Hey there, Kalayla. What's it like in New York City? I'm a thousand miles away, but girl, tonight you look so pretty. Yes, you do.
I wonder how many dudes try to pick up on Kalayla with that line whenever that song came out by the plain white tees. Okay, I thought it was this great thing. Here it goes. It's called Hey there, Kalayla.
What do you think? Yeah, Kalayla Cune is my guest on Jeremiah Wonder today. Very excited to have her on the program. She is the co-host of the Tiger Belly podcast with Bobby Lee.
She also happens to date Bobby Lee, so we had some very interesting conversations about that. We had some great talks about religion. She grew up in the Philippines. We covered some dark stuff.
She had aspirations to swim in the Olympics. We talked about that. And also, she probably shared the most shocking sex talk yet. So definitely stay tuned for that.
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How's your day going? How was your week? Huh? I just got back from San Francisco.
Little fried. But Reagan Watkins headline some shows up there. And we had our buddy Joel, Joel Burke, and then as with us and shout out to the San from Psychos comedy show guys, the comedy psychos show. It was amazing.
It's like in this backyard of the back of this coffee shop slash t-shirt shop, very San Francisco, very alternative freaking out of blast there. Had a great time. Also, Joe's Pizza, OG sponsor of Jeremiah winners, Adjo's Pizza, LA on Instagram. Theldun Jeremiah Watkins, or Jeremiah one to send you, huh?
Go get a slice, you get a discount. You heard of himself on a daily podcast. Yeah. Maybe I should have Joe on as a guest.
My brain is racing. I'm all over the place this episode. Speaking of Joe's Pizza, Kallalah and I did not eat pizza together. And I picked up a pizza from Joe's and I figured, what better way than have a pizza party with one of my oldest friends, Justin Alexio?
I did the building years with him. We had a pizza party together. So welcome to Pizza Party with myself and Justin Alexio. Justin, what did you think of Joe's Pizza?
Amazing. I've had it before. And every time I'm like, Oh, is this going to be the time they fall off? And he did it.
It's still great. A plus. Do you have a favorite memory associated with pizza, Justin? Just one time I dropped a piece and I watched the dog eat it pretty man.
And then the owner of that dog was a cute girl. He gave me her number. Man, if people thought Justin likes to go disappear, no, he's in my living room. We just back down on some pizza.
We I got a letter. I asked Justin the other week, I was like, did you listen to the whole episode? Because he said that he listened to the episode that I did myself. It's in the intro.
I mentioned you and that and somebody wrote in the show said, Hey, what where's Justin likes about right now? Like from the building years, you should have him on as a guest. And Justin told me that he freaking fast forward through my intro podcast. Because he thought that I was doing ads and stuff.
Yeah, I was doing ads, Justin. But I was also doing you, Justin's telling a story. Sharon, your your stuff. Anyway, I want to confront you on my podcast about that.
Well, I'm sorry. I do it to everybody. I do it to everybody. I'm Mark Marin.
There's, you know, there's really no discrimination. So just know you're on your on level with the big boy podcast. Heck, yeah, dude. You want to plug anything before you go?
I'm going to be getting flashbacks to the old podcast. Listen to the building years, by the way, guys, if it's back behind the German wonders, it's in the same feed. If you go if you scroll to the bottom of the feed, there's literally hundreds of building years episodes with my friend, Justin Lexio here. Yeah, just guys doing shows at Phoenix in two weeks and then I'm around town at the Ha Ha and the wake of big show next week.
So come out to that. Heck, yeah, buddy. I'll have you on as a as a proper guest soon. Yeah, this is a little teaser.
Indeed, a teaser. Yes, I'll have him on soon. Love that guy. Want to get into this next thing, the kindness challenge, which I've been pushing pretty hard on the podcast.
I've been telling you guys to email your stories in to your boy, Jeremiah, walking to gmail.com. That's why you are boy, Jeremiah walking to gmail.com. But get some good stories. I wanted to share something that happened to me though that was it was definitely somebody who was a good Samaritan act that came out of nowhere.
If you've listened to his podcast in the past, I had something happen with my friends, Willie Hunter and Jamar neighbors, the wave. We had Jamar's car break down on the way down to San Diego for a gig where the wave was going to headline a show down there. Okay. So we had some tires replaced by a good Samaritan then.
