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2:26

on here. Ladies and gentlemen, in the

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way back with me, welcome. Thank you

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all for now. I love it. I

3:19

gotta say like I do like to think that

3:21

I'm a student of the game of comedy and

3:23

I like to think I

3:25

know I'm ignorant though. Are there any

3:27

other black female comedians that have a

3:29

residency anywhere? When you were saying that

3:31

you said Vegas, but I'm thinking, does anybody

3:34

have one anywhere? Well, because I don't

3:36

know them all who, and don't know

3:38

what's going on, like in Chicago. And

3:41

so I would say probably, but I

3:43

don't know exactly who they

3:45

are. There gotta be

3:47

very few. Well, who cares because

3:49

I'm in Vegas. You're the one. So,

3:54

um, yeah, I'm the only black

3:56

female comic in Vegas with a

3:58

red. Incredible. Warfield is in

4:01

Vegas. So Marsha Marsha is out there

4:03

and she's doing doing her thing Legendary,

4:06

yeah, I court but um,

4:08

it is not DC cab

4:10

too. Oh, yeah DC

4:13

cabs DC

4:17

cabs one of my favorite moves if you never

4:19

see the line Gary Busey has also one of

4:21

my favorite lines But he's talking about getting a

4:23

divorce. He's like, I don't know what women are

4:25

complaining about They got half the

4:27

money and all the pussy DC cab Yeah,

4:33

yeah Favorite

4:37

movie I said this dumbass movie

4:39

that's a great All

4:45

right, well, let's get back in cuz I know

4:48

we all by the way You can't find him

4:50

other black girls who know about the big Lebowski.

4:52

Okay, God, that's probably a damn good point I

4:55

know I know white shit because I went

4:57

to white schools. Remember was white people. Yeah,

5:00

so let's talk about that Okay, so you're

5:02

from Arkansas originally one of eight. Yes, and

5:04

it's the baby of eight You're the baby

5:06

of eight and it two months old. I

5:09

was transported to Oakland, California Okay,

5:12

well I was raised and but

5:14

then we moved from Oakland to Castro Valley, California

5:17

white suburb because they wanted to get me away

5:19

from the drugs of Oakland, but they brought me

5:21

to the better drugs of the suburbs and educated

5:24

with more white people from elementary

5:27

schools to junior high school to high

5:29

school to junior college to college and

5:32

are you the only black girl on

5:34

your class notice about three three at

5:36

that time 77 is when

5:38

I graduated and it don't do the fucking math on

5:41

that Matter

5:43

of fact, I'm lying I

5:56

Got right. Wait, so, okay. So you're out

6:00

out in the suburbs, this is your whole elementary

6:02

school, your whole upbringings out here in this white

6:04

area. And it's not

6:06

very many black people out there

6:08

at all? No, no, no, no,

6:10

no, no. We went through the

6:12

whole, I think I have petition

6:14

to keep it out, because my

6:16

parents were hardworking, but they were

6:18

affluent. My mother was a nurse

6:21

at Holland Hospital in Oakland, and

6:23

my father was the supervisor of

6:25

custodians for Hayward Area Recreation and

6:27

Park District. They made some money

6:29

at that time. So when we moved to Castro

6:32

Valley, we moved into a newly built house. They

6:34

don't, nobody lived there before us. Let's talk about

6:37

that, because we don't have a lot of people.

6:39

We had one in our life where we had

6:41

a newly built house. I remember my dad taking

6:43

us there like, we're like, what's this? He's like,

6:45

that's the foundation, and the

6:48

dirt and everything. We're gonna play with that.

6:51

2249 Norbridge Avenue, Castro Valley,

6:53

California. Wait, hold on. This

6:55

was your childhood home right

6:57

here. This is my

6:59

childhood home from. 2824 Norbridge Avenue. So

7:02

how old are you when you get here? I

7:05

moved into that house when I

7:07

was probably fourth grade.

7:11

And talk out of high school. Does it look the same?

