1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,040 Alright, today I have a returning guest. 2 00:00:09,040 --> 00:00:15,080 Six months ago I had mom said duck, Jill Moysiuk on and I'm so happy that she's back 3 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:16,080 again. 4 00:00:16,080 --> 00:00:17,080 Hey, how's it going? 5 00:00:17,080 --> 00:00:18,080 Hey Tracy, how are you? 6 00:00:18,080 --> 00:00:19,080 Oh, I'm great. 7 00:00:19,080 --> 00:00:27,040 I mean, since we've done the last podcast, she was live on stage at Kordazone Theatre 8 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:29,640 and that was so stinking funny. 9 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:30,640 Oh my God. 10 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:31,640 I'm so glad that you liked it. 11 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:37,400 I was going back because on your Instagram feed you have a lot of your poems. 12 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:39,040 I like the one. 13 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:40,040 What is it? 14 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:41,640 Every time you say bitch or shit. 15 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:44,000 Oh yeah, take a shot every time I say snack bitch. 16 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:45,000 Yeah, yeah. 17 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:46,000 Yeah, yeah. 18 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,000 Oh my God, I love that. 19 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Cheers to that. 20 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:50,000 Cheers to that. 21 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:51,000 Hey. 22 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:55,000 So what's new and exciting? 23 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,800 Yeah, so I have another show coming up. 24 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:05,040 And again, I actually booked the next show at Korda the very day after I had my show 25 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:10,080 in May, just because I was on such a high and I'm like, I don't want to talk myself 26 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:11,080 out of doing this again. 27 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:12,200 So I'm just going to book it right now. 28 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:15,720 So I sent an email and got that book right away. 29 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:16,720 Yeah. 30 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:21,600 In case this is the first time that you are watching this podcast or listening, my name 31 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:25,640 is Tracy Martens and this is YQG and Bloom podcast. 32 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:32,320 We are everything local to the Windsor Essex County area, small businesses, comedians, 33 00:01:32,320 --> 00:01:36,800 wonderful people, events, charities, you name it. 34 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:38,400 I have it on my podcast. 35 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:44,560 So make sure that you like and subscribe to it so that it can stay free for all the businesses. 36 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:50,920 Now getting back to your event that's coming up November 29th, that's sold out really 37 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:51,920 fast. 38 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:52,920 It did. 39 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:53,920 It's sold out pretty quick. 40 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:58,920 And I was like really excited and grateful again and all that good stuff. 41 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:05,680 So I actually capped my ticket sales for my other one, my first one kind of at a smaller 42 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:09,520 group just because I wanted to, it's my first time and whatever. 43 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:12,960 And then so once I had that feeling, I was like, okay, I think I can do this again. 44 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:18,400 So I increased the ticket sales in terms of capacity. 45 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:20,000 And so yeah, I sold out that one too. 46 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:21,000 So I'm really excited. 47 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:22,000 That's awesome. 48 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:23,000 Thank you. 49 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,880 So you must write a lot. 50 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:28,320 I have a lot of poems. 51 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:29,320 Yeah. 52 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:33,480 And so I think it's just a testament to like having done this for so many years, I've been 53 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:35,480 kind of putting in the work for a long time now. 54 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:38,240 So it's sort of like it feels, I was thinking about it today. 55 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:42,560 It feels like things are finally coming to fruition, I guess. 56 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:46,600 Like in terms of, you know, I didn't really know what I wanted to do. 57 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:49,360 I didn't know how to monetize Mum's at Duck or anything like that. 58 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:56,960 And so a lot of good things have sort of aligned for me in the last year or so, I'd say. 59 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:59,760 And it's kind of on the trajectory that I like to see. 60 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:00,760 So it's all good. 61 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:03,080 So have you started to monetize yet? 62 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:05,240 Well, just like through ticket sales. 63 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:06,240 Through the ticket sales. 64 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:07,240 Yeah. 65 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:08,240 And stuff like that. 66 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:12,280 I have something up my sleeve for this upcoming show that I'll be announcing soon. 67 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:16,960 And so yeah, just different things, just kind of trying to feel my way through the whole 68 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:18,280 entrepreneurial journey. 69 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:24,480 What's the scary part is, like when's the appropriate time to have merch and, you know, what should 70 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:25,480 I have? 71 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:29,200 What will people like, but just save me one of whatever it is and I'll get it. 72 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:30,200 All right. 73 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:31,200 Sounds good to me. 74 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:33,000 I almost waited on those ticket sales. 75 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,120 I'm like, I'm going to wait and see if I win that. 76 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:37,400 You're the contest you had. 77 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:41,400 And I'm like, no, I know, Damol, I'm not. 78 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:42,400 I didn't. 79 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:43,400 So I'm glad. 80 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:44,400 Yeah, there you go. 81 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:45,400 I'm glad. 82 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,240 And then I'm thinking to myself, okay, well, I just got one ticket. 83 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:50,960 I'll sit with Carrie again and she can't make it. 84 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:51,960 Oh, that's too bad. 85 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:53,440 I'm like, well, of course. 86 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:54,440 Yeah, yeah. 87 00:03:54,440 --> 00:04:01,400 She was so bummed out and Carrie is a girl that I know through my aunt and you went to 88 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:04,040 high school with her and we just go great school. 89 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:05,040 Yeah. 90 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:06,040 Yeah. 91 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:10,880 And she was in the audience the last time I went by myself and I sat with her and it's 92 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:11,880 just funny. 93 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:13,240 Windsor's such a small town. 94 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:14,240 Exactly. 95 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:17,280 Yeah, they say in New York City, it's four degrees of separation. 96 00:04:17,280 --> 00:04:18,800 I think Windsor's like one. 97 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:19,800 Oh, yeah. 98 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:20,800 You know, yeah. 99 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:22,200 It doesn't take long. 100 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:26,400 That's the one thing I always told my son when he was growing up, it's like, this is 101 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:33,440 not the town to try and pull too much because everybody knows somebody and it's going to 102 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:34,440 get back. 103 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:35,440 Yeah, yeah, for sure. 104 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:38,400 And it does because you just look on Facebook and it's surprising. 