Episode 255 - Retta
Breaking Bread with Tom Papa
All Things Comedy
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
This week on Breaking Bread the hilarious Retta joins us at the table! She shares about getting her start in stand up, transitioning into acting, and hosting her show on HGTV. We even get the behind the scenes scoop of some crazy houses she's filmed at. As fellow New Jerseyans Tom & Retta also bond over home cooked meals growing up. Enjoy!
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0:00:00 Intro Song
0:00:15 Wild Grain Ad
0:01:05 Tompapa.com
0:01:47 Welcome & eating bread
0:02:49 Traveling shows
0:03:44 Funky smells in houses
0:06:20 Pressure of Hosting & Ugliest House in America
0:09:44 Retta's personality & navigating HGTV
0:12:30 Standup into acting
0:14:28 Grass Valley, CA house & SangRETTA
0:17:04 New Jersey & moving out
0:19:45 Singing, religion, and musicals
0:24:45 Family & brother who is a sneaker head
0:27:15 Handbag obsession
0:32:29 Wild Grain Ad
0:34:08 Trade Coffee Ad
0:36:04 Liberian food growing up
0:38:00 North Carolina open mics
0:42:00 Moving to LA
0:43:38 Moesha
0:45:42 Stand up & creativity
0:49:47 Slackers audition
0:52:00 LA & the industry
0:56:57 Uncomfortable moment
0:58:29 Proud parents & cooking
1:02:49 New season of Ugliest House in America
1:05:30 Crazy house story
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for breaking bread with Papa. |
| 0:03.1 | Hey! |
| 0:03.9 | Don't you know? |
| 0:05.1 | Hey, it's how we go. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey, it's time for breaking bread with Papa. |
| 0:10.7 | Hey, don't you know? |
| 0:12.7 | Hey, it's also a show. |
| 0:14.6 | Hey! |
| 0:15.6 | This episode of Breaking Bread with Tom Papa is brought to you by Wild Grain. |
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| 1:03.8 | people at tompapa.com. The Grateful Bread Tour is roaring along. We've had great shows recently. We were up in Santa Rosa. We were in |
| 1:14.4 | Las Vegas. It's been really great. People are coming out. It's really fun. I've been signing |
| 1:20.2 | books at the end and meeting a lot of great people who are traveling all over the place to come to |
| 1:25.7 | these shows. It's really great. We've got |
| 1:28.3 | Dallas coming up this week. We've got Houston, Mississippi, and then we've going all the way to |
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