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Sarah is back from tour with fresh takes from the studio! She gives us the full story behind the podcast’s theme song by Ben Folds, including how they first became friends. Plus she reminds us to touch grass and explains why you can put anything from your vagina into your butt but not anything from your butt into your vagina.

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Transcript

SPEAKERS

Gretchen, Amy, Jimmy, Ashley, Sarah Silverman, Miranda, Erica, Sender 7

Sarah Silverman  00:00

Hey, everybody you know, before we start today’s show, I wanted to remind you all to send me your questions and your concerns, your worries, your fears, your theories, your proclamations, your fun facts, whatever it is I just I love to hear from all of you, and maybe just maybe, we will feature you in an episode. So go to speakpipe.com/theSarahSilvermanpodcast. That’s speakpipe.com/theSarahSilvermanpodcast, and drop me your questions. All right, take it away me.

 

Sarah Silverman  00:56

Hi everybody, it’s your old pal. Sarah Silverman, remember me. I am here, and sorry that I’ve there’s been some reruns and such. I was on the road for so long and now I’m here. I am back from tour. On tour, I got a lot of people saying, I gotta, I gotta talk about what’s going on, and I know the world right now, this country right now, this is, in my opinion, this is Citizens United, aka legalized corruption come to fruition after All these years. No, we have entered a kleptocracy. I hope I’m wrong. I want to be wrong, but boy, these unprecedented times are giving me unprecedented times because I have never been afraid to speak up. Never in my life, I have never not had a single idea on how to fight the power, and that’s where I’m at right now. And if I’m being totally honest, and I’m not proud of this, all I want to do is play video games, stick my head in the sand that this is where I’m at. I am so fucking overwhelmed. And I think that’s the plan bombardment. I mean, can I just pass the baton like I don’t have the energy for this, I don’t have the health for it? All right? I’m just kidding, but I’m kidding on the square, which, I don’t know if that’s a comedy term, but basically it means I’m kidding, but there’s truth to it. Will there be another free and fair election? I don’t know. I hope so. I don’t know. I do believe that our salvation will be each other, and I touched on this from the road community. I think that’s our salvation, and maybe it will be beautiful and successful, but I think that’s going to be our salvation is realizing that our purpose as humans is taking care of each other and not seeing each other as other, but as all of us connected which we are, whether we want to be or not. But fuck, I want to put my head in the sand, but I also want to keep somewhat abreast. I think that’s what we’re all trying to do. We’re trying to find balance. So here it is, here’s my my pitch. Ignore Trump. You do not have to consume his content. You don’t have to. Now that sounds incredibly privileged, but I believe you do not have to at all consume his content and let that chip away at your physical and mental health instead, fucking touch grass when you can and focus inward. Focus on each other. Focus inward. I’m not saying totally disengage. I’m saying re engage. I’m saying go within. This is not something I made up. I think it was some very wise Buddhist maybe, or something. Go within. All the answers are there, taking care of ourselves, taking care of each other. It doesn’t have to include him. You don’t have to keep up with every disgusting thing. He says. They’re, their whole purpose is owning the libs. They have no there’s. No ideology. It’s an act of hatred and a need for superiority. So no, you don’t have to keep up with every disgusting thing. He says. We need only to focus on caring for the people suffering in his wake and taking care of each other. And by the way, absolutely run towards joy wherever you find it. So this is what I have to offer. I hope someone is thinking of much smarter, active things, but that’s what I got. Let’s take some calls.

 

Miranda  06:01

Hi, Sarah. My name is Miranda. I was just wondering, since Ben Folds does your theme song, if you have a personal relationship with him? If you know him outside of like professional encounters, if you guys have ever hung out, I just think he seems like a really sweet guy, and I absolutely love his music, so I was just curious about that. And then he also has an album named songs For Silverman. And I was wondering if that perchance had anything to do with you. Someone on Reddit said that it did, but I couldn’t find a definitive answer as to why the album was named that. So I was just curious, and I just wanted to say also that your phrase that you use all the time, thank the God that I don’t believe in, I’ve been using that ever since I heard you say it, because I used to say thank God, but I also don’t believe in God, and so it always felt kind of hypocritical. So that’s been like, such a useful phrase to add to my everyday life. And also, I just wanted to say thank you for everything that you do, for who you are, for pushing through all the dark times that I know you went through in order to bring us all love and joy and laughter with your work. So thanks so much. I love you and have a great day.

