1 00:00:00,911 --> 00:00:03,080 [gun cocks and fires] 2 00:00:03,443 --> 00:00:05,987 [cheering and applause] 3 00:00:10,408 --> 00:00:13,537 [announcer] Chicago, are you ready? 4 00:00:13,620 --> 00:00:15,997 [cheering and applause] 5 00:00:16,081 --> 00:00:20,043 Party goblins, are you ready? 6 00:00:20,126 --> 00:00:21,711 [cheering and applause] 7 00:00:21,795 --> 00:00:23,338 Ladies and gentlemen, 8 00:00:23,421 --> 00:00:25,173 please welcome to the stage, 9 00:00:25,257 --> 00:00:27,425 Iliza! 10 00:00:27,509 --> 00:00:31,513 [cheering and applause] 11 00:00:38,394 --> 00:00:40,729 [cheering and applause] 12 00:00:44,775 --> 00:00:47,403 - Chicago! - [cheering] 13 00:00:47,486 --> 00:00:49,488 - Thank you! - [cheering] 14 00:00:51,323 --> 00:00:52,699 Thank you for having me. 15 00:00:52,783 --> 00:00:55,286 I'd like to discuss something with you. 16 00:00:56,495 --> 00:00:59,456 There are two kinds of hungover. 17 00:00:59,540 --> 00:01:01,250 [laughter] 18 00:01:01,333 --> 00:01:04,420 There's the kind of hungover where you wake up the next morning 19 00:01:04,503 --> 00:01:08,007 and you're like, "What? I touched his penis over his jeans? 20 00:01:08,090 --> 00:01:11,385 - It's okay, I'm sassy." And then... - [laughter] 21 00:01:11,468 --> 00:01:16,432 there's the kind of hungover where whatever happened the night before 22 00:01:16,515 --> 00:01:18,684 wasn't even your fault. 23 00:01:18,767 --> 00:01:20,269 [laughter] 24 00:01:20,352 --> 00:01:23,981 Because you weren't mentally present for any of it. 25 00:01:24,064 --> 00:01:25,691 [laughter] 26 00:01:26,275 --> 00:01:29,611 [in croaky voice] For 'twas not you that was is charge. 27 00:01:29,694 --> 00:01:31,029 [laughter] 28 00:01:31,112 --> 00:01:34,616 'Twas your party goblin! 29 00:01:34,699 --> 00:01:37,410 [cheering and applause] 30 00:01:37,493 --> 00:01:39,245 Yeah. 31 00:01:41,331 --> 00:01:45,210 Just so you know, your party goblin sleeps in the back of your brain. 32 00:01:45,293 --> 00:01:47,670 For those of you that are unfamiliar with my work, 33 00:01:47,754 --> 00:01:49,631 she sleeps in the back of your brain 34 00:01:49,714 --> 00:01:52,467 and she waits... [snorts] on a pile of rags... [snorts] 35 00:01:52,550 --> 00:01:56,054 and regrets... [snorts] and old Tiger Beat magazines. She waits! 36 00:01:56,638 --> 00:01:58,723 - [laughter] - For the perfect opportunity. 37 00:01:58,806 --> 00:02:00,433 [laughter] 38 00:02:00,516 --> 00:02:02,435 She's back there in your brain, 39 00:02:02,518 --> 00:02:04,479 sleeping her goblin sleep, just... 40 00:02:04,562 --> 00:02:07,482 - [snorts and sighs] - [laughter] 41 00:02:07,565 --> 00:02:09,776 - [snorts and sighs] - [laughter] 42 00:02:09,859 --> 00:02:12,028 [snorts] Channing Tatum, stick of butter. [snorts] 43 00:02:12,111 --> 00:02:14,864 [laughter] 44 00:02:14,948 --> 00:02:16,783 [applause] 45 00:02:18,784 --> 00:02:21,328 - And she will awaken... - [laughter] 46 00:02:21,411 --> 00:02:23,413 when she hears you say... 47 00:02:24,206 --> 00:02:27,542 "I guess I'll just come out for one drink." 48 00:02:27,626 --> 00:02:29,211 [snarls] 49 00:02:29,294 --> 00:02:31,838 [laughter and applause] 50 00:02:31,922 --> 00:02:34,841 [cheering] 51 00:02:38,637 --> 00:02:40,889 "I'll just come out for one 52 00:02:40,973 --> 00:02:42,891 because I have to be up early." 53 00:02:42,975 --> 00:02:45,310 [screams] 54 00:02:46,770 --> 00:02:49,481 Eat that sandwich out of the garbage 55 00:02:49,564 --> 00:02:51,483 and text your ex-boyfriend that you love him 56 00:02:51,566 --> 00:02:54,152 then turn your phone off! 57 00:02:54,236 --> 00:02:57,406 [cheering] 58 00:02:57,489 --> 00:03:01,326 [cheering and applause] 59 00:03:03,745 --> 00:03:08,499 And by the way, there is zero culpability on the part of your party goblin. 60 00:03:08,582 --> 00:03:10,835 She's not there the next morning 61 00:03:10,918 --> 00:03:13,504 like, "Oh, my God, are you okay? Do you need Pedialyte?" 62 00:03:13,587 --> 00:03:14,630 No! 63 00:03:14,714 --> 00:03:16,048 She doesn't give a fuck. 64 00:03:16,132 --> 00:03:19,343 She straight up ghosts at, like, 3:00 a.m. 65 00:03:19,427 --> 00:03:23,097 when you're shit-faced in the back of an Uber, right? 66 00:03:23,180 --> 00:03:25,391 You scooped yourself into the back of this car. 67 00:03:25,474 --> 00:03:28,477 Your crowing achievement of the evening is that you didn't die. 68 00:03:28,561 --> 00:03:30,021 [laughter] 69 00:03:30,104 --> 00:03:32,398 And we've all had that moment. 70 00:03:32,481 --> 00:03:35,484 Anybody that's been out drinking, you've been out, it's been loud, 71 00:03:35,568 --> 00:03:39,780 there's been yelling, dancing, you stole an ambulance, it's been a crazy night. 72 00:03:40,489 --> 00:03:43,993 We've all had that moment of solitary drunken serenity 73 00:03:44,076 --> 00:03:46,704 where you get in the back of the car and you shut the door 74 00:03:46,787 --> 00:03:49,373 and for the first time all night it's quiet. 75 00:03:49,457 --> 00:03:50,374 [laughter] 76 00:03:50,458 --> 00:03:53,210 And you think, "Oh, my God, I made it." 77 00:03:53,294 --> 00:03:56,130 [laughter] 78 00:03:56,213 --> 00:03:58,090 Followed by, "I'm gonna throw up." 79 00:03:58,174 --> 00:04:01,259 And the car is going, you're like, "Oh, fuck!" 80 00:04:01,343 --> 00:04:03,011 You're trying to hold it in, right? 81 00:04:03,094 --> 00:04:05,847 You roll the window down. You're like, "Agh! It's too much air!" 82 00:04:05,930 --> 00:04:08,308 You roll the window back up. You're like, "Too much me!" 83 00:04:08,391 --> 00:04:10,435 You crack the window. You're like, "No!" 84 00:04:10,518 --> 00:04:15,106 The vomit's coming up. It's right here, like A1 Steak Sauce, it gets you here. 85 00:04:15,190 --> 00:04:18,693 You're like, "Uhh!" You're trying to focus on anything to distract you. 86 00:04:18,777 --> 00:04:20,278 You're listening to the radio. 87 00:04:20,362 --> 00:04:22,655 For the first time ever, you're paying attention 88 00:04:22,739 --> 00:04:24,741 to the words of a Pitbull song. 89 00:04:24,824 --> 00:04:26,618 - You're like... - [laughter] 90 00:04:26,701 --> 00:04:29,162 # Uno, dos, tres... # We get it! We get it! 91 00:04:29,245 --> 00:04:30,413 [laughter] 92 00:04:30,497 --> 00:04:34,084 You look at party goblin, she's loving it. She's got her head out her window like... 93 00:04:34,167 --> 00:04:35,668 [screams] 94 00:04:35,752 --> 00:04:37,462 [laughter] 95 00:04:37,545 --> 00:04:40,131 And you know it's your party goblin that got you 96 00:04:40,215 --> 00:04:43,051 by the manner in which you wake up the next morning. 97 00:04:43,134 --> 00:04:45,261 If you wake up. If you wake up, Chicago. 98 00:04:45,345 --> 00:04:46,471 [laughter] 99 00:04:46,554 --> 00:04:50,307 You wake up... When party goblin gets you, you wake up on your couch. 100 00:04:50,391 --> 00:04:53,394 Beds are for closers. You wake up on your couch, okay? 101 00:04:54,144 --> 00:04:56,605 You ever pass out on a pillow so hard, 102 00:04:56,688 --> 00:04:59,400 you get a cushion scar down the side of your face? 103 00:04:59,483 --> 00:05:02,403 [laughter] 104 00:05:02,486 --> 00:05:05,948 And you wake up, no idea where you are, no idea where you were. 105 00:05:06,031 --> 00:05:09,743 You check your wrist, it's just a dirty patchwork of entry stamps. 106 00:05:09,827 --> 00:05:11,161 [laughter] 107 00:05:11,245 --> 00:05:12,621 Putting the pieces together 108 00:05:12,704 --> 00:05:15,124 from the night before is like the plot from Memento. 109 00:05:15,207 --> 00:05:16,250 No idea. 110 00:05:16,333 --> 00:05:17,333 [laughter] 111 00:05:18,001 --> 00:05:20,963 You check your Instagram feed, it's a blurry feed of pictures 112 00:05:21,046 --> 00:05:23,090 you took of your own face from this angle. 113 00:05:23,173 --> 00:05:25,050 [laughter and cheering] 114 00:05:25,134 --> 00:05:28,762 It's just me and three girls in a bathroom in East LA like, "Squad goals." 115 00:05:28,846 --> 00:05:30,305 Who the fuck are they? 116 00:05:30,389 --> 00:05:31,723 [laughter] 117 00:05:31,807 --> 00:05:34,226 I don't know, but I think I'm in the gang now, right? 118 00:05:35,060 --> 00:05:37,271 No idea what you did the night before. 119 00:05:37,354 --> 00:05:41,315 We... I... You know when party goblin gets you by the amount that you sleep. 120 00:05:41,399 --> 00:05:44,193 I slept for 15 hours the other day. 121 00:05:44,819 --> 00:05:47,822 - I slept so long, my muscles atrophied. - [laughter] 122 00:05:47,905 --> 00:05:49,615 Okay? I turned to fucking stone. 123 00:05:49,699 --> 00:05:50,575 You ever pass out 124 00:05:50,658 --> 00:05:52,994 with your full body weight on your hands, like... 125 00:05:53,077 --> 00:05:56,247 [laughter] 126 00:05:56,330 --> 00:05:59,917 No blood in, no blood out. Your hands are just purple, bloated flippers. 127 00:06:00,001 --> 00:06:01,752 [laughter] 128 00:06:01,836 --> 00:06:03,963 I slept so long, I almost died. 129 00:06:04,046 --> 00:06:06,424 Like, there was a point at around 4:00 p.m. 130 00:06:06,507 --> 00:06:09,635 where my soul was like, "Should I just go?" 131 00:06:09,719 --> 00:06:12,930 [laughter] 132 00:06:13,014 --> 00:06:15,808 [cheering] 133 00:06:18,477 --> 00:06:20,271 There's different kinds of drunk. 134 00:06:20,354 --> 00:06:24,066 Some people think they get smarter when they're drunk, some people wanna talk. 135 00:06:24,150 --> 00:06:27,612 The Latin phrase is in vino veritas, which means, "in wine, there's truth," 136 00:06:27,695 --> 00:06:30,656 which is why when girls get drunk, we're always like, 137 00:06:30,740 --> 00:06:32,699 "Can I just tell you a secret?" 138 00:06:32,782 --> 00:06:35,952 [laughter and applause] 139 00:06:38,830 --> 00:06:41,708 [laughter] 140 00:06:42,834 --> 00:06:44,544 "I don't have a neck." 141 00:06:44,628 --> 00:06:45,921 [laughter] 142 00:06:49,090 --> 00:06:51,301 I don't really make a lot of drunk mistakes 143 00:06:51,384 --> 00:06:54,471 but I worry when I make dumb decisions when I'm drunk for this simple fact. 144 00:06:54,554 --> 00:06:57,057 In my group of friends, I'm the alpha. 145 00:06:57,140 --> 00:06:59,184 I decide what we do. Obviously. 146 00:06:59,267 --> 00:07:03,313 I pick the restaurants, I pick the bars, mostly because no one cares, 147 00:07:03,396 --> 00:07:05,106 but I am the decision-maker. 148 00:07:05,190 --> 00:07:08,693 And what worries me is, if I'm doing stupid shit when I'm drunk, 149 00:07:08,777 --> 00:07:11,696 what hope do the sheep who I lead have... 150 00:07:11,780 --> 00:07:14,032 [cheering and applause] 151 00:07:14,115 --> 00:07:15,909 if that's my example? 152 00:07:17,035 --> 00:07:19,037 So this is the story of one such night. 153 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:21,081 So, we were out the other night and we were 154 00:07:21,164 --> 00:07:22,248 shit-canned. 155 00:07:22,331 --> 00:07:26,418 Like, the kind of drunk where you can't even read. 156 00:07:26,502 --> 00:07:29,004 [applause] 157 00:07:29,088 --> 00:07:32,591 And then you realize it's because... you're in China Town. 158 00:07:32,675 --> 00:07:35,010 [laughter] 159 00:07:35,094 --> 00:07:37,513 [cheering] 160 00:07:37,596 --> 00:07:39,515 [applause] 161 00:07:40,599 --> 00:07:43,102 [laughter] 162 00:07:43,185 --> 00:07:47,398 Actually, you know you're fucked up when you're in China Town and you can read. 163 00:07:47,481 --> 00:07:50,109 Ohhh! 164 00:07:50,192 --> 00:07:53,612 - Ancient secrets, not so hidden. So... - [laughter] 165 00:07:53,696 --> 00:07:59,410 We're drunk and we're walking through China Town and we walk into a bar. 166 00:07:59,493 --> 00:08:01,662 I'm reticent to say that it's a club because I'm 33, 167 00:08:01,745 --> 00:08:04,706 but there was a dance floor, a DJ and I had on a little body glitter, okay! 168 00:08:04,748 --> 00:08:07,835 [laughter] 169 00:08:07,918 --> 00:08:11,213 You're probably wondering, "Why are you wearing body glitter?" 170 00:08:11,297 --> 00:08:12,880 I will tell you, Chicago. 171 00:08:12,964 --> 00:08:16,384 Because my date was late to pick me up. Gentlemen! 172 00:08:17,051 --> 00:08:18,428 [laughter] 173 00:08:18,511 --> 00:08:20,388 You need to know this about women. 174 00:08:20,471 --> 00:08:24,058 When we get ready, we have a list of things we do 175 00:08:24,142 --> 00:08:26,227 to reach our most attractive point. 176 00:08:26,311 --> 00:08:30,273 There is an apex, nay, a pinnacle of beauty... 177 00:08:30,815 --> 00:08:33,067 that women reach when they're getting ready. 178 00:08:33,151 --> 00:08:35,153 And every minute you're late to get us 179 00:08:35,236 --> 00:08:37,655 is one more minute we spend doubting ourselves, 180 00:08:37,739 --> 00:08:41,242 dicking with our makeup, and we get incrementally uglier... 181 00:08:41,326 --> 00:08:43,661 - [laughter] - as time goes on. 182 00:08:43,745 --> 00:08:46,789 [cheering and applause] 183 00:08:49,500 --> 00:08:52,587 One time, my date was an hour late, I grew a tail. 184 00:08:52,670 --> 00:08:54,672 [laughter] 185 00:08:55,256 --> 00:08:57,550 This guy was only 30 minutes late, thank God. 186 00:08:57,634 --> 00:09:01,387 He walks in, I'm on the ground, there's caboodle shrapnel everywhere. 187 00:09:02,221 --> 00:09:04,306 I've got a Wet N Wild lip gloss wand, 188 00:09:04,389 --> 00:09:06,099 I'm like, "I'm a pretty girl!" 189 00:09:06,183 --> 00:09:07,809 [laughter] 190 00:09:07,893 --> 00:09:09,436 "Save yourself." 191 00:09:09,519 --> 00:09:11,063 [laughter] 192 00:09:11,146 --> 00:09:13,732 But what happens is, we have time, 193 00:09:13,815 --> 00:09:16,818 so we start to add things, doubt ourselves. 194 00:09:16,902 --> 00:09:19,488 - That's where I found that glitter. - [laughter] 195 00:09:19,571 --> 00:09:21,698 "He's not here. [gasps] What's this?" 196 00:09:22,532 --> 00:09:26,036 In hindsight, it wasn't body glitter, it was straight-up craft glitter. 197 00:09:26,119 --> 00:09:27,371 [laughter] 198 00:09:27,454 --> 00:09:29,915 But I was like, "I'm gonna put it on my face, make it dainty." 199 00:09:29,998 --> 00:09:33,460 Do you ever feel that? Do you ever feel that you can make something work? 200 00:09:33,543 --> 00:09:35,921 Do you ever feel that because you're not trashy, 201 00:09:36,004 --> 00:09:38,632 you can pull off doing something that's trashy? 202 00:09:38,715 --> 00:09:41,343 [cheering] 203 00:09:43,136 --> 00:09:46,264 You're like, "I can wear fishnet stockings, I went to Stanford." 204 00:09:46,348 --> 00:09:48,183 Like it's okay for some reason. 205 00:09:48,266 --> 00:09:49,810 [laughter] 206 00:09:49,893 --> 00:09:51,645 That's how I felt about that body glitter. 207 00:09:51,728 --> 00:09:54,855 I was like, "I'll just do a little bit. I'll do a classy amount. 208 00:09:54,939 --> 00:09:56,691 I'm just gonna do a little bit." 209 00:09:56,774 --> 00:09:59,735 Fun fact, you know what body glitter up close looks like? Conjunctivitis. 210 00:09:59,819 --> 00:10:01,779 - Like, real up close. - [laughter] 211 00:10:01,862 --> 00:10:06,867 "I'll do a little." Five minutes later, "Maybe just highlight the orbital rim. 212 00:10:06,951 --> 00:10:09,036 That way when we're dancing, 213 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:12,123 the light will hit it and it'll be like, 'Bing, anime! Ah!' 214 00:10:12,206 --> 00:10:13,999 Keep going. Keep going." 