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Speaker 1: And That's what You Really Missed with Jenna.

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Speaker 2: And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to and That's What You Really Missed podcast. Oh

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Speaker 3: my gosh, we have another new Bee today.

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Speaker 1: We have the new Bee.

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Speaker 3: Today we have Josie Tota, who literally is I was

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Speaker 3: watching this episode, the Josie's first episode as Myron, and

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Speaker 3: it's it's unhinged. It's absolutely unhinged, but it's so funny.

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Speaker 1: I didn't I.

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Speaker 3: Don't think at the time I knew what to make

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Speaker 3: of it, like on the show, because you're like, how

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Speaker 3: are we having like a thirteen year old kid on

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Speaker 3: our show in high school? Like it just feels crazy. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean, Dougie Hazer was a hit, but like really

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Speaker 3: ages me. But Josie's absolutely amazing and I am I

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Speaker 3: can't wait for you hear this conversation.

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Speaker 2: And Josie's presence always the reason why Josie like just

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Speaker 2: stayed on TV at that age. It was just booking

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Speaker 2: things left and right, because like she had such a

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Speaker 2: presence and like could come in as a thirteen year

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Speaker 2: old and like take over.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and also like having parents like hers, who you'll

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Speaker 3: hear in the conversation sounds like like starter with a

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Speaker 3: really good foundation to be really a person on top

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Speaker 3: of like being wildly successful.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, anyway, here's a conversation.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, hi everyone, woh's so beautiful.

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Speaker 4: Literally, please your I'm dying. I'm like, forgive me more.

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Speaker 2: No, it looks it's a dewey it's a dewey skin glowy.

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Speaker 1: Look, there's what I.

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Speaker 4: Live above, an elementary school, so I'm just watching young

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Speaker 4: children in a very no New York. Yeah, I moved

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Speaker 4: to New York.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god.

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Speaker 4: Really, Like the other day, I was like someone was

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Speaker 4: asking about it. I was like, well, the trip has

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Speaker 4: been really nice, and they're like, you're not on a

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Speaker 4: trip like you pay rent, but like I feel like

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Speaker 4: I've been here for long enough at a time, like

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Speaker 4: I'm here for like two weeks that I'm somewhere else.

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Speaker 2: Well because she's booked and busy.

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Speaker 4: Not even like I'm the most busiest unemployed person you'll

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Speaker 4: ever meet in your.

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Speaker 2: Least, you know what I say?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say.

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Speaker 4: Are we are we having a duel?

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Speaker 2: Employed and busy?

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Speaker 4: So wait, how are you guys? How are you good?

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Speaker 1: How are you?

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Speaker 4: It is so long I know, because did we even meet.

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Speaker 4: I think we met once, right one on the day

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Speaker 4: where everyone was a final day.

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Speaker 2: You came up to me at Elton John's after party.

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Speaker 2: Is it last year?

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, two years ago?

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Speaker 2: Yes, and you were like, do you remember me? Of

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Speaker 2: course I remember you? Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 4: It's always interesting when you when you switch like who

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Speaker 4: remembers you and doesn't, and so sometimes you kind of

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Speaker 4: just have to like you. I always just say nice

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Speaker 4: to meet you, because I don't want anyone to feel bad.

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Speaker 1: I actually do all the time too.

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Speaker 4: Well, because you also switch genders. Yeah exactly, no, but

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Speaker 4: but you know what I mean, Johnna, it's yeah, it's

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Speaker 4: to save the awkwardness, right, yeah exactly.

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Speaker 1: Let me just like help you out and like.

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Speaker 2: Not yeah, but I think what has been helpful is

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Speaker 2: that you just haven't stopped like working is what it

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Speaker 2: looks like. I know, there's the appearance of like what

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Speaker 2: work is, and then there's the actuality of you feeling

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Speaker 2: like you might not be working. But it was like

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Speaker 2: I knew you from the show. Yeah, and we'll get there.

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Speaker 2: But like you came in the show. It came on

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Speaker 2: the show in like a big way, and like We're

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Speaker 2: such a presence even if I wasn't working with you

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Speaker 2: all the time. Yeah, and then every time I saw you,

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Speaker 2: I was like, yes, this little bitch.

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Speaker 3: Yes, like a memorable thing from the show. And then

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Speaker 3: also just like the continuit, we like see you all

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's also like a proud you know, like

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Speaker 2: anybody who's on that show your family, regardless of how much, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we interacted and.

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Speaker 1: So yes we're out there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Oh that's so sweet of you to say thank you.

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Speaker 2: Oh please, you were just a mini mogul. We were

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Speaker 2: just talking before you got on, Like, yeah, remember when

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Speaker 3: Producer on the show, like writing, honestly, that was nuts.

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Speaker 4: I mean to think about that era of my life.

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Speaker 4: I was eighteen, Like I was having a smoothie for breakfast, lunch,

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Speaker 4: do with me. I just texted her. Her name was

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Speaker 4: Kylie's erin shout out Kylie and I because this reminded

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Speaker 4: just like, because that's all they like paid for mess.

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Speaker 4: I was like, what am I to have her do

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Speaker 4: and shine my shoes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And then but anyway, that era of my life was crazy.

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Speaker 4: And then getting to do it with my best friend

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Speaker 4: who was on that show with me, her name's Alicia,

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Speaker 4: was amazing. And yeah I still work with Tracy, the

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Speaker 4: woman who created that show. I still work with her

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Speaker 4: to this day.

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Speaker 1: Oh amazing.

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Speaker 4: You haven't stopped working together, which has been so amazing.

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Speaker 2: And that is how you know that somebody is a

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Speaker 2: good person is because people burned bridges left and right.

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Speaker 2: It's a small business. Everybody talks. And the fact that

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Speaker 2: you have created a work friendship in that way and

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Speaker 2: it's lasted, it speaks to your character.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're so sweet now you're eighteen, that's crazy.

