WEBVTT - From Cheerleader to Comedy Queen with Anjelah Johnson 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:05.480 How you doing. 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.080 This is Freddy Rodriguez and I'm about the rama. Welcome 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:13.160 to those amigos today. Uh three amigos and Gus, yes, 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:17.840 the little it's you know, introduced our incredible guest today. 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:24.799 Well let's see here we have esteemed comedian, former NFL cheerleader, 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:28.800 former Mad TV cash member, Angela Johnson. 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:31.520 And come on, come on, I mean we have such 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:33.879 a big audience here. They told that to cheers much. 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:37.560 It's Angela Johnson Rays. Now I added my married name 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:38.080 name in the game. 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:39.519 We all appreciate that at. 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.839 Those Yeah, yeah, yeah, I took about ten years of 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.519 us being married before I was like, all right, well 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:55.480 you had it for ten looks like you're sitting around so. 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:54.720 So, you know, here at the Amigos, we we love 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:59.040 asking the way back questions, you know, like where you're from, 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:00.680 you know where you're parents from. 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:04.960 Yeah, I'm from the Bay Area, from the Bay Jose, 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:11.720 San Jose. My dad grew up in LA And funny story, 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:13.959 when I first moved to LA to pursue my dreams 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:16.480 to be an actress, if I would get lost going 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:19.640 to auditions. And again this is before you know GPS 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:21.679 on your phone. This was the Thomas Guide and everything 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:24.640 like that, and I would print out my map from 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:27.720 the computer at home, my my Yahoo maps, and I 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:29.720 would print it out, and if I ever got lost, 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:32.160 I would call my dad and tell him what street 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:33.959 I was on, and then he would navigate me to 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:34.280 get to my. 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:35.880 Audition from memory. 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:37.720 Yeah, from memory wow. 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:39.560 Yeah. So he'd be up in San Jose and he 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:42.200 would navigate me to my audition in LA. But my 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:45.080 dad grew up here in LA and then moved to 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.080 the Bay. My mom's from the Bay from San Jose. 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:51.360 Ethnically, where are your parents from? 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:59.720 I'm Mexican and Native Americans, fourth generation my dad, yeah, 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:05.320 and they both have Native blood as well, mainly my 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:09.080 grandpa my dad's side, but both my parents do have 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:09.799 Native blood. 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:11.119 But I'm fourth generation. 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:19.880 My my grandma was born here, I think in Utah. 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:22.600 Yeah, what tribe? 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:26.840 If I may ask, Tigua Tigua, and I don't know 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:27.519 too much about it. 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:28.480 I wish I knew more. 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.520 I wish, And then I would ask my grandpa. Anytime 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:34.400 any of us asked our grandpa to give us like 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.079 answers on things, it was always different answers. He's since passed, 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:40.519 but we all got different answers. How we got the 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:43.880 last name Johnson, We all have different answers. He told 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:47.680 us something about a Swedish ship came here one day, 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:51.079 hooked up with a Native American person something whatever. He 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:56.040 told us so many different stories of our origin. And 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:59.959 then I I just I wish. 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:01.240 I knew more. 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:05.280 Like our family reunion when I was young, was on 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:08.720 a reservation in Phoenix, in Arizona when I was a 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:09.240 little kid. 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:13.960 But I don't know anything about it. I wish I did. 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:16.640 And both of your parents are from the same tribe. 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:20.720 No, I don't know what my mom's bloodline is. 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:25.320 Connected to. I only know from my dad's side. 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:26.000 Wow. 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.680 And so you lived up in the Bay And when 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.600 did you decide to come down to Los Angeles two. 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:37.440 Thousand and three, I moved here. I was a cheerleader 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:38.680 for the Oakland Raiders. 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:40.240 Before you came here. 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:44.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was twenty And the 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:45.880 only reason why I auditioned to be a cheerleader for 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:48.520 the Oakland Raiders is because I wanted to be an actress. 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:52.200 And I was using that as my sign if I 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:56.200 should pursue the entertainment industry, you know, And at first, 0:03:56.560 --> 0:04:00.920 the entertainment industry was just a fantasy, a very far 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:04.000 fetched fantasy. That's that's not for people like me. That's 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:05.240 not for people where I grew up. 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:07.760 That's for them. You know, I don't know. I don't 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:09.200 know how to I don't even know how to do it. 