Speaker 1: Hey, besties, Hello Sunshine.
Speaker 2: Today on the bright Side, we're popping off undition on
Speaker 2: the biggest pop culture moments of the week with comedian
Speaker 2: Rachel Samples.
Speaker 1: Do you cry in the shower like Benny Blanco?
Speaker 2: Move over texting our voice notes the new way to communicate,
Speaker 2: and we'll get to the bottom of the age old question.
Speaker 2: Is love truly blind? It's Friday, February twenty First, I'm
Speaker 2: Danielle Robe and.
Speaker 3: I'm Simone Boyce and this is the bright Side from
Speaker 3: Hello Sunshine, Happy Friday, Danielle. I am so happy to
Speaker 3: see that you're feeling and sounding better.
Speaker 1: Yep, a little bit, thank you. You know it's wild.
Speaker 2: The CDC just announced that this is the worst flu
Speaker 2: season since two thousand and nine, and judging by what
Speaker 2: I had this week, I believe it thirty million Americans,
Speaker 2: including yours, truly have gotten sick.
Speaker 4: Crazy.
Speaker 3: So here's the question, will you beget the flu shot
Speaker 3: next season? Because I did not get a flu shot.
Speaker 3: I actually never really get a flu shot, but I
Speaker 3: definitely did get the flu.
Speaker 1: You got the flu this year?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Like January?
Speaker 2: Oh man, you know what, We're all going to be
Speaker 2: chugging Vitamin C and vitamin D and zinc and all
Speaker 2: the things.
Speaker 3: All of that stuff helps, but you know what they say,
Speaker 3: laughter is the best medicine. So hopefully our guest today
Speaker 3: can help us get back on track.
Speaker 2: Absolutely well. Joining us today is the hilarious Rachel Samples.
Speaker 2: We had so much fun with her last time she
Speaker 2: was on the show. We knew we had to have
Speaker 2: her back.
Speaker 1: Rachel, Welcome back to the bright Side.
Speaker 5: Oh, happy to be back. Hey Danielle, Hey Simon, and
Speaker 5: thanks for having me.
Speaker 4: Two timers. Get an air horn. Oh we get an airhorn. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I love that. I love that. That's all good.
Speaker 3: All right, bestie is if you are not already following Rachel,
Speaker 3: what are you doing with your life? She's so silly
Speaker 3: and we love that so much. We talked about your
Speaker 3: impressions and your dad videos the last time you were here,
Speaker 3: and then week we saw you dressed up as George
Speaker 3: Washington and a leprechaun to film a sketch as a
Speaker 3: plate's instructor. How do you come up with these ideas
Speaker 3: like take me into your inspiration your creative process.
Speaker 5: Okay, that sketch in particular is very much inspired by
Speaker 5: Peloton that I feel like every time I open that app.
Speaker 5: They have somehow taken a like level B national holiday
Speaker 5: and made an entire themed class out of it, And
Speaker 5: I was like, what if we just took this to
Speaker 5: a different place of like President's Day truly becoming a
Speaker 5: president George Washington coded for the class and just ran
Speaker 5: with it that way, just like a heightened insane Zaney
Speaker 5: version of it.
Speaker 1: Wait, a level B national holiday is very funny.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Like I feel like, like, yes, it's there, but like
Speaker 5: Arbor Day, Yeah, what yah?
Speaker 4: I know it's tree.
Speaker 5: Adjacent, tree related, but I'm like, we never really go
Speaker 5: hard for Arbor Day, probably the way we should, but
Speaker 5: at like a level B.
Speaker 3: I feel like, to do what you do, Rachel, you
Speaker 3: have to completely be okay with like the the cringe
Speaker 3: factor and like making fun of yourself like in public.
Speaker 3: When were you able to like kind of lose that
Speaker 3: fear of being judged while filming these videos.
Speaker 5: I actually think something changed when I like am in
Speaker 5: my like dad character because I feel like I'm not
Speaker 5: really me and therefore I can't like get in trouble
Speaker 5: and things like that. But I still have a little
Speaker 5: bit of, like I guess humility. I got kicked out
Speaker 5: of a Trader Joe's trying to film a sketch.
Speaker 4: They were like, boom.
Speaker 5: And when I get I'm like a rule follower truly,
Speaker 5: but I feel like for these fits, I'll push it
Speaker 5: and like try to get in places and things like that.
Speaker 5: But Trader Joe's was like, girl, you gotta go. It's
Speaker 5: like all right, all right, I get it.
Speaker 4: I get it.
Speaker 5: What were you wearing when they kicked you out? Oh
Speaker 5: my god, that was a It was a sketch I
Speaker 5: was playing. It was a seasonal sketch, but Pumpkins manager.
