TSF: You’ve garnered a lot of attention in part because of the “exhibitionist” nature of the podcast. I wonder how this attention has impacted your careers both negatively and positively.

KH: I think for me it’s been all positive because we’re getting more spots, we’re getting more attention, we’re getting more respect from the industry and from other comedians, which is really cool. To earn the respect from your peers that you respect is exciting. I’ve seen nothing but positive reactions because of the success of the podcast — career-wise anyway.

CF: Yeah, I think professionally we’re both the same. But, I mean, for me to be single and doing this, errrr, it’s just a big ol’ mess. And I’ve written a lot of jokes about this, about how I do talk very publicly about my sex life. So while I don’t regret doing it, I also don’t recommend it to others because it’s had such a heavy effect on my personal life. I’m like this guinea pig in this experiment that we created. I mean, number one I had no idea that this would get as big as it’s gotten. I mean who starts something and thinks it’s gonna get this big? Nobody. And then secondly, this really was a human experiment — talking to guys you’ve had sex with. I didn’t know how it was gonna go, but I was curious.

So we’ve learned a lot about ourselves. But I also think people definitely do try to have sex with me to get on the podcast — especially in the comedy world — and I can’t tell where it’s coming from. Like I’d honestly rather have someone just be like, “Yo, I wanna get on the podcast.” [laughs] And so I don’t have to have sex with them and they can just tell me a reason they should be on it. And I feel like it’s very much a barrier to get into a relationship because it takes a very self confident man to do that. And if there’s one thing I’ve learned from all this, it’s that people, especially men, lack a great deal of confidence and security in themselves.

TSF:  Do you feel like, as a woman, generating attention by talking about sex and sexuality is objectifying or empowering or both?