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But I went to Catholic school, and so she, what, I had a history teacher who many of us suspected could potentially be cl- a closeted man, closeted individual.

And let me tell you one of the, one piece of corroborating evidence for that theory, which was that he made our sixth grade class learn the song Like a Prayer and sing it to our principal in the classroom, whose name was Mrs. Madonna.

Now, we weren't allowed to watch the video 'cause it was burning crosses and a Black Jesus, but we did have to perform the song as a class.

Rose, would you please put the plug-in to the wall and turn on the VHS monitor and tell the people at home what you're working on?

Yes.

Well, right now you can stream my first Netflix special, Galaxy Brain.

It's available www.netflix.com.

What's a dating story he's heard 400 times?

They're never short.

Like, they're long.

It's like paragraphs and paragraphs, which I always think is a red flag.

If you can't describe your situation and dynamic with someone in like two sentences, it's probably not gonna work out.

So I met up with this guy after he'd been at a baseball game and he was really drunk.

He was with friends and he wasn't laughing at anything I was saying and all of his friends were not.

Also, like, just be like, let's switch to text.

Right.

And then I was at the beach this weekend, um, and I, I don't know.

There, there is something that's shifting I feel like even though as it...

And I, I honestly think it's this every, like the Ozempic, the other side of it which is so frightening looking to me-

Right.

"What's the philosophy?" Because then at least maybe they could set some expectations.

Because I think, you know, I ha- I have two siblings with kids right now, and I'm about to have a third sibling with a kid, and I think I've observed their different parenting styles, and I'm, I'm learning a lot, but I...

You cannot really disagree.

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As if she has the power to declare something like that.

Here's what I would do if I had a best friend on the verge of becoming an ex-best friend who had internet access.

I would not have them deported, 'cause there's gonna be internet wherever they're going, and they're gonna be able to say whatever they want.

What's interesting is I didn't even...

I knew that she had done this speech, but I, and I knew it was in, gonna be in response to something, but it, it was like, oh, there's gonna be a bombshell.

It's a distraction tactic.

And, and that's my take on when you actually have politicians that support and work for you, you feel good about it.

No, same.

And sometimes I find myself, especially when I come out to LA, at tables where it's, like, you know, maybe four straight guys, a gay guy, and then four girls.

And the, the places the conversation goes is so weird.

But, like, I'm sure it was nerve-wracking in the interim, like, waiting for it.

Well, no one really prepares you for the feeling of when things are out and nothing changes.

Like, it's really this, like, emptiness you walk around with for a few days where you're like this thing that was, like, so many years in the making, so much planning, so much effort, it's out, and best case, people love it.

Yeah.

And they wrote about the company that I worked for.

And then we had, I used, worked in the showroom a little bit at the company, and this showroom, uh, client, the showroom shopper, started stalking me, like, legitimately.

And he was, like, emailing me, texting me, Facebook message, all this stuff.

And I was like, I didn't know what to do.

I stood him up on a date.

I was like, he'll get the message.

Mm.

And I want to know where that came from, because you could have overplayed the cruelty at the beginning, and you could have overplayed the, I don't want to say vulnerability, but the sort of self-awareness that she takes on by the end, and you didn't do that in either instance.

The characters are so not us, but they have so many shades of who we really are as well, which I think it was nice to also be in the writer's room, because I got to see how the character took shape, and I had read so many versions of the pilot.

It first started out as not really this big ensemble comedy, And I got to watch how it was shaped as like A24 came on board and then Amazon and then in the writer's room, it continued to change.

And Benny is so supportive and he really wants to give us as actors opportunities to shine in every episode, which I think as a creator is very generous.

I think season two was even more fun to write because we know the characters and we can now just like play to everyone's strengths as performers.

And also I think there's a lot of really surprising moments.

And there was something I was going through last year that Benny had asked me, do you want to put this in the show? I find that like working through trauma in the art is really helpful, which as you can see from my special, like I totally agree.

And I've never seen you do that, like ever.

Um, there's a great, uh, clip I saw of yours about the Democrats that I think we can play about, from your last special where you talk about the state of the Democratic Party, and I was cheering this one on.

And I can't say that I'm hopeful, but the texts from the Democrats right now are not helping.

[laughs] Are you guys getting these? They're like, "Please." [laughs] "We are begging you on our knees.

Please donate $5 to save democracy." [laughs] You need $5? How did you let it get this bad? [laughs] I'm never calling my senator again.

They're doing worse than I am.

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It's also very strange when you do that and then you're like, "Who radicalized all these Muslims?" I'm like, are you looking at your Christmas card pictures?

Yeah.

... what's your experience been there in terms of trusting again, I guess?

Ugh.

It's, it's really hard to build that back up because you, it's just, being ghosted, especially after you sleep with someone, if you've been on a few dates with someone and they ghost you, that's shitty obviously.

But if you've had sex with them and they do it, that's just, it's like a real knife to the chest, and it made me really scared to open up to people or let them in at all.

So especially because I got to a point where I was being very upfront with my expectations with people.

Like, before we would have sex, I would be like, "Just so you know, I'm not looking for a one-night stand.

So if we have sex, I expect to hang out again.

[laughs]

So what happened?

So I had been taking improv classes at UCB for a few months.

And this was when Broad City was blowing up.

Inside Amy Schumer was huge.

She was, I think, either had just had the HBO special or it was going to be coming out soon.

I was just devouring as much comedy as I possibly could.

And I started taking improv.

And there's that line you have towards the end of it where you're like, to go through this day-to-day and to go through it as long as I have, it's like I'm arm-wrestling with myself.

Yeah

... other than radio and, like...

I was even just...

I've been listening to an illegal upload that is publicly on Apple Music, and first of all, I can't lie, there was a part of me that was like, just as a music lover in general, how beautiful it is that I don't have to go and download things anymore.

Like, people can just illegally post people's music without their permission.

Um-

Bye, you guys.

Bye, guys.

Yeah.

I think one thing that was hard about the Globes for me was, like, I went home and I was by myself.

Like, I really want to be in a relationship.

I wanna be in love.

I wanna build a life with someone.

So to leave something that was so much stimulation and feel like, "Oh my God, that was so fun," and then you go home and, like, no one's caring for me right now.

And maybe that's important for my growth, and then when I meet the person I'll be better 'cause I'll know myself better, blah, whatever, whatever.

Um, but yeah, you have to just, uh, we, we have to be like, "Oh, okay, it'll happen when it happens."

Yeah?

I think one thing that was hard about the Globes for me was, like, I went home and I was by myself.

Like, I really want to be in a relationship.

I wanna be in love.

I wanna build a life with someone.

So to leave something that was so much stimulation and feel like, "Oh my God, that was so fun," and then you go home and, like, no one's caring for me right now.

And maybe that's important for my growth, and then when I meet the person I'll be better 'cause I'll know myself better, blah, whatever, whatever.

Uh, we ha- we have to be like, "Oh, okay, it'll happen when it happens."

But I think it's just kinda like-

...

but they have, like, the sections so that people don't get trampled.

And that's when professionals are organizing something, and they're like, "We've done, like, the math on, like, body weight and, like, what each section can hold," and that's, like, thought and care was put into that.

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