Speaker 1: Hello Sunshine.
Speaker 2: Hey, bestie is it is our first ever Halloween show.
Speaker 2: Today we're celebrating this spooky holiday with comedian and Halloween
Speaker 2: fangirl Lauren Lapkis in her podcast called The Haunting. Lauren
Speaker 2: brings real ghost stories to life, and after hearing a
Speaker 2: few of them, you may want to sleep with the
Speaker 2: lights on. Okay, it's Thursday, October thirty. First, I'm Simone
Speaker 2: Boyce and.
Speaker 3: I'm Danielle Robe And this is the bright Side from
Speaker 3: Hello Sunshine, a daily show where we come together to
Speaker 3: share women's stories, laugh, learn and brighten your day.
Speaker 4: Happy Halloween, y'all.
Speaker 1: Happy Halloween? Or shall I say boo?
Speaker 4: Just kidding?
Speaker 3: Honestly, Simone, my heart is still racing. I haven't had
Speaker 3: a scare like that in a long time.
Speaker 4: Oh so good, guys.
Speaker 1: Simone pranked me. I got cranked for real.
Speaker 4: It was epic.
Speaker 2: I was so nervous that we weren't be able to
Speaker 2: pull it off because you ask a lot of questions,
Speaker 2: Who's we.
Speaker 3: Who's we?
Speaker 1: You had a team of people helping you.
Speaker 2: Oh, I had the whole podcast team behind this. Pretty
Speaker 2: much the entire office was in on it. This was
Speaker 2: a team effort. I just I love pranks and I
Speaker 2: finally got to pull one off on our show, So
Speaker 2: be aware.
Speaker 4: Watch your back Danielle.
Speaker 3: Okay, I have to tell everybody the backstory of this,
Speaker 3: so yeah, please do.
Speaker 1: Tim is our showrunner.
Speaker 3: You've heard him on Popping Off and he calls me
Speaker 3: one day after work and he was like, Okay, it's
Speaker 3: like it's gonna be Halloween. Are you a prank person?
Speaker 3: Do you want to prank Simone? And I'm like, I'm
Speaker 3: not really a huge prankster, Like, if you have any ideas,
Speaker 3: I'll be up for it, and I was like, thinking
Speaker 3: about pranks, I couldn't really think of any.
Speaker 1: So the next day I call you, like a good
Speaker 1: best he does.
Speaker 3: And I say, Simone, Tim called me.
Speaker 1: And asked me to prank you. So I'm sure he's
Speaker 1: going to call you and ask you to prank me.
Speaker 3: Why don't we throw both of those away and prank him?
Speaker 1: And You're like, oh, I don't know, maybe like if
Speaker 1: you can think of anything, let me know.
Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden, I walk into the
Speaker 3: studio one day and boo, you scared the livingsh out
Speaker 3: of me.
Speaker 2: Well, what you don't know is that I'd been planning
Speaker 2: this for like three weeks, so by the time you
Speaker 2: called me, all the pieces were in place. We were
Speaker 2: ready for the scare the next day, and I was like,
Speaker 2: oh no, she's onto us. She's gonna ruin this whole prank.
Speaker 2: But you didn't ruin it. I got myself a clown
Speaker 2: mask and I was hiding out in our studio. We
Speaker 2: created this whole ruse. We told Danielle that she had
Speaker 2: to do a studio tour for social media. So as
Speaker 2: she's backing into our studio, she's like talking to camera.
Speaker 2: Her back is towards me where I'm waiting to scare her.
Speaker 2: As she comes around the corner, I just jump out
Speaker 2: in the clown mask.
Speaker 4: And it was so good. I really scared you.
Speaker 3: You really scared me, And I just want you to
Speaker 3: know I'm gonna say it on record.
Speaker 1: Watch your back, girlfriend, because I'm coming for you. It's
Speaker 1: gonna happen when you least expect it.
