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WTOP
"janelle james" Discussed on WTOP
"Corps memorial stadium in Annapolis. Download the military bowl mobile app to keep up with the latest bowl news. Purchase your tickets now at military bull dot org. This is WTO P news. It's two 22. Ever since the gangster known as whitey bulger was killed in West Virginia prison for years ago, there has been a search to find out how it happened. The Justice Department inspector general says there were a series of missteps that led to his deadly beating, and it's recommending that at least 6 bureau of prison workers be disciplined. The watchdog reports says bulger was moved from a private private prison cell in Florida to being housed with the general population in West Virginia. Information about the move was widely known. The bureau of prisons says it's made some changes, including improved communications on medical transfers. A two 23 ABC's Abbott elementary airs a festive episode tonight titled holiday hookah. It is the mid season finale of season two before returning from winter break in January. An elementary school battles budget issues in Philadelphia. Welcome back, dorks, and it's time to get this party started. Creator Quinta Brunson stars as pollyannish teacher jeanine in a will they won't they subplot with colleague Gregory Tyler James Williams. Janelle James plays Ava who blackmailed her way into the principal's desk watching Instagram videos and shopping online. Chris paretti is corny as jank of Lisa and Walter as tough as nails as Melissa, William Stanford Davis is the wisecracking janitor and Cheryl Lee Ralph earned an Emmy as wise veteran teacher Barbara. It's all shot as a mockumentary like The Office with cutaway interviews behind the scenes. Read my full review on WCW dot com. Jason fairley WTO news. Google has revealed the top web searches of 2022. Leading the way, wordle, the 5 letter word game that took off in popularity last winter, Google says election results was number two in U.S. searches, third was Betty White, who died last New Year's Eve. Election results was the top news search followed by the death of Queen Elizabeth and Ukraine, Google says the top trending search person of the year was Johnny Depp, who won a defamation lawsuit number two was Will Smith after he slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars. Steve kathan, CBS News. All right, two 24 here on WTO P, it is close to the end of the year and that means lists, including one that compiles the most mispronounced words of 2022 and we've probably involved been involved in many of them. A company that captions and subtitles events on TV compiled it. It highlights the names and terms that were most challenging for news anchors to pronounce. And this is definitely one for me and probably for most of us here at WTO other than the sports guys. They include Miami Dolphins quarterback tua, tug of iloa. Also the Ukrainian city of zapper Asia. Some others are believe it or not, Grammy winning singer Adele, which I didn't know was so hard, but apparently the correct way to say her name is Ade Adele. As opposed to Adele. I didn't know that. Me neither. Well, now we know. She recently said most people had been mispronouncing her name all of her life. All right. Well, here's the name we don't have to worry about pronouncing. Money news at 25 and 55 I can say Jeff clay ball. You got it right. The Dow is down just 24 points. The S&P 500 Index is down 13, but the NASDAQ is down 59 points. That's
WTOP
"janelle james" Discussed on WTOP
"You like this show so much. And what's going on with its star and creator? Well, it's shot in a mock dock documentary fashion the way that Modern Family or Parks and Recreation many other shows have been done. But instead in a world that hasn't really been seen on TV, it's set in a world of a public school underfunded understaffed, the teachers are overwhelmed, but you have at the core of this very optimistic, second grade teacher, played by series creator Quinta Brunson, and so she just brings this spark of hope to the whole thing, and the characters are all really funny the way the show is shot the way it is written, some very outrageous and terrific character. So it's just a really good comedy series that's about something. And it's one of those rare things. It's a hit show on network TV. So yay for ebit elementary and tonight, Quinta Brunson gets anointed by Queen Oprah Winfrey with a spotlight special on Oprah's own network where Oprah sits in chats with Quinta about her mentors, how's this show came together? Yeah, this showed Abbott elementary. The school is named after one of quintus most significant teachers. So this all very, very sweet. But it's a great series. And this coming Wednesday when there's a new episode. It sounds like it's going to be a really terrific one where her character of the teacher calls in sick and taking over her class is the principle this outrageous character played by Janelle James, who has no business being a principal of an elementary school of a public elementary school, but she's truly hilarious and I can not wait to see that episode. So if you're looking for some show to catch up with you, you haven't seen elementary Abbott elementary. That is my pick for the show of the year. Okay. Well, Thanksgiving is hardly in the rearview mirror and we're already being offered a flurry of Christmas movies and specials. Yeah, and on Sunday Night, CNN has a documentary special called
Netflix is A Daily Joke
"janelle james" Discussed on Netflix is A Daily Joke
"Sweet times, man. It's a weird, I feel like we're in another dimension or some shit, you know what I mean? Sometimes. It feels like Marty McFly did fuck his mom and that's where we all are. You know what I mean? That's where we all live in right now. All fucking disappearing on a fucking Polaroid right now. That's what's happening. White dudes hitting on me. How dare you? How dare you? What? I don't trust y'all right now. You're crazy. Fucking crazy. That's the whitest white man shit to do right now, hit on a black woman. You fucked the hubris. And this economy? It's a shame, because I like white guys. And you gotta track them. I do, I do. I like white guys. Not as people, not as human beings. Listen, it's sexual fetishized kinda way. You know? You know? The kind of white dudes I like don't really hit on me, you know, you know? Like, I don't like wiggers, you know what I mean? I'm bringing that back. I don't like wakers. Can we still say that? I can. I can still say it. Right? Not you. And I can't fucking say it. You know? I don't like wiggers. That's what white dudes try to act black, you know? Connor, you know, there was some motherfuckers. It's corny motherfuckers. I don't like them. I don't like wiggers, I don't like progressives, you know? No, no. Like if I date a white dude, I want to ruin your family. What's the point? You know what I mean? What's the point? I want them reluctant going in, right? Reluctant. You don't want it, but I'm giving it to them. You know what I mean? And then when he falls to me, his mother stops talking to him. So fucking excitement, you know? Some angst. That sexy racism. That was my biggest gripe with the new Nazis, you know what I mean? All them dudes, nobody hot. Are you crazy? No abs, you know what I mean? Okay, superior race. Get the fuck. Get the fuck. Do some pull ups and they will fucking talk. But anyway, catch Janelle James in the comedy lineup, only on Netflix.
