Speaker 1: Are you leaving? I you wanna way back home? Either way,
Speaker 1: we want to be there. Doesn't matter how much baggage
Speaker 1: you claim and give us time and a terminal and gay.
Speaker 1: We want to send you off inside. We wanna welcome
Speaker 1: you back home. Tell us all about it. We scared her?
Speaker 1: Was it fine?
Speaker 2: Malborn?
Speaker 3: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 1: Do you need to ride? Do you need to ride?
Speaker 1: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 3: Ride?
Speaker 4: Do you need.
Speaker 5: With Karen and Chris.
Speaker 6: Welcome to Do you need a ride? This is Chris Fairbanks.
Speaker 1: And this is Karen Kilgariff.
Speaker 3: Hello, my friend Karen.
Speaker 1: Hello Chris.
Speaker 6: You know what, I'm cool as a cucumber right now,
Speaker 6: I'll tell you that.
Speaker 2: I'm casual as Helen in no way of freaking out
Speaker 2: about our guest today at all.
Speaker 3: No, I'm not going to nerd out.
Speaker 6: This is a normal day and a normal guest that
Speaker 6: isn't going to make me act ridiculous in any way.
Speaker 2: We as people who have a driving stand up comics
Speaker 2: in a car to the airport podcast, Yes, we're kind
Speaker 2: of not used to this level of fame, this level
Speaker 2: of cultural immersion, this level.
Speaker 3: Of iconic I was gonna say icon were you?
Speaker 2: But what's the noun you were going to put after iconic,
Speaker 2: because now I can't think of what goes there iconic.
Speaker 3: Ness, iconic ness. Yeah, we should.
Speaker 1: Stop doing this part and introduce our guests.
Speaker 6: I think you're right, but I do like to say
Speaker 6: I do enjoy the beginning of our podcast. Often I
Speaker 6: enjoyed what we just did, just to give us a
Speaker 6: little credit.
Speaker 3: But let us now introduce.
Speaker 1: We don't need credit.
Speaker 3: No, no, we need to start this podcast, Yes we do.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen today right now our guest, mm hmm,
Speaker 2: it's Yardley Smith.
Speaker 4: I just been snickering into my hand for the last
Speaker 4: five minutes, trying not to make a sound. Maybe the
Speaker 4: best intro ever.
Speaker 6: And you'll back me up right, Iconicness is totally a word, right, I.
Speaker 4: Think it is? Yes, I do. I do think so.
Speaker 4: I thought you were going to say, like she's an
Speaker 4: iconic egg plant.
Speaker 2: It could have gone wrong, it could have gone bad
Speaker 2: after just the descript or.
Speaker 4: Iconic iconic cushion.
Speaker 3: Yes, you bring comfort to the world.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's right. How are you today?
Speaker 3: Ley?
Speaker 1: We're so excited to see you.
Speaker 4: Thank you. I am so excited to be here. This
Speaker 4: really is an honor. I mean, Karen, have been a
Speaker 4: fan of yours. You obviously my favorite murder You. You're
Speaker 4: like the gold standard.
Speaker 2: You're thank you.
Speaker 4: Who we all want to be. And then I started
Speaker 4: listening to Do You Need a Ride? And I was
Speaker 4: super excited that I could maybe be a guest on
Speaker 4: this podcast with you and Chris.
Speaker 3: Well, now thank you from me.
Speaker 4: Then, Chris, do you have a mural on your wall?
Speaker 4: And is that like jungle?
Speaker 6: It is a and you can just find them online.
Speaker 6: It's a photo wall mural. It is wallpaper, but you
Speaker 6: put it together like a puzzle.
Speaker 3: It was six pieces.
Speaker 6: And uh yeah, it feels like I'm in Hawaii every day?
Speaker 1: Is it the jungle?
Speaker 3: Cris?
Speaker 6: It is a tropical I don't know where, it seems like,
Speaker 6: uh it is Hawaii. And then in my bedroom I
Speaker 6: have kind of a Montana snow scene, like a mountain scene.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. I put it up and finished it days before.
Speaker 6: We were all locked into our apartments for a year
Speaker 6: and a half, so it was perfect timing.
Speaker 2: You're like a visionary. You knew you were going to
Speaker 2: need some other areas to focus on.
Speaker 6: I started covid yeah.
Speaker 4: Well thanks for coming clean after all this.
Speaker 6: Yeah, a lot of people are blaming a bat and
Speaker 6: it's just it's yeah, it was just me.
Speaker 3: I have a laboratory. It's a long story.
Speaker 1: So you yourself and I can't.
Speaker 2: I guess I could have said a conic podcaster, because
Speaker 2: you've been doing small Town Dicks now for is it
Speaker 2: five years?
Speaker 4: Four years? Actually? We launched in September twenty seventeen, but
Speaker 4: we are in our ninth season. We do two seasons
Speaker 4: a year, and it's going really well. I co host
Speaker 4: with identical twin detectives Dan and Dave, which you tell
Speaker 4: that to be able to are like, that's not true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a gold mine.
Speaker 2: Then you add the extra layer on it, which is
Speaker 2: that aren't you married to one of those detectives.
Speaker 4: I'm engaged to Detective Dan actually, which is pretty pretty great.
Speaker 4: It's number three for me, third marriage for me, not
Speaker 4: now third times of charm, number one for detective Dan.
Speaker 4: So I hope he doesn't fuck it up and I'm
Speaker 4: not the starter.
Speaker 3: Well, if he does, there's always his twin brother.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because that wouldn't be weird switch, right, can you imagine?
Speaker 3: I do I think about that? All the time.
Speaker 4: It's not sixteen hundreds, Chris, I know.
Speaker 6: But I always I grew up with identical twin best friends,
Speaker 6: my nieces are identical twins, and I always think about
Speaker 6: the pranks and scams they could pull looking like each other.
Speaker 6: But yeah, of course they all just live normal lives.
Speaker 6: And I'm the one with these twisted fantasies of twindom.
Speaker 4: I think we do impose a lot of stories onto
Speaker 4: twins of all sorts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, especially identical twins. Yeah, it's like the next
Speaker 2: level of twins.
Speaker 1: Really.
Speaker 4: And Dad and Dave are what they call mirror twins.
Speaker 4: So they're identical twins, but Dad is right handed and
Speaker 4: Dave is left handed.
Speaker 3: Right yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, my friends that I grew up with, we grew
Speaker 6: up skateboarding and snowboarding, and yeah, one is right handed,
Speaker 6: one's left handed. One stands goofy footed, the other stands
Speaker 6: regular footed. And that was always interesting to me because
Speaker 6: their mannerisms are also opposite of each other. Such, I
Speaker 6: wonder if they're mirror I've never heard that phrase before.
Speaker 3: I wonder, Yeah, dictates that.
Speaker 4: I don't know, but they do have very similar mannerisms.
Speaker 4: Now you can very much tell them apart. But when
Speaker 4: they were really small, they looked so much alike that
Speaker 4: you show them a photo of themselves they're like age
Speaker 4: five and they're like, I don't know, yep, only their
Speaker 4: mother can tell.
Speaker 3: Holy shit, yeah, exactly like my friends.
Speaker 6: Then one day one of them finally got his nose
Speaker 6: broken and we could always.
Speaker 3: Tell him apart.
Speaker 1: Very generous.
Speaker 3: One of them had it for the day. He did
Speaker 3: it for his friends.
Speaker 1: He's like, I'll do I'll take the hit.
Speaker 2: Fine, fine, fine, Is it easy to have a podcast
Speaker 2: with your fiance?
Speaker 4: Nope, I mean next question. No, it's really you know.
Speaker 4: On the one hand, it is, it's great because I
Speaker 4: know so well, and I know Dave quite well at
Speaker 4: this point that I can. So I'm the lay person
Speaker 4: in the podcast, obviously, and when we have a guest,
Speaker 4: it's another detective who has investigated the case that they're
Speaker 4: talking about. So all of the cases are told by
Speaker 4: the detectives who investigated them. So I'm the lay person
Speaker 4: who sits on the other side of the table and
Speaker 4: asks all of the questions that you would ask if
Speaker 4: you sat at that table. No question is too dumb. Great,
Speaker 4: But I'm also the person who will not let those detectives,
Speaker 4: male or female, off the hook. When I want to
Speaker 4: know if you're the person who's going to see the
Speaker 4: worst of humanity every time you leave the house, because
Speaker 4: that's your job, where do you put that? Where does
Speaker 4: that go inside of you? How do you do what
Speaker 4: you do? And why do you do it so for
Speaker 4: better or for worse? Dan and Dave have not been
Speaker 4: allowed to wiggle out of that answer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's intense.
Speaker 4: It is intense, and you know sometimes so obviously I
Speaker 4: do the voice of Lisa Simpsons, so I've been doing it.
Speaker 3: Yay, you brought up. We didn't bring it up. I
Speaker 3: wasn't even going to bring up the S word.
Speaker 4: Good grief. You can't do it an audio presentation with that,
Speaker 4: Lisa Simpson.
Speaker 3: I was not going to ask you to do the voice.
Speaker 3: You did the voice.
Speaker 2: She didn't know why she gets it, and she knows,
Speaker 2: and she's a generous human being, means the world.
