Chapter 1: What cultural insights does Joanna Hausmann share about growing up Latina?
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My baby cries, like, at 6 p.m. every day, but we have to wait a little bit before we feed her. So, like, inevitably, we have to, like, you know, soothe her, but she cries. And my mom's like, you are torturing the baby. Give her the food. I'm like, no, we're not sleep-saving her. She's like, I didn't sleep-save you at all. I just gave you what you needed.
You know, and it's, like, a lot more intense. So it's, you know, we also have so much more research at the palm of our hand when it comes to so much of this.
The next episode of The Commercial Break starts now. Yeah, boy! Oh, yeah. Cats and kittens, welcome back to The Commercial Break. I'm Brian Graham. This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show, Kristen Joy Hoesley. Best to you, Kristen.
Best to you, Brian.
Best to you out there in the podcast universe. How the hell are you? Thanks for joining us on a TCB Infomercial Tuesday. as yet another repeat customer comes to the commercial rig, and I could not be more excited to invite our friend Joanna Hausner.
I love her. I'm so happy she's back.
She's one of our first interviews. Do you remember this?
Yeah, I do, because Astrid was very excited about it.
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Chapter 2: How did Joanna transition from viral sketches to writing for Phineas and Ferb?
It goes haywire. The Venezuelans are loyal to a fault. They love to hear about their culture. It makes them so happy. And I'm happy to bring the happiness. I really am. I'm a gringo.
Absolutely.
I was born this way. Nothing I could do about it. I'm just a gringo. Nothing I could do about it. But Joanna is one of the more popular Venezuelan Americans, and so we're happy to have her back for a second time. Is this our second or our third time with Joanna? It's the second. I feel like we had a second time scheduled with her once. And it got rescheduled. Something happened.
She had to go Phineas and Ferb it up or something. Yeah. Yeah, you know, she's important. We're not, so. Sometimes you just got to take the good with the bad. All right. So Joanna Hausman, all the links in the show notes below to her social media. Of course, Phineas and Ferb available on Disney+. I think there is a new season coming out soon. We'll talk to her all about it when we get her on.
So let's take a short break, Chrissy. And when we get back through the Magic of Telepodcasting, Joanna Hausman right here in studio on that TV with us. What do you think? I think we should do it. We'll be back.
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Chapter 3: What unique challenges does Joanna face as a new mom?
And and I've been so pleasantly surprised at how like. how much joy there is and how I've enjoyed it. I just – she is so cute. I mean, I also think she's a remarkable baby. I mean, I know I'm her mother or whatever, but I am being, you know, just very logical in saying I do think she's the cutest thing to have ever existed. And being a mom has been sort of like –
a new, a new, uh, part to play. It's like, I thought I just, I'm not the most stereotypically motherly person and it just came so naturally. I was like, what the hell is happening? Wow. Biology is strong.
It is. Yeah. You don't, would you not have considered yourself maternal before giving, before having a baby?
Not at all.
You don't, like, take care of your husband when he gets the flu? You don't, like, dote on people?
No, I'm like, why are you so sick? Like, this is convenient for me. You're such a bitch. Like, I love taking care of people, but not in a motherly way. I'm like, I'm your equal type of way. I'm like, I'm your mommy. But with my daily, I'm like, oh my goodness. It's wild how your brain gets rewired. In seconds. It's seconds. It's like, you know, this is why there's... What, 8 billion of us?
How many are there?
Yeah, there's 8 billion, probably three too many, three billions too many, but there's eight of us hanging around.
Yeah, around here.
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Chapter 4: How does Joanna's Venezuelan heritage influence her comedy?
Former dancer. Yeah. Former shoe model Brittany can do it. Then I can do it. I agree with you. I've been saying it for years. I will always probably believe this to some degree that you need a license to get on a fucking canoe and catch a fish in your local pond. But you need zero training to be a parent. There are zero qualifications to having a child. That's so.
It shows.
It shows. There are some people where you're like, holy shit, I can't believe you're a parent. I know some people. I have friends that I'm questioning whether or not they should be parents, but they're already, once they're there, they're there. What are you going to do? Put them back in? I mean, so it's kind of like you can't do anything about it. How have, how has... work been going?
