Benjamin, and I assume from your accent that you are from Boston proper, yeah?

Well, then you assumed right.

You thought I was going to say wrong, didn't you? No, I

I'll guide you in.

Then let me put it in reverse.

Boop, boop.

By making the reverse sound of a track.

Boop, boop.

[laughs] Well, I don't remember this

...

but then, but then Maxi's friend, what's the friend's name? Maxi's friend is, like, Lulu.

She is, like, a journalist, and she's like, "I want to do a story on you, Colonel Sanders, and, like, what's going on?" And he's like, "Some things you can't, like, need to stay secret." And she's, like, dealing with this awful stuff, like, in the sto- o- other parts of the storyline.

Like, she's, like basically Maxi had Colonel Sanders come over, also unclear, to, like, cheer Lulu up because sh- Lulu's, like, I don't know if, like, her ch- uh, it's, like, uh, somebody died-

Yeah, whatever you want.

Okay.

Where to start? Well, I've got a podcast called How Did We Get Weird? that I do with my brother Jonah.

[laughs]

...

I love to scam.

Um, I, my current scam as an adult is that, um, you know, uh, it's a, it's pretty particular to restaurants, and it will be that when I'm eating at a restaurant and someone recognizes me from, usually from Saturday Night Live, but, uh, any of the projects I've done, I can kinda tell.

Okay?

Okay.

Okay.

But, um, it's obviously too late.

Was that something that just came natural, or did that come out of the challenges?

Um, I think that, that me, you know, particularly when I was a teenager and I had leukemia, I think my family really, their senses of humor were, like, really, um, really came out, and I think it made us all kind of funnier because we learned that that was sort of a, you know, a thing that put us at ease.

It put everybody we knew at ease, and so I think it, uh-

[laughs]

... you know, my dad got out of a speeding ticket because he said that I was s- This was, like, year...

I was done with treatment and stuff.

[laughs] Um, it, like, yeah, u- using it, you know, I feel like if you survive something like that, or honestly, if you survive anything, you should get perks forever.

Was it a gradual awakening for you?

Um, okay.

So, well, when I...

I really did a lot of plays and was, like, a really big performer when I was, you know, really young and sort of through middle school.

And then in high school, I didn't really do a lot of it, and then when I went to college, I...

It's so funny to tell...

I knew that I would be telling you about this.

... done in like a mean way, yeah.

(laughs)

Like who gives a fuck like, you can get better fried chicken anywhere.

Like that's not why people get it, they're not like, "Because it's got this secret recipe and I've gotta try it." So anyways, so then they're like, he's like, "Can I hide it in your place?" And then also the other woman, the woman who's like truly going through a trauma, like her husband is like away like at war or something- (laughs) ...

she's like a journalist and she's like, "Colonel, I have to write this down.

I have to put this in the paper.

Like people are gonna love this." And he's like, "This is a secret." It's like so stupid, anyway.

(laughs)

Wait, what's the secret?

Please welcome Vanessa Bayer.

Hey, guys.

Have a great pod.

All right, bye.

Bye.

[laughs]

I think that, that me, you know, particularly when I was a teenager and I had leukemia, I think my family really, their senses of humor were, like, really, um, really came out, and I think it made us all kind of funnier because we learned that that was sort of a, you know, a thing that put us at ease.

It put everybody we knew at ease, and so I think it, uh-

[laughs]

Yeah.

I didn't have to do gym class, and that was, like, hu- I mean, who wants to, like ...

It's so-It's so demeaning, it's so disgusting that you have to be like a teenager, and you're trying to look cool in front of everybody, and you have to like go change into like shorts-

But being able to defang it with humor was so smart, I think.

Thank you.

Yeah, it was really helpful because...

And I think I went into it...

I was always sort of an optimistic person and I think that helped with that too.

Like, I never really got into a very dark place emotionally, especially, you know, while I was going through it.

And like...

really thought hard about