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Speaker 1: Hey there, Fanarritos. Welcome back to a brand new episode

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Speaker 1: of How Rude Tanta Ritos. Get ready, because today we

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Speaker 1: are welcoming Felicia Michaels to the podcast. Full House fans

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Speaker 1: will remember her as Roxy Martin, Joey's stand up comedian

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Speaker 1: girlfriend in season seven. Felicia started doing stand up at

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Speaker 1: just age eighteen and grew up in Kansas and built

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Speaker 1: a career that spans comedy, film and TV. She has

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Speaker 1: also acted, written, and directed award winning work, including her

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Speaker 1: short in the Weeds.

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Speaker 2: So welcome to How Rude Tanta Ritos.

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Speaker 3: I'm glad.

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Speaker 2: I was so great to see you.

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Speaker 4: You played Joey's comedian girlfriend on the show, and in

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Speaker 4: real life you do stand up comedy.

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Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I remember the day I auditioned for the part.

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Speaker 3: I was thinking about this and I remember I had

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Speaker 3: to go like six hours later.

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Speaker 5: I was flying to Europe because I honestly, I hate auditioning.

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Speaker 3: I'm not a great actress, right.

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Speaker 5: And it was and I was just and it was

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Speaker 5: one of those things where I had to do it

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Speaker 5: or my agent was going.

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Speaker 3: To get pissed, right, Okay.

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Speaker 5: So I just remember going in and auditioning like, let's

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Speaker 5: get the f over with, you know, and literally like

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Speaker 5: and then then the next day they're like, okay, you're cast,

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Speaker 5: and then I couldn't go to Europe.

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Speaker 4: I was like, I'm sorry, we ruined your Europe trip.

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Speaker 4: But that is it's always the ones that you just

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Speaker 4: like throw away and you're like, whatever, I don't even

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Speaker 4: here because your nerves aren't even there.

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Speaker 2: You're like, oh whatever, just get the ound way.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and then the ones you really care about, like

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Speaker 5: I auditioned for the part of Phoebe and friends like

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Speaker 5: made network.

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Speaker 3: Can you imagine that? And then I found out later

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Speaker 3: they weren't.

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Speaker 5: Even They just did it because they had a deal

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Speaker 5: with me, like a holding deal or something, right right right,

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Speaker 5: It's like, why did you torture me? It was like

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Speaker 5: a torture.

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Speaker 2: Oh drove me.

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Speaker 3: Insane anyway, But yeah, what you said, Yeah, yeah, it's

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Speaker 3: all yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the less you really like stress about it, the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, only serious.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and you can't go in with really good friends

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Speaker 5: that are acting really good actresses where you're like, this

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Speaker 5: person should be at this audition, not me.

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Speaker 3: Once you like that, that's not good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah exactly. Now, how did you did you?

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Speaker 4: I mean, obviously you said you acting wasn't sort of

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Speaker 2: And how did it all kind of start for you?

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Speaker 3: Well? Uh, do you want the truth or a version?

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Speaker 2: No? The truth? Please?

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 5: So when I was just turn eighteen, I had gotten

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Speaker 5: this is a silly story in its own way. I

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Speaker 5: had gotten married like a dumb it's I'm an army brat.

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Speaker 5: And so I grew up a little bit all over

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Speaker 5: and I did what all female army brats did. You married,

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Speaker 5: And so after a few months, I split and I

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Speaker 5: became a stripper. Okay, Peppermint Lounge in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm going somewhere with this, and hey.

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Speaker 4: We're here. That's what I work is work, and yeah, work.

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Speaker 5: And then when I was at the Peppermint Lounge in

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Speaker 5: Colorado Springs, Colorado, I met a comedian and that's how

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Speaker 3: This is so long ago, y'all amazing. Yeah, And so he.

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Speaker 5: Made a deal with me because we went to go

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Speaker 5: I was like, I could do that because I've had

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Speaker 3: And then he was like, I bet you won't.

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Speaker 5: And then we made a deal and I did it

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Speaker 5: and I killed the first time. That's almost every comedian

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Speaker 5: story that became a professional couldn't buy a laugh for

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Speaker 3: And then a year later I moved to Los Angeles.

