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Transcript

SPEAKERS

Sender 2, Courtney, Brian, Sender 5, Sarah Silverman, V, Isabella, Matthew

Sarah Silverman  00:14

Hi, it’s your old pal, Sarah. I’m working on my show. I’ve done four tour dates so far. I’m home for a little bit, and then I’m going out soon, with Amy. And Amy, I don’t know what I’m so stuck on one section, and I just feel like I don’t know how to work through it for some reason. And I know I will. I always have. I always finish the project. It gets done, so I’m not going to stress about it. You know, the show is pretty much about my parents dying, but it’s funny, and just the funny parts and I talk about the characters involved up top, and I talk about Dad, schleppy, and that’s easy, and I talk about Janice, and that’s easy too, but I kind of compare her, and maybe this is unfair to my mom. And I, when I say unfair, I think maybe unfair to my mom, but you know how sometimes you go, I wish I could have four boyfriends, because one boyfriend doesn’t cover everything I need, right? You know, maybe you’re dating and you go, this guy really satisfies this, but this guy does this. And I’m sure the same if you’re into women or non binary person. And I think it’s kind of the same with parents, and I was really lucky. I had four parents, ultimately, like, by the time I was 12, I had four parents, I had my mother, I had my stepfather, I had my father and my stepmother, and they really all filled all those needs. I was so lucky in that way. You know, it’s like the silver lining around you know, your parents get divorced. To be honest, I was thrilled my parents got divorced. I was six and a half. My other sisters were crying. I was like, good. I what you want to keep falling asleep to people screaming and hating each other. I never understood why this was a pleasant experience, and I was right, and they found their soul mates, and it really got great from there, but I needed all four. So that’s a good angle.

 

V  02:36

I also I think what you’re reconciling with is a tiny tinge of guilt.

 

Sarah Silverman  02:44

Yes.

 

V  02:45

And it’s because, until you met Janice, you weren’t aware that maybe your mom lacked some of the qualities that you needed as a young girl. And Janice pointed out glaringly that, oh, my mom doesn’t ask me about this stuff, or my mom doesn’t do this.

 

Sarah Silverman  03:06

She never pointed it out. But you’re right. You’re saying it was like, oh, like a woman that’s interested in my boring kid life.

 

V  03:14

You didn’t know that a mother figure could take the interests that Janice had in you, because that’s not how your mother was so when you are explaining it, because it at the end of the day, this shows really about Janice and Donald. You pepper your mother in. And my opinion, in its current iteration, is it’s harder to say the most complimentary things about your mother because of the context in which you’re describing Janice and the void she’s filling for you. And I think you feel somewhat guilty.

 

Sarah Silverman  03:46

I do, but even just to my own self and to my mother’s memory, and she was an amazing woman. And the truth is, if I only had Janice as a mother figure, she would be incredibly lacking, because they had different qualities.

 

V  04:01

You got a lot of empathy from Janice, and you got a lot of, I think, your intelligence and your your lust for life and some of the interests and the theater from your mother, yeah, and I think it’s hard to talk about Janice for you during that time when you met her without casting some kind of a negative shadow on what had been missing all along that you didn’t realize was missing up until that point.

 

Sarah Silverman  04:36

Right, and there’s, there are interesting contrasts, and then I can’t really stay too long on it, but it’s interesting. And so when you’re telling a story of your life, or you’re telling the story of I’m talking about my parents dying, there are so many different ways I can paint this that are all true and accurate. So I have to make choice. Is, you know, like the the story in my life that you’ll see when I do stand up this time around with this show is going to be totally different than, like the mom you’ll see in the bed wet or the musical, because it’s a different part of her life and a different part of my life. All of this to say what I don’t know, I guess, draw your own conclusions, but I’ve been having a tricky time with my show. And what do we have? 28 maybe 28 more shows before I shoot this special so.

 

V  05:35

So you said that you were gonna talk to your sisters to get maybe some ideas, yeah, maybe some stories about your mom that can contribute in that, in that part, I agree with you that that that area of the show is a bit of a downer.

 

Sarah Silverman  05:52

I mean, listen, we’re trying to sell the people to come to the show. It’s the show’s It is funny. But there are moments. There are moments that aren’t.

 

V  06:01

No, it’s just that your references to your mother make me sad for you. They’re real, they’re true. And I know, I know that you have incredibly fond memories of her. But the reason why they are coming off the way they are is because this is about Janice and Janice dying, not about your mom dying.