 

Sarah Silverman  07:25

Well, geez, thanks, Miranda, that’s nice to hear. And yeah, the God I don’t believe in. I get that from my I got that from my dad, who prayed every night. He had a prayer he did every night that mentioned all the kids, all the grandkids, all our partners. And that prayer went to the God he doesn’t believe in. You know, what is God? It’s all, whatever it is. Um, I do know Ben Folds. I he is a friend. I adore him. I started out as a fan, and I will tell you, this is how long ago this is. Many of you will not remember this, but when I moved out to LA there was a virgin mega store, and they had all these listening stations where you could listen to new music. And that was like my favorite date with myself on, like a Saturday night, if I didn’t have shows or whatever, night, I would smoke a joint and drive over to the maybe I should say I drove over and then smoke a joint. It was right around the corner, and my home evening would be listening at the listening stations to all of the new music, and it was just my joy. I like dates with myself, and I will never forget his first album, Ben Folds Five. Maybe it was self titled. Ben Folds Five, although there were only three of them in the band, and I listened to it beginning to end, and just devoured it. And was like, who is this? Sew up my alley. I love piano rock. I love lyrics. I love his humor. I love the beauty of it. I love the the musicianship, the whole kit and caboodle, kit and caboodle, I don’t know. Um, so obsessed. Love, and I was playing a character named Wendy Traston, I want to say, on The Larry Sanders Show. And I and Gary Shandling was a mentor to me, and I loved him, and I begged him to have. Have Ben Folds on because they would have musical guests on the, like, talk show within the show. And he did, of course, because they were awesome. And then I said, I asked Gary. I said, I’m gonna go up and just tell them I’m a fan. And then you come over to me and, like, ask my advice about the show, about something, like, about the show, like, I’m a big deal. And he did. I’ve told Ben this subsequently, years later, but I, you know, I went over to them, I go, Oh, I’m such a fan. And then Gary, such a good pal, you know, walked over to me, Sarah, do you think that take was good, or do, you know, like, as if I had any power there at all? Yeah, I think that was good. Yeah. I don’t know why I thought that would impress Ben Folds, but we’ve always stayed friends. We we’ve opened for each other on the road. When I’m in Nashville, I was just in Nashville, and he opened for me, which is pretty cool. I have, like a surprise Ben Folds open for you. Was a very cool and thrilling, and I just love during the pandemic, he was in Australia. He was there for a gig, and then the world shut down, and he stayed there. And also, during the pandemic, I was I had learned Call of Duty, because the first thing I did when the world shut down was I went to a Gamestop and bought a used Playstation and some headphones and a, you know, and a game Call of Duty World War Two, and I it was my last hurrah with my assistant at the time, Annie Siegel, who is, was my assistant, and is my friend, and she taught me Call of Duty. And we would play every day. And eventually we, like, put it on Twitch, and we would play, and we had a real like banter, some of you, some of the listeners I know came from watching her Twitch show a town and Sylvie man and I would when I would murder, and get on a really good murder streak, I would improvise songs about, you know, my prowess in a Call of Duty and how I was killing her. And they were just like improvised songs. And he was in Australia, and somehow was watching this, and he said he was so bored that he put them to music, and he would send it back to me with, like, full orchestration behind me, like it was a written song, and it was so awesome. I think in the early days of the podcast, I played some of them, but, um, we I could probably find some, and it just elevated something that was so dumb into something so cool. And so I fully took advantage of our friendship, and when we were having people submit, ideas or concepts for the theme song. I asked if he’d write one, and he did, and we used it, and it’s so fun, and I’m very grateful for it. And and I love them. Love them to pieces quality, quality human and awesome musician. And that was a very long answer, Miranda.