105 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:41,600 It's like, how do they know that person? 106 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:43,320 Mutual friends and stuff like that totally. 107 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:44,320 Yeah. 108 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:45,320 Yeah, for sure. 109 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:50,440 So, mom said duck, the poetry and your poems and all that, how long have you been doing 110 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:51,440 that? 111 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:52,440 Because it hasn't been too, too long. 112 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:56,720 It's been a minute. 113 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:59,800 I always think about mom said duck as like a baby. 114 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:02,520 So like, I'm like four and a half years old. 115 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:04,520 Like mom said duck is four and a half years old. 116 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:08,040 So, yeah, so it's like, you know, I'm not a toddler anymore. 117 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:12,200 I'm like, you know, kind of graduated kindergarten and moving into grade one, you know, type thing. 118 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:13,200 That's how I kind of look at it. 119 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:17,240 And that's very much how mom said duck feels where it's like just starting to emerge into 120 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:19,160 my own little pretty, you know, like that kind of thing. 121 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:21,000 So yeah, so yeah, four and a half years. 122 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,600 It's been that I've been plugging away at it. 123 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:27,440 So maybe actually probably five because I was doing stuff behind the scenes before I ever 124 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:28,440 really launched. 125 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:30,240 So probably six months or longer. 126 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:31,320 So yeah, probably five years. 127 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:34,080 So it's been a minute for sure. 128 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:39,400 And just for people that might not have seen the podcast from six months ago, which you 129 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:42,560 should watch, by the way. 130 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:44,120 She used to be an HR. 131 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:50,640 So you can't get a more boring job to end up being basically, you know, you say you're 132 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:52,640 a poetry, but you're a comedian. 133 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:53,640 Yes. 134 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:55,640 Because they're funny as hell. 135 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:56,640 Aw, thanks. 136 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:57,640 That's awesome. 137 00:05:57,640 --> 00:05:58,640 Thank you. 138 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:02,200 You know, more and more people have been calling me that and it's like, I'm just like sitting 139 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:05,480 with it and like being like, okay, maybe I'm a comedian. 140 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:06,480 I don't know. 141 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:07,480 Yeah. 142 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:08,480 You are. 143 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:09,480 This is just your way of doing it. 144 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:10,480 Yeah. 145 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:11,480 And it may even evolve from that. 146 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:15,760 I mean, this evolved from what your mom thrown that book at. 147 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:16,760 Yeah, exactly. 148 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:17,760 Exactly. 149 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:18,760 Yeah. 150 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:21,080 Now, when did you write that book? 151 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:22,280 It wasn't even a book. 152 00:06:22,280 --> 00:06:24,160 It was just her writings. 153 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:25,160 Yeah. 154 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:26,160 No. 155 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:30,360 So when I, so yeah, how Mom said duck came to be came to be was after I had lost my job 156 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:33,800 and I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do next. 157 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:37,240 My and I was kind of in this like, you know, a bit of a grieving period type thing. 158 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:41,520 And my mom came over and tossed a book at me that I had written when I was 10 years old 159 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:43,760 and it's called What's Good for a 10 year old. 160 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:47,520 And I was just amazed because I, it was like, I, I didn't just write the book. 161 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:51,320 I created the book in terms of like the actual hard material and all that stuff, the pages 162 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:54,880 inside and I drew all, all the pictures and I colored them all and all that stuff. 163 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:58,480 And it was just really interesting for me to read this book that I had written, which 164 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:04,520 was a rhyming book as a 10 year old because it was a really good book, I thought. 165 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:09,520 And I was 10 when I wrote it, which just blew me away because I had always said about myself 166 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:10,960 that I'm not a creative person. 167 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:13,600 I always said that I don't have a creative bone in my body. 168 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:19,960 And so this, this book that I wrote myself when I was a little kid, sort of like proved 169 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:24,520 me wrong, which was like such an interesting like thing to sort of realize about myself. 170 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:29,120 And then so, yeah, the next morning I woke up, my little guy was a toddler, woke up, 171 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:33,520 came in bed between my husband and I and I was massaging his little toes back to sleep 172 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:37,320 and thought, oh, I wonder if I can make a little poem about his body after reading that book 173 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:39,800 the day before, like I couldn't stop reading that book. 174 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:43,920 And then so sure enough, I wrote this little poem about his body and then thought to myself, 175 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:45,080 oh, like that was pretty good. 176 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:46,080 I should write it down. 177 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:48,960 So I wrote it down when my husband woke up, I read it to him and he thought it was good 178 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:49,960 too. 179 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:50,960 And that's kind of how it all started. 180 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:54,200 I just kept writing more and more poems from there. 181 00:07:54,200 --> 00:08:00,000 And it's all about being a mom and a spouse because there's something about, you know, 182 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:04,880 how dads are there and helping. 183 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:10,800 Yeah, I definitely spoke some fun at the dads for sure, for sure, but it's all in good 184 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:11,800 fun. 185 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:17,120 Yeah, I mean, your family was all there that night and they were all laughing too. 186 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:19,440 I, well, I don't know about all. 187 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:24,920 I actually said before the show, I was like nervous because my kids were there was my 188 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:28,280 first show and I knew I probably would love it and want to do it again. 189 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:32,200 So I wanted them to be there for the first one instead of just seeing it on tape. 190 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:37,480 And so I said to a lot of people, I, as much as I want to have Violet and Edison there, 191 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:41,600 I'm scared something's going to be said that they're going to be like mad at me about 192 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:44,800 or like, you know, legit need to go to therapy for kind of things. 193 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:47,280 Who knows, you're just kind of off the cuff, right? 