WEBVTT
1
00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:20.519
Well, hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History
2
00:00:20.519 --> 00:00:23.399
and Factory. Is about today now my co host today.
3
00:00:23.559 --> 00:00:25.280
She is one you know that you just see somebody
4
00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:27.359
and you just tell they're just cool. They just kind
5
00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:28.760
of have that attitude and you can tell they're just
6
00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:30.800
a cool person to be around. Well, she is also
7
00:00:30.839 --> 00:00:32.520
one of the funniest women out there. I'm gonna let
8
00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:35.479
you introduce you to let her introduce herself to you.
9
00:00:38.759 --> 00:00:41.000
Oh my goodness, that's such a big intro to follow.
10
00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:44.920
Thank you, thank you so much. No. I yeah, I'm
11
00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:49.320
a comedian based out of LA I've been doing comedy
12
00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:52.240
for about I don't know, a long long time enough
13
00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:56.079
to have two kids and talk about them. And I
14
00:00:56.119 --> 00:00:58.159
started out doing improv at Second City.
15
00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:03.000
Now you're one of the hottest stand up comedians out
16
00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:03.719
there in La, aren't you.
17
00:01:05.280 --> 00:01:07.319
I mean, you can't really be hot and funny, but.
18
00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:11.319
Yeah, okay, all right. Do you know what February twentieth
19
00:01:11.319 --> 00:01:12.840
this we always have a national day? You know what
20
00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:16.519
today is? Did uh?
21
00:01:17.400 --> 00:01:19.040
What is it? National Cherry Bye Day?
22
00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:19.920
You are right?
23
00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:38.680
Good chance.
24
00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:44.519
Now warrant they might be talking about something different that
25
00:01:44.599 --> 00:01:47.000
we're celebrating day. We're celebrating the cherry pie is that
26
00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:49.519
Grandma used to make. Now, if you're gonna bake a
27
00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:52.400
cherry pie, preserve cherries. They are just as good as
28
00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:55.120
actually fresh cherries for cherry pies. And if you didn't
29
00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:57.680
know the cherries, they are really healthy, especially they have
30
00:01:57.799 --> 00:02:00.280
information or gout and I can vouch the gap part.
31
00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:02.439
Now you don't even It doesn't matter how you eat
32
00:02:02.439 --> 00:02:04.400
a cherry, It doesn't matter. You can eat it in
33
00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:06.439
cherry pie, you can drink the juice, it doesn't matter.
34
00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:08.000
And you still get the same benefits from the cherry
35
00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:09.199
as you would if you just ate it right off
36
00:02:09.240 --> 00:02:14.000
the tree. So, and there're no big deals today or
37
00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:16.479
anything like that. So, but what if you do just
38
00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:17.840
enjoy some cherry pie today?
39
00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:18.639
All right?
40
00:02:18.759 --> 00:02:20.520
Nis she let's say what was going on in entertainment
41
00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:22.879
On February the twentieth Let's Back Your two thousand and six,
42
00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:25.919
the number one album was the Greatest Songs ever sung
43
00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:28.919
by Barry Manilow, Beyonce and Slim Thug had the number
44
00:02:28.919 --> 00:02:30.360
one song with check on It and.
45
00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:33.000
Go ahead girl, put some back, get some liquid pony,
46
00:02:33.719 --> 00:02:39.879
stand up in the check to see you check up.
47
00:02:45.319 --> 00:02:49.199
I get that check no, got it? Tone it, I
48
00:02:49.319 --> 00:02:50.280
know you won't it?
49
00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:53.319
Carry Underwater? If she had the number one country song
50
00:02:53.360 --> 00:03:19.319
with Jesus Take the Wheelsmas. The number one book was
51
00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:22.520
sell by Stephen King. The top movie was Medea's Family
52
00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:25.960
Reunion and this one Midia. She's a pistol packing grandma
53
00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:28.000
and she has to deal with all kinds of dramas
54
00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:30.759
she's trying to plan a family reunion. Stars Tyler Perry,
55
00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:33.639
Blair Underwood, and Lynn Whitfield. So have you seen most
56
00:03:33.639 --> 00:03:34.520
of the media movies?
57
00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:40.560
Oh? Man, every single one of them, every single one.
58
00:03:40.639 --> 00:03:41.439
It's my husband.
59
00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:44.479
It's his fault, big Tyler Perry fan.
60
00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:46.000
Huh.