Speaker 5: So I was going into Trader Joe's and like, look
Speaker 5: how good I am at my job. All these pumpkined
Speaker 5: you know, treats and candles and all that jazz. And
Speaker 5: it was like within minutes it was almost like security,
Speaker 5: like secret service level.
Speaker 4: Boom. Trader Joe's was on it.
Speaker 5: I was like, okay, I'm out paying, but yeah, you
Speaker 5: just have to just go in like you're focused on
Speaker 5: the bit and nothing else, and you know, see when
Speaker 5: it comes of it.
Speaker 1: Were you affected by the foe TikTok ban at all?
Speaker 5: Oh that was a hard twenty five minutes. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: mean that was a ride. I was like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 5: just gonna keep on keeping on on other plates, like
Speaker 5: you know, Instagram, which is probably you know, really like
Speaker 5: focus on YouTube and things like that.
Speaker 4: But I was sad because I feel like you just
Speaker 4: find so many gems on there.
Speaker 5: Even like I was chatting with my girlfriend and we
Speaker 5: were like, wait, that's literally how we find places to travel,
Speaker 5: That's how we like know where to eat the cop
Speaker 5: like just the search of it all. I was just
Speaker 5: bummed with that. And then of course just like finding
Speaker 5: funny funny people.
Speaker 1: The discoverability. I agree with you.
Speaker 2: It's also sort of this like un nderground feminist network
Speaker 2: I've found.
Speaker 1: Do you find that at all?
Speaker 4: Continue?
Speaker 5: I'm nodding heavily, yes. Continue.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like it's really talk about girls supporting girls and
Speaker 2: women supporting women like TikTok is that, And it's sort
Speaker 2: of like this web of information.
Speaker 3: I want to get on that side of the algorithm
Speaker 3: because I feel like I just I get sent like
Speaker 3: weird like satire and like cooking videos and I don't know,
Speaker 3: like just weird stuff.
Speaker 4: Okay, can I be salty for a second? Yep? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Are we allowed now to laugh?
Speaker 3: At the videos of people crying over the TikTok ban
Speaker 3: or is it too soon?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: I think you absolutely should okay, okay, and hopefully those people.
Speaker 4: Are self aware about it.
Speaker 5: My friend Becca was literally doing a live singing amazing
Speaker 5: Grace when TikTok shut down, Like she was so emotional
Speaker 5: over going away, but like she's owning how cringe that was.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: What I thought was really funny was all of the
Speaker 2: people spilling their secret right before TikTok left, and then
Speaker 2: TikTok stayed and we knew all their secrets. Like some
Speaker 2: people were talking about the peptides or the semi glue
Speaker 2: tides they were on. Some people were talking about not
Speaker 2: being in a real relationship, or like fitness influencers saying
Speaker 2: I don't actually work out, and then all of a
Speaker 2: sudden it all went away.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I feel like we need a documentary on that, Like
Speaker 3: we need like a Netflix documentary on that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I can't believe some people just like showed their cards,
Speaker 5: like fitness influencers being like I never even like worked
Speaker 5: out day in my life, things like that.
Speaker 4: I did hear that. That's wild?
Speaker 3: All right, you guys. I think it's time to officially
Speaker 3: pop off Cool. First up on the docket today, Benny
Speaker 3: Blanco and Selena Gomez are gracing the cover of Interview
Speaker 3: Magazine's March issue.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you guys have seen the picks,
Speaker 3: but there are some snaps of the engaged couple that
Speaker 3: have really taken over our feeds this week, and they're
Speaker 3: in these matching oversized suits. They actually look really cute,
Speaker 3: Like I want to borrow that look. I'm always here
Speaker 3: for a mendsor look. In addition to this photo shoot,
Speaker 3: they also answered some questions for Interview Magazines TikTok, and
Speaker 3: Benny got open about his shower habits. So he revealed
Speaker 3: that he doesn't shower every day, which I personally don't
Speaker 3: find that controversial, Like I don't shower every day, but
Speaker 3: he says that when he does, he sits there for
Speaker 3: a long time and he just like uses the time
Speaker 3: to like contemplate life, and that sometimes that leads to
Speaker 3: crying in the shower. Is this concept foreign to you,
Speaker 3: guys or is this something that like you do in
Speaker 3: the shower too?
Speaker 4: Do you guys cry in the shower?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: I love a shower crying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Okay, tell me take me into.
Speaker 2: That the tear does just wipe away with the with
Speaker 2: the shower head, the faucet, the water. Yeah, I just
Speaker 2: feel like it's like really cathartic to cry in the
Speaker 2: shower sometimes. And also if you, like, if you have
Speaker 2: kids or somebody else in your apartment and you don't
Speaker 2: want them to hear you crying, it's a great place
Speaker 2: to hide and cry.