194 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:51,280 And then so I read two poems before intermission. 195 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:53,040 There was an intermission in the show. 196 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:54,040 It's two hours long. 197 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:56,000 So it's, it's quite lengthy. 198 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:05,920 In the first set I did, I read a poem where I said something about my, about, about my 199 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:09,280 son's penis, essentially. 200 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:13,560 And I said, one day my youngest asked me, but why does my penis have an eye? 201 00:09:13,560 --> 00:09:16,600 And then I read the poem, snack bitch soon after that. 202 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:19,720 And then so when I got backstage, I went P and I came out and I was ready to go back 203 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:22,360 on the stage a couple of minutes later, but my kids were there and I'm like, oh, hey guys, 204 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:23,360 how's it going? 205 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:24,360 Like, are you having fun? 206 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:25,360 You know, kind of thing. 207 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:30,880 And they were standing there like, like this, both of them. 208 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:32,640 And so I'm like, what? 209 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:37,480 So my daughter said, Eddie's mad at you because you said that he said that his penis has an 210 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:39,240 eye and he never said that. 211 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:40,320 He said he never said that. 212 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:41,640 And I said, he didn't. 213 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:45,080 I said, it just rhymed. 214 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:49,480 And then she said, and I don't know why you had to say the B word so many times. 215 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:52,240 And I said, I know, she's just so sweet though. 216 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:53,240 And innocent. 217 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:55,240 And that's just her. 218 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:56,680 And she's at age for sure. 219 00:09:56,680 --> 00:09:57,680 Right. 220 00:09:57,680 --> 00:09:58,680 So it's embarrassing. 221 00:09:58,680 --> 00:09:59,680 Mom's saying stuff like that. 222 00:09:59,680 --> 00:10:00,680 Right. 223 00:10:00,680 --> 00:10:01,880 So I was like, I'm like, you guys are totally right. 224 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:03,520 Like I got to go though. 225 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:05,960 So we'll put a pin in this and we'll come back to it later. 226 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:11,480 So yeah, but they they ended up actually getting a toys rest out of it because my cousin and 227 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:16,880 her wife decided that it would be a good idea to, you know, tell them to to make sure that 228 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:20,280 I brought them to toys rest for those two to mishaps there. 229 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:21,880 So they got toys rest out of it. 230 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:23,960 So I think I think violet. 231 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:25,480 Violet, right? 232 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:26,480 Violet, yeah. 233 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:30,520 I think she enjoyed it because I remember seeing her during intermission with your mom 234 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:34,560 and we were grabbing the snacks and that and that's when I told her, I'm like, you know, 235 00:10:34,560 --> 00:10:39,520 I said, you can always get your mom back and do some poems and we can call it daughter said 236 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:40,520 duck. 237 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:42,520 And she looked and she's like, hmm. 238 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:45,360 And your mom's like laughing. 239 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:49,680 I'm like, yeah, there's always ways that you can pay back. 240 00:10:49,680 --> 00:10:54,560 I always say like if the world comes around to get and bite me in the butt, it's going 241 00:10:54,560 --> 00:10:55,560 to be something like that. 242 00:10:55,560 --> 00:10:58,040 My husband does dad said duck or my kids do. 243 00:10:58,040 --> 00:10:59,920 Yeah, daughter said duck or kids say. 244 00:10:59,920 --> 00:11:07,680 Do you do you see any of the writing or, you know, the artistic side coming out? 245 00:11:07,680 --> 00:11:09,240 Neither of them. 246 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:12,320 So violet is super artistic. 247 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:19,080 It's like her, her like, you know, with this whole, you know, kind of finding out finding 248 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:23,120 myself through this stuff that sort of brought me back to my 10 year old self. 249 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:28,600 It sort of has shown me that like, it's kind of put a lens on like, you know, I think that 250 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:32,800 maybe instead of like searching for who we are, it's kind of going back to who you were, 251 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:34,160 you know, type thing. 252 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:39,440 And so if that's true, not just for me and then it would be true for my kids, then I 253 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:42,440 think that she'll always be an artist in some way in her life. 254 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:46,320 So I think that's, that's a really, you know, she inspires me really. 255 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:51,880 Edison's obviously, he's not old enough to understand what happened, but I think she, 256 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:57,400 violet was on the cusp of understanding that you went through this huge change and you 257 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:03,760 came out and you're successful and you're enjoying it and you're having fun and it's 258 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:11,000 nice to see, to have them see that maybe, you know what, sometimes if some shitty stuff 259 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:14,760 happens, better stuff can happen because of it. 260 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:16,080 So I hope so. 261 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:19,040 I hope that's, you know, that's the part of the reason I wanted them there that night 262 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:23,560 was to kind of see that through, you know, where it's like they actually have a full 263 00:12:23,560 --> 00:12:26,480 on example of like seeing something like that. 264 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:31,440 So yeah, so that was a, it was a big moment for me to have them there, even though I will 265 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:34,800 likely, you know, have to pay for their therapy one day. 266 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:37,400 That's why you need merch. 267 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:39,560 Yeah, that's why I need merch. 268 00:12:39,560 --> 00:12:40,560 That's right. 269 00:12:40,560 --> 00:12:43,440 I should use it as a sign. 270 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:44,440 Yes. 271 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:45,440 Help, help. 272 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:46,440 Therapy. 273 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:47,440 I like that. 274 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:48,440 Cheers to that. 275 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:50,440 That one's a good one. 276 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:51,440 Oh man. 277 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:55,080 So are they going to be at this one? 278 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:56,480 They're not going to be at this one. 279 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:57,480 They said enough. 280 00:12:57,480 --> 00:13:02,480 No, yeah, no, they've like kind of brought it up and I'm like, yeah, it's cool guys. 281 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:08,280 Like, you know, like really I don't, I don't want to be like, yeah, mom said duck and you 282 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:11,800 know, I like the odd, you know, whatever swear word comes out. 283 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:16,000 Maybe it's more than, more than odd, but I want to be able to kind of like let loose 284 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:17,000 and feel whatever. 285 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:18,000 Right. 286 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:22,480 So it'll be, I'm kind of like looking forward a little bit to like not having to, to be 287 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:23,480 so. 288 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:24,480 Yeah, a little bit. 289 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:25,480 Like I was a little bit that night. 290 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:26,480 I didn't say. 291 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:29,480 It was also, there was also nerves. 