 

Sarah Silverman  06:23

I know what it is, because there’s a mo there’s a thing that I thought might be funny, but the audience gets too sad and and this would be okay if there’s a relief laugh. There a hardcore relief laugh there. And right now there isn’t, because my mom became a director at like, local theater, you know, and she was great at it, you know. This really the life she should have had. And she directed 50 musicals in her career, you know, and her actors all adored her and worshiped her, and they all called her mom, and she loved it, and I hated it as a kid, because I didn’t have that relationship with her. And I said something like, I kind of get it, because she was able to give them what they needed, because when she looked at them, she didn’t see everything. She missed out in in life. And I thought that would maybe be funny, but it’s only okay if then there’s a really hard relief laugh there, you know, and there isn’t right now, so I’m muddling through. I’m figuring it out and even talking about it here helps a little bit. I remember thinking before starting the last tour, before my last special, and going, I can’t believe I will have a an hour special, and it will just, it will get done. I’ll do this tour. I think I had 35 minutes going into the tour, and I got the hour, and I cut stuff, I added stuff, but I couldn’t imagine before I went on tour, I go. I can’t believe by this date, I’m gonna have my shit together. I just can’t imagine it. But you don’t have to imagine it. I’ll do it, and it will happen on the road, and I’ll figure it out. And that’s I’ve never not figured it out. So it’s cool to be at a place where I go, I know I’m gonna do it. I don’t have to understand how, because it just gets done.

 

Isabella  08:36

Sarah, this is maybe an impossible question to answer, but I’m curious how you figure it out. What is the process?

 

Sarah Silverman  08:43

I have no idea. When people ask me, How do you what’s your process for writing a joke? I still can’t, I haven’t I don’t know. I don’t know it. I’ll like it will come to me in a dream, or I’ll just be talking and not think twice. And someone will go, that’s funny. And I’ll go, oh shit, right, I’m not always like Jerry Seinfeld’s always thinking of the joke, and that’s so great. But a lot of times I need the people around me to go, you should talk about that on stage. Talk about that, you know, like, oh, right, right. You can bring the question mark, bring the stuff that you don’t know, the answers to onto the stage, and maybe you’ll figure it out. Or the not knowing, the not figuring it out, talking about the puzzle itself could be something, you know. So I remember watching TIG no taro do stand up constantly. And I was always totally amazed by her process, because she’ll say some joke, you know, some. Basic, simple, not a basic, simple joke, but, like, here’s the joke, XYZ, that’s already brilliant. Then she’ll look at it from a totally different angle, and she’s got, you know, a ton of things to say from that angle. And you think there’s no other angle on that, then she looks from underneath, up it, you know, she’s literally exhausts every possible she can make comedy out of any thing, and at your best, any comic should. I mean, I learn from her every time I watch her, and I still have so much to learn, you know, and I cling to Joan Rivers, who said, you know, that she never felt like she really found her voice until her 70s. That’s what I love about stand up so much, because you could be 25 and stop growing as a comic. You can be 80 and still be growing as a comic. There is absolutely no prime age to be a comedian. There isn’t, all right, let’s take some calls.

 

Matthew  11:24

All right, Sarah, it’s your old […] Matthew from London, England here. Um, recently, I’ve developed a deep hatred for vocal fry, and as a result, it means I can’t listen to a lot of American podcasts. Truly  love NPR people do it. I realized that it’s kind of more of a young women’s thing that makes you don’t do it. But as it is, a young women’s thing is my hatred of vocal fry, misophonia, or plain old misogyny. On a side note, it’s very much started to infiltrate in young English women, too. I’ve got relatives that do it, a few people on English podcasts. I listen to do it this. It’s not nice, but Kardashian, you’ve got a lot to answer for.