61
00:03:46.039 --> 00:03:49.960
Well, it's not that I watch it ironically. I mean
62
00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:53.000
I think it's cool Tyler Perry. You know, he's doing
63
00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:55.199
his thing. He's making so much money off of those
64
00:03:55.240 --> 00:03:58.199
movies and stuff. But it's just like, I don't know,
65
00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:00.680
Like I live in LA and people are a little
66
00:04:00.680 --> 00:04:03.360
bit sensitive about that stuff because they're like, you're you're
67
00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:06.039
making fun of like, you know, like a trans person
68
00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:08.599
or whatever. And I'm like, oh my god, I can't
69
00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:11.919
even watch madea without being judged. So I just don't
70
00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:13.879
even say anything when people ask me that in LA.
71
00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:16.399
I'm like, who's Media? I don't. I don't know, so
72
00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:20.199
I don't want them coming after me. You know, Well
73
00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:23.199
he's but she's getting I did see that one though.
74
00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:24.480
I'm right.
75
00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:28.040
I've said media is pretty big and flyover country if
76
00:04:28.079 --> 00:04:28.600
not in La.
77
00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:30.439
Oh really, is that your favorite?
78
00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:34.399
No? Just like Tyler Perry, I think he's just a
79
00:04:34.439 --> 00:04:36.160
really good guy.
80
00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:39.160
Yeah, he's a good guy. He likes I mean, and
81
00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:41.079
he also likes to dress up as a woman.
82
00:04:42.759 --> 00:04:45.040
That's true. Now, neither of us were born yet, but
83
00:04:45.079 --> 00:05:05.959
this was in nineteen fifty nine. Okay, now he did
84
00:05:06.040 --> 00:05:08.040
not play that song, but it was today. In nineteen
85
00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:10.720
fifty nine, a sixteen year old Jimmy Hendrix played his
86
00:05:10.759 --> 00:05:13.600
first ever show. It was the Basement in Temple the
87
00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:16.959
Hearst Synagogue in Seattle. They fired him after the second
88
00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:18.920
song because he was playing his guitar a little too while.
89
00:05:21.079 --> 00:05:22.360
Kind of set the precedent for me.
90
00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:26.079
Yeah, wow, that's pretty badass.
91
00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:28.759
So what got you up on stage to begin with?
92
00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:38.079
Oh, let's see, I had just a crippling Corporate America
93
00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:42.000
job which I will not name the company, but it
94
00:05:42.199 --> 00:05:46.959
was severely limiting of any creative ability whatsoever. I was
95
00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:49.439
not even allowed to use big words according to them.
96
00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:53.399
And it was an information technology, you know, and which
97
00:05:53.439 --> 00:05:55.759
I knew nothing about. I will admit I got it
98
00:05:55.759 --> 00:05:59.199
out of pure and nepotism. And I was making the
99
00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:02.360
big bucks, but there was nothing going on inside. And
100
00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:05.480
I joined this professional group. I like to travel and
101
00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:08.000
do fun things. And one night they had an improv
102
00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:11.399
night at Sickens City, Hollywood, and I ended up going
103
00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:15.360
up on stage and I felt like the biggest thrill
104
00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:18.759
I've ever felt, like from anything, from roller coasters, from
105
00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:22.920
just you know, backpacking and foreign countries, like this was
106
00:06:22.959 --> 00:06:26.120
the thing that made me feel alive. So I just
107
00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:28.319
started struggling with like what should I do? Should I
108
00:06:28.399 --> 00:06:30.120
quit my job? I mean, I feel like I'm too
109
00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:32.279
old for a career change. I'm already kind of like
110
00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:34.959
deep into this. I'm mine up for a promotion. They
111
00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:38.600
never promoted me, never got me anywhere near, you know,
112
00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:41.879
having any kind of managerial stuff that I aspired to
113
00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:44.720
in that company. So I started working on my improv
114
00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:50.360
skills and then with that, I got a lot of
115
00:06:50.399 --> 00:06:53.480
stage time, because you know, being on stage, it's it's
116
00:06:53.519 --> 00:06:56.839
not the same as being funny in person because you
117
00:06:56.839 --> 00:06:58.920
know you can you can have your friends and your
118
00:06:58.959 --> 00:07:02.040
friends know you, they try to you can say anything
119
00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:04.959
and they're just going to be like, Oh, that's her,
120
00:07:05.079 --> 00:07:08.079
that's how she is, and that's funny. So to get
121
00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:09.920
a whole group of people to trust you like that,
122
00:07:09.959 --> 00:07:12.000
it's a whole different skill. So I spent a lot
123
00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:14.639
of time on stage, and then I decided I'm going
124
00:07:14.680 --> 00:07:17.800
to start writing for myself and that's when I got
125
00:07:17.839 --> 00:07:22.240
into stand up And after that I never looked back.
