distinct, diverse vibe and African American leadership.
  • "The culture in Atlanta is just... It’s a different vibe than some other place, some other big cities across the country." — Brian Green (02:02)

2. Dulcé’s Journey: Language, Odd Jobs & Comedy Discovery

06:06–14:30

• Dulcé details growing up between Miami and Atlanta, learning Spanish young, and using it both personally and professionally.
  • "I used to help my neighbors register their kids for school," she says, and later worked in bilingual customer service and sold stucco.
• Her path from theater kid with a degree to reluctant standup comic.
  • Comic Big Kenny Johnson recognized her comedic chops and persistently recruited her to take his stand-up class, until he finally offered it for free.
  • "Stand up scared me because I came up doing theater... Stand-up is: you’re by yourself, it’s all you and it’s all your words. I was like, nah, I’m straight." — Dulcé Sloan (11:55)
• Her mother’s prophetic dream of “the whole world laughing at you” reinforced the decision to try comedy.

Notable Quote

"You’re supposed to be doing this. I’m not going to charge you for the class." — Big Kenny, relayed by Dulcé (13:40)

3. Gender & Race in the Comedy Club Pipeline

14:30–27:49

• Candid talk about the barriers faced as a Black woman in comedy.
  • Specific, open discrimination in “urban rooms” about female comedians: “We already got two females on the show.”
  • White rooms less explicit, but same exclusion. "White women think that’s why [they don’t get up], no one’s telling them. Black women know that’s why if you’re doing black rooms." — Dulcé Sloan (15:13)
• Mentorship by Big Kenny protected her somewhat but didn’t fast-track stage opportunities.
• Dulcé criticizes how mediocrity (especially white male mediocrity) perpetuates the myth that “women aren’t funny,” creating obstacles for talented women and excuses for the unfunny—of all genders.

Notable Exchange

• "Are you a killer?" (in response to a mediocre male comic doubting women's skill) — Dulcé Sloan (19:07)

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4. Industry Challenges: The Tyranny of Social Media & Modern Comic Hustle

27:49–34:15

• Pressure to constantly create and promote content online:

  • "The Internet is an infinitely hungry toddler that must be fed at all times." — Dulcé Sloan (29:40)

• Club owners expect comics to promote and fill rooms, even in faraway cities.

  • Insights from Meta: static posters are now useless in building up shows, it has to be video content.
  • "You're literally asking me for something that no longer works..." (32:43)

• Comedians must now also be promoters, content creators, web designers, party planners, etc., leading to comparisons with Atlanta’s rampant “side hustle” culture.

Memorable Team Rant

"Everyone you meet in Atlanta: ‘I’m a producer.’... I do music. I was like, what do you do to it?" — Dulcé Sloan (34:38)

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5. Dating Woes: From CD Salesmen to Jazz-Going Aunties

34:15–46:47

• Hilarious, real-life Atlanta observations about hustlers and the outdated practice of hustling CDs in parking lots.
  • “You need to go back in time to make this viable... You might as well be selling VHS tapes.” — Dulcé Sloan (36:32)
• Women having to “Frankenstein” together one whole man out of three with the right attributes.
• Aging, dating, and the “grown and sexy” phase: “Am I supposed to be going to a concert at 4pm? Am I a rich auntie now?”
• Experiences with dating apps:
  • Systemic racism visible on Match.com (“when are you gonna meet a Pacific Islander in Snellville, sir?”).
  • Ditching all the apps and leaving it to God: "I’m have to let God do this. I’m about to be 41. I don’t know what I’m doing. Somebody gonna have to take the wheel, and it’s gonna have to be Jesus..." (46:01)

Notable Quote

"Don’t come up to me if you cannot pay half my mortgage. Don’t even... That’s why I said no more Broke dick. My ministry, I’m truly serious about it." — Dulcé Sloan (46:27)

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6. Current Projects, Book & Tour

47:43–56:22

• Finished filming a new comedy set around saving a golf course in Austin (“wrapped not even a week ago”).
• Her book: Stories of Dating, Destiny, and Day Jobs—not a memoir, per se, but a collection of essays: “I wanted to call it: Don’t Call it a Memoir, I’m Only 39.”
• Voiceover on Fox’s “The Great North,” helping design her own character, Honeybee.
• Giggle Gloss lip gloss company.
• Atlanta tour date: September 13th with other comics (Lace Larrabee, Clayton English, David Perdue, Baron Vaughn).

Memorable Anecdote

• Why every Papa Doe’s (seafood restaurant) is next to a motel: “Whoever owns Papa Doe’s is smart because he knows that you don’t spent these coins…” (51:17)
• "How you losing out on this [money]? I would make Hilton brand condoms." (51:49)

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Notable Quotes & Moments with Timestamps

• PBR joke: “Trailers single wide. Every PBR is 60% trailer juice, 40% unfiltered water... What is that? Is that teen pregnancy? What am I tasting? White poverty?” — Dulcé Sloan [00:00]
• On Atlanta's culture: “It’s a different vibe than some other place, some other big cities across the country.” — Brian Green [02:02]
• On entering stand-up: “You’re by yourself and it’s all your words. I was like, nah, I’m straight.” — Dulcé Sloan [11:55]
• On the comedy gender gap: “White women think that’s why [they aren’t booked], no one’s telling them. Black women know that’s why if you’re doing black rooms.” — Dulcé Sloan [15:13]
• Social media reality: “The Internet is an infinitely hungry toddler that must be fed at all times.” — Dulcé Sloan [29:40]
• Dating apps as a Black woman: “You see guys click on every single racial background except black. And I was like, sir, you live in Snellville. When are you gonna meet a Pacific Islander?” — Dulcé Sloan [43:19]
• Finances & relationships: “Most people get divorced because of finances. Not because they fell out of love, not because somebody cheated…” — Dulcé Sloan [46:49]

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Highlights & Lighter Touches

• CD Hustlers: The Atlanta/LA parking lot CD peddlers are roasted: “I hope you’re out here robbing people. That’s gonna be a more viable plan.” — Dulcé Sloan [37:24]
• Comedy hustle and modern gigs: “Now I gotta be a DJ, designer... I just sound like every Negro in Atlanta with a fucking business card.” — Dulcé Sloan [34:17]
• Jazz as the sign of aunthood: “Am I supposed to be at a white party with a bunch of aunties in Atlanta? Am I supposed to be going to a concert at 4pm?” — Dulcé Sloan [40:34]

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Final Thoughts & Takeaways

• On Industry Inequities: Dulcé shares an unfiltered, sharply observed account of being a Black woman in a field slow to change, all while poking fun at the mediocrity and gatekeeping still present on club stages and beyond.
• On Hustling in Comedy: The ever-evolving requirements for comedians—to be funny, write, produce, act, and relentlessly feed social media—get compared to the endless, slightly ridiculous hustle culture of Atlanta.
• On Surviving & Thriving: Despite all the hustle, Dulcé’s message is about surviving, loving yourself, and knowing your worth: “Don’t come up to me if you cannot pay half my mortgage.”
• Personal Humor: Even as she takes apart serious issues, Dulcé keeps humor and optimism at the front—never missing an opportunity for a wild metaphor, roast, or punchline.

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [00:00] — Dulcé’s PBR Joke & Early Banter
• [06:06] — Dulcé’s Language Skills, Odd Jobs, & Comedy Start
• [14:30] — Comedy Pipeline, Gender/Race Gatekeeping
• [27:49] — Social Media Hurdles for Modern Comics
• [34:15] — CD Sellers, Dating, Becoming a “Rich Auntie”
• [43:31] — Quitting Dating Apps, Financial Standards in Dating
• [47:43] — New Movie Project, Book, Tour Dates, “The Great North”
• [51:06] — Papa Doe’s/Motel Observation
• [56:22] — Closing Plugs and Goodbyes

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Where to Find Out More

• Dulcé on tour & latest updates: dulcesloan.com
• Book: “Hello, Friends! Stories of Dating, Destiny and Day Jobs”
• On TV: The Daily Show, The Great North (Fox)
• Lip Gloss Line: Giggle Gloss
• IG & TikTok: @thecommercialbreak, @TCBpodcast

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Tone: Chaotic, self-deprecating, honest, with sharp social and cultural critique—always returning to big laughs and playful digs.

