Episode 21

[00:00:00] Welcome to Comically Exposed. This is Episode 21 and you're excited about it, I'm excited about it because my name is Gabbie and I almost ran over the intro. Okay, fabulous co-host, what's your name? My name is Heather Nye.

[00:00:26] This is the podcast we talk about comedy in OCD and how they overlap, which is why we have a fan favorite, I mean mostly just favorite across the board. Stand-up comedian, musician, songstress, playwrights, one woman powerhouse leader of again and a librarian.

[00:00:53] And amazing. And honestly, one of the most hilarious improvisers that I've ever worked with and that's over Zoom which is really a thing saying something so... Hey, gay, back to the program.

[00:01:05] Yes, so thank you for having me back. I am only one of those things you listed Gabbie, which is gang leader. I told you that I'm in confidence.

[00:01:19] I thought that I hit it pretty well. I buried it in like 5 deep and you weren't gonna... I didn't think you would pick up on it. I think people will understand what you mean.

[00:01:31] So if I go missing, I want this to be just everybody knows what happened and it's on video so... I hate when people keep in mind to me on their podcasts just so I don't... I can't kill them later. Like this is all the press I guess.

[00:01:53] To be fair, you should have just killed one person because then we would have stopped doing it. Do you know what I mean? If we knew that this didn't work and I'm not saying kill me. Are you saying kill me?

[00:02:07] I'm really didn't. I'm gonna send that text real quick. That looked exactly how you would order a hit and they're dead. They're gone. Okay, so we had you back on the podcast because one year hilarious to your amazing 3U of OCD.

[00:02:37] And for because you're going to Edinburgh, French Fest... Is that the order that you say that in? Is it French Fest, Edinburgh or something? Who knows? Nobody knows. Fistible, French...

[00:02:51] I heard a lot of different versions but I say Edinburgh, French Festival because that makes the most sense to me. Yeah, rolls off the time here. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:03:01] Okay, so we're gonna plug it at the end of the show as well but can you please plug your dates? Where's happening? The time? All that jazz. I will be performing my solo show which is Stand Up and Musical Comedy.

[00:03:17] I sing Song von Duccoléli and I scream about mental health. Being a woman in Turkey, dating men. And I will be doing a full run in French Festival. I don't want to do it in French Festival.

[00:03:36] And from August 2nd to August 24th, I will be performing every night at Green Side at Riddle Scarts, which is my venue at 845. And I would love it if people came to watch my show.

[00:03:54] I would love that too. In that vein, what is the name of your show, dude? And she depressed. Yes. Yes. There's your new theme song. Oh, thank you, Gabby. Oh, you're all down. It's gonna be really fun to play on the Eucalyle.

[00:04:16] Dude, can we talk about how you put this show together? Like, was your process? You've my life horrible stuff happens to me. I talk about it all stage if people laugh. I added to the show.

[00:04:31] I realized, I, all of my material since I started doing Stand Up was kind of about being a woman in this very particular situation. Because I'm in Istanbul, Turkey. So it's like kind of Middle Eastern, kind of westernized.

[00:04:51] Some people are very particular about what they want women to be. And I am living also with a perfect little thing called OCD. So I have very cute obsessions and compulsions, and trying to hide them or living according to them, not realizing I was living according to them.

[00:05:16] So all of my material kind of works together. And so I one day wrote the order in which it would make sense and took out some stuff that would make sense for anti-depressed. So there I have the show. Well, that's great. This is very cool, man.

[00:05:35] Oh, I had questions while you were talking. And now you were so entranced. I really was. I was like, so cool. Yes, can we talk about some of your cute obsessions and compulsions? Because they are so cute. So cute.

[00:05:54] Thank you for having me as the second time to promote the cuteness of contamination. OCD. I have contamination on CD, which is basically like your wash or hands a lot. If you touch something, you think isn't safe or clean, you freak out.

[00:06:21] If a guest comes over into your house, you have to clean very rigorously after they leave. I can't tell how many times my couch has been wiped with detergent when nothing happened on it. That is so cute. I know, right? So cute. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I was like, yeah.

[00:06:43] Do you ever get the compulsion to clean like the couch, let's say, while the guest is still there and then just like hold it off. Of course. I'm counting on like, when I take a leave.

[00:06:58] First, I just want to lay down in which bravo at all times anyway. So why do I even have a guest in my home? Second, I'm going to have to clean. So that's also more time away from bravo.

[00:07:15] Right because it's not like you can clean your house and just listen to bravo. The amount of visual things that you are missing. Yeah, all the table flips, all the drinks drawing. All the castitution, horror, exclamation being slung about. I almost row. Okay. When are we going to?

[00:07:36] Okay. So we're wrapping up so that yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you can watch a little bit more housewife. Thank you. She watches one. She watches one. She watches one. But she is going to be excited about this.

[00:07:50] She watches the whole amount of single go around to be racist. Yes, yes. So hard to do this just a bunch of clips of Ramonis thinger over and over with your night. You just like you watch TV and then you put your hands over the screen

[00:08:03] and you plug your ears when it's not her, but then how do you know when she comes back on? That is my question. This one. Have this search term Ramonov first off. So I go to YouTube for compilations.