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:12.320 And then I remember when the Internet first came out 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:16.560 and everybody had AOL dial up. I remember logging onto 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:19.200 AOL dial up and trying to search how do you 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:22.320 get an agent? And being in San Jose and I 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:24.120 was like trying to search how do you start being 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:24.640 an actor? 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:30.960 And I found like an acting school in like a 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:31.880 modeling agent. 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.320 They're like, okay, send your resume, and like what resume? 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.960 Like I don't have yeah, And then so I remember 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:39.240 I just made up a resume. 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:41.640 What you put in the resume because I have, you know, 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:46.560 I put the most unnecessary stuff and the special skills? 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:48.880 How did you fill your out? 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:52.240 So my first resume, before I knew anything, I don't 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:55.560 even know. There was not even a proper like structure 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:58.039 to it. It was just like what school I went to, 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:01.120 and then any kind of acting. I wasn't even an 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:03.800 acting class in school, but I just like made up 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:05.200 stuff and put on there. I was like, I can 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:08.400 do this accent, I can dance. I can't. 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:10.440 And you did absolutely no acting before. 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:13.800 You did no, zero, nothing. You were just like I 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:16.320 want to be an actress, like high nothing like that. 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:17.040 I love it. 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:19.640 Wow you I didn't do any of it. 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.080 And I remember I printed it was like in purple 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:23.680 ink and I printed. I was like, let me at 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:24.960 least make it pretty. 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:25.240 Yeah. 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:27.000 Yeah, And I just mailed it out to a bunch 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.000 of people, and of course I didn't hear back from anybody. 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:33.880 And so I ended up having a friend, a friend 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:36.080 of a friend at the time, who had moved to 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:39.440 LA from San Jose, and she was in a Ross commercial. 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:41.240 And she was in an instinct. 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:43.120 She was doing she was doing it. 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:46.600 She was I knew somebody famous was this is just 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.400 like how how do I do. 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:54.120 Holding up the rasher? Tell you I'm such a similar 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:55.560 moment to yeah. 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:57.680 And I remember I get on the phone with her 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.360 one day and I was like, hey, I want to 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:02.560 do what you're doing, Like how do I do that? 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.440 And she was like, okay, Well, if you ever moved 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:07.800 to LA, I'll help you. I'll help show you the 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:08.920 ropes I'll help you get started. 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.840 Oh yeah, And I was like, hmm, all right. Now 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.080 it's like I have an actual past. 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:16.359 You have some kind yet. 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:19.280 Exactly exactly if I want to, Like I've been trying 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:21.600 but I don't know what I'm even looking for. But 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:23.160 now I have a girl saying well, if you come 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:26.440 out here, i'll help you. So right around that same time, 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:29.200 I ran into an old friend who I grew up 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.279 doing pop Warner cheerleading with since I was eight years 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:33.640 old and hadn't seen her in years, and we were 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:34.200 at some club. 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:34.880 We were dancing. 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:36.760 We're like, oh, yeah, how you been, and she's like, oh, 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:39.720 I'm a raiderete now and I'm like, oh, good for you. 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.400 And she's like, we have tryouts next week. You should come. 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.680 And I was like, oh no, that's not really my jam. 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:51.760 And of course, because i'm like tomboy, you know, and 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:53.400 when you think of like raderets, you think of like 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:57.760 sexy pretty And I'm like I'm good, thanks, and she 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.120 was like, no, you should come try out, and I 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:01.040 started to think about it. 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.200 I was like, you know what, I'm gonna. 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.320 Go try out interesting challenge, like yeah. 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:07.400 Not even because I want to be a cheerleader for 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:09.640 the Oakland Raiders. But I'm going to use it as 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:10.280 my sign. 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:13.520 If I make the squad, right, then I'll go to 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.720 LA and my friend says she would teach me how 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:18.240 to get started, so then I'll do it. But if 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:19.760 I don't make the squad, I'm gonna use it as 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.000 my sign that the entertainm ministry is not for me, 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:23.520 and I'll just figure something else out. 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:25.320 So Unfortunately, if you hadn't made it. 