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Speaker 5: And became a stripper there because I wasn't twenty one

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Speaker 5: and able to get into the clubs, right, I.

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Speaker 2: Was, yeah, you're eighteen and over.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you had to be twenty one at that time,

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Speaker 5: so I would get turned away from a lot of

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Speaker 3: And I worked at this place by the airport called

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Speaker 3: the Jet Strip.

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Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, Everyone's like, oh yeah, the Jets.

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Speaker 4: Hey, I've heard that strip clubs by the airports always

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Speaker 3: So yes, I only had to work like two day

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, And.

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Speaker 5: I met a bunch of my favorite actress friends there

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Speaker 2: You love it.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 5: And then I got into the Comedy Star as a

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Speaker 3: It kind of just took off from there. So wow, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I got really lucky. I got really lucky.

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Speaker 1: That's impressive. That's impressive. Were you did you were this

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Speaker 1: first time you were on stage as a comedian. Did

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Speaker 5: No, I wrote some jokes, and you know, like when

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Speaker 5: you're eighteen or nineteen and you make a bet with

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Speaker 5: your boyfriend he's a little bit older, not terribly older than.

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Speaker 3: Me, but a little bit older, and you can.

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Speaker 5: Just imagine you don't want to lose that bet. If

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Speaker 5: you're the girl you can.

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Speaker 2: I don't lose any bets.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I got married on a dare, so I'm

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Speaker 4: truly Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I will go to any lengths.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, to not lose a bet, right yeah.

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Speaker 3: And so when I that's what I did.

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Speaker 5: I wrote a bunch of jokes and I did it,

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Speaker 5: And honestly, it was harder to do stand up than

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Speaker 4: It's super like scary because it's your material, You're like,

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Speaker 4: I think this is funny, and it feels like such

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Speaker 4: a direct judgment on my personal sensibilities, right.

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Speaker 1: Vulnerable in a different way, vulnerable in a.

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Speaker 5: Different way, and so yeah, it's like runs the whole

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Speaker 5: does feel more personal when you do stand up, for sure.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Were there a lot of women in comedy at that

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Speaker 5: No. In fact, one of the first women I ever

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Speaker 3: I think I might have just turned nineteen when I

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Speaker 3: did stand up was Roseanne bar Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, And I remember we went to uh we

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Speaker 5: and we went to a gig together in Aspen, Colorado,

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Speaker 5: my real last name is Die d Ye, and I

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Speaker 3: Of times and I couldn't buy a laugh after the

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Speaker 5: And the m cecos and that was Felicia Die and

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Speaker 3: I gotta change right right.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if I'm going to get better at comedy,

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Speaker 5: And then when I on that trip to Aspen is

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Speaker 1: Okay, is Michael's a family name or you just thought

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Speaker 5: It was going to be like either like Felicia Richards

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I was like, yeah, yeah, that is that's

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Speaker 3: Yeah exactly, exactly. So yeah, so that's my story.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, who were your kind of contemporaries that like

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Speaker 2: What was like who are the people that you saw?

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Speaker 4: And you were like, ah, yes, that is that's what

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Speaker 5: Say in Colorado, because it's it depends on what level

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Speaker 5: I don't know if you know who this is, a

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Speaker 5: Being so young at that time, and even when I

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Speaker 5: And so I didn't have really because I didn't go

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Speaker 4: It's funnier there than people imagine, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 4: Like I have friends who are dancers, and I have

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Speaker 4: perception of what's happening couldn't be more different.

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Speaker 3: Couldn't be further from the truth, right, Yeah, yeah, and

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Speaker 3: so I started talking a lot about sex and honestly,

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Speaker 3: working at a strip club so young, you really knew.

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Speaker 5: How to get men away from you. Okay, you know

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Speaker 5: what I mean, Like, you knew how to get them there. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 5: I mean, so it wasn't a problem, but you knew

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Speaker 3: And that was such a bonus when I started comedy,

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Speaker 3: because there wasn't a lot of women and.

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Speaker 5: So and I was at the Comedy Store when I

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Speaker 5: cocaine and Sam Kinnison and all that kind of yeah, yeah, craziness.

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Speaker 3: It was so crazy then, you know.