Speaker 2: Bright Side bessies, if you're listening and thinking, man, I
Speaker 2: wish I could have been there to see how terrified
Speaker 2: Danielle was in this moment. Well don't worry, the video
Speaker 2: is up on all of our social media pages, so
Speaker 2: check it out.
Speaker 4: It's there for your enjoyment and mine.
Speaker 1: Y'all boycott it, don't watch it.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, in the spirit of pranks and being scared
Speaker 3: out of your mind, let's keep the Halloween celebration going. Today,
Speaker 3: we are joined by a comedian and all around a
Speaker 3: Halloween girly. Her name's Lauren Lapkiss and she actually happens
Speaker 3: to be from my hometown. She's from Chicago. We grew
Speaker 3: up near each other. And her podcast, The Haunting is
Speaker 3: so hilarious. She's bringing comedy to real life ghost stories.
Speaker 2: I love this comedy horror mashup. It makes so much sense.
Speaker 2: So in the podcast, she plays a fictional influencer named Terreza,
Speaker 2: which I love. It's not Terresa, it's who's stuck somewhere between.
Speaker 4: Our world and the next.
Speaker 2: And this whole time she's fighting for verification, not just
Speaker 2: like emotional and psychological verification or validation like literally a
Speaker 2: blue check mark on Instagram.
Speaker 4: It's a hilarious setup.
Speaker 2: So in the show Thereza narrates these supernatural spooky stories
Speaker 2: and hilarity ensues.
Speaker 3: All I can think about is Teresa Caputo, the Long
Speaker 3: Island medium. I wonder if there was some inspiration from
Speaker 3: her behind this character.
Speaker 2: I mean, talk about dancing in the liminal space between
Speaker 2: this world and the next. I think there's I think
Speaker 2: you might be onto something.
Speaker 3: I just think of the poof, the blonde poof in
Speaker 3: her hair. Okay, anyways, let's get back to business.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and bring her in.
Speaker 2: Lauren lavcis Happy Halloween and welcome to the bright side.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, thank you for having me. Happy Halloween
Speaker 5: at that day of the year.
Speaker 4: Hello, it's your favorite day of the year.
Speaker 5: It is one of them. Yeah, it's this in Christmas,
Speaker 5: I think, and my birthday, and I don't know, I
Speaker 5: guess a bunch of other days.
Speaker 2: Speaking of Christmas, we hear that you have a Halloween
Speaker 2: themed Christmas tree.
Speaker 4: This sounds genius. Tell us anything, dude.
Speaker 5: Yes, I have a bright orange Christmas tree that is
Speaker 5: decorated with Halloween ornaments, very spooky bats and ghosts and
Speaker 5: black cats and all sorts of things. And it's just
Speaker 5: so great because I you know, it was a pandemic purchase,
Speaker 5: which makes sense because everything was really sad and I
Speaker 5: was like, how can I make my life less depressing
Speaker 5: right now? But also it's we don't get enough time
Speaker 5: with the Christmas tree. So it's really it gives you
Speaker 5: that soft glow every night as you're getting the house
Speaker 5: shut down and things feel like a little cozy. It's
Speaker 5: it's a really nice way to prolong that period of time.
Speaker 3: So some of my very best memories are, go, I
Speaker 3: grew up in Chicago and we have like window seats
Speaker 3: in our house.
Speaker 4: Do you know what those are?
Speaker 5: Yes? Wait, where are you from? Because I'm from Evanston
Speaker 5: you are, Yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Grew up in Glencoe, like we'll met.
Speaker 5: I went, yeah, oh, I went to ets. That's so
Speaker 5: crazy from Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, your dance team beat us every single year.
Speaker 1: It was very mortified.
Speaker 4: So good, that's amazing. I didn't know that.
Speaker 5: That's such a small world.
Speaker 3: Okay, so you know what window seats are because people
Speaker 3: know they don't know what window seats are.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, yeah, so it would open up.