Because I have been dying to talk to you about Phineas and Ferb, which has quickly run up the charts in my household over the last couple of months. And I don't know how or why. I mean, how long has Phineas and Ferb been going?
Off. So Phineas and Ferb was off for like a decade.
Yeah.
And it just recently came back this year. Yeah. And Phineas and Ferb, you know, when it came out, I was like in college. So I was in that weird age that I wasn't a parent and I wasn't a kid. So I had no idea what it was about until later on in life.
When I started learning that Phineas and Ferb did sort of the impossible, which was, it was technically a kid's show, but 50% of its viewership was adults because the writer's room treats it as a true co-viewing show. Meaning, yeah, there's going to be crazy fun action sequences and this, that, and the other, but the humor on the page is,
is for intelligent audiences and treating your audience as the most intelligent person in the room. And because of that, it's been like a multi-generational hit, which is unique, especially unique now with streaming where thinking I think now shows are so specific to a particular audience that you see a fragmented viewership in the same household.
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Chapter 5: What generational differences in parenting does Joanna discuss?
So I reached out, and we talked. And then I had a trip to L.A. the next week. Oh, perfect. And I texted him, and I was like, you know, I'm going to go to Pasadena to meet you and your family. And I'm in the Uber, and I'm telling the Uber driver this story. And the Uber driver's like...
I'm sorry, you're going to a random man's house who claims he's this famous showrunner who you have absolutely no proof and I'm dropping you off there? And I'm like, yeah, that's happening. And he was like, I am not letting you go in there by yourself. So he like waited for me actually until he did open the door. How nice. Five stars running around. Yeah.
I gave him five stars and a pretty good tip. Yeah. So that's how this started. And that sort of began a friendship between me and Dan. And Dan also has been sort of like a guiding light for me in my career where anytime I had questions or or, you know, concerns or I had a new pilot or I had this, I always like felt like I could ask him for advice.
And then, you know, years later, I was able to join this writer's room. It's been one of my favorite, I think, professional experiences ever.
That is amazing. It is part of the reason why you're here. So it's part of the reason why we connected, right? Because my wife showed me your videos, right? And I was like, oh, that's interesting. She's funny. She should come on. And I was just we just talked to I just had a chance to sit down and have some time with Nacho Red from Escuela de Nada. And we had a very long conversation.
And the reason why he's on the show is because my brother in law introduced me to EDN. Right. So. There's a whole network. There's a whole network. There's no interactions. There's no level of engagement that we get when we talk about Venezuela. It is crazy how the Venezuelans are so loyal and willing to cheer anybody on who's willing to cheer them on.
Oh, 100%. Yes.
It gives me the warm and fuzzies in a way that it's hard to describe because I feel like an honorary Venezuelan. First of all, even if you don't want me, I'm here. And I'm the gringo Venezuelan. And it is kind of crazy how... These this is like disparate people, this displaced people all around the world have embedded themselves in these industries and these communities and these places.
And they've now they're all connected by some tissue. And look at you, Phineas and Ferb, not maybe because you're Venezuelan, probably also because you're funny and, you know, all the other stuff. But originally started because you're making content about Venezuela that's relatable to some people across the pond. That's insane.
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Chapter 6: How do Joanna and the hosts reflect on the impact of AI in creativity?
I think I understand she's playing the game here. I think I understand she's playing a game a little bit. I get it. I understand. I understand that this is probably not all is on the surface as it seems. But did you feel a sense of pride that they gave her the Nobel Peace Prize?
I mean, of course. We have not received any good news in so long. And that felt like, wow, our struggle that usually feels... separate from general conversation. Venezuela almost feels like a niche country. Like, wait, what? Venezuela? That sounds beautiful. Like, you know, they don't understand. And understandably so.
It's, you know, it's not on the front of everyone's mind, but it felt like we were a global topic. And it felt like our struggle and our pain was a global topic. And I was so happy to see Maria Corina Machal when, I mean, and she's the one person peacefully trying to enact change in a dictatorship. And, you know, I got a lot of messages from my American friends being like, what the fuck?
