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this week's after-pod,

1:53

unscripted. I don't know why

1:55

there's still a delay with my

1:58

internet now. Sometimes it's just... It

2:00

just was two seconds, it was

2:02

like one second, and it usually,

2:04

it's been, it's been very good

2:07

since you've been embossed. Yeah, yeah,

2:09

it's been way better. The days,

2:11

the days of Brooklyn. Hard. Hard.

2:13

Yeah. I'm, I'm, I'm fucking, now

2:15

I'm down for the count. You

2:17

know, it's crazy, Fran, is

2:19

that I really, despite us. going

2:21

through what we're going through post-election

2:23

and like the fear and the

2:26

kind of you know reckoning that's

2:28

happening and yeah whatever the thing

2:30

that I will say is I have

2:32

never been more clear mine I have

2:34

never been more resolute about oh no

2:36

I don't fuck with you you know

2:38

what I mean? Delant that's everybody I

2:40

just I said to a friend I

2:42

was like oh your husband was gonna

2:44

vote for Trump and just and or

2:46

didn't vote and this is like a

2:48

lovely friend and I was like And

2:51

she was like, yeah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

2:53

blah. And I was like, you know what?

2:55

Here's the thing. I don't, I can't

2:57

excuse that. I can't excuse you,

2:59

you're not talking to your in-laws about

3:01

it. I love you, I love you,

3:03

but I think that is a cop-out

3:06

and that's like counterintuitive to who...

3:08

Yeah, and I don't want

3:10

to be in community with you. I,

3:12

yeah, I mean, listen, it is happening,

3:14

it's, it's really why the leop, it's

3:16

really why the leop, You know, it's a

3:19

phrase that's been around for a while

3:21

and what's wild, no pen intended, is

3:23

I've been doing the song for over

3:25

a year, but like after the election,

3:28

it... grew and multiplied because so many people

3:30

started being like I'm done I'm done

3:32

and like I genuinely don't care what

3:34

happens to you and you know not

3:36

wanting to wish ill on people but

3:38

the fuck around and find out of

3:40

it where it's like you did this

3:42

thing and now there's going to be

3:44

consequences and you cannot come crying to

3:46

me about the consequences because one we're

3:48

all going to deal with them but

3:50

you knew what was on the line

3:53

and you chose to do whatever it

3:55

is that you did positive or negative

3:57

and now you're going to deal with

3:59

the consequence. and to your point

4:01

about feeling really clear,

4:03

similarly, I feel like, bitch, this is

4:06

my time, I'm just gonna do

4:08

whatever I need to do. I feel

4:10

the same. I think a lot of

4:12

black people feel that way, honestly. Like

4:14

when the numbers came down, it was

4:17

like, we tried to save y'all, fuck

4:19

y'all, I'm not doing this anymore. Don't

4:21

ask me to do shit. It's like

4:24

a clear, like you were clearly

4:26

saying you hate black people, you hate

4:28

black women. Like there's, I don't want,

4:30

I don't, there's, there's no

4:32

question for me about that. Black

4:35

people. So we got to hold each other

4:37

on. So we have work to do to

4:39

be have the bandwidth. Let me pour into

4:41

me. Let me pour into my community so

4:43

that we can withstand it, you know. Yeah,

4:45

I know it's so true. I know

4:47

you're not like super active on TikTok,

4:49

but there's been a movement of black

4:51

women being like, this is a really

4:54

funny video that was breaking down the

4:56

demographics and they were like, okay. So

4:58

now with some shit goes down, you

5:00

need to call these white women. or

5:02

these Latino women, or these other. We

5:04

will not be answering any calls about

5:07

anything. And what was really interesting was,

5:09

it was tongue in cheek, but it

5:11

also got backlash. There were tons of

5:13

people that were very upset about it.

5:15

And it's like, do you see how

5:17

ironic it is that when black women

5:19

say, we are done being the fucking

5:22

mules to every single person? And then

5:24

we asked you to do one motherfucking

5:26

thing, one thing, and you can't even

5:28

do it. And so now it's like.

5:30

Yeah, I'm good. I have to focus

5:33

on myself. I have to focus on

5:35

myself. Yeah. And you know,

5:37

the Democratic Party, I'm telling

5:39

you, y'all, they're going to

5:41

be booty hurt because black

5:44

women vote in the Democratic

5:46

Party, like they don't understand.