292 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:33,480 Oh, I mean, so this one, you know what you're getting into. 293 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:34,480 Yeah. 294 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:35,480 Yeah. 295 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:36,480 No, that's true. 296 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:37,480 Yeah. 297 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:38,480 Yeah, absolutely. 298 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:39,480 I like that. 299 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:40,480 I can't wait. 300 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:41,480 I'm so excited. 301 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:42,480 Thanks. 302 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:44,920 So in six months, how many poems do you think you've written? 303 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:52,400 So I mean, I, so I send out a poem every Friday to my Fresh Pwn Friday newsletter subscribers 304 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:57,200 and which is awesome because it holds me accountable, but over the course of four and a half years, 305 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:03,080 it's, it has become sort of unattainable for me to write a new poem every single week, 306 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:05,240 which I signed up for at the beginning. 307 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:06,240 So I understand. 308 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:11,240 So I try to kind of hold that promise, but sometimes what I do is send out a frozen poem. 309 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:16,560 I call it, it's not so fresh, but, but it gives me and it gives me an opportunity to 310 00:14:16,560 --> 00:14:22,520 take an old poem, recycle it, but tweak it and edit it and make it better and make it 311 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:26,600 tighter, which I really like because I don't know if I would be going back to do that as 312 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:30,080 often as I, as I might, you know, doing it this way kind of thing. 313 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:35,920 So it's nice because I think long term it will, that will help me out in terms of, you 314 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:40,480 know, one day I do want to put all the poems into a book and so they'll be more ready. 315 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:41,960 They'll be tighter at that point. 316 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:46,400 So you are going to, because the last time when I had brought up you doing a book, you 317 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:47,520 were like, no, no, no, no. 318 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:52,280 It's, you know, it's, that is still the answer because I'm just not ready yet. 319 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:53,480 Like I'm not done writing poems. 320 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:54,480 For sure. 321 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:56,680 But, but you don't have to be done. 322 00:14:56,680 --> 00:14:59,280 This could be the first chapter. 323 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:00,280 Yeah. 324 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:01,280 And then you can always. 325 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:03,600 But it's taken me this long to write a hundred of them. 326 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:07,560 So like, yes and no, like I can't imagine I'm going to write a hundred and then like over 327 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:09,560 the course of the next 10 years, write another hundred. 328 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:14,440 It's a lot like, because my poems are so sort of generic, like they're like school lunches, 329 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:18,240 doing dishes, you know, summer vacation, like that kind of thing. 330 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:20,520 I dig into the weeds about other things too. 331 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:23,440 But yeah, we'll see who knows what the future holds. 332 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:28,680 But how I kind of see it is maybe when I get to like, like I'm just shy of a hundred. 333 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:30,480 So maybe when I get to a hundred, that's when I'll. 334 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:32,280 It could be one of those small books. 335 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:33,280 Yeah. 336 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:34,280 Something like that. 337 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:35,280 Yeah. 338 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:38,680 My original goal back, back when I first started was that I was going to write 365 so that 339 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:44,480 I could have a book for moms at like, you know, their baby shower and stuff like that, 340 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:49,480 where it's like, you know, basically like you're good, you know, read this poem one 341 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:52,680 a day and like, you know, kind of feel normal again, like everything's cool. 342 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:53,680 Like it is crazy. 343 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:55,760 Everything you're doing, going through is crazy. 344 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:58,320 But you know, we all go through it kind of thing. 345 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:01,800 So how many poems have you wrote so far? 346 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:03,520 So I'm like, just shy of a hundred. 347 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:04,520 Just shy of a hundred? 348 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:05,520 Yeah. 349 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:12,000 So each one is, each one is about, about two to three minutes long. 350 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:13,200 So they're quite long. 351 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:17,960 And so at that show that you came to see, I only read one third of them. 352 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:20,480 So I have like a lot of stuff left. 353 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:21,960 So that's the other thing too. 354 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:23,440 I want to kind of get them all out there. 355 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:24,440 Yeah. 356 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:28,920 Because I was just thinking when you said 365 was your goal and it's like, that would 357 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:29,920 be perfect. 358 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:33,320 Merches have a, have a one a day calendar. 359 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:34,320 Yeah. 360 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:35,320 Something like that. 361 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:36,320 Yeah. 362 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:37,320 Yeah. 363 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:39,800 So, and then actually the book would be titled, Mom of the Year. 364 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:43,320 And then my Mom of the Year poem would either be at the very beginning or the very end, 365 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:44,320 something like that. 366 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:45,320 So yeah. 367 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:46,320 Thankfully our Mom of the Year. 368 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:47,320 Yeah. 369 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:51,040 I mean, you, you heard the poem. 370 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:52,440 You are very sarcastic. 371 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:53,440 I'm sorry. 372 00:16:53,440 --> 00:17:00,280 After what you went through today by her son had an issue and an issue. 373 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:05,000 He vomited all over a 70 year old carpet. 374 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:06,440 Were you able to get it out? 375 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:07,440 Yeah. 376 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:08,440 I mean, I got it out. 377 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:12,040 And I don't smell any residual smells or anything. 378 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:13,040 So that's good. 379 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:15,080 So yeah, I think we're, I think we're, we're all good. 380 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:17,520 You just have to fix the slipper. 381 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:18,520 Yeah. 382 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:20,920 I'm going to have to, I mean, it's like, I guess an excuse to buy me. 383 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:24,120 I just love when they're like so perfect, you know, like there's something about that 384 00:17:24,120 --> 00:17:27,640 like coziness of like having your slippers in the winter and you got your feet. 385 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:30,720 But I don't want to look at like the avocado stain on it now. 386 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:31,720 Little shit. 387 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:32,880 You had to see my stories today. 388 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:35,120 I didn't know what to talk about. 