 

Sarah Silverman  12:16

Yeah I mean, I think their influence is a big part of vocal fry. I don’t know if it’s misophonia or misogyny or or generational really, that’s probably what it is, because I think that vocal fry thing is very much of today and of like, the newer, younger generations, and it’s like, you know, like, when I was growing up, and still now it would drive, well, not my mom’s dead now, but like, it would drive her crazy. How much I said, like, she would, like, count it, you know, she would do everything to try to make me aware of it. And I still say it a lot, and I think that’s a big thing in our generation, like, like, like, like, and I think in younger generations, it’s this vocal fry. And, you know, people are influential, and it really affects like, a whole generation. Even I would venture to say that I notice and I feel like the source of this, what I’m about to say is Rachel Maddow of saying something and then going right, you know, like, well, you know, people are blah, right and right? You know, like, that’s something I noticed from her. And now I notice from a lot of, you know, heady people. I’ve done it too, and I kind of go, oh, I think that’s from Rachel Maddow, influencing, uh, middle aged hipsters. Yeah, I agree. I think vocal fry. I feel like I was made aware of it by Howard Stern talking about it. And then I noticed it everywhere. And it sometimes, it really is too much, and I really don’t know if, I don’t know the difference either. I don’t know what if it comes from, I think not necessarily misophonia, not necessarily misogyny. I think it’s generational. That’s what I’m gonna go with. But, you know, I have no idea.

 

Sender 2  14:25

Hello, Sarah. Long time fans, since I was like 11 years old, and I’m 27 now. I’m from Houston, Texas, and I just recently after 10 consistent years of daily marijuana usage, have decided to quit cold turkey. I’ve been cold turkey, done with it for about a month now, and I like find myself wanting to do it again now that I know I have, like, a control on it, but I’m also like, okay, maybe that’s weakness speaking blah. Yeah, but I know that you are a frequent marijuana user. I don’t know if this is too personal of a question, but how frequently do you use marijuana, and how do you like delegate that into your professional and personal life and balance that out with, is it recreational use? Is it drug use. Do you feel like you’re addicted to marijuana or like you use it as a crutch? Like, what are your thoughts on frequent recreational marijuana use? I think you very much, and I love you, goodbye.

 

Sarah Silverman  15:33

Oh, that’s an interesting question, because it’s making me look at myself, because you know, you said you took a month off, and now you’re like, do I go back? Or is? Is going back mean, I have a problem or whatever, and I always judge my friends that drink a lot, especially when they go, Yeah, I’m doing dry January or dry, whatever, October, because friends of mine that I feel are alcoholics, and I’m very judgy with alcohol, because I just don’t like being around drunk people. I have a couple friends that are delightful drunks, but mostly it’s just a bummer. And I always feel like when they take a month off from drinking, that’s what they do, to prove that they’re not an alcoholic, and then they get back to drinking. And I don’t think it is what they think it is, which is like proof that they can stop so they don’t have to stop. And I think that’s, you know, I did a movie called I smile back, where I played a drug addict. And one thing I learned when I was doing it is this notion of the high before the high, which I totally get, which is that hide right when you decide you’re gonna do it, you know, it’s like you already feel better because you know you’re gonna get it, you know? And to me that taking that one month off is like the high before the high, like you have that carrot at the end, and that carrot is drinking or weed, or whatever. That said, I smoke weed every day, and so I’m probably addicted to it. I don’t know. You know they say weed isn’t addictive, but if you feel you must have it every day, I would probably disagree with that I’m but I’m also very ritualistic. That’s not an excuse, but I just I like, like, for instance, I have one cigarette every day, one cigarette I always have. It’s my little secret shame, but I really love it, and I have, I just never have any desire for more, maybe, if I’m at a party, which, maybe I’m at a party like, three times a year, you know, like, I’ll like, want to have a cigarette, because, whatever. But no, I pretty much stick with one cigarette a day. So I, to me that’s like, more ritual, you know? But I don’t know. I’m pretty much a daily user of marijuana, but only when all work is done. I could never smoke pot and do stand up, for instance, like that. Literally, I have so many friends, so many comic friends, that can smoke a bone and go right on stage and kill be sharp. Brilliant, totally brilliant. I’m not one of those people. Unfortunately for me, it takes my two favorite things, weed and stand up and combine together. They become one nightmare. But when all work is done, I love a puff, you know, or right before bed, I love a puff. I just do. I don’t know if it’s addiction. I don’t know if it’s, you know, I’m having incredible problems with short term memory, and I know that’s completely normal for my age, for my menopausal state, etc. But I do wonder about the weed aspect. I would be curious if you would call back if taking that month off, you felt sharper and like your memory got better or anything. All right, what else?

 

Courtney  19:13

Hey, Sarah, it’s your best friend, Courtney. And I’ve been told in the past, your voice twin. So not sure if you hear it, but I’m flattered if we sound alike, because I love you hear.