Speaker 4: That's true. That's true.
Speaker 5: I haven't done a I don't think I've done a
Speaker 5: cry and a shower, But I love an emotional stare,
Speaker 5: Like I just you know, you just find that spot
Speaker 5: and you're just gonna zone out and just let that
Speaker 5: water run. You don't know, time, space doesn't matter, but
Speaker 5: just that locked in like the contemplating thing.
Speaker 4: I totally understand. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't think we talk about the power of showering enough,
Speaker 3: like showers are truly transformative. We actually talked about this
Speaker 3: on the show recently, Danielle. It was it was a
Speaker 3: suggestion from an expert. When you're looking for a sensory change,
Speaker 3: like when you need to switch out of like a
Speaker 3: negative mindset into a better mindset.
Speaker 4: Take a shower. Yeah. I really feel like the shower
Speaker 4: is the cure for everything. It absolutely is.
Speaker 2: I had a boyfriend cheat on me one time and
Speaker 2: I called my dad crying and he was like, Danielle,
Speaker 2: go for.
Speaker 1: A run or hop in the shower. That was his
Speaker 1: advice to me.
Speaker 2: And I was so mad at the time, and in
Speaker 2: hindsight I get what he was saying.
Speaker 1: It was like, switch up your energy. A shower can
Speaker 1: cure so much.
Speaker 4: Yeah, which one did you end up doing? Do you remember?
Speaker 1: Neither?
Speaker 2: I hung up being so mad, and I think I like,
Speaker 2: drove home and ate a hamburger or something nice?
Speaker 4: Nice? Nice?
Speaker 1: Which one would you choose?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 5: I feel like And that's in that context, I probably
Speaker 5: have too much roth hot top that I would need
Speaker 5: to go on a run like DMX. Like Rachel, I
Speaker 5: know you're a big fan of the dolphin shower too.
Speaker 5: Love a dolphin shower?
Speaker 3: Yes, once again, explain to our listenership what a dolphin
Speaker 3: shower is.
Speaker 5: So a dolphin shower for those who shave, is just
Speaker 5: like like I'm going in and I'm coming out different,
Speaker 5: Like I'm the better two point zero version of myself.
Speaker 5: Doesn't matter how much time it takes. But this is
Speaker 5: like I've been building for weeks I'm like ready to
Speaker 5: lock in and start a new a phoenix rising from
Speaker 5: the ashes if you will.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 5: You know what's interesting too in the Benny Blanco thread
Speaker 5: is I feel like I keep seeing news of Benny
Speaker 5: Blanco in like in the bathroom because for Valentine's Day
Speaker 5: he filled the tub. Did you guys see this with
Speaker 5: nacho cheese?
Speaker 4: No? I missed this one.
Speaker 5: Oh this was like literally like he put chips. This
Speaker 5: was on Instagram. He put chips leading like cookie crumb
Speaker 5: trail to the bathtub that he filled with cheese.
Speaker 2: Because that's such a rich person. It is, because like,
Speaker 2: who's going to clean up the cheese? That's all I
Speaker 2: can think about.
Speaker 5: Right, I mean from start to finish. You think of
Speaker 5: the assistant that had to go do that, go run
Speaker 5: and get that, do the supplies. It was probably a
Speaker 5: rogue idea, I mean the execution, start to finish. But
Speaker 5: I'm like, wow, they keep coming up in the news
Speaker 5: a lot. We're bathtub and now we're shower focused. They
Speaker 5: must have like multiple bathroom sweets that they're just hanging in.
Speaker 3: I'm lactose and tolerant, so I have hives just thinking
Speaker 3: about a bathtub filled with nacho cheese. It's not for me,
Speaker 3: But are you guys criers in general? Like Rachel, I
Speaker 3: know we're all huge Wicked fans here. Did you sob
Speaker 3: during the movie? And is that something that you do
Speaker 3: on the regular when a movie like gets in your feels?
Speaker 5: I actually had like a body chills, and just because
Speaker 5: like we're girls here, like truly pouring and sweat with
Speaker 5: the finale. I don't know what it was, like a
Speaker 5: different moisture release, but I was like, oh my, I
Speaker 5: got like physically worked up, Like wow, I was very sweaty.
Speaker 4: So not normally a crier. It's like, not.
Speaker 5: Normally a crier. I'm really excited for the two other
Speaker 5: listeners who got sweaty during Wicked and didn't cry.
Speaker 4: Just trying to create a safe space. Danielle, how about you, Simon?
Speaker 1: What do you think?
Speaker 4: Sorry?
