[00:00:00] Motherhood Is Just…Wet

Tara Check: For those of you that don’t know or remember what it’s like to have an infant, it’s been a five-month-long game of guess why my shirt’s wet. I looked down at my pants yesterday and there was a mysterious stain. I said, “Oh God, I hope that’s not poop.” And then I wore them for like four more hours.

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 everyone and welcome to Moms Unhinged the podcast. And I am joined today by the amazing Tara Check, who is both a new mom and kind of new to Moms Unhinged. Because she’s a new mom, we were like, “Okay, boom. You had a baby. Get out here and perform.”

Tara Check: Yep.

Andrea Marie: So welcome, Tara. Thank you so much for joining us in your extremely busy day, I know, with a young, young child, so thank you.

Tara Check: Thank you so much for having me.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Nice to have a reason to step away.

I know, just like quiet, like, “Oh, God. Do not bother me for half an hour.” I do feel like it’s like there are… it’s so rare. So share with us, how old is your, it’s daughter, right? Oh my.

Tara Check: No, now I have a son.

Andrea Marie: Darn it. Oh, shoot. I am so, so bad at remembering, and I’m always wrong. So, son. Oh, that’s really fun.

That is so fun.

[00:01:51] The Daycare Germ Olympics

Tara Check: He is just about 10 months old now, so his birthday’s in September.

Andrea Marie: 10 months. Oh my gosh, that’s really, and it feels to me like it’s flown by because I feel like you just had the baby, but every day is like 10 months.

Tara Check: It’s like simultaneously the fastest my life has ever moved and the slowest. Like, it seems like he’s been here forever, but then I can’t believe he’s 10 months already. So it’s like this weird time warp.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. It is hard to even explain to people who, yeah, it’s just like what? And then it’s like, yeah, it’ll be 2 PM and you haven’t done anything. What happened? How?

How has your journey been?

Anything hugely surprising other than just all the work?

Tara Check: Yeah, I think like it’s almost hard to remember those early days, right? Like your brain does some kind of trickery, I think, to try to, lull you into a false sense of confidence if it wasn’t so bad and I’m gonna have more. I think that’s biological.

So right now, you know, my son just entered daycare a few months ago.

I came out of maternity leave and he went to daycare, and I think one of the things I was not prepared for was like the illness, the constant illness. You know, people told me kids get sick a lot, but this is like every week, there was a five-week time period where he went to daycare for four days.

Andrea Marie: Oh my gosh.

Tara Check: And then it’s stuff like, you know, he comes home with hand, foot, and mouth disease, and then people are like, “Adults don’t get hand, foot, and mouth disease, and if they do, it’s very mild.” I was covered.

My doctor said it’s the worst case they had seen in an adult, and I was like, “How am I getting barnyard diseases from this baby?”

Andrea Marie: I know children are disgusting. They are.

Tara Check: Peek in the window at daycare whenever he, you know, I’m picking him up, and I just watch him like grab a toy from another kid straight into his mouth. I was like, “This is the problem.”

Andrea Marie: That is why. They don’t know that, that they’re not supposed to do that.

Tara Check: And then I get it usually, and my husband doesn’t, but I think it’s because I started, I thought it was cute to do this thing where I, like, pretend to eat the baby’s hands, so now he puts his hands in my mouth all the time That one’s on me a little bit.

Andrea Marie: Oh, man. Oh, but there’s just such a fun… I mean, I always felt like every age had its own fun time. 10 months, is he crawling? Is he thinking about walking? Is he, you know?

Tara Check: Yeah, so I don’t know if this is bad that I was saying this, but I was like, “My baby is a potato. He’s never gonna move.” Like, he was so behind on like, rolling over, and it. I always felt like he could physically do it, but that it was more of like a I don’t really feel like it situation. So it’s kind of like he rolled and then immediately started crawling, and then immediately started pulling up on things.

So it was kind of like we had not baby-proofed. We really still haven’t. We just did a playpen. That is the only safe place we can put him right now, but it just happened very quickly.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Tara Check: Right now this age is really fun. I’m like, very much enjoying this ’cause he’s got some personality. He thinks I’m the bee’s knees.

He’s sleeping well. You know, all that stuff. So this is a really cool time.

Andrea Marie: I love that. It’s so fun. So fun when, and when they start to be able to communicate their needs, that’s so huge ’cause you’re like, for a while you’re like, “What? Why are you screaming? I have no, I don’t know. I’m doing all the things,” and you know, It’s good when they can really start to signal things and, you know, talking is so fun. So that’s great. That’s great.