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In Closing:
For anyone seeking a hilarious but deeply honest view behind the comedy curtain—as a Black woman, a modern artist, and a proud Atlanta original—this episode delivers stand-up quality storytelling, tough truths, and plenty of laughter.

Transcript

[Dulce Sloan]

Now, I don't know if you know how they make pbr, but they take mobile homes and juice them. Trailers single wide. Every PBR is 60% trailer juice, 40% unfiltered water. And you know I'm right. Cause every time your job having ass took a sip, you're like, what is. What is that? Is that teen pregnancy? What am I tasting? What is this? White poverty? What is it? Voting against your own interest? There we go. That's what that is. On this episode of the commercial break, he's doing What? He's selling CDs. My brother's like, what you doing selling CD? He's like. I was like, sir, I can't be. I said, what could I hate on your horrible business practices? What are you talking about? He's walking around in a kango hat in the parking lot with a duffel bag. I was like. I said, you have actual cd. I said, I hope you're out here robbing people. That's gonna be more vi over playing God. I hope you're robbing people out here. Please hit me over my head. The next episode of the commercial break starts now.

[Brian Green]

Oh, yeah. Cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is my riz to my raz, Kristen Joy. Holy. Best to you, Kristen.

[Kristen Joy]

Best to you, Brian.

[Brian Green]

Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Thanks for joining us. We really appreciate it. TCB infomercial today with Dol say Sloan. Of course, you would know her from the Daily Show. She was named one of Varieties top, The prestigious Variety Top 10 Upand Cominging Comics list. She's on the Great north, that Fox animated comedy show of which I've watched a couple episodes and I thought, very funny. Yes. She has a book out there. I always get the names of books right. So I'm going to look at it. Hello, friends with Dulce Sloan. She's got numerous videos and and sets out there online. She's really a very funny human being and she's making waves. She's on tour through the rest of the year. Dulce Sloan.com is where you can get that information. Get those tickets, links to those tickets. Because I understand from her agency that each show may have different ways of buying the tickets. Like you can't buy them all at Ticketmaster or something like that.

[Kristen Joy]

That's right. Yeah. Go direct to her.

[Brian Green]

Go direct to her site, Dulce.

[Kristen Joy]

She's an Atlanta girl, too.

[Brian Green]

She is an Atlanta girl. Yeah, she's an Atlanta girl. And we're so happy to have Her. Actually, one of my favorite things that I saw Dulce do was she had this conversation with, I think it was someone here in Atlanta who owned a barbershop or something like that. And I might be mistaken about this, but they were sitting and they were talking about the culture in Atlanta, like how the culture in Atlanta is just. It's a different vibe than some other place, some other big cities across the country. And we've talked about this before also. We've said that we grow up, we grew up in an extraordinarily diverse city and the city itself is mainly African American, and we have African American mayors as long as I've been here. And. And they have shaped our city in so many different ways. And Dolce was sharing with this man about how it was just a different environment growing up. And when she goes to different cities, she can see that, she can feel it, she can taste it, she can hear it. And I like that. So hopefully we get a chance to, you know, talk to her about that. But if we don't, just know that we. We heard you and we love you.

[Kristen Joy]

That's right.

[Brian Green]

So I actually don't want to waste a lot of time today because we have a good chunk with Dulce. So let's not delay. Why don't we do this?

[Kristen Joy]

Not delayed for Dulce.

[Brian Green]

Let's not delay. Let's not delay for Dulce. I wonder when this comes out, if we have a new presidential candidate. That's what I'm wondering. We're all sitting here waiting on bated breath to see. So when this airs on Tuesday, I wonder. I wonder. And that's. That's all that anybody can talk about right now. Chrissy. It seems like that, that. And I've started to hear about Charles, King Charles and his fingers. What is something wrong with his fingers?

[Kristen Joy]

I don't know.

[Brian Green]

He's got weird fingers. Apparently.

[Kristen Joy]

He's got weird fingers.

[Brian Green]

Why do people fixate on things people cannot control? Like fingers? You can't control those. Remember when Megan Fox, everyone was saying she had thumbs for fingers. Oh, yeah, it's so fucking weird. Why do you guys care about what someone's fingers look like? I mean, to be fair, there was a time when Trump was talking about Trump's small hands and I found a couple of those memes funny. Sorry, I did. I found a couple of those memes funny. But anyway, let's. Why don't we take a break and then as soon as we get back, we will. We'll have Dulce here with us. What do you Think about that.

[Kristen Joy]

I think that sounds good.

[Brian Green]

All right, let's do that. Let's not delay today. Let's get right on. Dulce, Sloan. We'll be back after these messages. After these messages.

[Dulce Sloan]

We'll be back.

[Brian Green]

Right back.

[Dulce Sloan]

Hi.

[Commercial Break Announcer]

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[Brian Green]

And Dulce is here now with us. Hi, Dulce. Thank you very much for joining us this morning.

[Dulce Sloan]

Hola. How you doing?

[Brian Green]

Where did you learn the Spanish?

[Dulce Sloan]

I learned. I started learning Spanish when my family moved back to Miami. So me and my mom were born in Miami in the same hospital and I think a room above the other one. And that's great. My mother says, yes, remember which. Who was. Who was above or below, but that's the. Where we were. So basically we moved back to Miami. I was nine years old. And so I started taking Spanish every day in school from fourth grade to half a fourth grade to half of sixth grade. And I picked it up super quickly. And then so by the time we moved back to Atlanta for, like, the second semester of sixth grade, I'd already had, like, a working understanding of it. And then I didn't take another Spanish class until 10th grade, but I was already kind of fluent, I guess. And then I took it through high school, and then I took it in college. By the time I got to college, I tested out of, like, Spanish 101. And then I think I missed testing out in Spanish 102 by, like, three questions. And then all our neighbors in Norcross, it was three questions. I was like, you. You didn't have to tell me that, because I was annoyed, too. I was like, wait a minute. But, like, growing up in Norcross, because we were on like the singles and road side of Norcross. So, yeah, yeah, I used to help my. And then we lived in a predominantly, like, first generation Mexican neighborhood. Mexican, El Salvadorian. And so I would like help my neighbors register their kids for school. One of them, I helped her get her health insurance from her job. Her husband had a DUI and explained that, yeah, so this was like. And she was. And I had my Spanish, like dictionary and she was like, you don't know these words in Spanish. I said, girl, this is barely English. No, this is legalese. This is a different monster we're dealing with right here. And so, and so by the time I graduated from college, I would work doing bilingual customer service. So I worked up until I started doing stand up full time doing bilingual customers. My last day job, I was selling stucco in English and Spanish.

[Brian Green]

You were selling stucco, like the wall, the, that goes on the wall outside of someone's house in Spanish and in English.

[Dulce Sloan]

So but I had worked at a power company. I'd worked at a trash company, I worked at a payroll deduction company. I worked at a used car a lot. I used to manage an auto body shop. A lot of jobs before I started doing stand up full time. And then now as a comic, I have a lot of different jobs because it's like you have a lot of.

[Brian Green]

Different things that you do. You're an entrepreneur.

[Dulce Sloan]

So in addition to the lip gloss company, I also do stand up. I'm also the voice of a cartoon. I'm also on the Daily Show. I also just shot a movie.

[Brian Green]

So let's dig into that a little bit. Tell me about the if you can, I don't know if you can share yet, but tell me about the movie that you got just got done filming because we follow you on Instagram and so I, I that you put in a nice little post about wrapping the movie. What's the movie all about?

[Dulce Sloan]

It's a group of people who are trying to save the Austin Municipal golf course. So we shot. It was 19 days of shooting. So basically I just got back to LA on the 21st. So we had like 19 days of shooting. I shot for 14 days. And it's a cute little comedy and it was a lot of fun to shoot. I miss everybody. I was just texting hairstylist that were like, oh, we miss everybody. It was so fun. But like, I really needed that time to be there. I missed acting so much.

[Brian Green]

Is that a passion of yours? I, I, I, I would imagine based on your post that I read a passion of Yours is acting. And you were like, felt like you were in your element when you were there doing the movie. Is that true? You really love acting.

[Dulce Sloan]

I have a theater degree. I still been acting since I was a kid. Acting was what I always wanted to do. Stand up was a surprise.

