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Speaker 1: Well, hey, everybody, how are you. It's me Rosie O'Donnell.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the podcast Onward with Rosi o'donald. That's me,

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Speaker 1: how are you. I'm doing pretty good. This is the

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Speaker 1: week two of Pride Month. We kicked it off with

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Speaker 1: the wonderful Holland Taylor, and I was so happy that

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Speaker 1: everyone enjoyed that interview. We got so many comments about

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Speaker 1: how wonderful she was and what great topics we discussed.

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Speaker 1: And you know, it's wonderful when it all works out

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Speaker 1: and then you guys appreciate it. So leave us a

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Speaker 1: little note or a little voice memo if you have

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Speaker 1: a comment or anything about this podcast, and we will

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Speaker 1: we will get to it if we can. All right, Well,

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Speaker 1: what can I tell you? I am so excited because

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Speaker 1: I am headed out this weekend. You know, it's a

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Speaker 1: couple of days. It's well, actually it's the eighth of June.

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Speaker 1: On the tenth of June, which is two days from now,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to be seeing Joni Mitchell in concert with

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Speaker 1: Brandy Carlyle, who put it all together and kind of

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Speaker 1: started this remounting of Jonie's performing with the Newport Festival.

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Speaker 1: And I just couldn't be happier. We're going to Seattle.

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Speaker 1: We're going to the Gorge, which is apparently very cold

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Speaker 1: at night, but we've got some warm clothes and I

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Speaker 1: got a Jony hoodie that I'm wearing. And I can't

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Speaker 1: even tell you how much she means to me and

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Speaker 1: what an influence she has had on my, you know,

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Speaker 1: emotional life, and boy, I can't wait to tell you

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Speaker 1: all about it next week as we we unload or

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Speaker 1: download or whatever you call it the next episode. But

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Speaker 1: this episode, I think you're going to love and know

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Speaker 1: you're going to love. In keeping with our Pride Month guests,

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Speaker 1: we have the wonderful, talented Bridget Effort. Bridget Effort is

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Speaker 1: so gifted. She's an amazing singer. She was a cabaret

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Speaker 1: and still is a cabaret star for many years in

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Speaker 1: New York at Joe's Pub, having a rowdy, rambunctious act

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Speaker 1: filled with kind of pathos and humor and drunken funniness.

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Speaker 1: Is that a way to describe it, I'm not sure,

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Speaker 1: but she was often called her husband called the modern

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Speaker 1: day Bette Midler. Right, very similar antics in a way

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Speaker 1: and cabaret. Although we know Bett started at the baths.

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Speaker 1: I don't believe that Bridget did, but you know, we'll

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Speaker 1: find out, won't we. So it's a wonderful, wonderful conversation.

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Speaker 1: I hope you enjoy it. She and I got to

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Speaker 1: got to know her through my friend Carolyn Strauss, who

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Speaker 1: we speak about in this interview. She's been my friend

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Speaker 1: for thirty years and she was the head of HBO

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Speaker 1: back when HBO was amazing, and she's now doing this

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Speaker 1: show on HBO for Bridget Everett somebody somewhere, and I

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Speaker 1: love it. If you haven't seen it, please watch it.

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Speaker 1: It's on Max also known as HBO Max. But what

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Speaker 1: happened to the HBO don't ask me, but it's a

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Speaker 1: great show and it's just been picked up for its

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Speaker 1: third season. Since we recorded this. Also, since we recorded this,

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Speaker 1: very sadly, Bridget's mom had passed and she needed some

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Speaker 1: No matter what age you are, no matter what age

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Speaker 1: as they said in Les Miserab So listen, I'm very excited.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have some questions at the end, and sit back.

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Speaker 1: Here's the conversation.

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Speaker 2: Bridgid Effort, Hi, bridget Everett.

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Speaker 3: Where how are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm very good. How are you?

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Speaker 3: I'm good.

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Speaker 2: It's been like a whirlwind in your life.

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Speaker 1: Would you say since the last three years, it's been

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Speaker 1: a crazily successful, wonderful show on HBO starring you number

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Speaker 4: I mean, I wouldn't say crazily successful, but I we're

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Speaker 2: I mean it's so well received.

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Speaker 1: It's such a beautifully done show and different from anything

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Speaker 1: I think it's a perfect slice of life kind of

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Speaker 1: What do I know from Kansas? You know, from the Midwest,

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Speaker 4: You know, I got my brother's lives there, you know,

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Speaker 4: it's just like I did not want to jack it out.

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Speaker 4: There's a line in the pilot episode, love the Sinner,

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Speaker 1: Well, the writers have hitted it, and I think you

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Speaker 4: feels like you're trying to I don't know, I don't

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Speaker 3: Other with the jokes at the end of the scene.

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Speaker 2: Do that very stand upy right would Yeah, just yeah, that.

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Speaker 4: Wasn't the goal for this. I mean, I can certainly

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I read which I could not believe that

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Speaker 3: No, I mean I probably should.

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Speaker 1: You're doing and honestly, it's such an honest portrayal and

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Speaker 3: You know, you just like it's just.

