From the couch to comedy

Amy Brown: Empty nest. I think we need to make a different name for that. It should be like heart ripped out. But clean kitchen.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. No more shoes, but just really sad.

Amy Brown: More lone, more quiet.

Andrea Marie: We are Moms Unhinged, a nationally touring standup comedy show. Join us in our podcast as we explore everything from motherhood, midlife, crisis, marriage, divorce, online dating, menopause, and other things that irritate us.

 Hello, and welcome everyone to Moms Unhinged, the podcast. Wee, I know. Yay. I am here live with Amy Brown, one of our amazing headliners based in Georgia here.

I’m so excited. Welcome, Amy.

Amy Brown: Hello. Thank you for having me. It’s very nice to be on your podcast.

Andrea Marie: Thank you for having me in your studio on my podcast.

Amy Brown: I have a podcast. This is my podcast studio.

Andrea Marie: I know. For, actually before we get started, tell everyone about your podcast.

Amy Brown: It’s called Amy Brown Comedy Podcast, and it used to be called Nerdy For, but that was too hard to explain, and my name’s Amy Brown, and I do comedy, and it’s a podcast, so that was much easier just to put that all together so people could find it.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense. So yeah, super, super fun. Oh, one of the things I always like to ask people, and I forgot to mention this to you when I was talking earlier, but you’ll fly with it. how did you get into comedy?

Amy Brown: Ooh. I was eating Cheez-Its at night on my sofa drinking white wine, kids had gone to bed, watching TV on the sofa, and I just, like, flash forwarded 30 years and I was like, “Oh, God, I’m gonna die here.” “I’m gonna die here of a fatty ass and a fatty liver.” And the kids were getting to the point where they probably would, like I could see like they weren’t gonna need me forever.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Amy Brown: Yeah. And I needed to do something, and I was just scrolling on my phone, and I saw an advertisement for a improv at The Basement Theatre with J Star, and I signed up for it.

And I signed up my best friend because I was terrified. Mm-hmm. And we went, and we did improv, and I did that for like two years, and then I took a stand-up class. Yeah and that was, oh, so much, so much better. I know. Like oh, you can think about what you’re gonna say before it comes out of your mouth? That’s a good idea for me.

Andrea Marie: I know. It is wild. I do- I did improv for eight years, and I was like, “Oh, I’m never gonna do stand-up. That feels hard.” But it’s so… it’s so fun. Yeah.

Amy Brown: You can feel smarter, too. Yeah, the improv kids are amazing. Yeah they are, but they’re working on cocaine-level brain function. And I’m the opposite, a marijuana gummy. Melatonin.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. As, especially as we get older, now we’re into brain fog and all that. Oh my God, it’s-

Amy Brown: It’s insane. I already, the kind of dyslexia I have is where you cannot, for the life of you, imagine what a word is supposed to be spelled, what it’s supposed to look like. Take that kind of dyslexia, which means whenever I need a word, I don’t have it, add to it perimenopause.

I know. Brain fog. I have no nouns. No more, no more nouns for me. I have sound effects and act-outs only. I can describe everything about a celebrity, when they got married, where they got married- which movies they were in. I cannot remember their name.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, exactly. It’s next level. So great. So great. And you have two boys.

Amy Brown: I do. Two boys.

I have two boys. I know. I, you know, you don’t have control over what gender your children are sometimes, and I guess maybe in China you can. That got dark. But I really like having a boys. I like having the sweet boys.

Andrea Marie: Oh, I know.

Amy Brown: Although one of my boyfriend… One of my boyfriends. One of my boys- Freudian, has a girlfriend now, and we get to go shopping together.

Andrea Marie: Aw.

Amy Brown: That’s new. Oh. I’ve never had that. Have you gone shopping with a girlfriend of your son’s yet?

Andrea Marie: No, no.

Amy Brown: It’s so nice.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. That’s so fun. My youngest son has a girlfriend. I don’t, I actually don’t like shopping, so that to me sounds terrible, but it’s fun for, yeah, for others

Amy Brown: I had a good… It was the first time I got to try on clothes when we were at the mall. That’s awesome. It was nice to be included.

Empty nest and a clean kitchen

Andrea Marie: I know. That’s so awesome. And your boys are older. Yeah. They’re, I mean, older, like, you know-

Amy Brown: 19 and 21. 19 and 21.

