Speaker 1: Are you leaving? I you wanna way back home? Either way,
Speaker 1: we want to be there.
Speaker 2: Doesn't matter how much baggage you claim and give us
Speaker 2: time and a terminol and gay.
Speaker 3: We want to send you off in style. We wanna
Speaker 3: welcome you back home.
Speaker 2: Tell us all about it.
Speaker 1: We scared or was it fine? Malborn?
Speaker 4: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 1: Do you need to ride? Do you need to ride?
Speaker 1: Do your need ride?
Speaker 5: Ride with Karen and Chris, our our guests today, Hi
Speaker 5: clubs and goes across the country.
Speaker 4: We were looking for somewhere more dimly lid, for.
Speaker 1: The full of fresh as treaty as possible.
Speaker 5: Let's yeah, start with the normal stuff. What's what's in
Speaker 5: the bag and give it to us now. Oscar Montoya
Speaker 5: everyone put.
Speaker 1: Hi, Oscar, thanks for doing this with.
Speaker 3: Us, Thanks for having me?
Speaker 4: Yes, Car, oh, thank you.
Speaker 1: I have to get rid of it.
Speaker 3: You have to get rid of it.
Speaker 2: Why because Elon Musk is a straight up Nazi.
Speaker 1: Like there's just no we it. You can't laugh it.
Speaker 5: Off, like have you fought about and I've seen this
Speaker 5: like it's always fun to me. I there was a
Speaker 5: Bentley that put a Honda emblem on it, which is
Speaker 5: kind of the opposite, and I would see it all
Speaker 5: the time in Venice. It was really funny to me
Speaker 5: that that person did that because it was a beautiful car.
Speaker 5: And then they're like, it'd be funny if I pretended
Speaker 5: this was you could do that.
Speaker 4: You could just put a Volkswagen logo on it.
Speaker 2: Okay, perfect, Yeah, Just let everybody just ye be like, no,
Speaker 2: you're the one that doesn't understand I am not a
Speaker 2: white supremacist.
Speaker 1: Why I decide whether or not I.
Speaker 4: Then maybe don't put Volkswagen. That was a bad example.
Speaker 2: That's the worst case scenario.
Speaker 5: I think that people would get what you're saying, though
Speaker 5: if you covered it up, it'd be like, Okay, I
Speaker 5: get it.
Speaker 2: Then you're like, oh here it's a Ford. Nope, that
Speaker 2: that one's bad too.
Speaker 3: What all cars are bad? Carts are bad.
Speaker 5: I look at the Calvin stickers out there these days, all.
Speaker 2: Of them, everything was right, pee.
Speaker 3: On all the cards. That's what we need for four.
Speaker 1: That's what we all have to start doing.
Speaker 3: For golden showers for the car guys.
Speaker 1: Is that a high school soccer game or is it
Speaker 1: a leak soccer game?
Speaker 3: It is it's like a high school. They have a
Speaker 3: game every single night, it feels like, and they are loud.
Speaker 3: They are loud, and they love to sing songs really
Speaker 3: about soccer. No turn turned out for what Oh Flowers
Speaker 3: Miley Cyrus I heard. I'm like, this doesn't feel like
Speaker 3: a high school song.
Speaker 4: Wow. So not Josh Jams Volumes twelve. That's great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we loved your neighborhood.
Speaker 5: Before you got in the car, we were talking about
Speaker 5: your neighborhood, but it was thank you.
Speaker 4: The beautiful Uh what are what's that style of it ran? Victorian?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes they are yes, Victorian houses. Yeah, there's a
Speaker 3: bunch of beautiful houses here very close by. They shot
Speaker 3: the show Charmed. Yeah, they have the outside door. I've
Speaker 3: never My friend was visiting from Chicago and she was like,
Speaker 3: you gotta take me to the Charmed house. She got
Speaker 3: and I was like, okay, I've never seen the show. Yeah,
Speaker 3: i go to what I assume is the Charmed House
Speaker 3: because I'm like, Okay, this is kind of big and spooky.
Speaker 3: She's taking pictures of it, that's so to speak. The
Speaker 3: next day, when she flies back to Chicago, she's like, Oscar,
Speaker 3: that wasn't the charmed house.
Speaker 4: Why did you tell me?
Speaker 1: Wait? So did you just kind of make it up?
Speaker 1: You're like, it must be this one.
Speaker 3: Well, I googled, I was like charmed house, and it
Speaker 3: showed me the address. So I went and it's actually
Speaker 3: the house that was next door. It wasn't as impressive
Speaker 3: as the house that we shot. So I was like,
Speaker 3: this is the.
Speaker 5: House you're talking about exactly where I live. And I
Speaker 5: when I do cameos, I drive around and I gave
Speaker 5: have a tour of these houses. There's the Thriller house,
Speaker 5: which has been burnt I think from arson, but someone
Speaker 5: every time I drive by, there's like a quivering curtain
Speaker 5: and there's someone that lives.
Speaker 4: In there that doesn't turn on any lights.
Speaker 1: Really why did they buy it? Then?
Speaker 4: Uh, he's got good songs now, I think.
Speaker 2: And then if you don't want people taking pictures.
Speaker 5: Right, But on that street there are renovated beautiful houses,
Speaker 5: beautiful like one is all black with like gothic there's.
Speaker 3: Like I think that's the one I took pictures of.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that street is the street that boasts the most
Speaker 5: Victorian beautiful home.
Speaker 3: There's a plaque, isn't there a Yeah?
Speaker 5: And and hitching posts for horses are shaped like horses heads,
Speaker 5: you know, because downtown people used to ride horses to work.
Speaker 4: Sure, come home.
Speaker 5: To their drafty old house and yell at their family.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's what you should do, is just buy a horse,
Speaker 3: the ultimate hipster move horse.
Speaker 4: Like I've been seeing in my neighborhood.
Speaker 5: A lot of dudes with cowboy hats and and and
Speaker 5: cowboy boots.
Speaker 4: I think you should just outdo.
Speaker 5: Them all and actually just ride a horse on sunseide.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what are people going to say?
Speaker 1: They can't say shit, They can't shit.
Speaker 3: You want to be riding a tesla instead, That's what
Speaker 3: he'll say.
Speaker 2: The funniest thing, though, is there are so many tesla's
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles, Like there's just it's nice to know
Speaker 2: that there's like twenty thousand people also in this very
Speaker 2: awkward position.
Speaker 1: It's like, what are you a fucking Nazi?
Speaker 2: That guy right there, Yeah, hey, and he's guiltier than
Speaker 2: I out.
Speaker 5: Everyone thought the problem would be throwing away the battery.
Speaker 1: But no, there's worse problems now. Yeah, Oscar, what's going?
Speaker 1: How was your Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3: It was great, It was relaxing. I spent it with
Speaker 3: a friend who insisted on cooking everything, so there was
Speaker 3: no stress for me to prepare any food, and I
Speaker 3: just went and ate.
Speaker 1: That was intering. That's a dream come true.
Speaker 3: How was your Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1: Mine was the same? It was.
Speaker 2: I spent it with two friends who insisted on cooking everything,
Speaker 2: my dad and my sister, and I get away with
Speaker 2: so much in my family, but that one is the
Speaker 2: biggest that I really I do convey my appreciation.
Speaker 1: But my dad was a.
Speaker 2: Fireman in San Francisco, so you you have to know
Speaker 2: how to cook in a firehouse. You yeah, because you
Speaker 2: trade off different nights being responsible for making food. So
Speaker 2: if you suck, everyone will hate you and be mean
Speaker 2: to you. So you have to be good at cooking.