Speaker 5: I don't know why I asked that. I know this
Speaker 5: answer by now, daniel is a big cry I love that.
Speaker 5: But I didn't cry during Wicked. Surprisingly, wow.
Speaker 3: And you know what's funny, I'm not normally a crier,
Speaker 3: but I sobbed like five year old temper tantrum sobbed
Speaker 3: during Wicked.
Speaker 4: It was like heaving. Was it all?
Speaker 1: Did it hid in you?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Or where when was it?
Speaker 5: It? Was it that crescendo at the end, Yes, the crescendo,
Speaker 5: but uh, that.
Speaker 3: Moment whoa, yes exactly. For me, it was like the
Speaker 3: instant that I saw munchkin Land, like the very first scene.
Speaker 4: After the races. Yeah, off to the races.
Speaker 3: I'm going to try my best to explain this, but
Speaker 3: I was crying because of the excellence, the excellent, like
Speaker 3: the artistic excellence, and I think for me as a
Speaker 3: theater kid, like growing up singing these songs, rehearsing these songs,
Speaker 3: I just felt so tapped into our community and like
Speaker 3: all of the collective dreams and hopes that are attached
Speaker 3: to this one property, and to see it brought to
Speaker 3: life in such a magnificent way, I was just like,
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, that's so beautiful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so simon of you. I love that.
Speaker 4: I love that.
Speaker 5: I want to do the I want to hold your
Speaker 5: finger like the Oreana.
Speaker 4: I want to hold space. I want to yea.
Speaker 5: Listeners, listeners, the fingers are up and I'm trying to
Speaker 5: hold both space for this.
Speaker 3: We've got to take a quick break. But we'll be
Speaker 3: right back. We're back to popping off with Rachel Samples.
Speaker 2: Okay, I came across this Time magazine article that caught
Speaker 2: my attention. It's called why Voice notes Are a Small
Speaker 2: act of Love. First of all, I do think they're
Speaker 2: a small act of love. But the writer talks about
Speaker 2: how voice notes helped her feel way more connected than
Speaker 2: texting during the pandemic.
Speaker 1: And she's not alone.
Speaker 2: According to a twenty twenty three you Gov poll, thirty
Speaker 2: percent of Americans are using voice messages weekly, daily, or even.
Speaker 1: Multiple times a day.
Speaker 2: That is a lot of people ditching texts for a
Speaker 2: little more voice to voice action.
Speaker 1: Are you a voicener?
Speaker 5: I really am, and I think it started. It started
Speaker 5: from a place of really trying to be better about
Speaker 5: not texting and driving, and I was like, you know what,
Speaker 5: let me just throw let's do the adult walkie talkie
Speaker 5: and do the voice note and like.
Speaker 4: Gap that way. But it was real talky. It truly is.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm in for an adult wat.
Speaker 4: Adult walky talkie.
Speaker 2: I tried to get Simone to get her husband alwaukie
Speaker 2: talkie for Valentine's Day and she laughed in my face.
Speaker 4: Well, because it was so incredibly romantic.
Speaker 2: I mean, can you imagine, Yeah, but you could just
Speaker 2: voice note him it's the same thing, I guess.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a little more like Gear Roger.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, men love Gear. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think he may I don't know your husband, but
Speaker 5: may or may not have taken advantage of that, like
Speaker 5: just too much, too much with the Yeah, that's the prob.
Speaker 4: Totally love a voice note.
Speaker 5: I also think it makes stories exponentially funnier. Tea feels
Speaker 5: heightened like drama, everything, and there's always just a through
Speaker 5: line where it doesn't even matter.
Speaker 4: What the voice note is. I think it in.
Speaker 5: Our brains makes us react as if it's like a
Speaker 5: very flirty thing, even if it's not. You know what
Speaker 5: I mean, Like you took a level of coolness to
Speaker 5: give me a voice note. I think it like, well,
Speaker 5: scientists will study it. But the voice note, I think,
Speaker 5: just feels inherently flirty. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: Is it thoughtfulness or sleuthiness?
Speaker 2: Because sometimes I think a voice note is because you
Speaker 2: don't want to put something in writing, which I understand.
Speaker 2: Oh true, I've seen the Blake Lively justin Baldoni one
Speaker 2: hundred and forty one page lawsuit.
Speaker 1: I understand why you'd want a voice note.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I think you're onto something, Rachel. I
Speaker 3: think there's something whether it's flirty or romantic or just
Speaker 3: more human about voice notes. I crave hearing other people's
Speaker 3: voices in the digital age, Like I miss the days
Speaker 3: when you would just yap on the phone with your
Speaker 3: friends for like three hours, like when we were growing up,
Speaker 3: you know, like that was so fun. And I feel
Speaker 3: like we never nobody ever talks on the phone anymore,
Speaker 3: nobody ever picks up the phone. So I'll take a
Speaker 3: voice note. I will say, though I have I have limits.
