Raised Heterosexual with Sydnee Washington | 93

I was always a young old lady, 'cause I grew up. I grew up with senior citizens, so that's not my fault. They literally made me this old soul. I don't want to be, oh, I don't want to sit down. I don't want to go to sleep. I don't want to have to take a nap. I don't want to rest my eyes. I don't want my sugar to be low. I don't want to talk like that. I don't want to shawl, but that's how I grew up. I don't want to shawl. I don't want to move without a little layer. Like with that little cardigan on my face first. Hey, this is Peyton, and this is Hunter, and this is, let me say this from Higher Ground. This week we're talking about the prime series Sterling Point, a little YA drama that we love, and we're having the comedian Sydney Washington on to tell us about her black Barbie sketches and summer and body tea and everything else. Um, just wait for the end, that's all I'm saying, a big surprise. She comes out and you'll see how, you'll see how we mean. That's like, I don't know what I'm saying, but it's good. It just gave us a, we really cover a lot of ground that conversation too much, maybe. Okay, so right before we started recording, we kind of dragged your hours for out mugging us on our own. It was just you. It was just you. Hunter said, you look nice. Great. I'll take it. Yeah. Well, up in here because can we just take a look at her? I see how the podcast, I'm like, well, then you know, we don't look good. I come from broken home and you can tell them what they're covering is staying actually. No, I'm sad that I have to admit that. First of all, again, we're in August and I've already seen the back to school bullshit and the people going, they got their backpacks and stuff. So already, you know, they're trying to hit us with the falls so quick, and it's like summer's just getting started. And so seasons could be anything. And so that's why I'm going to have my halters out. I'm going to have my titties out because as soon as I wrap them up, it's done. The turtle neck tight. And when is it from like, come on, what's, when, when the summer end for you summer really ends after Halloween. Oh, God. Yeah. That's what I always say. Halloween is the last day that you're like, okay, who never gets cold, but just a little. That's the first time I can eat a little bit of jacket and they need something on these arms. Yes. Yeah. But also it's, we also know that we don't have an ozone layer. It's gone. So we're going to have a longer summer. The sun has been sizzling us for many, many months. Right. The UV rays hate us. So I think it's not going to get cold until December, actually. But isn't that more reason than to like love winter falls now? What? Absolutely not. Because summer is going to be forever. No. Unfortunately, we're all going to burn in hell. So summer is going to be forever and so people will be like, back to school, fall shopping. Exactly. You're at old week. I'm starting to see. I even threw a little pattern, a fall pattern for y'all because I do acknowledge that we're ramping up for it. But you know, that's why I feel like summer supremacist. Like it's your favorite season. I was, I'm a winter baby. So I'm, I'm born in the dead of winter, February Aquarius. The best. Loki. I'm not even going to go there. I know what it is to be a New Yorker and be cold at heart. So I bring the warmth. So I like to extend the heat whenever I can. I love that. I feel like it's very rare for winter people to love summer so much or to appreciate summer. I appreciate it. I need it because I feel like that's when people are their best. Yeah. But are you the type to be like, I'm having a party. You better show up in the snow booth. I don't care. You're marching through the trenches to get to my party. Is that it? Yeah. That is a young hole mentality. After you get into certain age, you, you just happy that people replied to the message. And if they show up, they show it if they not, whatever. But if I have like an open bar situation or, you know, snacks, I need to know the numbers. So yes, please, please show up and let me know because I paid money. Right. But other than that, I know how hard it is. I know we got the weight of the world on our shoulders. We have our phones glued to our hand. It just takes so much to get up out of the bed. So I know you can't, I know you can't make it. I just, I already start with, they're not coming. So when they come, they're like, my God, you can't. Low expectations put it under to the ground. That's a beautiful reframe and I've felt so much better about bailing on things now. Yeah. Well, don't hold on. You're young. Don't do that. No, you are young hole. I see you outside. I see your stories. I see your posts. Don't you do that? The fact that if you don't show up, it's like, oh, you hate me. You, you clearly have no love. This is going everywhere. I'm having no love. I'm looking for an exit. And you got a different look for everything. You switch out of clothes at least four times a day. So don't do that. Don't do that. Now, I do believe that you are very picky with what you show up to. That is true. That is true. I don't just go to anything. So there's a gun in this way. No, she gets out of the way. You are modern day, modern day, comedic socialite. But I'm different now. I'm comedic socialite. Yes. Yes. I've changed as of two weeks ago, legit, legitimately from that from a young person. Hello. Because I decided to be different. Fake. Okay. How are you? So basically, we'll be seeing you anytime soon. Okay. We're seeing. You know what? You just started. Oh, my God. I'm just saying you started. You got some questions. I know. It's you. It's you. She said it was actually you. Yeah. It's like, I can't tell if we're going to fist fight or make out. No, no, no. Listen, I respect. I respect the high energy and whatever you're giving right now. You're here. You showed up. I'm listening. I'm in a dark place. You are? Yes. I did my Pilates class this morning. Movement room and Capitol Hill. Love it. And my instructor is leaving. Elliot. Oh. I'm so sad. I was like, why don't you tell me? I would have like worked twice as hard this time for a compliment. I almost asked gay guy, but then I immediately. That's why you're in a dark place? Yes. Girl, we're going to fight. I signed up for two therapist consultations, two. They