Speaker 2: And basically, guys learn from the senior guys all the
Speaker 2: good recipes and the good stuff. So my dad's a
Speaker 2: really good cook, and then my sister is really really
Speaker 2: good cook. So I just kind of sit back and
Speaker 2: like I'm like, hey, can I get some popcorn? Like hey,
Speaker 2: I just make requests and act like like I'm the guest.
Speaker 3: Honestly, that's the dream. That's that's what we want.
Speaker 1: It's pretty nice.
Speaker 3: Chris. What about you? How is your things.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 5: I have never been responsible for the food, and I
Speaker 5: swear I'm not doing it on purpose, but I I
Speaker 5: ate I did the wrong thing where I didn't prepare
Speaker 5: my stomach elasticity, and I really was having problems in
Speaker 5: a guest. As a guest, I talked too much about
Speaker 5: medical things. I'm trying to avoid the specifics, but we
Speaker 5: all know what happened.
Speaker 4: I had a little problem.
Speaker 1: But Oscar doesn't know either of us.
Speaker 4: I did I do that thing.
Speaker 5: I do that thing where I'm like, good to me too,
Speaker 5: let's talk about diarrhea, and I did.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, as her, very sorry.
Speaker 3: That's okay, but it.
Speaker 4: Was the best. Yeah, I've I still have leftovers. I
Speaker 4: got this.
Speaker 5: That's the one thing I usually you don't get when
Speaker 5: you're a guest, get sent home with leftovers.
Speaker 4: So I really that is nice.
Speaker 5: Scored this year, I've been eating Thanksgiving food for all week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for the rest of the year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's frozen like a dead deer in my walking freezer.
Speaker 1: More turkey, more turkey. I do love. I love Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: I really love.
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving as a holiday because it's well for me, absolutely
Speaker 2: no stress whatsoever. But I love the Thanksgiving dinner meal.
Speaker 2: I could eat that once a week. Yes, it's my favorite.
Speaker 3: What is your favorite Thanksgiving like dish? Are you a
Speaker 3: turkey freak? Are you like a sides person?
Speaker 1: You know what I am.
Speaker 2: It's a it's basically a combination of that. I'm a
Speaker 2: combo bite make the perfect bite person. Oh yeah, and
Speaker 2: then I do that until my stomach explodes because you
Speaker 2: just keep making the perfect bite and it gets and
Speaker 2: you refine it and you get it better, and then
Speaker 2: you have a bite of your roll or whatever.
Speaker 5: Yeah, just different shades of beige and I yeah. And
Speaker 5: the only thing that breaks through is the thing I detest,
Speaker 5: which is that cylinder car, that gelatinous cranberry.
Speaker 4: Like disagree?
Speaker 1: I love it. We that's we have to have it.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I'm sorry to say, Chris, you are the
Speaker 3: odd person out here because I also love a cranberry.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: What's wrong with me.
Speaker 1: It's a deal breaker.
Speaker 4: I don't like the juice. If someone spent some.
Speaker 3: Cranberry juice, you're the most versatile of the juice.
Speaker 4: For years. Because I know it is versatile.
Speaker 2: Every other fruit company, they literally have franchised that thing
Speaker 2: past the point of spider death, like you.
Speaker 1: Can get any.
Speaker 5: Kind I know, And I guess my opinion changed on
Speaker 5: it when I stopped drinking copious amounts of.
Speaker 4: Vodka with.
Speaker 5: I am not I have had when someone really gets
Speaker 5: creative and knows what they're doing with cranberry, like where
Speaker 5: there's twigs in it and stuff.
Speaker 4: I like that twigs, you know, where it's full cranberry
Speaker 4: berries with.
Speaker 1: The shells and that.
Speaker 3: No, No, that's shooting.
Speaker 1: That's a bad decision, you guys.
Speaker 5: So you're arguing rather than for homemade cranberry sauce, you
Speaker 5: want the gelatinous cylinder from a can.
Speaker 3: Yes, the crime, lock me up, Chris.
Speaker 2: That it's a shape like a can that you slice
Speaker 2: it on the can lines. So here's here's eight thin
Speaker 2: pieces and now here's a big fat piece in the
Speaker 2: midd because that's what the can shape.
Speaker 1: Do do it?
Speaker 5: Do you use it?
Speaker 4: Kind of?
Speaker 5: No? I don't like it, And I know our listeners
Speaker 5: are all saying that most people are on my side
Speaker 5: right now.
Speaker 2: Please, we're going to we're gonna work social media for
Speaker 2: this one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like we ever have before. We're going to post
Speaker 1: a pold I guess.
Speaker 4: And I've never I guess sound like the combination.
Speaker 5: I don't need it as a condiment, like where it's like,
Speaker 5: oh I need a little cranberry on my turkey. I
Speaker 5: think other people if I did that, I would want it.
Speaker 4: But I just it's all beige all day.
Speaker 1: Really.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like a like a group of people in a cult.
Speaker 3: What's your favorite food, Chris food?
Speaker 5: Oh boy, I mean I think and if I'd hate
Speaker 5: to just steer away from Thanksgiving meals, but I do
Speaker 5: believe it's ramen. Oh yeah, I'm a hot soup guy.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. I know it's surprising.
Speaker 5: I would to say when I need something brought to
Speaker 5: my house and I realized there's no food.
Speaker 2: It's my go to, Oscar, what's your go to when
Speaker 2: you need hot food and brought to your house?
Speaker 3: When I need hot food, I'm brought to my house.
Speaker 1: I was brought to my house.
Speaker 3: I'm a Thaie food sort of sort of person. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I like a pat. I'm a I'm a basic noodle guy. Yeah,
Speaker 3: a pets you or a pat tie is always my
Speaker 3: go to. It's delicious. What about you?
Speaker 5: Do you ever in our neighborhood go to? It's Thai
Speaker 5: homesterrant of course it's name.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 3: It's not a house stant it's a home.
Speaker 1: It's a home.
Speaker 4: Did I say house?
Speaker 3: No? No, you know it's like the I.
Speaker 5: Mean this house draw. Let's make this house drawn a homestrung.
Speaker 5: That's right, that's right, that was their mission.
Speaker 4: I love it. And there's no one ever there.
Speaker 3: No one is.
Speaker 4: I feel like I'm the only person ever there.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm like, is this a front for something?
Speaker 5: They're always happy to see me. If it's a front,
Speaker 5: I want to Yeah, a lookout. Just give me free noodles.
Speaker 2: Mule for those people if you care so much about
Speaker 2: their cooking. I like type food because you can be
Speaker 2: doing all the carbs of Chinese food, but you're telling
Speaker 2: yourself you're getting all these.
Speaker 3: Vegetables my god, yeah, totally right, right.
Speaker 4: Just because there's something leafy resting on top.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's some sliced up carrot. So you're like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, I'm practically vegan.
Speaker 3: Yeah. My brain does a trick where it's like, oh,
Speaker 3: you're eating healthy because it's not Chinese food. Yeah, weird,
Speaker 3: it's being a weird. What is this frozen and Incanto
Speaker 3: Disney on ice? Oh you are you seeing this.
Speaker 4: This is new Disney. You have a podcast where you
Speaker 4: talk about Disney.
Speaker 1: Reach yes, yes, wait wait talk to us about that.
Speaker 3: Okay. So I when I moved to Los Angeles, I
Speaker 3: was very i'll say it, weirded out by Disney adults.
Speaker 3: I didn't, I don't, I don't really, I didn't get it.
Speaker 3: I was a little like gassholders, what's going on here?
Speaker 3: Because I'm from New York, so and like Disney people.
Speaker 3: There's not a lot of Disney adults in New York.
Speaker 2: There's not a lot of Disney vibes in New York exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's actually anti New York vibes in my opinion.