215 00:10:14,083 --> 00:10:16,752 Five more minutes later, "Maybe I'll bring a little bit down here 216 00:10:16,836 --> 00:10:21,966 and highlight the jawbone so he knows I, what, come from good chewing stock?" 217 00:10:22,049 --> 00:10:23,175 [laughter] 218 00:10:23,259 --> 00:10:26,011 Five more minutes later, sparkle fish! So now... 219 00:10:26,095 --> 00:10:27,847 [laughter] 220 00:10:27,930 --> 00:10:31,225 I look like a goddamn road flare and we're in public. So... 221 00:10:31,308 --> 00:10:33,352 [laughter] 222 00:10:33,436 --> 00:10:38,691 We walk into this bar and one of the difficult parts about being a woman, 223 00:10:38,774 --> 00:10:41,026 besides everything, is that... 224 00:10:41,777 --> 00:10:42,862 It's really hard. 225 00:10:42,945 --> 00:10:46,322 Is that you're constantly battling with yourself. 226 00:10:46,406 --> 00:10:50,452 In the long run, we're battling our weight, hair color, wrinkles. 227 00:10:50,535 --> 00:10:54,581 Minute to minute, it's just an adjustment of your hair and your bra 228 00:10:54,664 --> 00:10:56,416 and your underwear and your makeup 229 00:10:56,499 --> 00:10:58,260 and your mustache, braid it, bead it, set it. 230 00:10:58,334 --> 00:11:00,795 - You're always doing something. - [laughter] 231 00:11:01,421 --> 00:11:05,300 Because if one thing is off, then the night is ruined, Scott, okay? 232 00:11:06,217 --> 00:11:08,553 One time, I left my house without mascara on. 233 00:11:08,636 --> 00:11:12,432 I did a U-turn on a four-lane highway. Like, "No!" 234 00:11:12,515 --> 00:11:13,349 [laughter] 235 00:11:13,433 --> 00:11:16,144 "They will see the whites of my eyes!" 236 00:11:16,227 --> 00:11:18,605 [laughter] 237 00:11:19,731 --> 00:11:23,276 Everything has to be perfect. And guys, it's exhausting. 238 00:11:23,359 --> 00:11:25,069 It's exhausting being a girl. 239 00:11:25,153 --> 00:11:27,947 Did you know, fun scientific fact that I made up on the way here, 240 00:11:28,031 --> 00:11:31,993 that women get four minutes out of every night, 241 00:11:32,076 --> 00:11:34,537 four minutes out of every night 242 00:11:34,621 --> 00:11:36,663 where our brain sends a message to our body saying, 243 00:11:36,747 --> 00:11:38,832 "Everything's okay, stop messing with it"? 244 00:11:38,916 --> 00:11:41,168 Four minutes out of every night 245 00:11:41,251 --> 00:11:43,462 where your brain sends a message to your body like, 246 00:11:43,545 --> 00:11:45,839 "Homeostasis achieved." You're like... 247 00:11:45,923 --> 00:11:48,800 [laughter] 248 00:11:48,884 --> 00:11:52,471 [cheering and applause] 249 00:11:55,349 --> 00:11:57,851 And the rest of the time, it's just mayhem! 250 00:11:57,935 --> 00:12:02,481 Everything has to be perfect. So, we walk into this bar, my first thought... 251 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:05,734 "I gotta fix my lip liner. Now!" 252 00:12:05,817 --> 00:12:06,860 [laughter] 253 00:12:06,944 --> 00:12:09,279 I'm not even a big lip liner wearer, 254 00:12:09,363 --> 00:12:11,323 but in that moment, 'twas everything. 255 00:12:11,949 --> 00:12:14,451 In that moment, I believed fixing my lip liner 256 00:12:14,535 --> 00:12:17,079 is what stood between me and eternal happiness, okay? 257 00:12:17,162 --> 00:12:21,625 I had to take a liner, I had to find my liner and line my chola lips, okay? 258 00:12:21,708 --> 00:12:23,335 - That's what I had to do. - [applause] 259 00:12:23,418 --> 00:12:26,796 So glad that got a response. In North Carolina, nothing. Okay. 260 00:12:26,879 --> 00:12:28,673 [laughter] 261 00:12:28,756 --> 00:12:33,261 [cheering and applause] 262 00:12:34,220 --> 00:12:37,848 Had to fix my lip liner, had to be right then. 263 00:12:37,932 --> 00:12:39,976 To the gentlemen in the room, 264 00:12:40,059 --> 00:12:42,436 I don't expect you to understand the urgency 265 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:44,397 with which I had to fix my lip liner. 266 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:47,692 The only thing I could liken it to in male culture is, like... 267 00:12:48,526 --> 00:12:50,736 when you feel you have to adjust your balls. 268 00:12:50,820 --> 00:12:51,821 [laughter] 269 00:12:51,904 --> 00:12:53,739 Similar immediacy. 270 00:12:54,532 --> 00:12:56,617 As we've seen, unfortunately. 271 00:12:56,701 --> 00:12:58,327 [laughter] 272 00:12:58,411 --> 00:13:02,582 When you feel that's gotta happen, it's gotta happen now! Go! Go! Go! 273 00:13:02,665 --> 00:13:06,377 In front of children, Christmas Eve, family portrait, messing with my dick. 274 00:13:06,460 --> 00:13:07,628 [laughter and cheering] 275 00:13:07,712 --> 00:13:10,715 # Messing with my dick in public # 276 00:13:10,798 --> 00:13:12,174 Wahoo! 277 00:13:13,384 --> 00:13:16,095 # It's a dick puzzle and I'm solving it now # 278 00:13:16,178 --> 00:13:18,555 # Maximum comfort at any cost # 279 00:13:18,638 --> 00:13:20,682 # This is my right, Nancy, get off my back # 280 00:13:20,765 --> 00:13:22,642 - So... - [laughter] 281 00:13:22,726 --> 00:13:25,854 So many guys right now have to adjust. They're like, "I'm not gonna do it!" 282 00:13:25,937 --> 00:13:28,356 [laughter] 283 00:13:29,357 --> 00:13:31,151 [laughter] 284 00:13:31,234 --> 00:13:33,278 I believe that's what Elvis was doing. 285 00:13:33,361 --> 00:13:35,530 [laughter] 286 00:13:35,614 --> 00:13:36,990 Makes sense. 287 00:13:39,284 --> 00:13:42,704 Needed my liner. Now you understand that I needed it, guys, okay? 288 00:13:42,787 --> 00:13:47,459 Needed the fucking liner. That means I had to find the liner in my bag. 289 00:13:48,627 --> 00:13:52,672 - However, I had a big bag. - [laughter] 290 00:13:52,756 --> 00:13:56,384 There's a very specific way that women will search for something 291 00:13:56,468 --> 00:13:58,428 when we have a big bag. 292 00:13:58,511 --> 00:14:02,599 What do you do? You take a designated search claw... 293 00:14:02,682 --> 00:14:04,559 [laughter] 294 00:14:04,643 --> 00:14:06,436 and you plunge it. 295 00:14:06,519 --> 00:14:09,355 [laughter] 296 00:14:10,731 --> 00:14:13,817 [cheering] 297 00:14:13,901 --> 00:14:16,403 [applause] 298 00:14:17,988 --> 00:14:21,075 Never breaking eye contact with your prey, I mean your date. 299 00:14:21,158 --> 00:14:22,701 [laughter] 300 00:14:22,785 --> 00:14:25,704 Notice I haven't blinked, Chicago. Dedication acting. 301 00:14:25,788 --> 00:14:29,333 [cheering] 302 00:14:29,416 --> 00:14:31,752 [applause] 303 00:14:31,835 --> 00:14:34,171 The constant eye contact being a reminder that, 304 00:14:34,254 --> 00:14:38,384 yes, I can multitask and keep talking. I'll make a great partner. Marry me. 305 00:14:38,467 --> 00:14:40,970 [laughter] 306 00:14:41,053 --> 00:14:42,721 Meanwhile, to the outside world, 307 00:14:42,805 --> 00:14:45,432 it looks like you're wrestling with a very small bass. 308 00:14:46,183 --> 00:14:48,394 If you're a pro, you keep conversation moving. 309 00:14:48,477 --> 00:14:49,478 Still haven't blinked. 310 00:14:49,561 --> 00:14:51,814 If you're a pro, you keep conversation moving. 311 00:14:51,897 --> 00:14:54,692 "I'm listening. Keep talking. Keep talking. I can look and listen. 312 00:14:54,775 --> 00:14:57,236 Say FanDuel one more time, motherfucker. I'm listening." 313 00:14:57,319 --> 00:15:00,780 [laughter and applause] 314 00:15:02,949 --> 00:15:05,660 You're digging around in there. Meanwhile, as a woman, 315 00:15:05,743 --> 00:15:08,830 you're having to come to terms with the seventh layer of hell 316 00:15:08,913 --> 00:15:11,040 that is the bottom of your bag. 317 00:15:11,124 --> 00:15:15,753 It's just a graveyard of dismembered pens, there's coins. 318 00:15:15,837 --> 00:15:21,509 Why is there always a Nature's Valley granola bar crumbled... at the bottom? 319 00:15:21,592 --> 00:15:24,595 [cheering and applause] 320 00:15:24,679 --> 00:15:28,808 You stick your hand down, you come up with oats between your fingernails. 321 00:15:28,891 --> 00:15:30,518 You're like, "Ow! Ow!" 322 00:15:31,310 --> 00:15:32,687 [laughter] 323 00:15:32,770 --> 00:15:35,273 Digging around. A gym lock, a phone charger, 324 00:15:35,356 --> 00:15:36,524 a concealer without its lid. 325 00:15:36,607 --> 00:15:38,317 Why? Why can't we make them 326 00:15:38,401 --> 00:15:40,111 with retractable lids that don't break off? 327 00:15:40,194 --> 00:15:42,071 Because you stick your hand down there, 328 00:15:42,155 --> 00:15:45,533 unknowingly you come up with one creamy finger. You're like, "No!" 329 00:15:45,616 --> 00:15:48,036 - [laughter] - "No!" 330 00:15:48,119 --> 00:15:50,579 But it was expensive, so you're like, "No!" 331 00:15:50,662 --> 00:15:52,664 [laughter] 332 00:15:52,748 --> 00:15:55,375 [cheering] 333 00:15:55,459 --> 00:15:58,045 So now you look amazing. Keep looking, keep looking. 334 00:15:58,128 --> 00:16:01,173 Bits of paper. A sock. Keep looking. Tampon out of its wrapper. 335 00:16:01,256 --> 00:16:03,717 Maybe I keep it. No, I'll get sick. Digging around. 336 00:16:04,134 --> 00:16:06,053 If it's out of the wrapper, don't keep it. 337 00:16:06,136 --> 00:16:08,930 Sometimes it's like, "I'll just..." Don't blow on it and... 338 00:16:09,014 --> 00:16:12,267 You're gonna get dysentery, you'll never finish the Oregon Trail. 339 00:16:12,350 --> 00:16:14,770 [laughter and cheering] 340 00:16:19,900 --> 00:16:23,779 Seven or eight seconds go by, I cannot find my lip liner. 341 00:16:23,862 --> 00:16:27,324 Seven or eight seconds go by, which in girl years is, like, forever, 342 00:16:27,407 --> 00:16:29,117 I cannot find my lip liner. 343 00:16:29,201 --> 00:16:31,828 So, what's a logical thing to do? 344 00:16:31,912 --> 00:16:33,288 Maybe use the other hand 345 00:16:33,371 --> 00:16:35,874 to add to the search, right? To aid in the excavation. 346 00:16:35,957 --> 00:16:39,586 Maybe get a cellular device to illuminate the situation. 347 00:16:39,669 --> 00:16:43,089 Not me! I dropped to my knees on a dance floor, 348 00:16:43,172 --> 00:16:45,716 dumped out the bag and start sifting through it 349 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:48,844 like Helen Keller learning how to spell water. 350 00:16:48,928 --> 00:16:52,431 [laughter and applause] 351 00:16:56,143 --> 00:16:59,063 Fun fact. Girls, if you wanna let people around you know 352 00:16:59,146 --> 00:17:02,983 that you're absolutely not on the same mental playing field as them, 353 00:17:03,067 --> 00:17:06,570 a great way to do it, I found, is to dump our personal property 354 00:17:06,654 --> 00:17:11,158 onto a shared communal space, because that immediately lets other bar-goers know, 355 00:17:11,242 --> 00:17:12,493 "I don't give a fuck!" 356 00:17:12,576 --> 00:17:14,078 [laughter] 357 00:17:14,161 --> 00:17:15,830 "Where is it?" 358 00:17:16,664 --> 00:17:19,542 This body language, this body language, 359 00:17:19,625 --> 00:17:23,170 - this feral-raccoon-like body language... - [laughter] 360 00:17:23,254 --> 00:17:25,881 was enough to alert the door guy. 361 00:17:25,965 --> 00:17:27,007 [laughter] 362 00:17:27,091 --> 00:17:30,427 You're a door guy at a busy nightclub, you've got a lot to deal with. 363 00:17:30,511 --> 00:17:35,557 However, he found my witch over a cauldron behavior... 364 00:17:36,432 --> 00:17:39,936 threatening enough to leave his post, flashlight in hand, 365 00:17:40,019 --> 00:17:42,147 and walk up to me. 366 00:17:42,230 --> 00:17:46,651 He was a big guy. He was, like, six-eight, black guy, good-looking. 367 00:17:46,734 --> 00:17:48,361 [laughter] 368 00:17:48,444 --> 00:17:51,114 - I had to say he was good-looking. - [laughter] 369 00:17:51,197 --> 00:17:53,032 Because I said he was black. 370 00:17:53,116 --> 00:17:56,578 [laughter] 371 00:17:57,787 --> 00:18:01,583 Seems to be the face of thinly-veiled political correctness in our country, 372 00:18:01,666 --> 00:18:03,960 if you say someone's color, other than white, 373 00:18:04,043 --> 00:18:06,754 you must assign them an accolade, deserved or otherwise, 374 00:18:06,838 --> 00:18:09,215 to prove that you're not racist, when in the first place, 375 00:18:09,299 --> 00:18:10,508 I wasn't fucking racist, 376 00:18:10,592 --> 00:18:14,053 I was giving you an accurate depiction of the events that transpired. 377 00:18:14,137 --> 00:18:17,140 I didn't see his face! Dude had a flashlight in my eye! 378 00:18:17,223 --> 00:18:19,392 [laughter] 379 00:18:19,475 --> 00:18:23,270 [cheering and applause] 380 00:18:24,605 --> 00:18:28,525 I can tell you this much. Black, white or other, there's no way he was hot. 381 00:18:28,609 --> 00:18:32,029 He's six-eight. They get weird-looking after a certain height, okay? 382 00:18:32,112 --> 00:18:34,323 Structurally, it gets weird. Okay. 383 00:18:34,406 --> 00:18:37,326 I am not wrong. #IAmNotWrong Okay, so... 384 00:18:37,409 --> 00:18:39,453 [laughter] 385 00:18:39,536 --> 00:18:40,829 It's true. 386 00:18:41,705 --> 00:18:43,165 There's no hot giants. 387 00:18:43,248 --> 00:18:44,958 [laughter] 388 00:18:45,042 --> 00:18:47,002 So he Shreks up to me... 389 00:18:47,085 --> 00:18:50,255 [laughter] 390 00:18:50,339 --> 00:18:53,592 And I feel his presence and I see the ball of light and I hear his voice 391 00:18:53,675 --> 00:18:56,303 and he goes, "Everything a'ight over here?" 392 00:18:56,386 --> 00:19:00,724 Fucking no, dude, everything is most definitely not a'ight. I'm on the floor. 393 00:19:00,807 --> 00:19:01,934 [laughter] 394 00:19:02,017 --> 00:19:04,770 I don't exist on this plane. 395 00:19:05,562 --> 00:19:07,814 Fun fact about being on the floor. 396 00:19:07,898 --> 00:19:11,944 As an adult, when you choose to take it to this place, you lose all credibility. 397 00:19:12,485 --> 00:19:15,363 Nobody wants to hear the prerogative of someone on the floor. 398 00:19:15,446 --> 00:19:20,243 If you have to crane your neck up to explain yourself, you are fucked, okay? 399 00:19:20,993 --> 00:19:22,036 You don't believe me? 400 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:25,248 You ever tried to get the life story of someone sitting on a curb? No. 401 00:19:25,331 --> 00:19:27,012 Because they were sitting on a fucking curb 402 00:19:27,083 --> 00:19:28,918 and you didn't wanna talk to them. 403 00:19:29,001 --> 00:19:31,254 They were someone who's drunk, on a lot of meth 404 00:19:31,337 --> 00:19:35,258 or like a really pissed off bridesmaid just waiting for the service to be over. 405 00:19:35,341 --> 00:19:37,051 [laughter] 406 00:19:37,134 --> 00:19:40,596 But now I'm on the floor and I'm nervous because that's an authority figure 407 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:43,557 and in my head I'm like, "Oh, fuck, I'm gonna go a bar jail." 408 00:19:43,641 --> 00:19:45,268 [laughter] 409 00:19:45,351 --> 00:19:47,436 "What if they repossess my wedges?" 410 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:49,188 [laughter] 411 00:19:49,272 --> 00:19:51,023 But I was drunk and in my head I'm like, 412 00:19:51,107 --> 00:19:53,401 "It's cool. Be smart. Explain what you're doing. 413 00:19:53,484 --> 00:19:55,569 Whatever you do, Iliza, just sound intelligent." 