Speaker 4: I mean, I love that girl like nobody's business. I really,
Speaker 4: and I feel like she's quite separate from me, like
Speaker 4: she's so whole that she really seems she exists in
Speaker 4: my heart, in my mind like a three dimensional, living,
Speaker 4: breathing red blooded little person adore her.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what, I've never thought about that.
Speaker 6: How much more fun that would be than being a
Speaker 6: villain your whole life and something and having to go
Speaker 6: there in your mind as opposed to a sweet smart
Speaker 6: It's one.
Speaker 2: Of the most beloved television children of all time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: or maybe even children of all time, because she really
Speaker 2: is the noblest of characters.
Speaker 3: She is.
Speaker 4: It's funny that you say that, Chris, because people ask
Speaker 4: me all the time, how much are you like Lisa Simpson?
Speaker 4: What have you learned from her? And I don't think
Speaker 4: you can play a character for thirty three plus years
Speaker 4: and not have them get inside of you. So I
Speaker 4: actually said, I'm really glad I don't play an asshole
Speaker 4: because imagine doing that for thirty three years and having
Speaker 4: that get inside of you. I think that would be
Speaker 4: a great deal harder. But Lisa Simpson is so She's
Speaker 4: so thoughtful and resilient and clever and funny like Lisa
Speaker 4: Simpson has a fantastic sense of humor, one of my
Speaker 4: favorite things about her. So you can put her on
Speaker 4: a soapbox, but that really only works and doesn't become
Speaker 4: insufferable if you also remember that she laughs her butt
Speaker 4: off at Itch and Scratchy, right, yes, so you have
Speaker 4: to have those two things right side by side, you know.
Speaker 2: Yes, and she fell in love with Nelson's yeah, which
Speaker 2: I love. That's one of my favorite episodes, saying she's
Speaker 2: so beautiful.
Speaker 4: You know, these two characters who don't know where they
Speaker 4: fit in in the world. They find each other and
Speaker 4: then have the grace to realize we're not good together
Speaker 4: as a couple, but I still really like you and
Speaker 4: appreciate you. I respect who you are. We're gonna part way,
Speaker 4: so we're gonna part friends.
Speaker 2: That was the thing that was so breathtaking for me,
Speaker 2: as like, you know, late teens, when that show came on,
Speaker 2: there was a little girl on TV that was questioning things,
Speaker 2: that was like standing up to authority, that was into art,
Speaker 2: that was into being smart, being vocal, standing.
Speaker 1: Up for like all those things. I was just like,
Speaker 1: holy shit.
Speaker 2: And then everything else going on in the show, She's
Speaker 2: this perfect counterbalance and yet at the same time, you're right,
Speaker 2: she's still a human kid. You believe that about her,
Speaker 2: So like, yes, of course, girls like that fall in
Speaker 2: love with Nelson. Month's like, it's just beautiful.
Speaker 1: It's beautiful.
Speaker 2: Writing, and it's beautiful performing and it meant the world
Speaker 2: to finally see I know so many girls like that.
Speaker 4: You know that's so great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, only she could see the good.
Speaker 6: And because she's riddled with compassion, she's the only Simpson
Speaker 6: I mean, in the whole show fully compassionate character.
Speaker 4: I think she's definitely the most self aware. I think
Speaker 4: Marge has well. I think they all have compassion, but
Speaker 4: to your point, they aren't willing to really mind the
Speaker 4: depths of how much further can I go? You know,
Speaker 4: Lisa Simpson is She's an overachiever in every way, even
Speaker 4: in the compassion little compartment. So I know she's so accountable.
Speaker 4: Even when she gets her come up pence, she just
Speaker 4: pulls up her socks and gets on with it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: Like she goes, Okay, I'm going to learn from this
Speaker 4: and I'm going to try to do it better next time.
Speaker 4: She's all the best parts of a human being, I feel.
Speaker 2: Can I tell my nerdy Simpsons. Yeah, of being a
Speaker 2: super fan. When I lived in San Francisco, I was
Speaker 2: twenty one and working at the Gap and starting stand
Speaker 2: up comedy, and everything was a little bit hopeless feeling
Speaker 2: and whatever, And when the Simpsons started, you know, it
Speaker 2: was like probably a year into the show running.
Speaker 1: Basically there was a bar and NOI Valley.
Speaker 2: I wish I could remember the name, but we would
Speaker 2: all go and so it was just a real standard
Speaker 2: you know, like long, narrow bar with a TV in
Speaker 2: the back, and so it could fit about fifty people packed,
Speaker 2: and every Simpsons night it would be packed, and so,
Speaker 2: you know, coming up on the time when it was starting,
Speaker 2: it was loud like a packed bar, and the second
Speaker 2: that opening music started, it would get quieter and quieter
Speaker 2: till the first line. It would be dead silent in
Speaker 2: this bar and everyone would just stand and watch it.
Speaker 2: And if they had to laugh, this was almost like
Speaker 2: an unspoken rule. If they had to laugh, would be
Speaker 2: like ha, and you had to shut up immediately, and
Speaker 2: you didn't get to talk about what jokes you liked
Speaker 2: after they happen or whatever.
Speaker 1: You laughed and shut up.
Speaker 2: So it was dead silent until the commercial and then
Speaker 2: everyone would be like, oh my god, this and da
Speaker 2: dah dad that, and then it would come back and
Speaker 2: it would go back down. And it was one of
Speaker 2: my favorite memories, like of all time because it was
Speaker 2: like all these Simpsons nerds, basically being like, it's more
Speaker 2: fun to watch it together, but we have to do
Speaker 2: it right and don't like, don't ruin my time, don't
Speaker 2: make me lit miss one line, but we want to
Speaker 2: be together because once it would be over, everyone just
Speaker 2: look around like how is comedy of this quality being
Speaker 2: made in front of us? Like we're so lucky to
Speaker 2: be alive right now. Was the most fun, like young
Speaker 2: thing I ever did.
Speaker 1: It was great, that's fan.
Speaker 6: I love the idea of someone knew coming that night
Speaker 6: to that bar and it had to be called Mo's right,
Speaker 6: why that bar only and just laughing out loud and
Speaker 6: long and drowning out all the tags to jokes. No
Speaker 6: wedding kicked out. Sorry you can come back next week,
Speaker 6: but you.
Speaker 2: That person would have been disappeared within ten seconds because
Speaker 2: these people were seriously San Francisco and you know how
Speaker 2: San Francisco people can be serious about their arts. And
Speaker 2: it was intense, but it was like the most fun
Speaker 2: almost like secret thing too, because this was pre obviously internet,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like it got around or whatever.
Speaker 2: It was just like if you were cool enough to
Speaker 2: know this was happening, you would go and it was
Speaker 2: just amazing.
Speaker 4: That's so great. We used to get a lot of requests.
Speaker 4: We had to sign the releases of course for college campuses,
Speaker 4: so for the week of orientation they would run. They
Speaker 4: were requesting to run Simpson's Marathon because it was so
Speaker 4: culturally recognizable, it was so unifying that it was a
Speaker 4: great way to get the student body who hadn't been
Speaker 4: together yet, or hadn't been together at least for many
Speaker 4: months together to sort of bond over something that they
Speaker 4: were all familiar with. It's pretty I mean, that's pretty extraordinary. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, to be used as a tool like that, what's
Speaker 6: more universal than the it's a dean of a college
Speaker 6: deciding that I love it.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: And also for thirty three years, you've had an unbroken
Speaker 2: stream of insurance.
Speaker 4: That's yes, awesome, No, Karen, honestly, So, I had a
Speaker 4: really robust on camera career for the first from like
Speaker 4: seventeen to thirty three ish, yep, and then things started
Speaker 4: to change drastically, and it was I think it was
Speaker 4: a sort of a confluence of things. I think it was,
Speaker 4: you know, the business was changing, movie stars were doing
Speaker 4: television blah blah blah, and so I stopped getting on
Speaker 4: camera work, which had really been my bread and butter,
Speaker 4: and if not for the Simpsons, who knows. I mean honestly,
Speaker 4: it kept me afloat, and it kept me in the business.
Speaker 4: It kept me creative. Really, I really landed in the
Speaker 4: honeypot with this job.
Speaker 3: I'd love to hear you say that, because I think
Speaker 3: so too.
Speaker 4: It's been a I mean, honestly, a gift in every way.
Speaker 4: To love your character that much, to get to say
Speaker 4: the words are really the smartest people in the room.
Speaker 4: And to have a show run that we're now recording
Speaker 4: season thirty three is just what the fuck?
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 4: How did that happen?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I mean it's crazy.
Speaker 6: This whole time for it to be your voice, so
Speaker 6: you can live a normal life and not be affected
Speaker 6: by people like Mike Judge. I've always looked up to
Speaker 6: his fame because he knows no one really knows what
Speaker 6: he looks on.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and it's like, oh, you're living a totally normal life.
Speaker 3: It's the best of both worlds.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, I do. Because I sound exactly like Lisa Simpson.
Speaker 4: This is me, this is Lisa Simpson. It's not that
Speaker 4: far away. And because I look exactly the same as
Speaker 4: I did when I started on camera. I just have
Speaker 4: a few more wrinkles. But I'm not one of those
Speaker 4: people you look at a baby picture and go who's that?