389 00:17:35,120 --> 00:17:41,600 You have to follow her Instagram and that's at mom said duck and they're funny. 390 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:43,080 Your stories are funny. 391 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:44,080 Thanks, Tracy. 392 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:45,080 Your poems are funny. 393 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:46,520 And I mean, you're a funny person. 394 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:49,640 I don't know how in the hell you ever did HR. 395 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:50,640 Yeah. 396 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:53,800 Well, you had to have a sense of humor to do the type of HR I was doing because it was 397 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:59,680 more so it was HR and labor relations, but it was for the automotive industry. 398 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:01,080 So it was manufacturing. 399 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:03,440 So I mean, it was like a just in time. 400 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:07,600 I wasn't necessarily like a corporate HR labor relations person. 401 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:14,360 I was like a manufacturing elbow grease kind of on the front lines more. 402 00:18:14,360 --> 00:18:16,560 So you're able to be a little bit. 403 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:19,200 Yeah, I had to be. 404 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:20,200 Yeah. 405 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:21,200 Yeah, for sure. 406 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:24,360 A little of this underneath the table. 407 00:18:24,360 --> 00:18:29,800 Well, just like, yeah, like I said, you had to have kind of a, I think that I think I 408 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:33,480 was good at my job and I think the reason I was good at my job is partly because I kind 409 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:39,560 of could, you know, just have fun in the, not have fun, but like make light or whatever 410 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:44,720 of, you know, things that kind of came up or whatever, just kind of roll with the punches 411 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:45,720 of manufacturing. 412 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:53,600 So you don't happen to remember any pieces of a poem that you could tell us. 413 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:54,600 Yeah. 414 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:57,080 Like I know a couple off by heart, if that's what you mean. 415 00:18:57,080 --> 00:18:58,080 Yeah. 416 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:02,720 I would love to hear one to kind of give the people that haven't followed you yet a little 417 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:08,000 snippet of the type of poems that you have that are so funny. 418 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:09,000 Yeah. 419 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:13,120 Well, I don't know when this show is going to be like produced in terms of like a day 420 00:19:13,120 --> 00:19:16,000 date that it would be aired, but I was going to. 421 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:18,000 Well, it is November 5th. 422 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,200 I'm going to stop here right there. 423 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:23,880 November 5th and yes, it's election day. 424 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:25,560 Part of the reason we're drinking. 425 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:28,880 It would be in probably two weeks. 426 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:31,160 So it would be before your show. 427 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:36,760 So I was going to say I could debut my new one here, but we'll save that for the big 428 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:37,760 night. 429 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:43,920 But yeah, I can give you two OGs that I don't know off the top of my head. 430 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:46,960 Do you want the sweet one first or the funny one first? 431 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:47,960 Let's go sweet. 432 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:48,960 Sweet? 433 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:49,960 Yeah. 434 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:50,960 Okay. 435 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:53,320 So my sweet one is called Momgilt. 436 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:56,400 It is real as real as the struggle. 437 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:59,640 It's as real as you feel when you're kidding you snuggle. 438 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:02,840 Have I told her I loved her any more times than him? 439 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:06,200 Should I read books after bath or finally go to the gym? 440 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:08,560 Oh my God, there is a mess in each room. 441 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:09,760 I seem to pass. 442 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:13,080 Do I do the damn dishes or sit down and help with her math? 443 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:16,640 Did they get outside enough and eat more veggies than sweet treats? 444 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:18,480 Was that cucumber organic? 445 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:20,320 We've been more conscious about meat. 446 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:25,440 Mama, will you play with me is something that I often hear, but it's far in between 447 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:27,880 if I dare look into a mirror. 448 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:31,440 In fact, sometimes I scream and shout and likely look like a buffoon. 449 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:35,760 Perhaps I'll learn to meditate or maybe buy them that balloon. 450 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:39,000 It can creep up out of the blue and you do not expect it there. 451 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:42,440 Momgilt can overcome you and it really isn't fair. 452 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:49,640 So if you're anything like me and these thoughts also intervene, just focus, smile and laugh 453 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:51,480 and promptly fix your crown. 454 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:52,480 My queen. 455 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:53,480 Love that. 456 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:54,480 Thank you. 457 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:57,480 And it's true. 458 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:03,480 Momgilt if you're a fur mom or a regular mom, that's true. 459 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:07,320 And I mean, I have 30 year old kids, 28 year old. 460 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:11,320 And yeah, you have that guilt that am I there enough? 461 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:14,560 Am I giving them enough space or too much space? 462 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:17,840 Yeah, all that was nice. 463 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:18,840 Thank you. 464 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:24,960 And I have my husband's grandmother, who we got that rug from, that 70 plus year old 465 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:26,680 rug. 466 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:32,640 She before she passed away, she was my biggest fan and she was she passed away at 96. 467 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:35,640 So probably or 90 just before 90 turned 98. 468 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:39,480 So probably around the time she was 96. 469 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:43,040 When I, I don't know if she read the poem or if I read the poem to her, but either way, 470 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:44,760 she said that she still has mom guilt. 471 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:45,760 Yeah. 472 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:48,560 And I just thought that was so I had never kind of it didn't even cross my mind. 473 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:52,760 And then when she said it, I was like, Oh my goodness, like, there's no escaping it. 474 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:53,760 It's true. 475 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:57,680 And I'm, my God, you're you're going to last of that long. 476 00:21:57,680 --> 00:21:58,680 Mine was 96. 477 00:21:58,680 --> 00:21:59,680 Yeah. 478 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:00,680 96. 479 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:01,680 Yeah. 480 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:02,680 Yeah. 481 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:04,200 She was, I think like three weeks or something shorter for 98th birthday. 482 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:05,200 Yeah. 483 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:06,200 Yeah. 484 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:09,160 I think mine was a month shorter for 97th. 485 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:16,320 But yeah, I know she, we had conversations about, yeah, I should have done things different 486 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:18,040 or you know, things were different. 