[Brian Green]

You just found out you were funny and said, hey, I could go on stage. If I tell a few jokes, maybe I'll make some money.

[Dulce Sloan]

No. Another comic told me I was a comic and made me take a stand up class. Oh, I never had any.

[Brian Green]

Which comic was. Which comic was that? Which comic is responsible for your. Your left hand?

[Dulce Sloan]

His name is Big Kenny Johnson. He's a comic in Atlanta. And I talk about him in the book. My manager tricked me into writing. Truly, truly did. But my little sister, one of my little sisters from college. So I was like two years out of college, one of my little sisters from school ran the door at a comedy club in Atlanta. And I'd been in like, I was acting around the city. I was doing. I was in an improv troupe for two years. And I started doing the improv troupe when I met Big Kenny. But it was around like, it's like the summer of 2007. I would go to the comedy club just to hang out with her because she let me in for free. And I just started. I'd met the comics and I'm talking cause like, I knew how to tell a comedic story. I've been acting since I was a kid, so like, I knew how to tell a story. I knew, you know, I have a theater degree. I'm like two years out of college. And so he was talking to me one day, he was like, you should take my standup class. And I was like, no, thank you. And he was like, why not? I said, because standup scared me because I came up doing theater. So yeah, when you're acting or when you're doing improv, which is still a form of acting, you're on stage and you're in an ensemble and you're performing. Especially like in a play.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Dulce Sloan]

You're not yourself because you're. Because you're bringing another person to life. And there aren't your words because you're following a script.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah, I can see that.

[Dulce Sloan]

And so stand up is you're by yourself. It's all you and it's all your words. And I was like, nah, I'm straight.

[Kristen Joy]

And that's scary.

[Dulce Sloan]

It was very scary to me. And for two years he would invite me out. He would invite my mom out. He was in this improv troupe called the Blacktop Circus, I think was the only, like, at the time, the only all black improv troupe, I guess, that was working on a consistent basis. I don't know. That's what he told us. And so Blacktop Circus, he would invite us out. And I was like, I'm not doing this. I'm not doing stand up. I don't know why you keep bringing me out. I don't know what this is for. No, gracias. And one day I was working a job, and this was like around 2008, 2009, when everybody was getting laid off. Like when the recession hit.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah.

[Dulce Sloan]

And I was. The job I was working at, they had a bunch of downsizing. And me, one of my best friends at the time, we were the youngest ones. We were the newest hires. And so we were let go first. And so I was on unemployment, and he hit me up again, like, hey, come to my stand up class. And I just finished a screen, a sketch comedy writing class. And the class is like 300 bucks. And I was like, that is my whole unemployment check. That is what Georgia is giving you.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dulce Sloan]

For the week was 3:30, 383. That was the whole check.

[Brian Green]

And I remember I collected unemployment during that time.

[Dulce Sloan]

That was right. And it was like, yeah, but you could still live a Life on that 300 in 2010.

[Brian Green]

And I had a roommate, and we managed to. We just managed to make it.

[Dulce Sloan]

We figured it out. And so I was like. And they asked me to do the next section of the class. And then I saw Big Kenny randomly. He was like, you need to take the stand up class. I was like, that class is 300. That's my whole unemployment check. I do. I can't. I can't. And then he said, you're supposed to be doing this. I'm not going to charge you for the class. And then I talked to my mom about it, and she said she had a dream that the whole world was laughing at me, but she didn't know what it meant.

[Brian Green]

Wow.

[Dulce Sloan]

So I was like, all right. He said I could take the class with me. The Lord gave my mama a dream. I got six weeks. I got nothing else better to do. Let me go ahead and take this class.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah, jump in.

[Dulce Sloan]

And so May 12, 2009, was the first time I did stand up. And so this year would be 15 years that I've been doing stand up.

[Brian Green]

So Big Kenny is responsible. And here's a funny connection. Big Kenny was. I think we've interviewed Big Kenny on The online radio station we had back in 2012, 2013, I think it was one of the few comics that came up there. So I think we actually know. We know Big Kenny. Big shout out to Big Kenny in the right direction.

[Dulce Sloan]

So people ask me, I always mention Big Kenny. I will never not mention Big Kenny. He. So when I started going around Atlanta, it was interesting because it was because, like, so many. Like, sometimes female comics will talk about, like, you know, men, not, you know, male comics being. Talking to them crazy or kind of being inappropriate, you know, because I was doing.

[Brian Green]

Being toxic in general.

[Dulce Sloan]

Just being toxic in general. You know, it's so funny because I was doing, like, you know, the urban rooms and the mainstream rooms at the same time. Because bikini was like, if you're going to work, you're going to have to go do mainstream, going to have to do both. And it is very hard as a black woman in black rooms, because in the way that in black rooms, they will tell you, we're not. We've already got two females on the show. We already got one female on the show. We ain't putting on no more. So white female comics speculate when they're in white rooms whether they're not being put up because they're a woman. If you were in a black room, they would tell you explicitly, we're not putting no more females on the show. So I never had to guess, geez, interesting if that was the reason I wasn't getting up. White women think that's why no one's telling them. Black women know that's why if you're doing black ropes. And so for me, I was so early in. And so. But also because Big Kenny had mentored me, it was. I didn't deal with a lot of stuff I think I could have dealt with because I was also, like, 27. I'm pretty. I'm just there in general. And so I was hanging out with the comics for long enough where they'd be like, oh, no, that's Big Kenny's girl. As in, like, that's her niece. Like, that's his niece. Like, don't.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah, she's family.

[Dulce Sloan]

Don't mess with her or whatever. Leave her alone. But that didn't help me get up because there were other black female comics in the urban scene that had been waiting for their opportunity who had been there longer than me.

[Brian Green]

Very interesting.

[Dulce Sloan]

And so since there were so few chances sometimes to go up, the female comics who had just had seniority in the amount of time, because they're very. That not to mention I'm young and no one knows if I'm funny yet, right?

[Brian Green]

Yeah. You haven't been. You haven't been tested, right? I've done a few proven or whatever they call it.

[Dulce Sloan]

Right. You just. You just don't have the reps is all, is what we say. You just don't have the reps yet. I'm still a baby comic, but she's been doing it. I've been here for three months. She's been here for five years. Of course she's going to get this spot because she's been fighting to get spots the entire time.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Dulce Sloan]

And she's always having to prove herself. Prove herself, Prove herself, Prove herself. While I'm seeing these male comics who are half as funny as she is. Not have to do the amount of work that she's doing. Or I can go to these. Or I could go to one of these white clubs and go to these white rooms. Because there were just more white rooms.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Dulce Sloan]

And then because I was new, some of them knew Big Kenny, some of them didn't. But it wasn't the same. It wasn't the same kind of mindset where it was just like. Because there were so many more rooms, I had more opportunities to go up.

[Brian Green]

You had more. There were more slots available. And maybe the. Some places the attitude was different. Why do you think that? Why do you think that? It was so. I mean, I get it like this. You know, there's a long.

[Dulce Sloan]

That's just. That's just the person vibe. I mean, but it's also. With white male. With white rooms, it's the same thing. You don't see a lot of women going up either.

[Brian Green]

They just don't.

[Dulce Sloan]

They just don't say it out loud.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, yeah, we're good at that. White man, you keep certain things.

[Dulce Sloan]

Certain things you can keep to yourself. Certain things you cannot. It just really depends on the situation. And then again, I'm coming in as a black woman, and so there's that thing of they assume you're funnier because you're black. Because I've seen so many white comics go, oh, black comics are funnier. And then they just throw you up. So if you're dealing with a lot of different things, but you're still dealing with the. Well, but you hear the conversation, well, do we want to put a lot of girls on the show? And it's just like, there's 12 comics, only three of them are women. What are you talking about? So you're still dealing with that ratio, but only 20% of comics are women. Anyway.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Dulce Sloan]

So I was talking. I was in a car with this comic who's there who's deeply not funny. So of course he had all the.

[Brian Green]

Ego in the world.

[Dulce Sloan]

I wish I could say his name. But no, it would waste more time saying it. And so he was in the car, he was just like, I just don't know that there are many that women. I mean, women that are killers. And I just went, are you a killer?

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah, right.

[Brian Green]

You're not a killer.