Speaker 4: You go, oh, that's Yardley.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I really do look the same. And this is
Speaker 6: gonna my dad. One year, I think he climbed up
Speaker 6: the telephone poll in the alley and somehow hooked us
Speaker 6: up with HBO. We had it for four or five years,
Speaker 6: and there was a show, a movie that I think
Speaker 6: I saw twelve times. It was just constantly on called
Speaker 6: the Legend of Billy Jane and oh, yes, I can't fully.
Speaker 6: All I know is I wanted a Honda Elite scooter yep.
Speaker 6: And that was somehow involved. And tons of stars are
Speaker 6: in it.
Speaker 4: Yes, Keith Gordon was in it. He went on to
Speaker 4: have a really hot directing career. Helen Slater Christian Slater
Speaker 4: not actually related, no relating brother and sister.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and they aren't in real life, right, No, no
Speaker 6: they are now. Yeah, I've watched it so many times
Speaker 6: and I knew who you were already because my sister.
Speaker 6: I have an older sister that shared everything with me,
Speaker 6: and I had those loves Held Matt Groening.
Speaker 4: Bo Yeah, life is life.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and so early you were on the Tracy Ollman shorts, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was on the shorts, but I wasn't on
Speaker 4: the Sketch Comedy show like Dan and Julie were actually
Speaker 4: in the cast of that of the comedy show.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, yeah, I didn't realize Dan, I didn't ear that.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I knew right away because like you said,
Speaker 6: it's a slightly different voice, and your voice was maybe
Speaker 6: even more Lisa like in the legend Ability. But yeah,
Speaker 6: it was all I remember from that show.
Speaker 3: And I don't want this is weird, but I did not.
Speaker 6: I had a sister that told me about periods and
Speaker 6: told me about I knew how bad she would cramp
Speaker 6: and how much pain she is in.
Speaker 3: But I learned from you in the legend Ability that
Speaker 3: blood was involved.
Speaker 6: There's a see. Do you know I learned about periods
Speaker 6: from that movie. My back is sweating right now because
Speaker 6: I even brought it up.
Speaker 3: But that is that The scooter is all I remember.
Speaker 4: That's all you know about that movie.
Speaker 1: It's all there is to know, really well.
Speaker 4: It was. It was a bomb when it came out.
Speaker 4: I can tell you that. And then because of cable,
Speaker 4: because cable, So we shot it in nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 4: It was released in eighty five, and cable was just
Speaker 4: sort of coming into our lives and they didn't have anything,
Speaker 4: so they ran on all the time, twenty four to seven, yeah,
Speaker 4: months at a time. So now it's like this cult classic.
Speaker 4: But I could tell you it was barely out long
Speaker 4: enough to run the end credits when it was really but.
Speaker 2: It was the eighties were that time where there was
Speaker 2: so fewer channels and so much less content, you know
Speaker 2: that back then. Yeah, you watched the same thing over
Speaker 2: and over, and so did everyone in your class or
Speaker 2: at your school.
Speaker 1: So everybody knew this.
Speaker 2: You know, I knew your face from movie to movie
Speaker 2: because I was like, there she is again, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, Like it's the girl that I can
Speaker 2: tell she's playing younger than her age because she has
Speaker 2: a younger voice, but she's really smart, so's she's gonna
Speaker 2: be like the sassy, precocious girl like you know, you
Speaker 2: were a constant in our lives.
Speaker 4: And Maximum Overdrive is the other one that came out
Speaker 4: around the same time. Oh good god, another bomb, but
Speaker 4: now massive cult favorite.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, totally.
Speaker 1: That's the one where the trucks took over right.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, a Stephen King movie directed by Stephen King.
Speaker 4: The only one.
Speaker 1: Shit, So that's the one he likes, and he doesn't
Speaker 1: like any of the other ones.
Speaker 4: Well interestingly, it's the one that he refers to in
Speaker 4: his memoirs being at the height of his addictions. Oh as, wow,
Speaker 4: there were so many challenges on that movie. It was
Speaker 4: produced by Dino di Laurentis, so most of the crew
Speaker 4: was Italian speaking oh because do you know, Delorentis is Italian,
Speaker 4: but at least when I met him was real really
Speaker 4: still speaking mostly Italian. So the crew was Italian, and
Speaker 4: if they spoke English, they chose to speak Italian. For
Speaker 4: the most part, Steven doesn't speak Italian, so we had
Speaker 4: a translator who would go back and forth. There was
Speaker 4: so much extra time. And then at five o'clock, regardless
Speaker 4: of whether or not it was a day shoot or
Speaker 4: a night shoot, the beer would come out and I
Speaker 4: was like.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 4: All right, whatever, and then he would be blottoh you know,
Speaker 4: by sick.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: We still had twelve hours to go. But he was lovely.
Speaker 4: I will say that he was humble and shy and
Speaker 4: I quite liked him, but I'm not sure he it
Speaker 4: was not an experience he cared to repeat.
Speaker 3: I gather.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we were actually just talking about this with Paton
Speaker 2: Oswald because Jah and Patton and I are all big
Speaker 2: Stephen King book nerds for sure, and we were talking
Speaker 2: about how he also talked about in Isma more how
Speaker 2: he wrote Kujo and I think he said Christine in
Speaker 2: a blackout, so he doesn't really remember writing them. Holy shit,
Speaker 2: I mean talk about getting stuff done and like.
Speaker 4: Talk about a high functioning alcohol.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this is this is almost like an advertisements.
Speaker 1: You can do it. It's not that hard, It's not
Speaker 1: so bad. Are the negatives?
Speaker 2: What about what about the horrifying Possessed Dog books you
Speaker 2: could be writing?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, everyone thinks about when they're in AA. They
Speaker 6: forget about the maximum overdrives out there, the reasons to
Speaker 6: stick with it.
Speaker 3: I'm kidding, yardly.
Speaker 2: What was your first, like the first job you got
Speaker 2: in TV or movies?
Speaker 4: Very first job I got, so I had. I grew
Speaker 4: up in Washington, d C. And I stayed there for
Speaker 4: a year after I graduated high school because I got
Speaker 4: several jobs at Good Theaters in DC. But also I
Speaker 4: had not gotten into college, so it wasn't like I
Speaker 4: had a lot of options.
Speaker 1: So business was your safety net. Yes, it's tough.
Speaker 4: It's tough. And so in the course of doing those plays,
Speaker 4: I managed to get a New York agent and I
Speaker 4: moved to New York when I was just eighteen, and
Speaker 4: I within about six weeks I was understudying on Broadway, Wow,
Speaker 4: And I was understudying Cynthia Nixon in Tom Stoppard play
Speaker 4: called The Real Thing and the original incarnation on Broadway,
Speaker 4: you know, with Jeremy Irons and Glenn Close, Peter Gallagher,
Speaker 4: Christine Baranski like and it won all the awards, all
Speaker 4: the Tonys that year. And when Cynthia, Mike Nichols, who
Speaker 4: was the pulled Cynthia out of the Real Thing after
Speaker 4: only three months on Broadway and put her in his
Speaker 4: production of Hurley Burley. So I took over the role.
Speaker 3: And that's what an understudy is.
Speaker 6: I just always nod when someone says that, But you
Speaker 6: are essentially back up.
Speaker 4: Your backup. But what's interesting is you're almost never the replacement.
Speaker 4: So if she had run, let's say, like when Glenn
Speaker 4: Close and Jeremy Irons's contracts were up. The understudies that
Speaker 4: I had been rehearsing with this whole time did not
Speaker 4: take over those roles. Oh wow, they went elsewhere. It's brutal.
Speaker 4: And if I had known that, oh my god. I
Speaker 4: was just like, well, of course I'll take over part.
Speaker 4: I'm the under study, and like, oh, Yardley, you just
Speaker 4: don't know anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's how it works at college, which is,
Speaker 2: you know, the fair way things go.
Speaker 1: But that's not Broadwayne, not in the world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so as the understudy, you did get Cynthia Nixon's part.
Speaker 4: I did.
Speaker 1: I did, so you broke the stand.
Speaker 4: So when I auditioned for the part on Broadway, they
Speaker 4: didn't tell me it was auditioning for the understudy. They
Speaker 4: just said, come in and read for Jeremy Arns's Daughters.
Speaker 4: Everybody in that play has one scene, with the exception
Speaker 4: of Christine Baranski and Jeremy and Glenn basically and Peter
Speaker 4: Gallagher playing the lover. So anyway, I was and I
Speaker 4: impressed them, and I got a call back and blah
Speaker 4: blah is great, and then they went great, so you
Speaker 4: got the understudy, And I said, what what oh no, no, no,
Speaker 4: it's not part of the plan for world domination. And
Speaker 4: my agent at the time was like, who the fuck
Speaker 4: are you, like, sit down and shut up. You will
Speaker 4: take this job and you'd be grateful, and I was like,
Speaker 4: oh good. So I would go to rehearsal every day,
Speaker 4: and then we did an out of town try out
Speaker 4: in Boston before we went to Broadway, and I was
Speaker 4: I was a fairly I was incredibly on the outside.
Speaker 4: It was very polite. I was at one prepared. You
Speaker 4: never saw what was going on internally, which was I
Speaker 4: was miserable and in a panic that maybe this I
Speaker 4: was just gonna be this for the rest of my life.
