1 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:05,519 Speaker 1: Hey, bright Side, Besties, Hello Sunshine. 2 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:09,039 Speaker 2: Today on the bright Side, comedian and actor Alana Glazer 3 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:12,479 Speaker 2: is here with us. We talk about her latest movie, Babes, 4 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:15,319 Speaker 2: where she gives us the real real on pregnancy in 5 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:19,280 Speaker 2: motherhood and we dive into how friendship changes with motherhood. 6 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:22,400 Speaker 2: It's Friday, May thirty. First, I'm Danielle Robe and. 7 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 3: I'm Simone Boyce and this is the bright Side from 8 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 3: Hello Sunshine. She's an award winning comedian, actor and producer 9 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:34,160 Speaker 3: and fun fact, a voice in the Lego Batman movie. 10 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 3: Today we're talking with Elana Glazer. Y'all major Danielle. Of course, 11 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:40,879 Speaker 3: we know her from Broad City, which she created with 12 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:43,760 Speaker 3: her real life bestie Abbi Jacobson. It's one of my 13 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 3: top five favorite shows, and to me, it's a show 14 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 3: that truly defines a generation. 15 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 2: You know, Alana and Abby's comedy and perspective was so fresh, 16 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 2: and it really captured the essence of trying to make 17 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 2: it in your twenties. 18 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 1: They were in New York, they were fumbling around. 19 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 2: Literally fumbling, yes, navigating the ups and downs, but at 20 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:05,320 Speaker 2: the heart of the show was their friendship. 21 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:08,959 Speaker 3: Their friendship and so many laughs. You know, on the 22 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:12,120 Speaker 3: bright side. We're always looking for ways to honor women 23 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 3: who when they're told they don't have a seat at 24 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:17,800 Speaker 3: the table, they just decide to build their own table 25 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 3: and thinking of women like Courtney Quinn, Jacquelinn Novac and 26 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 3: Alana Glazer is one of those women for me, and 27 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:28,120 Speaker 3: I'll tell you why. So the story of how Broad 28 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:31,120 Speaker 3: City came to be is so inspiring to me, and 29 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 3: I'm not sure a lot of people know the details. 30 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 3: So Alana and Abby they met when they were taking 31 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 3: improv together at UCB, which is Upright Citizens Brigade in 32 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 3: New York, a comedy school, and they hit a wall 33 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 3: when they couldn't get onto this improv team that they 34 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 3: were trying to get onto. So they just decided, we 35 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 3: are going to create a web series together. We are 36 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 3: going to build our own table. And they got really 37 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 3: serious about the business of sketch comedy and then from there, 38 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 3: the web series caught the attention of Amy Pohl, who 39 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:04,160 Speaker 3: appeared in an episode, and it got onto Comedy Central. 40 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 3: I mean, the rest is history. 41 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 2: I think what drew people, particularly women to Broad City 42 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 2: was that they were real and there is a lot 43 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 2: of sort of like fancy or false depictions of what 44 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 2: it means to be a woman or a twenty something 45 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 2: year old woman on television, and Broad City got real 46 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:24,799 Speaker 2: for a young generation. 47 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:29,399 Speaker 3: I remember watching that show and just finding it so relatable. 48 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 3: They would always find the absurdity in the mundane in 49 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 3: living that life in New York City, like living that 50 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 3: grind when you're in your twenties, and as someone who 51 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 3: is also grinding away in New York City in my twenties, 52 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 3: it felt like Broad City gave women permission to be 53 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 3: messy in pursuit of their dreams and to be goofy 54 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 3: and to be silly and to just be real. 55 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 2: That's what Alana does with all of her work because 56 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 2: now she's in a different phase of life. 57 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 1: She's married, she's the mother of a two year old. 58 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:01,079 Speaker 1: She's still living in New York, but in the. 59 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 2: Last few years she's had a ton of life changes 60 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:08,639 Speaker 2: and her goal is still to depict events in women's 61 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 2: lives in a real way. And in line with that mission, 62 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 2: she's out with a new movie that she co wrote 63 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 2: and stars in, and it's still about friendship. It's called Babes, 64 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 2: and it follows two best friends, Eden and Don, played 65 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 2: by Alana and her real life friend Michelle Buteaux, who 66 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:30,360 Speaker 2: was absolutely hilarious, and together they're navigating pregnancy and motherhood 67 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 2: and friendship. And there's this moment when Alana's character Eden 68 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 2: tells Don that she's pregnant from a one night stand. 