[Dulce Sloan]

I said, also, why is that something that's necessary? Why are you paying attention to. To that? I said, for every 10 comics, only one of them is a woman.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Dulce Sloan]

So the only reason you're paying attention is because there's just so many less women.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Dulce Sloan]

Also, why are you concerned about that? There's plenty of dudes that aren't fucking funny. So why are you so pressed about.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, that's what I don't get, Dulce. I don't get this.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah, right.

[Brian Green]

Okay. We all bleed red at the end of the day, right? And if someone is funny, they're funny. If they're not funny, they're not funny. What in the good fuck does it matter if they are female or male? It doesn't really matter because you're dealing. However, I know that narrative. I know that narrative in my mind doesn't exist outside my mind for. For a lot of places and a lot of people. Right? And I just don't get it. I just don't understand. But that's me.

[Dulce Sloan]

Well, here's. But here's the fun little funky loophole in this whole thing. The debate of whether or not women is funny has been started by men who are mediocre. Right? But the problem is in this is that there are. In the same way that there are a lot of male comics who are not funny, there are female comics who are not funny. Right?

[Brian Green]

Sure.

[Dulce Sloan]

Because there are comics who. You have seen bomb. We have been standing there and watch them bomb. And then they will get off stage and be like, man, the crowd was rough tonight. I said, the crowd was.

[Brian Green]

You were rough tonight.

[Dulce Sloan]

And it's just one. And like, one of the comics was just like, how is the crowd always rough when you go up? We're on the set because there's another comic by the name of Gilbert Loud who has a joke about, like, man, it's like, every time I go up, these crowds are so rough. He's very funny, but he does this joke that's really like an inside baseball kind of joke where he's just like, man, I'll be in the same shows with other comics who were just killing, but the crowd is. I just don't understand. And so it's a very inside baseball kind of a joke. But it's like, you'll see them bomb or bomb, eat a dick, whatever. Not do well. Crash and burn.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Dulce Sloan]

And then they'll look you in the face and be like, tough crowd, right? And you're like, no, no, crowd was great.

[Kristen Joy]

Those are the common denominators.

[Dulce Sloan]

This is you. Ding dong, this is you. And that comic has so much more.

[Brian Green]

Confidence, by the way. Let it fly. You can say any words you want here. You don't have to hold back from cussing on the show if you're holding back from cussing.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah, we do it all the time.

[Brian Green]

Eat a dick. Go ahead, say it.

[Dulce Sloan]

Right.

[Brian Green]

Number number two, I think it's like that friend that you have that like. And we've all maybe been that friend at times, but is that friend you have. They go through bad relationship after bad relationship after bad relationship after bad relationship, and they're like, I just keep meeting crazy chicks. And I'm like, no, maybe you're the crazy one, dude. How is it. How is it that every girl that you run into is crazy?

[Dulce Sloan]

I do have an opinion on the crazy chick thing. Here's my thing.

[Brian Green]

Go.

[Dulce Sloan]

It's. I'm not a crazy chick, but I've become a crazy chick because of how I was treated. And so I was saying to one of my friends, I was like, if a girl. Or if a girl, if you're speaking specifically about quote, unquote, crazy chicks, if she's truly crazy, she's crazy. Date one, she's crazy. Date two, she's crazy. Date three, she's not crazy. A year in.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah, that's so true.

[Dulce Sloan]

So when a guy goes, oh, that girl is crazy, I always go, what did you do? Yeah, what'd you do?

[Brian Green]

You did something. Yeah, you flip switched somewhere.

[Dulce Sloan]

Because I remember doing something crazy. I was getting ready and I called my homegirl and she was just like, you're about to do crazy chicks. I was like, you're right, you're right. This is crazy girl shit. Because here's the thing. Truly crazy people never have successful businesses, not for very long, because you have. It takes so much effort to be crazy. But what I was saying is that because of the loophole being that because so many men run around trying to say women aren't funny, women aren't funny. And the Comics that I notice are always the ones talking about, well, you know. Well, we really know that women aren't funny. Or it's the conversation. Like, I was talking to Ali Wong at the Emmys, and she was saying that a male comic came up to her, a white male comic came up to her and was like, well, you know, successful right now because Asians are in. Or, you know, you're successful now because you're pregnant, stuff like that. And so I've had white boy comics in my face being like, what's so hard for white dudes right now? I said, it's never been hard for white men, ever. It's hard for you because you're not. Because you're mediocre. And what's happening now is that, is that you've worked twice. You worked half as hard to get everything. The rest of us had to work twice as hard to get half as much. So now, because we have the work ethic to do twice, to work twice as hard to get half as much. You're asking to work, being asked to work the irregular amount, and you feel left out and oppressed. All they're asking you to do is the amount of work that everyone else has had to do. And you're going, this isn't fair. It's not that it's not fair. White men will always be okay. You were mediocre. And so because all of these other. Because people of color and queer people are being allowed into a space that white men were in for so long, you can't skate anymore. Because that alt bubble that we had back in the day where we got Kyle Kanane and Roy Scoville and Jesel Neck and Daniel Tosh, those guys were successful at that. There were all of these guys coming up behind them, copying them. So instead of being their own person, they were trying to do Kanane, they were trying to do Jeselnik, they were trying to do Rory. And since they were trying to become other people as opposed to being themselves, none of them have a career. And so these girls now are going. Because we're caught up in this idea that women aren't funny. There are a lot of these girls aren't doing the work because they're going.

[Brian Green]

They feel discouraged.

[Dulce Sloan]

It's not that they feel discouraged. It's that they. There's no. Because they're stuck in this mindset of people saying, well, women aren't funny. These girls are legitimately not funny, but they're not doing the work because they're going, well, you don't like my comedy. Because people say women aren't funny. No, I don't like your comedy because you're not funny. But now they're sitting in the space of. Well, you know, it's so hard to be a woman in comedy. It's not. If you're funny, it's hard for you to be a woman in comedy because you're not funny. But you're blaming the fact that you're not getting what you think you deserve because people think women aren't funny. No, you're not getting what you think you, quote, unquote, deserve because you're legitimately not funny.

[Brian Green]

Not funny.

[Dulce Sloan]

But you're never gonna.

[Kristen Joy]

The rough crowd, right.

[Brian Green]

They're using the angle as a crutch.

[Dulce Sloan]

Right.

[Brian Green]

Because they. And they're not putting in the work because they. You could be funny if maybe if you put in the work and you, you know, did the thing that you got to do the reps, like you say, but you're already. You already have a state of mind. Right. That's not gonna let that. You. You're checking out. I check out.

[Dulce Sloan]

Right.

[Brian Green]

But the truth was, you weren't funny in the first place.

[Dulce Sloan]

Right. Right.

[Brian Green]

You needed to do the reps. You needed to get in there and dig in and be yourself and find your voice and all that other stuff. And that so many comics, like, you know, Jezelnick and Kyle Kanane, who we had on the show and was wonderful. Those. They have an original point of view. They are storytellers.

[Dulce Sloan]

Yeah. Ali Wong is an amazing comic.

[Brian Green]

Ali Wong is. Yes.

[Dulce Sloan]

Maria Bamford's an amazing comic. Shalet was Sharp is an amazing comic. Lace Larrabee is an amazing comic. And these comics are still. And we're all in. Still dealing with men coming up to us being like, oh, it's just so hard for dudes right now. Or them coming up to you being like, well, I just thought that you would understand and as a black woman, how hard it is. And I'm like, bro, get out of my face. Yeah, get out of my face. Like, what's so hard? I go. And I just go, good. What Good. You have to try now. How does it feel? Well, I'm just. You're saying what you. There's a comic, David Twight, who has this joke about, like, he. Him as a white man is doing life at the lowest difficulty setting, and he's still failing, is the joke. He's like, I have everything handed to me, and I'm still not doing a good job.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah.

[Dulce Sloan]

Like, yeah. And so there's that thing because it's just like. I'm not going to say that there aren't women comics. I have seen very funny female comics not get opportunities because they are a woman. I know that is true. But the people who are always talking the loudest are the people that shouldn't be talking.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dulce Sloan]

Because the people with the most to say are always the ones doing the least. The people that the most opinions about stand up and want to stop here and talk about it aren't the ones that are successful at it.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, yeah. I'm still shocked and probably not shouldn't be shocked about anything at this point in, in, in the universe's history, but I'm shocked that they're drawing comparisons to your experience. Like, or have you met him? Anybody knows? Like, anybody knows.