Speaker 3: I agree, I agree. So when I moved here, I
Speaker 3: was a little weird about by Disney dolson. I was
Speaker 3: like I Also, I was raised in Colombia, in South America,
Speaker 3: so I missed the big Disney craze of the nineties.
Speaker 3: I wasn't. I didn't grow up with like Hercules or
Speaker 3: et cetera, et cetera. So I've only seen two Disney
Speaker 3: movies ever. Oh and wow, So my friend Claire, who's
Speaker 3: the co host, took me to Disneyland to be like, huh, right,
Speaker 3: and I was like, Okay, this is kind of cute. Okay,
Speaker 3: but I don't understand any of these references.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, that's amazing.
Speaker 3: So I was like, why don't we just start a
Speaker 3: podcast where I watch every single Disney I love that movie.
Speaker 5: I love knowing that that I that's amazing because any
Speaker 5: appreciation I have for Disneyland, it's just me remembering going
Speaker 5: on the Pirates to the Caribbean Ride or whatever as
Speaker 5: a kid, and I'm nostalgic for it, right, And when
Speaker 5: you go into the Tarzan Treouse, which used to be
Speaker 5: the Swiss Family Robinson one, I have vivid memories of
Speaker 5: being in there as a kid. It was really important
Speaker 5: to me that being said, I am not a Disney adult,
Speaker 5: and do not call me that. Okay, it's okay, but
Speaker 5: you I love that you're starting from scratch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, we watched all of them mission completely. We
Speaker 3: finished it, and we watched every pixarm We watched every
Speaker 3: single Disney Channel original movie as well.
Speaker 4: The first feature Fantasia.
Speaker 3: The first feature is Snow White and really yeah, it's
Speaker 3: the very first animated feature film ever.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, it's never been done before. People called Walt
Speaker 3: Disney a kookie crazy man for doing it, for doing it,
Speaker 3: for freezing his head, his frozen head directed.
Speaker 5: It was the original premise of Frozen, but.
Speaker 1: That's scary for.
Speaker 3: Originally pitched this frozen head.
Speaker 2: I fully agree with you, and I have known several
Speaker 2: Disney adults in my life, and at least one of
Speaker 2: them was also a sociopath.
Speaker 3: So it is a strong vibe.
Speaker 2: Strong vibe, and it also for a couple of them.
Speaker 2: I was just kind of like this. This to me
Speaker 2: feels like I had a friend who is obsessed with
Speaker 2: Star Wars and he was like when I was eight
Speaker 2: years old, I got brought to Star Wars and halfway
Speaker 2: through the film broke and he goes, So I'm now
Speaker 2: obsessed with it because I can't get that day back
Speaker 2: and that's his whole life.
Speaker 1: But he knows it, he's fully aware of it.
Speaker 2: I feel like Disney adults have no idea what the
Speaker 2: problem is and they don't want to know, and they're
Speaker 2: upset if you say that could possibly be why?
Speaker 3: Yes, wow, you know, yes. I mean like it's it's
Speaker 3: there's like rings, right, It's like Dante's Inferno, right, and
Speaker 3: there's like the Disney adults who like, are the cis
Speaker 3: hetero heterosexual couples that go there. They were like, I'm
Speaker 3: his and she's mine, sort of like Mickey mouse finger
Speaker 3: glove pointing thing, which.
Speaker 4: Here's a cursive embroidery on our hats.
Speaker 3: Yes, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 4: Oh wow.
Speaker 3: And then you have you know, the Disney Gaze, which
Speaker 3: is another earth.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you know it's a scene.
Speaker 3: It's a oh it's a it is a scene, an
Speaker 3: aggressive scene. It's gay men uh in their thirties, usually
Speaker 3: bearish bearded.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 3: Who like, just live at Disneyland and it freaks me out.
Speaker 5: But you know, because of the plush clad mascots are
Speaker 5: do you think any furries go there.
Speaker 2: I'm sure they must sneak in some cuddles, but I
Speaker 2: don't think those costumes are furry.
Speaker 1: I mean if I don't know, if they get.
Speaker 4: That they all have an as flap on them. I
Speaker 4: don't know. You have to really look.
Speaker 5: It's about crow, but it's seamless and easy to access.
Speaker 4: Most of the kids don't know.
Speaker 3: I was just built in.
Speaker 5: It's the easiest way to get into the costume.
Speaker 3: Now. But you're right, it's like, how much fur like
Speaker 3: quantifies you a fer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and is that would a free be offended that
Speaker 2: I would even suggest that, because it's like, that's not
Speaker 2: what it's about.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'd love to hear but true thinking about because I'm
Speaker 2: just thinking. The reason I even was able to say
Speaker 2: that was because I've recently accidentally slipped into an area
Speaker 2: of TikTok, which is just little children dressed as characters
Speaker 2: at Disneyland being spotted by the character they're dressed as. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and it is like the most immediate dopamine crying for
Speaker 2: no reason, like weirdest thing that I basically spent too
Speaker 2: much time watching, and now the algorithm things, I fucking
Speaker 2: love it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I do.
Speaker 2: It's almost like I shouldn't say such judgmental things about
Speaker 2: Disney adults because maybe I have a part of that
Speaker 2: inside me. She could be you can have that dormant
Speaker 2: gene reading to get activated.
Speaker 5: We're in traffic right now, we're gonna have a hard
Speaker 5: edge to us. But when my nieces, who are now
Speaker 5: in their first year of college, when they dressed like
Speaker 5: little princesses and you can go to Disneyland and they
Speaker 5: get to meet all the princesses and it is they
Speaker 5: were freaking out, like it is the coolest thing that
Speaker 5: I would think I wouldn't appreciate, but once you see it,
Speaker 5: it's like, oh, this is pretty.
Speaker 4: It is the key I'll never forget.
Speaker 2: Also, I think that's based on when my niece was
Speaker 2: like five, we brought her to Disneyland or six, and
Speaker 2: she was obsessed with there's like a tinker Bell TV
Speaker 2: show that had a bunch of other tinker Bell was
Speaker 2: like the star, but then there was all these other
Speaker 2: fairies and my niece loved the like gothy bitchy one
Speaker 2: that was like bitchy and got right and we went
Speaker 2: we got in line to go see tinker Bell, but
Speaker 2: we turned a corner. After waiting for a while, we
Speaker 2: turned a corner and that the bitchy fairy was standing there,
Speaker 2: and it was like it was like if any of
Speaker 2: us were in like the grocery store. And we turned
Speaker 2: the corner and brad Pitt was like holding some bread.
Speaker 2: It was she was absolutely like she was stunned. She
Speaker 2: wasn't ready like it was like she was like uh
Speaker 2: uh uh. And then and this fucking girl playing that
Speaker 2: character did like literally crossed her arms like how she
Speaker 2: does in the cartoon wow, like played the parts she
Speaker 2: did her And so there wasn't a moment where Nora
Speaker 2: was disappointed of like, oh, I guess that's just a
Speaker 2: girl dressed like It was like suddenly that fairy really
Speaker 2: was there being kind of bitchy to.
Speaker 1: Nora, but in a sweet like winky way.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 1: It was beautiful.
Speaker 3: There's a craft to that.
Speaker 5: But the point is there are adults that also could
Speaker 5: still get trapped into that magic where they believe well,
Speaker 5: and I.
Speaker 2: Think is there part of it maybe the appreciation for
Speaker 2: how like themed Out and like dedicated Disneyland is to
Speaker 2: providing that experience.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's that kind.
Speaker 2: Of like that sense of escape that no child is
Speaker 2: disappointed on our grounds kind of fantasy.
Speaker 4: Yeah maybe, yeah.