 

Sarah Silverman  19:23

A little that in there […]

 

Courtney  19:24

Anyway. Just want to ask some advice on a friend of mine. We’ve been friends for 15 years, or over 15 years, and it just kind of came to light recently that she is anti abortion, whereas I am very liberal and very pro abortion, pro body autonomy, and she is, I’ve always known she was conservative and voted Republican, but it just recently came out when you know Roe v Wade was overturned, that she was anti abortion, and I have had a really hard time dealing with that. Even though I knew she was more conservative, I just also thought that she would, you know, respect women’s bodies, and, you know, she can not get an abortion herself. And right, you know, but she went on to say that some crazy claim, like, where does it? Where do you draw the line? Do you what if you have a six month old and they get in a car accident and they have brain damage blah, like crazy, stuff like that. So I want to continue being friends with her. I’m really torn, but I just, I just can’t seem to bring myself to agree to disagree with her on this. Love your advice and love your show. Thanks, bye.

 

Sarah Silverman  20:42

First of all, that analogy is odd to me, because a person of any age who gets in an accident and their quality of life is so diminished, you know, if they’re only being kept alive from machines and they are brain dead, a lot of times you do pull the plug. So that’s a very odd and also, just stop with this. You know, it’s so bizarre, the lies Trump tells. It’s beyond misleading. It’s crazy, insane lies. But first I would say, instead of calling her anti abortion, what she really is is anti choice. A lot of people are anti abortion, and that means that they won’t have an abortion if they get pregnant. And that’s fine if their religion or their what you know, compass inside their gut, whatever it is that says, I think that’s murder. I won’t do it fine. Don’t get an abortion. She’s anti choice. She is for taking body autonomy away from half the population. So to me, that’s a very different thing. Obviously, there’s no world where a law could be passed that has any control over a man’s body. It wouldn’t happen. It’s never happened, and it will never happen unless it’s a trans man. So look, it’s, you know, it’s not your job to change her mind. It is only your job to decide how close of a friend you want to be or have her be. But she should know that you don’t see her as anti abortion. You see her as anti choice, because that’s what she is, and let her clarify if that’s indeed not the case. But women are dying because of these laws. They’re dying. We know that, right? Anyone who watches the news at all, women are dying. And we also know that women are still going to get abortions, and they’re going to die from getting these abortions because they’re not going to be legal right now, they’re dying because doctors won’t care for them, because their livelihood as a doctor is being threatened by laws, by people whose job it isn’t to know medicine or know your body. Crazy times. I mean, look, I was just in Vegas, and there happened to be a comedy festival there at the same time Rory was doing and Rory said they were giving out free fentanyl tests. Now, nobody should do cocaine. Cocaine is disgusting, and you can die from it, right? And it’s the also the grossest drug, but the comedy festival deals with reality, and so they have free fentanyl tests to test your cocaine. If comics are idiots and doing cocaine that at least they should test it for fentanyl first, because what was it two years ago or so, like five comics did a bunch of coke, and all of them, but one died because it was laced with fentanyl. So what does that have to do with abortion? We need it to be safe and legal, because it’s gonna happen whether it’s legal or not, and it really must be legal, because it’s none of your fucking business what a woman decides with her doctor or her clergy person or her damn self period.

 

Brian  24:42

Hey Sarah, this is Brian. So I just went to a karaoke bar, sang a song and I bombed.

 

Sarah Silverman  24:52

No.

 

Brian  24:56

Show is one of my favorites, just in time. Damn. I found you just in time. You know that one?

 

Sarah Silverman  25:04

Yeah um, what’s that from?

 

Brian  25:06

I feel like the execution was not too bad. But my God, did that room get cold really fast. What do you do when you bomb?

 

Sarah Silverman  25:18

Well, I will say, What do I do when I bomb? Rory has said that he’s very impressed by how I take a bad set and just immediately shake it off. And I am pretty good with that. I mean, if it’s a, if it’s a workout set, like, that’s what it’s for, you know, to see what works and what doesn’t work and all those failures are, you know, not to be corny, but chances to figure out how to fix it like that’s, that’s how work is when you’re a comedian and or anything, I guess. But there’s no success without a million failures. I don’t know if you’re looking to be a professional karaoke person. I mean, I absolutely do get down on myself if I’m not in my healthiest mindset, totally. But seven, eight times out of 10 I take it on the chin, if you know what I mean, that’s what she said. I don’t know what else?

