Hey, wonderful. Welcome to episode 502 of the J.V. Club with my fabulous guest,

Margot Donahue. She is a woman after my own heart. I mean, listen, she's got a book out.

She's got, filmed in Brooklyn, I should say, is the name of the book. She's got numerous

podcasts and we had a great conversation. I hope you enjoy it. We recorded this before Sketchfest and I am

recording the Center on the last day of Sketch Fest.

So for those of you who came out to see shows, thank you, thank you, thank you so much for

supporting our festival. It's been really an emotional and wonderful heartening thing to be back in San Francisco producing comedy.

So love you guys and enjoy this episode with Marco. Oh, All right. Let's take a moment to pat ourselves on the back, celebrate and enjoy the fact that we are finally doing this

interview. I'm so sorry that I had to reschedule last week because of my cold. I still have some

traces like what I'm what I'm hoping won't happen is the post-Nesel drip

won't kick in halfway through where all of a sudden they sort of sound like this

There's nothing I can do about it because it's not like you can't it's it's so far back there that you're like well

this is my life now I'm very hopeful that did you have COVID or no I didn't

have COVID I just

had a bad cold. I cannot tell you how many COVID tests I went through

that I now wish I would have just trusted the first couple and been like,

no, I have been reading that there is plenty of stuff going around that's not COVID.

Why am I spending all this money getting COVID tests?

So so paranoid that I was going to, you know, have it and then like get people sick even after like a normal

cold would be over, blah, blah, blah.

Yeah, I have the same thing it happened in July there

were something that went around and everybody kept saying it must be COVID I'm like I

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