35 - Vines in a Meadow (ft. Melissa Diaz) - Tummy Time Podcast
Comedian and YouTuber, @MelissaDiaz, comes on the podcast and 'splains some stuff. Welcome to Tummy Time. Melissa from the Bronx talks growing up New York: from the bookworm kid with an active imagination to performing at stand-up clubs, staying away from salvia and sticking to St. John's Wort, and a tale of puppy love turned witching. Melissa 'splains Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, life in the Gulag, and what latent female sexuality is. What's the difference between Dominican and Puerto Rican Spanish? What communist infractions can get me sent to a labor camp? And why are books so hard? Get ready to laugh, learn, and only read in case of emergency on this very educational episode of Tummy Time.
Be sure to check out Melissa 'Splains the Classics: https://www.youtube.com/@MelissaDiaz
00:00 Intro
00:38 Welcome to Tummy Time, Melissa Diaz
01:08 St. John's Wort for Anxiety
02:08 Is St. John's Wort More Lke Xanax or Zoloft?
04:02 Salvia, Not Even Once
05:50 The Stages of Salvia Decline
06:29 Scrying: Using Magic to Peep Into the Future
07:46 Growing Up in the Bronx
10:22 Going to Carnaval in Texas
10:59 What is Carnaval
11:55 Half Dominican, Half Puerto Rican
12:57 The New York Comedy Scene
13:50 Performing at Carolines Comedy Club
15:16 The Kill Tony Experience
17:52 Renters or Rentees? Irregardless, Adam Smith Has Got a Bone to Pick
19:37 Melissa 'Splains the Classics
19:53 Jordan Peterson's Crying About Gulag Archipelago
21:22 Government Reach-Around
22:13 Where Did Gulag Come From?
24:42 Communist Labor Camps Are a Lot Like StarCraft
26:34 On Being a Bookworm
27:59 Goosebumps: The REAL Classics
28:21 Young Adult Novels are Statutory Reading
29:51 Why Are Books So Hard, Melissa?
31:28 BOOKS: Break Glass In Case of Emergency
34:01 Getting Kicked Out of Gifted and Talented
35:45 Reading is Making Kids Join Gangs
36:53 Sorry, Mrs. Hopkins. Harriet the Spy Made Me Do it.
40:46 A Glut of Embarassing Stories
41:16 An Embarassing Tale of Heartbreak
41:55 I Don't Practice Santaria
44:33 A Coven of Witches
46:01 Puppy Love
47:10 Latent Female Sexuality
49:58 Moving Schools
50:58 Dominican Spanish
52:34 The Musicality of Dominican and Puerto Rican Spanish
55:27 Skankfest
57:44 Why'd You Get Married?
59:37 Find Melissa Diaz on Social Media
59:47 We'll See You Next Tummy Time