ICYMI
"janelle james" Discussed on ICYMI
"The incredible, happy feelings that we need to make it through these dark times. What we're saying is Emmy nominations came out this weekend. Alvin elementary is in it to win it. Sweeping the nominations. Abbott elementary, which is a delightful comedy we've recommended many times has been nominated for an outstanding comedy series Emmy. Rachel, would you like to continue with the list? I would. It's creator Quinta Brunson scored two more Emmy nominations just for herself or lead actress in a comedy series and outstanding writing in a comedy series. Tyler James Williams was nominated for supporting actor and both Janelle James and Cheryl Lee Ralph found themselves nominated for supporting actress in a comedy series and if I ran the Emmys, I would give two in that category this year. I'm just saying. It should be an option. If you haven't watched evident elementary, just do it. Thank us later. And then go listen to our episode about desking, which is a fake TikTok challenge that they made up in ebit elementary, which is like the most delightfully accurate representation of how challenges work online. I think we've seen in popular culture to date. I mean, and it makes sense 'cause it's coming from none other than Quinta, who we should always know got her start online. She is one of, I would say this generation's first Internet talents that has made its way to mainstream fame. Take us through the journey, Rachel. I mean, she'll be posting videos on Instagram. Remember, oh, he got money. Don't be nasty nasty, but he got money though. We saw her on BuzzFeed with the whole cache of talent that if you want to find out why they left BuzzFeed, they're a lot of videos called why I love you. You will never watch anything else on YouTube again. If you type this into the search bar, don't do it. And now she's on prime time television in less than a decade. I mean, suck it, Charli D'Amelio, Dixie, which one had the reality show. Was it all of them? I think the whole family, if I'm not mistaken. All of this is just the best news. App sleep fantastic. And I will say that there's a highlight of this highlight, which is the video Sheryl Lee Ralph, which is posted by her son on Instagram, and it's of her receiving the call that she earned the nomination, which is long overdue, I feel we must say. No, no, no. Oh my God. You got nominated? Oh my gosh. You know what I'm doing? Yes. It's just the way he says mommy. I don't know that I have ever been that loving towards any of my parents in my life. And I feel regrets about this. This is the bar. I mean, her children have been absolutely amazing throughout this entire press cycle, her daughter has been the one dressing her on red carpets until you'll see her tweet. This is when I was thinking for the idea for mom this week. We're going all bright colors like miss Shirley, Ralph for an Emmy. And it worked. It's funny I was telling my girlfriend about this video and how long overdue Cheryl Lee Ralph has been working for decades steadily in television just sort of like you're watching a show and there she is. And I kid you not. We're watching motherland fort Salem, which is a show about, which is it's not great, but it's very gay. And we look up and would you believe she plays the president of the United States? Can we make her the actual president of the United States? No, but we can attempt to make her an Emmy winner. We don't actually have that power. But we're not manifest manifested. Like the kids choice words where you just vote. And then you get a surfboard. Surfboard. All right, so that's the good news for the day. Enjoy it, roll around in it, like a little piggy and some mud. And rewatch the video of that phone call as many times as me and Madison have, which we will not disclose on air. Speaking of phone calls, though, that's actually kind of what we're talking about today, because scams, they're everywhere. They're back. Well, I guess they never really left. I was like, where did they go? They took a nice vacation a little PTO. They're back, and it feels like recently our phones just will not stop buzzing with phone calls and texts, and DMs from unknown numbers constantly trying to alert us to
The Secret History of the Future
"janelle james" Discussed on The Secret History of the Future
"The incredible, happy feelings that we need to make it through these dark times. What we're saying is Emmy nominations came out this weekend. Alvin elementary is in it to win it. Sweeping the nominations. Abbott elementary, which is a delightful comedy we've recommended many times has been nominated for an outstanding comedy series Emmy. Rachel, would you like to continue with the list? I would. It's creator Quinta Brunson scored two more Emmy nominations just for herself or lead actress in a comedy series and outstanding writing in a comedy series. Tyler James Williams was nominated for supporting actor and both Janelle James and Cheryl Lee Ralph found themselves nominated for supporting actress in a comedy series and if I ran the Emmys, I would give two in that category this year. I'm just saying. It should be an option. If you haven't watched evident elementary, just do it. Thank us later. And then go listen to our episode about desking, which is a fake TikTok challenge that they made up in ebit elementary, which is like the most delightfully accurate representation of how challenges work online. I think we've seen in popular culture to date. I mean, and it makes sense 'cause it's coming from none other than Quinta, who we should always know got her start online. She is one of, I would say this generation's first Internet talents that has made its way to mainstream fame. Take us through the journey, Rachel. I mean, she'll be posting videos on Instagram. Remember, oh, he got money. Don't be nasty nasty, but he got money though. We saw her on BuzzFeed with the whole cache of talent that if you want to find out why they left BuzzFeed, they're a lot of videos called why I love you. You will never watch anything else on YouTube again. If you type this into the search bar, don't do it. And now she's on prime time television in less than a decade. I mean, suck it, Charli D'Amelio, Dixie, which one had the reality show. Was it all of them? I think the whole family, if I'm not mistaken. All of this is just the best news. App sleep fantastic. And I will say that there's a highlight of this highlight, which is the video Sheryl Lee Ralph, which is posted by her son on Instagram, and it's of her receiving the call that she earned the nomination, which is long overdue, I feel we must say. No, no, no. Oh my God. You got nominated? Oh my gosh. You know what I'm doing? Yes. It's just the way he says mommy. I don't know that I have ever been that loving towards any of my parents in my life. And I feel regrets about this. This is the bar. I mean, her children have been absolutely amazing throughout this entire press cycle, her daughter has been the one dressing her on red carpets until you'll see her tweet. This is when I was thinking for the idea for mom this week. We're going all bright colors like miss Shirley, Ralph for an Emmy. And it worked. It's funny I was telling my girlfriend about this video and how long overdue Cheryl Lee Ralph has been working for decades steadily in television just sort of like you're watching a show and there she is. And I kid you not. We're watching motherland fort Salem, which is a show about, which is it's not great, but it's very gay. And we look up and would you believe she plays the president of the United States? Can we make her the actual president of the United States? No, but we can attempt to make her an Emmy winner. We don't actually have that power. But we're not manifest manifested. Like the kids choice words where you just vote. And then you get a surfboard. Surfboard. All right, so that's the good news for the day. Enjoy it, roll around in it, like a little piggy and some mud. And rewatch the video of that phone call as many times as me and Madison have, which we will not disclose on air. Speaking of phone calls, though, that's actually kind of what we're talking about today, because scams, they're everywhere. They're back. Well, I guess they never really left. I was like, where did they go? They took a nice vacation a little PTO. They're back, and it feels like recently our phones just will not stop buzzing with phone calls and texts, and DMs from unknown numbers constantly trying to alert us to
Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
"janelle james" Discussed on Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
"That's cool. Yeah, I mean, well, not everyone has the ability to see a character and be like, oh, I can also do that, I guess. That's true. Yeah, because I don't want anyone else's life. I just want to play them for three minutes. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think play is such a big part of it. When I was thinking about your work and what sketch shows do is they create a space often. They're like, this is the rules of this place in which we can play. Second city is rooted in play theory. And you started doing sketch when you were 12. That's so rude in it. And so much of your comedy education was through your relationship with your father who just watched comedies. You're like, you know, you named me after Robin Hood. He cursed me to this. Comedy of love for you, comedy is a place that you can sort of be a part of yourself that can play. How do you create that space? And what does that space mean for you? You've sometimes be sketches important. What is important about it? What it is about that state of play that is so meaningful for you. I think it's that it doesn't exist in real life, and it doesn't exist beyond about 8 years old. And we lose it, you know? I swore when I was a kid, I could see through walls and I had x-ray vision. I still to this day, I think I did. And my parents are like, okay, mighty mouse, you know? And because he had x-ray vision. And so they still called me mighty mo or mo. But that sense of play never left me like it leaves most adults because my parents did encourage it. They weren't like, stop saying that. You can't see through walls. They were just like, they just started calling me a name. They made a joke of it, you know? That's just their personalities. And so because that sense of play wasn't beaten out of me. Figuratively or literally, as it is in some people, sadly. I think it just never left me. I am very, very in tune with children and animals. And I think that's because I have that inherent sense of play that never left. And that's why second city was so attractive to me because you're right. It was very play based and exploration based. And I was never taught that I, there was something I couldn't do, even though we didn't have any resources, I was never told. That, and I think I just grew up with a reckless confidence that I always kind of talk about because I was just like, well, why can't I do that? Once I saw black women doing it especially, I told Kim Wayans this. And if I'm ever lucky enough to meet Whoopi Goldberg, I would tell her the same, which is that they showed me it was possible. And once they showed me it was possible as a kid, then it didn't matter. It didn't matter if I submitted for ten years to SNL and never got it. I got the audition and Lauren laughed, which made me happy. And that was enough. That was enough. You know what I mean? I think some people are like bitter when they don't get stuff like that. I'm not. I'm so privileged to be in the same world. And to think that I would be here now, you know, last year being nominated only against SNL, right? People are like, oh, you guys lost. And I'm like, no, we didn't. Like, of course I made a joke about it at the Emmys, and had a pretty viral moment where I looked pissed. But it was clearly a joke, and they know that all those people are my Friends. Yeah, of course. But I am so in awe to be in the same conversations as these legends. I do think that I think a lot of people often ask people who didn't get SNL. And they're hoping to be like, oh, fuck that. I think for most part, it's such a freeing experience. Oh my God. So many people. To be like, now I can what it allows you to orient comedy around yourself, opposed to a sort of history in an interesting way. Well, the interesting thing is I oriented comedy around a group of people. And when I did that, my career changed. When it stopped being about the rundown with Robin thede and became a black lady sketch show. Because it could have been called the Robin theater sketch show. Some people do think it is, but it's not. It's really not. My career opened up for the good. So I think making it as far as I did, and becoming friends with all those people now and watching them work in real time is like, I freaking made it. Like, I did. And I mean, my show is in two seasons, 8, I may nominations in one win and who knows what's going to happen with season three and this year with the Emmy race in season four and whatever. But I'm already like, we already made history. Like, we have our place in history. So everything else at this point is beyond what I could have ever imagined, truly. Yeah. What's interesting looking back at the people that have worked as writers for you or on the show? I mean, especially even this year, it's like, you know, quintas success, but also ziwe success ways or another show, Io debris, who's about to be on TV show. I believe was an intern on the rundown. She was a writer's assistant. Janelle James was a writer on the run. Amber was a writer in the first season of this and now she has her own show. When you think of your definition of success as an artist, was it how does that incorporate in it? And was there a time where it was hard to sort of get over the sort of scarcity mindset this industry creates? I guess I always, again, going back to that reckless confidence. I don't know my parents just told me I could be anything and I stupidly believed it. But I just was like, I never had anything. I grew up in a trailer park. I didn't have anything. My parents lived in a place where they were like, don't go outside. Don't play with anybody but your sisters, you know? And luckily I got to spend a lot of time with my grandma and the south side of Chicago and my cousins and in Chicago and LA and see more of the world, but we grew up in a place. It wasn't really safe. And my parents always shielded us as much as they could, but I think for me, why did I start talking about my childhood trauma? What did you ask me? But give a goat, no. I asked about the scarcity mind. Oh, scarcity mindset. So I never really had that. So when I got into Hollywood, I didn't have this crabs in a bucket, kind of like, oh, if one person gets something, the rest of us don't. I never really had that. But I did have a very, so I started my career writing for comedians. My gabs Kevin Hart, Anthony Anderson, a different award shows or sketch things or tours. I would give them jokes, whatever, right?.