487 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:22,640 And that's the great thing about being a grandma is you can do it different. 488 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:23,640 That's true. 489 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:24,640 It's a good point. 490 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:27,840 And you know, get back at your kids for being rotten by turning their kids into a little 491 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:28,840 bugger. 492 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:29,840 Yeah, yeah. 493 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:30,840 Exactly. 494 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:31,840 Exactly. 495 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:32,840 Yeah. 496 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:33,840 Yeah. 497 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:34,840 Okay. 498 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:35,840 So you're funny one. 499 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:36,840 Yeah. 500 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:37,840 So this one's called I lie sometimes or sorry. 501 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:38,840 Sometimes. 502 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:39,840 Nope. 503 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:40,840 It's I lie sometimes. 504 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:41,840 I switched the title ever at every once in a while. 505 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:43,540 I lie sometimes. 506 00:22:43,540 --> 00:22:45,640 Sometimes I lie to get through the day. 507 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:47,720 Often I tell you there's no other way. 508 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:49,840 I lie to my kids about who snack is bigger. 509 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:51,080 I tell them it's equal. 510 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:56,840 If not, then I trigger a damn fight about how her portion 20 smaller like I give a damn 511 00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:57,840 duck. 512 00:22:57,840 --> 00:22:59,680 Please cut out the hauler. 513 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,040 When they see a fast food bag, I lie about that. 514 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:03,520 Did you go without us? 515 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:05,440 No, it's from a while back. 516 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:10,880 I lie when I need just a minute alone up here going pee guys when I'm on my phone. 517 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:15,280 It's a lie when I threaten that they won't go see their grandma and grandpa if they disobey 518 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:16,280 me. 519 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:18,920 The reason I'm right there is the tallest lie of all. 520 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:22,520 My rents are my weekend warriors and mama needs a trip to the mall. 521 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:26,560 There is only one thing about which I don't lie and that's that I love them from here 522 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:27,560 to the sky. 523 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:28,560 Aw. 524 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:29,560 Thanks. 525 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:31,080 That one needs a little work, I realize. 526 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:37,040 No, that one is funny and sweet all at the same time and you don't have to be a mom 527 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:42,520 to lie about the fast food bags that are hidden in the car. 528 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:44,080 Yeah, I know, right? 529 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:46,880 I have a husband that I don't know. 530 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:47,880 That's true. 531 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:48,880 I'm starving, dude. 532 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:49,880 Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about. 533 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:55,920 That was for the last time I've never just hit the garbage bag on the way in. 534 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:56,920 Yeah, for sure. 535 00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:58,880 Oh my goodness. 536 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:05,640 So do you see yourself doing this on stage every few months or? 537 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:10,960 Yeah, so I'm like having a really good time with that like part of it. 538 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,160 Like I'm enjoying putting it together. 539 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,640 I'm really enjoying being up there. 540 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:20,680 And so, yeah, as long as it kind of everything keeps falling into place the way that it is, 541 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:22,360 I want to keep doing that. 542 00:24:22,360 --> 00:24:27,200 So yeah, and then maybe the next step is kind of just bigger theater, bigger stage, something 543 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:28,200 like that. 544 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:29,200 So, yeah, I'll see. 545 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:30,840 That'll be exciting. 546 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:35,920 Now do you find that your followers that you have or the subscribers to your Friday thing, 547 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:41,280 are they all local or are you noticing some from outside of our area? 548 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:43,120 Yeah, definitely mostly local. 549 00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:50,880 I definitely have some followers from around the world, I guess. 550 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:56,000 Different, yeah, like, you know, we've connected on Instagram years ago or yeah, things like 551 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,000 that. 552 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:01,000 Like a few people signing up for my newsletter on my website, you know, when they click from 553 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:02,560 wherever kind of thing. 554 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:06,920 So yeah, there are like, I'm international, but very few compared to anything. 555 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:07,920 So that's okay. 556 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:08,920 It's a start. 557 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:13,520 But anything is like those kinds of things like because I didn't have anything to sell 558 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:19,760 until I started this show and my one in May and the one coming up, I would look at those 559 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:26,360 newsletter subscriber emails as like my monetary piece, you know, so that was me jumping for 560 00:25:26,360 --> 00:25:30,320 joy when, you know, somebody from Germany signing up for my newsletter type thing. 561 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:34,040 So yeah, those moments are like really special for sure. 562 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:41,720 On my website too, I can see my website visits and other than Canada and the US, my next biggest, 563 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:45,160 actually, I think it's more than the US is Germany. 564 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:46,160 It's consistently Germany. 565 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:47,160 Oh, okay. 566 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:48,680 So maybe there's something to be said there. 567 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:49,680 I don't know what that is. 568 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:53,960 Yeah, Germany and Belgium are my next top ones. 569 00:25:53,960 --> 00:26:00,080 And it's like, I don't know if there's people that were from the area that lives there or 570 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:01,560 family, but I don't know either. 571 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,280 Yeah, because we would both have Windsor as our like whatever. 572 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:05,280 Right. 573 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:06,280 So yeah, I don't know. 574 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:07,280 But it's cool. 575 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:08,280 Yeah. 576 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:09,280 Yeah, I'll take it. 577 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:10,280 It's awesome for sure. 578 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:11,800 So where can they find you online? 579 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:12,800 Yep. 580 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:16,200 So I am probably the most active on Instagram. 581 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:17,200 Yeah. 582 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:18,920 As you know, Tracy, yeah. 583 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:24,640 Tiktok, everything, all of my handles are all at mom said duck. 584 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,320 I do have a newsletter called Fresh Bone Friday. 585 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:33,200 You can subscribe for that on my, on my what's more reliable is probably my Instagram link 586 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,200 tree than my website. 