69 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 4: Okay, I'm having a baby. 70 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 5: Okay, yes, dog, Yeah, it just feels like Destiny and 71 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 5: this is Destiny's child. 72 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 4: Can you believe that? Did you hear that? Destiny's child? 73 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 3: Oh? 74 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 5: Jumpin, jumpin' whoa, Okay, it's on Eden. 75 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 4: Are you sure about this? 76 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 3: That scene had to have been improvised. There's no way 77 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 3: that was all written down right. 78 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 1: Destiny's Child. I feel like it was improvides had to 79 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 1: have been. It's so good. 80 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 3: I could watch her do anything. Oh, she's such a riot. 81 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 3: I'm so excited to ask her about this next era 82 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 3: that she's in. And she's offering us another hilarious perspective 83 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:24,840 Speaker 3: on adulting, just a different phase. 84 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:27,839 Speaker 2: Yes, totally, And I mean this film has been generating 85 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:31,280 Speaker 2: a lot of buzz and some really really bold headlines. 86 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:37,559 Speaker 2: Major publications have called this movie gross and raunchy, which 87 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:40,479 Speaker 2: I even shudder to say, because what it's really doing 88 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 2: is depicting real pregnancy. But I'm very curious to see 89 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 2: what Alana thinks about that. I'm going to ask her. 90 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 2: After the break, Alana joins us to talk about her 91 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,599 Speaker 2: new movie, her stand up tour, and a whole lot more. 92 00:04:54,760 --> 00:05:08,159 Speaker 3: We'll be right back. We're back, y'all, and we're here 93 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 3: with the Elana Glazer to talk about all things motherhood, friendship, pregnancy, 94 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 3: and of course, her new movie, Babes. Alana, it gives 95 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 3: me great joy to say this. Welcome to the bright Side. Hello. 96 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:23,479 Speaker 4: Thank you for having me, Danielle Simon. I appreciate it 97 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:23,920 Speaker 4: so much. 98 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 1: You're such a babe. 99 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:26,719 Speaker 4: Thank you, babe. 100 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 1: There's so much doing, there's. 101 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 4: A lot doing. 102 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:34,599 Speaker 3: Let's get into Babes. Okay, first of all, as a woman, 103 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 3: as a mother, thank you for making a movie by 104 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 3: about and for real ass women. I felt so seen 105 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:43,279 Speaker 3: throughout this movie. And I also laughed so much, and 106 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:46,159 Speaker 3: I cried, went through the full range of emotions. But 107 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 3: this was so fascinating to me. You wrote Babes while 108 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 3: you were pregnant, and then you started filming it when 109 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 3: your daughter was one year old. So talk about discovering yourself, 110 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 3: I mean, stepping into this whole new identity between the 111 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:00,599 Speaker 3: time when you wrote it and then started filming. Did 112 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 3: you wind up changing anything once you got to set? 113 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 3: I mean, how did that newfound perspective influence the final product? 114 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 5: Thank you for picking up what we were putting down. 115 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 5: I really appreciate it. It is spiritual for me to 116 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 5: make stories and characters that feel real for people. 117 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:27,040 Speaker 4: I really appreciate it. Thank you. 118 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 5: I'm going to just give the little log line. Babes' 119 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 5: is an outrageous comedy with a lot of heart about 120 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,360 Speaker 5: two women, lifelong friends who are in different places in 121 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 5: their lives. Don played by Michel Buteu, has a husband 122 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:42,280 Speaker 5: played by Hassaman Hajj and two kiddos, and she just 123 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 5: has her second kid when the movie starts. And my 124 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 5: character Eden is a free spirit, spontaneous character who gets 125 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 5: pregnant by one night sand and decides to keep the baby, 126 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:54,040 Speaker 5: and it tests their lifelong best friendship. 127 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 2: This is like me and Simone, really no, but it's 128 00:06:58,839 --> 00:06:59,599 Speaker 2: something I would do. 129 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 1: And she has two kids and she's married. 