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:29.160 Let me tell you what was. 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:31.360 The tryout? 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:33.880 Like what did so it was in Oakland. 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:37.320 There was seven hundred girls at this open call audition 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:38.040 the first. 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:39.720 I mean everyone wanted to be a Raider girl dude 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:41.800 like in the day dooms. 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:44.840 There was like it was kind of costumes like cats, 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:49.560 like just why anybody came. Everybody came, whether you were 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:53.000 mentally healthy or not. Everybody came to this audition. 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:55.680 They're hanging out sandwiches. Everyone shows up. 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:59.640 Well, yeah, there is over seven hundred girls there. 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.480 In the first round of the audition is really just 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.320 you stand on a stage with like twenty other girls 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:06.640 at the time. 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:08.040 They break it down in groups. 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:10.480 And then one at a time, you like step forward 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.880 and you answer a question and then you step back 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:13.520 and that's it. 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:15.360 That's the whole first call. 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:18.520 And then so I made it past that round, I'm like, oh, okay, great, 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.760 this is good. And the next round was you had 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:25.320 to learn a routine and perform the routine in front 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:27.960 of judges. Now it's down to like maybe three hundred girls. 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.520 Now, did you have any dancing experience, You're like. 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:32.840 No other than the Pop Warner cheerleading. 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:34.920 I had a rhythm, yeah, yeah, yeah, h I could dance, 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:36.880 You could probably remember choreography and. 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:42.920 Synchron exactly, but I didn't know technical dance moves like purowets. 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.360 Yeah, and you know that that job was giving to 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:47.560 that one person that can do it. Everybody else can 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:48.079 do the dance. 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:51.120 So the dance routines that were doing in Pop Warner 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:54.360 are very like stiff I'm a cheerleader, you know, and 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:55.319 this was more like. 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:58.240 Purohet turn, flip your hair, yeah yeah yeah, And I'm. 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.199 Like, oh, it's a performance, oh yeah yeah. 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.560 And it was a whole different vibe from what I 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:04.520 grew up doing. 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:07.000 Did you feel like you were getting character too, Like, 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.360 were you like somehow embodying something else? 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:14.320 I definitely it was one of those like till you 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:14.640 make it. 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:16.760 Yeah, think about the contrast, right, You're like, oh, I'm 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:17.959 kind of like a tom girl that you know, I 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:18.640 don't know about that. 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:20.719 And then all of a sudden something else wakes up and. 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:22.960 You're like, yeah, y, yeah, I think it was. 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:27.160 I knew I had rhythm. I couldn't really do the 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:28.559 move that she was teaching. 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:29.559 We were in this like. 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:33.840 Banquet hall of a hotel and there's a stage and 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:36.400 the choreographer is on stage with her Britney spears microphone 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:38.360 and she's like teaching us all the choreography and there's 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:40.680 like three hundred us trying to learn it. And they're 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:43.680 doing you know, like turn and slip your hair and 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:47.400 all the thing. And I'm just like, well, I have attitude, 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.200 and I have like you know, I know how to 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:52.080 sell it, and I have personality. 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.680 I know how to work it. So I was just 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:56.360 working it and I was like, what what are I cam? 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.760 As long as I enjoyed, I can flip my hair. 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:01.800 I probably won't spot where everybody else is spotting, but 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:02.880 you're gonna see. 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:03.360 My hair, right. 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:04.920 But that's what they're looking for. 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:08.400 They're looking for that comfortability, that confidence. Yeah, the steps 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.600 are the steps you can learn that. Nobody has enough 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.160 time to learn them anyways. You know they're just looking for, like, 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:15.600 who is just enjoying it, who's having. 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:17.079 Well, it's a little bit of that. 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.320 But also you gotta be in line with everybody when 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:21.839 you're doing the performance up front. 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:23.680 You gotta know what you're doing. 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:27.680 So there was definitely that moment of the choreographer coming 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:31.320 off of stage, weaving her way through the three hundred 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:34.880 girls and coming up to me and saying, clearly, you 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:35.319 have no. 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:38.400 Dance experience, no way. 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:39.120 That was. 