April 8, 2025 • 54 mins
Abby Govindan (How to Embarrass Your Immigrant Parents) joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a reckless driver who was fined for failing to stop at crosswalk for his own children, a fake captain steals fishing vessel and Walgreens says that locking everything up is actually bad for business!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hey you, beautiful bananamals. We wanted to give all of
our listeners an advance warning that there are a few
mentions of suicide in this episode. It's a sensitive topic
and we don't joke about it at all, but we
wanted to give everyone a heads up so that you
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Speaker 1 (00:43):
Scotty, you got one for me today.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I hope you ready to just laugh and laugh and laught.
I will go today. I like when I get to go. Okay,
I mean ja hausin Fluffer sent this in all the
way from Taiwan. Wow, not bad, not bad. Reckless driver
find six thousand dollars for failing to yield for his
own children at a Crosswah.
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Speaker 3 (01:29):
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Speaker 1 (02:36):
Our guest today is a comedian whose new solo show,
How to Embarrass Your Immigrant Parents is currently touring all
over America.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Maybe we're all extended.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
At the Soho Playhouse where it is right now. And
also it's going to be in London, Sydney and Melbourne.
Please welcome the wonderful Abby Goavinden.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Hey guys, it's so wonderful to be here. Thank you
so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Oh, we're so happy to have you.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Thanks for coming on. I'm going to give you two
compliments right off the top. One, I went to your
personal website, always an embarrassing thing. There's barely any personal
websites in the world that aren't like, Oh, yours is great.
I got all the information I needed, all the things.
It worked. You didn't just fill it with jokes and
(03:22):
one liners everywhere. And I was like, this is a
great website.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Thank you. I do my own website actually, so like
I was telling you guys before we started recording, everything
I do is a very scrappy production. I'm like, everything
is low budget. So I had a web designer who's
lovely Wendy. She's a good friend of mine from Houston,
and she changed my website and made it all pretty
and colorful for an extremely heavily discounted rate. But I don't, yeah,
(03:50):
don't have the budget to like constantly keep hanging her because,
like you know, as a comedian, like updating the website
is like a daily endeavor, like want to shows over,
you take the link off once you add a show.
So all that is me entirely So I'm going through
the website literally two or three times a day, making
sure all the links work, like making sure everything looks
good and isn't cringe. So thank you for saying that.
It means a lot, so many.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Hours, welcome, you did a wonderful job. And the other
one is I was watching all your YouTube clips and
reels and I blurred it out laughing. You know sometimes
when you're just watching things and your income, you almost
are studying them. Yeah, And so I blurred out laughing
when you said, the only time you've ever seen your
father cry is when Steve Jobs died.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
True? Sorry, is that true? Specific His own father, my grandfather,
who we all loved very dearly, passed away very tragically
when I was thirteen, and I did not even see
him cry. That I was crying, but I didn't see
him cry then. But the news broke that one fateful morning.
(04:54):
It was like CEO of Apple Steve Jobs passes away
and I literally saw him just like like I'll covered no,
but not like gasping, like it's such an Indian dad
thing to be like. And then I didn't even notice
that he was crying until I saw it was like
sniffling and a tear, and I was like, hello, that
man loves, like, lives and dies by Apple products.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Honestly, God, it's so good. It caught me so off guard.
DoD I just like drinking coffee, went like.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Does he work in the computer industry or he just
likes apple products?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yeah? He does. He is an he's an engineer by
trade that he works more in on the he works
at Bank of the or I don't even know what
he does on this Does anyone know what their dad does?
I could. I could tell you my mom's day to
day job responsibilities, but people are like, what does your
dad do?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
And I'm just like, oh, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, I'm with you. I know what my dad's title is.
But like if you said Scotty took over for your
dad tonight and do his job, I would be like, boy, yeah,
I don't even know where to begin. Do I get
in my car and go somewhere like what I do.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
That's how I feel. I have a friend who I
went to college with who is like in finance, and
I maybe have had fifteen different conversations where I was like,
describe what it is that you do, and he starts
talking to I'm like, I have no idea what that
looks like on a day. I don't know what managing
a portfolio looks like on a day to day from
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like nine to ALB to five PM.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I don't know if they do either. Sometimes you hear
about people who have jobs and the way they describe it,
I'm like, you don't do anything. It's almost like office space.
You're just like you just go in and you know
nothing to add in my team and then like push
mute again on the zooms. It's that's the world we
live in, and I don't know what account managers even do.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Did you guys, so did you guys have you been
doing acting in comedy full time your whole lives or
did you have a full time job before transitioning into this.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Oh yeah, for many, many many jobs before this. I
think my last job was I was an it guy.
I was an it guy for eight years. Oh, I
think I quit in two thousand.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Eight.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I think I quit in two thousand.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
And eight or nine.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, yeah, when when was the last job you had?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Scottie, I'm just a writer. I'm a screenwriter, and up
until I got my first TV writing job, I've worked
every job on planet Earth. It's almost impossible to say, like,
I've worked in greenhouses. I worked in corporate offices for
Corkoran real Estate. I was a salesman for Red Bull
I oh wow, scaper. Sometimes I was a waiter, a valet,
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a bartender, a bus boy. I was. I mean, I
I'm missing so many it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
But did you guys have any jobs that if you
explained to anyone, they'd be like, huh.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yes, even the I've talked about this on the podcast.
Oh yeah, I was a bike mechanic, like so many things.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
The best one was, and I've talked about this a
couple of times, is I would sit in apartments in
New York for a corkorand for the real estate company
because when they do open houses, it's very different in
New York because it's apartments. Somebody has to buzz you
in if there's not a door guy and the Realders
are so busy showing so many places, they just hire
idiots like me. They would pay me, I think, one
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hundred and twenty dollars a day to sit there from
eight am to six pm. And all I would do
is buzz people up that buzz downstairs and then hand
them a flyer and then make sure they didn't steal
anything like that.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
They like, what they wouldn't be stealing would be like
a lamp, Like you have to make sure they don't
walk out with a lamp.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, and it's a I mean, so you understand. It's
a very easy job to explain. But the confusing part
is is they didn't vet me. They didn't do a
criminal background check on me. I could have been stealing
the entire time. It's like at the time, I probably
didn't have ketchup, so it'd be like, well, there's a
fresh bottle.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
In abby, did you What was your last weird job
that you had to have?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I went viral on Twitter. Such a I sound like
such a village elder when I say that I went
viral on Twitter. Very useless website to go viral in on.
In twenty eighteen, when I went viral extremely more useless
to go viral on it now, but I'm cured. I
don't use Twitter as much anymore. But that was when
I was still in college, and so I graduated and
(09:28):
kind of decided that I wanted to monetize comedy. So
I worked a few odd jobs. I was mostly tutoring,
which is like less of it, yeah, less of an
odd job than Corcoran vibes buy. Yeah. I was tutoring
all these like rich families in Houston who just like
refused to pay me, so I'd have to like keep
(09:50):
reminding the Venmo class or like chase them down. And
it was just so weird. But I think that having
odd jobs is very character building.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
You know, oh yeah, you learn a lot about the
human condition and like literally just yeah. And then you
work with people that are career people and that thing
that feels like a kind of a moment in your life.
You're like, I'm going to be here for six months.
I just need to make rent. And then you meet
people sometimes that have been there fifteen years and that's
their gig, and so it gives you good perspective on
how the world works and how you can survive and
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what you can survive on.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yeah, yeah, real exactly, and chasing people for money is
a lifelong pursuit.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
In the.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Emotional grit, Oh yeah, I would go ahead. I would
love to tell you about the show. So How to
Embarrass Your Immigrant Parents is the story of how I
told my parents that I wanted to be a stand
up comedian, how our relationship fell apart, yeah, because they
initially weren't very supportive, and how we built our relationship
back up after my brief stint in a mental hospital
(10:52):
following a suicide attempt. So I talk very candidly in
the show about my mental health struggles. I will to
talk about how I always felt this calling towards entertainment,
Like I really was addicted to the feeling of making
people laugh. I loved crafting a punchline, I loved crafting
a joke. But because I had never seen any Indian
people on Netflix or you know, like in comedy more
(11:18):
so than like, you know, once or twice, it just
never occurred to me that I could do this full time.
And then when I went viral for the first time,
it was a beacon of hope because I was like,
people resonate with what I have to say they like
my punchlines. And I went viral in twenty eighteen when
like it was less rare. Like these days, there's like
(11:38):
so many, you know, social media influencers like public figures
and or followings. But in twenty eighteen, when I went
viral for the first time, I was one of maybe
like six or seven Indian Americans with a large platform,
and so it's very harrowing. It felt very lonely. And
also even though it was a beacon of hope. I
talked about how I talk about in the show, how
(11:58):
the Internet algorithm incentivizes oversharing, so in order to stay relevant,
in order to push your material to more people. And
so that's what I was doing when I was like
so young and so mentally ill. And now in retrospect,
after I was hospitalized, I was diagnosed with my polor disorder,
and in retrospect, I realized that, like, I really regret
that even though I went viral for oversharing and people
(12:20):
really resonated with a lot of what I had to say.
So in my most worst moments are memorialized on the
Internet forever. I can never change that. And also it
really eroded my relationship with my parents and my friends
and my family, because I was oversharing everything that happened
to me and happened in the family and happened with
my friends, and so in the hospital, I really had
(12:41):
this reckoning of like, what is more important to me
is the pursuit of comedy? Is it my relationship, is
it being perceived online? Is it finding a way to
make the stand up comedy journey work no matter what,
and finding a balance that worked for me and also
for everyone in my life. And I talk about how
my parents weren't very kind to me when I told
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them I wanted to be a stand up comedian, But
I also realized I wasn't very kind to them when
I when I diminished their narrative for like a long time,
I was like, they're my evil immigrant parents. They don't
understand happiness. They you know, they don't care about me.
But after my suicide attempt, they rallied around me in
such a meaningful way. I guess it was like a
wake up moment for them, Like they were like, okay,
(13:23):
like we almost lost our daughter, so whatever, Like she
can just do whatever she wants, like literally whatever, but
in a very meaningful way, like I talk about how
you know. My mom and I had this very meaningful
conversation where she was like, of course your father and
I don't hate you, we just don't understand. Like when
we first immigrated here, we didn't have any family, we
didn't have any friends. We found a small group of
(13:44):
Indian people at our local temple and they told us
these So my parents immigrated in the nineties, and there
had been Indian people, very few, but still a group
of Indian people who had immigrated in the seventies and
eighties who told my parents, Hey, the cheat code to
financial and emotional and more importantly financial stability is if
your kid studies something along the lines of science, technology, engineering, medicine,
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sure you'll be able to find a stable job that
they'll be able to provide for you after you retire.
And that's just like, that is what's most important. And
so that's all that they knew, And that's why they
pushed it so much on me, not because they wanted
me to be miserable, but more so because it was
important to them that I was set up for emotional
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and financial stability, and they didn't understand why I was
pursuing stand up comedy, and I didn't understand how they
couldn't support me unconditionally when like, I'm their daughter and
they're supposed to love me.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I agree, yeah, exact unconditionally. She's great at what she does.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Thank you, and you'll easily be able to take care
of them. You're on your way.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
You're going to make so much more than an engineer
or some bondnist.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Oh Inshall, Well, I mean, if you guys tell me that,
then I'll have hope. Right now, everything is a scrappy production.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
It always is until it's not.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
When I got my first TV job you're currently so
it was real scrappy and I was cleaning my apron
when I was your age and got the call that
was like, do you want to work on a show
for eight weeks? And I was like, thank God, and
then I had to wait for more weeks. It was
on MTV when MTV had shows, yep, and it was
called Mega Drive, which there's a comedian named Johnny Pemberton's
(15:27):
one of our good friends, one of the funniest people.
