WEBVTT - Angela Kinsey 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.280 But you know, I guess, I guess this is just 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:07.040 what do you call that public announcement to Hollywood. I'm 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:10.160 sure they're listening to me. If you if you need 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:12.879 a bitch, don't ask me to read for it. Just no, 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:22.200 I can do it. No, I can deliver. Hi. My 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:24.840 name is Angela Kinzie and I can bat right and 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:25.560 left handed. 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:28.240 You're a distrous that's right. 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:32.280 So when you need your you know, weekend softball team. 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:35.920 Yeah, you're a writ ye me up. You're a switch hitter. 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:36.720 I'm a switch hitter. 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:39.080 I don't think that applies. 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:40.640 I'm a switch hitter. 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:50.520 Hello everyone, and welcome to another delightful episode of Off 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:55.160 the Beat. You are listening to the malifluous, harmonious, the 0:00:55.320 --> 0:01:00.120 dulcet sounds of me, your host, Brian Baumgartner. Guys, I'm 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:03.440 sorry to disappoint you. I couldn't get a guest for today, 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:07.240 so I just asked my friend to join me. Her 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:10.200 name is Angela. I know you probably don't know her. 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:14.160 She's she's an actor. She's got blonde hair, small frame, 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:16.560 played an accountant on the show about a paper company. 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:19.560 And it doesn't matter. She's my friend and we're going 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:24.800 to have a little chat. Oh oh, you know her. Well, 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:27.200 if you know her, you're going to love this episode. 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:30.520 In addition to some office talk, Angela and I are 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:35.959 going to talk about her childhood in Indonesia, her comedy training, 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:41.039 her cooking prowess, and of course, her award winning podcast 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:47.280 Office Ladies, which she hosts with our other friend Jenna Fisher. 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:52.160 You might not know her, She's all right, you probably 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:57.200 know her. Without further ado, I am so excited to 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:05.840 have on my next guest, which needs no introduction, Angela Kinsey. 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:16.200 Bubble and Squeak. I love it, Bubble and Squeakna, Bubble 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:20.120 and Squeak. I cook it everymore. Lift over from the 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:34.000 night people, Happy New Year. 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:38.720 What's happening, body, what's happening? How are you? 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:42.000 I'm good? Oh my god, look at you? Green Bay. 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:46.040 I got the green Bay shirt on today. I've got 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:50.440 I've got the glasses on. I'm experimenting with glasses. Angela. 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:53.640 What's the experimentation? Do you need them or not? 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:54.640 Well? 0:02:55.280 --> 0:03:00.360 Wow, no, my my brain says, I don't my eyes. 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:05.320 That's a crazy say I that I do that. It's 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:06.320 very helpful. 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:08.960 I remember going to the eye doctor when I was. 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.520 I think I was like forty four, and and I 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:13.200 was kind of squinting at things, and he goes, how 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:15.160 old are you about? Like forty six? I was like, 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:19.560 how dare you? He goes, it's time like clockwork. 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:23.880 It's so crazy, that's what they say. It's like forty 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:25.280 six is when it starts. 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:25.720 Yeah. 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:31.799 Yeah, Well, I don't know. We'll see. I just got them. Well, 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.679 we'll experiment, we'll try. 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:38.400 I don't know. It seems unnecessary. 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:42.880 I mean I'm seeing the office, lots of office ladies, 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:43.960 things behind you. 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:45.880 Are you at home? Are you in your studio? 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:47.760 This is my closet. 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:51.360 Your closet, I know, I see on the Instagram. 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:53.360 And they set it up for me. So it's got 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:55.400 this you know, the soundproofing stuff. 0:03:55.600 --> 0:04:01.120 Me too, see my sound proofing stuff of ownness. 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.200 And then I you know me, Brian, I love a 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:07.000 little chatchkey level. So if if people send me stuff, 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:10.600 I hang it on the wall behind me. Basically, oh yeah, 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:12.600 so send me something, I'll hang it on the wall. 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:17.720 That's nice of you. You're so nice, Angela. That's what 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:18.880 everyone says. 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:20.080 Do they really? 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.920 Yeah, they they do. Can I tell you? 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.240 I am a real like I have really taken a 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.800 turn on small talk. Oh, like a turn like down, 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:33.919 like I'm not good at it anymore. We were just 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:34.640 at the. 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:36.159 Weather is beautiful today, isn't it? 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:36.560 Is it? 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:40.400 Are you no stopping it? I feel for your stupid 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.119 small talk. I'm like, wait, is it? I like looked 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:43.960 out the window. 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:44.760 No. 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:48.400 I was at my son's you know, winter concert the 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:51.440 other night, and this parent was like, how's it going, 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.880 and I, you know, when I blurted out, oh, our minivan, 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:59.440 I guess something's up with the axle. This is a. 