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Speaker 5: So it was really kind of good that that's how

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Speaker 3: And that's why I first met Bob Saget.

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Speaker 4: Oh no, I was gonna say, that's that's the Bob's

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Speaker 4: Contemporaries and and you know, and Comedy Store era.

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Speaker 5: And then I had kids around thirty five, and I

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Speaker 2: About, Yeah, exactly, whatever life.

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Speaker 3: Write that shit down.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes you're like, what why did I write that word?

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Speaker 5: I remember when I stopped for ten years when my

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Speaker 5: And I had a notebook because I was getting back

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Speaker 5: And in that notebook was all these filthy jokes, all

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Speaker 2: I think she might be around children. Yeah, terrifying, man.

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Speaker 3: They're my youngis just turned twenty five. Okay, you guys

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Speaker 1: Yeah, adjustment, Yeah, it'll be rough. Yep, souh Felicia. When

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Speaker 5: I'll tell you just stories. The memory that comes most

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Speaker 2: He yes, he really really is such a lovely human.

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Speaker 3: Great and I kissed him. His lips were cold. I

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Speaker 4: He'd probably tried to like just be you know, consider

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Speaker 2: I went down on and that was Saturday.

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Speaker 5: And then they said, uh, one of the songs where

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Speaker 2: But you could take credit for take credit is run

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Speaker 3: But I didn't.

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Speaker 5: I did tell my kids, you know, she wrote that

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Speaker 5: to and I made fun of him and the family

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00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:05,000
Speaker 5: or something.

449
00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:10,040
Speaker 1: Okay, right, okay, right, right, right right. So had you

450
00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:13,880
Speaker 1: worked with child actors before? Was it a whole new

451
00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:15,080
Speaker 1: a whole new world.

452
00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:18,720
Speaker 2: You don't run into them much at the comedy store. Yeah,

453
00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:21,200
Speaker 2: well I'm not shooting out with Bob in which case,

454
00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:22,120
Speaker 2: let's course.

455
00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:29,200
Speaker 5: But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it wasn't you know, because

456
00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:31,480
Speaker 5: it wasn't like a lot of scenes. So it's probably

457
00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:35,280
Speaker 5: a pretty light week for you guys. I'm sure you

458
00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:38,199
Speaker 5: know there's a pictures floating around. I guess of it

459
00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:40,320
Speaker 5: somewhere on the internet.

460
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Speaker 4: We'll have to find that, because I know, dinner table

461
00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:46,439
Speaker 4: scenes are always kind of a nightmare to like shoot,

462
00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:50,000
Speaker 4: and you've got to you know, arrange everybody and blah,

463
00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:51,439
Speaker 4: blah blah.

464
00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:53,480
Speaker 5: Do you want to see some bad acting, go look

465
00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:55,399
Speaker 5: for that episode at the dinner table.

466
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Speaker 3: Coming up to it.

467
00:22:58,359 --> 00:22:59,439
Speaker 2: We'll be coming up to it.

468
00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:03,520
Speaker 4: No, it's not bad acting, and we have killed so

469
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:06,280
Speaker 4: many careers you wouldn't believe it on this show, so

470
00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:11,600
Speaker 4: you know, I can't wait to see it, and I do.

471
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,399
Speaker 4: I feel like this was This was as close as

472
00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:18,920
Speaker 4: show we ever got to being a fully fledged human.

473
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:19,640
Speaker 1: Yeah.

474
00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:22,040
Speaker 2: And I also feel like he should have known if

475
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:26,040
Speaker 2: he's dating somebody in comedy, he's going to be fair game.

476
00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:28,639
Speaker 2: Fair game. And also, you live in a house with

477
00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:32,720
Speaker 2: fifteen people, the people are going to laugh at it.

478
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, fair game, you know.

479
00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:37,920
Speaker 3: And then I always thought, since I told that.

480
00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 5: Dirty joke in the green room, I didn't get asked back,

481
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:43,760
Speaker 5: and I always wondered, was it because I totally filthy

482
00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:45,520
Speaker 5: joke in the makeup room?

483
00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:52,199
Speaker 4: No, No, there would have been yeah, yeah, there wouldn't

484
00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:53,400
Speaker 4: have been anybody left.