130 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 4: Yes, oh my gosh, oh my gosh. And Daniel, you're no. 131 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 2: Kiddos, no no kids yet, but hopefully one day. 132 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 3: Okay. 133 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 2: It is. 134 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 4: I mean, it is like, you guys, that is so cut. 135 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 5: Yeah, that's so cute, and so yes. I started writing 136 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 5: this when I was pregnant. I wrote with Joshubinowitz and 137 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 5: his wife was pregnant at the same time, and we 138 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 5: were approached by our manager who we share Susie Fox. 139 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 4: We've been with her for. 140 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 5: A long time and she had this flash of a 141 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 5: vision in the shower of me getting knocked up. And 142 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 5: my best friend has two kids already, so Susie at 143 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 5: the time had a one in three year old. She's 144 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 5: in the trenches of parenting, like what have I done? 145 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:36,440 Speaker 2: Lol? 146 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 4: And Josh and I are like, well, we're pregnant. 147 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 5: We're so naive, Like my character even is at the beginning, 148 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 5: we're like thrilled, you know, and you just don't know 149 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 5: how hard it is and how deep you have to reach, 150 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 5: and that you have to dig deeper so that you 151 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 5: can reach deeper. 152 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 4: My daughter's a month shy of three, and it's just like, 153 00:07:58,280 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 4: what a ride we're in for. 154 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 5: So Susie tells us this idea. We're both pregnant, and 155 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:05,720 Speaker 5: we're like, this is hysterical. And we've put together a 156 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 5: list of the funniest, most surprising things that were happening, 157 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 5: the like spontaneous sort of animalistic horniness of being pregnant. 158 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 3: Oh my god, that is so real. Never heard about 159 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:17,640 Speaker 3: it either. 160 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 4: We had all these funny things hilarious. But the thing 161 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 4: that kept pulling us. 162 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 5: Through a full movie to what am I going to 163 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:26,000 Speaker 5: watch a whole ass movie for? 164 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 4: Is how friendships change. 165 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 5: And how uncertain it is and how scary it is, 166 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:34,440 Speaker 5: and how that loss is for real and never going back, 167 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:37,839 Speaker 5: you know, maybe when your kids leave eventually in twenty years, 168 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 5: but like it's real loss, you know, And it was 169 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:41,080 Speaker 5: pulling us through. 170 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 2: I have a question about that because I've seen my 171 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:47,760 Speaker 2: friendships change so much. As I don't have children, and 172 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 2: my friends do. Some of them are on their second 173 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:54,719 Speaker 2: third child. You mentioned Eden and Don are sort of 174 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 2: navigating this new friendship moment in their lives. 175 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 5: Was it autobiograph for you? I was definitely pulling from 176 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 5: real stuff, like your friendship's changed. 177 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 3: Yes. 178 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 5: And I grew up on Long Island and I live 179 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:10,720 Speaker 5: in Brooklyn, so I have a lot of my oldest 180 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:14,679 Speaker 5: friends around, and two of my oldest best friends have kids, 181 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:17,960 Speaker 5: and definitely see my friendships change and you know, I 182 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 5: continue to be surprised. 183 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:20,559 Speaker 4: At how they're still changing. 184 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 5: I think with a baby, there's so much newness for everyone, 185 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:25,720 Speaker 5: and it's so much newness for me that I'm not 186 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 5: sensing all that loss that is happening. But yeah, and 187 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 5: it's upsetting, and it's what growing up is like. So 188 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:36,800 Speaker 5: much of growing up is about accepting loss. Both when 189 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:38,760 Speaker 5: you're a teenager and you're like, damn, I'm not a 190 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:41,440 Speaker 5: kid anymore, and you're in college and you're like, wow, 191 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 5: high school was actually safer and more sheltered than I realized. 192 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 4: And then out of. 193 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 5: College the free world or the unfree, you know, and 194 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:53,720 Speaker 5: you're like, wow, college was a structure I was inside of, 195 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 5: you know, And like having babies, it's like new and exciting. 196 00:09:57,160 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 5: But then there's this settling in and my kids three now, 197 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:02,040 Speaker 5: and I'm like like, wow, these these things are changing. 198 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:06,000 Speaker 5: And your values are so embodied parenting values that are 199 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 5: much less visible when there's not a kid, But when 200 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:11,319 Speaker 5: you're parenting and you're seeing your friend's parent, you're like, 201 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:16,320 Speaker 5: we do it differently, being okay with that difference and 202 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:20,040 Speaker 5: not judging myself. It's still hard and getting hard in 203 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 5: a new way. 204 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:24,079 Speaker 2: Most of the pregnancy that I've seen on screen are 205 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 2: the birthing moments is really about one woman screaming for 206 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 2: one or two minutes, and then all of a sudden 207 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 2: you see a baby come out. And you really don't 208 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 2: see pregnancy through women's eyes very often on screen. You 209 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 2: did this totally differently in Babes. Here are some of 210 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 2: the headlines from the critics. The Washington Post says Babes 211 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 2: gives moms their own gross out comedy, and pr says 212 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 2: Babes gives us a funny parenthesis and gross portrait of parenthood, 213 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:57,440 Speaker 2: and Vulture says Babes revels in the grossness of pregnancy. 