No One’s Healed: The Truth About Purpose from Jess Hilarious
38 min
•Jun 11, 2026about 1 month agoSummary
Jess Hilarious discusses her new co-parenting memoir 'Till Death Do We Parent,' exploring themes of resilience, healing, and parental responsibility. She shares vulnerable moments about her journey to motherhood, the importance of legacy, and how children absorb parental energy and emotions. The conversation emphasizes that no one is fully healed and that imperfection is universal.
Insights
- Children absorb and mirror parental emotional states; unresolved trauma and bitterness in co-parents directly impacts child behavior and development
- Joy differs fundamentally from happiness—joy requires healing, self-awareness, and self-love while happiness is temporary emotion
- Delayed emotional bonding with children is a real, underreported experience that deserves normalization and conversation rather than shame
- Resilience and endurance are more valuable than perfection; acknowledging daily struggles builds authentic credibility and connection
- Legacy and purpose-driven parenting transcends relationship status; co-parents can unite around child welfare despite romantic incompatibility
Trends
Vulnerability-driven personal branding in entertainment and media; audiences increasingly value imperfect, authentic narratives over polished personasParenting content moving beyond prescriptive advice toward trauma-informed, emotionally honest storytellingMental health awareness in parenting discourse; recognition that parental mental state is foundational to child developmentCo-parenting as distinct life skill requiring communication frameworks and emotional maturity independent of romantic relationshipsMemoir and book-based authority in comedy and entertainment; comedians leveraging written work to deepen audience connectionGenerational healing narratives; younger audiences seeking guidance on breaking trauma cycles and building healthy family systemsSocial media comedians transitioning to live performance and literary work; diversifying revenue and credibility beyond digital platforms
Topics
Co-parenting communication and conflict resolutionParental mental health and emotional regulationChildhood trauma and intergenerational healingResilience and endurance as life skillsLegacy building and purpose-driven parentingEmotional bonding and attachment in early parenthoodJoy versus happiness distinctionVulnerability in personal brandingStand-up comedy career developmentBaltimore culture and regional identitySingle and co-parenting experiencesChildren's emotional intelligence and energy absorptionPerfectionism in parenting cultureVillage-based child-rearing modelsAuthor platform building in entertainment
Companies
The Breakfast Club
Jess Hilarious has been a recurring personality on the show; discussed as platform for her comedy and media presence
Wells Fargo Arena
Venue where Jess performed her breakthrough 13,000-person show opening for Martin Lawrence in 2016
The Hippodrome
Baltimore theater venue cited as one of Jess's favorite performance stages
MGM Casino Oxon Hill
DC-area venue cited as one of Jess's favorite performance stages
Amazon
Book retailer where 'Till Death Do We Parent' is available for purchase
Barnes & Noble
Book retailer where 'Till Death Do We Parent' is available for purchase
People
Jess Hilarious
Guest discussing her memoir 'Till Death Do We Parent' and parenting philosophy; bestselling author and stand-up comedian
Mick Hunt
Host of the podcast; conducts interview and shares personal parenting anecdotes related to Jess's themes
Rudy Rush
Co-host and podcast producer; introduces episode and facilitates conversation
Jerome
Jess's son's father; featured prominently in memoir narrative about pregnancy revelation and co-parenting journey
Ashton
Jess's son; central figure in memoir; experienced delayed emotional bonding and telepathic connection moment at six m...
Martin Lawrence
Jess opened for Martin Lawrence at Wells Fargo Arena in 2016; pivotal moment in her comedy career
Mike Tyson
Referenced in discussion about legacy; Jess cited his dismissive comments on legacy as contrasting her own values
Charlamagne tha God
Jess identifies him as mentor and 'big brother' figure; South Carolina native like Mick; provides straight feedback
Brandon Scott
Baltimore Mayor cited as using 'dummy' as term of endearment; example of Baltimore cultural vernacular
Quotes
"Life is always lifeing. As long as you live life, there will be things thrown at you. There will be trials. There will be tribulations. There will be obstacles that you have to overcome."
Jess Hilarious•Opening
"No one is fully healed. There's a lot of us carrying scars and sometimes we got to accept and see that."
Jess Hilarious•Hot Takes segment
"I don't get it right every day. That's why I do have a village. It really takes a village. None of this is easy."