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Speaker 1: It's you hanging out with your friends who were actors

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Speaker 1: you were roommates for a very long time, right when

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Speaker 4: Any the truth is she she was, you know, there

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Speaker 4: So I didn't even pitch Mary Catherine. Amy Gravitt did

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Speaker 6: I'm like, I can't act with a friend because I'm

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Speaker 4: My acting school was at juzz pub in gay bars

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Speaker 3: You know how it is.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I know how it is.

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Speaker 1: And it's an interesting thing because it's so different, the

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Speaker 4: Well, have you taken acting because you're a great actor

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Speaker 1: And I did take a lot of classes when I

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Speaker 1: acting wise, like Geraldine Page. Like I remember watching her

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Speaker 1: don't ask me why a ten year old kid was

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Speaker 1: thinking of Geraldine Page, but that's what I want. When

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Speaker 1: I was a kid and I I loved acting so much.

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Speaker 1: But unlike you, I cannot sing.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: I did three musicals, but it was because they were

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Speaker 1: about to close and I could sell tickets. People enjoy me,

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Speaker 1: But I'm not not a singer. Anyone in the chorus.

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Speaker 1: When I was doing those shows, I felt so guilty

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Speaker 1: sing me in any day of the week. And you know,

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Speaker 2: And then she invited you to Carnegie Hall and you

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Speaker 4: She invited me to sing with her Carnegie Hall. And

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Speaker 4: But I loved singing that way, and it got me

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Speaker 6: He sat me down.

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Speaker 4: He's like, you have so much ability if you would

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Speaker 2: You know, it's all a takes Bridget come on.

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Speaker 4: Always had wanted to be a Broadway singer. She'd loved

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Speaker 4: It was like, yeah, all the you know, anything I

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Speaker 4: You know, you gotta have friend I loved. I loved

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Speaker 4: I'm looking of different things that she was yes doing

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Speaker 6: Absolutely.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And you know, because I just didn't know anything existed,

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Speaker 1: How did you get from Kansas to living with Mary

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Speaker 3: It just it takes the time.

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Speaker 4: So I wish I would have had the opportunity of

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Speaker 2: But what did the ll cool Jake tell you?

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Speaker 3: Dreams don't have deadlines?

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Speaker 1: That's right, dreams don't have deadlines. I thought, that's that's

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Speaker 4: DDHD thing, that dream son have deadlines?

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Speaker 3: I really you know, and the people like.

442
00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:16,920
Speaker 4: Tag me about it, and yeah, I think it resonates

443
00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:19,240
Speaker 4: with people because it's it's true. It just feels like

444
00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:22,840
Speaker 4: there's so many you know, you're supposed to do things

445
00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:25,000
Speaker 4: by a certain age, you know, have success by a

446
00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:27,720
Speaker 4: certain age. But speaking of you know, living with Mary

447
00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:29,199
Speaker 4: Catherine you know.

448
00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:29,680
Speaker 6: Through her.

449
00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:32,080
Speaker 4: I met John Slattery because they've done a play together,

450
00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:34,719
Speaker 4: and I saw him at this like party for Madmen

451
00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:36,879
Speaker 4: or whatever, and I was talking to him and he's like,

452
00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:39,040
Speaker 4: you know what, Bridget, I didn't get successful.

453
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Speaker 6: T He was fifty years old. Do you hear me?

454
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Speaker 6: Fifty years old?

455
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Speaker 5: Right? Like?

456
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Speaker 3: Right?

457
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Speaker 4: I just feel like there are like people along the

458
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Speaker 4: way that are just like it's gonna happen. Just chill out,

459
00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:50,399
Speaker 4: you know, like give yourself a chance.

460
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Speaker 1: Well, you gotta admit you're a force of nature on

461
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Speaker 1: that stage. I did not know what to expect the

462
00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:58,760
Speaker 1: first time I came in and I came in with

463
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Speaker 1: Rose McGowan.

464
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Speaker 2: Do you remember that, Yeah, And we saw the fixtures recently, Dasha,

465
00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:07,080
Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god.

466
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Speaker 1: And I was so confused about what part of it

467
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Speaker 1: was an act and what part of it was her.

468
00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:16,480
Speaker 1: So like I remember going backstage thinking, I'm going to

469
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Speaker 1: try to suss out whether or not this is an act.

470
00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:22,959
Speaker 1: Like I couldn't quite understand which part of it was

471
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Speaker 1: you and which part of it was just a character.

472
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Speaker 1: You know, but boy, are you a powerhouse and you

473
00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:30,480
Speaker 1: are absolutely brilliant at it. You do what no one

474
00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:34,159
Speaker 1: else besides Bett Midler in my history mind of cabaret

475
00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:35,480
Speaker 1: has ever done well.

476
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Speaker 3: Thank you.

477
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Speaker 4: I don't know, I think like it, just like I

478
00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:41,480
Speaker 4: didn't really go on tour until after I met Amy

479
00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:43,080
Speaker 4: Schumer and she took me out on the road, but

480
00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:45,600
Speaker 4: you know, I was mostly just in New York and

481
00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:48,000
Speaker 4: performing at a lot of gay bars and gay clubs,

482
00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:51,480
Speaker 4: and like you just sort of they welcomed, they welcomed

483
00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:53,879
Speaker 4: the madness and kind of encouraged and ate it up.