[00:08:16] Oh, I also want to thank you to Graham. That's pretty bad too. Oh, I had imagined so because she's still on Instagram, huh? I guess. Oh, no. Are you saying that she is not the housewife you watch? She is just... She is. Okay.

[00:08:36] So we can totally cut this. But I know contamination issue comes up with... It comes up in TV and movies more often than the other OCDs. So my question to you is, what do you feel they get right? Hmm. Hmm.

[00:08:54] And what do you feel, or at least personally, that's not you being represented on the... Besides the fact that Tony Shlub does not have your gorgeous hair. Thank you. That's a month. I don't know. I don't think it's as clear cuts as TV makes it seem.

[00:09:13] It's not like you have one role and it's the same for every situation. Like, when I'm traveling, I have way less contamination stuff but I do more checking. And as a story telling, do my stuff wouldn't work unless it's target audience is only me.

[00:09:31] So I think it's hard to portray OCD in television or film because... I don't know. It doesn't look like anything sometimes. Like a lot of people who are very close to me have no idea why I am sanitizing my hands exactly what triggered it.

[00:09:51] They can be with me all day and they don't know what. Like the other day, I sanitized my hand. And my friend was like, oh, it's because you shook hands with that guy right? I was like, no, it's because I touched the side of my shoe.

[00:10:03] Oh, always keep him guessing. Yeah. That guy, for example, for some reason they didn't trigger my OCD. But if I was a TV, OCD contamination OCD have her, I would go around like not checking hands but it depends from situation to situation so much that I don't know.

[00:10:23] It's not as clearly. It's more unruly, I think. Yeah. Yeah, it's like constantly changing, right? Yeah. If there are roles, yeah. Yeah. If there are roles, there change. Yeah. All the time.

[00:10:41] Like I can be washing my hands a lot of, a lot during the day and you can show that on TV and I'm not can't me. But I don't know. I think OCD changes from person to person too so it would be hard to actual person with

[00:10:56] the contamination OCD. I don't know if I will see myself in them necessarily, in the way it's manifests. The thought pattern is very similar and I understand that but practices in everyday life look very different. Yeah.

[00:11:13] Because it's like OCD light, I guess on TV, like with Monk, it's like it doesn't show his intrusive thought that brought him to do the compulsion on television. I know there's a bin shows that have done it slightly, I guess.

[00:11:30] I don't know if I could say right but showed it a more realistic work in progress. I think Puro, I sort of remember the show where it actually shows her having the thoughts like the hyper-sexualized thoughts in her head and then Tur, like don't show me that.

[00:11:49] And so that's like pretty close. Yeah. Okay, we kind of ran through a type of OCD that I don't think we've talked about on the podcast which is checking OCD and since you brought it up, I gagged what is checking OCD?

[00:12:07] Chaking OCD is like hot little new infashions sort of thing where you check stuff. You check it again. Oh yeah, my phone is in my pocket still. Is it okay? Okay good. Is it though?

[00:12:30] So that's kind of like I would, I think checking OCD was gifted to me in childhood by repeatedly being asked by Ados. Are you sure you have your Istanbul card? It's the transport card that you use. Like not even do you have your wallet?

[00:12:54] Check to see if you have your wallet which would be important to remind a child, hey, do you have your wallet but read in a span of five minutes from leaving the house to getting on the bus.

[00:13:07] Five times maybe would be a lot and because it was like well yeah, I do have my Istanbul card in my wallet that allows me to get on the bus but I don't think it left in the last 20 seconds.

[00:13:21] Okay, that's how you gifted to someone if you want to and also like when your child is kind of free. Also even if your Mr Istanbul card you can get another one at the station just wouldn't be the end of the world.

[00:13:44] It's not like leaving your keys, it's not that complicated to leave your Istanbul card at home. Okay then follow up question. So was it the same adult who would ask you multiple, okay? Guess who was just the same like I'm diagnosed.

[00:14:02] Yeah, I did the same thing when I was four on an airplane. I was trying, I kept asking my mom to go to the bathroom because I thought the door to the bathroom was the door to outside where my dad was and I wanted to check to see

[00:14:18] if he was still there. And I did it a lot. My sister was very young too, so it was like she had to drag two kids on an airplane over and over and over again. Yeah. Sorry, why? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

[00:14:36] I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. The contamination, OCD kind of takes the back seat and then another OCD shows up and is like I got this. Mine too and especially in times of heightened anxiety.

[00:14:53] And so, and I don't think that it's necessarily, obviously, it's not on purpose given to me by my OCD group. But being in a group with a lot of people who have a lot of different flavors, you start to pick up on stuff.

[00:15:07] And I think like my OCD is sees it like a passport. It's like, oh, let's get all the stamps, you know? And still, the other night, I went to a comedy show. I brought my dog.

[00:15:21] It was nine times so he could just stay in the car and anyway, oh boy, I really want to say how well I took care of them in the car. Okay. Okay. So. A lot of thoughts just happened. I'm like, it's the end of the night.

[00:15:41] I go back to the car. I let the dog out to go to the bathroom. I put the car, the dog back into the car and I have my keys in my hand.

