Speaker 1: Hey fam, Hello Sunshine.
Speaker 2: Today on the bright Side, comedians partners and co directors
Speaker 2: Tag Nataro and Stephanie Allen are here to talk vulnerability
Speaker 2: in comedy, what it's like to work with Reese Witherspoon,
Speaker 2: and so much more. It's Monday, July twenty second. I'm
Speaker 2: Danielle Robe and.
Speaker 3: I'm Simone Boyce 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 2: Simone, it's on my mind Monday. We're talking work languages today.
Speaker 2: So what does that you ask Let me ask you
Speaker 2: this instead. Are you a procrastinator, a little bit blake,
Speaker 2: a little bit or a lot of.
Speaker 4: Bit depends, It depends on the task.
Speaker 1: Do you find that you have trouble getting stuff done?
Speaker 4: Is this an ADHD self diagnosis? Quiz?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, I have a point, I promise.
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay.
Speaker 2: There's this article from The Every Girl that says knowing
Speaker 2: your work link which is the secret to your productivity.
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of these articles out there that
Speaker 2: have listicles and languages and.
Speaker 4: The new Cosmo it's the new Cosmo quiz.
Speaker 2: Yes, So Basically, I want to go through these and
Speaker 2: see if we even agree.
Speaker 4: Okay, let's hear it.
Speaker 2: So apparently there are five different languages achievement, recognition, growth, collaboration,
Speaker 2: and freedom.
Speaker 4: Freedom sounds interesting? Do I have to pick one or
Speaker 4: can I have all of them?
Speaker 1: Well, let's go through them and let's see what we think.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: So the first is achievement, and this is the work
Speaker 2: language for go getters, for people who love to hit targets,
Speaker 2: solve problems, reach milestones.
Speaker 1: That kind of sounds like you definitely. Up next is recognition.
Speaker 2: This is the language for people who feel the most
Speaker 2: accomplished when they receive public acknowledgment or praise for their work.
Speaker 2: So even a simple thank you from a boss is
Speaker 2: a big deal for people with this work language.
Speaker 3: Okay, who doesn't want to hear thank you from their boss?
Speaker 3: Who doesn't want to hear validation from their boss? One
Speaker 3: thousand percent? This is just natural, This is human nature.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I sort of have a theory that you, as
Speaker 2: a boss, can tell your employee thank you, and they
Speaker 2: care about that sometimes more than like a promotion or
Speaker 2: oh my god, increase.
Speaker 3: One hundred percent. They don't they're so stingy. Usually with
Speaker 3: the validation. I think that bosses should be way more
Speaker 3: effusive with the praise.
Speaker 1: The thank you word goes such a long way.
Speaker 6: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: The third work language is growth. This one's for people
Speaker 2: who are constantly learning new skills improving their current skill set.
Speaker 2: They love a challenge and opportunity to learn something new.
Speaker 2: You can catch these people signing up for workshops or
Speaker 2: training programs. I love this one because there are so
Speaker 2: many resources that go untapped, especially at a lot of
Speaker 2: bigger corporations that have more resources. But you can take
Speaker 2: advantage of all these classes and workshops. Sometimes your jobs
Speaker 2: will even pay for you to upscale off site or virtually.
Speaker 2: I took a writing workshop at a company that I
Speaker 2: worked at and I loved it so great reminder to
Speaker 2: take advantage of what's in front of you. I feel
Speaker 2: most connected to this one so far. I actually just
Speaker 2: hired an executive coach TBD on how that goes?
Speaker 4: Yeah, like I really like learning new skills?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay. Fourth is collaboration. The work language for all
Speaker 2: the team players out there. So if this is you,
Speaker 2: you love a good brainstorming sash, you enjoy bouncing ideas
Speaker 2: off of colleagues, and individual recognition doesn't matter as much
Speaker 2: to you. Knowing that the team got the job done
Speaker 2: is the most rewarding. So if you love a group
Speaker 2: project growing up, this one's you.
