64: Rachael and her dad had the BEST WEEKEND EVERRRR

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Education, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 20 July 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Rachael's dad, Mike O'Brien, came into LA this weekend for The Classic, a rock concert featuring Fleetwood Mac, Journey, The Eagles, The Doobie Brothers and more! He joined Rachael and her friends for the show at Dodgers Stadium and Rachael recaps the acts as well as why she's so grateful to spend time with her dad. Rachael recounts the story of learning her dad had cancer when she was a kid and shares how it's shaped her as a person since that moment. Finally, Rachael answers some of your questions including how she got into comedy, advice for people who are considering giving it a shot, her experience auditioning for SNL, and beauty and health secrets!

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0:00.0	Hello, friends.
0:18.9	friends. Welcome back to their episode of Be Here for a while. As always I want to thank you so much for listening to my podcast and rating it five stars and leaving nice comments on
0:24.3	iTunes it really means a lot to me and really helps to keep it going and also if you
0:29.5	if you ever want to shoot me an email with a thought or, you know, sometimes people ask me for advice,
0:36.2	why I don't know. I don't really know that I'm the best person to give advice, but
0:40.5	hell, send me an email and I'll try send it to info at Rachel
0:45.4	O'Brien comedy.com that's info at Rachel O'Brien comedy.com so I'm on a podcast
0:51.6	solo today I am I didn't book a guest. Well I'm going to I'm actually
0:56.7	podcasting tomorrow with Chris Medina. He's a he's a psychic. I've never had a psychic reading before and I guess I'm probably going to do it for the first time on my podcast which is pretty crazy.
1:09.0	So we'll see what he says. I hopefully it's not terrifying. I don't think it will be but I
1:15.5	purposely have avoided doing those kinds of things because I don't want to know
1:19.7	anything bad. I prefer to live thinking everything is going to be awesome all the time.
1:23.4	It's one of my greatest skills is being able to convince myself that everything is
1:27.2	fine all the time. Or I just like I don't know I'm lying to myself whatever so podcasting solo because I don't have a guest and
1:39.6	But I had a really great weekend. I can recap that. I went to the most epic concert ever.
1:46.0	Actually, it was no, yep, it was more epic than Desert Trip, which I went to last year, which was the Classic classic rock festival which people called Old
1:52.9	cella in at the Polo Grounds where they have Coachella. But this was a two day
2:00.1	festival at Dodger Stadium with some of my favorite bands, most of which I have seen a
2:05.0	few I had not.
2:07.3	So the first day it was Dooby Brothers opened.
2:11.6	They were incredible. I've seen them before.
2:12.8	And then it was Steely Dan, which I like Steely Dan,
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