Netflix is A Daily Joke
"janelle james" Discussed on Netflix is A Daily Joke
"I used to love Jesus, you know? All right? I used to love Jesus. The brown hair blue eye Jesus. You know what I'm talking about? You know what I'm talking about with the abs? Prophet Jesus. Y'all know what I'm talking about. I used to love Jesus. I'm from the island so we're steeped in white Jesus, you know? And my grandmother, she had a picture of white Jesus on every wall of the house if he was taking a shit. He was looking right at you. It was. It was weird, but I remember she had a big picture of Jesus in the living room and one day I was sitting out, I was staring at it and she came up behind me. She said, that's right. Never forget. Jesus is always watching you. And I was like, oh my God. Stop it, Jesus. Oh, my God. What a fucked up religion. Oh, Jesus so fun. Who was the point of that? I don't understand. They tell you not to think about sex and now you gotta go stare at this sexy deity every Sunday. It's like crazy. You know you need to worship me don't mind if I do my book like what are you talking about? Ads after 30, that's a God. Worthy of praise. Watch Janelle James in season three of the stand ups, only on Netflix..
Pop Culture Happy Hour
"janelle james" Discussed on Pop Culture Happy Hour
"I was like, this is so realistic, but also at the same time, there are these approaches from the other characters as we've been saying who all bring a light to the situation and they don't ultimately just drive her into the ground. They're like, we're here to support you, but you got to chill a little bit. Janine, what did you do? Looking like who shot John? Barbara, look, I know you told me to let it go, but I couldn't. Jacob helped me open the breaker. It was a chance to support a strong black woman. The break. And I think that's the crux of jeanine's issue is that she is so overzealous and so excitable. And I love it because I can see this happening in any workplace. The new person coming in bright eyed bushy tailed wanting to change the world and it's like, you got to scale that back and realize what's actually going to happen in reality. So yeah, I think the show is doing a really good job of making us see the reality of the situation while also helping us to kind of escape at the same time. The whole fixing light thing is a perfect example of the way that this show is able to set up this environment where there's tension but also support. At the same time that it's setting up this undercurrent of sweetness, it's also able to do a lot of physical comedy, right? Like she's standing on a ladder trying to fix this light. She's afraid of standing on ladders. If someone could please help me, I feel like I'm one hobble away from death. All right, okay. I got you. Hi. You're good. Take your time. Okay. Whenever you're ready. Okay. Am I doing it? No. Let's go take another three. I don't particularly like standing on a ladder. I'm feeling her the entire time she's standing on the ladder as people are like grabbing the ladder supportively and it's freaking rack. It's just able there are just a bunch of different plates spinning, comedically in this show, and it keeps them all moving. Yeah. There are going to be those who say, well, we've seen this. And even I have gotten a little weary of the mockumentary style, it feels like it can be a crutch sometimes, and it doesn't necessarily not all of these situations as necessarily lend itself to this. But when I think about the way in which this does seem like the perfect environment to do this mockumentary style, it kind of reminded me in a way, not a complete one to one comparison. But to the Steve James, miniseries, America, to me, that came out a few years ago where he was following around these students at a suburban school. That is a very different situation because it was a very well funded school, but that dealt with racing class in a way that this show is also doing. So to know that this feels very real in many ways, but is also taking it and kind of spitting it on its head. I love that. Now, I think we need to talk about Ava, obviously. Because we've seen this before, the bumbling boss who we've said it, she's incompetent in many ways. She also very self absorbed and everything she does is mostly for her to look good. But what about her makes her different or just makes her a very, very fresh spin on this very old trope? Oh man. I feel like I know her, you know? I feel like she's somebody that I've met before a family member. A friend, whatever. I feel like I just have this close intimate understanding of what she's trying to do, but she's not quite crossing the T's and dotting the eyes exactly. I don't think there's been a moment yet that she's actually done something for the benefit of the school of her own volition. I think it's kind of been forced upon her. The thing about it though is the actor Janelle James, she's bringing so much to this character. She is funny, she's a bit too much when it comes to her relationship with Gregory. There are so many elements that she's able to play with and I feel like that's why I love this character because she's just brings a new life to like you said the trope of the bumbling incompetent boss. Well, now that you say that, I want to play a clip of Ava, and this is a scene between Ava and Janine. Janine wanted to try and raise money for supplies for the school. And so Ava decides to make a video. Starring Barbara without Barbara knowing that she has made this video where she's pretending to be Barbara doing voice-over and saying, I have teach at this poor school and I need all the resources we can get. And Janine is like this is not what I meant by trying to try to face money. So here's her back and forth. It's zingy. It's full of bangers. You get the sense of who Ava is in a house sort of self involved, she really is. So let's hear a clip here. Why are you worried about barber Howard seeing this? She's the most aggressively offline person I've ever met. She responded to my paper as opposed to her ATM code. But you know who will see it? Everybody else. Hannah how does this have so many views already? This is crazy. I said this is what I do. I feel like you went to the black surgeon for a nose job and woke up like, why do I look different? Why does it say hey? I love everything about that dynamic. And there's like so many things about her, which to your point, Keanu, I've known this person, and those people in real life are not fun to be around, especially if they have any sort of power, but here it's just kind of perfect. We've only seen a few episodes so far, but do you have a favorite character who you are hoping you're excited to see where they take this? We already talked about Ava, but who else are we excited to see become their full true elementary selves? So my favorite so far is kind of a side character and someone who isn't in the school and it's Tariq. Yes. Who is jeanine's boyfriend, played by Zach Fox, and I've been a fan of Zach fox's comedy slash music slash whatever he likes to do for a while and I was just so excited to see him and you know he plays this rapper and of course I'm a big hip hop person. So I was like, oh my God, I know this guy. This person is so on brand. I'll be home kind of late tonight 'cause I got a show. I sold out the king's lounge. Stop. Yeah. Oh my goodness. That's a proud of you. Thank you. Maybe I could come. Oh, no, no, no, you can't come 'cause they got a strict capacity thing. And it's 15 people. So if you come in the 16 and then it's a fire hazard. I'm excited to see how things play out between him and jeanine and how things might mix up with Gregory. So yeah, he's on one of my favorite characters at not quite at the forefront but is doing a lot for me. Yeah, if you remember the office, he's the Roy. But I want to call out really so far very minor character, which is the character of mister Johnson, played by William Stanford Davis. The janitor? Yes. The janitor. Yes. Who's just right now? So far, he's just weird. Yeah. We have no idea how weird that character is going to get. But I have a feeling that character is going to get weirder and weirder. I'm a big fan of the janitors. I agree with you. I was also very happy to see Lisa and Walter, who plays Melissa. And as soon as the star is like, she looks so familiar. And then I was like, oh my goodness, that's chassis. From parent trap. Mind blown. And I'm sure I've seen her in other things since then, but it was just a flashback to my child. And she's just so strong here. She's kind of playing in these Italian stereotypes in a way, but I think the show is showing that she's going to be a little bit more than that. And she has an interesting storyline with the Jacob hill character. The CRISPR feti character. So this whole ensemble is just so great. Already. You know, I want to also just want to ask about this show. We also have grant crew, which is another show I love. About a bunch of black friends in LA. And we have the end of insecure. And I feel like we're in this moment now where we are talking a lot about black American TV. Obviously, we have Atlanta coming back soon. So we have sort of this wealth of different types of shows coming out. And I'm curious to know what does a show like this say about sort of where we might be heading when it comes to black presence.