bailed on me. Same that back to back. And I was supposed to have a primary physician appointment. They canceled on me. So that's three. That's three for three today on this, this past weekend, like Friday and then yesterday. Okay. That's all right. Yes. Yes. Yeah. But basically, the universe is telling me, I'm fine. I don't need to get checked out. I don't need blood test. Blood test. Blood test. Blood test. I'm good, honey. They said, take the day off. Take the urine test. Yeah. So that's how you're not needed. By the way, when they canceled, what did they tell you? They said, sorry, we just, one, I'm locked in. Just ghosted. This. I was there for like 15 minute. No. And when I tell you, I put on a unit, I have my little, I'm seeing, I'm seeing a therapist, a consultation Bob. Yeah. A professional. Yeah. I'm the captain now. Yeah. Okay. I do need to help. Actually, I'm helping you at this point with a Bob. Hold on. I'm not that sad where I wouldn't do my hair, but I am sad because you're going to see the eyebrows real fucked up in the eyes alone. So let's go. She didn't show up. That's crazy. That's crazy. Yeah. It was really, it was, I don't want to say what kind of woman it was, but it would be your own people. Well, honestly. Oh. Unfortunately, that is why. That's why I assume. It's like, why does it have to be like that? I mean, I know with everything going on, like I, I see her. I see it. I wouldn't show up. I don't want to show up for me. Yeah. I mean, I showed up because I did. Yeah, I did. Yeah. And so you, Pilates, they're leaving, at least they showed up, at least you've been having them. I'm trying to get the initial, you know, top on salt. Yeah. For 15 minutes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Showing up 15 minutes late for a 15 minute meeting. That's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. I really heard it. But I wish you the best in your mental health journey. I don't know. I don't know. I can help. Girl. Bye. Again, the youths, they feel like they have the answers to everything. We just know that that's not, that can't possibly be the case. I don't know why you keep calling me young. I'm, you are. I have a youthful spirit. And it's a different thing. No, no, no, no. I could, I just how know that you are young. Okay. Okay. You're, you're into sports allegedly, allegedly, you're into sports. I see you at the games and it's how to get soccer, basketball, baseball, baseball, baseball. Yeah. You're hockey. She, she's at all of it. She just hates staying. And I've seen you're the layout of your place. You should want to be home. Bitch. You are. Good furniture. It is crazy. If you post it online, you clearly want us to see. No. I barely, I barely show my home because there's nothing on the wall. You know, I have seen in your house though. Yes. I have a vibrational plate. Let's get into it now. Explain this to me. Yes, yeah. I have a vibrational plate because my circulation is Muimala, Muimala, because of the miles, the mile, the traveling, the lives that I've lived. And so I realize that I need, I work from home. So the sitting down, the laying on your back, it's not the life. And so when I can't go to the gym, which is a lot, I use a vibrational plate as a substitute for that. And so that's like lymphatic drainage and make sure you don't have pockets for cellulite because I realized I had that this year. And so yeah, it's good. Yeah, I got it right. Did you have 75 hard legs last year? I did last year. No, no, no. That the way I talk about it, it sounds like I did it three months ago, but it was absolutely last year. Or the same time. I remember some milk and real time, it was very impressive. Yeah. everybody know, yes, something is wrong with me. And a gallon of water is involved and I'm working out twice a day. 10K steps, no sugar, no fried food, no happiness, just mad at every day. - This is like Beyonce doing Renaissance. - Yeah, I was like, am I going to coach, like, am I performing for Coachella? - What's going on? - Did I just happen to, did I just have the two twins? - I'm hungry. - Like, that's how I felt. I did it for real. - But a deep voice is great. That's what she said, and I agreed with her. - How did you feel after it though? - The clarity, the clarity that you get, that you're like, oh yeah, I really am bullshit. I'm doing myself a disservice, but not having, what do you call it? Discipline, discipline. I know you'll have it. You type A, type A over here. She's not playing around. You, you, between, between. - The way you play, you, you, you, type A. - Yes, oh no, no, she don't not fuck around. And that's why I feel like the old zone layer is here. 'Cause actually, she's covering her energy, her time. And you, you know, you, you, you photo people, you just treat them. - And the people's princess. - Yes, that's actually democracy in action. - I'm, I'm not mad at you. I'm not mad, I'm just, I write down the notes that the therapist didn't write for me 'cause she didn't show up. (laughing) - Oh, I want you to call her up, I mean, but like, it's fine. - It can't even. - It doesn't even get to me. - Yeah, it doesn't even get to me. It doesn't even get to me. - That's crazy. I can't believe that. Although, when I was in my early 20s and I didn't have a therapist, you know what I did have? - What? - Aaron Brockovich. - Mm-hmm. And that did a lot for me. - Y'all are un-serious. - No, I'm serious. It taught me a lot. - What did it teach you? - Confidence. - Mm-hmm. - That I'm always right, which, many times. - Nice. - I'm going up for myself, I feel like that's against corporate greed. - She brought a small town to its feet and a giant corporation to its knees. - And don't forget to push her bra. - That's what you push her bra. - I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm doing it. - Yeah. - What's doing it? - And a little real. - The reason for numbers, nobody knows numbers anymore, do you know? And besides, I feel like parents don't count. - Do you mean number numbers? - Yeah, phone numbers. - Oh, that's great. Okay, so I got on threads the other day. And I'm never on threads. But I said, bring back rotary phones. And I believe that if we had rotary phones, we would remember a lot more. I had at least 15 numbers in the arsenal right here. Just, blah, blah, blah, blah. I was ready to give out any number at