Speaker 2: It is that which just makes me go, what disappointed
Speaker 2: you so badly that you need to.
Speaker 1: Be doing this? Why can't you get high and.
Speaker 2: Go to the movies like all the rest of us.
Speaker 2: They just be like, oh yeah, Barbie, I love that.
Speaker 5: I mean yeah, if someone is a passholder, I'm like,
Speaker 5: how do you deal with the line There's never a
Speaker 5: day where it's not Maybe I'm in an ocean but
Speaker 5: I can't deal with the I I've only gone purposefully
Speaker 5: when it's raining.
Speaker 4: It's the only time.
Speaker 3: What do you typically do at the park when you're there?
Speaker 3: Are you a rights person? Do you like people? I
Speaker 3: love people?
Speaker 2: Want you can tell Oscar has a podcast because he
Speaker 2: is hosting from the Back, I.
Speaker 5: Feel like and I love it. I love that and
Speaker 5: I please keep doing it. Yeah, because it's hard for
Speaker 5: me to summon questions. I am a ride per I
Speaker 5: very much like the Indiana Jones ride, where there's an
Speaker 5: actor that's.
Speaker 4: Like giant rolling rocks when he's running.
Speaker 5: I always try and do my Harrison for It's good. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's okay, but I have not every time I've been there.
Speaker 4: The Haunted Mansion.
Speaker 5: Is closed because that's right, a ghost mishappened.
Speaker 4: I know, I've never never been on it.
Speaker 3: That's wild.
Speaker 4: What I know? Like Frog and.
Speaker 5: Toad's why, Yes, when they go to Hell, it's just
Speaker 5: an understated hell.
Speaker 3: Also not in the movie at all. You know. I
Speaker 3: went to the ride first and I was like, Oh,
Speaker 3: I'm excited to watch this Disney movie because they're gonna
Speaker 3: show Hell. Not in the movie at all. Wait, there's
Speaker 3: a what is the movie it's part it's okay, so okay,
Speaker 3: here something. So it's part of a of a package film,
Speaker 3: which is a movie because this was during the wartime
Speaker 3: where Disney was did not have any money, so they
Speaker 3: created a bunch of shorts and packaged them together and
Speaker 3: release them as feature films. Movies like Fun and Fancy Free,
Speaker 3: The Toad's Wild Ride and Ncobah Crane like those were
Speaker 3: all packaged together. So really it's it's part of the
Speaker 3: Wind in the Willows short. Oh yeah, but no mention
Speaker 3: of hell Toad does not Die.
Speaker 5: It's a lot like the Stephen King book that has
Speaker 5: Shashank Redemption and stand by Me in it, but they're short.
Speaker 3: Exactly yes, yeah, okah, good, I was really.
Speaker 4: Going out on a lamp.
Speaker 5: I can tell that your background is an improfit because
Speaker 5: you could have easily nobody.
Speaker 4: When did you move?
Speaker 3: I moved here in twenty fifteen, and I was sort
Speaker 3: of I'm from New York, so I reluctantly moved here
Speaker 3: for work.
Speaker 4: Oh when you were a kid, When did you move
Speaker 4: to New York?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 4: When did Oh?
Speaker 3: Well, so I moved to the US when I was
Speaker 3: twelve years old. Okay, wow from Colombia. And uh yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean I'm from a village in South America. It's
Speaker 3: me It's called Palma, and we had no paved roads.
Speaker 3: It was very much like, Okay, this is a village.
Speaker 3: So when I moved to America, I moved to Queens,
Speaker 3: New York. And the craziest thing for me, I remember
Speaker 3: being twelve and freaking out that people had their lights
Speaker 3: on during the day. Oh wow, that to me was
Speaker 3: something that was like insane. Yeah, I'm like, what do
Speaker 3: you mean you have your lights on when the sun
Speaker 3: is out? You losers?
Speaker 4: You heard of you were right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you were just wasting lights. You're wasting energy.
Speaker 2: So as a kid, that is making that adjustment, like
Speaker 2: were you just because like, for example, it makes me
Speaker 2: think of I went to.
Speaker 1: School with a girl who grew up with no TV.
Speaker 2: Yes, and on Monday morning after the weekend, all we
Speaker 2: do is stand in circles and talk about the TV
Speaker 2: shows we liked and whatever, and she just wasn't a
Speaker 2: part of it and just was checked out. And I
Speaker 2: was always like but sometimes she just stand there and
Speaker 2: be like yeah, yeah, whatever, and like did you have
Speaker 2: to spend a lot of time like kind of faking
Speaker 2: it or did you like actually say, I don't know
Speaker 2: what that is?
Speaker 1: What is that?
Speaker 4: Should I watch? Oh?
Speaker 3: I like? So when I was twelve years old, I
Speaker 3: was going through puberty, I didn't speak the language, and
Speaker 3: I was gay as hell, so I stood out, Oh
Speaker 3: I love it. So I was like, Okay, as a
Speaker 3: little immigrant kid, I need to find a way to
Speaker 3: assimilate to American society, and the best and easiest way
Speaker 3: to do that was just consuming media at nausea. I
Speaker 3: still do that to this day.
Speaker 5: Like in short Circuit, I'm done in number five, not
Speaker 5: from concentrate.
Speaker 3: One of my favorite movies of all time is Earth
Speaker 3: Girls Are Easy, which is with Jeff Goldzoom, Geena Davis,
Speaker 3: Thank you, Julie Brown, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayne's and it's
Speaker 3: about aliens living in Los Angeles in the eighties. And
Speaker 3: I was very much like, Okay, I'm going to absorb
Speaker 3: I am an alien and I'm absorbing everything there is
Speaker 3: to know about American culture because the only we had
Speaker 3: a TV in Columbia, but it was black and white
Speaker 3: and we only I watched only two shows American shows.
Speaker 3: One of them is The Hitchhiker, Oh You're kidding, yes?
Speaker 3: And they watched Nights.
Speaker 4: Oh no, you didn't even get the original film.
Speaker 5: So that's one where they're wearing leather jackets and you
Speaker 5: don't even get to see them run.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and everything was like a little paranormal. There was
Speaker 3: like a paranormal arc. So that's that's what I thought
Speaker 3: America was.
Speaker 5: Like.
Speaker 3: I was like, Okay, cool, awesome, everyone's in leather jackets
Speaker 3: and they're either shooting each other or I.
Speaker 1: Feel like I get it.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, watch Nights.
Speaker 5: They didn't have the Hoff in it, No, there was
Speaker 5: they were like ghost hunting and they were ghost hunting.
Speaker 3: Yes, I love it.
Speaker 4: Yes, I didn't know that. I've never spent the evening
Speaker 4: with the Oh I love it.
Speaker 3: Uh So when I moved here, I was like, oh
Speaker 3: my gosh, I need to. There's like music was a
Speaker 3: big thing for me because I was like, because that's
Speaker 3: how we communicate. It wasn't even like TV. It was
Speaker 3: like listening to Lil Kim. It was listening to Next.
Speaker 3: It was Maya, you know. Like, so I was just
Speaker 3: its like, fully committed to listening to music. Watching MTV
Speaker 3: was my church. That's all I did. Yeah, consume hours
Speaker 3: and hours and hours of MTV and like got rid
Speaker 3: of the accent as soon as I could, and yeah,
Speaker 3: became like a normal felt like what's his name in
Speaker 3: thirty rock high cool kids, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, hello, fellow teams.
