The very fastest way to kill a joke is, of course, to explain a joke.

But, but we live in this world right now in the history of existence where the weird, the totally ridiculous, the outright, like, inconceivable, honestly, are actually happening every single day.

And because of that, we can't simply assume that distinguishing reality, actual reality from, say, satire or parody, is always just going to be a given.

And thus,

Attention listeners, this episode is rated G for general audience,

for greatest goodness, and for overall gloriousness, however,

it does need to be preceded by the following warning.

This episode may contain humor that could be considered offensive to certain ego-driven

or particularly sensitive audiences who find themselves prone to the horrible affliction of being unable to take a joke.

Welcome to the Show Up podcast with me, your host, Natalie Norton.

This podcast is all about having the courage to be a really good human and living the kind

of life that genuinely fires you up every single day.

Are you ready to become your best self and truly show up for your life come what may?

Me too.

Let's do this thing.

You are listening to episode number 17 of the show up podcast entitled Like Me,

which is a conversation between myself and actor-producer Trisha Polluccio.

And I'm actually going to start off today's show by sharing a clip of something that I actually

said to Tricia after we'd finished recording the content for this episode. I didn't realize that my

microphone was still running until I went back to review the raw audio from the show a few days

later. But I feel like this clip here is the perfect foundation for what we are going

to talk about here today. Now, during this segment that you are about to hear, I give a quick

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