Like this woman shouldn't have done this. Like, this is ridiculous. And I'm like, listen, I don't have the privilege of getting picky here. Right. I agree with you. I'd love to have the privilege. Yeah. I'd love that. I'd love to be like, I don't like that she said this one thing one time. I don't have that privilege. She's our one and only hope. And I know she's strategic and she's playing.
She's being strategic.
A long game. Yeah.
And I know that she's like, I'm going to do whatever I need to do to make sure that this dictatorship topples and we're able to have democracy and freedom in this country. And I don't care what she does in order to make that happen. And so – You know, anytime a friend would be like, wow, isn't that just so you must be so upset. I'm like, girl, there are so many other things to be upset about.
I think I'm upset with the fact that my family lost their country. basically, you know, scattered across the world. So many of my cousins and aunts and uncles have to start from scratch and, and are still struggling. And that's what I, that's what I'm thinking of when these things, it's real life for me.
It's not ideology and it's, it's not, you know, parsing through, uh, what is morally right and morally wrong in every aspect. I don't, I don't have the time and I don't have the bandwidth. I am like, I, This is our one hope. And that's it. So let's see what happens.
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Chapter 7: What is Joanna's perspective on the importance of community in parenting?
There's a lot of people's lives that state.
You are Venezuelan. So has your larger community now rushed in to co-parent your child with you?
That's hilarious. Absolutely. Yeah. My mom is arriving on Friday. Are you excited? By the way. I'm excited. It's interesting because there's a lot of, like, cultural differences I note from Venezuelans to, honestly, where I've lived most of my life, which is the United States.
And, you know, in the States, it's like you study, you know, you grow up in one city, maybe you go to college in another city, and then you move to another city for work. That's sort of like a natural progression, right? Yes. In Venezuela, you live at home with your parents until you get married.
Or until your children get married. Yeah, until they have grandchildren.
And so there's this multi-generational raising of children, right? And it's like the grandparents aren't involved. The cousin that's not really your cousin is involved. Everyone, it's just a big... While here, I moved to LA for a career. I'm following the American path of the American dream, which is like I'm in a city. I started from scratch in the city. I don't know anything about this city.
I actually low-key don't love it. But I'm here because it's the right place for me and for my career. But I'm alone here. I don't have any family. So it's like weird because – You know, my family is proud of me, but my family, you know, my mom would be like, oh, yeah, you must be so alone there with the baby. You don't have me next to you to take care of her or whatever, whenever you want.
I'm so hard for you. And I'm like, yeah, no, it's hard, mom, for sure. And she's like, ay, pero que. You know what I would love?
Pero que. Just call me.
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Chapter 8: What future projects does Joanna have in the works?
My grandparents were my second parents.
Yeah. Yeah. Maybe it's just my family. Maybe my family just are child haters. They just hate children. Yeah. I don't know. None of them have kids either. So that's another thing. You don't have children. You don't know how to parent. You don't know how to parent default. Like I walk into a household and there's other children in the room. I am now another parent in the room. So I know how I will.
I know how to. And I'm not afraid to also be the another parent in the room. Hey, don't do that, Billy. Who are you? Fuck you, Billy. Sit down. Stop setting shit on fire. Yeah. Stop biting the cat. Right. Because I'm a parent and you and I will ever will be my brothers. They don't know that. And I think like in a Venezuelan community, everyone's parenting everybody. So it kind of comes natural.
But in my family, we're all very isolated. And so when they come into a room, they don't know. They're not parenting my kids. They're like, maybe they'll throw them across the room or, you know, give them a sip of whiskey. But besides that, it's not, you know, it's a little weird. When my in-laws come, I fucking love it. Oh, yeah.
And Gustavo.
And Gustavo, my brother-in-law. He also, he's another parent. He just walks in. He doesn't have kids, but he knows it.
Also, he's seven foot tall.
Yeah, he's seven foot tall.
So he's scary.
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