[00:05:54] Raising a Baby (and a Very Confused Dog)

Tara Check: He said mama, but he wasn’t really talking to me, so I don’t know if it counts or not, but I’m gonna take it. He made the noises.

Andrea Marie: For sure count it. It is his first word.

Tara Check: Another thing about this age too is I’m just like comparing him to the dog and waiting to see when he gets smarter than the dog. Like I don’t think he’s quite there yet, but I think it’s like in the next couple months gonna happen. The dog’s pretty smart though, so I don’t know.

Andrea Marie: The dog is winning.

Tara Check: Yeah, yeah. But I think he’s smarter than the average dog, so it’s big competition right now.

Andrea Marie: I wonder if the dog’s trying to… He’s like, “Oh man, I gotta keep up.” I don’t know.

Yeah.

Tara Check: Now I just yell, “Drop it,” and they like both look at me, and usually I’m not talking to the dog.

Andrea Marie: Drop it. Everyone just drop it, whatever it.

Tara Check: Husband drops his coffee.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Tara Check: “I I don’t know who she’s talking to.”

Andrea Marie: Oh my God. How did the dog handle the baby? Was he jealous? I mean, ’cause, you know, being the only dog.

Tara Check: Yeah, he was a dual income, no kid dog, right? That we’d had for five years. Yeah He’s very sweet. He’s like a scary dog, so I was like, “I don’t know if he’s gonna eat the baby or not.” So it was really nice in like the postpartum era. He was always just right there with me. Late night feedings, whatever, he was laying next to the chair and stuff.

He looks at me like we ruined his life a lot. But he still is very, he tries to be supportive, I think. The baby starting to move freaked, freaks him out, for sure. So that’s why, instead of putting the dog in a cage, we got a cage for the baby so that the dog has, he was here first, so it’s what you gotta do.

Andrea Marie: He gets free range. That’s awesome.

Tara Check: But the baby loves the dog so much that if he’s fussy, I just call the dog into the room and it cheers him up. So I really use that to my advantage quite a bit.

Andrea Marie: Oh, that’s really good. That is a really good trick. So that’s amazing. Perfect. I don’t know if people with babies should get dogs just for that reason ’cause there’s just a lot, that’s a lot going on, but that’s a good hack right there for sure.

Tara Check: Yeah, I definitely, don’t think I would’ve chosen to do it in the other order ’cause like, you know, I pick up my babies like covered in dog hair, but I committed to the dog first and I love him so much that it’s just our lives.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, that’s right. So I wanna just get a little, so you’re still performing even after having a baby. That’s a challenging thing. How are you finding time for that as you are parenting?

Tara Check: My husband is very competent with the hands-on care of the baby. You know, like, I had a C-section, so the first three days I don’t think I really did much. I think he was, it’s kind of a blur, but he was sort of doing all this hands-on care, so he got comfortable very quick. Like he had to have a talk with me when we got home, and he’s like, “You know, the diapers fall off when you put them on.”

Andrea Marie: You’re really doing a terrible job.

Tara Check: “You don’t how to put the diaper on.” And I know it doesn’t sound hard, but it’s like you don’t want to make it too tight.

Andrea Marie: I know. Cut off circulation to their legs. I don’t know.

Tara Check: Yeah. I was just thinking about how tight I would want my diaper to be.

Andrea Marie: I like a roomy pant.

Tara Check: Yeah.

Andrea Marie: I don’t.

Tara Check: I just like to have good range of motion, a little airflow, but that’s not how you put a diaper on. So from day one, my husband was very capable, and I think we make it a point to, like,

[00:09:49] Crying Over a Bottle Washer

Tara Check: we both need to do the things that we wanna do sometimes. Because we’re people outside of this like, weird bubble that you get in with a baby where it’s like, well, he goes to bed at 7:00, so we don’t really go anywhere.

And if we do, it’s not that fun. You know, so he’s very supportive of me continuing to do that,

and I think especially during that weird postpartum kind of phase, I think I had, you know, even some, like I had some anxiety after the birth about the way things went down, and the first thing I thought is like, just write a joke about it.

Write some jokes about it, get on stage and do them, because it immediately had me thinking about it from a different light. It’s not so traumatic anymore. It’s like a kind of a funny thing with, you know, a hint of maybe some trauma underneath it. And then the coolest thing.