587 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:37,960 Because half the time I'm like, oh, it's like there's some sort of issue. 588 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:38,960 I'm like, what? 589 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:40,560 I hate that kind of stuff. 590 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:44,920 But my link tree in my link and bio on Instagram is where you can find my Fresh Bone Friday 591 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:46,640 newsletter subscriber sign up. 592 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:48,000 And that one always seems to be working. 593 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:53,200 So yeah, that's where I kind of, you know, let out all my big announcements. 594 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:57,080 I always have, I don't know if you're on my newsletter or not, Tracy, but I always have 595 00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:00,600 my ticket sales there earlier than, than anywhere else. 596 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:02,120 They get an extra week. 597 00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:07,240 They get like a little sidebar, you know, code or whatever that they go in with. 598 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:16,120 And yeah, so I suck with my, with my email because I have my podcast email, a regular 599 00:27:16,120 --> 00:27:19,000 email and then photography email. 600 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:20,000 Yeah. 601 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:26,880 And I need to go through and start unsubscribing two things because I find that I accidentally 602 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:32,280 delete important ones because I'm just going through and there's like 25 different things 603 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:33,600 that I don't want to do. 604 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:35,400 And I miss so much. 605 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:36,800 I miss so much. 606 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,640 Oh, it's just another task for us, right? 607 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:41,000 Why not? 608 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,280 So how are you on TikTok? 609 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:46,240 Because you have a lot of fun stuff. 610 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:51,240 Yeah, it's just, I'll be honest, it's just like regurgitated from Instagram type thing. 611 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:52,640 I post the same thing. 612 00:27:52,640 --> 00:28:00,400 Yeah, it's funny because some things on Instagram will take off like crazy and other ones will 613 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,240 be really stagnant, but they go nuts on. 614 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:04,240 Tiktok. 615 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:05,240 TikTok. 616 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:07,320 I've never had anything go nuts ever once. 617 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,320 So I can't compare. 618 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:16,160 Well, I haven't had anything go nuts except for one and I mean, it's not nuts. 619 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:17,160 It was like 12,000. 620 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:18,160 So, yeah, yeah. 621 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:19,160 And it was stupid. 622 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:20,160 Yeah. 623 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:21,160 Either way. 624 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:22,160 Yeah. 625 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,800 I've never had anything go nuts, but it's better than anything I've ever gotten. 626 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:25,800 But that's fine, whatever. 627 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:29,480 Like to me, it's like, you know, social media is important for sure. 628 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:36,240 And I want to keep, like that's a focus of mine in next year is to get more into YouTube 629 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,280 shorts. 630 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:41,960 And so I think that's part of where my market lives. 631 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,920 And so I want to, I want to get into that more. 632 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,840 And I think that my material is appropriate for that platform. 633 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:50,680 So I want to look at that a little bit more. 634 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:57,680 I'm almost thinking, cause I do a lot on YouTube, cause the podcast is on YouTube shorts are 635 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:03,680 really hard to do cause reels on Instagram are minute and 30 seconds, but shorts are 636 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:05,880 like 60 seconds long. 637 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:11,600 It's almost like you could class if you did one that was a little longer than a minute, 638 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:13,680 classify it as like a mini podcast. 639 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:20,640 And you might be able to, cause it's hard to get things down to a minute. 640 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:23,840 Especially if you're doing a poem and they're all two to three minutes long. 641 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:27,520 And that's something that I've faced, like, you know, until they opened up the reel to 642 00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:29,560 it's a minute and a half now. 643 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:30,560 Oh, on YouTube? 644 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:31,560 I know, on Instagram. 645 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:32,560 Oh, Instagram. 646 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:33,560 Yeah. 647 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:34,560 Yeah. 648 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,880 So, but yeah, even that is like, because my poems are two to three minutes long, half 649 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:42,360 the time, you know, I feel like I have to like run through them, which isn't fun either. 650 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:46,240 So I very much have to try to sort of fit into social media, which I don't love, but 651 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,000 it's, you know, part of the rat race, I guess. 652 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:49,000 Same here. 653 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:50,000 I'm doing the same thing. 654 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:51,000 I'm doing reels, reels. 655 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,000 I was like, okay, I'll do them. 656 00:29:54,000 --> 00:30:01,720 And I mean, I'm finding that I have more people that actually look at my posts than they do 657 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:05,320 the reels, cause not that interesting. 658 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:07,600 Well, no, not that you're not interesting. 659 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:13,240 What I, what I think is that for me anyway, is that I'm not a marketer, right? 660 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:20,280 And so it being, I think the biggest whirlwind for me with regards to being an entrepreneur 661 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:25,200 is that you have to be, my husband always says this, that you have to be the CEO first. 662 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:28,320 So whatever, you know, you think you're a mom, but nope, you're the CEO. 663 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:32,320 So you're that first and you have to kind of make sure that from a bird's eye view, 664 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:34,840 everything is sort of working in tandem kind of thing. 665 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:38,880 And so I didn't expect to have to be the marketer and the, and the IT department and 666 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:39,880 it's hard. 667 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:40,880 All the things. 668 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:41,880 Yeah. 669 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:43,920 You know, you have to write poems and say them on the stage. 670 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,320 You know, it's like, okay, well, that's not really how it works. 671 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:50,120 You got to pull it all together, you know, you got to create a website or you got to 672 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:53,920 pay somebody to do it, which is like, you know, sometimes you have to kind of pick and 673 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:57,120 choose what you put that, you know, that too. 674 00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:58,120 What do you put your time to? 675 00:30:58,120 --> 00:30:59,840 What do you put your resources to? 676 00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:01,880 How much money are you going to spend on A, B and C? 677 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:04,520 Like they're so much, they're so much. 678 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:05,520 Oh, I know. 679 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:10,560 And people are like, you do your own social media and I'm like, okay, this is $0 an hour 680 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:12,000 plus benefits. 