484
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Speaker 4: And so I feel that kind of guided me to

485
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Speaker 4: sort of landing where I did with a sort of outsize,

486
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Speaker 4: over size kind of will to beast thing on stage.

487
00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:06,359
Speaker 4: But it's also very empowering, you know, I can't imagine.

488
00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,400
Speaker 1: I loved how you know me as being a overweight

489
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Speaker 1: person in my whole life. I like was like in

490
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Speaker 1: stunned at the courageousness and the self esteem.

491
00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:18,639
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh my god, where do I

492
00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:19,360
Speaker 2: get some of that?

493
00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:22,879
Speaker 1: Like I like to put a tower on before I

494
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Speaker 1: see the mirror in the bathroom. Like I like to

495
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Speaker 1: wear a hoodie all the time so no one can

496
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Speaker 1: possibly see any outline of my body. Like I have

497
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Speaker 1: like the opposite thing, And when I saw you do it.

498
00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:38,520
Speaker 1: That's the first word. I thought, Look how free she is? Well,

499
00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:43,199
Speaker 1: look how beautiful, free and kind of fantastical she is.

500
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Speaker 4: But you know what's really interesting is like, first of all,

501
00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:48,320
Speaker 4: I don't know like how much self confidence I have

502
00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,480
Speaker 4: off stage sometimes, but there's something about doing it to

503
00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:54,560
Speaker 4: being there and sort of like having the microphone and

504
00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:57,800
Speaker 4: being control and sort of doing exactly what you want,

505
00:22:57,880 --> 00:22:59,919
Speaker 4: and then that people sort of the more they kind

506
00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:01,440
Speaker 4: of and they go along for the ride, the more

507
00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:05,080
Speaker 4: exciting it is in a way. But a lot of

508
00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:07,679
Speaker 4: that stuff about like the bralus and all that because

509
00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:10,440
Speaker 4: it came from my mom, because when I was little,

510
00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:11,679
Speaker 4: we used to go to the grocery store, we go

511
00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:13,879
Speaker 4: to food for us, and she would come in with

512
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:17,199
Speaker 4: like her nightgown on and her slippers and underwear but

513
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Speaker 4: no bra.

514
00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:21,280
Speaker 3: She just didn't give up, didn't give a shit, which is.

515
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Speaker 4: She just kind of walked through life that way, and

516
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,280
Speaker 4: like when we were getting ready in the mornings and stuff,

517
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:29,160
Speaker 4: she'd be naked and my brother called them her beaver

518
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,359
Speaker 4: tails because she has these long, long hand tits or whatever.

519
00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:34,399
Speaker 4: So I've sort of adopted that. But like, but she

520
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:37,440
Speaker 4: just kind of had this freedness with her body, even

521
00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:40,000
Speaker 4: when we were little and we'd be downstairs watching TV

522
00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:42,920
Speaker 4: and her and her bedroom was above the TV room,

523
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:47,280
Speaker 4: and she would come down the backstairs in her underwear

524
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Speaker 4: holding her tits, just like even if we had friends

525
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:52,400
Speaker 4: over by the way.

526
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, our house was the opposite, the way opposite.

527
00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:59,400
Speaker 1: You know, we had a dead mother and a kind

528
00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,520
Speaker 1: of screwed up and a grandmother who couldn't see your

529
00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:05,040
Speaker 1: cook and I don't know, everything was scary.

530
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Speaker 2: It didn't.

531
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Speaker 1: There was no kind of freedom like that, you know.

532
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,280
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was Catholicism, I don't know

533
00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:15,119
Speaker 1: why it was particularly or you know, maybe in therapy

534
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:16,080
Speaker 1: this week we'll go through that.

535
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:18,800
Speaker 2: But I just was.

536
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Speaker 1: I was in awe of you, and I was a

537
00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:23,439
Speaker 1: little nervous too. Did Carolyn ever tell you that I

538
00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:26,399
Speaker 1: get nervous Sometimes She's like, oh, yeah, come see and

539
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:28,639
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, and Bridget's gonna be there.

540
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:30,920
Speaker 2: I'm like, I hope I don't say anything stupid.

541
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Speaker 5: You know.

542
00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:33,439
Speaker 2: She's like, why do you feel like why do you

543
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:35,840
Speaker 2: feel like that? I go I don't know, I don't know.

544
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Speaker 1: I feel like unworthy in a way of your my god, Well,

545
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,399
Speaker 1: in a way, I really do. I feel a little

546
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:46,760
Speaker 1: like you were the girl in high school that was

547
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,840
Speaker 1: you know, out there, and I was the senior class president.

548
00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:51,200
Speaker 2: I was the homecoming queen.

549
00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:54,360
Speaker 1: I was you know, in high school, and you were

550
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:56,360
Speaker 1: like Bette Midler, do you know what I mean?

551
00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:58,440
Speaker 2: Like, I feel like I wouldn't have been the cool

552
00:24:58,520 --> 00:24:59,399
Speaker 2: kid in your world.