Speaker 3: Who loved group projects? Are they in the room with
Speaker 3: us right now?
Speaker 1: I'd love to know, Well, you're an only child, there's
Speaker 1: no way you.
Speaker 4: Loved a group press.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. I will do it myself, Thank you.
Speaker 2: I kind of love I like brainstorming back and forth
Speaker 2: with people.
Speaker 3: I do love collaboration. Yeah, I don't know about a
Speaker 3: group project. Like we can brainstorm together and then I'm
Speaker 3: gonna go off and I'm to do my own work.
Speaker 4: That makes me laugh. Okay.
Speaker 2: Last, but certainly not least, is freedom. So this one's
Speaker 2: for solo workers who want independence. They enjoy taking ownership
Speaker 2: of their own projects. A person with this work language
Speaker 2: would rather manage their own workflow and are more likely
Speaker 2: to prefer a remote job with flexible hours.
Speaker 4: Everyone I hate freedom.
Speaker 1: This one is like, here's the thing.
Speaker 2: I feel like we could go in and be like,
Speaker 2: this one's me, this one's not me, But I think
Speaker 2: everybody has a little bit.
Speaker 3: Of all of these one hundred percent the freedom one
Speaker 3: is speaking my language.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the stress language ones that we did feel like
Speaker 2: they're more apropos.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, if you're feeling a little bit dissatisfied with
Speaker 3: this list, I do have some recommendations for other work
Speaker 3: languages that we could add here.
Speaker 4: Okay, give it to us.
Speaker 3: Number one, parental leave. Okay, let's support our dads, our moms,
Speaker 3: everyone in between who wants to start a family, and
Speaker 3: let's make sure that they have time off to recover
Speaker 3: from it.
Speaker 1: Can I amplify that.
Speaker 2: I even think family leave because yeah, they have to
Speaker 2: be caregivers for sick family members.
Speaker 4: So just like leave in general, bereavement time to be human.
Speaker 3: Yes that part also snacks, that's my second work language suggestion. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so healthy fruit snacks, chicken chips, boiled eggs, protein bars,
Speaker 3: coconut water. Like I like a robust selection. I want
Speaker 3: to walk into the breakroom and feel like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: I'm at erawon, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing. A lot of companies have unhealthy snacks.
Speaker 2: They have like the cheetos, the fruit loops, the cereal bar.
Speaker 2: I want like a spinach bar. Can we have a
Speaker 2: salad bar?
Speaker 3: I'm laughing because those are the snacks that we have
Speaker 3: in our podcast.
Speaker 1: We do have lacroix here though, that's true, that's true.
Speaker 3: Okay, another work language that we need to add good
Speaker 3: coffee within a one point two mile radius. Yes, like
Speaker 3: I need some excellent, artisan brewed espresso.
Speaker 4: Give me the lux coffee.
Speaker 2: Also, if there's like a coffee party on Fridays, I'm
Speaker 2: never leaving that company.
Speaker 4: Fantastic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you have my loyalty till the end. I'd
Speaker 3: also like to suggest a lush terrace where I can
Speaker 3: decompress from the stresses of the day.
Speaker 4: We kind of have that here, yes, yes, some outdoor space.
Speaker 4: I think that's great.
Speaker 3: Mental health benefits, Oh yeah, Like give me some free therapy,
Speaker 3: give me a guidance counselor that I can go downstairs
Speaker 3: and sit down with whenever I'm.
Speaker 4: Having here honestly talking dirty to me. And finally, unlimited
Speaker 4: time off. I just think we're in twenty twenty four
Speaker 4: unlimited PTO.
Speaker 3: Yeah, studies show that people don't even take advantage of
Speaker 3: unlimited PTO when you give it to them. Yeah, so
Speaker 3: maybe not unlimited, but I want ample time off. I
Speaker 3: want to be a human I want to feed my wanderlust.