So one of the other tires on Jamar's car, whenever we were driving down to Irvine for comedy juice, we made it there fine on the way back up right after we left the Irvine improv, his other tire blew out. We're talking chewed up like entirely. This thing was a mess. We had to pull over on the five highway, right?
And we pull off to an exit because it wasn't safe where we're at. His jack breaks while we're underneath the car, luckily nobody got hurt or anything, but it fell off of the jack as a jack broke. And now the wheels completely almost touching the ground. So it's a mess.
We can't get it back up. And we call it a tow truck place. They're not coming to give us a jack. Luckily our buddy, Mo doc hit up his friend daylight who was a battle rapper, they're both in the battle rapper scene.
He said that he was on the way. They were on the way. We didn't know when they were going to get there. Jamar and I are trying to flag people down in the middle of the street off this off ramp of this exit for the highway.
Right outside Irvine, people are passing us back and forth. We probably look shady. You know, it's getting late at night. It's like 10 o'clock 11 o'clock now.
And Jamar screams to the heavens. He looks up at the sky and as a pure like movie mode, he goes, why? And I start laughing. I pull on my phone because I've been Instagram storing the whole thing.
I was like, dude, can I get that again? That was hilarious. Somebody heard Jamar scream, why? And they busted a U-turn and they said, are you guys okay?
Do you need some help? We actually, we do need help. We were trying to change the tire out on our car, but our jack broke. This guy happens to work on cars.
He gets us back up and running within 15 minutes. The battle rapper who Mo doc called daylight, he shows up with a jack right whenever the guy is putting the tire back on Jamar's car. We thanked him for coming out and we thanked these strangers who just happened to be doing a nice thing for us. It was him and his girlfriend.
They were delivering Uber Eats. They saw that we needed help and extended helping hand. And I just want to share how beautiful that story is that we were down our luck. Nobody was helping us.
We couldn't get a hold of anybody. And then a handful of people came through whenever they saw that we were struggling. And that's what the kindness challenges all about. Reaching out to some people, you may not know them at all.
Do something nice for somebody and it will definitely improve your life. Literally last week, I shared a kindness challenge story of my own and it was paid forward back to me this week with this tire fiasco. So I think that was really cool and I wanted to share that with you guys. I want to thank the people who helped us get Jamar's car back on the road and hopefully his tire situation is done now.
But yeah, Willy Hunter and Jamar were troopers. We were trying to get it going, but man, it was a little rough. But yeah, I'm super grateful that some nice strangers helped us out. And it doesn't even have to be a stranger for the kindness challenge.
It can be somebody that you know that you do something nice for somebody to know and make you feel good, paid for it. I'm all about that, that positive energy. I'm a little bit of a hippie sometimes on this podcast, but I promise you, paying that positive energy forward will pay off in your life. Yes, yes, yes.
So email your boy, Jeremiah Watkins at gmail.com, your stories, or if you have original music for the show, which I'm going to play some original music right now from the band keep it honest with their song to waves. I would be in Portland, Oregon, featured for Tony Hinchcliffe June 15th and 16th were doing live Kill Tony on June 17th at Helium comedy club Tuesday, June 12th, stand up on the spot at the comedy store in the bellyroom with Joe Rogan, Brendan Shaw, Baron Von Casey, Ballroom and myself, and we'll still add a couple more comments. But you guys are first to know about that. Get tickets to that July 13th or 15th Skankfest in Brooklyn, New York, or common baby July 24th, Reagan Watkins is headline team or headline headlining the rec room in Huntington Beach.
And Joe Berg is going to be with us on that show with some other Kill Tony comedians will be joining us as well. It's going to be great July 24th, and then in August with Tony Hinchcliffe featuring on the road and we're doing some Kill Tony's in these falling cities. Cleveland, Ohio, Indiana, Lexington, Kentucky, Nashville, Tennessee, all with Tony Hinchcliffe, the old pony and golden goose riding together again. Those are my spots over the next couple of months out of town and then I'm always around Los Angeles in the scene every night out on the week.