 

Jimmy  13:34

Hello, miss Sarah Silverman, my name is Jimmy, and I’m here in Denver, Colorado. I actually just exalt you at the Paramount Theater here in town. Great show, incredible. Also, Rory is, like, fucking hysterical. I knew he was funny, but had never seen him like, do his thing like that. Oh my god. Anyway. I mean cracking up. Good catch girl. Thank you, anyhoozy doozy. I wanted to first apologize I was the asshole in the audience that when you were doing your intro. I was like.

 

Sarah Silverman  14:01

We love you.

 

Jimmy  14:02

I was that annoying person. And I just want to say sorry, it’s not comedy show etiquette. I did not mean to be the heckler. I’m gonna blame the bartenders. Okay, they were very generous. And, you know, I just got too excited. It was my first time seeing you, so I’m sorry for being that person. But my question that I’m calling in for, I forgive you. I was raised in a Catholic household. I’m currently atheist, but raised in a Catholic household and culturally always felt like we were Jewish, like my grandmother was the one that converted from Judaism to Catholicism. So I was raised like religiously Catholic, not really religious. Now I’ve always kind of claimed being Jewish because, like, culturally speaking, so many things have been similar, like, Jewish friends I’ve had, or, like, even watching the nanny, right? Like I’m looking at these things and being like, that’s my family. That was my upbringing. But is that appropriate to claim being culturally Jewish? I don’t know. Just wanted to pick your brain about that. Love you so much. Thank you so much for the comedy show bye.

 

Sarah Silverman  15:03

Jimmy, as a representative of all Jews I am, I think we are absolutely fine with you claiming to be culturally Jewish or Jewish in any way you want. There is an Alan Sherman song that my mom turned me on to and I was little, and it went, when you’re in love, the whole world is Jewish. That’s all I remember. But you can go ahead and look that up. Yeah, you know, Jews don’t what’s it called proselytize or recruit or anything like that. But you want to be Jewish, baby, be Jewish, especially now. Love it, I’m guessing you’re Catholic, you’re, maybe you’re Italian. And I would say that there is culturally just Italians and Jews. I know one is mash a nationality and one is a religion, but it’s a religion that’s like a race, a culture, you know, a floor wax, a dessert topping, but, um, very similar, my Rory is a pizza bagel, which is, you know, half his mother’s Jewish, his father’s Italian, and it’s extremely similar, extremely similar cultures. We just don’t fear hell.

 

Amy  16:36

I had something to add?

 

Sarah Silverman  16:38

Yes.

 

Amy  16:39

Well, he said that his grandmother, converted.

 

Sarah Silverman  16:42

That’s right. So he’s.

 

Amy  16:43

So if it’s his grandmother on his mother’s side, then he actually is Jewish by blood and by Jewish law, is Jewish. And I also do think that there is a, there is some kind of a cultural Jewish something in in the blood. You know that we do things that I don’t even know why we do it. I mean, certainly, if you have stomach issues, for example, that you […]

 

Sarah Silverman  17:14

[…] Thing is, is a Jewish thing, and now you know what it’s from is inbreeding. No, okay, yeah, that’s a reason, a recent revelation. Who knows what’s true when it comes to to things, stories about Jews can’t, can’t believe all of them. But that one, I believe, is the fact jack in breeding.

 

Amy  17:39

I’d ask Jimmy if he finds himself complaining at odd times, or I.

 

Sarah Silverman  17:46

Always say that’s why I love country music. You know, it doesn’t seem like Jews would love country music, but, you know, it’s basically complaining all right, what else?

 

Ashley  18:01

Hey, Sarah, it’s your old pal. Just curious. As one woman with the high sexual energy to another, have you ever been in a situation where your partner doesn’t have as high sex energy drive, and how did you manage that? I feel like I’ve met my soulmate and best friend, but the sexual energy realm, we’re not quite 100% alike, and I’m kind of struggling with defining that and working that out. So just want to know what you thought, thanks.

