Well you may know her from her
stand up comedy, her podcast or
is the host for City Cast Boise.
She was born and raised in Idaho and
has lived in Boise for over 30 years
and now she has a new album coming out
this Friday called Myself the Critically
Claimed Comedian and Artist. I'm Arnold
joining us this
morning. Hey, welcome back. Yeah, thank
you for having me again.
Emma's been on before and we've
always enjoyed having her.
So tell us about your new
comedy album coming out.
Yeah, it's, I think it's
really good. Obviously.
I think you should listen to
it and buy it. I like that.
But no, it's it's really fun.
It's a lot about, you know,
my my middle kid turned 18
yesterday. So it's kind of about raising
these older kids. And you know,
a lot of my early comedy was like
babies and like all of that madness.
But now it's like I have
these older kids and I'm a,
I'm a newlywed and so I don't know,
it's sort of like a warm, very happy,
loving, lovingly made album.
Oh, I love that
Fantastic. And something parents
like us I guess can identify with.
Boy, you've lived all over.
You're very talented, obviously.
But what initially got you thinking?
You know what?
I can make a career out of
being a comedian, out of comedy,
running around the country
and being funny. Well,
it's it's funny because actually,
so I was a stay at home mom
while my kids were little,
and then I got divorced and I had,
you know, no education.
I got married very young,
no education, no jobs experience.
And I had just started doing some open
mics just for fun and I was like, well,
I guess I'll make a career out of this.
And luckily I didn't
know that was a bad idea.
Very difficult path at the time,
but it's actually worked out really
well and it's been a lot of fun.
Well, I I'm so inspired by that because
there's a lot of stay at home moms
right now that might be thinking,
what's my next chapter,
What am I going to do next?
And look, you just took the
stage by the storm. I love that.
So what are you looking forward to
most about sharing with this new album?
Well, I think, you know it's it's
been really fun I think for a lot
of my fans to sort of watch my kids
grow up over the years or or hear
I guess about them growing up.
And so it's, I don't know sort of fun
to have like a couple success stories.
You know I have two kids going to be
a see you next year. I love it and
and also I just think it's really
fun to share with Boise like.
My experience is so Boise based and so,
you know, particular and and my kids all
the way through the Boise school system,
all the way through, you know to BSU.
So I think that's really sweet and fun.
It is. It is homegrown, homegrown kids.
Talk to us about the album release party.
Yes. So Friday we're doing a
big album release party show.
I'm going to be performing some new jokes,
not really much stuff from the
album so that you get a fresh
to listen when you get to it.
And we'll have a couple other comedians
there LJ Sullivan and Sophie Hughes.
And Jody Eichelberger from Story Story
Night is hosting and it's just going
to be super fun and Rowdy and Citycast
Boise is actually sponsoring it.
So if you love Citycast,
you can come down and meet the
whole crew and get to hang out
with us and mingle and stuff.
So it'll be really fun Recap
what Citycast Boise is for those
who may not know right now.
Yeah it is so great.
It's really helped even me
reconnect with the city.
It's a great we we talk about you
know current events and and but also
we did like recently an episode like
Urban Legends of Boise and we like Busted.
Mix and stuff. So it's a really fun mix
of like heavier stuff and lighter stuff.
But our fans always tell us like it really
helps me reconnect with Boise and as
it's growing that can be kind of hard.
So I I appreciate it for that too.
So if people want to come to your album
release party, how do they get there?
There's tickets on Eventbrite.
You can also go to any of my social
media and I have ticket links there too.
You can also go to the VAC
Visual Arts collective has the
link on their page as well.
And you talked about City Cast.
And on City cast before,
you talked about how invoicing
people always give standing ovations.
And even though I was on
City Cast recently did not
get a standing ovation. Still,
I can't believe that you deserve one.
You deserve. Thank you. Thank you.
Oh, my gosh. Thank you. I
didn't get one. I can't believe that
I feel so bad.
You know it when it comes out.
I'll make sure I make sure because
I think it's coming out next week.
We talked to Kuna. Justin
gets a standing ovation of the grocery
store. So yeah, wherever he goes.
Who are already standing getting
their groceries. But yes,
thank you. More wake up,
more wake up out of hell after this.