Andrea Marie: Mm-hmm. So a freshman and a senior in college.

Amy Brown: Freshman and a senior in college.

Andrea Marie: So empty nest.

Amy Brown: Empty nest.

I think we need to make a different name for that. It should be like heart ripped out. But clean kitchen.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. No more shoes, but just really sad.

Amy Brown: More lone, more quiet.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Amy Brown: Oh, God.

Andrea Marie: I know. It’s hard. We were talking beforehand about, you know, it is like so challenging.

You think it’s gonna be great. You think like, “Oh, I can’t wait,” and then it happens, and you’re like, “Oh, that’s, that’s hard.”

Amy Brown: That’s hard. It’s such a final… if you do the math, they go to college or trade school, whatevers, then they move out, and they get a job, and then they get two weeks vacation for the rest of like, for their 20s. Yeah.

Andrea Marie: And are they gonna spend the majority with you?

Amy Brown: No, not at all. No. Not even a little bit almost probably. Yeah, right? Yeah, maybe a weekend. Like, never going to see them-

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Amy Brown: And have them really be like relaxed with you again.

Andrea Marie: Mm-hmm.

Amy Brown: And I’m gonna cry. It’s like the end of your family. Yeah. It feels, it felt like the end of our family.

Andrea Marie: Right. Yeah.

Amy Brown: It got weird when the first one went away.

Andrea Marie: Right.

Amy Brown: And we didn’t sit down and have family conversations where the teenagers were, like, talking in their like rizz.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Amy Brown: Boomer like, all that lingo. I’ll be like, “What’s happening? What language is this?”

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Amy Brown: “Tell me everything.” And cringe.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, mom.

Amy Brown: Mom.

Andrea Marie: Mom. Mom.

Amy Brown: Wrong. You don’t know anything, Mom.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Amy Brown: And so that vibe left. And so we get it every once in a while when we’re on vacation, and they’re chatting it up. Yeah, and it’s really fun. But it’s kind of the end of being a family.

And I was, as a dyslexic creative person, I was really good, it felt like I was really good at a lot of the mom stuff. Like crafting, and let’s get naked in the backyard and make paintings- … that are huge and we’ll put them in the house.

Yeah. And I, we did all these insane, huge crafts, and there’s lots of thing, I got big pieces of wood, and we all got tap shoes, and we, and I put mirrors up on the wall, and we were having a tap, like phase of our lives. We did all this weird stuff.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Amy Brown: And then when I got to the part where it was homework and wanting to talk about science, I got phased out. Yeah. And my husband, a physicist, got phased in. Yeah.

And now they can talk, they’ll talk on the phone for hours about AI and what’s happening in the markets. Yeah and all this stuff, and I’m just like, “Here, pull my finger. Like, ah. Mom’s here.

Smell my fart. You know? That’s all, I made cookies. Like I can feed them, and I can make stupid jokes.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Amy Brown: That’s what’s left.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. So you married a scientist, and then are your sons scientists?

Amy Brown: Nerd genes are wicked strong.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Amy Brown: They’re dominant.

Andrea Marie: I mean, there is more money in the nerd genes.

Amy Brown: Yeah. To be fair.

Andrea Marie: I know, I know. I know.

Amy Brown: Facts. Yeah.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Amy Brown: Yeah, they’re wicked employable. It’s wild. My older son’s already getting job offers- and he hasn’t even graduated yet.

Andrea Marie: Wow.

Amy Brown: It’s wild.

Andrea Marie: That’s amazing.

Amy Brown: I’m like, “What does that feel like?”

Trying to prepare for the kids to leave

Andrea Marie: That is… I know, right? That’s amazing. That’s so great. It is hard. Like, you don’t realize how short this time really is. It does feel like, there’s that saying, the days are long, but the years are short, right? You feel like you blink, and you miss it.

And then you realize, like you said, how short the vacations are gonna be, and it’s just like, when are you gonna see them?

Amy Brown: There’s, yeah. There’s this thing where you’re supposed to get a jar and put marbles in it for how many weekends you have left with your kids before they go to college.

Get home. And then you take a marble out.

Andrea Marie: Oh man.

Amy Brown: Okay. All right. I tried to pre-mourn too. Yeah I tried to pre-get ready. Like, I would say to myself, “Okay, this is our last Christmas break to- this is our last spring break- we’ve the same, same breaks. I tried to be like, “Okay, really enjoy it. Be present.”