214 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:02,160 Speaker 2: How do you feel when people label a real depiction 215 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 2: of pregnancy gross complicated? 216 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:10,920 Speaker 5: I feel different things at once about it. So my 217 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 5: first reaction is defensive, where I'm like, oh, you think 218 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:16,840 Speaker 5: it's gross. The way that you got here from the stars, 219 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:21,120 Speaker 5: you think it's gross. The way that your mother made 220 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:25,959 Speaker 5: you out of almost nothing, that's gross. Maybe you need 221 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 5: to check yourself and think about how under exposed you 222 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:32,439 Speaker 5: are to reality, to the reality of who you are 223 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:33,440 Speaker 5: and where you come from. 224 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,719 Speaker 4: So I'm pissed. Okay, Remember, like. 225 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:40,520 Speaker 5: The phrase vadge and puss were like a thing when 226 00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 5: we were teenagers. Yes, it has taken me decades to 227 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 5: unlearn the violent culture around my body, where if it 228 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:53,640 Speaker 5: wasn't being manipulated and I was owning it, I was gross. 229 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 4: So I get angry because I find it violent. 230 00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:58,840 Speaker 2: I have to tell you really quickly, it took me 231 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:02,440 Speaker 2: dating a man from a totally different culture to use 232 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:06,720 Speaker 2: words that I appreciated about my vagina, like we do 233 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 2: it so wrong in America. 234 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 3: I also have to say, Alana, when I see these 235 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:14,200 Speaker 3: reactions in people calling some of the scenes in Babes gross, 236 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, really, you think that's gross, Wait until 237 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 3: you see what motherhood is actually like. There's just such 238 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 3: a detachment from reality, Like this isn't gross, this is 239 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 3: my life. 240 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 5: And Danielle, props to that man, and props to like 241 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 5: all the partners. It's hard to be a woman in 242 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:35,000 Speaker 5: this world, and it's hard to find yourself so hot 243 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 5: and sexy and gorgeous and pretty, and becoming parent has 244 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 5: really helped me in that process. And I'm also like, Okay, 245 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 5: you may say it's gross privately, but you published that 246 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:50,480 Speaker 5: in the headline. You don't realize how violent and ignorant 247 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 5: it is. However, however, that is a defensive reaction. On 248 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:58,680 Speaker 5: the other hand, it is grotesque. If I can just 249 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:01,080 Speaker 5: hold the reality of the way things are, I can 250 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 5: imagine how it's shocking and gross to people, And I'm like, 251 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:07,360 Speaker 5: and that's okay. And I think it's also people trying 252 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 5: to find the words for something they've never seen before. Yeah. 253 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:14,320 Speaker 2: I also think that great art and artists really focus 254 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:18,920 Speaker 2: our attention. And you're doing that because they're writing headlines 255 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 2: they've never written before. 256 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:21,560 Speaker 1: It means that they're seeing something new. 257 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:22,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, you're innovating. 258 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:23,200 Speaker 4: Thank you. 259 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:27,440 Speaker 2: So you mentioned earlier about like missing days past, the 260 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:30,400 Speaker 2: nostalgia for high school, for college, et cetera. 261 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 1: I'm thirty three. 262 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:35,240 Speaker 2: I've recently been very nostalgic for my twenties. I feel 263 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 2: like I did them wrong. I should have been a 264 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 2: bad girl. Then now I'm being a bad girl. 265 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:41,760 Speaker 1: I just I did it wrong. 266 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 2: But Broad City really ushered in this cultural shift, showing 267 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,760 Speaker 2: women in their twenties that they could be messy and 268 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:52,360 Speaker 2: immature and totally weird in the very best way. And 269 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:56,080 Speaker 2: with Babes, you're exploring this next decade in your thirties. 270 00:13:56,559 --> 00:13:58,920 Speaker 2: What words are defining your thirties so far? 271 00:13:59,480 --> 00:13:59,959 Speaker 4: Let me just. 272 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 5: First say I'm giggling because I totally relate. I like 273 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:05,240 Speaker 5: knew I wanted to be a comedian when I was 274 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 5: like seven years old. 275 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:09,960 Speaker 4: I came to the city in college student. 