You know what I'm saying. Without further ado, I want to get into this episode of Jeremiah Wonders with Kaleila. She was a delight, an absolute delight to have on podcast. I love having people that are not comedians on the show just as much as I love having guests that are comedians on the show.
Is it a different perspective? If you have some data comedian, we got into that. There's a lot of gems in here. Please welcome to the show Kaleila.
We're doing it. We're here on Jeremiah Wonders with Kaleila, everybody. Hi, everybody. So excited.
Very tranquil. Very hello. And I can't compete with Bobby. Do you want me to do backflips?
No, you don't have to. That's I asked you on for completely different reasons. I want to I want to Kaleila. I didn't want Bobby.
You want to calm and tranquil and rational. Pretty much. Thank you. Yeah.
I mean, it's possibly boring. If we know, I don't think it will be boring. I think it's going to be I some of my favorite podcasts are with people who are not comedians because I'm around comedians all the time. So it's refreshing being around people who, you know, are more adjacent to it than anything.
Like you probably relate a lot to my wife because I do and I love Maya. Maya is great. Yeah. When I see her, it's like an oasis, you know, when I see her face at the comedy store, it's like, Oh, look, somebody normal.
Come to me. Yes. Can we talk, please? Give me out of the situation for a little bit.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Is it hard?
Do you think? Is it hard dating a comedian? I think it's hard dating Bobby. I think that any profession he would have taken on, it would be hard to date him regardless.
Yeah. He's just a, you know, he's a funny book. He's a strange, strange guy. He is a strange guy.
I've known Bobby for I want my own Bobby now since 2000, probably 11 around there. That was the first time I met him is he he pulled me aside at the comedy store. He used to watch the potluck open mic a lot back in the day on Mondays. Yeah.
Yeah. But every single he like didn't have anything to do. And he'd just come and chill in the back and just like be cool. The comics he'd like anytime somebody had a good set, he would, you know, kind of coach them a little bit.
And he pulled me aside one night. And that's how I met him. And he like gave me like some words of wisdom. And because I was doing the stuff that was, I was like throwing myself all around the stage and like falling all over the place.
And it was getting a good response. But he pulled me aside. He's like, that was great. But yeah, you're not going to be able to do that for very long.
He's like, that has a very short shelf life, that stuff that you're doing up there. So you need to work on your writing a little bit more. Oh, well, yeah. You can take it well.
No, he was also very complimentary. He's like, you should be in a sketch show. Like, I can see you doing characters like all the stuff. And I was everything that I wanted to hear from somebody like Bobby, because I grew up watching him on Mad J.V.
and stuff. So the fact that he was even at the open mic, I was like, what is this guy doing here? Yeah, he's pretty nurturing in that sense. He's very nurturing.
And I think that maybe has a bit of like a hero complex, where I think he really likes the position of, which is not a bad thing to have. I think he likes the position of like helping, you know, newcomers and you know, feeling that pride when they start to, you know, thrive in the industry and somehow like eclipses his own career. Because it's happened, you know, I'm sure he's talked about it, where you know, you know, yeah, I never was always like, you're so sad that I'm not. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I can imagine what that feels like. It's a weird feeling, I guess. I mean, I remember the first time I met you. Oh, yeah.
Bobby had given me a different description of the kind of comic that I was about to see. He said, you know, this guy's really clean cut. He's a Christian. He's, you know, you're from Kansas, right?
Yeah, Kansas. And so I had this image. I was like, whoa, this is going to be some like, you know, you know, it's the country bumping talking about like the Bible. Yeah.
And basically you had 15 minutes about bumping cocaine. I was like, are you sure? Yeah. Is this the same person?
Is the same guy that you described to me right before you prepped me on the show? Yeah. And I was like, wow, Christian's going to talk about cocaine. Yeah, Christian's going to be cool too.
It's like eye opening. That's so funny. Yeah, I probably met you at one of those either at the comedy store or I think it was probably at the Brea improv or somewhere like that. Yeah, it was a brand.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was, that was a fun, yeah, that was always fun, weird weekends with Bobby.
Yeah. I mean, you go on the road with him a lot. Yeah. Yeah.