And I still was sad when it happened. It didn’t work. I know. I don’t think you can pre-

Andrea Marie: Pre-grieve …

Amy Brown: pre-sad yourself.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. Pre-grieving is, you just have to go through it no matter what. It doesn’t matter, so. It doesn’t.

Amy Brown: I have heard too, like, now you’re supposed to celebrate, “Oh, this is the first time we’re getting together after everyone is in college, and the first time we’re going some like doing some sort of new traditions.”

Andrea Marie: Instead.

Amy Brown: To kinda celebrate the next phase.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, instead of it being the last, yeah. And, you know, it’s hard ’cause you don’t… it becomes more uncertain. Like when they’re with you, they’re gonna be there all through high school, and now it’s kind of like, “I don’t know when they’ll be back.” Like, when my son didn’t come home for spring break, I was like, “Wait, what?”

 

Amy Brown: Yeah, yeah. And I didn’t come home between my freshman and sophomore year of college. I went and like did other things in a different city, and in retrospect, my poor m- I called her when I realized it as an adult. “I’m so sorry.” She’s like, “Yeah, I know.” “Thanks a lot.” Gut punch.

Andrea Marie: Oh, man.

Amy Brown: Yeah.

Andrea Marie: So how, do you have any like good tips for people coping with this or facing the emptiness?

Amy Brown: Do something, yeah. Find a nice, good- middle-life crisis activity, I have picked stand comedy. I started when I was 40.

Andrea Marie: Come on. Join us.

Amy Brown: Yes. Join us. My husband quit his job. Starting a new company. Oh, wow. Wow. We’re both going full balls to the wall crazy, big leads of excitement and adrenaline to distract from the grief.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Amy Brown: I guess it is.

Finding a midlife crisis activity

Andrea Marie: Yeah, I mean, that can be kind of exciting too, is that you get a chance to really have your own schedule and do your own things.

You’re like traveling on the big Salty Mom tour and with Moms Unhinged and you’re doing all kinds of travel that, you know.

Amy Brown: I’m gonna see the country. Yeah, you’re sending me to the top of Michigan, Andrea. What is that place called?

Andrea Marie: It is the… We are in Bay Harbor.

Bay

Amy Brown: Harbor,

Andrea Marie: Michigan, October.

Amy Brown: I’ve been to Michigan. Yeah. So this, I’m gonna see all of it.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Amy Brown: I’m going all the way up. I’m gonna kiss Canada and then come back.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. Yeah, we’re gonna get to Canada. I’m gonna figure out how we get Moms Unhinged to Canada too, so yeah.

That’d be awesome.

Amy Brown: International trip traveling.

Andrea Marie: International. International, yes. Yeah, starting a hobby is a good, definitely a good.

Amy Brown: Do not get a dog. Sorry to interrupt.

Andrea Marie: Oh, yeah.

Amy Brown: I have a friend who did that, and she’s so sad now because she can’t travel ’cause the dog, this puppy.

Andrea Marie: Puppies are hard.

Amy Brown: That’s a full-time… That’s a baby-

Andrea Marie: That is a baby.

Amy Brown: That you can put in a cage and not go to jail.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, that’s awesome. So one of the questions I love to ask all of our moms who come on the podcast is can you give me an unhinged moment, either with your own kids or your parents?

Like just so we all feel a little bit better about ourselves as parents, ’cause this is a hard job. So give us a-

Amy Brown: Oh, it’s burned on my brain. Ooh. It was the end of the summer.

Andrea Marie: Uh-huh.

Amy Brown: This is me as a mother. My kids were, I wanna say elementary school.

Andrea Marie: Uh-huh.

Amy Brown: And it, I also was working as an interior designer, and I had to do all this paperwork that day, and they were home, and it wasn’t even, I don’t even think.

I just got interrupted too many times, and I stood up, and I turned around, and I did some sort of Mexican hat dance. Like my feet were just like a Russian guy. Like, kick, kick, kick, kick, kick. And I kicked my chair over, and I hurt my leg. Oh. And I was like, “Okay, what was it that you wanted?” Like I just I had an eruption.

And it turned into a kick line. And I was like, “That was weird.” I’m like, “Okay. I need to maybe take a step back from my desk work.” And I’m very dyslexic, so when I’m desk working, I already feel pretty inadequate as a human being.

