Speaker 1: Hey, bright Side, Besties, Hello Sunshine.
Speaker 2: Today on the bright Side, comedian and actor Alana Glazer
Speaker 2: is here with us. We talk about her latest movie, Babes,
Speaker 2: where she gives us the real real on pregnancy in
Speaker 2: motherhood and we dive into how friendship changes with motherhood.
Speaker 2: It's Friday, May thirty. First, I'm Danielle Robe and.
Speaker 3: I'm Simone Boyce and this is the bright Side from
Speaker 3: Hello Sunshine. She's an award winning comedian, actor and producer
Speaker 3: and fun fact, a voice in the Lego Batman movie.
Speaker 3: Today we're talking with Elana Glazer. Y'all major Danielle. Of course,
Speaker 3: we know her from Broad City, which she created with
Speaker 3: her real life bestie Abbi Jacobson. It's one of my
Speaker 3: top five favorite shows, and to me, it's a show
Speaker 3: that truly defines a generation.
Speaker 2: You know, Alana and Abby's comedy and perspective was so fresh,
Speaker 2: and it really captured the essence of trying to make
Speaker 2: it in your twenties.
Speaker 1: They were in New York, they were fumbling around.
Speaker 2: Literally fumbling, yes, navigating the ups and downs, but at
Speaker 2: the heart of the show was their friendship.
Speaker 3: Their friendship and so many laughs. You know, on the
Speaker 3: bright side. We're always looking for ways to honor women
Speaker 3: who when they're told they don't have a seat at
Speaker 3: the table, they just decide to build their own table
Speaker 3: and thinking of women like Courtney Quinn, Jacquelinn Novac and
Speaker 3: Alana Glazer is one of those women for me, and
Speaker 3: I'll tell you why. So the story of how Broad
Speaker 3: City came to be is so inspiring to me, and
Speaker 3: I'm not sure a lot of people know the details.
Speaker 3: So Alana and Abby they met when they were taking
Speaker 3: improv together at UCB, which is Upright Citizens Brigade in
Speaker 3: New York, a comedy school, and they hit a wall
Speaker 3: when they couldn't get onto this improv team that they
Speaker 3: were trying to get onto. So they just decided, we
Speaker 3: are going to create a web series together. We are
Speaker 3: going to build our own table. And they got really
Speaker 3: serious about the business of sketch comedy and then from there,
Speaker 3: the web series caught the attention of Amy Pohl, who
Speaker 3: appeared in an episode, and it got onto Comedy Central.
Speaker 3: I mean, the rest is history.
Speaker 2: I think what drew people, particularly women to Broad City
Speaker 2: was that they were real and there is a lot
Speaker 2: of sort of like fancy or false depictions of what
Speaker 2: it means to be a woman or a twenty something
Speaker 2: year old woman on television, and Broad City got real
Speaker 2: for a young generation.
Speaker 3: I remember watching that show and just finding it so relatable.
Speaker 3: They would always find the absurdity in the mundane in
Speaker 3: living that life in New York City, like living that
Speaker 3: grind when you're in your twenties, and as someone who
Speaker 3: is also grinding away in New York City in my twenties,
Speaker 3: it felt like Broad City gave women permission to be
Speaker 3: messy in pursuit of their dreams and to be goofy
Speaker 3: and to be silly and to just be real.
Speaker 2: That's what Alana does with all of her work because
Speaker 2: now she's in a different phase of life.
Speaker 1: She's married, she's the mother of a two year old.
Speaker 1: She's still living in New York, but in the.
Speaker 2: Last few years she's had a ton of life changes
Speaker 2: and her goal is still to depict events in women's
Speaker 2: lives in a real way. And in line with that mission,
Speaker 2: she's out with a new movie that she co wrote
Speaker 2: and stars in, and it's still about friendship. It's called Babes,
Speaker 2: and it follows two best friends, Eden and Don, played
Speaker 2: by Alana and her real life friend Michelle Buteaux, who
Speaker 2: was absolutely hilarious, and together they're navigating pregnancy and motherhood
Speaker 2: and friendship. And there's this moment when Alana's character Eden
Speaker 2: tells Don that she's pregnant from a one night stand.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm having a baby.
Speaker 5: Okay, yes, dog, Yeah, it just feels like Destiny and
Speaker 5: this is Destiny's child.