 

Sender 5  26:17

Hi, Sarah, I have a question for you about Amy Zvi I want to know where did this friendship blossom and how has it absolutely lasted all these years? Obviously, you both are fucking awesome, and I want to be friends with both of you, but I love your relationship. You guys seem so in sync. I the reason I ask is because, for me, the name Amy Zvi will always, no matter how many times you say.

 

Sarah Silverman  26:46

Oh, Matt Damon.

 

Sender 5  26:47

I always take me back to the unfucking Matt Damon video, because at the end of that video, you tell Jimmy Kimmel if he has any questions or if he’s confused, to contact Amy Zvi and you put her number there. I don’t know if it was her number at the time. And that video was in like 2006 and I was in the year 10, well, the if for Americans the 10th grade. So I was like 15 at the time when my friend Emily showed me that video. And like, I remember it was the days of MySpace. And you could put a video on your MySpace page, and I put that one because I was obsessed with it. And no matter what now, I will always think of that name, Amy Zvi and then when you bring up Amy in the podcast, it just flashes me back. And then I go and watch. I’m fucking Matt Damon again, so I’m probably the reason that video is still like getting so many hits a day, but yeah, love you, and loves.

 

Sarah Silverman  27:45

V, getting so much love.

 

V  27:48

First of all, I think she’s Australian.

 

Sarah Silverman  27:51

You think?

 

V  27:52

No.

 

Sarah Silverman  27:54

Say no, I know.

 

V  27:56

No, I know she is you can take, I mean, you can take, I don’t know. We’ve known, each other since 2001.

 

Sarah Silverman  28:07

Yes, in July of 2001 I gotten a little trouble. We don’t have to revisit it. But I was in need of a publicist for the first time, and I was connected with this, some kid named Amy Zvi who was younger than me, and I was, I was almost 30, I think so I’m like, What am I fucking take this kid’s advice, and I was so obnoxious. I cannot believe that she was willing to then become my publicist in like, in real life.

 

V  28:42

In your defense, it was probably like a really frustrating time for you, and your way of coping sometimes is an indignant See, you’ve learned that word from me, and I think I was, I felt empathy for you. Oh, probably at that time.

 

Sarah Silverman  29:03

I remember being on my cell phone with you. I didn’t know what you look like or anything. I was in New York City standing outside of the American cafe, or Americana. It was called. They had good macaroni and cheese and pacing, and I had written like a two page statement. And I didn’t understand, like, if you’re responding to something or making a statement, it’s got to be, like a sentence. And I was like, it has to be the whole thing.

 

V  29:30

You definitely were like, they can’t print it unless they print all of it. And it was, like two full pages. And I read it, and it was a beautiful letter, but you needed to, you know, give like, a two sentence thing that couldn’t be dissected and ripped apart. And there was no world where that wasn’t the case there. I didn’t want to give you bad advice either. I knew, but I was like, hey, just want to make sure that I’m, I mean, this is quite this was, like, crisis control kind of stuff that really wasn’t my. Area of expertise. At the time I was working with, like, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit models and, you know, and comics, but like, I don’t know this was new for me. So yeah, we had that conversation.

 

Sarah Silverman  30:13

Anyway. That was our first encounter. And then.

 

V  30:16

And then you booked that show with Seth Green and Eugene Levy.

 

Sarah Silverman  30:21

Oh yes. Called Greg the bunny. We’ve been together forever. She was my publicist for many years, and then she became a manager. And I was like.

 

V  30:32

It’s been a long time. We always say that, like she’s et and I’m Elliot, or vice versa, you know, like when et got drunk because he grabbed the beer out of the.

 

Sarah Silverman  30:43

Oh, yeah. And then Elliot was drunk.

 

V  30:45

Probably a bad analogy, because Sarah doesn’t drink. But then Elliot felt it in his class. I do feel like you and I have some kind of cosmic body connection, because we always have, like, very similar ailments, or, we’re pretty similar in, like, our isms. You’re probably more rational than me in a lot of ways.

 

Sarah Silverman  31:06

Really?

 

V  31:07

Sometimes.

 

Sarah Silverman  31:08

Well, I was gonna say I’m better in an emergency, but I think you’re better in an emergency and I’m better in, like, everyday life, dealing. Wait, is that right?