Jess Hilarious•Unplug Truth segment
"Healing is doing the work recognizing trauma, recognizing baggage, recognizing that you aren't perfect and there are some things that you may have to work on."
Jess Hilarious•Hot Takes segment
"My level of endurance and resilience is immaculate to me. I can get through anything. I have gotten through everything and still more to come."
Jess Hilarious•Rapid Fire segment
Full Transcript
Life is always lifeing. As long as you live life, there will be things thrown at you. There will be trials. There will be tribulations. There will be obstacles that you have to overcome. Some you will, some you won't. It's all about your level of resilience and endurance. Everybody goes through something when they are being challenged as a parent, just as a caregiver, just a guardian. You don't even have to be a parent. You can be somebody who watches over someone's kid. I don't get it right every day. That's why I do have a village. I thank God for my parents, my husband, my son's father, my mother-in-law, my father-in-law. Like, it's a village. It really takes a village. None of this is easy. We make so much of, so little. It can be such a minuscule issue, and we overthink and we amplify it in our mind, just overthinking, creating scenarios and just going down these rabbit holes. And it's like, yo, just breathe, stop and breathe. There's no manual to it. And every journey is different, like I always express. Like, it is different, but we all do what we got to do. There's an instinct that kicks in and we got it. You're listening to Mick Unplugged, hosted by the one and only Mick Hunt. This is where purpose meets power and stories spark transformation. Mick takes you beyond the motivation and into meaning, helping you discover your because and becoming unstoppable. I'm Rudy Rush, and trust me, you're in the right place. Let's get unplugged. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another exciting episode of Mick Unplugged. And today I'm truly honored to be with someone you've known for a long time, from skits to the breakfast club, but I know her as a bestselling author. And we're going all in today on Baltimore's finance. Ms. Jess Hilarious. Jess, how you doing today, dear? I'm good, Mick. Thank you for that introduction. That was nice. I like that. You heard me say Baltimore, right? Baltimore all day without the team. Don't put the team. I got it down. Yes. So Jess, I was just telling you how proud I am of you for this book and we're going to go places with that book. But you know, I always like to ask my guest about their because, that thing that's deeper than their why. I call it like your true purpose, your true mission. So if I were to say, Jess, today in 2026, what's your because? Why do you keep doing the things that you do? Oh, man, for one, you know, the obvious reason my children, you know, and then legacy is very important. It's very important. I saw a clip of Mike Tyson one day. He was talking to a young reporter and they asked him about his legacy and he just like his whole aura changed and he was like, what is legacy? Legacy is stupid. That's just like, you know, and I just, I was like, no, no. Legacy is very important. Obviously, there were things there, you know, that hurt him. I don't know what that was about, but that was the first time I ever heard of legacy spoken of in a way that was against everything that I had ever knew known it to be. And I was like, oh my God, no, some are shattered for him. Like legacy is one of the most important things to ever leave behind. That's why it's important to have children in my opinion. And it's like, what are you doing all this for? It has to be for a reason, you know, and that's why I wanted to share a piece of literature, you know, such as my co-parenting memoirs. So that's the way parent because parenting is so linear. Like it's different to everybody, but it's an ongoing thing. It's something that will never end. Relationships and friendships, contracts, you know, everything has an ending except parenting, you know, and that's very important, very important in every journey looks different, but I believe that we can all get the same outcome, you know, just with communication and that's really showing up for your kids, no matter what the other parent has put you through. That's the main reason why I wanted to. That's my main reason why. There we go. There we go. Yeah, I love it. And we're going to get into a lot of the book and I have a bunch of notes because I made my kids read this book from the viewpoint of this because I called them my kids, but you know, they're in their twenties now, right? Yeah. And they're going to be parents and our parents. And so understanding that something that I thought was really dynamic in the book was, you know, you talk about you and Rome and Rome's in the book as well too. And it's just like, at some point you had to realize we aren't going to make it. That's right. And I think a lot of times people, you talk about relationships, you talk about friendships. Like I've had to kick people out of my circle once I realized we ain't going to make it, but there's a greater purpose that we need to unite for. And that's where I wanted to give you kudos because I think a lot of times people miss that and then there becomes hatred for the other person, right? Because it's like, well, we're not going to make it. Well, let's just not do anything. And then the kid goes and sees all that you talk about the energy that kids read and that they see. I mean, talk about that for the audience, for the viewers and listeners. It's very true. It's very, very true. That's why it's