Couples Therapy
"janelle james" Discussed on Couples Therapy
"Are on the decline. It sucks. It really sucks. This is another thing. Have you talked to your husband? That's the other thing. That's another one of those have a conversation with him. I know she said he was all assaulted at earth and that was code for he don't like the thought, but that's what I thought too. When she said that she was like, he's very, he does stuff. That's his love language. And I was like, oh, okay, so you don't talk. I just imagine head out to the board. Head out to the barn, start stacking with them, say, hey, you chop off stack. While we do that, can we have a conversation? Yeah. About why you won't let me suck your dick. Say, because that gives him now he getting something. It's not why when we have sex, why won't you let me suck your dick? I don't know any man that turns that down. And then that turns into sex. And then when you're in your post cordo bliss, he's chilling. You say, why don't we do that more? One and fun. Don't approach him. We gotta talk. That's stressful. Get into whatever he doing. Oh, watching the footballers with a. Footballers. You know, when this goes to commercial, I should suck you there. You know what I mean? What's that just to get him just to get him focused? Yeah. Everything sexually, not like, I just really feel like nobody wants to. I'm already saying that. You know what I mean? If he don't want you to suck his dick, I say legal, 'cause okay, wow. Okay, wow. She never really into just getting up and going. She's like, get out of that apartment. Get out of that barrier. What are you gonna do? You want it. So what are you gonna do now? Yeah. He only want you to suck at that. Get out of there. Yeah, but it's also like, you don't just want to spend your time sucking dick. You want to know what you said. But that's what I'm saying. So I'm saying, if he's one of those, I'm guessing macho blah, blah, blah, blah. A pro ten with something for him. Just to get the ball rolling. Just to get the ball rolling. It wasn't this great. Oh, you know what I would also like. You know, whatever. Rather than, can we sit down and talk about sex? I hate that. Nobody wants to sit and talk about that. You want to cheat. I want to, and she wants to fuck. Right. And one sex talk with my parents in 5th grade. That's the last talk. I've had many sex talks with my kids and I hate them all, but I do it because I know I'm supposed to, but I want to throw up the whole time. That's how I feel about talking about it with a partner. I'm just like, it's very uncomfortable. So I'm saying, get everybody chill. When they don't have to be let me suck your dick. But go do an activity together. Get your yes. Your shit pumping your blood pumping. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Toss yourself, wanting Leon to him or whatever you want to do. You're millennial. You can be like, I want to eat your ass. You're obsessed with millennials eating ass. You always say millennials eat ass. And I'm like, do they? I don't know. That was just. It's only older people I hear about you nasty. Really? Yeah. It's funny. It's always younger people that I hear. I always think of it as like a final frontier. I've done everything fucking. Oh yeah, I bet in like nursing homes. Yeah. It's just wall to wall eating ass. The other hole don't get wet anymore, might as well switch it up. We have got off the rail, but no, okay, so it is 1 o'clock in the afternoon. And the plus 'cause I've dated outside dude. Fuck them outside. That's the that's what I was gonna say too. Can you all go like, 'cause I do like what you gotta pick up truck for a blanket on that shit. So I deserted a camping in the backyard. She live a Richmond Virginia, the country in too far away. You know what I mean? Like you drive 20 minutes and you're in the Woods probably. So it's like just go and also 'cause like getting out of your comfort zone and getting out of the grind. 'cause this last year and a half, we have all been in a grind. No matter what, it's like sitting in the House, even when I'm working, it's usually in the house. So it's like not so I get it. Like my house don't feel sexy. Your sexy, especially if you're not overly sexual person. Right. Now it goes down even more. Yeah, yeah, I gotta get out. And hold his hand, rub his leg. Yeah, tell him he can keep his shirt on if he want to. And she said he don't like his body. He can keep his shirt on compliment his body then. Just you know, they love compliments. God, they light up. Don't give them too much, because they already got enough, but you haven't given them a half step for the rest of their fucking block. It's ridiculous. So yeah, however you want to be revved up if you can do it to a man. You know? And I think because we're so conditioned to think that men want sex all the time, we forget that they also need to be. Yeah, they need to be they need to be rubbed up. They need to be like, you know, especially after ten years, come on now. Right. And also too, and I think we've talked about this one in episode was like, you also don't talk enough about men and body insecurity. It's always attributed to women, right? Like it's always like women are the ones who need to lose weight need to get fit into whatever. Men feel that way about some men feel that way about themselves. Apparently I have body dysmorphia. I had no idea until I was until there were like, no, Andy, you're not shaped like you think you are. I'm really? Yeah. It's okay, you're getting through it. Weird..
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"janelle james" Discussed on Couples Therapy
"You roll in the middle of a peace of mind, baby. I'll live in a studio. 200 ft² by myself before a huge house with some fucking weirdo. What was your apartment you moved into, you know when you graduated and went to fashion school? Oh, so this is why this resonated with me because that at that time was the best apartment I've ever Harlem, one of the old brown stones, you know, French doors, light, the classic New York Spike Lee type of fucking lighting, you know? And again, all my ideas of New York came from movies. But anyway, so the roommate, so I found the apartment I found that was supposed to be me and my friend. She didn't come. I couldn't afford it. I quickly got kicked out of that. So I moved into then this amazing Harlem apartment with a guy roommate that I thought was so avant garde at the time. Look at me email me. He was the worst. He would he was dirty, he would have people over all times. I was just basically trapped in my room, my bedroom. I would walk in. He had French doors to his bedroom, which is beautiful, but not when he's like fucking right in front of it without curtains. No. You're walking by to go get your fucking lucky charms and you seeing budgets. Awful. So I had to move. Yeah. Not only did. And then it escalated into I was paying him my Porter rent and it came home and it was eviction notice on the door. Like he wasn't paying the ramp. I was giving him money to not pay rent. So and I remember being like, oh, but this apartment. I just got to the location. I will never, and yeah. Yeah. How long would you last there? Probably. No, like, 6 months. Wow. That's 6 months. Friday. When I saw it, it was clean. When he showed it when he was showing it, he was cool. Smiling. You know, I'm not here much and do to do it if they do. And then weeks later, it's like, what's happening right now? Wall to wall butts. But I came in the front door and hit him 'cause he's having sex in the living room right in front of the door. He just used to meet women and just bring them back to the with no regards for the roommate. Right. Which was really. So you gotta move lady. I'm so sorry. Did he ever say anything like, obviously that would happen, right? The person would leave. He had no shame about you. I was no, I quickly just not even talking to him. I just retreated. 'cause I was just like, what is happening? You know what I mean? This is my first time even living on my own, you know what I mean? And I'm like, so what went from like, oh, look at me. So I have a guard having a male roommate. I went quickly to fear. Is this dude crazy? What's going to happen? Is he going to try for me? That's like, you know? He's talking everybody, you know, so. I just got my you know, I knew people in New York before I moved there. So I just was like, hey, can I help me, and one of my friends just came in quickly moved me out. I didn't want to have much. I had like a bed. One of those light up light up stereo systems with the 5 CDs. I remember this. And clothes that I had taken from sample sales. So that's all I had to say wasn't hard. But yeah, I like moved out in the dead of the night with him. Wow. I remember, but this is the thing, I remember when I first moved, I moved from Philly to New York and it was so like I had no money. And so like trying to find a place I was like sweating and I remember just like I went to look at apartments one day and I was just going around like queens like a story and all I could afford was like one room basement apartments like no windows or anything like that. And I was like freaking out. And the only I mean, this is not good for my friend, but my friend got divorced and needed someone to move in. And only because of that, could I find a place? That's so listen to that. That's what I'm trying to tell this person. Something to work out. So after I moved out, I bounced around. I slept on everybody's couches for forever until I could afford another place. It sucks, especially since it's a pandemic. So you even have to decide. Is this trick that bad? Right. Then I have to leave, or you're gonna have to move. I don't know. But if they're still good deals, if it's because I did, when I was in New York, I was hearing people talk about how they were still finding good apartments, like good rental prices. Yeah. I found one. Yeah. You did? Yeah, I found one, 'cause I was in LA when the pandemic first hit. And. Okay. So I'll give you an exclusive. So me and my exclusivity, yeah, me and my kids dad haven't been together for a while, but we were together for a long time. And so when the pandemic hit, I immediately was like, I have to get my family back together. And I was like, we're gonna die. I very much panic. Yeah. We're all gonna die. Must be with my family, unit that and I move back in with my ex. So two months later, I was like, what? We're not dead yet? So I gotta get out of here. What? I didn't want to be together this long. What's going on? And two months later, I was like, I'm because he lives in the suburbs. I was like, I'm going back to the city..