7:14

It's the same house. And your

7:16

bedroom's where, above the garage? See

7:18

the front door, yeah, above the

7:20

window right there. No,

7:22

that's the living room. The window right there, my grandma

7:25

and her sister, my aunt stayed in that

7:28

house. The window up there to the left

7:30

of that, that's my bedroom window. That's your

7:32

bedroom window. And I left and that's my

7:34

parents' bathroom window. Could you ever sneak out

7:36

of that house? Did you sneak out? Constantly.

7:38

How'd you do it? You come down here

7:40

to the living room and you sneak out

7:43

through the sliding door. And then

7:45

you come down and then you go

7:47

out the gate. Because there were bedrooms where.

7:49

Was that patio always there and stuff? We built a patio,

7:51

but that's a new patio. Can you put your mic up

7:53

a little bit closer? Oh shit, I forgot it was on

7:55

TV. I

7:58

don't wanna back down memory land. And I'm

8:00

like, oh my God. That's what I want.

8:02

I love it. Then my friend Janet Boykin

8:05

lived in the house next door. Yeah, I'd

8:07

sneak out that door right there. And where

8:09

would you go? Are you looking at this,

8:11

Alisa? Not probably. Why could

8:13

you be doing more important than looking where I used

8:15

to sneak out fucking out? I could

8:18

do two things on one side or the other. No,

8:20

you can't. You have pictures of what I'm saying. And

8:22

then, yeah, Janet Boykin lived over there. This is Janet

8:24

Boykin's house? That's Janet Boykin's house. And

8:27

she's black too. So there's the

8:29

two blackers right there. Oh, they kept

8:31

you guys. We could watch you easy.

8:33

We're not out here segregating us. It

8:36

was, and it is. But

8:38

I really want to go. I pulled up there

8:40

a couple of times. I used

8:42

to walk that way to go to school. I

8:45

knew the lady who lived there. And then I can't

8:47

tell you about the boy who lived over there. It

8:50

was terrible. But I used to go

8:52

to that house right there and kick it. So

8:54

you had a lot of neighborhood kids your age

8:56

in this neighborhood then you could play with and

8:58

stuff. Well, sort of, when you walked to school.

9:01

No, I wasn't playing with a bunch. I'm bad

9:03

at a couple, you know. Where are you going

9:05

when you sneak out of the house at night?

9:07

Back to Oakland. Well, oh, you,

9:09

damn. I would take a bus. You're not

9:12

just running around a neighborhood. What do you

9:14

mean? You took a bus. And then going

9:16

on in the neighborhood. How out is bitch?

9:18

How over you? Oh, not to

9:21

sneak out and catch a bus. And be

9:23

back before my father got up at five o'clock

9:25

and went running away. You

9:28

took a bus and got back before he

9:30

left for work. Five o'clock in the morning.

9:32

And are you sneaking back in the same

9:34

way? Yes. And a couple of

9:36

times I almost got busted. You

9:39

know, it's terrible. So yeah, I did do

9:41

that. Now, let me ask you this. You're

9:44

adopted, you said here. Are there any other kids

9:46

in this house? Or are you by yourself at

9:48

this point? OK. But you don't know what it's

9:50

like to live with seven other siblings because you

9:52

were just a baby and taken. But I would

9:54

go back like I'm going in August. We

9:57

have a family reunion every two years.

10:00

It used to be every five until the old

10:02

people started dying off. We were like, we better

10:04

speed this up. And

10:06

so now we do every two years before

10:09

everybody croaks the fuck out. And

10:12

we're going in August. But so when I

10:14

would go to... The one thing they

10:16

did do was let me know I have siblings, let

10:18

me know what happened. So then I would go into

10:20

summers and I would go in and see

10:23

them. So I know what it's like. So your summers were...

10:25

Did you drive or fly? Back then,

10:27

we would drive. You would drive to

10:29

Arkansas. Uh-huh, from California. And what kind

10:32

of car you take in there? A

10:34

Chrysler. Everything was Chrysler. Everything? Everything

10:36

was Chrysler. Chrysler what? Do you remember? Is it a wagon?