He's currently on Fallout if you saw that show, and
it was his first show too. And so I went
from living in Brooklyn you know, had roommates and all
the stuff, and was busting my own tables and working
doubles and stuff. And then all of a sudden it
was like, say, what, I actually get to do the
thing that I moved here to do. And it took
(15:49):
six and a half years to make happened. Since then, Yeah,
that I got lucky. Have you have a question, yes,
that might be Did you ever see the Netflix series
It is about the character's name is Beanie and it
was shot in India and she had a normal, comfortable life.
(16:09):
She was supposed to marry a doctor, but she secretly
was doing stand up comedy at night. It only went
one season. I think it was called Bog. It was
called Messi when I wrote on it, and then I
think they changed the name to like Bog Beanie Bog
maybe sorry.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Of Was it a Hinglish though, like it was half
Hindi half English.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yes, And it was created by A Revi Patel and
Neil Shaw. And we had two writers Mumbai who would
start writing at eleven pm when we were starting at
eleven am, and they would write through the night. They
were great, but I didn't get they Netflix didn't want
to pay for all of us to go and do
(16:48):
a writer's room there India. Yeah, it was reve Patel
Dolly sing. But yeah, when you were saying it was
that was the center of our show was a woman
secretly doing stand up and get really good at it,
and everybody in her life is like, do not do this,
stop it. So I'm glad that But you didn't see
it because because nobody watched it, apparently, and he went
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one season. Let me tell you about parents. At least
your parents didn't try to drive you over in a crosswalk.
We can give them that.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
That is so true.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah, great segue.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yes again. Hasson Fluffer sent this in. You can send
your strange news stories to the Banana Boys on Instagram,
the Bananas Podcast, or on the Bananas Podcast at gmail
dot com. We love when you do so. Olivia Hassen
Fluffer sent this from Taiwan. We sponsored her Kurt. She
and her her husband and their friend ran the Taipei
one O one which is one and fight yestairs.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yes, yes, yes, dressed as bananas.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
He sponsored it.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Wow, that's so cool.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
It was cool them. Reckless driver finds six thousand dollars
for failing to yield to his own children at a crosswalk.
This was on Kurt's favorite website, Focus Taiwan dot t W.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
You know what, sometimes I'll set an alarm for twelve
oh one am so I can wake up and find
out what's on Focus Taiwan dot W because I want
to know as soon as they publish a news story.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yes, this was in Taipei. A driver in Taiwan's Lane
Shine County has been fine for failing to yield to
his own son and daughter at a crosswalk. Coincidence. I
only came into light after he received a ticket in
a photo violation that doubled as a family portrait. So
he's driving and his kids are in the crosswalk and
there's a photo of all of them. The sun, surnamed Lee,
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recently shared a photo of the ticket on social media
and indicated the incident occurred on the morning of December
twenty eighth. My dad got a six thousand dollars fine.
That's uh Taiwan dollars.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Oh that's Taiwanese.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Okay, So it's one hundred and eighty three US dollars.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Makes sense.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Still plenty of money. Not terrible. You can survive that
one for failing to yield to pedestrians. The pedestrians were
me and my sister. As funny, it's so good. As
of Wednesday afternoon, the post had received over ten thousand
reactions on threads, including several comments joking that the father
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had paid six thousand Taiwanese. I'll look up what they
use one hundred and eighty three American dollars for a
family portrait. The driver's younger brother also surname ly confirmed
that the basic details of the story were true. He
said he and his brother had just dropped his children
off in front of the Port Terminal building, circled back
around the block, only to encounter them on the sidewalk.
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So the dad dropped off the kids, circled around, and
then just drove right past them, almost hitting his children.
Chen tang Yao, head of Special Police Corps, said that
the bureau began using traffic enforcement cameras in front of
the Port terminal this year because they've already issued seventy
one tickets in one month for failing to yield to pedestrians.
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It happens all the time on camera there, and I
guess Taiwan has made efforts to improve pedestrians safety in
recent years following a number of Hope high profile accidents,
CNN called the country a living hell for pedestrians. It
seems a bit wow harsh.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
That seems intense, Ynn. I'm actually I am a very
big fan of using municipal closed caption CCTV cameras for
family photos. I actually that is such a great idea
to actually like plan it out and do it. I
think two years ago we had a we sent out
like a Christmas card and it was just it was
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just me, my wife and our two kids from a
CCTV camera. Like it because when you go and check
out at Target, you can see there's like a little
video of you checking out, and so it was just
a picture of us checking out a target. Nobody looked good.
Everyone was like, the kids were losing their bye. We
were like haggard. And then that was just our Christmas
(21:00):
card that year.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
That's so funny. It was one yeah, I actually yeah,
well I'm pro I'm anti uh like government surveillance, but
I but I'm pro rode surveillance because I got hit
in Boston. I got like hit by a car. Yeah,
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but I was so shell shocked. It was like a tap,
but it was a car tap, so there was a
bruise on my leg, Like I had the right of way,
and he turned right into me, and I was so
shell shocked. I walked away and then he drove off,
and then it didn't occur to me until I walked
away that I should have gotten his license plate. So
I like walked into the cafe and I was like,
I just got hit by a car, and they were like, oh,
(21:45):
we don't have any cameras. And then I went to
the other store for us to see if they had
cct TV cameras and they were like no, sorry, ours
are fake, like they're just to detert like thieves. And
so I wish that there was more or a CCTV
wrote because that like, also, I don't know, it'd be
nice to have a database where you could like look
(22:06):
up your face. You know, maybe maybe you do have
a CCTV Yeah, family portrait without knowing about it.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Yeah, that is the one thing. It's like, all of
this footage of us is out there and we have
no access to it. Like if we have access to it,
it'd be like, well, looking pretty good, just if.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
The government was paying US royalties. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
There was an article last week in Vanity Fair about
all the athlete homes that have been getting robbed, Like
these guys go play games and so people know they're
not home when oh play football, Joe Burrow, Travis Kelcey,
all those types. Yeah, And they said in the last paragraph,
the writer said, every social media post is a shopping
(22:54):
list for people that you don't know. And I was like,
that is so real and so creepy because basically saying,
if you show up and you have your fifty thousand
dollars Petique Philip watch on and then you're playing the
next Sunday in a different city, people know that watch
is in your house and they're going to come get in.
I guess there was a gang that was really really
(23:15):
good at breaking in and robbing all these houses and
getting away with it. Yeah, So what I'm saying is
less camera is also very good, and an undocumented life
is a beautiful life.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
It's always that weird comment on Instagram where someone looks
into the corner of your video and sees like one
thing and then comments on it, and it's just like, oh,
it makes me want to just like shoot in a
blank white psych so that no one can see anything
about where I live.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
This story reminded me a few years ago, and I
don't think I talked about this one on the pot.
My friend Hannah, her mom was in town and it
was her mom's birthday. She was visiting from Georgia. She
was in Los Angeles and she was like, do you
want to go get a drink? It's my mom's birthday.
I was like, yeah, let me go buy your mama drink.
This will be fun. So I'm driving over there and
she calls me and she goes, I just got hit
by a car. And I was like, are you okay?
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She goes, yeah, I was crossing at Vermont and Franklin
at the crosswalk and Prius taking a left hand turn
hit me. I'm like, oh my gosh. She's like yeah,
my shoulder and my back do hurt. But the driver's
still here. I was like, take photos of everything, get
all the information. She's like, already did that. And I
was like, okay, I'm on my way. So I park.
I run over and I was like, did you call
(24:26):
the police? Yes, So we hear a siren coming. Here
comes an ambulance, Here comes a police car and they
drive directly by my friends sitting on the curb and
drive down the street one block because one block away,
another woman got hit by a car and they called
nine to one one first. So as that woman's getting
(24:47):
all the information, her whole family showed up that other
victim and she was also okay, but so she gets
put on a stretcher in the ambulance. Ambulance goes away,
cop follows to the hospital. So we sit there waiting
for the next cop and am never comes. So we
call three one one first, and then we call nine
(25:07):
one one again and we explained the situation and they're like, yes,
there's only one police duo that drives that area. So
they're at the hospital getting a you know, writing their report,
so you guys could wait there and crazy. So we
asked the driver if she wanted to join us for
a drink. She's like, no, I better not up driving.
We're like, yeah, that's fair, and then we just while.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
We're waiting for the police to show up.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Yeah, So we all just waited it out for two
hours and then just went and let the whole thing
go by and they exchange information. But it was like,
I had no idea how few cops were out there
because they were like, sorry, the two cops in that
area not going to be there.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
What do we increase the police budget by eighty billion
dollars per year? Four?
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Then that's it.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Didn't run into the closest business and just rob it
right away, like give, give it.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
It's just for them to buy tanks. It's just so
that they can roll a tank out every once in
a while.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Every time there's a protest.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Yeah, yeah, here comes a tank. Here comes a military
style tank.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
So what I'm saying is we're a helmet whenever you
leave the house goes, yes, safe move, it's smart.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Abby. Yeah, you have a good friend of ours, Greg Wallach,
who's directing your show.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Oh, he's a good friend of yours.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Yes, we love Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
I love Greg so much.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
He's so great, great storyteller artist, How do you guys.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Just from storytelling and comedy. He's done a whole bunch
of times. I've done his show. He's given me help
with my last hour. We've talked through stuff. Yeah, oh
my god.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
He is so talented. And yesterday I debuted off Broadway,
and then I invited a small group of friends to
get drinks with me afterwards to celebrate my off Broadway
debut came, thank you, thank you so much, and Greg came,
and then a couple of my friends texted me afterwards
and they were like, Greg is so much fun. You
should bring it out more.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
And his stories are crazy, They're so fun and good.
He's got great, great stories. I mean, he's a storyteller.
He's like a storyteller at heart in his bones.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Yeah, he really is. Well, let me say so. I
had been doing this show for about a year and
a half director list. I was a little bit allergic
to the idea of hiring a director because this is
the story of my suicide times. So I was like,
what could some director tell me about the show that
I don't already know. I was like very sensitivetive feedback
on it. But for a year and a half, every
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time I did the show, I would walk off stage
and I'd be like, something's missing, Like if I had
to grade myself, i'd give myself like a sixty percent.
And then when I brought Greg on, he didn't tell
me to change anything. He just asked me a series
of questions. He was like, as the audience member, As
an audience member, here's the questions I have, And so
I wrote those questions down, and I went through and
I answered those questions, and I incorporated the answers to
(27:58):
those questions in the show, and the next time I performed,
it was just like something entirely new and spectacular. And
I realized the beauty of a director is that he
has the perspective of an audience member and also the
perspective of a performer, because he's a stand up comedian
himself former stand up comedian, and he's just like so great.
Every piece of feedback he gives us thoughtful, he's so patient,
(28:21):
Like yesterday, before the debut, we had a two and
a half hour attack rehearsal and we spent a good
hour figuring out what my walk on would look like.
And my tech, yeah, my tech manager. The guy who's
doing tech is Kanna, who has been my administrative assistant
for a year and he's just like so supportive of
(28:42):
me and my career. So I wanted to bring him
on to the show because I know that he's interested
in pursuing more comedy production opportunities. But Kanna had no
tech experience, so it was a lot of all of
us being patient with each other and Greg. Greg was
like timing everything perfectly. He was like, okay, walk on
a like one second after the blackout. Okay, walk on
like half a second after the blackout. And like, internally,
(29:04):
even though my natural reaction was to be like, oh
my god, this guy has got to be kidding me,
I knew that, like I knew in my like conscious
brain that everything that he was saying like how to purpose.