553
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Speaker 3: You know.

554
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,360
Speaker 4: Well, I was a class president for a couple of years,

555
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,359
Speaker 4: the younger year, and then I was also homecoming queen.

556
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Speaker 6: Not to bray.

557
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:11,360
Speaker 1: Flout that I would have felt different had I known.

558
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:13,960
Speaker 3: That, but like I was, I felt like as the

559
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 3: people's queen, you know.

560
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, me too. Though truthfully I did too.

561
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:20,760
Speaker 1: I won because I was funny. I was funny to

562
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:22,200
Speaker 1: all the teachers and everything.

563
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 4: You know, I think I was probably funny too. And

564
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:28,640
Speaker 4: and also just like my brother, who my the the

565
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:30,760
Speaker 4: number five or six sumber six, you know, he was

566
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 4: close to me an age, and he was just friends

567
00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:35,480
Speaker 4: with everybody and I and I feel like I'd learned

568
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:37,040
Speaker 4: a lot from him. I just didn't have like a

569
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,400
Speaker 4: cliquer group. I kind of was the same in a way,

570
00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:41,600
Speaker 4: sort of friends with everybody, friends with no one in

571
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Speaker 4: a way.

572
00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:45,159
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, I had that too, interesting because I

573
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:46,800
Speaker 1: had you know, we're five in a row and I'm

574
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Speaker 1: number three, but we all were a grade you know

575
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:53,760
Speaker 1: apart in school, and my two older brothers were very popular,

576
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:56,840
Speaker 1: and it really helped when I went to school and

577
00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:59,320
Speaker 1: you know that we had sort and the teachers kind

578
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,200
Speaker 1: of tried to take care of us because they knew that,

579
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,120
Speaker 1: you know, there was no parents at home.

580
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Speaker 5: Kind of.

581
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I had like a wonderfully loving relationship with

582
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Speaker 1: the public school teachers that like has stayed all the

583
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 1: way through and it stayed my whole life. You know,

584
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Speaker 1: they're members of my chosen family, and it saved me

585
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:18,240
Speaker 1: for sure.

586
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, I definitely had a couple teachers. Yeah, because even

587
00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:24,240
Speaker 4: though like my mom would be like walking through the house,

588
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,280
Speaker 4: you know, there, we also had some it didn't always

589
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 4: feel like the safest place to be in my house, right,

590
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,680
Speaker 4: but but you know, there's always like sense of humor

591
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 4: to kind of get through everything. I think that's some

592
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:40,199
Speaker 4: of those are all very funny, just to kind of

593
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:42,120
Speaker 4: as a survival mechanism.

594
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Speaker 3: Right.

595
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Speaker 1: You talk about how you are character Sam in your

596
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:49,440
Speaker 1: Wonderful Show on HBO somebody somewhere that her sister has

597
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 1: died in the story and your sister has died.

598
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:52,440
Speaker 2: In real life.

599
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 1: And when Carolyn, who I assume knew that, you know,

600
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Speaker 1: brought up the topic or the writers of what do

601
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Speaker 1: you think if we if we can go there, did

602
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 1: you have any reticence were you're thinking, I don't know,

603
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 1: how long had it been since your sister passed?

604
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:08,480
Speaker 3: Well, I mean it's been a number of years.

605
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 4: My sister died in two thousand and eight, so, you know,

606
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 4: but it's something I never really dealt with, Like when

607
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:17,240
Speaker 4: Paul and Hannah were pitching this the world kind of

608
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,160
Speaker 4: you know, I just had a lump in my throat

609
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:22,120
Speaker 4: the whole time because from my sister part of it

610
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:25,240
Speaker 4: and the musical aspect of it, which music to me

611
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:30,199
Speaker 4: is such a lifeline a connective thread to other people,

612
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 4: like totally, but I felt like it was important for

613
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 4: me to do something that I could relate to, not

614
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 4: that I was playing a sheriff, you know, who busted

615
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:41,639
Speaker 4: up a sex trafficking or something. I needed to have

616
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,440
Speaker 4: something that felt very personal because then.

617
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 2: I knew I could kind of go there, yeah.

618
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:47,879
Speaker 6: Go there and.

619
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 4: Do my best and not kind of try to sort

620
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,200
Speaker 4: out how to feel, but just kind of have a

621
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,920
Speaker 4: little comfortability. But you know, just as long as you

622
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,680
Speaker 4: bring up Carolin, I just feel like I need to

623
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:02,720
Speaker 4: like talk about her for a second.

624
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 1: No, I would love to talk about her. She is

625
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:06,880
Speaker 1: the smartest woman I've ever met.

626
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 6: She's the smartest one I've ever met.

627
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 1: And when you play scrabble with her, she has to

628
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 1: spot you fifty points because she went to Harvard and

629
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 1: she kicks my ass every time we play scramble. But

630
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 1: I think she's the closest thing I've had.

631
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Speaker 2: To a sist.

632
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 1: Her in the last thirty years of my life. We

633
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 1: raised our kids together, and she created all these shows.