[00:15:50] And I say to myself, do not put the keys in the car and lock the door and shut it, right? And then part of me goes, oh is that checking OCD? And I get so wrapped up in weather or not that's checking OCD, that I locked the keys

[00:16:09] in the car. Oh, dog. Yep. And this is where my past therapists and I have differed. I have a hide a key on my car because I know in stressful situations something like this will happen.

[00:16:31] And they say as an exposure why don't you take off the hide a key? And I say no, no, because it came in super handy because I didn't have to call for tow truck or even inform anybody else.

[00:16:45] I just got on the filthy disgusting streets of San Francisco on my knees reached under the car and got the key. It's fine. It's fine. I tell you how to tell them everything instead of going, sure and just do it anyway. They also suggest, I don't do that.

[00:17:11] You shine on your therapist when they like try and make a bit of a suggestion? Yeah. Yeah, sure. You know what my favorite? Okay, okay. Can we talk tactics with therapist first again? My favorite tactic is they've hit on something that I really don't want to do, like

[00:17:33] say the hide a key, right? And then I use all of my improv and acting skill. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, I guess that would be kind of a good idea. I can totally do that. But I do have this question about sauce.

[00:17:48] Can I ask you if I wear the same sock all the time? Is that something? And then they get to check the bag. The sock question and then I'm home free. They know nothing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I do. And four.

[00:18:01] No, unfortunately my therapist calls me out on my shit too much because he has those CD as well. And so even on Monday when I had therapy, when I said sure, he goes, is that a yes or sure? And I was like, shit. I'm trying to help me.

[00:18:20] I'm not trying to help me. Switch therapist, that's the other tip. Just keep him coming and then they never get to know you. What were you going to say, okay? Yeah, I'm my two therapists that I don't by running away.

[00:18:37] I would go on the connect something to something that I know is unconnected and their both serious issues. But in this very particular situation, no, I'm getting to okay. So I mean that situation and the therapist is going to be like, but what?

[00:18:54] And I'm like, and they're like, okay you talk I guess. I'm like, I don't get into it. I know. I know it's a problem. That's why I'm talking on it. I know. I know I'm well. Dude, I like that.

[00:19:16] You're like, you're like, I know I'm unwell and me. I'm like, don't look too close because everything's fine. I'm like with a therapist, I'm like, I know I'm unwell but not in the way you think. You don't get it. I'm not all because of these these things.

[00:19:32] You are trying to talk about this. What the fuck is that? I don't care about that. No. Tadfast man. And also. You're okay, mate. They're as you get to. Yeah. What have been to fleece? Yeah. We want to help me. Whatever. Whatever.

[00:19:53] If they really cared, then they wouldn't accept money. Oh. They're essentially prostitutes. You know what I'm like, your piece. Welcome to my bartender. He's my own meal. We're just, we talk about some real stuff. Real stuff. Yeah. To my tattoo guy, you know, he puts me in pain.

[00:20:15] But then I like, I get through it, you know, together. Uh-huh. That's so exciting. My physical and internalist. Buckter. I go, I say, is this a thing? He goes, no, you're a fine. I say, thank you. That's always good, especially. Yet therapists, their medical professionals

[00:20:38] who have no idea what OCD is. I mean, you can really fool those suckers. Mm-hmm. They'll like get how are things and you're like, dude, great. Great. I'm not having 12 conversations in my head as you're having a conversation with me in which I try and gauge like,

[00:20:56] my tone and mannerisms and everything so as not to harass suspicion in any way. So we're good. When I go to a normal doctor, I'm like, for an OCD thing that I have about my health, I'm like, oh, so if it's not this,

[00:21:13] but I have this, would it be that? Like, what would it, if this happened, then would it turn into that? If I do that, would that start? That's not a thing right now. I know, but it would it. And the doctors are like, yes, no, yes, maybe.

[00:21:31] I don't know. And they're like, no, you don't have this thing or very about, you do have this other thing. You had no idea you had, but test show. I'm like, oh, it's fine, whatever. I didn't Google it. I didn't look at that.

[00:21:43] I don't know how terrible that is. I'm just getting it from the doctor saying, oh, you take this medication for just many weeks and your clear amount of cake will be real. I'm cool. It just makes it fun. And back to the logic train. Yeah.

[00:21:57] You're like, I'm a cool patient. I don't care about what I have. I'm sure the medicine will take care of it. But what if I did this and this happened and look, I did have this one thing once, 10 years ago, and would it be connected to that?

[00:22:13] Are you sure? Are you sure? I had it. It's too real, man. For all the things that OCD is like wildly different from person to person in moment to moment, there are some commonalities that it's just like, oh, yep. Okay. Yeah, I have that. Yep. Okay. Mm-hmm.

[00:22:37] You have to be constantly reminded. Because that's the other thing, right? Classic OCD stuff is asking whether or not you have OCD. So do I have enough OCD? Do I have enough OCD? Mine, yeah. My initial one was really sorry for taking up your time

[00:22:53] because I'm probably just doing this for attention. And I'm sure I don't have OCD. And then a therapist turning and being like, your textbook. I'm all like, no. I'm like, I'm fine, but I've been in bed for 12 hours.

