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Speaker 1: Still the Place with Laura Layton, Courtney Thorn Smith.

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Speaker 2: And Daphne's Aniga an iHeartRadio podcast.

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Speaker 3: Hey you guys, Oh my gosh, Daphne, you were so

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Speaker 3: cute at King for coming.

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Speaker 4: Yes, So, first of all, welcome to our Melrose Minute.

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Speaker 4: We had the super crazy fun thing of getting to

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Speaker 4: go see Daphne at Upright Citizens per Grade, which is

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Speaker 4: an improv show, and it was really the best one

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Speaker 4: I've ever seen. I never stopped laughing. Normally there are

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Speaker 4: awkward pauses. I never did.

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Speaker 1: So Daphne, please tell us what it was like for you.

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Speaker 2: Well, UCB is, you know, started in New York. This

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Speaker 2: is the La Theater and within that somebody, I think

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Speaker 2: it was Amy Poehler was one of the founders, and

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Speaker 2: then another actor started ascat a double four s's and

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Speaker 2: the format is.

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Speaker 1: And I said, you say, ass cat. I've never said

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Speaker 1: it that way, but that would be the appropriate I'm

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Speaker 1: just trying it out.

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Speaker 2: And I don't know where that came from, but I

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Speaker 2: think you see be the theater itself has at least

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Speaker 2: that night, there were three shows, so people come, they.

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Speaker 3: Line up, but like they're you know, five, Almost every

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Speaker 3: night there's two or three shows almost every night, and

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Speaker 3: they're just like a different themed, recurring show.

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Speaker 1: And if they and.

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Speaker 2: This particular one with Ascat, which is not in all

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Speaker 2: the shows, they invite a guest to come in and

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Speaker 2: they say, we're going to ask you to tell three stories.

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Speaker 2: They have to be true, and then our improv troupe

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Speaker 2: will act them out. And obviously, you guys saw they

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Speaker 2: take you to start with your stories and they go

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Speaker 2: off from there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they weren't really acting out your stories so much

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Speaker 3: as they used it as a trigger to spark ideas

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Speaker 3: for themselves. So they would take a piece of your

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Speaker 3: story and just go off on that became a tangent

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Speaker 1: Was hysterical, shysterical.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, Daphne I thought about this later,

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Speaker 3: like your stories were great because you provided just enough

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Speaker 3: detail for them to like grab onto things that they

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Speaker 3: wanted to like store away and go, oh, I want

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Speaker 3: to I want to do something on that beat.

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Speaker 1: And they weren't always like truthful to your story.

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Speaker 3: It was just like that beat of the story that

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Speaker 3: they took and told another tangential story off of. And

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Speaker 3: just the way they work together and they you know,

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Speaker 3: they as improv artists. They're like ready to jump in

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Speaker 3: and go I see where this can go and how

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Speaker 3: I can contribute. And they tap the shoulder of one

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Speaker 3: of the other actors out and they tap out and

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Speaker 3: they step in and all of a sudden, they pivot

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Speaker 3: the story and everybody's just like they don't miss a beat.

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Speaker 1: It was so fun to watch. Yeah, it made me

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Speaker 1: wish that I had had the courage to do that

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Speaker 1: as a actor, and I thought I wish I had.

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Speaker 1: I wish I had done it because it looked so

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Speaker 1: much fun and they were enjoying themselves. And Daphney, what

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Speaker 1: I think you did so beautifully.

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Speaker 4: First of all terrifying, like when they say, like when

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Speaker 4: you're doing a pre interview for a talk show and

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Speaker 4: they tell me a funny story like the only can't

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Speaker 4: remember anything. Yeah, it was that moment on a stage

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Speaker 4: in front of people. But the stories you told were

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Speaker 4: and I think it gave them permission to really be

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Speaker 4: so we were on the opposite side of the stage.

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Speaker 4: We could see you. I don't think you could see

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Speaker 1: No, you were just smiling, you delighted. We were across

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Speaker 3: And once you sit down after you've told your stories,

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Speaker 3: you sit down as an audience member, and you watched

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Speaker 3: the troop just do their thing, and you're laughing.

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Speaker 1: As the thing. You honestly were like beaming. It was

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Speaker 1: so fun to watch.

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Speaker 2: It was cringing because they get a little like pro genitalia.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, was there.