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"janelle james" Discussed on Couples Therapy
"And for absolutely $0, you can rate and review the show on Apple. 5 stars, please. It'll only take ten seconds and it helps us tremendously. Okay, that's it. We love you deeply. Now back to the show. And we're back. With Janelle James here to handle your scandal. By the way, damn it. I talk too much. No, it's perfect. I love it. Don't think Naomi I didn't clock when Janelle said James was 6 6, you're a little. Don't think I didn't clock that. Yeah man, he definitely started my obsession with not obsession, but I liked all these. I really do. Who doesn't? But I really do. Honey, I'm sorry, Andy. I'm happy where I am. I'm confident in who I am. That's fine. And that's all it matters. Like I said, I really liked all news, but I've dated short wins since I don't even know. All right, so we got questions from Instagram, Twitter, Gmail, voicemail, of course, our favorites. And the first, I think, actually, these are mostly voicemails. Oh, I love it. You guys, we love when you send us voicemails because it lets me hear where you are emotionally. So always call, okay? 323-524-7839. Call in line. This is school. I didn't know. Yes. We get to hear people. Okay, this is good. All right, here we go. Hi, Naomi, Andy. Big fan of your show long time listener. I am not going to give my name, but I am 25 and I live in New York. Unfortunately, last year was safe with the dilemma of having to move in the middle of the pandemic. And it was like in the middle of the summer and I had to everybody had fleet the city. So I had to find a roommate pretty fast that had to make arrangements pretty fast. I couldn't really think anything through couldn't. There wasn't any room for making sure that it was a perfect fit. You know, et cetera, just kind of had to find a spot and lay down. But anyway, and so the roommate that I ended up finding and moving in with she was kind of an acquaintance that I had met through an old job and we didn't really know each other that well, but we were both looking. We're both looking to move and desperately needed to find someone. So we ended up moving in with each other. Within the last couple of weeks, I have I feel like all of my grievances with this person have just been snowballing and I am just getting increasingly frustrated. Well, let me paint a picture of the circle, okay? She does not have a job. She has not had a job the entire time. We've been living together. And she stays at home all day. She is always always home. I never have the place to myself. Lived off her parents and smoke weed all day and played the same and yeah, she also just like behaviorally is. You can't have like a productive discourse with her. There's no boundary setting. Without her getting extremely upset and defensive. She's not, she's not like approaching the world from like a rational state of mind. So found it increasingly difficult in the last couple of months or so as I'm trying to fucking like grow up and work on myself and really align my life with my values. I'm just getting a little bit worn down. So the problem here is that I love this apartment that we're in. It's like we got a sweet deal because of COVID. Because everybody had left the city. It's an amazing once in a lifetime apartment. But the person I'm living with is making me not want to spend time in this lovely apartment, but I really enjoy. So and I just don't have it in me to move again. So this is my conundrum. Okay, bye, I love you guys. Ha ha. See? 'cause at first, this is what I thought I was listening to it last night. I was like, oh, what just move? Get the fuck out of there. Right. And then it's like, no, I love. I remember I had when I lived in Pittsburgh I had a sweet, I had a house. It was like pretty cheap as a nice house. My first roommate there was a friend of mine from college came from money. I just didn't know how to fucking do anything. And I remember you ruined my he ruined my pasta pot. 'cause he didn't like wash it. I burnt it. He burnt it. Worse. Yeah. 'cause he didn't know if you were gonna clean the floor to get a bucket. No. So he put like bleach and no through. He put on this gross. Exactly in a clean the floor with your cooking pot. Oh. That's gross. So I heard this, I'm like, oh, I fucking get it. I'm not moving. Do I say? Yeah, no, what do you think? What's your what's your impulse? You gotta move. It is. She's just gonna have to move. And I would what I would like to say is nothing is once in a lifetime. That's not true. There's other apartments. It's New York. New York, the city of possibility. This is the best apartment you've been in so far. But what you're telling yourself is the best I'm a get. It's gonna be the best you're gonna get, you know what I mean? So I think equally or just one step down, nice one bedroom all to yourself maybe we'll end up somehow becoming your favorite apartment 'cause everything is. You know what I mean? That's true. If you don't want to spend time in this fabulous apartment, 'cause this chick is there. It's not. It's not the best apartment anymore. Yeah. It comes with her. Right. That's true? Yeah. That's true. You can't make her a move. Well. I was actually thinking. Maybe you can make the other person move. Oh. Make it. She doesn't sound like the kind of person that goes easily. Or that she would care, 'cause 'cause I know what you mean because I thought the same thing I'm like, what can you do to make it unpleasant for her? Now you gotta work. And that is work for you. It's work for you. It's not gonna work. Now you still gotta move. All these shenanigans in school and shit. But hey, yeah. But hey, maybe that's if you're gonna have to move anyway. You might as well see if you can get the other person out before and then you're like, fuck it didn't work, so I guess now I'll also the other question can you afford this apartment by yourself? Because that just means another roommate incoming. That's why I was just thinking too. I was like, I was like, is this even apartment that she could live in by herself? So either way you gotta find a person. And unless that person is like your sibling, you roll out..
