Taylor Tomlinson

And that's why I try to kind of go back and forth of like, my first one was really broad.

The second one was darker and more personal.

The third one was broad again.

And then this one was darker and more personal.

And then this next hour, I think I'm going to try to like,

I don't know, right clean.

Like I'm going to like... Oh, yeah.

Try to just go... Like I'm going to try to swing back the opposite way just to kind of keep myself challenged and engaged.

You know, just sort of... Not even like a one for me, one for you kind of a thing, but just to...

I think it's good for my brain to kind of go deeper and dig for a couple years and be very vulnerable and share a lot about myself and then kind of swing back the other way and go like, oh, this is more silly.

1000%.

no anytime i mentioned it in other specials it was like i'm so pissed i grew up in church because it fucked me up in all these ways yeah and i think it took there were a lot of things that happened in the last few years and i think most notably like i came out and i thought my entire family because my entire family's christian i thought my entire family was going to like

I mean, at various points.

I mean, I thought once they knew I wasn't a clean comedian, they were all going to leave me and write me off completely.

And then they didn't.

And then I thought if I came out and my siblings came out, they would all, you know, cut us off completely.

And like, of course you do lose certain people, but not, I think I, I was so pleasantly surprised to find that so many of my Christian family members were still very accepting and loving and like met us where we were at.

And,

weren't I couldn't lump them in with more like hateful religious people so it was it was helpful for me to have those relationships stay intact and find that we could have really difficult conversations and find out that we weren't as misaligned as maybe I thought just because we don't believe the same things about God and the afterlife and you know spirituality so it took a long time and I also think that

me being scared to come out as queer in large part was because I was raised a certain way.