Let's just get it started today. Okay, welcome to my pleasure, a show that is for girls who like to get on top.

Wait, that is actually, I'm like making myself blush. I'm such a fake prude and also like a fake like I'm not that slutty but I'm also not that prude and you know

what this is actually reminding me of um when we made the show alone together and people were like

well okay is your character like sexual or is she like really prudent?

And I was like, she has, can she be both?

Like, come on.

And I really do feel that way.

So if you're trying to apply the Madonna horror complex to me, like good fucking luck.

Um, what a weird note to start on.

Hello, welcome to my podcast. Guess what? I added shows in

Chicago and those will be this fall and you can get tickets now. They will sell out. They're at

Esther on ice.com. I'll be at the Den Theater October 20th and 21st. You can also get tickets to see me in New York City. Actually, holy shit,

next weekend, I'll be in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Atlanta, and then Boston, D.C., other places,

Detroit, get tickets. Esther on ice.com. I cannot wait to share all the chaotic thoughts that I have in my

stand up with you guys and have so much fun and laugh and be silly and talk to you and make fun of you guys.

And I can't wait to see you there. So that's that. I wrote in my notes today that I really want to be leaning into it,

leaning into pointless.

Like nothing, first of all, let's like be very, very, strip it all down.

Let's be really real for a second.

Like nothing has a point, right? Like,

right. Like nothing. Everything is pointless. So why don't we just strip it all away? And instead of

focusing on the things that we think have a reason or a point, just like, be like, no, we're going to like,

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