36Y – Skinning the cat with Denise Winkelman

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In studio notes by Oliver Pardo
Editing and additional notes by Darryl Asher

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10 – Jesus Christ Superstar Corrections

Moving into college

Trump beginning/organization size/beginning of The Apprentice January 2004/slap

Cat massages

Dorm sizes

Roommates

20 –  3 Olivers

Frat Nicknames

Griffin vs. Oliver vs. Pardo

Biting a goose

25 – Yogurt Shop Murders

Hesher vs. Pothead vs. stoner vs burnout

Sammy Hagar was huge, and Van Halen wasn’t and vice versa East Coast vs West Coast

New Letter game is song titles

35 – Squiz is for older men according to Eliot / Jimmy says it’s for everyone

Denise Winkelman, Bougee on a Budget

Grew up in Northern Minnesota – graduated in the bottom 8

You can drink when your 19 there

Played Basketball at a Christian school

Wrote a handwritten letter to a bunch of wrestling promotions

Wrestlers couldn’t get drink tickets

Did a Promo as a Mad Scientist as Doctor Melvin Winkelman then became

that character

No autographs for the mad scientist and other “bad guys”

Tag Team partner Dr Medler

Hit opponent in the head with a baseball bat as hard as possible

Skin the cat is flipping back into the ring

Winkelman hit in the head with a folding chair

45 –  Denise transitioned in her early thirties

Was married to a woman

50 –  Denise did some wrestling as a woman but wasn’t fun because they didn’t let her talk

Wrestling hurts a lot more in your thirties than your twenties

Then moved to doing stand-up comedy in Denver

Moved to LA in 2020

Did a lot of zoom comedy

People can be very unwilling to date trans people

All the anti-trans ads are ill-informed and wrong

Denise wanted the money from the ads

55 – Kaitlyn Jenner has really disappeared since the election

The trans community is very anti-Kaitlyn Jenner

Trump was pro vaccine then anti vaccine

Kaitlyn Jenner killed somebody in a car accident

Jenner says she regrets backing Trump

Trump Kennedy Honors

Gloria Gainer

Michael Crawford

George Straight

Kiss – Paul Stanley was very anti Trump but then accepted the award

Gene Simmons was critical of Trump

Paul Stanley’s odd comment about having to accept that “your guy lost” after the 2024 election

Ace Fraley is very pro trump

Peter Chris is disappeared

The other two are maybe neutral

60 – Tom Cruise had a prior obligation so he couldn’t accept the Trump Kennedy Honor

Trump will be hosting the Kennedy Center Honors

Denise wasn’t allowed to listen to rock music growing up in a Christian household, so she listened to country music

Denise Winkelman wants to misgender on Fox News

1h5m – Oliver isn’t an adult yet

He cooked a Spanakopita in an oven for 2 hours without turning it on

Street Smarts show

Denise Winkelman ate a pizza without turning the oven on at 12 years old

She served it to her younger brother

How could you not tell it wasn’t cooked

Denise’s family is somewhat supportive

Father used to publicly misgender her, he got on board, but he is still looking for loopholes to “get her into heaven”

The Bible says don’t mix fabrics and people have latched onto that and used it a lot

Denise shops at the Baby Gap

Denise’s mom’s funeral was weird

A waiter was hitting on Denise at a Denny’s, but her father kept misgendering her

Best compliment was when her father said she was “a very handsome woman”

Neighbor was a “catch” but not really

1h10m – Denise’s mom would only eat at Denny’s or Golden Coral, because she hated doctors and had allergies

Big fan of Denny’s

A diner is better but Denny’s is a solid option according to Denise, Matt and Jimmy

Denise’s jazz brunch in the park where every guy had the hots for her

Good with her Brother

1h15m –  Vegas is now a ghost town but too expensive

Denise dropping ten grand in Vegas

Denise used to stay in murder hotels

Matlock would be able to solve Jimmy’s hotel murder but couldn’t stop it

Denise used to go to the theater all the time

Her last movie in a theater was Doctor Strange 2 or Spiderman

Her pilot that’s a dramatized version of her transition won awards in festivals

Hard being a comic and not being yourself at your day job

Denise wrote a lot of material about her coworkers

Galactic Snacks taste test, recap of strawberry Cheetos

Spicy Strawberries

1h20m – Oliver can’t open the bag

Waving the bag in everyone’s face

Heels in wrestling sometimes win

Denise never asked to win a match

1h25m – Denise says they taste like Cheesewiz or Ralph’s Dorito

They are lightning bolt shaped

Matt and Eliot think it has almost an Asian flavor

It was American Hot Wings Flavored Doritos

What’s New Galactic Snacks songs

Everyone guesses Orange and orange drink for mentos

It was Fanta Flavored Mentos

1h30m – Jimmy’s new knee injuries

Toddler Vampires that suck your knees

VanPampers

The Twilight Movies, they suck even though they haven’t seen them

Denise and Matt are big Marvel fans

Matt’s text review of Doctor Strange 2 to Garon

Irma saw Weapons but Elliot doesn’t like Horror movies

Shadows run in the theater in Weapons

Denise saw a horror movie where Lucy Lui moves into a haunted house and there’s something in the house called The Presence

1h40min – If you don’t know about Blair Witch Project it may be the scariest thing ever

Denise saw it when she was in the middle of nowhere

Barbarian was one of the last movies that freaked out Matt, but it releases you at the end and its no longer unnerving but it really is in the middle

Elliot went into a government building

There’s an old 80-year-old woman with a pocketknife and a pair of scissors

Wand check

The security guard says if he doesn’t find it don’t worry about it

Letter game!

Denise – Halloween

Matt – Hellboy

Jimmy – Highlander

Oliver – The Haunting

Garon – Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

1h50min – Making a canoe like Nick Offerman

Elliot’s Answer

5- Her

4- Hellyboy

3- House

2- Halloween

  1. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

1h55 min – Bougee on a Budget out on Amazon, Apple, Youtube, Vimeo, Google

Plex

2h – Bone tree

Pine needle sex

My pleasure,

Oliver