10:38

Did you sit in the seat? No, no, no. I

10:42

don't know what it was. Regular Chrysler. My

10:44

mom had a Barracuda. Whoa, for real? She

10:46

was a Hemi lady? Yeah, but I wrecked

10:49

that. It was the white one.

10:52

Oh, man, my brother had a white one too. My mom had

10:54

that car. She didn't deserve that

10:56

car. This is crazy. So my brother had this

10:58

same car. If I had that bitch now, the

11:00

money I could get, it's plastic. Oh, yeah, he

11:03

had the same car. Yeah, but I got hit

11:05

on the... What?

11:08

That's supposed to be mine. You're not on the show with Lisa, but

11:10

nice car. Anyway... They

11:12

edit this out. No, no, leave it in. Oh,

11:18

my brother had it on the back. It said R.T.

11:22

And it stood for road and track. Oh,

11:25

Jesus. My brother got one of these from

11:27

a guy. Barracuda, baby. It put it right in

11:29

our driveway. We had a gravel driveway, okay?

11:31

Little gravel driveway. And we were in this shitty

11:33

little part. Me and my two brothers lived together...

11:35

Oh, my God. ...by ourselves in high school. That's

11:38

the first car I ever wrecked. I wrecked

11:40

a few more. Every day, they'd come home and

11:42

try to start this thing. They couldn't start

11:44

it. Every day. They're on the hood. Every day

11:46

it became... So I would just get some beers

11:48

and I'd sit on the porch, and my entertainment

11:51

became watching these assholes try to get this

11:53

car started. That thing said for 500 bucks... Now

11:56

it can be yours for $2 million.

11:59

$2 million. You better look at that

12:01

car. So, um, one day,

12:03

my buddy, Jim grinds, they

12:06

were sitting there. We're 18. We're having beers

12:08

on the porch. Just like you and me

12:10

in Maryland. This is in Maryland. And,

12:13

um, they fired up.

12:15

Oh, and it sounded so we were like,

12:17

Oh, it's been months. And then we get,

12:20

this is our after school. This is very

12:22

giving me some of the 22 crimes. We're

12:25

like, Oh hell yeah. And then it died out. We're like,

12:27

Oh, let's go. So everyone,

12:29

everybody in the neighborhood gets it. We're trying

12:31

to push it to pop started motherfucker never

12:33

started. Now you got to get

12:36

it. And then he got rid of it.

12:38

Now I wonder, I wonder where that thing

12:40

is. I know what happened. What'd

12:43

you do? I ran a stop

12:45

sign. Somebody hit me on my passenger side.

12:48

Then I had to drive home and I

12:50

tried to hide it from my parents. I

12:52

fucked across the street. So the side of

12:54

it was fucked up. Not

12:56

slick at all. What's the question? She from the

12:58

house of council Valley. Oh, freeway bitch. You came

13:01

park over here. So that's back when a car

13:03

could take a beat and like that and you

13:05

can still drive at home. Yeah, you could still

13:07

drive. You hit these cars. Now you're sitting on

13:10

the ground splinters. Um, I was asking you stuff

13:12

to tell me about sneaking into theaters. You snuck

13:14

out of the house. You sneak into movie

13:16

theaters. Absolutely. The East. What was your

13:18

method? Tell me your method. Okay. The

13:20

East mile for Oakland,

13:22

California, East Mount mall, the

13:25

movie lady sings the blues. Five

13:27

of us go holiday movies. Yes. Yeah.

13:29

Five of us go. Two of us

13:31

got money. The other three broke

13:33

his fuck. You go on your body popcorn and

13:36

you can tell the person, because

13:38

it's in a mall. Uh, I

13:40

got to give my mom, you know, whatever, whatever.