any time. Don't let me be an emergency. I'm hitting all 15 numbers. But now, I bear, oh man, I know my social security number, my phone number, and then my mom's landline. But we never even see the numbers, because when I get, when I get someone's number, we bump purses. I get the profile on my phone. - Yes. - Have you ever done that? - Yes. - The bumping of the person. - No, I'm the person. That's like, okay, what's your number? And then I'm trying, I'm using one thing. - Yeah. - Okay. - And fucking up the number delete. They say, no, it's a seven. And then I'm like, all right. Okay. - I hate when someone's like, oh, just text me. I'm like, stop. - First of all, I don't remember your name. - Yeah. That too. - It's always important to be put your number in the phone, put your phone number in my phone, so you could get their name as well. And they're like, wait, my number is already in there. You're like, you know what, girl? - It's been too long. - Yeah. I need to see more of you. We need to hang out more. - What could he say? - Yeah. - I need to spend more time with you. - Yes. - Yeah. We don't remember anything. It's very, it's really upsetting. I used to say people's first and last names growing up and now it's like Alicia blah blah blah. - But I actually love when people use someone's full name because it means something. - It does. - And it's not just like because it could be another name, but like my friend Evan, I only call her Evan Nicole Brown, like middle as well. And it's like because you know she's serious. - Yes. - Like you've just learned a lot about her because I said her full name. - If you say Evan, I'm like Evan Nicole Brown. It's never, there's no monotamous Evan, it's just Evan Nicole Brown. We all have one. - But there's a lot of Evan's, but there's only one Evan Nicole Brown. - Evan Nicole Brown. - She comes. Come on out. - Okay. - Is she running first? - Is she running for something for the win? - I don't know. - The peer are hitting it right now. - I have a few things. - A few things. - I'm gonna walk away thinking about Evan Nicole Brown. - You are so anti-coded, it makes me feel so safe. And maybe you should. - You shouldn't feel safe. - Okay. - While I was, I was always a young old lady because I grew up with senior citizens. - So that's not my fault. - That's not my fault. - That they literally made me this old soul. I don't wanna be, oh, I don't wanna sit down. I don't wanna go to sleep. I don't wanna have to take a nap. I don't wanna rest my eyes. I don't wanna talk like that. I don't wanna shawl, but that's how I grew up. - I don't wanna shawl. - I don't go to the moon without another layer. Like with that little cardigan in my head first. - You're in a slack. - In a slack. - I've never been in a slack. - I actually is the way, at least when we do it. - At the very least. - Because I grew up with them, that I just learn, you know, you always gotta have like a little candy or something at the bottom of your purse, you always gotta make sure somebody gets home. - Yeah. - That, yeah. - Oh, text me when you get home. No, no, no, I'm making sure you get home. I'm dropping you off. Let me put you in the Uber. Let me put, oh, don't worry about it. You don't have to, you don't have to bid my me. - No, no, no, no, no, it's half of it is people pleasing and, you know, just working, through the traumas that I actually need, this bitch to, to execute to the cost of making it, which she refuses, her and her other friends, so I'm always bring that back. But yeah. - Okay, but pivot, you did have a young hoe, era, which leads us to the Black Barbie stories. - Yes, I, you know, because I was very sheltered, very Christian, very, you, you can't do anything. Soon as I was able to get away from my family, I'm pussy popping on handstand. I'm, I'm passing it out like it's girl scout cookies. I mean, you didn't have to pay, you didn't have to pay, and I mean, I mean, that, that's when you fix that. You do have to pay for that. Yes. No, I was giving it for free, for the love of it, for the love of it, for the, for the- - For the love of the game. - For the love of the game. - Yeah. So I definitely went to college and I did my 10,000 hours of poetry, and then I got out and I did some more times. - Got it. - Got out of college. I got kicked out, never mind, and so, yeah, I, I live my life and that's why it's, the whole cloak is, it's hung up. It's gone. I, isn't it? It is definitely upstairs in the upper room. - And yet we still have some French toast. - Now, who, who decided that? Who said, you, if you have French toast, that's, who said that? - Who said that? - Yes. But it's milky. It's a milky. - Paywall and paywall, by the way. - It's milky. There's a difference. - I have a two layer of a milky base coat, and so that doesn't make it the same type of French. - That's more gross. - The girls, the girls who were having the pink or whatever, that might be giving. - Oh, I was turning them away from the camera. - I have to have a milky one, because I can't have, it's not me, it's not me. - And it is actually. - Yeah. - And we're like, no. - Yeah. - I can't have, like you're, you know, how you probably have natural, just to show your real base of your toenail, I don't have that, I don't have a good nail bed. It is very dark. It is dark skin. It is a Nigerian hair. No. It is very dark, because of everything that I've been through. I've stepped my toe so many times, I walk in so many Jeffrey Campbell thing. - Oh my gosh. - Oh my gosh. - Jeffrey Campbell lead us. - Yeah. - Was that your culture ever? - Yeah. It was, I mean, those are bottle girls. - Those are crazy. - Yeah. - They were like seven inches thick. I mean, your foot is truly at the edge, and that's how you make your money. - Yeah. It was like the common man's animal. - It was red bottom. It was crazy. And it was an eighth grade, bringing them to, which is in, I, my parents are going through a divorce. It was, I could do it another day. - Is that eighth grade? - How are you doing? How are you doing, Hunter? What's going on with you? - I literally just had, I changed it last week. Okay. - Can I tell the truth? - I was at a cookout the other day, and I was with some new friends, and you know, they don't really know too much about me, but there's obviously a lure. And so, I'm saying, you know, I used to be out in your