414 00:19:55,653 --> 00:19:57,822 Instead, what came out of my mouth was, 415 00:19:57,905 --> 00:20:00,366 "I gotta find my lip liner, man!" And... 416 00:20:00,449 --> 00:20:01,575 [laughter] 417 00:20:01,659 --> 00:20:05,912 what I feel he understood, nay respected, nay... 418 00:20:06,413 --> 00:20:07,622 Neigh. 419 00:20:07,706 --> 00:20:10,375 [laughter] 420 00:20:10,458 --> 00:20:14,546 [cheering and applause] 421 00:20:17,007 --> 00:20:18,633 resonated with 422 00:20:18,717 --> 00:20:20,760 wasn't that I had to find my lip liner. 423 00:20:20,844 --> 00:20:25,932 What I feel he understood was the sheer amount of white-girl crazy... 424 00:20:26,016 --> 00:20:27,058 [laughter] 425 00:20:27,142 --> 00:20:29,102 coming out from behind my eye. 426 00:20:29,185 --> 00:20:33,481 Because he then gave me the international verbal sign for, 427 00:20:33,565 --> 00:20:37,986 "I respect you and fear you, I'm going to back off," which is... 428 00:20:38,903 --> 00:20:41,614 "A'ight, then." And he just walked away. 429 00:20:41,698 --> 00:20:44,909 [laughter and applause] 430 00:20:44,993 --> 00:20:47,871 [cheering] 431 00:20:49,706 --> 00:20:52,542 I never found my lip liner. It was, like, in my other bag. 432 00:20:52,625 --> 00:20:54,710 [laughter] 433 00:20:54,793 --> 00:20:56,837 I didn't like that experience. 434 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:58,714 I didn't like being on the floor. 435 00:20:58,797 --> 00:21:01,633 And I didn't like being on the floor for a very specific reason. 436 00:21:01,717 --> 00:21:04,053 As a woman, I didn't need a reminder 437 00:21:04,136 --> 00:21:08,390 of how vulnerable women are on a day-to-day basis. 438 00:21:08,474 --> 00:21:10,851 Being on the floor, it's a very vulnerable place. 439 00:21:10,934 --> 00:21:12,102 I didn't need that reminder. 440 00:21:12,186 --> 00:21:14,646 And women in our society are vulnerable 441 00:21:14,730 --> 00:21:19,318 by virtue of the fact that we are physically not as strong as men. 442 00:21:19,401 --> 00:21:22,363 That's the root of the issue, that's the root of the oppression. 443 00:21:22,446 --> 00:21:25,866 And that's the root of oppression of any side of war throughout history. 444 00:21:25,949 --> 00:21:28,494 One side was stronger, they get to make the rules. 445 00:21:28,577 --> 00:21:32,039 Do you think for a second that if women were physically stronger than men 446 00:21:32,122 --> 00:21:35,167 we would've waited for the right to vote? 447 00:21:35,250 --> 00:21:39,004 [cheering] 448 00:21:39,088 --> 00:21:41,673 [applause] 449 00:21:41,757 --> 00:21:46,803 It's 1910, some jacked-up housewife is just putting up weight in her garage. 450 00:21:47,512 --> 00:21:50,348 She's got a shaker of horse testosterone and creatine. 451 00:21:51,140 --> 00:21:54,644 Her little husband comes in, he's like, "You're not voting." 452 00:21:54,727 --> 00:21:56,437 She'd be like... 453 00:21:56,521 --> 00:21:58,731 "Out of the way, Jedediah." 454 00:21:58,815 --> 00:22:01,359 [laughter] 455 00:22:01,442 --> 00:22:05,196 [cheering] 456 00:22:10,993 --> 00:22:13,579 "Mama's going to the polls." 457 00:22:13,663 --> 00:22:15,665 [laughter] 458 00:22:15,748 --> 00:22:18,292 It's physical strength, that's the root of the issue. 459 00:22:18,376 --> 00:22:20,920 Physical strength. And they try to placate women. 460 00:22:21,003 --> 00:22:23,089 They try to tell us we're other types of strong. 461 00:22:23,172 --> 00:22:25,716 Sure. But none that matter as much as physical strength. 462 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:28,553 "Well, you're a woman, so... mentally strong." 463 00:22:28,636 --> 00:22:30,138 [laughter] 464 00:22:30,221 --> 00:22:33,141 Mentally strong. You put up with him all day, huh?" 465 00:22:33,224 --> 00:22:34,433 Pfft! 466 00:22:34,517 --> 00:22:37,352 [laughter] 467 00:22:37,435 --> 00:22:40,397 Mentally strong. Mentally strong? What do I do with that? 468 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:44,234 Mentally strong. What do I do when a rapist runs at me? Math? 469 00:22:44,317 --> 00:22:47,195 [laughter] 470 00:22:49,906 --> 00:22:51,950 It's physical strength. 471 00:22:52,033 --> 00:22:55,328 Physical strength is what counts when it comes to protecting yourself 472 00:22:55,412 --> 00:22:59,708 and women are only naturally physically super-human strong 473 00:22:59,791 --> 00:23:01,042 when it comes to two things. 474 00:23:01,126 --> 00:23:03,879 The first is a recent one, and that's CrossFit, which... 475 00:23:03,962 --> 00:23:07,132 It's enough, by the way. It's a cult. Okay? 476 00:23:07,215 --> 00:23:08,425 [cheering] 477 00:23:08,508 --> 00:23:10,719 It's insane. It goes... 478 00:23:11,469 --> 00:23:15,056 Scientology, CrossFit, people without celiac disease that don't eat gluten. 479 00:23:15,140 --> 00:23:17,809 It's a cult, okay? It's enough. 480 00:23:18,643 --> 00:23:20,979 "I can deadlift 600 pounds." Cool. 481 00:23:21,062 --> 00:23:23,064 What Starbucks do you work at? What are you... 482 00:23:23,148 --> 00:23:24,900 Guard a village. Join up. 483 00:23:24,983 --> 00:23:28,152 What are you doing with that muscle, all the horse meat? 484 00:23:29,236 --> 00:23:32,990 The workouts that they're doing, it's all snake oil, I believe, okay? 485 00:23:33,073 --> 00:23:37,286 Push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups, the foundations of a military workout, 486 00:23:37,369 --> 00:23:39,496 these are applicable in the rest of your life. 487 00:23:39,580 --> 00:23:44,627 Instead, they've got a father of six at 7 a.m. flipping a monster truck tire? 488 00:23:44,710 --> 00:23:47,421 Why? When do you need that? 489 00:23:47,505 --> 00:23:49,256 When do you need to know the form for that? 490 00:23:49,340 --> 00:23:52,635 What post-apocalyptic gorilla playground... 491 00:23:52,718 --> 00:23:53,928 [laughter] 492 00:23:54,011 --> 00:23:55,513 are you gonna find yourself in? 493 00:23:55,596 --> 00:23:59,350 Why don't we give you an empty suitcase to throw around your cage, Peaches? 494 00:23:59,433 --> 00:24:02,561 [laughter and applause] 495 00:24:02,645 --> 00:24:07,274 And the rope thing. There are other ways to build up your pectoral muscles. 496 00:24:07,358 --> 00:24:09,735 Men have been doing it for centuries. 497 00:24:09,818 --> 00:24:12,863 Instead they've got you using a rope. When are you gonna use that? 498 00:24:12,988 --> 00:24:16,908 "Timmy's stuck down by the dock under some boat rope!" "I got it!" 499 00:24:16,991 --> 00:24:18,826 [laughter] 500 00:24:18,910 --> 00:24:21,496 [cheering and applause] 501 00:24:24,791 --> 00:24:30,255 And the only time that women are naturally, exceptionally physically strong 502 00:24:30,338 --> 00:24:33,508 is when it comes to childbirth. And that's amazing. 503 00:24:33,591 --> 00:24:35,009 - [cheering] - Yes. 504 00:24:35,885 --> 00:24:39,138 It'd be amazing if those were all men with, like, really high-pitched voices. 505 00:24:39,222 --> 00:24:41,849 [laughter] 506 00:24:42,558 --> 00:24:45,103 It's an amazing amount of super-human strength 507 00:24:45,186 --> 00:24:49,357 that unfairly women only get to tap into when they're having a baby. 508 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:53,528 You only get to tap into that super-human strength once, maybe twice a year, 509 00:24:53,611 --> 00:24:57,240 but that second baby's gonna be very tiny. You only get to use it then. 510 00:24:57,323 --> 00:24:59,367 That's a disproportionate amount of strength. 511 00:24:59,450 --> 00:25:01,369 Mother Nature is playing a cruel joke on us. 512 00:25:01,452 --> 00:25:05,164 Do you know how many pounds of pressure per square snootch inch it takes 513 00:25:05,248 --> 00:25:07,457 to deliver a baby? 514 00:25:07,541 --> 00:25:09,042 [laughter] 515 00:25:09,126 --> 00:25:11,044 We're not even using our hands! 516 00:25:11,128 --> 00:25:14,047 You're like python-like digesting a goat. 517 00:25:14,131 --> 00:25:15,215 [laughter] 518 00:25:15,299 --> 00:25:16,550 "Get out of there!" 519 00:25:16,633 --> 00:25:21,013 Using fucking grit and rage and, like, a mother's love, but just, "Aghh!" 520 00:25:21,096 --> 00:25:22,472 [laughter] 521 00:25:22,556 --> 00:25:25,100 Sparta! Just fucking going. 522 00:25:25,183 --> 00:25:26,393 [laughter] 523 00:25:26,476 --> 00:25:28,270 You can do that with your body, 524 00:25:28,353 --> 00:25:32,024 yet the rest of the year, we have trouble not doing push-ups on our knees. 525 00:25:32,107 --> 00:25:33,775 That doesn't seem fair. 526 00:25:33,859 --> 00:25:35,652 [laughter] 527 00:25:36,903 --> 00:25:39,364 We're only exceptionally strong when it comes to children. 528 00:25:39,448 --> 00:25:41,575 We have something called mama bear strength. 529 00:25:41,658 --> 00:25:44,745 So that means when your child is in danger, your child, 530 00:25:44,828 --> 00:25:47,331 someone else's child, "Sorry, junior." Your child... 531 00:25:47,414 --> 00:25:48,707 [laughter] 532 00:25:48,790 --> 00:25:51,543 "Lift the piano off your legs yourself, okay, I'm not your mama." 533 00:25:51,626 --> 00:25:55,881 When your child is in danger, in that moment, through adrenaline, 534 00:25:55,964 --> 00:25:58,424 you can develop super-human strength and save the baby. 535 00:25:58,507 --> 00:26:01,135 So if your child is trapped under a car, 536 00:26:01,218 --> 00:26:04,680 you can go ahead and flip that Buick like an orangutan, no problem. 537 00:26:04,764 --> 00:26:05,765 [laughter] 538 00:26:05,848 --> 00:26:09,143 Yet if you're a single girl walking alone on a Saturday night 539 00:26:09,226 --> 00:26:11,937 and some maniac runs at you, what's your defense? 540 00:26:12,021 --> 00:26:13,981 Like, "No, two plus two is four." 541 00:26:14,065 --> 00:26:16,525 [laughter] 542 00:26:19,195 --> 00:26:22,198 We're millennials, we'd probably use our phone calculators. 543 00:26:22,281 --> 00:26:23,908 [laughter] 544 00:26:23,991 --> 00:26:27,036 That's why sexual harassment is such a big deal. 545 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,414 It really has less to do with the disgusting thing 546 00:26:30,498 --> 00:26:32,625 a man feels he has the right to yell at you 547 00:26:32,708 --> 00:26:35,836 out of van or a truck. Never out of a Civic for some reason. 548 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:37,088 [cheering] 549 00:26:37,171 --> 00:26:40,925 But for the girls that might not know, you can wear whatever you want. 550 00:26:41,008 --> 00:26:43,928 It doesn't give someone the right to treat you like an animal. 551 00:26:44,011 --> 00:26:48,516 [cheering and applause] 552 00:26:48,599 --> 00:26:51,267 You can wear whatever you want. You can leave the house out naked. 553 00:26:51,351 --> 00:26:54,062 You will go to jail, but you can do whatever you want. 554 00:26:54,687 --> 00:26:57,107 But it has less to do with what a man is yelling at you, 555 00:26:57,190 --> 00:26:59,067 and nobody wants to say this, but I will, 556 00:26:59,150 --> 00:27:01,861 what it has to do with is the underlying notion 557 00:27:01,945 --> 00:27:04,739 that if that man wanted to act on it, he could. 558 00:27:04,823 --> 00:27:07,450 And if you don't believe me, every girl knows what it's like, 559 00:27:07,534 --> 00:27:11,329 a guy yells something disgusting at you, and because you're strong, you yell back. 560 00:27:11,413 --> 00:27:13,456 He's like, "Nice tits." You're like, "Fuck off!" 561 00:27:13,540 --> 00:27:17,335 Immediately followed by, "What if he kills me?" Like, there's that moment. 562 00:27:17,419 --> 00:27:18,586 [laughter] 563 00:27:18,670 --> 00:27:21,297 Hoping to God that your bark was big enough 564 00:27:21,381 --> 00:27:23,508 that you don't have to take a lady bite. 565 00:27:24,300 --> 00:27:27,011 Being sexually harassed is the worst. 566 00:27:27,095 --> 00:27:29,139 I'm sorry, let me rephrase that. 567 00:27:30,306 --> 00:27:33,893 Being sexually harassed by an ugly guy is the worst. 568 00:27:33,977 --> 00:27:35,937 [laughter] 569 00:27:36,020 --> 00:27:38,982 [cheering and applause] 570 00:27:40,482 --> 00:27:42,734 If he's hot, it's just plain old flirting. 571 00:27:42,818 --> 00:27:44,403 [laughter] 572 00:27:44,778 --> 00:27:48,031 No one's ever been like, "Get away from me, you model!" That's fine. 573 00:27:48,115 --> 00:27:49,450 [laughter] 574 00:27:49,533 --> 00:27:53,954 It has to do also with an unrequited, uninvited sexual energy. 575 00:27:54,037 --> 00:27:55,664 And women are very aware of that. 576 00:27:55,747 --> 00:27:59,168 Every woman in here knows what it feels like to have a guy's eyes on you 577 00:27:59,251 --> 00:28:01,712 when you find him attractive. It's the best feeling. 578 00:28:01,795 --> 00:28:04,089 When you see hot guys and you walk by, you're like, 579 00:28:04,173 --> 00:28:08,260 "Hope they're looking at my butt. I feel so good about my little haunches." 580 00:28:08,343 --> 00:28:11,013 When the dudes are gross and you walk by, you're like, 581 00:28:11,096 --> 00:28:14,266 "Please don't look at my butt, please don't look at my butt." 582 00:28:15,434 --> 00:28:18,854 Having someone sexually harass you, it's their energy on you. 583 00:28:18,937 --> 00:28:20,272 It feels like you're getting shot 584 00:28:20,355 --> 00:28:22,900 with a dick gun. That's what it feels like. 585 00:28:22,983 --> 00:28:23,817 [laughter] 586 00:28:23,901 --> 00:28:25,319 Minding your own business, like, 587 00:28:25,402 --> 00:28:27,988 "I love being an independent woman." "Nice tits!" 588 00:28:28,071 --> 00:28:29,281 "Agh!" 589 00:28:29,364 --> 00:28:33,159 [laughter] 590 00:28:33,242 --> 00:28:36,454 [cheering and applause] 591 00:28:42,335 --> 00:28:44,545 Aw, he got a boner for free. 592 00:28:44,629 --> 00:28:46,881 [laughter] 593 00:28:46,964 --> 00:28:50,092 Women have to think about these things. It's hard being a girl. 594 00:28:50,176 --> 00:28:53,095 I haven't been a guy in, like, a while, but it is difficult. 595 00:28:53,179 --> 00:28:54,305 [laughter] 596 00:28:54,388 --> 00:28:56,641 And we're constantly questioning ourselves 597 00:28:57,141 --> 00:29:00,728 and we're constantly being told that what we feel is wrong and how we look is wrong. 598 00:29:00,812 --> 00:29:03,648 And we tell it to little girls and it sticks with us. 599 00:29:03,731 --> 00:29:05,566 Take a man and a woman shopping. 600 00:29:05,650 --> 00:29:08,319 Nothing will fit because fashion is the enemy, for sure. 601 00:29:08,402 --> 00:29:11,072 But nothing will fit the woman for negative reasons 602 00:29:11,155 --> 00:29:13,991 and nothing will fit the guy for positive reasons. 603 00:29:14,408 --> 00:29:16,077 Take a woman shopping, "Nothing fits, 604 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:19,038 my arms are fat, my thighs are big, I'm fucking gross, I hate my body." 605 00:29:19,121 --> 00:29:22,082 Take a guy shopping, an average man of average build, 606 00:29:22,165 --> 00:29:24,501 five-ten, 170, 607 00:29:24,584 --> 00:29:28,713 "Nah, I can't buy off the rack because my shoulders are so abnormally broad. 608 00:29:29,422 --> 00:29:33,426 I'm tall. For my height, my waist tapers at such an Adonis-like angle." 