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:00.680 Parent barely know. 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:02.880 They looked at me like, why. 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:08.000 Are you telling me about your mini me? I? I, well, 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:11.160 you know what's so funny? Not forty five minutes ago. 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:15.039 I just had a small talk exchange with someone who 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:18.400 came to my house to do a little work, and 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:20.960 it was out how to. I don't think he's a 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.080 big fan, so I don't think he's going to hear this. 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:27.680 You know, it was this, Hey, I heard I was 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:31.360 coming to your house and you're my friend's favorite character. 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:37.320 Thank you. I don't really watch television. Are you still 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:41.280 shooting that show The Office? No? 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:45.200 No, we no, we're done with that. Yeah, he told 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:50.279 me about something about chili. Yeah, that was that was me. 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:54.600 That was me. That was me. So what what are 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:57.279 you working on now? I mean literally, it just kept 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:59.839 going and going right in front of the thing. 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.960 At any point in your day, you can have a 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:05.200 full on interview by some students. 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.440 Right it was. That's how the end. 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:09.800 Of it usually makes you feel shitty about yourself. 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:12.760 I know, yeah, that's how it ended. 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:16.520 Yeah, well, anyway, I don't watch television, but I think, oh, 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.200 actually the last thing he said was but I think 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:23.200 I saw you play poker once. Oh great, yea, yeah, 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.680 that was that was probably me, probably me back in 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:33.279 twenty twelve. Anyway, Well, here's the thing. Now, I'm good 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:36.240 to ask you all these kinds of questions. So that's fun, 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:37.719 really fun. 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:40.279 It's so fun to interview someone you know and you 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:41.520 know the answers. 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:47.040 To well yeah, and so like like like me, I 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:51.600 feel like everyone knows your story at least, even if 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:53.679 they don't know you, they know your story. 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:58.080 They probably saw you play poker once on television. But 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:02.520 there are a few things my research team did or 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.599 I actually did not fully know. 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:07.839 They found some nooks and crannies. 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:11.920 Well I don't even know how Nooki and cranny it is, 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:14.720 you're gonna get nookied. 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.200 No, there were a couple of things I didn't know. 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.680 I mean, first off, you grew up in Jakarta. 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:20.760 I did. 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:25.400 That's a city in Indonesia. I've heard you speak Indonesian 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:31.160 many times. Bahasa bahassa, Bahasa. Okay, yeah, you speak Bahasa. 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:34.800 Have you heard this phrase third culture kid? 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:35.920 Yes? I have. 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.680 So, I mean for those of you who haven't, I'm 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:43.600 glad you have because I hadn't. Actually what this refers 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:47.080 to our people that they have this third culture right 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:49.880 There's so you have your sort of home culture you're 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:53.280 moved overseas, then you have the culture that you're living 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.960 in there, and those two together kind of make this 0:07:57.080 --> 0:08:00.600 third culture. Does that resonate for you? Do you feel 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:02.320 like that's how you grew up? 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:03.040 Oh? 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.880 For sure, for sure. You know, we had this young 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:09.640 gal right in to office Ladies my podcast who was 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:14.400 also a third culture kid, and you do you you know, 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:18.320 you're sort of fish out of water everywhere, so you're 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:20.680 not quite part of the culture where you grew up. 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:22.360 And then when you go back to what would be 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.960 your home culture, you're don't you don't quite fit in 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:28.200 there either, And I think it's why a lot of 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:32.560 kids that went to international schools wherever they are, they're 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:35.800 all over right. They really bond with each other and 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:39.440 they stay in touch. My school, Jakarta International School, is 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.520 having their reunion at the end of this month. They 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:44.920 picked different cities and it's going to be in Los 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:46.920 Angeles this year. So I'm excited about that. 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:48.120 Oh, going to go. 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:49.000 I'm going to go. 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:51.079 That's super cool. 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:54.600 I'm super excited. My sister has been to many and 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:58.600 you just you it's a it's like a club. You're 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:00.440 not in until you're in it, you know, and then 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:04.040 it's special to you to sort of connect with other people. 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:07.600 And the other thing about growing up in another country too, 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:10.600 when you move back to wherever it was you're from. 