Andrea Marie: That’s all comedy right there. That is.

Tara Check: Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

Andrea Marie: Little skosh of trauma. Little…

Tara Check: I made it a little cute, but I’m a little traumatized.

Andrea Marie: Oh.

Tara Check: I think the coolest thing at the mom shows though is that after I tell this story, I, women come up to me and say, “Oh, I had like a similar experience in my birth story and that journey,” and I think it’s cool to laugh, for all of us to laugh about it at that point.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, for sure. And I think the huge thing is that we just don’t… a lot of times either you don’t talk about it or the people right around you don’t have that experience, so you think, “Oh, gosh, am I the only one?” And then you, you know, you’re able to, you know, when you say it on stage, there’s definitely people who’ve had that situation, sometimes worse, and you’re like, “Oh, God, that’s terrible. You should do comedy.” It is. I think it just helps take some of the, the pressure off of it, the bad feelings. I think Nancy Norton always says, “Take your pain and play with it,” and it does help make it less, less traumatic, and we can all share around how difficult, first of all, childbirth is, and then just, you know, having children in general we’re always going through challenging things.

So that’s great.

[00:12:04] The birth story nobody expects

Tara Check: As women specifically not, I guess men too, but culturally we’re like, “Oh, don’t complain,” right? Like I’m not gonna complain because all these women have done this, and some people have it way worse. And I always catch myself going, “Oh, this is bad, but I know people that had it way worse.”

And I think that then you don’t really acknowledge that what you went through was challenging as well.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, we definitely don’t wanna minimize our own situation just ’cause, you know, ’cause there is a range of situations. And every, it can be really hard, but they’re all hard and, you know, for sure. Like especially I think childbirth, when you have a vision of how you think it’s gonna go, you know, you have this plan, you have this idea, and it just always goes sideways.

I passed out and threw up in the middle of my childbirth, and I woke up and I’m like, “What’s happening?” You know, it’s just so messy, you know?

Tara Check: Yeah. went in assuming that whatever I wanted to happen might not happen, and that may sound like I’m a negative person. I just have, I’m a bad luck person, right? Like, the other day I was walking my dog and a squirrel fell out of a tree and hit me.

Andrea Marie: Oh.

Tara Check: This is my life.

Andrea Marie: That’s gonna be so.

Tara Check: It was so jarring. I’m not comparing it to, like, being shot, ’cause I know it’s different.

But it was like, it’s this moment where you know something happened, but you don’t know what it was, and then you see the body of the squirrel on the sidewalk, and then it takes off running, and you’re like, “Did that even just actually happen?”

Andrea Marie: To I know. So That is so, yeah, that is so true when something sudden happens, you’re like, “What? I have no idea. What?” Yeah, that’s wild. I mean, the odds of that happening have gotta be so extremely low. It’s just.

Tara Check: Yeah, that’s what I’m thinking is like, you know, I had this phobia, a phobia whenever I was walking around with the bassinet that a squirrel would fall into the bassinet. So I googled, you know, like how often do squirrels fall out of trees? And Reddit, which I trust usually, was like, “They never fall out of trees. Squirrels just, they’re built for it. They do not fall out of trees.”

So imagine my surprise when the internet lied to me when I got by a squirrel. all this to say is I have kind of bad luck, so I went into birth going, probably whatever can happen might happen. You know what, at one point they had to put, water back into me.

You know, your water breaks and it’s out, and you think that’s the end of the story. They’re like, “Well, no, we’ll put some back in.” I was like, “I’ve never even heard of that. I didn’t know that was a thing.”

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Tara Check: I went in expecting that anything could happen, but even then I feel like I was not prepared.

And then when someone says, “You have to have surgery while you’re awake,” you’re like, “This is crazy.” I was like, “So can he stay in? Does he have to come out? Like, I’m actually, I don’t mind being pregnant.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Tara Check: “We’ll just keep him in there forever.”

Andrea Marie: Apparently no one wants this to happen.

Tara Check: Yeah. Yeah.

Andrea Marie: Gosh, it’s so it’s hard. But then, you know, it’s like to your point, you know, talking about how our memories, just soften everything, I really do feel like my first childbirth experience was, did not go great.

But then, you know, you kind of think later, “Was that so bad? I think I can do it again.” You know? And it like, yeah, it is a weird thing that our brains do. And luckily you have this beautiful baby. at the end it just, you know.

Tara Check: It was for something.

Andrea Marie: It is for something.