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 5: It's funny though, because all my memories only go back
Speaker 5: so far as to the day MTV started. Everything before
Speaker 5: that was just how to hold a fork and yeah,
Speaker 5: you know you got the important stuff, you did the
Speaker 5: right thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly when in the eighties, because I was eleven
Speaker 2: or ten when MTV came out and we were so obsessed,
Speaker 2: Like when there were like family parties and we were
Speaker 2: all supposed to be playing outside, it would be like
Speaker 2: fifteen kids in the TV room with MTV on, and
Speaker 2: we would all just to be silently watching it, and
Speaker 2: like it was so revolutionary and so amazing to be
Speaker 2: able to watch music and like like take it in
Speaker 2: that way. We were obsessed with it, so like it
Speaker 2: is it is like mainlining culture.
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, and it was the way everyone everyone spoke
Speaker 3: through the lens of MTV. I mean it's also like
Speaker 3: when TRL started, it was like it changed everything because
Speaker 3: that was just mainlining culture that was watching all the
Speaker 3: hottest music videos, listening to the all the new movies
Speaker 3: that were coming out, all the you know, interviews with people,
Speaker 3: you know. I found out about Harry Potter through an
Speaker 3: interview with Stacy Urico, who sang that one song stuff
Speaker 3: which we all know by heart, of course, of course,
Speaker 3: and they're like, what do you read right now? And
Speaker 3: she's like a Christian artist and she's like, I'm not
Speaker 3: supposed to read this but Harry Potter, And I was like,
Speaker 3: what is that?
Speaker 4: So that's how I got it.
Speaker 1: A Christian artist on TRL.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean she wasn't like like an Christian artists,
Speaker 3: Like she sang pop songs, but like they were all
Speaker 3: very wholesome. Okay, it's it's like Jessica Simpson was quote
Speaker 3: unquote Christian because you know that she was wholesome.
Speaker 4: Any grant for the older folks, she's the og.
Speaker 1: Uh bringing making the crossover.
Speaker 4: I kind of like your biblical stuff more, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I like the old.
Speaker 5: Intersecular stuff, which was like raise him up, wear red
Speaker 5: denim skirt, do your ankles.
Speaker 4: That's a lesser known.
Speaker 2: Serve your man, your man, everyone's sleeping with the wives.
Speaker 4: Those are the best hits my.
Speaker 2: I kind of that's a hard thing though at twelve,
Speaker 2: because God, you had to like really figure some ship
Speaker 2: out for yourself. Because like my sister is a first
Speaker 2: grade teacher and she every year has a whole classroom
Speaker 2: full kids who on the first day of school speak
Speaker 2: no English and on the last day of school speak
Speaker 2: perfectly English. And that's for like, I think it's one
Speaker 2: of the things she loves the most and is the
Speaker 2: proudest of. Is like that's they they learn from each other,
Speaker 2: they absorb each other, and little kids are so like
Speaker 2: ready to learn. But like if you're twelve, you there's
Speaker 2: other stuff you need to worry about.
Speaker 5: And especially in New York City where I mean, were
Speaker 5: you when you were a kid just hanging out in
Speaker 5: the city singing for the first time, like the.
Speaker 3: In the streets.
Speaker 1: On that cab.
Speaker 5: It's just because I feel just when I visit there,
Speaker 5: I feel like, oh, I got to catch up with
Speaker 5: this city, motivating to be there, but I can't. I
Speaker 5: always think about kids that grew up, Yeah, what was it?
Speaker 3: Like you know, it's so interesting because like when even
Speaker 3: in high school, like because I'm from Queens and people
Speaker 3: in New York City are so bound to their borough. Like, no,
Speaker 3: if you were from Queens, you were never hanging out
Speaker 3: in New York City. You were never in you were
Speaker 3: never in Brooklyn, you were never in the Bronx. You
Speaker 3: hung out in Queens. You found places to hang out
Speaker 3: in Queens. I went to Steinway Street, which is like
Speaker 3: the cool place in oh and also Flushing because there
Speaker 3: was a giant arcade in Flushing, and that's all I
Speaker 3: did to play dancedance Revolution till my freaking feet bled.
Speaker 3: It was like my pastime. Or we would go to
Speaker 3: the Barnes and Noble and hung out in the occult
Speaker 3: section because I was a dark kid, you know. That's
Speaker 3: what we did. That's what we did. But if you
Speaker 3: were like, oh, there's a cool thing in Manhattan, We're like, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: we're from Queen. No way.
Speaker 5: Because that's the one thing I realized every time I
Speaker 5: visit there. As as far as service area, it's not
Speaker 5: a big You can walk across the all of New
Speaker 5: York City and but it isn't Yeah, you would stick
Speaker 5: to your.
Speaker 6: Yeah where are you from? Originally me Montana? Montana was
Speaker 6: like it was beautiful. I mean, I go back now
Speaker 6: and I feel lucky. But as a kid, I was
Speaker 6: I was.
Speaker 5: Bored, and it was a lot of hanging out in
Speaker 5: basements and drinking too early and snowboarding.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: I am jealous that you grew up in New York City.
Speaker 3: I want it's interesting. It's interesting because like for me,
Speaker 3: I always felt very jealous because I never had that
Speaker 3: sort of like I don't want to say small town vibe,
Speaker 3: but like, for example, I never had lockers ever, and
Speaker 3: that was like a big regret of mine. I was like,
Speaker 3: I want to go to a school where they have lockers. Oh,
Speaker 3: none of the schools that I want to have lockers.
Speaker 3: And I was furious, Yeah, well it's cubby shit. You know.
Speaker 3: My high school didn't have a sports teams, you know.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 3: I was like, okay, well, okay, weird. So I didn't
Speaker 3: have that that whole like sports culture thing. My college
Speaker 3: didn't have any sports, and greek life was banned in
Speaker 3: my college, so we didn't have like fraternities or sororities.
Speaker 3: I think that's for the best, absolutely, but I always think, like,
Speaker 3: what would it be like to go to a school,
Speaker 3: you know, that sort of stereotypical school. Yeah, lockers and
Speaker 3: sport you know what I mean? Like Friday Night like style.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I remember seeing there was when I was
Speaker 2: like fifteen, on the cover of some magazine that wasn't
Speaker 2: that was a very famous national magazine. I want to
Speaker 2: say that it was like on par with Life Magazine,
Speaker 2: but Life Magazine was already gone. And I'll never forget.
Speaker 2: It was like the typical American teenager. And there was
Speaker 2: this girl sitting at a table and her mom was
Speaker 2: handing her a muffin and she was like like bangs
Speaker 2: and blonde hair and you know, just looked like the
Speaker 2: typical cute white girl from nineteen eighty two. And I
Speaker 2: remember just staring at it being like, well, that's not
Speaker 2: what I look like, and that's my Mom's never here
Speaker 2: in the morning to hand me a muffin. I've never
Speaker 2: been handed a muffin, And I was like this one
Speaker 2: thing that made me go insane and like I was
Speaker 2: like born into the entire culture, like you never It
Speaker 2: feels like part of the scam is that you never
Speaker 2: feel like you're doing it the way America does.
Speaker 3: Right. Also, you're fixated that thing that you never got
Speaker 3: to do that you thought was so essential to for
Speaker 3: me anyways, an immigrant kid, so essential to American culture. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because my whole thing was just like, oh, I'm here
Speaker 3: in the US, I am one of you, right, And
Speaker 3: there was always something that was like, no, no, not
Speaker 3: quite no, No, you're a little too gay to be
Speaker 3: an American. You're a little too brown to be an American.
Speaker 3: You're a little too weird to be an American. You know.
Speaker 3: So I just felt a little like okay, and then
Speaker 3: finally I was like, Okay, fuck this, and then.
Speaker 2: Here comes twenty twenty three. We're like, that's how you
Speaker 2: got to be, that's the best way to be.