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"janelle james" Discussed on Couples Therapy
"And so my grandmother is like, oh, your boyfriend did. I'm like, yeah, but I'm not going with him. So she was so confused. Yeah. But then my prom day shows up. And she's just like, what? What is happening? My dress was too small for her. She was just scandalized. Right. I'm like, so my prom date and my boyfriend is shake hands. They were like, hey, what's up man? This whole thing. Oh, but like, good day. We take off. I have the best time at the prom. All the girls are jealous of me. All the guys are like Jenna, okay, then probably her uncle because he was pretty old too. He was like 26 or something. It was just like, that's a grown man. We have a ball. He's like doing splits in a soul train line. Like he is killing. He's like talking to teachers. It was crazy. Like, wins prom king and no one knows him. Anybody that's listening to this is what the high school would be. Just please write and tell her tell her I'm not lying. But anyway, so we have a great time. He brings me back home. We're standing in front of my apartment building. I don't think it was going to, I don't know we was gonna kiss her. I don't think so. We were just talking like, and then you did a split, you know? Like, I'm just so excited. Thank you so much. Yada yada, we're talking and these headlights come with my boyfriend is sitting in his car outside my bed so I was just like, oh, just go. Oh my God. That gives me a hug. He takes off. I never saw him again. Wow. Three years later, I was in Maryland in a club in D.C., and we literally bumped into each other. And I was telling my friend, this is my prom date. This is my brother and he's just like, hey, what's up? And that was it. I never really. So that's my problem story. That is amazing, Chanel. That is amazing. I also figured it out. I didn't think you didn't like me. I was intimidated because you seemed to be confident and love yourself. And it makes me sad. And I was like, for you like a 17 to literally just be able to be like, you know, you got a problem? I'll get your tough. Come on, let's go. I've never had any reference for men or white people. And that's according to me. That's the quality of the episode. I've never had a reference. So confused. And yeah, intimidated by me, which people have said it to me before and I feel like I'm a cool person. I'm really just not about shrinking myself for anybody. Like this, whatever. I was like, I'm going to my prom. He gonna be fine. And that's what it is. And I was very determined, you know? But they were both fine. It's almost like because you come in so kind of direct. You're like, this is how it's going to be. So, of course, is everyone else to get on board? Exactly. Exactly. Or like him being like, I'm not gonna go and you're like, I'm gonna go with someone else. And he's like, yeah, he tried to call my bluff. Exactly. It's called shocking off. Yes, yes. Before you know what's happening, you're doing a split. You know what I mean? Military tactics. Shocking off. Someone remind me a guy who told me he's like, you're a boss. What did I call him? And I was like, well, I wouldn't say that, 'cause that's how corny to me. And I was like, I mean, I guess I just moved like I want to, and he was like, yeah, you're like confident. And I was like, why do you why does that need a title or boss bitch? I'm just confident. He was just like, I know you don't see that in people, so it's just weird. And I don't know how to help y'all be confident. I mean, Janelle is rare to find a comedian to me to comedian who doesn't hate themselves, okay? For you to be out here myself. And not to have all the darkness behind it is. I had a lot of things about myself, but I just, yeah, I don't know why I am like I am. I've been oh it's good. I've lived a lot of life. I've guess I was like this when I was 17, but it took me a long time to get to where I am. So I had a very restrictive childhood. I think that's where it comes from. And I got free. I'm like, I'm fucking free, baby. You know what I mean? That's really, yeah. Like I said, I've been working since I was like 9, my family has a head like a family restaurant business. I have millions of siblings. We all worked very hard all through adolescence. What's I got free? I'm like, we out here. All of my siblings were all the same way. Okay. Okay. Was it were you religious too when you say constrictive or was it religious? Very strict father, Alan are bringing as women's round the clock. Get that switch. If you know you know, so just a very my whole adolescence just being very stressed and scared and tightly wound and yeah, once I got free I just get a bike and it's really what it's coming from anymore, so it's so good though. I'm so glad you know. I love that. I wish I could have gotten to this. Yeah, I mean, if I wish I could have gotten to this place without on the backstory, but yeah, it is. Yeah. Why don't I take a quick break and.
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"janelle james" Discussed on Couples Therapy
"So I was in the Midwest for four years. And so, you know, by year three, my goal is like to headline the chuckle hut in whatever. Yeah. And so the chocolate ended up being the jukebox comedy club in Peoria. That was like my home club that I started hanging out at a lot. And it just so happened to be. It's the oldest comedy club in America, I believe. And home of Richard Pryor, Richard Pryor's birthplace. And yeah, and it's also between Chicago and St. Louis. So I was in a fortunate place in that every time headliners were coming from Chicago. They would do a weekend in the jukebox and I met so many people. So, by the time my kids dad finished his things and we were going to move back to New York, I had already met where junior and ty Barry and rob delay, I had already toured with Tod Barry. That's why everyone knows you. Like, I feel like I heard about you before I saw you. Yes. You know what I mean? That's true. And I was like, oh, so I see you had already been. I was the middle. I was like, the middle at the jukebox, you know, two years or whatever. So by the way, when I picturing is like Zsa Zsa Gabor in green and green acres. Do you guys remember? Nick at night when I was in green acres, grand acres. Yes. They basically like buy a fart. It's like reverse Beverly hillbillies. Okay, right. It's like rich upper crusties. So it's the original Schitt's Creek. Yeah. That is hilarious. It is sure is. Yeah. So I was younger boy, but only with the clothes. We quickly ran out of money. You know what I mean? Yeah, quickly ran out of money. And. So yeah, so I remember when I met Roy wood, like 7 years ago, and he was like, nigga, what you doing here? I was like, wait. Oh my God. But really, it was Todd Barry tar barberi, took me on the road for my first road jobs. He was the first person to pay me actual money. Wow. White men were good to you in comedy. He was like, you got a car? No. I drove out a car. But yeah, paid me well, gave me my own hotel room. I remember that. Oh my God, I'm a superstar. Right. At the fucking look went to whoever and I made it. And liquidity still does. Todd used to have like a yearly birthday party. And in New York that was like, you know, all the comedians would go and I remember we had toured and he's like, oh, if you ever in New York look me up and I was like, I didn't forget that. So one time I happened to be new, I flew myself to New York on a credit card. And I hit them up 'cause I knew it was his party. And I was like, remember you said, if I was ever in New York? And he was like, no, but come to my party. You know what I mean? And that's where I met Eugene merman, whose festival I have now. That's where I met the Booker for Eugene's festival. She, you know, at that time, that's when I don't know if you're big terrific and all of that. David cross. All those people who are now big and famous had their bar shows then. And so that's how I'm at all those people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I always say I think it's always better to start comedy outside of New York. I feel very fortunate that I started there to be doing open mics with the sexual assaulters. Not that those don't exist in the Midwest but gosh. It's like a real gauntlet that people have to go through in New York that I feel like I was quickly the best thing happening in the Midwest. You know what I mean? So it just put me in a fortunate position. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. But you're talking about, you know, as you said, 'cause I'm with you on this, and I think Andy you and I are the same way where it's like when you don't come from money and don't have it was like you know you should be doing this thing, right? Yeah. But you know just the way it work, it's gonna be a long time before you can actually pay your bills with it. And that feeling of like, well, how long do I I need to do this? Exactly. Yeah. And I know for me, that's why I was impatient. It wasn't necessarily, of course you always want stuff and you see other people who you think are trash, who are succeeding and you're like, excuse me. But it was also like that's name name. It is too many. But is that feeling of like, I can't afford to not be good, literally. Yeah. I mean, yeah, and so the whole thing of people thinking I came out of nowhere and I was like, so at that time, the jukebox was two and a half hours away from, you know, where I live. So I'll be driving back and forth there Thursday Friday Saturday. I'm like, I'm missing a lot of time with my kids. I can't be fucking around. I've never fucked around in this. You know, I've always been very focused, I never necessarily had goals, but I was like, this is a life playtime. So I skipped the whole alcoholic, through drugs, hang out part of comedy. I really did. And I feel lucky about it, 'cause it's like, it seems like people who start young have to go through that, go back on the wagon, then get serious. I didn't do any of those, you know, right? Right, right, right..