I used to go on the road with him quite a bit. I've been going on the road a little bit more with Tony Hinscliffe lately. His so funny Bobby came up to me recently. We did kill Tony at the comedy store and I roasted him a couple times as I was playing like this king character and he talked about his shows like he's like, don't you ever do that to me again?
I was like, ah, ah, not a problem. He's like, are you still being the king character? I was like, maybe. Oh, yeah.
He's some sort of, you know, I know, even though he's like, he loves to dish it out. He'll be able to do that. How dare you? You're going to turn on Papa.
Yeah. He always thinks like everyone jumps teams. Yeah. He's really confrontational about that.
So we're threat as you ever been that way with you. Like you're like, oh, you're on their side. Yeah. If I take any like opposing view, let's say, for instance, like if he's telling me like, yeah, you know, this person said this.
And in fact, the other person was correct. I'm like, well, you know, that person had a point. Yeah. Then he goes off.
Yeah. You don't know. I was spot on a version. Yeah.
That's hilarious. But I want to, I want to talk more about you. I love Bobby. We'll probably be talking about him randomly in the podcast.
But I'm a fan of you and your work on your podcast, Tiger Valley. Thanks. Yeah. How many of you guys been doing that now?
I don't know, like two and a half years. Yeah. Is it weird there's already been going that long? It doesn't feel long.
We're almost 150 episodes in. That's crazy. You Jeremiah, it, I still feel, you know, some people like they get in front of a camera or they have a, they have a mic in front of their face and eventually you get used to that stuff. Yeah.
I'm not used to that stuff. Like I cannot for some reason, like this wasn't my calling. Right. Do you know what I mean?
Like some people just settle in, get comfortable and they're like, yeah, I can do this forever. Like as much as like, I love our fan base and I love, you know, like I love so many aspects of it. I'm done recording that hour. I'm so exhausted.
My hands are sweating. Yeah. Like my jaws are still like clenched like this, you know, but I will say that it beats the hell out of any other job I would have had. Oh, yeah.
You know, if I wasn't doing this. So I'm very grateful that, you know, people latched onto the silly things that we say for an hour. Like it's really comforting to know that. Oh shit.
Like people actually like the bullshit we spew, you know? Well, you guys also do like some cool segments, like where you give advice at times and stuff like that. I feel like that genuinely helps people. We give horrible advice.
Well, like last week we had a guy. I've heard some good ones. We're like, that's all right advice. Yeah.
Body always, you know, some once in a while, he'll have some, you know, sage advice. Yeah. But you know, it's called Unhelpful Advice for a reason. I think that's probably to protect the fact that like we absolutely have like no lies.
It's like dude, like we're just as dumb if not dumber than you. And you probably shouldn't be coming to us about, you know, advice about how to get over the emotional trauma of a spinal injury. You know what I mean? Like, I mean, those things are serious and people come to us with like, Hey, I'm on the verge of, you know, taking my own life and like we read these things and we're like, Whoa, this is really heavy.
Yeah. And I'm not, I'm not, you know, capable of helping him out of that whole. Yeah. I'm not trained for that.
No, no, I'm not. You know, like maybe I might have my own experience of wanting to kill myself at some point, but you know, like, I can't. Yeah, there's a little bit of like fear sometimes where you're like, really, you're putting this on me. Yeah.
You know, I always feel this like incessant needs like right and back. Like, Are you okay? Don't kill yourself. Don't do it, bro.
You know, that's the only thing I say, like, just don't do it. Is it? Well, I mean, yeah, that's the starting point. Yeah.
I mean, but I think about that though, is I, but what if they do it, right? Well, yeah, because you know how like we live in a society where they always tell you that it's not the way to go. But is it not the way to go because it hurts the people you leave behind? Because sometimes you are in such a state of torment in your own mind that sometimes that might be the way to go, right?
I don't want to like solicit suicide. That's not what I'm saying. I'm just speaking here on Jeremiah. And also, so, no, like I'm not trying to like, I'm just saying like from my own experiences of like being like depressed and being in a really deep hole, there are moments where that felt like the only option kind of thing.
Not the only option, but a decent option. You know, and I've had, you know, my step brother not to get real dark on this, but my step brother committed suicide. One of my best friends a couple years ago, like off themselves in the gun range, you know. And I think about what they were going through.