13:43

You come back, but you give your ticket to

13:45

somebody to come back in with your popcorn. Now

13:47

they got a ticket and you know, there's

13:49

ways. No, I'm a scam artist. Don't forget

13:51

it. And then you sneak in and

13:53

watch your movies. Yes. And you

13:55

stayed all day, because now that you're in,

13:58

it's the East Mount for this. Yeah,

14:00

you gotta hop. You're in a movie

14:02

theater from 10 o'clock in the

14:05

morning to 11 o'clock at night. Boop, boop, boop, boop. So

14:07

you're buying one ticket and you're getting all of them and

14:09

everybody's rolling. All day, all day. That's smart, yeah. And apparently

14:11

we give a fuck where we were now that I think

14:13

about it. Yeah, as long as you're in there. Yeah.

14:17

First boyfriend, it's all in this house, his

14:19

boyfriends and everything. Who's your first boyfriend? Like

14:21

you liked, who you liked. I

14:24

liked a guy. Not like this guy likes me. I

14:26

liked a guy nobody liked, as

14:28

per usual. I think

14:30

his name was Stevie Higgins. And

14:33

I think the song, what was

14:35

the song? There was a song that was

14:37

like our song, I think it was by

14:40

Blue Magic. I don't know, none

14:42

of y'all remember Blue Magic. What was this song?

14:44

I can't remember, but there was a song about

14:46

that. Bring up Blue Magic, Cursing the Sea. Oh

14:48

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14:50

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14:53

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14:55

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Okay, this is why I sucked

16:50

this guy's dick. First of all,

16:52

he was my friend's brother. He

16:55

was super, super cute. This is back

16:57

in big Afro days, soul trade look.

17:00

And he was

17:02

from Ohio, but he

17:04

lied until me that

17:07

he was one of the Ohio players. Oh,

17:09

okay. And I loved Ohio players. I was

17:11

like, oh my God, what? Not enough if

17:13

you didn't know you really love it. I

17:15

loved the music. I didn't know what the

17:17

fuck it looked like. I do

17:19

now, but I wasn't paying attention to the album.

17:22

Everybody had an Afro. They all looked like Jackson

17:24

five. Oh my God. See, I used

17:26

to love the guy, the guy on the

17:28

right, he played the horn. Top right. Uh-huh,

17:30

he played the horn. The other

17:32

guy with the Afro, almost to the left of

17:34

the sugar foot, loved him. The guy on the

17:36

left left played the drums. I had big old

17:38

crush on him. And I remember

17:41

the other guys, but I was really just gonna start

17:43

with the top row. And so

17:46

the guy told me he was one of the

17:49

Ohio players. I'm like, you are?

17:51

Oh my God. How

17:54

old are you? None of your

17:56

business. Too

17:58

young to be sucking a damn. I can't tell you that.

18:02

I think they

18:04

call it statutory right now.

18:12

Oh God, oh God. Oh God, that part.

18:16

You gonna cut it? You

18:18

scared? You scared? Too

18:21

young to be sucking a dick, tell you that.

18:24

I'm sorry. No, no, no, no, no, okay. Statutory

18:29

right part. Statutory

18:31

right part. I made this 40, 50 years

18:33

ago. Okay, okay, alright.

18:37

You're editing, you're gonna have a lot of work

18:39

to do, girl. Oh man.

18:41

Between these two shows, you're gonna have a

18:43

lot of work to do. Alright, let's go.

18:47

I still can't get over the ground. Alright,

18:50

well if we're going there, is that your

18:52

first sexual experience then? Like have you been

18:54

messing around, boys, a little bit before that

18:57

kissing, making out, that kind of thing? Well

18:59

I think the thing that was popular back in

19:01

the day was finger banging. You

19:04

let somebody put their hand in your panties and

19:06

put a finger up in your pussy. I

19:09

really enjoy that. Whatever

19:16

happened to that? Whatever happened

19:18

to that? Bring that back. I

19:20

think it's supposed to be. Well,

19:23

it's half back in the way, man. I'm inappropriate. Oh

19:25

no, it didn't need to be G rated at all.