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Speaker 2: I told the story of our blind date, and I

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Speaker 2: was like, I did not mention anything about what I could.

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Speaker 1: Kill someone body part. Yeah, and it was very dirty

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Speaker 1: and they get.

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Speaker 2: Dirty, but they let's see my stories. The first one was, oh,

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Speaker 1: I told a Spaceball story.

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Speaker 2: So we had guys acting out mel Brooks and the

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Speaker 1: All different versions of mel Brooks.

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Speaker 2: All different versions of him. And then I told a

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Speaker 2: was regretting. I don't know, because it's I've never done

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Speaker 2: that before. So these stories came up, you know, as

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Speaker 2: you saw, they asked the audience for words and they

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Speaker 2: were giving me words like ginger vitis.

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Speaker 1: Like no kept coming.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because the audience first is supposed to throw out

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Speaker 3: on that theme, and then you have to think of

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Speaker 3: tell their thing, do their thing based on yourself.

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Speaker 1: It's all like a very sort of collaborative yea, yeah.

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Speaker 4: And I know why it would feel weird for you

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Speaker 4: because one of this phrase you told it was so

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Speaker 4: adorable was that you were talking to your now husband

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Speaker 4: and you hadn't met yet, and he happened to be

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Speaker 4: in your mom's town and he said, can I take

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Speaker 4: your mom to coffee? Which is so such extremely charming,

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Speaker 4: I can't even so, and the whole audience went, oh

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Speaker 4: so after to take your mom to coffee, So they

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Speaker 4: ran with that. But as just so you know, as

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Speaker 4: an audience member, I'm not thinking that the mother character

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Speaker 4: saying ridiculous things to the boyfriend character.

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Speaker 1: Is it all you and David? Like that wasn't the truth?

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Speaker 4: The sweet part was, I can imagine why it felt

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Speaker 4: sort of personal deal, like are people going to think,

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Speaker 4: but it's not.

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Speaker 1: It was so ridiculous.

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Speaker 4: And as you said, they said penis more times than

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Speaker 4: I can count, and then Wiener and I was saying

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Speaker 4: to I went with my friend Dan, and I was like,

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Speaker 4: the embarrassing thing is it.

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Speaker 1: Makes me laugh every time he goes.

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Speaker 4: I was getting kind of calm by the penis because

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Speaker 4: then they said Wiener and I lost it, like why

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Speaker 4: is it so funny?

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Speaker 1: How young?

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's also silly and stupid, and yeah, it

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Speaker 3: was so silly and great, but yeah, that's absolutely true.

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Speaker 3: Daff Your story was so sweet and genuine, and everybody

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Speaker 1: But like they completely turned.

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Speaker 2: And then it became animal crack and lizard planning, and

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Speaker 2: then that lizard someone mentioned Meryl Streep and then I

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Speaker 2: was like, oh, that's they had told me before. Don't

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Speaker 2: if something there trigger something, So I like, okay, well

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Speaker 2: there was a sort of a story about Meryl Streep,

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Speaker 2: not that I've worked with her, but that so I

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Speaker 1: I love that story and I don't say money.

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Speaker 2: But because Meryl Streep went to the same Summerstock theater

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Speaker 1: Then I'm great.

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Speaker 2: I kind of learned, like, Okay, I get it. Now,

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Speaker 2: you know, and they can just go off from there,

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Speaker 2: because clearly I know they will. And yet they turned

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Speaker 3: Right, well, I'm like, did you know did they ask

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Speaker 3: And they haven't turned that into a joke, which was

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Speaker 1: Want to check who's my crowd here. I want to

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Speaker 2: Well I was saying that more for my stories, right yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: So but then I thought I'm not going to divulge

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Speaker 2: you know, save stories. But boy, when you have like

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Speaker 2: You know. I was relieved when I was asked to

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Speaker 1: They because I do improv.

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Speaker 2: I've studied with Gary Austen, I've studied with you know,

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Speaker 2: I mean, these are brilliant people who just have but

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Speaker 2: I'm always terrified over the years to do it, and

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Speaker 2: then i keep doing it because it's fun.

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Speaker 1: But you really, I.