609 00:29:33,510 --> 00:29:34,678 [laughter] 610 00:29:34,761 --> 00:29:37,514 My dick is so girthy, I can only wear JNCOs." 611 00:29:37,597 --> 00:29:38,598 [laughter] 612 00:29:38,682 --> 00:29:40,308 "It's hard for me." 613 00:29:40,392 --> 00:29:42,018 [applause] 614 00:29:42,102 --> 00:29:44,145 These are good things. 615 00:29:44,980 --> 00:29:47,524 Women are told to change. It's okay if men are the same. 616 00:29:47,607 --> 00:29:48,900 That's why we have stereotypes. 617 00:29:48,984 --> 00:29:51,319 That's why you've got the stereotype of your Grandpa, 618 00:29:51,403 --> 00:29:54,406 "I sit in my chair, I drink my beer, I've got the remote, 619 00:29:54,489 --> 00:29:56,992 I fought in Korea, don't fucking talk to me," right? 620 00:29:57,075 --> 00:29:58,702 "I'm not moving, you move!" 621 00:29:58,785 --> 00:30:01,413 Women aren't like that, right? What do women do? 622 00:30:01,496 --> 00:30:03,582 - "I'm taking a class." - [laughter] 623 00:30:03,665 --> 00:30:06,042 - Love classes. - [laughter] 624 00:30:06,126 --> 00:30:08,879 - "I'm learning more about Cheryl." - [laughter] 625 00:30:09,421 --> 00:30:12,339 - "I'm meeting Cindy for the first time." - [laughter] 626 00:30:12,423 --> 00:30:15,968 There's two women in this monologue. I'm two different women, it's fine. 627 00:30:16,051 --> 00:30:18,429 "I'm learning to breathe. I'm getting a sense of myself. 628 00:30:18,512 --> 00:30:19,763 I'm canning. 629 00:30:19,847 --> 00:30:21,682 I'm canning my own beets." 630 00:30:21,765 --> 00:30:23,100 [laughter] 631 00:30:23,183 --> 00:30:24,984 For no reason. I live in the middle of a city. 632 00:30:25,060 --> 00:30:27,021 I just thought I wanted to connect. 633 00:30:27,104 --> 00:30:30,399 I'm canning my own shit now. I take it, put it in there, 634 00:30:30,482 --> 00:30:33,819 I let it solidify, I make jewelry, I sell it on Etsy. 635 00:30:33,903 --> 00:30:35,029 It's nice pocket money." 636 00:30:35,112 --> 00:30:37,823 [laughter] 637 00:30:37,907 --> 00:30:41,035 "I'm learning about myself. I'm learning to breathe. 638 00:30:41,660 --> 00:30:44,079 - I'm cutting my own hair." - [laughter] 639 00:30:44,163 --> 00:30:47,124 "I'm learning to make my own tea, putting the hair in the tea, 640 00:30:47,207 --> 00:30:48,125 I drink my hair." 641 00:30:48,208 --> 00:30:49,835 [laughter] 642 00:30:49,919 --> 00:30:50,753 Changing. 643 00:30:50,836 --> 00:30:52,838 We always wanna change a little bit, right? 644 00:30:52,922 --> 00:30:56,592 Always wanna lose a little bit of weight. No matter what your body looks like. 645 00:30:56,675 --> 00:30:59,470 - "I just wanna lose, like, five pounds." - [laughter] 646 00:30:59,553 --> 00:31:02,114 We think that's the answer. "Just wanna lose, like, five pounds." 647 00:31:02,889 --> 00:31:04,599 [gabbles] 648 00:31:04,682 --> 00:31:05,850 [laughter] 649 00:31:05,934 --> 00:31:08,561 "Just wanna lose, like, five pounds before lunch." 650 00:31:08,645 --> 00:31:11,147 [laughter] 651 00:31:11,230 --> 00:31:13,149 "So I can have more lunch." 652 00:31:13,232 --> 00:31:16,611 [laughter and cheering] 653 00:31:16,694 --> 00:31:18,947 [applause] 654 00:31:21,199 --> 00:31:23,701 Because we think being skinny is the answer, right? 655 00:31:23,785 --> 00:31:27,372 It's not even enough to be skinny, is it? It's not even enough to be thin, is it? 656 00:31:27,455 --> 00:31:30,416 You have to be the thinnest out of your friends, 657 00:31:30,500 --> 00:31:32,961 - who you hate. - [laughter] 658 00:31:33,044 --> 00:31:36,714 You don't believe me? Look at any Instagram picture of more than four women. 659 00:31:36,798 --> 00:31:38,716 It's a fucking pose-off. 660 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:39,842 [laughter] 661 00:31:39,926 --> 00:31:43,888 Dudes don't care. They'll turn around like gorillas mid-meal. [grunts] 662 00:31:44,514 --> 00:31:46,724 "Take the picture, I don't care. Fucking..." 663 00:31:46,808 --> 00:31:49,727 [laughter] 664 00:31:49,811 --> 00:31:54,147 Girls, it's like a Mr. Universe, like, "Fucking line up! Line up! 665 00:31:54,231 --> 00:31:56,984 Make it pointy! Concave! Make it fucking pointy! 666 00:31:57,067 --> 00:31:58,068 Kisses. 667 00:31:58,151 --> 00:32:00,112 Neck vein. Look at the motherfucking neck vein. 668 00:32:00,195 --> 00:32:01,029 Hamstring. 669 00:32:01,113 --> 00:32:02,948 Happy birthday, Stacey." 670 00:32:03,031 --> 00:32:05,951 [laughter] 671 00:32:06,034 --> 00:32:09,621 [cheering and applause] 672 00:32:13,166 --> 00:32:15,419 It's not enough to just be thin, right? 673 00:32:16,169 --> 00:32:19,506 You wanna be the kind of thin where your friends... 674 00:32:21,174 --> 00:32:22,759 are worried for you. 675 00:32:22,843 --> 00:32:25,053 [laughter] 676 00:32:26,555 --> 00:32:28,765 [laughter] 677 00:32:32,894 --> 00:32:35,063 [laughter] 678 00:32:36,481 --> 00:32:39,401 [laughter and applause] 679 00:32:40,485 --> 00:32:43,196 So thin. Horrible looking. 680 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:48,200 Stalking around Gap Kids. "I wear a youth large, thank you." Right? 681 00:32:48,284 --> 00:32:51,412 - Fucking femur for days. - [laughter] 682 00:32:51,495 --> 00:32:55,041 Right? Mr. Peanut Legs coming out six seconds ahead of you. 683 00:32:55,916 --> 00:32:58,502 Like an R. Crumb comic book thinner, right? 684 00:32:58,586 --> 00:33:01,922 Just walking around, baby stegosaurus spine. 685 00:33:02,757 --> 00:33:05,342 Clothes hanging like moss off a willow tree. 686 00:33:05,426 --> 00:33:08,262 A fucking clavicle you can serve soup out of. 687 00:33:08,846 --> 00:33:10,473 Yeah! 688 00:33:11,474 --> 00:33:13,017 So happy! 689 00:33:13,100 --> 00:33:15,811 [laughter] 690 00:33:15,895 --> 00:33:17,813 I like my body, but I always... 691 00:33:17,897 --> 00:33:21,358 Everybody wants to change something, right? I just wanted have shoulders 692 00:33:21,442 --> 00:33:25,404 that were so frail and tiny, little bird shoulders. 693 00:33:25,488 --> 00:33:27,740 Do they even have shoulders? No, it's just... 694 00:33:28,491 --> 00:33:31,452 That's what I want, I want no shoulders. I want the kind of shoulders 695 00:33:31,535 --> 00:33:33,746 where my bra strap just falls down. 696 00:33:34,288 --> 00:33:36,539 - [mumbles weakly] - [laughter] 697 00:33:36,623 --> 00:33:38,625 Just floppy hair. "Ohh. Whoops." 698 00:33:38,708 --> 00:33:40,627 [laughter] 699 00:33:40,710 --> 00:33:41,920 [mumbles weakly] 700 00:33:42,253 --> 00:33:44,881 Men love it. They love it. They go crazy. One strap... 701 00:33:44,964 --> 00:33:47,133 Because it's one less thing they gotta do, right? 702 00:33:47,217 --> 00:33:50,011 - [grunts] - [laughter] 703 00:33:50,095 --> 00:33:52,305 It's not my fault I think that's attractive. 704 00:33:52,388 --> 00:33:56,142 You see it on lingerie ads in magazines. The women are on the bed, bra strap. 705 00:33:56,226 --> 00:33:59,395 Men love vulnerability and that's what that represents. 706 00:33:59,479 --> 00:34:02,482 "Not me, I like a strong woman." Bullshit. Vulnerability. 707 00:34:02,565 --> 00:34:06,111 "Help me. Open this jar. Please help me." They love it. 708 00:34:06,194 --> 00:34:08,655 [laughter and applause] 709 00:34:10,115 --> 00:34:12,117 What does the bra strap down represent? 710 00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:16,204 You're not supported. When your tits are flopping around, you can't run away. Yeah! 711 00:34:16,287 --> 00:34:18,540 [laughter] 712 00:34:20,333 --> 00:34:21,835 I want that. 713 00:34:21,918 --> 00:34:25,088 I want that bone structure, right? I wanna have those shoulders. 714 00:34:25,171 --> 00:34:29,091 I wanna look like the girl on the cover of the playbill for Les Mis. Just... 715 00:34:29,174 --> 00:34:31,885 [laughter] 716 00:34:31,969 --> 00:34:33,846 "Oh, monsieur!" 717 00:34:33,929 --> 00:34:35,472 [laughter] 718 00:34:35,556 --> 00:34:38,517 It's a ten-year-old French girl. Still, I want those bones. 719 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:39,601 [laughter] 720 00:34:39,685 --> 00:34:44,273 They do, men love vulnerability, right? That's why the thin thing is the thing. 721 00:34:44,356 --> 00:34:46,233 That's why women are expected to be... 722 00:34:46,316 --> 00:34:50,362 You can't have a baby if you're this big. That's why we have to be... garden party. 723 00:34:50,445 --> 00:34:52,281 Like that kind of thin. 724 00:34:52,364 --> 00:34:54,908 Because if women are thin, there's no nutrition, 725 00:34:54,992 --> 00:34:58,829 so you're cold, you don't leave the house, you don't vote. Yeah! 726 00:34:58,912 --> 00:35:01,456 [laughter] 727 00:35:01,540 --> 00:35:05,961 [cheering and applause] 728 00:35:06,044 --> 00:35:08,547 That's why every model has that vulnerable look. 729 00:35:08,630 --> 00:35:13,010 That's why models look like you uncovered a refugee from under a manhole cover. 730 00:35:13,093 --> 00:35:15,637 "Ohhh! Gucci." 731 00:35:15,721 --> 00:35:18,556 [laughter and applause] 732 00:35:19,473 --> 00:35:22,977 They love vulnerability. And we do things to make ourselves vulnerable. 733 00:35:23,060 --> 00:35:25,521 Strong women are told to tone it down, right? 734 00:35:25,605 --> 00:35:28,858 But men are told to toughen up. We don't let men be vulnerable. 735 00:35:28,941 --> 00:35:29,859 That's not fair. 736 00:35:29,942 --> 00:35:33,237 But I can't help you because I'm a girl and I can only fight one fight at a time. 737 00:35:33,321 --> 00:35:35,573 [laughter] 738 00:35:35,656 --> 00:35:38,159 If you wanna come to my green room and cry after, I will... 739 00:35:38,242 --> 00:35:39,744 laugh at you. But, no... 740 00:35:39,827 --> 00:35:40,828 [laughter] 741 00:35:40,912 --> 00:35:43,164 But we tell strong women to bring it down, right? 742 00:35:43,247 --> 00:35:47,877 High heels? Why do you wear high heels? So you what? Can't run from your attacker. 743 00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:49,003 Good. 744 00:35:49,086 --> 00:35:50,338 [laughter] 745 00:35:50,421 --> 00:35:51,589 Smoky eye makeup? 746 00:35:51,672 --> 00:35:53,433 Why does that make sense? What are you doing? 747 00:35:53,507 --> 00:35:56,636 You take the makeup, grind it into your eye. Why is that attractive? 748 00:35:56,719 --> 00:36:00,306 I figured it out. Smoky eye makeup makes you look like you what? 749 00:36:00,389 --> 00:36:04,101 Just choked on a dick and cried. Good. 750 00:36:04,185 --> 00:36:06,229 [laughter] 751 00:36:06,312 --> 00:36:07,520 [cheering and applause] 752 00:36:07,604 --> 00:36:10,273 I am not wrong. It's a little off-brand for me. 753 00:36:10,357 --> 00:36:11,274 I am not wrong. 754 00:36:11,358 --> 00:36:13,985 [laughter] 755 00:36:14,736 --> 00:36:16,905 It's not enough to be thin ever! 756 00:36:17,656 --> 00:36:20,283 You gotta be gaunt to the point of extinction. 757 00:36:20,700 --> 00:36:23,411 The kind of thin where it's like, "What up, bitches? Find me." 758 00:36:23,495 --> 00:36:24,788 That kind of thin. 759 00:36:24,871 --> 00:36:26,206 [laughter] 760 00:36:27,123 --> 00:36:29,584 Maybe I'm being unfair. Maybe it's a cultural thing. 761 00:36:29,668 --> 00:36:32,629 I can only truly speak from the perspective of what I am. 762 00:36:32,712 --> 00:36:35,674 I'm an upper-middle-class white woman. Hope I die that way. 763 00:36:35,757 --> 00:36:36,591 [laughter] 764 00:36:36,675 --> 00:36:40,804 And the expectation of being thin has been put on us for about 100 years. 765 00:36:40,887 --> 00:36:44,391 That's been the look. The like... "Uhh, come, have some tea. 766 00:36:44,474 --> 00:36:47,310 Yes, these jeans are high. That's not weird." 767 00:36:47,394 --> 00:36:50,105 We like that look. And that's a hard look to achieve. 768 00:36:50,188 --> 00:36:52,565 Some women die trying to be thin. 769 00:36:52,649 --> 00:36:54,192 And it was only in the last... 770 00:36:54,276 --> 00:36:55,652 forty years 771 00:36:55,735 --> 00:37:00,239 that women of color and women of other ethnicities rose to prominence 772 00:37:00,322 --> 00:37:03,701 and made it socially acceptable, nay attractive, 773 00:37:03,784 --> 00:37:05,869 to have the body of a grown woman. 774 00:37:05,953 --> 00:37:07,663 Jennifer Lopez came out of nowhere 775 00:37:07,746 --> 00:37:10,040 with the backside of a brontosaurus, like... 776 00:37:10,124 --> 00:37:11,959 [laughter] 777 00:37:12,042 --> 00:37:13,460 [cheering and applause] 778 00:37:13,544 --> 00:37:14,586 "Qué pasó?" 779 00:37:14,670 --> 00:37:16,797 [applause] 780 00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:18,632 And it became attractive. 781 00:37:18,716 --> 00:37:22,803 And somewhere, with everybody having an agenda in our social conversation, 782 00:37:22,886 --> 00:37:25,556 it became okay to tell white girls to their faces, 783 00:37:25,639 --> 00:37:27,266 "You're fat. Kill yourself." 784 00:37:27,349 --> 00:37:29,101 Bullying us on Facebook. 785 00:37:29,184 --> 00:37:30,894 Because you're white, so life must be easy. 786 00:37:30,978 --> 00:37:33,731 Which, I'm not gonna lie, it's great. Being white is great. But... 787 00:37:33,814 --> 00:37:34,898 [laughter] 788 00:37:34,982 --> 00:37:38,360 It became okay to say that because we are not spicy, right? 789 00:37:38,444 --> 00:37:41,905 White women don't have a fire in them. There's not a chili pepper here. 790 00:37:41,989 --> 00:37:44,908 Inside here is a scoop of Breyer's vanilla bean ice cream. 791 00:37:44,992 --> 00:37:46,910 [laughter] 792 00:37:48,203 --> 00:37:51,372 And we'll take it. Your boyfriend tells you you're fat, 793 00:37:51,456 --> 00:37:54,459 we'll be like, "I'm sorry, Chad, please don't get out of the kayak." 794 00:37:54,542 --> 00:37:57,253 [laughter] 795 00:37:57,337 --> 00:37:59,839 "We're gonna have an afternoon. I brought Jenga." 796 00:37:59,922 --> 00:38:02,050 [laughter] 797 00:38:02,133 --> 00:38:05,803 You know who has an unshakeable sense of self-esteem? Black women. 798 00:38:05,887 --> 00:38:06,888 [cheering] 799 00:38:06,971 --> 00:38:08,389 You... Yes! 800 00:38:08,473 --> 00:38:12,685 You cannot tell a sister on her something isn't working. She won't believe it. 801 00:38:12,769 --> 00:38:13,978 [laughter] 802 00:38:14,062 --> 00:38:16,606 Try it. Say to a black girl, "I don't like those jeans." 803 00:38:16,689 --> 00:38:18,733 First of all, I dare you. 804 00:38:18,816 --> 00:38:20,651 [laughter] 805 00:38:20,735 --> 00:38:24,697 [cheering and applause] 806 00:38:24,781 --> 00:38:28,451 It will not rattle her for a second. Be like, "I don't like those jeans." 807 00:38:28,534 --> 00:38:30,870 She'll be like, "Bullshit. I see you looking." 808 00:38:30,953 --> 00:38:32,872 [laughter] 809 00:38:32,955 --> 00:38:35,833 [cheering and applause] 810 00:38:36,834 --> 00:38:41,129 Girls, if you want respect, you're gonna have to take it. 811 00:38:41,213 --> 00:38:42,547 It's 2016. 812 00:38:43,006 --> 00:38:46,510 Let's learn math, let's learn science, let's drop the body issues, okay? 813 00:38:46,593 --> 00:38:50,430 Don't let anybody make you feel less than. Your bodies are perfect as they are. 814 00:38:50,514 --> 00:38:53,892 [cheering and applause] 815 00:38:53,975 --> 00:38:56,186 And if you want respect, 816 00:38:56,269 --> 00:38:59,398 you have to command respect, not demand it. 817 00:38:59,689 --> 00:39:00,899 Two totally different things. 