 

Sarah Silverman  18:43

Yeah, I don’t know what the answer is to that. I was in a relationship. I’ve been on both sides of that in relationships. I did have a boyfriend that did not want sex as often as me, and I’ll never forget he once said there is a human being attached to this penis. And he was very serious, but it was I found hilarious and adorable. But I have, I felt that way as a woman as well. I’ve been on that side of it. So I get it, I am so much more than just my vaginal canal should be a t shirt that we sell at this podcast. All right, what else?

 

Ashley  19:33

Hi, Sarah, this is Ashley from Chicago, Illinois. I have a question about bidets. So I know you are a big fan of them. I’ve heard you talk about, you know you want the stream to really get up there and clean it out. And I recently got a bidet, but I am a little torn, because I feel like as the water is clean. Seeing the butt part, then the water drips down the front, and then is just like dirty Poo water getting on your vagina. Like, does that cause more? I don’t know, yeast infections or UTIs or something I don’t know. Let me know your thoughts and how you curious, how you bidet, thank you, bye.

 

Sarah Silverman  20:23

Excellent question. Valid concern. You cannot mix the microbes in your asshole with the bacteria in your vagina. I don’t know if I’m saying the right words, microbes, for bacteria, whatever. But you know what I mean? Can’t mix those. I think you can mix I think you can put anything from in your vagina, in your butt, but you can’t put anything in your butt in your vagina. That’s, I think Confucius said that, um, I will tell you this. I have a bidet. I have a toto toilet from the great land of Japan, Nippon, as they call it. And I have never felt there’s a butt button and there’s a vagina button. And I don’t find that they mix. Sometimes, I’ll go vagina rinse. That’s usually like a post sex endeavor. And I’ll, like, kind of lean forward and let it hit my butt a little, just for like, you know, little spritz. But when it’s going in my butt. I don’t feel it like dripping forward into my I don’t feel that, and I have not I can be very prone to yeast infections. I’ve never, I have not gotten a yeast infection from that. So I think you’re safe. But try it out. You know, it’s very I mean, that water spout is very specific. I mean, you can kind of adjust it a little more back, a little more front, you know, because probably everyone’s asshole and and vagina, asshole and labia. Proximities may be, you know, may vary a bit, but it’s very specific, and it goes right to the point like, right to, like, the, literally, the epicenter of your asshole. I find maybe I’m just lucky. Maybe it’s Maybelline. All right, what else? Good luck.

 

Erica  22:37

Hi, Sarah. It’s Erica in New York. Had to record. I didn’t had no idea I made so many mouth noises. I hate myself for it, big fan. You made it okay for women to have a perverted sense of humor, and that’s what I have. Oh, Sarah, I was just fired from a dream job. I work in sports, so there aren’t that many of those. I’m in my 30s, so I’m not exactly hot talent to get a new job I worked with mostly men. I was fired for bullshit reasons basically, I was being argumentative while female. Several times the men that I worked with were encouraged to debate these sports topics, but when I did so, it was considered in subordination. Yeah. Anyway, how do I not have imposter syndrome? How do I not get over how do I get over the feeling that I let everyone down? Thought maybe you’d have some advice. Also, I want to know if you crumple your toilet paper or fold it I’m a Crumpler, and I’m afraid that means I’m a psychopath. Thanks, Sarah, bye.

 