19:27

No, no. I

19:30

asked what were the restraints for

19:32

five, and the constraints for five

19:35

sat down. What's your

19:37

first car? What's your first

19:39

car? A Plymouth Arrow. Hangerine

19:41

Orange Plymouth Arrow. I

19:43

bet you don't find that motherfucker.

19:45

Let's see. That's that bitch right there.

19:47

Oh my god, wait a minute. That's

19:51

her. Wait, okay, I'm gonna sit

19:53

back down. No, go ahead, go ahead. Look, that's me.

19:55

That was what you had? Yes, that's my first car.

20:00

I've never heard of the Plymouth Arrow and

20:02

I know cars. Don't forget I was a

20:04

privileged black girl with equestrian lessons and shit

20:06

like that. And

20:09

swimming lessons and everything back in

20:11

the day. Ballet, tap, yes.

20:14

So this was your first ride here. Who

20:16

bought this for you? Was this something you

20:18

earned? You saved money? No, I

20:20

earned no money. Was it new new

20:22

when you got it? New new. Yeah,

20:24

whoa, you had a brand new car.

20:26

More than what? Did you? Fuck

20:29

them all up. How'd you crash this one

20:32

up? That

20:34

one I crashed when

20:37

I was coming from work at

20:39

where? A bank in

20:41

the Bay Area. And

20:44

I was really sleepy. And I

20:46

think we had had a Christmas party but I wasn't

20:48

really drinking but I was about to

20:50

go over to San Mateo Bridge because we now live

20:52

in a different part of Hayward. I was going to

20:54

San Mateo Bridge and I fell asleep and

20:57

I hit a street light. And that's why I

20:59

got a scar here. Is that right? I got

21:01

a scar here. Oh, I see, yeah. Yeah, and

21:03

I had scars on my knees because I could

21:05

have killed myself. Yeah, I fucked that one up

21:08

in the next car too. And I think about

21:10

after that. That's why I

21:12

have drivers now. Well, you dropped swim

21:14

lessons and equestrian lessons. Tell me about

21:16

these equestrian lessons. Well, I didn't have

21:18

a horse, but my wife's friends did.

21:20

Oh, so you go someplace and ride?

21:22

Yeah, they had, yes. I would go

21:24

ride for sure. What

21:27

made you want to start? My little nephew does

21:29

that. Nobody in our family rides horses, deals or

21:31

horses. I'm from Arkansas, basically. Is that what it

21:34

was? Yeah, they grew up riding horses bareback out

21:36

there. Okay. They can ride at a young age.

21:38

So you're going down in the summers and seeing

21:40

that and then you come back and you want

21:43

to do it? No, I

21:45

was just in the valley, Castro Valley, with

21:47

my wife, friend, and they were riding horses

21:50

and I wanted to go ride with them.

21:52

But then it came in handy when I went

21:54

back down south and I could ride. Okay. I

21:56

could still ride. Did you like it? Yes, I

21:58

do like it. But I don't think the horse

22:00

enjoyed it because I got a little weight You

22:05

know, I have tried to step up in

22:07

a skirt before and the whole ass I

22:09

don't go you up under the horse like

22:12

fuck And

22:14

crazy glue this bitch down. Were you like

22:16

just doing it to do it or do

22:19

you race? Did you compete? No,

22:22

okay and swim lessons

22:24

you took swim. Absolutely swim lessons

22:27

ballet piano Really

22:29

tap where these things you wanted to do or were

22:32

you put in them? I put in them. You were

22:34

put in them Yes, what ones did you not like?

22:36

Not at a shit Necessarily

22:49

that you didn't like piano it's like you didn't like what

22:52

you were I wish I

22:54

still play but I have a mental

22:56

block now from bock and baytovin What

22:59

about tell me about vacations? Um,

23:01

what are you guys doing is

23:03

for family vacations most of time?

23:06

We would just go down south and

23:08

visit family Did

23:11

you ever fly anywhere? Did you ever take one?