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"janelle james" Discussed on Couples Therapy
"Episodes. And it seems like we have done it four months. So when shit like that, it's like that. I don't see any reason to move. You know what I mean? Four months. I'll go back exactly. I'll go back to New York. But if all goes, well, knock on wood, we come back. We will have more episodes order. And so if it becomes a thing where I'm here for more than half the year, then yeah of course. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wait, when did you go from the world of fashion into stand up? Oh. I mean, I don't you know how old I am because I feel like I've done so much shit. But I have two kids. So I was pregnant with my second kid. Well, let's just say with my first kid, I was already like, I think like most people without money, I went in the fashion thinking, it was just like the glamour part. I thought it was project runway. Yeah. You know. And just it's just like everybody's just horrible. You know what I mean? I was already, I was already kind of over it. You know what I mean? And then I realized like, oh, I would have to already have money to make it in this thing. You know what I mean? I was trying to come out with a clothing line. I don't know if this is the thing that people know about me. I can tell. I can make anything. I can make so I was doing, which is a lot of fucking work. You know what I mean? Yeah. I feel like I used to feel like I always choose to I always choose the hardest road to go into things, but what I've realized is, oh, I just never had money. You know what I mean? I'm trying to do everything from scratch. So I was already out of it. So once I had my first kid, I was working for a fashion PR house and I remember I came back after 6 weeks and the guy it was a man who ran this company and all female employees, which already tells you what. So anyway, right. I remember coming back 6 weeks highly emotional that I just left my small ass baby with a sitter and he I never forget he looked at me up and down. He said, what are we going to do about this? Talking about my body. And ever since then. Oh my fucking God. I was like, I am over this shit. So at that time, my kids dad got into a program in the Midwest to further his career. I mean, very vague. But so we moved to the Midwest. And the reason I even set it up with that story about that guy is he made that situation made me ripe to move to the middle of nowhere. In any other circumstance, out of me, like, hell no. Actually, I was like, hell no at first. And then, in the midst of that, I got pregnant with my second kid. So I was like, well fuck it, let's just go. You know, so I was in the Midwest with him and not enjoying it. I'll go into anything. I go into everything excited. Like, oh, sure. I'll play in a garden. I just like experiences. Hey, I'll do it. I'll do a Midwest thing for a minute. You know what I mean? And literally a minute, I was over it. And I was in a grocery store and this guy came up to me with a flyer and he was like, oh, I'm doing an open mic. I run an open mind. You should check it out. Basically, barking. Yeah. I had no idea what to open Mike was. Like, I knew like poetry. New York and poets came back to say that, yes. I knew that, but I had no idea. I didn't know how comedians start they practiced anything. I just didn't know anything. For whatever reason, and I was telling my kids that about it, I was like, oh, I got this Florida. He was like, you should go, 'cause he knew I wasn't. I was just not happy. I left all my friends in New York. I'm overdressed everywhere I go. You know, I'm just feeling like straight for child. He's like, you should go. And I just went. And I watched it. And I just remember being like, so fascinated with this, you know, it's all white boys. It's the Midwest, but I was just like, oh, this is amazing. I didn't even know comedians do this. And the guy was like, hey, you know, you can sign up and do it next week. And I was like, what? And he's like, you signed up and then you get the same four minutes of stuff. And I was like, okay. And I signed up. And I went back the next week, and I literally never stopped doing everything. I went every week, those dudes became my Friends. They were like, hey, we're driving a weather bumble fuck other county to do another Mike. I'm like, I'll go, I'm in the fucking van with them. You know what I mean? And yeah, and then, you know, for a long time there..
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"janelle james" Discussed on Couples Therapy
"And then my friend who actually got into the school and was supposed to move with me never came. What? Never came to New York. She said she wanted to take care of some things. She had to sell her card and so I'm like, okay, well, I'm up here, but she never came. What ended up happening she met a guy and ended up staying in Maryland and had children and all those things. Anyway, so. Wow. Yeah. That's wild. I ended up in this too expensive apartment. By myself. There's a version by the way where you take her identity. Yes. And then if I did what I knew now. Did you end up doing anything fashion related kind of Windows? I did end up going to fashion school actually. I kept reapplying and I finally got in. Okay. And so I worked and went to school at the same time. And then I ended up, I worked at the fashion stylist. I worked for Donna caring for a while. I worked for paper mags for a while. You should have been doing my outfit for the deal half hour. I'm calling you struggling. This woman put me in a satin garbage outfit. That's what I said. I wish I knew. And just also, I mean, have you told a backstory of this on your podcast? On the Patreon? It's behind a paywall when I'm really complaining. When we drag people, it's behind a payment. They will pay as it should be as it should be. No, just from doing previous shoots, I knew, but this particular shoot was so stressful, just being in a freaking pandemic. Exactly. We didn't have prep. Yeah, I felt very emotional. Yep. And all of this is just to excuse myself from not contacting you previously. I'll be like yo. Please make sure your makeup and wardrobe and everything is make sure you're happy. I totally. I feel so bad. I was like, I should have warned her. But always I know. Yeah, that sucked. Anyway, very quickly, hold on, just very quickly for the listener. An outfit that was picked out for now and we made her look like let's say a paratrooper. Oh my God. Going into France in 1943. I also called it ghostbuster chic. It was very like, where's my proton pack? I'm afraid to know the stars after after dark. You know what I mean? Yeah, it didn't help that there was a little name type that said Winston. Exactly. It was a mess. And it was the only option that was provided. So that's what was the most psychotic. People, yeah, there's a lot of people you made them. You think as you go further up in the industry, I guess this is any fucking industry. You get further further. And then you meet people. You're like, how did you get this job? Yep. Yep. It happens so many times. I know. I'm very sorry about that because we already had, like I said, so much other stress on us. I know. I know. It's funny 'cause you said that. I'll tell you this to know. You know I thought you didn't like me for the longest? Not in an active not like me, but like in a, I don't care. I don't know how I mean. A lot. I just think that I feel about it. Let me think about it. No, I'm joking. No, I mean, that's the thing that people a lot of people think of me that I don't like them. But I've just had a baby. I'm just high. Wilson is home, and I'm really kind of just busy. I don't suffer fools. I think like the way it's like to me you're somebody who's very direct, and it's kinda like, you like somebody or you don't. Like in kind of any time. You know what I mean? And I always say, I don't like you it's no ambiguity about it. You know what I mean? So yeah, if I like you I would have been told you all. And I think that's fine. I think that's where a lot of people have their angst from. It's okay, we all have to like each other, you know what I mean? I wanna Saturday with a wig on doing your fucking podcast. That is a true blessing. Also the fact that you can we talk about Janelle, we just have to say how grateful we are that you are stepping outside of your comfort zone by doing a podcast. Yeah, I do them here and there for people I like exactly. If I fuck with you, I'm like, yeah, let me do this podcast. I know. You know. And also, you know, I have a recluse type of reputation. Every once in a while, I like to step out. Hey, what's up? Well, I like it though 'cause it's very like we have an exclusive. We're in here with Fidel James. Oh God. Who rarely gives interviews. This is Barbara Walters or something. Exactly. It's not a it's not even an exclusive thing. I'm just late. I was about to say lazy, but I work harder. I'm just doing so tired. That's really what it is. Yeah. I get it. I definitely get that. I feel like I usually say no to podcast invites. You know what I mean? 'cause but I'll say I'm like, hi, I do two podcasts. I don't want to do anymore. So I'm already like, I do do that, but it's hard to do it for people. I like seeing it sucks that you thought I didn't like you 'cause I do fuck with you and I didn't get hilarious. I think you're hilarious. I like comics. So we never see each other. That's true. That's true. Yeah. You're here working on Abbott elementary. Correct. Are you moving permanently? Are you just here while you work? I have no idea. You know, every time I come out here for a job, everybody says you're going to move. Always always go back. Yeah. And but this thing is I've never been a series regular on a show. I don't know how it works. This one we're doing 13..