Speaker 3: The window seats with my mom and there would be
Speaker 3: all of our Halloween decorations and I would go and
Speaker 3: like decorate our whole house. Okay, and Chicago suburb halloweens
Speaker 3: are really awesome because that's yeah exactly. Yeah, I know
Speaker 3: that you have two little girls what are you guys doing, Like,
Speaker 3: do you have any traditions?
Speaker 5: Oh my god. Well, first of all, I do wish
Speaker 5: that they could have the Halloween that I had growing up,
Speaker 5: because it was so idyllic to grow up there. I mean,
Speaker 5: for people who don't know, I mean a lot of
Speaker 5: the John Hughes movies were filmed there. It's very like
Speaker 5: quintessential eighties nineties movie fall crisp, crunchy leaves vibes. But
Speaker 5: we have really fun costumes. My husband and I and
Speaker 5: our older daughter are all going to be snakes because
Speaker 5: she wanted to be a snake. And my baby is
Speaker 5: going to be a Hershey kid because I didn't know
Speaker 5: the snake plan when I bought.
Speaker 4: The Hers she Kissed thing.
Speaker 5: So yeah, we're going She's going rogue, but I'm very
Speaker 5: excited about it. One of you has kids. Somebody told
Speaker 5: me this.
Speaker 4: This is true. I am the mother I have children.
Speaker 5: What are your kids gonna dress up as?
Speaker 3: Today?
Speaker 2: So my oldest son, Logan is Jack Skellington, and my
Speaker 2: youngest son, Keenan is a Stormtrooper. So they're super pumped
Speaker 2: about those costumes.
Speaker 5: So cute.
Speaker 2: I wanted to ask you if you have any trigger
Speaker 2: treating hacks. As a mom, I've seen some people on
Speaker 2: TikTok they like put a little mommy juice in a
Speaker 2: little cooler little cup and walk around the.
Speaker 5: Name right, God, that's a great idea. I you know,
Speaker 5: we've only been triggered treating once. My daughter's three, So
Speaker 5: last year we took her out and it was so
Speaker 5: overwhelming to her that we literally got one piece of
Speaker 5: candy and then we went home. She also took her
Speaker 5: costume off right as we were walking up to the
Speaker 5: street to go do it. I was like, okay, so
Speaker 5: my husband and I were dressed like two monsters, ain't characters,
Speaker 5: and she took off her boo costume and was just
Speaker 5: wearing clothes and like, I was like, so we're a
Speaker 5: trigger dream. I don't know. So I'm hoping this year
Speaker 5: will be more traditional and that she'll keep her costume
Speaker 5: on and actually knock on some doors.
Speaker 4: But we'll see.
Speaker 3: Where do you guys stand with candy and kids. Are
Speaker 3: there any strict rules or are you a free for all? Oh?
Speaker 5: Man, I think I thought that I would have more rules,
Speaker 5: but I really kind of do whatever. She loves candy.
Speaker 5: I'm like, you can have it. Every day. I really
Speaker 5: don't care. What do you think?
Speaker 4: So, Mom, I'm the same way, Lauren.
Speaker 2: I grew up dumping out a pillowcase of candy on
Speaker 2: the floor and just like go into town with my
Speaker 2: girlfriends and it was great. It was such a great memory.
Speaker 2: So I'm just like, enjoy it. You know, it's like
Speaker 2: Monday year. Yes, the candy's gonna be around for a while,
Speaker 2: but enjoy it.
Speaker 4: Who cares?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that being said, I kind of was
Speaker 5: saying I serve candy every day. I let her eat
Speaker 5: dessert every day. At least she has a cupcake or popsicle.
Speaker 5: The popsicles are sugar free. I don't know. Maybe I'm
Speaker 5: not a terrible.
Speaker 2: Mom, Danielle. When you were growing up, what was the
Speaker 2: candy policy at your house? You're setting me up.
Speaker 4: I know nothing. I'm genuinely curious, Lauren.
Speaker 1: Just to get you up. Someone the other day was like,
Speaker 1: do you have an almond mom?
