Should Kids Be Out Here Calling Grown Ups by Their Govt Names? feat. Jes Tom

Adulting with Michelle Buteau and Jordan Carlos

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Kids & Family, Comedy

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This week, Michelle and Jordan welcome hilarious comedian / writer / actor / friend / non-essential organ donor (JK), Jes Tom, to the pod. Jordan goes full-on Moth Story Hour and tells the tale of performing at one of NYC’s historic armories, a “balloon party” at Paradiso has Michelle considering retirement in Amsterdam, and Jes explains why leaving Queens for Brooklyn has left them feeling like an expat returning to America. Insert earbuds! This episode was recorded before the SAG-AFTRA strike. #Noscabbing!

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0:00.0	This is exactly right.
0:07.1	Hey.
0:08.4	Oh, hi.
0:10.5	Damn.
0:11.3	It's like you've had a black tea or something.
0:13.3	I feel like there's a little caffeine up in there.
0:15.3	Anyways, it feels like everything is so violent.
0:17.2	Like yesterday, I was at a kid's birthday party.
0:19.6	And we were just, we were talking about
0:21.2	like laundry and then like trying to find like a new daycare or like a preschool. And then I just
0:26.8	said, I just got to bite the bullet. I'm like, why is everything so violent and or a gun reference,
0:33.1	right? Have you seen where we live? I mean, have you read the headline? No. We got a gun fetish. We got to find a new way to talk. We find a new way to talk. We have to find a new way to talk because America does feel like the Costco of countries. It's just too big. There's too many aisles. No one can agree on anything. And where do we get our guns?
0:54.4	Hey, everyone. I'm Michelle Bito. This is Jordan Carlos.
0:57.0	Welcome to Adulting. We're fun.
0:58.5	We're fun.
1:20.1	We're fun. I think that's something people do in their 40s is they declare what they are.
1:22.4	They're just like, you know what? I'm fun.
1:25.7	You know what? It's so funny. I don't think it's like a 40s thing. I think it can happen like at any decade in your life, but it is that thing like fake it to you make it. Like, who are we trying to convince? You or me? Like, I'm cool. I'm cool. You know, because you want to be cool. And I get it. I just went to a dinner party Saturday night and I started talking about like wills. Sure. Like do you guys have a will?
1:44.4	Because Prince didn't have a will and like his estate has gone to the government. That's like what he didn't want. And everyone's looking at me like, are you okay? And I'm like, I promise you I'm fun. I promise you I'm very fun. But what it is is like, you know, I am happy clown. I'm happy big titty top titty meat freckle face.
1:42.9	How you doing, bitch?
1:44.5	And so when do you get to the meat and potatoes?
1:47.3	You know what I mean? Like, we just want to get to the meat and potatoes. Yes. And you want to be able to have like a conversation with your friends about a certain topic that's relevant to you and likely relevant to them with it being, you know, keep it like, keep it moving. But sometimes people
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