126
00:07:22.279 --> 00:07:25.600
I'm like, I'm doing this full force, and a lot
127
00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:27.600
of people are going to tell you, you know, this
128
00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:30.199
is dumb and you're leaving a high paying job and
129
00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:31.759
all this stuff, and I'm like, well, you know what,
130
00:07:31.839 --> 00:07:34.639
I know all the people that spend their entire lives
131
00:07:34.680 --> 00:07:39.240
in that corporate job, and everyone in that department either
132
00:07:39.319 --> 00:07:42.439
had cancer or had some kind of debilitating illness that
133
00:07:42.519 --> 00:07:46.439
they probably got from the company. So like, I would
134
00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:49.720
rather just do something that doesn't make me feel dead inside,
135
00:07:49.839 --> 00:07:51.560
And that ended up being stand up.
136
00:07:52.279 --> 00:07:54.639
Well, that is totally awesome. You know one thing about
137
00:07:54.639 --> 00:07:57.399
stand up there too, I think it is the hardest profession,
138
00:07:57.480 --> 00:08:00.240
if not entertainment anyway, It's just like you were talking
139
00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:03.160
about trying to make people strangers laugh and all that.
140
00:08:03.160 --> 00:08:04.839
That's a rough job. And man, you have to have
141
00:08:04.879 --> 00:08:06.279
some self confidence in order to do it.
142
00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:11.160
You know what. The rough job doing the raffle at
143
00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:14.519
the end of the show, that is a rough job.
144
00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:17.240
I can open up a show, no problem.
145
00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:17.759
I can.
146
00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:20.800
I'm not afraid of the audience. I in fact love it.
147
00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:23.759
And you know what actually makes me want to do
148
00:08:23.800 --> 00:08:26.319
it more and more is people. Multiple people have come
149
00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:29.600
up to me after shows and they they'll tell me
150
00:08:29.959 --> 00:08:32.639
they were having the worst day they've ever had, and
151
00:08:32.639 --> 00:08:35.159
then they came to my show and they just felt
152
00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:37.559
lighter and they laughed for the first time in a
153
00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:41.279
long time. Somebody wanted to, you know, off himself and
154
00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:43.039
he told me about it, and he said, you know,
155
00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:45.679
this felt really good. I forgot what it felt like
156
00:08:45.799 --> 00:08:48.879
to feel happy and laugh. And after that, I was like, no,
157
00:08:49.799 --> 00:08:52.240
you know, I have my degree in psychology and I
158
00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:56.000
was going into mental health anyway, so this is a
159
00:08:56.039 --> 00:09:00.039
way for me to actually use that, you know, And
160
00:09:00.039 --> 00:09:02.080
so for me, it's more of like I got to
161
00:09:02.120 --> 00:09:05.399
save somebody's life. You know, I can't just be sitting
162
00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:09.240
around not joking because somebody out there is suffering and
163
00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:13.240
struggling and they need some levity, and sometimes that's all
164
00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:13.679
you need.
165
00:09:14.279 --> 00:09:15.639
That's true, That is true.
166
00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:16.559
All right.
167
00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:19.600
Let's see, it happened on February of the twentieth. Now
168
00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:21.759
they'd already been married for three years. So in fourteen
169
00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:25.519
seventy two Norway they gave the Scotland the Orkney Islands
170
00:09:25.559 --> 00:09:28.639
and the Shedney Islands. See there was actually a security
171
00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:32.559
deposit that Norway king had paid for the dowry for
172
00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:35.120
his daughter to marry Scotland's James the Third, who was
173
00:09:35.159 --> 00:09:37.519
going to be king. Well, that king is Norway. You
174
00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:39.480
never paid the dowry. So Scotland just clept on the
175
00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:43.720
security posit and kept those two islands. In seventeen ninety two,
176
00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:47.000
the United's postal system, they created the first six and
177
00:09:47.039 --> 00:09:49.200
twelve cent stamps. Now I had nothing to do with wait,
178
00:09:49.279 --> 00:09:50.720
it was how far they had to take it, whether
179
00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:52.240
or not it was going to be a six cent
180
00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:54.600
or twelve cent stamp. And get this, the person who
181
00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:59.879
receives them letter they had to pay. Eighteen twenty four, England,
182
00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:02.879
William Buckland he published the first description of a dinosaur.