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:44.040 You have something that cannot be taught ah, And I. 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:45.600 Knew exactly what she meant. 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:48.760 She was right, I didn't have dance experience, and she 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.320 was also right, I do have something in me, and 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:54.160 I know it. I didn't have acting experience from high school. 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.200 I didn't have it, but I knew I had something something. 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:58.040 I knew I had something to offer. I knew there 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:01.440 was something within me, and I ended up making the squad. 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:05.240 And I remember when they called my number. I think 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:07.000 I was like number eighty nine or something. I forget, 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.240 but I remember they called my number that I had. 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:12.959 Made the squad, and my first thought was not. Oh 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:14.959 my gosh, I'm a cheerleader for the Oakland Raiders like 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:16.800 I made it. My first thought was. 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:18.160 I'm going to be an actress. 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.199 Yeah, yeah, this is I'm going to be an actress. 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:25.240 This was my sign and so I did it for 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:27.480 one year. We went to the super Bowl that year, 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:28.800 Like what a year? 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:29.080 Topict. 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:35.360 So the very next weekend after the Super Bowl, I 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.520 came home, I packed up my room and I moved 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.640 to LA and my little station wagon, my hand me 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:43.560 down station wagon that my mom gave me. I packed 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:46.240 up my room, drove til the very next weekend after 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:49.920 the super Bowl, and my friend kept her word and 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:52.520 she helped me get started as an extra. 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:54.360 I was an extra on Friends. That was my first 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:57.200 Still to this day, it's my favorite job. 0:11:57.200 --> 0:11:57.880 I wait, wait, so. 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.000 Talk so so walk us through that experience. 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.280 Oh a magical experience, let me tell you. 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:03.760 Yeah. 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:07.520 So my friend she kept her word and she's like, Okay, 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:08.800 this is what I want you to do. I want 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:11.360 you to go sign up at Central Casting and to 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:12.200 go be an extra. 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:14.920 When you get there, there's gonna be a line of 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:17.640 people out the door waiting to sign up to be 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:18.000 an extra. 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:19.679 I don't want you to wait in line. I want 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:21.120 you to go to Ralph's. I want you to get 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:22.920 a tray of cookies, and I want you to bring 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.400 a raider at headshot. Go to the front window. Ask 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:29.280 for this man. When he comes out, give him the cookies. 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.400 Give me your headshot. Just say I'm new to town 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.280 and I want to be an extra. That's it, That's 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:35.000 all you need to do. 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.360 And immediately I start thinking like, oh my god, people 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:39.640 have told me about casting couches. 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:42.480 I'm not trying to be that girl one of these 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.880 sleazy cookies. You try to have me drop off? What 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.280 you sprinkles mean? Is that code for something? 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:48.480 No? 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:49.160 Thank you? 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:51.800 But you know what, I gotta tell you something. 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:55.440 The cookies was a real thing, dude, because all of 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:59.240 us brought cookies to casting directors, to aid jans to 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:01.960 like you know, yeah, like I that was the thing. 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:05.720 I remember I brought cookies to something yeah before. 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:06.880 So she knew what she was doing. 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:07.280 And I. 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.160 Show up, I do the thing. There's a line of 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:12.440 people out the door. I'm like, oh my god, she 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:15.439 was right. I'm walking past people with my sleazy cookies 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:16.200 and I'm like, oh my god. 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.840 They all know, like they're all judging me right now 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:20.440 as I walk past them with my cookies and I 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:22.760 go inside as you know is you know, say I'm here. 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:24.160 I don't remember his name and say I'm here, and 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:26.160 she's like, yeah, hold, I'll help you right out. This 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:28.240 guy comes walking out from the back offices and he's 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:32.720 wearing a Raiders hat no and I'm like, oh, hello, 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.040 this is for you, and it's my Raider at headshot 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.160 and we're fresh off the super Bowl like a month ago. 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:38.480 We're just at the super Bowl. 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:42.800 Immediately he's like, Raider's no way, Oh my gosh. Then 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:45.440 we start talking about you know, Raiders stuff, and it's like, 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:47.160 oh my gosh. So you're here, all right, great, give 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.280 me your number, blah blah. Next week he calls me. 