Speaker 3: Because I told her a story about my mom. My
Speaker 3: mom's probably listening. She doesn't know she's an almond mom,
Speaker 3: but she is a little bit of an almond mom.
Speaker 3: We actually we were allowed to eat what we had,
Speaker 3: pillowcases of candy. We were allowed to eat it, but
Speaker 3: I think it would secretly disappear after a week.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, but we didn't.
Speaker 1: Really notice or care. It was fine by that point.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't even know. Maybe my mom was doing
Speaker 5: that too. I don't know how long all my candy lasted.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we were counting it all and being really excited.
Speaker 5: But we'll see what she actually consumes.
Speaker 3: Well, Lauren, everyone's probably wondering why we're chatting with you
Speaker 3: about Halloween. Besides your orange tree tradition, which I really love,
Speaker 3: you have kind of created a whole new genre of podcasts.
Speaker 3: It's called the Haunting, and it's this hybrid of super
Speaker 3: natural and comedy because of course we all know you
Speaker 3: as a comedian. The newest season just launched, and for
Speaker 3: those who haven't quite listened yet, can you explain the
Speaker 3: premise of the show, because if I do it, I'm
Speaker 3: not going to get it right.
Speaker 5: Yes, Okay, So the show is half scripted, half real
Speaker 5: ghost stories. So I play a dead influencer named Terreza
Speaker 5: who fails to cross over. She's stuck between two worlds
Speaker 5: because she hasn't gotten verified yet, so she's trying to
Speaker 5: kind of get to the other side, and that's a battle.
Speaker 5: Every episode is a battle for why she can't become verified.
Speaker 5: But within that we get to hear real stories from
Speaker 5: people who have experienced supernatural phenomena, ghost stories, different creepy things,
Speaker 5: and it's really fun. It really works for me because
Speaker 5: I get scared very easily. I get scared of ghost stories.
Speaker 5: I get scared of scary movies, and the comedy breaks up,
Speaker 5: you know, the actual terror. So it's a nice balance.
Speaker 3: The concept, to me is so hilarious. Did you come
Speaker 3: up first of all, why is her name not Teresa?
Speaker 3: Why is it Teresa? And how did you come up
Speaker 3: with this concept?
Speaker 5: So it's actually written by this amazing writer Aliah Welsh,
Speaker 5: who is so talented and so Terreza. I think she
Speaker 5: just put a little spin on her name. It probably
Speaker 5: is Teresa. She's you know, it's like saying totally, oh
Speaker 5: my god, I haven't thought about Targe in a while.
Speaker 5: That was really what we always called it. But yeah,
Speaker 5: she's she's you know, she's kind of vapid and focused
Speaker 5: on the wrong things, and and Terreza is probably just
Speaker 5: the flair that she gave herself to get a little
Speaker 5: extra attention, but a little space on it.
Speaker 4: So how did you find the vocal quality for Teresa?
Speaker 4: How did you develop that?
Speaker 5: You know, it's an important balance because since it's just
Speaker 5: an audio medium, you don't want to have too annoying
Speaker 5: of a voice, because my instinct would be to make
Speaker 5: her really annoying. But we you know, we found like
Speaker 5: a nice balance where she's she's she has a really
Speaker 5: she's very like, well, I guess I'll just do the voice.
Speaker 5: So she talks with a lot of confidence, and she
Speaker 5: is very very serious most of the time, and she's
Speaker 5: you know, she's not going into that naisal like I'm
Speaker 5: gonna you know, which would be so fun, but people
Speaker 5: don't want to hear that in their ear for NonStop
Speaker 5: podcast listening. Yeah, so she had a death that was
Speaker 5: really embarrassing and we haven't fully gotten to hear what
Speaker 5: happened to her yet. It's going to come out later.
Speaker 5: But her death was something she doesn't want to talk
Speaker 5: about because it wouldn't look good on Instagram. So it's
Speaker 5: kind of how she views everything.