Sarah Silverman  23:36

I, you know you and Howard Stern are crumplers, because he talked about this on his show. I, I’m I just, I don’t understand it. It seems harder to do that than to just pull it down and roll it up into a perfect pad with several sides. I feel so confident that that’s the way to go, but you got to, do you? I mean, you crumple it and you wipe and your pee or, God forbid, poop, God forbid, because it’s happened six and one is just on pieces of toilet paper that like, if you opened it up, would just be all over. There’s no clean sides. It seems wasteful and messy. Anyway, you got fired from your dream job. Listen, there is no success without failure, right there. That’s a good one. That’s it is the truth. No one has succeeded without failing, and more often than not, failure paves the way to success, as long as there’s perseverance. Or new ideas or, you know, so how can you make this dream job? I know it’s in sports. I don’t know what it is. Can you start your own version of this? Are you? I don’t know if you’re on a show or if you’re a producer, or if it’s written, or what it is. Can you find a place for yourself, um, that you create? Can you I don’t know, listen, I got my dream job really early. At 22 I was hired as a writer at Saturday Night Live, and it was my identity. I couldn’t take a taxi without going like, oh, I’m a writer at Saturday Night Live so, you know, you know, just cram it in any conversation I could, I was so proud. And this following season, I did not get picked up, aka, I was fired, and I totally had imposter syndrome. I would sit and just go, am I in show business? Am I in show business anymore? And it really paralyzed me for a beat. And then what I’m very lucky with, and maybe there’s some version of this with you, is I went back to square one. I’m a comic, I’m a stand up, and I can control that. I can’t control my success of it, but I can control that I am writing jokes, and I’m getting up wherever I can and performing them and working on them and honing them and and I can just keep my head down and work on that. And that’s what I did and and that proved to be just a ticket for me. Just persevere. Just keep doing what I was doing. The same thing that got me hired there. I became stronger. I became better at it. I became I started to know who I was on stage. And and eventually I got back on my feet. You know, I Conan, who his first year was my first and last year at Saturday Night Live so he was right in the building, and I was, I went on. He was my first talk show, because I was a new Saturday Night Live member and but even after I was fired, he continued to have me on and I would sit on the couch and do my new jokes. I would try new jokes on Conan and it that was how I got famous. That’s how people when I first started getting recognized on the street, it was from being kind of a regular guest on Conan and that became my dream job. And being a stand up was my dream job. And even though my life dream was Saturday night, live probably, and that did not that happened fast and did not pan. I didn’t even know who I was. I the fact that Lorne Michael saw something in me at 22 is astounding, like, but, um, I didn’t write good sketches. I don’t think I, you know, maybe there was a germ of something there. But I, you know, I didn’t know it was, like, my first job in comedy, really, and then that was that was it. I couldn’t dream of that happening anymore, because it had happened and and ended. But you don’t know what the future holds for you. All you have to do is persevere, dream and work on it. Keep your head down and fucking get great at what you do. And you know, I would always say, people who are stand ups or whatever, they would go, I’ve got to get an agent to come see me do stand up. Don’t worry about that shit. Just work on what you do when you are hot shit, people will be talking about you, and they will come but you, you can get stuff too early, but you can’t get stuff too late. That said, it’s later than you think. Get your shit together and work on it. Is that an answer? I hope so.

 

Gretchen  29:26

Hi, Sarah. This is Rachel, your bed wedding, soul sister from Brooklyn, a friend and I a pretty close friend, and I recently discovered about each other that we were both bed wetters until we were around 13. And I have to know, if you share this other detail of being a bed wetter with us, we both discovered that we’re relatively light sleepers. I’m an even lighter sleeper than she is, but like, I’ll wake up to anything, and it’s so annoying. But we’re both pretty light sleepers, and we both wake up to pee at least once in the middle of the night, usually. In the like early morning, so like four or 5am and we both agree that the sleep we get after that is the best sleep. The deep like 5am to like, well, I sleep till 11 o’clock. Sometimes I’m a musician, but that sleep is so good after we’ve gone to the bathroom, and I’m theorizing that it’s because all of the sleep before that time, there is a part of your brain that has the memory of being a bed wetter, and there is this fear that you’re going to piss the bed, and so you just can’t get restful sleep. So I’m curious to know if that happens to you too. Okay, love you, Sarah, thanks for your podcast. You’re the best.