Speaker 4: And hats off to you can make a really good,
Speaker 4: solid career and a good living. As an understudy just
Speaker 4: wasn't what I wanted to do. And so I was like, yeah,
Speaker 4: it was pretty arrogant and a big baby, but.
Speaker 2: That's well, that's the time to be it. And you
Speaker 2: knew You're like, I meant for more than this, which
Speaker 2: you were.
Speaker 4: Yes, thank you. I just I do feel like I
Speaker 4: really was the I was just a person who would
Speaker 4: never quit like you. I was just just kept getting
Speaker 4: back up even though I It wasn't as though I
Speaker 4: would go to an audition not get it and take
Speaker 4: it all in stride. I was destroyed every time. Yeah yo, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean I was fucking destroyed every time. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Are just so truly the worst.
Speaker 4: It's brutal. And I was just gonna say I'm not.
Speaker 4: I feel like, in many ways, I'm not really cut
Speaker 4: out to be an actor. I don't have the temperament
Speaker 4: for it. I'm much too soft.
Speaker 1: Too late. Now what do you Yeah, too late.
Speaker 4: And now I have no skills, so uh oh, what
Speaker 4: are you gonna do?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I wonder about that.
Speaker 6: Are successful actors unaffected when they don't get something?
Speaker 3: Because it really bothers me.
Speaker 6: And I'm talking about cat food commercials and stuff, the
Speaker 6: things I'm going out for that's some cat food and
Speaker 6: then I drive back home. But I, uh, yeah, it
Speaker 6: really bothers me when those things don't go well. And
Speaker 6: same with stand up If I like last night, I
Speaker 6: didn't feel good about my set and I kind of
Speaker 6: canceled my plans for the day, and I wonder, yeah,
Speaker 6: it's I suppose it's an obstacle, but I keep working
Speaker 6: through it. But I'm envious of people that are not
Speaker 6: bothered by failure of feeling they failed.
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, yeah, Actually, you guys talking about
Speaker 2: this reminded me. I actually used to talk about this
Speaker 2: in my act because one of the worst auditions I
Speaker 2: ever had was for The Simpsons at some point along
Speaker 2: the line, because this was when I lived in LA
Speaker 2: So it was like ninety four ninety five, and they
Speaker 2: were auditioning for people for they needed, I guess, more
Speaker 2: backup people.
Speaker 1: Voices are you know.
Speaker 4: Wila, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Other cast members, I guess are people they wanted to
Speaker 2: see if there were people that could do multiple characters
Speaker 2: or whatever.
Speaker 1: And I walked into so it was literally.
Speaker 2: One of the first LA auditions that I ever had,
Speaker 2: which means it was one of the first auditions aside
Speaker 2: from like musicals in sixth grade or whatever. And I
Speaker 2: walk into this conference room. The table goes on forever.
Speaker 2: It looks like, you know, a Cohen Brothers movie of
Speaker 2: executives who aren't interested in seeing the audition.
Speaker 1: So welcoming, and there's there's like a little.
Speaker 2: You know, a microphone and the script in front of me,
Speaker 2: and the person running the cameras all the way at
Speaker 2: the other end, and they say Okay, Karen, whenever you're ready,
Speaker 2: you can slate yourself and then begin. But I didn't
Speaker 2: know what slate yourself meant, and I knew what a
Speaker 2: slate was, and I'd seen the prop of a slate
Speaker 2: in things. So I stood there smiling and like going.
Speaker 1: What are you going to do? Because you don't know
Speaker 1: what that means?
Speaker 2: Like, you can't just begin because clearly there's a step before,
Speaker 2: and so I kind of just stood there, afraid to ask,
Speaker 2: but also kind of afraid to do anything. And then
Speaker 2: again the woman said, okay, Karen, just go ahead, slate
Speaker 2: yourself and then you can start.
Speaker 1: And then so finally I.
Speaker 2: Went because I was like, well, okay, if you want
Speaker 2: me to, So I went, my name's Karen Claire, take
Speaker 2: one and met like that with my arms.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's amazing.
Speaker 4: I just want to hug you so tightly.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, that's exactly what I wanted
Speaker 3: you to do.
Speaker 5: It's the best.
Speaker 4: Sorry.
Speaker 2: It was just like, why didn't I take one class
Speaker 2: where we just went over terms or you know what
Speaker 2: I mean?
Speaker 1: And it's like, here's what it might be like, sess.
Speaker 4: That I'm guessing at the end of the day, they
Speaker 4: didn't actually know you didn't know what that meant, and
Speaker 4: that you were being funny doing the slight it's with
Speaker 4: your arms brilliant. I guess it's brilliant.
Speaker 1: I guess I mean, like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's that kind of thing where I think the
Speaker 2: way auditions affected me also made me believe I shouldn't
Speaker 2: perform in like this business because I want things that
Speaker 2: I don't actually like.
Speaker 1: I'm doing things that feel really bad.
Speaker 2: I'm furious at every person at that conference room.
Speaker 1: And it's literally thirty years later.
Speaker 2: Plus like you know what I mean, it just like
Speaker 2: it affected me forever of like, oh, this is a
Speaker 2: quote unquote big failure where it's like it's not no
Speaker 2: one gives a shit. It was probably like the most
Speaker 2: fun thing that happened that day. But when you're the
Speaker 2: one that's fucking up, it never feels that way.
Speaker 4: It doesn't feel that way. But now I have to say,
Speaker 4: now you've come a full circle because you and Georgia
Speaker 4: were caricatures on the wall of our faux sarties on
Speaker 4: the podcast news episode where Kent Brockman gets he starts
Speaker 4: his own podcast and then he actually encounters me Yardley
Speaker 4: Smith and he says, you sound familiar, and he says,
Speaker 4: where do I know you're from? And I say, from
Speaker 4: my podcast, small town Dickson, nowhere else. He's a big
Speaker 4: sort of winky winky inside joke. But on the wall
Speaker 4: in that restaurant is fantastic. Karen and Georgia simpsonized in Simpson.
Speaker 2: Cartoons and not like not like rip off internet Simpson
Speaker 2: art right like the real artist, the real deal.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable.
Speaker 3: This isn't the first you're hearing of this, Karen, is it?
Speaker 2: No? No?
Speaker 3: Because I mean that is awesome.
Speaker 2: The funny thing is I've known Matt Selman, who is
Speaker 2: now the EV since he was the writer's PA on
Speaker 2: that Simpson He's one of the first people I met
Speaker 2: in Los Angels, Like, we used to hang.
Speaker 1: Out all the time when we were younger.
Speaker 2: So he actually texted me that picture of like, hey,
Speaker 2: you might want to watch tonight's episode and I was like, oh.
Speaker 1: Holy fuck, what am I looking at? What's beyond? I mean,
Speaker 1: so great beyond.
Speaker 4: He is just one of my favorite people of all time.
Speaker 4: He's so smart, he's so incisive, he's he just will
Speaker 4: not let the ball drop even a little bit, and
Speaker 4: let alone let it roll under the sofa. That is
Speaker 4: not who Matt Salman is.
Speaker 2: And he has been the number one Simpsons fan since
Speaker 2: he started at that job. Like he the idea that
Speaker 2: someone that's running it is as passionate, you know, and
Speaker 2: has been there for as long as he has and
Speaker 2: is as passionate about it.
Speaker 1: It's just like, it's very beautiful.
Speaker 4: It is beautiful. I adore him. Yeah, he's phenomenal.
Speaker 6: For the longest time, have you been not seeing those people?
Speaker 6: Were you just recording in your home? Or how did
Speaker 6: it work for a while?
Speaker 4: So before the pandemic, we would get together in a
Speaker 4: big conference room with a big conference table.
Speaker 1: And slate yourselves and.
Speaker 6: Of course you got to do the handclap yeah.
Speaker 4: With the writers. So the actors sort of clustered all
Speaker 4: together and the writers at the other end, and then
Speaker 4: our showrunner Al Jean, the other show runner next to Matt.
Speaker 4: They like to have a little audience in that conference room,
Speaker 4: so the walls are lined with like fifty people, and
Speaker 4: then we would read the script out loud. Was the
Speaker 4: first and only time the writers would hear it all
Speaker 4: at once before they started to put the pieces together
Speaker 4: in animation. So based on how that read through goes
Speaker 4: well or not so well, how many laughs you get
Speaker 4: would dictate how that rewrite would go. Then ten days
Speaker 4: later we record that episode. We used to record all
Speaker 4: together like an old radio play. Fantastic. I would stand
Speaker 4: between Dan who does home We're in, Nancy who does bart,
Speaker 4: and to watch Dan, for instance, go from voice to
Speaker 4: voice to voice, or Hank or Harry is just I mean,
Speaker 4: it'll never get old, and we're just sitting just like,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, it's.
Speaker 6: So hard to not watch The Simpsons and not think
Speaker 6: you're actually running around playing saxophone, or like the fact
Speaker 6: that you're all just standing there and going through it
Speaker 6: like a radio play is amazing to me.
Speaker 3: I actually never realize that or that's.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pretty We would do each scene four times,
Speaker 4: and then if it still wasn't right, we would do pickups,
Speaker 4: and then from that one record they would piece it
Speaker 4: together and start to animate. Meanwhile, it takes about nine
Speaker 4: months to animate one episode. Oh my, So I go
Speaker 4: in for Adyr probably at least three times per episode
Speaker 4: at various stages of that animation process. And when the
Speaker 4: pandemic hit, we started to do our read throughs over zoom,
Speaker 4: so there's like sixty five people on that zoom, which
Speaker 4: is insane. And then a year ago in August, they said,
Speaker 4: then we started to record from home one at a time,
Speaker 4: and I have really good equipment, but you can't account
Speaker 4: for the barking dog and the you know, children screaming
Speaker 4: next door in the garbage truck, and.