276 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:12,840 Speaker 5: Drag but knowing I was going to pursue comedy and 277 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 5: my twenties. I'm I love Broad City. I just love 278 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:18,560 Speaker 5: it to death that these are my five children, these 279 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:23,560 Speaker 5: five seasons. But I'm manufacturing free wheel and twenties fun 280 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:28,880 Speaker 5: while I'm Shane smoking cigarettes anxiously show running and executive 281 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 5: producing and head writing all with Abby and then getting 282 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 5: to set and being like I wrote this for me 283 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 5: to do miss humiliating it. So I relate to you 284 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 5: about my own mourning of my teenage years and twenties, 285 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 5: which I now know you can't skip over grieving that loss. 286 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:56,080 Speaker 5: You actually have to just mourn it and sit with it. 287 00:14:56,680 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 5: And I'm being a bad girl now also, I'm like, oh, 288 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 5: oh my gosh, lol. And to be a bad girl 289 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 5: on a solid foundation, you know, it actually just looks 290 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 5: like taking pleasure, you know, it looks like true taking pleasure, 291 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:12,920 Speaker 5: And it's I started Broad City the websteries when I 292 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:15,000 Speaker 5: was twenty two, finished broad City, the TV show when 293 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 5: I was thirty two. 294 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:17,840 Speaker 4: So it had just been this. 295 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 5: Thing growing and growing and growing to a more serious 296 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 5: and higher stakes contexts. And I met my husband I 297 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 5: was twenty five, which was very lucky. He is such 298 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 5: a rooting figure. He roots me and grounds me. But 299 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 5: still my acting out was so like reckless and not 300 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:36,640 Speaker 5: even pleasurable, and almost like checking a box if I 301 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:40,360 Speaker 5: did the bad thing rather than now like drinking it in. 302 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 5: So I would say my thirties are increasingly pleasurable. 303 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 4: I would say they are healthy. I would say. 304 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 5: I'm taking great care with this decade, taking great care 305 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 5: and just making so much love. 306 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:00,640 Speaker 1: We're going to take a quick break, but we'll be 307 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:02,760 Speaker 1: right back with more. Alana Glazer. 308 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 3: We are back with comedian and actor Alana Glazer. Alana, 309 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 3: you mentioned you've known what you wanted to do since 310 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 3: you were seven years old, and I have delighted in 311 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 3: these videos that your brother Elliot has posted of the 312 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 3: two of you making sketches together on VHS tapes when 313 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 3: you were kids. You were babies. How old were you 314 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:32,720 Speaker 3: three or four? 315 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 4: We started? 316 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 5: I was like three or four and then he started 317 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:38,520 Speaker 5: going through puberty and was over it when he was 318 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:42,360 Speaker 5: like thirteen about and I was lool, how much is 319 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:44,840 Speaker 5: that nine? So we have like five or six years 320 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 5: of just increasingly obsessive sketch video making and he just 321 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 5: put me on. 322 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 4: Man. 323 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:54,120 Speaker 5: I was really his muse and his plaything that I 324 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:56,680 Speaker 5: was so delighted that he wanted to play with me, 325 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:00,480 Speaker 5: Like those videos are so cute. And my brother Elliott 326 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:02,520 Speaker 5: is wild, but he's put together and I'm down to 327 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 5: do whatever. 328 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:06,919 Speaker 3: Well, It's incredible to see your charisma at such a 329 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:10,159 Speaker 3: young age. You were destined for this life and you 330 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:12,080 Speaker 3: just had to share that charisma with the world. 331 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:14,400 Speaker 1: She has the RIZ totally. 332 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 3: A few minutes ago, you talked about being healthy right now, 333 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:20,600 Speaker 3: and I think healthy for me looks like being integrated 334 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 3: and integrating all the parts of myself. Yes, And I 335 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:25,919 Speaker 3: want to know when do you feel most connected to 336 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:27,880 Speaker 3: that little girl who's in those videos? 337 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 4: Oh I got chills. 338 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 5: Thank you for your kindness and generosity. I'm also reflecting 339 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:39,840 Speaker 5: on that RIZ as a desperate thirst, a deep seemingly 340 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:43,600 Speaker 5: insatiable need for approval, validation, intention that are reflecting on 341 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 5: relatable and also like trying to balance it with rest, privacy, offlineeness, whatever. 