And they had, you know, they were going through like schizophrenic, you know, like auditory hallucinations and things like that. And he had voices and stuff. And they just couldn't get out of it, you know. Here you are normal teenagers and all of a sudden when you're nearing your twenties, you start to, you know, have a war, a full fledged war in your mind.
And I don't know, I know. What's the Christian response? Well, if you go the super Christian route, then they would be like, well, they just need help from the Lord and they just need to pray about it. And they just need to get in the church.
And I had a friend who committed suicide that was one of my best friends out here in LA. And there wasn't any kind of signs, which was really, really hard for everybody. There wasn't any schizophrenia that we knew about linked to her or anything like that. So it was, that was really rough.
Like you said that your childhood friends, they had like some mental stuff that they were kind of going through that. Yeah. So whenever, like it happened, like it was, it felt so out of left field that it was, I mean, it's just as hard to deal with it. But it was, yeah, it's shocking.
Of course. Like any time somebody committed suicide, it's like a loved one. It's like, whoa, what have you? And it's traumatizing.
But then I put myself in the shoes of somebody who is hearing three different voices that they're unfamiliar with, you know, and having to deal with voices that people telling you are not real, but you're hearing them in your head. Yeah. And then they dose you up with frickin first generation anti-psychotics like Hal Dolla. Now you're basically walking around like Frankenstein, right?
And frickin drooling on yourself and gaining all this weight. But you don't hear those voices, but you look like shit. So it's like, you know, like where do you go from there? Yeah.
I feel really, really, I can have so much empathy and sympathy for anybody going through that. Yeah. Which if you, you know, if you are going through that right now, I feel the need, I feel the need to say, you know, try to talk to somebody about that. And you have people that love you.
And yeah, don't listen to, don't listen to me. Don't listen to the weird voice inside your head. It's like a hello. OK, that's terrifying.
Isn't that terrifying? Now if I heard that in my head, I would, yes, it. Go away. Yeah.
Fuck that. Oh my God. Go away. You need to kill Bobby.
It's time. It's time for you to kill Bobby. Go away. You're gonna give me a panic.
It's not terrifying. I think I'm actually having a panic attack. Oh, no, no, no, no. All right.
We'll pump the brakes on that weird voice. That's actually, have you seen the trailer for Venom? Yes, with Tom Hardy. Yeah.
That looks really good. That's that what that voice kind of reminds me. I was like, listen Eddie, we will do like it. So like, like, here he is.
Really good at that. Well, it is a voice changer that's on there. That would be dope if I was able to drop my voice like that far down. It's me, Jeremiah.
Or is it Jeremiah? I don't know. It's creepy, right? Yeah.
Yeah. So it's a I was concerned before I got here, because you have a really, like, thin slender face. Yeah. And I have what you call a prototypical, like large Asian face.
OK, so I was thinking if I sit, maybe if I sit far back enough, no one's going to notice the difference between your facial proportions and mine. I'm really conscious about like my massive face. What are you talking about? This was a real thought before I came in here.
I was like, maybe I should just contour a little bit more this morning and just make sure that Jeremiah is a very slender face. Well, Jeremiah, that's a very big nose. I think you're going to be OK here. You know, that's the only good thing I felt about because I have a pretty, you know, a pretty good nose myself.
Oh, I got to stop the podcast right here. That is not what are you talking about? What I'm saying. Well, yeah, like relatively speaking.
I'm saying I'm trying to say I mean compared to you. I'm good. I'm here. I mean, yeah, it's, you know, normal if you want to call it that.
But I mean, yeah, sitting next to Jeremiah. I look like a goddess. Yeah, this is going to be a good episode. I had to do an extra contour on my left side.
Come on. And I was like, don't you bother contouring? That was your good. You're good.
Girl, you're good there. Don't even worry about that contour on there. They did this scene on Silicon Valley that this reminds me of where there's, he got lip injections. Yeah.
This guy with like a strong profile to make everything look smaller. And his lips were like all the way out to here. So that's what it would look like if I like started contouring. I would just literally be like an eagle soaring in the night sky with just just nose.