[00:23:09] I'm like, yeah, I'm in bed, but I'm fine in bed. I like doing and not doing anything in a depressed state because I'm to, I'm fine. On when I go to a new therapist, I'm like, so I haven't diagnosed with this, but like I'm open to your institution

[00:23:25] if you say it's not, okay, let's treat it for that. So you need your therapist to comply to you at your whim? I mean, yeah. Yeah, yeah. You know, it's cool. Yeah. Yeah, and I also had, but like OCD therapists who, like, you know,

[00:23:52] I would say something like, as I'm talking, I realize I'm trying to get your approval, you know, of the group and like make you laugh and whatever else. And then the therapist would specifically say, like, well, I didn't find that funny

[00:24:07] and I think that you're taking up a lot of people's time and, you know, like basically do an exposure in the moment without telling me that it's an exposure, but the thing is, I just think it's like, yeah, exactly. Well, that's the line.

[00:24:23] When is an OCD therapist just being a dick and when are they being healthy? I think I know the answer, if you're doing a bit and they're heckling you, I don't think that's good. Yeah, that's their opinion. Okay.

[00:24:38] Yeah, well because I think when a therapist does do exposure, usually they ask for consent. Yeah, yeah. Yes. I hear you. It sounds just cool. The thing is like, I knew it immediately as soon as he started, because it was so out of character,

[00:24:57] he's like the kindest, most compassionate person. So for him to all of a sudden be like, you know, you're really taking a lot of time away from other people, actually need it more than you or whatever he was saying.

[00:25:09] And I just started smiling like an idiot and laughing. And I was like, I know, I'm just feeling this serious because I know that then I appreciate what you're doing, but I see it. Maybe he was trying to trick your ADHD.

[00:25:24] So you can't really plan for the attack of exposure. I don't know. I think I'm giving him too much sway. I think he was being in dick. That's my vote. Me too. Okay, he lost my therapist. Well, listen, I'm not a bootstraps girl like you.

[00:25:47] I'm not just out here independently, treating myself, making it work. We're gonna be using, but not a one-woman show had in the Scotland. You know what I mean? Yeah, if I need to start to appear again, it's so hard to find a new therapist.

[00:26:02] It takes, and then you invest your time in someone and you start actually making progress and then something fundamentally terrible, they reveal about their worldview and you're like, I can't let this person treat me. Yeah. I got that. Well, and you have had the,

[00:26:23] you've had the fill of bad therapists, by the way, after I was talk, I was like holy crap. Okay, so what can you about it? I do if I was hearing another person say this, I would be like, oh, okay, is there probably just like,

[00:26:37] saying that's because they probably think that, but they're probably blaming the therapist and running away from therapy. Huh, stupid, I know better. But it's truly fucked up. She should, was done by some therapists. I did that tell you about the one

[00:26:52] that suggested that all disorders were just from being immoral. Yeah, I love that. Oh yeah, I love that. That's the old religious. Yeah, no, so I just wanted to confirm with you, even though I don't want to do reassurance, but I just want to say,

[00:27:13] I did not hear that at all in terms of, you saying that you had bad therapy experiences as being a cop out if that's what you meant. Because I don't think it was at all. I think you had bad experiences

[00:27:29] and haven't found a person that's really able to give you the care that you need other than giving you some random bullshit. Thank you, but you're a better person than me because when I heard myself saying, whenever you go to a therapist, you're in waste your time.

[00:27:45] And right when you're starting to make progress, you have to leave them. It did sound like that. But no, yeah, I have the second time I had to leave a therapist. I still am not able to talk about it, but when I talk about it,

[00:28:03] it's gonna be on this podcast. I hope if I'm invited back. And I'm really happy to tell you. Hey, you woman, that's me. Oh, Jesus Christ. Just give me a name. I'll take care of it. You'll never hear from me. Oh, wait, I don't think about this. Yeah.

[00:28:21] Oh yeah, any of my phone too. We're all gonna put out a hit. The thing is, I used to hate this saying that people told me about dating like they're all wrong except for the one, right? But it's kind of like that with therapists too.

[00:28:41] It's like they're all wrong. Well, I get there's a lot out there that are good. But I just wanna say, man, I've had some great even OCD therapists that were great, but then she went on sabbatical after six months, right?

[00:28:55] And then I had to try a new one, she fucking sucked. And then I finally found a good one through no CD. And I honestly had like two, two and a half years of like great work doing awesome, fantastic. And then no CD was like we don't accept

[00:29:11] your insurance anymore. And it's like cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. So I hear ya. But also sometimes therapists are really shitty people. Like when you were talking about the morality one, I was like, oh, that's fun. When your therapist has religious scrupulousity, which is a form of OCD,

[00:29:30] and it's apparently undiagnosed, and they don't realize it, and they're just putting their own OCD onto you. Much like an adult did when asking, if you have your Istanbul card, I did. I always did. And today, but did you chat? No, I wanna try to have it on.