And then last night when it debuted, all my friends
were like, oh my god, the timing of everything was perfect,
the setup was perfect, the direction this is perfect.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah, great, that's wonderful. I I do it is the
one thing that I like find about stand up comedy
is that it is so internal for such a external pursuit,
meaning there is no there you don't you know, you
rarely have a director, and if you get a director
for a special, they're usually just like setting up cameras.
(29:44):
They're like, here's the seven cameras and that's it. And
so that was what last the last the last special
I shot. My buddy joanah Ray directed it, and he
actually went out on tour with me and like gave
me notes on every show and helped me find tags
and stuff like that and helped me craft like the
and then and I love that so much. I love
having a director. I would I would love to have
(30:07):
them just for like ten minute sets. All right here
it is fake captain steals eight million dollar fishing vessel.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
I'm a big fan of this. This is on Actually.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Scotty, how do you steal a vessel?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
It's very exciting, I will tell you. Scottie has been
a fan of this website for years now, National Fishermen
dot com and he's always sending me National Fishermen dot
com articles. This was written by Stewart.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Ooh the business really good at writing.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Uh. In a bizarre turn of events, an imposter managed
to steal an eighty foot commercial fishing vessel while the
crew was still on board. According and this is while
the crew was on board. Yes, according to the Washington
Department of Fish and Wildlife Police, the unauthor authorized skipper
took command of the Jamie Marie, an eight million dollar
(31:04):
ground fish vessel, and set off into the Gray's Harbor
bar before the crew caught on to his deception. Surgeon
Alexander was on patrol in Westport when he overheard a
radio call about a vehicle theft that was in progress. However,
it wasn't stolen car motorcycle. It was a full scale
vessel heist. The suspect had reportedly boarded the Jamie Marie,
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woken up the crew and informed them that they needed
to get underway. For the newer crew members unfamiliar with
the real captain, there wasn't an immediate cause for suspicion
he was either an alternate captain or someone sent by
the real captain. It didn't take long for the impost
to raise red flags. While he quote surely acted the
(31:48):
part of a seasoned skipper, according to the police, his
conversation gave him away. Instead of discussing this is this
is a big red flag. Instead of discussing discussing f
fishing plans or routes, he spoke about meeting a so
called Chinese mothership.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Oh okay.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
It made enough fuss for the crew to call their
real captain and expose the impostor. The suspect eventually turned
the vessel back to port, where he was met by
the police. Authorities found four thousand dollars in cash and
a large quantity of individually weighted and packaged marijuana in
his possession. As the investigation unfolded. Police discovered this wasn't
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his first attempt. Earlier that morning, he had boarded another
large vessel, managed to start the main engines, and attempted
to convince the crew to head to see That attempt
ended with the crew running him off the boat, though
they didn't report the incident until after news of the
Jamie Marie theft. That is so crazy that you could
just walk on if you kind of like, if you
(32:51):
kind of know what you're doing, just walk out a
boat and drive it out of the harbor.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
No, this is really useful information for me because I
don't know if you guys watched c Sphearracy, No, you see,
spirauc is about how the fishing industry is like really
detrimental for the planet and how it's contributing more to
global warming than me eating even And I was so
moved by c Spiracy that actually one of the partners,
(33:15):
one of the nonprofit partners that I'm donating a portion
of proceeds to from this solo show run is Human
Rights at Sea International, And one thing that they're really
concerned about is overfishing of these fishing vessels and also
how poorly crews are treated on board. So it's really
good for me to know. I'm going to go tell
(33:36):
human rights at the International. I'm gonna be like, you
guys can just walk on the you can just walk
on the ship. You can just take it over. You
can be like, hey, guys, I'm going to give you
fair pay. Everyone's only working eight hours a day. As
long as no one calls the police, we should be good. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Yeah, I don't row out a beard, put on a
pea coat like one of those striped shirts underneath on
a corn cob pipe or whatever that it just walks over,
hands in your pockets, like you're not going to throw
up over the railing as soon as you get on. Yeah,
I think that sounds nice and fun.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
I listened to this whole podcast about like just the
unlawfulness or the lawlessness rather not the unlawfulness, the lawlessness
of the open sea. And it's crazy. Once you get
over like fifteen miles out, you can do whatever you
want and no one is there, like there's no uh,
(34:29):
there's no country who can persecutor prosecute you. Yeah, it's
really crazy and scary.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
It's very scary.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
So actually, in twenty nineteen I had maybe like four hundred.
This was like maybe shortly before I came on hot Tub,
I maybe had like five hundred dollars in my banking.
I was like so broke trying to figure out how
to monetize comedy, and I was like, I deserve vacation.
I haven't done anything to deserve vacation, but I thought,
so the only thing that I can afford at the time.
(34:58):
The crew you can get like a six.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Hours in a massage chair at the airport, made.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
A little bit over my five hundred dollars entirety life
savings is the cruise. You can go on a cruise
for a week or two to Mexico for like one
thousand dollars and it's literally about to click purchase. And
that week was the week that the Hassamanage the patrioarcht
with hassemonaj episode came out about cruise ships. It is
about how like so many people go missing on the
(35:26):
cruise ships and there's nothing that anybody can do because
it's international waters about how like the reason the cruises
are so cheap and yet so profitable for these companies
is because they fly under the flag of Panama, so
they don't have to pay any taxes, they overexploit like workers,
what have you. And that now to this day, I'm
like the friend that's too woke to go on cruises.
Like my friend group will in the group chat be like, hey, guys,
(35:48):
let's go on a cruise, and I'm like, Nope, I'm
not fucking with that. I have too much I have
to much life left in me.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
It is too bad. It really is too bad. Because
we have flirted with the idea of doing a Banana's
cruise because it would just be so much fun. But
I agree with that also there like it is like
you're trapped on a you're trapped in a hotel that floats.
It is yeah, yeah, like a small hotel that floats.
(36:13):
I remember I did a comedy cruise once where I
was performing, and I think maybe by the second day
there was like one pool, and by the second day
that pool just had a sheen of sunscreen on it
that was just from people's bodies as they jumped in.
Because there was like thousands of people jumping into one
(36:34):
tiny pool and it never left. It was always there.
And I was like, this is just a metaphor for
this entire experience.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Yeah, isn't it interesting? Though? With cruises, Like, at the
very start, the bare minimum thing about a cruise is
people like looking at the ocean so much, yes, that
they're willing to build a big boat because everything else
about it is just eating crap and water slides right like.
But the main reason that exists is somebody was like,
(37:04):
I bet people want to look at the ocean a lot,
and then they just built a business with that as
the foundation. So the foundation's beautiful. Isn't it nice to
look at the open sea? And then they were like, now,
how do we ruin this for four thousand people? And
every once while somebody falls over the side and they
(37:24):
just keep going. You want to tea? You were saying, yeah,
you want to do some thumbs ups? Yeah? Okay, Do
I want to do another driving one? No. Aaron McNulty
sent this in Walgreens says it turns out that locking
everything up is bad for business. No shit, Yeah, all right,
(37:50):
give thumbs ups abby. These are our guests are I mean,
our listeners are sending us things that they're proud of
themselves or other people for accomplishment. Angel leeque oh first,
we got a thumb up, our buddy, Chris Jacobs. When
Kurt and I do our live shows, we have an
intro song that is incredible, and Chris Jacobs is a
banannimal who did it for free. And every year we
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add a new piece of a new song, usually a
pretty bad song, and Chris sent us the twenty twenty
five version does and Phoenix heard it first. It is
so good, So thumbs up to you, Chris Jacobs. Will
we now again next year?
Speaker 1 (38:28):
We now have an intro song that is three minutes.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Long at the beginning of every podcast.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Yeah, a live podcast.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
That's so fun. When are you guys coming to New York?
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Probably this year some point. We've done the Bell House
four times. Yeah, so I'll be there in July. I'll
be there in July.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
Yeah, oh in July.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Yeah, all right, excellent.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Angelique is asking for a thumbs up from the Banana Boys.
She eat cancer that cow.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Yes, thumb thumbs.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Up to you, Angelique, thumbs up please auto stem trans plants,
which means they use her own stem cells to rescue
her own immune system.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Now, during that time, she was isolated from her family.
Her kids are friends, and so while she was sick
last year, she was looking out the window at her
hospital that she was in in Florida, she saw lots
of birds, so she created a coloring book called These
Tampa Bay Burbs b I rbs y the meme. You
can buy that coloring book on Amazon. So it is
(39:36):
thank you, Angelique. Go on if you want a new
coloring book, These Tampa Bay Urbs.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Thumbs up to you, Jeliq, We're so glad you're healthy.
Right now, Harvey wants to give a big thumbs up
to his friends Saraha and say hey for being great friends,
brilliant doctors and officers, but also for giving Harvey a
ride recently when his car broke down in the ring.
Are lovely and supportive friends comes up, Saraha. We love
(40:04):
to hear.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
How many submissions do you guys get per week for
the thumbs up?
Speaker 2 (40:08):
About sixty?
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Wow, we're about Scotty is very good at keeping a
record of them, and then we slowly get through them.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
It's from like November or December twenty twenty four. We're coming.
We're doing our best. No birthdays, no anniversaries, that's our
own new role. Yeah, Emily and Elizabeth needs more names
in her name. Emily and Elizabeth is thumbing herself up
for surviving one of the worst years of her life
(40:38):
and in the last two days of twenty twenty four,
she got in an accident and totaled her brand new car.
But she also found out that she is at the
top of her team at work locally and then top
one hundred nationally, and she's determined to make twenty twenty
five her bitch. So there you go, Yah Coombs up
(40:58):
to you, and last but not east, Christopher wants to
thumb up his bandmates Evan Miles, Josh Bontineau, Bonitou, the
only one that gets the full name Bonitau, Sam and
himself for making music together for two years. Honestly, that
is so impressive. Like any band setch team, book club
(41:21):
together for two years? Not easy. The band is called
Mundane Problems. They create a space for people to talk
about little inconveniences in their life that hopefully make big
problems more manageable. Right beautiful. So if you want to
check out the band, their instagram is Mundane Problems band
on Instagram. There you go, there, get get right on him.
(41:44):
I love them to band name Mundane Problems.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
And of course we are here with the wonderful and
fantastic Abbi Govinden. You can go see her show How
to Embarrass Your Immigrant Parents at the Soho Playhouse, uh
and also all over the American country and interrationally as well.
You got a lot of tour day's coming up. That's
very exciting.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
I'm super excited. I never Oh, I was just gonna say,
I refuse to buy I refuse to buy a ticket.
I'm an avid traveler. I visit like three or four
new countries per year. I refuse to pay for a
ticket for English speaking countries. My thing is like, I
want to be hired to go there to do stand
up comedy. So for that reason, on principle, since I
(42:28):
started stand up comedy seven years ago and started doing
it full time three years ago, I've never visited Australia,
even though it's been like on my to do list.
And then finally this year I got booked for the
Sydney Comedy Festival and I booked a pretty well known
comedy club in Melbourne, and so I'm so excited for Melbourne,
just like literally like rattling with excitement. Also another thing
(42:50):
I'm excited about is I'm writing the second hour. This
first hour is almost three hours or three years old,
and so many comedians have like told me, you know,
the first hour is the one that ideally gets you famous.