But I think, you know what, I think that people are so obsessed with looking the same. Like I see a lot of people on social media that even men, where it's like they alter their faces and everybody's starting to kind of look the same in the city is kind of well, LA specifically, absolutely. It's just that Instagram look, you know, it's very specific. It is a specific look.
I mean, I feel like that's why certain people like who are like the, it's like the felicity effect I call it. Like whenever you change a feature about yourself that is popular, like she cut her hair, like her long, pretty curly hair. Really? Yeah.
Really short. And people like it hurt her career like for like instantly like Jennifer Gray from Dirty Dancing, she had a prominent nose. And I thought it was really cute. And it kind of just made her face perfect.
Yeah. And she got a nose job. And I think it just kind of made her look too average almost. Yeah.
It's like, well, now you look like everybody else. Like that was the thing that is setting you apart. Yeah. Someone on Instagram commented on the photo of mine last week.
And he was like a photo, not of my nose. It was a photo of a puppy. And they were like, Mark, my words, because I was going to get a nose job. And I was like, wait a second.
Like, what's wrong with my nose? Yeah. It wasn't even like truly aware of it until someone's like, oh, like it's a picture of a puppy dude. Yeah.
I didn't know that I had a big nose until I was listen, until this girl freaking thought that I came out of the womb with this size, and that's true because babies don't come out with their nose. Yeah, you're right. Yeah. No, Jeremiah, how do you not know that you have a big nose?
So I, my nose came a little bit later. Mine too. Mine came whenever I was like towards like middle school is whenever my nose started getting bigger. Also, I used to be a fatter chubbier kid.
So I had more cheek room. OK. So as the way dissipated and the cheek started pulling back into my body, the nose started protruding more. And in eighth grade, I remember this kid, Trey was like, Hey, man, you got a big nose like out of nowhere.
And it shook my freaking world. I was like, wait, why did you do well? Why did you just say? Trey, I always thought I had a normal size nose.
No, man, it's big. I have a big nose. Wait, everything is changing in front of me right now. My mom always told me I was perfect.
What's happening? My mom always told me I was the best at everything. I was the best at looking at all that. And then whenever I went to public school transition from going to private Christian school, people are a little bit more on their best behavior to, you know, just out in Mad Max, public school community.
I found out a lot of things about myself. I found out I wasn't as talented as I thought I was. Wasn't as I didn't have the looks that I thought I did because they're such a bigger. You're in a sea rather than a little pond.
Speaking of water, you're a swimmer. Yeah, speaking of water. You want to touch my palms? Yeah.
Are you sure? Yeah, are they super? You already know this about me, though. I have super sweaty, but I mean, like it's beyond like, like people are like, oh, I have sweaty palms doing like no bits.
You don't know what sweaty palms are. You don't know what a sweaty upper lip is. Don't look at my upper lip. I'd find the mic.
You're fine. You don't know what like sweaty eyebrows are. Like you don't know sweaty anything until you've met me. Like I can't hold a newspaper because it's just smeared all over my body.
Are you sure you want to touch my hands? Yeah, good thing there's cell phones out there now. How often are you putting the predicament? I can't hold onto these newspapers.
What's going on here? I can't stand at the corner and tell the news. That's what's going on. It's really cut into my career over here.
OK, but this is another thing I thought before I came here. I was like, oh, I hope I don't have to hold a mic because then I'd have to ask for a towel to hold a mic because what if it short circuits because of my wet hands? There's a lot of this is a lot of thoughts that went in before coming over. But tell me if I'm exaggerating.
I'm going to show you my hand and you tell me if I'm exaggerating about the abnormal degree at which I sweat. OK. All right. It's pretty.
Yeah, it's like you've been working out. But only my hands have been working. Just the hands. So it just comes strictly out of the.
Oh, my goodness. That is. I don't have to say for your mics. No, you're fine.
No, no, no. Don't worry about it. You're 100 percent fine. Yeah.
I can take a white white to later. So like, well, paper towel white, belly go totally not sanitary. Bleach, dude, bleach. What Cola.
I didn't know is that Jeremiah had to throw away all the mics right after she left. Let me wipe my sweat stash. And my eyebrow hashtag sweat stash. You know your podcast on Jeremiah.
