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Hyphenated with Joanna Hausmann and Jenny Lorenzo

X Mayo on how she went from TSA Agent to NBC Star

Hyphenated with Joanna Hausmann and Jenny Lorenzo

Pitaya Entertainment

Us Latinos, Education, Comedy, Hyphenated, Pitaya, Jenny Lorenzo, Latinx, Joanna Hausmann, Society & Culture

5632 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Joanna welcomes X Mayo (from THE DAILY SHOW and currently on the the new NBC sitcom AMERICAN AUTO) as they discuss navigating the New York City comedy scene as a Afro-Mexicana, how the TSA taught her to defuse a bomb in someone's pants, and finding the comedy in the trauma of your father not being there.

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, I'm Joanna, and this is hyphenated, the podcast about living in the hyphen.

0:09.4

This week's episode, I had the pleasure of speaking to my friend X. Mayo.

0:15.6

She is an incredible actor, writer, performer.

0:18.3

She's been on The Daily Show.

0:20.0

She currently is on NBC's American Auto.

0:23.0

She's literally all over the place. She's killing it. I would have loved to have recorded an intro with her,

0:28.1

but to be honest, we started recording and we immediately started catching up and forgot it was a podcast.

0:35.2

She's just one of the funniest people I've ever met in my life.

0:37.8

And in this episode, we talk about her, you know, career trajectory and trauma and all that.

0:43.2

But to be totally honest, we mostly just made each other laugh. And by each other, I mean that she

0:48.0

made me laugh. Her stories are the most mind-blowingly hilarious things you've ever heard from

0:53.9

her working as a TSA agent to

0:56.4

her dad's abandonment. All of these stories are just riddled with hilarity. So without further ado,

1:02.6

my conversation with ex-Mayo.

1:06.3

Last time I saw you, you had a jug of water the size of, like, a toddler.

1:13.6

And there it is.

1:14.9

There it is.

1:15.4

And I've been stopping because I'm like, I'm going to have to pee every two minutes.

1:19.8

This is not going to be called the PeeP podcast.

1:22.1

Because I'm going to keep going and fucking pee.

1:24.5

I was like, let me not, let me hold off on the hydration until I talk to Jolada.

1:29.9

You know, you're, you're so, you're so talented.

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