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Speaker 2: During Save by the Bell, Yeah, I mean, would you also.

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Speaker 4: A sophomore in college? And I mean I remember I

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Speaker 4: went to the first table read of Save by the Bell.

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Speaker 4: The morning after I went to this this like festival

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Speaker 4: like I made a career out of being a gay boy,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so interesting, but so people just assumed that

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Speaker 4: And there's an interview on Wendy Williams that I did,

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Speaker 4: it's always been a thing the market that I kind

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Speaker 2: Oh you not kind of you did? Yeah that was

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Speaker 4: So funny, that's really funny. It was it was something

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Speaker 4: that like my friends, now you know, maybe you know

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Speaker 2: It makes it makes me people aren't used to like,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, the like audi, I hate say, auditioning circuit,

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Speaker 2: whatever it is you I know, but like you always

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Speaker 2: see the same people because you're always going out for

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Speaker 2: the same types, Like you're just the type. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: when I was younger, like younger younger, it was this

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Speaker 2: guy named Bobby Edner, okay, because I don't know that

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Speaker 2: much better actor, like of drama. So if it was

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Speaker 2: like he was straight when I was like hiding right,

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Speaker 2: so right, so he did he do it? Yeah? Probably?

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Speaker 2: I think that was. Yeah, I didn't know what I

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Speaker 4: And when did you start acting?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I was. But I feel like how did

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Speaker 2: How did because when you were Unglee? How old are you?

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Speaker 4: I was thirteen or fourteen? I might have been thirteen

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Speaker 1: I have a photo, a photo, Oh my god.

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Speaker 4: And it's it's of me and my two childhood best

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Speaker 4: friends who I'm still friends with this day. I'm getting

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Speaker 4: dinner with them tomorrow night. And it was it was

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Speaker 2: I have to go now wow, and it makes me

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Speaker 2: I don't feel that insane because like you're a lot

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Speaker 4: When you did season one twenty twenty. Yeah, so you're

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Speaker 4: in my age, Jenna.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, not to think that.

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Speaker 4: Wait, sorry, wow, now.

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Speaker 2: It's yeah, it was so great.

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Speaker 4: It's crazy, like that wasn't It's not you, it'stmely young.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, That's what I was trying to say.

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Speaker 4: You should be twenty playing high school. That's like that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's pretty normal.

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Speaker 3: But okay, so you weren't thirteen, but you were living.

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Speaker 3: You would watch Glee from when you were before you

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Speaker 3: even had aspirations. So during the duration of Lee before

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Speaker 4: Yeah I end up. I mean, so much happened. I

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Speaker 4: and there was an episode about like funk music or

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Speaker 1: Not that that's old, but you look like it is old.

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Speaker 4: That's beautiful that you've that you've done that though, because

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Speaker 3: loves she loved True Colors because trolls played True Colors.

442
00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:14,399
Speaker 1: So we know this, we know this.

443
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 3: She's like, oh, mommy saying the troll song. But now

444
00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:20,240
Speaker 3: it's actually I did hung up for her, which was

445
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,040
Speaker 3: I was like, she's gotta we got to get in there.

446
00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:30,439
Speaker 1: Because I know, I know, And then we did. At

447
00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:36,399
Speaker 1: one point though she said who's that. She's like, that's mommy, mommy.

448
00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:43,440
Speaker 1: And then we did ABC last night and we did

449
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Speaker 1: who was the other one that I showed her? Oh

450
00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:49,480
Speaker 1: we did. I don't know how to love him because

451
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:51,439
Speaker 1: she tends to like ballads, so she.

452
00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:54,440
Speaker 4: Like said, she is like ballads obsessed.

453
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:55,399
Speaker 1: She tends to like ballads.

454
00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:59,680
Speaker 3: But you know, it is so important to me that

455
00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:03,480
Speaker 3: for her, there's representation out there, and obviously like we've

456
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:08,720
Speaker 3: come a moderate way to more representation on you know,

457
00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:11,359
Speaker 3: of of women and Asians on on screen, but like

458
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:14,399
Speaker 3: even that, to be able to show her somebody not

459
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:18,240
Speaker 3: that's not me, but somebody that represents her in a

460
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,360
Speaker 3: way is so meaningful totally.

461
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:22,120
Speaker 4: So that's so special.

462
00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:26,879
Speaker 3: That's so that's about me, more about you. We need

463
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 3: to know more about the your Glee experience. So I

464
00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:35,200
Speaker 3: have to know what the process was like, like when.

465
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:38,280
Speaker 1: Did you get the call? Did you audition where you offered?

466
00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:38,960
Speaker 3: Like what was the.

467
00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:43,440
Speaker 4: Straight off, straight.

468
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:44,080
Speaker 1: Offer for Glee.

469
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Speaker 3: I don't know that we've had anybody except for Justin

470
00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:47,800
Speaker 3: Timberlake for that.

471
00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:48,600
Speaker 2: I know.

472
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:56,640
Speaker 4: Literally, I guess, yes, we'll be sent in a tape.

473
00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:03,920
Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure. Yeah, I mean I remember I was

474
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 4: in the car at Panda Express. Yes sir, yes, we're all.

475
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:14,639
Speaker 4: Great things occur and I got the audition and it

476
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,119
Speaker 4: was like the most exciting thing that ever happened to me.

477
00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:19,159
Speaker 4: And the thing that my mom taught me at a

478
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:22,000
Speaker 4: young age was like we celebrate the audition, you know,

479
00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:24,720
Speaker 4: don't celebrate the audition then, like you're never going to

480
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:25,240
Speaker 4: be happy wow.

481
00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:28,720
Speaker 2: Wow, we did that, and we went your parents sound.

