It's Friday, May 29th, 2026 from Peachfish Productions.

It's the gist.

I'm Mike Peska.

Today is a funny you should mention day, and I have a fascinating character for you to meet.

Funny, too.

Janet McNamara has been tested many, many, many times for having autism. She usually falls one or two

questions short. And we'll get into it all. She is, I think she says explicitly, yes, this is right,

spectrumy. When you meet her, she wears a vest. And when she was a child, she wore a life preserver

for many years straight. She is always wearing a vest and when she was a child, she wore a life preserver for many years straight.

She is always wearing a vest. She has this great insight about how stupid people think she's stupid.

But the smart knows she's smart. And I came away with that opinion. I have to say talking to

Janet, whose comedy is great and unexpected, but unexpectedly for me,

not always why she thinks it's funny, though she's smart enough to know if the audience

tells her something is funny, then it is funny.

But it's just interesting to me to talk to a person who is a self-diagnosed and really should be diagnosed person

who is neurodivergent, a category that she finds useful, just to ask all the questions

you ever wanted to ask how it helps your comedy.

But because when you ask someone about their comedy, you really ask them how they see the world. So to ask a neurodivergent person, many, many questions about how they see the

world, how they process the world, how they communicate that to others, not under the guise of

with the assignment, tell me about your comedy, was very interesting, a gift, if you will, very, very special.

I enjoyed and got a lot out of this conversation with Janet McNamara, who I hope you will find,

for your own sake, to be quite intelligent and of course funny.

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