And this other time, my son was having a fit in the kitchen, and I was holding a glass of water, and I dumped it on his head.

Andrea Marie: Oh.

Amy Brown: I know, right? it was like Real Housewives, totally rude. I didn’t like swear, call him a slut, and then throw it in his face. Uh-huh, yeah, yeah. Okay, I didn’t full Housewives, but I just dumped it on his head.

Andrea Marie: Oh.

Amy Brown: And then I was like, “I can’t believe I did that.” And he was like, “I can’t believe you did that,” like with his eyes.

And then we both started laughing. So I hope he doesn’t, like, do that to his girlfriend as an adult and think, like, that’s okay.

Andrea Marie: That is hilarious. Yeah. I mean, you know what? A little cold splash of water, you know, it’s a little reset. Little reset.

 

Amy Brown: Glad he took it the right way.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, yeah.

That is awesome.

 Teaching a teenager to drive

Amy Brown: My gosh. One time wh- I was teaching my son to drive.

Andrea Marie: Ooh, that’s a, that’s a-

Amy Brown: Ooh, girl … that’s a whole, yeah. Ooh-hoo-hoo. No, that should be, like, you know how they have the cameras in the taxi cabs, like late night confessions? They should just have cameras on parents trying to teach their kids to drive.

And we were coming onto, and up to this, like, garbage truck, and I’m like, “Stop, stop, slow down, slow down, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.” And he goes, my son goes, “I am stopping, you crazy whore.”

And then the car stops. He looks at me like, “Uh-oh.” Like, “Oh, God, I can’t believe I just said that.” And I looked at him like, “Oh, my God, I cannot believe you just said that.” And then we died laughing.

Andrea Marie: Oh, that is so hilarious.

Amy Brown: Crazy whore.

Andrea Marie: That is so funny. Comes out of his mouth. Oh, God. Oh, my God. That’s hilarious.

I know. The driving is a whole nother level of like anxiety and stress.

Amy Brown: My, My anxiety, I gotta be honest, has gone down a lot since they’re not in my home every time. Oh, yeah. Like now they’re like when they first left, when they first left, I was like, “What are they doing?

Where are they?” I was tracking them all the time. Yeah. And now just not, not like, even when they come home on vacation, I’m like, “Where are you going? When are you coming home? When do I expect you at home? The anxiety goes right back up.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, yeah.

Amy Brown: Out of sight, out of mind. Is that maybe a good mother?

I don’t know.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. That’s, ah, that’s so funny. It’s just, yeah. So tell me about your parents. You’re a theater person. Were they also theater people?

Amy Brown: They both liked musicals. Like, my mom and my dad met in college. My dad was singing along to Camelot in the rec room at their college, and she walked in and she was like, “That man knows the words to Camelot.” Grr.

And they, so we watched musicals together, and they would take me to see them. But, like, they’re not, they’re, I guess, a little bit theatrical now that I think about it, but they were just busy trying to make money and-

Andrea Marie: Yeah

Amy Brown: Pay the bills and my mom rode horses. My dad just lives on a lawnmower to this day. He loves to mow the lawn. What was the question? Oh, just my parents.

Andrea Marie: They theater? Yeah, were they theater?

Amy Brown: They were, and they were like the 1970s like kind of hands-off generation of parenting.

Mm-hmm.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Amy Brown: So I was just running around naked for a while.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, it was very, I keep thinking about parenting now versus parenting back then and it’s just we’re so much more hands-on. It’s so, you even know where your kids are at college right now. Mm-hmm. My mom, you know, I went over to England for a year.

She had no idea where I was for like a year.

Amy Brown: The whole time. Yeah.

Andrea Marie: Yes. The whole time she … You know? Right? I wasn’t even, I would call like once every two weeks or something.

Amy Brown: My mom’s parents moved when she was in college. And didn’t tell her where they went. And her mail got returned and she’s like, “What?”

Oh my God. It was-

Andrea Marie: That’s kind of crazy.

Amy Brown: And they moved to Europe, and those are like the really expensive phone calls. Oh. So yeah.

Andrea Marie: Oh my God. That’s wild. It’s crazy.

Oh my God. And so your parents weren’t super theater, but you, they were supportive of your being in theater.

Amy Brown: Yeah. There was no pressure to do or not do things.