Speaker 2: Similar to understanding our stress languages, this article says that
Speaker 2: knowing our work languages can help us lead a healthier,
Speaker 2: more fulfilling career. I have to be honest, I kind
Speaker 2: of wish simone wrote this article. I like yours better.
Speaker 4: I thank you. I'm so flattered.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just going to go with that.
Speaker 3: I think our guest today probably know a lot about
Speaker 3: work languages because they have a lot of experience working together.
Speaker 4: That's so true.
Speaker 2: Take Nataro and Stephanie Allen are comedians and partners in
Speaker 2: work and in life. Their latest endeavor is the rom
Speaker 2: com am I Okay, starring to Coda Johnson, and it
Speaker 2: marks their directorial debut as a duo.
Speaker 1: So we have to ask them about that.
Speaker 3: They've been married for almost ten years now and they
Speaker 3: have two sons, Max and Finn, and they truly are
Speaker 3: a power couple. Tig and Stephanie are both comedians, writers,
Speaker 3: and actors, and they actually first met on the set
Speaker 3: of the twenty thirteen movie In a World, and.
Speaker 1: As they say, the rest is history. So after the.
Speaker 2: Break, we're talking all things love and comedy with Tig
Speaker 2: Nataro and Stephanie Allen, stay with us.
Speaker 4: Tig and Stephanie, Welcome to the right side.
Speaker 6: Thanks for having us. Yeah, happy to be here.
Speaker 1: Welcome, Welcome.
Speaker 3: Are they our first couple? I, oh my gosh, you're right, Yes,
Speaker 3: this is our first couple.
Speaker 4: This is a big day, our power couple. No less, Tig.
Speaker 3: There are so many moments from your recent Amazon special
Speaker 3: Hello Again that had us and stitches. The entire office
Speaker 3: had the best time preparing for this interview because you
Speaker 3: gave us so much laughter. And Stephanie, you're a part
Speaker 3: of a lot of your wife's jokes. How do you
Speaker 3: feel about being part of tigs material?
Speaker 5: I enjoy it and our kids enjoy it too, And
Speaker 5: I feel like Tig's good at knowing you know what
Speaker 5: to share and what not to share.
Speaker 7: I feel like Stephanie's good at also letting me know
Speaker 7: what to share and what not. I mean, speaking of
Speaker 7: this special, I don't know if you know, but Stephanie
Speaker 7: was nominated for an Emmy for directing my special.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I could not be more thrilled, very happy. I mean, I.
Speaker 7: Can't even express enough like I would choose her over
Speaker 7: me any any old day. And that is from my heart.
Speaker 6: And soul.
Speaker 2: Stephanie, congratulations on your Emmy nod. So in the special,
Speaker 2: you talk about nailing a meeting with Reese Witherspoon. You know,
Speaker 2: she's our EP and we have all these guests that
Speaker 2: come into our studio and the cameras, the mics turn off,
Speaker 2: and one of the things we get the most is
Speaker 2: is Reees really as amazing as it seems? Or can
Speaker 2: you send Reese my book? Like people are just obsessed
Speaker 2: with Reese Witherspoon, which I totally understand.
Speaker 4: Can you set the scene for nailing the meeting?
Speaker 2: I think everybody wants to know how to nail a
Speaker 2: meeting with Reese.
Speaker 6: Well, you've come to the wrong people.