Speaker 3: I have boundaries, Like I have this one friend who
Speaker 3: sends me God bless, She's gonna know exactly she is
Speaker 3: when as I'm talking about this, she sends me these
Speaker 3: stream of consciousness voice notes that are like, you know,
Speaker 3: like three minutes long, and like she's trying to tell
Speaker 3: me a story. But there's like new characters are coming in.
Speaker 3: They're making entrances and exits. It's happening in real time
Speaker 3: at her son's soccer game, and I'm like, WHOA, I can't.
Speaker 4: Follow all of this.
Speaker 3: I love like I love a brief you know powerful
Speaker 3: concise voice note.
Speaker 4: You know, yes, what's your time limit?
Speaker 3: I'll give you. I think forty seconds. I think forty
Speaker 3: seconds is perfect.
Speaker 1: That's not enough. That's not enough.
Speaker 4: It's not enough.
Speaker 1: Forty seconds is nothing.
Speaker 5: But sometimes it's fun when it rolls into the next one.
Speaker 5: So you've got like a forty, a fifteen, and an eight,
Speaker 5: and like, you know, the eight it's just gonna be
Speaker 5: like a silly send off, and you're like, yeah, I
Speaker 5: can't wait to.
Speaker 4: Get to the eight. That's me. That's me.
Speaker 2: Well, do you guys ever leave voicemails anymore? Because part
Speaker 2: of me feels like this voice note generation is novel
Speaker 2: for gen Z they just don't know what voice messages were.
Speaker 5: Very rarely for a voicemail. And then I feel like
Speaker 5: most of the time I'm not even listening to it.
Speaker 5: I'm reading a transcript of it to just scroll through
Speaker 5: and be like, oh worth listening to Maybe I'll.
Speaker 4: Follow up whatever.
Speaker 5: Yeah, But I do feel sometimes with those long, long
Speaker 5: voice notes with a narrative arc and multiple characters, it
Speaker 5: feels like it's almost like a little bit more on
Speaker 5: the assignment side, and there's like multiple questions asked within
Speaker 5: it that you're like, I think I covered up in
Speaker 5: my response on like two out of nine, Like, yes, yeah,
Speaker 5: it can be stressful, but I feel like it's playful
Speaker 5: for the most part.
Speaker 3: My toxic trait has always been voicemails. It's something that
Speaker 3: I've always struggled with, and I get so many aggressive
Speaker 3: messages from people being like, hey left you a voicemail
Speaker 3: trying to get in touch with you, and I'm like, listen,
Speaker 3: we've I just feel like, as a society, we've.
Speaker 4: Evolved past the voicemail. Can we just can we put
Speaker 4: it to rest?
Speaker 3: Either text me, email me, or send me a voice
Speaker 3: note At this point.
Speaker 5: Yes, in the case that you do have to leave
Speaker 5: a voicemail, maybe this is something that resonates with you too.
Speaker 5: But I feel like I copy the voice that I
Speaker 5: heard my parents do when I was younger.
Speaker 4: Yes, I'm like, okay, this is Rachel Samples.
Speaker 5: I'm just giving you a call, getting a call back,
Speaker 5: and you're going to repeat the number back Like technology
Speaker 5: like doesn't need you to do that anymore. But I'm
Speaker 5: following the script that I heard when I was.
Speaker 4: Like eight years old.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's so true, so weird, Rachel, that is so
Speaker 2: spot on very strange.
Speaker 1: I do it all the time, specifically and like.
Speaker 2: Not professional settings, but like where I'm dealing with a
Speaker 2: work person, Like I'm like I need like my refrigerator fixed,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, please call me back at three one,
Speaker 2: four five two, and it's like you have my number.
Speaker 5: Yep, No, but like we are stuck in time. It
Speaker 5: is nineteen ninety seven, and you are going to come
Speaker 5: over and fix it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 2: Have you guys ever accidentally sent a voice memo because.
Speaker 4: I have oh wait, say more, Like.
Speaker 2: Sometimes your phone just presses like send and you don't
Speaker 2: realize you're and it's like, oh, it just recorded white
Speaker 2: noise or it recorded me peeing.
Speaker 1: And like that's horrible and you can't really understand that.
Speaker 5: Yeah's are you two the type of people like if
Speaker 5: you're gonna like maybe like tell a story, talk shit,
Speaker 5: et cetera, you're like phone check in other room, laptop clothes,
Speaker 5: seal it up, put it away. I have friends who
Speaker 5: are like, I'm like, sorry, the CIA is not listening
Speaker 5: in on you, like this is a this is such
Speaker 5: a dumb story. But they'll lock up all technology to
Speaker 5: avoid any of that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm that friend, I'm paranoid about it. I think
Speaker 3: blame being a news reporter where there's always like hot
Speaker 3: mics around, you start to get really aware of it.