So it's the one that'll take the longest, that you
have to stick by the longest, make sure that you
stand by the material, that you're okay with doing it
a little bit longer than an hour, should you know,
(43:11):
be played in your career and otherwise. And so this
one is a best turned three years old this July,
and it was a story that felt very pertinent to tell.
Three years ago, I was like fresh out of the
hospital and I wanted to share my story. But now I
like feel myself ready to tell a different story. And
so I'm writing the second hour, and I wanted to
talk about like my relationship with getting older and like
(43:34):
what it's like, you know, like you.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
Mean just being young? Do you mean your relationship with
just being a.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
Very stressing in your mid twenties.
Speaker 3 (43:47):
I'm so broke. I'm like looking at you, guys, You're
you're the place that you are recording the podcast from
looks nice, okay, And you know, if yeah, yeah, if
you had to ask me what my thumbs up would
be it's the fact that you told me that you
were my age when you booked your first gig and
(44:09):
that you've been working in TV ever since, because like
sometimes the scrappiness of everything really gets to me, Like
I'm like, am I destined to be broke forever? Am
I destined to always break even? Or always operate at a loss?
So the idea of like get you know, the study
upward trajectory just like really exciting.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
Yeah, you're off Broadway already, You're off Broadway already. That's
a huge thing. Congratu, thank you.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
Yeah, what are your guys' thumbs up?
Speaker 2 (44:33):
Mm? Oh what are we thinking?
Speaker 1 (44:37):
I'm gonna thumbs up Scottie. I'm gonna thumbs up Scotty
for managing the thumbs up so incredibly well. It is
something that I true physically could not do. I know myself,
and it is not something I could do. And I'm
so happy that you handle it. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
Thumbs are so welcome. The joy is mine. I just
like that so many people in a time, in an
uncaring universe where everybody seems to be a upset, we
have people every day be like I want to say
thank you to somebody else.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
Yeah, it's really nice. It is really nice.
Speaker 2 (45:06):
And I'm want to thumbs up Kurt for conceiving the
idea of doing a podcast together, because I never I'm
a writer. I never would have done a podcast ever
if he hadn't asked me. And it's turned out to
be five years of us having an absolute ball every week.
We've never missed a week and five years. Yeah. Wow,
five episodes a month for five years.
Speaker 3 (45:29):
Yeah, and you were talking about how it's really impressive
if people can keep a sketch team or a book
club or like a band together for two years. I've
known so many friends who started podcasts together and then
one day episodes just stopped coming, and then it turns
out that they had like a falling out, or there
was a miscommunication or like you know. And so the
fact that you guys have been able to make this
happen for five years and you have such a like, dedicated,
(45:51):
loving fan base. I was reading the reviews and I
saw how much.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
Oh yeah, they so great animals.
Speaker 2 (46:01):
People, You got it, buddy, also been animals. Just keep
an eye out for Abby because of how to embarrass
you immigrant parents is probably gonna be in a city
near you at some point, and.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
Then it'll probably be a Netflix special in a year
and a half. So see it now.
Speaker 2 (46:17):
Yeah, if you need anybody to pretend to like be
a plant in the audience, like, I'm really good at
pretending to be asleep. I can lay face down really still.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
He's good at eating a meatball sandwich.
Speaker 2 (46:27):
Yeah, I'm really good at eating. Like if you need
a cutaway to just some like white guy eating boy,
do I have you.
Speaker 3 (46:32):
Cot perfect, I'll put you in.
Speaker 2 (46:35):
I'm good. You don't even have to pay me. I'll
just show up. Spell my name wrong in the credits,
like I am easy to work with. Aaron McNaughty sent
this in thanks all the animals that send in wonderful stories.
This was in CBS News, written by the best in
the retail business, Megan Serrula. That's a nice last name.
Walgreen says it turns out locking up their stuff is
(46:57):
bad for business. Of course Walgreens, I know. Of course,
Walgreen's finally figured out what most people already knew. When
you lock up all the products, people will buy fewer things. CEO,
Tim Wentworth, I mean, of course Wentworth get out of here.
Speaker 3 (47:15):
Of course, that's.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
Yeah, of course acknowledge that this reality. In the first
quarter earnings call that he said the company's decision to
lock up products after reporting a fifty two percent increase
in stole An inventory has backfired horribly. When you lock
things up, for example, you don't sell as many of them.
We've kind of proven that pretty conclusively, said, I mean,
(47:39):
you sit.
Speaker 1 (47:39):
There, You sit there and press the button and then
just wait for like five full minutes for someone to
walk over. And sometimes people just don't even come if
they're busy, nobody comes over, So you just sell the
air in front of a locked thing.
Speaker 3 (47:53):
Well, you know, like yeah, Like when I'm in the store,
I'm the ease of just getting something like for example,
what I'm I see like a vitamin C serrum and
they're known to be very expensive, but I'm like, okay,
I need this, Like I'll just grab it. But when
I go to Walgreens and I'm out of vitamin C
serum and I have to buy some more, I'll like
press the button and in the three minutes that it
(48:13):
takes the lady to come and open it, I'm doing
mental calculations. I'm like how much, Oh my God, Like
eggs cost seven dollars. Should I really be spending like
twenty nine dollars on a vitamin C sreum? Like, it's fine,
I can I can live without it in my skincare
routine for a couple of months. And then by the
time she gets there, I'm just like, sorry, never mind,
I'm gonna go home, you know, Like I'm just same.
Speaker 2 (48:36):
Proves this point though, like the more time you have
to consider the purchase, the less like you are to
buy something that exactly SA and.
Speaker 3 (48:43):
He's a CEO, I'm like, pay me your salary. I
could have told you that five years ago.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
Have either of you ever put something down and left
a store when it's taken too long? Like, have you
ever been waiting.
Speaker 1 (48:55):
All the time?
Speaker 2 (48:56):
Yeah, right, all the time.
Speaker 1 (48:58):
I just like, especially when it's like it should be
very simple and easy, and then there's some like absurd
reason why it's not happening. I leave all the time,
and then I'll drive out of my way, go to
another place me too, and then just do the whole
thing again, and and then I'm cursing myself for having left.
It would have been a lot shorter just to wait
(49:19):
the five minutes, But but.
Speaker 2 (49:20):
Yeah, I have done it many times. Abby. Have you
ever done that where you're like waiting in line with
something it just takes so long that you just go
nope and put it on the shelf and leave.
Speaker 3 (49:29):
Yeah. I don't believe in some cost fallacy. I'm like,
every minute is a minute. Say it was like, I
can if I'm waiting for an hour and a half
and then someone tells me I have to wait another
hour to get something, I'll be like, no, I'm not
doing that, like I've already made an hour and a half.
Speaker 2 (49:45):
Yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (49:48):
Some cost fallacies for chumps.
Speaker 2 (49:50):
It's also I just had no idea that eggs were
such a big deal. I didn't know how many people
were eating eggs. I was like, oh, all right, I
something I never thought about.
Speaker 3 (50:01):
Okay, I'm vegetarian, so it's my sole source of protein.
And yeah, now I go to the grocery store, I
get like nine things. I do live in Manhattan, but
I get like nine things. It's like fifty dollars and
I have to do like a cost benefit analysis.
Speaker 2 (50:15):
Like, yeah, I buy egg whites and a carton four
ninety nine. It's a piece of cake and delicious, at Last.
Speaker 1 (50:25):
Forever, and you can make a drink out of it.
Speaker 2 (50:28):
Sometimes when I'm waiting in line for other things, I'm
just chugging egg whites. You know.
Speaker 1 (50:32):
I recently had like a non alcoholic mocktail, but it
had egg white in it. And you put egg white
in one of those things and you're like, well, well, wow,
I'm having something a little special.
Speaker 3 (50:44):
High protein. Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (50:47):
Oh yeah, I'll wrap this one up. CEO Tim Worworth
said that the company is working with the head of
asset Protection to develop creative solutions to combat.
Speaker 1 (50:57):
Like maybe unlocking the items that you need to buy.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
Yes, he says, quote, I don't have any magnet, anything
magnificent to share with you today. It's a hand to
hand combat still. Unfortunately. Okay, so this is going to
end bad for more Green shoppers. Walgreens has been struggling financially,
reporting operating losses of two hundred and forty five million
dollars for the quarter, compared to only thirty nine the
same quarter last year. The chain playing to close hundreds
(51:24):
of underperforming stores. Maybe there's too many, maybe there's too
many pharmacies.
Speaker 3 (51:28):
I don't know, Yeah, gang recession indicator. If they lost
thirty nine billion last quarter, and now it's one hundred
and forty billion or million, million, million to a million.
Speaker 2 (51:39):
So yeah, it was two hundred and forty five million
for the quarter, only thirty nine the year before for
the same Wow.
Speaker 3 (51:45):
More people are stealing because everything's so expensive and everyone's
making last money. Yeah, wild Yeah.
Speaker 2 (51:51):
I do enjoy going in and just sticking my arm
in one of those blood pressure machines. I liked it
when I was six years old. I like it six.
Speaker 1 (51:59):
Yeah, it's really enjoyable. Get to get real still and
be very quiet and silent as a little mouse, and
then get get a little seat.
Speaker 2 (52:08):
You don't always get to sit when you're shopping. When
was the last time you just got to sit down
when your shopping and take a minute to yourself? Abby
plug away? Where can people find you besides your excellent website?
Speaker 3 (52:21):
I uh, I'm on Instagram at Abbi Govinden. I'm on Twitter,
although I use it lest these days at aby, and
I'm on YouTube. Yeah, I talk about it in the show.
Like I was most known for Twitter, and then after
I was hospitalized, I took a step back from over
sharing on Twitter because I wanted to focus on developing
(52:42):
stand up comedy. And then I like, after a show,
I was like at a pizza parlor in the Lower
East Side and an Indian girl walked in. She was
like blackout drunk. She was like, oh my god, are
you Abbi govind And I was like, yeah, I am
Abi Govinden. And I was hoping she would say something
like I'm a big fan. Keep doing what you're doing,
but she was like, damn, bitch, you fell off big time.
I'm like, I never see you online anymore.
Speaker 2 (53:02):
And I was like, what a friendly person. And then.
Speaker 3 (53:08):
I think I think she was more drunk than she realized,
Like she said those words and then she seemed shocked
that they didn't stay in her head, you know. So
I'm like where she was right, Like a lot of
people say that to me these days. They'll be like, yeah,
I haven't seen you on Twitter in like years, and
I was like, yeah, you know, I'm like actually doing
the stand up thing now. I decided I wanted to
put my money where my mouth is. But I mean,
I'm so grateful for my Twitter followers obviously, but yeah,
(53:30):
I can be found on Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and the
Soho Playhouse show is likely getting getting an extension in
New York City, and then I'll be touring with both
The Current Hour and The New Hour later this year
in different cities, so.
Speaker 2 (53:45):
I'd love to see it. When it's in La I'll
be there. I'll be laying face down on the floor
until you say, get out of here a sandwich.
Speaker 3 (53:53):
And you'll be the sandwich guy, the vibes guy.
Speaker 2 (53:55):
Yeah, thanks for coming on, Bananas.
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Thank you for having me. This was so fun.
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hey you, beautiful bananamals. We wanted to give all of
our listeners an advance warning that there are a few
mentions of suicide in this episode. It's a sensitive topic
and we don't joke about it at all, but we
wanted to give everyone a heads up so that you
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Speaker 1 (00:43):
Scotty, you got one for me today.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I hope you ready to just laugh and laugh and laught.