Speaker 7: Personally, I feel like I fumbled through my entire relationship
Speaker 7: with Reese, and conversely, I feel like she's fumbled through
Speaker 7: her entire relationship with me because she has teased me
Speaker 7: relentlessly over the years for different things, and I've let
Speaker 7: a lot of things slide. But I also have to
Speaker 7: say I love having a relationship with somebody where you
Speaker 7: can rib each other and I take it from her
Speaker 7: and she takes it from me. So as far as meetings,
Speaker 7: though I certainly didn't nail that meeting. As you saw
Speaker 7: in the special, I misunderstood what Reese had said, and
Speaker 7: that in turn sent me off on a story that
Speaker 7: made absolutely no sense to what she had said. Reese
Speaker 7: started talking about the TV show that she worked on
Speaker 7: called Big Little Eyes, and she said, yeah, I was
Speaker 7: one of the shortest cast members of the show. I'm
Speaker 7: five two, Laura Dern's five ten, Nicole Kidman is six feet,
Speaker 7: and shay Lene is five eight. And I responded saying, oh,
Speaker 7: that's interesting because years ago I dated a woman that
Speaker 7: was six feet tall, and I think she was kind
Speaker 7: of insecure about her height, so she hunched. And then
Speaker 7: I was left in a meeting looking like I was
Speaker 7: clinically insane.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you what I heard.
Speaker 7: I heard that Reese Witherspoon is five to two, Laura
Speaker 7: Dern is five ten, Nicole Kidman is six feet, and
Speaker 7: she leans five eight.
Speaker 6: That's why I said what I said.
Speaker 5: Well, it was interesting too, because you I think you
Speaker 5: are good at meetings, and I think you're good at
Speaker 5: reading a room. And that was a moment where it
Speaker 5: was really like wow, she really went off there and
Speaker 5: couldn't quite figure out what was going on. But clearly
Speaker 5: we found out that you have a hearing issue.
Speaker 3: We hope that you are getting the treatment that you
Speaker 3: need for that to avoid future snaffoos. You know, that
Speaker 3: moment was so funny to me because I am six
Speaker 3: feet tall taking sephony, so I particularly delighted in the
Speaker 3: tall person humor of that joke.
Speaker 2: So okay, you two have been married for ten years
Speaker 2: and now getting to sit with you both live. You
Speaker 2: have such a cute rapport with each other. Are you
Speaker 2: guys a romantic couple? Do you celebrate anniversaries? Or is
Speaker 2: that stuff corny to you?
Speaker 7: We celebrate when we met, when we started dating, when
Speaker 7: we got.
Speaker 6: Got it, decided to start dating.
Speaker 7: We have so many anniversaries, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 6: It's truly embarrassing.
Speaker 2: It's so sweet. Are you gift people? Do you take trips?
Speaker 2: How do you celebrate?
Speaker 7: We go out to dinner and I liked to send
Speaker 7: Stefphanie really pretty flowers with a note that says, you know,
Speaker 7: ten years of pure hell, here's to ten more.
Speaker 3: When you two first met, who made the first move?
Speaker 3: Was there were there butterflies from the start? How did
Speaker 3: the how you meet story go down?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 5: We met on Lake Bell's movie In a World, and
Speaker 5: we were both actors in that And at the time,
Speaker 5: Tig had a girlfriend and I did not know I
Speaker 5: was gay and only dated men. So I feel like
Speaker 5: we had a very platonic, like just enjoyment of each other.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we had so much fun working on set together.
Speaker 6: And yeah, that I wouldn't say there was like a move.
Speaker 7: And also backstory, I didn't know I was battling three
Speaker 7: deadly ill is at one time. I had pneumonia and
Speaker 7: invasive cancer and an intestinal disease that was eating my inside.
Speaker 7: So I was kind of struggling between scenes. But I
Speaker 7: was also really enjoying having fun with Stephanie on set.
Speaker 7: And when I got sick during that movie and I
Speaker 7: collapsed one day and went off to the hospital and
Speaker 7: that's when everything fell apart. But Stephanie and I reconnected later.
Speaker 7: It was like six months later. Oh yeah, it was
Speaker 7: like six months later. We ran into each other and
Speaker 7: that movie was going to Sundance and we exchanged numbers
Speaker 7: and I was single and she was, you know, still single,
Speaker 7: and we texted and oh, I had told her that
Speaker 7: before I gave her my number. I said, Oh, I
Speaker 7: just just so you know, I'm not a huge texter.