Speaker 3: You zoom zoom for that as well, because.
Speaker 4: No, no, well I would be directed over zoom, but
Speaker 4: I would be you know, recording into an external recorder.
Speaker 4: But still, because my room doesn't sound like somebody else's room.
Speaker 4: There was so much clean up on the back end.
Speaker 4: It was so labor intensive. So when they said you
Speaker 4: can come in one at a time now into the studio,
Speaker 4: still be directed over zoom by one of the writers,
Speaker 4: and the engineer will be in the booth fifteen feet
Speaker 4: behind you if you want, And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 4: fuck yes, I'm a I'm doing that. So now we
Speaker 4: do it on our own, by myself, which is not
Speaker 4: my preference. You know. Of course, the way you say
Speaker 4: something is going to inform the way I would respond.
Speaker 4: So I really love playing off my fellow cast mates.
Speaker 4: But we're such a well oiled machine at this point.
Speaker 4: We can do it, but I don't know. I think
Speaker 4: it loses just a tiny bit of the nuance and
Speaker 4: the sort of spontaneity.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I mean zoom got better. As far as timing.
Speaker 6: In the beginning, there was a delay depends.
Speaker 4: It still is though, No, Chris, if you have to
Speaker 4: if we were doing so literally, ADR is when you
Speaker 4: have to dub to picture right, so we do a
Speaker 4: lot of pickups and then we do some ADR. If
Speaker 4: you were doing ADR to picture. Fuck me, it was
Speaker 4: so hard, do you like? Because you would have you
Speaker 4: would hear the beep and so I would be late, right,
Speaker 4: I would hear it, but it was already just a
Speaker 4: half second late, and so the whole all the sink
Speaker 4: was off. It was just it was really hard.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Were you able to watch episodes and would anything bother you?
Speaker 6: Could you tell there is a difference or was it
Speaker 6: something they can tell?
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're we're I mean by large if I and
Speaker 4: I can usually tell if my rhythm is right, but
Speaker 4: I'm slightly off, you can slide it, right, if I
Speaker 4: started half a second too early and I ended half
Speaker 4: a second too late, then you could slide it and
Speaker 4: still make it fit. Nobody likes to do that. They're like,
Speaker 4: you hardly, you'll do that again. I'm like, you'll so
Speaker 4: will so. I don't think you can tell, but I
Speaker 4: feel it in my heart.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got you know.
Speaker 6: I just I feel like our especially compared to when
Speaker 6: Karen and I drive around and there's actually distractions like.
Speaker 4: I really really want one day come and be in
Speaker 4: the car with you.
Speaker 6: Yes you have, we are going to hold you to that,
Speaker 6: and I just wrote it down, yeah literally, yeah.
Speaker 3: But yeah.
Speaker 6: To suddenly be in a position where it's just dependent
Speaker 6: on our overlapping convers station, the podcast kind of changed.
Speaker 3: I think you don't still.
Speaker 2: Like it, but well, I think comedy people like what
Speaker 2: I just did to you right now.
Speaker 3: Like that now that was zoom. You didn't do that,
Speaker 3: that was zoom.
Speaker 2: But I mean, like the stepping on of things where
Speaker 2: part one and I know, I'm sure you know this
Speaker 2: swer Yardley, but it's like part of the chemistry of
Speaker 2: comedy is the timing that's so precise that like when
Speaker 2: Chris is talking, I know when he's about to end,
Speaker 2: and I know when I'm going to go yes ooop
Speaker 2: right at the end, and that kind of thing getting
Speaker 2: fucked upon zoom is So it's just like bad auditioning.
Speaker 2: It's like heartbreaking in a way where it's like, not
Speaker 2: only do you not know that I would be really
Speaker 2: good at going boop right now, but now I look
Speaker 2: like kind of a rude asshole, or like I'm just
Speaker 2: kind of like blabbing around.
Speaker 1: It's the opposite effectually.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and we're all of a sudden where people are
Speaker 6: listening like why are they always apologizing to each other now,
Speaker 6: because it's so abrupt When oh, I'm sorry you were saying.
Speaker 6: I think, no, I'm sorry, no, but now I can't
Speaker 6: remember what I was going to say.
Speaker 2: My hilarious joke that I completely derailed this.
Speaker 1: Whole train for is like now gone out of my head.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then where in the past, if something like
Speaker 6: that happened, we just go, oh, look a mattress store
Speaker 6: or whatever.
Speaker 1: What's this guy doing?
Speaker 3: I mean, I want to get back in the car.
Speaker 6: We used to if we had to slam on the brakes.
Speaker 6: Karen would always put her arm in front of me,
Speaker 6: like a motherly gesture or a book bag.
Speaker 3: She didn't want the book bag to spill. I just
Speaker 3: I missed that. I miss it.
Speaker 1: It's a whole different. Yeah, you're definitely gonna have to
Speaker 1: come back for this.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, the car, I'm doing it. I'm just I'm
Speaker 4: going to find out where you are and then I'm
Speaker 4: just going to hitchhike on the corner. If you don't
Speaker 4: pick me up and be really really bummed.
Speaker 2: To everyone else, it will look like a very synchronized
Speaker 2: kidnap where we just yank you into a car and
Speaker 2: peel out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll note it was booked, will note it was
Speaker 1: a plan.
Speaker 2: I also like that we're all complaining about what I've
Speaker 2: always believed. Since I started auditioning for TV shows, I
Speaker 2: knew that the gig to get was a voiceoverdob. I
Speaker 2: knew that that actually that's what I should be aiming for,
Speaker 2: because this whole idea of like Hollywood perfection and all
Speaker 2: these different things that was also simultaneous to am I
Speaker 2: even talented enough to be doing this?
Speaker 1: Is now? Am I perfect enough? Or blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this is bullshit.
Speaker 2: I need to get I need to slay myself and
Speaker 2: get a voiceover job.
Speaker 1: And that's the idea that we all got.
Speaker 2: To be in jobs that didn't have to stop during
Speaker 2: quarantine as like, thank God, thank god, everybody figured out
Speaker 2: how to adjust so quickly.
Speaker 4: It's a miracle. You know, show business on camera really
Speaker 4: really took such a hit, but The Simpsons was able
Speaker 4: to continue unabated, and I recognize how lucky we were
Speaker 4: for that for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Amen, I just said that because it was a conclusionary thing.
Speaker 1: You Chris.
Speaker 2: This is the prayer corner where Chris gets to do
Speaker 2: a little bit of his born again Christianity.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a new thing I've been doing. Anyway, I'm
Speaker 6: going to read now from First Corinthians.
Speaker 1: We were so nervous about trying to keep.
Speaker 2: Our nerdiness pented in about your career and your presence.
Speaker 1: In our lives. On the idea that you let us not.
Speaker 2: Do that is thank you so much for doing that,
Speaker 2: because I didn't know how we were going to do
Speaker 2: it otherwise.
Speaker 1: It was like, I gotta tell my Slate story. I
Speaker 1: just have to.
Speaker 4: I love that Slate story. It's so charming, it's so vulnerable,
Speaker 4: it's so funny and wonderful. I just think it's brilliant,
Speaker 4: and I really think like that belongs in a movie.
Speaker 4: It is so Karen. So it's so lovely. It's it's
Speaker 4: such ah, the essence of you. I just love it.
Speaker 4: Thank you, I love it.
Speaker 2: And it really is the kind of thing like yay
Speaker 2: to be in a position where yes, this it gets
Speaker 2: to be a full circle experience, like it really is
Speaker 2: one of those things.
Speaker 1: The older I get, I go, oh, I see, those.
Speaker 2: Are the things that it's not. That's not the final
Speaker 2: chapter of the slate story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you know it's not all over.
Speaker 2: But like that day, slinking away and just being like
Speaker 2: what am I doing?
Speaker 1: Why am I? I'm from a farm, I don't belong here.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yes, it continues to be because I know what a
Speaker 6: slate is, but it's different for commercials, which I'm used to,
Speaker 6: and like where you I don't even remember.
Speaker 3: I'll just give profile and say how much.
Speaker 6: I weigh and who my agent is, and they're like, oh,
Speaker 6: your name will be fine, sir, Like I still don't know,
Speaker 6: because it is always different, and everyone at those judge
Speaker 6: long tables of tables universal the worst.
Speaker 4: And now I mean I've an audition did a long time,
Speaker 4: not because I get parts, but because I no longer
Speaker 4: have an agent, because I stopped getting parts. I put
Speaker 4: my foot down when all I was auditioning for were
Speaker 4: parts that had no name, like secretary neighbor. And I'm like, okay,
Speaker 4: you know what, I've been in this fucking business for
Speaker 4: at that time, thirty years. I'm like, I have to go.