very important to have, you know, a happy and okay, so you don't want to complete the two because happiness I always have to people always get mad at me when I say it's not about being happy. It's about having joy, right? Because there's a huge difference, you know, like happiness, you know, that's an emotion and that can change in 10 seconds. You know what I mean? Joy is something that you wear, something that you feel when you find joy that takes healing to find joy that takes self-awareness to find joy, self-love. And it takes a lot of growing up to do that even, you know, to to have that once, you know, once you've lived through so much trauma and that speaks to forming a healthy bond between parent and child because your child only absorbs what you put out. You are your child's first teacher, you know, so it's very important to be happy and joy is happy is amazing. But you when you have emotions, right? And you're operating from a bitter place. If you and the other parent are not doing good or, you know, you all are facing adversities in your relationship or whatever and has nothing to do with the child. And you start to notice different patterns in your children because you are walking around bitter upset with these emotions emotions and holding on to just all this bitterness and energy. And then you're projecting that onto your child subconsciously because you don't, you're not doing it on purpose. Unless don't do it on purpose. But then you start to see a change in the behavior and you're like, where is this coming from? Why is he starting to act up? Lord, send me his in school now. Becoming a problem. He's being oppositional. He's being defiant because he is absorbing your energy and now he's regurgitating it back to you or in that back wherever, wherever they are. That's why it's very important to have have a grip on your mental health as a parent. Parenting is one of the hardest things. It's the most challenging thing you could ever do. But it's it's it's complex and it's it's complicated, but it's beautiful. You know, because it's life like you, you're having your own people, you know, you're able to train your people up, you know, train a little. It's the village that you're creating and your offspring is always supposed to be better than you are. So that's why your mental space, you just have to be an a great mental space to raise your children. I truly believe that and you know, you talked about legacy and there's some some moments in the book that to me were like, Holy shit. Like Jess was vulnerable and said that and I be remiss by the way, I've held up the book, but till death do we parent? Definitely go get it wherever you buy books from go get it literally right now. You talk about the breakdown moment, right? Oh man, yeah. Like you talk about being miserable and being broke, right? And you feel like Rome's out there living his best life and you're just like, why am I doing this? Like, why take us to that moment? Like, what is that really like? Because a lot of people while they may feel it, they don't talk about it and accept that it's a real feeling and I give you kudos for accepting that it's a real feeling. Yeah, it's definitely a real feeling and a lot of women go through it. A lot of young moms go through it. Even fathers, I'm sure go through it. But being the mom being the person that has to be the primary caretaker and, and you know, the nurturer and the babies, they come from us. They feed on us for nine months and then they're forever connected to us. That was a very hard thing to write about because I did not have an emotional connection to my son until he was six months. I just did not. I didn't even know if I wanted to put that in the book because I was most nervous that my son would feel a certain way. That's why I had to have the conversation before the final the final script was published because I'm like, No, I don't want him to kids are cool. He is on his way to high school. He has a group of friends. God, I hear them talk. I'd be like, Oh, gosh, I wasn't saying those. That's not how I talk to my friends when I was 14. You know what I'm saying? And the last thing I want or wanted was him to hear that part from someone else. And my son is an avid reader loves reading. He read the book already, but I wanted to before he sat down and read that and could say my mom didn't even have the decency to tell me how she felt. I'm I'm I'm old enough to understand somewhat and that's what that's also what I was afraid of as well, whether or not he was old enough for me to even have that conversation. But I still wanted to provide that that that scene and paint that picture, which was a beautiful moment as it relates to a connection that was birthed six months after his physical birth at you know, after me giving birth to him, I connected with him on such a level that I don't regret my feelings. I don't wish I could have done it different. I don't because what I felt in that moment was like a telepathic message. It was like it was like, No, I am your mother and from him it was like I'm your son. You're going to get this together. You're going to listen. You laid down and made me and now you in here having a little spiral moment and because my father's out there living his life, you chose to have me. You're going to have to take care of me whether he is here with you or not. I swear it was those words and he was just smiling at me while I'm crying and breaking down like why did you choose me as your mother and I swear he looked at me like girl, I didn't choose you. I didn't even choose this life like I didn't choose to be born. You know, so at that moment I picked