[Dulce Sloan]

Have you met a white before? They love going, it's just so hard for us. Who's us?

[Brian Green]

Yeah. I've never uttered those words.

[Dulce Sloan]

Oh, you must.

[Brian Green]

I've never uttered those words. Yeah. And I won't ever utter those words. That's a ridiculous statement. It's a ridiculous statement that comes from fairy tale land. And I don't know who. Who is under the assumption that. And listen, we can't help who we're born to or what we do, but at the end of the day, it doesn't really fucking matter because this is. I landed in the jackpot. And so is it a little bit like you said? Is it a little bit tougher? No, you just. It's just that. It's just the floor is evening a little bit, but it's still not.

[Dulce Sloan]

It's still not at the end of the day.

[Brian Green]

But equality and to draw comparisons is fucking insane. It's fucking insane. It's insanity. It's. It's the talk of a lunatic. Yeah.

[Dulce Sloan]

Equality will always feel like oppression when you're the one that people are having to level up to. So when you're one that's on top, you're like, who the. Who let them in here?

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah, security.

[Dulce Sloan]

Who let this riff raff in here? And at the same time though, you see like it shifting because like I was at like The Improv's like 60 year anniversary and they're like, what's, you know, what's. What's like one of the things that, like, that's really helping a lot of comics nowadays, some interview and I was just like, you know, the Internet, because if you're posting content, people are seeing who you are because the Internet is a infinitely hungry toddler that Must be fed at all times.

[Brian Green]

Yes.

[Kristen Joy]

God, that's a good way to put it.

[Dulce Sloan]

And then he said he was like, well, what's one of the hardest parts of being a comic right now? I said, it's the Internet, because you have to constantly post content because it is infinitely hungry toddler that has to be fed at all times.

[Brian Green]

That's so funny. So it's so true.

[Dulce Sloan]

The thing that is helping is also the thing that it's another job.

[Kristen Joy]

You have to keep up with it.

[Dulce Sloan]

And so it's like, at least when you're feeding a toddler, they will grow up. But, yeah.

[Kristen Joy]

They keep getting younger.

[Dulce Sloan]

Well, this is like. I just think if you think of it like a Coltrane, which is like. But we're just on one track. It's a track that goes in a circle, and you're just feeding and feeding because, like, one of my friends, you know, he's posting clips all the time. And, you know, I've seen comics grow their following and seeing them get really great opportunities, and they're selling out this and selling out that, and, you know, then you'll have your reps go, well, you know, can you be doing this and doing that? I said, that person's only job is being a comic. Yeah, that is it. That's all they do all day, is stand up. I'm on multiple TV shows.

[Brian Green]

You're an actress, and I'm an actress.

[Dulce Sloan]

So it's just like I'm doing. No one asked that person to write a book. This person's not on this TV show. This person doesn't have to record for this. This person that. Yeah, this person. I do. I'm very blessed to have all the things that I'm doing. But don't add another job to me when all these. All this other person does is this one thing. I have four other jobs.

[Brian Green]

We just talked about this on the show the other day, about how, as you know, the podcast does very well, but we just don't pay attention to social media because, quite frankly, I'd like to talk on the microphone for a living. But the reality is that if you don't focus on social media, then somehow you're not doing what you're supposed to be doing.

[Kristen Joy]

Keep doing it and keep doing it.

[Brian Green]

Keep doing it.

[Dulce Sloan]

Keep eating, Feeding. Yeah, you're feeding it. But in the clubs, they'll go, well, you know, is. I had a club go, like, well, you know. Well, they. They were asking about you posting on social media. I said, the show is two fucking months from now. Yeah, so my question is, what are they doing? I don't live in this city.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Dulce Sloan]

They're like, well, you have a. Yes, I have. Between all my social platforms is 200 something thousand followers. Right. They don't all live in your town.

[Kristen Joy]

Right?

[Dulce Sloan]

Yeah, you are in your town.

[Brian Green]

You do that thing.

[Dulce Sloan]

You do that thing in your town. You live in Loganville, wherever the fuck you are. Yeah. And so where is the press for your town? What are you doing on your social media? Your comedy club's been open for years. You know how to put people. What are you doing? Don't look at me and act like I post the thing. Come to find out, I had a dinner with the people at Meta. They let us know. Static posters don't do well. People don't give a shit.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Dulce Sloan]

So you're asking me to do something that now the algorithm has figured out is antiquated. So you're pissed at me because I didn't post a poster. Well, did she post a poster? What I had to do was make a video and then post a poster in the second slide because according to this dinner that I had this very fancy Italian restaurant. Instagram, they told us that people don't give a fuck about posters. And I've seen that on my Instagram. So you're literally asking me for something that no longer works. So now I have to find videos. So, fine, I have no problem posted videos. It helps kick up the algorithm.

[Kristen Joy]

But, yeah, I know it's maddening, but don't sit.

[Brian Green]

You're asking me to waste my time.

[Dulce Sloan]

You're asking me to waste my time. So then it's like, then you create assets. The assets look like trash. Now I have to figure this out. And then it's just like, well, maybe you should make a poster for the thing. I pay this kid to make a poster. The motherfucker was on Canva. So. So I took one of those posters, made the exact same thing, and sent it to my manager. And he was like, oh, this looks nice. Who made it? I said, me. All I did was comp a simple ass post. I just paid this boy $250 for that motherfucker. Gimme to get my money back. So, yeah, it's just. And so you're trying. And then you still have to write more jokes. I'm like, bro, yes, that's true. And so now stand up, because you still have. Because you still have to be to a comic.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah.

[Dulce Sloan]

Tour. But now I'm a comic. Now I'm party promoting. Now I'm doing All this other. Now I gotta be a dj, designer.

[Brian Green]

I'm a web designer, Web designer.

[Dulce Sloan]

I'm a dj, content creator, planner. I just sound like every Negro in Atlanta with a fucking business card. That should be a cue.

[Brian Green]

Okay, let's talk about this. Chrissy and I have said this. It's everybody you meet in Atlanta, everybody. White, black. Otherwise, they're all like, yeah, I'm a producer.

[Dulce Sloan]

Let me tell you something.

[Brian Green]

You're a producer of what?

[Dulce Sloan]

I used to have a joke, some dude was like, I do music. I said, yeah, I also have a driver's license.

[Kristen Joy]

I know, right?

[Dulce Sloan]

I do music. I was like, what do you do to it? What are we talking about? We've all. Listen. We've all worked at a music. Everybody. I tried to explain to somebody, everybody in Atlanta has worked at a music studio. Doesn't matter. Everybody in the city has worked in the music studio. I know everybody in Atlanta. And they were like, what? I said, everybody, regardless of race. You do not understand. Everybody who's been in Atlanta for most of their life has worked at a music studio or dated a DJ or a music producer. And you're in the studio being. And they want. I don't understand why they want you to be in. I don't want to hear the same song six hours in a row. I don't. Over and over. You listen to the same song for hours, and then they ask you a question about it, and you know it doesn't sound good, but they're not asking you. And I realized when I was dating the first music producer I dated, I remember. I remember sitting there going, this isn't a question for information. This is a question for confirmation, for affirmation. Affirmation. That's what it is. You don't want any real input. You want me to go, yes, Daddy, it's nice.

[Kristen Joy]

Sounds great.

[Brian Green]

Congratulations. Another banger in the box.

[Dulce Sloan]

Another banger. And I remember just sitting there, like, I remember he bought this CD tower where you could burn 10 CDs at once. This is how young I was. This is like 2006. Yeah. Where you could burn 10 CDs at once. Yo. I was in Burbank like a month, two months ago with my mom and my brother. We get out the car, this man was trying to sell us a cd. And I was like, sir, sir. Because he tried to talk to my mom. He's like, hey, what's up? I said, I don't talk to him. He's selling CDs. Don't talk to him. My brother's like, he's doing what? I was like. I was like, sir, you need to go back in time to make this viable.

[Kristen Joy]

Right, Exactly.

[Dulce Sloan]

He was like. He's like. He's like, you know, you need, you know, trying to support my business and yours to not support your business. Who has a CD player? I just. I said, this is a brand new car. There's no CD player in here.

