#205 The Life of a Showgirl
Two Stand-Up Gals
Erica Spera and Teresa DeGaetano
4.8 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
E & T are back this week talking about the controversy surrounding the Riyadh comedy festival, and how the power of the industry has changed in comedy. They then discuss the highly anticipated "The Life of a Showgirl" album and how the pressure to produce content quickly has impacted the quality of Taylor Swift. The end of the episode features a Patreon Preview.
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| 0:00.0 | If I get my kid a phone, I'll be able to keep in touch with them all the time. |
| 0:02.8 | We'll be on it all the time. |
| 0:04.1 | He could walk to school by himself. She could see something, she shouldn't. He could chat with grandma. Friends, trolls. They can access anything on the internet. They can access anything on the internet. So, should I give my kid a phone? Growing up with phones isn't always easy. Introducing EEE safer Sims. Sims that help moderate usage and shield harmful content on any smartphone. |
| 0:24.2 | Choose EEC for Sims. Only on the UK's best network. To verify best network see E.e.com. At least. Stop. That's way too much. Way too much. Make a regular and an acoustic version and be done. And just be done with it. And a movie, by the way. And a fucking movie. Yeah. And a movie. Another movie about the Eros Tour. Stop. Stop. She is completely lost touch, I think, with her audience. And also where the fucking world is. People can't afford groceries and you want me to buy a fucking movie on top of your album. Well, the people that in her concerts can afford it because it's that expensive. I was going to say, meanwhile, J-Lo is over there like, I've got a book of poems. Ben wrote for me. Right. You took a sip of water at the perfect time. She's like, I'm just trying to release these poems. It cost me my marriage, but I've got some poems that I'd like to release. If everyone in the room could read my secret poems. I'm surprised I haven't gotten you sending me pictures of the two of them at whatever spider movie they're at. I'm like, what the fuck? What happened? All I'm seeing is them glancing at each other at a red carpet again. I'm like, I think they just, some people just can't be kept apart, I guess. |
| 1:29.7 | I don't know what's happening two stand-up gals. I'm your girl, Eric Spira. |
| 1:55.1 | And I'm your other gal, Teresa de Gattano. Woo-hoo. |
| 1:58.8 | Welcome. Welcome. Welcome, everybody. |
| 2:01.1 | I'm wearing my sparkles today that I wore to the Beyonce concert back in Memorial |
| 2:05.7 | Day. |
| 2:06.2 | And I paired this with a cream-colored blazer. |
| 2:10.0 | I got to tell you, before this, Erica, I went to Astoria Queens to do a podcast called |
| 2:15.0 | X Drinking Buddy with another comic and podcaster Brennan. His fiancé, |
| 2:21.2 | shout out to Tracy. Though I've never met Tracy, she listens to the pod. So thank you, Tracy. |
| 2:28.0 | Come on. Show Tracy. Yes. And she recommended me for this podcast with her fiance. She goes, I know you've never met her. But I think she'd be great. She's got a lot of drinking stories. And then Brennan, which is so funny. Brennan is seven years, eight years sober. And it was great. We, in the words of Erica Sparra, we, blah, bop, what do you do again? It always makes me laugh. You say like, bupap, or we did that. We were just, do you know, bapapa, bah, blah, we did that. It was great, but I was on my way there and I was laughing because I was like, only in comedy in this world, I've never met this man. Here I am going to his house to record a podcast, only in, |
| 3:09.8 | I felt perfectly safe. I didn't need to share my location services with anything. I was like, |
| 3:14.0 | well, allegedly his girlfriend is a famous, so I'm going to show up. Also, beautiful apartment. |
| 3:19.0 | It was really fun. So it's called ex-drinking buddy. So shout out to them. Did that before this. And I got to say, God bless Astoria. Because it's where men still objectify women. And sometimes your girl wants to be objectified. Really? You feel that of a story? I mean, I have the story a long time. I didn't feel it was a cack haul heavy neighborhood. Maybe it was a sparkles, |
| 3:41.1 | Erica. I mean, but it was like noon and it was like, oh, hello. I got a couple of hellos from grown men, like supers of buildings, you know, the owners of buildings, just outside Smogna and Astoria. And then I got a beautiful, beautiful. Oh, yeah. Like, there's a lot of old Greeks. That's what you're getting that. It's a lot of everything's owned by a bunch of old Greek guys. So yeah, I could see, okay, yeah, maybe it just wasn't my target demo. I was like, you know what? I'll come back here anytime. I was like, what a confidence booster. I was like, Delman if I do hair toss. So that was my morning. So I met a new comic and loves the podcast. |
| 4:15.7 | And we didn't touch upon this yet, but there's something that we did want to touch upon. |
| 4:19.7 | There was this comedy festival in Saudi Arabia, the Riyadh festival, right? |
| 4:25.0 | Am I saying that right? |
| 4:26.1 | The Riyadh festival. |
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