482
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:33,119
Speaker 4: One perspective I told I told my mom was like

483
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:34,920
Speaker 4: beyond standby in case I need to add you for

484
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:40,040
Speaker 4: like clarity at some point. But and then we were like,

485
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:41,440
Speaker 4: you know what song am I going to sing? Of

486
00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 4: course all that jazz from Chicago and my number first

487
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,480
Speaker 4: day with my mother, and I remember going to the

488
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:57,840
Speaker 4: audition seeing every boy in Hollywood, like every shape, size creed.

489
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:02,000
Speaker 4: It was like the most room I'd ever seen in

490
00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:04,240
Speaker 4: my life, and I think I literally prayed to God

491
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:10,119
Speaker 4: to like give me the courage to do it, and

492
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,119
Speaker 4: I just think I remember doing it, remember being in

493
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:17,880
Speaker 4: that room, and I remember like after I performed the song,

494
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 4: like standing and like imagining that like everyone was applauding

495
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:23,560
Speaker 4: around me, because I remember it at the end of

496
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:28,240
Speaker 4: every single music performance, like there's always that moment where

497
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 4: someone's like I'm looking around, like heavy breathing, like you

498
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,359
Speaker 4: just like you didn't just lip saying that, and like

499
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:38,639
Speaker 4: someone didn't just scream at you every dance move to

500
00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 4: do so like you're not even thinking you're just a robot,

501
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,440
Speaker 4: but like it's as if you put your whole soul

502
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:45,359
Speaker 4: into it. And I remember doing that and being like

503
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:51,320
Speaker 4: no one else did that, you know, And I felt

504
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 4: like in that moment, I was like I'm in the show,

505
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:56,560
Speaker 4: you know, not that I got the part, but like

506
00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:58,880
Speaker 4: in that moment, I felt like I had to put

507
00:26:58,920 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 4: yourself in that world.

508
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:01,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is what you have to what you should

509
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 2: do every time.

510
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:07,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's such a great wow wow wow, And so.

511
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:11,200
Speaker 4: I remember, so I did that and then I don't

512
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,440
Speaker 4: even think there was a callback. I don't And I

513
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:18,120
Speaker 4: remember Ryan Murphy was like going through the tapes, which

514
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 4: I don't think he did regularly. Is my understanding that

515
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 4: it was like the last season and like we were

516
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 4: kind of the newcomers and so they wanted to approval

517
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,880
Speaker 4: and yeah, I think it was like literally December fourteenth.

518
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:36,399
Speaker 4: I remember the day. I also have an insane memory,

519
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:38,200
Speaker 4: and people get really scared who are friends with me,

520
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 4: because like I remember literally everything.

521
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:40,920
Speaker 2: Wow.

522
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,600
Speaker 4: That we got the call about it and it was

523
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:48,879
Speaker 4: like the best news in the world, And it was

524
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 4: like one of two Hollywood moments that I can remember

525
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 4: where I would like where I went to the studio

526
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 4: lot and like saw the set and then saw myself

527
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 4: as a kid. You know, I've only had that moment

528
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 4: once before, which is my very first show I was on,

529
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 4: which is a Dizzy Channel show that I had also

530
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,919
Speaker 4: watched the premiere of on my childhood couch with my family.

531
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 4: Wow wow, And I just remember having a moment and

532
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,200
Speaker 4: it being like insane, and my mom and I just

533
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 4: looking at each other and just being like, this is Hollywood.

534
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 1: Yeah that too, Yes, definitely, yeah, a lot of history,

535
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 1: it didn't.

536
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 4: And then I remember running into this guy from my

537
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:33,879
Speaker 4: middle school. He was like kind of mean to me,

538
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 4: and he was like he was like, Oh, what are

539
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 4: you doing here? And I was like, oh, I'm on Glee,

540
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 4: Like what are you doing? Yes? Yes, he was like

541
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 4: I have an audition and I was like, well, good luck.

542
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:48,480
Speaker 4: And I was like, so, are you just like doing

543
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 4: an episode or something? And then the PA who was

544
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 4: with us was like you know, well, she said he'll

545
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 4: but you know, he'll be here for the rest of

546
00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 4: the season. And it was almost like the PA I knew,

547
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 4: like this like an opposition person, this was an enemy,

548
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 4: and but that was the first time that I learned

549
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:08,600
Speaker 4: that I was going to be on the rest of

550
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 4: the season. I just thought it was in an episode,

551
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 4: like am I.

552
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so you thought you were going to do

553
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 3: the show for one episode. Did you know when you

554
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 3: came into audition your auditioning for Myron and like that

555
00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 3: was the storyline or do you remember if it was

556
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 3: like you read somebody else, because oftentimes people would read

557
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 3: for roles, would read like thin sides or something that

558
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 3: anything to do with the role, but it's such a

559
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 3: specific thing.

560
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 4: It was like, yeah, the first of many like Jewish

561
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 4: characters I played, But it was an honor to have

562
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 4: a barment stode. I'd wanted to my whole life. I

563
00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:00,560
Speaker 4: grew up going to Barmins fast As were the Cooperman's,

564
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 4: our extra Neighborman's, our extra Sebers. So by the way,

565
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 4: our next neighbors were the Cooperman's and they had multiple children,

566
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 4: so we saw all of their abommanzas and I was like,

567
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 4: when is mine gonna happen?

568
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 3: Right?

569
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 4: And I actually asked my parents to throw me a

570
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 4: barnmu stow when I was like twelve, and they were like,

571
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 4: we're Catholic, that's not like we don't have an excuse

572
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:29,479
Speaker 4: to like spend this money on you, Like we can

573
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 4: have a party from in the backyard. So then when

574
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 4: I had that moment.

575
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:37,440
Speaker 2: It was like, this isn't you And I paid for

576
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 2: it and I got paid to have it, So you

577
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 2: got casts. A lot of the other people we've talked

578
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 2: to of like the New Kids had to audition on

579
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 2: the auditorium stage in front of everybody, which seems, yeah, terrifying.

580
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 4: Billy and.

581
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 1: Noah, they all like literally to perform on the auditorium stage.

582
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 2: Is that?