[00:29:49] But then I will have to wash my hands because it's starting. We're now walking to the subway and I need my Istanbul card. Sometimes I take out my keys and when I'm coming home and I need my keys sometimes, I take out my Istanbul card

[00:30:03] because it's just like no thought behind it. It's just the sort of things I have to check. Mm-hmm. Yeah, one, two, one, two, one. So... Yeah. So fun. OCD is just fun. Can you imagine what you would do with all the energy that you wouldn't have to expense?

[00:30:25] If you didn't have OCD? Like sometimes I think, I could run countries. You know? I would probably watch more bravo. Well, see, at least you're doing something productive with your time. Oh, I was gonna say too, like the whole being depressed but stuck in the bed

[00:30:44] and you're like everything's fine as long as I don't move, I don't breathe too deeply and whatever. It's like being injured but not wanting to do anything about it and you're like, yeah, man. Sometimes I just hold very, very still and keep it in this weird 90-degree angle.

[00:31:00] We're good. So please continue with your day because I'm fine. And then you realize that it is painful to leave the house and to talk to people on the phone or in person or getting a car to go anywhere, even with your loved ones.

[00:31:17] And you're like maybe something should change, you know? Mm, all been there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That took me a perfect time the energy in their room so hard. Yeah. I want to blanket. Right now. Get a clean one. You're referring to the gray mattress. Mm-hmm. For the listener,

[00:31:45] I encountered a gray mattress. It was supposed to be white. It was supposed to be the color gray and I realized this after I slept on the mattress and I tried to change the sheets and there was out there and all other sheets to change.

[00:32:01] But, I saw the mattress and it was very gray and so many stains of on-none origin. I'm hoping blood. I don't want that would be the best case and I think. And I am so glad that I did it. I didn't burn my back washing. It's good.

[00:32:29] Even when I learned that the mattress came with the apartment, I was like, I forgot about that. It was like I blocked that out. Even when I learned that the pillows came with the apartment too. Oh God. No, no, no, no. I know. No. No.

[00:32:47] What I saw was I'm here. I'm here. It happened to me. Like, and I'm stronger. It was like, exposure to everybody accidents. Like, yeah, I bring that therapist over, Gabby. I can take one, I can see. I've been stressed in the bias. Disgusting mattress.

[00:33:04] I can be heckled by a therapist. I'm gonna... I'm gonna side with Heather on this one. The pillows are worse. I know. I know. And as somebody who doesn't explicitly have contamination, I am so impressed with you, dude. Yeah. How? How?

[00:33:27] Like that gave me full body chills, like goosebumps. All the hair standing on end. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Wow. I'm just taking it all in. Oh, yeah. Because now it's making me think about hotels. Right? Yeah. That's why I'm more comfortable when traveling,

[00:33:47] because I don't see the mattress. I don't see how stained it is. I don't see... I don't have to think about that. I'm just like staying still. I know it's the hotel, but it's probably terrible. But as I know, I'm never gonna be like

[00:34:02] in a completely perfectly clean, safe place. As I'm traveling all day, my OCD contamination thing is less because I don't have anywhere to go to any other place. There's no safe place. I'm not taking a shower as well, enjoy. I'm taking a shower in a hotel bus.

[00:34:21] I don't know how they cleaned it. Spit and a rag, you know? Just... Yeah. Yep. My rub. Oh. Oh, I'm going to stay in the dorm room in the Denver and share a bathroom. Oh, that's right, dude. Oh, okay. What are your thoughts, feelings? What's going on?

[00:34:40] I don't know what. Okay. So you have your own private room, right? But the bathroom you have to share. I don't know. With the home many people, I don't know. It's going to be a long, free, please come to my show and we'll be fine. Yeah.

[00:35:04] And heckle about like, hey, hey, how's the toilet situation at your dorm room going? I'm sharing a bathroom with strangers for this. If people don't show up, it's going to be a tragedy. Like, like the Titanic. Yeah. I would say bigger. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:35:25] Because they have life rules. Yeah. I don't have... For some of them. Yeah, about those floating doors and stuff. Yeah. I don't have like the rolling, not all the things over the seats probably. Yeah. I would say probably like all the world wars combined,

[00:35:45] like, make it close to the levels. Yeah, yeah. Probably not. Yeah, but that's not cool. So some of them were bad. No. Some of them. Okay. Please, please. The first three of which parts were bad. Okay. I don't know. I don't know. Mm-hmm. Look, I don't love war.

[00:36:08] I don't want to get pleasure going here. I'm going to like, wars are bad. Like, I get to be here with a normal family. I'm social justice warrior because I hate war. I'm against all forms of violence, including violent self compassion. Which is... Mm-hmm. Should be a thing.

[00:36:27] I think we should start something. Violent self compassion. I'm long, I love you fucking bitch. I love myself to guard your march. You get queues of aggression like yourself. Oh! Oh, yeah. This good. I think there needs to be new forms of OCD. You know what I mean?

[00:36:52] Like, let's branch out. Let's make some money. Let's make this happen. Yeah. Are you thinking about them now? That other types of OCD that haven't been discovered yet? Ooh, what am I actually? It was really... Yeah. Trying to find other types of OCD OCD.