I wonder if you got that sweat stash going on people. OK, this is the only thing that, you know, because Bobby always says, like, when we first started dating, like, oh, you're the hottest chick. Like I've ever been with. And I never, but there's a reason that like when I was even at my, my prettiest, let's say, like 28 years old, I'm not 28 anymore.
I'm 30 now. I never felt like you know, when hot girls, like they just, you feel it. They look the part, right? Like the wind is blowing their hair.
They walk kind of a little bit more like in slow motion. Kind of like they know people are looking. Yeah, they're really feeling themselves. Yeah.
I don't think I've had a moment in my life where I truly felt like the wind in my hair. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, because of the sweating, because every time I try to flip my hair, my fingers would get caught because of like the dampness of my hand. Like I never had like the hair, the hair flip moment.
Like, yeah, I really, you know, so guys are like looking like the like the pier and like, dude, who's that chick? And there's like, I have eyes. Yeah, it's really like a weird thing. Like, and I think it's what kept me humble.
You know, that's a huge blessing in disguise is is having something as, you know, as cure, like, it's not a big deal, the sweaty hands thing, but it keeps you, like you said, it keeps you humble. So you had to develop a personality. Yeah, I did. And I had to find ways to tell people that I didn't want to shake their hand.
Right. Like even to an employer, say, for instance, like, hi, nice to meet you. Like, hi, can we chest bump instead? I know that's really weird, but like, yeah, I would say like dumb things like that.
And they'd be like, what? And she's like an 80 year old woman, you know, like always with the kids. We're going to, we're going to, where was the set? It was at a hospital.
Is that a hospital? We're going to reenact that right now. Hello, come in. Calli, is that how I say it?
Calli la. It is just me. Oh, yeah. OK, yeah, you're calling into it for this phone interview.
Wait, no, it doesn't work if it's a phone interview because I don't want to shake your hand. OK, why don't you come in the head? Why don't you come in? OK, I come into the OK, see you on your cell phone, get off your cell phone and come around the corner.
OK, now, a calli la is that how you say it? Nice to meet you. Hi, nice to meet you too. Look, I have some weird leprosy thing going on with my hand.
But you want to work at this hospital? Yeah, it's contagious. But you know, I figured I could wear gloves. I was I was thinking that maybe to get to know each other better, if we could just do a quick jump in a chest bump.
What is it? What the kids are doing these days? Oh, you know what better yet? Let's let's do this.
A pound? Yeah. Oh, wait, is that the leprosy hand? I'm sorry.
I don't know if we can I was just looking over your resume. You look qualified, but I after finding out about this odd hand thing, I don't know if we can hire you here. Oh, that's all right. All right, lady.
The best ending to an improv scene. Fuck you by. I'm going to say something that's like I maybe I have never admitted out loud. I think that one of the reasons I when I went to nursing school, I was so competent.
And when I did my preceptorship and you're working and like, you know, you're basically doing your you're at the hospital setting always. Yeah. I I think one of the main reasons why I thought I cannot do this job is because of my hands. I don't think that yeah, because I was getting Botox in my hands and it was causing atrophy.
I was sweating. I was getting Botox to stop the sweating. Oh, and so and so and people were like, no, my hands went to just the talcum powder. I'm one time I did that.
I brought talcum powder because I was like, okay, I'm still done. It takes me 10 minutes to put one fucking glove on, you know, and I put talcum powder on and I made a cake. Basically. Oh, it's just so slightly.
Yeah, it's I basically made a fucking like cake batter under my gloves, you know, like fuck this. It's not my profession. Yeah. Let me go hold him.
I can said right. Might not slip on his. And now you made it. You're on Jeremiah wonders.
Tiger bellies going great. This is exactly where we all envision. Collide would be. I know God.
All those years of college, you know, all those hard, hard classes of, you know, physics and biochemistry. But what's great, what's great about going to college is just having life experience, which makes you who you are. And so interesting that you date somebody like Bobby, where it's like he's a, you know, a well-known comedian. And you're a very smart woman who is very well versed in a lot of topics.
So it makes for a very interesting dynamic for Tiger Bell. You know what I mean? Yeah, I guess I guess so. I'm like a I always look at things like the weird things come around.