23:13

Yeah, I've been flying since I was young. Yes.

23:15

Yes. I Don't remember

23:17

I think we flew to Texas, you know,

23:19

where was black folks going in the 60s?

23:23

We weren't going to Dubai Everything

23:33

would take Everything

23:37

was text text

23:39

an icon. So I didn't know there was any place else to

23:41

go But

23:47

let me tell you though we were driving We

23:51

were driving my father my mother

23:53

would co-pilot is drinking the whole

23:55

time. She would be no He

23:58

would be she would fix him

24:00

a cop He driving, she drinking,

24:02

the car smell like Corbell, smoking

24:05

cigarettes, gun under the fucking

24:07

seat, would

24:09

a basket of food be caught? Now

24:11

I'm always just thinking, we have a

24:13

basket of food just because it's convenient.

24:15

But actually back in the day, unless

24:18

you had a green book, which would tell you

24:20

what black folks could eat, you would bring

24:22

your food because you couldn't eat everywhere. That happened

24:24

in my lifetime. Whoa. Yeah, we had the

24:26

food because- Okay, so these are we don't serve

24:28

your kind? And your daughter

24:31

can't pee here either. Whoa. At

24:33

the gas station. You've had that experience before? Yeah.

24:36

So you bring your own food so you

24:38

don't starve. Right, and so you don't, and

24:40

so you can eat. Yeah. Every

24:42

place was, if you have a green book, which I

24:44

have one in my house right now, the

24:47

green book is a book- Will you look

24:49

this up, Chris? I've never heard of the

24:51

green book. The green book is a book

24:53

that black people have that show you places

24:55

that will serve black people. Okay. Hotels that

24:57

will accommodate you. Let's see if

24:59

you pull this bitch up. Let's see

25:01

it. The Negro Motors green book. Holy

25:04

shit. How am I 51? How

25:06

is this never taught in school? Let's

25:09

see, why don't you ask- Nevermind.

25:12

Ask the Florida governor. Ask the president of

25:14

the United States of America. Or all my

25:16

white teachers. Not president, ask

25:18

the former president. So this book is a-

25:20

I have that book in my home right

25:22

now. How old is that book?

25:24

From the 50s, 60s? Definitely

25:27

from the 50s. So

25:29

this is a, hey, if you're traveling across the

25:31

United States, these are places that are safe for

25:33

you to eat. That's right. You won't

25:36

get killed because you want a meal.

25:38

Jesus, I've never- And

25:40

places you can stay. Oh, hotels as well, okay. Well,

25:43

they don't teach it. People will

25:46

not receive it. And it's just like,

25:48

there's a bunch of white things that y'all do that. I don't know

25:50

what the fuck it is. And there's a bunch

25:52

of black things that we do that y'all don't know what

25:54

the fuck it is. My sister, Odette, Iliana, she Mexican. God

25:57

knows they got a bunch of shit we don't know. Ah!

26:00

What's fucking doing? What is elote? Y'all

26:06

just mayonnaise

26:09

and corn over there. What?

26:11

Shit's the most delicious shit you've ever had

26:14

in your life. Nothing but carbs and fat.

26:16

Love it. Love it. Love it. Wow. That's

26:18

what I'm... I learned something new today for

26:20

sure. I never... You didn't have any black

26:23

friends with you? Tons. I have

26:25

tons of black friends. Tons of black friends. I've done

26:27

this show for... My country don't keep it real until

26:29

you watch the real show. All these shows for years.

26:31

I've never heard of this. Well, when you want to

26:33

learn some more black history, keep talking to me, because

26:35

I grew up with the Panthers too. You did? Yeah,

26:38

I'm open. Are you doing that? I

26:40

wasn't a Panther. No, but were you influenced by

26:42

it? Were you... Yeah, I was influenced by it.

