Kristen Lundberg (@mammiespanx) joins me on this episode of the cast (along with Chris Cope @chriscopecomedy hanging in the back of the car)! Kristen is a comedian, violinist, ice sculptor, digital artist… a total polymath! We talk about growing up in Ohio, her time doing comedy in CIncinnati and Chicago, a spirited discussion about the rate of water freezing, but overall what comes through is Kristen’s passion for entertaining people and her intentions of being a positive role model for young people.
00:00 intro - inside comedy baseball
05:30 convo starts
06:50 disruptive art - 3D printing guns
09:41 Bubbles the chimp
11:30 Kristen’s art thesis
13:00 Ohio is the Florida of the North *
13:50 Oxycontin Express
14:20 Opioid crisis in Ohio
16:15 Giving kids drugs
16:30 Kristen catching her mom smoke weed
18:30 smoking weed out of dumb things*
20:00 Doing comedy in Cincinnati and Chicago
21:30 Moving to LA*
22:15 Inspired to get on screen and inspire the youth*
24:00 Should the kids comedy: a debate*
25:30 keeping the Lundberg name alive
27:00 Kentucky car thieves*
27:44 Shouting out Midwest cities
28:00 Hollywood Kristen*
29:30 getting picked on as a kid*
33:00 Kristen’s ice expertise
38:00 Sycamore Tavern parking lot
38:45 ice sculpting
40:30 learning the chainsaw
43:15 trying to get cough syrup
44:00 avoiding antidepressants
47:30 LA is slow
48:45 sassy sexy waitress job
52:00 using the violin for standup
53:00 wanting to be extraordinary
55:15 are comedians important?*
56:00 entertaining the people
58:30 more “how to” instead of “why”*
01:02:30 outro - YAAS AMERICA
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