bottle, which, or whatever. And one young man, that's how you know this is already about to be fucked up. And he's like, what's the liquor that you have before, you know, your life was elevating? Like, how you knew things were changing? And I said, oh, I think it was like hypnotic or alize. He's like, what are you? 45. And then the whole outside went quiet. Crick, I could hear the crick, no, the crickets were quiet too. Okay. It was like, even the cicadas, yeah, the cicadas. The crickets. - Yeah, it was scary. - The silence was so scary. And I said, I am not 45. He said, alize, hypnotic. I said, why do I speak? I have to stop being honest. - No, he had a gun. - Yeah, definitely. - Yeah, definitely. - And then, straight to the head. - It was the diva of the doll. I'm sorry. That was like the status and more. - Well, it was. - I mean, in the culture, yes, the nastiest of it all. - Yeah. - I mean, it was basically cough medicine. - It was blue. - It was blue. - It was coughing. - No, you think the bottle. - The bottle. - The bottle was blue, right? - Yes. - And it was known that the liquor is blue too. But you think, oh, it's blue like a icy, no, no, no, no. It's the consistency of cough syrup. So that's what I originally thought people were doing, lean with, no, no, no, no, something completely different. - I learned something new every day. - I know. - Lean. - I'm an oracle. - I'm an oracle. - I'm glad you're here to teach the girls, you know. - Wait, so tell us about taking Black Barbies to Unbro, French Fest. - Oh, yeah, thank you. - Yeah. - Get us on track. - Go. - She's in. - I'm not a Black Barbie. - Oh, you did. - I'll see. - No credit. - Oh my God, it's the first time I'll be hired. - The team you're here for. - So obviously you know when we were in the height of the pandemic, the runoff of that, we're just using social media all like reckless or whatever. And so I used to put these, find these Barbies online and then put them in stories to reenact stories that happened to me. And I would do it and people were like, "Oh my God, this is so funny. "Oh my God, this is crazy. "I can't believe you don't buy, duh, duh, duh, duh." And so then I was like, how do I make that an actual show with the Barbies? And so I got on the good trusty Canva, how you doing girl Canva? Come on, if somebody from Canva could come out and help me, every time I use that freaking app, it reminds me there's not enough sales up there. There's nothing but Skittles and Red Bull and Dreams because every time I get on there, I'm like, this should be easier. Anyway, so I put it into a show form. I go to Friends with it and I pretend to be a woman in STEM or tech or whatever the girls are talking about. It's not true. I am unhinge a mess. Things are not going right. And so I have to start off up top and say, "Hey, mess is good." 'Cause that's what's gonna be in the show. Not only my life is a mess, but the tech is also a mess. And so they love the transparency of that because people go to Friends and I have to explain to Friends to everybody, it is like one of the biggest comedy festivals or solo show festivals in the world. Everybody goes there in August, Scotland and Bra, and there's a thousand shows going on. And so my friends who are not in comedy are like, Friends, I thought you were talking about bangs. It's like, which is Google? But I had to explain, they're like, what is this? It's like basically, it's like, if there were people doing showtime every day, at the same time, on the same train, all at once, for an hour. Except they paid, I don't wanna say how much, but they's thousands of dollars to do showtime for a people to watch. That's basically what Friends is. But it's the best solo shows. I mean, it's all types of clowning, there's theater, there's stand-up, very alt, so alt. So you could do anything. So I went there, it was great. I got good reviews. I was only there for two weeks. It was, I've learned-- Yeah, that's a long time, that's a long time. I mean, imagine, no, I, you can't about dating somebody and being with them every day, at the same time, for an hour. Yeah, I've had the experience for a whole month. Yeah. I mean, girls, I'm sure you-- Yeah. Limerence. Limerence, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a lot of it. You start to, you start to either take notes and be like, oh, this sound, make it better. But I hate this shit. Throw it out. This artist is trash. I'm tired of talking. I don't want to hear myself anymore. So is-- it was that. Would y'all do that? Go to Scotland? Yeah. I would go to Scotland. No, no, for French. Um, sure. Yeah, I would. I mean, I'm not planning to right now. OK, OK. I think it would be one really fun to-- I don't know, actually, I've enjoyed some like the one person chose I've seen and like-- What's your dream? That you liked? I really liked Kaperlance show. Yes. That was so good. I really liked the full experience. I was like working with you. Kate, yes. She had all-- it's like multimedia. So that was-- Yeah, it was really impressive. Yeah. Maybe. I couldn't do two weeks. That's a bit long for me. I got to be home. Hunter, what do you like? What do you-- what can you do? I like my bloody teacher. What happened there? I want to get into the health and wellness. But I also think it's a lot of bullshit, just a little bit. You did 75 hard. I know. That is a lot of bullshit. You're bodies healthy. Yeah. Like, everything is like-- No, no, no. You're not happy. You're not happy. You're not happy. You're not happy. If you're putting that many restrictions on everything that's happening to you, if you're putting inside of you-- But don't you feel-- I eat junk food, and I feel like junk. You know what I had for lunch yesterday? What? Two fruit roll ups, and then a salad. Well, you had a salad. And that's actually very scary, considering everything that's going on. Yeah. Maybe I did that. You know. Yeah. Yeah. It was dicey. It was risky. But I did. I want to be healthier because obviously I'm getting older, and it's all about longevity, which is like, they're my-- my girlfriend, she's like, "I want to live to 108." For what? Oh, wait, why? Why? I don't want to do that. We'll have less rates than we have right now. Exactly. The way this is moving. 