634
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 1: I remember her showing me the first few shooting episodes

635
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 1: of The Sopranos at my house in New York City,

636
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: and I was like, this will never go anywhere.

637
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:38,239
Speaker 2: Shows you what I know?

638
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is I didn't have music yet, it

639
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 1: was just it was just the raw footage. But she's

640
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 1: such a genius, Carolyn Strauss, and she used to be

641
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 1: at HBO and any great show that you've loved on

642
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,720
Speaker 1: HBO in the last twenty seven thirty years. She had

643
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 1: something to do with and how did you meet her?

644
00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 1: How did you become friends with her?

645
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 4: Well, Michael Patrick King from the Sex and the City fame,

646
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 4: he felt like we should connect. Well that's there was

647
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 4: some point like she called me because actually Paul and

648
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 4: Hannah were doing another show with HBO years ago that

649
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 4: never went and they and Carolyn's like, well what about

650
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 4: Bridget I think maybe she had seen my act at

651
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 4: that point or whatever. But Michael really sort of put

652
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 4: us together. He's you know, we were all going to

653
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 4: have dinner with my friend Craig, who's Michael's partner, and Carolyn,

654
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 4: and we're gonna go to jar there in uh West Hollywood.

655
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 4: And it's like, well, you and Carolyn meet first, and

656
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 4: I'm like so bad with new people.

657
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 6: I get very nervous.

658
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 4: And there's something about Carolyn that's intimidating at first, like

659
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 4: she's just nothing that she's doing, it's just you know,

660
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 4: she just has like a sort of she has a

661
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 4: quiet confidence about her that I found very unsettling at first.

662
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 4: But you know, she got her She got her Teetos

663
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 4: on the rocks and I got whatever I got to drink,

664
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 4: and you know, we made it through. But she's turned

665
00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 4: out to be just an incredible presence in my life,

666
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 4: and this show not exists without her. And I feel

667
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 4: like we do all these things, and like she's so

668
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 4: quiet and behind the scenes about everything, but really she's

669
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 4: the guiding force, but totally the guiding light, you know,

670
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 4: like and really helps guide us the right ways and

671
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 4: has a big hand and like the story and the

672
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 4: writing and everything. And and also more than that, I

673
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 4: think what's so special about her is like she makes

674
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 4: you feel like an equal. Yes, I feel like we're

675
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 4: in this together, and I feel cared for and supported

676
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 4: and and like she believes in me and and that

677
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 4: is invaluable. I'm somebody that really struggles with believing in

678
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:39,680
Speaker 4: myself and I think she sees that. And I get

679
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 4: cry just talking about it. But I support is invaluable there,

680
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 4: and I think it's why we're so successful.

681
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 2: Honestly, Yeah, I you know what, I believe it too.

682
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 1: I believe she sees the talent you she has the

683
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 1: talent writers, and she knows there's a match and there's

684
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 1: some synchronicity there and she can put everyone together and

685
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 1: you say, how wonderful the set feels. That's definitely from

686
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 1: the top. Yeah, And you know, it's on a set

687
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 1: where Carolyn Strauss is the EP. You're gonna be taken

688
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: care of and everything's gonna go smoothly and nobody's gonna

689
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 1: get feel bad. Yeah, and that's a tremendous accomplishment that

690
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: she's had.

691
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 2: What a career. Imagine what a career, right right, And

692
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 2: you'll never find a better friend, never find a better friend.

693
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 4: But I can also call her and be like, I

694
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 4: haven't made my papa today.

695
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 3: So she's she understands.

696
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 4: She gets a little poop humber too, which I think she.

697
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 2: Loves a good poop joke.

698
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 1: You know that that diarrhea scene went on a little

699
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 1: long for me, but I'm sure she enjoyed every second

700
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 1: of that.

701
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 6: I got.

702
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 4: Every time she watches that, she's cackling. It makes me

703
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 4: so happy.

704
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was so funny. It really was.

705
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: And it was a great scene between friends because it

706
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: shows sort of how close they were that there were

707
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 1: no holds barred, so to speak.

708
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no better way to show intimacy than that.

709
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 4: You know, I have a friend who was I was

710
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 4: on the phone with it inspired that scene.

711
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 3: It's just like he's like, oh oh no, oh no,

712
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 3: that's awesome. I hear this, Capal. I was like, what

713
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 3: did you hang up the phone? It's like there was

714
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 3: no time. I'm like, all you have to do is

715
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 3: just push the button.

716
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 4: But it was it brought us closer, so you know

717
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 4: what it takes and is it true?

718
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 2: Lisa Crone wrote that episode.

719
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 3: Lisa Crone did write that episode.

720
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 2: I freaking love Lisa Crone.

721
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 4: And you know that's that's one of the scenes, kind

722
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 4: of the least improvised scenes because she's written it so

723
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 4: well on it and then we're just you know, she

724
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 4: did such a great job.

725
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 1: Did you ever see the play about her mom?

726
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 2: It was called Well, no, I didn't see it, but

727
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 2: I'm familiar with it of course.