[Kristen Joy]

There's not.

[Dulce Sloan]

I said, you need to be selling QR codes, you need to be selling downloads. I said, trying to hand somebody a cd while I'm just trying to make things happen. You can't make anything happen. You might as well be selling VHS tapes. What are you talking about, trying to make things happen? Because I said to my mom, I was like, don't talk to him. He's like, oh, you're going to ask the mama? He's selling a CD. She's like, he's doing what? He's selling CDs. My brother's like, what's he doing selling CDs? Like, you just. I was like, sir, I can't be. I said, what can I hate on your horrible business practices? What are you talking about? He's walking around in a kangar hat in a parking lot with a duffel bag. I was like, you have actual cd. I said, I hope you're out here robbing people. That's gonna be a more viable plan.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Dulce Sloan]

God, I hope you're robbing people out here. Please hit me over my head.

[Brian Green]

I was in Santa. I was at the Santa Monica Pier last year. Around this time last year, we're walking down the pier. It's the worst. You know, everybody is trying to sell you something, trying to do something, and some guy comes running up and he's like, hey, man, check out my new music. It's free. And I go, okay. And then he. He takes out a pen, he signs it, he hands it to me, and he goes, $5 for the signature. And I was like, you got. I handed it right back to him. I'm like, I'm not paying $5 for your music. I'm sorry, bro. And he's like, man, it's. It's fly and it's, you know, it's up and coming. You're gonna hear me on the radio, too. What's that?

[Kristen Joy]

Was it a cd?

[Brian Green]

It was a cd. It was a cd. And I told the guy, I was like, hey, listen, man, I don't even own a CD player. I don't know what I would do with it. Keep the signature. No thank you. I appreciate.

[Dulce Sloan]

Why would I pay. First of all, why would I pay you for your signature?

[Commercial Break Announcer]

Yeah.

[Dulce Sloan]

When even people you went to high school with don't know who you are.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah.

[Brian Green]

It's true.

[Dulce Sloan]

And it's like. It's so funny because people are like, oh, you just hate. And I was like, no, I wish I said some dude was like, you just hate. And I said, sir, you've given me nothing to hate on. If I had the opportunity to hate on you, I might even take it. But there's nothing here to hate upon. What could I possibly be hating on? Your business practices are flawed. I know why I'm not at work in the middle of the day. I know why my mom is not at work and why my brother's not at work. Why are you currently not at a job? What woman is supporting this nonsense? Because I know you got a girl at home that you convinced to support your dreams. I hope to God you don't have children with this lady, because she must really. Your dick must be amazing for her to put up with you being in a Target parking lot.

[Brian Green]

Yeah.

[Dulce Sloan]

Also, he didn't even tell me what the genre of music was, but I'm looking at his outfit.

[Brian Green]

Neither did the guy I talked to, because he didn't even tell me.

[Dulce Sloan]

But I'm looking at his outfit. I'm like, I hope it's jazz, because there's no way.

[Brian Green]

It'S soft jazz. It's the Catalina mixer.

[Dulce Sloan]

Listen, if somebody. I can tell you. That's the thing. I'm gonna be 41 on July 4th. Right.

[Kristen Joy]

I know you've got an upcoming birthday.

[Dulce Sloan]

Thank you. I turned 41 on July 4th, and I. This man that I was talking to a couple months ago was like, oh, I'm gonna go see Jazz. And I said, what? And I realized that I am to the age where I would be dating.

[Brian Green]

Men in jazz into jazz who want.

[Dulce Sloan]

To go see jazz. And I'm just like, oh, my God. Because my homegirl, last summer, we were out at some day party. It was like, for Tony Rock's birthday, and I had on my little cute little outfit, and she called me a rich auntie, and I'm like, am I a rich auntie? She's like, what did you think you were? And I was like, no. And like. Cause, like, I'm currently a well to do auntie, and I hope you know, and I'm. We're praying to be a well to do mother. But I don't want to go. I want to go see Megan Thee. Stallion at concert. I don't want to go see Jade.

[Kristen Joy]

Exactly.

[Dulce Sloan]

Like, I don't.

[Kristen Joy]

Missy Elliott's coming to Atlanta.

[Dulce Sloan]

I would rather see Megan, Thee, Stallion and Glorilla. And I don't, I'm not trying to. I don't want to go to no grown and sexy nothing. I'm like, oh my God, am I grown and sexy? Should I be at a white party with a bunch of aunties in Atlanta? Am I supposed to be going to a concert at 4pm? Oh, yes. Am I supposed to be a Chastain?

[Brian Green]

We were just talking about this. Chastain is where the old people go for concerts.

[Dulce Sloan]

Am I supposed to be in Chastain? Like, I remember everybody went to the jazz festival, right? Yeah.

[Brian Green]

Jazz festival was. Everybody could go.

[Dulce Sloan]

Everybody was a jazz festival and it didn't matter. And I was like, I don't even remember. But we would only go when it was like the Latin jazz. I feel like it was like the Sunday afternoon. I've seen Tito Puente so many times. It was like, it just hit me because then there's another gentleman that I had like a bit of a crush on and he was talking about going to see jazz. I was like, oh no.

[Brian Green]

Oh no.

[Kristen Joy]

Oh God.

[Brian Green]

How did you see the videos of Andre from out jazz doing his flute thing?

[Dulce Sloan]

Let me tell you something. The thing that was when they had their last concert, I was still living in Atlanta and the number of white people that came up to me talking about I'm going to see outkast. I'm like, it looks like y' all are the only ones because no black person has come up to me talking about they going to see Outkast. It's just been y'. All, I don't know where to meet men. I'm trying to go outside more. Me and my momma are brother joined the mahjong league just to have. Just to get out my house. It's gotta be tough because comedy show single men don't go single. Straight men don't go to comedy shows.

[Brian Green]

No. And if they do, there's something to be concerned about.

[Dulce Sloan]

Yeah, yeah. Because they're usually by themselves, which is more troublesome. And he's probably in a T shirt and shorts regardless of the time of year. Like, I love your Captain America shirt but you might get a one off single dude who's with like a group of friends. But for the most part single men don't go to comedy shows. So trying to.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah. Because the apps are talking about social media. I mean the app using all those Apps are a job as well.

[Dulce Sloan]

Not only did I take all the apps off my phone, I also remember that I would take them off my phone. But I'm putting this in God's hands now. I'm not doing no effort. Yeah, I'm done.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah. Because that's the way to do it.

[Dulce Sloan]

From what I have seen, the common denominator is, like, that little boy said, I make bad financial decisions. Y' all don't know what I'm talking about. I make bad decisions. My uterus has been in charge for a long time, and she likes a very specific type of man. And so I don't disagree with the body type, but we need more. We need more assets. And so I the other day, not only because you can delete them off the phone, but the profile still exists.

[Brian Green]

Stays right?

[Dulce Sloan]

I went through every single day dating app that I had ever downloaded. I'm talking about Tinder, Hinge, plenty of fish, Bumble the BLK app, Raya, which was trash from day one till day five. Upward. Match.com. honestly, match.com was the worst. Oh, yeah. Because I found out on there how truly racist people can be. Oh, yeah. Because you would see guys click on every single racial background except black. And I was like, sir, you live in Snellville. When are you gonna meet a Pacific Islander? Stop. Stop it. You. Are you. The likelihood of you meeting somebody from Samoa, sir, you would rather talk to somebody that you're never gonna meet in the history of your life and talk to a black lady. Let me get the fuck off this website. So, yeah, exactly. Max.com was off. Raya was worse because it was just a bunch of DJs and models. And so I went through the other day, and I went to. And I deleted my account on every single dating app I had ever downloaded.

[Brian Green]

You're free. Yeah.

[Dulce Sloan]

And I was just like. Because the other hard part of. Well, it's like I couldn't handle it. But the other hard part about being on dating apps was that you just got to see that a city full of men didn't want to talk to you. That was the worst part, where you're just like, millions of men live here. Or when you pay the extra to see who likes you and just the trolls, ugg mugs, and mud ducks that being collected back off in there. You're like, I know I'm a pretty person. And this is. I'm a good person. I'm a good Christian lady. Who. Who are these Jim Henson labyrinth creatures who we're trying to talk to Labyrinth.