Speaker 4: And I was.
Speaker 3: I came up during the Access Hollywood tape times like,
Speaker 3: you know it's not gonna be me.
Speaker 4: You're not gonna catch me on no tape. I love that, okay.
Speaker 3: Next up, the hit Netflix show Love Is Blind is
Speaker 3: and since it's launched, it's been trying to answer the
Speaker 3: age old question when it comes to love, do looks matter?
Speaker 4: Aka? Is love really blind?
Speaker 3: And this season there's a contestant named Daniel Hastings who's
Speaker 3: sharing his thoughts on the social experiment and he's actually
Speaker 3: getting pretty vulnerable at.
Speaker 4: About his height too.
Speaker 3: So he's five foot eight and he says that his
Speaker 3: height is the biggest barrier to finding love, and he
Speaker 3: says it's really why he stayed single for the last
Speaker 3: ten years, and he hopes that going on the show
Speaker 3: might allow him to meet someone who's not going to
Speaker 3: consider it a deal breaker. So, before we dig into
Speaker 3: the short king of it all, do you guys think
Speaker 3: love is really blind?
Speaker 5: I think it's a beautiful blend of like a lot
Speaker 5: of factors, but physical attractions a huge pillar, you know,
Speaker 5: Like I think you have to physically connect, emotionally connect mentally,
Speaker 5: all those all those things. I think it's a huge,
Speaker 5: a huge factor. I mean, I just feel like there's
Speaker 5: so many stories you can be on. Love is blind
Speaker 5: of like catfish and things like that, Like you're sold,
Speaker 5: you're sold a little bit on a picture, but really
Speaker 5: like the communication and getting along with that person. But like,
Speaker 5: it's definitely a.
Speaker 4: Factor, daniel.
Speaker 2: If you look at my dating history, I would say
Speaker 2: love is blind.
Speaker 1: I feel as if it is an energy and a
Speaker 1: vibe for me. I've dated people.
Speaker 2: Of almost any and every race, ethnicity, religion. Like if
Speaker 2: you were to be like, what's Danielle's type, you'd be
Speaker 2: hard pressed to find a physical manifestation of that. But
Speaker 2: I do think you could maybe put a few personality
Speaker 2: traits into boxes there. I do think this is very individual.
Speaker 2: Though some people really do have a type.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: This is why I have a hard time with dating
Speaker 2: apps because I can't catch a vibe virtually.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like I'm such a personality person.
Speaker 2: You could win me over with like incredible uh knowledge
Speaker 2: of literature, which I can't tell over a dating app.
Speaker 3: You know, I feel like we're conflating two things here though,
Speaker 3: because you're saying you don't have a type. But I
Speaker 3: think the question is like, does physical attraction matter to you? Like,
Speaker 3: have you ever dated someone who you weren't physically attracted
Speaker 3: to in the beginning but you were able to still
Speaker 3: make that relationship work?
Speaker 4: Slow Burn?
Speaker 2: No physical attraction really matters. But I will tell you
Speaker 2: I've dated some really esthetically unattractive people who I have
Speaker 2: been attracted.
Speaker 4: To some hear me out.
Speaker 1: I mean it's an understatement.
Speaker 4: That hear me out cake is lit. Yeah, there's different
Speaker 4: levels to hear me out. It's like the next level
Speaker 4: up is like, oh right, now take a seat.
Speaker 1: Just Yeah.
Speaker 2: There was a guy that I dated who was like
Speaker 2: really not esthetically what people would find appealing, But he
Speaker 2: made a cocaw.
Speaker 1: Ceremony for us on a date and taught me.
Speaker 2: About where the chocolate traveled from, the cocou traveled from,
Speaker 2: and I was like, and told me about the moon
Speaker 2: phases and how my period was gonna, you know, like
Speaker 2: act on certain moon phases, and I was in.
Speaker 4: Did he also say grand Rising?
Speaker 1: No he didn't.
Speaker 4: Okay, did you wear matching robes for the date.
Speaker 1: I wish that would have been a cool thing.
Speaker 3: Did he also wear those shoes that have the toe
Speaker 3: holes the toe grip?
Speaker 1: No, but he built his own deck into panga.
Speaker 5: Oh the topanga of it all makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 4: Yeah that makes sense.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, wow, Okay, Now I have to know why
Speaker 5: it didn't Why didn't it work out?