728
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Judy Hashagal, Judy hodgesh Well, you know

729
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,479
Speaker 1: the older actress who's said thank you. There she is,

730
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 1: she's fantastic and everything, and she played this sort of

731
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 1: sixties hippie seventies mother who was now in her seventies

732
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 1: and not really you know. Well, and the daughter comes

733
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: to ask about their childhood, the grown daughter in their

734
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 1: forties and basically you know, the question is who gets

735
00:32:57,680 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 1: to get Well.

736
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was really moving to me.

737
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 1: It was one of those shows where I went to

738
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 1: see and I was like knocked off my feet, you know.

739
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 1: I had to stay in the theater afterwards crying.

740
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 3: You know.

741
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 2: I hate when that happens in public.

742
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 3: What have you seen recently like that? Anything?

743
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 2: Well?

744
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 1: I saw good Night Oscar with Sean Hayes and it

745
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:21,480
Speaker 1: is just yes, And I met him at the You

746
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 1: I was there. Yeah, he's a great guy and talented man,

747
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: and I loved the play. I thought it was absolutely brilliant.

748
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 1: But that's Sean Hayes man, that's Sean Hayes.

749
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 6: Jury.

750
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 1: I went to see the Neil Diamond show and like you,

751
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 1: I grew up with him and Barry and Barbara and Bet,

752
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: and I was unprepared for how emotional I was going

753
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 1: to get during it. I don't know if you know

754
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 1: the premise of the show, but he's an older man

755
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: who's been diagnosed with Parkinson's and he can no longer sing,

756
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 1: and he's talking to his therapist and then they go

757
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 1: backwards in his life.

758
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 2: Oh my god, and then Will.

759
00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 1: Comes out Will Swinson order McDonald's as Neil Diamond that

760
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: we know with the long hair, and then at the

761
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 1: end they sing together I am, I said, I was

762
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 1: like a blubbering mass of hysteria.

763
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I don't know if I can handle it.

764
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,320
Speaker 2: No, I loved it so much.

765
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 1: And I saw Sweeney Todd, which was absolutely brilliant, and

766
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 1: that Annalie Ashford.

767
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 2: You friends with her?

768
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 1: Do you know her? Are you only the funniest human

769
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 1: singer alive? I don't know how it is to say

770
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:28,800
Speaker 1: it right. She makes a laugh, like I saw Sweeney

771
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,239
Speaker 1: Todd the original one and I don't remember it being

772
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 1: funny at all.

773
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:35,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this she made it very funny.

774
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:38,759
Speaker 1: And Jeff Groven was wonderful. And that young boy from

775
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: Stranger Things.

776
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:41,840
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, I don't know it.

777
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't either. He was great though too, he

778
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:44,840
Speaker 2: was really great.

779
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 4: Well, I have to see all those. I definitely gonna

780
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:47,840
Speaker 4: see a good Night Oscar. I don't know if I

781
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 4: can get take us to Sweeney Todd, but I'll try.

782
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 4: And then the Neil Diamond thing, I think that that's

783
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 4: gonna suck me up too much, but I'll get that.

784
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 2: Just be prepared. I wasn't prepared. That's all I could say.

785
00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:58,840
Speaker 4: The problem is like, once I start crying and a

786
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,920
Speaker 4: thing like that, I can't, and it's like it's like physical.

787
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 1: It's like, oh yeah, that it happens to me too, right,

788
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 1: and then people like look at me like I'm weird.

789
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 2: I can't control it. It's funny.

790
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 1: When I was watching show and perform, I was so

791
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 1: blown away and then you know, it wasn't a show

792
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:15,880
Speaker 1: that would make you cry. It was it was a

793
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 1: really riveting performance. You're captivated by the story. But I

794
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:22,359
Speaker 1: went backstage and I started blubbering yeah. And I hate

795
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:24,960
Speaker 1: when that happens too, because then I'm completely out of control.

796
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,279
Speaker 1: I'm like, it's not like I was preparing or I thought.

797
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 1: I was just like, oh my god, it's good.

798
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 2: You know.

799
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 1: I felt like I needed to get control of myself.

800
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 1: But it was brilliant.

801
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 3: My friend Grady had the same, the same experience.

802
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 4: He said he could he was it was out with

803
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:43,680
Speaker 4: Doug because he's he's uh, Diana Martinez. He's my favorite,

804
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 4: one of my very favorite performers ever. If you can

805
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 4: see Diana Martina, you have to. But I con Pete

806
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:48,840
Speaker 4: Town anywhere.

807
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:49,360
Speaker 6: Anyway.

808
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 4: He was telling me about seeing it and he just

809
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 4: he's like afterwards, I started talking to Doug about it,

810
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:55,840
Speaker 4: and I just started weeping.

811
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 3: I couldn't stap with me.

812
00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:02,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, which that's what's what better impact to have

813
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 4: than correct than that?

814
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 3: I mean, that's incredible.

815
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,239
Speaker 2: Correct. And now are you in La now mostly or

816
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 2: are you in New York?

817
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 3: I'm in New York, you are?

818
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:09,800
Speaker 2: Yeah?

819
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sitting right over here by my Amy's Sedaris.

820
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 3: So you can't see it. Well, no, you can see

821
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 3: they're listening.