[Kristen Joy]

Labyrinth's a good movie.

[Dulce Sloan]

What is this dark crystal situation? Feelings hurt. You will never get your feelings hurt. Like looking at the who likes you part of a dating app. Oh, my God. It's like I've never walked in nature. It's like that. Like, it's not like these titties are sitting. Like, I was hurt my feelings every time. So I went through probably two days ago, and I was just like, nope, deleted all of the accounts. I can't get into all gone. I'm just like, I'm have to let God do this. I'm about to be 41. I don't know what I'm doing. Somebody gonna have to take the wheel, and it's gonna have to be Jesus because I've been having him as the co pilot and he needs to drive.

[Brian Green]

Someone in our audience. Give Dulce a shout because she is funny as hot, beautiful, single, ready to mingle and smart and have money.

[Dulce Sloan]

Don't be poor trying to talk to me.

[Brian Green]

Don't do it. Exactly.

[Dulce Sloan]

Do not. I. I cannot. That's why I said no more Broke dick. My ministry, I'm truly serious about it. Do not come up to me if you cannot pay half my mortgage. Don't even. Don't even. Don't waste my time and yours. Don't do it. Don't do it. I have to answer to my mother and I have to pay these bills. If you cannot pay half my mortgage, your drawers can't be in my house or on anybody's floor. Exactly. Truthful with it. Because most people.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah, that's a baseline.

[Dulce Sloan]

Baseline. Because here's the truth of the matter. Most people get divorced because of finances. Not because they fell out of love, not because somebody cheated, not because it's the number one reason people get divorced. Their irreconcilable differences are financial.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, yeah, it's true. It's. It's irreconcilable differences. And when people say they take that down on another level, it's about communication and the finances. When. When psychiatrists or psychologists digged into that, it really has to do with the communication. Can you talk about the problems when they show up, like, fudgeing grown adults? Or are you going to be a little child and just stick your head in the hole? I choose to stick my head in the hole. But, you know, I got a wife, so what can I do?

[Dulce Sloan]

I mean, listen, as long as. If her head is in that hole with you, then, hey, it is.

[Brian Green]

It is. She's. She's Venezuelan.

[Dulce Sloan]

On your hole.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. She keeps me in check. That's for sure. She's spicy. She keeps me in check. Dulce Sloan is on the Daily Show. She has a new. What's the name of the movie coming out? When does it come out? I don't. We literally just finished.

[Dulce Sloan]

Just wrapped. Not even a week ago. So to tell you that. Oh, I would be lying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because, you know. I don't know.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, look for her, she has giggle gloss, which is lip gloss.

[Kristen Joy]

I'm buying it today.

[Brian Green]

You're buying. I'm gonna get some for my daughter because she's a lip gloss freak. She's going through that. But most importantly, Dulce is on tour right now and you can get her tickets@dulce sloan.com hit the tour button and.

[Kristen Joy]

She'Ll be in Atlanta September 13th.

[Dulce Sloan]

September 13th. I'm going to be there. Lace Larabee is going to be on the show. I hope. I'm looking to get Clayton English Mr. Sabado, Domingo himself, Clayton Inglis, trying to get David Perdue, Baron Vaughn, the big brother. So, Baron Vaughn, you can have a good old time. Yeah. Baron Vaughn is another comic who really took me under him wing and just really. He's the one that told me that I could never name a special or anything. Ass, class and sass. He vetoed that. He was like, no, I think that's great.

[Brian Green]

But maybe that's his point.

[Dulce Sloan]

That's his. He was like, you're gonna be. Because I was. They were doing like, names for the book and I was like, as class as dazzlers. I just heard it and like a 90s TV show, a bubble popped up, came up above my head, and him just going, no, no, absolutely not. So that's.

[Brian Green]

What do you think, Jeannie? No, no. Goodbye.

[Dulce Sloan]

He was like, you don't want to reduce down to those things. And so that's why we named the book Stories of Dating Destiny and Day Jobs. Because it's really a collection of essays. Because, like, I wanted to call it. Don't call it a memoir. I'm only 39.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah.

[Dulce Sloan]

Which people always laugh. But the. But the publisher was like, well, let's not tell people what it's not. And I was like, all right, sure. But yeah, I talk about, like, growing up in Atlanta and how I got into stand up, how I got on the Daily show relationship, things with different boys in Atlanta, having to Frankenstein men together. Yeah. You get it? You know what I mean?

[Kristen Joy]

Absolutely.

[Dulce Sloan]

This boy takes you out. This boy has the D, you know?

[Commercial Break Announcer]

Yeah.

[Dulce Sloan]

This just.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah.

[Dulce Sloan]

This dude you just hang out with to keep your car fixed, so.

[Kristen Joy]

Right, right.

[Dulce Sloan]

And together those three dudes make one man.

[Brian Green]

You're like, I got it all. I just need to visit a couple places.

[Dulce Sloan]

I just gotta put some gas in this car and I can go to a Papa Do's, get some good D and get my breaks done. I didn't. I only thought it was Atlanta. I wasn't. I was in Austin, cuz. You know how the Papa Do's in Norcross is next to the Jury Inn?

[Kristen Joy]

Oh, yeah.

[Brian Green]

Yep, yep.

[Dulce Sloan]

I was in Austin and I was like, oh, a Papa Doe. And I was like, a Jury Inn. I was like, wait, are these affiliated? And I didn't. I said, this is a wild coincidence. And I don't know if it is a coincidence, but that's on my business.

[Brian Green]

It's a real estate thing. They buy the real estate under it and then the same management company. I think you're right because, you know, there's one here. So there's the one in Norcross and then there's the one in Roswell, Alpharetta area. They also have a motel. I don't know if it's a dreary inn, but they also have a hotel motel that's sitting on right next to their property also. So I think this is.

[Kristen Joy]

It feeds.

[Dulce Sloan]

No, no, no, no, no hotel people. What it is, what it is is whoever owns a Papa Dose is smart because he knows that you don't spent these coins.

[Brian Green]

Yes.

[Dulce Sloan]

Yep. Wow. You know what, that's why I say more hotels. Because like, you know some of those hotels that have like the little. What shit, what's it called? Like the fancy word? Like a livery or something like that.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dulce Sloan]

Yes. Well, they have like the little like snack area and they're like, oh, here's some Tylenol and some Pepto Bismol. I'm like, y' all ain't got no condoms in here?

[Kristen Joy]

I know, right?

[Dulce Sloan]

And they're like, well, we don't want anything. And I was just like, you know we're in a hotel, right?

[Brian Green]

Yeah. You know that a lot of people come here just to fuck, right? You get that, don't you?

[Dulce Sloan]

How you losing out on this? I would make Hilton brand condoms. What are you talking about?

[Kristen Joy]

I know exactly.

[Dulce Sloan]

I have it in one hotel. It was a high end hotel and it just had this little black box that was on the minibar and it was just like a lover's kit or something. So they went way in the opposite direction. So. But just they're like, oh, it's got a little blindfold and fuzzy handcuffs. And I was like, see, this is too far.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah, that's too.

[Dulce Sloan]

That's too far.

[Kristen Joy]

I went to Jamaica. I went to Jamaica and they. They had condoms and lube. And I thought, okay, yeah, yeah.

[Brian Green]

When I went to Spain, they had condoms in. In one of the hotels also, like, one of the fancier hotels. They had condoms just like you. Just like a little black box. It had condoms and a couple of other things.

[Kristen Joy]

No handcuffs and blindfolds, though.

[Brian Green]

I wish I had handcuffs and blindfolds. Would have made Spain a lot more interesting for someone. Probably not me, but that's hilarious.

[Dulce Sloan]

My brother just went to Spain. He said it was. I don't. I really have no desire to go to Europe on vacation. I've been to London. I've been to Scotland. I'm good. Yeah, I'm all right. I've heard. I've never heard people talk about Paris. I'm like. Like, my mom went to Paris for church, and I was like, mama, how was it? She said, I never need to go back. So I don't know if, like, I would love to go to South Korea. I've been to Australia. I truly don't want to go. It's. It was the most underwhelming experience. The Hemsworth are a lie. They took the most attractive ones they had and showed them to us. Like, they're the most extra regular looking people. I was like, okay, cool. Those are upside down. Whites up, too. And I gotta say, I was like, I'm really good. I'm really all right. But, like, I just don't. I mean, I guess I want to go to Greece. I don't. I really have.