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Speaker 2: Really saw because I got to just tell this story

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Speaker 2: real ability. I hope you guys do it. I hope

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Speaker 3: I mean it's just like if between Doug or me,

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Speaker 3: you know that that fear like you said, like going

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Speaker 1: I felt scared, But it looked so fun. Yeah, do

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Speaker 4: And what I saw because I always think I wish

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Speaker 4: I could be as relaxed in my work as an

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Speaker 4: actor as I am with my friends. Right, Like, I'm

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Speaker 4: much funnier with my friends, and you guys are now

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Speaker 4: my friends, so we're nice and relaxed.

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Speaker 1: But it's like you're hilarious.

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Speaker 4: But I always thought, like I look at and that's

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Speaker 1: And I thought that's why the show was so.

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Speaker 1: It was such a great show. I was so impressed.

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Speaker 3: And I'm just so impressed by her. Say it was

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Speaker 2: The main thing that we get afraid of is judgment, right,

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Speaker 2: opening exercise was to get up on stage alone and

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Speaker 2: Kudro blew my mind. And once you get that out

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Speaker 4: You know, that is so brilliant because it's one thing

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Speaker 1: It's very different to do it on stage. That's a

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Speaker 1: brilliant an exercise. Yeah, a few minutes and that's going

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Speaker 1: I feared it was going to be, and here I am.

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Speaker 4: It's that sense of I did the humiliating, horrible thing

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Speaker 1: It's really healthy. Maybe I should take an adult.

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Speaker 4: It is sort of a good lesson, and I'm going

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Speaker 4: to take a little kid in prov class then I will.

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Speaker 2: But I tell you one thing that I remember with

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Speaker 2: It's called the theatrical. I forget what the name of

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Speaker 2: the exercises. But I was on stage for thirty minutes

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Speaker 2: remembered thing my childhood and cinequel just that's working. But

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Speaker 1: We just went off on that tangent.

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Speaker 2: But you know, anyway, we got to have a whole

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Speaker 2: other Melrose moment, middle aged Melose moment.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember what you were saying?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I do remember that. I remember the experience. I thought,

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Speaker 2: I was terrified. What am I going to do?

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Speaker 1: We all had to do it, and and it just.

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Speaker 2: Turned out there are instincts in us. If you've been

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Speaker 2: and give yourself freedom, but the instincts are there, and

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Speaker 2: then you're going to be fine.

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Speaker 1: I was.

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Speaker 2: It was an amazing experience that class. And he said

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Speaker 2: that was so theatrical, It was so you have it

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Speaker 2: in you. You just don't know because regular life doesn't

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Speaker 2: ask this of us.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, can I just mention that Melrose's

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Speaker 3: place never allowed it either.

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Speaker 1: Like we were not open, we were not welcome to improv.

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Speaker 3: As a rule there was like state exactly is written

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Speaker 3: and yeah, no the Mary Donner out.

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, I should have married Donna Onda we

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Speaker 4: should be so fun.

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Speaker 1: Yes idea, yes, not to self married.

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Speaker 3: Honnor love her, But like we weren't really welcome to

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Speaker 3: improve in any way. And it wasn't like this collaborative,

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Speaker 3: you know, creative process. It was really like figure out

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Speaker 1: Although I will say like in.

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Speaker 3: Later seasons, I did feel like I got a little,

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Speaker 1: Within the realm they.

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Speaker 4: Did loosen and well, in the beginning, we were young

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Speaker 4: the meaning, and that's why it got so strict.

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Speaker 1: And then later on I think they loosened.

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Speaker 2: Plus everyone's tired.

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Speaker 1: Season seven, you're just like, say, launch whatever whatever I

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Speaker 1: want to go, Yeah, do it with chop stick.

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Speaker 2: But I just want to say, we're going to wrap

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Speaker 2: this up, but I want to say it, so just

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Speaker 2: a shout out to the theater to uc b LA.

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Speaker 2: It's that's their instagram and it's right there on Franklin Street,

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Speaker 2: right there in Beechwood Canyon and they have shows all

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Speaker 2: the time and I really recommend people.

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Speaker 1: Going all the time. It was super much fun. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I brought my kid and shows called ass Cat the

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Speaker 1: Sunday night shows.

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Speaker 3: All right, it was super fun watching you daff and

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Speaker 3: super fun to talk about it and always start to

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Speaker 3: see you.

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Speaker 1: On a Melrose minute. Ladies, Yay, see you guy soon,

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Speaker 1: you se. Bye bye