485
00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:58,120
Speaker 5: So I actually had a deal with Jeff Franklin, right,

486
00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:01,000
Speaker 5: I had some kind of deal with him afterwards and

487
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:01,840
Speaker 5: never went anyway.

488
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:04,720
Speaker 3: Oh my god, it was that or something, because I

489
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 3: think he was not on the show at.

490
00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:12,200
Speaker 1: No, he was with mister Cooper by that point. So, yeah,

491
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,320
Speaker 1: I don't know what else was. I just remember your

492
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:18,600
Speaker 1: cute red hair, like you were such a cute girlfriend

493
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,439
Speaker 1: for Joey, and that red hair just stood out to me.

494
00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:24,240
Speaker 2: It's still was it red?

495
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 3: It might even blonde red like.

496
00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:29,439
Speaker 1: A straw maybe like a strawberry, sort of similar to

497
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:31,639
Speaker 1: what it is now. So yeah, I just thought it

498
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 1: was cute.

499
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:34,840
Speaker 4: Whatever it was, it was probably permed because that was

500
00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:38,680
Speaker 4: permed to within an inch of its life.

501
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:40,960
Speaker 3: It was bleached and permed.

502
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:48,639
Speaker 2: Yes, just damaged all the way right, teased to high heaven.

503
00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 2: You still do comedy and you produce and stuff like that.

504
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:01,960
Speaker 3: What have you?

505
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:02,119
Speaker 5: Like?

506
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 4: What are the things that are really that you're working

507
00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:08,679
Speaker 4: on right now that are really exciting for you?

508
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 5: So doing comedy back in the day, I would do

509
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:16,240
Speaker 5: like thirty five weeks a year on the road.

510
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:18,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a lot of toy.

511
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:21,640
Speaker 5: It was a lot like and back then sometimes it'd

512
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 5: be like Tuesday through Sunday, and so I had picked

513
00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:29,600
Speaker 5: up a camera and I would take photographs all over

514
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:33,800
Speaker 5: the country. And then I went finally went to like

515
00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 5: I went NYU Film School and photograph photography classes at

516
00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:40,480
Speaker 5: the News school.

517
00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:42,880
Speaker 3: I mean just like oh wows.

518
00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 4: Yeah.

519
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 5: And then I made a documentary that you know, in

520
00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:51,960
Speaker 5: a couple of short films that did a lot of festivals,

521
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:55,880
Speaker 5: and so I did that, and then I started to realize,

522
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,119
Speaker 5: like stand up is.

523
00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:01,000
Speaker 3: Such a weird skill set.

524
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,719
Speaker 5: It's like I think, you know, like like I went

525
00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:07,400
Speaker 5: through a period about six months ago where I hadn't

526
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 5: done a set in like a year and a half

527
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 5: or whatever, and then I went and did a set and.

528
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:17,000
Speaker 3: Thankfully it went well, and and then you know, but

529
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 3: then you think, like why this this is so weird?

530
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:25,960
Speaker 4: Why do I want to get up there and tell

531
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:28,200
Speaker 4: jokes in front of a silent room of people and

532
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 4: I stir them to laughter?

533
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:33,320
Speaker 3: Right yeah? But or just like I can walk away

534
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 3: from it and come back and it still works. But

535
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 3: it's like what is that?

536
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 5: What is that? You know?

537
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 3: So you start getting a little bit like that.

538
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:44,240
Speaker 5: But then you know my whole thing from the get

539
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:48,160
Speaker 5: since I was a little girl, it's just like you're

540
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:49,040
Speaker 5: only hear once.

541
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:52,000
Speaker 3: Man, I want to try everything. Yeah. Yeah.

542
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:57,480
Speaker 5: I always really loved photography, Like there was pictures when

543
00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:58,840
Speaker 5: I was in My mom was very sickly when I

544
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:00,959
Speaker 5: was growing up, but she loved cameras.

545
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:04,119
Speaker 3: And I remember just like when she would be in

546
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 3: the hospital for like three months half the time. She's

547
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:07,919
Speaker 3: very sickly and handicapped.

548
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 7: When I was growing up, and I remember like she

549
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:13,399
Speaker 7: would be like she had this drawer with all these cameras,

550
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 7: and I would be like my brother and me, I'd

551
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 7: be like, let's go look at the cameras, like I was.