Speaker 4: We are rooting for Theresa and her verification. We are
Speaker 4: thank you so much rooting girl.
Speaker 3: We need to take a quick break but we'll be
Speaker 3: right back with Lauren lap Kiss.
Speaker 1: And we're back with Lauren lap Kiss.
Speaker 3: My basic knowledge of ghosts and I'm kind of a
Speaker 3: woo woo girl, so I'm open. But my basic knowledge
Speaker 3: of ghosts has come from Casper and Wendy movies. What
Speaker 3: do you know about ghosts and what do you believe?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 5: I have watched a lot of ghost related shows, like
Speaker 5: those ghost hunting things, and I like a lot. I
Speaker 5: think that there is something on the other side. I
Speaker 5: think it would be limiting to think that there's nothing, Like,
Speaker 5: how can we know there's no proof when we are
Speaker 5: another I try to tell myself, I don't believe in
Speaker 5: ghosts because I get creeped out. But because I get
Speaker 5: creeped out, I think that means I believe in it.
Speaker 5: So it's kind of a you know, catch twenty two.
Speaker 1: There so are ghost people that get stuck in the middle?
Speaker 4: Is that what it is? Technically?
Speaker 5: See? That's my okay, that's my belief about ghosts is
Speaker 5: that it's someone who has unfinished business and they're like
Speaker 5: trying to communicate, to try to get some something across.
Speaker 5: I believe that, like souls exist, one you pass and
Speaker 5: I don't think that's the same thing. I think people
Speaker 5: can communicate from the other side and it not be
Speaker 5: that same sort of you know, scary element. I don't
Speaker 5: really think, you know, your soul is a scary thing.
Speaker 5: I think a ghost who's haunting something is a scary thing.
Speaker 5: But that's very different.
Speaker 2: Well said, I've always thought that horror and comedy are
Speaker 2: like cousins, like they almost there's a shared language there
Speaker 2: or rhythm there. I think that's what it is. Like,
Speaker 2: it's all about timing in both of those genres.
Speaker 5: And like a release of tension, like screaming or laughing.
Speaker 5: It's like you're kind of like waiting to have a reaction.
Speaker 5: So I agree with you.
Speaker 4: As a comedian.
Speaker 2: Why do you think the supernatural is fertile ground for comedy?
Speaker 5: Oh my god, Well, there's so much there.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 5: I think horror comedy is a really fun genre. But
Speaker 5: it's because you have that tension you're building. You're building
Speaker 5: like up to a scare, which can be a funny
Speaker 5: scare or it actually scary scare, but it's just kind
Speaker 5: of ripe for it. I mean, I think when you're
Speaker 5: holding your breath, I mean in comedy, when you're watching
Speaker 5: a comedy, you're not holding your breath for the laughter,
Speaker 5: but you are expecting to laugh at some point. So
Speaker 5: there's a part of your brain that's kind of going, like,
Speaker 5: I'm going to laugh at a certain point. Something funny
Speaker 5: is about to happen, whether you're consciously thinking about it
Speaker 5: or not. So I mean, and I think with horror,
Speaker 5: you're very on the edge of your seat thinking something
Speaker 5: about it or scary is going to happen. So it
Speaker 5: is kind of that balance in your mind as you're
Speaker 5: watching something. And so I think as a creator it's
Speaker 5: really fun because you get to play with people a
Speaker 5: little bit. And I mean our podcast, the haunting is
Speaker 5: very light in the comedy. It's not trying to scare
Speaker 5: you with that comedic part. But the ghost stories are
Speaker 5: really real and I mean very scary to me. I
Speaker 5: don't know, not all of them, some of them. There
Speaker 5: are some that are more touching. There's like an example
Speaker 5: of one is there's an episode where a woman connects
Speaker 5: with her father who has passed, which it's not a
Speaker 5: scary episode. It's like a really I find moving episode.
Speaker 5: But there are some much more scary ones or just
Speaker 5: creepy and it kind of makes you think something's going
Speaker 5: to happen inside your own house after you listen, Like
Speaker 5: there's an episode with this guy Greg who has.