Speaker 4: Can you believe that? Did you hear that? Destiny's child?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: Jumpin, jumpin' whoa, Okay, it's on Eden.
Speaker 4: Are you sure about this?
Speaker 3: That scene had to have been improvised. There's no way
Speaker 3: that was all written down right.
Speaker 1: Destiny's Child. I feel like it was improvides had to
Speaker 1: have been. It's so good.
Speaker 3: I could watch her do anything. Oh, she's such a riot.
Speaker 3: I'm so excited to ask her about this next era
Speaker 3: that she's in. And she's offering us another hilarious perspective
Speaker 3: on adulting, just a different phase.
Speaker 2: Yes, totally, And I mean this film has been generating
Speaker 2: a lot of buzz and some really really bold headlines.
Speaker 2: Major publications have called this movie gross and raunchy, which
Speaker 2: I even shudder to say, because what it's really doing
Speaker 2: is depicting real pregnancy. But I'm very curious to see
Speaker 2: what Alana thinks about that. I'm going to ask her.
Speaker 2: After the break, Alana joins us to talk about her
Speaker 2: new movie, her stand up tour, and a whole lot more.
Speaker 3: We'll be right back. We're back, y'all, and we're here
Speaker 3: with the Elana Glazer to talk about all things motherhood, friendship, pregnancy,
Speaker 3: and of course, her new movie, Babes. Alana, it gives
Speaker 3: me great joy to say this. Welcome to the bright Side. Hello.
Speaker 4: Thank you for having me, Danielle Simon. I appreciate it
Speaker 4: so much.
Speaker 1: You're such a babe.
Speaker 4: Thank you, babe.
Speaker 1: There's so much doing, there's.
Speaker 4: A lot doing.
Speaker 3: Let's get into Babes. Okay, first of all, as a woman,
Speaker 3: as a mother, thank you for making a movie by
Speaker 3: about and for real ass women. I felt so seen
Speaker 3: throughout this movie. And I also laughed so much, and
Speaker 3: I cried, went through the full range of emotions. But
Speaker 3: this was so fascinating to me. You wrote Babes while
Speaker 3: you were pregnant, and then you started filming it when
Speaker 3: your daughter was one year old. So talk about discovering yourself,
Speaker 3: I mean, stepping into this whole new identity between the
Speaker 3: time when you wrote it and then started filming. Did
Speaker 3: you wind up changing anything once you got to set?
Speaker 3: I mean, how did that newfound perspective influence the final product?
Speaker 5: Thank you for picking up what we were putting down.
Speaker 5: I really appreciate it. It is spiritual for me to
Speaker 5: make stories and characters that feel real for people.
Speaker 4: I really appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 5: I'm going to just give the little log line. Babes'
Speaker 5: is an outrageous comedy with a lot of heart about
Speaker 5: two women, lifelong friends who are in different places in
Speaker 5: their lives. Don played by Michel Buteu, has a husband
Speaker 5: played by Hassaman Hajj and two kiddos, and she just
Speaker 5: has her second kid when the movie starts. And my
Speaker 5: character Eden is a free spirit, spontaneous character who gets
Speaker 5: pregnant by one night sand and decides to keep the baby,
Speaker 5: and it tests their lifelong best friendship.
Speaker 2: This is like me and Simone, really no, but it's
Speaker 2: something I would do.
Speaker 1: And she has two kids and she's married.
Speaker 4: Yes, oh my gosh, oh my gosh. And Daniel, you're no.
Speaker 2: Kiddos, no no kids yet, but hopefully one day.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 4: I mean, it is like, you guys, that is so cut.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's so cute, and so yes. I started writing
Speaker 5: this when I was pregnant. I wrote with Joshubinowitz and
Speaker 5: his wife was pregnant at the same time, and we
Speaker 5: were approached by our manager who we share Susie Fox.
Speaker 4: We've been with her for.
Speaker 5: A long time and she had this flash of a
Speaker 5: vision in the shower of me getting knocked up. And
Speaker 5: my best friend has two kids already, so Susie at
Speaker 5: the time had a one in three year old. She's
Speaker 5: in the trenches of parenting, like what have I done?
Speaker 2: Lol?
Speaker 4: And Josh and I are like, well, we're pregnant.
Speaker 5: We're so naive, Like my character even is at the beginning,
Speaker 5: we're like thrilled, you know, and you just don't know
Speaker 5: how hard it is and how deep you have to reach,
Speaker 5: and that you have to dig deeper so that you
Speaker 5: can reach deeper.