583
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, off, all that is terrifying.

584
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: It's terrible.

585
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 4: Because I was with Phineas, we were in the same

586
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 4: plot right and.

587
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 1: You guys came on the same episode, right on.

588
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 4: The same episode. I remember thinking, like, who is this

589
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 4: seventeen year old homeschooler? Like I was like because he

590
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 4: was like, yeah, I me my sister are homeschooled by

591
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 4: my parents. And I was like, that's so weird that,

592
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 4: like they're not in traditional school. Little did I know

593
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 4: they'd be like the biggest pop stars in the world. Yeah, literally,

594
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 4: Oscar Award winning people. But it was just so funny.

595
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 4: He was the sweetest. But I remember immediately connecting with

596
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 4: Samantha Marine and sam and like we just immediately off

597
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 4: the bat, like she like took me in and because

598
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 4: originally I think my character was supposed to be friends

599
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 4: with Becca's character or like we had a kinship, which

600
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 4: we did in real life, like I loved her as well,

601
00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 4: but something about Samantha and I just like, I don't know,

602
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 4: we just clicked. Yeah, And so then in every group

603
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 4: scene it was like, you know, they put us together

604
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 4: and you can see the evolution of the episodes, like

605
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:13,960
Speaker 4: we're just always next to each other, and she was

606
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 4: just always my person who like was my safety net,

607
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 4: which is really nice to have. Because it was really overwhelming.

608
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 2: That was gonna be my next question. Coming into a

609
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 2: set like that, especially at your age, which I mean

610
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 2: it was not your first time being on set full

611
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 2: of adult crew member. Yeah, but you're on a show

612
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 2: that you watched since you were eight, and like there's

613
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 2: all of these people. You know that lots of people

614
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 2: are going to see it. Like what was that feeling

615
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 2: like for you when you actually started working?

616
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 4: It was amazing but overwhelming, and I learned very quickly.

617
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 4: I remember someone you know, they would often say like,

618
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 4: if you can do Glee, you can do anything. That

619
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 4: was the frit I'm sure you guys have heard that. Yeah,

620
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 4: and it felt like that maybe was like this sentence

621
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 4: if they say to excuse themselves from like putting you

622
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 4: through such strenuous yes, yes activities, which was like and

623
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 4: I remember breaking down. I broke down a few times,

624
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 4: especially after because like I'm sure you guys have talked

625
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 4: about it, but like, you know, you're in a van

626
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 4: and you're on set and then they drive you to

627
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:21,959
Speaker 4: Capitol Records and then you're recording, you know, for hours.

628
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 4: And I'd never made music before. I'd never sung publicly

629
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 4: other than once where I famously replaced a boy who

630
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 4: got the swine flu who was supposed to perform at

631
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 4: the Harvey Weinstein Oscar party in twenty fourteen. Aside from that,

632
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 4: I hadn't performed before in a professional setting. Wow. Now,

633
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 4: I had met Oprah that night and like Taylor Swift

634
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 4: and Lana del Rey and I was like eleven years old.

635
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 4: I mean, it was, oh my god, insane. But so

636
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 4: that was my only experience sort of like professionally singing.

637
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 4: And I remember leaving the recording you just feeling like

638
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 4: absolute because I'm like.

639
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 1: Oh, we all felt that way.

640
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 2: That was universal feeling.

641
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, Well, and I remember Laura saying who was on?

642
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 4: Had been on? Broadway before and pursing something similar one day,

643
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 4: and that made me feel a lot better because I'm like,

644
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:18,720
Speaker 4: this is like, you know, one of the best singers

645
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 4: I've ever met, and so for her to, you know,

646
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:26,320
Speaker 4: have that breakdown moment was like maybe I'm not so terrible.

647
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:31,240
Speaker 4: But I remember being really, really difficult. And I couldn't

648
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:34,799
Speaker 4: do any of the dance rehearsals longer than like forty

649
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 4: five minutes because I had to be in school and

650
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 4: I also worked that long. They'd film it and my

651
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 4: mom and I would do it at all. That's in

652
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:45,839
Speaker 4: my living room.

653
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:48,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a lot.

654
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:52,880
Speaker 4: Because of the Sony Korean scandal of seth Rogen, if

655
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 4: you guys remember that, or if there was another reason,

656
00:34:56,160 --> 00:35:00,080
Speaker 4: but it seemed like everyone was very very suspicious to

657
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:03,319
Speaker 4: something getting leaked. I would get my scripts. I don't

658
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 4: know if this is what you guys were like the

659
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 4: night before. Yeah, an episode would start and it was

660
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 4: hand delivered to us. Yeah, it was never emailed, and

661
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:14,760
Speaker 4: I wouldn't know if I was in the next episode

662
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 4: until that script got that script crazy, So it was

663
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,879
Speaker 4: like a PA may come and knock on your door,

664
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:24,760
Speaker 4: and I just remember like waiting by the door idle.

665
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 4: You know that's crazy, and or like I was like

666
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 4: at the movie theaters and like you know, it's you

667
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,880
Speaker 4: find out. It was like so chaotic and so stressful,

668
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 4: and then when you'd get that knock on the door

669
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 4: like that young Pa, it was like, I don't know,

670
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 4: covered in mildew from like their eight hour you know

671
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 4: tour around the city. I would give you the script

672
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 4: and then you'd like flip to it. Even some days

673
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 4: where like I got a call sheet from a napkin,

674
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:50,840
Speaker 4: like written on a napkin.

675
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a new one.

676
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, I had a call sheet written on a napkin

677
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 4: saying what time everyone was doing? What? It was?

678
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:07,239
Speaker 2: Chaos? Oh sad, fallen off?

679
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was not at that point. But also we

680
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 1: ran out of paper. We don't have the budget out of.

681
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 4: Paper, you know when I was there, they ran out

682
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 4: of paper and all resources. But no, I seeing that,

683
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 4: Oh Jesus was crazy too, you.