[Brian Green]

No.

[Kristen Joy]

Italy's great. I have to say. Italy's beautiful.

[Dulce Sloan]

I really don't have any desire to go to that entire continent.

[Kristen Joy]

Yeah.

[Dulce Sloan]

I've seen what their descendants do. I'm truly all right. Right.

[Brian Green]

I think, listen, we see that we. Obviously we have different perspectives. And I would tell you to go to Spain because it's a wonderful, beautiful place, but I speak the language and I look like them. So, you know, it's. It might be different for me, but my wife is also half Spanish, so it's like, you know, for me, it feels like home because we have people there that we know they can take us around. And, you know, you kind of feel you're, like, in the culture already when you get there.

[Dulce Sloan]

Listen, if I go to the Dominican Republic, I know what time it is. You know what I Mean, like, they're not letting me back off that island. Like, that's what somebody asked me. Like, because someone was like, would you go to the Dominican Republic? I said, I don't know, because if I lose my passport, they're not letting me off that island. Like, that's not. It's not happening. I speak Spanish. My name is Dulce. I'll be at the embassy. And I'm like, no, I'm an American. They're like, what's your name? I'm gonna go say, like, bitch, stop playing. Like, all of a sudden, now I live in the Dominican Republic, so I'm like, but, like, I've been to Turks and Caicos. I want to go back. I've been to Puerto Rico. That was beautiful. I've been to the Bahamas. Gorgeous.

[Brian Green]

Gorgeous.

[Dulce Sloan]

But, like, Germany.

[Kristen Joy]

Jamaica's great.

[Dulce Sloan]

For what? I've never been, but, like, Germany for what?

[Brian Green]

For what?

[Dulce Sloan]

For why?

[Brian Green]

I'm starting to wonder for what either. I went over there to go to a theme park. I was there there for, like, three days. I went over there and, yeah, Germany's lovely. I'm sure it's wonderful and great, but I. It's not some place that I, like, have to go to again. I think I'm.

[Dulce Sloan]

I think I go to Indiana first. I'm really all right. Like.

[Brian Green]

All right. Dulce Sloan. Dulce Sloan. Dot com. That's where you get your tickets to her tour. You can also buy her book on Amazon or wherever else you get your books. And check out Giggle Gloss, which we were talking about before. Dulce Sloan.

[Kristen Joy]

Thank you so much.

[Brian Green]

Daily show author, and I'm in the cartoon.

[Dulce Sloan]

Great North Fox comedian.

[Brian Green]

I was just about to say the.

[Kristen Joy]

Great North Fox got renewed, right?

[Brian Green]

It just got renewed, right?

[Dulce Sloan]

It did. It's so fun.

[Kristen Joy]

Season five.

[Dulce Sloan]

For season five. We're doing season five right now. And Honeybee is so great. I helped design her character.

[Kristen Joy]

I love her.

[Dulce Sloan]

So her afro's based off of my afro. That's why there's a flower in her hair. But it's really fun to do. Will Forte, who plays my husband, is. He's the sweetest man. Aparna's so funny. Aparna just had a book come out. Nick Offerman just had a book come out. We're all out here writing libros, so also, Ida Otter, you guys just had a book come out, so check that out. It's called Legitimate, kid. So Jesus Trejo's book is out. Water Jug Clock. He's got, like, awards for it. So my friends Be writing books and doing stuff.

[Brian Green]

I love it. Dulce, it was such a pleasure to finally get to sit and connect with you. Thank you. And it's great to hear your perspective on things. We really appreciate the honesty, the clarity, and the hilarity. We'll see you soon. Do well.

[Dulce Sloan]

Thank you for having me. Bye. Thank you.

[Kristen Joy]

Thank you.

[Dulce Sloan]

Bye.

[Commercial Break Announcer]

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[Dulce Sloan]

Bye.

[Brian Green]

Okay, Dulce Sloan. What else do I have to say that she didn't say? Very nice, very pointed conversation at times, and I appreciate that. I can appreciate the honesty that she was throwing down there. And listen, I agree with almost all of it. Like, you know, it's just a. It's just a different environment in. When you're female, when you're African American. And I don't know anything about it because I'm not.

[Kristen Joy]

And in comedy.

[Brian Green]

Yeah. And in comedy. Yeah, it's a little, you know, I guess I think sometimes we take for granted we, meaning the people who were born white and privileged. We take for granted sometimes that the world is not always a lovely place and that there are challenges that we will never face. But I can appreciate hearing it in an honest way. And so there you go. Thank you very much to Dulce.

[Kristen Joy]

Congratulations to her too, for her upcoming projects.

[Brian Green]

Oh, yes, projects. She cannot speak about.

[Kristen Joy]

Exciting. She's all over the place.

[Brian Green]

She really is all over the place. And she's on tour right now, so you go to dulce sloan.com that's D U L C E Sloan S L O A N. And you can get her tickets. Make sure you use the links that are provided on her website. Do not go anywhere else. Before she came on air, she told a story about how one of sister. Her sister got taken for like 300 because she's a fake.

[Kristen Joy]

Ticketmaster website.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, she like Google Dulce Sloan in Wherever, Pennsylvania, Philly, whatever it was. And she ended up buying tickets to the show, but the tickets weren't real and she paid 300 for them, 150 per ticket or something like that. And Dulce was like, sister, where did you think it would cost $150 to come see me? Like, that's just crazy. But anyway, it was a big hubaloo. So make sure if you're going to go see Dulce, she's touring throughout the rest of the year. What you can do is just go to her website and click on that link for that city, and that way you get taken to the right place. Also check her out on the Daily show and on the Great North. Yeah, she's also got a book if you want to go read that book. All right, thank you, Dulce. We certainly do appreciate your time. Here's a little, like, behind the scenes with Dulce. We had been trying to get Dulce in the studio for, like, six months. No joke. It's just not worked out for whatever reason. Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. So we were really happy that we finally got a chance, connected with her. Yeah, yeah. So thank you very much to her and her team and our team and everybody for setting our team team for setting that up. Thank you, Astrid, for setting that up. We certainly do appreciate it. And we are also going to be going out live on tour, if that's what you want to call it. It's kind of like that tour my friend has where he shows up on open mics. Right? Seven open mics in the same city.

[Kristen Joy]

It says open mic at the Funny.

[Dulce Sloan]

Bone in each city.

[Brian Green]

In each city. We're going to the Funny Bone to do Monday night. Nothing like a Monday night at the comedy club. No, I'm kidding. We're gonna be real places.

[Kristen Joy]

We're just trying to get all the details down.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, we want to get the details down before we sell you the tickets so that you don't pay 300. Of course, no one would pay 300.

[Dulce Sloan]

No, no, no, no.

[Kristen Joy]

Maybe to buy it out.

[Brian Green]

Yeah, it's a buyer to shut us up. You can advertise for the rest of the year for 300. So keep an ear out for the those tickets. Go to our socials at the commercial break. We'll announce all of that stuff when the time comes on our socials first on our website second, tcbpodcast.com. that's where you get to get all the information about everything that we're doing. You can also get all the audio all the video and you get your free TCB sticker. Interact with us. Send us an email at the contact us button on the on the website. Hit that. If you want your sticker get the drop down menu where it says I want my free sticker. Yes, that's where you ask for your sticker. Someone texted us. Where on the website do I get my sticker? I'm on the contact us. Okay. It's a drop down menu. I say it every episode. Drop down, drop down, drop the down. I don't know. So hit that drop down button to send us your address and we'll send you a sticker. No charge. Charge. It's on us. Don't worry about it. 212-433-TCB. That's 212-433-TCB. Questions, comments, concerns, content, ideas or if you'd like to come to one of our live shows, please let us know so we can be prepared. We're counting also YouTube.com the commercial break for all of our interviews, selected episodes and clips. We'd love it if you would subscribe. Also Chrissy, that's all I can do for today.

[Kristen Joy]

I think so.

[Brian Green]

So. But I'll tell you that I love you.

[Kristen Joy]

I love you.

[Brian Green]

Best to you and best to you and best to you out there in the podcast universe. Until next time. Chrissy and I always say, we do say and we must say goodbye.

[Dulce Sloan]

Sa.