I did have to ride horses.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Amy Brown: And I had to clean like the stall and stuff like that.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Amy Brown: Yeah. And empty the dishwasher and get good grades.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Amy Brown: But I could do, they were really sweet. Like I wanted, I tried everything. I tried figure skating. I tried ice hockey. I tried karate. I would then, my mom would, I’d sign me up, gymnastics.

Uh-huh. She’d take me after work. She had a full-time job working in family court. She said sometimes she would just cry. It was a 30-minute drive home. Oh, God. She’d cry the whole way home.

Andrea Marie: Oh.

Amy Brown: Wow. “Take me to gymnastics,” you know? Good times.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Amy Brown: Yeah, yeah. But yeah, just seeing the pace of parenting now, I couldn’t, like, you take the child to the physical therapy class and then you take them to their dance, like, the dance kids. Right. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Those are, it’s every day after school.

At least that’s like, one drop-off. Like, but some people have, like, three or four different drop-offs per child. Right. Not even if you have more children. And then they get home, and they have to do their five minutes of reading and their five minutes of piano.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Amy Brown: And biddy, biddy, biddy, and take a shower, brush your teeth, floss your teeth. It’s exhaus- I’m exhausted. I can’t even, I don’t even take care of myself that well. I know. I know.

Andrea Marie: I do two activities, and I’m like, “I’m done.” You know? Gotta lay down. I, yeah. I know. I know. It’s a lot. It’s a lot that we have to do as parents nowadays.

Getting college boys to share their lives

Andrea Marie: And you know, so it is, I can see definitely the… I mean, that is nice. The anxiety goes down when they do leave, but it is also the laughter and the knowing what’s going on day to day, and you just don’t get that same level of communication, especially from boys.

Amy Brown: Nothing.

 crazy stuff to them when they call from college- Yeah … to see if any of the noodles stick to the wall. I’m like, “Have you thrown up yet?” I guess how I got some information. I know. You just, you gotta shoot it in the dark, like, “have you kissed a girl yet?”

Yeah. “What like what’s going on?”

Andrea Marie: Right, right.

Amy Brown: “Have you missed a class?” Yeah. “Have you slept in?” Yeah. “Have you had an all-nighter?”

Andrea Marie: Yeah. Yeah I know, ’cause you don’t know what’s, and the boys, yeah, they don’t tell you. They don’t tell you much. I’ll text them, and it’s like, “Yeah.” You get nothing.

You get nothing. Get nothing.

Amy Brown: We’ve been doing family group chats. This has been really fun. Oh, yeah. We’ll do a family FaceTime, like, group chat. All together, both boys, me and my husband, my husband and I. I don’t know how to say that. And so we’re all catching up together.

Andrea Marie: Uh

Amy Brown: huh.

And so the boys are caught up on each other.

We’re caught up on everybody. Yeah. The dog will make an appearance, so.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. Yeah, that’s kind of nice. We’ve done some of those FaceTime where we’ll, like, arrange a, a time where we all eat dinner together over FaceTime. And the boys will have, bring in their dinner. We’ll have our dinner.

Amy Brown: That’s nice.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Amy Brown: Really neat.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, that’s kind of fun. It feels like you’re getting together for a family meal, and then we have yeah family chat channel on our whatever.

Amy Brown: Something. I just remembered something. I have a friend who works like the social emotional part of like high-end CEO people.

Andrea Marie: Uh-huh.

Amy Brown: And she said her greatest takeaway in interviewing these people is that when the children go to college, it affects both parents even if it’s not the primary care provider. Both these old school guys who were CEOs and like their whole life was work, when the kids go to college, they get the gut punch, too.

Uh-huh. Like, it happens to everybody. And then their advice was be the house they wanna come to on vacation. Like if it has to be the one with the pool and the hot tub and the endless cookies or the ski resort house or whatever.

Andrea Marie: Right.

Amy Brown: That’s one way to get them to bring their friends and come visit on the vacations.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, no pressure. That is so smart. I am big into all the baked goods. They come home and it’s like you got banana bread, then you got this at lunch you got this and this. Ah, yes and then at dinner you got a cake.

Amy Brown: I’ve just started baking again.

Yeah. Because I’m like, I gotta figure out how to do chocolate chip cookies on, like, in a minute-

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Amy Brown: So that I’m ready. This is the only way they’re gonna feel love from me now.

Andrea Marie: I know, right? That’s how I show love. It’s just all food-based.