684
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 3: Know, like and that was like your first episode in

685
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,839
Speaker 3: you were doing like all of all numbers with all

686
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 3: of them.

687
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 4: And like Darren Chris, who's like Angel on Earth. Yes,

688
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:34,959
Speaker 4: you know we have this weird connection because my uncle

689
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 4: was his teacher in high school.

690
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 1: Oh that's great.

691
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 2: Darren was connected to everyone.

692
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 4: He's I famously have like a million cousins, so like

693
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:46,840
Speaker 4: I'm related to everyone.

694
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 2: Great. So with your powers combined, you two know every

695
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:51,719
Speaker 2: single person.

696
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 4: Actually, yeah, we're the center of the universe. But like

697
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:58,319
Speaker 4: he was so amazing. And then, like I remember Leah Liah,

698
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 4: Michelle was like the first person to meet me like

699
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 4: an adult, you know, but I just there's no part

700
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 4: of her that was like making any sort of adjustments

701
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 4: for the fact that I was a kid. And I

702
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,800
Speaker 4: remember really liking that, you know, because I'm sure like

703
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 4: you guys know, being adults and set like the language

704
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 4: and like the vernacular. Yeah, it's like, you know, people

705
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:21,319
Speaker 4: just talk like adults and I was like a little kid.

706
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,320
Speaker 4: And I remember she never censored herself around me and

707
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 4: even towards me, And I think, like, you know, as

708
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 4: a little trans girl, like that's very iconic that like age,

709
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 4: like you know, she was talking to me like that.

710
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 4: Like I remember at one point and I can I

711
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 4: can say this. I mean not that I can say this.

712
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:43,879
Speaker 4: No one gave permission to say this, but I'm giving

713
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 4: myself permission to say this. But at one point she

714
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 4: called me over and she was like, Josie, what's your

715
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:53,400
Speaker 4: favorite musical And I was like, I don't know. I

716
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 4: think i'd have to say Chicago, and she was like

717
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:05,399
Speaker 4: that's always been my least favorite music. I wanting to die,

718
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 4: but I was I was like, that is fears. Like

719
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 4: she didn't mince words with me, like she doesn't like

720
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:16,439
Speaker 4: that musical and but like I grew up on Chicago. Yeah,

721
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:21,240
Speaker 4: that was like, I don't know, most honest, she's always

722
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 4: the most the most honest. For one other day, her

723
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 4: and Darren, she was like, just want to let you

724
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:31,440
Speaker 4: know me and Darren are your real parents, and that

725
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 4: was really fulfilling for me. Wow wow I feel that

726
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 4: way too, Mom and dad.

727
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:41,279
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, wow, that's really good.

728
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 3: I just remember hearing like words that they're like there's

729
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:49,320
Speaker 3: this new character on the show, and like at that

730
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 3: point I had really mentally and emotionally departed.

731
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: So I apologize that, like we didn't cross paths in

732
00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:57,640
Speaker 1: that way.

733
00:38:57,880 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 4: Oh so understandable, but.

734
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 3: I like heard such wonderful things about you and about

735
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:09,840
Speaker 3: just like showing up and being like uh he or

736
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 3: you know, at the time, was like he's amazing, Like

737
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 3: he just performed and did it and like again, to

738
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:17,360
Speaker 3: be honest, like I hadn't.

739
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,919
Speaker 1: We were watching this sixth season for the first time

740
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 1: that we really haven't.

741
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 4: That makes sense.

742
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 3: So it was really fun to watch and really exciting,

743
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:29,280
Speaker 3: and we love the new like you guys, the newbies

744
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 3: are just so exciting and.

745
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:33,400
Speaker 4: Quirky and different and really.

746
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 2: But you're also so because you're all such great new

747
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 2: characters that we have not seen at all, and you're

748
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 2: also like special individually, like what you are bringing to

749
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 2: the show, which is like what the show at its

750
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,640
Speaker 2: core is obviously about, and it's like this is the

751
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:53,799
Speaker 2: new crop of like yeah, very.

752
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 1: What was it like working with Jane Lynch? Like did

753
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:02,880
Speaker 1: you know that? Must have been and liked you asked me.

754
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 4: That because to this day, I mean, she is one

755
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:08,840
Speaker 4: of the nicest And when I say one of the

756
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:12,440
Speaker 4: I mean like top three, yes, nicest people. I mean,

757
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 4: I guess number one that I've ever worked with. She

758
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 4: saw me at such a young age. Yes, talk about

759
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:24,479
Speaker 4: treating you like an adult in like a comedy way too. Yeah,

760
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 4: And it's crazy because I think it's like her John

761
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 4: Michael Higgins, like, uh, maybe Jennifer Coolidge. Who else? I

762
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 4: mean There's been so many amazing people. But like when

763
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 4: I think about people that have like sort of chaperoned

764
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 4: me in that way Amy Poehler, like it's weirdly like

765
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,320
Speaker 4: these like comedy people who all start the same circle

766
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 4: and then they were humbled at such a young age,

767
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 4: like that, why they're so kind that's a shade. Yeah,

768
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 4: you know, those are the people to me that like

769
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 4: were like they saw me, you know, because I've always

770
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:01,480
Speaker 4: identified as like a can you know, I wasn't ever

771
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 4: calling myself an actor or an actress until like recently,

772
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,760
Speaker 4: like maybe like four years ago. I saw interesting manager

773
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 4: and I was like, I want to be an actress

774
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 4: and she was like, bitch, are you on? Basalt's like

775
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 4: that's what do you'd like to hang up? And I

776
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:19,399
Speaker 4: was like, no, I want to actually act. I don't

777
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:22,760
Speaker 4: want to just like be funny. Yeah, but I remember

778
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:25,360
Speaker 4: Jane seeing me, and I remember us just having that

779
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 4: like camaraderie.

780
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: It's so funny too. She guys are so funny.

