Julia Sweeney

Well, your dream job, your dream accounting job that you'd been promised at MGM Studios fell through and you got a job as an assistant bartender selling drink tickets at a downtown hotel.

This next series of questions is really part of, I think, the Julia Sweeney mythology.

Yes.

As reported by Ira Glass and Marc Maron and so forth.

But we do have to talk about it because it's so funny.

But during that experience, after finding out that your employer wouldn't pay for your parking at the hotel you were working, you essentially became a criminal.

I did become a criminal.

You became a criminal.

And I'm telling you, I still think about that.

Every week at some moment, I'll think of that.

It's also interesting how easy it was to become a criminal.

So talk about what happened.

Tell our audience that might not have heard the This American Life episodes with Ira Glass or your interview with Marc Maron.

Tell us what happened.

Well, I was working at this hotel and they didn't pay for parking.

And parking was like $15.

And there was no place to park near this hotel.

It was downtown.

And downtown was really being developed.

And it was like scary to be parking far away.