Speaker 4: My daughter's a month shy of three, and it's just like,
Speaker 4: what a ride we're in for.
Speaker 5: So Susie tells us this idea. We're both pregnant, and
Speaker 5: we're like, this is hysterical. And we've put together a
Speaker 5: list of the funniest, most surprising things that were happening,
Speaker 5: the like spontaneous sort of animalistic horniness of being pregnant.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that is so real. Never heard about
Speaker 3: it either.
Speaker 4: We had all these funny things hilarious. But the thing
Speaker 4: that kept pulling us.
Speaker 5: Through a full movie to what am I going to
Speaker 5: watch a whole ass movie for?
Speaker 4: Is how friendships change.
Speaker 5: And how uncertain it is and how scary it is,
Speaker 5: and how that loss is for real and never going back,
Speaker 5: you know, maybe when your kids leave eventually in twenty years,
Speaker 5: but like it's real loss, you know, And it was
Speaker 5: pulling us through.
Speaker 2: I have a question about that because I've seen my
Speaker 2: friendships change so much. As I don't have children, and
Speaker 2: my friends do. Some of them are on their second
Speaker 2: third child. You mentioned Eden and Don are sort of
Speaker 2: navigating this new friendship moment in their lives.
Speaker 5: Was it autobiograph for you? I was definitely pulling from
Speaker 5: real stuff, like your friendship's changed.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 5: And I grew up on Long Island and I live
Speaker 5: in Brooklyn, so I have a lot of my oldest
Speaker 5: friends around, and two of my oldest best friends have kids,
Speaker 5: and definitely see my friendships change and you know, I
Speaker 5: continue to be surprised.
Speaker 4: At how they're still changing.
Speaker 5: I think with a baby, there's so much newness for everyone,
Speaker 5: and it's so much newness for me that I'm not
Speaker 5: sensing all that loss that is happening. But yeah, and
Speaker 5: it's upsetting, and it's what growing up is like. So
Speaker 5: much of growing up is about accepting loss. Both when
Speaker 5: you're a teenager and you're like, damn, I'm not a
Speaker 5: kid anymore, and you're in college and you're like, wow,
Speaker 5: high school was actually safer and more sheltered than I realized.
Speaker 4: And then out of.
Speaker 5: College the free world or the unfree, you know, and
Speaker 5: you're like, wow, college was a structure I was inside of,
Speaker 5: you know, And like having babies, it's like new and exciting.
Speaker 5: But then there's this settling in and my kids three now,
Speaker 5: and I'm like like, wow, these these things are changing.
Speaker 5: And your values are so embodied parenting values that are
Speaker 5: much less visible when there's not a kid, But when
Speaker 5: you're parenting and you're seeing your friend's parent, you're like,
Speaker 5: we do it differently, being okay with that difference and
Speaker 5: not judging myself. It's still hard and getting hard in
Speaker 5: a new way.
Speaker 2: Most of the pregnancy that I've seen on screen are
Speaker 2: the birthing moments is really about one woman screaming for
Speaker 2: one or two minutes, and then all of a sudden
Speaker 2: you see a baby come out. And you really don't
Speaker 2: see pregnancy through women's eyes very often on screen. You
Speaker 2: did this totally differently in Babes. Here are some of
Speaker 2: the headlines from the critics. The Washington Post says Babes
Speaker 2: gives moms their own gross out comedy, and pr says
Speaker 2: Babes gives us a funny parenthesis and gross portrait of parenthood,
Speaker 2: and Vulture says Babes revels in the grossness of pregnancy.
Speaker 2: How do you feel when people label a real depiction
Speaker 2: of pregnancy gross complicated?
Speaker 5: I feel different things at once about it. So my
Speaker 5: first reaction is defensive, where I'm like, oh, you think
Speaker 5: it's gross. The way that you got here from the stars,
Speaker 5: you think it's gross. The way that your mother made
Speaker 5: you out of almost nothing, that's gross. Maybe you need
Speaker 5: to check yourself and think about how under exposed you
Speaker 5: are to reality, to the reality of who you are
Speaker 5: and where you come from.
Speaker 4: So I'm pissed. Okay, Remember, like.