108? I am my great-grandfather who recently had passed. This was 102, and every day he was like, "I'm done." Yes. It's a wrap. And he was walking to 101. He was over the shit. And I was like, "Yeah. That's me, like maybe 87, 88." Yeah. It's like a sweet spot to me. But like after that, I'm like, who's around? Because I know that. But the thing is, the thing is, you have to take care of yourself. This is by the time you get older. That's what you start. The mobility. Yeah. That starts right in there. Yeah. So that-- you know, passenger princess. Well, you don't take care of me. You're so worried. Yes, yeah, nine years. It's Congratulations. Thank you. Yeah, like that's the shit though. The drinking it's the drinking drugs. Yes, but that's what gives you to you know the character. Oh my god. You did you say I know, but I wake up and I'll be like, damn, I know drama going on just crazy. Like as soon as you start cutting people out and you're not drinking, you being selective of where you going. You wake up and you're like, yo, people not blowing me up. I don't have no gossip. I don't have no problems. Should have more. You have a friend who has that. Like that's the, you know, it's a give and take. You have a friend who has some of that and you can just kind of watch from afar. See, the thing is as a performer, right? I like to, I like to be a part. I don't want to, I don't want to be an audience member all the time. So sometimes when you hear and people draw me, you're like, you cut it. Yeah, because then it just sounds like everything is going wrong. Yeah, you know, and I can't, I can't take that on. I know I do like to have like a supporting role in someone else's drama. I feel like that's actually really important. Like I don't want to be a main character, but I do want to have like enough stake to give my input and it matter. But you're being a, don't you be the drama? I'm not anymore. I'm different. Two weeks ago. I'm different. I'm not a week ago. A second ago. Yeah. I was like, I'm down. Yeah. So now I'm running back on. So on the ground, Mista journalism. You got going on. I know, yeah. I know you are literally not the same as who I was. So you're not dating. What? No. Oh, Hunter can I tell you or anyone you want to call, but I've been off the streets, actually. And you? Yeah. I mean, hey, y'all have fun. Y'all have fun. Y'all watch Love Island or y'all be love Island. Which you want to do? I'd rather you be out, not love Island. Oh my god. See, I wouldn't be on love Island as like our animatics. Like I wouldn't be like a little, that's exactly enough for me. I don't need to be in, in, you know, a brace Trinity love triangle. No, no, no, no. Do you have, do you have love Island thoughts? Do you have brinity thoughts? I don't really get into this season because it just, it felt like we are losing a plot of love, love Island. And also, I would like to say, I like the show originally, but everybody's hot. They got thigh gaps. They got titties on a teeth like the hairline. Everybody look good. I don't, I don't care about these people. They're going to be fine with a, without the show. Why, why am I invested in these young six-pack nice arms, beautiful skin, TIGO bitties? Why am I locked in? God, I was TIGO bitties like that. Yeah. No, it's, it's, I mean, y'all love it. Y'all like it. I love it. But I just like straight people like that. Like I love to be like, what next will they do? It makes me feel so much better about being a lesbian. Really? Yeah. There's drama. I mean, there's a show I actually want to watch that lesbian one. It's like a lesbian dating show that's kind of just as messy. I kiss a girl. Oh, isn't that the UK? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Sydney Britain. What are you watching? Yeah, like. No, no, no, no, no. They're, they're different. Let's first of all, I went to London before I went to Scotland. Yeah. First of all, they don't have no air in the tub with the tube. There's no air. There's this tube carpet. There's no, no showtime. No AC. It's just, did you watch Tampa Bay? No. Did you watch the L word? I did. Yes. Of course. Oh, thank God. Okay. Okay. I got nervous. My sister's what are you talking about? Okay. Which I have beef with the L word because why would you have fine ass Pam Greer on there? Not a lesbian. Oh, wow. Not a lesbian. In fact, delivered one of the most the transphobic lines in history on TV. Yeah. I don't think she believed in that. No. There's no way, but at that time was like, listen, we cashed into checks. But they had her in the hair messed up. The, the, the log line messed up for, I just, I have so many notes for the Pam Greer. No, that's terrible. The coffee. Everybody watch the movie, the film, coffee. watch coffee and then watch Pam Greer in the Elwear. And you'll be like, what, what did y'all fucking see? - Yes, yes, yes. - How was this, yes, yes. - Properly. - Yeah. - It made me very upset, whatever. - It was your deserves an apology for that, absolutely. - Yes, absolutely. - Yeah, that's cool. - Oh, should we talk about relapsed on Dick? - No, we're actually, I wanna, this will be the last podcast I'll ever talk about this again, because I got dragged so, so bad. - Okay. - For I did Judgy. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - And obviously, I'm a comedian. So when I go on the platforms, I'm, "Ha ha, L-O-L-L-R-E-J-O-K-E, I don't know." But then I get these long ass dissertations about how bifobic I'm bad for the community. This is why men think that they can have sex with lesbians. Hey, men don't listen anyway. They don't even hear the word no. So me saying my little joke, oh, that's changing the whole, how they respect this, how they listen to us, how they don't abuse a girl by. But the messages, the people are like, you know what, I say, I don't wanna see this no more. So I'm coming on this, I'm bisexual now. I'm bisexual, I'm coming out as bisexual. I'm bisexual. Now what? (laughs) I'm bisexual. - I have been seeing this discourse on my, on my timeline, on my feed. - On you? - On your, on your timeline? You know, I, I look around. - Okay. - I like you to be in a no. - I don't know what's going on. - Yeah. - But it's crazy, it's, there's a real animosity. - Well, I think that's more harmful being like, you're not, if somebody's saying this is their experience, this is how they feel, this is what they believe they are. Who are you to be like? No, no, no, no, no, you can't do this, you