342 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:53,280 Speaker 5: That's what health looks like to me, balancing that so 343 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:56,680 Speaker 5: that when I'm doing that thing, it actually feels healthy 344 00:17:56,720 --> 00:17:59,359 Speaker 5: and uplifting and not empty and like I'm digging in 345 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:02,159 Speaker 5: deeper hole or something I think of. Like actually, my 346 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:04,919 Speaker 5: name Alana in Hebrew means tree, and like the Torah, 347 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 5: you know, our scroll is like the tree of life. 348 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:10,760 Speaker 4: And I think of us as like tree rings, you know, like. 349 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:14,439 Speaker 5: Each age each year, like we're built upon those younger 350 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 5: people inside of us and we can tap into that person. 351 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 5: And recently I was on tour. I did fifty two 352 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:21,919 Speaker 5: shows from June to May. This is part of my 353 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:25,160 Speaker 5: taking pleasure, spreading it out as a mom, only being 354 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:27,920 Speaker 5: away two nights a week and then taking the third 355 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:28,760 Speaker 5: week off. 356 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:31,000 Speaker 4: But in February we went the whole family. 357 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:33,720 Speaker 5: We went to LA and posted up there so I 358 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 5: could pop to all my West Coast dates in a 359 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:40,639 Speaker 5: more consolidated fashion. And the LA show I was having 360 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:43,880 Speaker 5: like buyers Tom, hoping that somebody would want this hour 361 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:47,639 Speaker 5: and that day. I've had such a practice where I 362 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:49,879 Speaker 5: talk to myself for hours and take a walk and 363 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:52,359 Speaker 5: talk out loud so that I have one thought stream 364 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 5: instead of my brain pop it around going nuts. So 365 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:57,520 Speaker 5: I talked to myself for like five hours before every show, 366 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 5: and on this day in LA, I was like, I'm 367 00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:04,680 Speaker 5: not feeling nervous. This energy is excited, and the excitement 368 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 5: I can manage. I know I have space in my 369 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:08,320 Speaker 5: body for these feelings. 370 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 4: This is crazy. I'm not nervous. And it reminded me 371 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 4: of I was Maria in. 372 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:15,800 Speaker 5: Westside Story in my Camp, my camp production when I 373 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:18,399 Speaker 5: was eight years old, and I was so nervous. The 374 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:21,480 Speaker 5: night before I was so fucking nervous, and I know myself, 375 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:24,000 Speaker 5: I know the pressure where it's like, you know, it's 376 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:26,520 Speaker 5: almost like I'm standing before God, either going to go 377 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:27,240 Speaker 5: to heaven or hell. 378 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:30,159 Speaker 4: That's what that pressure feels like in my mind, and 379 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 4: did when I was eight. 380 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:33,360 Speaker 5: Years old, because I literally knew I want to do this, 381 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 5: and I go to my dad and I wake my 382 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:40,760 Speaker 5: dad up and I was like, oh Dad. 383 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:41,359 Speaker 4: I'm aham a little nervous. 384 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 5: I was like convulsing, shaking, so nervous. And the day 385 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:52,000 Speaker 5: of the performance, I got it a huge fever and 386 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:56,199 Speaker 5: I'm like poorly nervously singing, so scared I was like 387 00:19:56,320 --> 00:20:00,920 Speaker 5: so funny, just like poor thing, just a poor little thing. 388 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:04,000 Speaker 5: And I was like talking to her where I was like, see, 389 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 5: like you always knew that this was what you were 390 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:09,880 Speaker 5: supposed to do, but like you couldn't handle it then, and. 391 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:11,879 Speaker 4: You figured out how to handle it. 392 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:16,040 Speaker 5: And here we are having a peaceful day walking, you know, 393 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:19,439 Speaker 5: talking to myself. You know, there's all these moments like it, 394 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:22,080 Speaker 5: but that was my most like prominent recently, like holding 395 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:23,520 Speaker 5: her hand and just taking a walk. 396 00:20:24,119 --> 00:20:24,639 Speaker 3: Wow. 397 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:28,120 Speaker 2: I still get nervous sometimes before big things. And when 398 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:30,679 Speaker 2: I was little, a dance teacher said, nerves mean that 399 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:33,399 Speaker 2: you care. And when I make that switch, I just 400 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 2: I hold on to them. I kind of like the nerves. 401 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:39,280 Speaker 4: Then I get nervous before everything I do. 402 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:41,280 Speaker 1: Oh see that makes me feel better. 403 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:42,960 Speaker 4: I have to talk to myself before everything. 404 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:46,399 Speaker 5: I'll just be trying out new material for fifteen people 405 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:48,240 Speaker 5: in Brooklyn and I'm like, whoo, here we go. 406 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:50,720 Speaker 4: You know, it's like you just gotta I've been doing 407 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:51,440 Speaker 4: this like practice. 