183
00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:06.840
He called it the Michelasaurus, the great fossil lizard of Stonefield.
184
00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:09.320
The end of that started the whole dinosaur craze. Every
185
00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:13.360
started going crazy after that one. In eighteen thirty nine
186
00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:15.720
in the United States Congress they allied dueling in Washington,
187
00:10:15.799 --> 00:10:21.519
d C. So I was trying to think of a
188
00:10:21.559 --> 00:10:22.559
joke for it, but I don't want to tell a
189
00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:27.279
joke to a professional comedian. So in eighteen sixty five MIT,
190
00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:30.399
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it was founded. It was
191
00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:32.799
actually the first school. It was it was made for architecture.
192
00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:35.399
Now it was a big day and the Patent Office.
193
00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:38.240
In eighteen seventy two Luther Crowe he patented a machine
194
00:10:38.279 --> 00:10:42.000
that made paperbags. Cyrus Baldwin he posted a hydraulic elevator,
195
00:10:42.440 --> 00:10:44.919
and Silas Noble and JP Cooley they patent a machine
196
00:10:44.919 --> 00:10:47.840
that could make uniform toothpicks. You know these things, you
197
00:10:47.960 --> 00:10:49.679
kind of don't think that somebody had to do create
198
00:10:49.759 --> 00:10:53.240
him at one point in nineteen twenty nine, Samoa it
199
00:10:53.320 --> 00:10:56.480
became the territory of the United States called American Samoa.
200
00:10:57.799 --> 00:11:01.080
Nineteen forty two, the United States Navy tenant Butch O'Hara,
201
00:11:01.159 --> 00:11:02.679
he was a pilot and he was on patrol over
202
00:11:02.720 --> 00:11:05.399
the Solomon Islands. Now his wing man's gun jammed as
203
00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:08.120
they were protecting the aircraft carrier, the USS Lexington, so
204
00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:10.240
his co pilot he had to go back to the Lexington.
205
00:11:10.600 --> 00:11:14.279
So as O'Hare was proling, around nine Japanese bombers appeared
206
00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:16.759
and they're heading straight for the Lexington. So a single
207
00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:18.799
hand to lee launching a talk on attack on those
208
00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:20.960
nine planes. He shot down five of them before the
209
00:11:21.039 --> 00:11:23.720
other four boogied out. That made o'haa the very first
210
00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:26.120
ACE pilot of World War Two and made him also
211
00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:28.399
the first AN eighty Ace pilot. He was more to
212
00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:30.799
the middle of water, but sadly but she was killed
213
00:11:30.799 --> 00:11:33.039
in action in the following year. Now do you ever
214
00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:33.720
go to Chicago?
215
00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:37.559
I have once. Then my ears turned blue.
216
00:11:38.919 --> 00:11:41.000
Well o' hair their airport out there, and that's their
217
00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:46.480
name for him. The fighter pilot Oh nineteen sixty two
218
00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:48.519
John Glenn. He became the first American to orbit the
219
00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:50.240
Earth and took him a little under five hours and
220
00:11:50.279 --> 00:11:54.279
complete three orbits. So how would you describe your comedy?
221
00:11:54.279 --> 00:11:56.200
You know they have like I know it's not prop
222
00:11:56.240 --> 00:11:59.039
and I know it's not insult it's just basically life,
223
00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:02.600
so off preservations, Yeah.
224
00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:07.399
I would. I would just describe it as I everything
225
00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:11.480
around me is just really annoying to me, and I
226
00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:14.440
have to talk about it. I gotta, I gotta point
227
00:12:14.440 --> 00:12:16.639
the stuff out, so it's you know, I'll do. I
228
00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:20.200
have some stuff that's you know, topical, I have observational,
229
00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:22.919
like a lot of the stuff I don't put online
230
00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:28.320
because a lot of people have stolen my material and
231
00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:31.279
went often did their own thing with it. So I
232
00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:34.159
was advised, you know, don't put everything online. If it's
233
00:12:34.159 --> 00:12:37.960
super personal, people can't really replicate it. So that stuff
234
00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:40.720
I'll put online. But if you come to my shows,
235
00:12:41.639 --> 00:12:44.679
I'll be talking about, you know, what's happening currently, what
236
00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:49.240
you know, who's like maybe maybe not like politically because
237
00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:51.000
that kind of stuff like that turns people off.
238
00:12:51.039 --> 00:12:52.720
But but I'll.
239
00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:54.399
Have stuff like that. I'll have, you know, I do