can't do it. And I'm like, hey, there's latent life lesbians that have had a whole husband, kids, all this other stuff. No, no, they're like living their life as a lesbian. Does that not, does that negate everything? - Yeah. - You know, it's like, you should allow people to figure out their lives. Nobody is, nothing is black or white. And so y'all coming at me, baby, I was just trying to get some views, you know, get my follower count up because I hate posting on my actual page. So I said, let me do some of this, now this situation. And now this, now they, in my DMs stressing me out, and I'm an empath, I'm an empath that I'm an overthinker. So now I'm in my bed at 3 AM, well, maybe I am by such, it's meanwhile, it's like, girl, I was going through something. I don't, they hold it against you. - I do not want to, S-A-D, I don't want to, F-A-D, I don't need a D, I'm actually, I'm feeling good. I'm not S at all, you know, sexual, I mean, I'm in a relationship and I obviously like sex, but. - You're going from, like, so, okay, wait, yeah, no, no, no. I want to get it right, baby, you know, I'm ready for you. Let's go, but, yes, let's go, but I'm just saying. - Yeah, I mean, I really want to get into some wonk shit. The actual thing is like, a lot of that, I think, is people beholden to gender, not sexuality. And so people think that it's like a, a quite literal like WLW situation. And like, forget that the expansiveness of women can be anything as well. And I think that that discourse is so dated and tired, especially in a time where I think a lot of people's identities and the way that they describe themselves is just queer umbrella term. And I think the detail is kind of like, listen, you get into me or you're not, what's up? Like, that's kind of. - Hasn't Elle get so in like, I've been that person. Like, you're not lesbian, you're not really lesbian. Like, you're not looking at, you're not looking at labia with the son of, like, I said dumb shit, like that, but me, kiki ha ha. Like, you're like, obviously I'm being funny. But also after that situation happened where I found myself across from a man in the daytime on a day, I'm like, how dare I? And so I was gagged and goops. And obviously bamboozled because then I was in New Jersey with someone, led a straight, and so then I was like, you know what, it is a spectrum. People get fucked up. So now, so now I'm all the years I've spent WLW, it doesn't count anymore, yeah. But also I was like, I'm gonna make this mistake because I originally started with the, you know, heterosexual. - Yeah. - I was raised heterosexual. - Did we ever say that, you said what it was. - How do you say? - It's very heterosexual, heterosexual. - I can't even say it. I don't even know the word. - I can't even say it, I can't even say it. - I almost say DC. - Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. - Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. - I don't know. Come on. - Yeah, it's fine. - We need to have more fun. - Yeah, it's not that serious. - I mean, it is serious because obviously there's people doing real messy murky water stuff. That's none of my business, okay? That is none of my, I don't want those people. They're, that's, I don't see that. - Yeah. - I'm, we're here. - Yeah, it's us. - Yes, when you are focused on what everybody else is doing, you have no business. You are too available, unemployed. - This is the anti-coming, I know, I know, that's just what it is. - Okay, under employment is a big problem, it is, it is. - And thank you so much, comedian, and now bisexual. - Yeah. - I am bisexual. - What should I, what should I do the first day of coming out as a bisexual? Now be with me. - Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. 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People were telling us to watch this, and I am not finished yet, but I'm really enjoying it. - The Sterling Point, though, for some reason the name, made me think that it was like industry or like a banking show for some reason. - Giving like military academies, right? - Yeah. - I don't know why it's called that stuff. - Yeah, but you know, I can move on from that because I, Lover Hader, I absolutely loved Sterling Point. What about you, Lover Hader? - I'm a lover. I really liked, okay, so when I was watching it, I'm like, "Muscoca, Muscoca, why do I know that?" What's that, San Diego? Why do I know that? Oh, and it was my old ass. - Yeah. - Directed and written by the same person. - I was. - Megan Park, channel two. - Yes, and I love my old-ass, maybe cry. - Of course. - Sterling Point also love. I love the actress Ella Rubin, who plays the main character. I think she's super talented, and I'm happy that she's having a moment. And the, I will say, they all look a little young. - They are. - But, I'm rocking with it. I like it. I have a good time watching it. It does feel very like scratch of the edge of like, I want a sister so bad. - Yeah. - Two things in response to that. One, going back to Megan Park for a second. Did you all, did you watch the fallout? - Yeah, but I wasn't so into it. - Oh, I just watched it because I was like, you know, I loved my old-ass. I needed to, I slow-burne Sterling Point 'cause I was enjoying it so much. I didn't want to rush the experience. But, I was like, oh, I'll take a break and I'll watch the fallout. And I was, I loved it so much. I was like, Megan Park. Give her a check and let her rip it. Like, oh my god. - You know what? Oh my god. - Oh my god. - See, go like the American teacher, of course. - Yeah, so annoying in that one too. - Talented character work. - Yeah, I mean, you got me to be convinced. She was a terrible friend to pregnant Shailene Woodley, but some stars came out of that. - Yeah. - Shailene Woodley, Megan Park. Yeah, she really knows how to write End of List. - Yes. - Yup. - Yup. - Yup. - Well, the one that gave Slina Gomez. - Oh. - Her kidney. - Yes, her too. - Yeah. - She was a hoarder. - And so Slina said, I have no friends in the industry. - That was crazy. - But that's another episode. - But anyway, I just like, I'm so impressed with Megan Park's work and the way she's able to write, not just young people, but queer people more on that later. I wanted to go to the young thing though. Are you not really into like, any of those YA shows? - No, I like the YA shows. It's just on this show, I was like, both of these boys just look really young to me. - That is true. - And gay. - Which is okay. And that's kind of actually-- - The Piano Man. