How To Joke About Your Dad’s Murder Trial

Hyphenated with Joanna Hausmann and Jenny Lorenzo

Pitaya Entertainment

Us Latinos, Education, Comedy, Hyphenated, Pitaya, Jenny Lorenzo, Latinx, Joanna Hausmann, Society & Culture

5 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Joanna welcomes her friend (and colleague at Hamster & Great) comedy writer Alex Estrada, as they talk about when Alex found out that his father might’ve committed murder in the 70s, how that secret shapes his childhood, and the podcast he produced (The Estate) to unravel it all.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, I'm Joanna, and this is hyphenated, the podcast about living in the hyphen.
0:10.6	Jenny's not here today, but I am accompanied by a very good friend of mine.
0:15.6	He's a TV writer, a comedian, and you know what, I'm not going to continue this introduction
0:20.4	because I don't want to
0:21.5	give anything away, even though the title of the episode probably gives a lot away. But Alex Estrada,
0:29.0	my friend, my coworker, can't believe you're here on the podcast. I know, I know. It's crazy.
0:36.1	Thank you for publicly coming out as my friend.
0:38.9	I feel like that's, you know, a bad move for you career-wise, but, uh, I mean, it's crazy.
0:45.7	We work together every single day. You're, you're, you know, the head writer now. I used to be
0:53.7	head writer of Hampshire and Gretel. You're now the head writer. I used to be head writer of Hamster and Gretel.
0:54.9	You're now the head writer.
0:55.9	I'm now something else that I don't fully understand.
0:59.4	We like to say around the office
1:00.6	that you've gone to a better place.
1:02.2	I've gone to a better place.
1:03.7	Yeah.
1:04.2	And weirdly, it's not better.
1:06.1	It's not better.
1:07.0	It's the same place you've been for the last three years.
1:08.6	It's the same place you've been for the last three years. It's crazy. But me and you met, what is it like, 12 years ago?
1:15.1	I think it was 11 years ago.
1:18.7	As I recall the story, you and I were both placed on house teams at the People's Improv
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