I will go today. I like when I get to go. Okay,
I mean ja hausin Fluffer sent this in all the
way from Taiwan. Wow, not bad, not bad. Reckless driver
find six thousand dollars for failing to yield for his
own children at a Crosswah.
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Speaker 1 (02:36):
Our guest today is a comedian whose new solo show,
How to Embarrass Your Immigrant Parents is currently touring all
over America.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Maybe we're all extended.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
At the Soho Playhouse where it is right now. And
also it's going to be in London, Sydney and Melbourne.
Please welcome the wonderful Abby Goavinden.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Hey guys, it's so wonderful to be here. Thank you
so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Oh, we're so happy to have you.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Thanks for coming on. I'm going to give you two
compliments right off the top. One, I went to your
personal website, always an embarrassing thing. There's barely any personal
websites in the world that aren't like, Oh, yours is great.
I got all the information I needed, all the things.
It worked. You didn't just fill it with jokes and
(03:22):
one liners everywhere. And I was like, this is a
great website.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Thank you. I do my own website actually, so like
I was telling you guys before we started recording, everything
I do is a very scrappy production. I'm like, everything
is low budget. So I had a web designer who's
lovely Wendy. She's a good friend of mine from Houston,
and she changed my website and made it all pretty
and colorful for an extremely heavily discounted rate. But I don't, yeah,
(03:50):
don't have the budget to like constantly keep hanging her because,
like you know, as a comedian, like updating the website
is like a daily endeavor, like want to shows over,
you take the link off once you add a show.
So all that is me entirely So I'm going through
the website literally two or three times a day, making
sure all the links work, like making sure everything looks
good and isn't cringe. So thank you for saying that.
It means a lot, so many.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Hours, welcome, you did a wonderful job. And the other
one is I was watching all your YouTube clips and
reels and I blurred it out laughing. You know sometimes
when you're just watching things and your income, you almost
are studying them. Yeah, And so I blurred out laughing
when you said, the only time you've ever seen your
father cry is when Steve Jobs died.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
True? Sorry, is that true? Specific His own father, my grandfather,
who we all loved very dearly, passed away very tragically
when I was thirteen, and I did not even see
him cry. That I was crying, but I didn't see
him cry then. But the news broke that one fateful morning.
(04:54):
It was like CEO of Apple Steve Jobs passes away
and I literally saw him just like like I'll covered no,
but not like gasping, like it's such an Indian dad
thing to be like. And then I didn't even notice
that he was crying until I saw it was like
sniffling and a tear, and I was like, hello, that
man loves, like, lives and dies by Apple products.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Honestly, God, it's so good. It caught me so off guard.
DoD I just like drinking coffee, went like.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Does he work in the computer industry or he just
likes apple products?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yeah? He does. He is an he's an engineer by
trade that he works more in on the he works
at Bank of the or I don't even know what
he does on this Does anyone know what their dad does?
I could. I could tell you my mom's day to
day job responsibilities, but people are like, what does your
dad do?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
And I'm just like, oh, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, I'm with you. I know what my dad's title is.
But like if you said Scotty took over for your
dad tonight and do his job, I would be like, boy, yeah,
I don't even know where to begin. Do I get
in my car and go somewhere like what I do.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
That's how I feel. I have a friend who I
went to college with who is like in finance, and
I maybe have had fifteen different conversations where I was like,
describe what it is that you do, and he starts
talking to I'm like, I have no idea what that
looks like on a day. I don't know what managing
a portfolio looks like on a day to day from
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like nine to ALB to five PM.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I don't know if they do either. Sometimes you hear
about people who have jobs and the way they describe it,
I'm like, you don't do anything. It's almost like office space.
You're just like you just go in and you know
nothing to add in my team and then like push
mute again on the zooms. It's that's the world we
live in, and I don't know what account managers even do.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Did you guys, so did you guys have you been
doing acting in comedy full time your whole lives or
did you have a full time job before transitioning into this.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Oh yeah, for many, many many jobs before this. I
think my last job was I was an it guy.
I was an it guy for eight years. Oh, I
think I quit in two thousand.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Eight.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I think I quit in two thousand.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
And eight or nine.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, yeah, when when was the last job you had?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Scottie, I'm just a writer. I'm a screenwriter, and up
until I got my first TV writing job, I've worked
every job on planet Earth. It's almost impossible to say, like,
I've worked in greenhouses. I worked in corporate offices for
Corkoran real Estate. I was a salesman for Red Bull
I oh wow, scaper. Sometimes I was a waiter, a valet,
(07:39):
a bartender, a bus boy. I was. I mean, I
I'm missing so many it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
But did you guys have any jobs that if you
explained to anyone, they'd be like, huh.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yes, even the I've talked about this on the podcast.
Oh yeah, I was a bike mechanic, like so many things.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
The best one was, and I've talked about this a
couple of times, is I would sit in apartments in
New York for a corkorand for the real estate company
because when they do open houses, it's very different in
New York because it's apartments. Somebody has to buzz you
in if there's not a door guy and the Realders
are so busy showing so many places, they just hire
idiots like me. They would pay me, I think, one
(08:21):
hundred and twenty dollars a day to sit there from
eight am to six pm. And all I would do
is buzz people up that buzz downstairs and then hand
them a flyer and then make sure they didn't steal
anything like that.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
They like, what they wouldn't be stealing would be like
a lamp, Like you have to make sure they don't
walk out with a lamp.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, and it's a I mean, so you understand. It's
a very easy job to explain. But the confusing part
is is they didn't vet me. They didn't do a
criminal background check on me. I could have been stealing
the entire time. It's like at the time, I probably
didn't have ketchup, so it'd be like, well, there's a
fresh bottle.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
In abby, did you What was your last weird job
that you had to have?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I went viral on Twitter. Such a I sound like
such a village elder when I say that I went
viral on Twitter. Very useless website to go viral in on.
In twenty eighteen, when I went viral extremely more useless
to go viral on it now, but I'm cured. I
don't use Twitter as much anymore. But that was when
I was still in college, and so I graduated and
(09:28):
kind of decided that I wanted to monetize comedy. So
I worked a few odd jobs. I was mostly tutoring,
which is like less of it, yeah, less of an
odd job than Corcoran vibes buy. Yeah. I was tutoring
all these like rich families in Houston who just like
refused to pay me, so I'd have to like keep
(09:50):
reminding the Venmo class or like chase them down. And
it was just so weird. But I think that having
odd jobs is very character building.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
You know, oh yeah, you learn a lot about the
human condition and like literally just yeah. And then you
work with people that are career people and that thing
that feels like a kind of a moment in your life.
You're like, I'm going to be here for six months.
I just need to make rent. And then you meet
people sometimes that have been there fifteen years and that's
their gig, and so it gives you good perspective on
how the world works and how you can survive and
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what you can survive on.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yeah, yeah, real exactly, and chasing people for money is
a lifelong pursuit.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
In the.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Emotional grit, Oh yeah, I would go ahead. I would
love to tell you about the show. So How to
Embarrass Your Immigrant Parents is the story of how I
told my parents that I wanted to be a stand
up comedian, how our relationship fell apart, yeah, because they
initially weren't very supportive, and how we built our relationship
back up after my brief stint in a mental hospital
(10:52):
following a suicide attempt. So I talk very candidly in
the show about my mental health struggles. I will to
talk about how I always felt this calling towards entertainment,
Like I really was addicted to the feeling of making
people laugh. I loved crafting a punchline, I loved crafting
a joke. But because I had never seen any Indian
people on Netflix or you know, like in comedy more
(11:18):
so than like, you know, once or twice, it just
never occurred to me that I could do this full time.
And then when I went viral for the first time,
it was a beacon of hope because I was like,
people resonate with what I have to say they like
my punchlines. And I went viral in twenty eighteen when
like it was less rare. Like these days, there's like
(11:38):
so many, you know, social media influencers like public figures
and or followings. But in twenty eighteen, when I went
viral for the first time, I was one of maybe
like six or seven Indian Americans with a large platform,
and so it's very harrowing. It felt very lonely. And
also even though it was a beacon of hope. I
talked about how I talk about in the show, how
(11:58):
the Internet algorithm incentivizes oversharing, so in order to stay relevant,
in order to push your material to more people. And
so that's what I was doing when I was like
so young and so mentally ill. And now in retrospect,
after I was hospitalized, I was diagnosed with my polor disorder,
and in retrospect, I realized that, like, I really regret
that even though I went viral for oversharing and people
(12:20):
really resonated with a lot of what I had to say.
So in my most worst moments are memorialized on the
Internet forever. I can never change that. And also it
really eroded my relationship with my parents and my friends
and my family, because I was oversharing everything that happened
to me and happened in the family and happened with
my friends, and so in the hospital, I really had
(12:41):
this reckoning of like, what is more important to me
is the pursuit of comedy? Is it my relationship, is
it being perceived online? Is it finding a way to
make the stand up comedy journey work no matter what,
and finding a balance that worked for me and also
for everyone in my life. And I talk about how
my parents weren't very kind to me when I told
(13:02):
them I wanted to be a stand up comedian, But
I also realized I wasn't very kind to them when
I when I diminished their narrative for like a long time,
I was like, they're my evil immigrant parents. They don't
understand happiness. They you know, they don't care about me.
But after my suicide attempt, they rallied around me in
such a meaningful way. I guess it was like a
wake up moment for them, Like they were like, okay,
(13:23):
like we almost lost our daughter, so whatever, Like she
can just do whatever she wants, like literally whatever, but
in a very meaningful way, like I talk about how
you know. My mom and I had this very meaningful
conversation where she was like, of course your father and
I don't hate you, we just don't understand. Like when
we first immigrated here, we didn't have any family, we
didn't have any friends. We found a small group of
(13:44):
Indian people at our local temple and they told us
these So my parents immigrated in the nineties, and there
had been Indian people, very few, but still a group
of Indian people who had immigrated in the seventies and
eighties who told my parents, Hey, the cheat code to
financial and emotional and more importantly financial stability is if
your kid studies something along the lines of science, technology, engineering, medicine,
(14:08):
sure you'll be able to find a stable job that
they'll be able to provide for you after you retire.
And that's just like, that is what's most important. And
so that's all that they knew, And that's why they
pushed it so much on me, not because they wanted
me to be miserable, but more so because it was
important to them that I was set up for emotional
(14:30):
and financial stability, and they didn't understand why I was
pursuing stand up comedy, and I didn't understand how they
couldn't support me unconditionally when like, I'm their daughter and
they're supposed to love me.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I agree, yeah, exact unconditionally. She's great at what she does.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Thank you, and you'll easily be able to take care
of them. You're on your way.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
You're going to make so much more than an engineer
or some bondnist.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Oh Inshall, Well, I mean, if you guys tell me that,
then I'll have hope. Right now, everything is a scrappy production.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
It always is until it's not.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
When I got my first TV job you're currently so
it was real scrappy and I was cleaning my apron
when I was your age and got the call that
was like, do you want to work on a show
for eight weeks? And I was like, thank God, and
then I had to wait for more weeks. It was
on MTV when MTV had shows, yep, and it was
called Mega Drive, which there's a comedian named Johnny Pemberton's
(15:27):
one of our good friends, one of the funniest people.