Speaker 5: And finally it's probably those coping with those things is
Speaker 5: why you're funny.
Speaker 3: True. I mean, I guess, like the I think the
Speaker 3: requisite to.
Speaker 4: Be they were in the right.
Speaker 5: It just was a horrifying It's the scariest corner in
Speaker 5: all town. Is proximity to the scientology. Also is back,
Speaker 5: let's watch an Eli Roth Horne doctor.
Speaker 4: Whatever.
Speaker 3: No, but I wait, what was saying.
Speaker 1: I totally forgot it was you were talking about the.
Speaker 3: Basically, I think with being comedians, the requisite is having
Speaker 3: a point of view, a perspective, and I think there
Speaker 3: has to be some self awareness and I think being
Speaker 3: on the outskirts of society or like feeling like you
Speaker 3: were not completely a part of it sort of geared
Speaker 3: your brain into analyzing the world and how interesting the
Speaker 3: world works outside of your perception. And that's to me
Speaker 3: how I hone my comedy skills. I'm like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 3: able to analyze this thing that everyone sort of like
Speaker 3: takes for granted or just like does on the day
Speaker 3: to day basis, and I'm like, that's weird. That's weird
Speaker 3: because here's my perspective.
Speaker 1: Ye, you know, and you kind of have to.
Speaker 2: I feel like I was doing the same thing, and
Speaker 2: it's that feeling of like, oh, you don't think I
Speaker 2: could be on the cover of this magazine being receiving
Speaker 2: a muffin. Okay, Well, then I'm going to figure out
Speaker 2: why that's stupid, and then I'm going to really I'm
Speaker 2: going to like analyze it to a granular level and
Speaker 2: then verbalize it so that everyone knows I never wanted
Speaker 2: the fucking muffin and I don't care that I don't
Speaker 2: belong in this specific way that I'm supposed to and
Speaker 2: clearly don't exactly and like make it okay for myself exactly.
Speaker 3: And you think about that girl with the blonde bangs
Speaker 3: and you're like, wow, what is your life like?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're like, what is your life like? Being the
Speaker 2: subject of so much hate from me?
Speaker 1: It must have been horrible.
Speaker 5: I don't notice you've had bangs? How did you start
Speaker 5: at UCB in New York?
Speaker 4: Then I want here?
Speaker 3: I did. I took a class in New York and
Speaker 3: I was terrified. I was a okay, So my story
Speaker 3: is I was a professional dancer. That was like my
Speaker 3: past life.
Speaker 4: Wow, and what kind of jazz? Hip hop?
Speaker 3: Modern? Modern contemporary? But I did. I still do some
Speaker 3: hip hop, but as a dancer, I was terrified of performing,
Speaker 3: and especially when I was you know, out in the
Speaker 3: world auditioning, we had to like, you know, freestyle and
Speaker 3: that was like the most paralyzing thing. I can learn choreography,
Speaker 3: but asked me to come up with choreography on the spot.
Speaker 3: I couldn't, so I would like not book anything, and
Speaker 3: it was freaking me out. I was like I need
Speaker 3: to get over this stage right thing.
Speaker 4: Oh wow.
Speaker 3: And my friend at the time, Christian Jacobs, who I
Speaker 3: call Chopper, was like, you should take an improv class
Speaker 3: and I'm like, no, I don't think so like, that's
Speaker 3: not really my thing. I don't know about that. He's like, no,
Speaker 3: it's okay. There's all kinds of people take classes, like
Speaker 3: you know, there's lawyers and then there's you know, stay
Speaker 3: at home parents who take it. You'll be fine. I
Speaker 3: was like, okay, I signed up for a class and
Speaker 3: everybody was like I need to be on SNL and
Speaker 3: I was like, oh god, I just like want to
Speaker 3: learn how to talk without stuttering.
Speaker 4: And it's great.
Speaker 3: I left and then but you know, after that one class,
Speaker 3: I was obsessed.
Speaker 1: Well you left, You left the class like you couldn't
Speaker 1: handle it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I couldn't handle it, but I was obsessed because
Speaker 3: it felt like a magic trick to me. I'm like,
Speaker 3: what do you mean you can do whatever you want?
Speaker 3: Like how is this possible? So for two years I
Speaker 3: just like was I went to see every show. I
Speaker 3: was just like obsessed with it. You studied it, study
Speaker 3: full of study, his book, all of it, all of it.
Speaker 3: And then after two years, I was like, maybe I
Speaker 3: should go back because like I feel, I feel like
Speaker 3: maybe this is like an obsession I have. And I
Speaker 3: went back and I did it at a place called
Speaker 3: the People's Improv theater in New York, and everything sort
Speaker 3: of clicked for me and it changed my life.
Speaker 1: You know, did you find your people there?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? I found my freaks. Isn't that a errative?
Speaker 1: Yes? It is.
Speaker 3: You got to find your freaks no matter where you are.
Speaker 4: That's so.
Speaker 3: And that was a big thing about moving to LA
Speaker 3: because I had my freaks all like, all squared away
Speaker 3: in New York, and then moving to LA, I was like,
Speaker 3: I don't know anybody.
Speaker 5: You just had a printed out pieces of paper with
Speaker 5: the photos of all the freaks.
Speaker 1: And then I'll never forget you.
Speaker 3: Did you freaks?
Speaker 5: Did you go to the the UCB That reminds me
Speaker 5: of a high school and I imagine there being lockers there,
Speaker 5: but I think it.
Speaker 3: Closed on sunset?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I felt like every time I performed there
Speaker 5: just doing stand up, but I felt like everyone goes
Speaker 5: to school here and their arms across because they were
Speaker 5: they They're judging what I'm doing.
Speaker 4: They're not are you serious?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I always felt there, specifically the one on Franklin I
Speaker 5: always had.
Speaker 4: That's some of my best stand up memories.
Speaker 5: And yeah, La, but but it seemed like at school,
Speaker 5: it seemed like a comedy high school.
Speaker 2: Well, also, it was almost like the audience was in
Speaker 2: a set of an audience like it always looked goofy
Speaker 2: as hell where it's like why are all these people
Speaker 2: in these weird blocked off areas. Yes, and it looked
Speaker 2: like it looked like the Star Trek like panel of
Speaker 2: judges that we're gonna be like you have to go
Speaker 2: to the isolation planet.
Speaker 3: Well, I think also with it just was like such
Speaker 3: a quote unquote real theater space that like, the audience
Speaker 3: just felt so far away from you, and anytime you
Speaker 3: were performing, you were like, is anyone out there?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 3: Why am I?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 3: Do I feel like? I'm screaming into the void a
Speaker 3: place in Franklin, everyone's closer. You feel like, Okay, they're
Speaker 3: fucking on the stage, literally on the stage, grabbing your feet.
Speaker 4: I loved it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's great, but the Sunset place just felt so removed.
Speaker 3: It just felt sore.
Speaker 4: Do you teach now?
Speaker 3: I teach at Actually we're about to drive past the
Speaker 3: training center, one of the training centers at uc B.
Speaker 4: I did. Really, it's over here, right here.
Speaker 3: It's it's uh, it used to be a bar, remember
Speaker 3: bar classes that were hot.
Speaker 5: That's what I was thinking about the whole time because
Speaker 5: I got my hip replaced, and I hesitantly it started
Speaker 5: taking bar methic. Oh my god, so it's the only
Speaker 5: guy in there, and I felt yes, uh, And then
Speaker 5: it got to the point where it's like, hey, you're
Speaker 5: getting good at this.
Speaker 4: Would it became amazing. It's something I really was enjoying.
Speaker 5: But then I moved over here and that was the
Speaker 5: only I'm like, Okay, eventually I gotta go there.