him up and that's when I connected with him emotionally and mentally and it was just like from there. Oh my God. He went from being the baby to my son Ashton my baby my pride and joy my responsibility and it's been that way ever since. Yeah, I love it because that was the moment that I was reading the book that I picked up the phone. I called my youngest and I said, Hey, I'm sending you a book right now. I'm ordering on Amazon. It'll be there tomorrow. He's like, What's the book? And so I started I started telling him the title and he's like that I don't have kids. There's a moment in this book that I need you to understand because you talk about Ashton looking at you and like pretty much saying get your life together because we got to move on right. I'm hungry. Pampers. Well, my youngest son we had a moment like that where he was just like a dad. I know you say that all this is going on but can we go get some cereal though? That was you my problems. They show problems, but you know me but but as a parent that makes you understand the beauty. Yeah. Of we put so much pressure on ourselves. God sometimes. Talk about trying to eat some cereal. It's like we make so much of so little like you know what I mean? Like it can be such a minuscule issue and we overthink and we amplify it in our mind just overthinking creating scenarios and just going down these rabbit holes and it's like yo just stop and breathe. You know there's no there's no manual to it and every journey is different like I always express like it is different but we all do what we got to do. There's an instinct that kicks in and we got it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Another thing I love that you wrote in the book and then you also talk about it on social media. You talk about it in a lot of interviews and I like to segue to my segment I called the unplug truth. And you have the most real truth ever. You say I don't care what it looks like. I still don't get it right every day and I think people need to understand that because I believe exactly what you. I tell people someone that appears to be perfect just run away because whatever they're about to tell you whatever advice they're about to give you it ain't real because the people I listen to don't get something right every day and that's what I appreciate. Yeah. And exactly what you said like that leaves me so speechless because yeah the people that you think like that you looking at like I know that person got it all together. I know every day is just sunshine and rainbows for them. I know that their kids don't have problems. I know that. No you don't know you don't know everybody goes through something when they are being challenged as a parent just as a caregiver as you know just a guardian you don't even have to be a parent. You know what I mean you could be a guardian you could be somebody who watches over someone's kid you know what I mean I don't get it right every day. That's why I do have a village. I thank God for my parents my husband my son's father my mother in law my father in law like it's a village it really takes a village none of this is easy. Not not at all not at all and another truth that you have that's also in the book and I think this one stopped me on my tracks to because again you're very vulnerable which I appreciate in the book. Yeah you talk about you're not wanting to tell Rome right like when you first found out you were pregnant and you were not that you didn't want to tell him you were just scared. I was a lot of times a truth that we need to understand is it's okay to have the emotion of fear it's just not okay to let it run you right and again I applaud you for that vulnerability and that conversation like walk us through that moment. Man I mean I'm listen make I consider it's up to you all day because that is literally the epitome of what the feeling was it's like yo y'all do not understand the amount of fear I was like so I I'm in the house by myself now I'm in Rome's house and he went to go play basketball and I'm 19 and I'm like looking at this test. And I'm like oh my God it says positive and you know how you already know something but it's nothing like that confirmation that that moment of clarity where it's like boom oh no this shit is real like oh it was positive and I knew but I really knew in that moment and I was like damn not only do I have to tell. Rome who I think I'm going to scare away. I have to tell my parents who don't even know I'm dating they don't even know where I am right now they think I'm somewhere else wow the the amount of my God like the amount of paranoia and just anxiety. It was like I could have really really had a heart attack in that moment and then he walks to the door and I walk down steps and we're making eye contact and he's like what's wrong because he I look where I'm trying to look good I'm you know I'm trying to be cool and and you know get my nerves all together and he's like was in your hand and I just drop it he picks it up he's like. You're pregnant I'm like yeah he's like oh my God we're going to be a family and I'm like. Okay not what I expected. Okay so I did I'm not going to lie I felt better but that was very short lived because I still knew. We're not ready for this. We're not ready you know I'm over the first time of Jerome not running for the hills not saying all look you want to take care that you know you know what I mean because that's what I expected I think I think I was so scared. In that moment that. I wanted him to say that now now as an adult just looking back I think I I was so free to have. This baby and you know and. Just. Thinking about my life