818 00:39:00,982 --> 00:39:02,943 Commanding respect is in the actions, 819 00:39:03,026 --> 00:39:05,153 it's the way that we speak about each other, 820 00:39:05,237 --> 00:39:07,322 it's the way that you speak about yourself. 821 00:39:07,406 --> 00:39:09,783 If your whole agenda is to be sexual, 822 00:39:09,866 --> 00:39:12,077 and confusing being sexual with empowerment, 823 00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,371 and talking about fucking and sex all the time, 824 00:39:14,454 --> 00:39:18,333 thinking that that's the reason that women are empowered, you're fucking wrong. 825 00:39:18,417 --> 00:39:20,252 It comes with the way you treat yourself. 826 00:39:20,335 --> 00:39:21,837 Don't call each other whores. 827 00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,089 Don't call each other sluts. 828 00:39:24,172 --> 00:39:26,216 [cheering and applause] 829 00:39:27,175 --> 00:39:30,094 Because when you do that, society looks at you and they say, 830 00:39:30,177 --> 00:39:32,138 "Oh, it's okay to talk to women that way." 831 00:39:32,221 --> 00:39:34,014 You teach people how to treat you. 832 00:39:34,098 --> 00:39:35,975 Let's get rid of the phrase "walk of shame." 833 00:39:36,058 --> 00:39:38,310 What is that one? What is walk of shame? 834 00:39:39,270 --> 00:39:42,523 I don't understand that. I've never had a walk of shame. 835 00:39:43,107 --> 00:39:44,817 What could that be? 836 00:39:44,900 --> 00:39:47,903 Walk of shame. What's there to be shameful about? 837 00:39:48,404 --> 00:39:53,242 What's the shame in the fact that he and I went out, we had the same amount of vodka, 838 00:39:53,325 --> 00:39:55,369 he got too drunk to get it up, so he passed out, 839 00:39:55,453 --> 00:39:59,039 then I used his credit card to buy $100 worth of Chinese and stole his golf clubs? 840 00:39:59,123 --> 00:40:02,126 [cheering and applause] 841 00:40:02,209 --> 00:40:04,211 Walk of shame! 842 00:40:04,295 --> 00:40:07,381 [applause] 843 00:40:09,258 --> 00:40:12,470 We're starting from behind here, girls, we've gotta say smarter things. 844 00:40:12,553 --> 00:40:14,555 From now on... Let's make a pact. 845 00:40:15,222 --> 00:40:16,557 From now on, 846 00:40:17,683 --> 00:40:20,102 I don't wanna hear any more women 847 00:40:20,685 --> 00:40:24,606 talk about how they wanna be... mermaids. 848 00:40:24,689 --> 00:40:25,982 [laughter] 849 00:40:26,065 --> 00:40:27,442 Okay? 850 00:40:27,525 --> 00:40:29,694 - [cheering and applause] - Okay? 851 00:40:30,987 --> 00:40:32,530 It's stupid. 852 00:40:33,490 --> 00:40:37,327 And I'm not trying to be a bitch, but it's probably not gonna happen for you. 853 00:40:37,410 --> 00:40:38,453 [laughter] 854 00:40:38,536 --> 00:40:39,913 Okay? 855 00:40:39,996 --> 00:40:42,540 Literally, you don't have the bone structure. 856 00:40:42,624 --> 00:40:43,708 [laughter] 857 00:40:43,791 --> 00:40:45,710 What worries me, I see it a lot 858 00:40:45,793 --> 00:40:47,795 and it's not from children, it's grown women, 859 00:40:47,879 --> 00:40:51,382 like, "I don't wanna be adult any more. I wanna be a mermaid." 860 00:40:51,466 --> 00:40:55,595 You... The amount of escapism that's in that sentence! 861 00:40:55,678 --> 00:40:58,515 You wanna move to the woods, you wanna make jam, fine. 862 00:40:58,598 --> 00:41:01,100 At least you're still paying taxes. You wanna be a mermaid? 863 00:41:01,184 --> 00:41:04,103 That means all of your achievements in life are gonna lead to you being 864 00:41:04,187 --> 00:41:07,398 a fictional fuck toy for a horny sailor. That's what you want? 865 00:41:07,482 --> 00:41:10,860 That's what mermaids are! Read a book! 866 00:41:10,944 --> 00:41:13,237 [cheering and applause] 867 00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:14,988 Because I see it a lot. 868 00:41:15,072 --> 00:41:17,824 T-shirts, right? "I am a mermaid." 869 00:41:18,659 --> 00:41:20,452 "Yo soy mermaid." 870 00:41:20,536 --> 00:41:21,662 [laughter] 871 00:41:21,745 --> 00:41:23,622 "Je suis mermaid." 872 00:41:23,705 --> 00:41:25,249 [laughter] 873 00:41:25,832 --> 00:41:27,543 Let's discuss the logistics... 874 00:41:28,627 --> 00:41:30,504 of being a mermaid, 875 00:41:30,587 --> 00:41:32,798 so that you have the information. 876 00:41:32,881 --> 00:41:36,385 If and when the job opportunity presents itself 877 00:41:36,468 --> 00:41:38,095 on Linkedln... 878 00:41:38,178 --> 00:41:39,846 [laughter] 879 00:41:40,430 --> 00:41:43,016 you can make an informed decision, okay? 880 00:41:43,350 --> 00:41:46,228 If you are a mermaid, you don't sleep. 881 00:41:46,478 --> 00:41:48,279 Girls are like, "Oh, my God, I love sleeping." 882 00:41:48,355 --> 00:41:49,982 "None for you. Just swim." 883 00:41:50,065 --> 00:41:51,567 [laughter] 884 00:41:51,650 --> 00:41:53,402 It's chugging Mountain Dew Code Red. 885 00:41:53,485 --> 00:41:55,946 There are no beds, but there is Mountain Dew Code Red. 886 00:41:56,029 --> 00:41:59,491 You're some white-trash jacked-up mermaid just swimming, swimming. 887 00:41:59,575 --> 00:42:02,201 And by the way, you don't have fins. Remember, you're half-human. 888 00:42:02,285 --> 00:42:05,705 So you've got arms. You've got these thick-ass traps, just swimming. 889 00:42:05,788 --> 00:42:07,873 [pants heavily] 890 00:42:07,957 --> 00:42:10,126 You can't stop swimming, because if you do, 891 00:42:10,209 --> 00:42:13,296 something will try to eat you, fuck you or kill you, okay? 892 00:42:13,921 --> 00:42:16,382 It's not dissimilar to being a woman in a downtown area. 893 00:42:16,465 --> 00:42:18,968 So just swimming, swimming. 894 00:42:19,051 --> 00:42:22,305 Now, you're swimming all day, you're probably pretty hungry, right? 895 00:42:22,388 --> 00:42:25,308 How are you gonna catch food? Remember, you're half-human. 896 00:42:25,391 --> 00:42:27,727 We don't have animal-catching accoutrements, 897 00:42:27,810 --> 00:42:31,647 like claws and tentacles and lasers. 898 00:42:31,731 --> 00:42:33,441 We don't have those kind of things. 899 00:42:33,524 --> 00:42:36,777 We have big brains. So I don't know what you're gonna do. 900 00:42:36,861 --> 00:42:38,821 Maybe talk a crab to death. 901 00:42:38,904 --> 00:42:41,115 Like, "Excuse me. Excuse me." 902 00:42:41,198 --> 00:42:42,992 [laughter] 903 00:42:43,075 --> 00:42:47,622 I was thinking of double majoring in psychology and communications. Excuse me. 904 00:42:47,705 --> 00:42:49,874 Excuse me. Are you a cancer?" 905 00:42:50,291 --> 00:42:53,877 So now... you're hungry, you're tired, 906 00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:56,713 you're like, "I don't care because I'm gonna lay on the beach 907 00:42:56,796 --> 00:42:57,631 like a mermaid." 908 00:42:57,714 --> 00:42:59,924 No, you won't. Sailors are gonna try to fuck you 909 00:43:00,008 --> 00:43:03,428 and the Japanese will definitely try to eat you just for funsies, okay? 910 00:43:03,511 --> 00:43:05,430 [laughter] 911 00:43:05,513 --> 00:43:10,769 You're swimming around like, "I don't care because I'll have long, flowing hair." 912 00:43:10,852 --> 00:43:13,063 No, you won't. You ever go in the ocean? 913 00:43:13,146 --> 00:43:15,231 You guys aren't on an ocean, you're on a lake. 914 00:43:15,315 --> 00:43:18,401 You're a lake mermaid? What are you, half trout? Kill yourself. 915 00:43:18,485 --> 00:43:21,154 [laughter and applause] 916 00:43:21,237 --> 00:43:24,699 Ohh! Freshwater mermaid? 917 00:43:26,034 --> 00:43:28,787 [laughter] 918 00:43:31,498 --> 00:43:35,627 What if you got, like, the weird end of the genetic pool and you were half turtle? 919 00:43:36,169 --> 00:43:37,796 No tail but just half... 920 00:43:38,588 --> 00:43:41,800 "Long flowing mermaid hair." You're not gonna have that. 921 00:43:41,883 --> 00:43:44,134 You ever go in the water when there's waves? 922 00:43:44,218 --> 00:43:45,761 You won't have long flowing hair. 923 00:43:45,844 --> 00:43:49,139 You're going to have one giant mer-dread. 924 00:43:49,223 --> 00:43:50,933 [laughter] 925 00:43:51,016 --> 00:43:53,894 And it's just gonna follow you. It's just one big old mer-lock 926 00:43:53,977 --> 00:43:58,315 and it's getting caught on propellers, it's getting caught on anchors. 927 00:43:58,399 --> 00:44:00,526 There's sea lice living in your mer-dread 928 00:44:00,609 --> 00:44:02,903 because that's a warm, hospitable environment. 929 00:44:02,986 --> 00:44:05,114 Then there's fish feeding off those sea lice. 930 00:44:05,197 --> 00:44:09,034 There's an entire sustainable maritime ecosystem attached to your fucking head. 931 00:44:09,535 --> 00:44:12,079 You drag it around. Sea lice are nipping at your scalp. 932 00:44:12,162 --> 00:44:15,165 You gotta get rid of it, right? You're like, "I'll just cut it off." 933 00:44:15,249 --> 00:44:17,251 Ain't no scissors in the ocean, all right? 934 00:44:17,835 --> 00:44:19,628 I don't care what the Little Mermaid told us 935 00:44:19,712 --> 00:44:22,756 because she was a liar and a hoarder. 936 00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:24,925 [laughter and applause] 937 00:44:25,008 --> 00:44:26,343 Hoarder! 938 00:44:26,969 --> 00:44:30,180 We let it go because she was pretty, but she was super-gross. 939 00:44:30,264 --> 00:44:31,390 [laughter] 940 00:44:31,473 --> 00:44:34,017 # Look at this stuff, isn't it neat? # 941 00:44:34,101 --> 00:44:36,227 That's a used toothbrush. Don't put it in your... 942 00:44:36,310 --> 00:44:38,813 [screams] Ohh! Ohh! 943 00:44:38,896 --> 00:44:41,065 [gags] Ohh! 944 00:44:41,149 --> 00:44:42,650 You're gonna get sick! 945 00:44:42,734 --> 00:44:43,734 [laughter] 946 00:44:44,110 --> 00:44:47,363 Still gotta get rid of that mer-dread because it's a hazard, so what do you do? 947 00:44:47,447 --> 00:44:49,088 You have to get another fish to help you. 948 00:44:49,157 --> 00:44:52,285 You have to do what they do in the animal kingdom. You must what? 949 00:44:52,368 --> 00:44:55,830 You must what? Who here took marine biology? You have to what? 950 00:44:55,913 --> 00:45:00,418 Form a symbiotic relationship with other marine life. 951 00:45:00,501 --> 00:45:03,171 - Good. And have that fish... - [laughter] 952 00:45:03,254 --> 00:45:07,216 come in with his fish tooth and just saw off your mer-dread, right? 953 00:45:07,300 --> 00:45:10,928 It's gonna be bad-looking. But now, remember, you gotta pay that fish back. 954 00:45:11,012 --> 00:45:14,098 That's the nature of a symbiotic relationship, you must reciprocate. 955 00:45:14,182 --> 00:45:17,602 How you gonna pay that fish back? You ain't got no money, shell-tits. 956 00:45:17,685 --> 00:45:20,021 [laughter] 957 00:45:20,938 --> 00:45:23,524 I hate to say it, but the only thing you have... 958 00:45:23,608 --> 00:45:24,817 is fish sex 959 00:45:24,901 --> 00:45:27,277 and I don't know if you have a vagina 960 00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:32,073 because I'm not an ichthyologist and I don't know how fish work. 961 00:45:32,157 --> 00:45:35,869 I should've looked it up before the taping but I'm just trying to tell you some jokes 962 00:45:35,952 --> 00:45:39,247 and I think I've done a pretty good job. You know what fish do? They poop. 963 00:45:39,331 --> 00:45:41,082 You've got a fish butt. So think about that. 964 00:45:41,166 --> 00:45:43,627 - So. - [laughter] 965 00:45:43,710 --> 00:45:46,588 So now you're swimming around, you're hungry, you're tired, 966 00:45:46,671 --> 00:45:49,716 you've got a fucked-up haircut, you're like a little sore, you're like... 967 00:45:49,799 --> 00:45:51,009 [groans] 968 00:45:51,092 --> 00:45:53,678 "I don't care. I'm gonna be a mermaid. I'm gonna swim. 969 00:45:53,762 --> 00:45:55,722 Because I will swim like a mermaid." 970 00:45:55,805 --> 00:46:00,685 Let's remember how mermaids allegedly, because they are not real, swim. 971 00:46:01,269 --> 00:46:03,855 They swim... like dolphins. 972 00:46:03,939 --> 00:46:04,773 [laughter] 973 00:46:04,856 --> 00:46:07,859 Hey, ladies, do you love ab day at the gym? 974 00:46:07,943 --> 00:46:09,903 Well, that's your fucking life, sister! 975 00:46:09,986 --> 00:46:11,571 [laughter] 976 00:46:11,655 --> 00:46:14,616 "37. 38." Just trying to get through. 977 00:46:14,699 --> 00:46:18,077 Your entire existence is that of an R. Kelly backup dancer. 978 00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:19,954 [laughter] 979 00:46:20,037 --> 00:46:22,206 Just swimming through the nineties. 980 00:46:22,289 --> 00:46:24,124 [applause] 981 00:46:24,208 --> 00:46:25,751 So, you can be a mermaid 982 00:46:25,834 --> 00:46:29,088 or you can always get a job in front of a used car dealership. 983 00:46:29,171 --> 00:46:32,174 [laughter] 984 00:46:32,258 --> 00:46:36,845 [cheering and applause] 985 00:46:39,431 --> 00:46:42,226 No mermaids. We can do better. No mermaids. 986 00:46:42,309 --> 00:46:45,813 I worry for women. I worry for men. I worry for our country. 987 00:46:45,896 --> 00:46:48,732 Is anybody else really worried for our country? 988 00:46:48,816 --> 00:46:51,527 [cheering and applause] 989 00:46:52,778 --> 00:46:57,157 So I'm worried... And by the way, I am very proud to be an American 990 00:46:57,241 --> 00:47:00,202 and I love my country very much and I want the best for it. 991 00:47:00,286 --> 00:47:03,330 There's no joke, it's just a statement. I love being an American. 992 00:47:03,414 --> 00:47:04,999 [cheering] 993 00:47:05,082 --> 00:47:06,916 What I'm scared for... 994 00:47:07,709 --> 00:47:10,587 What I'm scared about aren't so much the nightmares 995 00:47:10,670 --> 00:47:14,549 clawing at our front and back doors, both politically, foreign, domestic, 996 00:47:14,632 --> 00:47:16,384 economical, ecological, whatever. 997 00:47:16,467 --> 00:47:18,970 What I'm scared about is the fact that, like, 998 00:47:19,053 --> 00:47:22,223 my generation is supposed to be grown-up and mature now. 999 00:47:23,391 --> 00:47:26,644 I represent the millennials. Perhaps you've seen our Instagram pages. 1000 00:47:26,728 --> 00:47:28,021 [laughter and cheering] 1001 00:47:28,146 --> 00:47:30,440 Yeah, we cheer for ourselves. We're the worst. 1002 00:47:30,523 --> 00:47:33,151 [laughter] 1003 00:47:33,234 --> 00:47:36,362 I will say this as the Lorax of my generation, mustache, 1004 00:47:36,446 --> 00:47:40,116 we... didn't ask to be spoiled. 1005 00:47:40,199 --> 00:47:42,577 Our parents loved us and they gave us everything. 1006 00:47:42,660 --> 00:47:44,704 That's the job of the generation prior, 1007 00:47:44,787 --> 00:47:47,624 to give the next generation a better world than they had. 1008 00:47:47,707 --> 00:47:52,337 So I'm gonna apologize to my grandkids for the radioactive ball of foil and Diet Coke 1009 00:47:52,420 --> 00:47:55,423 that they're gonna inherit from us. 1010 00:47:55,506 --> 00:47:58,258 But that's what the people before you do. 1011 00:47:58,342 --> 00:48:01,970 And I believe that this wave of entitlement started with our grandparents. 