Speaker 5: The phrase vadge and puss were like a thing when
Speaker 5: we were teenagers. Yes, it has taken me decades to
Speaker 5: unlearn the violent culture around my body, where if it
Speaker 5: wasn't being manipulated and I was owning it, I was gross.
Speaker 4: So I get angry because I find it violent.
Speaker 2: I have to tell you really quickly, it took me
Speaker 2: dating a man from a totally different culture to use
Speaker 2: words that I appreciated about my vagina, like we do
Speaker 2: it so wrong in America.
Speaker 3: I also have to say, Alana, when I see these
Speaker 3: reactions in people calling some of the scenes in Babes gross,
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, really, you think that's gross, Wait until
Speaker 3: you see what motherhood is actually like. There's just such
Speaker 3: a detachment from reality, Like this isn't gross, this is
Speaker 3: my life.
Speaker 5: And Danielle, props to that man, and props to like
Speaker 5: all the partners. It's hard to be a woman in
Speaker 5: this world, and it's hard to find yourself so hot
Speaker 5: and sexy and gorgeous and pretty, and becoming parent has
Speaker 5: really helped me in that process. And I'm also like, Okay,
Speaker 5: you may say it's gross privately, but you published that
Speaker 5: in the headline. You don't realize how violent and ignorant
Speaker 5: it is. However, however, that is a defensive reaction. On
Speaker 5: the other hand, it is grotesque. If I can just
Speaker 5: hold the reality of the way things are, I can
Speaker 5: imagine how it's shocking and gross to people, And I'm like,
Speaker 5: and that's okay. And I think it's also people trying
Speaker 5: to find the words for something they've never seen before. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I also think that great art and artists really focus
Speaker 2: our attention. And you're doing that because they're writing headlines
Speaker 2: they've never written before.
Speaker 1: It means that they're seeing something new.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're innovating.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 2: So you mentioned earlier about like missing days past, the
Speaker 2: nostalgia for high school, for college, et cetera.
Speaker 1: I'm thirty three.
Speaker 2: I've recently been very nostalgic for my twenties. I feel
Speaker 2: like I did them wrong. I should have been a
Speaker 2: bad girl. Then now I'm being a bad girl.
Speaker 1: I just I did it wrong.
Speaker 2: But Broad City really ushered in this cultural shift, showing
Speaker 2: women in their twenties that they could be messy and
Speaker 2: immature and totally weird in the very best way. And
Speaker 2: with Babes, you're exploring this next decade in your thirties.
Speaker 2: What words are defining your thirties so far?
Speaker 4: Let me just.
Speaker 5: First say I'm giggling because I totally relate. I like
Speaker 5: knew I wanted to be a comedian when I was
Speaker 5: like seven years old.
Speaker 4: I came to the city in college student.
Speaker 5: Drag but knowing I was going to pursue comedy and
Speaker 5: my twenties. I'm I love Broad City. I just love
Speaker 5: it to death that these are my five children, these
Speaker 5: five seasons. But I'm manufacturing free wheel and twenties fun
Speaker 5: while I'm Shane smoking cigarettes anxiously show running and executive
Speaker 5: producing and head writing all with Abby and then getting
Speaker 5: to set and being like I wrote this for me
Speaker 5: to do miss humiliating it. So I relate to you
Speaker 5: about my own mourning of my teenage years and twenties,
Speaker 5: which I now know you can't skip over grieving that loss.
Speaker 5: You actually have to just mourn it and sit with it.
Speaker 5: And I'm being a bad girl now also, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 5: oh my gosh, lol. And to be a bad girl
Speaker 5: on a solid foundation, you know, it actually just looks
Speaker 5: like taking pleasure, you know, it looks like true taking pleasure,
Speaker 5: And it's I started Broad City the websteries when I
Speaker 5: was twenty two, finished broad City, the TV show when
Speaker 5: I was thirty two.
Speaker 4: So it had just been this.
Speaker 5: Thing growing and growing and growing to a more serious
Speaker 5: and higher stakes contexts. And I met my husband I
Speaker 5: was twenty five, which was very lucky. He is such
Speaker 5: a rooting figure. He roots me and grounds me. But
Speaker 5: still my acting out was so like reckless and not
Speaker 5: even pleasurable, and almost like checking a box if I
Speaker 5: did the bad thing rather than now like drinking it in.
Speaker 5: So I would say my thirties are increasingly pleasurable.
Speaker 4: I would say they are healthy. I would say.