Speaker 6: So is that why you I just saw the trailer
Speaker 6: for Gossamer and Folds. It's really seems like a sweet
Speaker 6: and important movie. And did you find the script? How
Speaker 6: did you end up producing and acting in that?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 4: So, I have a production company that I co founded
Speaker 4: called paper Clip Limited. And we formed the company, my
Speaker 4: business partner Ben Cornwell and I because we wanted to
Speaker 4: be the people to say yes first, because it's so
Speaker 4: hard to get a yes in this town. Ye. Yeah,
Speaker 4: And so a friend of mine, an old friend of mine,
Speaker 4: brought me the script that I had been written about
Speaker 4: ten years prior to us producing it. It had somebody
Speaker 4: else adopted it that had fallen away, and I read it
Speaker 4: and I loved it. And it's about a trans woman
Speaker 4: of color in the nineteen eighties in a small town
Speaker 4: in the Midwest, and she ends up befriending this ten
Speaker 4: year old boy who moves next to her and her dad.
Speaker 4: He moves next door with his family. His parents are
Speaker 4: on the brink of divorce.
Speaker 6: And so oh that dad. His dad seems like a
Speaker 6: real jerk. I just want to say that it's a brick.
Speaker 4: Oh my god. And so it's a wonderful just sort
Speaker 4: of Fox and the Hound kind of friendship, these two
Speaker 4: unlikely characters who just find each other and find a
Speaker 4: place to kind of meet in the middle. And she
Speaker 4: becomes this transwoman who's trying to get to New York
Speaker 4: to go to the ballroom scene in New York in
Speaker 4: the eighties, sort of takes this little boy under her
Speaker 4: wing and just says, you know, I'll be your friend.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be all right.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And we had this brilliant transactress named Alexander who's going
Speaker 4: to be a huge star play Gossamer. She was the first,
Speaker 4: she's one of the first audition tapes I saw, and
Speaker 4: she was the one to beat. She was there was
Speaker 4: never anybody else. And it's funny in this town. You know,
Speaker 4: if you find somebody that early, they all like, wow,
Speaker 4: you can't choose that person because you might miss something.
Speaker 4: I'm like, what the who?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that is the person, She's the person we need her.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I gotta let's be choosy.
Speaker 6: I have to validate my job as a casting person.
Speaker 4: Yeah, ridiculous. So it's wonderful. And we just got a
Speaker 4: got a distributor. We it's it's you know, it is
Speaker 4: a it's so much easier to sell a horror film.
Speaker 4: This is a really lovely film about people and sort
Speaker 4: of a coming of age for the little boy. And
Speaker 4: but we did finally get a distributor. It's a beautiful
Speaker 4: film and I'm excited for people to see it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's just coming soon. Yeah, really sweet.
Speaker 6: That little boy is so sweet and I am He's
Speaker 6: in everything.
Speaker 4: He works more than all of us.
Speaker 3: Really, I didn't recognize it. Oh my god, he's great.
Speaker 3: That the trade. I have to see it. I honestly
Speaker 3: really already to be.
Speaker 2: In movie theaters, like movies are going back to the theaters.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was on AMC.
Speaker 6: It just said because I looked it up to see
Speaker 6: if I could see it. It just said coming soon.
Speaker 6: So already being recognized by AMC. Huh, I'm here with
Speaker 6: that news. I don't know that you knew that.
Speaker 4: I didn't.
Speaker 6: Actually, Yeah, well I always have the inside Hollywood scoop,
Speaker 6: don't I.
Speaker 1: Karen, you really do. Yeah, you know that makes me think.
Speaker 2: My favorite Halloween costume this year, I believe it's the
Speaker 2: AMC Theaters where Nicole Kidman does that intro thing about
Speaker 2: the movies and she's in a pay stripe suit walking
Speaker 2: around the theater going like the magic happens here, and
Speaker 2: there's a whole monologue and they run it's like this
Speaker 2: kind of a psa of like it's time to come
Speaker 2: back to the movies, and she's there's these shots of
Speaker 2: her like looking up at the screen like she just
Speaker 2: loves was watching the movie so much. Somebody went and
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure it was a guy as Nicole Kidman
Speaker 2: in that psa so pinstripe suit and then kind of
Speaker 2: just like all the pictures of like looking up with
Speaker 2: the with the kind of forced wonderment face. It's the funniest,
Speaker 2: funniest costume. It's my favorite.
Speaker 6: It's so funny to bring up Nicole Kidman because the
Speaker 6: movie in nineteen eighty seven or whatever year, the legend
Speaker 6: of Billy Jing King was constantly on Teleson so much.
Speaker 6: What am I did?
Speaker 3: I no?
Speaker 1: I started legendary tennis story.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's a tennis documentary that came on after the
Speaker 6: Legend of Billy Jane No Relation, Good time. I watched that,
Speaker 6: and then BMX Bandits was the Young Nicole Kidman where
Speaker 6: she's like a badass BMX rider and she's actually jumping
Speaker 6: a bike. It's some Australian movie and it was on
Speaker 6: all the time. So anyway, that was one of my favorites.
Speaker 6: That was a great year.
Speaker 3: I have Free stolen HBO.
Speaker 2: I think your dad climbed a pole to get you.
Speaker 6: It's really the most morally unsound thing. I don't know
Speaker 6: him to be a liar or a rule breaker in
Speaker 6: any way, but boy, he climbed up that pole and
Speaker 6: we got free HBO.
Speaker 3: It was it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe he just wanted to vet that. What's this
Speaker 4: fucking HBO? You want me to pay more for television?
Speaker 4: Screw you. I'm going to steal it first. You'll see
Speaker 4: how that goes.
Speaker 6: I vividly remember seeing him climb that pole and I'm like,
Speaker 6: I think my dad's gonna fall and or get electrocuted.
Speaker 3: This better be worth it.
Speaker 6: And then you see that HBO chrome logo fly over
Speaker 6: that city and you're like, no, thank you, dad and
Speaker 6: risking your life.
Speaker 1: Yes, I mean that was we never had.
Speaker 2: We lived far enough out in the country where we
Speaker 2: didn't have cable well my dad wouldn't pay for it,
Speaker 2: but we got like three channels and we had the
Speaker 2: antenna on top of our roof that you had to
Speaker 2: turn the thing. It would go to tick tick, and
Speaker 2: then the antenna would slowly turn and the fuzziness would
Speaker 2: slightly go away. Yes, but so when we got to
Speaker 2: c HBO, it was mostly at my aunt Kathleen's house,
Speaker 2: and that intro when a movie was starting and we
Speaker 2: didn't care what the movie was, it did not matter.
Speaker 1: It was like the intro.
Speaker 2: You would be like, everybody, sit down, be quiet, like
Speaker 2: it was the most exciting.
Speaker 3: It really was.
Speaker 6: And I have talked about it a million times because
Speaker 6: I h yardly, I love miniatures, and I've kind of
Speaker 6: indulged in it during quarantine, making little uh.
Speaker 3: Dollhouses and stuff.
Speaker 6: But I would pause that intro just to see the
Speaker 6: little cars and see because it looks so real to me.
Speaker 6: But I knew people made it. It was just on
Speaker 6: a tabletop somewhere and there's whoop. It's I as a kid,
Speaker 6: I'm like, I want that to be my job.
Speaker 4: I think, so you're crafty.
Speaker 3: I I do. I went to art school. I do
Speaker 3: like arts and crafts.
Speaker 4: Yes, that's amazing.
Speaker 3: I do like to draw.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well it's a side.
Speaker 4: Next we'll find out that he actually designed that wallpaper
Speaker 4: behind him.
Speaker 6: It's a photo I took and manic cost a lot
Speaker 6: to print, So you're.
Speaker 2: Like curious George when he painted it. He painted it
Speaker 2: all on the wall.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you can see my toe at the bottom. Here
Speaker 6: I was in the screen.
Speaker 4: Actually, how I need I have a question for you guys.
Speaker 4: How is are you? Guys back to performing live you?
Speaker 4: How is that going? If you are?
Speaker 6: I last night did an outdoor show and audiences are
Speaker 6: back to not desperately laughing at everything as so they
Speaker 6: missed it.
Speaker 3: Everyone's back to normal. And the judgment.
Speaker 6: Last night, uh seemed just like as fresh as two
Speaker 6: years ago.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 6: Or maybe I just didn't do well because on top
Speaker 6: of that, I am rusty. I will start one of
Speaker 6: my jokes like, oh, I'll do some of my tried
Speaker 6: and true bits that I've been doing for years, and
Speaker 6: I forgot, like I'll get halfway through and forget how
Speaker 6: my own joke, and and then I'm trying to and
Speaker 6: sometimes something good will come out of that. But there's
Speaker 6: a nervousness that that makes me feel like I'm twenty
Speaker 6: three again doing it for the first time and I
Speaker 6: can't hide it. And last night I was nervous and
Speaker 6: the audience could smell it, and I just felt like
Speaker 6: a kid again.
Speaker 2: So do you think being outside though, is part of that?
Speaker 2: Because I think that, like that's why you know colleges
Speaker 2: and stuff where they're like, you can't you can't have
Speaker 2: any of these college shows outside because the energy just
Speaker 2: goes away.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I'm surprised though, because that show and the one down
Speaker 6: the street for me at Stories Bookstore are always great
Speaker 6: and they're outside and they don't sell drinks. I don't
Speaker 6: know why they're so well attended and great. Some people
Speaker 6: don't want to be in comedy clubs and it's terrific.
