What's up you guys? Welcome to this week's episode of The Just Sayan Podcast. I'm your host, Justin Martindale, and I am so ecstatic to have this week's guest with us today. She is a fantastic comedian. You see her all over the road everywhere. Comedy Store favorite. And you can catch her at the Netflix as a joke festival here in Los Angeles on May 4th, the three of clubs in Hollywood. It's the one the only, Ali Makowski.

Yay!

Thank you so much for being here.

Thanks for having me.

Honestly, in these unprecedented times we live in.

Yes.

The fourth year of, at least fourth year of unprecedented times.

It was, I know, it is a good...

I feel like maybe even longer. Yeah, it's always an unprecedented time. I feel like I learned the word unprecedented in 2020. And then it's just continued to be unprecedented. It will be the name of someone special. Yeah, absolutely. Unprecedented. Yeah. Unprecedented, whatever. How are you? I'm pretty good. Yeah. Yeah, I'm good. I've been playing a lot of online games. Such as. So I'm like, am I good? Yeah. I mean, that's the thing we're all asking. Yeah. Am I good? Here's the thing. I feel great about it, but there's certain things when I'm telling people about my interests where I'm like, is this is this a cry for help and I'm unaware of it? Because it's happening to me, you know?

Is this one of those red flags of my life that I've just grown accustomed to? Yeah. I don't know.

Yeah. You're like, is this bad? I feel great about it. Good. But it has

gotten to the point when I like am into something, I'm so into it where it's problematic.

We're like, I'm playing this game on my phone, on my iPad, and I was playing it while driving.

Wow. Yeah. Yeah. I was fully like mid-board game on my phone on my way to Pilates. What game is it? It's so embarrassed. Settlers of Catan. And I'm not even playing against real people. I could quit the game at any time. I'm playing against robots. Mm-hmm. So there's like no rush. Settlers of Catan? Yeah. I mean, that sounds like what's going on in the world today. Yeah. I'm just gaining. Is that the one where you have to like elements, you have to like have wood and... Yes. Yes. You need to collect ore and hay. Collect the ore and hay. Yes. I know the game.

Yeah.

Because Evan, my husband was playing it with friends when I had a show.

Yeah.

And I left to go hang out with them because they were like, oh, we're going to do a game night.

And they were playing that game.

And I was like, hey or dorks.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Yes.

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