Speaker 7: Here's my number, and she was like, oh, I'm not either,
Speaker 7: and I said, yeah, I had gone to coffee with
Speaker 7: this woman and she texted me after coffee saying how
Speaker 7: much fun she had, and she knew I had a
Speaker 7: show that night and texted me before my show saying,
Speaker 7: have a great show. And then at like eleven that
Speaker 7: night she said texted me and said sweet dreams. And
Speaker 7: Stephanie was like, oh yeah, don't worry about that. For me,
Speaker 7: I was just saying just in general, I'm a pretty
Speaker 7: quick brief texter and to not take offense.
Speaker 6: And she was just like, oh yeah, me too.
Speaker 7: And then when I was going to bed after I
Speaker 7: had given her my number and like midnight, I got
Speaker 7: a text.
Speaker 6: It said sweet.
Speaker 4: Dream Yes, that's hilarious.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, this is the funniest person I've ever met.
Speaker 3: I love that sense of humor. Sephanie like somebody a
Speaker 3: partner who could make you laugh.
Speaker 4: It's the best.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, And we couldn't hear.
Speaker 7: We were saying we're not texts and we couldn't stop
Speaker 7: texting each other. And then she on Valentine's Day and
Speaker 7: not even planned, was like, hey, come meet me and
Speaker 7: my friends. We're having a drink at La Poobelle and
Speaker 7: I went there to meet her and she was sitting
Speaker 7: at this big table with friends and we both wore
Speaker 7: these big wool Canadian sweaters and I was like, how
Speaker 7: funny that we both.
Speaker 6: Have these on.
Speaker 7: Let's switch And our friend at the table was like, here,
Speaker 7: I'll take a picture of you. And as soon as
Speaker 7: we put our arms around each other to take a picture,
Speaker 7: we started kissing.
Speaker 1: Oh whoa did they get a photo of it?
Speaker 6: Yes, our first kiss cap shirt on camera.
Speaker 1: That's so beautiful. That's like every woman's dream, truly.
Speaker 4: So romantic.
Speaker 3: Just swap wool sweaters with your crush and then you
Speaker 3: lock it in.
Speaker 4: That's what you do.
Speaker 2: Well, every time I go on a first date, I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 2: if this is the person I'm gonna marry, I would
Speaker 2: love a photo of this, But you can't ask for
Speaker 2: ato on your first stage.
Speaker 4: It's la anything as possible.
Speaker 5: Well, I was just gonna say, it's just that crazy
Speaker 5: feeling when like you touch someone, Like we were putting
Speaker 5: our arms around each other for the picture, and it
Speaker 5: was just so natural and immediate to kiss. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: had never kissed a woman before. Wow, and it was
Speaker 5: so natural.
Speaker 6: And neither of us are public. Yeah, we're not like
Speaker 6: making it. Yeah, we're not like we make out in public.
Speaker 7: And then the next day Copany wrote me a fifty
Speaker 7: thousand page email saying that she's not gay, but she
Speaker 7: had fun and that she wants to be friends. And
Speaker 7: then I just wrote back saying okay, Dyke, and then
Speaker 7: we've been together ever since.
Speaker 6: That was when I was in a cohumor.
Speaker 3: I see no red flags all I see our green
Speaker 3: flags here. I mean, it's perfect.
Speaker 1: This is such a great conversation.
Speaker 2: We have to take a quick break, but we'll be
Speaker 2: right back with more from Tig and Stephanie. Stay with us,
Speaker 2: and we're back with Tig Nataro and Stephanie Allen. Since
Speaker 2: you're both comedians and writers, I want to get your
Speaker 2: pulse on the importance of comedy right now.
Speaker 4: I'll give you a quick story.