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:14.120 At least for me when I was a kid, because 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:17.000 I am one hundred years old, so this was the seventies, 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:20.360 and I lived in Indonesia all through the seventies and 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.080 into the early eighties, and in the mid eighties I 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.880 moved back to the US. And you when you said 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:29.640 goodbye to people, you just said goodbye. There was no internet, 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:31.840 there was I'm not I'm going to text you. It 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:33.800 was snail mail. It was like, oh okay, and then 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:35.600 you would have a friend or two, like I had 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:39.240 a friend Kate Livingston in Australia. Kate, Oh my gosh, 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.920 if you hear this, please like, I would love to 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:45.520 talk to you. We wrote for years and then my 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:48.160 letters started coming back because I guess they had moved 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:50.760 and I don't know how to find Kate. 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:54.720 I don't know where she is Livingston. Reach out to Angela. 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:56.040 She wants to hear from you. 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:56.680 Kate. 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:00.559 Sarah remember and Kate. They're from Australia and Kate, you 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.000 would make front of your sister Sarah because she had freckles, 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:06.040 and you'd be like, I fly, just shed all of 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:09.200 you face. Sarah, do you remember? 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.680 I don't remember, but hopefully she does. I would look, 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:16.560 I want to make a connection. Well, I was going 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:18.880 to ask you if so it seems like not. So 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:22.520 there's no one that you're still in contact with. Oh yeah, lots, 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.520 Oh they are, yeah, okay, Kate, not. 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:28.760 Kate, but my friend Carnsa and I we text all 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:32.760 the time and share pictures and I have a few 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:35.480 friends that we used to do a yearly meet up. 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:38.480 It's kind of harder now because everyone has kids and stuff. 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:41.480 But it's, you know, such a fond, fond chapter of 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:42.000 my life. 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:43.559 Have you been back? 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:47.360 I have been back in my twenties, but I haven't. 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.840 But then, you know, then we got the office, and 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:55.280 that was my whole thirties, Brian, my whole thirties. 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:55.680 I know. 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:58.720 And you know what when people like see you out 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:00.600 in the world now, I don't know how is for you, 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.319 but they look at me and they're like, you're not thirty. 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:08.840 I'm like new, I am met. It's shocking to them. 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.160 It's I know that you don't still look the same. 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:12.319 I know. 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.840 I yeah, I was, I was. I did not remember 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:17.720 if you had been back. So it's been since you're 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:19.400 not since your twenties. 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:20.240 Yeah, you've been back. 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:22.760 I want to go back again, but it's you know, 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:23.880 it's just harder. 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:33.880 Jakarta has somewhere around seven million people. Yeah, and you 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:37.920 returned back to the United States and settle. I guess 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:40.280 I don't know if I thought the word you settle 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:45.760 in Archer City, Texas, where there's fifteen hundred. 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:47.040 I think there's. 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:49.440 Eighteen hundred now, Brian, I think I'm talking about at 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.160 the time, I just drove through in the population sign 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:54.760 said eighteen hundred and my mom said, oh, that's way off. 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.800 So I don't know, I don't really know where it stands. 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:00.760 There's more, thinks there's more. 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.880 And there were a few raised eyebrows on the car 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:08.000 that might not just might disagree. My dad was a 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.400 drilling engineer, but he was from the small town in Texas. 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:15.040 And when we were transferred back stateside, we were transferred 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:21.439 to Dallas. Brian Dallas in the eighties was carezy. Wow, 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:25.320 it was crazy. People were like my first day, my 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:28.480 first day of school, there was a girl sitting next 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:32.240 to me. Her name was Bobby Bobb. I this is 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:34.920 in Dallas because we were there a year. We had 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:38.280 like a transition year. My dad was before. My dad 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:40.840 was like, let's get out of Dallas, let's go back 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:44.840 to the farm. But Bobby had a patch on her eye, 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.040 just one eye. And you know, I was trying to 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:49.800 make a friend. I'm new and I said, oh, I said, 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:51.800 do you have pink eye. I'm trying to think what's 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:55.199 the patch about. And she goes, oh, I got eye 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:59.160 on her tattoo, my alid and it's infected. And we 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:07.640 were fourteen I was like, Dallas is like a whole other. 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:11.880 Animal here, Bobby, if you're listening, reach out to Angela. 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:14.920 She wants to connect. She wants to connect with you. Bobby, 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:16.520 b bbe I. 