[00:15:53] Starting Comedy After Becoming a Mom

Andrea Marie: And so it’s, that is just, that is great. So I wanna also like talk about your comedy journey because you started, you started comedy, later in life. Like how long have you been doing comedy at this point?

Tara Check: It’s probably about three years now, two or three years.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, that’s, that is amazing. And you started with a class with Christy Buechler.

Our own Christy Buechler here in Denver. Did you take other classes or was that?

Tara Check: it was my first one. I did a couple of wedding speeches for, you know, family members or friends, and people were like, “You know, you should try comedy.” And I always did, like, theater and stuff like that, and those opportunities kind of diminish if you’re not a professional, like, you get older, and then have, like, a real job and stuff.

And so I thought, “Maybe this like, performing thing, it could be in the, this form.” So I went to an open mic night, and it went fine, but I’m a…

Andrea Marie: So you did open mic first. Okay, all right.

Tara Check: And then I was very stressed out because I didn’t know the rules. I’m like, it’s like chaos and pandemonium, and like, people are yelling, and it’s like, how do I know when to leave the stage?

Just like, feelings. I didn’t understand the light. I didn’t understand if I hug the person that gave me the microphone. When in doubt, just hug the stranger.

Andrea Marie: I’m a big hugger.

Tara Check: Yeah, yeah, that’s fine. And so I just felt like I need to know the rules, and I know that’s crazy for an art, but like, my day job is engineering.

I don’t work in the gray well. It just is not. So I saw Christy’s class, and took it, and I know that this is dramatic, but it was life-changing in that like, she just knew what I needed to hear and how I needed to learn it. you know, there were things, like in my writing, it was so wordy, and I knew it was, but I didn’t know how to make it less so, and she just made it so easy, right?

I know some people don’t need a class. They don’t need that information, but for me, it’s exactly what I needed. And then I met you know, a friend in that class who started producing all these shows, and he started putting me on, right? Joe Huisman.

Andrea Marie: I want to talk about that too, ’cause yeah.

Tara Check: And it’s just like that’s really where I started getting the reps, where I feel like between Christy and the opportunities given to me by Joe and you that I’ve been able to progress faster than I would’ve thought.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, like doing these awesome it’s huge. It really is huge. Open mics can get you know, get you good, some good stage time, but they don’t really get you the experience of being on a show ’cause it’s so different, and the audience is so different, and, so it’s super valuable. So you started performing, for Second Chance Comedy, started by Joe Huisman.

And for those people who are in the Denver, Front Range area, if you haven’t gone to a Second Chance Comedy, definitely go and see that because it is really good. Joe puts on a great show with just a variety of comedians, and it’s all about addiction and recovery, center- centered around that.

And a lot of times it’s in sober bars or places where people can go, you know, and be away from alcohol and things like that, so. And everyone who’s on it, is typically has some stories about either recovery themselves, but I love your story that you tell about your brother. So why don’t you share a little bit about your brother, ’cause I died laughing. The first time I heard you, I was like, “Oh, my gosh, that is crazy.” So why don’t you share a little bit about that?

[00:19:52] The Wildest Story to Come Out of Indiana

Tara Check: Know, everyone wonders if they’re adopted at some point when they’re around their siblings. They’re like, “I’m not like this.” But I think like truly with my brothers it’s like how are we from the same cloth really? But, this brother in particular always struggled with addiction and things, but he decided in the process to become an entrepreneur and start, , making and selling meth, which is very lucrative where I grew up in Indiana.

But he was living in a trailer with no water trying to do his manufacturing process, so he started using his urine in the steps that you would normally use water ’cause he didn’t have water. He didn’t wanna buy it. His urine didn’t cost him a thing. He was making it anyway. When you do meth, I guess it doesn’t metabolize, so like it will come out in your pee.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Tara Check: So when he was using it to make the meth, it actually made his meth stronger, so like it became kind of like a local news story because they thought he was like some genius that had figured this out, right? And then I was like, “It’s circumstance. He just didn’t have the water.” He wasn’t like, “You know what I think will really work with my extensive chemistry background?”

Andrea Marie: Now was this before Breaking Bad or…?

Tara Check: It was before. Like, I think he was the original, the original guy that really wanted to make his impact in the meth world. And so yeah, and then he was in jail the whole time that I went to college. I mean, they almost like lined up.

Andrea Marie: Wow.