Speaker 2: I think he asked me to go camping and I
Speaker 2: was really not into that.
Speaker 3: Oh that's so funny. That would have been like, yes,
Speaker 3: I'm down, let's go. Canny's dropping right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the camping was a nogo for me.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The Penga's got a far too.
Speaker 1: It's so far.
Speaker 4: It's a long distance relationship and la Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5: The height thing is a big thing for like my
Speaker 5: single gals and even from a like from a Game
Speaker 5: one and POV. I've had conversations about this where like
Speaker 5: I always want to be like taller. Oh interesting, like
Speaker 5: I've never been attracted to like someone a woman who
Speaker 5: is taller than me.
Speaker 4: Rachel, how tall are you? Five eight? But for listeners
Speaker 4: six to six?
Speaker 3: You have tall girl energy, Like I know you are
Speaker 3: tall tall? Yeah, yeah, try try dating at six feet tall?
Speaker 3: It was not easy.
Speaker 1: Did you have a height requirement? Did you only date
Speaker 1: people taller than you?
Speaker 3: For the most part, there were a couple that slipped
Speaker 3: through the cracks. But it's yeah, I think this is
Speaker 3: gonna sound shallow, maybe controversial, whatever, but I agree Rachel, like,
Speaker 3: I don't think that I could date someone who's like
Speaker 3: shorter than me. My husband and I are same height
Speaker 3: when I'm not wearing heels, and let's be honest, I
Speaker 3: don't really wear heels that much of my thirties. I
Speaker 3: don't mind being taller than him when I'm out and
Speaker 3: wearing heels, but on the regular.
Speaker 4: I just don't know if I could do it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm five to one, so if someone's shorter than me,
Speaker 2: we have a problem.
Speaker 5: I also feel like there's a population of women who
Speaker 5: date athletes that I swear every single one of these
Speaker 5: women is between five feet tall and five to three
Speaker 5: and they are leaping heights ahead to the six eight six.
Speaker 4: ' nine guy, And I'm like, wow.
Speaker 5: Like just that's juxtaposition is just like wild to me.
Speaker 3: So many questions there, A lot of questions come to mind. Yes, absolutely,
Speaker 3: logistical questions. Mainly, yeah, it's good doctor on.
Speaker 2: It's time for another short break, but we'll be right
Speaker 2: back with Rachel Samples. And we're back with Rachel Samples.
Speaker 2: I'd love to chat through one last story with you guys.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Variety magazine, which is an entertainment industry stander, just put
Speaker 2: out a list of the one hundred greatest TV performances
Speaker 2: of the twenty first century. So before I reveal the
Speaker 2: top ones, do you have any guesses? What are your
Speaker 2: favorite TV characters from the past twenty five years.
Speaker 3: I already know this list is going to be upsetting,
Speaker 3: Like I'm going to be angry because these lists are
Speaker 3: always rage bait. Yeah, get yep, They're never accurate. I mean,
Speaker 3: for me, I would say the cast of Arrested Development
Speaker 3: has got to be on there. I would say Breaking
Speaker 3: Bad has got to be on there. I would say
Speaker 3: Sex and the City has got to be on there.
Speaker 5: Thinks Sopranos related on there for sure. Oh I would
Speaker 5: love to see up Parks and Rack there.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Michael Scott yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 1: Okay, guys, I have I have some bad news.
Speaker 2: Uh oh, there's not one character from the Sopranos on
Speaker 2: this list, which was probably the biggest surprise for me too.
Speaker 5: Wow, White Lotus is probably sneaking on there.
Speaker 1: That's a great point. White Lotus should definitely sneak on there.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna run through the list with you and tell
Speaker 1: me what you think.
Speaker 4: Are you gonna go ten to one?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: Sure, I'll do that? Yeah, yeah, Okay.
Speaker 2: Ten is Sandra Oh as doctor Christina Yang Gray's Anatomy Okay.
Speaker 2: Nine is ray Seahorn as Kim Wexler Better Call Saul.
Speaker 2: Eight is Andre Brower as Captain Raymond hold Brooklyn ninety nine.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Seven is Carrie Koon is Norah Durst The Leftovers. Six
Speaker 2: is Michael Kenneth Williams as Omar Little The Wire. That's
Speaker 2: a great one facts. Number five is Brian Cranston as
Speaker 2: Walter White Breaking Bad.
Speaker 3: He's got to be away, got to be way up
Speaker 3: higher than number five.
Speaker 2: Number four is Lisa Kudro as Valerie Cherish The Comeback.
Speaker 4: Amazing. I need to watch that. People talk about that
Speaker 4: all the time, Rachel, you would love it. I heard
Speaker 4: is amazing. It's hilarious. I'm happy with that placement.