Speaker 5: I'm taking great care with this decade, taking great care
Speaker 5: and just making so much love.
Speaker 1: We're going to take a quick break, but we'll be
Speaker 1: right back with more. Alana Glazer.
Speaker 3: We are back with comedian and actor Alana Glazer. Alana,
Speaker 3: you mentioned you've known what you wanted to do since
Speaker 3: you were seven years old, and I have delighted in
Speaker 3: these videos that your brother Elliot has posted of the
Speaker 3: two of you making sketches together on VHS tapes when
Speaker 3: you were kids. You were babies. How old were you
Speaker 3: three or four?
Speaker 4: We started?
Speaker 5: I was like three or four and then he started
Speaker 5: going through puberty and was over it when he was
Speaker 5: like thirteen about and I was lool, how much is
Speaker 5: that nine? So we have like five or six years
Speaker 5: of just increasingly obsessive sketch video making and he just
Speaker 5: put me on.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 5: I was really his muse and his plaything that I
Speaker 5: was so delighted that he wanted to play with me,
Speaker 5: Like those videos are so cute. And my brother Elliott
Speaker 5: is wild, but he's put together and I'm down to
Speaker 5: do whatever.
Speaker 3: Well, It's incredible to see your charisma at such a
Speaker 3: young age. You were destined for this life and you
Speaker 3: just had to share that charisma with the world.
Speaker 1: She has the RIZ totally.
Speaker 3: A few minutes ago, you talked about being healthy right now,
Speaker 3: and I think healthy for me looks like being integrated
Speaker 3: and integrating all the parts of myself. Yes, And I
Speaker 3: want to know when do you feel most connected to
Speaker 3: that little girl who's in those videos?
Speaker 4: Oh I got chills.
Speaker 5: Thank you for your kindness and generosity. I'm also reflecting
Speaker 5: on that RIZ as a desperate thirst, a deep seemingly
Speaker 5: insatiable need for approval, validation, intention that are reflecting on
Speaker 5: relatable and also like trying to balance it with rest, privacy, offlineeness, whatever.
Speaker 5: That's what health looks like to me, balancing that so
Speaker 5: that when I'm doing that thing, it actually feels healthy
Speaker 5: and uplifting and not empty and like I'm digging in
Speaker 5: deeper hole or something I think of. Like actually, my
Speaker 5: name Alana in Hebrew means tree, and like the Torah,
Speaker 5: you know, our scroll is like the tree of life.
Speaker 4: And I think of us as like tree rings, you know, like.
Speaker 5: Each age each year, like we're built upon those younger
Speaker 5: people inside of us and we can tap into that person.
Speaker 5: And recently I was on tour. I did fifty two
Speaker 5: shows from June to May. This is part of my
Speaker 5: taking pleasure, spreading it out as a mom, only being
Speaker 5: away two nights a week and then taking the third
Speaker 5: week off.
Speaker 4: But in February we went the whole family.
Speaker 5: We went to LA and posted up there so I
Speaker 5: could pop to all my West Coast dates in a
Speaker 5: more consolidated fashion. And the LA show I was having
Speaker 5: like buyers Tom, hoping that somebody would want this hour
Speaker 5: and that day. I've had such a practice where I
Speaker 5: talk to myself for hours and take a walk and
Speaker 5: talk out loud so that I have one thought stream
Speaker 5: instead of my brain pop it around going nuts. So
Speaker 5: I talked to myself for like five hours before every show,
Speaker 5: and on this day in LA, I was like, I'm
Speaker 5: not feeling nervous. This energy is excited, and the excitement
Speaker 5: I can manage. I know I have space in my
Speaker 5: body for these feelings.
Speaker 4: This is crazy. I'm not nervous. And it reminded me
Speaker 4: of I was Maria in.
Speaker 5: Westside Story in my Camp, my camp production when I
Speaker 5: was eight years old, and I was so nervous. The
Speaker 5: night before I was so fucking nervous, and I know myself,
Speaker 5: I know the pressure where it's like, you know, it's
Speaker 5: almost like I'm standing before God, either going to go
Speaker 5: to heaven or hell.
Speaker 4: That's what that pressure feels like in my mind, and
Speaker 4: did when I was eight.
Speaker 5: Years old, because I literally knew I want to do this,
Speaker 5: and I go to my dad and I wake my
Speaker 5: dad up and I was like, oh Dad.