781
00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 4: She's so funny. She's the most you know, talented woman

782
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:41,919
Speaker 4: on earth, and she's underrated beyond belief always and yeah,

783
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 4: just such a cool person. I'm so glad that you

784
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:45,400
Speaker 4: asked you about.

785
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:47,719
Speaker 3: Her, Well, I mean like to work with somebody like

786
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 3: that who's such an I like comedic icon, and then

787
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:52,719
Speaker 3: like to have like Jennifer Blutch on the show too.

788
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 3: It felt like so I mean even during the pilot,

789
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 3: like she walked up in her tracksuit and that was

790
00:41:57,960 --> 00:41:59,320
Speaker 3: the first time we met her and knew she was

791
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:01,840
Speaker 3: attached to the show at all, and we were like wow, literally,

792
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 3: like I looked up like the Empire State Building.

793
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 1: Was like wow you, Like I can't believe you're on

794
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:08,479
Speaker 1: our show.

795
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:10,719
Speaker 2: And we were terrified to work with her. And we

796
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:11,359
Speaker 2: were in our.

797
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 4: Twenties seen her, You've seen.

798
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:15,920
Speaker 1: Like best thing, I assume, yes, everything.

799
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 3: She's like so nice, but every time she'd walked on

800
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 3: walk on set, she'd have these like monster monologues, monster

801
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,239
Speaker 3: lines that made zero sense, but she would like spit

802
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 3: them out with such grace and like never mess up,

803
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 3: and she'd make you laugh so hard that you're like,

804
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 3: don't break her take, because like.

805
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 1: I don't want to make her have to do it again.

806
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:38,799
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you're like trying not to laugh, but that's

807
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:39,360
Speaker 4: so funny.

808
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 3: Best person in the whole world. But you guys have

809
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:44,239
Speaker 3: really funny interactions too, like when you step on the mast,

810
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:45,880
Speaker 3: it's just so so funny.

811
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:48,759
Speaker 4: She really she was also one of those people that

812
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:51,440
Speaker 4: like I felt really safe.

813
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:54,400
Speaker 1: With Hitchcock too. I feel like really took you guys

814
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 1: best with him.

815
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, we actually did a movie together after the fact,

816
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 4: my dad in a film that I did. Yeah, he

817
00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:06,319
Speaker 4: wrote my episode Michael Hitchcock. I remember that also from

818
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:07,360
Speaker 4: the best in Show.

819
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 5: World people all the most amazing body feels so like

820
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 5: connected to his work and those people. Yes, yes, and yeah,

821
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:20,399
Speaker 5: Michael Hitchcock is one of the best super on Earth,

822
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:22,400
Speaker 5: one of the most talented humans on Earth.

823
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:25,400
Speaker 4: Weirdly, Also, I don't know if you guys ever met him.

824
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 4: He played super Gay Warbler and he's now he's been

825
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 4: my brother's best friend from college. But Mason Trueblood, he's

826
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:36,640
Speaker 4: like one of the most music people and he was

827
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 4: also my friend too, Like he was like, and.

828
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 2: He's been great this season. They were like.

829
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 4: They were like, we're going to give him some lines now. Yes,

830
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 4: and he's straighter. He's like married now and lives in beach.

831
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:53,360
Speaker 4: Like he's probably the most heterosexual person on earth, for

832
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 4: better for worse. But like, I just love that he

833
00:43:56,360 --> 00:44:00,960
Speaker 4: played that and now I get to see him. But yeah,

834
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 4: I probably definitely had a crush on him when I

835
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:04,760
Speaker 4: was a kid because he's gorgeous.

836
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:09,440
Speaker 2: Oh same, I did too. I couldn't talk to him.

837
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 1: Do you have any favorite.

838
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:16,840
Speaker 3: Numbers that you did on the show, like one that

839
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 3: you were completely terrified and like, yeah, I mean like my.

840
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 4: First numbers was like so good, insane, ridicul you know,

841
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 4: so I think that I mean that one I remember

842
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:33,240
Speaker 4: the most vividly. There's a song that Darren Chris wrote

843
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 4: for the show. Yes what it's called, but it was

844
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:41,759
Speaker 4: so good, and I remember that being like a really

845
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:45,359
Speaker 4: beautiful experience because I got to see him. Somebody didn't

846
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:45,520
Speaker 4: know that.

847
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 1: Well, but like live there this time, this time, that's right, Yes, yes.

848
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:56,919
Speaker 4: I mean the Ariana Grande's song. This is the part.

849
00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know when you were on the show

850
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:05,799
Speaker 2: and like people would be texting us like, oh my god,

851
00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 2: these numbers are amazing. This kid is amazing. I was like, yeah,

852
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm like I know who this person

853
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 2: is obsessed. I was like I don't. How do you

854
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 2: people not know? Like obviously, like this person is thirteen

855
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,880
Speaker 2: and is more talented than all of us. That's how

856
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:24,319
Speaker 2: I felt when you got into the show.

857
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 4: Untrue. But I do remember going trending on Twitter for

858
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:29,160
Speaker 4: the first time when the show.

859
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:32,520
Speaker 2: First came out, which was something because people were not

860
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 2: watching our show as much. So that's that's how good

861
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 2: you were.

862
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:38,800
Speaker 4: It was my Ron Muscat, It's trending, and I remember

863
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:42,200
Speaker 4: then I was like I made it. Yeah, And then

864
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:45,359
Speaker 4: I also got so ill after the show. I don't

865
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 4: want to Oh, oh my god, I don't know who

866
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:52,160
Speaker 4: it's from. I want to say Leah just for fun,

867
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 4: but I don't know. I don't know. I not actually

868
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 4: don't want to. But like I think it just went around.

869
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:00,719
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, I think.

870
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 4: Yeah. I think we all had the ill. And I

871
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 4: was like ill for seven months and I still have

872
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 4: it to this day. Like when I relapsed, I'm like

873
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 4: it was Glee. In any time I was sick or

874
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:13,880
Speaker 4: like worried about something. My mom will text me to

875
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 4: is like, you know, remember he did you can do anything.