He's currently on Fallout if you saw that show, and
it was his first show too. And so I went
from living in Brooklyn you know, had roommates and all
the stuff, and was busting my own tables and working
doubles and stuff. And then all of a sudden it
was like, say, what, I actually get to do the
thing that I moved here to do. And it took
(15:49):
six and a half years to make happened. Since then, Yeah,
that I got lucky. Have you have a question, yes,
that might be Did you ever see the Netflix series
It is about the character's name is Beanie and it
was shot in India and she had a normal, comfortable life.
(16:09):
She was supposed to marry a doctor, but she secretly
was doing stand up comedy at night. It only went
one season. I think it was called Bog. It was
called Messi when I wrote on it, and then I
think they changed the name to like Bog Beanie Bog
maybe sorry.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Of Was it a Hinglish though, like it was half
Hindi half English.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yes, And it was created by A Revi Patel and
Neil Shaw. And we had two writers Mumbai who would
start writing at eleven pm when we were starting at
eleven am, and they would write through the night. They
were great, but I didn't get they Netflix didn't want
to pay for all of us to go and do
(16:48):
a writer's room there India. Yeah, it was reve Patel
Dolly sing. But yeah, when you were saying it was
that was the center of our show was a woman
secretly doing stand up and get really good at it,
and everybody in her life is like, do not do this,
stop it. So I'm glad that But you didn't see
it because because nobody watched it, apparently, and he went
(17:11):
one season. Let me tell you about parents. At least
your parents didn't try to drive you over in a crosswalk.
We can give them that.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
That is so true.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah, great segue.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yes again. Hasson Fluffer sent this in. You can send
your strange news stories to the Banana Boys on Instagram,
the Bananas Podcast, or on the Bananas Podcast at gmail
dot com. We love when you do so. Olivia Hassen
Fluffer sent this from Taiwan. We sponsored her Kurt. She
and her her husband and their friend ran the Taipei
one O one which is one and fight yestairs.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yes, yes, yes, dressed as bananas.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
He sponsored it.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Wow, that's so cool.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
It was cool them. Reckless driver finds six thousand dollars
for failing to yield to his own children at a crosswalk.
This was on Kurt's favorite website, Focus Taiwan dot t W.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
You know what, sometimes I'll set an alarm for twelve
oh one am so I can wake up and find
out what's on Focus Taiwan dot W because I want
to know as soon as they publish a news story.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yes, this was in Taipei. A driver in Taiwan's Lane
Shine County has been fine for failing to yield to
his own son and daughter at a crosswalk. Coincidence. I
only came into light after he received a ticket in
a photo violation that doubled as a family portrait. So
he's driving and his kids are in the crosswalk and
there's a photo of all of them. The sun, surnamed Lee,
(18:38):
recently shared a photo of the ticket on social media
and indicated the incident occurred on the morning of December
twenty eighth. My dad got a six thousand dollars fine.
That's uh Taiwan dollars.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Oh that's Taiwanese.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Okay, So it's one hundred and eighty three US dollars.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Makes sense.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Still plenty of money. Not terrible. You can survive that
one for failing to yield to pedestrians. The pedestrians were
me and my sister. As funny, it's so good. As
of Wednesday afternoon, the post had received over ten thousand
reactions on threads, including several comments joking that the father
(19:15):
had paid six thousand Taiwanese. I'll look up what they
use one hundred and eighty three American dollars for a
family portrait. The driver's younger brother also surname ly confirmed
that the basic details of the story were true. He
said he and his brother had just dropped his children
off in front of the Port Terminal building, circled back
around the block, only to encounter them on the sidewalk.
(19:38):
So the dad dropped off the kids, circled around, and
then just drove right past them, almost hitting his children.
Chen tang Yao, head of Special Police Corps, said that
the bureau began using traffic enforcement cameras in front of
the Port terminal this year because they've already issued seventy
one tickets in one month for failing to yield to pedestrians.
(20:01):
It happens all the time on camera there, and I
guess Taiwan has made efforts to improve pedestrians safety in
recent years following a number of Hope high profile accidents,
CNN called the country a living hell for pedestrians. It
seems a bit wow harsh.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
That seems intense, Ynn. I'm actually I am a very
big fan of using municipal closed caption CCTV cameras for
family photos. I actually that is such a great idea
to actually like plan it out and do it. I
think two years ago we had a we sent out
like a Christmas card and it was just it was
(20:39):
just me, my wife and our two kids from a
CCTV camera. Like it because when you go and check
out at Target, you can see there's like a little
video of you checking out, and so it was just
a picture of us checking out a target. Nobody looked good.
Everyone was like, the kids were losing their bye. We
were like haggard. And then that was just our Christmas
(21:00):
card that year.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
That's so funny. It was one yeah, I actually yeah,
well I'm pro I'm anti uh like government surveillance, but
I but I'm pro rode surveillance because I got hit
in Boston. I got like hit by a car. Yeah,
(21:25):
but I was so shell shocked. It was like a tap,
but it was a car tap, so there was a
bruise on my leg, Like I had the right of way,
and he turned right into me, and I was so
shell shocked. I walked away and then he drove off,
and then it didn't occur to me until I walked
away that I should have gotten his license plate. So
I like walked into the cafe and I was like,
I just got hit by a car, and they were like, oh,
(21:45):
we don't have any cameras. And then I went to
the other store for us to see if they had
cct TV cameras and they were like no, sorry, ours
are fake, like they're just to detert like thieves. And
so I wish that there was more or a CCTV
wrote because that like, also, I don't know, it'd be
nice to have a database where you could like look
(22:06):
up your face. You know, maybe maybe you do have
a CCTV Yeah, family portrait without knowing about it.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Yeah, that is the one thing. It's like, all of
this footage of us is out there and we have
no access to it. Like if we have access to it,
it'd be like, well, looking pretty good, just if.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
The government was paying US royalties. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
There was an article last week in Vanity Fair about
all the athlete homes that have been getting robbed, Like
these guys go play games and so people know they're
not home when oh play football, Joe Burrow, Travis Kelcey,
all those types. Yeah, And they said in the last paragraph,
the writer said, every social media post is a shopping
(22:54):
list for people that you don't know. And I was like,
that is so real and so creepy because basically saying,
if you show up and you have your fifty thousand
dollars Petique Philip watch on and then you're playing the
next Sunday in a different city, people know that watch
is in your house and they're going to come get in.
I guess there was a gang that was really really
(23:15):
good at breaking in and robbing all these houses and
getting away with it. Yeah, So what I'm saying is
less camera is also very good, and an undocumented life
is a beautiful life.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
It's always that weird comment on Instagram where someone looks
into the corner of your video and sees like one
thing and then comments on it, and it's just like, oh,
it makes me want to just like shoot in a
blank white psych so that no one can see anything
about where I live.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
This story reminded me a few years ago, and I
don't think I talked about this one on the pot.
My friend Hannah, her mom was in town and it
was her mom's birthday. She was visiting from Georgia. She
was in Los Angeles and she was like, do you
want to go get a drink? It's my mom's birthday.
I was like, yeah, let me go buy your mama drink.
This will be fun. So I'm driving over there and
she calls me and she goes, I just got hit
by a car. And I was like, are you okay?
(24:05):
She goes, yeah, I was crossing at Vermont and Franklin
at the crosswalk and Prius taking a left hand turn
hit me. I'm like, oh my gosh. She's like yeah,
my shoulder and my back do hurt. But the driver's
still here. I was like, take photos of everything, get
all the information. She's like, already did that. And I
was like, okay, I'm on my way. So I park.
I run over and I was like, did you call
(24:26):
the police? Yes, So we hear a siren coming. Here
comes an ambulance, Here comes a police car and they
drive directly by my friends sitting on the curb and
drive down the street one block because one block away,
another woman got hit by a car and they called
nine to one one first. So as that woman's getting
(24:47):
all the information, her whole family showed up that other
victim and she was also okay, but so she gets
put on a stretcher in the ambulance. Ambulance goes away,
cop follows to the hospital. So we sit there waiting
for the next cop and am never comes. So we
call three one one first, and then we call nine
(25:07):
one one again and we explained the situation and they're like, yes,
there's only one police duo that drives that area. So
they're at the hospital getting a you know, writing their report,
so you guys could wait there and crazy. So we
asked the driver if she wanted to join us for
a drink. She's like, no, I better not up driving.
We're like, yeah, that's fair, and then we just while.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
We're waiting for the police to show up.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Yeah, So we all just waited it out for two
hours and then just went and let the whole thing
go by and they exchange information. But it was like,
I had no idea how few cops were out there
because they were like, sorry, the two cops in that
area not going to be there.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
What do we increase the police budget by eighty billion
dollars per year? Four?
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Then that's it.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Didn't run into the closest business and just rob it
right away, like give, give it.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
It's just for them to buy tanks. It's just so
that they can roll a tank out every once in
a while.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Every time there's a protest.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Yeah, yeah, here comes a tank. Here comes a military
style tank.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
So what I'm saying is we're a helmet whenever you
leave the house goes, yes, safe move, it's smart.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Abby. Yeah, you have a good friend of ours, Greg Wallach,
who's directing your show.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Oh, he's a good friend of yours.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Yes, we love Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
I love Greg so much.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
He's so great, great storyteller artist, How do you guys.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Just from storytelling and comedy. He's done a whole bunch
of times. I've done his show. He's given me help
with my last hour. We've talked through stuff. Yeah, oh
my god.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
He is so talented. And yesterday I debuted off Broadway,
and then I invited a small group of friends to
get drinks with me afterwards to celebrate my off Broadway
debut came, thank you, thank you so much, and Greg came,
and then a couple of my friends texted me afterwards
and they were like, Greg is so much fun. You
should bring it out more.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
And his stories are crazy, They're so fun and good.
He's got great, great stories. I mean, he's a storyteller.
He's like a storyteller at heart in his bones.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Yeah, he really is. Well, let me say so. I
had been doing this show for about a year and
a half director list. I was a little bit allergic
to the idea of hiring a director because this is
the story of my suicide times. So I was like,
what could some director tell me about the show that
I don't already know. I was like very sensitivetive feedback
on it. But for a year and a half, every
(27:37):
time I did the show, I would walk off stage
and I'd be like, something's missing, Like if I had
to grade myself, i'd give myself like a sixty percent.
And then when I brought Greg on, he didn't tell
me to change anything. He just asked me a series
of questions. He was like, as the audience member, As
an audience member, here's the questions I have, And so
I wrote those questions down, and I went through and
I answered those questions, and I incorporated the answers to
(27:58):
those questions in the show, and the next time I performed,
it was just like something entirely new and spectacular. And
I realized the beauty of a director is that he
has the perspective of an audience member and also the
perspective of a performer, because he's a stand up comedian
himself former stand up comedian, and he's just like so great.
Every piece of feedback he gives us thoughtful, he's so patient,
(28:21):
Like yesterday, before the debut, we had a two and
a half hour attack rehearsal and we spent a good
hour figuring out what my walk on would look like.
And my tech, yeah, my tech manager. The guy who's
doing tech is Kanna, who has been my administrative assistant
for a year and he's just like so supportive of
(28:42):
me and my career. So I wanted to bring him
on to the show because I know that he's interested
in pursuing more comedy production opportunities. But Kanna had no
tech experience, so it was a lot of all of
us being patient with each other and Greg. Greg was
like timing everything perfectly. He was like, okay, walk on
a like one second after the blackout. Okay, walk on
like half a second after the blackout. And like, internally,
(29:04):
even though my natural reaction was to be like, oh
my god, this guy has got to be kidding me,
I knew that, like I knew in my like conscious
brain that everything that he was saying like how to purpose.