822
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:16,879
Speaker 4: But there's a I got my little apartment. I took

823
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 4: my dog to daycare and then go pick her up

824
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 4: and we'll just keep living the dream.

825
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:23,359
Speaker 1: How is the new dog? I know you were in

826
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 1: love with Poppy? How is the new dog?

827
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:28,240
Speaker 2: Were you able? Yeah? Good?

828
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 1: It replaced and kind of helped your heart a little

829
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 1: getting into it's taken.

830
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,240
Speaker 3: It's taken some time.

831
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:37,319
Speaker 4: Like you know, we just had our year anniversary and

832
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 4: I I was just looking at her and it's only

833
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 4: sort of post the year mark where.

834
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 6: I'm like, oh, I've fallen in love with you.

835
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:47,839
Speaker 4: You know, it's it's it's weird because you kind of

836
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 4: I guess I was trying to like find a replacement

837
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 4: for Poppy, but Poppy was so special. Yeah, you know,

838
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 4: my little Palmerdian so beautiful and sweet and never barked

839
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 4: and just gentle. And then I got Lulu, who's who's

840
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:06,439
Speaker 4: also a rescue but she's like, you know, she has

841
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:09,360
Speaker 4: a lot of spunk and a lot of she's very spirited.

842
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 3: No really, but yeah, she was little.

843
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,320
Speaker 4: She had like two broken legs, so she's got a

844
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 4: lot of sensitivities and you know, she's all better, but uh,

845
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:21,840
Speaker 4: she's been more of a project. But the reward is happening.

846
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 2: You fell in love anyway, Yeah, i'man.

847
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 4: I loved her, but like that's sort of like i'd

848
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 4: oh my baby girl, and I was like, oh my baby,

849
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 4: I could say.

850
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 1: Very Now you're best friend on that show, Jeff. That's

851
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: his name, Hella, right, Jeff.

852
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 6: Yeah, Jeff Hiller plays Joel.

853
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, he is so hysterical and great and wonderful, and

854
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:53,840
Speaker 1: what a perfect balance for you, and what an extraordinary

855
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 1: actor he is.

856
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 4: Well, I have to tell you this because I think

857
00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 4: you must have gotten my number from Carolyn after the

858
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 4: first he's in our watching part of the first season.

859
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:05,359
Speaker 4: You left me a voicemail and I either sent it

860
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,879
Speaker 4: to Jeff or like a transcribed it or so, and

861
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 4: we were both so so thrilled to hear that you

862
00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 4: like the show, and you know, because we're both big

863
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:17,399
Speaker 4: fans and everything, and I just you know, you're kind

864
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 4: of like the first one that, you know, the first

865
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 4: big star that like had kind of given us that

866
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 4: a blessing and we were both anyway, So he loves you,

867
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 4: and I know he would be thrilled that you're talking

868
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 4: about it right now. Yeah.

869
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 1: I met him at the opening or the finale when

870
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,320
Speaker 1: I when I went to watch it, it was so cold,

871
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 1: remember on the roof. Oh yeah, it was a freezing Yeah,

872
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:43,400
Speaker 1: And I met him there and got to talk to

873
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 1: him about He was just adorable as I thought he

874
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,880
Speaker 1: would be. And well, I want to say that this

875
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 1: was much easier than I thought it might be because

876
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:53,919
Speaker 1: of my nervousness. But you made me feel at ease

877
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 1: right away, and I don't feel that anymore now. I

878
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:58,360
Speaker 1: feel like, Okay, me and Bridget have broken through. We

879
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 1: both with we did we do?

880
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:01,919
Speaker 3: Do we do? Our time? Is that it?

881
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 1: That's it. That's all we got to do on this thing.

882
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 1: Forty five minutes and we're out. That's a good job

883
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 1: if you can get it.

884
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 3: You know, well, you're great at your job. You made

885
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 3: me feel very relaxed. So thank you. I'm not good,

886
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 3: I'm glad.

887
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 1: Well, the show is wonderful and you're wonderful, and I'm

888
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 1: so happy for your success.

889
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 2: I really am.

890
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: And I'm so happy that you get to work with

891
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 1: Carolyn Strauss because what a joy that is to the

892
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:29,880
Speaker 1: aspect of your life. Totally somebody somewhere on HBO, Bridget Everett,

893
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 1: thank you so much. Are you touring? Are you going anywhere?

894
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 1: Are you doing anything in the down the writers strike time?

895
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Speaker 1: Are you up on a stage somewhere?

896
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:40,920
Speaker 3: Oh, Papa Joe's pub A couple of times. We're releasing

897
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 3: an album.

898
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Speaker 6: I don't know.

899
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 4: I think I'm gonna call it BFD. Probably after my

900
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 4: mom's show is said, big fucking deal, so I call

901
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 4: it BFD.

902
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 6: I think we'll get that out soon.

903
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:52,359
Speaker 1: All right, excellent, I'll look for it. All right, Thank

904
00:39:52,360 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 1: you so much. All right, we're back. Wasn't that amazing?

905
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Speaker 1: And now and now, when we have a little time left,

906
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:22,239
Speaker 1: we're going to take some questions from you, the home listener.