 

Sarah Silverman  30:43

I never thought of that. I don’t know maybe I definitely relate to that early morning pee and after it, that’s when I have all my dreams. That’s where I have, like, my most kind of lucid, penetrating, kind of dreams where I wake up and it was so real, you know, and I don’t know if it’s because I’m sleeping deeper or I’m sleeping lighter, more in like a theta State. I don’t really know, but yes, I would say going back to sleep after that like 6am pee feels deep, but it could be opposite. I’m not really sure how sleep works. Wow, that’s a really, that’s a pretty big admission. How does sleep work? Um,  and maybe also it’s because I’m not, like, stoned, you know, like I get a little stoned, um, before I go to sleep. And I wonder if that is not the best quality of sleep. I enjoy it very much, but I’m not sure if it’s technically the healthiest sleep. I don’t know. I’m guessing it’s better than taking like Ambien, which I have people in my life that take Ambien every single night to sleep, and I can’t imagine that is healthier than a sleep gummy, but who knows? Um, but that’s a very interesting I definitely have residual like, I don’t want to say trauma, but I’ll just say trauma, because that’s the word that’s coming to me about being a bed wetter, like when I wake up, like when I would get night sweats, and I would wake up drenched, and that warm, and then as soon as you move cold, whoosh. Feeling is such a sense memory of the just the saddest piece of being a bed wetter, you know. And anytime I feel wet in my pants, like, if someone, like, spills on my lap, like it, I get so stressed when someone has a drink next to me on a plane and, like, it’s just so precarious, and it just would take a little, you know, turbulence for it to, like, spill on me. I hate, I don’t like that feeling of being wet, like on my clothes, because, and I feel pretty confident that it’s because of that sensation. That’s also why I think I never wore pads the second I got a period, which was very late. I was 17 and a half, so I my friends taught me how to use a tampon because the feeling of a pad felt like a diaper, which I had to wear like to bed when I was like 12, when I stayed at my dad’s because the heating on deal with sheets, although I learned at a very young age, which I think most people do in their bed wetters, to do your own laundry. Of course, you know, these are the silver lining skills you get along with, you know, total disassociation. Um, interesting. I actually connected with my old best friend since kindergarten, you know, into like, till, like ninth grade, and we were both bed wetters, and we both went to this hypnotist that is actually represented in the musical, the bed wetter, Dr Grimm. And when we were freshmen in high school, that was kind of our last contact as as kids, I remember her saying, like, oh my God. Remember when we went to that hypnotist for bed wetting. And I was like, yeah, but I was embarrassed inside, because I was still a bed wetter. And she revealed to me recently that she was still a bed wetter, too, and she said that to feel, you know, because she assumed I wasn’t. And interesting, so interesting as now we’re so many decades later, and you know, we’re all suffering and and just trying to survive. All right. What else?

 

Sender 7  35:12

Hey, Sarah. I hope this finds you well. Thank you so much for your lovely podcast. I really enjoy it every week. I also saw you when you were in town and it was great to see your show. I wanted to check in to see if you have any favorite self compassion practices that you do, like compassionate self talk or anything like that. I’m asking because sometimes I hear you like verbally, beat yourself up and be down on yourself. And I do the same thing, and I’ve really tried to increase my self compassion this year, but I’m always also open to other techniques I’d be curious to hear. If there’s something that works for you.

 

Sarah Silverman  35:58

I can’t believe you’ve heard me talk like that, but I believe you, of course, and I really do try to be kind to myself, because that behooves everyone around me and and also myself. And I really do love myself. I have to say I am my very best friend and my favorite person to hang out with. And that may sound obnoxious, but it should be your goal, too, and and I also this is something I learned we should be treating ourselves the way we would hope to parent any children that we had, love, compassion, kindness, support, encouragement, all of those things are things we should be giving to ourselves. Certainly, if that’s the parent you would hope that you would be that is exactly how you should treat yourself, because we are raising this child inside of us, this all the historical stuff that comes up in our lives, you know, meaning, if it’s you know, you’re overreacting to something that has triggered you, that that is likely something that you’re recognizing that’s familiar from your childhood, a dynamic or a way you’ve been treated, or a way that you have been, that you feel. So we’re always in best case scenario, re raising ourselves unlearning the things that we learned as kids. In order to survive childhood that no longer serves us, you have to practice unlearning those things. And it’s it’s a fun game, you know, that has really, really awesome rewards. I also talk out loud to myself a lot, and that’s like a barrier you have to break through to get comfortable doing. But I have to say it was Louis CK, many years ago, when we were young comics, who said it’s really important to talk out loud to yourself creatively when you’re home alone or whatever, you know, because it you’re pushing through something that feels taboo, and so much creative stuff can come out of that, you know. And I find that to be true, yeah. So there’s something to chew on, and there you go, what else?