and how much it was slow down and almost stop you know I'm not even out of my parents house yet you know I haven't even been no enrollment is long I think I'm in love I you know but I think I was so afraid that I wanted him to react that way just to have a reason to get rid of my child and when he reacted the other way around. I felt a relief but then I was even more afraid. Because I'm like damn now if I do get rid of the baby if I do schedule this appointment to get an abortion now I'm going to hurt his heart I'm going to hurt him. Thank God you didn't yeah thank God every day I think I thought the other part though so you tell Rome that's cool. You got to go home and tell mama now. Crazy born and raised in the church to strict parents where my dad was more lenient but my mom was the one that's like ooh she was stern and she oh my God very nurturing affection and loving lover my angel but still coming up. And lady I way play with her way play with my daddy the former Marine and just all the structure and into that we had rules on my car from A to Z back to a it was crazy so I'm over there and I asked Rome to go with me I was like I want to tell them by myself can you go with me and he goes yeah let's tell him today I was like damn you trying to get me killed like I just told you let me get a second to me 20 you know and he's like no I think we should get it out the way because I want to like start telling my friends and family he was so excited he was on such a high I was like okay all right let's do it the sooner the better anyway we go. Over to my mom's how you know tomorrow my dad answers the door that's not what I want to see right away I'm like ooh I could my mother answer the door and so he's not even like come in he's just like who is this in Rome is behind me trying to look behind me like who you bring into my house 830 at night I'm like because we had to catch the bus and sorry so we go in the kitchen you know how that's saying a mother knows honey she knew something was up she knew before I even set it out of my mouth like just a look that she gave me is like I know something is out of the first of all you didn't you're not bringing the little knucklehead to our house this late at night right for nothing to say the problem or now that you you wait you passed that what's going on you can graduate what's up so. Who I tell her. This is my boyfriend and I'm pregnant her my father they're puzzled for a minute my father needs to go out in the back yard to get some air he was so like. Take in a back but just disappointed and just frustrated like damn we didn't even know you were dating not that we'd say that you couldn't but we didn't even know when you just know you pregnant to like what is that when did you have time for their question in themselves like what the hell like how do we not see or know or even. Think about this with her right now and. My mother. I remember her just walking around because she was finishing like dishes or something like that I remember her walking around and she put her right hand on my back and put her left hand on Jerome's back and she began to pray. And I just burst out in tears like this I just I could not control myself because. A part of me was just like I know I can't do this I know I can't I know I can't but this boy is so happy and he lost his mother and I know he looks. At this is a sign from his mother like giving him a child and it's just. I just I could not break his heart and then my mother told me before I went to bed that night she was like listen. This is ultimately your decision you need to think long and hard about the decision that you are about to have to make and you can't wait too long to make it this will change your life know your life won't stop but it will be much more complicated than you thought it would be at nineteen. So you better figure out what it is that you want to do to be successful because you don't plan on going to college you don't have a job right now you don't even know what you want to do with industry you want to catapult yourself into for work you know I haven't even you don't know you're still a baby yourself. So thank and think wise and think hard. And I knew what she was trying to tell me like and it wasn't you need to get an abortion it was think about yourself your life because she knew that I was thinking about wrong more than myself. You know so yeah that was that was that was hard to that motherly wisdom. Yes and now I guess you got it now too right I do I do I know in the book and you talked before about how your mom was preparing you all your life to be a mom and how that was very special and I love hearing you say that too. I'm going to go to my next segment I call it hot takes and you get to live hot takes every day. Yes that's what you do for a living that's true that's what you do for a living. So I'm going to give you a Jessica Moore not even a Jessal airs I'm going to give you a Jessica Moore. Okay now look I done got married so Jessica more tall of a I'm that one. Yeah that Jessica more it's Oliver now the most still more now but you know I just added my husband's last year. Let's go. Yes I'm going to give you this one. You've said it before but no one is fully healed. There's a lot of us carrying scars and sometimes we got to accept and see that. Yeah right. But we got to accept and see the scars that other people have you know we talked earlier about no one's perfect. No one's got it together but no one's also fully healed talk to us about that a little. Well. Life is always life and no matter what so if you you're walking around and you're telling somebody or if you hear someone say