And then last night when it debuted, all my friends
were like, oh my god, the timing of everything was perfect,
the setup was perfect, the direction this is perfect.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah, great, that's wonderful. I I do it is the
one thing that I like find about stand up comedy
is that it is so internal for such a external pursuit,
meaning there is no there you don't you know, you
rarely have a director, and if you get a director
for a special, they're usually just like setting up cameras.
(29:44):
They're like, here's the seven cameras and that's it. And
so that was what last the last the last special
I shot. My buddy joanah Ray directed it, and he
actually went out on tour with me and like gave
me notes on every show and helped me find tags
and stuff like that and helped me craft like the
and then and I love that so much. I love
having a director. I would I would love to have
(30:07):
them just for like ten minute sets. All right here
it is fake captain steals eight million dollar fishing vessel.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
I'm a big fan of this. This is on Actually.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Scotty, how do you steal a vessel?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
It's very exciting, I will tell you. Scottie has been
a fan of this website for years now, National Fishermen
dot com and he's always sending me National Fishermen dot
com articles. This was written by Stewart.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Ooh the business really good at writing.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Uh. In a bizarre turn of events, an imposter managed
to steal an eighty foot commercial fishing vessel while the
crew was still on board. According and this is while
the crew was on board. Yes, according to the Washington
Department of Fish and Wildlife Police, the unauthor authorized skipper
took command of the Jamie Marie, an eight million dollar
(31:04):
ground fish vessel, and set off into the Gray's Harbor
bar before the crew caught on to his deception. Surgeon
Alexander was on patrol in Westport when he overheard a
radio call about a vehicle theft that was in progress. However,
it wasn't stolen car motorcycle. It was a full scale
vessel heist. The suspect had reportedly boarded the Jamie Marie,
(31:26):
woken up the crew and informed them that they needed
to get underway. For the newer crew members unfamiliar with
the real captain, there wasn't an immediate cause for suspicion
he was either an alternate captain or someone sent by
the real captain. It didn't take long for the impost
to raise red flags. While he quote surely acted the
(31:48):
part of a seasoned skipper, according to the police, his
conversation gave him away. Instead of discussing this is this
is a big red flag. Instead of discussing discussing f
fishing plans or routes, he spoke about meeting a so
called Chinese mothership.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Oh okay.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
It made enough fuss for the crew to call their
real captain and expose the impostor. The suspect eventually turned
the vessel back to port, where he was met by
the police. Authorities found four thousand dollars in cash and
a large quantity of individually weighted and packaged marijuana in
his possession. As the investigation unfolded. Police discovered this wasn't
(32:29):
his first attempt. Earlier that morning, he had boarded another
large vessel, managed to start the main engines, and attempted
to convince the crew to head to see That attempt
ended with the crew running him off the boat, though
they didn't report the incident until after news of the
Jamie Marie theft. That is so crazy that you could
just walk on if you kind of like, if you
(32:51):
kind of know what you're doing, just walk out a
boat and drive it out of the harbor.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
No, this is really useful information for me because I
don't know if you guys watched c Sphearracy, No, you see,
spirauc is about how the fishing industry is like really
detrimental for the planet and how it's contributing more to
global warming than me eating even And I was so
moved by c Spiracy that actually one of the partners,
(33:15):
one of the nonprofit partners that I'm donating a portion
of proceeds to from this solo show run is Human
Rights at Sea International, And one thing that they're really
concerned about is overfishing of these fishing vessels and also
how poorly crews are treated on board. So it's really
good for me to know. I'm going to go tell
(33:36):
human rights at the International. I'm gonna be like, you
guys can just walk on the you can just walk
on the ship. You can just take it over. You
can be like, hey, guys, I'm going to give you
fair pay. Everyone's only working eight hours a day. As
long as no one calls the police, we should be good. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Yeah, I don't row out a beard, put on a
pea coat like one of those striped shirts underneath on
a corn cob pipe or whatever that it just walks over,
hands in your pockets, like you're not going to throw
up over the railing as soon as you get on. Yeah,
I think that sounds nice and fun.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
I listened to this whole podcast about like just the
unlawfulness or the lawlessness rather not the unlawfulness, the lawlessness
of the open sea. And it's crazy. Once you get
over like fifteen miles out, you can do whatever you
want and no one is there, like there's no uh,
(34:29):
there's no country who can persecutor prosecute you. Yeah, it's
really crazy and scary.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
It's very scary.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
So actually, in twenty nineteen I had maybe like four hundred.
This was like maybe shortly before I came on hot Tub,
I maybe had like five hundred dollars in my banking.
I was like so broke trying to figure out how
to monetize comedy, and I was like, I deserve vacation.
I haven't done anything to deserve vacation, but I thought,
so the only thing that I can afford at the time.
(34:58):
The crew you can get like a six.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Hours in a massage chair at the airport, made.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
A little bit over my five hundred dollars entirety life
savings is the cruise. You can go on a cruise
for a week or two to Mexico for like one
thousand dollars and it's literally about to click purchase. And
that week was the week that the Hassamanage the patrioarcht
with hassemonaj episode came out about cruise ships. It is
about how like so many people go missing on the
(35:26):
cruise ships and there's nothing that anybody can do because
it's international waters about how like the reason the cruises
are so cheap and yet so profitable for these companies
is because they fly under the flag of Panama, so
they don't have to pay any taxes, they overexploit like workers,
what have you. And that now to this day, I'm
like the friend that's too woke to go on cruises.
Like my friend group will in the group chat be like, hey, guys,
(35:48):
let's go on a cruise, and I'm like, Nope, I'm
not fucking with that. I have too much I have
to much life left in me.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
It is too bad. It really is too bad. Because
we have flirted with the idea of doing a Banana's
cruise because it would just be so much fun. But
I agree with that also there like it is like
you're trapped on a you're trapped in a hotel that floats.
It is yeah, yeah, like a small hotel that floats.
(36:13):
I remember I did a comedy cruise once where I
was performing, and I think maybe by the second day
there was like one pool, and by the second day
that pool just had a sheen of sunscreen on it
that was just from people's bodies as they jumped in.
Because there was like thousands of people jumping into one
(36:34):
tiny pool and it never left. It was always there.
And I was like, this is just a metaphor for
this entire experience.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Yeah, isn't it interesting? Though? With cruises, Like, at the
very start, the bare minimum thing about a cruise is
people like looking at the ocean so much, yes, that
they're willing to build a big boat because everything else
about it is just eating crap and water slides right like.
But the main reason that exists is somebody was like,
(37:04):
I bet people want to look at the ocean a lot,
and then they just built a business with that as
the foundation. So the foundation's beautiful. Isn't it nice to
look at the open sea? And then they were like, now,
how do we ruin this for four thousand people? And
every once while somebody falls over the side and they
(37:24):
just keep going. You want to tea? You were saying, yeah,
you want to do some thumbs ups? Yeah? Okay, Do
I want to do another driving one? No. Aaron McNulty
sent this in Walgreens says it turns out that locking
everything up is bad for business. No shit, Yeah, all right,
(37:50):
give thumbs ups abby. These are our guests are I mean,
our listeners are sending us things that they're proud of
themselves or other people for accomplishment. Angel leeque oh first,
we got a thumb up, our buddy, Chris Jacobs. When
Kurt and I do our live shows, we have an
intro song that is incredible, and Chris Jacobs is a
banannimal who did it for free. And every year we
(38:13):
add a new piece of a new song, usually a
pretty bad song, and Chris sent us the twenty twenty
five version does and Phoenix heard it first. It is
so good, So thumbs up to you, Chris Jacobs. Will
we now again next year?
Speaker 1 (38:28):
We now have an intro song that is three minutes.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Long at the beginning of every podcast.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Yeah, a live podcast.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
That's so fun. When are you guys coming to New York?
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Probably this year some point. We've done the Bell House
four times. Yeah, so I'll be there in July. I'll
be there in July.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
Yeah, oh in July.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Yeah, all right, excellent.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Angelique is asking for a thumbs up from the Banana Boys.
She eat cancer that cow.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Yes, thumb thumbs.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Up to you, Angelique, thumbs up please auto stem trans plants,
which means they use her own stem cells to rescue
her own immune system.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Now, during that time, she was isolated from her family.
Her kids are friends, and so while she was sick
last year, she was looking out the window at her
hospital that she was in in Florida, she saw lots
of birds, so she created a coloring book called These
Tampa Bay Burbs b I rbs y the meme. You
can buy that coloring book on Amazon. So it is
(39:36):
thank you, Angelique. Go on if you want a new
coloring book, These Tampa Bay Urbs.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Thumbs up to you, Jeliq, We're so glad you're healthy.
Right now, Harvey wants to give a big thumbs up
to his friends Saraha and say hey for being great friends,
brilliant doctors and officers, but also for giving Harvey a
ride recently when his car broke down in the ring.
Are lovely and supportive friends comes up, Saraha. We love
(40:04):
to hear.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
How many submissions do you guys get per week for
the thumbs up?
Speaker 2 (40:08):
About sixty?
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Wow, we're about Scotty is very good at keeping a
record of them, and then we slowly get through them.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
It's from like November or December twenty twenty four. We're coming.
We're doing our best. No birthdays, no anniversaries, that's our
own new role. Yeah, Emily and Elizabeth needs more names
in her name. Emily and Elizabeth is thumbing herself up
for surviving one of the worst years of her life
(40:38):
and in the last two days of twenty twenty four,
she got in an accident and totaled her brand new car.
But she also found out that she is at the
top of her team at work locally and then top
one hundred nationally, and she's determined to make twenty twenty
five her bitch. So there you go, Yah Coombs up
(40:58):
to you, and last but not east, Christopher wants to
thumb up his bandmates Evan Miles, Josh Bontineau, Bonitou, the
only one that gets the full name Bonitau, Sam and
himself for making music together for two years. Honestly, that
is so impressive. Like any band setch team, book club
(41:21):
together for two years? Not easy. The band is called
Mundane Problems. They create a space for people to talk
about little inconveniences in their life that hopefully make big
problems more manageable. Right beautiful. So if you want to
check out the band, their instagram is Mundane Problems band
on Instagram. There you go, there, get get right on him.
(41:44):
I love them to band name Mundane Problems.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
And of course we are here with the wonderful and
fantastic Abbi Govinden. You can go see her show How
to Embarrass Your Immigrant Parents at the Soho Playhouse, uh
and also all over the American country and interrationally as well.
You got a lot of tour day's coming up. That's
very exciting.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
I'm super excited. I never Oh, I was just gonna say,
I refuse to buy I refuse to buy a ticket.
I'm an avid traveler. I visit like three or four
new countries per year. I refuse to pay for a
ticket for English speaking countries. My thing is like, I
want to be hired to go there to do stand
up comedy. So for that reason, on principle, since I
(42:28):
started stand up comedy seven years ago and started doing
it full time three years ago, I've never visited Australia,
even though it's been like on my to do list.
And then finally this year I got booked for the
Sydney Comedy Festival and I booked a pretty well known
comedy club in Melbourne, and so I'm so excited for Melbourne,
just like literally like rattling with excitement. Also another thing
(42:50):
I'm excited about is I'm writing the second hour. This
first hour is almost three hours or three years old,
and so many comedians have like told me, you know,
the first hour is the one that ideally gets you famous.
So it's the one that'll take the longest, that you
have to stick by the longest, make sure that you
stand by the material, that you're okay with doing it
a little bit longer than an hour, should you know,
(43:11):
be played in your career and otherwise. And so this
one is a best turned three years old this July,
and it was a story that felt very pertinent to tell.