Speaker 2: I moved to LA from Chicago about ten years ago,
Speaker 2: and I didn't know anybody, and I realized I hadn't laughed,
Speaker 2: and so every Wednesday night for two years, I would
Speaker 2: go to the comedy store from ten pm to two am,
Speaker 2: and it was five bucks and I would just laugh
Speaker 2: and laugh, And comedy's always held such a special place
Speaker 2: in my heart, and I look around our social and
Speaker 2: political landscape now and feel like it's needed more than ever.
Speaker 4: What do you feel.
Speaker 5: It's so tricky because I feel like I, for both
Speaker 5: of us, we really feel the weight of things in
Speaker 5: the world and have a massive sensitivity to that. And simultaneously,
Speaker 5: I think it's our natural instinct to find levity and
Speaker 5: light and look for where there's good and try to
Speaker 5: elevate that. And I think it kind of all goes
Speaker 5: together at times where you go, God, I'm feeling so low.
Speaker 5: I need that break. And I do think in that
Speaker 5: break is a lot of times where there's connection and
Speaker 5: where there's peace and where you can kind of like
Speaker 5: find something to move toward. But at the same time,
Speaker 5: I don't think and I mean, I don't know how
Speaker 5: you feel ticked, but I don't think we ignore anything
Speaker 5: that's happening and do comedy instead.
Speaker 6: It's both.
Speaker 2: And Yeah, So I watched your film on HBO, Max
Speaker 2: and Dakota Johnson really made me giggle. I loved the story.
Speaker 2: Why was that a project that you wanted to bring
Speaker 2: to life?
Speaker 7: Well, I had worked with Lauren Palmerance, who wrote the movie,
Speaker 7: and I just feel like she's such a talent. She's
Speaker 7: just a very funny, deeply funny person. She had sent
Speaker 7: it along to us for potentially directing, and because Stephanie,
Speaker 7: I don't know, I mean, you had a somewhat similar
Speaker 7: story in the Later in life coming out story. It
Speaker 7: just felt like not only was it a different take
Speaker 7: on coming out, but it was yeah, I think a
Speaker 7: personal yeah connection, Yeah.
Speaker 6: I really.
Speaker 5: I mean I've felt like I just governed my sexuality late.
Speaker 5: I now look back and go, God, I wasn't that old.
Speaker 5: And I feel like even since then, ten years ago,
Speaker 5: so many people are coming out at so many different
Speaker 5: ages and really discovering that part of themselves, you know,
Speaker 5: at seventy or eighty. And in this movie, Dakota's in
Speaker 5: her thirties. And I feel like that was something that
Speaker 5: we both were really drawn to, and not just in
Speaker 5: terms of coming out, but just in anything in life,
Speaker 5: this sort of I think people carry a lot of
Speaker 5: sort of shame and guilt for not having figured things out,
Speaker 5: and then they feel like it's too late to start
Speaker 5: or try or change things. And we both I think
Speaker 5: we're really drawn to just that idea of going, you
Speaker 5: know what, fuck it. You can do whatever you want whenever,
Speaker 5: and your life will be forever greater for having done it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Stephanie, I want to talk to you about your
Speaker 3: own experience a bit more and how it parallels with
Speaker 3: what we see in this film. You know, I often
Speaker 3: hear authors talk about the act of revisiting a particularly
Speaker 3: defining chapter in their life as almost reliving it, and
Speaker 3: the body doesn't know the difference whether you're writing about
Speaker 3: something that happened to you or whether you're experiencing it
Speaker 3: or re experiencing it.
Speaker 4: So was there an element of this for you where
Speaker 4: it felt like you were reliving this?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I mean you can't help but go, oh my god,
Speaker 5: I went through this exact same thing and had all
Speaker 5: of these feelings and then at the same time going
Speaker 5: why did I feel that way? I mean, it's like
Speaker 5: the weight of it at the time is so massive,
Speaker 5: and you think you're making this huge decision and that
Speaker 5: your life is going to be so different, and then
Speaker 5: you do it and things aren't that different, and you
Speaker 5: just sort of go, oh my god, I had all
Speaker 5: this build up and it's really life just continues and
Speaker 5: now you're doing this, you know, yeah.