[00:37:11] But I feel like you could do that with pretty much everything. What about trying to find other forms of OCD OCD? Yeah. That's why I'm talking about. Yeah. That's why we improvise. Yes, and... Yes, and... Let me just repeat. We're beat them exactly what you said. Hi, Tissue.

[00:37:29] Hi, Tissue. Uh-huh. Yes. Highten or go horizontal. Take a nap. Get depressed. Put them blankets on again. You know? Come down. Take it. Take it. Sleazy. Well, my psychiatrist... My psychiatrist again reminded me. As soon as I asked the question if it's OCD it is. Yep.

[00:37:56] I love those ones. Oh, those little... It's like... It's like... You're like... Yep. All right. Because to me, it's like I have this whole thing working out. You know, going, it's maybe this and then this and then that. And then this happened and then whatever.

[00:38:12] Yeah, you said it the first time. Is it OCD? It is. It's like... Then it's done. You're like... No, no. No questions. I have a whole PowerPoint presentation. I've got charts. I got maps. Yeah. I brought beverages. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:38:36] And then they cut you off at the pass and you're like... No. I'm going to hold that and that whole thing. I was going to tell... I know, I planned it. I practiced. I was expecting you the therapist to stand up at the end and just...

[00:38:49] So, five in the basement. You solved OCD. Exactly. You have thought your way out of a thinking problem my friend and that is... You're just going to have this conversation. I'm going to have this conversation. I'm going to celebrate. Yeah. Oh, well. It totally will.

[00:39:09] One of us, one day is going to really love each other. I think there are way out of it. It might be anyone else. I feel... It could be... My immediate thought when you said that was like, Oh, I'll figure it out and then that'll be...

[00:39:25] We might last forever. I felt you in the cell. And you funny about how I did it. All you have to do is... Yeah. All right, do you have other flavors of OCD? We've got checking, contamination. Do you only have OCDs that start with C in English?

[00:39:50] Oh, I don't know about Turkish. Oh, bias. Yes. It's not the... I don't know what else I have. I didn't... No. I didn't talk about the check-hack thing. The previous recording. I didn't even think of it as a small city.

[00:40:08] No, you have to check to see if you have... If you have other OCDs. And I will get the box here. I have a compulsive behaviors, but I don't know what's OCD unless not on the therapist. Yeah. And yet are we not just as qualified? Yes.

[00:40:27] Oh, we're not. I think I'm... I'm... I'm... I compared to the therapist that you've been seeing. I thought it was the same. I was just... I will sign off on that right now. Yeah. Prinabler's certificate. Put it on the wall exactly. Yes. Yeah. Non-therapised, Therapeutic, theyself. I know.

[00:40:48] I was going to ask you way, way back. Because you're talking about masking your OCD around other people. Mm-hmm. What's that like for you? How's that go? What's the inner thought process? It's up. That. Yeah. I mean, well, and that's all the time we think of.

[00:41:09] I don't know. I'm sorry, that was... Okay. I don't know what's... I don't know. Iceback is okay. Let me ask more questions then. Is it hard for you to stay in the moment around people if like the obsessive or compulsive thoughts? Or yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:41:31] I have to do the compulsion to get back into it. Because then I'm in my head and I'm like... I don't know. But with some people it's easier. I don't hide it. They don't know the thought patterns behind it.

[00:41:43] They just know that I have OCD and like some things I do just not compulsively. They think it's OCD which is really cute. I was like, oh no, that's just being a person. It's just like quirky sound. And there's OCD and... I don't know.

[00:42:03] Some people I don't have to hide a lot, which is easier. But if I'm outside, outside with like a group of people then I have to take care of the compulsion and get back into the social mindset.

[00:42:14] That's what it's hard to be with people today because you're like always navigating so much stuff. Yeah. My social battery runs really low. Really fast. Yeah. Yeah. That's surreal. That is real. Yeah. That's... Yeah. That's a lot of energy we would have if we didn't have to like...

[00:42:37] Yeah. Just the masking. Just that. What are your compulsive behaviors like around other people? Is it mostly hand sanitizer or is it? I'm just trying to find somebody else who touches things in threes. And I swear I'm going to find somebody. No. Not like threes at 7's. No.

[00:42:56] Cool. Another friend gifted another thing to me. They said, when someone touches me, when someone... I don't like... I don't like their energy. When someone touches me, I touch them and right back to give the energy back. Wow. And so...

[00:43:12] I haven't started it but it makes so much sense to me. Yes. Totally. Totally. God ain't fucking hate that. Oh. Yeah. And to all the listeners, I am gifting this to you. Yes. That's it. This is like a... There's going to be... This is like a...

[00:43:33] What's the horror movie where you like the more you have it. Bring, I don't know. The tape? I don't know. I don't know movies. Okay. Oh, yeah. I don't either. I can't watch horror movies. You have to come and see me. You have to come and see me.

[00:43:48] You have to come and see me. You have to come and see me. Is it safe you if you send it to somebody else? Yes. Or it's just like... You have to do it and you're going to die anyway.

[00:43:57] And this is a version where we don't get rid of it, but we just add more. Yeah. It's like... Yeah. Literal contamination. This is what we're spreading. It's a contamination of mines into OCD.