552
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 5: Seven years old, and then I would come home. She'd

553
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:24,879
Speaker 5: be like, oh, my camera, and I was like, no,

554
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,879
Speaker 5: I wasn't. And then she'd be like, here's a picture, right,

555
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 5: you know.

556
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 3: Yeah.

557
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 5: But I always, uh, I'm really into talking to people

558
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 5: and me and having experiences with people and all that

559
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:41,080
Speaker 5: kind of jazz.

560
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:45,359
Speaker 3: And so I really loved the camera work. And then

561
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 3: I started doing you know, camera work on docs and

562
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 3: besides directing some shorts.

563
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 5: And I made a documentary that did well, and I

564
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 5: just did one on PBS before it was canceled about

565
00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,399
Speaker 5: the director Blake Edwards, and I got to eat.

566
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 3: Uh uh uh uh uh Julie Andrews.

567
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 2: I got to write, oh, wow, Julie, She's incredible, and.

568
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 3: Uh when I got to meet her.

569
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 5: Because if you're the second or third camera assistant. You

570
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 5: haul everything the guys.

571
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, yeah, you're the and I was telling everything.

572
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 5: Then she's like, Darling, put that down and go get

573
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 5: a glass of wine in the kitchen. And I was like, yeah,

574
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 5: so just you know, meeting people. And I still filming people,

575
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 5: and I still do calm and you do a lot

576
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 5: of writing. I really love the camera, Like when I

577
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 5: remember I did like some pilots and everything like that,

578
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 5: and as I was doing my scene, I just remember,

579
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 5: like what the camera guy's looking at Like that was right.

580
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:54,720
Speaker 5: I was like the worst actress y'all because I like

581
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 5: doing the scene, Like God, I wonder what he's.

582
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 2: Doing, what he's doing over there?

583
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 4: Right. So I would love that though, because some you know,

584
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 4: sometimes you people start out in front of the camera

585
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 4: and then they're like, actually no, I am more interested

586
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,200
Speaker 4: in what they're doing. Like that feel I feel more

587
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,640
Speaker 4: at home capturing that essence or whatever it is.

588
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 3: Yeah.

589
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:20,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, So do you like taking pictures of people or

590
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 1: things or landscapes or what?

591
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 5: What?

592
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 1: What are you drawn to when you got a camera?

593
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 3: People? And I had an opportunity several times to do

594
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 3: red carpet.

595
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 2: I don't not my yeah, not like the paparazzi style.

596
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, you feel like such a I'm sorry to say this,

597
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 3: prostitute or it just feels so like, oh here right,

598
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,960
Speaker 3: I mean it's just yeah, I thought that's a better

599
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 3: way to put that. Thank you. Yeah, I didn't care

600
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 3: for that. I don't. I never liked doing headshot.

601
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 5: I did a ton of stuff like that, but I

602
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:57,720
Speaker 5: really like just documentary style photography and you know, street

603
00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 5: shooting and people and those seeing people's stories and trying

604
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 5: to make.

605
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 3: That happen, you know.

606
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 1: So it's great.

607
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 2: I love it.

608
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 4: I love it.

609
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 3: You guys, what are you guys up to?

610
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 1: Like?

611
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 3: What do you guys love to do?

612
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 4: I mean, this podcasts definitely in the top five, really

613
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 4: really ridiculously fun time doing it. And I do some

614
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:27,720
Speaker 4: stand up myself and some comedy stuff, writing, et cetera, directing,

615
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 4: you know, all kinds of creative things, much like you.

616
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 4: It's just I think, you know sometimes you're like, I

617
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 4: don't care. I just need to be creative somehow, some way.

618
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 4: I need to just get this out, you know.

619
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 3: And what are you doing? Stand up?

620
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 2: I've been doing I've been done it at the store.

621
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 4: Then the improv I haven't done laugh factory yet ice house, Yeah,

622
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 4: a bunch of different places.

623
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 2: So I was doing.

624
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 4: I had a couple of weeks that were like super busy,

625
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 4: and then I've I need to write.

626
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 2: Actually that's what I was thinking. My friend reminded me

627
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 2: the other day, She's like, you're writing anything. I was like, Oh,

628
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 2: that's what I.

