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Adulting with Michelle Buteau and Jordan Carlos

I Haven't Done "It" For a Whole Year... Am I Okay!? feat. Amber Ruffin

Adulting with Michelle Buteau and Jordan Carlos

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

Kids & Family, Comedy

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week Michelle and Jordan bring it all the way home with writer, actor, host, Tony nominee, near and dear ground-breaker, Amber Ruffin. AIRHORN!!! Jordan reveals how he, a tired dad, transforms into the Black member of Steely Dan for parent teacher conferences, Michelle breaks down the pros and cons of relocating to Amsterdam, aka the ultimate safe space... sorta…and Amber shares tales from the writer's room—it's giving Montessori school meets Mad Men.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is exactly right.

0:07.1

Michelle.

0:08.2

Hey, hey Jordan.

0:09.6

Hey, everybody.

0:10.6

Welcome to adulting.

0:12.5

What are you yawning for?

0:14.4

What are you yawning for?

0:15.6

People keep asking me why I'm yawning.

0:17.0

And to be honest, I have shortness of breath.

0:19.0

Really?

0:19.6

Yeah, I have shortness of breath. It's what

0:22.7

happens when you have anxiety. You have short breaths. And therefore, you take in sips of oxygen. And so you

0:30.2

yawn. And so people look at you and people look at me and think I'm bored or I'm tired. And no, not tired, not, just, I have really big tits. I have a lot of things to carry on my chest and sometimes it's just hard to breathe. Yeah. I have four and a half year old twins, two dogs, a mortgage, a loving relationship, a car that just had a flat tire that we had to fix. Like, I got a bunion that just won't stop.

0:55.4

I'm also a lot to yawn.

0:56.7

How are you not yawning more?

0:57.9

That's the question you should have started with, Jordan.

0:59.8

Okay?

1:18.5

Okay. How am I?

1:21.5

I feel good today.

2:02.8

I have had less pain getting up and getting down, but I still sigh and ache. You know what I'm saying? You know, like, you go, when you get down on a couch and shit like that. Yeah. I'm not even in pain. I know. Why do that? Because it's been a long life. It's been a long life, you know? It's about doing all the things, the mental gymnastics of what it's like to be an adult. Yes. And to give a fuck. Yeah. Because, you know, that's why the selfish aunties and stuff lived to the like 1002 with like nice nails. We love her. You know. Always trying to give you a handshake with a $5 bill. Not for you. That $5 isn't for you. It's for you to go get her cigarettes. Yeah, man. Oh my God. This sounds crazy because we obviously have to breathe to be alive, but I don't

2:08.9

think we breathe enough. Like, we don't pay attention to our breath enough. So, like, if we just,

2:14.8

just take a minute to, like... Did you do a little meditation video? I feel like you did a meditation video. No. When would I have time to... Ask me if I was brushing my teeth while I was taking a shower and ordering Uber Eats for people. Ask me that shit. A meditation video? No, bitch. No, but what am I, Gwenith Paltrow? I don't have a team of people to do shit for me and therefore I can go meditate. No, the meditating is like I hope I get to my destination on time. And the meditating is I hope my kids don't get COVID. Not because they would be in danger. They wouldn't.

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