876
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:19,799
Speaker 2: Oh my god, true.

877
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:22,759
Speaker 4: Me that Kevin.

878
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 1: That's where you get all your illness from.

879
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 2: They did It did start during Glee.

880
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Speaker 1: Then maybe it was.

881
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:31,520
Speaker 4: In the walls I got was sitting for a really

882
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:32,040
Speaker 4: long time.

883
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Speaker 2: It is true in Moldy Wall I think that is

884
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:42,839
Speaker 2: why I had back problems. Probably yeah, yeah, you played

885
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:44,760
Speaker 2: Jewish characters. I played someone in a wheelchair.

886
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Speaker 4: We all, we all do your thing. I did much

887
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 4: worse than that. I also, I mean, I don't know

888
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 4: if my pulpo is on here, but I did. It's

889
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:53,279
Speaker 4: not my fault. I had a black mom in my

890
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:56,759
Speaker 4: very first serious regular role. Didn't have a dad, just

891
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 4: had a black mom. Her name is Leonora Critchlow and

892
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 4: the most incredible British actresses.

893
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Speaker 2: There was a time we used to like joke about this,

894
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:06,760
Speaker 2: not in like, oh isn't this funny? We joke about

895
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:10,839
Speaker 2: the absurdity of it, where like people would say like, oh,

896
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Speaker 2: I'm like TV black or though, because it's like when

897
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:18,720
Speaker 2: you're racially ambiguous enough, yes.

898
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 4: And that's why I could play maybe anything in that

899
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:26,120
Speaker 4: era of television, right right, because like I'm an Arab woman.

900
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 4: But some days they thought it was.

901
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:33,320
Speaker 2: Not for Hollywood people who were not willing to do

902
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 2: any sort of work. They're like good enough, yeah.

903
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:41,960
Speaker 4: Exactly, But now looking back, you know, obviously that's crazy.

904
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Speaker 1: We learned, yeah exactly, And I please in't a time capsule.

905
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:46,640
Speaker 1: We call it.

906
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:49,360
Speaker 3: We call it the time capsule exactly. It sort of

907
00:47:49,480 --> 00:48:00,640
Speaker 3: lives and dies there. We ask everybody this, so I

908
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 3: just I'll just ask it to you. What is the

909
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 3: feeling that Glee leaves you with? Obviously we wish there

910
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:10,320
Speaker 3: was more Myron in the show is such like a

911
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:12,120
Speaker 3: short stint for you?

912
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess that was my question. It's like, do

913
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Speaker 1: you did you wish there was like more time or

914
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Speaker 1: was bad enough?

915
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:23,279
Speaker 4: No? I think it was perfect and you know it

916
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:25,399
Speaker 4: was perfect the amount of time.

917
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Speaker 1: And I mean I think so.

918
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Speaker 4: With you know the line, being a part of something

919
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:35,600
Speaker 4: special makes you special. Like I've said, you know when

920
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:39,960
Speaker 4: I like I was in a sorority regrettably in college,

921
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:42,320
Speaker 4: as you know, I think I told that to a

922
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 4: bunch of white women once, but like I you know,

923
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 4: we'll often say that. And also just like the idea

924
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:51,440
Speaker 4: that like dreams come true, which is really like the

925
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:52,319
Speaker 4: core of the show.

926
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 2: Yea.

927
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:57,000
Speaker 4: And like the fact that I could be this you know,

928
00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 4: closeted trans girl in the a small town that's like

929
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:08,480
Speaker 4: called Cowtown, Davis, California, and from Davis. I'm from Davis, squirrel.

930
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:08,959
Speaker 2: Wow.

931
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Speaker 4: Yes, like I've been around. No, but you know, to

932
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Speaker 4: think that I could be from there and I could

933
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Speaker 4: you know, perform at my local theater and dream of

934
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Speaker 4: getting to be in the show. And the fact that

935
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Speaker 4: I got to be on it. In that way, it

936
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 4: proves to me that like anything is possible anyways. So no,

937
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:32,960
Speaker 4: I'm running for president and do not that I can't wait.

938
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Speaker 4: Dreams come true.

939
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, twelve years, you can come on.

940
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Speaker 4: Twelve years you can run, true, and I mean it

941
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Speaker 4: runs for a third term, then I think everything's off liments,

942
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:43,160
Speaker 4: so then I might as well run. I probably the

943
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:43,719
Speaker 4: best bet.

944
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Speaker 2: I'm all for it. I don't need to hear any

945
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:49,440
Speaker 2: of your policy issues and I don't.

946
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:50,839
Speaker 4: Have any, and I don't have any.

947
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 2: Great I'm in amazing, Jose.

948
00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:56,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm here.

949
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:59,320
Speaker 3: I'll do your PR. Sorry, I know you have a

950
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 3: PR person. It's okay, right, well, amazing amazing tell us

951
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:07,240
Speaker 3: about blacking Buccaneers.

952
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:09,800
Speaker 2: So you have to remember when I said, you haven't

953
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:12,239
Speaker 2: stopped working work, right.

954
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:15,280
Speaker 4: So if you want to see me play a cist

955
00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:18,759
Speaker 4: gender queer woman struggling with her lesbian identity in the

956
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:23,240
Speaker 4: Lady eighteen hundreds, you should watch the Apple series Buccaneers.

957
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 2: On Apple TV plus Exactly What I Want Okay and.

958
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:32,320
Speaker 4: Two comes out this year. There's lesbian related sexual stuff.

959
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:36,800
Speaker 4: There's like tears, I like, am repressed, but like it's not,

960
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:44,040
Speaker 4: it's not traumatic. It's like good repression and it's great.

961
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 4: It's like a bingie show.

962
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:51,560
Speaker 2: How's that experience? Working on that show I had.