 

Gretchen  38:40

Hey, Sarah, this is Gretchen in North Carolina. I just heard a 53 year old respond to your comments about accepting our faces and finally inspired to go ahead and call you because I believe I am a part of a growing audience hood of Crohn’s who listen to you. I’m 63 and always listening for that cringe point that you’re able to touch and inspire in all of us. A yeah, you’re human too moment, and I think I want to just speak to all of the other crones out there who listen to you and notice and let’s talk a little bit more about being seen in our old age and being embraced. But I want to thank you mostly for getting me through some really tough things when I needed to laugh and to feel that poignant cringe point in my life, through a divorce, the pandemic, and now I am enjoying my crone hood, and I bet there’s a lot of us out there who love you. Thanks, Sarah.

 

Sarah Silverman  40:02

You are young. We live a lot longer now. First of all, I always thought it was crony, old crony. She’s talking about, like the substance, style Crone, like the old woman, old, ugly woman, well, you learn something new every day. Listen, I absolutely struggle with it. You know, it’s like, I see my face changing, and it’s like, you know, there are people that are like, would that person do to her face? And you’re like, she’s aging. You’re not used to seeing that. You know, you look different over time, you know, and or you do something, or you don’t do something, or someone who does do something, but they do it very minimally, who is lauded for not doing anything, you know, whatever, whatever it is, whatever makes you happy. But the interesting thing you’re talking about being seen, and that is an absolute real phenomenon, that as soon as you do not have sexual power over men in this patriarchy, you’re not seen. And that’s really changing while the pendulum is swinging in such completely extreme sides. You know, we have a government that is wants to make America great again, and that again is a time when people who are not straight white men have limited rights anyway, at the same time, we are at our most vital at this age and your age our most vital. And what we’re learning, if you follow Dr Lisa Moscone on Instagram, and more and more voices like this, menopause was never studied, $0 into that, you know, we’re just finding out now that so many diseases have only been tested and studied in men, in men’s bodies, with the assumption that ultimately, our bodies are the same, as long as that serves the, you know, the people who fund these things you know, to be seen as we get older, if you look at the Women who have made history, and of course, we don’t even know a fraction of the women who have indelibly changed the world, because history was written by straight white men, but the ones we know about, especially, and then we learn more and more. These aren’t 20 year olds. These aren’t 30 year olds. They are women, grown, women who have come into their own. And the more we know about menopause, the more they’re learning that this is not the end of life at one stage many years ago, when people didn’t live long, it was the beginning of the end of life for women, if they didn’t die during childbirth and they continued to live, they live, you know, not long after menopausal. Now, menopause is mid life, and what happens? You know, this was the dreaded thing no one would talk about, and the truth is, much like Vanilla P […]  sweets, or even my own story with bed wetting and becoming a comedian, because nothing was daunting to me after, you know, a childhood of humiliation that this is now we’re realizing when treated right, when managed well is not just a part of life we have to accept, but indeed, a superpower. We are coming into our power. You know, in general, this is a time where people are no longer hanging from our tit, where we are not raising children, supporting a husband. You know all these things that hang off of our bodies, including debilitating menstruation, or all these things that now we are into our power, and it is not the end of life, but in fact, the time where women are meant to lead, and I see you and women who have made massive impacts in our culture and our world. It have been women of our age who are in their power, who don’t give a fuck anymore. Get excited, I see you, people that matter, see you and fucking climb into your power. And dad, wherever you are in time and space, the time space continuum, we are winding down. This is the part of the podcast when I am going to say I just added some new tour dates. I am coming to Hawaii baby, Honolulu, Oahu and Maui. I’m going to New Jersey, New York and London. You can check out the link in my bio on Instagram. It’s just Sarahsilverman.com so you can remember that. Get them now, before they’re sold out. 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