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:18.360 Bobby was very nice to me. 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:19.120 Yeah. 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:20.880 So, and I'm sure her eye is better. 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:26.560 It's probably better. Now was this moving? Well? 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.920 So you spend a year in Dallas and Dallas is 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:32.160 a big city. It's not seven million, certainly not at 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:36.959 the time, not even close. Talking about that third culture 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:40.480 kid thing. Now you're back in this culture archer city 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:42.760 so small? Was this difficult for you? 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:46.559 Oh my gosh. Well, let's let's start with Dallas. Because 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:52.600 Dallas was my first entry back into the States and 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:54.840 people didn't know what to do with me. They had 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.920 no idea what box to put me in. I you know, 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:01.240 a lot of them had never heard of Jakarta, and 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:04.080 I was also. 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:05.960 I hadn't either until I met you buy. 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:09.160 You stop it. I'm like, you stop it. I was 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:12.240 so Also coming back from my school in Indonesia to 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:15.760 the US, I was ahead and four subjects, so I 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.280 started my day. Dallas is very very you know, the 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.360 school system is very big. So you have middle school, 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:25.560 which is just like seventh and eighth grade or seventh, 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:27.120 eighth and ninth and then you have a high school 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:30.680 that's like ten, eleven, twelve, And where I was, it 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:33.240 was a huge school district. So I went to the 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.840 middle school for half the day. Then my mom picked 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:40.360 me up at lunch. I ate lunch in the car 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.880 with my mom as she drove across town to the 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:47.760 high school. The high school with ten eleventh and twelfth graders, 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.400 and I finished the day there. So I was never 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:53.320 at the middle school for after school extracurriculars. I was 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.680 never there for pep rally. I was never there for anything. 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:58.240 And then at the high school and I wasn't I 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:00.640 didn't eat lunch with anyone. Ate lunch with my mom 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:04.360 in the car. That's awful, awful, awful. And now think 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:10.600 about fourteen year old me. I think I weighed seventy pounds. Yeah, 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:14.040 and I looked I was just a bean pole. And 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:16.560 also Indonesia, I didn't wear a lot of makeup. I 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.480 didn't do my hair, and this was prime Texas, big hair, 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:23.240 and I had straight hair, not a lot of makeup, 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:27.600 you know. And my mom said that, and I remember this, 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.560 I would cry all the way to school, and then 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:32.200 my mom would drop me off and she would cry 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:35.040 all the way drive back home. I know a way 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:38.000 to take a third story to make everybody said it 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:42.440 was a really, really difficult year. And sure at the 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.600 high school, tenth and eleventh and twelfth graders, there were 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:50.000 only three of us, three students that were not tenth, 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:53.080 eleventh and twelfth. It was me and a young fella 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:58.160 from Pakistan. And then there was a gal and I 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.400 forget where she was from, but you know we were 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:02.320 all third culture kids. 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:02.960 Wow. 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:05.440 Yeah, And you know who was the nicest to me 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:09.320 at the school. And I never even smoked pot, Brian, 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:13.160 I don't you know. I don't smoke marijuana. The stoner 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.440 kids were the nicest. They were like they were like 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:22.080 Jakarta man, sounds cool, can talk. They were the nicest. 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:24.880 And I would, I would, that's who at the high school. 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:28.080 That's who would like, chat me up. So shout out 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:29.640 to nice stoner kids. 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:31.960 Shout out just nice stoner kids. 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:37.840 Shout out Pakistani kid, if you're there, please so nice. 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:41.200 She was so nice to you, I would, yes. And 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:44.400 then the gal, I didn't know because she was in 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:48.120 a different program than I was in but I just 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.320 knew of her. I knew there were three of us. 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:53.720 And then the other thing was then we moved to 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:58.120 Archer City, and I mean I went from a five 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:01.240 a public school, you know, that's like the high school 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:04.480 I was at, and Dallas looks like a community college 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:10.000 to a to a high school. So I graduated with 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:15.040 thirty four. Oh my goodness, that's yeah, and talk about 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:17.720 they didn't know what to make of They were like, 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:23.160 who is this lady coming in here? And I loved it. 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:26.520 I ended up loving it. I hit that point where 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.560 I was like, we had moved. I'd moved so many times. 