408 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:53,719 Speaker 5: I call stack it up, where I'm just stacking up 409 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:57,160 Speaker 5: the reality where I'm like I'm nervous. That makes sense 410 00:20:57,320 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 5: because I care, you know, and I just stack up 411 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 5: the reality and then like, I do need time, you know, 412 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:06,119 Speaker 5: I do need time for this work, but it's worth 413 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:07,399 Speaker 5: making that time. 414 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 3: So there's the Marvel cinematic universe, right, and then there's 415 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:15,320 Speaker 3: the Alana Glazer cinematic universe. Because Babes almost seems like 416 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:17,680 Speaker 3: a sequel to the adulting journey that we all went 417 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:21,240 Speaker 3: on in Broad City. So does that mean we're getting 418 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:25,840 Speaker 3: a perimenopause comedy next? Maybe a menopause comedy after that? 419 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:28,960 Speaker 5: Thank you again for picking up what I'm putting down. 420 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:33,040 Speaker 5: I am so grateful and like, thank God. To be 421 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:36,840 Speaker 5: seen and heard as I hope is like such a privilege. 422 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:40,920 Speaker 5: Thanks for saying that. You know, I'm developing a show 423 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,199 Speaker 5: right now. It's not quite where it needs to be, 424 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:45,399 Speaker 5: but I'm developing a show right now about a different 425 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:49,200 Speaker 5: kind of friend group in our thirties in New York. 426 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:52,120 Speaker 3: Oh please, we need more of these shows. 427 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:53,000 Speaker 4: I agree. 428 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 5: I agree, just needs the time that it needs to 429 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 5: get it right. Yeah, and I would say perimenopause. I'm 430 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:01,880 Speaker 5: a little too young for it because I haven't gone 431 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 5: through it yet. But I'm really interested in friends as 432 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:11,680 Speaker 5: partners and partners as friends, you know, like the way 433 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:16,440 Speaker 5: that Michelle and I play friends, but like chosen family 434 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:19,119 Speaker 5: and soul sisters who are going to raise their kids together. 435 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:22,000 Speaker 5: You know, my character in Babes is just at the 436 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:23,960 Speaker 5: beginning of that journey. I'd like to go deeper into 437 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:28,720 Speaker 5: that journey. So I think I want to explore primary partnerships, 438 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:32,240 Speaker 5: whatever that means for someone marriage or whatever, primary partnerships 439 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:36,119 Speaker 5: more and still friendships. You know, I think the nature 440 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:39,199 Speaker 5: of friendships is changing. We used to have to like 441 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 5: put our eggs in one basket with one person who 442 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:46,720 Speaker 5: had to be everything. And people are so both free 443 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:49,879 Speaker 5: and not free, you know, in ways. And it's so 444 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,840 Speaker 5: interesting to see how younger people too are relying on 445 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 5: their friendships longer because they can't buy a damn home 446 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,680 Speaker 5: and they don't have any damn health insurance. 447 00:22:58,680 --> 00:22:59,400 Speaker 4: They have to get a job. 448 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:03,320 Speaker 5: So like, I think there's still some exploration for me 449 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:06,920 Speaker 5: in the child raising space, in a partnership space, and 450 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:11,159 Speaker 5: so with friends before carry menopause, which I'm that'll be funny, 451 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:11,879 Speaker 5: that'll be a funny one. 452 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, just keep it in your back pocket, Yeah for sure. 453 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:15,480 Speaker 4: Oh my gosh. 454 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 3: Yes, we talk about friendships so much on this show. 455 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:22,959 Speaker 3: Multiple episodes just unpacking friends are codependency on them? What 456 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 3: they mean to us? 457 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:24,679 Speaker 4: Yes? 458 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:27,400 Speaker 5: And you know what's like interesting to me is dependency. 459 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:31,280 Speaker 5: When is it healthy to depend on someone? And perhaps 460 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:35,560 Speaker 5: a vulnerable act and an act that like you grow through. 461 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:37,760 Speaker 4: Rather than like something that's enabling and coddling. 462 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 3: So there's this scene in Broad City where you're sitting 463 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:43,880 Speaker 3: outside of a pizza shop and Abby asks you these 464 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 3: two questions that I just love. So we're going to 465 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:48,480 Speaker 3: flip them on you. What have you done this past 466 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,200 Speaker 3: year that you're proud of? And what are you gonna 467 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:52,440 Speaker 3: do this upcoming year? 468 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:55,880 Speaker 5: Abby still asks me that on my birthday we got 469 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 5: it from he does, and you know what one thing 470 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,639 Speaker 5: I've I've done this past year that I'm proud of 471 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:06,920 Speaker 5: is taken the most pleasure in touring continues to shock me. 472 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:11,560 Speaker 5: I'm still processing it. Something I hope to do in 473 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 5: this next year, in this next year, starting at this moment, 474 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 5: is ooh, can I do it? 475 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:20,919 Speaker 4: Take August off? Can I do that? I hope to 476 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,720 Speaker 4: do that. I'll definitely do two weeks. 