Speaker 4: I'm aham a little nervous.
Speaker 5: I was like convulsing, shaking, so nervous. And the day
Speaker 5: of the performance, I got it a huge fever and
Speaker 5: I'm like poorly nervously singing, so scared I was like
Speaker 5: so funny, just like poor thing, just a poor little thing.
Speaker 5: And I was like talking to her where I was like, see,
Speaker 5: like you always knew that this was what you were
Speaker 5: supposed to do, but like you couldn't handle it then, and.
Speaker 4: You figured out how to handle it.
Speaker 5: And here we are having a peaceful day walking, you know,
Speaker 5: talking to myself. You know, there's all these moments like it,
Speaker 5: but that was my most like prominent recently, like holding
Speaker 5: her hand and just taking a walk.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: I still get nervous sometimes before big things. And when
Speaker 2: I was little, a dance teacher said, nerves mean that
Speaker 2: you care. And when I make that switch, I just
Speaker 2: I hold on to them. I kind of like the nerves.
Speaker 4: Then I get nervous before everything I do.
Speaker 1: Oh see that makes me feel better.
Speaker 4: I have to talk to myself before everything.
Speaker 5: I'll just be trying out new material for fifteen people
Speaker 5: in Brooklyn and I'm like, whoo, here we go.
Speaker 4: You know, it's like you just gotta I've been doing
Speaker 4: this like practice.
Speaker 5: I call stack it up, where I'm just stacking up
Speaker 5: the reality where I'm like I'm nervous. That makes sense
Speaker 5: because I care, you know, and I just stack up
Speaker 5: the reality and then like, I do need time, you know,
Speaker 5: I do need time for this work, but it's worth
Speaker 5: making that time.
Speaker 3: So there's the Marvel cinematic universe, right, and then there's
Speaker 3: the Alana Glazer cinematic universe. Because Babes almost seems like
Speaker 3: a sequel to the adulting journey that we all went
Speaker 3: on in Broad City. So does that mean we're getting
Speaker 3: a perimenopause comedy next? Maybe a menopause comedy after that?
Speaker 5: Thank you again for picking up what I'm putting down.
Speaker 5: I am so grateful and like, thank God. To be
Speaker 5: seen and heard as I hope is like such a privilege.
Speaker 5: Thanks for saying that. You know, I'm developing a show
Speaker 5: right now. It's not quite where it needs to be,
Speaker 5: but I'm developing a show right now about a different
Speaker 5: kind of friend group in our thirties in New York.
Speaker 3: Oh please, we need more of these shows.
Speaker 4: I agree.
Speaker 5: I agree, just needs the time that it needs to
Speaker 5: get it right. Yeah, and I would say perimenopause. I'm
Speaker 5: a little too young for it because I haven't gone
Speaker 5: through it yet. But I'm really interested in friends as
Speaker 5: partners and partners as friends, you know, like the way
Speaker 5: that Michelle and I play friends, but like chosen family
Speaker 5: and soul sisters who are going to raise their kids together.
Speaker 5: You know, my character in Babes is just at the
Speaker 5: beginning of that journey. I'd like to go deeper into
Speaker 5: that journey. So I think I want to explore primary partnerships,
Speaker 5: whatever that means for someone marriage or whatever, primary partnerships
Speaker 5: more and still friendships. You know, I think the nature
Speaker 5: of friendships is changing. We used to have to like
Speaker 5: put our eggs in one basket with one person who
Speaker 5: had to be everything. And people are so both free
Speaker 5: and not free, you know, in ways. And it's so
Speaker 5: interesting to see how younger people too are relying on
Speaker 5: their friendships longer because they can't buy a damn home
Speaker 5: and they don't have any damn health insurance.
Speaker 4: They have to get a job.
Speaker 5: So like, I think there's still some exploration for me
Speaker 5: in the child raising space, in a partnership space, and
Speaker 5: so with friends before carry menopause, which I'm that'll be funny,
Speaker 5: that'll be a funny one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just keep it in your back pocket, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: Yes, we talk about friendships so much on this show.
Speaker 3: Multiple episodes just unpacking friends are codependency on them? What
Speaker 3: they mean to us?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 5: And you know what's like interesting to me is dependency.
Speaker 5: When is it healthy to depend on someone? And perhaps
Speaker 5: a vulnerable act and an act that like you grow through.