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:32.359 I was new to two schools in one year, you know, 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:34.119 because I was new to the middle school and the 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:37.159 high school. Right by the time I got to Archer City, 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:39.560 I kind of have what the kids call the zero 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:42.880 f's about everything, and I think I just went in 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:46.120 there with that bravado and then it was a blast 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:46.840 and I loved it. 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.000 Oh that's awesome. Yeah. 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:53.800 I also am told and I'm asking more in terms 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.639 of you acclimating or getting to know other students. I mean, 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:59.760 it sounds like Dallas was a disaster anyway, but that 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:04.520 you didn't have a television, No, until you moved back 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:10.440 to the States. Yeah, so again, like, well, it's I mean, 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:13.000 it's still the same today. It may be about video games, 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:15.679 or it may be about sports, or you know, still 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:21.720 some entertainment, some of those cultural touchstones that just help you. 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:24.600 Really. I mean, now you and I know, like there's. 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:28.560 A whole group of people who are friends because of 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:33.200 the office, that communicate in the office language, that talk 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:38.480 about episodes, that quote episodes that you know that that's 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:43.320 part of their cultural identity. You come back, you don't know, 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:48.679 not just Sesame Street or mister Rogers, but you know 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:51.359 shows by the time you're fourteen that your parents are 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:54.239 watching The Cosby Show or you know, I don't I 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:57.719 can't date you specifically at that moment. My brain's not 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:00.439 that good, but I feel like that's what I was watching, 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:03.240 you know, early on in the eighties. Maybe I'm wrong, 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:05.120 but you know what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, was that 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:08.680 difficult for you to sort of make that adjustment? And 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:11.399 there must have been times when you just didn't know 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:12.879 what the hell anybody was talking. 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:16.040 About all the time. Yeah, all the time. I didn't 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:17.320 know what people were talking about. 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.120 I didn't know the first Bueller's day off. That would 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:21.240 be one that would have been for me. 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:22.200 Oh I saw it. 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:22.840 I saw that. 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:25.239 I saw that. I thought it was so good. I 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:27.520 was so excited. I like kind of went on a binge, 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:31.240 like I would just like watch everything. But I mean 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:34.280 I didn't know what a soap opera was, and there 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:38.959 were girls talking about soap operas and talking about, oh, Marlena, 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:42.160 days of our lives there, and I'm like, who's Marlena? 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:45.760 What's happening? Sounds like things aren't going so good for hook, 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:50.520 you know. I'm like, oh, no, there's and John Black, 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:54.840 he's back. What happened to him? So there was all 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:59.159 these references I didn't understand for a long time. Still 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:01.480 every once in a while, well because there's big chapters. 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:04.639 I had never seen a Brady Bunch episode, never seen one, 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:08.720 you know. And then also when I started doing improv, 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:11.359 sometimes I would walk out into a scene and a 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:14.000 pop cultural reference would come up and I would have 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:17.720 no idea. Someone said to me, someone said something about 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:19.800 the green hornet one time, and I was like, I'll 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:25.120 have another, please like shaken nutstood, thank you very much, 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:28.600 And everyone was like record scratch and they're like, who 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:30.240 is this person? 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:36.160 That's when you just start talking Indonesian. Yeah, that's just. 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:41.640 Really I know, Mahsakali. It's like, I'm sorry, I didn't know. 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:43.720 Did your parents speak Indonesian? 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:48.399 By the way, my mom more than my dad. And 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:53.480 then my older sister is still very fluent in it. Okay, 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:56.000 she went back there and lived later in life. So 0:20:56.359 --> 0:20:58.480 and then my sisters and I just have a little 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:03.920 shorthand where just enough so I speak it better than 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:06.920 my other two sisters. And so because there's four of us, 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:09.840 but we have enough of a shorthand that we can 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:12.800 talk about someone at the mall, you know, like if 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:15.639 there's a lady at the mall, we can say why 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:18.560 to leeha. That's how my sisters speak it with a 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:22.440 Southern accent. They love when I do this impression of them, 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:26.760 just kidding. They don't, but yes, they put a lot 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:28.040 of extra vowels. 0:21:29.960 --> 0:21:30.280 Right. 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:52.119 You and I I'm trying to remember when we have 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:55.080 told this story, if we've told the story public. 0:21:55.480 --> 0:21:58.440 I have been trying to like brainstorms since you reached 0:21:58.480 --> 0:21:59.720 out and we're like, and you want to come on, 0:21:59.760 --> 0:22:02.760 I'm like, what is he going to bring up? What 0:22:03.119 --> 0:22:05.600 I've been trying to like think, well, I know a 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:07.280