Speaker 1: That's the one I want to ask you about.
Speaker 5: So he buys a condo and pretty much immediately it's
Speaker 5: like haunted, like there's just things that are happening, or
Speaker 5: you know, you can say it's not haunted, but you
Speaker 5: can say, well, there's something a little weird, like this
Speaker 5: light is flickering, or this thing is happening, something's a
Speaker 5: little off. It just builds so much through his story
Speaker 5: and the way he tells it is so great, but
Speaker 5: I think it goes from being something that you can
Speaker 5: be skeptical about to something that you have to question. Basically,
Speaker 5: you know, things get moved a little more, like bigger
Speaker 5: things get moved, like his iPod doc is knocked off
Speaker 5: his counter and like it's all falling on the floor
Speaker 5: or something like that couldn't happen. Or his door keeps
Speaker 5: locking anytime someone goes outside to smoke a cigarette the
Speaker 5: door locks even though nobody locked it. And ultimately he
Speaker 5: has a very creepy moment at the end where his
Speaker 5: couch has like a handprint from some sort of like
Speaker 5: creature and it's coming from an angle that nobody could
Speaker 5: stand at, Like it's just very creepy to be. And
Speaker 5: then I turned my light on, which actually I have
Speaker 5: this one light in my house that has been flickering,
Speaker 5: and I was like, I know it's the light bulb.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think it's I have to tell myself
Speaker 5: it's light bul But after listening to that this morning,
Speaker 5: I put it on and I was like, I don't
Speaker 5: really want to have this light on. He was doing
Speaker 5: something where when the light would flicker, he would scream
Speaker 5: because he knew that a person had passed in his house.
Speaker 1: The owner had passed.
Speaker 3: And then he bopped me, yes, and I think that's
Speaker 3: what makes this all so creepy.
Speaker 5: Yes, I left out the most important detail. He literally
Speaker 5: knew that somebody had died there. So when he was
Speaker 5: when the light was flickering, he's yelling like not get
Speaker 5: off Elmer like the party. He literally knows the guy's name,
Speaker 5: and then the light would stop flickering, and it happened
Speaker 5: every single time, and he was like, you can argue
Speaker 5: that a light would stop flickering if you had just
Speaker 5: the cord or something, but every time I yelled to
Speaker 5: stop doing it, it stops, like, that's not really how
Speaker 5: you know electricity works, So you gotta believe in that
Speaker 5: a little bit.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 3: So, do you ever find yourself as a comedian making
Speaker 3: jokes during creepy situations or moments where you're like, oh,
Speaker 3: I shouldn't.
Speaker 4: Have said that. Oh.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think it's kind of my natural go
Speaker 5: to is to make a joke when I'm uncomfortable. So
Speaker 5: it definitely happens a lot, you know, in my life.
Speaker 5: Thankfully I don't have enough creepy things happening, but if
Speaker 5: I did, I would be trying to make a joke
Speaker 5: about it. I mean, I get creeped out just the
Speaker 5: idea I can imagine something and really scare myself. So
Speaker 5: I will often talk to myself out loud when I
Speaker 5: start thinking of something like that and I'm like, there's
Speaker 5: nothing happened. I have to like say out loud, like
Speaker 5: nothing is happening, no one is here, and everything's fine.
Speaker 5: But I don't know, Simone, what do you think about ghosts?
Speaker 5: I feel your skepticism seeping through the zoom.
Speaker 2: That's how I feel like burning your You feel my
Speaker 2: retinas burning your yes, what do I think about?
Speaker 4: I actually think ghosts are real. I do.
Speaker 5: Okay, I misread that?
Speaker 4: WHOA too?
Speaker 5: Okay, good, I'm great, I'm glad.
Speaker 4: I do think ghosts are real. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 4: what they mean.
