Hey all, welcome back to Made It Out.

Today I am here with comedian and activist Esther Fallon.

Hi.

Hi.

I'm so excited to be here.

I am so excited.

And we did our pre-call.

Yes.

And it felt like you were a little hesitant to tell me what you wanted to talk about. Yes. Because it's a little woo. It's a little woo. A minute into our conversation, I was like, she's woo. I'm going to be fine. I'm going to be okay. Yeah. I'm woo. I embrace the woo. I honestly, more woo 2026. More woo 2026. Yeah.

Yeah.

Me too.

Magic. It's the glimmers. It's the magic. I love it. Yes. So we're talking about your relationship with your dad. Yes. Let's start at the beginning. Okay. Tell me about how you grew up. What was that relationship like as a kid? What was your childhood like? Yeah. Well, I had a really good childhood.

My mom and dad, very loving relationship, still together. They met at the University of Michigan. My dad is from, like, not too far away. He's from New York. Oh, wow. Okay. And my mom is from Mexico. When they got married, she was like, we can live in New York. if you can promise that we'll make two million a year. And he was like, okay, cool.

Where else would you like to live? What's your option to? You know? Yes. So they ended up moving down to Texas. Oh my gosh. Okay. And still in the States and stuff. I was the youngest of four. I was kind of like the golden child. My two older brothers were the fuck-ups. Like, all love. They would agree. They were doing drugs, skipping school,

all that. Meanwhile, I was like, don't worry, mom and dad. I'll be the lead in all the musicals.

Like, I'll take care of myself. Like, just get the carpool there on time, you know? And my dad, he was a psychiatrist. For a while, like a child psychologist. There were a lot of people, like, at my high school. I didn't know where his patients. Oh, my gosh. That would sometimes come up to me and be like, hey, tell your dad I said hi.

Like, oh, your dad's the best.

Like, he saved my life. I'd be like, cool. What's your name again? You know? It was like, oh, wow, my dad is having such an effect in people's lives. It made me feel really proud. Yeah. You know? Yeah. And because, you know, I want to have an effect in my own way and I felt like he was having an effect in his way and I really looked up to that, you know yeah and because you know I want to have an effect in my own way and I felt like he was

having an effect in his way and I really looked up to that yeah so we had a really solid relationship

he was always in the front row for all my shows you know yeah after he passed I guess that's a

spoiler yeah after he passed at one point I was like watching old high school show tapes,

and I like would recognize the back of his head, like in the front row of all the shows.

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