Tara Check: He’s you know, doing much better now, but it’s hard to come out of that and one, the celebrity of like you’re the meth guy, and he has to be like, “Not anymore.”

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Tara Check: “I’m out of the life.”

Andrea Marie: And so everyone knew, I mean, it’s on the news. Everyone knows… I mean, were you starting to get, like, messages? Or this was probably before social media

Tara Check: It was right on the line of like people had Facebooks but you had to have a college email to sign up for Facebook. Yeah. But it was so common for people to get busted for things like this that no one really thought that much about it. Like Farmersburg, Indiana, everyone has a brother that went to jail for meth.

But I did, you know, I was always like really good in school, like especially the sciences. And so when I’d be getting good grade on chemistry tests, it’d be like, “It runs in the family I guess, guys. I don’t know.”

Andrea Marie: Oh my God. It is wild. Your brother went to jail for manufacturing meth. You’re an engineer. It’s like, like such a.

Tara Check: Literally, I was the valedictorian of my class while my brother was like, on trial for pee meth.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Tara Check: and it’s just like I just don’t know. And it’s like we really weren’t raised that differently, so it’s like where does this diverge? And I think part of it was like I knew that Farmersburg was not my jam. I was very vocal, and as a woman in those like, environments, I thought there was something wrong with me.

I was like, “I just gotta get out of here and start fresh where I’m not such a freak.” And then I went to college, and I was like, “Wait a minute. There’s other women like me that don’t wanna just have nine babies,” and like, you know. And that’s fine if that’s your path, but it’s like I didn’t see great examples around me of people who weren’t doing that.

I mean, I think my mom, right? She was an emergency room nurse. She was a single mom for some of the time, and I think if it wasn’t for her, I might not have even known it was an option to be like a career person. But the people I was surrounded by, were not going that path, so it was like…

And then I got out into other parts of the world, and I’m like, “Oh, okay. I’m not as weird as I thought.” Still weird.

[00:24:06] Why Moms Overshare to Complete Strangers

Andrea Marie: Still a little, Yeah, still a little weird. I mean, hey, we’re in comedy.

Tara Check: Oh, me with the daycare moms, they have to think I’m the biggest weirdo because I do bad in short bursts with people. Like if you only see me for like a minute at a time, I’m not good at that.

And so in about four years, right, when he’s about to leave daycare, I think they’re gonna be like, “She’s actually not so bad.”

Andrea Marie: She’s actually cool. Did you know?

Tara Check: Yeah.

Andrea Marie: Really? I know. I often say some weird things right when I’m like, “Okay, never mind. I’ll just be over here.”

Tara Check: Like you wanna talk about the weather, I’m not good at that, and it’s not because I think I’m so above it. I just like, panic. But if you wanna talk about your relationship with your parents the first time I meet you at overshare, I love that. I’m all in for that. It’s what I do.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Tara Check: That doesn’t go great at drop-off.

Andrea Marie: I know. I have told people in the grocery line that I am having my period right now. It’s just like it’s like a little, it’s too much.

Tara Check: I went to Walgreens yesterday. They were having a fire sale on tampons, and then I also bought a bag of Hi-Chews and went up to the front desk and I was like, “You know, the Hi-Chews, ’cause clearly…” And the lady’s like, “I don’t care why you’re buying all this.” I just felt like she would be thinking it, so I needed to acknowledge it.

But then she’s like, “Why are you giving me all these details?”

Andrea Marie: I know. I like thinking of something funny to say about my purchases. I’ve got, you know, it’s sometimes a weird combo.

Tara Check: You were thinking it so, but she wasn’t. That’s the problem. I thought she would.

[00:25:46] Tara’s Most Unhinged Mom Moment

Andrea Marie: Yeah, exactly. So one thing we like to ask everyone who and I know probably your whole 10 months here has been a series of unhinged moments, but one of the things we do like to ask is for an unhinged moment.

Could be with your own child, with your parents. What is something that will make us all feel a little more normal in our crazy lives?

Tara Check: Okay. I’ve kind of got one for myself, but I feel like the one about my mom is better.

Andrea Marie: Let’s do that one first. Let’s do that one first

Tara Check: So you know when you were like a kid and you’d go to the department store and you’d like hide in the clothes.

Andrea Marie: Oh yeah.

Tara Check: Play in the clothes, right.

Best time ever.

More fun, yeah? My brother and I were playing in a clothes rack, and my mom kept saying, “Get out of there, get out of there,” and we didn’t listen ’cause we were having so much fun.