Speaker 2: It's it seems like a soul is trapped or something,
Speaker 2: but I don't. This is why I don't watch I
Speaker 2: don't watch like demonic or like spiritual ghost d movies
Speaker 2: because I do think it's real, so it's too close
Speaker 2: to nonfiction for me, so I kind of stay away
Speaker 2: from that.
Speaker 5: So I agree with you. I prefer a movie where
Speaker 5: there's a murderer. Honestly, of course, this is like more real,
Speaker 5: but I prefer a movie with a murderer that who
Speaker 5: is then is killed at the end. Then I go,
Speaker 5: story is done. It was scary, but now that person
Speaker 5: is dead, like that is much easier for me to handle.
Speaker 2: Thank you for articulating that, because that's exactly how I've
Speaker 2: felt for, you know, thirty six years as a moviegoer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I love Scream Like that's my favorite scary movie of
Speaker 5: all time, and I love the whole franchise, but the
Speaker 5: first one I've seen, like a million times, and I
Speaker 5: just love it because it's it's tied into a bow,
Speaker 5: like you do feel like the story is told. Sure, yeah,
Speaker 5: even though we know it keeps going.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I was just gonna ask you guys your
Speaker 3: favorite scary movie of all time?
Speaker 4: Do you have one?
Speaker 3: Simone?
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm probably gonna say a bit more of
Speaker 2: a science fiction pick Alien.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Alien's awesome. Yeah, what's yours, Daniel?
Speaker 3: What's the Disney movie with the three which focus Pocus?
Speaker 5: Otherwise, Yeah, that's a great mix of horror and comedy.
Speaker 5: That's like perfect because it is a little scary, especially
Speaker 5: since you know, we probably be the nostalgia of watching
Speaker 5: it as a kid when you were more scared, but like,
Speaker 5: it's also very funny, great performances.
Speaker 3: So I get scared all the time in my own apartment.
Speaker 3: So I can't watch scary movies. I would never go
Speaker 3: to the theater to watch one. Like the closest I'm
Speaker 3: getting is your comedy horror podcast.
Speaker 1: So hocus Pocus is where I end.
Speaker 5: I love hocus Pocus. I went to see it the
Speaker 5: new the newest one or whatever in the theater, and
Speaker 5: that was really scary for me, Like that was like
Speaker 5: it just kind of felt like something was gonna go down,
Speaker 5: I don't know, or someone's going to run in with
Speaker 5: a mask on or something. You know, Like it just
Speaker 5: feels like people get weird with Halloween.
Speaker 2: I'm married to a screenwriter, so he's always watching horror stuff.
Speaker 2: He's always trying to get me to watch stuff. He
Speaker 2: really wants me to see Hereditary. Have you guys seen Hereditary?
Speaker 2: I hear that it's in that Okay, here.
Speaker 5: It's amazing.
Speaker 2: Anyways, Yeah, it's for another short break, yeall, But we'll
Speaker 2: be right back to our conversation with Lauren Lapis.
Speaker 4: And we're back with comedian and podcaster Lauren Lapkis.
Speaker 3: Well, I know how you feel someone about haunted houses,
Speaker 3: But Lauren, how do you feel about them?
Speaker 5: Mostly negative? I would say I've been to a few,
Speaker 5: you know, they do, like the Queen Mary, like the
Speaker 5: haunted thing on the ship here in la and that's
Speaker 5: really scary.
Speaker 4: I've done that.
Speaker 5: There's people who jump out at you and try to
Speaker 5: scare you and like universal hornits. I've done all that stuff.
Speaker 5: I don't like being like yelled at and like having
Speaker 5: people run towards me. That doesn't feel good. So those
Speaker 5: are kind of too much for me. But there was
Speaker 5: this play, it's like a haunted play that you moved
Speaker 5: through in La called Delusion, and it's they rent out
Speaker 5: a huge house, like the one I went to was
Speaker 5: in a Victorian house that I don't know if it
Speaker 5: was abandoned or what, but in that area of town
Speaker 5: when there's all those old Victorians.