26:44

Were you wanting to be? I

26:46

think I am one. You are? Like an

26:49

honorary or are you just accidentally got nominated? No,

26:51

I just said it myself. Fucking

26:56

black Panther, bitch. Because the

26:58

Panthers were doing good things in Oakland.

27:01

This is before they tried to lump

27:03

the Panthers with the SLA. Do you

27:05

remember the SLA? Remember when Patty Hertz

27:07

got kidnapped? Yeah. And when they

27:09

burnt them out to the ground in LA? Right. But

27:11

that wasn't the Panthers though.

27:14

And the Panthers, when I was growing up in Oakland,

27:16

they were getting the breakfast program. That's U

27:18

of P Newton, right? Yes, they would have

27:20

the breakfast program to feed kids that didn't have a

27:22

meal in the morning. They

27:25

were walking women to and from classes on campuses

27:27

so they wouldn't get raped and fucked up. They

27:30

were doing good stuff. Is that a prominent thing when you're

27:32

in high school? Like are they... This

27:34

wasn't a school thing. No,

27:36

but I mean when you're in high school, is

27:38

that like the age where you're starting to learn

27:41

about this sort of thing and the Panthers and

27:43

stuff? More like elementary school. Oh,

27:46

okay. Because that's when

27:48

the breakfast program was going on. I wasn't,

27:51

you know, people had money, but I

27:54

wasn't privy to it, but I knew it was happening. And

27:57

then they would give way back to food and stuff.

27:59

I mean, I could see it. It was right there.

28:01

What kind of student were you in school? A

28:04

pretty average student, you know.

28:07

I've made pretty good grades since I was under a lot

28:09

of pressure to do that. And

28:11

like I said, I got a degree. So, you know, I

28:15

was an average student though. You know, I

28:17

get a couple of Cs every

28:19

now and then just so I'm fucking off most

28:21

A's and B's. You play sports at all in

28:23

school? Sucked at

28:25

everything. Sucked at kickball,

28:28

volleyball, tetherball, baseball.

28:32

I accidentally signed up for cross

28:34

country running, which

28:36

I was trying to be on the track.

28:38

What do you mean accidentally? I signed up

28:40

for cross country accidentally. I meant

28:42

to be a sprinter, not a long distance one. Oh,

28:44

I see, I see. But we start our practice. The

28:47

next thing I know we're fucking downtown. And why, why,

28:49

why, why, why? When we

28:51

going back? Well, you're on cross country. You don't

28:53

go back. We're running all over the city. Fuck.

28:57

That's in the Castor Valley High School

28:59

yearbook. Castor Valley High School yearbook. Look

29:01

that up, Kirsten Castor Valley High School.

29:03

1970, some of them. There you are.

29:06

Oh my God, that's my yearbook. I got artwork

29:08

in that yearbook. Do you use something you drew

29:10

in that yearbook? Mm-hmm. Oh God,

29:12

my head's gonna explode. Please don't pull up my

29:14

high school photos. Kirsten, I'll fuck you up. Jesus

29:17

Christ, have you pulled up my phone? Right there on page 69.

29:21

That's my favorite number, by the way. No,

29:25

you know, you get old enough, you don't do

29:27

69 no more. You be fighting in people's faces.

29:29

I'm down with that. That's a young

29:32

people game. If

29:35

you don't get your ass off of my face, don't

29:38

threaten me with a good time. Oh

29:40

my God. I'm gonna do it. Oh my

29:42

God. Not

29:45

G-rated, just about growing up.

29:48

Poly pure bread over there. Lunell,

29:51

thank you for doing this. I love these because they

29:53

remind me when there were no seat belts. Yeah. Kids

29:56

was flying all over the back of that car.

29:58

Cigarettes in them and everything. But the windows rolled

30:00

out. It's amazing. We made it out. I

30:03

know windows rolled up rain and

30:05

cigarettes mug No seatbelt drinking and

30:07

dry drinking I

30:10

mean, that's what we were just the mercy

30:12

of whatever was going on out there How

30:15

did we make it out? Praise God? Thank you

30:17

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