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah, I can see that. I think when you're young and a boy, you probably look gay. And I think a lot of young girls right now, like boys that look gay, that's like the Timothy Xiaomei effect kind of thing. - Yeah. Well-- - Megan Park, if you need me. (laughing) - If you need me to consult, no. - I know, the boys look a little young, but I really like the dynamic between Annie and Ellis and Annie and Rory, because I really like, I think that the Jenny Han shows to this really well, where it's like both boys generally have a lot to bring to the table. Like one of them doesn't feel like sort of a flat, obviously like sort of guy you're not wanting to end up with. And most of these boys feel kind of fun. - Okay, but if you had to pick, are you team Ellis? - Are you team Rory? - Ellis 100%. - Right. - Rory? - Okay, I appreciate a boy that is forthcoming with his feelings, especially as such a young age. It was impressive to me. - I didn't mind it, and I like my money long. God forbid, 'cause I really don't just care about money. I care about passion and heart. - Oh, that's always been true about Hunter, by the way. - It is, actually. You know how many anyway. (laughing) - Anyway, okay, focusing. I really appreciated how truly difficult it was to pick between the two of them, right? Like obviously, hopefully season two, we shake that up again. But, well, don't spoil it for me, I'm not done yet. - Oh, what? I'm on like, I have two more episodes left. - Oh, oh, okay, okay. - Oh, I just finished last night, and the final episode, I mean, everything makes me cry. But I was boo-hooing, sobbing in a way that was like, I forgive that whore, mom. I forgive you. - Now, hey, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. - What are you talking about? God forbid a woman just, you know, wanna, yo. - Let a cat out of a bag. - Oh. God forbid a woman just wanna get a little wild. - What is it, and did? - And did. - Lowkey, but what's that for the demon? - I've seen it for the demon. I'm like, wet blanket alert. I'm like, girls. - She just gay. - No. - Let her just be gay and sad. That's how it starts. - No. - And then you work through it and then you-- - She is a bit, she's a bit on my nerves at this point. - And I get it. I get how Una has her acting, you know, acting out. - Yeah. - I like, I love Ms. Una. - I love Ms. Una. - I love her messy young lesbian. - Have you seen, obviously, British Jones Diary? - Yeah. - It's like the Christmas scene. And she's like, just stir it, Una. - The mom. - I love your brain. Oh my God. To be friends with the truth in a file, what can I say? - Love, I was like, where are we going with this? But I absolutely love where we went. - Such a thing. - Well, to talk about Una and Ramona, I-- - Yeah. - I was talking about the gay sadness. - I'll tell you about the gay sadness. It's part of coming out. The coming out journey is denying that you're gay, realizing you're getting really sad about it. And then finding, I didn't want to say, I don't want to promise Joy. Things don't always get better. - But. - And then I think there's a diversion of a girlfriend that no one likes. - Of course. - Sometimes that happens a few times, like ping pong. - Yeah. - And I'm going to call that Stacey Mallory. Stacey Mallory Mallory, Stacey. - Oh, the girl, two names. - Yes, yeah. - You know, I hate a girl, two first names. It's so annoying to me. - Sometimes it's fab. But yeah, I think that one Megan Park writes queer characters really well. I think like she does something that's really nice where at least not in the movies that I've seen and the fallout or my old ass or now Sterling Point. No one really has like some big coming out moment, even if it's not obvious that they're queer, it just is. And I think that one, I'm totally experiencing envy of watching teens get to be gay. Me and the closet, as I can. There were signs, cut to all the football photos. - There was a few signs, yeah. - But she writes someone's where it's like, yes, this is part of their experience, but it isn't the totality of it, like the coming out of it all. - And also the way she, can I say, is a bitch first. And then she was a bitch. - She was so mean to Annie. I'm like, dang, can you let, it was a little bit, I gotta be me. It was making me mad. I'm like, Annie is trying so hard to build community between you guys. She wants me so close to you. And yeah, remote at every turn was like, no, door in her face. I'm like, well, hopefully it's everyone's island, okay? So you better, if it's succession and we're voting, I'm gonna go out the brother, girl. - Who does that remind you of? - Who? (laughing) - Who? - Fine, you can hug me. (laughing) - Me? - Girl, yeah, hello. (laughing) Hello, Annie in the room with us right now would be like, can I get consent to hug? And Hunter will go. Yeah. (laughing) Fine. (laughing) Sorry. - Okay, I got a little bit, a little bit of pot catalog. - Can I get a little bit of pot by the look off? - But, oh, something I think is really lovely is also the way they like style them. Like, I feel like queer characters who talked about this with, oh my God, the off-campus show. Where it's like, they make characters out of queer people or non-binary people and that show, the non-binary person was also like the biggest bully and so cruel and almost like cartoonishly horrible. Like almost like to their brother. - This isn't Disney anymore around you. - Yes, okay, anyway, just to explain them. - It's frustrating and I feel like this is finally the time that we got to see what we all know, which is like gay people are the hottest, coolest people you know and they dress really well. And I think that that is something that we get to see. And it's not just like, oh, they're queer. What do we do, put like a rainbow pin on them? It's like, no, we give her like a very specific, like a little caribbean or a bandana. Like her shorts hang low. Like she doesn't need to come out in a way that's all good. - Here are your terms too. - Hair and stuff, but Strayco's been doing that lately. Strayco's been letting their pits grow. - Yeah, I did that once, it was for me. - And I'm getting