Speaker 6: And so I like that feeling a lot.
Speaker 5: But I felt like in making the movie, I didn't
Speaker 5: want to in any way belittle those emotions at the
Speaker 5: time because they are so significant, and I think when
Speaker 5: you're on the other side, especially in today's culture where
Speaker 5: so many people identify as queer and they don't like
Speaker 5: labels and everybody is a little of everything, that's to
Speaker 5: kind of go, oh, I think I'm gay. I enjoyed
Speaker 5: that it was specifically that and that the label mattered
Speaker 5: because she had to embrace that for herself and say
Speaker 5: that was true.
Speaker 2: There's this video of you on a party bus with
Speaker 2: Sarah Paulson, Alison Janny holland Taylor Glennon Doyle, just to
Speaker 2: name a few, and you're singing the Indigo Girls. It's
Speaker 2: hilarious and I need to know where you guys were going.
Speaker 6: Wait.
Speaker 7: I was doing my final show in the la of
Speaker 7: my Hello Again tour, and there were some people that
Speaker 7: group will loosely socialize together with dinner or drinks or whatever,
Speaker 7: and it came somewhere of like, oh, I haven't seen
Speaker 7: your show. I want to go to your show, or
Speaker 7: of all these different people, and I was like, oh, well,
Speaker 7: my show is in I've already done La. The closest
Speaker 7: I have coming up is Long Beach. And everyone was like, well,
Speaker 7: let's just go down the Long Beach for that show,
Speaker 7: and they started making a plan.
Speaker 6: And then was it us? I think yeah.
Speaker 7: And then we were like, if everyone's going down to
Speaker 7: the show, why don't we just rent a party bus.
Speaker 7: And everyone was like chiming into the email thread going yes, yeah,
Speaker 7: And so we all met at one house and got
Speaker 7: in a party bus and we were at a house
Speaker 7: that was in the hills, like where where you're riding
Speaker 7: along an edge of a cliff type hill where trees
Speaker 7: and branches are slapping against the windows were like, you know,
Speaker 7: rebbels falling down the mountain side. It was truly like,
Speaker 7: oh my god, just for this hilarious experience, we also
Speaker 7: might die die.
Speaker 4: Sounds like kind of like a low key chill experience.
Speaker 2: To paint the picture, Indigo Girls is playing and Alison
Speaker 2: Janny is like hanging from the top of the bus
Speaker 2: with on this pole.
Speaker 5: I was the one filming that and this it felt
Speaker 5: like as soon as like we all met at the
Speaker 5: house and everyone's talking and excited to go see the show.
Speaker 5: It felt like as soon as we got on the
Speaker 5: party bus, like it immediately shifted where everyone was like
Speaker 5: on the poles.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was hilarious, chill, early afternoon cocktail party to
Speaker 7: where everyone truly I have to say, Alison Janny is
Speaker 7: a freak of nature. She is a horse. She is
Speaker 7: so strong. This woman was upside down basically doing crunches
Speaker 7: from the Yeah, the poles. But yeah, we were flying
Speaker 7: down the road and I don't know if you know this,
Speaker 7: but Alison came up behind me in an all good
Speaker 7: fun and picked me up from behind and carried me
Speaker 7: down the aisle of the party bus, and I was like,
Speaker 7: oh god, this is painful. And I went on stage
Speaker 7: not knowing she had broken my ribs.
Speaker 6: No, yeah, what I was like, God, I'm in a
Speaker 6: lot of pain. And then but of course I've been
Speaker 6: through worse pain.
Speaker 7: But so I did my show, and then I was
Speaker 7: feeling really bad for a couple of days, and then
Speaker 7: I went to the doctor and sure enough tracked ribs
Speaker 7: and I told not to make her feel bad, but
Speaker 7: just because if I broke somebody's ribs, I would want
Speaker 7: to know.