629
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 3: Want to do, right, right.

630
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 5: It's hard now because back in the day, you could

631
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 5: have you know, thirty minutes of float on that ship

632
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 5: for like a.

633
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 4: Decade, right, yeah, except right, and now it's like I

634
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 4: saw that on the internet.

635
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, And I think it's kind of made it

636
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 5: almost in some ways great, but in other ways, you know,

637
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 5: I don't want to react to every little piece of

638
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 5: information because sometimes you need to sit on something, you know, right,

639
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 5: cancel myself out.

640
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 2: Yeah right. Sometimes I'm like, you know, let's think on

641
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 2: that one for yeah.

642
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly a little bit on that.

643
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,440
Speaker 4: Felicia, thank you so much for joining us today, Like,

644
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 4: it was really great to have you on and and

645
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 4: I love to see that you're still like doing stand

646
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 4: up and writing and creating, and you know, it's not

647
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 4: always easy for women in comedy to play the long game.

648
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 2: So nice work.

649
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 3: There you go. And good for you guys for doing this.

650
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 3: I think it's a great thing that you guys are doing.

651
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 5: How fun you know, for people that are true fans,

652
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 5: it's just got to be tremendous to hear.

653
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 1: You know, Oh, we love it. It's just like this

654
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 1: is just our friendship on display on the microphone, Like

655
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: this is just we have fun doing it.

656
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 3: You know, you feel like this season in real life

657
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 3: we're very close.

658
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 2: We're very very close.

659
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have like a little circle of bestieson I

660
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,440
Speaker 4: would say AB is definitely in them.

661
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 3: Did you guys fight like on the show? Like off camera?

662
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:31,560
Speaker 3: Did you guys ever have that?

663
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 2: You know, A B and I didn't. Candice and I

664
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 2: did a little bit.

665
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 4: We had more of this actual sort of sisterly relationship

666
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 4: between us as kids, but now Andrey and I didn't.

667
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 4: We always were pretty like mellow, easy going. Yeah, and

668
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 4: our moms got along really well, so we hung out.

669
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 3: Could you tell the Olsen twins apart when you were kids.

670
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, as they got as they got older.

671
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not that obviously not them.

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Speaker 5: But you ever notice with the setup twins, one looks

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Speaker 5: like the original and one looks like a Creddy copy

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Speaker 5: you ever know, right.

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Speaker 4: You were like, there's right, there's the original and then

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Speaker 4: there's the like, oh that one kind of got a

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Speaker 4: little blurry on this, yeah but.

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Speaker 2: Little yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Twins have just been on.

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Speaker 4: We just watched an episode that was all about twins,

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Speaker 4: so apparently that's the topic of the day.

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Speaker 3: Yea.

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Speaker 4: Well, thank you so much, Felicia. We really appreciate it,

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Speaker 4: and thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 3: You're welcome. Thanks all right, bye, thanks bye.

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Speaker 4: Well, that was a wonderful interview with Felicia Michaels. Always

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Speaker 4: awesome to see women succeeding in comedy and having fun

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Speaker 4: and and to think the things that could have been with.

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Speaker 2: Her and Joey.

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Speaker 1: I know, I wish they had kept her. I wish

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Speaker 1: they had kept her longer.

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, it just it was not to be.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was not to be.

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Speaker 2: Well, everybody, That is it for today's episode.

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Speaker 4: If you want to find us on Instagram, check us

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Speaker 4: out at Howard Podcast, email us at Howard Tannato's at

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Speaker 4: gmail dot com, visit our merch store Howard Merch dot com,

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Speaker 4: and remember the world is small, the house is full.

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Speaker 4: Oh no, wait, I was gonna say laser discs, but

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Speaker 4: that was from the from the last episode.

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Speaker 2: My brain's obviously answers professionals. Yeah here, it's full of Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's full. It's full of uh, it's full of exotic

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Speaker 2: dancers having a great time partie party in the US. Ladies, right, yep,

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Speaker 2: work is work, work is work.

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Speaker 1: At that coin, push those men.

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Speaker 2: Away, get that bad ladies again, Let's get next time.

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Speaker 3: By