confused. - Oh, you did? - Yeah, when I was in college, early adopter, I was in, yeah, you had to be like, maybe I wanted to try. I didn't, didn't want for me. - I was experimenting in college. I was like, I guess I'll see what happens. None of that. - Remember it's all my wax one of my armpits? - Oh, I have the photo. - I can pull it up actually right now. - Are you really? - She goes, DM me. - DM me. I'm proud of that code. - Don't even DM me. I'm just gonna post it on stories. - No, no, no. - Girl, no. - You were so, you're so proud. - It's hard, it's hard, it's hard, it hurts. That was a pandemic for you. But to your point about the queer-coded styling, I did appreciate that Ramona and Una dressed totally differently. - Yeah. - And that it really felt like character first and sexuality is a part of that character building, maybe third or fourth. - Yeah, I just, I thought that was really nice and I felt like an easy way to not be like, oh, and now we're dealing with gay people. And even with Sully too, the supporting character who worked at the- - Oh, I love his friend. - Yeah, yeah, I loved his character. I thought he was so fun. I think he was well flushed out for being kind of like a side character. - Yeah, yeah. - Which is nice. - That's a lot of honor in that. No small roles. - No. - Only small actors. - Opposite. - Oh, no small roles. - Only small actors. (laughing) - That sounds crazy now that I'm thinking about it. Anyway, I also want to talk about grief, how they're all mourning the mother. And I like how Annie and Ramona have different experiences of their mom and there's a lot of space for those conflicting feelings. Giving someone who has lied to you, who has a secret life, all of that stuff that they're discovering their mother in real time, that stuff always gets me. - Yeah. - I love a movie with a dead mom where like a daughter is like going through the motions. That last episode, then, is going to really get you. Because our friend Sarah Hagi said to me when I, 'cause no one was on my side about calling them on a horse, Loki. Loki. - I do. - But I support women. - I just know. - Don't call it. And being a lesbian will teach you one thing women are just as evil equal opportunity, but the mom She was like if you wrote down the things that the mom did low-key more like Made me think maybe so worry. Oh the show. Yeah What's the mom Cheat and got pregnant by another man Astrix and that and then it was gonna leave her family low-key, but then maybe come back And I don't know and then you know he's cheating his his Her man is cheating on his wife and they got a kid together. It's just a little messy You know what I'm gonna say nobody's perfect. You know what I'm gonna say what say it with me women stories matter They just matter and that part's true and and slutty women stories matter too Yeah, I think there's you know, it's not just interesting. It's not just the grief of the mom It's the grieving of like what could have been that feels really well done to me Again last episode. Wow. Can I say one more thing about the brother the baby ruffalo. Yeah, both father and son showing out Wait, but last week you just really like oh cuz you kept watching yeah, I was like he was so good and you're like no He's not oh he was barely in episodes that I saw the first two he was barely in them. Well see that's what happens when we don't Sit and listen to our friend paid who's always right, but he's a star and when did you change your life? Was it one week or two weeks ago this it's gone from six to eight eight six to four What's his name? His name is baby. That's Greg's name Okay Sterling yes, but He is a star. Yeah, I he's what it's great. Oh, yes. Yeah. No, he's so good And I like when it when it's not just that a child acts like just like their parent like a famous Nepo like acts just like a parent. I think he's like he has his own sort of Kind of slacker energy. That's fun. I didn't know Mark Ruffalo had a kid Multiple he could have more. Oh, hey Is he married? Yeah. Oh, that was one of listen to a cordon sterling point. I don't mean nothing. I'll tell you that Small detail. I really appreciate it. I forgot it was maybe it was Ella someone was saying an interview How they were just encouraged to improv a lot on set because Megan really wanted like To feel like the voices were real and so like if there was monologues It was like feel free to take a stab at it and I think like that just shows one how important improv is an acting But how important it is when you're writing young voices because it was really to me. I was like so shocked at how natural all the I guess the conversations felt and where I'm not a 18-year-old Even though I look at I know stop but I was like oh this really feels like young people having like conflict or young people like yeah Having a big feeling and not knowing what to do with it. It was really impressive to me It does remind me or does make me think I guess as someone who was on a YA show If she has like that extra layer of like maybe sensitivity to the how do you do fellow kids? That can often come out when you're when you're writing young voices and when really the actors like the in the age range is Closer to the authority on this yeah, maybe the writer is sometimes. Oh my god Now I want to go back and watch the secret life of the American teenager and be like what? I think listen. It's time. Let's do it. That was we actually really to do Ricky was fine. Who was Ricky? I think his name was Ricky was a baby boy. Yeah It's just that none of them could really act I remember the scenes that I've seen clips of Shaleen and she's like and her thicker hair. Yeah Yeah, I hear on oh my god Not all love I love Jamie Woodley. I love that's my sister. You should eat That hilarious Red Carpenter re-reference. Okay Okay sterling point Watch it if you haven't And if you have what should be watching next? Yeah, because that was a sterling point was a listener wreck and I enjoyed it That's true. Yeah, and so in someone actually that's how I got into out of rings We know the youth here is up with the Hawkei with a few But yeah, the one that's in the how let me speak your language the one that's in the high music video Is in out of rings Relationships the relationships music video. Uh, that's one that was in queer Yes Look at these minds melding we get this we get culture