Speaker 4: Rather than like something that's enabling and coddling.
Speaker 3: So there's this scene in Broad City where you're sitting
Speaker 3: outside of a pizza shop and Abby asks you these
Speaker 3: two questions that I just love. So we're going to
Speaker 3: flip them on you. What have you done this past
Speaker 3: year that you're proud of? And what are you gonna
Speaker 3: do this upcoming year?
Speaker 5: Abby still asks me that on my birthday we got
Speaker 5: it from he does, and you know what one thing
Speaker 5: I've I've done this past year that I'm proud of
Speaker 5: is taken the most pleasure in touring continues to shock me.
Speaker 5: I'm still processing it. Something I hope to do in
Speaker 5: this next year, in this next year, starting at this moment,
Speaker 5: is ooh, can I do it?
Speaker 4: Take August off? Can I do that? I hope to
Speaker 4: do that. I'll definitely do two weeks.
Speaker 5: But if I can do four weeks, I think I
Speaker 5: think I'll be a new damn woman come September. Come
Speaker 5: the day after Labor Day. Oh, thank you for making
Speaker 5: me say it out loud, because I really want to
Speaker 5: do it in August. I'm going to do it, so
Speaker 5: Moan and Danielle, I'm going to do it.
Speaker 2: I need to know what you're going to do during
Speaker 2: that time. Are you getting on an airplane and going
Speaker 2: to a visa?
Speaker 4: No, you know what.
Speaker 5: We're going up to the countryside for August. And it's like, yeah,
Speaker 5: I could check my email or I could not and
Speaker 5: just wait until September and do all my emails. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: that's what I aim to do. Oh just another tip
Speaker 5: about like caring about your nerves. One phrase I found
Speaker 5: in my preparation practice before my shows on tour was
Speaker 5: I aim to take pleasure rather than be like, how fun,
Speaker 5: my stupid bitch, how fun? Why aren't you having fun
Speaker 5: a dumb bitch. It's like, I aim to take pleasure
Speaker 5: and whatever happens, I accept what happens because I'm not
Speaker 5: gonna necessarily take pleasure in every single moment I aim.
Speaker 5: So I aim to take off all of August.
Speaker 2: I love that tip so much. Alana, you are so
Speaker 2: much fun. Thank you for this interview. Thanks for being
Speaker 2: so candid.
Speaker 4: I could talk on and on and on. I hope
Speaker 4: to see you again.
Speaker 1: The mic is open for you any time time. Thank
Speaker 1: you for.
Speaker 3: This September one after your August hiatus. Just come on back, rested, restored.
Speaker 4: I may be careful what you wish for.
Speaker 1: Please, I love it. Thanks Alana.
Speaker 3: Alana Glazer is a comedian, actor, and activist. Her new
Speaker 3: movie Babes is in theaters. Now, that's it for today's show.
Speaker 3: On Monday, we're talking to stylist and nonprofit founder Carla
Speaker 3: Welch about her mission to provide sustainable period care for all.
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Speaker 2: and is executive produced by Reese Witherspoon.
Speaker 3: Production by Arcana Audio. Courtney Gilbert is our associate producer.
Speaker 3: Our producers are Steph Brown, Jessica Wank, and Olivia Briley.
Speaker 3: Our engineer is PJ. Shahamatt, and our senior producers are
Speaker 3: Izi Kein, Pania Jenis Yamocha, and Amy Padula.
Speaker 2: Arcana's executive producers are Francis Harlowe and Abby Ruska. Arcana's
Speaker 2: head of production is Matt Schultz.
Speaker 3: Natalie Tulluk and Maureen Polo are the executive producers for
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Speaker 2: Julia Weaver is the supervising producer, and Ali Perry is
Speaker 2: the executive producer for iHeart Podcasts. Tim Palazzola is our showrunner.
Speaker 2: This week's episodes were recorded by Gam Gibson, Carl Catl,
Speaker 2: Jessica Crinchitch, Bahied Fraser.
Speaker 3: Our theme song is by Anna Stump and Hamilton lighthauser.
Speaker 2: Special thanks to Connell Byrne and Will Pearson.
Speaker 3: I'm Simone Boyce. You can find me at Simone Boice
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Speaker 2: And I'm Danielle Robe on Instagram and TikTok. That's r
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Speaker 3: Y See you Monday, fam. Keep looking on the bright side.