[00:44:10] But I just am now thinking of all these unsuspecting, awful people in the world who are just like, you know, put their hand on your shoulder and just an unpleasant manner. It's like, yeah.

[00:44:22] I'm an any due to like, move three feet to the left and like, can you not see that so much? And then just, you know, turn around, tap them real quick once they remove the hand and just like an army of people.

[00:44:36] You know, we're all just touching people back. Yeah. Exactly. Does it have to be a quick tap back? I'm asking for a friend. Okay. Um, yeah. It has to be like... They're touching you. Right back. You don't take the other chance. Hmm. Yeah, yeah. It's like in discharging.

[00:44:54] Like if you have too much static electricity, you just touch some metal. Hmm. Three times it's fine. It's not a thing. It's gonna be? No. No. That's fine. That's fine.

[00:45:09] I was like, how am I supposed to touch people like over the zoom and then like, Gabby, they haven't touched you. So you don't need to touch that. Yes. You're gonna try to solve that issue. And I have to do touch people. Exactly.

[00:45:21] You don't need to think to feel better. I do feel touched. Why you? Good. Hold on. I got to make it. I've done. Done. Have honestly though. Oh, sorry. No, I was something different. Okay. Honestly though, in aqua aerobics, ah, god.

[00:45:37] There is a new person and I want to announce at the beginning of every aqua aerobics class and be like, the rule is you stay in your freaking place and you do your exercise.

[00:45:52] Nobody's just out here at a regular aerobics class, just like getting all up and somebody else's personal space, find it, stick it, stay, work out, all the things. This woman floating freaking everywhere and then I find out she's just got her aqua aerobics

[00:46:07] instructors license and I'm like, oh well, that's a nightmare. But anyway, so during one exercise, her hand barely grazed mine and I had to fight everything in my body not to physically punch her.

[00:46:20] It was an overwhelming feeling and I'm not a violent person but I just was like, I'd had it. Okay. So anyway. I'm on your side if you've punched her. Cool. But that's what, oh, but that was the question. Like, is the punch back?

[00:46:36] Is that just charging the energy back? You know what I'm saying? Like, she touched me and now my touch back is just a real quick. Like, so fast. If you want to, I'll tell other people it's a quirovics. It's up to you. Yeah.

[00:46:53] Between me and the all my ideas that I don't believe in so we're good. We're good, we're good, we're good. Elder brother, this is so fun when it's in water. I think a quirovics is the problem here because if you exercise with maybe younger people,

[00:47:09] they would be able to stay in there. I know but this woman was relatively younger. Like I put in her at a tape on. I'm serious. Seriously. One of the women suggested a comedy show and I was like, okay, cool.

[00:47:22] So I brought my slightly younger friend to go with me. We get there. And she's like, everybody here is white hair. And I'm like, oh, right. Recommended show by a 70 plus year old then the audience is going to be. I do the show like that. It's your scene.

[00:47:45] Did you realize? Like, I was like, I'll see the answer. You're brilliant. I'm playing now. I'm here. I don't see the answer. They're brilliant. They're playing now. They're here. I hope that you asked him multiple times during this set. Can you hear this? Does everybody turn them on?

[00:48:06] Turn on the hearing aids? I do want to kick that woman. Hi. I've hold the rage that I felt and it like barely grazed the hands. I was mostly the pushing of water that I felt more than anything. And yet blood water, you do it underwater.

[00:48:27] They should nobody would see it. Yeah, if an elderly woman next to me cries out and pain. And I'm literally the closest person to her because she will not give me personal space.

[00:48:41] And then I just point at the 90, when you're all behind me and go, he did it. Oh, he deserves it. I know he does. I know what he does. Yeah. So real quick for everybody.

[00:48:54] I have a buddy in aquarobics who's 91 years old who asked me questions about physics in astronomy, and it's great. We checked chat and it's so much fun. It tells me about his life blah blah blah.

[00:49:05] But then the other day I turned around and I said, hey man, you know, please let me know if I'm getting too much in your space because again we had new people in the class and they were just all over the place just crowd.

[00:49:16] And he says, oh, I think I'd actually really enjoy it if you were in my lap. Yeah. Bro, we talk about your wife all the time. You're 91 years old. I thought we were buddies. Gross. But like, is he hot? Hahaha. Hahaha. Hahaha. For a night one year old.

[00:49:35] I mean, he's hot for an 88 year old. You know what I'm saying? Like he can get it. You know, I'm saying, like, he can get it. You know what I should have said was, I would really feel more comfortable if you were in my lap now.

[00:49:52] That would have gone poorly. Damn it. Why is it that you can't as a woman harassing the exact same language back? Yes, you can't have us back. No.

[00:50:03] Because if it feels like harassment to the man, then he's not the type of man who would have harassed you in the first place. Do you know what I'm saying? Like you get sick. Yeah. He's like boundaries, please. Exactly. He's like, eyes up here, ladies. Yeah. No.

[00:50:19] Well, so now there's two elderly people in the pool. I need to kick. Oh. Now I'm fighting in the pool again. Yeah, we've talked about that, Gabby. And I still say it's justified. If they started it, it doesn't matter if they're over 65, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:50:40] If you want to just do a hit on an 91 year old real quick, A.A., I don't think anyone would know. I see you know what I'm saying? Yeah. But by the time my hits are I, I was, oh, you think nature will take in its course. Yeah.