681 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:13,920 I make zero money. 682 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:21,200 So how am I supposed to pay somebody to do my social media or to do my website? 683 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:28,760 I'm just trying to figure this out as I go along and at 54, it's, it sucks. 684 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:33,240 But I mean, yeah, but I think that there's something to be said about, you know, passing 685 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:37,880 things off when it makes sense or when the time is right or, you know, all that kind 686 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:46,120 of stuff, like I know for sure that if I were to make mom said duck fiscally successful, 687 00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:50,360 that marketing is the first person or first people that I would hire, you know, so because 688 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:52,760 I just, it's not, I don't know enough about it. 689 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:54,320 It's like its own entity. 690 00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:56,560 It's super important, probably the most important. 691 00:31:56,560 --> 00:32:00,520 Your marketing is probably, probably more, I shouldn't say more, but just as important 692 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:04,800 as the thing you're putting out, the talent that you're doing or the thing that you're 693 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:08,880 creating or whatever it is that you, you know, you have to, you have to be able to market 694 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,640 it because if people don't see your work, you, what's the point? 695 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:13,640 Exactly. 696 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,960 You have to, people have to be able to see you. 697 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:17,080 People need to see you. 698 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:24,960 They need to see that your poems and listen to you and it needs to, I seriously think 699 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:30,920 you need to, if you're not going to do it, get a marketer because your poems are wonderful 700 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:37,920 and they, I'm trying to figure out the right words for it, but they make it okay to say 701 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:38,920 duck. 702 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:45,880 They make it okay to say, did I make a wrong decision here having kids? 703 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:51,920 Obviously, we don't feel that way, but there are days when it's like, oh man, I wish I 704 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:53,080 was still single. 705 00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:55,920 I wish I was, you know, some days are tough. 706 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:56,920 They are tough. 707 00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:00,200 I definitely touch on that kind of stuff in the poems where it's like, I think in one 708 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,840 of those, like some days I want to hide and it's true. 709 00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:05,480 Like, you know, like today started out like that. 710 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:10,080 In fact, I looked back on my Instagram and I was like, oh my gosh, I was so saucy, but 711 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:11,080 that was the audience. 712 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:15,280 But like, I mean, that's the, that's like the ups and downs of the day, you know, like 713 00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:17,560 I feel like I almost have to go on and apologize to everyone. 714 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:21,080 No, I was so saucy to everybody. 715 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,080 You were not being saucy whatsoever. 716 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:26,680 You were just like, oh my God, seriously? 717 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:28,600 This happened. 718 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:32,760 And I mean, you're making it okay to have those feelings. 719 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:34,600 We all have those feelings. 720 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:40,760 You're not alone and you know, you're making light of it. 721 00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:48,080 And that's why I really want everybody to follow mom's head duck and I really want to 722 00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:54,360 see a book, I'm a note and I want to see you have a ton of these shows because I just have 723 00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:55,360 a blast. 724 00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:56,640 Oh, that's so amazing. 725 00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:57,640 Thank you so much. 726 00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:02,360 Thank you for being the inspo behind one of the poems when I set it up on this stage. 727 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:07,080 It wasn't originally going to say one of my poems, but Tracy in the last interview was 728 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:09,200 like, okay, you got to talk about these poop diapers. 729 00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:11,720 You got to talk about, oh no, it was corn poop. 730 00:34:11,720 --> 00:34:12,720 That's right. 731 00:34:12,720 --> 00:34:13,720 Corn poop. 732 00:34:13,720 --> 00:34:16,720 So, okay, this one's for Tracy Martin's from Wacky D&B. 733 00:34:16,720 --> 00:34:19,160 Oh, come on, corn poop. 734 00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:20,160 That's the best. 735 00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:23,160 It's like, how does it come out whole? 736 00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:25,920 You have to talk about that. 737 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:29,000 You really get a close up on it to your kids. 738 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:30,000 They're wiping it. 739 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,000 I didn't want the kernel in my... 740 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:39,080 Can I just rinse this off and give it for next dinner? 741 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:40,080 It's so funny. 742 00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:41,080 Oh gosh. 743 00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:42,440 Well, thank you so much, Jill. 744 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:44,440 I really appreciate you being here. 745 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:45,440 Oh my gosh. 746 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:49,640 Anytime, like you and you asked me to come back, I'm like, yes, I got it in my back. 747 00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:50,640 Yes. 748 00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:53,360 So anytime, I would love to come back. 749 00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:54,360 Of course. 750 00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:58,280 And thank you for making us all laugh. 751 00:34:58,280 --> 00:34:59,280 It was awesome. 752 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:00,280 It was so sweet. 753 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:01,280 Thank you so much. 754 00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:02,280 I mean, so much. 755 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:03,280 Thank you, thank you. 756 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,000 This is the whole point of it, right? 757 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,400 It's like to make moms just sit back and giggle. 758 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:12,160 And I think that if I've learned anything, it's that if you don't laugh, you cry. 759 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:16,800 So it's like, if we can turn something into a giggle that should otherwise be something 760 00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:19,760 that wants to put you in a home, then let's do it. 761 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,160 Let's just have fun with it. 762 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,200 It saves a lot of gray hairs. 763 00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:26,200 That's for sure. 764 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:27,200 Awesome. 765 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:28,200 That's good. 766 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:29,200 That's so good to hear. 767 00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:30,200 Yeah. 768 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:31,200 Thank you. 769 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:32,200 And again, my name is Tracy Martens. 770 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:36,360 I want to thank you for joining me for another episode of YQG In Bloom. 771 00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:42,640 Make sure to like and subscribe to the podcast so that I can keep this going for all local 772 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:47,560 businesses, events, people in the Windsor-Essex County area. 773 00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:55,960 And I do do it for free so that they are able to afford the chance to get out and be a little 774 00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:56,960 bit more known. 775 00:35:56,960 --> 00:36:18,320 So you guys have a wonderful day.