 

V  31:17

I’m not sure I’d agree with that, but I definitely have, although I’ll say this, we’ve both definitely been there for each other and during emergencies.

 

Sarah Silverman  31:26

Can I tell the story about yesterday on the plane? We are on a plane, and it’s a kind of a small plane, you know, it’s just a small commuter plane, you know, going from Reno to Burbank and the first 10 minutes of the flight, it really felt like we were about to crash and die. It was so shaky. And I know I’m I’m fine with turbulence, but this felt different. And we were both screaming and squealing and holding each other, but, you know, I was a little more composed, but I was also squealing. But then Amy just went, I’m not gonna make it. What do you mean? Are you gonna throw up? And she said, No, that. I was just like, well, then how are only you not gonna make it?

 

V  32:16

I, what I what was what came out. It was like sensory over what came out of my face. And what I was feeling was, I can’t take this. It was terrifying. We fly a lot, but this one was like we were beginning thrown around. I did think this was maybe it, it got and then I thought, this is the other thing that I that I that will happen if Sarah and I die in a plane crash. God forbid, the headline is going to be Sarah Silverman and friend die and the rest kind of like when Coby died, and all of the people on the plane were like, and the team.

 

Sarah Silverman  32:50

wWell, if it makes you feel any better, we’ll be dead, and we won’t even know it or feel the billing situation.

 

V  32:56

Well, anyway, a few years ago.

 

Sarah Silverman  32:59

Oh my god, we’re still on.

 

V  33:01

I mean, she asked, Oh yeah, go on, Sarah, a few years ago, not too long ago, but a few years ago, ate hot pills.

 

Sarah Silverman  33:11

Oh yeah.

 

V  33:12

Like, I didn’t even know that those exist. I don’t know why anyone would even want to do that. It takes kind of the joy out of weed. But she you ate?

 

Sarah Silverman  33:20

Well, it’s edibles, but it’s not edibles. It’s a pill. I thought it was like CBD. I actually didn’t think it was gonna get me high.

 

V  33:28

So this is my story. Now, she didn’t eat just one. She thought it was only CBD. Didn’t take the time to even notice that it was THC, and then took two of them and then texted me something. I’m sure if I went all the way back, I could find it.

 

Sarah Silverman  33:47

I think I’m gonna die. I really felt like I was gonna die. I thought I was gonna die. And I’ve never had like, a bad, like weed thing before, and I had ordered in food and I couldn’t move.

 

V  33:58

So I at the time, I lived about three minutes from Sarah, and I had the key to her house, and I, like, went over her food was like, left at the front door, so I grabbed it, I found her in her bed, and she was, like, really terrified that she was having such a bad pot trip, and so I kind of jumped into action.

 

Sarah Silverman  34:18

It was so comforting, because she was just like, you’re fine. You need to eat, eat this. And then she put on the TV, and it was like, some awards show, like an MTV awards or something. And it was like, as soon as she said, I was fine, and just made me eat. I was already fine because I like, I already felt like, uh, you can’t die from weed. But something it was different.

 

V  34:44

Sometimes you just need someone else to tell you you’re gonna be okay. Yes, that’s half of the fight or flight when you know is you need to be like, brought down.

 

Sarah Silverman  34:53

Yeah, that’s like, the other day I threw my back out, and I know the feeling immediately I was just like, I went to move a lamp onto the floor, and it just went and, like, the whole bottom band of my back just froze. And it’s happened to me before on the road, but this time, like, after reading John Sarno’s book, and just like, learning about it, and just like, hey, if I can walk, nothing’s broken. So I just, instead of like, freezing up, I made myself just relax and breathe. And I was like, this is all it is pain and there’s, I don’t have to do anything, and it will eventually go away. I we got Advil. I put a shit ton of Tiger Balm on it, which, luckily, I actually do enjoy the smell of it, and it felt so much better. And the next day it was gone, which that never happens. It usually lasts many days, but it’s so mental, like I didn’t let myself freak out, I didn’t let myself worry. I breathed and I and I told myself what I know, which is, it’s fine, it’s just pain. You know, I can handle pain if I know it’s not anything wrong, you know. And I went away. I did the stretch. I know the stretch is to do whatever, but I was just so surprised that the next day I felt better. Anyway, that was the longest answer to a very simple question from like 40 minutes ago, okay.

 

V  36:29

But I did want to just thank her for pronouncing my name correctly as well.

 

Sarah Silverman  36:35

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