1012 00:48:02,054 --> 00:48:04,431 Our grandparents were called the greatest generation, 1013 00:48:04,514 --> 00:48:05,849 and I believe that they were. 1014 00:48:05,932 --> 00:48:08,477 They selflessly gave and they made this country 1015 00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:11,021 the idea of America that a lot of us miss. 1016 00:48:11,104 --> 00:48:13,899 White people. The rest of us, it was horrible for most of them. 1017 00:48:13,982 --> 00:48:15,317 - But in general... - [laughter] 1018 00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:17,069 The main points of it, okay? 1019 00:48:17,152 --> 00:48:19,863 Your grandparents had to fight. They had no choice. 1020 00:48:19,946 --> 00:48:22,491 Grandpa had to fight in World War II. 1021 00:48:22,574 --> 00:48:25,952 Grandpa was straight-up drizafted, okay? He had no choice. 1022 00:48:26,536 --> 00:48:28,205 And when he came home from the war, 1023 00:48:28,288 --> 00:48:31,541 all he wanted to do was have a family, have a job, be a little racist 1024 00:48:31,625 --> 00:48:34,211 - and live the American dream, that's it. - [laughter] 1025 00:48:34,294 --> 00:48:37,673 He fought, he got right to work. It's not like guys today who'd be like, 1026 00:48:37,756 --> 00:48:41,093 "Oh, I just wanna backpack around Oregon and find myself." No! 1027 00:48:41,176 --> 00:48:42,719 [laughter] 1028 00:48:42,803 --> 00:48:46,306 And they're allowed to say that because, whether you like them or not, 1029 00:48:46,390 --> 00:48:50,518 our military does such a good job of defending us on a day-to-day basis. 1030 00:48:50,601 --> 00:48:53,104 [cheering and applause] 1031 00:48:53,187 --> 00:48:56,357 And I know that TSA blows. 1032 00:48:57,775 --> 00:49:01,153 But they do such a good job that you're allowed to mentally check out. 1033 00:49:01,237 --> 00:49:03,864 Like, if you don't like the war going on right now, 1034 00:49:04,281 --> 00:49:05,741 unlike it on Facebook. 1035 00:49:05,825 --> 00:49:06,992 [laughter] 1036 00:49:07,076 --> 00:49:08,619 You're allowed to do that. 1037 00:49:08,703 --> 00:49:11,080 There was no concerted effort. You didn't have to fight. 1038 00:49:11,163 --> 00:49:14,417 My point is, there was no day we all gathered in our town squares 1039 00:49:14,500 --> 00:49:18,337 and threw our iPhones into the center so the military could use the scrap metal. 1040 00:49:18,421 --> 00:49:21,132 "What's this? A droid? Take it back, freak." We didn't have that. 1041 00:49:21,215 --> 00:49:22,842 [laughter] 1042 00:49:22,925 --> 00:49:27,012 I think it's difficult to conceive of a world where you have to sacrifice so much 1043 00:49:27,096 --> 00:49:30,266 and to understand what our grandparents did because now they're old, 1044 00:49:30,766 --> 00:49:34,186 and when you think old, what do you think? Cute, right? 1045 00:49:34,270 --> 00:49:36,731 Your grandparents are cute because they're tiny, shrinking. 1046 00:49:36,814 --> 00:49:37,935 Pick them up, put them down, 1047 00:49:37,982 --> 00:49:40,650 they don't like it, sprinkle water, "Get it off me." 1048 00:49:40,734 --> 00:49:41,568 [laughter] 1049 00:49:41,651 --> 00:49:44,571 And the whiter you are, the greater a chance there is 1050 00:49:44,654 --> 00:49:49,242 that you've developed some weird prerogative kitten-like nickname 1051 00:49:49,325 --> 00:49:51,202 for your grandfather. 1052 00:49:51,286 --> 00:49:55,206 Oh, it's not Grandpa anymore, it's like, "This is my Nim-Nam." 1053 00:49:55,290 --> 00:49:58,168 [laughter] 1054 00:49:58,251 --> 00:50:00,754 "This is my Yippers." 1055 00:50:01,713 --> 00:50:03,381 "This is my Pip-Pop." 1056 00:50:03,465 --> 00:50:07,093 Pip-Pop doesn't give a fuck. He's like, "I was a prisoner of war for six years, 1057 00:50:07,177 --> 00:50:09,471 call my Pip-Pop, I've had worse." 1058 00:50:09,554 --> 00:50:11,848 [laughter] 1059 00:50:13,308 --> 00:50:15,685 "Oh, my God, you guys, my Pip-Pop is so cute. 1060 00:50:15,769 --> 00:50:17,812 Oh, my God, Pip-Pop, he's so cute, you guys. 1061 00:50:17,896 --> 00:50:21,316 Sometimes at Christmas, when Pip-Pop falls asleep, 1062 00:50:21,399 --> 00:50:23,651 we like to decorate him with Christmas bows. 1063 00:50:23,735 --> 00:50:25,779 Isn't that funny? Silly Pip-Pop." 1064 00:50:25,862 --> 00:50:28,156 Pip-Pop's got 53 confirmed kills! 1065 00:50:28,239 --> 00:50:30,282 [laughter] 1066 00:50:30,365 --> 00:50:34,161 [cheering and applause] 1067 00:50:38,874 --> 00:50:40,834 Don't think for a second 1068 00:50:40,918 --> 00:50:44,838 Pip-Pop doesn't remember how to repurpose that Christmas bow around your neck 1069 00:50:44,922 --> 00:50:47,049 to get the intel that he needs out of you. 1070 00:50:47,132 --> 00:50:50,093 "Sit the fuck down, Colton, Caleb, Ashton, Crashton, Crandon, 1071 00:50:50,177 --> 00:50:52,346 whatever your fucking hipster name is, sit down!" 1072 00:50:52,429 --> 00:50:54,181 [laughter and cheering] 1073 00:50:54,264 --> 00:50:57,810 Pip-Pop came home from the war and then they had our parents. 1074 00:50:57,893 --> 00:51:03,023 Our parents are called the baby boomers because Pip-Pop came home from Normandy 1075 00:51:03,106 --> 00:51:07,986 and he was like, [gasps] "I'm not dead. Boom, Gladys, let's fuck." 1076 00:51:08,070 --> 00:51:09,613 And then... 1077 00:51:09,696 --> 00:51:12,574 [laughter and applause] 1078 00:51:12,658 --> 00:51:14,910 The baby boomers, ask your parents, 1079 00:51:14,993 --> 00:51:18,539 were the first generation that were allowed to be artists on a mass scale. 1080 00:51:18,622 --> 00:51:21,874 You didn't have to work on your family business, you could take drugs, 1081 00:51:21,958 --> 00:51:25,378 rock 'n' roll, you could do and be what you wanted to be in the big city. 1082 00:51:25,461 --> 00:51:27,380 The baby boomers had generation X. 1083 00:51:27,463 --> 00:51:29,423 I don't care about them because I'm a millennial. 1084 00:51:29,507 --> 00:51:33,511 We showed up, got a trophy for breathing and then we invented Instagram. 1085 00:51:33,594 --> 00:51:37,265 [cheering and applause] 1086 00:51:39,058 --> 00:51:41,102 What's insane about Instagram is this. 1087 00:51:41,185 --> 00:51:46,107 We use hashtags, right? Hashtag, formerly known as the pound sign. 1088 00:51:46,190 --> 00:51:47,441 [laughter] 1089 00:51:47,525 --> 00:51:48,901 She got a makeover. 1090 00:51:48,985 --> 00:51:52,488 What's weird about a hashtag... is this. 1091 00:51:52,572 --> 00:51:57,034 The more hashtags there are under a posted picture on Instagram, 1092 00:51:57,118 --> 00:52:01,414 the less likely the last hashtag is gonna have anything to do... 1093 00:52:01,497 --> 00:52:02,498 [laughter] 1094 00:52:02,582 --> 00:52:04,333 with that posted picture. 1095 00:52:04,417 --> 00:52:07,169 You got more than four hashtags under your picture, 1096 00:52:07,253 --> 00:52:10,381 you are witnessing a human thought process devolve. 1097 00:52:10,464 --> 00:52:11,882 [laughter] 1098 00:52:11,965 --> 00:52:15,677 By the end, it's just word association. Free word association. 1099 00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:18,638 Bunch of people on the beach, Fourth of July, right? 1100 00:52:18,722 --> 00:52:21,224 "Fuck, yeah! #FourthBitches 1101 00:52:21,308 --> 00:52:23,685 # Fourth #BeachDay #BDay 1102 00:52:23,768 --> 00:52:26,730 # IndependenceDay #IndependentWoman #Beyonce" Yes! 1103 00:52:26,813 --> 00:52:30,233 "#Blessed #IPayMyBills #BikiniBody #BeachBody 1104 00:52:30,317 --> 00:52:33,278 # BoutThatLife #DontNeedAMan #DontWantAMan #NeverHadAMan 1105 00:52:33,361 --> 00:52:36,239 # SometimesToFeelAHumanEmotion ILikeToDrinkMyOwnHair" 1106 00:52:36,323 --> 00:52:38,158 What? What? What? 1107 00:52:38,241 --> 00:52:39,659 [cheering and applause] 1108 00:52:39,743 --> 00:52:40,743 Say something. 1109 00:52:42,495 --> 00:52:44,164 Talking about? 1110 00:52:46,791 --> 00:52:48,877 And then, because we're so hard on women, 1111 00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:52,255 we're mean to women when they're proud of their bodies on Instagram. 1112 00:52:52,339 --> 00:52:55,926 We only allow women to post pictures when they're a work in progress, right? 1113 00:52:56,009 --> 00:52:57,761 "Keep it going." If you're ever like, 1114 00:52:57,844 --> 00:52:59,971 "This is as good as it gets, fucking check it out!" 1115 00:53:00,055 --> 00:53:02,556 it's like, "You whore. You showy fucking bitch." 1116 00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:06,644 So instead of empowering women and letting them be proud of themselves, 1117 00:53:06,727 --> 00:53:10,522 women have to shroud their pride in misdirect hashtags. 1118 00:53:10,606 --> 00:53:14,485 So you've got a generation of girls proud of their bodies in a bathroom like this, 1119 00:53:14,568 --> 00:53:18,280 and rather than be like, "#CheckOutMyBodylmSoHappyWithMyself," 1120 00:53:18,364 --> 00:53:21,867 instead she's like, "#CheckOutTheGroutWorkOnTheseTiles." 1121 00:53:21,951 --> 00:53:23,285 [laughter] 1122 00:53:23,369 --> 00:53:24,995 Who's looking at that? 1123 00:53:26,789 --> 00:53:29,208 I broke up with my boyfriend a couple of months ago. 1124 00:53:29,291 --> 00:53:34,171 Let me ask you a question. Have you ever dated someone who is... so pretty... 1125 00:53:35,756 --> 00:53:37,424 but so stupid? 1126 00:53:37,508 --> 00:53:40,636 [laughter and cheering] 1127 00:53:40,719 --> 00:53:42,721 Notice, it's girls cheering. 1128 00:53:42,805 --> 00:53:46,100 All the guys are like, "Yeah, I brought her here. Keep it moving!" 1129 00:53:46,183 --> 00:53:48,227 [laughter] 1130 00:53:48,310 --> 00:53:50,104 "I don't wanna get in a fight!" 1131 00:53:52,313 --> 00:53:55,984 So, men can do that. Women really can't. 1132 00:53:57,026 --> 00:54:00,613 And the reasoning isn't because men are dicks, there's nothing like that, 1133 00:54:00,697 --> 00:54:02,865 it has to do with the wiring of our brains. 1134 00:54:02,949 --> 00:54:07,495 Men are visually stimulated, women, unfortunately, are cerebrally stimulated. 1135 00:54:07,578 --> 00:54:10,957 Men are visual creatures. They have to be attracted to a woman 1136 00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:14,502 before they can get to know how amazing she is inside. They have to be... 1137 00:54:14,585 --> 00:54:18,297 A dude will date a popsicle stick if it's got a wig. Like, it doesn't matter. 1138 00:54:18,381 --> 00:54:19,799 [laughter] 1139 00:54:19,882 --> 00:54:22,969 That's why it's tough, because you wanna be a feminist, 1140 00:54:23,052 --> 00:54:24,773 like, "I don't have to get ready for a man," 1141 00:54:24,846 --> 00:54:27,432 but that's what they're attracted to. Just the littlest bit. 1142 00:54:27,515 --> 00:54:30,643 Everybody's got that one girlfriend that's like, "I don't get it. I volunteer 1143 00:54:30,727 --> 00:54:34,063 and I rescue animals and I'm very sweet." It's like, "Yeah, but you're so ugly 1144 00:54:34,147 --> 00:54:37,150 so you have to... Just brush the hair! 1145 00:54:37,233 --> 00:54:40,028 Just, anything! One tooth." 1146 00:54:40,111 --> 00:54:42,488 [laughter] 1147 00:54:42,572 --> 00:54:44,197 You don't have to have it out there. 1148 00:54:44,281 --> 00:54:47,284 He cannot check out your personality from across the room. 1149 00:54:47,367 --> 00:54:48,368 That's all I'm saying. 1150 00:54:48,452 --> 00:54:49,953 No man has ever done that. 1151 00:54:50,037 --> 00:54:53,206 No man has ever seen a woman who's sitting there nibbling on her nubs 1152 00:54:53,290 --> 00:54:55,709 - with, like, a gill... - [laughter] 1153 00:54:55,792 --> 00:54:59,212 and walked up and been like, "Excuse me, you're hideous, but you look like 1154 00:54:59,296 --> 00:55:02,341 you might enjoy Tom Clancy, light nipple play and barbecue. 1155 00:55:02,424 --> 00:55:03,258 Is that true?" 1156 00:55:03,342 --> 00:55:04,926 [laughter] 1157 00:55:05,010 --> 00:55:08,305 [applause] 1158 00:55:10,807 --> 00:55:13,810 And women do stuff to make themselves physically attractive. 1159 00:55:13,894 --> 00:55:15,729 Even if you're not trying that hard, 1160 00:55:15,812 --> 00:55:18,190 most of the stuff we do is just to get men's attention. 1161 00:55:18,273 --> 00:55:21,026 Shiny hair. Why is your hair shiny? It makes you look fertile. 1162 00:55:21,109 --> 00:55:21,985 Thanks, Pantene. 1163 00:55:22,069 --> 00:55:25,614 But that's why. There's no reason to have it shiny other than to get attention. 1164 00:55:25,697 --> 00:55:28,658 You're not, like, deflecting a car light when you're running. 1165 00:55:28,742 --> 00:55:32,621 Big eyes. "Look at me! My lips look like a vagina and my boobs look like a butt 1166 00:55:32,704 --> 00:55:35,956 and my butt looks like boobs. I'm a Mrs. Potato Head. Mate with me!" 1167 00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:37,958 [laughter] 1168 00:55:38,667 --> 00:55:41,379 - You may not like it, but I'm not wrong. - [laughter] 1169 00:55:41,462 --> 00:55:43,672 Women are cerebrally stimulated. 1170 00:55:43,756 --> 00:55:47,927 That's why we say the number one thing we look for in a man is a conversation. 1171 00:55:48,010 --> 00:55:51,222 "Someone I can talk to. Sense of humor." 1172 00:55:52,014 --> 00:55:55,684 I have dated gutter goblins who were just, like, really funny and smart. 1173 00:55:56,310 --> 00:55:58,104 "I just wanna talk to him. It's sexy. 1174 00:55:58,187 --> 00:56:01,232 I just want someone I can talk to. At. Just sit there and breathe, Steve." 1175 00:56:01,315 --> 00:56:04,819 We need that back and forth. We have to be able to talk. 1176 00:56:04,902 --> 00:56:08,322 And it's something that we need, and yet we're chastised for it. 1177 00:56:08,823 --> 00:56:10,741 You ever been called a "chatty Cathy"? 1178 00:56:10,825 --> 00:56:13,244 By an idiot, but still, ever been called that? 1179 00:56:13,786 --> 00:56:17,289 "A couple of girls just yipping away, huh? She'll talk your ear off. 1180 00:56:17,373 --> 00:56:20,334 Bunch of giblets in a henhouse." No-one says giblets in a hen... 1181 00:56:20,417 --> 00:56:22,461 That means the chicken's already dead. 1182 00:56:22,545 --> 00:56:24,130 [laughter] 1183 00:56:24,213 --> 00:56:27,257 Women are always chastised for talking a lot. 1184 00:56:27,340 --> 00:56:30,260 The reason women talk goes back thousands of years. 1185 00:56:30,343 --> 00:56:34,013 The reason women talk a lot, have a proclivity for speaking... Mm! 1186 00:56:34,097 --> 00:56:38,309 Is when men would go out and hunt and fight and get animals, 1187 00:56:38,393 --> 00:56:40,770 - otherwise known as hunting... - [laughter] 1188 00:56:40,854 --> 00:56:44,023 "Go get an animal." Women stayed behind... 1189 00:56:44,107 --> 00:56:45,775 [laughter] 1190 00:56:45,859 --> 00:56:48,778 And we raised the kids and we made food. 1191 00:56:48,862 --> 00:56:51,197 And because the world wasn't really a thing yet, 1192 00:56:51,281 --> 00:56:53,491 we exchanged survival secrets. 1193 00:56:53,575 --> 00:56:56,494 We would tell each other things like, "Oh, don't eat that berry, 1194 00:56:56,578 --> 00:56:59,122 it'll make your husband's dick fall off." 1195 00:56:59,205 --> 00:57:00,790 "Don't wipe with that leaf, 1196 00:57:00,874 --> 00:57:03,918 I found in my studies that it really hurts your vagina." 1197 00:57:04,002 --> 00:57:07,463 You had to exchange this information to keep your tribe alive. 