907
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:24,240
Speaker 2: I keep saying viewer, but I'm learning.

908
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 6: I'm learning.

909
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 5: Hey, Rosie, my name is Sheila, and I'm from Australia. Hey, Sheila,

910
00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:34,799
Speaker 5: I've had some life changes recently that we can all

911
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 5: relate to, and people around me have been so generous.

912
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:42,799
Speaker 5: But they always say it'll be okay, you know, in

913
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 5: the end, and I know it will be. But if

914
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 5: we couldn't say that, what would be the other thing

915
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:50,919
Speaker 5: you would say to me? Thanks?

916
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:51,320
Speaker 6: Rosie?

917
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:54,239
Speaker 1: I love your podcast, Thank you, sweetheart. I wish I

918
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 1: knew what the changes were so I could give you,

919
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:01,840
Speaker 1: you know, guidance and whatever I might be capable of.

920
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 1: Not that I'm anyone to go for for guidance, but

921
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 1: when people ask questions, you know, I don't know what's

922
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:11,800
Speaker 1: gone on. Did you lose someone? Is it a change

923
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 1: within your own world? Or did it you know? It's

924
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:18,880
Speaker 1: very hard. All I know is this that time changes everything.

925
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 1: And so far you've survived one hundred percent of your

926
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 1: most horrible days and you'll survive these days as well.

927
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Speaker 1: And if you can't, or if you're on the edge,

928
00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:33,239
Speaker 1: if you're feeling like you want to take yourself out,

929
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 1: make a phone call. Call suicide hotlines there where you

930
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: are there in the United States. They're all over the

931
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:43,080
Speaker 1: world and I use them. You know, if you're suffering

932
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,839
Speaker 1: in a horrible way. I always find that when there's

933
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 1: a major shift and something in my life, I need

934
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 1: to take some time and really get to a place

935
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 1: where it sits right within me before I go and

936
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Speaker 1: discuss it with other people.

937
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:02,440
Speaker 2: So I don't know. I would say take your.

938
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Speaker 1: Time and know that sad as it is or tried

939
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 1: as it is, this too shall pass, and maybe it

940
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 1: will be something you carry with you forever, but you'll

941
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 1: find a way to lift that load and when it's time,

942
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:20,799
Speaker 1: you'll put it down and onward, my friend, onward. Hope

943
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:24,120
Speaker 1: that makes sense, Sending you lots of love down Undone.

944
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: Now we get another question.

945
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 7: Here we go, Hi, Rosie, my name is Britney. I

946
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 7: have been a big fan of yours for a long

947
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 7: time and now I absolutely love that you are doing

948
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:39,799
Speaker 7: this new podcast. My question for you is about interviewing.

949
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:43,480
Speaker 7: Is there anyone that you would have loved to have

950
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:47,400
Speaker 7: interviewed for this podcast but never got the chance because

951
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:50,799
Speaker 7: they've since passed away? And also what would you have

952
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 7: asked them? Thank you so much for being you.

953
00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:55,920
Speaker 2: Take care well, Britney.

954
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 1: When you first said hey it's Britney, I had a

955
00:42:57,719 --> 00:42:59,879
Speaker 1: moment of oh, my god, Britney Spears is reaching out

956
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:05,279
Speaker 1: so not insane. Seriously, I'm crazy person like that, you know.

957
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 1: I am hoping that you know, somebody is there when

958
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:12,279
Speaker 1: she does reach out. It doesn't have to be me.

959
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 1: But anyway, Brittany, that was a great question. Thank you

960
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 1: very much for giving us a little voice memo. My

961
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:21,840
Speaker 1: life was always filled with a yearning to be on

962
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 1: The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and I never got

963
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 1: to do that because he retired right when Leg of

964
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 1: their Own was just coming out. He was leaving, so

965
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 1: I never got to be on that show, and that

966
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 1: was always a big regret of mine. Somebody that I

967
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:41,239
Speaker 1: admired my whole life, who I think was such a

968
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 1: skilled interviewer and such a skilled monologist, and what a

969
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 1: thirty five year trek through Hollywood he made and interviewed

970
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 1: everyone and did it brilliantly year after year after year.

971
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 1: So I know that he's been gone a while now,

972
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 1: but my first thought when you say that was Johnny Carson.

973
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 1: I love to have all kinds of people on this podcast,

974
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:10,799
Speaker 1: interesting people with something to talk about, people who I'm

975
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:14,360
Speaker 1: curious about their true nature, and getting to have a

976
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 1: non performative conversation really has been very interesting for me

977
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 1: personally and very creatively inspiring. So that was a great question.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for that.

979
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for the questions. Next week, we're

980
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Speaker 1: going to have Cindy Lauper on Week three of Gay Pride.

981
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 1: Cindy Lauper, who I love and adore and have for

982
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 1: very many years, and she has just a wonderful varied

983
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:43,839
Speaker 1: career in life and worldview perspective. I just love her,

984
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:46,600
Speaker 1: and you know, girls do want to have fundamental rights.

985
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 2: Thank you, Cindy Lauper. She will be on next week.

986
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Speaker 2: Thank you all.