Our top 25 counten continues.

Coming in at number 11, the smart and hilarious Ida Rodriguez.

Ida and I spoke for the first time when she was launching her HBO Mac special, Fighting Words.

And I remember being so impressed by her willingness to weave her life and her heartbreak into her comedy.

Ida, welcome back.

Thank you for having me back.

You know I love you.

Ida, loved the book.

I think the title,

Legitimate Kid,

kind of says it all.

Take me back to the first time

that you were teased

for not having your dad's last name?

Oh yeah, I was third grade. This girl in my class made fun of me and called me a bastard.

And she was like, your daddy didn't sign your birth certificate. And when I asked my mom what a

bastard was, she said, that's a kid who doesn't have their father's last name.

But it was just very casual. She didn't say, you are a bastard. I deduced that because I had her

last name. My mother wasn't married. And that's when it started. It started when I was like,

I was eight years old. It's so deep that quest for legitimacy, right?

Not just legitimacy inside your own family, but the need for external validation, the need to

be legitimate in the eyes of men. You end up with so many men about whom there are red flags

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