Speaker 4: I want to know how do you let somebody know that?
Speaker 4: What did you say?
Speaker 7: I just texted her and said, nay, you broke my ribs,
Speaker 7: sweet dreams.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then she sent me flowers and.
Speaker 7: She wrote, Okay, yeah, I mean I wasn't upset with her.
Speaker 7: I thought it was hilarious. Of course, felt terribly So
Speaker 7: maybe you should edit this out. But I love Alison
Speaker 7: Janny so much. It makes me crazy too.
Speaker 4: I do too. She's a legend.
Speaker 2: I wanted to be here when I was growing up.
Speaker 2: When she played CJ on The West Wing. Oh, I
Speaker 2: thought that was it the best.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but no part of me was upset with that woman.
Speaker 6: And so there you have it.
Speaker 1: It's a great two truth and a lie for a
Speaker 1: party in the future.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, you're so right.
Speaker 1: So you guys are so celebratory.
Speaker 2: What do you think is the best way to celebrate something?
Speaker 2: If you were to give us a little advice, some
Speaker 2: like non traditional way to make something celebratory.
Speaker 7: To me, it's a really basic generic stuff of like
Speaker 7: I love our kids, love hosting our friends and family
Speaker 7: at our house. Like they love setting the table, they
Speaker 7: love putting snacks out or dirves and helping cook and
Speaker 7: to look down our dining room table and have our
Speaker 7: closest of friends and family celebrating something. Yeah, there's truly
Speaker 7: nothing better that I can think of. I mean, I
Speaker 7: know it sounds very obvious, but I guess that's why.
Speaker 6: It's those kind of things.
Speaker 5: And I feel like it's sort of that, you know,
Speaker 5: like when people are like, oh, well, don't say anything yet,
Speaker 5: or knock on wood, or don't want to jinx it,
Speaker 5: and we're like, pop in the champagne.
Speaker 6: Yeah, jinx it, let's get excited.
Speaker 7: There's not a heaviness like in Hollywood. You you work
Speaker 7: towards something, you write something, you pitch something, you meet
Speaker 7: about something, and every now and then something happens, and
Speaker 7: the majority of things don't happen, and people, you know,
Speaker 7: reps will call saying like, oh hey, so this didn't
Speaker 7: happen or they passed or this got you know, ditched
Speaker 7: in production. And not like we're heartless robots, but I
Speaker 7: think we just take it in stride and we're like, okay,
Speaker 7: on to the next and and I think that that's
Speaker 7: kind of how.
Speaker 6: We we move through life.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and that's why we're okay with celebrating because we
Speaker 7: know probably it's gonna be ditched.
Speaker 5: You know what's hilarious is even like be getting talking
Speaker 5: about that meeting with Reesa Lauren, Like, I'm like, oh, did.
Speaker 6: You go poorly?
Speaker 5: I never really thought about if that was successful, Like,
Speaker 5: I'm like, they were so great.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we had so much fun.
Speaker 7: We laughed through the whole thing, and they you know,
Speaker 7: passed on everything we threw their way.
Speaker 6: But we had so much fun and that's what we
Speaker 6: left feeling.
Speaker 2: I guess that's the benefit of working with the love
Speaker 2: of your life.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, just just one of the benefits.
Speaker 2: Tig, Stephanie, thank you so much for making us laugh
Speaker 2: and for joining us on the bright side.
Speaker 7: Thanks for having us. And if anybody cares, I have
Speaker 7: a podcast as well called Handsome with the Comedian's Fortune,
Speaker 7: Fimester and May Martin if you want to check out
Speaker 7: Ridiculousness and Reese was a guest on it.
Speaker 4: I love your podcasts. Thanks very entertaining.
Speaker 6: Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks well, thank you so much for coming.
Speaker 3: Tig, Natara and Stephanie Allen are comedians, partners in life
Speaker 3: and work, and co directors of the film am I.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's it for today's show.
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