1198 00:57:07,547 --> 00:57:09,924 Now, that's devolved to, "What color lip gloss?" 1199 00:57:10,008 --> 00:57:13,887 but it's the exchange of information. Girls gather and then share. 1200 00:57:13,970 --> 00:57:16,847 So guys, when we're talking and it bothers you, 1201 00:57:16,930 --> 00:57:19,850 just know we're trying to make it so your dick doesn't fall off! 1202 00:57:19,933 --> 00:57:21,351 That's what we're doing. 1203 00:57:21,435 --> 00:57:23,353 Trying to help you! 1204 00:57:23,437 --> 00:57:26,023 - Trying to help you live! - [cheering and applause] 1205 00:57:29,818 --> 00:57:33,739 Nothing wrong with it. I'll say it. I'm a feminist. You know what? 1206 00:57:33,822 --> 00:57:36,366 I'll say it for the women that don't know to say it. 1207 00:57:36,450 --> 00:57:38,452 And you might not be comfortable with it. 1208 00:57:38,535 --> 00:57:42,080 Because a lot of women are like, "I love being a woman, but I'm not a feminist." 1209 00:57:42,164 --> 00:57:44,917 What are you, a horse? Like, what are the other options? 1210 00:57:45,709 --> 00:57:47,336 Let me clarify it... 1211 00:57:47,419 --> 00:57:48,545 [cheering] 1212 00:57:49,129 --> 00:57:51,507 for the men and the women who might not have a clear idea. 1213 00:57:51,590 --> 00:57:54,259 Being a feminist means you just wanna be treated fairly, 1214 00:57:54,343 --> 00:57:57,471 you just want it even, no more, no less. Maybe like a little bit more. 1215 00:57:57,554 --> 00:57:58,722 You just wanna get the same. 1216 00:57:59,723 --> 00:58:01,844 And a lot of women don't like to say they're feminists 1217 00:58:01,892 --> 00:58:04,520 because they don't think it sounds attractive, right? 1218 00:58:04,603 --> 00:58:06,896 Which is inherently an issue in and of itself. 1219 00:58:06,979 --> 00:58:09,649 Because men think feminist, they have a bad idea of it. 1220 00:58:09,732 --> 00:58:13,444 Guys think of some square-jawed broad with three chin hairs and a power suit, 1221 00:58:13,528 --> 00:58:15,780 like, "I'm gonna kick you in the dick and take your job!" 1222 00:58:15,863 --> 00:58:17,406 That's not what we want. 1223 00:58:17,490 --> 00:58:19,367 We just want it even. 1224 00:58:19,450 --> 00:58:22,328 If we're gonna be feminists, let's start with something fun. 1225 00:58:22,411 --> 00:58:23,996 Wage gap, gotta close that. 1226 00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:27,833 But let's start with something everybody wants to deal with. Yeah, for sure. Duh! 1227 00:58:27,917 --> 00:58:28,751 [cheering] 1228 00:58:28,834 --> 00:58:30,628 Let's start with porn. 1229 00:58:30,711 --> 00:58:33,798 [cheering] 1230 00:58:33,881 --> 00:58:36,842 Because even if you're a woman and you love being a porn star, 1231 00:58:36,926 --> 00:58:39,679 it's still you taking it for, like, three hours, 1232 00:58:39,762 --> 00:58:42,765 you're getting paid 30 percent less and he's actually getting off, 1233 00:58:42,848 --> 00:58:45,434 so let's make some feminist porn. 1234 00:58:45,518 --> 00:58:48,187 Let's see a porn where a girl kicks a door in, like... 1235 00:58:48,729 --> 00:58:51,607 "Who wants to lick it? Line up! Go!" 1236 00:58:51,691 --> 00:58:53,693 [laughter and cheering] 1237 00:58:53,776 --> 00:58:54,944 Go! 1238 00:58:55,820 --> 00:58:57,153 Next! Go! 1239 00:58:58,363 --> 00:59:00,282 Beat your best time. Go!" 1240 00:59:00,365 --> 00:59:03,118 [laughter] 1241 00:59:03,201 --> 00:59:05,870 - That's so gross. - [laughter] 1242 00:59:05,954 --> 00:59:07,497 So off-brand. So gross. 1243 00:59:07,581 --> 00:59:11,251 Now, all the girls are cheering, because in theory, that's empowering. 1244 00:59:11,334 --> 00:59:13,211 But in practice, horrific. 1245 00:59:13,295 --> 00:59:16,339 That would be horrible. No woman could withstand that. 1246 00:59:16,423 --> 00:59:19,759 Halfway through the second guy, we'd all be like, "Okay, okay, okay, okay!" 1247 00:59:19,843 --> 00:59:20,843 [laughter] 1248 00:59:20,885 --> 00:59:22,721 "It's sensitive! I need a minute!" 1249 00:59:22,804 --> 00:59:25,181 [laughter and applause] 1250 00:59:25,265 --> 00:59:27,392 "I just need a minute! I just need a minute. 1251 00:59:27,809 --> 00:59:30,061 Don't hug me. I'm not mad, I just need a minute." 1252 00:59:30,145 --> 00:59:31,563 [laughter] 1253 00:59:31,646 --> 00:59:34,941 "Why don't you go order us a pizza? I'll fire up my Pinterest page." 1254 00:59:35,025 --> 00:59:37,485 [laughter and cheering] 1255 00:59:39,237 --> 00:59:41,865 Let me ask you a question. This is for the girls in the audience. 1256 00:59:41,948 --> 00:59:44,242 This is a very real question, very real statement. 1257 00:59:44,326 --> 00:59:45,869 Have you ever been... 1258 00:59:45,952 --> 00:59:48,704 Have you ever been having sex with your boyfriend 1259 00:59:48,787 --> 00:59:52,082 and you're not into it, like, obviously, and then all of a sudden, 1260 00:59:52,166 --> 00:59:54,168 you start to get really excited? 1261 00:59:54,251 --> 00:59:56,837 Not so much from physical stimulation, 1262 00:59:56,920 --> 00:59:58,839 but because mentally you're like... 1263 01:00:01,467 --> 01:00:03,427 "This is almost done." 1264 01:00:03,510 --> 01:00:06,013 [cheering and applause] 1265 01:00:09,725 --> 01:00:11,935 [laughter] 1266 01:00:12,019 --> 01:00:13,937 And when it is done... [gasps] 1267 01:00:14,021 --> 01:00:18,025 we shall go to the farmers market!" 1268 01:00:18,484 --> 01:00:20,235 You plan out the whole day. 1269 01:00:22,363 --> 01:00:24,907 Guys, you have to make sure her head is in the game, 1270 01:00:24,990 --> 01:00:27,951 no pun intended, but, like, pun intended for sure. 1271 01:00:28,035 --> 01:00:31,872 I don't think we check in with each other enough as opposite sexes. 1272 01:00:31,955 --> 01:00:35,876 Men think because she's making noises they hear in movies, she's enjoying it. 1273 01:00:35,959 --> 01:00:39,170 Women are like, "I'm making noises, let's fucking get it over with." 1274 01:00:39,253 --> 01:00:43,257 If you care about the girl, you gotta make sure she's getting what she wants. 1275 01:00:43,341 --> 01:00:46,511 And girls, the best thing you can do, if you have great sex, 1276 01:00:46,594 --> 01:00:49,263 the best thing you can do the second sex is over 1277 01:00:49,347 --> 01:00:52,058 is... not talk to him. 1278 01:00:52,141 --> 01:00:53,434 [laughter] 1279 01:00:53,518 --> 01:00:55,853 Sounds horrible. It's actually to your benefit. 1280 01:00:56,479 --> 01:00:59,440 That's not your boyfriend lying next to you. 1281 01:00:59,524 --> 01:01:02,402 That is a husk of a man... 1282 01:01:02,485 --> 01:01:03,611 [laughter] 1283 01:01:03,695 --> 01:01:05,863 - depleted of all bodily fluids... - [laughter] 1284 01:01:06,739 --> 01:01:10,910 incapable of giving you the answer you deserve. 1285 01:01:10,993 --> 01:01:14,205 And I get it. You just had sex, you're feeling great, oxytocin is flowing, 1286 01:01:14,288 --> 01:01:16,874 you just hosted a human being inside of you... 1287 01:01:17,583 --> 01:01:20,086 You love him and you wanna talk about the future. 1288 01:01:20,169 --> 01:01:21,754 He can't do it. 1289 01:01:21,838 --> 01:01:25,800 You look at him and say, "What are you thinking about?" He's laying there, dust. 1290 01:01:25,883 --> 01:01:28,969 [exhales heavily] 1291 01:01:29,052 --> 01:01:30,679 [laughter and applause] 1292 01:01:30,762 --> 01:01:32,681 "Ohh." 1293 01:01:32,764 --> 01:01:35,225 Get him a Gatorade, give him five. 1294 01:01:36,059 --> 01:01:39,229 He can't answer you. You'll be like, "What are you thinking about?" 1295 01:01:39,312 --> 01:01:43,817 He'll never, ever be like, "You in a wedding dress." 1296 01:01:43,900 --> 01:01:46,027 [laughter] 1297 01:01:48,155 --> 01:01:52,325 But guys, if you love your girl, check in with her. Because you're far away. 1298 01:01:52,409 --> 01:01:54,202 She's up there. You're here like, 1299 01:01:54,286 --> 01:01:56,955 "I'm amazing. I'll bet she fucking loves this." 1300 01:01:57,038 --> 01:02:00,834 And we're down there like, "I wonder if lavender is in season." 1301 01:02:00,917 --> 01:02:03,503 [laughter] 1302 01:02:03,587 --> 01:02:06,381 [applause] 1303 01:02:06,465 --> 01:02:08,049 Still back there. 1304 01:02:08,759 --> 01:02:10,594 "Siri, is lavender..." 1305 01:02:10,677 --> 01:02:13,847 [laughter] 1306 01:02:13,930 --> 01:02:15,557 "Calling Mom Cell." 1307 01:02:15,640 --> 01:02:17,559 - "No, Siri!" - [laughter] 1308 01:02:17,642 --> 01:02:19,478 "No!" Snap. 1309 01:02:19,561 --> 01:02:21,061 [laughter] 1310 01:02:23,647 --> 01:02:26,650 The moral of that story is I was in a relationship 1311 01:02:26,734 --> 01:02:29,236 and I wasn't happy, so I left the relationship. 1312 01:02:29,320 --> 01:02:31,947 I'm not advocating for leaving the person you're with. 1313 01:02:32,031 --> 01:02:34,867 What I am advocating for is this. If you're not happy, 1314 01:02:34,950 --> 01:02:37,953 there's no reason to stay out of fear of being alone. 1315 01:02:38,537 --> 01:02:40,080 We like to scare women. 1316 01:02:40,164 --> 01:02:43,000 [cheering and applause] 1317 01:02:43,083 --> 01:02:45,252 And I'm sure there are men that feel this way. 1318 01:02:45,336 --> 01:02:49,256 But we like to scare women when they're single and we like to be mean to them 1319 01:02:49,340 --> 01:02:52,259 and we label them. We say mean things to them. 1320 01:02:52,343 --> 01:02:54,804 She's a spinster. Old maid. 1321 01:02:54,887 --> 01:02:57,223 Really involved with animal rescue. 1322 01:02:57,306 --> 01:02:59,600 - We have names like that. - [laughter] 1323 01:02:59,683 --> 01:03:02,353 And we like to question them, as if there's something wrong. 1324 01:03:02,436 --> 01:03:03,436 "Why are you single?" 1325 01:03:03,479 --> 01:03:05,981 "Because the last one was a dick and I'm not stupid." 1326 01:03:06,065 --> 01:03:07,983 Like, that's why you do it. 1327 01:03:08,067 --> 01:03:09,819 [cheering and applause] 1328 01:03:09,902 --> 01:03:11,778 Nobody wakes up married. 1329 01:03:11,861 --> 01:03:14,155 Nobody is born betrothed to someone. 1330 01:03:14,239 --> 01:03:17,200 We have to be kinder to women and stop doing it. 1331 01:03:17,283 --> 01:03:19,702 And we have the audacity to have magazines, 1332 01:03:19,786 --> 01:03:22,413 self-help books, articles, posing the question, 1333 01:03:22,497 --> 01:03:25,792 "You're single. Now what? You're single. Now what?" 1334 01:03:25,875 --> 01:03:27,418 What do you mean, "Now what?" 1335 01:03:27,502 --> 01:03:29,546 Now I shave off an eyebrow and take up with wolves. 1336 01:03:29,629 --> 01:03:32,382 What do you mean, "Now what?" What do you mean, "Now what?" 1337 01:03:32,465 --> 01:03:35,552 I got a mortgage. How about fuck bitches, get money? 1338 01:03:35,635 --> 01:03:36,469 [cheering] 1339 01:03:36,553 --> 01:03:38,263 It's so stupid. 1340 01:03:38,346 --> 01:03:41,266 [cheering and applause] 1341 01:03:48,314 --> 01:03:52,235 What upsets me is that women spend so much time and energy 1342 01:03:52,318 --> 01:03:55,864 flogging themselves mentally for being single, 1343 01:03:55,947 --> 01:03:59,117 and changing and trying different methods and looking for guys. 1344 01:03:59,200 --> 01:04:01,952 And men don't have to do that. They have the luxury of relaxing 1345 01:04:02,035 --> 01:04:06,164 because they don't have eggs. There are no articles in GQ like, 1346 01:04:06,248 --> 01:04:08,834 "You're single. Now what?" There's none of that. 1347 01:04:09,543 --> 01:04:12,921 The answer would always be, "Now I can jerk off where I want. No-one bugs me. 1348 01:04:13,005 --> 01:04:14,423 # Sandwich." 1349 01:04:15,090 --> 01:04:17,718 [laughter and applause] 1350 01:04:20,304 --> 01:04:24,099 The good part about traveling for the last year, I've had time for myself. 1351 01:04:24,182 --> 01:04:25,309 [laughter] 1352 01:04:25,392 --> 01:04:27,144 More time from my research. 1353 01:04:28,020 --> 01:04:30,355 - I don't do research. - [laughter] 1354 01:04:30,439 --> 01:04:32,441 - I just watch TV. - [laughter] 1355 01:04:32,524 --> 01:04:35,736 But I wear a lab coat while I do it for the tax write-off. 1356 01:04:35,819 --> 01:04:37,529 [laughter] 1357 01:04:38,322 --> 01:04:41,658 Before we get out of here, before we conclude this TED Talk... 1358 01:04:41,742 --> 01:04:44,244 [laughter] 1359 01:04:44,328 --> 01:04:46,747 Does everybody here watch Shark Tank? 1360 01:04:46,830 --> 01:04:49,917 [cheering and applause] 1361 01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:51,376 So... 1362 01:04:53,336 --> 01:04:55,922 All I want, all I want, 1363 01:04:56,005 --> 01:04:58,507 is a live episode of Shark Tank. 1364 01:04:58,591 --> 01:05:01,218 That's what I want. A live episode. 1365 01:05:01,302 --> 01:05:02,887 It's a reality show. 1366 01:05:02,970 --> 01:05:06,432 But if you watch it, you'll notice it's heavily edited, heavily produced, 1367 01:05:06,515 --> 01:05:08,142 and what bothers me... 1368 01:05:08,935 --> 01:05:12,063 is the presentations from the entrepreneurs are too polished. 1369 01:05:12,146 --> 01:05:15,900 There's no grit to them. They come out like a fifth-grade Thanksgiving pageant. 1370 01:05:15,983 --> 01:05:17,818 "The natives called it maize. We bottled it." 1371 01:05:17,902 --> 01:05:19,820 I don't wanna see that, okay? 1372 01:05:20,404 --> 01:05:21,864 I want to see you mess up. 1373 01:05:21,948 --> 01:05:24,367 I wanna see you trip. Maybe you forget your words. 1374 01:05:24,450 --> 01:05:29,622 Maybe you chip a tooth. I wanna see you crumble as an entity before my eyes. 1375 01:05:29,705 --> 01:05:34,669 Only then will I tolerate you rising from the ashes with any degree of hubris. 1376 01:05:34,752 --> 01:05:37,380 That's the way to consume American reality TV. 1377 01:05:37,463 --> 01:05:41,008 The sheer schadenfreude of watching someone shit themselves on TV 1378 01:05:41,092 --> 01:05:44,469 and then building them back up. That's what we like to see. Okay? 1379 01:05:44,552 --> 01:05:47,138 [cheering and applause] 1380 01:05:47,222 --> 01:05:50,600 These are cattle farmers from the middle of Iowa 1381 01:05:50,684 --> 01:05:54,145 and they get in front of a camera and suddenly they're Winston Churchill? 1382 01:05:54,229 --> 01:05:56,189 I don't buy it, okay? 1383 01:05:56,272 --> 01:05:58,900 I speak for a living and even I mess up, 1384 01:05:58,984 --> 01:06:02,070 so there's no way these two fucking dye jobs from ASU 1385 01:06:02,153 --> 01:06:04,531 with, like, a new take on cookies, there's no way! 1386 01:06:04,614 --> 01:06:05,657 [laughter] 1387 01:06:05,740 --> 01:06:07,659 Flawlessly orating. 1388 01:06:07,742 --> 01:06:12,122 There are three archetypes of women that they like to have on Shark Tank. 1389 01:06:12,205 --> 01:06:15,625 They love to have moms, because most of us have moms. 1390 01:06:15,709 --> 01:06:18,378 [laughter] 1391 01:06:20,255 --> 01:06:22,590 But what's crazy and, like, creepy 1392 01:06:22,674 --> 01:06:25,301 is that all the moms on Shark Tank 1393 01:06:25,385 --> 01:06:27,637 have the exact same voice. 1394 01:06:27,721 --> 01:06:28,638 [laughter] 1395 01:06:28,722 --> 01:06:30,390 It's a little Stepfordian. 