Speaker 2: Immediately creepy, immediately spooky. So creepy Victorian, immediately spooky.
Speaker 5: You know, there's like just like a rocking chair that
Speaker 5: just moves all night like by it. Oh yeah, it
Speaker 5: was so creepy. And then there's so it's all actors
Speaker 5: and you know it's actors, but they do such an
Speaker 5: amazing job. So there's people leading you through the show
Speaker 5: and you're there's a story being told, and you have
Speaker 5: to go in different rooms and sometimes your friends will
Speaker 5: be like removed and put in a different room and
Speaker 5: something will happen with them that you don't know about,
Speaker 5: and then they get to like they get brought back
Speaker 5: to your group at a certain point, and it's really scary.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think for people who love immersive things,
Speaker 5: it's amazing. I truly I enjoyed it. But I was
Speaker 5: terrified the entire time.
Speaker 2: One of the most fun Halloween experiences I've had was
Speaker 2: going to Sleepy Hollow, which is a real town just
Speaker 2: outside of New York, and they really do up Halloween.
Speaker 4: You know, yeah, do it up big.
Speaker 2: So I did a haunted house there and that was
Speaker 2: really fun. I feel like the best thing you can
Speaker 2: do during this spooky season is just like find a
Speaker 2: setting that really immerses you in the vibes and like
Speaker 2: really lean into it.
Speaker 4: That kind of experience is so fun.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's so fun. I would you would have to
Speaker 5: go to a haunted house if you're there, because I
Speaker 5: feel like that's what it's all about.
Speaker 2: But totally yeah, Okay, Lauren, I'm gonna take a hard
Speaker 2: left turn here. As a comedian, I'm sure you've seen
Speaker 2: a lot of things.
Speaker 4: You have.
Speaker 2: You've probably seen a lot of stuff on tour. They're
Speaker 2: probably I don't know, maybe you've dealt with fear going
Speaker 2: out on stage when you were first starting out. What's
Speaker 2: the scariest experience you've had as a comedian?
Speaker 5: Oh, my god, Well, quite specifically, I went to Dallas,
Speaker 5: Texas with my improv team. This was now like twelve
Speaker 5: years ago. Or something, and we stayed at a haunted
Speaker 5: hotel and it was known to be haunted and it
Speaker 5: was under construction, so that was also creepy because it's
Speaker 5: just like lots of areas where it feels like there's
Speaker 5: it's all dark and dusty and crazy. And the people
Speaker 5: I was traveling with love horror stuff, and we including
Speaker 5: my friend Betsy Sidaro, who is like, she's actually on
Speaker 5: the show Ghosts coincidentally, but she loves horror stuff. She
Speaker 5: has a podcast all about horror scary ghost stories, and
Speaker 5: she loves horror movies. And so everyone was like really
Speaker 5: excited to go try to explore this hotel. And we
Speaker 5: walked around for a while in places we weren't supposed
Speaker 5: to go. We went into like the construction areas, like
Speaker 5: we're just being creepy and dumb, and I didn't see anything,
Speaker 5: and it sounds like I'm building up, like I want
Speaker 5: to say, And then I saw a ghost. I didn't
Speaker 5: see a ghost, but I went back to my room
Speaker 5: and I was really scared all night. So that's.
Speaker 4: Great endings, Yes, such a good ending.
Speaker 5: I was like, should I lie though it's not worth it?
Speaker 1: And then I saw Wendy and Casper.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and they were both hanging out and it was
Speaker 5: so cute, incredible.
Speaker 1: Well, Lauren, thanks so much for hanging out with us.
Speaker 4: Thanks for coming on the right side.
Speaker 5: Thank you for having me. This was so great.
Speaker 3: Lauren Lapkiz is the host of Haunting, a new podcast
Speaker 3: that shares real life paranormal stories. She's also appearing in
Speaker 3: the new film Another Happy Day Out this month on
Speaker 3: Apple TV.
Speaker 4: That's it for today's show.
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