Like you don't know why like you have to do certain things, but I feel like things end up working out in the long run, even though right in front of you're like, why did I just go to school for all those years? It's like, oh, maybe it's for this weird new profession of podcasting just for me to have context for different things and then maybe able to talk about so many different topics. Yeah, maybe. But the worst part is that when you go to college, like you learn, you know, years where you in college, I was probably like 10 years.
Oh, wow. I jumped around a lot. I started at UNLV on a swim scholarship and then I went to college of Southern Nevada. How long did you, how long were you swimming in your entire life?
Yeah, because I grew up in Philippines and I swam for the Philippine team for a couple of years. Really? And then I came out here basically with the goal to either qualify for the Olympics or to swim collegially. And so I did.
And then what are tryouts like whenever you were auditioning for the Philippine swim team? Like what is what like do you go through to even get? You just have to make a certain time. Or so they have these time qualifications that you and those time qualifications are usually times that not the Philippine country sets.
It's like what this like, for instance, like Southeast Asian games, you have to be at least this fast to compete in this Asian competition. Okay. So it's based on stroke and different. Yeah.
So I was a 200 butterfly or 200 breaststrokers. So yeah, that's what I did. And when I came here and I was a giant fob for most of high school. Yeah.
Yeah, I still am. Do you have, they do have fob friends in Kansas, Jeremiah? I don't like I'm thinking of fob and I don't know if I'm really familiar with this term. I'm like, what is a fob?
It will. It's it's actually people think it's like a I guess it's only a bad term if someone makes it a bad term. But it's basically fresh off the boat. Oh, okay.
Okay. But that was me out here in LA my first year or two. I was so fob. Really?
Like when I first got to LA, like it was ridiculous. I was waving and smiling and literally everybody walking down the street. I was just like, I'm out in Hollywood. And he was like, Hey, how you doing?
Hey, what's going on? Hey, nice to meet you. Jeremiah Watkins. Good to see you like that.
Like I literally had to stop being so outgoing and nice whenever I got here because people saw it like as a way to take advantage of me, like who were strangers, like off the street, like, like any kind of eye contact you letting people in out here. Now, later, Oh, what can I get out of this guy? How can I hustle this guy or whatever? So I did.
Yeah, I was definitely a fob for sure. Yeah. I like that about you. And I hope that never changes.
I think that there's always going to be somewhat of an element of that just because I don't know. That's how I was raised and I think that you should always keep that about you. You're so non threatening. You're so approachable.
You're so warm. Oh, that's nice. And that's such a that's such a refreshing thing to have, especially in an industry where everyone's just trying to kind of, you know, you know, climb on top of each other, you know, yeah, can be pretty rough sometimes. I feel like it's an easy thing for comedians.
The more maybe notoriety they get, the more kind of self consumed and self absorbed they get. And I'm like, that's whenever they start losing the qualities that even got them there in the first place. Like, oh, people like you because they feel like you could be friends with them. You know what I mean?
Like, I don't know. And I think that's probably the beauty of podcasting. And I think I take that. I like that the most about podcasting.
Even when I listen to podcasts, it's always like you feel like you're in the room with those people. Right. There isn't this pressure to speak correctly, to always like to have broadcasting chops, to, you know, say sentences and, you know, it's like, you don't have to care about. Or something on a podcast.
And I was going to be like, oh, they messed up where they were. It was like, hello, I'm live on the scene right outside of the where the fire is has not been extinguished. And I'm over here and I, oh man, this guy's biffing it, man. He might get fired.
You know that that or like they automatically assume like she's having a stroke. I'm like, did you just remember that she she was reporting on? I don't sure. It's reporting on the weather or something.
And she just had like a brain fart. And like, I think that would happen to me where like my eye would roll back momentarily. Just out of the way. Yeah, it was like hang back because that's what I do sometimes when I get anxious.
Like I blink excessively. And then everyone assumed I think that she had a stroke. OK. And maybe it was a stroke.
Yeah, but she was up on the news. Yeah. Or maybe she just had a climate moment, you know, we're like, we're fucking I rolled back in the back head. I'm like, like just pure anxiety, you know?