1396 01:06:30,473 --> 01:06:32,976 They all sound like this. 1397 01:06:33,059 --> 01:06:35,853 [in perky voice] "Hi, Sharks. My name's Nancy from Laguna Niguel 1398 01:06:35,936 --> 01:06:39,523 and I've discovered a new way to get your toddler to eat their blueberries." 1399 01:06:39,606 --> 01:06:40,774 [jabbers] 1400 01:06:40,858 --> 01:06:44,111 [laughter and cheering] 1401 01:06:44,194 --> 01:06:47,072 [cheering and applause] 1402 01:06:47,156 --> 01:06:51,076 Then they have really smart women. They do. They'll have brilliant women. 1403 01:06:51,160 --> 01:06:54,413 But it seems that the smarter the woman, the longer the last name. 1404 01:06:54,496 --> 01:06:56,540 Like, they'll hyphenate their last names. 1405 01:06:56,623 --> 01:06:58,500 I can't stand hyphenated last names. 1406 01:06:58,584 --> 01:07:01,962 If you're in this room and you've got a hyphenated last name, chop it in half! 1407 01:07:02,046 --> 01:07:03,047 [laughter] 1408 01:07:03,130 --> 01:07:05,632 Okay? You're not Spanish royalty. Chop it! 1409 01:07:05,716 --> 01:07:06,717 [laughter] 1410 01:07:06,800 --> 01:07:08,802 I barely care about your first name. 1411 01:07:08,886 --> 01:07:10,471 [laughter] 1412 01:07:10,554 --> 01:07:12,931 Let alone the entire questionable heritage. 1413 01:07:13,015 --> 01:07:15,476 When you have a hyphenated last name, 1414 01:07:15,559 --> 01:07:18,896 all that makes me think is that mama was a big old strong lesbian 1415 01:07:18,979 --> 01:07:21,065 and she didn't wanna give up her family inheritance 1416 01:07:21,148 --> 01:07:24,609 so she begrudgingly married your father, now they have separate twin beds 1417 01:07:24,692 --> 01:07:27,528 and are co-women's studies professors at Wellesley. 1418 01:07:27,612 --> 01:07:30,364 [laughter and applause] 1419 01:07:30,448 --> 01:07:32,366 It's also just so much information. 1420 01:07:32,450 --> 01:07:35,912 I'm trying to hear you, your valuation, listen to the equity, 1421 01:07:35,995 --> 01:07:38,539 and you're coming up there with a phonebook, like, "Hi, Sharks. 1422 01:07:38,623 --> 01:07:41,084 My name's Michelle-Lida-Julia Freeman-Cereal." 1423 01:07:41,167 --> 01:07:43,377 "And I'm Rebecca-Lynn-Stacey Fitzgerald-Yang. 1424 01:07:43,461 --> 01:07:45,755 And together, we sound like five dudes." 1425 01:07:45,838 --> 01:07:49,050 Like, it's a lot... of information. 1426 01:07:49,717 --> 01:07:52,095 Are you inventors or a law firm? Like, what is that? 1427 01:07:52,178 --> 01:07:53,513 [laughter] 1428 01:07:53,888 --> 01:07:55,556 And then in the final category, 1429 01:07:56,015 --> 01:07:58,309 the toy category, we have the hot women. 1430 01:07:59,310 --> 01:08:01,646 Not attractive. Not cute. 1431 01:08:01,729 --> 01:08:04,732 Fucking hot. Teeth, tan, tits, hair. "Sharks!" 1432 01:08:04,816 --> 01:08:07,151 [laughter] 1433 01:08:07,235 --> 01:08:10,363 Sometimes they do this. They'll have very smart woman on the show. 1434 01:08:10,446 --> 01:08:15,242 Sometimes it feels like the hotter the woman, the dumber the product. 1435 01:08:15,325 --> 01:08:17,786 And I believe it's done to keep us in line. 1436 01:08:17,869 --> 01:08:22,499 But... a lot of the time, the women's products have to do with two categories. 1437 01:08:22,582 --> 01:08:24,918 It's either wrangling your femininity. 1438 01:08:25,544 --> 01:08:28,797 "Sharks, it's a flap you put over your vagina 1439 01:08:28,880 --> 01:08:30,215 so no one knows you have one." 1440 01:08:30,298 --> 01:08:33,927 [laughter] 1441 01:08:34,010 --> 01:08:36,179 "Move through the workplace with ease." 1442 01:08:36,263 --> 01:08:37,430 [laughter] 1443 01:08:37,514 --> 01:08:42,018 Or it's a product so stupid, it will just confirm 1444 01:08:42,102 --> 01:08:45,772 any preconceived notions you might have about female intelligence. 1445 01:08:45,856 --> 01:08:50,026 Like, "Sharks, it's a shower cap that you can wear while you're cooking 1446 01:08:50,110 --> 01:08:52,154 so your hair doesn't smell!" 1447 01:08:52,237 --> 01:08:53,905 [imitates gun firing] No! 1448 01:08:53,989 --> 01:08:56,032 [laughter] 1449 01:08:56,116 --> 01:08:59,786 [applause] 1450 01:09:00,370 --> 01:09:03,039 You just set us back, like, a week with that shit, Lexi. 1451 01:09:03,123 --> 01:09:04,499 [laughter] 1452 01:09:04,583 --> 01:09:06,625 But that's the one that I'd like to see live. 1453 01:09:07,126 --> 01:09:08,419 The hot one. 1454 01:09:08,794 --> 01:09:11,630 Because I believe watching an attractive woman 1455 01:09:11,714 --> 01:09:13,382 mentally unravel... 1456 01:09:13,465 --> 01:09:14,300 [laughter] 1457 01:09:14,383 --> 01:09:18,762 on national television is the reason we all watch reality TV. 1458 01:09:18,846 --> 01:09:20,347 [laughter] 1459 01:09:20,431 --> 01:09:23,517 "Up next are two sisters from Scottsdale, Arizona, 1460 01:09:23,601 --> 01:09:26,270 with a new take on popcorn." 1461 01:09:26,353 --> 01:09:28,939 [sings Shark Tank music] 1462 01:09:29,023 --> 01:09:31,525 [laughter] 1463 01:09:33,694 --> 01:09:36,697 [sings Shark Tank music] 1464 01:09:37,656 --> 01:09:38,908 Jiggle, jiggle. 1465 01:09:38,991 --> 01:09:40,743 [laughter] 1466 01:09:42,244 --> 01:09:45,289 "Hi, Sharks! My name's Madison." 1467 01:09:45,372 --> 01:09:47,708 Duh. They're always named Madison, right? 1468 01:09:47,791 --> 01:09:50,085 "And this is my sister, Michaela." 1469 01:09:50,169 --> 01:09:52,421 They're always named Michaela. Fucking obviously. 1470 01:09:52,504 --> 01:09:56,716 "And together, we are the inventors, creators 1471 01:09:56,799 --> 01:09:58,676 and CEOs of... 1472 01:10:00,929 --> 01:10:02,847 [whispers] Put your back against mine." 1473 01:10:02,931 --> 01:10:05,350 [laughter] 1474 01:10:14,901 --> 01:10:16,694 "CEOs of... 1475 01:10:17,403 --> 01:10:19,572 [whispers] Put your fucking back against mine. 1476 01:10:19,989 --> 01:10:23,201 What the fuck are you doing? What the fuck are you doing? 1477 01:10:24,202 --> 01:10:26,287 We do this then we do the product, yes? 1478 01:10:26,371 --> 01:10:29,666 Oh, my fucking goodness! We haven't done the product yet. 1479 01:10:29,749 --> 01:10:31,542 We can't. We can't start over. 1480 01:10:31,626 --> 01:10:34,504 That's what that light is. That's fucking live, bitch. Yes!" 1481 01:10:34,587 --> 01:10:35,630 [laughter] 1482 01:10:35,713 --> 01:10:37,674 "We can't... Can we start over?" "No." 1483 01:10:37,757 --> 01:10:38,633 "I got nothing." 1484 01:10:38,716 --> 01:10:40,927 [laughter] 1485 01:10:41,010 --> 01:10:43,012 "Oh, my God, I'm not yelling at you! 1486 01:10:43,096 --> 01:10:45,974 I'm not yelling at you. I'm not making it about me! 1487 01:10:46,057 --> 01:10:49,184 Do not do this here! It's fucking live TV! I'm not making it about me! 1488 01:10:49,268 --> 01:10:52,771 You're making it about me making it about you making it about me! 1489 01:10:52,854 --> 01:10:54,856 I am trying to make this... Oh, my God. 1490 01:10:54,940 --> 01:10:58,068 Okay. Just stay there. I will do it. I will do it. Just stay there. 1491 01:10:58,151 --> 01:11:01,613 It's fine. Stay there. I will handle it. Stay there, you fucking casualty. 1492 01:11:01,697 --> 01:11:03,782 Okay, the other day, 1493 01:11:03,865 --> 01:11:07,160 my sister and I were at home eating popcorn and crying, 1494 01:11:07,244 --> 01:11:09,746 and we got down to the bottom of the bag. 1495 01:11:09,830 --> 01:11:13,166 And, shake, shake, shake, what was left at the bottom? 1496 01:11:13,250 --> 01:11:14,960 All the unpopped kernels. 1497 01:11:15,043 --> 01:11:18,630 That's when my sister and I decided that we should... 1498 01:11:20,340 --> 01:11:22,509 Put your fucking back..." 1499 01:11:22,592 --> 01:11:24,303 [laughter and applause] 1500 01:11:24,386 --> 01:11:25,887 "Against mine. 1501 01:11:25,971 --> 01:11:27,681 Put your fucking back against mine! 1502 01:11:27,764 --> 01:11:30,809 What the fuck are you doing? I am trying... No! No! 1503 01:11:30,892 --> 01:11:33,145 You're not gonna fucking do this to me again! 1504 01:11:33,228 --> 01:11:36,732 I am trying to keep this family together! Do you not understand that? 1505 01:11:36,815 --> 01:11:38,441 No, this is not about me! 1506 01:11:38,524 --> 01:11:41,235 I am trying to help! This is nothing like when Daddy died! 1507 01:11:41,319 --> 01:11:42,695 You are being a bitch! 1508 01:11:42,778 --> 01:11:44,572 I am trying to keep this family... 1509 01:11:44,655 --> 01:11:47,116 She does this! She does this every time! 1510 01:11:47,199 --> 01:11:49,702 Everybody's gonna know that you're a fucking... 1511 01:11:49,785 --> 01:11:53,331 I wasn't flirting with your husband! You are so fucking insecure! 1512 01:11:53,414 --> 01:11:55,458 Because I slept with your boyfriend in high school 1513 01:11:55,541 --> 01:11:57,001 and he turned out to be gay! 1514 01:11:57,084 --> 01:11:59,170 No, it wasn't your fault! Big fucking deal! 1515 01:11:59,253 --> 01:12:01,047 He wanted to talk about your birthday 1516 01:12:01,130 --> 01:12:04,550 so that fucking Michaela could turn 40 for the third time! 1517 01:12:04,633 --> 01:12:06,719 You're a fucking bitch! I need a minute! 1518 01:12:06,802 --> 01:12:09,180 I need a fucking minute! I need... 1519 01:12:09,263 --> 01:12:11,265 I need a Madison minute! Hold on! 1520 01:12:12,475 --> 01:12:14,935 [sniffs] I'm fucking good. I'm fucking good! 1521 01:12:15,019 --> 01:12:17,605 Let's fucking do it! You wanna go? 1522 01:12:17,688 --> 01:12:19,732 Shit. I don't care. I am trying.... 1523 01:12:19,815 --> 01:12:23,694 I am not... I can't. I can't. Why are the walls bleeding? I can't do this. 1524 01:12:23,778 --> 01:12:25,780 I can't fucking do this. I can't do it. 1525 01:12:25,863 --> 01:12:28,532 You being a... I shit. I shit my pants. 1526 01:12:28,615 --> 01:12:32,118 Oh, good news. It's not shit. It's blood! It's blood, you fucking monster! 1527 01:12:32,202 --> 01:12:35,872 I am trying... I can't... No. You know what? I am keeping it together. 1528 01:12:35,955 --> 01:12:39,000 I am the stable one! I am keeping it... I am not... 1529 01:12:39,084 --> 01:12:41,669 I am not yelling! I am not yelling. I am not yelling. 1530 01:12:41,753 --> 01:12:44,798 Huh? What? Yes, it's a hive. This happens. 1531 01:12:45,632 --> 01:12:48,718 It happens every time you open your fucking whore mouth! Yes, I know! 1532 01:12:48,802 --> 01:12:50,637 And I'm trying... 1533 01:12:50,720 --> 01:12:53,306 I'm a good feminist. I shouldn't have said that. I'm sorry. 1534 01:12:53,390 --> 01:12:54,432 I'm sorry! 1535 01:12:54,516 --> 01:12:56,851 I'm sorry! My tan is dripping off. 1536 01:12:56,935 --> 01:12:58,436 I am not..." 1537 01:12:58,520 --> 01:13:00,647 [hyperventilates] 1538 01:13:00,730 --> 01:13:02,107 "I am not... 1539 01:13:02,190 --> 01:13:05,318 I am not... [exhales] I am not yelling. I am not yelling! 1540 01:13:05,402 --> 01:13:07,612 - I am using..." - [laughter] 1541 01:13:07,695 --> 01:13:09,531 "I am using the vocabulary 1542 01:13:09,614 --> 01:13:11,658 that Dr. Goldstein told us to use." 1543 01:13:11,741 --> 01:13:12,575 [laughter] 1544 01:13:12,659 --> 01:13:15,495 "I am requesting..." 1545 01:13:16,079 --> 01:13:17,664 [screams] 1546 01:13:17,747 --> 01:13:19,289 "that you.... 1547 01:13:19,873 --> 01:13:21,834 hear... my..." 1548 01:13:22,751 --> 01:13:24,878 [laughter] 1549 01:13:24,962 --> 01:13:28,257 "desire... to communicate... 1550 01:13:28,340 --> 01:13:30,467 in an open way... 1551 01:13:31,176 --> 01:13:33,095 and put your fucking back against mine! 1552 01:13:33,178 --> 01:13:36,265 She's ruining it! She's ruining everything!" 1553 01:13:36,348 --> 01:13:39,893 [hyperventilates] 1554 01:13:39,977 --> 01:13:42,354 "She's ruining it. This is a big deal. 1555 01:13:42,438 --> 01:13:45,315 We put everything... We put everything into this company!" 1556 01:13:45,399 --> 01:13:48,110 "Did you really?" "No, but my mom did." 1557 01:13:48,193 --> 01:13:49,736 [laughter] 1558 01:13:49,820 --> 01:13:52,573 "I am trying to keep it together. Everybody depends on me 1559 01:13:52,656 --> 01:13:56,869 because we spent all of our money on our first company and it shat the bed." 1560 01:13:56,952 --> 01:14:00,080 "What was your first company?" "I'm gonna tell them." 1561 01:14:00,164 --> 01:14:01,915 [laughter] 1562 01:14:01,999 --> 01:14:04,168 "I'm gonna tell them and you're gonna look like 1563 01:14:04,251 --> 01:14:08,380 the fucking psycho bitch that you are. Everyone's gonna know. I'm gonna... 1564 01:14:08,464 --> 01:14:11,841 I'm gonna tell the cameras. Is this camera still on? Good." 1565 01:14:11,924 --> 01:14:14,135 [laughter] 1566 01:14:16,304 --> 01:14:19,515 [laughter] 1567 01:14:20,683 --> 01:14:22,101 "Fuck you." 1568 01:14:22,185 --> 01:14:24,729 [laughter] 1569 01:14:25,938 --> 01:14:27,565 "Do you remember when... 1570 01:14:28,733 --> 01:14:32,236 Um... Fuck, it's, like, stuck right here in my nose." 1571 01:14:32,320 --> 01:14:34,030 [sniffs and gasps] 1572 01:14:34,113 --> 01:14:36,157 - [laughter] - "Uhh! 1573 01:14:36,949 --> 01:14:40,786 Do you remember when, um, our country went through a recession, 1574 01:14:40,870 --> 01:14:45,041 and everybody was losing their homes and their money? 1575 01:14:45,124 --> 01:14:48,628 My sister and I decided that rather than save up or go back to school, 1576 01:14:48,711 --> 01:14:51,839 we would do what every other girl without a marketable skill did, 1577 01:14:51,923 --> 01:14:55,760 we... opened up a cupcake company." 1578 01:14:56,302 --> 01:14:58,513 [laughter] 1579 01:14:58,596 --> 01:15:02,015 [cheering and applause] 1580 01:15:03,683 --> 01:15:06,728 "I don't know if you noticed, but during the recession, 1581 01:15:06,811 --> 01:15:09,814 there was a fucking boom in the confection industry! 1582 01:15:09,898 --> 01:15:13,026 That's because it doesn't take a fucking rocket science degree 1583 01:15:13,109 --> 01:15:15,111 to shit out, like, an okay cupcake. 1584 01:15:15,195 --> 01:15:17,614 And, like, no one's gonna say no to a cupcake. 1585 01:15:17,697 --> 01:15:20,617 People will spend their last dollar. They're not gonna be like, "No," 1586 01:15:20,700 --> 01:15:23,328 they'll be like, "A cupcake. My day's okay for a minute." 1587 01:15:23,411 --> 01:15:25,539 And we were feeding people these cupcakes 1588 01:15:25,622 --> 01:15:27,999 and they were upside-down on their houses 1589 01:15:28,083 --> 01:15:31,253 and they were jobless and we were feeding these depressed people cupcakes. 1590 01:15:31,336 --> 01:15:33,964 And it's a scientific fact that obesity and depression 1591 01:15:34,047 --> 01:15:37,300 have a direct correlation, and we were just feeding the belly of the beast 1592 01:15:37,384 --> 01:15:40,262 from within the belly of the beast and capitalizing off of it. 1593 01:15:40,345 --> 01:15:43,890 People needed answers. They needed a viable option for credit, 1594 01:15:43,974 --> 01:15:48,019 not a buttercream... Put your fucking back against mine! I swear to Christ, Michaela, 1595 01:15:48,103 --> 01:15:50,355 if you ruin this for me, I will fuck your husband! 1596 01:15:50,438 --> 01:15:53,065 Screw it! Cut! I should've been a mermaid!" 1597 01:15:54,275 --> 01:15:58,070 [cheering and applause] 1598 01:16:08,247 --> 01:16:11,208 [dance music] 1599 01:17:07,597 --> 01:17:08,973 Pack your hip!