[00:50:52] Or I mean, shit, maybe he runs for president. He's more surprised. Yeah. Can do a corner of this. Exactly. Oh, God. Oh, everything's cool. It's all going to be great. Sure. 107 degrees today and I fucking hate it. Yeah. A climate change is a hoax. So.

[00:51:19] Well, what a way to end the podcast. We're trying to get a Jo Rogan audience. So, okay, so we're just going to say a lot of, Yeah. If you have any sort of truthy controversial statements that other people are just like afraid to say, Mm-hmm. Now's the time.

[00:51:40] I do, I do, I do, I have to, I have my social beliefs. I think, I think, I think, I think, Chapel Rome is an industry plant. Ooh, shots fire and grow. Wow. I kind of think she sounds like she went to a lot of summer camp.

[00:52:01] And I think her songs are super catchy, but maybe I just haven't heard them all yet. That's what they want you to think. Mm-hmm. That she's built by AI. I think they want us to think she's not built by AI. Mm-hmm. Or she's a more advanced team.

[00:52:16] She's confusing us man. You see what they're doing right now. I can't even get against each other. So you think she's AI? I think she's a robot. You think she's a robot can plant? She's literally a fern. That boats were probably going to be a robot.

[00:52:35] The carol's a little bit. Oh, there we go. Ooh, ooh, ooh. The plant? Oh, Chapel, yeah. I think this is pretty... Uh, parent. She'll do no. I don't know. How old is she? Nobody Google it. Let's just speculate wildly. I'm guessing 91. Ooh, that was my number.

[00:52:56] That's why we're co-co-co. Oh, yeah. Yes. Yeah. It is the end of the podcast. Congratulations. Hey, gay. Will you please say one more time? All the things. Yes. I will be in a demoral Scotland for the French Festival all summer. All of August.

[00:53:19] I have shows at Greenside at Riddle Scorts. August 2nd to 10. 12 to 17. 19 to 24. Every night, it's 8. 45. And to the press, stand up. Musical comedy. If you're there, please come. Yeah, please do. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Thanks so much for having me. Dude. Absolutely pleasure. Yeah.

[00:53:45] Thank you for putting up with the time difference and waking up early and getting on here with us. Yeah. And all the technical things that had to be done. Oh wait, I wasn't recording. Oh, wow. Do we sound like that? That is a. Sorry, times the charm. Yeah.

[00:54:12] Yeah, I'm watching a gabby note for them into her seat. I would put bunny in my place. I don't know if you like. I can't do it. Can't do it. It was a good callback.

[00:54:28] Yeah, to part of the podcast that nobody is going to hear because this is for you. No please come. Yeah. Seriously, go see A. At the French Fest and if not at the French Fest, then go to Istanbul and go to one of her many shows.

[00:54:49] The dating show, which sounds like it's going gangbusters. I still the fact that men don't know the difference between a Volvo and a vagina is so. I don't know if it's anger, I think it's like depression bad again. That's just what's me.

[00:55:06] I think this was on the first recording too. No? Yeah. It was. It was. I do a dating show. I don't know what the difference between a vagina and a Volvo. And when I ask how often do they change their sheets, they say you have to change.

[00:55:23] So this is the kind of man available at Mingle Mania last Sunday of every month. It's either a dedicated Istanbul if you want to find a match. I asked the right questions. Yeah, you do. You do. You do. Honestly, it's like, um,

[00:55:43] did you guys ever watch that show single doubt with um, Chris Hardwick and Jenny McCarthy? Anyway, late 90s, early doesn't matter dating myself. So it was like a shit ton of like dudes in one lady or vice versa.

[00:56:01] And they would ask a question and then the dudes would like take a step forward if their answer was like affirmative or whatever. And I just feel like every dude would be eliminated just as soon as you asked either of those questions. And they'd be like, okay. Reset.

[00:56:18] Yeah. There was a. Because you could find your love on TV right? I think all of those play shows. Yeah. Yeah. I think love is blind as an excellent example. Hello. Um, I. We're done. That's great. Well, thank you. Okay for being. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you.

[00:56:50] You're always doing so much for having you. Yeah. Come back anytime. Um, anytime you want to. I will come back. Thank you so much for having me. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. No, I'm sorry. You did it all. Yeah.

[00:57:04] Heather, do you want to use up your sorry as for the episode or you want to be sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Well, I'm a rebel. I'm doing all of them. All of them for the whole world. Mm-hmm. That's good. It's for every woman.

[00:57:23] The fact that a man doesn't know the difference between a vulva and a vagina, but we have to apologize for just taking up any space is where I want to leave our listeners. I love you all. I truly. I love you. Thank you. Thank you, A.G.

[00:57:37] Thank you, Heather. Thank you, listeners. Thank you, Gabby. Bye bye. Bye. Welcome to the end of this show. This is Gabby Blackman and this is Heather Nye. Thank you for listening to comically exposed. We're just a little show with two creators who edit and produce each episode.

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