Amy Brown: Food-based.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Grandmas Unhinged

Amy Brown: Have you thought about…? Okay, so our next transition after empty nest and little visits is grandparents.

Andrea Marie: Oh, yeah.

Amy Brown: Have you thought about that yet?

No.

Andrea Marie: My kids are, yeah, 24, 21, so we’re not.

Amy Brown: I hang out with older women. I play tennis on a group witho like, grandkids.

Yeah which makes it wonderful, and they love ’em. They’re like, “It’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me having this grandbaby.

Andrea Marie: I know.

Well, and we have several of our moms Unhinged Moms, like Stephanie and Stacy and Julie, they all have recently become and Jody. They’ve all recently become grandmas. And we’ll have to have Grandmas Unhinged.

That sounds hot. That’s clickbait, actually. That’s clickbait. It is. That’s a sexy time right there. Yeah.

They all, like, love it. And a lot of them are going and just spending time living nearby so that they can take care ofthe grand babies. Yeah. Like and have that extra time and it’s so supportive. ‘Cause now, you know, kids grow up, they move to, they get a job in a whole different-

Amy Brown: Whole different place.

Andrea Marie: Whole different place. My son lives in Savannah, so I’m gonna go see him-

Amy Brown: See him …

Andrea Marie: Tomorrow.

Amy Brown: I heard this lady rented a house across the street from her son and daughter-in-law when they had a baby.

Yeah. She rented like the house across the street and she was like, “I can take the baby here so you can sleep.”

Andrea Marie: Right.

Amy Brown: What a nice lady.

Andrea Marie: I know. That sounds

Amy Brown: amazing.

That’s in my hard drive for like that’s a play you can do if you need to get Best Grandparent Award.

Andrea Marie: I know. That sounds, that sounds so fun, and then you get to give ’em back.

You know that.

Amy Brown: To give them back.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Amy Brown: Go on your cougar cruise. Grandmas Unhinged.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, that’s it.

Coming to a boat near you. I don’t know.

Amy Brown: Scooters come with the wine holder. Like, with the cup holder.

Andrea Marie: Well, Amy, this has been so much fun, so great.

Amy Brown: Loved it. I loved it.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Hold on to your girlfriends

Amy Brown: Thank you so much. It’s so sweet. These Moms Unhinged shows are so much fun. The vibe, are so great, and if it’s female friendship is the most important thing.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Amy Brown: The men get old and die. You gotta hold on. Men get weird. You gotta hold onto your girlfriends. Yeah, you gotta maintain them.

Right. And they’re gonna get real crazy from 49 to 52 and then they’re gonna get nice again. Yeah. Hold on, I know they’re crazy. Hold on to them. And then keep them, and if you are lonely, go to a Moms Unhinged show.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Amy Brown: Cause you will know that the person already has a good sense of humor. That’s exactly- So that’s half of the battle with your friends. Is getting the good funny ones that are gonna help you laugh through all the tragedy of life.

Andrea Marie: Exactly, and that is part of the show is that you get to laugh through what’s happening to our bodies and the kids and all that stuff like that together. Mm-hmm. And takes a little of the trauma away.

But also it’s a fun night out because it’s different than just going out to dinner or something like that. I mean, you can surely go out to dinner with your-

Amy Brown: It is. ‘Cause then you can talk about the jokes later that you saw with your friends and text them back and forth.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. That’s right.

Amy Brown: That’s fun.

Andrea Marie: Awesome. So you have, if you haven’t checked out momsunhinged.com, see where Amy is coming next. You’ve got a lot of shows coming up with us all over. Amy Brown Comedy. Amy Brown Comedy. Yeah, tell people where they can find you online.

Amy Brown: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.

I have a special on there called Indoor Wife, Amy Brown Comedy on YouTube. TikTok, ooh. I think I’ve been shadow banned on there. Yeah. Pornhub. No, I’m just kidding.

Andrea Marie: Feet Finder.

Amy Brown: Oh. I knock, I almost, I felt tempted to bring my foot above the table and put it in the camera.

Andrea Marie: A little bonus for those watching.

Well thank you so much, Amy, for joining us and, everyone, thank you so much for tuning in live.

Amy Brown: Bye. Hug your friends.

Andrea Marie: Thanks for listening and make sure you subscribe, share, and follow us on the socials to get more comedy clips.