Three years ago, I was like fresh out of the
hospital and I wanted to share my story. But now I
like feel myself ready to tell a different story. And
so I'm writing the second hour, and I wanted to
talk about like my relationship with getting older and like
(43:34):
what it's like, you know, like you.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
Mean just being young? Do you mean your relationship with
just being a.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
Very stressing in your mid twenties.
Speaker 3 (43:47):
I'm so broke. I'm like looking at you, guys, You're
you're the place that you are recording the podcast from
looks nice, okay, And you know, if yeah, yeah, if
you had to ask me what my thumbs up would
be it's the fact that you told me that you
were my age when you booked your first gig and
(44:09):
that you've been working in TV ever since, because like
sometimes the scrappiness of everything really gets to me, Like
I'm like, am I destined to be broke forever? Am
I destined to always break even? Or always operate at a loss?
So the idea of like get you know, the study
upward trajectory just like really exciting.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
Yeah, you're off Broadway already, You're off Broadway already. That's
a huge thing. Congratu, thank you.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
Yeah, what are your guys' thumbs up?
Speaker 2 (44:33):
Mm? Oh what are we thinking?
Speaker 1 (44:37):
I'm gonna thumbs up Scottie. I'm gonna thumbs up Scotty
for managing the thumbs up so incredibly well. It is
something that I true physically could not do. I know myself,
and it is not something I could do. And I'm
so happy that you handle it. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
Thumbs are so welcome. The joy is mine. I just
like that so many people in a time, in an
uncaring universe where everybody seems to be a upset, we
have people every day be like I want to say
thank you to somebody else.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
Yeah, it's really nice. It is really nice.
Speaker 2 (45:06):
And I'm want to thumbs up Kurt for conceiving the
idea of doing a podcast together, because I never I'm
a writer. I never would have done a podcast ever
if he hadn't asked me. And it's turned out to
be five years of us having an absolute ball every week.
We've never missed a week and five years. Yeah. Wow,
five episodes a month for five years.
Speaker 3 (45:29):
Yeah, and you were talking about how it's really impressive
if people can keep a sketch team or a book
club or like a band together for two years. I've
known so many friends who started podcasts together and then
one day episodes just stopped coming, and then it turns
out that they had like a falling out, or there
was a miscommunication or like you know. And so the
fact that you guys have been able to make this
happen for five years and you have such a like, dedicated,
(45:51):
loving fan base. I was reading the reviews and I
saw how much.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
Oh yeah, they so great animals.
Speaker 2 (46:01):
People, You got it, buddy, also been animals. Just keep
an eye out for Abby because of how to embarrass
you immigrant parents is probably gonna be in a city
near you at some point, and.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
Then it'll probably be a Netflix special in a year
and a half. So see it now.
Speaker 2 (46:17):
Yeah, if you need anybody to pretend to like be
a plant in the audience, like, I'm really good at
pretending to be asleep. I can lay face down really still.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
He's good at eating a meatball sandwich.
Speaker 2 (46:27):
Yeah, I'm really good at eating. Like if you need
a cutaway to just some like white guy eating boy,
do I have you.
Speaker 3 (46:32):
Cot perfect, I'll put you in.
Speaker 2 (46:35):
I'm good. You don't even have to pay me. I'll
just show up. Spell my name wrong in the credits,
like I am easy to work with. Aaron McNaughty sent
this in thanks all the animals that send in wonderful stories.
This was in CBS News, written by the best in
the retail business, Megan Serrula. That's a nice last name.
Walgreen says it turns out locking up their stuff is
(46:57):
bad for business. Of course Walgreens, I know. Of course,
Walgreen's finally figured out what most people already knew. When
you lock up all the products, people will buy fewer things. CEO,
Tim Wentworth, I mean, of course Wentworth get out of here.
Speaker 3 (47:15):
Of course, that's.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
Yeah, of course acknowledge that this reality. In the first
quarter earnings call that he said the company's decision to
lock up products after reporting a fifty two percent increase
in stole An inventory has backfired horribly. When you lock
things up, for example, you don't sell as many of them.
We've kind of proven that pretty conclusively, said, I mean,
(47:39):
you sit.
Speaker 1 (47:39):
There, You sit there and press the button and then
just wait for like five full minutes for someone to
walk over. And sometimes people just don't even come if
they're busy, nobody comes over, So you just sell the
air in front of a locked thing.
Speaker 3 (47:53):
Well, you know, like yeah, Like when I'm in the store,
I'm the ease of just getting something like for example,
what I'm I see like a vitamin C serrum and
they're known to be very expensive, but I'm like, okay,
I need this, Like I'll just grab it. But when
I go to Walgreens and I'm out of vitamin C
serum and I have to buy some more, I'll like
press the button and in the three minutes that it
(48:13):
takes the lady to come and open it, I'm doing
mental calculations. I'm like how much, Oh my God, Like
eggs cost seven dollars. Should I really be spending like
twenty nine dollars on a vitamin C sreum? Like, it's fine,
I can I can live without it in my skincare
routine for a couple of months. And then by the
time she gets there, I'm just like, sorry, never mind,
I'm gonna go home, you know, Like I'm just same.
Speaker 2 (48:36):
Proves this point though, like the more time you have
to consider the purchase, the less like you are to
buy something that exactly SA and.
Speaker 3 (48:43):
He's a CEO, I'm like, pay me your salary. I
could have told you that five years ago.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
Have either of you ever put something down and left
a store when it's taken too long? Like, have you
ever been waiting.
Speaker 1 (48:55):
All the time?
Speaker 2 (48:56):
Yeah, right, all the time.
Speaker 1 (48:58):
I just like, especially when it's like it should be
very simple and easy, and then there's some like absurd
reason why it's not happening. I leave all the time,
and then I'll drive out of my way, go to
another place me too, and then just do the whole
thing again, and and then I'm cursing myself for having left.
It would have been a lot shorter just to wait
(49:19):
the five minutes, But but.
Speaker 2 (49:20):
Yeah, I have done it many times. Abby. Have you
ever done that where you're like waiting in line with
something it just takes so long that you just go
nope and put it on the shelf and leave.
Speaker 3 (49:29):
Yeah. I don't believe in some cost fallacy. I'm like,
every minute is a minute. Say it was like, I
can if I'm waiting for an hour and a half
and then someone tells me I have to wait another
hour to get something, I'll be like, no, I'm not
doing that, like I've already made an hour and a half.
Speaker 2 (49:45):
Yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (49:48):
Some cost fallacies for chumps.
Speaker 2 (49:50):
It's also I just had no idea that eggs were
such a big deal. I didn't know how many people
were eating eggs. I was like, oh, all right, I
something I never thought about.
Speaker 3 (50:01):
Okay, I'm vegetarian, so it's my sole source of protein.
And yeah, now I go to the grocery store, I
get like nine things. I do live in Manhattan, but
I get like nine things. It's like fifty dollars and
I have to do like a cost benefit analysis.
Speaker 2 (50:15):
Like, yeah, I buy egg whites and a carton four
ninety nine. It's a piece of cake and delicious, at Last.
Speaker 1 (50:25):
Forever, and you can make a drink out of it.
Speaker 2 (50:28):
Sometimes when I'm waiting in line for other things, I'm
just chugging egg whites. You know.
Speaker 1 (50:32):
I recently had like a non alcoholic mocktail, but it
had egg white in it. And you put egg white
in one of those things and you're like, well, well, wow,
I'm having something a little special.
Speaker 3 (50:44):
High protein. Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (50:47):
Oh yeah, I'll wrap this one up. CEO Tim Worworth
said that the company is working with the head of
asset Protection to develop creative solutions to combat.
Speaker 1 (50:57):
Like maybe unlocking the items that you need to buy.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
Yes, he says, quote, I don't have any magnet, anything
magnificent to share with you today. It's a hand to
hand combat still. Unfortunately. Okay, so this is going to
end bad for more Green shoppers. Walgreens has been struggling financially,
reporting operating losses of two hundred and forty five million
dollars for the quarter, compared to only thirty nine the
same quarter last year. The chain playing to close hundreds
(51:24):
of underperforming stores. Maybe there's too many, maybe there's too
many pharmacies.
Speaker 3 (51:28):
I don't know, Yeah, gang recession indicator. If they lost
thirty nine billion last quarter, and now it's one hundred
and forty billion or million, million, million to a million.
Speaker 2 (51:39):
So yeah, it was two hundred and forty five million
for the quarter, only thirty nine the year before for
the same Wow.
Speaker 3 (51:45):
More people are stealing because everything's so expensive and everyone's
making last money. Yeah, wild Yeah.
Speaker 2 (51:51):
I do enjoy going in and just sticking my arm
in one of those blood pressure machines. I liked it
when I was six years old. I like it six.
Speaker 1 (51:59):
Yeah, it's really enjoyable. Get to get real still and
be very quiet and silent as a little mouse, and
then get get a little seat.
Speaker 2 (52:08):
You don't always get to sit when you're shopping. When
was the last time you just got to sit down
when your shopping and take a minute to yourself? Abby
plug away? Where can people find you besides your excellent website?
Speaker 3 (52:21):
I uh, I'm on Instagram at Abbi Govinden. I'm on Twitter,
although I use it lest these days at aby, and
I'm on YouTube. Yeah, I talk about it in the show.
Like I was most known for Twitter, and then after
I was hospitalized, I took a step back from over
sharing on Twitter because I wanted to focus on developing
(52:42):
stand up comedy. And then I like, after a show,
I was like at a pizza parlor in the Lower
East Side and an Indian girl walked in. She was
like blackout drunk. She was like, oh my god, are
you Abbi govind And I was like, yeah, I am
Abi Govinden. And I was hoping she would say something
like I'm a big fan. Keep doing what you're doing,
but she was like, damn, bitch, you fell off big time.
I'm like, I never see you online anymore.
Speaker 2 (53:02):
And I was like, what a friendly person. And then.
Speaker 3 (53:08):
I think I think she was more drunk than she realized,
Like she said those words and then she seemed shocked
that they didn't stay in her head, you know. So
I'm like where she was right, Like a lot of
people say that to me these days. They'll be like, yeah,
I haven't seen you on Twitter in like years, and
I was like, yeah, you know, I'm like actually doing
the stand up thing now. I decided I wanted to
put my money where my mouth is. But I mean,
I'm so grateful for my Twitter followers obviously, but yeah,
(53:30):
I can be found on Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and the
Soho Playhouse show is likely getting getting an extension in
New York City, and then I'll be touring with both
The Current Hour and The New Hour later this year
in different cities, so.
Speaker 2 (53:45):
I'd love to see it. When it's in La I'll
be there. I'll be laying face down on the floor
until you say, get out of here a sandwich.
Speaker 3 (53:53):
And you'll be the sandwich guy, the vibes guy.
Speaker 2 (53:55):
Yeah, thanks for coming on, Bananas.
Speaker 3 (53:59):
Thank you for having me. This was so fun.
Speaker 2 (54:02):
You're welcome, Bananas, Bananas, ooh a sweet one. Bananas is
an exactly right media production. Our producer and engineer is
(54:22):
Katie Levine. The catchy Bananas theme song was composed and
performed by Kahan.
Speaker 1 (54:27):
Artwork for Bananas was designed by Travis Millard.
Speaker 2 (54:30):
And our benevolent overlords are the great Karen Kilgareff and
Georgia Hartstart
Speaker 1 (54:34):
And Lisa Maggott is our full human, not a robot intern.
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