477 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 5: But if I can do four weeks, I think I 478 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,200 Speaker 5: think I'll be a new damn woman come September. Come 479 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:29,920 Speaker 5: the day after Labor Day. Oh, thank you for making 480 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:32,080 Speaker 5: me say it out loud, because I really want to 481 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:34,320 Speaker 5: do it in August. I'm going to do it, so 482 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:35,520 Speaker 5: Moan and Danielle, I'm going to do it. 483 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:38,440 Speaker 2: I need to know what you're going to do during 484 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 2: that time. Are you getting on an airplane and going 485 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 2: to a visa? 486 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:41,800 Speaker 4: No, you know what. 487 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:45,960 Speaker 5: We're going up to the countryside for August. And it's like, yeah, 488 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:49,639 Speaker 5: I could check my email or I could not and 489 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:53,560 Speaker 5: just wait until September and do all my emails. Yeah, yeah, 490 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:56,080 Speaker 5: that's what I aim to do. Oh just another tip 491 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,400 Speaker 5: about like caring about your nerves. One phrase I found 492 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:03,199 Speaker 5: in my preparation practice before my shows on tour was 493 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:07,399 Speaker 5: I aim to take pleasure rather than be like, how fun, 494 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:10,440 Speaker 5: my stupid bitch, how fun? Why aren't you having fun 495 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:14,560 Speaker 5: a dumb bitch. It's like, I aim to take pleasure 496 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,320 Speaker 5: and whatever happens, I accept what happens because I'm not 497 00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:21,240 Speaker 5: gonna necessarily take pleasure in every single moment I aim. 498 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:24,360 Speaker 5: So I aim to take off all of August. 499 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:28,600 Speaker 2: I love that tip so much. Alana, you are so 500 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,440 Speaker 2: much fun. Thank you for this interview. Thanks for being 501 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:32,160 Speaker 2: so candid. 502 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:34,880 Speaker 4: I could talk on and on and on. I hope 503 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 4: to see you again. 504 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:38,359 Speaker 1: The mic is open for you any time time. Thank 505 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:38,680 Speaker 1: you for. 506 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:44,359 Speaker 3: This September one after your August hiatus. Just come on back, rested, restored. 507 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:46,119 Speaker 4: I may be careful what you wish for. 508 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:47,959 Speaker 1: Please, I love it. Thanks Alana. 509 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:52,080 Speaker 3: Alana Glazer is a comedian, actor, and activist. Her new 510 00:25:52,119 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 3: movie Babes is in theaters. Now, that's it for today's show. 511 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:04,439 Speaker 3: On Monday, we're talking to stylist and nonprofit founder Carla 512 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:08,119 Speaker 3: Welch about her mission to provide sustainable period care for all. 513 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:12,119 Speaker 2: Listen and follow The bright Side on the iHeartRadio app, 514 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:16,680 Speaker 2: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The bright 515 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:20,160 Speaker 2: Side is a production of Hello Sunshine and iHeart Podcasts 516 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,159 Speaker 2: and is executive produced by Reese Witherspoon. 517 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 3: Production by Arcana Audio. Courtney Gilbert is our associate producer. 518 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:30,199 Speaker 3: Our producers are Steph Brown, Jessica Wank, and Olivia Briley. 519 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 3: Our engineer is PJ. Shahamatt, and our senior producers are 520 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:38,400 Speaker 3: Izi Kein, Pania Jenis Yamocha, and Amy Padula. 521 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:43,040 Speaker 2: Arcana's executive producers are Francis Harlowe and Abby Ruska. Arcana's 522 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:44,720 Speaker 2: head of production is Matt Schultz. 523 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:48,600 Speaker 3: Natalie Tulluk and Maureen Polo are the executive producers for 524 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:49,640 Speaker 3: Hello Sunshine. 525 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,119 Speaker 2: Julia Weaver is the supervising producer, and Ali Perry is 526 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:57,800 Speaker 2: the executive producer for iHeart Podcasts. Tim Palazzola is our showrunner. 527 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:01,639 Speaker 2: This week's episodes were recorded by Gam Gibson, Carl Catl, 528 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 2: Jessica Crinchitch, Bahied Fraser. 529 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,919 Speaker 3: Our theme song is by Anna Stump and Hamilton lighthauser. 530 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,560 Speaker 2: Special thanks to Connell Byrne and Will Pearson. 531 00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:14,640 Speaker 3: I'm Simone Boyce. You can find me at Simone Boice 532 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:16,680 Speaker 3: on Instagram and TikTok. 533 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,840 Speaker 2: And I'm Danielle Robe on Instagram and TikTok. That's r 534 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:20,639 Speaker 2: O b A. 535 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 3: Y See you Monday, fam. Keep looking on the bright side.