oh no I'm fully healed I'm good enough you know not that I'm trying to force problems on people not that I think is something wrong with everybody but life is always life and as long as you live life there will be things thrown at you there will be trials there will be tribulations there will be obstacles that you have to overcome some you will some you won't. You know it's all about your level of resilience and endurance right but. Hailing is doing the work recognizing trauma wreck recognizing baggage recognizing that you aren't perfect and there are some things that you may have to work on you know when you recognize those things you work you work to assess them properly you work on how to navigate. Your conversations some you you'd be so surprised how many people can't have a conversation because it's complicated or because it brings a level of discomfort that one is not yet to sit through you know people are not yet ready to face conflict or have a mirror turned on themselves. Healing is like I said very linear it can go one way it can go a million ways and it can take forever to heal. But you would you can heal from something but then something else happens you're still living as you're healing so you're never going to be fully healed from everything but a work in progress is what you are a fully healed person is a perfect person and there are no perfect people. They don't exist no they don't exist. Richer or whatever right you're going to go to listen healing is needed for everybody. Absolutely. Absolutely. Here's my other hot take and you can't come through the screen on me. Okay. So I've been in a couple of I'm going to say fights altercations in my life I've been in two almost altercations and both of those were in Baltimore. Oh, me because somebody called me a dummy and I said what in the world I did not know at the time that that was a term of endearment in your city. Yes, where did that come from like like when did just dummy just become cool. I was you know it's crazy. I started hearing it when I was about 11 years old. I was 11. That's when it was started to being it would they started using it real heavy as a term of endearment because let my my father and my mother said they never said that shit to none of them. They listen the older be they I wish the hell one of y'all what that that came up with my generation. I was in elementary school on my way to middle school when I started hearing that real heavy and my my peers and we all used it in a few generations thereafter but they don't say it no more like they used to my generation still walking around we in our 30s we still dummy was up you know and even our mayor Baltimore Baltimore mayor Brandon Scott dummy was up. I'm so sorry that you had that you had to get into a fight but that that really means you're smart. I almost did. Luckily the crab cakes were good. That's all I'm gonna say. Listen that's another that's another that's our our our endearment dish. There you go. Yeah, that's about how it went down and I was like I'm not from around here. That's right. You thought I was from but it is not here. I got one more dummy left. I used to think of it all the time. I used to be like why do we say it's the people who are not from here that it's so offensive to other people who who aren't a part of this Baltimore culture. It should be from Baltimore into Baltimore and it should not be from Baltimore into Taurus. It should not be. No, not at all. I did. All right, just my last segment or second to last segment. Yeah, call the room. You've had and will continue to have an illustrious career. Right. You've done things that most people and I'm just going to say it that look like you don't get to have that look like us that don't get to have like you have earned every room you have ever been in. So I'm giving you your hours. Thank you. Talk about the one room whether it was a meeting a dinner a lunch whatever it was. What was the one room that truly changed your life when you knew this is it? This is what I'm doing. Hmm. One room. Well, the one room that started at all was Wells Fargo Arena and that's what it was Wells Fargo Arena in Baltimore City. 2016 on the stage performing in front of 13,000 people opening for Martin Lawrence. I knew this is where I belong. This is what I'm going to do. This is what I want to do is be a standup comedian in my own city got a stand in Ovation after a 10 minute set. My third fourth time on stage maybe was opening up in front of Martin Lawrence, you know, for Martin Lawrence in front of 13,000 bottom Oriens. Yeah. Am I saying I don't even think people realize if you're watching this, if you're listening to this that like your first open life, like people had to tell you to go do it right? Like I was scared as hell. I was like, no, I'm used to making my videos behind the phone and nothing, you know, if people in your face, they can't you can't delete go back at it. Delete didn't do something to repost. No, you got to make them people laugh in your face. Ain't no edit come back cut none of that. Yeah. And I did it and from then on, I've been doing it. Yeah. Yes, you have. And that's another thing I want to give you flowers for. Thank you. Because, you know, starting in that era of the social media comic, right? And a lot of people to this day get labeled that and they can't adjust because it's different. It is. And I'm not I'm not talking about it in a bad way. It's just different to be live and to feel the energy because to your point, like when it's you in a phone or you in a skit, like you can perfect it as much as you want to. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Somebody sitting in front of you and I'd never understand this go to a comedy show and you got people that are just sitting there like this is like you paid money to be like why did you why did you even come like? Yeah, you know why did you even come in here? But so yeah, doing comedy is one of the hardest. I hear people say is one of the hardest things to do. I it's just in me. I've always been funny. I've always been able to make a stiff room laugh. I make shoulders go down, you know what I'm saying? Like I don't and then I make them bounce because the people be laughing honey. I'm telling you. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Everybody again, given Jess's shameless bug, Jess hilarious.com like you can go see where she's going to be. Yes. She has her tour up there. You can get her book there again wherever you can get the book. This book is the greatest wherever you can get it. Go get it. I don't care if it's Amazon books, a million Barnes and Noble your local bookstore. Go get it. My job is to make this a New York Times best seller. Oh, week after week after week after week. I love your job. I'm here for just love your job. That's that's that's my only job. Thank you. All I got. It's all I got. Jess, you've been gracious. I'm gonna get you out of here with this rapid fire top five quick five. Okay. Ready? Mm hmm. What's being your favorite stage? Baltimore, Maryland. Um, the Lyric Opera House in Baltimore, Maryland. Okay. Okay. No, I'm sorry. One day. No, no, the hippodrome in Baltimore, Maryland, the hippodrome in Baltimore, Maryland. Oh, can I do another one? This is your show. Okay. The hippodrome in Baltimore, Maryland and also MGM, uh, casino, um, in DC, Oxon Hill. Yes. My two favorite. That's DMV right there. That's Baltimore DC. They my people. There you go. Yes. Combining the world together. I love it. I love it. You've had a long day. You're on set with knuckleheads all day. You're giving us truth all day when you've had a long day and it's time to have that meal. What's Jess eating? Oh, Berea tacos. Okay. Okay. Yes, Berea tacos. Yes. Whether I make them, my husband make them or we order in them. Everybody can cook in this house. So yes. Okay. All right. Baltimore. She didn't say crap. Please. No, I didn't. I didn't give them your love. She said Berea tacos. Berea tacos. I live in New York. Ain't no damn crabs up here. Shoot. All right. So breakfast club, a lot of love being rocking with y'all all my life. Uh, who's the most boring person on the show? Hmm. Everybody who does front page news, anybody just because politics is boring to me. There it is. Yeah. No shots to the person, but front page news and he I'd be like sleep and it'd be six o'clock in the morning. I'd be like, what? Gosh. That's it. But they know they born. Shoot. There it is. All right. Charlamagne obviously from South Carolina from the low country. I'm from South Carolina from the upstate. Who's your favorite person from South Carolina? Jess. Charlamagne the guy. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That's my son. It's all right. He's he's mine too. Yeah, that's my wife. If you said me, you know, then also that's that's my big brother, man. Like that's just sure mentorship. That's that's. Oh my God. That's the person who will give it to me straight. That's the person that's sit your hands down in the corner. You know what you did and I don't feel sorry for you. Go sit your hands down like that is a real big brother. Exactly. They always got you back. Always got my back. Always got my back. He kick it in. Then he all with any. Then he put a bandaid on it. Yeah. Last one. As the story of your legacy unfolds. What's one word that you want to make sure defines your legacy? Resilience. Resilience. I can get through anything. I have gotten through everything and still more to come. I'm still listen. I invite the obstacles. I love a challenge, but like even unwanted challenges and, you know, unforeseen controversies are just what at anything. I have gotten through it. You know, my level of endurance and resilience is immaculate to me. You know, man. Yeah. And that's because I'm a good person. I have a heart of gold. I am a person and I'm real and you're only going to always get what you see Jessica Robin Moore. Talibur. Follow. Absolutely. Absolutely. Hey, everybody do me a favor. A couple of favors. One, go follow Jess everywhere. Googler. You'll get all her social handles, but I'll make sure that they're in all the show notes in the descriptions here. Do me a huge favor. Go get this book. I can't tell you enough how if you're a parent. You need this. If you want to be able to hear an amazing story through parenting, you need this book. I love this book so much. Jess, I'm going to do this on Instagram. The first 20 people that message me parent. I am going to send you a copy of the book. Oh, wow. And then do Jess and I a favor when you get the copy, take a picture, tag Jess and tell her something amazing that you found out in the book. Right. Like that. We need this book. It's already going viral, but we need to take it to the stratosphere. This will be a New York Times bestseller in 2026 because of this community and Jess. Thank you. Get it. Go get it. Go get it. Yes. Love you from my core. I love you too. Appreciate who you are. Just all the amazing things that you were doing in the blueprint that you are. I can't thank you enough. Thank you, make. I appreciate you love. You got it. And to all the viewers and listeners, remember you're because is your super power go unleash. That's another powerful conversation on Mick unplugged. 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