This week, Jake goes out with comedian Jess Henderson. Tune in for more. Listen on Apple Podcasts. Listen on Spotify. Jess Henderson: Okay. I do, I do. And you know what? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. JH: Golden rules. JC: One, productive. Two, the least likely to produce misinformation or misconstrued truths and three β and there I had a third one and it was good. Hold on. JC: And three wasβ¦ Oh. JH: Yes. Oh that felt amazing.
My lock was stuck inside my ear. JH: And I believe in it. I believe in it. You cannot defame someone with the truth. So when you charge someone with defamation, your burden is truly to prove that what they defamed you with is untrue. JH: I hate small talk, I hate small talk.
I want to know what your fears are, what you hate, what is really going on. JH: I value that. Also money. JC: Yeah. I literally was nothing. I was just whatever people needed me to be. Tough but fair. No, a hundred percent. Okay, wait. I love little romantic friend dates. So basically avoiding all small talk.
JC: Wait. How long have you been openly queer? And then I told my parents, I think, when I was like JC: Nice. In my early 20s and definitely in⦠I think it started because I went to a college where it was mostly straight people or at least mostly straight-presenting people and then working in restaurants. And just kind of how the plinko of my life played out is for all of my teens and most of my early 20s I did not go to queer spaces.
And I knew that I was going to be okay. I knew it was going to be hard, but I was going to be okay if my parents disowned me. JH: Yes, thank God. And I have always felt a little on the outside of, not necessarily the gay community, but the Black community based on how I grew up.