5:48

Like they're going to be

5:51

booty hurt because black women

5:53

vote in the Democratic Party

5:55

like they don't understand. Like

5:57

they're going to be but hurt.

6:00

And you know, look, midterms,

6:02

get the shit together. Get the

6:04

shit together. Midterms are two years

6:06

from now. Like, you know, you

6:08

have time. Yeah. It's gonna come

6:10

and go in a flash. Yeah, for

6:13

real. So, you know, other than that,

6:15

bro. I haven't been sleeping. I'm

6:17

just like, my brain, I can't

6:19

turn my brain off. You know, I

6:22

have the same, a similar thing. I

6:24

have it in the morning. I have

6:26

it in the morning. But I've been

6:29

taking me a little sleep coming. I

6:31

should have done that last night. That's

6:33

a sleep coming and it gets

6:35

me out. Let me tell you. No,

6:37

I should do that. I should do

6:39

that. I mean on the plus side,

6:42

like my sleep is being disrupted by

6:44

like creative energy, but like genuinely I

6:46

feel. Like with the success of the

6:48

merch, it is really exciting, but

6:51

it's so overwhelming. And I'm taking,

6:53

I'm taking meetings this week to

6:55

try and hire someone. My therapist

6:57

has been telling me to do this

6:59

forever. I've been, you know, looking for

7:02

stuff, looking for people, but I have

7:04

to get really serious now. So I've

7:06

set these actual calls because I can't

7:08

do it all. I can't, I can't,

7:11

I just, I physically can't. And I'm

7:13

kind of nervous about it about it,

7:15

but. Excited? I'm nervous because

7:17

of the control, loss of control.

7:19

Yeah. Yeah. Girl, the union has

7:21

to say it. I was like,

7:23

it wasn't even a question, it

7:26

was a statement. You know, I'm

7:28

a control freak. I want to

7:30

get it right. Ready? Like, I

7:32

see you, I feel you, you

7:34

know. Yeah, same. I was, I'm

7:36

directing a show in the fall.

7:38

And I was thinking about like

7:40

having a student director. And I

7:42

was like, okay, great, I may

7:45

have a student that'd be an

7:47

opportunity for them to see my director's

7:49

side or whatever and then learn. Then

7:51

I was like, oh, God, no, I

7:53

need. It'll be a task in like,

7:55

Wusa, and I have no Wusa. I

7:58

have no Wisa. I'm like, no. just

8:00

do I literally will have a whole

8:02

plan for you and I'm like just

8:04

do that and stay away from it.

8:06

Yeah it's hard I mean it's also

8:08

just the thing of to your kind of

8:11

point about if you do take on

8:13

another person to help you direct or

8:15

student director which I think would be

8:17

very cool there's also the thing of

8:19

like you have to train that person

8:21

like you're not just letting them go

8:23

off and have free reign and that's

8:25

the part that's like making me anxious

8:27

it's like I have to be like

8:29

I like to do it like this

8:31

it's like I'm taking on another job

8:33

in anticipation of leaving that job yeah and

8:36

that is has me like am I ready

8:38

for this? But it is also

8:40

exciting. It's so exciting and

8:42

I think also like for both of

8:44

us but more for you because we're

8:47

talking about you and I made it

8:49

about me for a minute. But I

8:51

think it's it's a good exercise in

8:53

not only can you not do it

8:56

all but like Give someone an opportunity.

8:58

Give a time. Give it like

9:00

train them. I love that. Yeah, I'm

9:02

gonna play right now and the playwright

9:04

was saying like he had a really

9:07

hard time for a while letting actors

9:09

just be actors and not like imposing

9:11

his own thoughts on what they were

9:14

doing and it's in it's a really

9:16

great exercise and like your part is

9:18

done. You know, just say, and you

9:20

can always, you're, I mean, if I

9:23

know you bet, you're going to have

9:25

notes, or you'll have emails. Oh, I

9:27

always have, I always have notes. No,

9:29

you're right, you're right. It is, it

9:31

is good. And I will say, this

9:34

has been a very exciting transitional period

9:36

for me. I've been making moves in

9:38

every level, like the work that I'm

9:41

doing, who I'm working with, the

9:43

kinds of work that I want to

9:45

do. I've said no to a lot

9:47

of stuff and that was kind

9:49

of scary. There was like a uncertainty moment

9:52

of did I make a huge mistake

9:54

by saying no to certain things when

9:56

I don't have anything else coming in.