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:51.120 He's like, hey, I have a spot on Friends. If 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:52.760 you want to go on Friends. I'm like, oh, my 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:53.800 favorite show in the woid world. 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:54.400 Yeah I do. 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:56.319 I do want to be on Friends, Thank you so much. 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:00.280 And so I go to be an extra on Friends. 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:01.080 I don't know what I'm doing. 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.760 It's my first time being on the set of an 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:07.360 actual TV show. I don't know anything, Like my friends 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:09.000 trying to prepare me like, okay, this is. 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.760 What you do, you know, like live audience, the whole thing, 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:13.559 some monsters, like. 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:15.600 What it's going to be like just know your place, 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:17.800 don't be trying to talk to everybody. Just you know, 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:19.560 She's give me all the tips that she could give 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:22.680 me to prepare me. And then at the time, I 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:23.480 don't know if you guys. 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:25.400 Remember this, the hustle to try to get your SAG card. 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.960 But it was like being an extra. You get your 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:32.960 non union voucher or your union voucher, and you had 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:37.160 to get like three union vouchers in order to join SAG, 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:40.520 right right right, But so all these non union extras 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:44.160 were waiting for a union extra to not show up 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:46.680 so that they could get their their vouchers. So that's 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:50.000 how it worked. So if this union SAG extra didn't 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.840 show up, now we have an extra SAG voucher for somebody, 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:55.560 and so people would get it, and whoever the ad 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.200 like the most you get the SAG voucher. Once you 0:14:58.240 --> 0:14:59.960 got three of them, then you got to join the union. 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:01.280 Yeah. 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.560 Well, this guy put me in the computer system as 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:07.680 a SAG extra, So immediately I just started getting SAG 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:11.880 vouchers right away because he just hooked me up. And 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:14.880 then I had all these extras trying to learn from me, 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:16.320 going how do you get to sag? 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:17.600 How do you get a SAG voucher? 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:21.640 I don't know how yeah, and I'm like this guy 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:28.960 laugh and I was like cookies, just like, yeah, bring sprinkles. 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:42.800 So I ended up getting my SAG vouchers like immediately 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:46.400 within my first three times of being an extra, and 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:48.840 ended up making friends with the A D. Because I 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.560 was funny and I would make him laugh and he 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:53.760 was funny and I would laugh at his jokes, and 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:55.160 so we would just goof off with each other and 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:56.240 he'd be like, I'm gonna bring. 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:00.320 Friends yea, yeah, yeah yeah. 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:01.920 And so he'd bring me back and then the next da, 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:03.640 I'm gonna bring you back again. Next you know, I 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:05.200 was an extra for season nine and ten. 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:07.920 I'm in the background. 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:09.760 You can see me like making a living. 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:12.800 By the way, Oh this is my living. This is 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:14.280 my groceries. 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:18.160 Let me tell you yeah craft service, Yeah, that was 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:18.960 my groceries. 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:23.000 You better believe I came with my satchel a bunch 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.440 of Wriday there. 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:26.040 Yeah. 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:30.280 Also that at that time friends had I mean yeah, 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:31.720 they were like the biggest show. 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:33.080 Oh, the best service. 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:35.800 So the craft service was like you know, probably corn 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:39.800 dogs and lobsters. Oh one night did they recorded Friday Nightdays? 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:41.240 It was magic. 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.520 Did you ever cut a reel of like all of 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:44.840 your like walk away? 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:45.560 I should do that. 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:46.200 You should. 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:49.640 I've been tagged, Like people will be watching an episode 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:51.680 and they find you, they find me, and they'll tag 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:54.400 me and on Instagram and I'd be like, oh, that's me. 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:55.120 Yeah, totally. 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:57.200 There was one moment though, cutting ahead a little bit, 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:00.200 but there was one moment. I had booked a movie 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:04.040 and it was filming in Alabama, and I'm in the 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.680 gym at the hotel and I'm running on the treadmill 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.280 at the gym, and I'm watching Friends on the TV 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.040 screen and I see myself walk by in the background, 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:12.520 and it. 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:16.760 Was this magical movement yes, of like this is where 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:17.400 I started. 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:20.879