Speaker 6: But last night, Yeah, my material was about Harley Davidson's
Speaker 6: and helicopters, because that's what was distracting me the whole time.
Speaker 3: It was in the middle of the.
Speaker 6: Joke and now Harley, that's loud, Harley buy and set
Speaker 6: off a car alarm, and I'm like, well, do I
Speaker 6: have any jokes about car alarms?
Speaker 3: I got to stop being so in the moment.
Speaker 1: But you have to, like you need.
Speaker 2: To, you need to start writing about anything that could
Speaker 2: pass you on the street. Yeah, for outside comedy, that's
Speaker 2: a whole new area of like birds, you got to
Speaker 2: cover anything because.
Speaker 6: I got bird you know, I got bird material. I
Speaker 6: got that covered. I could do words for hours.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about the bird issue.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, but uh yeah.
Speaker 6: The short answer is I feel like I'm starting over again,
Speaker 6: and that is frightening but also exciting. And I still
Speaker 6: I'm glad it's back and I love doing stand up
Speaker 6: and so that's how I feel. But last night I
Speaker 6: also had that thing where I kind of slept in
Speaker 6: the fetal position a lot of the night, mostly because
Speaker 6: it's comfortable.
Speaker 3: I'm not out sleep on.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, yeah, it's my mattress, it's not my sadness.
Speaker 2: I have to say, we yarly. Have you ever done
Speaker 2: live shows?
Speaker 4: No, it was funny as we were gearing up to
Speaker 4: do them, and then the pandemic hit and then there
Speaker 4: and we were like, all right. Then we did the
Speaker 4: one at the first Crime con in DC.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 4: We actually had Paul Holes as our live guest, who
Speaker 4: is lovely.
Speaker 3: The best that is someone I did.
Speaker 6: You mentioned this earlier about cornering them, and I thought
Speaker 6: I would never do this, But at the Halloween party, Karen,
Speaker 6: I just cornered him and all I asked was Golden
Speaker 6: State killer questions and criminal questions. And then at the
Speaker 6: end of the night, when we all got ubers home,
Speaker 6: everyone was waiting for their uber. He and I were
Speaker 6: the last to have our cars come, and then mine
Speaker 6: pulled up and and but yeah, well sure there were
Speaker 6: three drinks there.
Speaker 1: You did it to me exactly Halloween party.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then Paul was there at night. That warehouse
Speaker 6: district is kind of scary it, Yeah, it like with
Speaker 6: no one around, and I could tell he was kind
Speaker 6: of nervous, but it was Paul Hols and he's like, well,
Speaker 6: since my Carl'll be here.
Speaker 3: In one minute. And I'm like, it's fine, you won't
Speaker 3: get murdered or anything. And he laughed. But then I.
Speaker 6: Laughed, and he was just by himself, and I was like,
Speaker 6: should I have left him alone?
Speaker 3: I don't know why I was so worried about him.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't have.
Speaker 2: Also, the funniest part is he was dressed like a cowboy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a midnight Cowboy.
Speaker 2: Oh geez, well, I was gonna say I miss stand
Speaker 2: up in general because this podcast, of course, my favorite.
Speaker 1: Murder and the network and everything. I just don't have time.
Speaker 1: So I tried to.
Speaker 2: I tried to start doing it again before right before
Speaker 2: the pandemic, like a couple of months before, but I
Speaker 2: didn't take the time to write new materials. So I
Speaker 2: would just go through my Twitter feed and be like,
Speaker 2: this is kind of funny, and it was all very
Speaker 2: like it was. I just think it made me realize that,
Speaker 2: like as much as I and I'm proud of myself,
Speaker 2: do you have been a stand up comic, that part
Speaker 2: of my life where I'm like hungry and I have
Speaker 2: to prove that I'm the funny one, Like that fire
Speaker 2: isn't as strong as it was before, and so like
Speaker 2: my whole thing was the whole time I would be
Speaker 2: on stage, I'm like, this is someone else's spot I'm taking.
Speaker 1: Who would really have tried and not be reading tweets.
Speaker 6: Yard I am going to make Karen do stand up again.
Speaker 6: I know that once she's on stage and here's the laughter,
Speaker 6: she's going to remember that that's a specific kind of love,
Speaker 6: and she will do stand up again. She's just saying
Speaker 6: she isn't right now. It's sorry, sorry to pull. That
Speaker 6: is just how it is.
Speaker 1: Well, no, no, I want to do it again. But
Speaker 1: it is that kind of thing.
Speaker 2: I have to say this and I told Chris this
Speaker 2: before doing a podcast live, is basically it's like you're
Speaker 2: doing a cliff Notes version of stand up comedy because
Speaker 2: the audience already loves you and is giving you the
Speaker 2: benefit of the doubt, so you can kind of say
Speaker 2: whatever and they're.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Where it stand up and start, you know, cutting my
Speaker 2: teeth there, it's the literal opposite where they hate you
Speaker 2: and you have to make them love you.
Speaker 3: But here's the thing, Karen.
Speaker 6: They come to my stand up shows, these loving podcast
Speaker 6: fans are going to see stand up for the first time,
Speaker 6: and I'm always feeling like you should be experiencing this
Speaker 6: because it is.
Speaker 3: That's why I'm spoiled.
Speaker 6: That's why I felt bad the other night, no one,
Speaker 6: there was no podcast people.
Speaker 3: There, and now I'm exactly the yeah, judgmental kids. Now.
Speaker 2: Also, I feel like when you're doing it, you need
Speaker 2: to be talking about things everyone can relate to. And
Speaker 2: I'm literally be like, well, I talked to Steven the
Speaker 2: other day, like it's gonna be this is it's inside
Speaker 2: baseball and it's like my life experiences ordering stuff on
Speaker 2: Postmates and and zooming.
Speaker 1: For hours a day, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: It's like it's not really Uh, the life experience part
Speaker 2: is takes work because I have to think outside, especially
Speaker 2: in quarantine, like we did. Christ and I did a
Speaker 2: couple comedy shows that were like almost like fakey game shows,
Speaker 2: and that was fun because it was almost like no
Speaker 2: one had to do material. It was just like off
Speaker 2: the cuff, which right, you know, that's always the best.
Speaker 2: But there's so many good people in stand up now too.
Speaker 2: It's just like there's people who are just like studied,
Speaker 2: they know what they're doing. They're nailing it so.
Speaker 4: Sure, But I don't know, I feel like you're missed.
Speaker 3: I'm just going, yeah, I agree, Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 4: I just want to say, because I know you do
Speaker 4: have this huge network. I had such a good time
Speaker 4: on I said no gifts with Bridger.
Speaker 3: Yeah, isn't he hilarious?
Speaker 4: He was so fun. We had such a great chat
Speaker 4: and uh, I very much enjoyed him. You got you've
Speaker 4: just built this Empire you.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you.
Speaker 4: I mean incredible, really incredible.
Speaker 2: It's like being lucky enough to have friends like Chris
Speaker 2: Fairbanks and Bridger A Wineger who like that's the reason
Speaker 2: George and I were like, oh yeah, definitely. Like Bridger
Speaker 2: was like, I want to do a podcast called I
Speaker 2: said No Gifts and that's all.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was like, yes, we have to do that. It's hilarious.
Speaker 2: And also the advertising, it's like he should have so
Speaker 2: much advertising because if anything that could be a gift could.
Speaker 1: Be an ad on that show.
Speaker 2: But also because I think, to me, the way I
Speaker 2: enjoy podcasts is it's you're hanging out with someone that
Speaker 2: you like. So it's a very specific thing, but it's like,
Speaker 2: but I know, like a person like Bridger. People should
Speaker 2: hang out with a person like Bridger. That's time well spent.
Speaker 2: That's a person that's being super funny and super original,
Speaker 2: but also very himself, very like authentic, you know all
Speaker 2: the It's like you don't get that every day, especially
Speaker 2: I think these days.
Speaker 1: So thank you.
Speaker 2: That's the ultimate compliment because like it's basically the people
Speaker 2: I like the most and that I hang around with.
Speaker 4: Well, it's so smart because the other charter we have
Speaker 4: at paper Clip. Besides being the first to say yes,
Speaker 4: is no assholes allowed?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 4: You know those are really the only two rules.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and it hasn't been enforced so far in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: No, I've seen assholes thrive.
Speaker 2: I mean, yes, yes, that's the I think that's the
Speaker 2: need for the rule is because that you're you're the
Speaker 2: exception to basically the Hollywood standard, which is people coming
Speaker 2: in and throwing their weight around or whatever. And I
Speaker 2: was trained by a lot of those people. I spent
Speaker 2: a lot of time with a lot of those people.
Speaker 2: So this doing this network, it's like there's a lot
Speaker 2: of times where I'll be like.
Speaker 1: And I'm not yelling at you.
Speaker 2: I'm yelling because it's how I express myself when I frustrated.
Speaker 1: Okay, is anyone mad? All right?
Speaker 2: It really is like, you know, assholes get their way
Speaker 2: in this town.
Speaker 1: So it's good to block out that.
Speaker 2: Kind of thing where it's like, no, let's all work
Speaker 2: is better and the result is always better when you
Speaker 2: don't get to put all that shit over here.