Speaker 2: Then number three is Elizabeth Moss as Peggy Olsen on Madmen.
Speaker 2: Iconic character. Number two is Jeremy Strong as Kendall Roy succession.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'll take it. I'll accept it.
Speaker 1: And number one Julia Louis Dreyfus as Selena Meyer VI.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: John Hamm isn't on the list for Don Draper, which
Speaker 2: I thought was shocking. Also, no Sex in the City mentioned.
Speaker 4: No Kerrie Bradshaw.
Speaker 1: I mean, who made this list?
Speaker 4: This is wild? This wild? Yeah, I wonder how you really.
Speaker 5: I mean it's so subjective obviously, but like how are
Speaker 5: they judging that based off of like the the range
Speaker 5: of the character, how original it is. Things like that,
Speaker 5: Like Kendall Roy, I can understand because that was like
Speaker 5: a ride of performance with him. So many of those
Speaker 5: on that list.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there were some women, some strong female performances that
Speaker 2: got a shout out. Phoebe waller Bridge for Fleabag Jeans
Speaker 2: Smart as Deborah Vance for Hacks, which.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's one of my favorites.
Speaker 2: Yeah, America Ferrera as Betty Suarez, Ugly, Betty Kerrie Washington
Speaker 2: as Olivia Pope, Okay, we love that. Jen Garner is
Speaker 2: Sidney Bristow for Alias. Yeah, and then Alison Williams as
Speaker 2: Marnie for girls. I'm shocked that they chose Alison Williams.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, I think almost just had the same face
Speaker 5: on that we like really and.
Speaker 4: Elana Glazer made it on there too, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's your girl? Oh yeah broad City?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah.
Speaker 5: I gotta like revisit this list, maybe that like sparks
Speaker 5: some new shows, because I'm pretty much like White Lotus
Speaker 5: end up list.
Speaker 1: Are you watching season three?
Speaker 4: I am? I just started. Okay thoughts on the first episode.
Speaker 5: Coming into season three, it's gonna be hard without jen
Speaker 5: I'm a huge Abby Plaza fan. Those are Jennifer cool,
Speaker 5: which is a huge anger of that show, and like
Speaker 5: the comedy relief, but I think they're trying to find
Speaker 5: their lane comedic relief wise with the British girlfriend and
Speaker 5: like Australian woman who like works there, There's always got
Speaker 5: to be someone who like works there. I'm intrigued. I'm
Speaker 5: very intrigued, very uncomfortable by the Patrick Schwarzenegger sibling dynamic.
Speaker 5: But it's on purpose. It's meant to make you feel like,
Speaker 5: what the hell is going on?
Speaker 3: When that intro song dropped, I could just hear the
Speaker 3: collective disappointment around the world that we did not get
Speaker 3: our song.
Speaker 4: They changed the intro song. They changed the intro song.
Speaker 5: But the thing is, I feel like Mike White is
Speaker 5: gonna have some episode where there's some sort of clubbing
Speaker 5: party dance scene that that song will then pop off.
Speaker 4: I hope.
Speaker 2: So can I give you a fun fact that I
Speaker 2: just learned? Yes, So, Mike White, who's the creator of
Speaker 2: the show, was on Survivor, Okay, and he puts people
Speaker 2: from his Survivor cast in every season of White Lotus.
Speaker 2: You see them like eating, dining, like in these little moments.
Speaker 2: And I understanding that he was on Survivor made me
Speaker 2: really understand like the intricacies of the show more Like
Speaker 2: even the show open and the music.
Speaker 1: It's a very Survivor esque.
Speaker 2: So nobody's ever really done an interview where they ask
Speaker 2: him about his time on that show.
Speaker 5: He's one of those people, you know when you hear
Speaker 5: about influential figures from like the thirties, forties and fifties
Speaker 5: where they're like he was an actor and a mayor
Speaker 5: and a pilot and like all these things, and you're like,
Speaker 5: how on earth does someone have that range time, etc.
Speaker 5: And you're like, oh no, no, Mike White is that now
Speaker 5: he was on he was edgeable. He's a director, writer,
Speaker 5: beloved by everybody in such a home meat like truly
Speaker 5: all of Hollywood.
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, that's him.
Speaker 3: Yep, He's a legend completely. Rachel Samples, thank you so
Speaker 3: much for joining us today.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having me. This was great,
Speaker 4: really was Rachel.
Speaker 1: You're so fun.
Speaker 4: This is great. Always down to gab.
Speaker 2: Rachel Samples is a comedian and content creator. You can
Speaker 2: find her on social at Hey Free Samples.
Speaker 4: That's it for today show.
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Speaker 4: Including my fave chicken chips. We'll see you then.
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