9:58

And so I'm trying to like. hold

10:00

on to that optimism and be like,

10:02

now look, I made this choice a

10:04

few weeks ago, not knowing where I

10:06

would be this week. So maybe whatever

10:08

choice I make this week is setting

10:10

me up for what's to come. the

10:12

following week. It's always setting you

10:15

up. We've talked about this in

10:17

the pop before. It's always

10:19

making rules. Yeah, but is it

10:21

a setup? Set up, like, what is

10:24

this rigged? Just so cynical. Class, this

10:26

is what age does to you. This

10:28

is what age does to you.

10:30

This is what age does to

10:32

you. Sinical agenda. Sinical agenda. I

10:35

know, but I like that it's a

10:37

safe space with you and I can make

10:39

that joke. Don't say that. And I'm like.

10:41

No, I'm joking. I do this a

10:43

lot with like my self-deprecating humor in

10:45

my depression and people invariably are like,

10:48

oh, and I'm like, no, I don't

10:50

do that. It gets really serious and

10:52

you're like, I'm just joking. I love,

10:54

okay. I love when I can say

10:56

it and someone laughs and I go,

10:59

oh, you get me, you get my humor.

11:01

It's either sex or depression, ready? Yeah,

11:03

you just realize, like, if you're in

11:05

the right room, related. I went to

11:07

a Friends Going Away party last night,

11:09

like, one of my tennis friends, and

11:11

I haven't played tennis in like a

11:13

year with that group. I was like a year? Wow. Yeah,

11:15

it has been. I've just been so busy. Like it started with

11:17

the strike. I was like picking all day. And I was like,

11:19

and I was cutting back on money. I was like, I'm don't,

11:21

I'm not working right now. I can't spend $40 on a tennis

11:23

class. I was going three days a week at one point. And

11:25

I was like, I just can't do this. I'd pull it back

11:27

on my gym, you know, because like the walking combined with like

11:29

the work, like the work, like the work, like the work, like

11:31

the work, like the work, like the work, I've been, I've been,

11:33

I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been,

11:36

I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been,

11:38

I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been,

11:40

And the funniest thing, Delon, so like at tennis,

11:42

like I would always just like make jokes because

11:44

like that's who I am. And they're all like,

11:46

Fran, Francisco, we all still say all of your

11:48

jokes because I would do the score. So I

11:51

would keep track of scores when we would play

11:53

all these games and based on the score, I

11:55

would have a joke. So if the score was

11:57

9-11, I would say never forget. If the score

12:00

was. 7-Eleven I would say home of

12:02

the Slurpee if the score was

12:04

2020 I would say RIP Barbara

12:06

Walters and so like they were

12:08

all but I didn't remember this

12:10

salon it was so funny and

12:12

then one girl goes oh and

12:14

then there's also 2019 the year

12:16

Francisco got divorced and I was like

12:18

oh and cut hard-cut why was I no

12:20

but like I was making the I made

12:22

that joke obviously but like the

12:25

fact that I have not been there

12:27

for a year And they're all telling

12:29

that joke and people are like,

12:31

who got divorced? They're all like,

12:34

you don't know. It's tennis lore.

12:36

Tennis lore. You're part of tennis

12:38

lore. What's crazy though, too, is

12:41

that that just shows you how

12:43

much riz you have. I'm not

12:45

just saying riz. You're with college

12:48

students, aren't you? I am. Well,

12:50

God, yes. What was the other

12:52

thing that someone said? What else

12:55

did they teach you? They go, the one

12:57

is eaten out, that eight, that eight,

12:59

like the, and the little finger, finger,

13:01

it's actually the middle finger in the

13:04

thumb, the middle finger clip, clap,

13:06

yeah, that eight, but the one

13:08

that I can't get over is

13:10

no crumbs, no crumbs. Mm-hmm. Devoured.

13:12

Devoured. The whole plate, clean. Licked,

13:15

clean. I would say like those

13:17

are, I like those kinds of

13:19

jokes where like it's a play

13:22

on something and you just keep

13:24

playing with the analogy. Yeah,

13:27

like when I always say

13:29

the basement's flooded and then

13:31

I'm like, rip up the

13:34

carpet. We probably got mold

13:36

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13:38

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