And we ended up knocking the clothes rack over that then like subsequently knocked down a couple other ones. so she’s like dragging us out of the store, right? We’re screaming because she’s like pinching our arms, you know.

Andrea Marie: Oh, yeah. Yeah

Tara Check: My mom was pretty chill, but she was very mad at us ’cause she had told us like 100 times to stop and we didn’t listen.

And then her favorite part about the story is that we were supposed to go get ice cream after that department store, and as she’s dragging us out, I was like, “Wait, but the ice cream’s that way.” And she’s like, “Oh, you are probably never getting ice cream again. You embarrassed me so bad.”

Andrea Marie: I know. Isn’t it funny when you think back and you’re like, “God, we were…” You just get this realization of how much they probably withheld themselves and did keep themselves relatively calm, ’cause now you see it and you’re like, “Oh, gosh, that, that would’ve made me so mad.” So that’s hilarious.

Tara Check: Yeah. It’s like at the time I was like, “That was the scariest thing that’s ever happened.” But now I look back and I was like, would I have held it together that well as the dominoes of the whole… I mean, the store just like caught on fire at that. It like blew up. We caused such a scene

Andrea Marie: That is so funny. Oh my gosh, that’s so great. I love that. I love that. All right, so then what’s the other one? We have a little time here.

Tara Check: It was probably like a week after we got home from the hospital and, my husband’s sister is like the best person and she had bought us this very nice gift of, it’s a bottle washer. So there’s a lot of debate in the mom world of whether you need the bottle washer, why not just wash it in your dishwasher, whatever.

The bottle washer is the greatest thing we’ve ever had. Like it’s just that, ’cause you’re not always doing the dishes when you need to wash the bottles or whatever. So I had the lid to the bottle washer and I dropped it and it broke on the floor.

Andrea Marie: Uh huh.

Tara Check: And I like fell to my knees crying about, “This is why we can’t have anything nice, and now we’re gonna have to wash the bottles by hand, and how will we survive this?” And then my husband was like, “Actually, if you just like put it on this way it doesn’t leak or anything. It’s fine.” I seriously, you would think that I’d never had a bad thing happen to me in my life because I was devastated by this cracked bottle washer. I was never gonna recover.

Andrea Marie: And it is. It’s like your hormones are all over the place and you just start cry. I mean, like, I just remember just crying at random thing, like just for no reason and like the bottle washer.

Tara Check: I mean, I’m just not a big crier, in general, so it was jarring to me that it was like I broke down with that. I heard that one of the MythBusters had died like five years ago and cried. Postpartum, it was just like every song ever written makes me cry. I really was… It freaked me out.

But the bottle washer was the one that I was like, “Okay, there’s people with real problems probably.” Too far with the like, on the, just very dramatic.

Andrea Marie: oh, oh.

Tara Check: And then my husband, he’s like, he knows that it’s like, that I’m not myself. He’s like, “Oh, it’s okay. We can see if there’s replacement parts. Maybe I can like weld it, whatever, however you weld plastic.”

He’s like, “Oh, we’ll figure it out.”

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Tara Check: yeah.

Andrea Marie: That is awesome. I know. Poor dads are trying to like, fix it. But yeah, that’s so great. Oh my gosh. Oh, Tara, this has been so fun. It just all goes so quickly, but I know you have to get back to your baby and,

Tara Check: I can hear him crying.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, thank you so much for taking time out of your busy, busy day, and just let people know where they can find you online.

And we’ll put those

Tara Check: I’m @taracheckcomedy show now. on Instagram, and that’s really about it for me.

Andrea Marie: That’s the main… Yeah, you don’t have time for anything else. One.

Tara Check: That’s right.

Andrea Marie: Just one thing.

Tara Check: It’s not ’cause I’m bad at technology, it’s that.

Andrea Marie: No, we don’t need all the things. So great. Well, we’ll put that, the link in the show notes as well as a link to Second Chance Comedy and Christy Buechler’s classes if you’re here in the Denver area. So thank you so much for coming on and sharing a little bit about your, your motherhood journey with us.

Tara Check: Thank you. And Andrea, I just have to say like, thank you for giving us the outlet. It really is something special, those Moms Unhinged shows. I’ve done some shows now, and there’s nothing quite like that. So it really made me feel pretty connected in a time where people can really struggle.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. Yeah, thank you so much. Thank you. Thanks everyone. Bye.

Tara Check: Bye.

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