Speaker 4: It's funny to think.
Speaker 3: Would you ever do like ballet?
Speaker 4: I don't know that I want to take on.
Speaker 5: I am already like, get too interested in things, and
Speaker 5: I spread myself.
Speaker 3: It's a bad thing.
Speaker 5: I but I'm weird and I have to get good
Speaker 5: at things, and I'm I have to. I finally quit
Speaker 5: playing billiards because I was getting all sucked into that world.
Speaker 4: No, I can't add dance.
Speaker 3: Wait, how did you get into the first place.
Speaker 5: Well, it's it's code for I would stringing too much.
Speaker 5: But yeah, Little Joy is right by my place, and
Speaker 5: I was going there a lot, and I've quit drinking
Speaker 5: and so I stopped playing pool. But I can't add
Speaker 5: dance to the men. I do want to go to
Speaker 5: bar method again, though, it just reminded me of you.
Speaker 1: Can't because the ucb's in their training people.
Speaker 3: I know you can do bar at the UCB.
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, can go there with All my characters are
Speaker 4: bar based.
Speaker 2: Here's the bar you know, perfect form. The characters are
Speaker 2: just barbages, all the different barbages.
Speaker 1: Chris, we've seen the skifts before. Yeah, we don't want
Speaker 1: to do that, but here's another bar. Have you ever
Speaker 1: thought about the barbage? That's actually nice.
Speaker 5: My bar instructor has sent me a birthday card with
Speaker 5: note like you made so much progress, We're so proud.
Speaker 4: Of you, like they were.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 4: I was in with that. It was like a little family.
Speaker 5: I didn't expect it because I just went there to
Speaker 5: deal with a therapy issue, like yeah, hip therapy.
Speaker 1: That's kind of Yeah.
Speaker 5: That's great though, but for you it's even greater because
Speaker 5: now you're teaching, but also.
Speaker 2: You're going kind of back to your dance roots with
Speaker 2: your bar method.
Speaker 3: Right. Yeah, it's in the rooms of the temple.
Speaker 4: The smell is still there.
Speaker 1: Is the bar up on the wall? Are there any mirror?
Speaker 2: Lind?
Speaker 3: Now they that all away, which is like, what the heck,
Speaker 3: what's the.
Speaker 5: Point point, Well, do you ever do hot improv though
Speaker 5: all the time?
Speaker 3: Yeah, gotta be funny and sweating.
Speaker 2: What's your favorite part about Los Angeles knowing that it
Speaker 2: sucks for sure compared to New York.
Speaker 3: I don't think it sucks. I don't think it's.
Speaker 1: You're not allowed to contradict.
Speaker 4: You can't think of the ocean.
Speaker 1: Please don't argue, or I won't drive you home. Kick
Speaker 1: me out of this car.
Speaker 3: What I love about I love My favorite thing about
Speaker 3: LA is that there's so many hidden, weird little places
Speaker 3: in LA that if you like dig enough, you'll find yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, and it's it's like ugly. There's like ugly
Speaker 3: places to laye. I love discovering some like bizarre little
Speaker 3: bookstore in downtown La. Downtown was like the ugliest place
Speaker 3: in the world, you know, pretty rough. It's rough, it's rough,
Speaker 3: but I love it. I love how like it just
Speaker 3: reminds me of like pre Jiuliani New York City, do
Speaker 3: you know what I mean? Just like very sort of
Speaker 3: a little dangerous. Yeah, kind of like that. But yeah,
Speaker 3: that to me, that's the fun The funnest thing is
Speaker 3: just like wandering around because like La has a reputation
Speaker 3: of it not being a walkable city, and yes, that
Speaker 3: is true. But within the confines of like the neighborhood,
Speaker 3: you can walk around and just covered new places. There's
Speaker 3: always bizarre little places that you can just walk into.
Speaker 5: Yeah, in this area especially, it's I love being able
Speaker 5: to walk. I used to live at the beach and
Speaker 5: it was like, well, I gotta drive everywhere. I guess
Speaker 5: I'll hang out.
Speaker 4: I can go.
Speaker 5: In Marina del Rey, and I wish I didn't realize
Speaker 5: that I was missing out on this whole city.
Speaker 3: Are you a beach person?
Speaker 5: I guess I was for seventeen years.
Speaker 4: But now being over here, I feel like I'm much happier.
Speaker 1: Have we all seen the full moon yet?
Speaker 3: Where is it?
Speaker 5: If we wait long enough, a witch will stop silhouetted
Speaker 5: in friving.
Speaker 1: I mean that's crazy looking.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's a cardboard, that's a lamp, that's a prop.
Speaker 3: It doesn't look real. It does not. So what does
Speaker 3: a full moon mean? Like? Right, like there's some significance.
Speaker 1: The sun is completely behind it.
Speaker 3: Oh, I meant like you know about our energies or so,
Speaker 3: right judging by judging by this hen right now, none
Speaker 3: of us.
Speaker 4: Should date scorpios. I don't know much better.
Speaker 3: I dated a Scorpio for seven years. I know.
Speaker 1: They're crazy, right.
Speaker 3: They're just you know, you know, you know they're the
Speaker 3: cool thing about Scorpius is that they're loyal and they're
Speaker 3: horny as hell. That's fine, right, but they are vengeful typically.
Speaker 3: I don't know if y'all are astrology.
Speaker 1: I release I like to be, but I don't.
Speaker 2: There's certain signs I don't know about because it's not
Speaker 2: it's either not my sign or I haven't liked a
Speaker 2: person with that.
Speaker 3: What's your sign?
Speaker 1: Taurus?
Speaker 3: I love a Taurus? Do you I love a Taurus? Wait?
Speaker 1: Would you say your sign is?
Speaker 3: I'm in aries? Oh yeah, what's your sign?
Speaker 5: I know nothing about it, but I know when I
Speaker 5: tell them when I say mine, people go, oh, and
Speaker 5: it's Aquarius. Apparently it's the most hated. It's they're lying
Speaker 5: to you.
Speaker 3: Aquariuses are fun, You're weird.
Speaker 5: People only got negative what like people exhausted with me already?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: No, because I'm selfish. No, I'm an artist or what.
Speaker 4: I don't know what it means.
Speaker 5: I know any time I read about them in a
Speaker 5: horoscope situation, it's like, yeah, well that's true.
Speaker 1: That's true too.
Speaker 5: There's something to this, but I don't have time for it.
Speaker 5: I have to play billiards.
Speaker 3: Wait, do you know your other two year rising in
Speaker 3: your moon sign?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I know, I'm you're the rabbit. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I am a tours sun Leo moon Sagittarius rising.
Speaker 3: Okay, right, a lot of fire.
Speaker 1: A lot of like please, ma'am, keep your voice down.
Speaker 4: Action, Yeah, out closed.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know anything about this.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2: You would have to kind of be into astrology because
Speaker 2: that's all the stuff if or be on TikTok, which
Speaker 2: that's how I learned. Oh really, because at first it's like, oh,
Speaker 2: here's I'll read your tarot cards, but also it has
Speaker 2: to do with your horoscope, and then they start doing
Speaker 2: things of like actually your sun sign isn't even about
Speaker 2: your personality. You need to know your blank and it
Speaker 2: would yeah, it would just kind of like change.
Speaker 1: Months to month. If you need to know you're this,
Speaker 1: you're that.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean it's all a scam, you know, but
Speaker 3: it's fun to think about it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I sure do buy a lot of hair
Speaker 2: products and makeup on that thing telling me what my
Speaker 2: tarot reading is just like, ah, I'll buy more makeup.
Speaker 3: Fine, It's like a leo, like eyeliner, whatever comes up.
