Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Guys, my guest today, she stole my heart in the Comedy Store parking lot maybe a year ago, a year and a half.
Chapter 2: What challenges did Robby face growing up in a large family?
Really? Then we did Hollywood Squares together. Yeah. I don't know if that's aired.
Chapter 3: How did leaving religion impact Robby's identity?
That's real. You were so fun on that. And fun is not funny. Notice the difference? Well, funny and fun, but we weren't really allowed to be funny as much as we wanted. You got shut down for being anti-Semitic. I know, it's insane. She made an anti-Semitic reference, and they were like, da, da, da, da, da.
Chapter 4: What differences does Robby observe between rich kids and poor kids?
By the way, I'm Jewish, and I'm not anti-Semitic. If anyone can make that joke, it's you, but they don't want it. It's insane, okay. She's got a Netflix special called Wake Up, and it's appropriately titled. I don't know if it's, is that in the, is that a joke?
Chapter 5: What does it mean to feel like an outsider?
I just say wake up a lot. It's more. In the special? Yeah. Wake up, wake up.
Wake up.
It's appropriately titled, don't get me wrong. Yeah. A Very Funny Hour, and it's Robbie Hoffman. Thanks for having me, Neil.
Chapter 6: How does Robby define her opinions on various subjects?
Of course, of course. I appreciate it. Okay, so I have a lot of questions. Please, hit me. Most of what I know about you is from Instagram clips. You ever realize you grew up poor because you like a hard towel? Either invite me for dinner or don't, but f*** your potluck.
100% disagree.
I love that. That's great. Which is how most people know most people know. Great.
Chapter 7: What does top surgery mean for Robby's self-acceptance?
Why not? Whatever works. You seem like you've been yourself for... Yeah. No, I've definitely been myself, but I've gone through phases of trying not to be. I mean, you know, and trying to like sound girlier or sound less uneducated or whatever. I thought like, you know, more popular girls sounded like or acted. So I used to. Yeah.
So I always knew, but I always was trying to change before I leaned in. Was it, did it cross into self-loathing hatred or was it just like, it would be easier if I was conventional? No, it was just, I was so embarrassed of how poor we were. Yeah. Oh, yes. That's a big one. Yeah.
Chapter 8: How does Robby navigate decision-making in her life?
So that's a big block. So that changed everything. Growing up poor. Yeah. Like really poor. Yeah. So that was like and I got to go to a private school, which is people like she went to private school. I'm so thrilled I went to this private school. I went on subsidy in Montreal, in Montreal. A very good school. It was a Jewish private school. You were one of seven children. One of 10.
One of 10. You're also one of 10.
And you're the baby of 10. I want us to talk about this. This is insane. And you're the same mother, same father. Yeah. I'm same mother, same father. You're like 10 kids in like 20 years, did you say? 16. And we're 10 and 12. Pretty close. 10 and 12 is wild numbers. My mother's vagina is bigger than your mother's vagina. How long? My mom. Do you have twins? No. We did it. Five girls, five boys.
What about you? Six and four. Four what? Girls. My mom in labor with me for 40 minutes. 40 minutes. You walked out. We all have those jokes. I can't believe it. So are your parents still together? No. My dad died, which hurt the relationship. But they had gotten divorced. They got divorced 15 years earlier, maybe 20. I can't believe we're both one of 10. Yeah, it's rare. It's very rare.
Like, Gavigan's got five or six kids, and it's like, how? Whenever you, it's like, how? I don't have any kids, no. And a lot of my siblings don't have kids. I think we were all pretty, like, we've already parented. No one in the family has more than two. Yeah. One has three. One has three twins. Okay. Yeah, but it was like, and then there's probably three or four with none. Yeah.
And have you met all your nieces and nephews? I mean, that answers your question, right? Like the look on my face. It's not. No, it's not. No. I have a mother who like guilts me about the kids sometimes and they live so far. It's like I never like grew up and was like, my aunt. I wish my aunt was here. I've never like I'm like, oh, yeah, my father. Where are the aunts? No, I don't know.
It just doesn't. It's like fine. My uncle Rob was in our life and I loved him and that was phenomenal. But it's like.
i don't know it's but when it becomes like a diplomatic like hell so you two this is your aunt and then you just stare at each other yeah and it's like you know it's just a weird relationship sometimes you naturally uh my nieces that said i have two nieces i'm very close with because they live close like it's just a thing and also like there are you how old are they the nieces, my nieces three.
Okay, I was gonna say, are you similar, do you have similar interests, but not yet? Oh, no, no, no, my nieces are really young, but cute. Yeah, so you believe in, so all right, so you have 10 kids, and then your dad skips town. Well, we left town. My mother, we grew up religious. I imagine you grew up religious to some extent.
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