Speaker 4: The work is already so hard that if you're having
Speaker 4: to put up with people who you don't like you,
Speaker 4: who don't get you who don't like you don't have
Speaker 4: the same sensibility or at least the same goal in
Speaker 4: a lovely way.
Speaker 1: Fuck it dude.
Speaker 4: Yes, exhausting.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And that's the other reason why I've missed stand
Speaker 6: up is because that's the only sub industry with show
Speaker 6: business where everyone does relate and everyone does realize what
Speaker 6: the other is going through, and it's like a peer group.
Speaker 6: And it's been fun. Last night felt fun. You got
Speaker 6: to get back into it, Karen.
Speaker 1: Okay, I will, I will.
Speaker 4: With all that extra time you have.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, Yeah. I do miss the hanging out. That's
Speaker 2: the that's the fun part. It's like that is the
Speaker 2: camaraderie and the kind of like when other people that
Speaker 2: you like and respect like what you do. You know,
Speaker 2: like the fact that you even know that I have
Speaker 2: a network is a beautiful compliment to me.
Speaker 1: Hardly it's just like, that's amazing. I can't you know.
Speaker 1: This is a dream. It's so cool.
Speaker 4: I also did the per cast, which I loved with Stephen.
Speaker 4: You're Stephen, but who who is it you who says
Speaker 4: this is exactly right?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I love it so much.
Speaker 2: We were trying to do we had this idea, and
Speaker 2: Georgia was very generous with that too, because I was like,
Speaker 2: we should split it, we should both, and she's like, no, no,
Speaker 2: you do it, and we were trying to do either.
Speaker 2: It started as should we do a robot the robot
Speaker 2: voice in like a sci fi movie where it's like,
Speaker 2: you know, like no, Dave, I'm not going to close
Speaker 2: the pod bay door or whatever, like rock robot voice.
Speaker 2: But then we were like, what about the like subway
Speaker 2: voice it's like you know, or the hospital voice where
Speaker 2: you have to be quiet. We were doing all these
Speaker 2: weird kinds of things of like because I said, however
Speaker 2: I say it, people are gonna hear it a bunch
Speaker 2: of times if they listen, so it's gonna get heer to.
Speaker 3: So you thought you'd go with sultry.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's like Alfred.
Speaker 6: The elevator announcer. Now it's very it's being very sexual
Speaker 6: where she goes seventh floor. I've been like, well, why
Speaker 6: am I getting turned on in the elevator.
Speaker 2: That might be a quarantine issue, that might be just
Speaker 2: be excited to be out and about.
Speaker 3: The doors open, and I'm just kind of humping the wall. Sorry.
Speaker 3: I was the voice triggered me.
Speaker 4: The door's open, you just don't move. What what am
Speaker 4: I supposed to do to stay here?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: What a joy?
Speaker 2: Anything else? Do you want to plug or talk about
Speaker 2: or anything?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess the other thing I started to do
Speaker 4: during quarantine. So the podcast, as you know, small Town Dicks.
Speaker 4: You should listen to it.
Speaker 3: It's very good.
Speaker 4: But I also started my own cooking show on Instagram
Speaker 4: and the Tube of you as I like to call.
Speaker 3: It, Oil and Water.
Speaker 4: Oil and Water, and so it started as it's really
Speaker 4: a game where I draw a random sweet ingredient, a
Speaker 4: random savory ingredient, and I make it into a random thing,
Speaker 4: like it's a cake, it's a pie, it's a pandouty,
Speaker 4: it's a soup, it's a casse role. And it's funny
Speaker 4: and it's dumb. And each episode is about seven minutes.
Speaker 4: And I called it dumb entertainment for troubling times.
Speaker 3: That's terrific.
Speaker 6: And is it really just the two ingredients that you
Speaker 6: happen to have in your kitchen at the time.
Speaker 4: No, then I say, so I draw my ingredients and
Speaker 4: then I say, okay, let's go to market. And then
Speaker 4: you know, I go to market and in the market.
Speaker 4: I try to figure out how Like the worst thing
Speaker 4: I made was a year ago Halloween, where we had
Speaker 4: predetermined it would be a candy apple because it's Halloween. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but the all the ingredients and all the ingredients sweet
Speaker 4: and savory both had to be orange, and so I
Speaker 4: drew salmon row. I hate cavia and skittles, so I
Speaker 4: had to get salmon row and skittles on my candy apple.
Speaker 4: It was so disgusting. I literally said it on a fire.
Speaker 6: That is really great, Yeah, fish and skittles. Although that
Speaker 6: would be the great name, a great name for something
Speaker 6: I don't know what exactly.
Speaker 2: That was such a good idea for a show because
Speaker 2: it's almost like an Iron Chef thing, except for it's
Speaker 2: more of, like, I mean, no offense, but I don't
Speaker 2: I don't know if you're Iron Chef like.
Speaker 4: You're I mean, I'm always trying to make it good,
Speaker 4: and I've actually made some surprisingly good things. This week,
Speaker 4: we released a cheese it caramel crepe recipe, which turned
Speaker 4: out to be pretty good, and I decided I would
Speaker 4: I would not just fill it with caramel and cheese its.
Speaker 4: I pulverized the cheese its and put it in the
Speaker 4: crate batter and then made like canoli filling and added
Speaker 4: caramel sauce on top of that, and it turned out
Speaker 4: to be not terrible, which is high praise on Oil
Speaker 4: and Water, So.
Speaker 1: It sounds like it would be.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm a big cheese It's fan, but yeah, there
Speaker 2: is a limit where if you and I think it
Speaker 2: might be like thirty, but like the tang builds up.
Speaker 1: So then you have to stop after a while.
Speaker 2: But I wonder if that would actually it would make
Speaker 2: it like a more powerful ingredient because when you mix
Speaker 2: stuff with it, it doesn't necessarily fade.
Speaker 4: No, it doesn't fade. It has a very distinct flavor.
Speaker 4: Very there is no mistake, and that's to cheese it
Speaker 4: and not just some grated cheddar cheese.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very specifically made. Yes, Oh I love that. That
Speaker 2: sounds like that's an Instagram show.
Speaker 4: Yes, Instagram at Oil and Water food. But I also
Speaker 4: think I'm going to morph into I sort of feel like, Okay,
Speaker 4: this is so fun. I've played the game. I think
Speaker 4: I'm now going to do a cookie show called Stupid
Speaker 4: Good where I make things iconic recipes for iconic chefs.
Speaker 4: And actually I'm actually a pretty good cook. So I'm
Speaker 4: actually gonna make things I've never made before and see
Speaker 4: if they're stupid good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like that that cake that has Coca cola poured
Speaker 6: it and then you flip it over whatever that's called
Speaker 6: dump caked dump cakes. See it's the same, But I
Speaker 6: do want to try it.
Speaker 1: You have to, because actually I hear they're good.
Speaker 2: That infomercial, though, got me through some what I think
Speaker 2: were very dark times. There was a couple of years
Speaker 2: where I kind of just always was laying on the
Speaker 2: couch in a dark room watching TV.
Speaker 1: It felt like, and that would come on.
Speaker 2: It was like, you know, I don't I don't think
Speaker 2: I was paying my mortgage very well and a lot
Speaker 2: of like bad writing jobs and whatever, and that thing
Speaker 2: would come on and that lady Kathy somebody for dump
Speaker 2: cakes and she was like, you can make this, and
Speaker 2: she's it's the most neighbor your neighbor lady of all time.
Speaker 1: And she's like, you just pour in a can of
Speaker 1: sprite and now you have apple pie.
Speaker 2: And like the she makes it seem like you can
Speaker 2: do anything, Like all you need is a can of
Speaker 2: sprite or what you know, whatever the recipe is like
Speaker 2: really positive. Lady kind of got me off that couch,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of like a trip to Walmart.
Speaker 6: Like when you when you're feeling sad and you're on
Speaker 6: your couch and a dump cake in commercial comes on,
Speaker 6: you realize everything's okay in your life.
Speaker 4: I totally get that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I really do.
Speaker 4: I've had similar dark times.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, oh yeah, yeah, where you're like you watch
Speaker 2: a lady open the camp of soda and pour it
Speaker 2: onto cake mix and you're like, you know what, it's fine.
Speaker 2: It's like we're all just doing our best, right, we
Speaker 2: all just we all just want some dessert with like
Speaker 2: less than twenty steps. We one nice lady with like
Speaker 2: very fake red hair to make it for.
Speaker 4: Us, you know, yes, pretty basic, preferably dessert first, because
Speaker 4: life sure, you never.
Speaker 1: Know, that's right exactly. I mean, this has been a dream.
Speaker 1: Thank you much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you are the best.
Speaker 6: You made this so easy, and I feel like we
Speaker 6: didn't nerd out too much.
Speaker 3: I feel like we were calm and collected.
Speaker 4: And you're perfect.
Speaker 1: But also you nerd it out with us, which was
Speaker 1: such a beat.
Speaker 4: I'm on the same page.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you really are really you're the best. Yeah, you are.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, and you're also you're already booked
Speaker 2: for whenever it happens, probably in several months.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited.
Speaker 6: Yeah, excited, Yeah, Karen, Karen is an excellent driver, so yes,
Speaker 6: put that advertisement out there.
Speaker 3: You'll be safe.
Speaker 4: I can't wait for the Shenanigans help me too.
Speaker 6: Thanks for being on you've been listening to Do You
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