Welcome to this is Jen your favorite podcast by a standup comic and mom of six. I'm getting incredible feedback on the last couple of episodes. I did a two part series called the elephant in the room. It's about the what's going on with Gen Z girls who are ages, let's say 12 to 18 and sexuality and all of that. And I'm getting incredible feedback on that. Evidence.

Evidently, it was an elephant in the room because a lot of people are resonating with that topic. So if you missed it, episodes 79 and 78 are where I talked about that. And yeah, it's just it's I'll definitely hit that subject again because I'm getting a lot of very interesting feedback and don't forget I am on tour. Pittsburgh is my next city and we just added Syracuse, New York. Now, I know that some people were like.

When they heard I had a big announcement of a new city, they were thinking maybe.

Something bigger than Syracuse, you know, they were thinking like a big metropolis, but listen, here's this is all part of the master plan. This is all part of the master plan where we are we're intentionally saving bigger cities mean bigger crowds for anyone you're just you're going to get bigger crowds out in bigger metropolitan areas.

And so Detroit, Orange County, Houston, Dallas, places like that, what's my other big, oh, Philly, big hotspots like that, New York City area, we are saving until the spring. So that is why I keep saying new city and it's, you know, it's like polka tello.

And these are all fantastic cities that I love going to, but that's why you're not seeing the big metropolitan metropolis areas on my tour is because yet is because we're saving the big, big cities until the spring.

So full-wiler nation in Syracuse, we want to show up big and I did I told my my agent, I was saying, you know, how big is full-wiler nation in Syracuse, New York or an Albany for that matter.

I don't know, but we'll find out I was, you know, I'm not aware of having like a massive fan base there, but hey, you know what we will find out I mean all the shows have been incredible if there anything like the shows I've done where I mean these shows have been so much fun and going to comedy clubs is fun.

And so here's something before I go into the subject of today I'm going to finally I'll just tell my whole chronic pain story I've touched on it.

And you know what I'm just going to tell you guys the whole thing I didn't think I wanted to talk about this publicly, but I don't know I did something I just had this, this God moment that someone might need to hear this story today.

So I'm just going to tell the story, but before I go into that it's there's a very funny clash of cultures going on on my tour because I am going to comedy clubs, which all the big comics do this that everyone every comic hits the comedy clubs.

But there's this the comedy industry has an interesting relationship to gender in the sense that don't worry I'm not we're not going back to like, you know, trans of Paloza, which was the last two episodes I just mean everyone knows that comedy tends to fall along gender lines I've had quite a few comedy club owners tell me how hard it is to get women out.

Generally when they've got their email list of their regulars who show up, you know, just hardcore comedy fans, it is predominantly men and they said they really have a hard time getting women out to clubs.

And so here I am with all of these moms, many of them, you know, my my original fan base back back in the day, you guys know I'm from the Catholic ghetto.

I am the oh, I don't have my usual crown I'm the queen of the weird Catholic so I have a lot of Catholic fans.

And so you can imagine the clash of cultures of bringing the mom world the Catholic world into the comedy club world and one thing that keeps happening is so comedy clubs are technically designated as bars and it's good for me to be there I'm very glad I'm having a tremendously positive experience at these clubs.

But because they are designated as bars, they can't have kids in there is just legally they can't.

But my fans keep showing up with babies because and that's that's a big thing of what I stand for is making life easier for women by making having kids around just being a normal part of the fabric of life, including your parties, including your nights out, totally understandable that fans bring babies.

Every single time a club owner or manager will come up and be like someone trying to bring a baby have you ever seen this before my impression is these people have never seen babies that they've never I mean really the way they react they're like it's like a humanoid figure but small and chubby and I'm like oh you mean a baby yes so I mean there's they're truly so shocked every time.

And we have found we found some work around I have spontaneously declared people that I don't know to be part of my staff so that they can sit in the green room which at least the one place that the club said that that would be okay because that legally I guess for the the way the lines are drawn that wouldn't get them in trouble if the person was just staying in the green room with the baby.

And so I just declared okay well she's my manager now so what's your name again okay welcome to the team you're you can sit in the green room and watch the show so I do what I can to help it like when when we roll out the master plan the master full while our world domination vision I'll do something like have child care or something like that because obviously that is a key part of my mission is supporting women with children and have it like letting letting women who have been.

The baby's be part of normal society and not having these sort of walls like you know you can't bring your baby into this place but right now it's me against the law guys it's the law and in these every single one of these clubs have been so generous to me and so sweet and so wonderful and so I don't want to get them in any trouble and I always I always partner with them on how we deal with these situations but it is it's just so funny this clash of cultures this is what happens when you shake things up.

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