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"janelle james" Discussed on Couples Therapy
"Now Naomi, again, what's happening tomorrow? Something's or even maybe at midnight tonight. What's something going on? My brain, I just I know, I know. There is a show on Netflix called the stand ups and season three is debuting. You're on that. I am. And so is our guest today? Absolutely today's guest you've already heard her dulcet tones. It is Janelle James. Yes. The hilarious Janelle James, you may have seen her on the show black Monday, which she's also written for or on the new ABC show abbot elementary and tomorrow you can see her on the stand up. Here in buzz, I'm hearing buzz about her on Abbott elementary. I'm hearing buzz buzz. I'm hearing Buzz Aldrin. The trades are screaming. Screw name. I was just agreeing with you. They're screaming. Screaming. They're screaming 'cause she's streaming. Now, AMD, can you take it away? Virginia. Well, everyone have a great new years. And roll it. Wait, you know, before we started this, when you're talking about school lunches, did you pay for school lunches when you were growing up? It's the one and off. It was on and off depending on my parents income at the time. If I remember talking about free lunches and stuff like, well, yeah, like he grew up in Pennsylvania where he was like, I had to pay for lunch. And I was like, New York, you don't pay for lunch. No matter where you at. You know, even though the public school private school, you get your food and we got free breakfast as well. Exactly. During the summer breakfast. Yeah, I do remember that. Yep. So no. But I went to private school the first half up until high school and then I think you do pay. Was that in New York? No. No, it's an island. Okay, Virgin Islands. Get your from an island. Yes, yes, yes. I always forget to put island. That's why you like your weed. You're an island time. You're on island time. My experience. I just want to point out that I said nothing. I would like that for the record. A fucking word. I didn't really explain it. I didn't really start smoking for real for real till I was like 30, like when real fucking adult stresses hit me. So I don't think it's the highest, but maybe once I activated. Right, right. Activated the hey mom or whatever. But which one, you're from Saint Thomas? Yes. Yes, right? We're gonna say I don't think we were to say Thomas. I would say, so my friend from Saint Croix, that's as close as I've gotten to. So that's one of the you know I'm not like, let's get a boat to Saint Thomas. You know what I mean? Like I never say Corey is actually the furthest one. So Saint Thomas and St. John are next to each other and say gory is his own thing kind of life. His own lifestyle is the older sister who left early, you know what I mean? And she didn't really get to know her younger siblings till she came back. When did you come to the mainland? When I was 15 and high school. And then we moved to Maryland. I was in Maryland till I was 18. And then I graduated high school and I Pune out of there to New York. So you've been in New York ever since. Okay. Just doing it. But I've always wanted to live in New York. Even when I lived in Holland, I would always tell my mom, I'm going to live in New York. I'm going to work in fashion. I'm going to be really Campbell. I'm going to be a model. I was up that kind of. Wow. I was always focused on it for whatever reason. Probably Madonna's video. Who's that girl? That movie she had. I was obsessed with that. And I just wanted to remember that leather jacket and walk around. Is that the one where she's wearing pearls or is that some other all of Madonna like kind of blurs together? Because when I was a kid, I was a real prude. And I remember she is where I pearl the blood I guess with that. Yes. At my bar mitzvah, I said that the band can not play any Madonna. Because she was too sexual. Yes. Yes, you know. What a nerd. No, no, no. But yeah, yeah, yeah, I was obsessed with New York so. Yeah. Just as soon as I could, I told my mom, I got into I had applied to FIT. So when I graduated project runway was all the rage. And I knew I liked clothes. I don't know, whatever glamour or whatever the fuck I was into them. And I was like, I'm going to move to New York. I'm going to go to fast at school. So I applied to FIT and me and my friend. And she got in. And I did not. And I said, I told my mom, I got in. Totally lied, moved. No. Wait, what money? I had a job. I've been working since I was a kid, but I had all of my jobs when I was in high school. Small form aware. Pretzel time. All of them. And I just, yeah, I've always been like a money person. I've had my little stash. At that time, my little older boyfriend who would give me money and yes, I had a little savings went up, paid a deposit on an apartment. In Harlem and then moved did a whole going away as if I'm going to college, like, a fucking..
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"janelle james" Discussed on Couples Therapy
"Open your hearts, Lucy your butts is time for couples therapy. Yeah, this podcast is Andy and Naomi's where they can both led to hang but don't they hear me talking excellent vacationing with brunches and cuddling to messy situations and conscious and coupling from Netflix who loves to sing along with some Hulu tech sex regrets so feeling on your new jubu. They gonna talk about it yeah you are invited I didn't therapy I guarantee baby weaker. But I prefer a better day habari Ghani friends and welcome to couples therapy. My name is Naomi. And my name is Andy. And we're a real life couple. A real life couple of comedians. It on couples therapy, we answer a couple of questions from a couple of different listeners. Yes, honey, I'm shouting out kwanzaa. Today, the 28th is the third night. And I hope you've got your canara ready. Yes, canara. That's minora when it can. It's a good T-shirt, by the way. Canard? That's been nowhere with a K. Yeah, it is kwanza hope you had if you celebrate Christmas, I'd be a nice Christmas if you celebrate Hanukkah. I hope three weeks ago you had a nice Hanukkah. Thank you Luna calendar. Thank you, linear calendar. Thank you Luna calendar. New year's coming up Naomi. Do you have any new year's resolutions? Well, my new year's resolution is to make everybody I know watch my episode of the standups on Netflix, which does debut tomorrow if you're listening to this today the episode drops on the 28th. Yes, December 20, 9th henny, fourth, night. Of quanta. You get me telling some jokes on your TV screen. God, I hope you like it. And if you don't tell me, please, please, I'm very vulnerable. Come on, you're already getting accolades. We talked about it last week. New York Times named you. Best Netflix debut? I know. Come on. I know. That means I couldn't have said anything too problematic. Because he wouldn't have wanted to get canceled by endorsing me. Well, if you're Jewish like I am, I don't have any resolutions because I already did them back at yom kippur. David atonement. I atoned for 2021. Or 57, whatever it is. And then I was like, what can I do to be better? Just continue on this path I'm on. I'm not a pretty good path. Let's just keep going. Oh, God bless your self love. That's a beautiful thing. I don't have a lot of it, but I'm like, you know, I'm doing okay as a human being. You are just keep you're doing more than okay. Keep on trucking. That's I have a little sticker with the Grateful Dead bear and just keep on trucking Andy. But you know what, Naomi? Do you try our best on the show? And sometimes listeners, not when do they send in their advice questions? But they send in comets. When we give advice and say like, hey, this was good. This was bad. Let me see if I can give my spin on this. Now this is from do you remember a couple episodes ago? Jenna Freeman, our good friend, Jenna. Absolutely. You can see her show indefensible. I think it's on Amazon now at this point. Thank God. So good. AMC plus app? I don't know. Anyway, we did a question there where someone had called and they're like, they get a lot of anti semitic microaggressions. Yes, yes, yes. And they don't know what to do. Yep. Well, a listener had some other advice. I love it. Let's take it away. Hey, Andy and Naomi. My name is Jennifer. I'm a big fan, love the show. I have a comment about the Jenna Friedman episode regarding when a person encounters racism anti semitism, sexism, any of those things. In the workplace or otherwise, I know Naomi said, if it's in the workplace, say nothing. I heartily disagree with that. But I think there's a way to do it. It's the right way. And it sort of like what Andy said, but it's like a step further. Not just what do you mean by that, but also like, oh, I don't understand. Acting like a total moron and making people talk into talk to themselves into what they're saying. You know, like, oh, I don't get it. Can you why are you saying that? Can you say more about that? I don't understand. But the trick of it is acting like a total fucking moron. And just letting the person talk themselves into that thing out loud, they're going to hear themselves they're going to be embarrassed. You don't have to reveal anything else. It does it for itself. So the other thing is there's this, I have a corporate day job. And in that corporate day job, I've gotten this training called crucial conversation. And you can get the book at almost any outlet that sells used books because everybody has to go to these kinds of trainings and nobody wants the book anymore. So you will find it at your local Salvation army, your goodwill, your savers, et cetera. But there are some pretty good nuggets in there and I do recommend it. And one of the things that they talk about is stating what you're not doing before you stay what you are doing. I am not trying to call you out on this thing. I am trying to help you understand this thing. You know? And that's something to try as well. If it's a person you care about you're invested in a relationship. If you're not, just acting like a moron and asking those questions, really can force a person. I kind of can force a mirror up to that person's face. Anyway, for a consideration, love the show. Thanks so much. Bye. I love that. I think you know what you are on. Total fucking moron. I have heartily disagree. And you know what? I hear you. I took it in. I understand what you're saying. I thought we were kind of saying that thing. But it's also true. I haven't been in a traditional workplace in so long, so maybe people are a little more willing to have the conversation or get into it, you know? Yeah, maybe. Who knows? You know, I was scared of everybody back then. I couldn't let them know how much I hated this place. You know, so I was like, I don't want to talk. Crucial conversations to be a hardcore band in Pittsburgh called crucial unit. Oh God. Loved iced tea. I see the rapper, I see the beverage. The beverage. Why? Maybe the rapper. I don't know. I never asked any of them. But crucial conversation, are we funny? That should be a hardcore band. That does play the conversations from the book..