Tina Friml: Living in the Bonus Round

**Trevor Noah** (0:04)
At what age do you remember, like at what part of your life and what age do you remember going, oh, I am different because I'm being told I'm different so much?

**Tina Friml** (0:14)
Well, I remember that the first time I ever kind of heard about this, I was a little kid, five years old. I'm in the car at night with my family.
My brother, my older brother, suddenly just chimed in like, hey mom and dad, so why does Tina talk weird?

**Eugene Cordero** (0:41)
How old was this guy? He ever speak about all you?

**Tina Friml** (0:48)
He was like seven, okay? And that kind of socially random way only kids can be.

**Eugene Cordero** (0:59)
That's what feels me.

**Trevor Noah** (1:00)
You know what I love? Because you're in a car, you're a family. So it's not even like an outsider thing.
But the fact that he says it, not to you by the way, goes like you're not there. Yo, mom and dad, like he's been holding this in for so long.

**Eugene Cordero** (1:12)
For seven years.

**Trevor Noah** (1:13)
Yo, mom and dad, yo. Yo man, okay, I gotta ask now, bruh.

**Eugene Cordero** (1:18)
And you know this guy, it's not like he just met you. He's known you for seven years.

**Trevor Noah** (1:22)
That's what I'm saying.

**Tina Friml** (1:23)
And I wasn't even talking.

**Trevor Noah** (1:39)
This is What Now with Trevor Noah.

**Trevor Noah** (1:53)
Where did you come from?

**Tina Friml** (1:55)
Today or like in my life?

**Trevor Noah** (1:57)
I mean, you can answer either one.

**Eugene Cordero** (1:59)
Let's start with your life first.

**Tina Friml** (2:02)
Well, I actually live in Boston now.

**Eugene Cordero** (2:05)
Like you live there, live there?

**Tina Friml** (2:06)
Yeah, yeah, for real, I moved there. I mean, hey, how are you?

**Eugene Cordero** (2:10)
Hey, how are you?

**Tina Friml** (2:10)
How are you?

**Eugene Cordero** (2:11)
Boston, Boston. Boston, Boston, Boston, Boston.

**Tina Friml** (2:15)
It sounds Boston.

**Trevor Noah** (2:20)
Okay, okay, great.

**Eugene Cordero** (2:21)
Okay, okay, okay.

**Tina Friml** (2:22)
I'm from Cambridge.

**Eugene Cordero** (2:24)
Oh, that's fancy.

**Trevor Noah** (2:25)
Wait, so why did you move there? Where did you come from originally that you moved there?

**Tina Friml** (2:29)
Yeah, I lived up in New England, and then lived here for six years in Bushwick, and then I just hit a wall. Well, I'm on tour so much anyway, but depending on the conversation, if I can't really get into it, I just say, oh, I'm on tour. I didn't want to pay New York rent.
But the real reason I lived in Bushwick, do we know Bushwick?

**Trevor Noah** (3:04)
Yeah, we know Bushwick.

**Tina Friml** (3:05)
But I hit a wall.
I loved you love Bushwick until you hate it. I yeah, but it's so young Bohemian. I moved there at 25

**Trevor Noah** (3:20)
Oh, yeah. So that's the right time. Yes.

**Tina Friml** (3:22)
Young Bohemian, polyamorous.

**Trevor Noah** (3:26)
Young Bohemian, polyamorous is a great t-shirt.

**Eugene Cordero** (3:29)
Polyamorous is better than promiscuous.

**Trevor Noah** (3:31)
Any day, make the right choice.

**Tina Friml** (3:34)
It's ethical.
Ethically monogamous. It's ethically non-monogamous.

**Trevor Noah** (3:43)
And ethically monogamous. Let's just start that as a thing. I'm ethically monogamous. Thank you very much.

**Tina Friml** (3:49)
That's how being out there feels like. It's like I had to disclose that I was monogamous.

**Trevor Noah** (3:57)
Yeah, so that people know you're not. Yeah, because you know when you're in like a...
What I like to call like vibe places, the default flips, right? So you'll be in a place where what you normally think of as default is now no longer the default. So when you're in that place, you have to now say certain things. Yeah, when you're in those places, it's vibe, cool, fashion, everything, you have to be like, oh, by the way, I'm straight.

**Trevor Noah** (4:19)
They're like, oh, oh wow, okay. Look at you.

**Trevor Noah** (4:23)
When did you get here?

**Trevor Noah** (4:23)
What are you doing here?

**Eugene Cordero** (4:25)
Ah, because people automatically assume.

**Trevor Noah** (4:27)
Yeah, because the vibe of the place is like, it's dictated by something else, the fashion, the views that people have. I actually think it's cool for people to go to places like that so that they can see what it's like to not be default. Do you know what I mean?

**Tina Friml** (4:40)
Yeah. Well, I mean, I'm monogamous now and straight because I did the whole, the whole set. It's not for lack of trying. You tried it? It's the way I came out to my Bushwick friends at a car bar as monogamous. They were like, good for you.