Hello and welcome to my pleasure, a podcast hosted by a person. Her name is Esther. That's me, I guess.

According to United States law, that is me. So welcome. I wanted to start quickly by reminding you this

weekend, Saturday night, I will be in Atlanta performing

stand-up for the first time, mind you. I'm intrigued. I'm very intrigued to see what Atlanta has to

offer. That's this Saturday night, and then Sunday night I will be in Raleigh, North Carolina.

I have done stand-up there. I was there last year.

And I'm excited. Tickets are at ester on ice.com. While I have you, the rest of the year, I'll be in

Boston, New York City, D.C., Madison, Wisconsin, Chicago, Detroit. You can get tickets to all those stand-up shows at esterunice.com.

I'm really looking forward to having special nights with all of you.

Now, on to the next.

On to the show.

No, honestly, today I want to talk to you about how I'm feeling a couple things in an overwhelming capacity. I feel these things

so strongly that it's like they're hitting me in the face everywhere I turn. The first one is

a little bit sillier. The first one is that I think as a culture, we are all entering into our Trisha Pettus era.

What do I mean?

What could I possibly mean?

Well, I just think that the only person who makes any sense online is Trisha Pettus. She posts TikToks constantly

of herself eating McDonald's. She recently got a big container, no, what is it called? A package of Charmin Ultra toilet paper bedazzled or Swarovsky

crystaled design decorated. And she's like, I love toilet paper because my initials are TP.

Like, and I think that's really the only way to exist is by just being so exactly who you are,

what you feel, what you think with any, with no reservation, with, with no regard to what

anyone else might think or judge you for. And no sort of conformity, no thoughts of like, what, what should, how can I fit in?

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