963
00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:54,320
Speaker 4: Changed my life? It really did change my life because

964
00:50:54,520 --> 00:50:56,640
Speaker 4: I was living away from home for the first time.

965
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:59,600
Speaker 4: We were filmed in Scotland. Wow, I've been living on

966
00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:02,320
Speaker 4: and on in the UK for three years now and

967
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:04,400
Speaker 4: so not because of it. I have a whole community.

968
00:51:04,960 --> 00:51:06,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, and some of my.

969
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:09,000
Speaker 4: Best friends are from that show. I talk to them

970
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 4: every single day. And getting to do like a drama

971
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Speaker 4: was so different.

972
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:16,760
Speaker 2: Right, you wanted to be an actress?

973
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Speaker 4: You do?

974
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:17,799
Speaker 1: Come true?

975
00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 4: I did.

976
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Speaker 2: You were the most powerful manifestor I've ever seen.

977
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 4: I guess, So what should I say next? I'm like,

978
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:26,400
Speaker 4: I know, please, I want for us?

979
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 1: Do you feel like do you feel like the thing

980
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:29,680
Speaker 1: is true?

981
00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:32,440
Speaker 3: When they said when you could do Glee, you can

982
00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:36,759
Speaker 3: do anything like like this is this has been an easy.

983
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:39,799
Speaker 1: Easier I guess challenging a different ways, but like, yeah,

984
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 1: that different.

985
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:42,880
Speaker 4: Has ever been a part as glean will ever be,

986
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 4: you know, and even with I could wake up at

987
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:49,040
Speaker 4: any hour of any day and like be asked of

988
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 4: almost anything and be okay, not that I'm inviting, not

989
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:56,040
Speaker 4: that I'm inviting that, but like, you know, on at

990
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:59,040
Speaker 4: four am, because at six am you might have to

991
00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:04,200
Speaker 4: be performing, right, you know. So it's something that like

992
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:07,480
Speaker 4: is a part of me now. And even on this

993
00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:12,719
Speaker 4: show is like, yeah, like work compared to what to do?

994
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:17,960
Speaker 4: We were Traumatnam's kidding, no, no, I'm talking about it.

995
00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 4: Like it was like I'm like John McCain from Vietnam.

996
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:25,319
Speaker 4: It was a very like we had like Chipotle every day,

997
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:27,279
Speaker 4: Like it was very comfortable. I like had like a

998
00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:29,440
Speaker 4: PA dedicated to taking care of me. I think his

999
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 4: name is Kevin Kevin, and he was phenomenal. I love

1000
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:40,960
Speaker 4: him so much. He was like in the military, Like

1001
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:43,040
Speaker 4: I had a very comfortable life.

1002
00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:44,720
Speaker 1: I like, I got a bike.

1003
00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:45,760
Speaker 4: You can't complain.

1004
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:48,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it. I get it.

1005
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:55,160
Speaker 3: Well, You're amazing, And everybody go watch The Buccaneers Season two.

1006
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:57,439
Speaker 1: It airs on Wednesdays on Apple TV.

1007
00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:01,440
Speaker 2: The first two episodes are out now go watch it.

1008
00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:03,480
Speaker 2: And when you're in London, can you please hit me up?

1009
00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:07,000
Speaker 4: Oh? Absolutely, thank you so much.

1010
00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:08,080
Speaker 1: You really really appreciate it.

1011
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 4: You. Oh, thank you. It was so good hanging out

1012
00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:11,840
Speaker 4: with you guys. You're too I know.

1013
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:13,680
Speaker 1: I wish I had like spent more time on the

1014
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:16,640
Speaker 1: show together. Although this is actually better.

1015
00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:19,120
Speaker 4: There's gonna be future stuff and also like now we

1016
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:20,759
Speaker 4: like ye know each other.

1017
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:23,239
Speaker 2: I'll make you jealous, Jenna, and hang out with Josie and.

1018
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:25,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, please send me pictures and when I come to

1019
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:26,279
Speaker 4: La I'm calling you.

1020
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:32,520
Speaker 1: Thank you, Josie. Josie's amazing. That was incredible.

1021
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:34,200
Speaker 2: She's an adult.

1022
00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:35,640
Speaker 1: She as an adult.

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Speaker 3: Which is funny because like I say, like I wish

1024
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:40,440
Speaker 3: we had spent more time on the show, but actually,

1025
00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:42,279
Speaker 3: like I'm sure we would have connected, but.

1026
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 1: Like in a different way, you know what I mean.

1027
00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 1: Like it's just a totally different thing.

1028
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:52,440
Speaker 3: The whole thing is so fascinating to here because like

1029
00:53:52,800 --> 00:53:57,319
Speaker 3: we weren't there and Myron was like the doogie houser.

1030
00:53:57,120 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 2: On the show and the only kid to be on

1031
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:01,200
Speaker 2: the show that ever it was.

1032
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:03,840
Speaker 1: That is crazy. That is so crazy.

1033
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:08,360
Speaker 2: It is a hard job for a full theater trained adult.

1034
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:11,719
Speaker 1: I can just throw our thirteen year old into that.

1035
00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:14,400
Speaker 1: It is just absolutely bunkers by.

1036
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:19,919
Speaker 2: Josie's super talented and modest, but she has talent coming

1037
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:23,640
Speaker 2: out every limb, just every absolute best.

1038
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:29,480
Speaker 3: Go watch Buccaneers Hunts on Apple TV and thank you

1039
00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:34,000
Speaker 3: Josie for your time and for coming on and sharing it,

1040
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:35,440
Speaker 3: and that's what you really missed.

1041
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:39,080
Speaker 2: Thanks for listening and follow us on Instagram at and

1042
00:54:39,239 --> 00:54:41,480
Speaker 2: that's what you really miss pod. Make sure to write

1043
00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:43,759
Speaker 2: us a review and leave us five stars. See you

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Speaker 2: next time.