Speaker 2: They're so good at doing it where it's like the
Speaker 2: first thirty seconds is like, guys, I'm so tired today,
Speaker 2: and you think a joke is coming. You think they're
Speaker 2: going to tell you a good story, and then suddenly
Speaker 2: they just start putting on blush and you're like, oh,
Speaker 2: I need that.
Speaker 1: That's I need that.
Speaker 4: It's an astrologist person.
Speaker 2: Well that that's kind of a I'm an exaggerate. They
Speaker 2: usually don't combine that many things, but sometimes they do.
Speaker 5: When I started in Austin, Texas, and there was a
Speaker 5: place that was a it was a poem reader.
Speaker 4: I think it was a couple.
Speaker 5: Uh so one of them read palms and there was
Speaker 5: like a neon palm on the other side. It was
Speaker 5: a used car place, and so I always thought it
Speaker 5: would be like they're, oh, your lifeline, I see in
Speaker 5: your future a slightly used Chevy Burretta or whatever. I
Speaker 5: always thought that they had to and I thought that's the.
Speaker 1: The ultimate power couple.
Speaker 5: That's the best way to sell cars is to see
Speaker 5: it into someone's future.
Speaker 4: Convince them that you have.
Speaker 3: I will say, I have a really crazy story about
Speaker 3: poem reading. Yes, so I okay. I have to preface
Speaker 3: this story by saying I've had a recurring dream since
Speaker 3: I was five years old, yes, that I would fall
Speaker 3: off a cliff. And as I'm falling off a cliff,
Speaker 3: I always think to myself, I never made it to
Speaker 3: my twenty ninth birthday. Okay. I'm walking down the street
Speaker 3: and some lady stops me in the middle of the street.
Speaker 3: This is like when I was twenty two, twenty three
Speaker 3: and she says, I just need to read your poem
Speaker 3: for a second. I was like, oh god, I'm in
Speaker 3: Queen's I'm busy, I got places to be and she's like,
Speaker 3: give me your palm and I'm like okay. I don't
Speaker 3: know why I said okay, but I was like okay.
Speaker 3: And the first thing she says to me, she's like,
Speaker 3: I don't think I don't know why you think you're
Speaker 3: gonna die before you turn twenty nine, but that's not
Speaker 3: gonna happen.
Speaker 5: You have a.
Speaker 4: Guardian twenty nine.
Speaker 3: And I was like what and she's like, you haven't
Speaker 3: guardian Angel Looking up for you, and I was like, okay,
Speaker 3: this is too crazy. And then she's like, come with me,
Speaker 3: and I was like no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 4: You're wearing a necklace of human teeth.
Speaker 3: Your hair is literally snakes.
Speaker 5: My right arm has turned to stone. That's so because
Speaker 5: I say I'm not an astrology person or I don't
Speaker 5: not believe in it, I'm just I have no interest
Speaker 5: in it. But you think I would be After a
Speaker 5: similar situation like that, I was with a friend and
Speaker 5: a woman was coming out of a bar, not the method,
Speaker 5: but a drinking clay and she said, hey Aquarius, Hey
Speaker 5: Scorpio as she rocked and we both I was like,
Speaker 5: are you a Scorpio because I'm an Aquarius? Like we
Speaker 5: figured it out. Whoah, you fully live in my neighborhood?
Speaker 4: Wait where do you live right around the corner from here?
Speaker 3: What? Yeah, we neighbors. We are crazy.
Speaker 2: Wait, just as a big finale anecdotally, did you make
Speaker 2: it past your twenty ninth birthday?
Speaker 3: I did? That is also a really crazy story that
Speaker 3: I've told a billion times. But what not dying? But okay,
Speaker 3: so you know, like I thought I was gonna die,
Speaker 3: but blah blah. So I book a commercial where I
Speaker 3: have to bunge you jump, and I'm terrified of heights, right,
Speaker 3: But you know, when you're like struggling and you're like
Speaker 3: figuring it out, you lie and you say, yeah, I'm an.
Speaker 4: Ext berday and you were twenty eight man.
Speaker 3: I was twenty eight, yes, so I was like, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: I bunge it up all the time. So I book
Speaker 3: this commercial. We're at a park in New Jersey. They're
Speaker 3: like telling me what to do. And my birthday is
Speaker 3: April twelfth, Okay. We shot this commercial on April fifth,
Speaker 3: on my twentieth birthday, about to turn twenty nine. I
Speaker 3: go to this park and I'm like, I'm going to die.
Speaker 3: I'm going to die here. Yeah, And I'm fully like, okay,
Speaker 3: now I have to do I stop the commercial and
Speaker 3: do I say, like, I can't shoot this. I'm going
Speaker 3: to die.
Speaker 4: I've seen it, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Or And my dumb ass was like, you know what,
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna never mind, let's just continue. And if
Speaker 3: I die, I die, you know, I'll die exactly.
Speaker 1: It's not just gonna come along any day exactly.
Speaker 3: So I'm you know, fully being like, okay, this is
Speaker 3: the dam I'm gonna die. I make the PA take
Speaker 3: a picture of me, being like, okay, this is the
Speaker 3: picture that the newspapers are gonna share. It's on my Instagram.
Speaker 3: So if you go on my Instagram, my picture is there.
Speaker 3: And right before I go, the rangers come up and
Speaker 3: they're like, hey, what's going on. Do you have a
Speaker 3: permit for this? And they're like, yeah, we have a permit.
Speaker 3: They're like no, no, do you have a bungee jumping permit?
Speaker 3: They're like no, we don't need and then they're like, okay,
Speaker 3: we can give you one really quick. We just need
Speaker 3: to do a couple of things. So they do something,
Speaker 3: they go back down, and then they go back. They
Speaker 3: come back up half an hour later and they're like,
Speaker 3: we're shutting this down. Turns out the cord that they
Speaker 3: brought was too long, and it wasn't They didn't measure
Speaker 3: the height of the cliff that I was going to
Speaker 3: be jumping, So if I actually jumped off, the cord
Speaker 3: would have not I mean, I would have died.
Speaker 4: Holy shit.
Speaker 3: And I swear, I mean I swear to god. I
Speaker 3: stopped having that dream afterwards, and I was like, holy fuck,
Speaker 3: I didn't get my SAT card that day, unfortunately, because
Speaker 3: it was in fact canceled.
Speaker 1: But you also didn't get your big death.
Speaker 4: That is the most amazing story.
Speaker 1: That is incorrect.
Speaker 3: It's wild, you know, and you know, like, you know,
Speaker 3: do I believe in the sort of Juju universe stuff?
Speaker 3: I have to. I have to because this insane thing
Speaker 3: happened to.
Speaker 4: Me, you know, after that.
Speaker 2: I mean, that is that is beyond wild. And also
Speaker 2: it's all those facts. But the idea that you went,
Speaker 2: fuck it if I die, I died.
Speaker 3: Crazy is like I was willing to die for this
Speaker 3: stupid Oh my god.
Speaker 4: And it's true.
Speaker 5: They when I bungee jumped, they asked your weight and
Speaker 5: everyone had a different length of bungee and one girl
Speaker 5: lied about her weight and her friend was like.
Speaker 4: Oh, you don't lie about your weight for this thing.
Speaker 4: It's important.
Speaker 5: Like I think she normally was just undershooting it. Sure,
Speaker 5: but it is very that's so scary.
Speaker 3: You gotta know this. You got to know these things.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 4: I'm so glad you're alive.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you lived to thank you. This was delightful.
Speaker 5: What are telling what fully We're emotionally affected by that story.
Speaker 4: It's the best way to close this episode out.
Speaker 1: Do you want to plug anything? Do you have anything?
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